Suhaib Webb – SWISS Open House + Come Meet Imam Suhaib (Virtually), and learn about SWISS

Suhaib Webb
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The SWISS open house provides an interactive and functional course on the importance of affordability, accessibility, and functional and literacy in learning. The course is designed to build confidence and empathy for young people, and includes live classes and a study buddy circle. The course is designed for people with zero experience or background in the Arabic language, and includes introductory videos, materials, and recorded videos. The course is designed for people with zero experience or background in the Arabic language, and includes a study buddy circle and live information sessions. The course is designed for people that have zero experience or background in the Arabic language, and includes an office hour panel for questions.
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This is my father in law's library cream.

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All pdfs, man.

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He's he's he's kind of intense.

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You you need to send me a picture

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of it, dude. That's what you have to

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do. So I can so I can add

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it to my That that red book behind

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me, that that's his tafsir in English, man.

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It's just like have a tafsir in both

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Really?

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Yes. Okay. So we are live. Every Let

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me oh, PDFs, man.

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Let me He's he's kind of intense.

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You you need to send me a picture

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of it, dude. Yeah. We're live, dude. And

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we're live.

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Welcome to our 3rd Swiss Open House everybody.

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We're certainly happy to have all of you

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here. And there's really 3 or 4 purposes

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for this open house. Number 1 is to

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introduce ourselves to you, of course. Number 2

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is to talk and walk you through how

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to use the SWISS system.

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Number 3 is to introduce our course offerings

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for this semester. And number 4

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is to introduce some of our new instructors

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that are gonna be jumping on board. And

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the number 5 is to take any questions

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that you may have. This is actually being

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recorded and will be posted

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in the student dashboard. So if anyone needs

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to look at it again, it'll be there

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for you Insha Allah. As we get started

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now,

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I think it's first important that we talk

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about the mission and story of SWISS.

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SWISS started probably in 19 nineties when I

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used to drive,

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45 minutes every day back and forth to

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memorize the Quran.

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And, I was in college and I was

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actually working, and I was a new convert.

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And this is actually I memorized the Quran,

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here. And every day, I would drive to

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a city 45 minutes and back. I spent

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a lot of gas money, and there was

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no electric car, so so don't how hit

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on me back then. And there's no BART,

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or Subway in Oklahoma.

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But just remembering how difficult that was, like,

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how hard that was

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to be able to find someone that could

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teach me. And then when I came back

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from studying overseas after, 10 years in Abu

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Dressed and 7 years in Egypt,

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Doing it to gain education

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was was concerned about 3 or 4 things.

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Number 1 was the affordability of education.

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Number 2 is the accessibility of education. Number

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3 was, like, I,

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in my early days as a student, I

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only heard about Quran and the prophet

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to the point that if you ask me

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what Islam was, I would have said Islam

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is Sayyidina Nabi.

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Like, the only thing I knew was the

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prophet. I didn't know about groups. I didn't

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know about this group or that group or

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or all of the divisions that we found

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in the community till I moved to Detroit,

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and even moving to the Bay Area. And

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I would tell people, like, I'm just Muslim.

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They're like, no. No. But what kind of

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Muslim are you? I had no idea,

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what they were talking about. So coming back,

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the third concern was that the Muslim community

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is so divided and not centered,

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on the Quran and on love of Sayid

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Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,

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and Salihin and our ancestors.

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The 4th is, as I mentioned, is accessibility

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that people have access to learning. So the

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first, as I mentioned, was affordability.

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Right? I I found myself priced out many

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times as a convert.

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The second was, as I mentioned, the lack

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of trying to

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teach people a certain philosophy, but to tie

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them to the religion and to the beauty

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of Islam.

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The 3rd, excuse me, is accessibility.

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The people should have access. And then the

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4th is affordability. And, again, we've said this

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more than once. If anyone is having trouble

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paying their subscription during the COVID crisis, like,

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don't worry about it. Just let us know.

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We'll cancel your fees

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until you're able to get established on yourself,

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yourself as established. And the 5th thing is

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that we felt I felt that Islam needed

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to be contextually appropriate, that it needs to

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speak to the

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situations

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of specifically,

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broader American Muslims. So that's really how Swiss

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started.

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Driving back and forth 45 minutes,

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coming out of Oklahoma, which is like the

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countryside, you know, just thinking I'm Muslim,

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and running into a set of problems that

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I still feel today we struggle to answer

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at a grassroots level.

