Suhaib Webb – The Masses’ Creed Part One Style, the Tradition, Faith and Authors Introduction

Suhaib Webb
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The speaker discusses the importance of learning, faith, actions, and patient in achieving the message of Islam. They emphasize the importance of learning and practicing to prepare for a life of prophetic value, and stress the importance of not rejecting anything from the church's name of reform. The speaker also emphasizes the importance of learning and growing in the face of change, and provides resources for the book and guidance for attendees to use in their own lives.
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We begin. We praise Allah We send peace

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and blessings upon our beloved messenger, Muhammad, sallallahu

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alaihi wa sallam,

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upon his family, his companions, and those who

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follow them until the end of time. So

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last year, subhanahu, we actually had 2 harakas

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every week on Tuesday Thursday.

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Thursdays was tough year, and then Tuesday was

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actually like a course.

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It's kind of gotten inverted this year because

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the 1st semester I was teaching

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here on campus.

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So,

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co teaching a class with, Sheik Fayaz. So

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I didn't really have the capacity,

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to teach twice a week. But then after

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the semester, Imam Khaled

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reached out to me. So, like, can you

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start, like, more like of a course type

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class?

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So, last year, we actually finished one book,

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Essentials of Islamic Faith,

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which is published. And then this is the

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2nd book. I run an online institute called

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SWISS. It's gonna launch,

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next month, but then, like, in the summer.

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And these courses would be like a Netflix

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type thing. But it'll be like me actually

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teaching you with, like, test exams,

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because people don't necessarily have the time,

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to, like, study in person. And teachers also,

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we don't have time to teach, like, 1

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or 2 people. Right? It's easier if you

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can teach large number of people, and then

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they can interact with you,

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through questions and stuff. So the second book,

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actually, that

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in the series on theology

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is a book called.

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And

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of course means, like the word

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means to not something.

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Right? The same word, knots, because the idea

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is

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we knot our we tether our actions.

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We knot our hearts and tether our actions

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to foundational beliefs.

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So it's called Aqirah. Al Awa means the

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masses,

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and we'll talk about

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that name in a second.

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The

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the the manuscript

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is still, like, being edited.

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So for those of you here, if you're

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gonna be consistent and you're not gonna flake,

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then you can send me an email. Just

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put, like, master's creed in the email, and

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I'll send you the PDF.

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But if you, like, if you're not gonna

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be consistent, like, don't worry about it. But,

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like,

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you really need a manuscript if you're not

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gonna be consistent. Because the purpose would

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be to subject the manuscript to your eyes,

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so that you can it's not edited. Right?

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So that's one thing you can say, hey,

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like, fix

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this. Or perhaps, like, this wording does not

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work well, or we did this point wasn't

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clear, or here's some questions maybe that you

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can add. Because I believe

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one of the biggest problems of religious scholarship

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is it's like a one way street, and

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learners aren't really active teachers.

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Whereas, you bring a lot to the table,

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alhamdulillah, your experiences, your

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life, questions that you have,

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the unique,

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roles that you play in society.

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Those are very important for us to inject

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into the veins of the pedagogy of the

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Muslim community,

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so that the tradition is relevant to the

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people.

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If we just read classical texts

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and regurgitate,

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you know, like the old kind of issues,

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That's the problem. That's why people don't find

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relevance in their theology

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and in their faith.

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But if we subject the tradition

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to

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the contemporary gaze,

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and then we take the questions of that

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that gaze,

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and plug that into the tradition,

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then we have unique opportunity not only to

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contextualize

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the tradition,

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but to make sure that our context is

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orthodox.

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So there's like a duality here that's very

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important.

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1 is critical thinking and engagement,

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and then the outcome is like,

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something that's relevant to people that speaks to

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their issues.

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And people find confidence in what's relevant to

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them, what they can measure, what they can

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understand.

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And then number 2 is we, most importantly,

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as Allah says,

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we make sure, like, what we're doing is

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pleasing to Allah.

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We find

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when it comes to the tradition, we find

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Muslims falling into 3 camps.

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Those who want to preserve the tradition

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and forsake their era.

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So it's all about preserving

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the past

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with no, like,

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inspiration for the future.

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We find people like this.

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Number 2, people who want to completely reject

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anything from the tradition in the name of

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reform,

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in the name of, like, what we call

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tajdeed.

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But this is not really tajdeed, this is

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tavdeed. Tavid means to destroy. It's like to

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completely ignore.

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Like, what community would turn us back on

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like 1400 years of scholarship and experience?

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And then the third are people who,

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almottawasitun,

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who are in the middle, who understand that

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the tradition is important because it keeps us

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grounded,

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and I like to use the word traditions

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also.

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The traditions

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keep us grounded,

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and by injecting our lives into those traditions,

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we are able to revitalize

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those traditions,

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make them relevant,

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and maintain, like, social responsibility.

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As the prophet, sallallahu alaihi wasallam, said,

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The reason that people don't like the third

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option is it's hard to teach that way.

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Right? It's easy for me to memorize, like,

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I memorize this book. I can just read

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it,

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and I can leave.

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But for me to try to answer questions

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from you

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about things that I'm not prepared for,

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that's a whole another ball game.

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And for you to try to interject

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religious principles into your life,

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that's a whole another ball game. So that

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3rd,

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educational philosophy

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is one that's rooted in the sunnah of

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the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam.

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Was rooted in our historic community

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for many years,

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and it forces us to take

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education deliberately

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and seriously

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and as a process.

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You can't be a great educator if you're

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lazy,

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and you can't be a great student if

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you're lazy.

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You gotta work for

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it. So this may force us to kind

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of do something we tend not to like

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to do, and let's think,

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and use our mind. So if you send

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me an email,

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you just put, like, masses creed. My email

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address

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is sw,

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sorry.

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Yeah. [email protected].

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It's like easy.

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[email protected].

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Inshallah, and I can send you, the readings.

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And then I'll I'll really appreciate

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your your engagement. And I wanna encourage you

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to engage, you know,

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constructively and critically.

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So, alhamdulillah, the first book that I wrote,

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Essentials of Islamic Faith,

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I was deliberately very simple.

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I presented, like, the bare foundations of Islamic

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theology and and and approach towards theology. The

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Sunni community,

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tend to have two approaches towards orthodoxy,

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towards articulating,

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what they considered were orthodox beliefs.

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And in that book, which was a classical

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text, like 200 years ago, 300 years ago,

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was written in El Azhar by Sheikh Ahmedardir,

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Akhir al Tohidiya. I just took the book

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and really kinda let it speak for itself.

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Unpacked a few issues just to prepare you

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for the second book,

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because I believe again, that education is a

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process.

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And that we prepare people to move from,

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like, one stage to another stage to another

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stage to another stage to another stage.

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So this book, is going to be, perhaps

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a little bit different.

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It's really important that we think about faith

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as 3 or 4 components. The first component

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is to learn, it's cognition.

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The second component is to believe.

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The third component is to act, and the

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4th component is to be patient.

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And that's why Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala says,

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Allah swears by time that if time is

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not used

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for learning in faith,

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good deeds and patience and dawah, then that

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time is going to be perhaps against us.

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And that's why Luqman, with his son, first

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thing he said,

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Oh, my son don't commit.

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So the first thing he starts out is

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learning faith. The second thing,

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The second is actions.

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Establish

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prayer.

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The third,

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Right?

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Call to good, forbid the evil. He says

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to his son,

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And the last thing that he said to

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his son is

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Be patient. So Surat Asar, like those foundational

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principles in Surat Asar, the acquisition of learning,

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It's very important that we learn. That way,

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we can be constructively critical. Our scholarship will

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be crippled if the masses are not intelligent.

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If the masses aren't engaging scholarship, then scholarship

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becomes, like, you know, becomes very, like, static

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and and and doesn't address

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issues. And and, unfortunately, there's been

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an attitude created or a climate created by

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religious scholars

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and activists and teachers that is probably largely

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rooted in insecurity, that doesn't encourage you to

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ask questions.

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Just like having access. Like, very, very important

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to have access

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because that raises

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and creates relevance in the knowledge.

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So the first is the acquisition by learning

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and thinking.

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The second is to believe and affirm in

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our hearts, to weigh it, to struggle with

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it. The third is to act on it.

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The 4th is to call to it, whether

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personally or outside of our own spaces.

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And then to be patient.

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So Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala in the 47th

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chapter of the Quran says,

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Allah says that you should know,

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you should learn the meaning of

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and then you seek forgiveness.

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So learning and then the action.

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That's why we have a very important principle

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that says,

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The knowledge is the imam of action.

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And Sayyidina Umar ibn Abdul Aziz, he said,

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Sayna Umar ibn Abdul Aziz said, whoever acts

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without knowing

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creates more harm than good.

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Mutanebi is a great poet. He said,

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Which means to think before you're brave,

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these 2 braveries.

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Meaning to like strategically think about bravery,

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not just to be consumed by passion.

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So Islam

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appreciates passion,

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appreciates emotion,

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of course.

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Hadith said to love for Allah, to hate

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for Allah,

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but that should be tethered with knowledge.

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And you can apply that to any situation,

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like,

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love. Like, people think they're in love, but

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they they do we really know what it

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means to be? Do I am I in

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love with you or do I love you?

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It's 2 very different issues. 1 is passion

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without being rooted in, like, responsibility.

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1 is responsibility

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that tempers

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and guides that passion.

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Because we see in the Muslim community, oftentimes

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people who suddenly become religious, and they have

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that burst, they have that emotion,

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but they don't have any type of foundational

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tethering.

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And they actually end up, like, sometimes pushing

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people away from the religion.

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They go too hard on people.

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So it's like someone let loose in a

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pharmacy who's not a pharmacist, and they're writing

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prescriptions for people.

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You know,

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my head hurts. Okay. Take some Prozac.

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You need Prozac for a headache. You don't

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believe me? They're very charismatic, very passionate. We

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might believe them. Okay. I'll take Prozac.

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And then we end up harming ourselves.

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That's why one of the great, great scholars,

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he said something I put in the introduction

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of the book.

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He said,

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The evidences that direct us to having a

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relationship with the creator.

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And his oneness

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They are alike,

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you know, prescriptions and medicines.

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Which are used to cure the heart.

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So what he's saying here is, like,

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an educator has to be responsible

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and wise,

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and not just passionate. And often times our

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community,

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we fall for passion,

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and we neglect

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foundational learning.

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And sometimes we find people who may be

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very brilliant and gifted,

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but they don't have, like, they don't have

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swagger.

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So the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam is

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of sahul arab,

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and the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam is

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very educated, but he's also extremely eloquent. He

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knows

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how to talk. He knows how to utilize

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mechanisms

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to grab people's attention

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and pull them into the discourse.

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And then he says,

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This is very beautiful what this sheikh is

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saying. And he said,

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he's he's using this as a metaphor for

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the content provider, for the religious teacher.

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Like, often times when I ask young people,

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how would you describe your experiences in Sunday

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school,

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your experiences,

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and the the number one answer I got

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was curated.

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Curated and intimidated.

