Yaser Birjas – Stories From Gaza – Special Program
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The importance of being a Muslim community to show support and encourage others to share their experiences driving on the road and the importance of trusting Allah. The pandemic has had a significant impact on the Muslim community, including the need for praying and fasting during the month of Feb, hospital stays for their group, and the importance of not believing in the Holy Spirit. Personal information and privacy laws are essential in protecting privacy and safety, and the need for everyone to be aware of privacy laws and ensure their information is protected is important. The potential impact of the pandemic on workforce and a safe work environment is also discussed.
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I wanna welcome you all to this very
special, evening in which we are hosting,
our dear volunteers,
our doctoral volunteers
who just came back from Gaza. They spend
most of the Ramadan,
volunteering, alhamdulillah, there and being with our brothers
and sisters under the circumstances that we all
know,
and they sacrifice their time, their effort, of
course, obviously, just for the beautiful cause of
showing the support, alhamdulillah, to our brothers over
there. So I wanna at the beginning, on
behalf of this all Muslim community that you
see here, and all watching with us, I
would like to say, lizakumallahu khairan, thank you
for representing us as the Muslim community living
in America. May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala reward
you for your sacrifice, You Rabbi Alamin.
We really appreciate all the effort that you
made, so we ask Allah subhanahu to make
it heavy for you in the sky You
Rabbi Alamin.
Now, there is so much we need to
talk about for the sake of time, inshaAllah
wazda wajal.
I know that they keep saying or we
hear it say they say that, a picture
is worth a 1,000 words.
But then they start when we started using
video, we said video actually is worth a
1,000 picture.
But then I believe personally that there is
no doubt that an eyewitness
is actually worth a million probably of these
videos. You guys are the eyewitnesses over there,
and you've seen it, you know, firsthand. You
were there on the ground. We want to
hear from each and every one of you,
inshaAllah, about your experience.
What is it like there?
What do you want the Muslim community to
understand and know? Because we've seen the pictures,
we've seen the videos, we've heard all the
analysis and all the reports and so forth,
but there is nothing better than someone who
was really there on the ground to tell
us the reality of the situation. So So
I'd like to, thank you very much for
being here. We have actually with us doctor
Haifa Yunus,
was there. Alhamdulillah,
doctor Farhan
Abdel Aziz, Doctor Bilal Paracha,
Rashad Manbeig
and Doctor Othar Haq. Doctor Mahmoud Savha was
also on the team, but he's out of
town, so he just he sends his salaam
to everybody, and I apologize for not being
here with us on this evening. So inshallah,
we're gonna hear from them, Benillah Azza Wa
Jal. I wanna start with doctor Athar. Your
experience, tell us first of all about your
expertise and,
your specialty,
and how was it there for you guys?
Yeah. So, this one, I'm Danav Sallat Assai,
I'm Rasoolah. I mean,
for coming, it's kind of a little overwhelming.
A little nervous right now. But, I'm a
hospitalist by profession. I'm glad I've been doing
that for about 11 years. A hospitalist is
someone who, takes care of the patients once
they're admitted from the ER.
So I was
a little bit on the fence when I
was when, you know, actually Farhan, Masha'Allah is
the one that invited me to go. Because
you know when you hear about, you know,
relief work it's it's mainly surgeons and anesthesiologists
and ER doctors, mashaAllah.
But hospitals are like at the bottom of
the totem pole. And that I didn't speak
You're the Khurub Barak alhamdulillah.
But, yeah, I didn't speak any Arabic, so
I was I was always thinking what kind
of benefit can I provide to people?
But with, the encouragement of Farhan, and Mahmoud
Marshana, a big role in that, I I
decided to go. And I think some of
the lessons, I guess, what first started for
me is I don't think the trip could
have gone any better.
So, Panamal, I know that obviously we're going
to a war zone, but before I had
planned to go to Gaza,
you know, I booked a trip to Umrah
in the last 10 nights. I was super
excited about that. And my intention subhanAllah was
when I booked that trip was I only
wanted to go there to make dua for
the people of Gaza. And subhanallah, Allah subhanallah
changed my plans just a week before. So
I canceled my umur trip and subhanallah, I
was able to look at the Gaza itself.
Shall I get the reward of a 1,000,000
amur instead? Yeah. I mean, I mean, I
mean,
so one of the I think the one
of the lessons that I learned before I
left that that was that would he shook
me is so I really wanted to go
and, you know, my wife my wife was
also season, you know, very pro. So she
wanted, me to go as well. So very
excited. So then once I started preparing for
the trip, you know, I started, you know,
I prepared, you know, I had my will
already prepared so I prepared that, you know,
added some things to it. I gave her
some access to some of, like, the, you
know, business and accounts and things of that
nature. And so once it got, like, that
intense for her, she was like,
are you sure are you sure you wanna
go? Maybe you should just One more sounds
like a really good idea right now. But
you know, I think
that was one thing that kind of shocked
me. I was like, okay. Well, now my
wife is even afraid that initially she was
so excited about me to go, but now
she's like, okay, maybe he's really not gonna
come back. And that really affected me, but
it didn't affect me until, like, we were
leaving right after flip with the gym on
Friday.
So I, you know, went to the, went
to the house. I, you know, we got
my I got my wife. And then I
was just, you know, normally when you leave
after, you for a little vacation or trip,
you make sure everything in the house is
settled. So, I walked into the house, everybody
was gone. And then I was just making
sure that everything, the lights are off, so
on and so forth. And as soon as
I step foot in my garage,
then this overwhelming feeling of, you know, of
my, this actually might be the last time
I come step foot into my own house.
And that really shook me. I think that
was the first time I I recognized that,
you know, what I'm actually signing up to
do and I think that's that really shook
me somehow. So I think, you know, that's
one lesson that I think that I learned
is that even though I felt like I
needed Allah the most then, but in reality
I need Allah just as much as I
did then, that I did then that I
do now. You know, so we have to
depend on Allah as much as we can,
at, at all times. It's not just when
you're in need of him, it's actually at
all times. We just sometimes don't realize that.
I think that's one, one effect that I
have. If we could play the slides, I
just wanted to kind of give,
kind of like a map of where,
you know, buzz is on the map. I
don't know, it's kind of small, but hopefully
people can see that. On the big screen
they can show me. Oh, perfect.
Perfect. So if you look at the the
bottom left, that's the Rafa Egyptian border.
Okay? So we had a we landed in
Cairo, Alhamdulillah.