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The purpose of SWISS is to create functional

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religious literacy, not dysfunctional scholarship. Nobody is going

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to become a scholar studying at SWISS.

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We we want to emphasize that it's about

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functional,

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literacy. So now as we segue into our

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next important,

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kinda set of information, we're gonna move over

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to brother Ahmed Khatib who's going to walk

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you through how to use and operate the

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SWIS system.

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Assalamu alaikum, everyone.

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Just give me a moment until I share

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my screen.

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Just want to

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thank you for joining us, and I'm going

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to share my screen so you can see

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exactly.

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Your desktop to

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share.

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Perfect.

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Actually, so have you wanna let me get

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me back on later. I'm having issues screen

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sharing.

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Excellent. So what we're gonna do now that

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is move in to talk about this semester's,

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offerings.

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So we have this semester quite a few

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things that are gonna happen. That's what happened.

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Ahmed, maybe if you can kinda step out

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for a second until you get things together

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because I think it's messing up, the screens

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in general.

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But what I'm gonna do is turn it

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over now to Abdul Karim Sayed who

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is doing some incredible courses with young, Muslims

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across the globe

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and some very creative. Like, I would say,

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his library

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is very impressive as well.

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Very creative work that he's doing. So Abdul

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Kareem, I'm gonna turn it over to you.

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Sounds good.

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Everyone.

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Be the name of God, the compassionate, the

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caring, and all praise belong to him. And

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we pray to him to send his choices,

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peace, and blessings upon his beloved messenger, Muhammad

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I praise God for having the opportunity to

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even be here with you.

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I think one of the things that we

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recognize is that every single second and moment

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is

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a gift from Allah to us, of our

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existence, and,

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we are here. And it's kind of that

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gift is I think one of the highlights,

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like like, Sheikh Suje was mentioning was,

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the purpose of SWISS is not to become

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a scholar. The purpose of SWISS is to

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experience this deep

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in its reality and its totality.

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And have it something that is relevant and

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that's organic. And that's what this faith is

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actually is.

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Islam isn't an academic just, you know, strictly

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endeavor. It's about us experiencing our creator. And

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that's kind of what I'm so excited about

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being here is that even in the classes

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that I've attended, I myself attend, you know,

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Sheikh Soheb's classes. And what I appreciate the

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most about is that it's it's so organic

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and so real, and I think it's something

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that we're truly missing. And that's what I

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try to kinda translate and bring into,

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some of the programs we're doing for middle

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schoolers, for this semester. So the 2 of

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the programs that I'm really excited about,

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are first, we have on Thursdays,

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3:30 PM Pacific,

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or and 5:30 PM,

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Eastern Standard Time is a course called listening

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to God. And it actually builds upon,

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kind of what the classes we were offering

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before, which were faith essentials for middle schoolers

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and,

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the lives of the prophets. And what we're

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doing and listening with God is what we

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recognize is that, especially in today's day and

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age, given the amount of just media and

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information that keeps just being thrown at us,

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especially for our children and the amount of

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time they're spending in front of, you know,

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the computer and just consuming

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media is that we've lost the art of

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listening. And I think even for us adults,

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what we can see is that we've lost

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what we can see is that we've lost

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the ability to even listen and hear. And

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if we can't listen to God, then how

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are we supposed to hear what God is

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telling us, and how are we supposed to

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be able to communicate how are we supposed

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to hear what God is telling us, and

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how are we supposed to be able to

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communicate and actually interact with Allah? So I

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think that's,

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what we try to do in this course

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is work with our young people to be

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able to kind of see what that means.

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What what does it mean to listen? And

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then I we keep it really interactive where,

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like every class, it's kind of an open

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discussion. And then we come up with little

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activities to kinda exemplify how,

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if we don't actually truly try to listen,

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that we can't really hear anything. And one

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of the things we're gonna be doing in

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my next class is that you know, one

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of the things I the way I begin

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is that,

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I start talking, but then I have, like,

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different, like, either,

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music or some video playing in the background

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really loud. And what you'll find is that

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you can't hear what I'm saying to me.