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So, subhanallah, meant we're creating

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a community of intimidated people.

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So the sheikh says

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that the

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the evidences, meaning the the educational process of

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teaching people

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about Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala

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is similar

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to medicine which is prescribed to cure people.

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And that, and he mentions 2 things very

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important for content providers to think about.

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If the person is not knowledgeable

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of

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the medicine

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nor do they have experience

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in treating people,

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then their harm, his harm, her harm will

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be greater

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than his or her good.

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So we see now, and this is something

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that we're gonna talk about hopefully in the

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future here, when we talk about training religious

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leadership,

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and training educators.

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There's 2 important things that people should have.

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They should have the experience, but they should

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do some residency.

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There should be like an apprentice process for

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Islamic studies teachers.

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There should be an apprenticing for future Imams.

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When I came back from overseas,

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they just threw me in a masjid, man.

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I luckily had been trained before,

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but

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and worked as an apprentice mom for 10

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years. But can you imagine if you just

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come from overseas,

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and suddenly you're plugged into a massive masjid,

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and you have no human experience. You might

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have never been married.

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So you just don't understand the EQ needed

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to be in that role.

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So the sheikh is saying,

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that there should be experience.

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And there should also be, like, mastery.

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And what he's talking about here is the

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art of religious education.

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How to teach people.

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Then he says,

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He said the same thing, like, with religious

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knowledge. If you don't understand the people that

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you work with, and you don't understand where

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they are,

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then you may over medicate them.

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Or you may under medicate them.

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But the point is you're gonna harm them.

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So that takes us to the purpose of

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of this book.

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Imam al Ahmed al Marzukih al Husseini al

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Mariki

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is from,

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the Ayla of Sayna Hussein alayhis salam.

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He's Husseini. So he's from AhlUbayt.

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And he was a great scholar. He lived,

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like, 200 years ago in Egypt. He went

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to Esar. Esar is like the Hogwarts of

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the Muslim world without

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magic.

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And,

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he noticed that in the beginning of 18th

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century, there was this fishery

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that was starting to happen between

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Muslims, like you're just everyday people,

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and scholars.

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And understand that at that time, the language,

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especially the legalese of scholarship in the Muslim

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world, was extremely

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refined.

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To the point if I gave, like, any

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Arabs here, if I gave you, like, a

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classical legal document,

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and it said,

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read this, you'd be like, you wouldn't understand.

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Because it was written in a very very

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formalized

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legal wording.

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That valued

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small

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expression

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that carried massive meaning.

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So it became like a problem because your

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everyday

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Arab speaker, like it's like us when we

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read legal manuals,

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we get lost.

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We don't understand the terminology,

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and sometimes words would have, like, multiple meanings.

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So Imam al Marzukhi, he was an ezhar,

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and and at that time, Ezhar functioned as

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a public institution.

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So he became very concerned, especially in issues

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of theology,

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understand that the French

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have visited Egypt by this time. The British

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are now paying attention to Egypt,

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and Egypt has gone through a lot of,

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like, political turmoil.

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Egypt is one of the first Arab countries

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to try to modernize education. What that meant

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is not necessarily something bad.

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What that meant is that every citizen has

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the opportunity

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to learn.

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Whereas before,

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learning

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was a luxury.

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Like being able to go and study and

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learn how to read and write, it was

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like having like an iPad.

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It was like having something really nice. It

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wasn't something that the masses had.

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So sheikh, he decides I need to take

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a text that's going to encapsulate

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orthodox creed,

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but then write it in a way that

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fits

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and treats

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the ailments

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of the people.

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And that's why he calls it the masses

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creed.

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So it's almost like a tribute to his

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community.

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As if to say, like, hey,

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like, I got your back.

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So now, if we see, like,

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brothers and sisters trying to use technology to

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reach

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Muslims

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or different avenues of expression,

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we should appreciate that. Like, they're trying to

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do something. They may do it horribly wrong,

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but at least they're trying. And some may

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do

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it, really really really right. So he he

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decides to write this book, and there's 3

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things that you're gonna take from this book.

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Number 1 is, it should increase our relationship

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with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.

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Like, we should

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improve

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the sweetness of salah.

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We should improve, like,

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our relationship with the unseen.

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Like, that's really, really important.

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Number 2, it should prepare us for a

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life of prophetic value.

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What kind of impact do you leave in

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the world?

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Doesn't have to be massive. Right? I have

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a problem with that. Everyone wants to be

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like

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the hero.

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Right? Or the shero.

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But like,

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what if you just do something that's

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not massively impactful,

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but like really really successfully changes a few

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people or

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impacts

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a few people around you.

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Man.

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So it should help us to live for

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a life of prophetic value. And a life

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of prophetic value is, I'm gonna be committed

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to good regardless of the impact.

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So whether people like it, whether it it

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goes viral,

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that's not prophecy.

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Prophecy doesn't care it cares about viral, but

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it understands that viral is from God.

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My job is just to like, my

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job is just to, like, do a good

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job of relating the message. But if it

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doesn't go viral,

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Ma'alehi,

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That's why the prophet, salallahu alayhi wasalam, said

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there's some prophets, they had 0 followers. Like,

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can you imagine?

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I knew of a brother, subhanallah, in the

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seventies,

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Abdul Malik,

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who used to be in Medina Masjid here,

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in New York, years ago.

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He was with the Jama'at Dawah and Tablih.

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So he moved to Houston, like, back in

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the dizz days before Houston became Little Karachi.

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You know what I mean? Like, they call

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it Little Karachi, or is that Chicago?

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And,

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he started a masjid

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in his neighborhood.

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And nobody came,

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so he said,

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I started and I would I I wanted

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to be sincere,

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so I would actually go and give lectures

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to myself.

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And he he wasn't mentally ill. Right? But

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he was, like, I wanted to make sure

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I was sincere.

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So, and then hamdulillah, that community grew, mashallah.

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But like his initial effort wasn't about like,

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you would like to get all the likes

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and everybody following me.

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His initial effort was like, for Allah.

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And so then he he said like, I

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learned by not speaking to anybody how to

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speak to people. SubhanAllah,

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Allah teaches people, man. I learned by having

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an empty congregation,

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how to have a full congregation.

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Because I've I've been empty,

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and that emptiness taught me

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what not to do. Subhan Allah.

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But he was like, I didn't pay attention

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to that stuff. Rahimu Halai, he passed away.

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So, of course, strategically, we wanna make sure

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we try to do our best, and we

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wanna have the best effort, and we hope

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that it's impactful.

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But at the end of the day,

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Success is from God. And that's why the

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Muslims should never get upset because

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if you've done it, you succeeded.

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But the outcome is left to who?

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It's left to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.

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The third is that it will allow us

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to familiarize ourselves

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with the depth, scope, and beauty of Islamic

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scholarship.

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And as a post colonial community that continue

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well, not really post colonial.

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I mean, we're still getting drones

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and economic warfare declared on the Muslim world,

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constantly.

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We're still experiencing,

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like, the hangover of

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of, a white gin and tonic.

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And when you come out of that, when

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I come out of that,

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it may have impacted our attitude towards our

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tradition.

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Vis a vis modernity,

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spirituality,

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There's some places in the academy

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to be a believer

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is synonymous with being insane.

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So, like in that kind of spectrum, how

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can I go back and say,

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man, the tradition actually was very rich,

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and there was a lot there?

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And it doesn't mean that the tradition is

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perfect. We talked about the three attitudes towards

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the tradition,

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but there are things there to be inspired

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inspired of.

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How how did this all come about?

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In the year

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1258,

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after Hijri,

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Imam al Marzuzbi had an incredible experience.

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He dreamt,

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that he was surrounded by the Sahaba. Has

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anyone here ever dreamt of the Sahaba?

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Anybody?

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Masha'allah.

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Masha'allah.

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And

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the Sahaba,

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some of them they turned to him,

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and he noticed that the prophet sallallahu alaihi

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wa sallam

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was like sitting

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amongst them.

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And the prophet said to him,

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read the poem.

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Whoever reads it will go whoever, like, memorizes

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it, lives it, and learns it will enter

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paradise.

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And they will achieve the objective of life.

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And they will align themselves with the book

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and sunnah. Of course, we don't believe this

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is hadith. Right? Like, don't get it twisted.

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But we do have the hadith of the

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prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam

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that said,

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true dreams are mubasharat,

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are like these true dreams are

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a part of nabooah.

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What that means is if someone has a

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dream that agrees

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with general principles of Islam,

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not like I have a new dream. Right?

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Like I have this dream that I can

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change salah. Okay. There's Nabuah, I'm gonna change

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salah now. That's Bida.

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But a dream that aligns with something like,

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maybe you have a dream that tells you

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go to South Africa and

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trafficked.

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Like, that's considered like a prophetic dream.

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So

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when the prophet alaihi salatu wa salam,

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he said that to the sheikh. The

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sheikh, he said,

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I don't know this poem.

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Right?

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And then the prophet

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salallahu

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alayhi

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wasalam

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said,

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Then

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the prophet read

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a poem to him about faith, about theology.

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And when he woke up, he had it

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memorized.

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SubhanAllah.

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So he went to

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his students and he said, I'm gonna read

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this. Write this down.

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So when they wrote it down,

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he

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This is the poem that's in front of

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It's really cool, man.

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And that's why it's important to get beyond

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the the smugness, and the dimness, and coldness

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of

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the secular world

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into a place where people still believe in

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dreams.

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And not like dreams do crazy stuff.

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Right? But

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like, dreams that have like real meaning and

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value.

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So subhanAllah, they wrote it, and then he

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wrote an explanation, and then he dispensed it

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to the scholars. He was like, peer review

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is very important.

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And, you know, masha'Allah, the book was like

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widely accepted and praised by scholars. They were

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really shocked,

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and it's taught now in places like the

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Gambia,

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and Senegal,

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Mauritania,

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Morocco.

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It's basically taught everywhere, except Saudi Arabia.

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So,

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except in in certain parts of Saudi Arabia,

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like the far,

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like the far east, southeast of Saudi Arabia

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and Assa.

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So,

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and that's not to, like, go after the

00:28:10 --> 00:28:11

Saudis or things.

00:28:12 --> 00:28:13

It's just they ain't rolling like this.

00:28:14 --> 00:28:14

Yes?

00:28:38 --> 00:28:41

So so the sheikh is from this generation

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of people who believes in

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making the language accessible.

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So the writer of this book had this

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dream, and then the book

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is representative

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of his one of his attempts

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to to to, like, quell that divide. Yeah.

00:29:00 --> 00:29:02

Yeah. Yeah. Good. No. It's a good question.

00:29:02 --> 00:29:04

Don't be shy. It's wonderful. It's my fault

00:29:04 --> 00:29:05

for not explaining it.

00:29:06 --> 00:29:08

Then after some time, Sheikh Hamadi saw the

00:29:08 --> 00:29:09

prophet, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. Has anyone here

00:29:09 --> 00:29:11

seen the prophet in their dreams?

00:29:13 --> 00:29:15

It just means you're more responsible.