And we had to take almost like it's
about an 8 or 9 hour car trip,
but the whole time it takes about 16
hours because of all the checkpoints that you
have to go through. So there's 2 in
Egypt and then the last one is on
the Palestinian side.
So that's the rougher border and then some
of the circles are where where each of
the physicians were at. Alhamdulillah. So the the
first one, the I don't know if it's
pink or I can't tell the color, but
at first circle,
is the European hospital. So that's the hospital
that most of the medical mission trips go
to.
And that street that you see that's there
is called the Salahuddin Street. That's the main
street in Gaza,
and the palm is right once you get
to where the where that circle is, the,
Israeli army is occupying the entire street. So
you're not able to actually go up that
street, you have to make a left, so
to speak, on this picture, and go to
the to the beach. And that's where you
see all of those pictures and videos of
all of the refugees on the beaches and
all the aid dropping there. So So we
had to go on that, street. And it's
interesting because actually I was honored doctor Hippo
was in in my group. I mean, I
was in her group, so it was it
was a very exciting, Marshall, to be with
her.
So some of the reflection that she shared
and all the things that we were thinking
about when we were there is, you know,
there's a, a curfew between 10 AM and
2 PM. Mhmm. And so we're supposed to
leave, you know, before sunset ideally. When you
drive at night, it's very dangerous.
So somehow like the the
customs took about 8 hours.
So we were actually leaving after Muslim.
So when we were driving, doctor Haifa was
mentioning, you know, we should all be repeating
La ilaha illallah Muhammadu Rasool Allah in case
we have missile strike and this is our
last words. So sometimes we have small conversations
with each other and then immediately after we
would say
And this is a whole trip for an
hour and a half. All you hear is
the murmuring in our band of like
So in case then we were to die,
alhamdulillah, you know, that would be our last
words. So as you're traveling up, if you
can bring the map back up. If as
you're traveling up, you can see that little,
I guess it's a lightning bolt. So I'm
not sure if you guys remember,
but in the world food kitchen,
that's where their trucks were stripped. They were
stripped right there at that exact point. And
if subhanallah, it's kind of amazing because we
were on that exact street
just 2 hours before. Somehow.
So subhanallah, Allah protected us just by 2
hours. When we got to the hospital,
we heard about these about these deaths that
happened to Kama, and it was like the
exact same street. So again, just reflecting on
on the fact that we we always have
to trust in Allah. So that orange circle,
I mean the blue circle that you see
there, that's where, myself,
doctor Jardan, and a lot of doctor Haifa's
work was done at that, in that blue
circle. It's called Shuhada Al Aqsa.
To be honest, it's like the hospital with
the coolest name, so I was hoping that,
you know, we could all be Shuhada there,
but, Allah had other plans.
And then the circle all the way to
the top that's, like
orange, that's Ashifa, and obviously that was the
hospital that they destroyed about 3 or 4
months, 3 or 4 weeks ago. You guys
all saw the pictures of that.
And then Mashallah Farhan, he'll tell the story,
but he was one of the first doctors
since the start of the war that got
to go to the north. So he was
in that red dot, like, all the way
up north, and he'll tell stories about that.
So just go to the next slide real
quick. Oh shit. I think I can do
that. Yeah. So just to give you an
idea I want pictures in the way, sorry
about that. But so it really is an
open air prison. If you can see those
walls on the left hand of picture, it's
basically a gigantic cement wall.
Then barbed wire about 5 or 6 feet
high. If you look at the second picture
you can see that man that's sitting there
on the, on the floor. You can see
how actually tall those walls are.
SubhanAllah. So it's act actually quite high and
then again above that by another 5 or
6 feet is barbed wire. So it truly
is like like a prison as you're going
into powwow. Mhmm.
If you go to the next slide,
this is a video. So this is as
you're driving through Khan Yunus, which is the
second province so to speak in Gaza.
If you can play the video you can
just see I mean you probably all have
seen this, but as you're driving, this is
the destruction that you see.
Basically, if Kanye has almost completely destroyed.
It's,
I mean,
again it's, what can you say, survival?
Yeah, but it's just a bunch of rope
on me.
Okay, so if you can go the next
one, the next slide, and I can just
show you what,
what it's like when we were at the
hospital. So if you can so this is
basically from taken from the second floor,
you can see all of the camps from
that line. One hospital wall all the way
across. So you play the video,
you can see I'm I'm basically panning across
the entire hospital of compound. And there's about
8,000
refugees in these camps. And these are tents.
Literally, they're just like plastic pieces of paper
put together,
that don't protect you from rain, that you
can see someone's shadow that's sitting right next
to you.
I mean, there's about for every single bathroom
that they have, there's about 200 people using
that one bathroom. That's awesome. So there's a
lot of diseases like hepatitis a that is
rampant in the community. They literally call it
like a pandemic. About 50% of the patients
that I saw,
in the hospital had had hepatitis a.
And the last thing I'll share, which is
kind of interesting, is just to kind of
set the scene for what these guys will
be saying. So when we're at Shuhada Apsa
Hospital, on on the next slide,
there's a constant, constant of a sound. And
you can hear it here.
So that sound that you hear is only
2 seconds long, but that is 24 hours
a day, 7 days a week, non stop,
and that's a drone.
So that drone is flowing around the entire
area, and it's not stopping, it's continuous.
So every time we recorded something for instance,
if the, if the, if sheikh was giving,
like, leading salah in qdiyan, you'd record something
and you can hear that while he's recording.
You can hear it during a taroyi, tiam,
ish at any time that you're talking you
can hear that in the background. And just
imagine that people that have to go through
this constant surveillance while living in this, in
this area. It's completely unbelievable,
the amount of faith that they have, and
to still pray, but to be in that
situation. I think that's something that was the
the biggest impact that I had, that these
people are still praying, still fasting in the
month of Ramadan, but Allah's putting them through
this. They must have
so much, such a strong iman. And that's
something that I think that, even though I
came there to help people, I I I'm
the one that really benefited from the trip.
And so if anybody has the opportunity to
go, I highly, highly recommend it because you
will you will not think there's not a
single trip in the world you can take
that will that will be as beneficial as
it is for your iman. JazakAllah, doctor O'Himmelah's
final reward for this, sir, Bilalah. I know
there are some stories you shared with me
also dealing with that kid in Tarawee, and
we're gonna come to it inshallah to Varko
at at some point in the last zurajal.
But I will move right now to doctor
Haifa.
Obviously,
I was surprised when I saw you actually
on that video. I don't know that you're,
you're there, subhanAllah.