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I mean, what I'm saying to you because

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there's so many other things that are going

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on. And by training our young people to

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recognize that, look, you have to distinguish what

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is coming into you. Right? Identify what is

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the information or what you're consuming, and then

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recognize what is beneficial, what is not. And

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that in order to be able to do

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that, you first have to be able to

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block out that noise and just truly listen.

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So I'm really excited about that, and,

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inshallah, look forward to having you guys join.

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And if definitely, if you ever have any

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questions or anything, definitely shoot them our way,

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and we can kind of, let you know,

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kind of if you want more details on

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what, the curriculum is and how we're gonna

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proceed.

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Definitely hit us up. And then the other

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class that we have coming this semester is,

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the reflection circle we're continuing.

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We started,

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in the fall, and we're continuing the series.

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And, again, this is a type of series

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that you don't have there's no prerequisites required

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for it. So even if you, you know,

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haven't been in the first we've done 13

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episodes so far. So if you're just joining

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us now midstream of the avatar, you can

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definitely join.

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And it's not gonna impact you too much.

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We do have some things we've built upon.

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But, again, it's the whole focus of this

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session, again, is

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how we give the tools for our young

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people to be or to organically

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see the signs of God in everything they

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do. And even in some of the entertainment

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they consume, what they can see is that

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you can derive benefit from it. So what

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we end up doing is we spend about

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20 minutes watching an episode,

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of Avatar, and then we sit there and

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we reflect on kind of what are some

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of the lessons we can draw from it.

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And what we see is that, especially in

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Avatar, for example, one of the key themes

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in that,

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in the series is about being a refugee.

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That you have these different tribes of people

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and these and some of these tribes have

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been oppressed, and they're refugees, and they're trying

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to find their identity and trying to find

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justice and fairness and equality in the in

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the world and try to bring that to

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the world. And one of the most amazing

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things is that the the young people can,

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you know, they automatically click and are able

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to reflect and give some really deep meanings.

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And what they're surprised of surprised about is

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that, wait a minute. My faith actually applies

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to this? And it's like, yes. In everything

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that you do and everything you experience, your

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faith has purpose and has meaning.

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And, you know, some of the reflections that

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some of the young people have come up

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with have been like like, I haven't even

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thought of those things. And what we find

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is that if we actually allow and create

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spaces for our young people to be present

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and to feel confident in experiencing their faith,

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that it's not just one way, you know,

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that I'm just the one who's educating or

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teaching,

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that they have the capability. Right? Once they

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have the tools to be able to kind

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of decipher and see and just try to

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come up with, you know, what their reflections

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are, that they can actually that truly does

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open their mind and their hearts to find

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faith relevant and also come up with some

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amazing things that, you know I I mean,

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I I can't,

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express enough about how many, like, deep lessons

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that the young like, an 11 year old

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will come up with that I didn't even

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see when I was watching the episode.

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So definitely excited about that. So definitely come

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and join, if you're a middle schooler.

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Actually, for the avatar, we have 2 sessions.

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We have one for middle schoolers, which is,

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for, like, you know,

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for 15 and below. And then we we

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also have a section for 16 plus. And

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the 16 plus is also amazing. That's like,

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you know, we've had, you know, 16 year

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olds. We've had, you know, 40 plus year

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olds join. And, again, that's been an amazing

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discussion as well,

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in terms of, again, reflecting on,

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what not only is in in in in

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the in the cartoon in terms of what

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lessons we can derive from it, but a

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lot of our discussion starts facing around, like,

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what we're facing currently in today's day and

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age. And that's been kind of a, you

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know, another opportunity to have, like, some really

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enriching discussions. And, again, be be in a

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space where it's comfortable. I think one of

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the things that I've always you know, whenever

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I try to work with shifts who have

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to come up with programming, you know, one

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of the things we always talk about is,

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you know, what would what would we have

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like when we were growing up? And I

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think one of the main things, again, the

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theme of all the Swiss programming and all

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the Swiss classes is that, again, of of

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being comfortable in our skin, being places where

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people can experience and and work with their

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faith and not feel judged. And,

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and, again, for that 16 plus avatar thing,

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it's a perfect opportunity to do that too

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as you come in and just come as

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you are and enjoy just being with other

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Muslims just discussing and, you know, enjoying a

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cartoon but also discussing faith. So,

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yeah, I appreciate,

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you know, again, all the the support that

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we've gotten so far for for these programs.

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And, again, look forward to seeing you all

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there.

