Yaser Birjas – Stories From Gaza – Special Program

Yaser Birjas
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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

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special, evening in which we are hosting,

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our dear volunteers,

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our doctoral volunteers

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who just came back from Gaza. They spend

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most of the Ramadan,

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volunteering, alhamdulillah, there and being with our brothers

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and sisters under the circumstances that we all

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know,

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and they sacrifice their time, their effort, of

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course, obviously, just for the beautiful cause of

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showing the support, alhamdulillah, to our brothers over

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there. So I wanna at the beginning, on

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behalf of this all Muslim community that you

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see here, and all watching with us, I

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would like to say, lizakumallahu khairan, thank you

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for representing us as the Muslim community living

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in America. May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala reward

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you for your sacrifice, You Rabbi Alamin.

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We really appreciate all the effort that you

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made, so we ask Allah subhanahu to make

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it heavy for you in the sky You

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Rabbi Alamin.

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Now, there is so much we need to

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talk about for the sake of time, inshaAllah

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wazda wajal.

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I know that they keep saying or we

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hear it say they say that, a picture

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is worth a 1,000 words.

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But then they start when we started using

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video, we said video actually is worth a

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1,000 picture.

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But then I believe personally that there is

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no doubt that an eyewitness

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is actually worth a million probably of these

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videos. You guys are the eyewitnesses over there,

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and you've seen it, you know, firsthand. You

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were there on the ground. We want to

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hear from each and every one of you,

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inshaAllah, about your experience.

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What is it like there?

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What do you want the Muslim community to

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understand and know? Because we've seen the pictures,

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we've seen the videos, we've heard all the

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analysis and all the reports and so forth,

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but there is nothing better than someone who

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was really there on the ground to tell

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us the reality of the situation. So So

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I'd like to, thank you very much for

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being here. We have actually with us doctor

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Haifa Yunus,

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was there. Alhamdulillah,

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doctor Farhan

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Abdel Aziz, Doctor Bilal Paracha,

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Rashad Manbeig

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and Doctor Othar Haq. Doctor Mahmoud Savha was

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also on the team, but he's out of

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town, so he just he sends his salaam

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to everybody, and I apologize for not being

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here with us on this evening. So inshallah,

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we're gonna hear from them, Benillah Azza Wa

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Jal. I wanna start with doctor Athar. Your

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experience, tell us first of all about your

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expertise and,

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your specialty,

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and how was it there for you guys?

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Yeah. So, this one, I'm Danav Sallat Assai,

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I'm Rasoolah. I mean,

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for coming, it's kind of a little overwhelming.

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A little nervous right now. But, I'm a

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hospitalist by profession. I'm glad I've been doing

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that for about 11 years. A hospitalist is

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someone who, takes care of the patients once

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they're admitted from the ER.

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So I was

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a little bit on the fence when I

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was when, you know, actually Farhan, Masha'Allah is

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the one that invited me to go. Because

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you know when you hear about, you know,

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relief work it's it's mainly surgeons and anesthesiologists

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and ER doctors, mashaAllah.

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But hospitals are like at the bottom of

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the totem pole. And that I didn't speak

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You're the Khurub Barak alhamdulillah.

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But, yeah, I didn't speak any Arabic, so

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I was I was always thinking what kind

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of benefit can I provide to people?

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But with, the encouragement of Farhan, and Mahmoud

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Marshana, a big role in that, I I

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decided to go. And I think some of

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the lessons, I guess, what first started for

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me is I don't think the trip could

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have gone any better.

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So, Panamal, I know that obviously we're going

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to a war zone, but before I had

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planned to go to Gaza,

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you know, I booked a trip to Umrah

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in the last 10 nights. I was super

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excited about that. And my intention subhanAllah was

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when I booked that trip was I only

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wanted to go there to make dua for

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the people of Gaza. And subhanallah, Allah subhanallah

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changed my plans just a week before. So

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I canceled my umur trip and subhanallah, I

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was able to look at the Gaza itself.

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Shall I get the reward of a 1,000,000

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amur instead? Yeah. I mean, I mean, I

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mean,

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so one of the I think the one

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of the lessons that I learned before I

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left that that was that would he shook

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me is so I really wanted to go

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and, you know, my wife my wife was

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also season, you know, very pro. So she

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wanted, me to go as well. So very

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excited. So then once I started preparing for

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the trip, you know, I started, you know,

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I prepared, you know, I had my will

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already prepared so I prepared that, you know,

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added some things to it. I gave her

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some access to some of, like, the, you

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know, business and accounts and things of that

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nature. And so once it got, like, that

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intense for her, she was like,

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are you sure are you sure you wanna

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go? Maybe you should just One more sounds

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like a really good idea right now. But

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you know, I think

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that was one thing that kind of shocked

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me. I was like, okay. Well, now my

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wife is even afraid that initially she was

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so excited about me to go, but now

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she's like, okay, maybe he's really not gonna

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come back. And that really affected me, but

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it didn't affect me until, like, we were

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leaving right after flip with the gym on

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Friday.

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So I, you know, went to the, went

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to the house. I, you know, we got

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my I got my wife. And then I

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was just, you know, normally when you leave

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after, you for a little vacation or trip,

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you make sure everything in the house is

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settled. So, I walked into the house, everybody

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was gone. And then I was just making

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sure that everything, the lights are off, so

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on and so forth. And as soon as

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I step foot in my garage,

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then this overwhelming feeling of, you know, of

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my, this actually might be the last time

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I come step foot into my own house.

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And that really shook me. I think that

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was the first time I I recognized that,

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you know, what I'm actually signing up to

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do and I think that's that really shook

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me somehow. So I think, you know, that's

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one lesson that I think that I learned

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is that even though I felt like I

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needed Allah the most then, but in reality

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I need Allah just as much as I

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did then, that I did then that I

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do now. You know, so we have to

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depend on Allah as much as we can,

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at, at all times. It's not just when

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you're in need of him, it's actually at

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all times. We just sometimes don't realize that.

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I think that's one, one effect that I

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have. If we could play the slides, I

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just wanted to kind of give,

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kind of like a map of where,

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you know, buzz is on the map. I

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don't know, it's kind of small, but hopefully

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people can see that. On the big screen

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they can show me. Oh, perfect.

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Perfect. So if you look at the the

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bottom left, that's the Rafa Egyptian border.

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Okay? So we had a we landed in

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Cairo, Alhamdulillah.

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And we had to take almost like it's

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about an 8 or 9 hour car trip,

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but the whole time it takes about 16

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hours because of all the checkpoints that you

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have to go through. So there's 2 in

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Egypt and then the last one is on

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the Palestinian side.

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So that's the rougher border and then some

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of the circles are where where each of

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the physicians were at. Alhamdulillah. So the the

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first one, the I don't know if it's

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pink or I can't tell the color, but

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at first circle,

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is the European hospital. So that's the hospital

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that most of the medical mission trips go

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to.

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And that street that you see that's there

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is called the Salahuddin Street. That's the main

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street in Gaza,

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and the palm is right once you get

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to where the where that circle is, the,

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Israeli army is occupying the entire street. So

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you're not able to actually go up that

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street, you have to make a left, so

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to speak, on this picture, and go to

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the to the beach. And that's where you

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see all of those pictures and videos of

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all of the refugees on the beaches and

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all the aid dropping there. So So we

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had to go on that, street. And it's

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interesting because actually I was honored doctor Hippo

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was in in my group. I mean, I

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was in her group, so it was it

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was a very exciting, Marshall, to be with

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her.