So may Allah, subhanAllah, bless you and reward
you for taking,
the chance,
to be there, alhamdulillah.
We went together,
alhamdulillah,
into different areas really to seek and to
help the Muslim community around the world, alhamdulillah,
during the disaster and then the earthquakes.
But to go to Gaza, that's a very
unique experience.
We want to hear from you, and and
if you can draw these parallels actually, alhamdulillah,
between a man made disaster like what's happening
in Gaza and also what we saw in
the in the,
the situation that happened actually after that earthquake
in Turkey now. Yeah. If I can have
the slides because as I'm talking, some of
the slides will make it easier.
I'm completely different than,
doctor Atar, actually.
I begged people to go,
honestly. Since I learned there was physicians going,
I don't know how many applications I filled.
For some reason, Allah didn't want it to
happen.
And then I was going to Umrah, and
in the plane, I was filling application. My
friend says, this is gonna happen. And 10
days, nobody answered me. Then I made the
dua, and that's the first thing I want
everybody
to really know. And I'm not saying this
bragging.
But when you really want something from Allah
and you are wanting it only for him,
he opened it. Suddenly, I remembered I was
in Mecca. I was also in Umrah. The
last 10 days from Milan is my only
vacation the whole year, and I booked it
and I paid and everything.
And then I remember there was a physician
from Canada where somebody put her picture on
a group that we have in Southern California
and says doctor Aldi went.
So I texted the I texted her.
And I don't know the woman, and she
said, doctor Hayford, do you really wanna go?
And I said, yes. I do. She said,
we can't get you on the April 1st
because it's full. We'll get you on 15.
I said, I can do the 15. I
work. I'm back on 15. She said, let
me see. We have to get a lot
of there's a lot of approvals you have
to go. And you're talking here I think
we were like day 12 or 13 of
Ramadan.
Long story short, she said, yes. You are
going, but that doesn't mean anything because you
can easily get to Cairo, and then they
will deny you. I said, fine. I'm completely
opposite everybody. I didn't tell anyone.
I told only 1 3 people. 1 of
them was actually a person who I said,
if I don't come back, Jannah Institute will
be
for you.
And I didn't tell my family because they
will go crazy, and I didn't see anybody.
I took all this. I didn't, post anything
when I was there.
And if I can have the slides because
I want you to read the first thing
that I put in this slide. I have
a lot of much longer, but I just
made it as short as possible. This was
supposed to be a medical mission,
but it was not a medical mission. It
was anything but a medical mission.
The first thing you see here is April
1st is when we actually entered Gaza,
and that day will be with me till
the day I leave this world.
Nothing like
the feeling when you enter Gaza, and this
is what you see.
If I, I think I have to move.
Please forgive me.
Am I? You're moving to the next.
The next. Yes. This is what you see.
As you come out from the immigration from
Gaza, you you look and you see and
this is exactly what is I love Gaza.
Right? We reached there about 5 o'clock, if
I remember, and we left the
hotel in
Cairo at 4 AM.
But we didn't leave till after Maghrib,
and Allah had a reason because we could
be the people that were bombed. Subhanallah. We're
the last people to leave that.
And the beauty of it and I have
a video, but again because of the time
that as we were there
and suddenly I hear somebody reading Quran, if
you remember,
the young man who was reading al Arit,
of course, this is something
norm in Gaza.
Everybody reads Quran beautifully,
young and old. You don't ask people, are
you a hafel?
Literally, it's an insult
because they will look at you and says
5 of that, 10. Oh, I'm not yet
a hafel. Oh, I'm not only a hafel.
You remember, Abdullah.
I'm the software. I'm the special one. As
you enter, as you're going closer to the
hospital, this is what you see.
This is the norm. Children,
donkey is the main way of transportation,
and children are,
guiding it. And then people are walking.
And then you come in here, and then
what I heard and I I've never seen
that you will see that what no eyes
have seen and no
ear have heard, this is Gaza.
The things you see, whatever words somebody
just asked me, and I said words are
hollow, has no meaning because what you see.
It's the misery, but at the same time,
the resilience.
The the sadness at the same time is
the happiness.
And it's it's amazing, subhanAllah. And if you
go to the next and this is especially
for the youth.
If I can get this bigger, remove my
picture because I want you to see. The
one on the left,
will be your right,
the cans.
So we arrived to the hospital at 8
PM.
Where is everybody? They took us to the
administration offices. Where are they?
They all were praying, Kaisha, if you remember,
and we joined. Was it only Kaisha? Now
you're talking about drones, and any minute we
can get a missile or an f 16.
They did a full tara'u.
The amazing is you don't know who's the
imam because every 2 ruka'at, somebody go back
and saw another person come to the front.
All of them reading beautifully,
and they were because
they chose from the Quran. They didn't read
like the whole Jews. They picked up ayaat
and every
aya,
the imamrad is related to where they are.
Talk about sabr. Talk about don't despair, talk
about Allah's victory is coming. It's amazing.
And then they we met them and they
said your
iftar is in the room. So you go
to the room and that's what you get.
It was 3 cans, and we were lucky
because we were physicians.
They actually gave us a piece of bread.
So, of course, I was personally very hungry.
So I ate only the hummus, the the
did you see it open?
And all night, I was throwing
up. And I said, may Allah forgive us.
The spoiled people coming from America, we cannot
even eat this.
And they were living on it.
3 days later,
after the World Kitchen,
they were killed. Now you start seeing more
things coming,
and I couldn't believe when I saw eggs.
3 days later from my window, and I
told doctor Hina was my roommate,
I think I'm seeing eggs. He said, I
think so too. Run down. I bought 4
eggs
for 10 shekels.
It's almost $3,
4 eggs. And we were wondering how I'm
gonna do the boiled egg.
The
the head nurse, she said, don't worry, doctor.
We can fix it. When I ate the
eggs,
may Allah forgive us.
As if I ate whatever you everyone in
this room loves.
Because before that, we were we were eating
on protein bars 3 days.
SubhanAllah.
Now if you go to the next one,
this is one of the memorable moment for
me in that trip.
This is where we prayed
Taraweeh,
and we prayed Qiyam, and the Qiyam starts
about 12:15, 12:30
till 3, 3:30.
The imam, Abdullah, is 21,
22
reading amazingly,
fluently,
enjoying it normally. And again, I'm sharing. I'm
not a person who loves
the,
the, dua that everyone does. I love to
ask Allah me except with Abdullah.
The way he was making dua, the way
he was asking Allah, you can tell,
and I'm sure Allah will respond to him.