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Okay.

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Next, we're going to turn it over to

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Ahmed Khatib, one of the cofounders of SWISS,

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who's going to walk people through how to

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actually use,

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the SWISS system. So, Ahmed, I'm going to,

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turn it over to you. Sounds good. So

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everyone.

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Just wanna welcome you here. And just wanna

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give you a brief overview on how to

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access the classes and where all the information

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is kept online to help

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guide your success through to, on our on

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this platform.

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So

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everything is on our suheweb.com

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website.

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As soon as you log in,

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this is your main course,

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dashboard.

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To access this, this comes off on your

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home page. If not, you can always click

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on my on my dashboard.

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This page,

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loads all of the courses we have.

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And if it's your first time at SWISS,

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we have an orientation video which Imam Suhayb

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has put has put together.

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This first video kind of directs you on

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to where to start your journey on the

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SWISS platform.

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The

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platform has a couple types of videos.

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1 is

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on demand.

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So, for example,

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as, Imam Suhay, as you watch this first

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video, you're watching an an on demand video,

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and he guides you to a course which,

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which we have, which is the essentials of

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the Islamic faith to start your journey.

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The other types of courses we have are

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our live courses.

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And we use Zoom for all of our

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live courses,

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and the course and the Zoom links are

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built into this actual platform.

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So for so for example, for the Kareem

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Sayed, who just spoke earlier,

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has his class listening to God for middle

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schoolers.

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He has a little introduction to his class,

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and here's the actual Zoom link to join

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the live session.

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So all the links are on the platform.

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You have to log in to access the

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links.

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Another question people have is, well, when are

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the live classes? And that's a good question.

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On our menu bar, we have a link

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for calendar.

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And if you click on the calendar of

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events,

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this lists

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all of our live events, which we host

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on our platform.

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So we have the open house now. And

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then tomorrow, we have a number of live

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classes.

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So if you subscribe to this calendar, you

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can actually see the timings in your own

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time zone. So as Imam Suhayib has a

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life the life of prophets 2 tomorrow

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along with we're starting the reading Arabic the

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easy way, and we'll talk more and, ma'am,

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Suhay will talk more about his courses, his

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teachings. So this is

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how you can actually use the platform,

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how you can set yourself up for success.

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And with that, I'd like to turn it

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back to you, Imam Sahib.

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Assalamu alaikum.

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I don't know if people can see me

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until you

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you can put me as a spotlight.

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And then I think you have to keep

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sharing your screen. Thank you. Yes, Tanish.

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Like that background,

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So hamda, I'm going to be teaching a

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few courses this semester.

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Ahmed, if you could go back to the

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course section. Thank you. Yes. I'll be teaching

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a few courses,

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this semester, Insha'Allah. The first course, of course,

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is Life of the Prophets 2. We did

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Life of the Prophets 1 for teens. We

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have over 400 youth,

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enrolled in those programs.

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And

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if you go through the course folder, you

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can actually search it here,

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and it will pop up and take you

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to life of the prophets if you go

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down.

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No. That's that's going to be life of

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the prophet.

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So if you go down and you go

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to the far right,

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here where on the far right, Ahmed next

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to the car,

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That is going to be the course folder

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for this course. If you click it, you're

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going to see all of the recordings from

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the last 2 years.

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And you will also see the rec the

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live recordings

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for this year that we're starting now, that

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will will be from our live offerings. And

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you'll also find the link for the course.

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So within this, you're going to find 2

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seasons of this program already recorded,

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for youth between the ages of 13 18.

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And then the live recordings from this semester

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also will be placed here, and you'll see

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spring 2021,

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those course offerings. If you click on live

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session links, Ahmed, if you could just put

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your mouse above it, that's gonna take you

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to the the Zoom link

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right to the class on Sunday. So there's

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no need,

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to go anywhere else for that. The other

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class that we're going to be starting, is

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life of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,

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and we're actually partnering with the book Revelation,

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who many of you know, written by doctor

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Meiraj Mohdine. He's actually co teaching this with

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me. He will be showing up,

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once a month because, of course, he's a

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physician and he's extremely busy. But, again, if

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you click on this

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image or start course

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And you go into it, you're going to

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find about this class class schedule. I will

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also be putting up the syllabus, which is

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done, so you can see how you want

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to follow along with not only the lectures,

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but also the sets of videos that doctor

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Meralaj has prepared,

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for young people as well as the links

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are there. There's also a Google classroom and

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that information will also be added to this

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by tomorrow,

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Insha'Allah. The 3rd class that I'm teaching on

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Sundays, which starts at 3 o'clock EST is

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reading Arabic the easy way. This book actually

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was written by my brother-in-law, which is kind

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of cool.

