Wisam Sharieff – Victory Is Near
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The speaker shares a story about a woman who was asked about her statement on not being a member of the Islam movement and shares a video game where players play a character named Talut and receive a call from friends. The importance of mindfulness and being present in a situation is emphasized, and the need for people to be mindful of others' behavior is emphasized. The speaker gives exercises to everyone, including asking for forgiveness and asking for forgiveness, and encourages them to raise their hands and say "we" multiple times.
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My request is that you sit up
to the best of your ability with a
posture of dignity. I'm gonna hold questions for
a second.
Got 2 things I gotta rectify.
I take permission from If Ustada's still here,
I gotta tell a quest I gotta tell
a quick story.
So if you got a second
So friends Yes, sir?
Did I change
I'm fabulous. Of course, I changed my talk.
Look at me. Are you serious? My pleasure.
Thank you so much.
Do you know the scholars of Islam, Imam
Malik would put and adorn the best of
clothes
when he was reciting the hadith? Even if
it was a single hadith,
brand new kufi. And if you're asking, I
also shaved my head. You want to know
that? Yeah. I did right before. I did
because I'm fabulous.
I'm fabulous.
I can't I can't help it. I wake
up like this.
So to everyone else, for everyone else who's
here,
I have a We all have our, shortcomings.
I'd like to start with a shortcoming.
I got off the plane
and I came here this morning and when
I came in, I made there's a little
bazaar. Raise your hand if you went to
the bazaar. Real quick. Okay. Guys, this story
is good. Let me get to it. Legit.
So I walked in and Ustada wears her
hijab and niqab very specifically.
So I know her. So I walked over
to a lady who I thought was,
and with the biggest
eye, oh, my God. It's so great to
see you. This one lady made full eye
contact. I was like, oh, this is.
And I was like And and I wasn't
getting any love
back and I didn't move on. I stood
there. I was like, love me. I was
like, I'm here. I'm talking to you. And
this lady was like
and I was like
and I went with the story in my
head. So I was like, okay. You know,
hijab, distance.
5 minutes later I was like, no. I'm
gonna go back and say salaam to her
now.
This lady, if she's here, sister, thank you
so much for this moment.
So, I walked up to her and then
a group of sisters asked some Tajweed question
about Quran revolution.com.
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And so while brothers, can you imagine there's
small group of sisters and Usada Tamia, my
colleague from Almagrib
is standing outside the circle.
So I stopped the conversation
and I opened the circle and I walked
up to her. I was like, oh, do
you have any questions? And in her voice,
she said, no. I'm just listening. And I
thought, what a great professor. She's supporting me.
She's listening to what I'm saying. This whole
time, I'm going that this is a start
atamia.
Then at some point she said,
I'm not.
I'm not.
And I stopped the sister if she's here
and I said, I had to tell
you why I've been staring at you so
intently.
I thought you're this person. And I turned
to her daughter and I was like, don't
you see it? And, she didn't back me
up at all. She was like,
yeah. Kind of. So,
to if she is here.
I told this whole story to her husband
before telling it to you guys. So, hey.
If I ever come up to you, and
I'm like, you know, intangefully giving you a
salaam,
I think you're a family member. It's happened
all the time.
Or I think you're a colleague. I don't
walk around with my glasses on. It's purposeful.
So number 1. Number 2, if you have
your Quran, I would like to read a
verse. No talking. No translation.
If you could open the last page of
the second juz, as if you could open
your Quran on the app next to Uber
Eats and Netflix,
there's a Quran.
And it's quicker than Uber Eats.
Look at that. It happens.
So my request is if you can open
to page 41,
can someone tell me, so today's goal is
victory is near. That's the title.
Can you raise your hand if that's kind
of an ambiguous title?
Yeah. What what is victory is near? Sorry,
event folks. It was really nice con What
is victory is near mean? What am I
supposed to talk about? I have an idea.
So, can you tell me what the first
word is at the top of 40 What?
You want to do that? No? Okay. I
got one person. I got
Next word.
How many people have heard this before? The
story before? Can you tell me a little
bit about the story?
What's happening in this story?
Yes, sir?
Yes,
sir?
Yes, sir?
And his name?
Talut.
Talut. So Talut leaves Thank you. You you
started the story. Talut leaves with an army
and then what happens
fam?
Got it.
Be a river.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala's prophet is Talut is
telling them, do not drink from this river
and bread. You said it perfectly. You are
too busy celebrating yourself. He answered one question
and he has been celebrating himself for the
last Yo, bro. I got that one. You'll
know you know what just happened. Fam, I
am blowing up your spot like there's no
tomorrow. You answered and then you celebrated like,
yo, fam. Check me out now.