It's just the timing. We don't know when.
The boy that the young boy on the
left, it's probably on your right side,
that boy, his his
his video was viral, if you remember. It
was a video online where the boy was
had a broken arm,
and then they were doing cast, and they
didn't have pain medication, and he was reciting
Quran.
It was that boy.
How did I notice? We were praying and
then this is 1:30
AM under the drones in a room least
to say uncomfortable.
Don't talk about the bathrooms.
And this boy comes in and join
join the man like a young man.
And then, Abdullah finished the 2 rakat, and
this young man run to Abdullah. I don't
know what they were talking. Suddenly, this boy
becomes the imam.
He led
us and then had not done.
Sad looked at us, and he start making
an ashid
about Palestine.
What of words? They all speak fluently,
excellent
eloquent Arabic.
Those were raised to be leaders.
More than 1 boy. I I what I
was impressed is by the boys and by
the woman.
Amazing. If you look at the next one,
this is the scene. This is the hospital.
This is actually the door of the hospital.
If you see the green
at the end, was actually the small store
where everybody buys from. All these this is
supposed to be the main entrance of the
parking. Now it's all tense.
Everything is tense.
If you go to the next one, this
is a video actually. It's the drone which
you also
I don't know if I'm gonna okay. These,
pay attention. These are the bullets
that
they target
one part of the body, and,
doctor Sharma
saw a lot of it. They
target legs.
Legs.
And you see all these,
the,
the the bullets.
This is the scene. The next one
is the scene from the ER, and you
lived it.
Literally, the ER is like this room right
now.
If I want to go to see a
patient, I am gonna say, excuse me. Please
excuse me.
Please excuse me. And now you're sitting and
you're comfortable. In between, you see people on
this side,
bleeding. There's gauze on the floor. People are
mourning. There's people who don't know who they
are. It's amazing scene.
I've never seen it in my life.
The impressive thing from everybody, in 8 days,
we lived this.
I have never heard a word of complaint.
Only one word, and it is not a
complaint.
And this was actually from the head nurse.
She looked at me, and I said, how
are you feeling? She said, the Torah Tabna,
we're tired.
That is it.
For 8 days, this is what we heard.
Doctor, I'm glad. Day, finally, they allowed me
to go to the,
maternity hospital
because the there were the maternity hospital was
inside the sheifa. I'm sorry. Insha inside the
Aqsa, but because of the war, they made
it all trauma center, and they moved all
the deliveries to this hospital. So the last
day, I was actually fortunate to go.
They used to do 5 deliveries a day.
Now they do 50 delivery a day,
10 c sections per day. I did 2.
Out of patient privacy and, I couldn't put
it.
They don't have they don't have scrubs.
They don't have sheets to cover the patient.
Normally, they bring the instruments,
and then you open the instruments here and
then you throw it. They don't throw it.
That
they cover the patient.
And I said and said, doctor Haifa, what
size gloves you are? And I said,
I'm 5a half.
They said, we're sorry. It's only 7a half.
The instruments they showed me literally needs to
be in the museum.
Oh, I'm sorry. And that's how they work.
They take the patients to the recovery room.
There is no monitors.
There's no blood pressure.
Your wife did a c section. They actually
they called us in the middle. Patient was
bleeding. And I said, what is her blood
pressure? They all looked at me.
And I literally did the old way. I
held her pulse, and I said her pulse
is fine. She's okay. Just get her fluid,
and there is no stance to put fluid.
Somebody was holding the fluid.
Doctor Haifa, in in the last minute, if
I may ask you,
now that you talk about this this particle,
aspect of it, the ladies in Gaza.
The next slide. What's your experience with those
ladies in Gaza? The next slide if I
can have it.
Ladies,
everyone I this is this is one who
really left an impression on me. It's a
long story, but because of the time, I
actually put it on the social media for
those of you who follow.
Ladies,
for 8 days, this is what I saw.
I did not see a hair
in this all 8 days.
Every lady was covered,
young and old.
And they and I and I looked at
them, and one one of them, she said
to me,
so we if we die, we die covered.
Oh, no. No. This is how they talk.
That's number 1. Number 2, they're strong. I
didn't see a woman whining.
Where is your husband?
Martyr. Shuhada, the name is like martyr. Where
is your son? He's still in the north.
Where is your daughter? She went with her
husband to the,
to the south.
They are this is how I feel.
Allah prepared them for this.
Allah knows if it was us how we
would have responded.
Every woman,
The the Sahabiat you hear about,
you read about, I did see them with
my own eyes. That was a key. There
was a woman who I put her picture
after I took her permission.
You enter the hospital on the left on
the right side. Remember?
You all remember, because this is where the
you we go where we pray. There was
a small
literally mattress.
The woman is maybe in her fifties there.
I go in, she's there. I come out.
Finally, I spoke to her, and she said,
I've been living in this for the last
3 months.
Where is your husband? Husband and the son
still in the north with my daughter. What
do you eat? Whatever they give us. Please
forgive me. Where do you go with the
bathroom?
Whatever everybody else goes.
Not a single word of complaint.
Nobody said why me? No. Why us? You
know how this is common for us? No
one, subhanallah.
And then this is as we were the
last day they moved us earlier to the
south. Again, they said for security,
this is what we saw.
This
is the norm
on your right, on your left. Everything is
destroyed.
And then here,
one of the best memory is the.
The last, maybe 20 years, every from, I'm
in Mecca.
Nothing like this.
Nothing like this site. The the mosque, actually,
they told us, don't go.
It's very dangerous.
They may attack
because there was a rumor inside the hospital
that the eid will be black
eid. They throw some, like, brochures saying eid
will be black. So they told us, don't
go.
We went.
And if you pay attention to the window,
the window is shattered.
And then these are the girls coming for
aid.
We gave little bit of chocolate,
remember? It was riots,
and we stopped.
And I was like, yeah, Allah, what is
a chocolate?
Let
alone if you wanted to give money.
But they were look at the girls. They
were smiling. They were fine. They were that's
how it is. Yeah. You leave the, and
this is
what
you
see.
The norm these kids are alone, they there
is a category
called orphan with no parents.
Alone. No parents, no family by himself.
That's one of the examples. This was in
the European
hospital in the last day,
and this was the last the the this
is a smile.
This is a girl
displaced. She was in the European hospital. She's
an artist,
and she was painting
on the walls of the hospital.
And this one says.
Your real aid is the day you are
victorious.