00:29:15 --> 00:29:17

It doesn't mean you're special. You know, people

00:29:17 --> 00:29:18

are, you know, that's not the problem of

00:29:18 --> 00:29:19

my dream. No. I can, like, go crazy.

00:29:19 --> 00:29:21

No, man. It's not like, you know, you

00:29:21 --> 00:29:23

did CrossFit, and I can eat pizza.

00:29:23 --> 00:29:26

Right? That comes with great responsibility. But the

00:29:26 --> 00:29:27

prophet said, whoever sees me faqdrani.

00:29:28 --> 00:29:31

But Al Qadir Iyad said that, the only

00:29:31 --> 00:29:32

way you can be for certain that you

00:29:32 --> 00:29:34

saw the prophet in your dream, is that

00:29:34 --> 00:29:35

your Adam will be Shefati.

00:29:37 --> 00:29:38

That you know how the prophet looks from

00:29:38 --> 00:29:40

a to z. If not, then you ask

00:29:40 --> 00:29:41

people who know.

00:29:42 --> 00:29:44

So something to think about. But a few

00:29:44 --> 00:29:46

a few months later, he saw sayna Muhammad

00:29:46 --> 00:29:48

alaihi salatu salam

00:29:48 --> 00:29:49

in his dream,

00:29:50 --> 00:29:52

and the prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam said, hey,

00:29:52 --> 00:29:54

recite that poem that I read to you.

00:29:54 --> 00:29:56

So he said, alhamdulillah, I I read it

00:29:56 --> 00:29:58

to the prophet, and each line he would

00:29:58 --> 00:29:59

say, ami.

00:30:00 --> 00:30:02

Again, it's not doesn't mean this act this

00:30:02 --> 00:30:05

didn't happen. Right? But it's like Mubasharat.

00:30:06 --> 00:30:08

And the scholars of his era,

00:30:09 --> 00:30:10

they didn't

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reject this.

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One of the challenges

00:30:15 --> 00:30:16

of the Salafi Saudi

00:30:16 --> 00:30:17

Salafi,

00:30:17 --> 00:30:18

Da'wah,

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is that it has aligned itself with secularism.

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And that is that secularism not only opposes

00:30:25 --> 00:30:26

the supernatural,

00:30:27 --> 00:30:29

and not only opposes superstition,

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it also opposes the supernatural.

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Islam opposes superstition,

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but affirms what?

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The supernatural.

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We see now an effort to destroy the

00:30:42 --> 00:30:43

houses of the Sahaba,

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the the tombs of the righteous people, you

00:30:46 --> 00:30:48

know, to erase our history,

00:30:49 --> 00:30:51

to, your dream means nothing.

00:30:51 --> 00:30:54

Right? So now we became the smugness of

00:30:54 --> 00:30:56

the secular world in the name of puritanical

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literalism.

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This doesn't apply to all all Sadafis. I'm

00:31:02 --> 00:31:04

talking about that that's being pushed into communities,

00:31:05 --> 00:31:07

just like there's a apolitical Sufism. It's a

00:31:07 --> 00:31:08

problem also.

00:31:08 --> 00:31:09

Right?

00:31:09 --> 00:31:10

Pushed into communities

00:31:11 --> 00:31:13

to divide us and weaken us and keep

00:31:13 --> 00:31:15

us from fulfilling our prophetic goal.

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

So

00:31:19 --> 00:31:21

none of the scholars around the sheikh said

00:31:21 --> 00:31:23

to him, like, this is Baqwas, man. How

00:31:23 --> 00:31:26

you had this dream, bro? Stuff for Allah.

00:31:26 --> 00:31:29

No. They said, alhamdulillah, that's like a beautiful

00:31:29 --> 00:31:29

thing,

00:31:30 --> 00:31:31

and that's a great thing, and that's why

00:31:31 --> 00:31:34

anyone who taught the book, they mentioned it.

00:31:34 --> 00:31:36

But of course, it's not a hadith of

00:31:36 --> 00:31:37

the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam.

00:31:38 --> 00:31:39

It's just a beautiful experience.

00:31:40 --> 00:31:42

I consider these kind of moments like when

00:31:42 --> 00:31:44

you're on the treadmill and you want to

00:31:44 --> 00:31:47

stop, and then someone says something really nice

00:31:47 --> 00:31:49

to you, and you can keep going. That's

00:31:49 --> 00:31:51

kind of what this means. We don't take

00:31:51 --> 00:31:53

any legal rulings from dreams.

00:31:53 --> 00:31:55

We don't take, you know, I saw this

00:31:55 --> 00:31:56

in a dream that all of you should,

00:31:56 --> 00:31:58

like, take me to the dining hall every

00:31:58 --> 00:31:58

Thursday.

00:31:59 --> 00:32:00

The prophet said, you should take me there.

00:32:01 --> 00:32:03

That's how people get used, man.

00:32:03 --> 00:32:05

So we have a very important principle.

00:32:09 --> 00:32:11

And he's not allowed to, like,

00:32:12 --> 00:32:13

to take rulings from dreams.

00:32:14 --> 00:32:15

Yes, sir?

00:32:15 --> 00:32:17

It's definitely mentioned about

00:32:17 --> 00:32:19

seeing the prophet. So I don't know how

00:32:19 --> 00:32:21

to deal. Is there also a price in

00:32:21 --> 00:32:24

other prophets in dreams? Of course. Beautiful, man.

00:32:25 --> 00:32:27

Those are great things, Insha'Allah.

00:32:28 --> 00:32:29

But again, we don't tell you, like, I've

00:32:29 --> 00:32:31

seen people come, like, yeah, you know, I

00:32:31 --> 00:32:33

saw this sign in my dream that said,

00:32:33 --> 00:32:35

like, go right, so I knew I shouldn't

00:32:35 --> 00:32:36

marry that person.

00:32:38 --> 00:32:39

I was like, no no. It means you

00:32:39 --> 00:32:41

should take all your money out of your

00:32:41 --> 00:32:42

bank account, and in your right hand give

00:32:42 --> 00:32:43

it to me.

00:32:44 --> 00:32:45

Like, how do you know it means that?

00:32:45 --> 00:32:46

I'm like, well, how do you know it

00:32:46 --> 00:32:48

means that? Like, that's very subjective.

00:32:49 --> 00:32:51

So what we say is, like, these dreams,

00:32:53 --> 00:32:54

Like, the general

00:32:55 --> 00:32:57

vibe is they're great they're good things.

00:32:57 --> 00:32:59

But we don't take tafsir from them. Like,

00:32:59 --> 00:33:00

we don't take, like,

00:33:01 --> 00:33:03

specific we don't say whoever read doesn't read

00:33:03 --> 00:33:05

this poem is a bad person, for example.

00:33:06 --> 00:33:07

It's not like that, hamdulillah.

00:33:08 --> 00:33:10

So after the poem was completed, and this

00:33:10 --> 00:33:12

was his effort to kind of, like, create,

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

What's funny is now it may seem hard

00:33:13 --> 00:33:15

for us. So imagine in his time he's

00:33:15 --> 00:33:16

trying to make it accessible.

00:33:17 --> 00:33:19

Maybe for us it's difficult,

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

And it's important to understand that Escar went

00:33:22 --> 00:33:23

through a lot of changes, and still is

00:33:23 --> 00:33:25

going through a lot of changes. And one

00:33:25 --> 00:33:26

of the important changes

00:33:27 --> 00:33:29

that Esar went through, this kind of Harvard

00:33:29 --> 00:33:30

of the Muslim world, where it it found

00:33:30 --> 00:33:33

a lot of opposition from that first tier

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

of kind of a traditional school,

00:33:35 --> 00:33:37

was that Esar was trying to make the

00:33:37 --> 00:33:38

tradition accessible

00:33:38 --> 00:33:39

to everybody.

00:33:40 --> 00:33:42

What was called Tabsit Turath.

00:33:43 --> 00:33:43

And he

00:33:44 --> 00:33:45

becomes one of

00:33:45 --> 00:33:47

the first to start this.

00:33:48 --> 00:33:50

The first to start this. So today, inshallah,

00:33:50 --> 00:33:52

we'll read the introduction. I just wanna advise

00:33:52 --> 00:33:54

you, like, it's not hard. Like, don't be

00:33:54 --> 00:33:55

intimidated.

00:33:55 --> 00:33:57

You should enjoy this experience.

00:33:58 --> 00:33:59

And, like, if you have questions, you can

00:33:59 --> 00:34:01

just ask me. Don't worry.

00:34:01 --> 00:34:03

I want you to feel comfortable.

00:34:03 --> 00:34:04

Center yourself,

00:34:05 --> 00:34:07

and and don't, like, tell yourself, like, this

00:34:07 --> 00:34:08

is not for

00:34:09 --> 00:34:10

me. Like, I feel sorry for people. Like,

00:34:10 --> 00:34:12

we put them in positions where they feel

00:34:12 --> 00:34:14

that way. If it wasn't for you, why

00:34:14 --> 00:34:15

are you here?

00:34:17 --> 00:34:18

You know? So, like,

00:34:20 --> 00:34:21

have some confidence in yourself.

00:34:22 --> 00:34:24

And I'm I'm with you. Like, I'm I'm

00:34:24 --> 00:34:27

a convert. Being a convert is to be

00:34:27 --> 00:34:28

constantly in a state of exploration.

00:34:30 --> 00:34:32

You know, like, oh, chicken tika, amazing.

00:34:33 --> 00:34:36

Right? Mauba, amazing. Right? So today, we were

00:34:36 --> 00:34:38

downstairs with, our friends, Arida

00:34:39 --> 00:34:41

and Monya, and they're, you know, I was

00:34:41 --> 00:34:42

telling them, like, you know who Muhammadu Eredi

00:34:42 --> 00:34:44

is? Muhammadu Eredi is like the Michael Jackson

00:34:44 --> 00:34:46

of East Africa. Right? And she was like,

00:34:46 --> 00:34:48

how do you know that? I'm a convert.

00:34:48 --> 00:34:49

And then Shah Rukh Khan, we started busting

00:34:49 --> 00:34:50

out Shah Rukh Khan. How do you know

00:34:50 --> 00:34:52

Shah Rukh Khan? I'm a convert.

00:34:53 --> 00:34:53

Wu Tang,

00:34:54 --> 00:34:55

you're converts.

00:34:55 --> 00:34:57

Right? But like, the point is,

00:34:58 --> 00:35:00

you know, for me Islam has always been

00:35:00 --> 00:35:01

about

00:35:02 --> 00:35:02

learning and

00:35:03 --> 00:35:04

growing and and not challenging,

00:35:05 --> 00:35:08

but within that realm of of of growth

00:35:08 --> 00:35:10

to, like, enjoy it. So

00:35:11 --> 00:35:13

don't don't worry, inshallah. And then next week,

00:35:13 --> 00:35:14

you'll have the text

00:35:14 --> 00:35:16

and, you know, you'll be able to, to

00:35:16 --> 00:35:18

write some notes and stuff. So it's a

00:35:18 --> 00:35:19

poem.