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And I've taught this book to a number

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of people before, and this actually is a

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course for people that have zero

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experience or background in the Arabic language.

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And if you look at it now, you're

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gonna find the introductory video as well as

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materials. You're going to find a link to

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get the textbook.

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You're going to find also 3rd, the live

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information sessions. And then if you click on

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the last one, you're going to find a

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set of already recorded videos.

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The first 11 are there. So not only

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are we going to be meeting once a

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week, but also you'll have a set of

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videos that you can follow that are going

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to explain the book.

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So the book was written actually to help

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you kind of guide yourself through it, but,

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of course, you know, Arabic is best if

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you have, like, a teacher. So these videos

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that you're going to see here, and they'll

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probably be,

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in the next 2 semester 75 videos,

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that are gonna walk you through it and

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and really give you what you need to

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start to be able to read the Quran,

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and have that kind of relationship with the

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book of Allah.

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So these are the three

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course offerings that I'll be sharing.

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A few things that also I think is

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very important is that we're going to be

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starting study buddy circles.

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So we have a few volunteers who have

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really enjoyed the Swiss system.

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And for example, Abdul Rahim is going to

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be leading a study session on the foundations

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of Arabic.

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Sister Danielle is going to be leading a

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a study session or, like, just more of

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a social session

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on

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essentials of Islamic faith.

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We have one of our youth who's going

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to do so for young people. So look

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for that to come also in the future

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Insha Allah. Speaking of the future now, we

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have a number of courses that are gonna

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start,

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in the middle of this term, and I'd

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like you

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give you, like, the first glimpse in the

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Ahmed if you can make it actually big.

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Thank you.

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At our first course offering with doctor Jinan

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Youssef, he's going to be teaching her book

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on reflecting on the names of Allah Subhanahu

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Wa Ta'ala, and she's actually recorded a message

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for us that we're going to play now.

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Ahmed, I think when you share your screen,

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you need to hit share sound.

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So if you unshare your screen and share

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it again, on the far left, you'll see

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a button that says share audio.

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Thanks, man.

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My name is Luann and I'm going to

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be your instructor for the new course

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on the names of Allah. We'll be using

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the book reflecting on the names of Allah

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as the foundation for the course, but I

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hope that we will be going beyond it.

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Inshallah, we will be talking about,

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Allah's names. We'll be going,

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through, many of the names, although I don't

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think we can go through all of them,

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this semester.

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However, the purpose of this course is for

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you to be able to

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understand the manifestations of Allah's names in your

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life, for you to be able to connect

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to Allah

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for you to be able to read the

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Quran and see how Allah

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describes himself in the Quran,

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and for you to be able to reflect

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on these names yourself

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and understand

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how Allah manifests his beautiful names in your

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own life. Thank you so much. And

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I look forward to teaching you this semester.

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So like, we're super excited. I've been working

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with Janine almost now for 20 years. It's

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incredible.

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And she actually has this incredible book on

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reflecting on the names of Allah

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which was actually a set of articles that

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she wrote years ago,

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for the old suhwebweb.com

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website. So

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look for that to start in mid January

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towards the end of January.

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The second awesome piece of announcement or announcement

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that I have for you is to introduce

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Ustaz Kenny.

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Ustaz Kenny is going to I'm gonna let

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him introduce himself himself and tell you what

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courses,

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he plans to offer, but we're super, super

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excited to welcome you to Swissman

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and are happy to have you jump in

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real quick and introduce yourself and talk about

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what we've been envisioning.

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Peace and blessings be upon you. So my

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name is Kenny Solis.

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It's an honor and blessing to be in

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the presence of you all and be here

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with you all.

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I'm producing a couple different classes.

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I'm gonna start with the foundation. 1st class

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is introduction to

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Hadith and then, Ulum Al Quran.