This is she, and then she showed me
all her portfolio. Says I keep
painting.
This is a displaced girl
living in a tent.
I'm glad she has a a piece of
paper and,
a pen, and she was absolutely happy.
And talk,
I asked everybody I met, what do you
want from us?
Actually, I asked if we even do anything.
I mean, you really feel your I am
useless
in front of all this tragedy.
They said, no. Your presence
was the best gift you give us.
So I I second Understood. Anyone can go.
And you know what? People tell me you
went to your death. I said, wherever we
are, death is gonna come to us. I
know. If I was supposed to die, I'm
gonna die.
So if you can go, definitely go. And
the second thing they said to me, and
I'm sure to all of you, is talk
about
us. Don't let people forget us. We exist.
And may
Allah make it easy on them.
May
Allah forgive our shortcomings.
I reward you for your for your experience
over there and for being there for our
brothers and sisters as well too.
And what what a what a a privilege
really to to be in the presence of
you guys, mashaAllah,
bringing this experience to all of us. So
we're really seeing the reality of life. Like
we really feel sometimes that we're living,
a fantasy. It's not real. But that's the
reality of life. Doctor Bilal,
you went before everybody.
And I saw your video, mashaAllah, when you
were there. Alhamdulillah, Allah bless you and reward
you for being there as a pioneer, for
all this group to to be in that
in that area. Wanna hear from your experience
inshallah. Tell us what happened there. Can you
stand open? Please go ahead.
First of all, correction. Doctor Farhanath Tulluzis was
the first who gave went before me. Oh.
And then he went again. I forgot about
his first trip, Suhan. Machala.
And if you can just put on the
slide and keep moving.
So,
save lives. Alhamdulillah, Allah gave the opportunity to
save few lives and touch many. But in
fact, there we learned what life is
and it's,
what death is.
And as,
this eye I just recited, there we actually
learned what, like, the living Quran, what it
means.
And the but the the the topic of
the program, what is it like to be
in Gaza? That is what I was thinking
when going from here.
And then we entered Gaza,
and despite
the
sudden chaos, little chaos around the truck with
food that just entered with us, and despite
the destruction all around us, and despite the
drone going over in the air all the
time, and despite the ongoing
attacks, and despite the all shots closed, and
despite the people in the streets,
I felt there the saguina,
which you cannot explain, you cannot describe in
any other way. And that sakinah was everywhere,
not only like on on the Muslims, that
the people number 1 there and then the
Muslims, even non Muslims who were with us,
one of our senior doctors said, I'm having
a better sleep than my own home here
in Hazlam. This was the subpoena there which
you can imagine.
And then,
we reached to the hospital and I think
we were in the same hospital, Shuraddal Aqsa,
and I used to stay there, Insha'Allah, when
was Tashwal Aqsa, ila Masir al Aqsa. So
there,
one day,
and this was my experience
that during Ramadan and I came in the
middle of Ramadan and came back, there were
increased attacks
during the time of sahur and Aspah.
And one day, there was a nusirat camp
attack,
and that was in the news. We had
25 and this was close to sahur time,
Close to 25, 30 people of the same
family got Shahid,
and then multiple brought to the hospital. And
this, slide shows, like, sort of where we
are. So,
multiple people got brought to the,
hospital, and, multiple were,
like Shahid, and multiple were injured.
And we were talking with different people.
1, they were, like, grandparents,
parents,
and then,
like, the kids, young girls, boys.
And 1,
gentleman was taking care of his parents who
were both pretty sick. And during that time,
when I was there, as aforementioned,
I did not know much Arabic very well.
So,
the the the the son, he came to
me and he asked, like,
where are you from? So I said, which
I was saying there to many people, Jammu
in America,
Asli in Pakistan,
But it means that I have come from
America. I'm originally from Pakistan. I was born
in Saudi Arabia,
but my blood is Palestinian.
And then I would say, Arabic, show you,
show you.
So so the show you, show you, show
you, show you, show you, and he'll show
you, show you English. We were talking,
but then he brought somebody, a chef Pakistani
type looking, turban Pakistani style, Pakistani style, Khameez,
and he came and start to me in
Urdu,
Where are you from? I said, I'm from
Pakistan. Where are you from? Are you from
Pakistan? He said, oh, I'm from Palestine, Gaza.
I lived in Pakistan for 5 years, and
that's how I know.
And I even graduated from that institute, and
we were talking and smiling and have a
good time. And then I asked, what are
you doing here? And he said,
Yeah. I mean, these are my family. This
is my brother. This is my sister, brother-in-law,
sister-in-law, kids, niece, and he has this morning,
my daughter got Shahid,
my son-in-law got Shahid,
just like that, And he's still smiling, and
I'm looking at him and I'm about to
cry.
That is the that that are the people.
You may say that that was Sheikh Maulana,
and after tomorrow, just talked, we're talking. He
said, I've moved from North Laza.
My home is destroyed. My father got Shahid.
My son, 5 years old. His school is
destroyed. My wife is a pediatrician and son.
They are living in rafa intent and I'm
in the hospital
working. Alhamdulillah. Hosbu'allahu naybabuki.
You may say that these are the men
only, but as doctor Haifa mentioned, and I
hope we get time in discussion,
how women are actually
the backbone there in Gaza. And I believe
not only in Gaza, but all over the
world, women are being the backbone of this
movement. So the medical students,
yeah, I think that picture went by. But
the medical students,
if you would have seen many,
girls,
they were, like, so determined and so strong.
And again, you would ask them
what's going on? They will say, yes, we
moved from North Gaza because their medical school
were in North Gaza which were all
destroyed, and this was not their hospital. And
they say, like, if you can go back
to the, the slide yeah. This one and
the next, the with the back, and then
stay there.
No
yes. Here and I will play this video
in 1 minute. So this,
those girls, they will always say that, yeah,
we just came from the tent. Our medical
schools are destroyed,
But when we gave them this,
and these girls, like, are in the camps
living, but at the same time, they still
want to help, and they wanted to establish
a cleaning close to their tent, close to
their camp. And we took some,
supplies from there,
and, we gave to them.
If you can play the video,
after getting the supplies,
the thing which they said,
thank you, everything,
but then they said, do not give up
the fight.
Do not give up. Keep
raising the wife and that's here I would
like to end that despite that chaos, despite
the suffering, despite the lines for the food
and everything,
3 things that I've seen in them
and three things which I would, request all
of us to do. So number one thing,
which is to keep raising the voice. As
I said in that video that that,
medical student, she said, do not give up
and keep raising the voice because if nobody
else is hearing, we are
hearing. We see it. We
look at it, and this all that
our our sadness, our,
all the sufferings go away when we see
the people are raising lives for us all
over the world. Mhmm. Number 2,
keep donating and keep
supporting the relief organizations.