00:35:20 --> 00:35:20

Here's a question.

00:35:22 --> 00:35:24

Why why would he write in poetic form?

00:35:25 --> 00:35:27

And there's 13 ways to conduct a poem

00:35:27 --> 00:35:29

in Arabic, more or less. He he writes

00:35:29 --> 00:35:32

in the simplest way. It's called rajiz. Rajiz

00:35:32 --> 00:35:34

in Arabic is called Himaru sha'ara,

00:35:34 --> 00:35:35

which

00:35:35 --> 00:35:37

means the donkey of the poet. What that

00:35:37 --> 00:35:39

means is, like, if you want to work,

00:35:39 --> 00:35:41

if you wanna get into it, this form

00:35:41 --> 00:35:43

of poetry is the one that you can,

00:35:43 --> 00:35:45

like, use for anything. It'll work like a

00:35:45 --> 00:35:45

donkey.

00:35:47 --> 00:35:49

And a donkey, from Oklahoma,

00:35:50 --> 00:35:51

I could talk about it, is a lot

00:35:51 --> 00:35:53

easier to ride than a horse.

00:35:55 --> 00:35:58

So it's like it's easy to to to,

00:35:58 --> 00:35:59

you know, work with,

00:36:00 --> 00:36:01

but then also

00:36:01 --> 00:36:03

it's accessible and easy for who?

00:36:05 --> 00:36:06

The people, man.

00:36:07 --> 00:36:08

And

00:36:08 --> 00:36:10

perhaps the reason he wrote it as a

00:36:10 --> 00:36:11

poem

00:36:11 --> 00:36:14

is that in his age, illiteracy was very

00:36:14 --> 00:36:14

common.

00:36:16 --> 00:36:17

So people learn by memorizing.

00:36:19 --> 00:36:21

I've had teachers, I had a teacher I've

00:36:21 --> 00:36:23

told you about him before,

00:36:23 --> 00:36:25

Sheik Ali Salih.

00:36:25 --> 00:36:26

A Sheik Ali Salih

00:36:27 --> 00:36:28

is blind.

00:36:30 --> 00:36:32

Masha'Allah, his wife was blind, she used to

00:36:32 --> 00:36:33

make khatamu Quran every 3 days.

00:36:34 --> 00:36:34

SubhanAllah.

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

Sheikh Ali Salih.

00:36:38 --> 00:36:39

If you're from Cairo, he lives next to

00:36:39 --> 00:36:40

Bab Azawala.

00:36:42 --> 00:36:45

So Shaykh is like a poet. Like, he

00:36:45 --> 00:36:46

has, like, extemporaneous,

00:36:46 --> 00:36:49

like, bars. He can just drop

00:36:49 --> 00:36:50

bars for days

00:36:51 --> 00:36:53

about anything. So my Ijazah, in one book,

00:36:53 --> 00:36:54

he wrote it, he told me write it

00:36:54 --> 00:36:55

as a poem.

00:37:02 --> 00:37:03

Right? You make like this,

00:37:06 --> 00:37:08

you know, like so he made it like

00:37:08 --> 00:37:10

a poem. I was like, yo how do

00:37:10 --> 00:37:12

you do this man? Because it's not easy.

00:37:13 --> 00:37:15

One time I brought my children to visit

00:37:15 --> 00:37:15

him,

00:37:16 --> 00:37:17

Shifa and Malik.

00:37:17 --> 00:37:19

And he said, because he can't see, he's

00:37:19 --> 00:37:20

like, Deidah?

00:37:21 --> 00:37:22

Who's that? I said, damn.

00:37:24 --> 00:37:25

He said,

00:37:38 --> 00:37:40

I memorized it, and I didn't write it

00:37:40 --> 00:37:42

down. And I'm not Arab.

00:37:43 --> 00:37:44

The point is, like,

00:37:45 --> 00:37:47

that's the system of education that used to

00:37:47 --> 00:37:49

exist. So I said to him like, how

00:37:49 --> 00:37:50

did you learn how to do this? He's

00:37:50 --> 00:37:51

like, my mom

00:37:52 --> 00:37:54

was blind too, and she used to play

00:37:54 --> 00:37:56

in Masjid Al Azhar. So she used to

00:37:56 --> 00:37:57

listen.

00:37:58 --> 00:38:00

So she learned from all those shuh.

00:38:01 --> 00:38:03

Imagine now, we kick people out of the

00:38:03 --> 00:38:04

mosques.

00:38:05 --> 00:38:05

Allahu Akbar.

00:38:06 --> 00:38:08

But his mom, so she memorized the Medheb

00:38:08 --> 00:38:10

Hanafi, she memorized it.

00:38:10 --> 00:38:12

Poetry, she memorized it.

00:38:13 --> 00:38:15

Composition, even though she couldn't see to write,

00:38:15 --> 00:38:17

she memorized it. And she was a hafila,

00:38:17 --> 00:38:18

just by

00:38:19 --> 00:38:20

like being in the

00:38:21 --> 00:38:22

the area of knowledge.

00:38:24 --> 00:38:26

So the sheikh, he wrote it

00:38:26 --> 00:38:28

as a poem because in those days,

00:38:29 --> 00:38:29

poetry

00:38:30 --> 00:38:31

was easy.

00:38:32 --> 00:38:34

So we learned something now, like, in our

00:38:34 --> 00:38:35

work,

00:38:35 --> 00:38:37

regardless of our profession,

00:38:37 --> 00:38:40

if our job is to work with people,

00:38:40 --> 00:38:43

because sometimes people in a scholarly setting, there's

00:38:43 --> 00:38:44

a certain type of,

00:38:44 --> 00:38:46

you know, language

00:38:46 --> 00:38:48

and format that we're stuck to, but like,

00:38:48 --> 00:38:50

if we're really trying to serve people,

00:38:51 --> 00:38:52

then we need to be able to serve

00:38:52 --> 00:38:53

people.

00:38:54 --> 00:38:56

So he begins, he says, Abda'u

00:38:56 --> 00:38:57

Bismillahi

00:38:58 --> 00:38:59

Wabil Rahimida

00:39:01 --> 00:39:02

imil Hassani.

00:39:03 --> 00:39:04

He said I began

00:39:05 --> 00:39:06

Bismillah.

00:39:07 --> 00:39:07

Here Bismillah,

00:39:08 --> 00:39:09

the ba means atabarruk.

00:39:10 --> 00:39:12

So like when we slaughter an animal we

00:39:12 --> 00:39:14

say Bismillah, like

00:39:15 --> 00:39:16

with barakah.

00:39:17 --> 00:39:19

So the idea is here like I'm opening

00:39:19 --> 00:39:19

my text

00:39:20 --> 00:39:21

seeking

00:39:21 --> 00:39:22

Allah.

00:39:23 --> 00:39:26

Because without Allah, I won't be able to

00:39:26 --> 00:39:26

do it.

00:39:27 --> 00:39:29

Here we learn something from the sheikh.

00:39:30 --> 00:39:31

The Sheikh, he became the Mufti in Mecca,

00:39:31 --> 00:39:33

by the way. Like Sheikh was a g.

00:39:34 --> 00:39:34

So

00:39:36 --> 00:39:38

he, like someone today got traded. Right? He

00:39:38 --> 00:39:40

got traded from one city to another. The

00:39:40 --> 00:39:42

Sheikh, he got he traded and went to

00:39:42 --> 00:39:42

Mecca.

00:39:44 --> 00:39:47

And in Mecca, he also was very successful,

00:39:47 --> 00:39:48

but the point is,

00:39:49 --> 00:39:52

even though he's really accomplished at what he

00:39:52 --> 00:39:52

does,

00:39:53 --> 00:39:55

and he's a great composer of poetry,

00:39:56 --> 00:39:57

he doesn't allow

00:39:57 --> 00:39:58

professional

00:39:58 --> 00:39:59

accolades

00:40:00 --> 00:40:02

to cause him to forget

00:40:02 --> 00:40:04

he needs Allah.

00:40:05 --> 00:40:07

Do you feel you need Allah?

00:40:08 --> 00:40:09

Like, in our moments

00:40:10 --> 00:40:12

where we're doing what we're really good at,

00:40:13 --> 00:40:14

Do we remember Allah?

00:40:15 --> 00:40:16

The Sheikh

00:40:16 --> 00:40:18

is teaching us something here. That's why one

00:40:18 --> 00:40:20

of my teachers said about the Ulama, the

00:40:20 --> 00:40:22

good Ulama. He said, the sign of a

00:40:22 --> 00:40:25

great scholar, like a great person with god,

00:40:25 --> 00:40:26

is They

00:40:28 --> 00:40:30

may be dead, but you still learn from

00:40:30 --> 00:40:32

them. Like how they carried themselves.

00:40:33 --> 00:40:34

How they acted.

00:40:34 --> 00:40:36

So for example, when people used to see

00:40:36 --> 00:40:37

Sayna

00:40:37 --> 00:40:38

Sayna Fatima,

00:40:39 --> 00:40:40

alaihi salaam.

00:40:40 --> 00:40:42

They said, man, she reminds us of the

00:40:42 --> 00:40:44

prophet, salallahu alaihi wa sallam.

00:40:44 --> 00:40:46

How she looks, how she talks, how she

00:40:46 --> 00:40:47

acts.

00:40:47 --> 00:40:50

Right? And after her, Sayna Husain.

00:40:50 --> 00:40:51

So like,

00:40:52 --> 00:40:52

mat

00:40:52 --> 00:40:53

wa'esh.

00:40:55 --> 00:40:56

So like, if you think about it, you

00:40:56 --> 00:40:59

talk about some of these luminaries of history,

00:40:59 --> 00:41:01

like, you think they're still alive. Like, if

00:41:01 --> 00:41:03

there was someone here that didn't know much,

00:41:03 --> 00:41:05

they'd be like, she's, Imam Sheifi. Oh, where's

00:41:05 --> 00:41:06

that imam at? Is he in Jackson Heights?

00:41:06 --> 00:41:09

Like, the way we talk about Imam Sheffi,

00:41:10 --> 00:41:13

or Rabi al Adawiya, the great woman, saint,

00:41:13 --> 00:41:14

like, they're still around.

00:41:15 --> 00:41:17

So the sheikh, he said the signs of,

00:41:17 --> 00:41:19

like, a great person is matwaash.

00:41:21 --> 00:41:22

They died,

00:41:22 --> 00:41:23

but

00:41:23 --> 00:41:25

their their impact,

00:41:25 --> 00:41:27

like Malcolm X, like, still feel like he's

00:41:27 --> 00:41:28

here

00:41:28 --> 00:41:30

because of the impact was so systemic.

00:41:31 --> 00:41:33

So the sheikh, even though he's, like, really

00:41:33 --> 00:41:36

really successful, this poem is he's writing this

00:41:36 --> 00:41:37

poem for, like, for the basics, like, he's

00:41:37 --> 00:41:39

writing for people. He can do this in

00:41:39 --> 00:41:40

his sleep. Right?

00:41:40 --> 00:41:42

But still, he's like, I need Allah.