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So some of the reflection that she shared

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and all the things that we were thinking

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about when we were there is, you know,

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there's a, a curfew between 10 AM and

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2 PM. Mhmm. And so we're supposed to

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leave, you know, before sunset ideally. When you

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drive at night, it's very dangerous.

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So somehow like the the

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customs took about 8 hours.

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So we were actually leaving after Muslim.

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So when we were driving, doctor Haifa was

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mentioning, you know, we should all be repeating

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La ilaha illallah Muhammadu Rasool Allah in case

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we have missile strike and this is our

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last words. So sometimes we have small conversations

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with each other and then immediately after we

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would say

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And this is a whole trip for an

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hour and a half. All you hear is

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the murmuring in our band of like

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So in case then we were to die,

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alhamdulillah, you know, that would be our last

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words. So as you're traveling up, if you

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can bring the map back up. If as

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you're traveling up, you can see that little,

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I guess it's a lightning bolt. So I'm

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not sure if you guys remember,

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but in the world food kitchen,

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that's where their trucks were stripped. They were

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stripped right there at that exact point. And

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if subhanallah, it's kind of amazing because we

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were on that exact street

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just 2 hours before. Somehow.

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So subhanallah, Allah protected us just by 2

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hours. When we got to the hospital,

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we heard about these about these deaths that

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happened to Kama, and it was like the

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exact same street. So again, just reflecting on

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on the fact that we we always have

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to trust in Allah. So that orange circle,

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I mean the blue circle that you see

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there, that's where, myself,

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doctor Jardan, and a lot of doctor Haifa's

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work was done at that, in that blue

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circle. It's called Shuhada Al Aqsa.

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To be honest, it's like the hospital with

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the coolest name, so I was hoping that,

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you know, we could all be Shuhada there,

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but, Allah had other plans.

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And then the circle all the way to

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the top that's, like

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orange, that's Ashifa, and obviously that was the

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hospital that they destroyed about 3 or 4

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months, 3 or 4 weeks ago. You guys

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all saw the pictures of that.

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And then Mashallah Farhan, he'll tell the story,

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but he was one of the first doctors

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since the start of the war that got

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to go to the north. So he was

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in that red dot, like, all the way

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up north, and he'll tell stories about that.

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So just go to the next slide real

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quick. Oh shit. I think I can do

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that. Yeah. So just to give you an

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idea I want pictures in the way, sorry

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about that. But so it really is an

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open air prison. If you can see those

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walls on the left hand of picture, it's

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basically a gigantic cement wall.

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Then barbed wire about 5 or 6 feet

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high. If you look at the second picture

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you can see that man that's sitting there

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on the, on the floor. You can see

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how actually tall those walls are.

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SubhanAllah. So it's act actually quite high and

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then again above that by another 5 or

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6 feet is barbed wire. So it truly

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is like like a prison as you're going

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into powwow. Mhmm.

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If you go to the next slide,

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this is a video. So this is as

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you're driving through Khan Yunus, which is the

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second province so to speak in Gaza.

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If you can play the video you can

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just see I mean you probably all have

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seen this, but as you're driving, this is

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the destruction that you see.

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Basically, if Kanye has almost completely destroyed.

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It's,

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I mean,

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again it's, what can you say, survival?

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Yeah, but it's just a bunch of rope

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on me.

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Okay, so if you can go the next

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one, the next slide, and I can just

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show you what,

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what it's like when we were at the

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hospital. So if you can so this is

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basically from taken from the second floor,

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you can see all of the camps from

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that line. One hospital wall all the way

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across. So you play the video,

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you can see I'm I'm basically panning across

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the entire hospital of compound. And there's about

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8,000

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refugees in these camps. And these are tents.

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Literally, they're just like plastic pieces of paper

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put together,

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that don't protect you from rain, that you

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can see someone's shadow that's sitting right next

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to you.

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I mean, there's about for every single bathroom

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that they have, there's about 200 people using

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that one bathroom. That's awesome. So there's a

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lot of diseases like hepatitis a that is

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rampant in the community. They literally call it

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like a pandemic. About 50% of the patients

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that I saw,

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in the hospital had had hepatitis a.

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And the last thing I'll share, which is

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kind of interesting, is just to kind of

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set the scene for what these guys will

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be saying. So when we're at Shuhada Apsa

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Hospital, on on the next slide,

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there's a constant, constant of a sound. And

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you can hear it here.

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So that sound that you hear is only

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2 seconds long, but that is 24 hours

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a day, 7 days a week, non stop,

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and that's a drone.

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So that drone is flowing around the entire

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area, and it's not stopping, it's continuous.

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So every time we recorded something for instance,

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if the, if the, if sheikh was giving,

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like, leading salah in qdiyan, you'd record something

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and you can hear that while he's recording.

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You can hear it during a taroyi, tiam,

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ish at any time that you're talking you

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can hear that in the background. And just

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imagine that people that have to go through

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this constant surveillance while living in this, in

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this area. It's completely unbelievable,

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the amount of faith that they have, and

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to still pray, but to be in that

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situation. I think that's something that was the

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the biggest impact that I had, that these

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people are still praying, still fasting in the

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month of Ramadan, but Allah's putting them through

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this. They must have

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so much, such a strong iman. And that's

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something that I think that, even though I

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came there to help people, I I I'm

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the one that really benefited from the trip.

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And so if anybody has the opportunity to

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go, I highly, highly recommend it because you

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will you will not think there's not a

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single trip in the world you can take

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that will that will be as beneficial as

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it is for your iman. JazakAllah, doctor O'Himmelah's

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final reward for this, sir, Bilalah. I know

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there are some stories you shared with me

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also dealing with that kid in Tarawee, and

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we're gonna come to it inshallah to Varko

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at at some point in the last zurajal.

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But I will move right now to doctor

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Haifa.

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Obviously,

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I was surprised when I saw you actually

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on that video. I don't know that you're,

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you're there, subhanAllah.

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So may Allah, subhanAllah, bless you and reward

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you for taking,

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the chance,

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to be there, alhamdulillah.

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We went together,

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alhamdulillah,

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into different areas really to seek and to

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help the Muslim community around the world, alhamdulillah,

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during the disaster and then the earthquakes.

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But to go to Gaza, that's a very

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unique experience.

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We want to hear from you, and and

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if you can draw these parallels actually, alhamdulillah,

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between a man made disaster like what's happening

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in Gaza and also what we saw in

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the in the,

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the situation that happened actually after that earthquake

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in Turkey now. Yeah. If I can have

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the slides because as I'm talking, some of

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the slides will make it easier.

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I'm completely different than,

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doctor Atar, actually.

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I begged people to go,

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honestly. Since I learned there was physicians going,

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I don't know how many applications I filled.

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For some reason, Allah didn't want it to

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happen.

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And then I was going to Umrah, and

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in the plane, I was filling application. My

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friend says, this is gonna happen. And 10

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days, nobody answered me. Then I made the

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dua, and that's the first thing I want

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everybody

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to really know. And I'm not saying this

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bragging.