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And I I I have a whole list

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of,

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curriculum that I'm gonna provide and bring to,

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to SWIS that I'm excited to to bring

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to you all. And it's an honor, and

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it's a pleasure to be with you all

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and be with this team and teach with

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SWIS.

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So I'm Duaa. A little bit about myself.

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Finishing a master's program at Beyond School of

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Theology

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and,

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and a and a certificate in chaplaincy.

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And I serve the community,

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with knowledge and service,

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and I've been involved in several different organizations,

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LINK Outside Prison Outreach, Inside Academy, ILC Dawah

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Outreach, ILC

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New Muslim Mentoring,

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and I've also been teaching in Mexico

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and also here in the States,

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locally and abroad. So, alhamdulillah, I'm here. I'm

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I'm here to I'm excited to be part

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of,

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Swiss and

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and,

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provide,

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provide a lot. Thank you.

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Yeah. We're super excited to have you. I

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think one of the things also that

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we plan to offer is actually a course

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in Spanish.

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I don't know if you wanna talk about

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that, but we've noticed and that's goes back

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to one of our core values at SWISS

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as being kind of on the ground and

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understanding the needs.

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If you could talk about, like, this massive

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influx of Spanish speaking Muslims and how shall

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we hope to be able to serve them

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as well as the communities in Mexico that

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you and I have talked about in the

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past. Mhmm. Mhmm.

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So when I when I was

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in Rosarito, Mexico

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in

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20

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16,

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I noticed that

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there was no,

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Islamic education,

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and there was no foundation there.

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And,

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it's great. It's it's needed not only in

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that community, but in the whole US and

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everywhere.

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So I'm hoping to provide,

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different classes in Spanish.

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I've done a couple of different workshops,

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the day of the dead,

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and I've done,

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another workshop called can I be Latino and

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Muslim? Exploring the culture imperative.

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So I'm hoping to provide not only these

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courses in English, but also in Spanish,

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which there's none. There's none. And it's greatly

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needed everywhere.

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May Allah give us

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So, that's that's another,

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exciting announcement that we have. So doctor Jinayan

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Youssef and then,

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Sheikkhani

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is going to be joining and then hoping

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to expand,

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our

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our curriculum and what we teach to Spanish

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speaking communities

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across the globe, which are in America right

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now. There's some studies show are the largest

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number of people embracing Islam.

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So we're happy to have you and,

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super excited,

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for what the future is going to bring.

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As we as we prepare to to close

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out now,

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I think there's also another really important

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announcement that we have, and that is that

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we also have another teacher,

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joining us

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as as the support for SWISS has really

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grown,

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especially in the last 8 months.

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We've been able to scale in a way

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that allows us to reach out to other

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teachers to come and join us.

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Actually Kenny reached out to me, man, and

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and I was able to look at the

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work he was doing. I was just blown

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away,

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by it. But we have also a very

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special teacher that's going to be start start

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teaching a class

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in March, and I would like to ask

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Ahmed if he could show,

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that video really quickly.

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My name is Mary Mamir, and I'm incredibly

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honored and excited to be teaching a course

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insha'Allah with Swiss Institute on women and power

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through knowing God. So many questions that I

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receive have to do with the prophetic narrations

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and the verses of the Quran that women

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and men struggle with understanding as it relates

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to what it means to be a woman.

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What is the role of being a woman?

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So many issues, like, is marital * real

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in Islam? What about the curse of the

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angels?

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The ayam Darb, what does it mean to

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strike in a relationship?

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Why is it that in the Quran it

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talks about the testimony of 2 women versus

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1 man?

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What about

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the hadith on a woman's intellect being deficient?

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What about

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having women pray at home versus in the

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masjid? What about women giving lectures in public?

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What about women working versus being a mother

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full time and having no other outside responsibilities?

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These and so many more

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We are going to cover in the lens

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of what it looked like to be a

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companion of the prophet Muhammad, peace be upon

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him, who was a woman. What did the

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woman in the time of the prophet Muhammad,

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peace be upon him, do? How did they

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understand these teachings?

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How did they live as they battled with

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him, peace be upon him? As they were

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in part of the masjid space with him,

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peace be upon him? As they were in

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their own homes or in society?

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How did the companions of the prophet, peace

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be upon him, who were women,

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understand

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their relationship with God. It's an honor and

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such an exciting

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opportunity for me to inshallah learn from all

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of you in our course discussions, and I'm

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super grateful

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for the chance inshallah

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to teach with you. May Allah bless you

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and inshallah see you there.