Check me out now. Thought Luke got nothing
on this guy. Fam, you answered a question.
One question. Yeah. I lost my whole talk.
He's like, yo yo yo.
He went 5 people this way and that
way. He go, 40 neighbors this way, 40
neighbors that way.
Like I said, 1 ayah, no talking.
What's the next word?
Man, I'm giving it to you with some
flavor. Don't give it back to me without
the hummus.
That's right.
Thank you. So everybody,
they they
they All of them drank except a few.
And then what happened? What's the next word
right after that?
Minhu. Minhu. They they I said min. They
drank and they drank from it. What's the
next word after that?
Then what happens?
Pause.
Has
his folks. He's like, any of you chumps
take a sip of water from the fountain?
You don't play ball on our squad. What
did you little chumps do?
You took a water drink. And so when
they got through, whether the sodium content or
the mineral content of the water was too
much, they could not cross. And when they
crossed, a little were left. Lord of the
Rings fans just real quick put their hands.
Real quick. Can you imagine gentle folks, they
come out and they're like,
Saruman.
Because think about it friends, how many of
these people, Bani Israel are left? Bro, they're
looking at Goliath
strapped to the t, full John Wick style,
and they're like, we have rocks.
So a conversation
takes place. Remember, the the journey has been
cut in half. Half of your friends didn't
make it across. How many of you would
love lost hope?
Friends, the wifi goes out and you curse
Islam.
Just Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Thank you
so much. Right? Thank you. Let's
Mothers,
am I wrong? Thank you. We continue.
So now, what does a small per a
small elder person,
The triple o g in the group, what
does he say? What's the next word?
What were they very sure of?
What was the one certainty they had? Saruman
had more warriors. There were or There were
things that made them look like, oh my
god. These guys are gonna eat us.
What did they believe in more than anything
else?
How men Number 1, they believed that there
was a day of judgment
and because there's a judgment,
they quoted the Pokemon card that said, come
in
How many times
has a small group How many of you
were sold a couple of summers ago a
movie called 300?
Okay. You all are too old, too little.
Oh, yeah. Fair enough. Mama, you got this
one.
And you Canadians are looking at movies?
I don't know. What is that? I'm so
pious. Go eat something. Alright. Thank you.
We continue.
Man, I went to that food truck, it
said,
the the cheese fries thing, I ordered it.
She said, we don't have it.
Man, why you put it on the side
of your truck?
I got emotions.
Okay.
Here you talk. The poutine, the thing with
the cheese and the thing and I get
all excited and then she's like, we don't
got it. What's the point of putting it
on the side? Okay.
Let's get back to what's on the business
here.
So friends, what are the words that come
after that? They saw 1,000.
They saw all of the bad guys lined
up and Frodo didn't know what to do.
What happened?
Go ahead. Let me One more word.
Okay. Is it directly? Yeah?
Okay. So then,
Can we all pause here for a moment?
Is patience?
So I'm going to ask you right now.
In the moment, how many people in this
room have been told in a moment of
anger
have patience?
How many people wanna stuff that into the
person's mouth who's telling you to have patience?
I swear to God. I swear to God.
Thank you. Right? You're in the middle of
dying.
You put your flash camera away. I got
Tourette's. Okay? So just
don't provoke me.
Okay? It'll get real colorful up here in
a second.
Please don't flash. It hurts my eyes, genuinely.
It it hurts my eyes. Back to the
other thing, together.
How many of us
automatically
have this it's a retraction, we're holding ourselves.
I'm gonna ask you today, oh Allah,
give me time to practice
sabr so that when it happens I'm able
to use it.
So would you right now say
sabr
is mindfulness.
Oh Allah, make it so I never have
to wait again. We're gonna do this together.
Sabr means you're waiting. Right? Can you name
any place you have to wait? Where's the
place you have to wait? Surah, Yali. Please.
Adults. Dentist
office. Doctor. Yes.
DMV. You guys have a DMV? You have
to wait at school?
Okay. You guys got to register. Fair. Fair.
Fair. Fair. Okay. They're like, We know the
answer to this one.
They got excited.
Now, how many people have to wait in
traffic post office to get in, doctors? Now,
oh Allah,
turn all scenarios where I have to have
sabr
to a moment where I can be aware
of Allah.
Ta'ala. One minute in traffic,
you passive aggressive Canadians, you don't really honk.