00:41:45 --> 00:41:47

So he says, Abdu'u.

00:41:47 --> 00:41:48

I began Bismillah

00:41:51 --> 00:41:52

with Allah.

00:41:52 --> 00:41:55

And, actually, there's something beautiful that may also

00:41:55 --> 00:41:57

help us, like, when we pray and stuff.

00:41:57 --> 00:41:59

You know, when you say Bismillah,

00:42:00 --> 00:42:01

actually, it doesn't mean with the name of

00:42:01 --> 00:42:02

God.

00:42:02 --> 00:42:04

This is a little technical. It means with

00:42:04 --> 00:42:06

the names of Allah. Because oftentimes

00:42:06 --> 00:42:09

singular possessive in Arabic means a plural.

00:42:13 --> 00:42:16

That's why the Basmala is amazing, man. So,

00:42:16 --> 00:42:17

like, when you say,

00:42:17 --> 00:42:18

you're saying,

00:42:29 --> 00:42:31

So when you say Bismillah,

00:42:32 --> 00:42:34

you mean all of Allah's names.

00:42:36 --> 00:42:38

Because it's a single in Arabic, this is

00:42:38 --> 00:42:39

a lot like a singular plural.

00:42:40 --> 00:42:42

A singular possessive

00:42:42 --> 00:42:44

actually means a plural. So the sheikh says,

00:42:47 --> 00:42:47

walrahmani.

00:42:48 --> 00:42:49

Why would he mention alrahman?

00:42:51 --> 00:42:53

Because of the Quran, of course.

00:42:53 --> 00:42:55

And to remind himself like I may make

00:42:55 --> 00:42:57

mistakes, I may screw up, but Allah Rahmah

00:42:57 --> 00:42:58

Rahmah, hamdulillah,

00:42:59 --> 00:43:00

to his benevolence,

00:43:01 --> 00:43:03

I will be able to achieve this goal.

00:43:05 --> 00:43:07

And the one who exercises mercy.

00:43:10 --> 00:43:11

Da'im al-'sani,

00:43:11 --> 00:43:12

meaning that Allah's

00:43:14 --> 00:43:15

excellence and benevolence

00:43:15 --> 00:43:16

is constant.

00:43:18 --> 00:43:20

Doesn't, like, have a good day, doesn't have

00:43:20 --> 00:43:21

a bad day. And this is one of

00:43:21 --> 00:43:23

the foundational principles of our faith.

00:43:24 --> 00:43:26

And and there's happened there's something happening here

00:43:26 --> 00:43:28

that I'll talk about in a second, that

00:43:28 --> 00:43:28

scholars

00:43:29 --> 00:43:32

used to allude to the subject matter of

00:43:32 --> 00:43:33

a book in the introduction.

00:43:35 --> 00:43:37

It's like a style. Like, I'm a show

00:43:37 --> 00:43:39

you what I'm talking about. So it's like

00:43:39 --> 00:43:40

if it was like a cipher,

00:43:41 --> 00:43:43

right, he's setting you up with his bars.

00:43:44 --> 00:43:46

She's setting you up with her rhymes. So

00:43:46 --> 00:43:48

the sheikh is saying, I'm gonna kinda give

00:43:48 --> 00:43:50

you an idea about what I'm talking about

00:43:51 --> 00:43:52

in the introduction.

00:43:53 --> 00:43:54

This was like

00:43:54 --> 00:43:57

a classical style of Muslim scholars. So now

00:43:57 --> 00:43:59

we learn something, man. Our scholars were people

00:43:59 --> 00:44:00

of letters.

00:44:01 --> 00:44:02

He was a poet.

00:44:03 --> 00:44:05

He wasn't, like, you know, you need to

00:44:05 --> 00:44:06

believe god is 1. We're gonna go to

00:44:06 --> 00:44:07

*.

00:44:07 --> 00:44:08

You lama salama.

00:44:11 --> 00:44:11

Right?

00:44:12 --> 00:44:13

He he's employing

00:44:14 --> 00:44:16

art and beauty and expression.

00:44:17 --> 00:44:18

So he cares about people.

00:44:19 --> 00:44:20

He wants to reach people.

00:44:21 --> 00:44:22

So he says,

00:44:27 --> 00:44:28

And how we say it in Arabic is

00:44:28 --> 00:44:29

very nice.

00:44:34 --> 00:44:35

You can hear the

00:44:36 --> 00:44:38

That's why in in the poetry it's called

00:44:38 --> 00:44:38

because

00:44:39 --> 00:44:40

the Arabic

00:44:40 --> 00:44:42

is an ocean because it's like you're on

00:44:42 --> 00:44:42

a wave.

00:44:44 --> 00:44:45

So eventually, when we read it, like we'll

00:44:45 --> 00:44:47

read a lot of it, you'll feel like,

00:44:47 --> 00:44:47

oh.

00:44:49 --> 00:44:51

Oh. Yeah. And there's some forms that are

00:44:51 --> 00:44:52

like,

00:44:54 --> 00:44:55

but luckily that wasn't this form.

00:44:57 --> 00:44:58

That one's tough.

00:44:59 --> 00:45:01

And we know that this is the sunnah

00:45:01 --> 00:45:03

of sayna Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wasallam

00:45:04 --> 00:45:06

Whenever he would undertake something, he would start

00:45:06 --> 00:45:06

with Allah,

00:45:07 --> 00:45:08

even though he's the prophet.

00:45:09 --> 00:45:11

Salallahu alaihi wa sallam. So even like salah,

00:45:11 --> 00:45:13

like the prophet knows how to pray.

00:45:14 --> 00:45:16

But whenever he would pray he would say,

00:45:25 --> 00:45:27

Like, I turn myself completely

00:45:28 --> 00:45:30

to the one who

00:45:31 --> 00:45:32

originated the heavens and earth.

00:45:34 --> 00:45:35

Hanifa in Tawhid.

00:45:38 --> 00:45:41

Now, don't associate any partners with him. So

00:45:41 --> 00:45:42

even though the prophet is the best one

00:45:42 --> 00:45:43

to ever pray,

00:45:44 --> 00:45:45

he still turns to Allah.

00:45:47 --> 00:45:48

And of course, we all know that when,

00:45:49 --> 00:45:49

the prophet,

00:45:50 --> 00:45:52

even in life

00:45:52 --> 00:45:54

when he was faced with things that were

00:45:54 --> 00:45:55

perplexing, what would he do?

00:45:59 --> 00:46:00

It's tikhara.

00:46:02 --> 00:46:04

Like, whenever you would have choices to make,

00:46:04 --> 00:46:06

you will turn to Allah. For the mundane

00:46:06 --> 00:46:07

and for the serious.

00:46:08 --> 00:46:10

And that's why in the Quran, when Allah

00:46:10 --> 00:46:13

praises the people of faith, he calls them,

00:46:14 --> 00:46:16

Those who are close, meaning their thoughts are

00:46:16 --> 00:46:17

always close with God.

00:46:19 --> 00:46:20

They're always like,

00:46:21 --> 00:46:23

you know, kind of revolving around this constant

00:46:23 --> 00:46:25

relationship. Whether it's in the mundane,

00:46:26 --> 00:46:27

whether it's in the great. Doesn't mean that's

00:46:27 --> 00:46:30

sinful behavior. We're talking about achievement

00:46:30 --> 00:46:31

and motivation.

00:46:33 --> 00:46:34

So he said,

00:46:39 --> 00:46:42

means to look for good, khayr. I'm looking.

00:46:44 --> 00:46:46

Sometimes people tell us things about which we

00:46:46 --> 00:46:48

don't we shouldn't do. Like, we Islam is

00:46:48 --> 00:46:50

too cool for us, man. So we always

00:46:50 --> 00:46:51

add something to the kale.

00:46:52 --> 00:46:53

Like, there's no need to add blue cheese

00:46:53 --> 00:46:54

to this.

00:46:54 --> 00:46:56

It's already good.

00:46:56 --> 00:46:59

Right? There's no need to fry, you know

00:46:59 --> 00:47:01

what I mean, some brussels sprouts.

00:47:03 --> 00:47:04

So people be like, you know, for your

00:47:04 --> 00:47:06

Istikhar to really be Istikharah, you have to

00:47:06 --> 00:47:08

have a dream. No, you don't.

00:47:09 --> 00:47:11

For your Istikharah

00:47:11 --> 00:47:12

to really be Istikhara,

00:47:13 --> 00:47:15

like something has to, like, some weird thing

00:47:15 --> 00:47:16

has to happen.

00:47:17 --> 00:47:20

The classical early community of Muslims understood

00:47:21 --> 00:47:23

that istikhara was to pray 2 rakat,

00:47:23 --> 00:47:25

make this dua, and then go for what

00:47:25 --> 00:47:26

you feel is right.

00:47:29 --> 00:47:31

If it happens, it happens. If it doesn't,

00:47:31 --> 00:47:32

it doesn't. Habibi.

00:47:51 --> 00:47:54

These are your letters and lettering you become

00:47:54 --> 00:47:55

your trans maybe

00:47:56 --> 00:47:59

manifesting from people who are unlettered to letter.

00:47:59 --> 00:48:01

And the letters I'm prescribing on to you

00:48:01 --> 00:48:04

are bringing reality to your existence.

00:48:04 --> 00:48:06

So speak through my letters that I've given

00:48:06 --> 00:48:07

you. Masha'Allah.

00:48:07 --> 00:48:08

Something like that?

00:48:09 --> 00:48:10

Mean, Alif

00:48:10 --> 00:48:12

Lamim. Not not not to say that that's

00:48:12 --> 00:48:14

the only example. It's to say when you

00:48:14 --> 00:48:16

said Don't backtrack though. What you said is

00:48:16 --> 00:48:16

beautiful.

00:48:17 --> 00:48:18

Don't worry. Go ahead though.

00:48:19 --> 00:48:21

Continue in your backtrack even though you didn't

00:48:21 --> 00:48:21

need to.

00:48:23 --> 00:48:25

No. No. Go ahead, please.

00:48:26 --> 00:48:26

Yeah.

00:48:27 --> 00:48:29

And that that

00:48:29 --> 00:48:32

and mukharabin are those who have understood the

00:48:32 --> 00:48:34

letters that Allah has prescribed upon us.

00:48:35 --> 00:48:36

And like how the word is made in

00:48:36 --> 00:48:38

the Quran, it has a form and how

00:48:38 --> 00:48:40

it connects from letter to letter that makes

00:48:40 --> 00:48:42

the meaning. And harakat

00:48:43 --> 00:48:45

are on the accents on the the word,

00:48:45 --> 00:48:47

almost are like the prescription of how to

00:48:47 --> 00:48:49

act with the word to fulfill the meaning

00:48:49 --> 00:48:51

in your life to get

00:48:51 --> 00:48:54

that. Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. There's Adeb and Alephlamim.

00:48:54 --> 00:48:56

And Alephlamim is saying, look, there's some things

00:48:56 --> 00:48:58

you just don't know the meaning to.

00:48:59 --> 00:49:01

Then there's other things that you will know

00:49:01 --> 00:49:01

the meaning.