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But when you really want something from Allah

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and you are wanting it only for him,

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he opened it. Suddenly, I remembered I was

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in Mecca. I was also in Umrah. The

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last 10 days from Milan is my only

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vacation the whole year, and I booked it

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and I paid and everything.

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And then I remember there was a physician

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from Canada where somebody put her picture on

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a group that we have in Southern California

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and says doctor Aldi went.

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So I texted the I texted her.

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And I don't know the woman, and she

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said, doctor Hayford, do you really wanna go?

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And I said, yes. I do. She said,

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we can't get you on the April 1st

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because it's full. We'll get you on 15.

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I said, I can do the 15. I

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work. I'm back on 15. She said, let

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me see. We have to get a lot

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of there's a lot of approvals you have

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to go. And you're talking here I think

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we were like day 12 or 13 of

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Ramadan.

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Long story short, she said, yes. You are

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going, but that doesn't mean anything because you

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can easily get to Cairo, and then they

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will deny you. I said, fine. I'm completely

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opposite everybody. I didn't tell anyone.

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I told only 1 3 people. 1 of

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them was actually a person who I said,

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if I don't come back, Jannah Institute will

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be

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for you.

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And I didn't tell my family because they

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will go crazy, and I didn't see anybody.

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I took all this. I didn't, post anything

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when I was there.

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And if I can have the slides because

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I want you to read the first thing

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that I put in this slide. I have

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a lot of much longer, but I just

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made it as short as possible. This was

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supposed to be a medical mission,

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but it was not a medical mission. It

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was anything but a medical mission.

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The first thing you see here is April

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1st is when we actually entered Gaza,

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and that day will be with me till

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the day I leave this world.

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Nothing like

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the feeling when you enter Gaza, and this

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is what you see.

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If I, I think I have to move.

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Please forgive me.

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Am I? You're moving to the next.

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The next. Yes. This is what you see.

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As you come out from the immigration from

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Gaza, you you look and you see and

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this is exactly what is I love Gaza.

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Right? We reached there about 5 o'clock, if

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I remember, and we left the

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hotel in

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Cairo at 4 AM.

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But we didn't leave till after Maghrib,

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and Allah had a reason because we could

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be the people that were bombed. Subhanallah. We're

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the last people to leave that.

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And the beauty of it and I have

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a video, but again because of the time

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that as we were there

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and suddenly I hear somebody reading Quran, if

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you remember,

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the young man who was reading al Arit,

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of course, this is something

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norm in Gaza.

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Everybody reads Quran beautifully,

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young and old. You don't ask people, are

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you a hafel?

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Literally, it's an insult

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because they will look at you and says

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5 of that, 10. Oh, I'm not yet

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a hafel. Oh, I'm not only a hafel.

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You remember, Abdullah.

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I'm the software. I'm the special one. As

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you enter, as you're going closer to the

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hospital, this is what you see.

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This is the norm. Children,

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donkey is the main way of transportation,

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and children are,

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guiding it. And then people are walking.

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And then you come in here, and then

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what I heard and I I've never seen

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that you will see that what no eyes

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have seen and no

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ear have heard, this is Gaza.

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The things you see, whatever words somebody

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just asked me, and I said words are

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hollow, has no meaning because what you see.

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It's the misery, but at the same time,

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the resilience.

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The the sadness at the same time is

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the happiness.

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And it's it's amazing, subhanAllah. And if you

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go to the next and this is especially

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for the youth.

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If I can get this bigger, remove my

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picture because I want you to see. The

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one on the left,

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will be your right,

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the cans.

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So we arrived to the hospital at 8

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PM.

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Where is everybody? They took us to the

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administration offices. Where are they?

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They all were praying, Kaisha, if you remember,

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and we joined. Was it only Kaisha? Now

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you're talking about drones, and any minute we

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can get a missile or an f 16.

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They did a full tara'u.

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The amazing is you don't know who's the

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imam because every 2 ruka'at, somebody go back

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and saw another person come to the front.

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All of them reading beautifully,

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and they were because

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they chose from the Quran. They didn't read

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like the whole Jews. They picked up ayaat

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and every

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aya,

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the imamrad is related to where they are.

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Talk about sabr. Talk about don't despair, talk

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about Allah's victory is coming. It's amazing.

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And then they we met them and they

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said your

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iftar is in the room. So you go

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to the room and that's what you get.

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It was 3 cans, and we were lucky

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because we were physicians.

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They actually gave us a piece of bread.

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So, of course, I was personally very hungry.

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So I ate only the hummus, the the

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did you see it open?

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And all night, I was throwing

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up. And I said, may Allah forgive us.

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The spoiled people coming from America, we cannot

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even eat this.

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And they were living on it.

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3 days later,

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after the World Kitchen,

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they were killed. Now you start seeing more

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things coming,

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and I couldn't believe when I saw eggs.

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3 days later from my window, and I

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told doctor Hina was my roommate,

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I think I'm seeing eggs. He said, I

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think so too. Run down. I bought 4

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eggs

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for 10 shekels.

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It's almost $3,

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4 eggs. And we were wondering how I'm

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gonna do the boiled egg.

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The

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the head nurse, she said, don't worry, doctor.

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We can fix it. When I ate the

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eggs,

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may Allah forgive us.

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As if I ate whatever you everyone in

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this room loves.

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Because before that, we were we were eating

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on protein bars 3 days.

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SubhanAllah.

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Now if you go to the next one,

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this is one of the memorable moment for

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me in that trip.

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This is where we prayed

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Taraweeh,

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and we prayed Qiyam, and the Qiyam starts

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about 12:15, 12:30

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till 3, 3:30.

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The imam, Abdullah, is 21,

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22

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reading amazingly,

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fluently,

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enjoying it normally. And again, I'm sharing. I'm

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not a person who loves

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the,

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the, dua that everyone does. I love to

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ask Allah me except with Abdullah.

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The way he was making dua, the way

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he was asking Allah, you can tell,

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and I'm sure Allah will respond to him.

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It's just the timing. We don't know when.

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The boy that the young boy on the

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left, it's probably on your right side,

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that boy, his his

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his video was viral, if you remember. It

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was a video online where the boy was

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had a broken arm,

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and then they were doing cast, and they

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didn't have pain medication, and he was reciting

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Quran.

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It was that boy.

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How did I notice? We were praying and

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then this is 1:30

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AM under the drones in a room least

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to say uncomfortable.

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Don't talk about the bathrooms.

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And this boy comes in and join

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join the man like a young man.

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And then, Abdullah finished the 2 rakat, and

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this young man run to Abdullah. I don't

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know what they were talking. Suddenly, this boy

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becomes the imam.

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He led

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us and then had not done.

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Sad looked at us, and he start making

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an ashid

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about Palestine.

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What of words? They all speak fluently,

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excellent

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eloquent Arabic.

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Those were raised to be leaders.

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More than 1 boy. I I what I

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was impressed is by the boys and by

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the woman.

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Amazing. If you look at the next one,

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this is the scene. This is the hospital.

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This is actually the door of the hospital.

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If you see the green

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at the end, was actually the small store

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where everybody buys from. All these this is

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supposed to be the main entrance of the

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parking. Now it's all tense.

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Everything is tense.

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If you go to the next one, this

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is a video actually. It's the drone which

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you also

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I don't know if I'm gonna okay. These,

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pay attention. These are the bullets

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that

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they target

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one part of the body, and,

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doctor Sharma

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saw a lot of it. They

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target legs.