You just
Just honk at me, bro. Just honk at
me. It's okay. I'll take it. I promise.
Honk. Honk. It's okay. You'll feel good.
You'll feel good. Just go in your car
in the random parking lot.
You'll feel good.
So request now, all of us here,
you are not gonna go fight falabma fasalataalutu
bil Janud, but on the way home your
kid might say something to you.
Your spouse might ask a question to which
there is no answer.
If I was a worm,
would you still love me?
Would you carry me in a pocket
with a jar,
in a masonry jar?
Brothers,
can we all pause? I'm just
Brothers, I I love you.
I want to love you for a moment
because you have been placed in that scenario
where you were asked in your,
if I was butter,
would you spread me on a bun and
eat me?
And you're like, yeah. Yes?
No?
This is a trick,
But, do you love me?
So brothers, I love you.
Hey, flash photography. Islam alayhis salaam. Bro, I'm
staring you in the face. Okay? And now
I remember what your shoes are and I'm
gonna find you.
At night, that sound under the bed.
Thank you. Can someone stop him, please? Brother,
behind you. Yeah. Uncle Itnidere?
Oh. The dad sent his kid to take
a video. He was like, he won't beat
you. I will beat anyone. Remember. I got
no problems.
Yet, it hurts my eyes. He sent his
kid.
Victory is not that near. There's some fighting
before that.
I ask you now for the next ayah
as we are going to conclude our time
in a What is the next verse? We
wallahuasabireen.
How many can raise their hand to say,
victory will not come when we're exercising
patience
because you're waiting.
Victory will come
when we are present.
And when we are present, I said the
word present.
Number 2.
The next verse, could you read it to
me? Because if you have defined Can you
raise your hand if you have defined the
word sabr to be mindfulness?
Oh, Allah. Make me present so I'm never
waiting again.
What's the next word?
Sit up mom. I'm about to read Quran.
If you're leaning on your elbow, that is
not how this army was. Sit up. I
will read the book of Allah and I
will request for you one more time. Okay.
Now I'm just going to stare at you.
Hi.
What does rubbanah mean?
Oh, our Lord.
Afril. Can we go simple translation?
Amu, can anyone help me with the word?
Empty.
Empty? I like it. I like it.
Hi.
So you have a clip of me staring
at you. That'd be fine.
It'd be a great gift. You can make
a meme out of me with someone's to
peel people's skin off. Okay. Just one second.
Yara, I'm saying Quran. Give me a minute.
Guys come to conferences to take videos?
We're we're real people. Like, we have emotions.
So what is the word? While you're taking
a video of me, what's the next word?
Can you read me that word?
So 2 words together. Oh Allah, marinate me
in sabr. Oh.
Wait a minute. I get what you're trying
to record.
Friends who wanna record, I just understood.
Friends, I'm gonna read the dua. If you
wanna take a video, I get it. I
get it. You can take a video now,
just no flash. I'm gonna read the dua
wallahi, if you would like to. I'm being
serious. I got what you're taking a video
of.
It is pretty. I get
it.
What's the next word?
What's the beat?
What's the next word?
Don't quit your day job. You got 2
people in the back who are on key.
The rest of you sound like a moose.
Can you look at the
and read it with me? Can you say
can you say, what's up bit?
Flawless.
One more time. One more time.
I'm gonna do it and I want you
to understand why it was so perfect.
When I say,
well
hard pause.
Fancy voice or a bunch of ones and
twos?
Was it fancy voice or a bunch of
ones and twos?
Oh, okay. So if I pulled out the
fancy voice and I said,
Is Quran having its own melody? Does the
Quran have its own melody or you have?
Yes, it does.
So I'm asking you right now. Okay. Friends,
how many people know Surah Fatihah? Raise your
hand real quick. I'm a show you victory
right now.
Tell me if this is you. Put your
hand down. Everyone says
Now wait for a second. Amos, can you
count with me?
There are only 2 choices.
1,
and the second haraka,
which will be 2
sukoon of any type. What's the first word
of Surafatiha?
Think about it. The first syllable. The first
syllable of Surah Fatihah,
is it a 1 or a 2?
Fancy voice or does the Quran have a
melody?
So
Oh, sure. Oh, here's the real question. Okay.
Brother is asking about mud and I I
wanna show you how close victory is in
any case. How many of us believe the
Quran is made up of
How many of us believe the majority of
the Quran would be that?
You're lying.
No. But but where do you Okay. Let
me re ask. If I asked every Tajweed
student in here, where do you put your
emphasis?