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So, alhamdulillah, as you can see trying to

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stay true to our core vision. We are

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offering programs for

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as much of the Muslim demographic as we're

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able to. We're also bringing on some more

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teachers as well for the summer. Shahassen Sadim

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was unfortunately not able to be here. He's

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an imam, and he is in an area

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in Iowa that actually, unfortunately, many people don't

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know it was hit with a hurricane

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a few months ago. But his course on

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the Shamayil,

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that he's teaching, and he and I were

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together in Al Azhar.

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Is continuing, every Sunday night as well as

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Sheikh Abdul Summit,

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who I converted with

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in Oklahoma,

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was also unable to attend, but his shotokaf

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continues also on on Tuesdays, and my live

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talks here will start soon as well. So

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trying to offer programs that cater to the

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young,

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cater to and we're actually going to talk

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about in the future students of knowledge,

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as well as parents,

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as well as converts, as well as Latinos,

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Spanish speaking brothers and sisters, as well as

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issues related to women are really trying to

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capture all of those from a grassroots

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perspective.

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Again, we look at ourselves as very organic.

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This is only our beta launch. We're planning

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to launch the app Insha'Allah by Ramadan.

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But, let me give you also some numbers.

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We have almost 60 people now currently memorizing

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the Quran, alhamdulillah,

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who are reading the Quran right now to

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me, and we're bringing on a few other

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as Harishicks,

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from Egypt where they can read the entire

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Quran to them after they finish the tashweed

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series and pass,

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with flying colors. We then start them in

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reading of the Quran. There's one brother right

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now reading with me. Subhanallah. This brother had

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COVID 19 and he has not missed a

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lesson in

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So he's reading with me the Tarik of

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Azraq and

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and even he has to take a break

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between,

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words because of of the impact,

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of COVID 19 on him. We have around

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250

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people on scholarship.

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I would say probably 40% of those people

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are new,

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Muslims,

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and others are Muslims even in other parts

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of the world

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who are unable to,

00:31:18 --> 00:31:19

attend, if you will,

00:31:20 --> 00:31:22

sessions whether because of the political situation like

00:31:22 --> 00:31:24

a young woman in Gujarat who converted to

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Islam or other parts of the world where

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politically they're not able to find a religious

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education. So I wanna thank all of you,

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for your support and continued

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engagement. What we'll do now is open it

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up to any questions. If there are any

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questions about the semester,

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we're more than happy to take them from

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you inshallah.

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This open house is recorded, so,

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will be posted on the Swiss website as

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well.

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So a question that someone sent me is,

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like, are there additional charges for these classes?

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No.

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Again, one of our core values is afford

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affordability.

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So it's only $9.99

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for your entire household

00:32:10 --> 00:32:12

for the entire SwissBundle.

00:32:14 --> 00:32:16

Another thing that also I wanted to mention

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is that we plan on bringing a clinician,

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someone who specializes in family therapy and plan

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on doing programs for families,

00:32:24 --> 00:32:26

as well as our young people who may

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be struggling with any issues. While she cannot

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do specific,

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cases for people, she can conduct, like, at

00:32:33 --> 00:32:34

large workshops.

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So look for that hopefully to start in

00:32:36 --> 00:32:37

the month of Ramadan,

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insha'allah as well. And again, all that falls

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under that $9.99

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bundle, insha'allah.

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We ask Allah to bless us and to

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protect us and to keep us on the

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and

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to, allow us to put our love for

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the prophet and a love for the Quran

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and the love for the family of the

00:33:12 --> 00:33:13

prophet and the Ummah,

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in front of everything else.

00:33:16 --> 00:33:18

Feel free to reach out to us at

00:33:18 --> 00:33:20

any time. If you have any questions, we

00:33:20 --> 00:33:22

also have now an office hour panel so

00:33:22 --> 00:33:24

that you're able to reach out to us

00:33:24 --> 00:33:25

if you need any assistance.

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To all of our

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and all of our teachers who showed up

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tonight. We're really thankful.

00:33:37 --> 00:33:39

Sheikh Kenny, Sheikh,

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Abdul Kareem,

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brother Ahmed and all of,

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And thank you also to our parents and

00:33:46 --> 00:33:47

to our students.

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