Like, I saw many non Muslim people there
standing up. World Central Kitchen, you have all
seen that. And I think as a Muslim
community,
we have not,
like,
stood up for them as they have stood
up for us, but
they are, like, there for us. So World
Central Kitchen, for example, MetGlobal with whom I
went. They are, like, sort of many non
Muslims there. I'll speak with I saw there
from Pakistan. Helping Hand is going to work
with MetGlobal.
Multiple organization,
but and there are long lines outside of
of the trucks, but some aid is still
going in. So please do not stop supporting.
3rd thing which we need to do, and
before that, I tell what 3 things I
saw in them. Number 1,
the aya which I decided in the beginning.
And that is what my question was from
the day 1, how they are so satisfied
and so happy despite all that. And the
answer I got from 2 ways. Number 1,
I was standing one side outside the ER,
house hospital,
and a doc and doctor passing by who
was the chairman of the ER. And I
asked him that how you people are so
satisfied despite all that. He said, doctor, listen.
Every night when we go to sleep, we
go to be ready for shahara. We are
ready for a shahara
because there is nothing for us in this
world, our best places in general.
And second answer I got, one day I
also sneaked out few days. I won't I
won't
admit how many days, but one morning when
I sneaked out of the hospital, went to
the Masjid and there they were reciting this
Quran,
I said, yes. That is the answer that
they have figured it out that this life
is nothing but an illusion. But despite that,
three things which they believe in, personal accidents.
Each of the medical students whom I talked
to, they had they still have the hopes,
and I asked them, you still have the
dreams? They said, yes, this will be over.
I want to be neurosurgeon.
I want to be an anesthesiologist.
I want to be this. I want to
be that. They are living the life in
the best way possible, in the worst conditions
possible because they know they are having to
know. Second thing
is their belief that
They're either our home
or Jannah. This is the personal goal of
each one of them. And the 3rd goal,
and here I will end, which I want
all of us to have that goal, if
we can put that,
slide there,
that I saw this picture
in each and every
one of the many of the homes and
offices
and, that picture the second last picture or
third last where
just before coming, they,
sort of like, were giving us a farewell.
And in the director's office,
I saw this picture. It's in the back.
And if you can go to the next
slide.
So this
this is their collective goal, all of people
of Gaza and Palestine,
and that is what they want us to
have the goal. Not because
we are chosen people, not because we were
there 1000 of years ago, not because we
have certain passports, but because we are the
people who believe in Allah. We are the
people who believe in all the prophets, and
we are the people who stand up for
the justice. So that is why we all
have to keep this door in front of
us. I'll put Surah. One day as we
are praying here, we all have to go
as Ummah to that
and pray and raise Allah.
Thank you
Now, doctor Farhan,
your turn, inshallah,
look, there's so much you're gonna be talking
about, but there's one area, I don't want
you to miss it because I've seen the
videos and the pictures, the children of Gaza.
You'll be the one that's sitting with them
and and and and chanting nasheed with them
and recite the Quran with them. SubhanAllah.
I wanna hear from you as you speak
on your experience, the children of Gaza, because
I personally believe, based on what I've seen
on the earth,
I think the children of Gaza, they skip
childhood.
They were born adults, they were born Manwala.
Seriously, like they skip childhood completely.
Because when you hear them speaking, it's like
Allahu Akbar. 7 years old kids, 5 years
old kids speak like
a full grown up. Like they have goals,
they have dreams, and they are serious and
they talk you can have a conversation with
them. Today people in their twenties, they barely
could have a conversation with them.
So tell us your experience with the Qibb
Uzza and the children as well.
And I just wanted to just before I
answer that question, obviously, thank everyone for coming.
And in particular, thanks to some of my
coworkers from the hospital who are here. I'm
in scrubs, not to convince you that I'm
a doctor, but I have shifts in 45
minutes. I'm working overnight tonight.
But special thanks to Lindsay and her husband,
Mike, who came here.
You know, it's a it's a going out
of your comfort zone to be guests at
the mosque. We're very happy to have you
here. And I wanna thank you for being
here. And I'm not sure if Jasmine made
it out or anybody else, but whoever is
here, thank you so much for coming. And
I I hope I hope the experience is
warm for you, welcoming. You're always welcome here
at our community. You're part of our family,
and, thank you for the support.
Okay.
The children of Gaza.
I I forgot who said it, but it's
like you meet Sahaba, and you read the
Sahaba stories, and you read about young men
and women
who are leading armies at 17 years old
and who are,
profound examples like Abdullah ibn Zubayr and and
Anas ibn Malik and these young companions.
And you you, you know, I was having
a discussion with,
a physician.
Honestly, it's jumbling because I I spent 2
days at European, 2 days at UPSA, and
10 days in the North,
on this most recent trip. And,
I'm forgetting where I was when we had
this conversation, but regardless,
we were sitting in thought with one of
the anesthesiologists.
He invited us to his his home.
And his home is a room maybe
8 by 10 feet,
in the hospital in the operating room, 1
in the in the in the OR area.
1 of the offices has now become his
family's home.
And so he,
his wife, his daughter, who is a medical
student,
and So this is at European. So I
remember I worked with her in the ER.
So my last day there. And,
a younger daughter and a and a son.
The son is 16 years old and he's
half of the Quran. And so over Iftar,
we were discussing and so the younger girl
amongst them said, you know, we should try
and leave Gaza.
And and so,
the son who's 16,
he said, Why would you say that? And
she said, Well, there's no future left for
us. Like, everything is destroyed.
And then So then he began asking a
series of questions that I know I was
thinking about because I'm not just taking this
in. Like, if if we're in that position,
we're living out of an 8 by 10
room, 80 square feet is your home for
the last however many months.
Besides the starvation and fatigue and the overwork
and no pain and all of that that
comes with it.
And,
his response was very telling.
He asked his sister, he said, Well, who
is feeding us before the war?
And she said, Allah.
So then she said So then he said,
but who will feed us after the war?
And so she said, Allah.
And so he said, who gave us shelter
before the war?
Allah.
Who will give a shelter after the war?
Allah.
This is questions coming in from a 16
year old boy, half of the Quran
to his younger sister.
So the the the level of Tarbiyyah,
the level of,
maturity,
with all due respect,
Lindsay,
she knows what it's like in the ERs.