On 46,
or on the perfection of ones and twos?
Thank you.
But are there more ones and twos in
the Quran? Can you pick any surah, please?
A shorter one.
Surah Let's do Surah That's a little bit
tough because of the noon.
Oh, perfect. Can you all say
What?
Friends, Simon says, you're going to say,
When I say,
One more time. Why do you have to
draw in your voice out like and you
sound
Friends, do it like I did.
No. I said
gafirun. You're cutting your last syllable just to
be loud.
Oh, you got gum in your mouth too?
Welcome. Aren't you eat some gobstoppers too? Brothers
who care about Quran, you have deal with
yourself. Brothers who love Islam,
You guys are beautiful.
You wake up like this every day.
With your lives, sisters,
can you say,
Friends, that's how simple the Quran is. So
can you say,
Why would you hold that back?
That is your victory.
So when those people got up to the
war of Saruman, when they saw Goliath in
all of their armor,
only the people
yalununa
annahu mulaqulla,
who are like, you know what? We're gonna
meet Allah anyway.
We're gonna meet Allah anyway.
So they said You guys ever After a
coach winnings a a soccer game, what do
they do to the coach?
They they they dump the Gatorade bucket. They
cheer him as well. Friends,
Oh Allah,
take the whole bucket of sabr and pour
it on my head because I'm gonna need
it all.
Ladies, in a moment of you're about to
erupt in a moment of you're very frustrated,
can you reach to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
and say,
Can you reach
for this as an anxiety medication? Because friends,
how can I sell you victory is close
if you can't defeat your first anxiety?
The first time a dragon comes up and
says, oh my god, I feel vulnerable. And
you have to reach for something else, an
Instagram scroll, a TV click. You have to
do something to get you away from that
pain.
Friends, this takes a conclusion of the first
part of our talk. What was the aya
we covered?
Yes, sir?
Flawless. Thank you. Celebrate amongst the friends.
Oh my god.
Chill. You're gonna really yell up to here?
Yeah. Y'all need
to sip for a less sipping
Islam
You are really going to engage with me
in a conversation?
Hello.
Okay. Let's switch the conversation for a moment.
Can you give me three things from this
weekend that you are gonna take and change
in your life?
No friend. Why do you answer every question
with a question?
I have enough children of my own to
live this life.
Ladies, have you ever answered a question with
another question just because you don't have to
do anything? Just ask another question. You don't
have to do anything. Just ask more questions.
Friends, one thing from this weekend that you're
gonna change from any topic.
I I will tell you I will tell
you my top 3, you formulate yours.
Sheikh Waleed Basuni
was it's Sheikh Waleed who made the point
not about black or white,
I'm happy that this is how Allah made
me.
How many people heard that point? That what
that as a noob as a person who
does this,
that point shifted me.
I am this.
Right? I look like Apu from the Simpsons
and I'm gonna work it.
Thank you.
It's a cultural thing you won't understand. It's
Sufic poetry.
Don't.
We'll keep moving. Number 2, the second point.
And Ustadaemia
said something about gatherings like this. Can you
tell me what that was? She hit you
with some big words from a hadith.
Amazing words. Few few of us know those
words.
It was right at the end of her
talk.
She was saying Yes, ma'am? The angels
seek forgiveness for every person in the gathering
here.
So even if you're sitting here and you're
exhausted from my speech,
are you willing to walk out of this
room
saying I am forgiven
because everyone in this room was forgiven together?
Could you raise your hand?
Okay. A few of you. Let's start together,
5 syllables. Please do this exercise. The goal
is to say it 7 times the way
I do. Don't waste my time. Please blow
through the syllables. Can you say, us?
Us. Tel firole.
I always The whole crowd can't pick up.
I did us and you said,
Astaghfirullah.
Abcdefggggghijk.
Us.
And I gave the whole talk of do
it my way, but those again.
As? As.
Oh, Allah. I seek your forgiveness.
Oh, Allah.
I seek your forgiveness.
That's the way I said it. I said
it with syllables.
Oh, Allah. I accept your forgiveness.
All of you with your hands crossed, adults
40 and above, can you truly answer this
question? How many of you have never said
this phrase?
Truthfully speaking, how many of you have never
said, oh Allah forgive me?
Oh Allah, I accept your phrase.
I'm done looking at that side. I've been
looking at that side for too long. Brothers,
none of you So all of Okay. So
if you've said, oh Allah, accept your forgiveness,
raise your hands. Canada, I'm not going away.