00:49:02 --> 00:49:03

As if to say, like,

00:49:08 --> 00:49:10

So there's this idea of, like,

00:49:10 --> 00:49:14

transcend like, transcendent knowledge and engagement, seeking.

00:49:16 --> 00:49:18

So in this famous dua istikhara,

00:49:18 --> 00:49:20

like, you don't have to see a dream.

00:49:20 --> 00:49:22

Nothing strange has to happen. Can you pray

00:49:22 --> 00:49:24

multiple istikhara for the same thing? Yes. As

00:49:24 --> 00:49:26

long as it doesn't become compulsive.

00:49:28 --> 00:49:29

Because the prophet, salallahu alayhi wasalam, he warned

00:49:29 --> 00:49:31

us. He said, Allah doesn't get tired.

00:49:32 --> 00:49:34

And you can't compel God. Like, if I

00:49:34 --> 00:49:35

do this a 1000 times, God will do

00:49:36 --> 00:49:36

it. No.

00:49:37 --> 00:49:39

That that would make me God.

00:49:41 --> 00:49:42

But I pray it's tikhara,

00:49:43 --> 00:49:44

and I try.

00:49:46 --> 00:49:48

There is one thing though with this

00:49:48 --> 00:49:51

which is is is agreed upon. You shouldn't

00:49:51 --> 00:49:51

wait.

00:49:53 --> 00:49:55

Like, okay, I'll make his tikhara now. Okay.

00:49:57 --> 00:49:58

Nothing's happening.

00:49:58 --> 00:49:59

Okay. Exactly.

00:50:00 --> 00:50:01

What do you think

00:50:01 --> 00:50:03

You're in your phone like, oh my god.

00:50:03 --> 00:50:03

Oh.

00:50:04 --> 00:50:05

Spectrum,

00:50:05 --> 00:50:07

oh, my Spectrum bill.

00:50:08 --> 00:50:10

No. We have to make effort, hamdulillah.

00:50:11 --> 00:50:11

And trust

00:50:12 --> 00:50:13

Allah. Well, how do I know that effort

00:50:13 --> 00:50:15

is right? Who inspired you to think about

00:50:15 --> 00:50:16

that effort?

00:50:17 --> 00:50:18

So that's part of your istakha.

00:50:20 --> 00:50:22

So the dua, and it's here, so when

00:50:22 --> 00:50:23

people,

00:50:24 --> 00:50:25

get the text, you can learn the dua.

00:50:25 --> 00:50:26

I know it's important.

00:50:27 --> 00:50:30

And and sometimes girls ask and women ask,

00:50:30 --> 00:50:32

like, what if I'm on my I'm menstruating,

00:50:32 --> 00:50:32

so

00:50:33 --> 00:50:34

I can't pray the 2 rakat. You just

00:50:34 --> 00:50:35

make the dua

00:50:36 --> 00:50:37

for istikhara.

00:50:38 --> 00:50:41

Because in axiom, orders are based on ability.

00:50:43 --> 00:50:44

It's like, do your best.

00:50:45 --> 00:50:47

Can't be like, I got this like really

00:50:47 --> 00:50:49

important job opportunity, well right now, I I

00:50:49 --> 00:50:51

can't pray, so when I can pray I'll

00:50:51 --> 00:50:52

make istikhara,

00:50:52 --> 00:50:54

and I'll let you know. The job's not

00:50:54 --> 00:50:56

gonna be like, oh, okay. We'll wait till

00:50:56 --> 00:50:58

you're ready to pray your turekah,

00:50:58 --> 00:51:00

and then we'll hold the job for you.

00:51:00 --> 00:51:02

That's not gonna happen. Like, I got my

00:51:02 --> 00:51:07

Columbia scholarship information. I'm sorry, NYU scholarship information.

00:51:07 --> 00:51:07

And

00:51:08 --> 00:51:11

and they're like, sorry, University of Oklahoma

00:51:11 --> 00:51:12

scholarship information.

00:51:13 --> 00:51:14

But I told them, wait,

00:51:15 --> 00:51:16

because I can't pray for a few more

00:51:16 --> 00:51:17

days.

00:51:17 --> 00:51:19

Of course, like, Islam would never ask someone

00:51:19 --> 00:51:21

to have to, like, burden themselves in that

00:51:21 --> 00:51:23

way. You know what I mean? So just

00:51:23 --> 00:51:26

make as best you can. But the dua,

00:51:38 --> 00:51:40

Oh, Allah. I seek your help in making

00:51:40 --> 00:51:42

this decision about which I'm confused.

00:51:43 --> 00:51:45

I seek the from you

00:51:46 --> 00:51:47

by your knowledge

00:51:47 --> 00:51:49

and by your power, and I ask you

00:51:49 --> 00:51:50

of your infinite blessings.

00:51:51 --> 00:51:52

Because you have authority,

00:51:53 --> 00:51:54

I have no authority,

00:51:54 --> 00:51:57

you know, I don't know, and the unseen

00:51:57 --> 00:51:58

is in your hands.

00:51:59 --> 00:52:00

Then we say,

00:52:02 --> 00:52:04

oh Allah, if you know that this thing,

00:52:04 --> 00:52:05

and then you say it. And you can

00:52:05 --> 00:52:06

also say it in English, like, if you

00:52:06 --> 00:52:08

can't say it in Arabic, it's okay.

00:52:09 --> 00:52:11

We gotta make things hard for people, man.

00:52:11 --> 00:52:13

Right? And I'd rather someone say it and

00:52:13 --> 00:52:14

feel it and mean it, and just like

00:52:14 --> 00:52:16

say it and not understand it. And we

00:52:16 --> 00:52:17

say the issue.

00:52:21 --> 00:52:22

It's good for me in this life.

00:52:23 --> 00:52:25

Is good for my religion, is good for

00:52:25 --> 00:52:26

me in my life, and good for my

00:52:26 --> 00:52:27

hereafter.

00:52:30 --> 00:52:32

Then make it easy for me. Facilitate it

00:52:32 --> 00:52:33

for me.

00:52:34 --> 00:52:35

Make it a potential for me.

00:52:41 --> 00:52:42

And if this thing, you know, and your

00:52:42 --> 00:52:44

knowledge is not good for my faith and

00:52:44 --> 00:52:46

my life and my hereafter,

00:52:48 --> 00:52:49

cast it away from me.

00:52:50 --> 00:52:51

And cast me away from it.

00:52:52 --> 00:52:52

And then

00:52:53 --> 00:52:56

2 narrations, bless me, another narration, like, give

00:52:56 --> 00:52:56

me contentment.

00:52:58 --> 00:53:00

But the idea is that the prophet, even

00:53:00 --> 00:53:02

though he's really the prophet Masha'Allah,

00:53:02 --> 00:53:04

he still turns to Allah. So the sheikh,

00:53:04 --> 00:53:06

we learned from the opening line, that he

00:53:06 --> 00:53:09

turns to Allah, he has hope in Allah

00:53:09 --> 00:53:09

Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.

00:53:10 --> 00:53:12

And that's like an important quality we can

00:53:12 --> 00:53:14

have. Even and sometimes when you catch yourself,

00:53:14 --> 00:53:16

like, yo, I got this. That's when you

00:53:16 --> 00:53:17

should turn to God.

00:53:18 --> 00:53:19

It's easy to turn to Allah when the

00:53:19 --> 00:53:20

boat is sinking.

00:53:25 --> 00:53:27

Oh, when the boat's sinking, everyone becomes Abdul

00:53:27 --> 00:53:27

Karajalani.

00:53:29 --> 00:53:32

Everybody becomes like the great saint. Like on

00:53:32 --> 00:53:34

airplanes, man, when you hit that air pocket,

00:53:34 --> 00:53:35

and everybody's like,

00:53:35 --> 00:53:36

oh.

00:53:36 --> 00:53:38

Like, everybody becomes like

00:53:38 --> 00:53:39

Adi Feen of Allah.

00:53:40 --> 00:53:41

Right?

00:53:41 --> 00:53:44

But when you land it's like, alright. Alright.

00:53:45 --> 00:53:46

We either landed.

00:53:47 --> 00:53:49

The letter ba. We talked about this before,

00:53:49 --> 00:53:51

but the letter ba actually means to be

00:53:51 --> 00:53:53

with talked about on Tuesday. So we say,

00:53:54 --> 00:53:56

I believe with God, that's a better translation.

00:53:56 --> 00:53:57

I believe in God, because

00:53:58 --> 00:53:59

first thing is when he says,

00:54:01 --> 00:54:04

with Allah, that implies, like, wherever I'm at

00:54:04 --> 00:54:07

in life, my comings, my goings, my successes,

00:54:07 --> 00:54:07

my failures,

00:54:08 --> 00:54:11

I'm with Allah. That's why many scholars said

00:54:11 --> 00:54:12

that ba is hard for

00:54:13 --> 00:54:15

ihsan. That ba is the letter of ihsan

00:54:15 --> 00:54:18

because to worship Allah is though you see

00:54:18 --> 00:54:19

him. So if I know Allah is with

00:54:19 --> 00:54:20

me,

00:54:20 --> 00:54:22

I'm going to live as though

00:54:23 --> 00:54:24

there's this constant relationship.

00:54:25 --> 00:54:27

So we translate it as faith in god,

00:54:27 --> 00:54:28

we really cut it short.

00:54:29 --> 00:54:30

Faith in god is the acquisition of rules

00:54:30 --> 00:54:33

and principles. Faith with god is learning and

00:54:33 --> 00:54:33

living.

00:54:37 --> 00:54:38

Then he continues

00:54:38 --> 00:54:39

and he says,

00:54:42 --> 00:54:44

and the rest you can read, insha Allah,

00:54:44 --> 00:54:45

on your own. He says, Falhamdrullahi

00:54:46 --> 00:54:47

alqadeem al awari.

00:54:48 --> 00:54:50

Then praise be to Allah, the one who

00:54:50 --> 00:54:52

has no beginning and no ending. So again,

00:54:52 --> 00:54:55

he's like trying to tell you, hey, this

00:54:55 --> 00:54:55

is about theology.

00:54:56 --> 00:54:59

He's like, Ishara to the maldur of the

00:54:59 --> 00:54:59

kitab.

00:55:00 --> 00:55:02

Again, I said earlier, that was like the

00:55:02 --> 00:55:05

style of classical writers to, in their introduction,

00:55:06 --> 00:55:08

show you this is what I'm going to

00:55:08 --> 00:55:09

be talking about.

00:55:09 --> 00:55:10

So

00:55:10 --> 00:55:11

he says,

00:55:18 --> 00:55:20

He said that then praise is due to

00:55:20 --> 00:55:22

Allah who has no beginning and no ending.

00:55:22 --> 00:55:24

Allah is beyond physical time.

00:55:29 --> 00:55:29

Al Baqi,

00:55:30 --> 00:55:32

the one who never will die,

00:55:33 --> 00:55:34

and doesn't change.

00:55:36 --> 00:55:37

Subhanahu wa ta'ala.