You know,
you see
what they go through,
and
a 7 year old boy there
is more than a man than many of
us here,
and that's the reality.
And the same thing for the woman, the
girls.
The level of maturity and you have to
understand they they they they're seeing all this
trauma firsthand. So like at European hospital in
the south where I wanted my first trip,
the the,
unfortunately, there's no school. School has been canceled
for the year. Right? There is a Quran
school
and a Quran program at European Hospital.
But most of the kids are just running
around. And so in the ER, you're trying
to work, and like doctor Hayfa said, it's
You can't walk 3 steps in the ER
without somebody stopping you and getting your attention.
See my loved ones. See my father. See
my mother. See my daughter. Whether they could
be they could be in the 3rd floor
of the hospital, but they're pulling you from
the ER to go there.
But amongst this crowd of people, you have
patients, you have their families, then you also
have the children running around.
And so, you have donkey carts bringing in
bodies,
dismembered bodies of patients,
and the kids are just taking it all
in. They're just seeing it. And they're not
blinking an eye. So the loss of innocence
also, it's something that's very sad.
But, I did and and when I was
in the south, I spent I spent time
with the kids a lot. We would have
halappas every night. We we made a we
designated a place called Masjid al Sigha for
the for the children, and we would read
a Quran there and have halakas there and
tell stories.
And one of the maybe in shadow if
I get a chance, I'll share the video
on social media.
But one of the things I was sharing
right now actually was so after I sat
there, we prayed I sat in Jamah myself
in the was 12 years old. She before
the halal, she recited Quran to start the
halal.
Her name is Wadd.
And, she's a hafida, by the way. Oh,
sure. And so she began sort of baqa.
And subhanAllah, she can get through the first
5 ayaats of when gunfire
started going machine gun started going off immediately
behind us.
Immediately behind
us. Like the loudest obviously, we hear the
drones. We hear the missiles. We hear the
quadcopters. We hear the bombs. It shakes the
walls. It shakes the windows. It shakes your
body. You feel all of that. But I
never heard gunfire that close.
And so she's reciting Quran sitting next to
me, and gunfire is going on behind us,
and she didn't blink an eye.
And she kept reciting.
And I'm thinking in my head, what's protocol?
Do we need to get the kids to
safety? Do we need to get them inside?
You know. And there's like 5 5 or
6 dads around, you know. There's maybe 30,
40 kids there.
And the mom some of the moms were
there. And she just kept her safe.
And then nothing just kept going. So until
she finished like a whole page and a
half, then I stopped her. I said, that's
enough.
Everybody in Gaza is amazing,
but the kids are like little angels. SubhanAllah.
So they have they have a completely different
norm. Right?
Completely different. Different than ours? A city. Different
than different than ours?
No. No.
I know I saw some of the videos
with with these kids chanting nasheed and saying
salaam to the Valley Ranch community here. Tell
us about that experience with these kids.
Yeah. We,
it was interesting. So the first the first,
one of the first days I sat with
them, how the Quran Halakha came about and
the Halakas.
So when you get out at your being
hospital, the first thing all the kids love
saying is hello
because they wanna show they know English. So
I was like, why don't we say salaab?
You get 10 good deeds. So I'm like,
it's 20 good deeds. I've got a piece
of salaab. But they just want to show
off that they know the English language and
say hello. And so
they, you know, they gravitate to to, you
know, foreigners and stuff. And so I spent
time with them and I tried to make
our relationship not based on candy because, like
you said, you can't really give out candy
because it becomes a riot. So it's it's
very tricky. You have to get people from
there to to do it. But, so I
said, they said they wanted to sit and
and and and sit together with me. So
I said okay. But then it was close
to makr time. And I had to read
Surakkah.
I hadn't read Surakkah yet. And so I,
I had like 6 and a half pages
left in the Surah. And I said, I
have to finish 1st. Are you guys okay
with that? They said, sure. No problem. So
I I sat and I recited. I said,
okay. Come back when I'm done. They just
sat or stood. Most of them actually stood.
The few like in front of me sat
and the rest stood. And for 6 and
a half days, they just
sat and listened to the whole recitation.
And then after I finished, I said, they
want to recite with me. I said, Look,
if we do aye aye, we're not going
to finish my mullah. So so let me
recite. So then we recite Shirk of Fatihah
together. I recited and they repeated. And then
we still have, like, 10 minutes left before
before.
And so, you know, in the last hour
of of of Yom and Jummah. So we
all sat and made dua together. And they
all sat and made dua and said, I
mean, and,
it was beautiful. And then we played Doctor.
Goose together. I taught them how to play.
They actually didn't know Doctor. Goose. They taught
me how to say goose in Arabic, and
I taught them how to play duck
goose. But it was it was a great
experience and, subhanAllah, like, you just want to
put a smile on their face, you know,
and you if you can, the headyfroze even
just, you know, wiping the hair of an
orphan softens your heart. Just spending time with
them and letting them smile and
absorbing some of that energy into you.
I hope, inshallah, that our parents today, and
you can really, learn from this experience,
that you know what, you can really build
these kids at a very young age to
become mature. Mature enough to understand life, understand
the responsibility, and really become productive in the
society.
They don't have to go through stuff for
a lot of trauma just to, to learn
that. They can learn, inshallah, but the turbia
is very important as a community, as one
family, inshallah.
Doctor Fermi, right now, I want to hear
from you, InshaAllah, your experience,
being there, alhamdulillah, with this team. There is
no doubt, of course, you know, it's a
it's a new thing. You guys are experienced
in hospitals, but that is a whole different
thing.
How was that,
to you being there?
I would say that, you know, there's a
reason that this is such a big crowd
here. It's not because people wanna listen to
us. It's because people are attracted
to the people of Isaiah.
And the reason is, if you go, especially
if you go there, I mean, you probably
already see it, but if you go there,
you realize why
it's because the of this ummah
is concentrated
in that one's Uh-huh. And in those people.
That's as as a
steroid. Right? Yes. I mean, that's why everybody
if if you look at anywhere in the
world,
you can and you say, okay. Where does
the Ummah have real is
that? I guarantee you that everybody would point
to a
they're not gonna point to us. They're not
gonna point to somebody else. They're gonna say
the real people of ISA are the people
of Gaza. And that's what we saw over
there. And that's why I think all of
us had such an unbelievably experience
because then
we felt
what it means to have
is, as Muslims.