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Legs.

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And you see all these,

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the,

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the the bullets.

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This is the scene. The next one

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is the scene from the ER, and you

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lived it.

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Literally, the ER is like this room right

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now.

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If I want to go to see a

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patient, I am gonna say, excuse me. Please

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excuse me.

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Please excuse me. And now you're sitting and

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you're comfortable. In between, you see people on

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this side,

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bleeding. There's gauze on the floor. People are

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mourning. There's people who don't know who they

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are. It's amazing scene.

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I've never seen it in my life.

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The impressive thing from everybody, in 8 days,

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we lived this.

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I have never heard a word of complaint.

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Only one word, and it is not a

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complaint.

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And this was actually from the head nurse.

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She looked at me, and I said, how

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are you feeling? She said, the Torah Tabna,

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we're tired.

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That is it.

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For 8 days, this is what we heard.

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Doctor, I'm glad. Day, finally, they allowed me

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to go to the,

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maternity hospital

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because the there were the maternity hospital was

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inside the sheifa. I'm sorry. Insha inside the

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Aqsa, but because of the war, they made

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it all trauma center, and they moved all

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the deliveries to this hospital. So the last

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day, I was actually fortunate to go.

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They used to do 5 deliveries a day.

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Now they do 50 delivery a day,

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10 c sections per day. I did 2.

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Out of patient privacy and, I couldn't put

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it.

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They don't have they don't have scrubs.

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They don't have sheets to cover the patient.

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Normally, they bring the instruments,

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and then you open the instruments here and

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then you throw it. They don't throw it.

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That

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they cover the patient.

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And I said and said, doctor Haifa, what

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size gloves you are? And I said,

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I'm 5a half.

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They said, we're sorry. It's only 7a half.

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The instruments they showed me literally needs to

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be in the museum.

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Oh, I'm sorry. And that's how they work.

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They take the patients to the recovery room.

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There is no monitors.

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There's no blood pressure.

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Your wife did a c section. They actually

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they called us in the middle. Patient was

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bleeding. And I said, what is her blood

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pressure? They all looked at me.

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And I literally did the old way. I

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held her pulse, and I said her pulse

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is fine. She's okay. Just get her fluid,

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and there is no stance to put fluid.

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Somebody was holding the fluid.

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Doctor Haifa, in in the last minute, if

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I may ask you,

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now that you talk about this this particle,

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aspect of it, the ladies in Gaza.

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The next slide. What's your experience with those

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ladies in Gaza? The next slide if I

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can have it.

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Ladies,

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everyone I this is this is one who

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really left an impression on me. It's a

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long story, but because of the time, I

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actually put it on the social media for

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those of you who follow.

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Ladies,

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for 8 days, this is what I saw.

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I did not see a hair

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in this all 8 days.

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Every lady was covered,

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young and old.

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And they and I and I looked at

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them, and one one of them, she said

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to me,

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so we if we die, we die covered.

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Oh, no. No. This is how they talk.

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That's number 1. Number 2, they're strong. I

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didn't see a woman whining.

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Where is your husband?

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Martyr. Shuhada, the name is like martyr. Where

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is your son? He's still in the north.

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Where is your daughter? She went with her

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husband to the,

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to the south.

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They are this is how I feel.

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Allah prepared them for this.

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Allah knows if it was us how we

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would have responded.

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Every woman,

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The the Sahabiat you hear about,

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you read about, I did see them with

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my own eyes. That was a key. There

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was a woman who I put her picture

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after I took her permission.

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You enter the hospital on the left on

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the right side. Remember?

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You all remember, because this is where the

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you we go where we pray. There was

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a small

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literally mattress.

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The woman is maybe in her fifties there.

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I go in, she's there. I come out.

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Finally, I spoke to her, and she said,

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I've been living in this for the last

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3 months.

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Where is your husband? Husband and the son

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still in the north with my daughter. What

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do you eat? Whatever they give us. Please

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forgive me. Where do you go with the

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bathroom?

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Whatever everybody else goes.

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Not a single word of complaint.

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Nobody said why me? No. Why us? You

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know how this is common for us? No

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one, subhanallah.

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And then this is as we were the

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last day they moved us earlier to the

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south. Again, they said for security,

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this is what we saw.

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This

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is the norm

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on your right, on your left. Everything is

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destroyed.

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And then here,

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one of the best memory is the.

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The last, maybe 20 years, every from, I'm

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in Mecca.

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Nothing like this.

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Nothing like this site. The the mosque, actually,

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they told us, don't go.

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It's very dangerous.

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They may attack

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because there was a rumor inside the hospital

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that the eid will be black

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eid. They throw some, like, brochures saying eid

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will be black. So they told us, don't

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go.

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We went.

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And if you pay attention to the window,

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the window is shattered.

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And then these are the girls coming for

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aid.

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We gave little bit of chocolate,

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remember? It was riots,

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and we stopped.

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And I was like, yeah, Allah, what is

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a chocolate?

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Let

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alone if you wanted to give money.

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But they were look at the girls. They

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were smiling. They were fine. They were that's

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how it is. Yeah. You leave the, and

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this is

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what

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you

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see.

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The norm these kids are alone, they there

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is a category

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called orphan with no parents.

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Alone. No parents, no family by himself.

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That's one of the examples. This was in

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the European

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hospital in the last day,

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and this was the last the the this

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is a smile.

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This is a girl

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displaced. She was in the European hospital. She's

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an artist,

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and she was painting

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on the walls of the hospital.

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And this one says.

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Your real aid is the day you are

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victorious.

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This is she, and then she showed me

00:29:05 --> 00:29:07

all her portfolio. Says I keep

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painting.

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This is a displaced girl

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living in a tent.

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I'm glad she has a a piece of

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paper and,

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a pen, and she was absolutely happy.

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And talk,

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I asked everybody I met, what do you

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want from us?

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Actually, I asked if we even do anything.

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I mean, you really feel your I am

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useless

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in front of all this tragedy.

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They said, no. Your presence

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was the best gift you give us.

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So I I second Understood. Anyone can go.

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And you know what? People tell me you

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went to your death. I said, wherever we

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are, death is gonna come to us. I

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know. If I was supposed to die, I'm

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gonna die.

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So if you can go, definitely go. And

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the second thing they said to me, and

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I'm sure to all of you, is talk

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about

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us. Don't let people forget us. We exist.

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And may

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Allah make it easy on them.

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May

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Allah forgive our shortcomings.

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I reward you for your for your experience

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over there and for being there for our

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brothers and sisters as well too.

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And what what a what a a privilege

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really to to be in the presence of

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you guys, mashaAllah,

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bringing this experience to all of us. So

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we're really seeing the reality of life. Like

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we really feel sometimes that we're living,

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a fantasy. It's not real. But that's the

00:30:34 --> 00:30:36

reality of life. Doctor Bilal,

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you went before everybody.

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And I saw your video, mashaAllah, when you

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were there. Alhamdulillah, Allah bless you and reward

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you for being there as a pioneer, for

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all this group to to be in that

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in that area. Wanna hear from your experience

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inshallah. Tell us what happened there. Can you

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stand open? Please go ahead.