00:55:39 --> 00:55:40

Then he says

00:55:41 --> 00:55:43

is everybody okay?

00:55:51 --> 00:55:52

Then he says,

00:55:52 --> 00:55:54

peace and blessings upon

00:55:56 --> 00:55:57

constantly

00:55:57 --> 00:56:00

the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. Sarmada means

00:56:00 --> 00:56:00

forever,

00:56:04 --> 00:56:05

like

00:56:09 --> 00:56:10

upon the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.

00:56:11 --> 00:56:12

The best who ever

00:56:12 --> 00:56:14

singled out God.

00:56:15 --> 00:56:17

As though like in the introduction,

00:56:17 --> 00:56:19

he gave you the crux of tawhid. The

00:56:19 --> 00:56:21

crux of tawhid is understanding

00:56:21 --> 00:56:23

and living. So when he says, Allah has

00:56:23 --> 00:56:25

no beginning, Allah has no ending, he's

00:56:26 --> 00:56:28

he's Ar Raheem. Then he mentions the prophet

00:56:28 --> 00:56:31

sallallahu alaihi salam, and the prophet as the

00:56:31 --> 00:56:31

best

00:56:31 --> 00:56:34

to single out god for worship. It's like

00:56:34 --> 00:56:35

now he's saying,

00:56:35 --> 00:56:37

second part is Ibadah.

00:56:39 --> 00:56:40

There are a lot of

00:56:41 --> 00:56:44

important blessings to send upon, in sending

00:56:44 --> 00:56:47

peace upon the prophet, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.

00:56:47 --> 00:56:50

And that's something all of us can do.

00:56:50 --> 00:56:52

You know? No matter where you are in

00:56:52 --> 00:56:54

life, the prophet, he loves

00:56:54 --> 00:56:54

you.

00:56:56 --> 00:56:57

I mean, the prophet,

00:56:57 --> 00:56:58

he showed love

00:56:59 --> 00:57:00

to sinners

00:57:01 --> 00:57:02

as he showed love to saints.

00:57:03 --> 00:57:04

That's why, SubhanAllah,

00:57:04 --> 00:57:06

there's this funny narration,

00:57:07 --> 00:57:09

Sayidina Amr ibn Aas

00:57:10 --> 00:57:11

was sitting with a group of Sahaba,

00:57:13 --> 00:57:13

and

00:57:15 --> 00:57:17

they started to argue. What was the argument

00:57:17 --> 00:57:19

about? There were women there too.

00:57:19 --> 00:57:21

The prophet loves me more than you.

00:57:22 --> 00:57:24

They all legitimately thought because of how the

00:57:24 --> 00:57:26

prophet so like Imams and

00:57:27 --> 00:57:29

leaders in the community, you don't have like

00:57:29 --> 00:57:29

favorites.

00:57:30 --> 00:57:32

You should be good to everybody.

00:57:33 --> 00:57:35

So they were like legitimately confused.

00:57:36 --> 00:57:37

No no, I know he loves me more

00:57:37 --> 00:57:38

than you, man. No. No. He loves me

00:57:38 --> 00:57:41

more than you. He visit the right? So

00:57:41 --> 00:57:42

Sayyidina Amer, he went to Sayyidina Nabi and

00:57:42 --> 00:57:44

Sahih Muslim. He said,

00:57:47 --> 00:57:49

So oh, messenger of Allah,

00:57:49 --> 00:57:51

who do you love the most?

00:57:51 --> 00:57:53

Write this down, brothers.

00:57:54 --> 00:57:56

He said, Aisha, it's my wife.

00:57:59 --> 00:58:02

Now, this toxic masculinity in the Muslim community

00:58:02 --> 00:58:04

no. Well, we can't say, like, I love

00:58:04 --> 00:58:05

my wife in front of people. Like, brother,

00:58:05 --> 00:58:06

I don't think you should have said you

00:58:06 --> 00:58:08

loved your wife, brother, because, you know,

00:58:08 --> 00:58:11

subhanAllah, you know, loving your wife is haram.

00:58:12 --> 00:58:15

Like, loving not loving my wife is good?

00:58:15 --> 00:58:16

Like, where

00:58:16 --> 00:58:17

are we going at?

00:58:18 --> 00:58:19

Where is Sayna Nabi Alaihi Salam

00:58:20 --> 00:58:22

was say that, Fatima,

00:58:24 --> 00:58:26

Fatima, do you love what I love? I

00:58:26 --> 00:58:27

love what you love.

00:58:27 --> 00:58:29

For Asha Ra'ilah Say to Aisha.

00:58:30 --> 00:58:31

He said, well, then love her, then he

00:58:31 --> 00:58:33

pointed to Aisha in front of everybody.

00:58:34 --> 00:58:35

It wasn't like

00:58:35 --> 00:58:36

a problem.

00:58:38 --> 00:58:39

So when Amr ibnas

00:58:40 --> 00:58:41

asked him,

00:58:44 --> 00:58:46

and now you're gonna understand why Amr ibn

00:58:46 --> 00:58:47

Aas said what he said.

00:58:50 --> 00:58:52

The next question he said, what about the

00:58:52 --> 00:58:53

men though?

00:58:53 --> 00:58:54

Right?

00:58:54 --> 00:58:56

Also, a very smart answer.

00:58:57 --> 00:58:57

Abuja,

00:58:59 --> 00:58:59

her dad.

00:59:01 --> 00:59:03

But the point is, they're confused.

00:59:04 --> 00:59:06

Sometimes, we come into communities, one time a

00:59:06 --> 00:59:08

hero, she told me, you know, you're not

00:59:08 --> 00:59:09

the same with me as you are with

00:59:09 --> 00:59:10

the guys.

00:59:12 --> 00:59:13

This is a year ago, I was like,

00:59:13 --> 00:59:14

what?

00:59:15 --> 00:59:16

She's like, yeah.

00:59:16 --> 00:59:18

That's that's a tough conversation to have, but

00:59:18 --> 00:59:19

I'm glad she had it with me.

00:59:20 --> 00:59:22

Right? We gotta be careful.

00:59:23 --> 00:59:25

Do people around us, our kids, our family,

00:59:25 --> 00:59:26

our friends,

00:59:26 --> 00:59:28

people that we work with,

00:59:28 --> 00:59:29

they feel

00:59:30 --> 00:59:32

that we care about them. And also, sometimes,

00:59:33 --> 00:59:34

you know,

00:59:34 --> 00:59:36

you've got to invest in that.

00:59:37 --> 00:59:40

So, like, make people feel loved.

00:59:40 --> 00:59:43

So the Sahaba, they don't even know. Who

00:59:43 --> 00:59:45

does he love the most? I don't know.

00:59:45 --> 00:59:46

Let's ask.

00:59:48 --> 00:59:51

So there's a lot of virtues in

00:59:51 --> 00:59:53

in understanding that no matter where you are

00:59:53 --> 00:59:56

as a Muslim, like the prophet had a

00:59:56 --> 00:59:57

lot of love for everybody.

00:59:58 --> 01:00:00

And our communities should be communities of love,

01:00:00 --> 01:00:01

man.

01:00:02 --> 01:00:04

So there's a number of beautiful virtues

01:00:06 --> 01:00:07

that we should take with us sending

01:00:08 --> 01:00:11

salawat upon the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.

01:00:12 --> 01:00:13

Number 1 is

01:00:13 --> 01:00:15

that angels will pray for you.

01:00:17 --> 01:00:19

Like sometimes when you're down or you're struggling,

01:00:19 --> 01:00:21

no one has my back

01:00:21 --> 01:00:22

Send salawat.

01:00:23 --> 01:00:25

Then that Malaika will pray for you. The

01:00:25 --> 01:00:26

prophet

01:00:26 --> 01:00:27

said,

01:00:37 --> 01:00:39

So the prophet said that, as long as

01:00:39 --> 01:00:41

someone is sending salawat upon me,

01:00:42 --> 01:00:44

the angels will send salawat upon that person.

01:00:44 --> 01:00:46

And it can be done in any language.

01:00:48 --> 01:00:49

Right? Any form.

01:00:50 --> 01:00:52

Muhammad. Maybe you don't have time. You know,

01:00:54 --> 01:00:55

You don't have time for that. You're

01:00:56 --> 01:00:58

on the train, man. You're trying to get

01:00:58 --> 01:00:59

it in. It's okay.

01:01:04 --> 01:01:07

The next is your duas will be answered

01:01:09 --> 01:01:10

in this life for the next.

01:01:12 --> 01:01:12

So

01:01:15 --> 01:01:16

one of the companions of the prophet said,

01:01:16 --> 01:01:19

I was praying with the prophet sallallahu alaihi

01:01:19 --> 01:01:19

wa sallam.

01:01:21 --> 01:01:22

So I was praying

01:01:22 --> 01:01:24

and the prophet salallahu alaihi wa sallam was

01:01:24 --> 01:01:27

sitting with Abu Bakr and Sayidna Umar, radiAllahu

01:01:28 --> 01:01:29

Omar.

01:01:35 --> 01:01:37

So he said after I finished my prayer,

01:01:37 --> 01:01:38

I begin to make dua

01:01:39 --> 01:01:41

and I praised god,

01:01:41 --> 01:01:43

and I sent peace and blessings upon the

01:01:43 --> 01:01:45

prophet, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.

01:01:49 --> 01:01:51

And then I prayed for myself.

01:01:53 --> 01:01:54

Then the prophet

01:01:54 --> 01:01:55

said to him,

01:02:00 --> 01:02:00

sal

01:02:01 --> 01:02:04

Allah. The prophet said, make Dua now because

01:02:04 --> 01:02:05

it will be answered.

01:02:06 --> 01:02:08

Like after you praised god, and you said

01:02:08 --> 01:02:08

salawat,

01:02:09 --> 01:02:10

ask ask ask.

01:02:10 --> 01:02:11

So he said I was sitting next to

01:02:11 --> 01:02:13

him, and he was like, I'm making dua,

01:02:13 --> 01:02:14

and he was like, ask

01:02:15 --> 01:02:16

Ask. Keep asking.

01:02:18 --> 01:02:19

And then he said,

01:02:21 --> 01:02:23

keep asking. Keep asking. Keep asking. And he

01:02:23 --> 01:02:26

understood by sending salawat upon the prophet, salallahu

01:02:26 --> 01:02:27

alaihi wasalam,

01:02:28 --> 01:02:29

praising Allah,

01:02:29 --> 01:02:31

the back the door of Dua, insha'Allah, was

01:02:31 --> 01:02:32

opened to him. Insha'Allah.

01:02:35 --> 01:02:37

Also, it will help remove anxieties.

01:02:39 --> 01:02:41

Doesn't mean, of course, like, that we don't

01:02:41 --> 01:02:43

seek help or for any therapy, you don't

01:02:43 --> 01:02:46

call your therapist and say, Suhayb told me

01:02:46 --> 01:02:47

I don't have to come anymore.

01:02:48 --> 01:02:50

Of course not. That's not what I'm saying.

01:02:51 --> 01:02:53

Those are very real issues for people, man.