Despite
the tragedy, despite the difficulty, the first day
that,
I got there,
we did an amputation on a woman
at this level of her arm
and her 6 year old daughter.
Wow. Same exact level. Because
over there, the snipers,
basically, for the children and the women, they
aim for their limbs. Sometimes. And they aim
with very high power
or high caliber
ammunition
such that the injury is so,
devastating in terms of the muscles, the bone,
and everything that is very difficult to reconstruct
and salvage
that. And then
the second day, same thing. 7 year old
girl,
amputation at this level because the gunshot was
right to the bicep,
completely destroyed the bone, the muscle, everything. So
there was no way to No. They're trying
to handicap an entire generation, basically.
And and that same 7 year old girl,
her sister, 13 year old, had a gunshot
wound to the back of her knee or
back of her calf.
The entry wound's in the back, so it
tells you that somebody shot her from behind.
And there's a huge wound in the front,
which is where the the bullet exited,
you know, destroyed her artery.
We were able to save that leg. But
these were
kids that were,
aimed at.
But the patience of the people there I
mean, yeah, it's it's chaos over there.
People are emotional.
But in the end,
their level of tawakul in Allah
their level
of that they are going to be victorious
is
difficult for us to imagine.
Sometimes, you think when somebody's there talking and
they're talking about they're going to be victorious.
We know we're gonna be victorious.
We're not leaving.
You think,
you know, are these are they just
under some kind of delusion?
But the real
I would say the thing that I saw
was because
we were able to go in Ramadan.
And, you know, we had tarawee and.
When you hear the Quran, when you're over
there,
it's like it's a different book.
Because
when you when you hear the Quran, when
you're living in comfort or ease and you
don't have difficulty,
a lot of times, we take it as
information
that comes to us.
When you're living in difficulty,
when you don't know if you're gonna be
alive tomorrow or not,
when you're suffering from pain and loss and
all of these things.
When you hear the Quran,
it's a true
reminder to us. You know? It's a constant
reinforcing
of
our purpose in life,
our goals in life.
It's building a relationship with Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala in a way that
I think for us, maybe the Quran
doesn't have that impact unless we really have
our mind
focused on that. And that's what I learned
from from from the people over there. I
mean, people literally told me,
word for word, we have, Yaqeen, that we
are going to win. Somehow. You know, it
may not be me. You know? I might
die,
but
me or my children or my grandchildren.
But in the end, we believe in the
promise of Allah, and we are going to
win. That level of iman is, especially in
when you're,
you know, in such a dire situation is,
unique. And I think that's why all
these people
and the whole world is really,
attracted to those people
and has such admiration for them. Hello. To
to your to your watch, doctor, you know,
I watched, some of the videos from doctors
over there as well too. So there was
a Jordanian doctor talking about treating the child,
I believe he was touching actually his arm.
Maybe the same kid probably.
And,
so he said the next day they wanted
to change and and check on his wound
and so forth. So the the kid told
him, and he was a kid, a child.
He said, doctor, please don't hurt me again.
He goes, last time you hurt me really?
Could you please don't hurt me this time?
And then eventually, so the doctor told, you
know, to increase the dose on on his
anesthesia a little bit.
But still,
he was hurt. He felt the pain.
Then he said, didn't I tell you that
you,
don't don't hurt me?
Then he turned his face. He said he
goes he said to Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala,
You Rabbi forgive me because I asked somebody
else besides you.
Like, wow.
I heard that. I'm just like,
what are what kind of children are these?
Like, literally, what kind of kids these are
when they now they even which is natural
for them to say ask a doctor to
make it easy on their pain. And he
says, forgive me because I asked somebody else
besides you.
For that's that's a different level, subhanAllah. One
last thing I wanna mention, I wanna ask
you guys about your experience in terms
of, with these circumstances,
there's always an expectation of people, of course,
you know, fighting for survival.
But I read and I heard from other
doctors who visited there
about the, the, like I said, the, the
people, dignity of the people,
also the generosity of the people.
Like even in these situations, subhanAllah,
people would not beg.
If they, whatever they have, they're willing to
share,
And even I've seen kids sharing whatever they
have with other people and they say, I
don't have money. And they just said, go
ahead. Take it.
What's your experience with that, with the people,
with the their situation and their generosity? In
the last few minutes insha'Allah we have here.
Anyone wants to share?
Yeah. Actually,
so true.
3 days after the world kitchen, as I
said earlier, there were some things starts coming,
and one of the things came is actually
chicken.
Now you may be laughing, but to see
a chicken after about 5 days of eating
whatever Allah
gives you, it's a feast.
So there was,
orthopedic resident,
Khalil,
insisted
that we have to feed you a typical
Palestinian,
meal.
And then he gave us options
and said,
And I was like, where are you going
to get the bread? Bread is a huge
issue because there's no flour. Subhanallah.
5 minutes before,
the door
knock. We opened. Khaleed brings a big I
have a picture of it, actually. A big
huge tray,
and it is so well
not only cooked in generosity, but it's well
presented.
Next to it is salad,
and next to it is a typical Palestinian
cookies.
So I said,
where did you get this?
I mean, you need a lot of material.
He said,
everyone in my family,
whatever they had, we brought it all together
to bring this. Subhanallah.
Subhanallah.
And I said, you don't have to.
We'll come next time, and we'll visit you
in here. They said, no. No. No.
You you came. You have to
extremely
generous. I fully agree with you. I learned.
Whomsoever
wants dignity, dignity is with Allah. And you
are absolutely right. Even children,
they are walking bare footed
but they have dignity.
I know, subhanallah, the experiences is just you
guys just gave us the tip of the
the iceberg. There's a the the surface, scratching
the surface of that experience. And I hope
inshallah that if anyone is interested in learning
more and if they would in whichever capacity
they can help, they can reach out to
you, inshallah,
I wanna thank you on behalf of the
community for being there and delivering that message
to us. May Allah
bless you and bless your families, protect you
all, You Rabbil Alameen. And we order you
immensely for what you've done for our brothers
and grazza. And we ask Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala to protect our brothers and sisters in
Gaza, You Rabbil Alameen.
We ask Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala to give
them victory against their enemies, You Rabbar Al
Amin. We ask Allah
to restore peace and tranquility of their lives
in the dunya
We ask Allah to accept their martyrs as
shuhada
to heal the wounded, to protect those who
are lost. We
ask him to keep them safe.
And the way we all gather here, we
ask
Allah to guide us with them in general.
Would the prophet Muhammad
Move back to the section there. And, Michel,
we're gonna call that down