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

First of all, correction. Doctor Farhanath Tulluzis was

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

the first who gave went before me. Oh.

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And then he went again. I forgot about

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

his first trip, Suhan. Machala.

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And if you can just put on the

00:31:57 --> 00:31:58

slide and keep moving.

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So,

00:32:12 --> 00:32:15

save lives. Alhamdulillah, Allah gave the opportunity to

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

save few lives and touch many. But in

00:32:17 --> 00:32:20

fact, there we learned what life is

00:32:21 --> 00:32:22

and it's,

00:32:22 --> 00:32:24

what death is.

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And as,

00:32:25 --> 00:32:28

this eye I just recited, there we actually

00:32:28 --> 00:32:30

learned what, like, the living Quran, what it

00:32:30 --> 00:32:31

means.

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And the but the the the topic of

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

the program, what is it like to be

00:32:35 --> 00:32:37

in Gaza? That is what I was thinking

00:32:38 --> 00:32:40

when going from here.

00:32:40 --> 00:32:42

And then we entered Gaza,

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

and despite

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

the

00:32:45 --> 00:32:48

sudden chaos, little chaos around the truck with

00:32:48 --> 00:32:51

food that just entered with us, and despite

00:32:51 --> 00:32:53

the destruction all around us, and despite the

00:32:53 --> 00:32:55

drone going over in the air all the

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

time, and despite the ongoing

00:32:57 --> 00:33:00

attacks, and despite the all shots closed, and

00:33:00 --> 00:33:02

despite the people in the streets,

00:33:02 --> 00:33:04

I felt there the saguina,

00:33:05 --> 00:33:08

which you cannot explain, you cannot describe in

00:33:08 --> 00:33:11

any other way. And that sakinah was everywhere,

00:33:11 --> 00:33:13

not only like on on the Muslims, that

00:33:13 --> 00:33:14

the people number 1 there and then the

00:33:14 --> 00:33:16

Muslims, even non Muslims who were with us,

00:33:16 --> 00:33:19

one of our senior doctors said, I'm having

00:33:19 --> 00:33:21

a better sleep than my own home here

00:33:21 --> 00:33:23

in Hazlam. This was the subpoena there which

00:33:23 --> 00:33:24

you can imagine.

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

And then,

00:33:26 --> 00:33:27

we reached to the hospital and I think

00:33:27 --> 00:33:30

we were in the same hospital, Shuraddal Aqsa,

00:33:30 --> 00:33:32

and I used to stay there, Insha'Allah, when

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

was Tashwal Aqsa, ila Masir al Aqsa. So

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

there,

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

one day,

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

and this was my experience

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

that during Ramadan and I came in the

00:33:42 --> 00:33:44

middle of Ramadan and came back, there were

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

increased attacks

00:33:46 --> 00:33:48

during the time of sahur and Aspah.

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

And one day, there was a nusirat camp

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

attack,

00:33:51 --> 00:33:53

and that was in the news. We had

00:33:53 --> 00:33:55

25 and this was close to sahur time,

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

Close to 25, 30 people of the same

00:33:57 --> 00:33:58

family got Shahid,

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

and then multiple brought to the hospital. And

00:34:01 --> 00:34:04

this, slide shows, like, sort of where we

00:34:04 --> 00:34:05

are. So,

00:34:06 --> 00:34:08

multiple people got brought to the,

00:34:09 --> 00:34:11

hospital, and, multiple were,

00:34:11 --> 00:34:13

like Shahid, and multiple were injured.

00:34:14 --> 00:34:16

And we were talking with different people.

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

1, they were, like, grandparents,

00:34:19 --> 00:34:20

parents,

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

and then,

00:34:21 --> 00:34:24

like, the kids, young girls, boys.

00:34:24 --> 00:34:25

And 1,

00:34:25 --> 00:34:28

gentleman was taking care of his parents who

00:34:28 --> 00:34:30

were both pretty sick. And during that time,

00:34:31 --> 00:34:32

when I was there, as aforementioned,

00:34:33 --> 00:34:35

I did not know much Arabic very well.

00:34:35 --> 00:34:36

So,

00:34:37 --> 00:34:38

the the the the son, he came to

00:34:38 --> 00:34:40

me and he asked, like,

00:34:40 --> 00:34:42

where are you from? So I said, which

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

I was saying there to many people, Jammu

00:34:44 --> 00:34:45

in America,

00:34:45 --> 00:34:46

Asli in Pakistan,

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

But it means that I have come from

00:34:52 --> 00:34:54

America. I'm originally from Pakistan. I was born

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

in Saudi Arabia,

00:34:56 --> 00:34:57

but my blood is Palestinian.

00:34:57 --> 00:34:59

And then I would say, Arabic, show you,

00:34:59 --> 00:34:59

show you.

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

So so the show you, show you, show

00:35:01 --> 00:35:02

you, show you, show you, and he'll show

00:35:02 --> 00:35:04

you, show you English. We were talking,

00:35:04 --> 00:35:07

but then he brought somebody, a chef Pakistani

00:35:07 --> 00:35:10

type looking, turban Pakistani style, Pakistani style, Khameez,

00:35:10 --> 00:35:12

and he came and start to me in

00:35:12 --> 00:35:12

Urdu,

00:35:13 --> 00:35:15

Where are you from? I said, I'm from

00:35:15 --> 00:35:16

Pakistan. Where are you from? Are you from

00:35:16 --> 00:35:19

Pakistan? He said, oh, I'm from Palestine, Gaza.

00:35:19 --> 00:35:21

I lived in Pakistan for 5 years, and

00:35:21 --> 00:35:21

that's how I know.

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

And I even graduated from that institute, and

00:35:24 --> 00:35:26

we were talking and smiling and have a

00:35:26 --> 00:35:28

good time. And then I asked, what are

00:35:28 --> 00:35:30

you doing here? And he said,

00:35:30 --> 00:35:32

Yeah. I mean, these are my family. This

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

is my brother. This is my sister, brother-in-law,

00:35:34 --> 00:35:37

sister-in-law, kids, niece, and he has this morning,

00:35:38 --> 00:35:39

my daughter got Shahid,

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

my son-in-law got Shahid,

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

just like that, And he's still smiling, and

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

I'm looking at him and I'm about to

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

cry.

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That is the that that are the people.

00:35:47 --> 00:35:50

You may say that that was Sheikh Maulana,

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

and after tomorrow, just talked, we're talking. He

00:35:53 --> 00:35:55

said, I've moved from North Laza.

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

My home is destroyed. My father got Shahid.

00:35:58 --> 00:36:00

My son, 5 years old. His school is

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

destroyed. My wife is a pediatrician and son.

00:36:03 --> 00:36:05

They are living in rafa intent and I'm

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

in the hospital

00:36:06 --> 00:36:08

working. Alhamdulillah. Hosbu'allahu naybabuki.

00:36:09 --> 00:36:11

You may say that these are the men

00:36:11 --> 00:36:13

only, but as doctor Haifa mentioned, and I

00:36:13 --> 00:36:14

hope we get time in discussion,

00:36:15 --> 00:36:16

how women are actually

00:36:17 --> 00:36:19

the backbone there in Gaza. And I believe

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

not only in Gaza, but all over the

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

world, women are being the backbone of this

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

movement. So the medical students,

00:36:26 --> 00:36:28

yeah, I think that picture went by. But

00:36:28 --> 00:36:29

the medical students,

00:36:29 --> 00:36:31

if you would have seen many,

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

girls,

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

they were, like, so determined and so strong.