01:02:54 --> 01:02:56

But we can couple that with spiritual practices.

01:02:57 --> 01:02:58

Neither this nor that.

01:02:59 --> 01:03:00

So,

01:03:00 --> 01:03:02

one of the companions of the prophet, sallallahu

01:03:02 --> 01:03:03

alaihi wa sallam,

01:03:04 --> 01:03:04

he said,

01:03:09 --> 01:03:10

shall I make a third of

01:03:11 --> 01:03:11

my dhikr

01:03:12 --> 01:03:12

sending

01:03:13 --> 01:03:15

prayers upon you and peace and blessings?

01:03:15 --> 01:03:17

Prophet said, no, I'm in shit if you

01:03:17 --> 01:03:18

can.

01:03:18 --> 01:03:20

He said, what about half?

01:03:20 --> 01:03:22

He said, okay if you can.

01:03:22 --> 01:03:24

He said, what if I make my dua

01:03:25 --> 01:03:27

just about you, and my dhikr just about

01:03:27 --> 01:03:27

you?

01:03:28 --> 01:03:29

And the prophet said,

01:03:32 --> 01:03:34

If you were to do that, then Allah

01:03:34 --> 01:03:37

subhanahu wa ta'ala will suffice you

01:03:37 --> 01:03:38

in your hamak

01:03:39 --> 01:03:40

and your anxieties

01:03:41 --> 01:03:42

and your fears

01:03:43 --> 01:03:44

and your concerns.

01:03:45 --> 01:03:45

Allah

01:03:46 --> 01:03:47

And

01:03:49 --> 01:03:51

those affairs that worry you about this life

01:03:51 --> 01:03:52

and the next.

01:03:56 --> 01:03:58

Of course, we know that the prophet has

01:03:58 --> 01:04:00

a great status. There's a lot of beautiful

01:04:00 --> 01:04:01

poetry

01:04:01 --> 01:04:04

dedicated to him, salallahu alaihi wa sallam. When

01:04:05 --> 01:04:06

the imam said,

01:04:09 --> 01:04:12

he said, you have surpassed all the prophets

01:04:12 --> 01:04:14

in the internal and external character.

01:04:17 --> 01:04:19

And nobody this is Bulsayri.

01:04:19 --> 01:04:21

And nobody came close to you, and your

01:04:21 --> 01:04:21

generosity,

01:04:23 --> 01:04:24

right, and in your knowledge.

01:04:27 --> 01:04:28

And everyone

01:04:29 --> 01:04:31

will fall short. The prophets, all, and people

01:04:31 --> 01:04:32

will fall short

01:04:33 --> 01:04:35

compared to sayna Nabi alaihi salatu wa sallam.

01:04:35 --> 01:04:37

They'll be in need of him.

01:04:41 --> 01:04:42

You Allah.

01:04:42 --> 01:04:44

Like, how you compare

01:04:45 --> 01:04:46

the drop of an ocean

01:04:47 --> 01:04:48

or like

01:04:49 --> 01:04:51

the sprinkle to the the flood,

01:04:52 --> 01:04:54

is like comparing someone to the prophet sallallahu

01:04:54 --> 01:04:55

alaihi wa sallam.

01:04:57 --> 01:04:58

So that's the introduction,

01:04:59 --> 01:05:00

And what did we learn from it as

01:05:00 --> 01:05:01

we stop?

01:05:02 --> 01:05:02

We learned

01:05:04 --> 01:05:05

the philosophy of the writer,

01:05:06 --> 01:05:07

his approach,

01:05:08 --> 01:05:09

what he was trying to do.

01:05:10 --> 01:05:11

Number 2, we learned,

01:05:12 --> 01:05:15

that he took his ability to communicate ideas

01:05:15 --> 01:05:17

very seriously, deliberately.

01:05:18 --> 01:05:19

He had a lot of love for the

01:05:19 --> 01:05:21

community of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.

01:05:21 --> 01:05:23

You can't be really an imam

01:05:24 --> 01:05:25

or a teacher if you don't love the

01:05:25 --> 01:05:26

people.

01:05:27 --> 01:05:28

Like, you won't be prophetic.

01:05:30 --> 01:05:32

Even if you're good at it. Like, if

01:05:32 --> 01:05:34

you don't care for the people, it's like,

01:05:34 --> 01:05:35

it's the wrong place to be, man.

01:05:36 --> 01:05:38

And then we talked about the introduction,

01:05:38 --> 01:05:41

we learned to start with God. You know,

01:05:41 --> 01:05:42

Imam Ibn Said,

01:05:48 --> 01:05:50

Al Hikm, he said, the sign

01:05:51 --> 01:05:52

of a successful ending

01:05:53 --> 01:05:54

is that you return to Allah in the

01:05:54 --> 01:05:55

beginning.

01:05:58 --> 01:06:00

Inshallah, we'll talk. We're gonna do a special

01:06:00 --> 01:06:02

weekend on the hicom, inshAllah, in the future,

01:06:02 --> 01:06:04

but it's very nice, like, start with God,

01:06:04 --> 01:06:05

man.

01:06:05 --> 01:06:06

They used to say,

01:06:09 --> 01:06:12

Whoever illuminated their ending is because they illuminated

01:06:12 --> 01:06:13

their beginning.

01:06:14 --> 01:06:16

So to start with Allah,

01:06:17 --> 01:06:19

and then to send peace and blessings upon

01:06:19 --> 01:06:21

Sayna Mohammed, his family,

01:06:22 --> 01:06:23

and those who follow them.

01:06:24 --> 01:06:27

Next week, we're going to start we'll finish

01:06:27 --> 01:06:29

the the introduction. There's 2 lines we didn't

01:06:29 --> 01:06:29

mention,

01:06:30 --> 01:06:31

quickly. And then we're going to start the

01:06:31 --> 01:06:33

first chapter on faith and reason.

01:06:35 --> 01:06:36

That's his first chapter. Like,

01:06:37 --> 01:06:37

how

01:06:38 --> 01:06:39

how how did scholars

01:06:39 --> 01:06:40

deal

01:06:41 --> 01:06:42

with the idea of proving

01:06:43 --> 01:06:44

something that you can't see

01:06:46 --> 01:06:47

in the classical world?

01:06:48 --> 01:06:49

How how do they understand

01:06:50 --> 01:06:52

the existence of Allah?

01:06:52 --> 01:06:54

And then we're going to talk about 20,

01:06:55 --> 01:06:58

what are the universal principles in our understanding,

01:06:59 --> 01:07:01

of Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala.

01:07:02 --> 01:07:03

So be consistent,

01:07:04 --> 01:07:06

you know, give it time. One of the

01:07:06 --> 01:07:08

challenges also of

01:07:08 --> 01:07:10

our community is that we tend to want

01:07:10 --> 01:07:12

things like AJ plus videos,

01:07:13 --> 01:07:15

which are good. Don't get me wrong. They

01:07:15 --> 01:07:16

have their place.

01:07:17 --> 01:07:18

But learning about religion

01:07:19 --> 01:07:19

is a process.

01:07:21 --> 01:07:23

It takes time. And what happens, we tend

01:07:23 --> 01:07:25

to go for the event based Islam, like,

01:07:25 --> 01:07:27

man, that talk was so amazing. I'm so

01:07:27 --> 01:07:28

super inspired.

01:07:29 --> 01:07:31

That's great, but that's salt on the food.

01:07:32 --> 01:07:34

But, like at the end of the day,

01:07:34 --> 01:07:35

I need to have some foundational

01:07:36 --> 01:07:37

principles

01:07:37 --> 01:07:39

that are understood because

01:07:40 --> 01:07:42

I'm not always going to be like up.

01:07:43 --> 01:07:45

You know? I'm not always gonna be, like,

01:07:45 --> 01:07:46

super excited.

01:07:46 --> 01:07:49

I'll have ups and downs. So the knowledge

01:07:49 --> 01:07:50

is there to, like,

01:07:50 --> 01:07:51

anchor

01:07:51 --> 01:07:53

me to the good and to the bad.

01:07:53 --> 01:07:54

Any questions

01:07:54 --> 01:07:57

before we before we break out?

01:07:58 --> 01:08:00

The email for the book again is,

01:08:01 --> 01:08:01

[email protected].

01:08:04 --> 01:08:06

Maybe some people remember back in the days.

01:08:06 --> 01:08:07

Uhsuhebweb.com.

01:08:09 --> 01:08:09

So,

01:08:11 --> 01:08:11

[email protected].

01:08:14 --> 01:08:16

And just put, like, masses creed or Thursday

01:08:16 --> 01:08:17

night,

01:08:18 --> 01:08:19

and I'll send you

01:08:20 --> 01:08:23

the PDF. Don't send me any spam, please.

01:08:24 --> 01:08:26

I beg you. It's my work email.

01:08:27 --> 01:08:28

Any questions

01:08:28 --> 01:08:30

about anything before we

01:08:32 --> 01:08:32

make a move?

01:08:34 --> 01:08:35

How's everybody feeling?

01:08:36 --> 01:08:38

Does anybody need like special dua?

01:08:43 --> 01:08:44

Everybody okay? Yes, sir.

01:08:46 --> 01:08:47

Matan is about,

01:08:48 --> 01:08:50

I wanna say 46 lines.

01:08:51 --> 01:08:51

Yeah. Yeah.

01:08:53 --> 01:08:56

I think 46 or 76. Sorry. Big difference.

01:08:56 --> 01:08:58

Make dua from my memory.

01:09:02 --> 01:09:03

So we ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala for

01:09:03 --> 01:09:06

anyone who's, like, too scared to ask, you

01:09:06 --> 01:09:08

know, to be vulnerable. May Allah

01:09:09 --> 01:09:11

make things easier for you, inshallah,

01:09:11 --> 01:09:12

and facilitate

01:09:13 --> 01:09:15

good for you, in your home and in

01:09:15 --> 01:09:16

your school and in your personal

01:09:17 --> 01:09:18

life, as well as in your family.

01:09:19 --> 01:09:20

Ask Allah

01:09:20 --> 01:09:22

to be pleased with us, to forgive us,

01:09:23 --> 01:09:25

even though we have so many mistakes and

01:09:25 --> 01:09:25

shortcomings.

01:09:26 --> 01:09:27

Ask Allah

01:09:27 --> 01:09:29

to let us truly be, here for each

01:09:29 --> 01:09:30

other,

01:09:30 --> 01:09:31

in a way that's sincere

01:09:32 --> 01:09:33

and honest.

01:09:39 --> 01:09:41

So like next week, you probably wanna bring

01:09:41 --> 01:09:42

it with you. You can use it even

01:09:42 --> 01:09:43

on a handheld device.

01:09:44 --> 01:09:45

So you can take notes inshallah.

01:09:46 --> 01:09:48

And imagine like you're gonna finish the whole

01:09:48 --> 01:09:48

text

01:09:49 --> 01:09:50

without any exams.

01:09:51 --> 01:09:53

So although there are questions in the in

01:09:53 --> 01:09:55

the and answers here.

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