I will haunt your dreams.
Okay? So answer my questions.
Brothers, have you ever said, oh Allah, I
accept your forgiveness? No.
Amu, can we take Oh Allah, I accept.
Amu, we don't say it, but we keep
scratching the lottery tickets of
Oh, I'm gonna win it. And the winning
ticket we throw on the floor
because you don't know what I did, bro.
So would you say, oh Allah, I accept
your forgiveness.
Oh Allah, I accept your forgiveness.
If your x y chromosome, you will not.
The ladies will not.
Right? That's what you're saying inside because you
want to worship your sin greater than Allah.
Your sin is amazing. Let's all worship yours.
Thank you.
Oh Allah,
I accept your forgiveness.
Oh Allah, your ability to free Because you're
saying, if I seek forgiveness and say it,
what if I do it again?
What if you do it again? What will
you do?
Thank you, madame. Can I get a number
3?
All of
Oh,
I exercise forgiveness. Can you pick somebody to
forgive right now? Something small, someone,
cut you off, someone said something short to
you, a spouse answered a tick, text short.
Can you raise your hand once you have
exercised forgiveness?
Young folks, I don't know who you have
to forgive, so take your time. Moms,
as soon as you can identify someone
That hard pause, I need your attention for
a second.
Every time I ask you to forgive someone,
you go to the 2nd weekend of your
marriage
And then you pick some ordain activity. Thank
you. Am I wrong? Thank you. I am
not wrong. You went to
and then you start going to the hardest
thing possible.
Bro, can The postman, did someone cut you
off? Can you all start simple?
Raise your hand if you can forgive someone
and say, oh, Allah forgive.
Thank you. Any of the bro brothers could
call out? Yeah.
Who are you forgiving?
In the airport on the flight here someone
made a comment at me, may Allah forgive
them and give them good deeds. Amen.
Can you do the same?
Ladies, are you still stuck in?
Can we move on? I promise. It it
it was rough. I promise. It was rough.
I agree with you. Can we forgive someone?
Please.
Oh, Allah.
I exercise forgiveness. Now there's someone on this
list and I'll stop here.
I ask. I accept.
I exercise.
Who's the only person that's not on this
list?
Say it.
I have no question.
Oh Allah.
Oh Allah. The ladies will not repeat after
me. Watch.
I forgive myself for mistakes that I've made.
Oh. Empowerment.
Oh yeah?
The movement has been successful?
I wasn't a challenge, dear.
It's because all the moms in the back,
my empowered women, all the moms in the
back didn't say a word because how dare
I forgive myself?
Who am I? So hard pause. Would you
raise your hand if you have a window
open in your brain of all the bad
things you did on a tab?
Any time you start doing something,
Islam.
And you go to do something good and
then YouTube in your head is playing, but
remember,
do too. Don't tell anyone.
And that happens.
So you play things from when you were
20 and it stops you. So right here,
I ask you to say,
That's all I want you to do.
I would like you to say, astaghfirullah
10 times this evening
while you do something beautiful,
something joyous.
If I see Imran and his family, I
will say, astaghfirullah
and pray, oh Allah, accept this joy in
my life. If you all enjoyed some portion
of this talk, what could you say?
And you could
I like the first one.
How many of you think is
negative?
Can I try something?
Right?
This is the only way I say,
My request to you today is,
oh Allah, I accept joy in my life.
Friends, if I don't get to see you
again as we don't get the opportunity, this
is my first time in Calgary.
Your city is beautiful.
You folks are wonderful.
Hi. Nice to see you.
If we can conclude on two thoughts. Friends,
I have never been to this city and
I represent a small group of people who
teach Quran.
I teach Quran under the banner of Quran
Revolution.
If you want a little bit more than
just the motivation
and you wanna live like this,
please come and join us at Quran Revolution
dot com. I'm gonna try this one more
time in English. I don't know. French or
bashtu I need to
aren't you guys Muslims? Do Do you remember
in the eighties, like, clapping TV pictures, everything
was haram.
Like, can we go a little bit back
to then? Just a little bit. Pictures were
How many people remember pictures being haram? Like
legit
support
Please. Don't you remember when you're How many
people TV was haram?
You all remember this? What happened?
Like everything became halal?
Did Like everything became halal. So, friends,
as you move into the next phase, don't
ask what's Haram and Halal.
Don't ask for Fatwa. Ask for Taqwa. Ask
so.
This causes chaos, so I'm gonna walk in
that direction. You do whatever you want.