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

And again, you would ask them

00:36:38 --> 00:36:40

what's going on? They will say, yes, we

00:36:40 --> 00:36:42

moved from North Gaza because their medical school

00:36:42 --> 00:36:43

were in North Gaza which were all

00:36:44 --> 00:36:46

destroyed, and this was not their hospital. And

00:36:46 --> 00:36:48

they say, like, if you can go back

00:36:48 --> 00:36:50

to the, the slide yeah. This one and

00:36:50 --> 00:36:52

the next, the with the back, and then

00:36:52 --> 00:36:53

stay there.

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

No

00:36:56 --> 00:36:59

yes. Here and I will play this video

00:36:59 --> 00:37:01

in 1 minute. So this,

00:37:02 --> 00:37:05

those girls, they will always say that, yeah,

00:37:05 --> 00:37:07

we just came from the tent. Our medical

00:37:07 --> 00:37:08

schools are destroyed,

00:37:09 --> 00:37:10

But when we gave them this,

00:37:11 --> 00:37:12

and these girls, like, are in the camps

00:37:12 --> 00:37:14

living, but at the same time, they still

00:37:14 --> 00:37:17

want to help, and they wanted to establish

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

a cleaning close to their tent, close to

00:37:19 --> 00:37:22

their camp. And we took some,

00:37:22 --> 00:37:24

supplies from there,

00:37:24 --> 00:37:26

and, we gave to them.

00:37:26 --> 00:37:27

If you can play the video,

00:37:28 --> 00:37:29

after getting the supplies,

00:37:29 --> 00:37:31

the thing which they said,

00:37:31 --> 00:37:32

thank you, everything,

00:37:32 --> 00:37:35

but then they said, do not give up

00:37:35 --> 00:37:36

the fight.

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

Do not give up. Keep

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

raising the wife and that's here I would

00:37:41 --> 00:37:45

like to end that despite that chaos, despite

00:37:45 --> 00:37:48

the suffering, despite the lines for the food

00:37:48 --> 00:37:48

and everything,

00:37:49 --> 00:37:51

3 things that I've seen in them

00:37:51 --> 00:37:54

and three things which I would, request all

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

of us to do. So number one thing,

00:37:56 --> 00:37:59

which is to keep raising the voice. As

00:37:59 --> 00:38:02

I said in that video that that,

00:38:02 --> 00:38:05

medical student, she said, do not give up

00:38:05 --> 00:38:07

and keep raising the voice because if nobody

00:38:07 --> 00:38:09

else is hearing, we are

00:38:10 --> 00:38:11

hearing. We see it. We

00:38:11 --> 00:38:13

look at it, and this all that

00:38:14 --> 00:38:16

our our sadness, our,

00:38:16 --> 00:38:18

all the sufferings go away when we see

00:38:18 --> 00:38:21

the people are raising lives for us all

00:38:21 --> 00:38:23

over the world. Mhmm. Number 2,

00:38:23 --> 00:38:25

keep donating and keep

00:38:26 --> 00:38:27

supporting the relief organizations.

00:38:28 --> 00:38:30

Like, I saw many non Muslim people there

00:38:30 --> 00:38:33

standing up. World Central Kitchen, you have all

00:38:33 --> 00:38:35

seen that. And I think as a Muslim

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

community,

00:38:36 --> 00:38:37

we have not,

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

like,

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

stood up for them as they have stood

00:38:40 --> 00:38:42

up for us, but

00:38:42 --> 00:38:44

they are, like, there for us. So World

00:38:44 --> 00:38:47

Central Kitchen, for example, MetGlobal with whom I

00:38:47 --> 00:38:49

went. They are, like, sort of many non

00:38:49 --> 00:38:51

Muslims there. I'll speak with I saw there

00:38:51 --> 00:38:53

from Pakistan. Helping Hand is going to work

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

with MetGlobal.

00:38:54 --> 00:38:55

Multiple organization,

00:38:55 --> 00:38:57

but and there are long lines outside of

00:38:57 --> 00:38:59

of the trucks, but some aid is still

00:38:59 --> 00:39:02

going in. So please do not stop supporting.

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

3rd thing which we need to do, and

00:39:04 --> 00:39:07

before that, I tell what 3 things I

00:39:07 --> 00:39:08

saw in them. Number 1,

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

the aya which I decided in the beginning.

00:39:13 --> 00:39:15

And that is what my question was from

00:39:15 --> 00:39:17

the day 1, how they are so satisfied

00:39:17 --> 00:39:20

and so happy despite all that. And the

00:39:20 --> 00:39:22

answer I got from 2 ways. Number 1,

00:39:22 --> 00:39:24

I was standing one side outside the ER,

00:39:24 --> 00:39:25

house hospital,

00:39:26 --> 00:39:27

and a doc and doctor passing by who

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

was the chairman of the ER. And I

00:39:29 --> 00:39:32

asked him that how you people are so

00:39:32 --> 00:39:35

satisfied despite all that. He said, doctor, listen.

00:39:35 --> 00:39:38

Every night when we go to sleep, we

00:39:38 --> 00:39:41

go to be ready for shahara. We are

00:39:41 --> 00:39:42

ready for a shahara

00:39:42 --> 00:39:44

because there is nothing for us in this

00:39:44 --> 00:39:46

world, our best places in general.

00:39:47 --> 00:39:49

And second answer I got, one day I

00:39:49 --> 00:39:51

also sneaked out few days. I won't I

00:39:51 --> 00:39:51

won't

00:39:51 --> 00:39:54

admit how many days, but one morning when

00:39:54 --> 00:39:55

I sneaked out of the hospital, went to

00:39:55 --> 00:39:57

the Masjid and there they were reciting this

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

Quran,

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

I said, yes. That is the answer that

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

they have figured it out that this life

00:40:04 --> 00:40:06

is nothing but an illusion. But despite that,

00:40:06 --> 00:40:09

three things which they believe in, personal accidents.

00:40:09 --> 00:40:11

Each of the medical students whom I talked

00:40:11 --> 00:40:13

to, they had they still have the hopes,

00:40:13 --> 00:40:15

and I asked them, you still have the

00:40:15 --> 00:40:17

dreams? They said, yes, this will be over.

00:40:18 --> 00:40:19

I want to be neurosurgeon.

00:40:19 --> 00:40:21

I want to be an anesthesiologist.

00:40:21 --> 00:40:22

I want to be this. I want to

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

be that. They are living the life in

00:40:25 --> 00:40:28

the best way possible, in the worst conditions

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

possible because they know they are having to

00:40:30 --> 00:40:31

know. Second thing

00:40:32 --> 00:40:34

is their belief that

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

They're either our home

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

or Jannah. This is the personal goal of

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

each one of them. And the 3rd goal,

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

and here I will end, which I want

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

all of us to have that goal, if

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

we can put that,

00:40:47 --> 00:40:48

slide there,

00:40:48 --> 00:40:50

that I saw this picture

00:40:50 --> 00:40:52

in each and every

00:40:52 --> 00:40:54

one of the many of the homes and

00:40:54 --> 00:40:55

offices

00:40:56 --> 00:40:58

and, that picture the second last picture or

00:40:58 --> 00:40:59

third last where

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

just before coming, they,

00:41:02 --> 00:41:04

sort of like, were giving us a farewell.

00:41:04 --> 00:41:06

And in the director's office,

00:41:07 --> 00:41:08

I saw this picture. It's in the back.

00:41:08 --> 00:41:09

And if you can go to the next

00:41:09 --> 00:41:10

slide.

00:41:10 --> 00:41:11

So this

00:41:13 --> 00:41:17

this is their collective goal, all of people

00:41:17 --> 00:41:18

of Gaza and Palestine,

00:41:18 --> 00:41:20

and that is what they want us to

00:41:20 --> 00:41:22

have the goal. Not because

00:41:22 --> 00:41:25

we are chosen people, not because we were

00:41:25 --> 00:41:28

there 1000 of years ago, not because we

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

have certain passports, but because we are the

00:41:30 --> 00:41:32

people who believe in Allah. We are the

00:41:32 --> 00:41:35

people who believe in all the prophets, and

00:41:35 --> 00:41:37

we are the people who stand up for

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

the justice. So that is why we all

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

have to keep this door in front of

00:41:40 --> 00:41:43

us. I'll put Surah. One day as we

00:41:43 --> 00:41:45

are praying here, we all have to go

00:41:45 --> 00:41:46

as Ummah to that

00:41:47 --> 00:41:50

and pray and raise Allah.

00:41:53 --> 00:41:54

Thank you

00:42:04 --> 00:42:05

Now, doctor Farhan,

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

your turn, inshallah,

00:42:08 --> 00:42:09

look, there's so much you're gonna be talking

00:42:09 --> 00:42:11

about, but there's one area, I don't want

00:42:11 --> 00:42:13

you to miss it because I've seen the

00:42:13 --> 00:42:15

videos and the pictures, the children of Gaza.

00:42:15 --> 00:42:17

You'll be the one that's sitting with them

00:42:17 --> 00:42:19

and and and and chanting nasheed with them

00:42:19 --> 00:42:21

and recite the Quran with them. SubhanAllah.

00:42:22 --> 00:42:23

I wanna hear from you as you speak

00:42:23 --> 00:42:26

on your experience, the children of Gaza, because

00:42:26 --> 00:42:28

I personally believe, based on what I've seen

00:42:28 --> 00:42:28

on the earth,

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

I think the children of Gaza, they skip

00:42:31 --> 00:42:32

childhood.

00:42:33 --> 00:42:35

They were born adults, they were born Manwala.

00:42:35 --> 00:42:37

Seriously, like they skip childhood completely.

00:42:38 --> 00:42:40

Because when you hear them speaking, it's like

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

Allahu Akbar. 7 years old kids, 5 years

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

old kids speak like

00:42:43 --> 00:42:46

a full grown up. Like they have goals,

00:42:46 --> 00:42:47

they have dreams, and they are serious and

00:42:47 --> 00:42:49

they talk you can have a conversation with

00:42:49 --> 00:42:52

them. Today people in their twenties, they barely

00:42:52 --> 00:42:53

could have a conversation with them.

00:42:54 --> 00:42:55

So tell us your experience with the Qibb

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

Uzza and the children as well.

00:43:02 --> 00:43:04

And I just wanted to just before I

00:43:04 --> 00:43:06

answer that question, obviously, thank everyone for coming.

00:43:06 --> 00:43:08

And in particular, thanks to some of my

00:43:08 --> 00:43:10

coworkers from the hospital who are here. I'm

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

in scrubs, not to convince you that I'm

00:43:11 --> 00:43:13

a doctor, but I have shifts in 45

00:43:13 --> 00:43:15

minutes. I'm working overnight tonight.

00:43:15 --> 00:43:18

But special thanks to Lindsay and her husband,

00:43:18 --> 00:43:19

Mike, who came here.

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

You know, it's a it's a going out

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

of your comfort zone to be guests at

00:43:23 --> 00:43:24

the mosque. We're very happy to have you

00:43:24 --> 00:43:25

here. And I wanna thank you for being

00:43:25 --> 00:43:27

here. And I'm not sure if Jasmine made

00:43:27 --> 00:43:28

it out or anybody else, but whoever is

00:43:28 --> 00:43:30

here, thank you so much for coming. And

00:43:30 --> 00:43:32

I I hope I hope the experience is

00:43:32 --> 00:43:34

warm for you, welcoming. You're always welcome here

00:43:34 --> 00:43:36

at our community. You're part of our family,

00:43:36 --> 00:43:37

and, thank you for the support.

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

Okay.

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

The children of Gaza.

00:43:41 --> 00:43:42

I I forgot who said it, but it's

00:43:42 --> 00:43:44

like you meet Sahaba, and you read the

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

Sahaba stories, and you read about young men

00:43:46 --> 00:43:47

and women

00:43:47 --> 00:43:49

who are leading armies at 17 years old

00:43:49 --> 00:43:50

and who are,

00:43:51 --> 00:43:54

profound examples like Abdullah ibn Zubayr and and

00:43:54 --> 00:43:56

Anas ibn Malik and these young companions.

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

And you you, you know, I was having

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

a discussion with,

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

a physician.

00:44:04 --> 00:44:06

Honestly, it's jumbling because I I spent 2

00:44:06 --> 00:44:08

days at European, 2 days at UPSA, and

00:44:08 --> 00:44:09

10 days in the North,

00:44:10 --> 00:44:12

on this most recent trip. And,

00:44:12 --> 00:44:14

I'm forgetting where I was when we had

00:44:14 --> 00:44:15

this conversation, but regardless,

00:44:16 --> 00:44:17

we were sitting in thought with one of

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

the anesthesiologists.

00:44:19 --> 00:44:21

He invited us to his his home.

00:44:21 --> 00:44:23

And his home is a room maybe

00:44:24 --> 00:44:25

8 by 10 feet,

00:44:26 --> 00:44:28

in the hospital in the operating room, 1

00:44:28 --> 00:44:30

in the in the in the OR area.

00:44:30 --> 00:44:31

1 of the offices has now become his

00:44:31 --> 00:44:32

family's home.

00:44:32 --> 00:44:33

And so he,

00:44:34 --> 00:44:36

his wife, his daughter, who is a medical

00:44:36 --> 00:44:37

student,

00:44:37 --> 00:44:38

and So this is at European. So I

00:44:38 --> 00:44:40

remember I worked with her in the ER.

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

So my last day there. And,

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

a younger daughter and a and a son.

00:44:46 --> 00:44:47

The son is 16 years old and he's

00:44:47 --> 00:44:50

half of the Quran. And so over Iftar,

00:44:50 --> 00:44:53

we were discussing and so the younger girl

00:44:53 --> 00:44:55

amongst them said, you know, we should try

00:44:55 --> 00:44:56

and leave Gaza.

00:44:56 --> 00:44:58

And and so,

00:44:58 --> 00:45:00

the son who's 16,

00:45:00 --> 00:45:02

he said, Why would you say that? And

00:45:02 --> 00:45:03

she said, Well, there's no future left for

00:45:03 --> 00:45:05

us. Like, everything is destroyed.

00:45:06 --> 00:45:08

And then So then he began asking a

00:45:08 --> 00:45:09

series of questions that I know I was

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

thinking about because I'm not just taking this

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

in. Like, if if we're in that position,

00:45:13 --> 00:45:15

we're living out of an 8 by 10

00:45:15 --> 00:45:17

room, 80 square feet is your home for

00:45:17 --> 00:45:19

the last however many months.

00:45:19 --> 00:45:22

Besides the starvation and fatigue and the overwork

00:45:22 --> 00:45:23

and no pain and all of that that

00:45:23 --> 00:45:24

comes with it.

00:45:24 --> 00:45:25

And,

00:45:26 --> 00:45:28

his response was very telling.

00:45:28 --> 00:45:31

He asked his sister, he said, Well, who

00:45:31 --> 00:45:33

is feeding us before the war?

00:45:33 --> 00:45:34

And she said, Allah.

00:45:36 --> 00:45:37

So then she said So then he said,

00:45:37 --> 00:45:39

but who will feed us after the war?

00:45:40 --> 00:45:41

And so she said, Allah.

00:45:42 --> 00:45:44

And so he said, who gave us shelter

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

before the war?

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

Allah.

00:45:46 --> 00:45:48

Who will give a shelter after the war?

00:45:48 --> 00:45:49

Allah.

00:45:49 --> 00:45:51

This is questions coming in from a 16

00:45:51 --> 00:45:53

year old boy, half of the Quran

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

to his younger sister.

00:45:56 --> 00:45:58

So the the the level of Tarbiyyah,

00:45:58 --> 00:46:00

the level of,

00:46:00 --> 00:46:01

maturity,

00:46:03 --> 00:46:04

with all due respect,

00:46:05 --> 00:46:05

Lindsay,

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

she knows what it's like in the ERs.

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

You know,

00:46:11 --> 00:46:12

you see

00:46:12 --> 00:46:14

what they go through,

00:46:15 --> 00:46:15

and

00:46:16 --> 00:46:18

a 7 year old boy there

00:46:18 --> 00:46:20

is more than a man than many of

00:46:20 --> 00:46:21

us here,

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

and that's the reality.

00:46:25 --> 00:46:27

And the same thing for the woman, the

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

girls.

00:46:28 --> 00:46:30

The level of maturity and you have to

00:46:30 --> 00:46:32

understand they they they they're seeing all this

00:46:32 --> 00:46:34

trauma firsthand. So like at European hospital in

00:46:34 --> 00:46:36

the south where I wanted my first trip,

00:46:37 --> 00:46:38

the the,

00:46:40 --> 00:46:42

unfortunately, there's no school. School has been canceled

00:46:42 --> 00:46:44

for the year. Right? There is a Quran

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

school

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

and a Quran program at European Hospital.

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

But most of the kids are just running

00:46:50 --> 00:46:52

around. And so in the ER, you're trying

00:46:52 --> 00:46:54

to work, and like doctor Hayfa said, it's

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

You can't walk 3 steps in the ER

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

without somebody stopping you and getting your attention.

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

See my loved ones. See my father. See

00:47:00 --> 00:47:02

my mother. See my daughter. Whether they could

00:47:02 --> 00:47:03

be they could be in the 3rd floor

00:47:03 --> 00:47:05

of the hospital, but they're pulling you from

00:47:05 --> 00:47:06

the ER to go there.

00:47:07 --> 00:47:09

But amongst this crowd of people, you have

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

patients, you have their families, then you also

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

have the children running around.

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

And so, you have donkey carts bringing in

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

bodies,

00:47:16 --> 00:47:18

dismembered bodies of patients,

00:47:18 --> 00:47:20

and the kids are just taking it all

00:47:20 --> 00:47:22

in. They're just seeing it. And they're not

00:47:22 --> 00:47:24

blinking an eye. So the loss of innocence

00:47:24 --> 00:47:26

also, it's something that's very sad.

00:47:26 --> 00:47:28

But, I did and and when I was

00:47:28 --> 00:47:30

in the south, I spent I spent time

00:47:30 --> 00:47:31

with the kids a lot. We would have

00:47:31 --> 00:47:33

halappas every night. We we made a we

00:47:33 --> 00:47:35

designated a place called Masjid al Sigha for

00:47:35 --> 00:47:37

the for the children, and we would read

00:47:37 --> 00:47:39

a Quran there and have halakas there and

00:47:39 --> 00:47:40

tell stories.

00:47:40 --> 00:47:42

And one of the maybe in shadow if

00:47:42 --> 00:47:43

I get a chance, I'll share the video

00:47:43 --> 00:47:44

on social media.

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

But one of the things I was sharing

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

right now actually was so after I sat

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

there, we prayed I sat in Jamah myself

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

in the was 12 years old. She before

00:47:51 --> 00:47:52

the halal, she recited Quran to start the

00:47:52 --> 00:47:53

halal.

00:47:58 --> 00:47:59

Her name is Wadd.

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

And, she's a hafida, by the way. Oh,

00:48:01 --> 00:48:03

sure. And so she began sort of baqa.

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

And subhanAllah, she can get through the first

00:48:06 --> 00:48:08

5 ayaats of when gunfire

00:48:09 --> 00:48:12

started going machine gun started going off immediately

00:48:12 --> 00:48:13

behind us.

00:48:13 --> 00:48:14

Immediately behind

00:48:15 --> 00:48:16

us. Like the loudest obviously, we hear the

00:48:16 --> 00:48:18

drones. We hear the missiles. We hear the

00:48:18 --> 00:48:19

quadcopters. We hear the bombs. It shakes the

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

walls. It shakes the windows. It shakes your

00:48:21 --> 00:48:22

body. You feel all of that. But I

00:48:22 --> 00:48:24

never heard gunfire that close.

00:48:25 --> 00:48:27

And so she's reciting Quran sitting next to

00:48:27 --> 00:48:30

me, and gunfire is going on behind us,

00:48:30 --> 00:48:31

and she didn't blink an eye.

00:48:32 --> 00:48:33

And she kept reciting.

00:48:33 --> 00:48:35

And I'm thinking in my head, what's protocol?

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

Do we need to get the kids to

00:48:36 --> 00:48:37

safety? Do we need to get them inside?

00:48:37 --> 00:48:38

You know. And there's like 5 5 or

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

6 dads around, you know. There's maybe 30,

00:48:40 --> 00:48:41

40 kids there.

00:48:41 --> 00:48:43

And the mom some of the moms were

00:48:43 --> 00:48:44

there. And she just kept her safe.

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

And then nothing just kept going. So until

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

she finished like a whole page and a

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

half, then I stopped her. I said, that's

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

enough.

00:48:53 --> 00:48:55

Everybody in Gaza is amazing,

00:48:55 --> 00:48:57

but the kids are like little angels. SubhanAllah.

00:48:57 --> 00:48:58

So they have they have a completely different

00:48:58 --> 00:48:59

norm. Right?

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

Completely different. Different than ours? A city. Different

00:49:03 --> 00:49:04

than different than ours?

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

No. No.

00:49:10 --> 00:49:11

I know I saw some of the videos

00:49:11 --> 00:49:13

with with these kids chanting nasheed and saying

00:49:13 --> 00:49:16

salaam to the Valley Ranch community here. Tell

00:49:16 --> 00:49:17

us about that experience with these kids.

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

Yeah. We,

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

it was interesting. So the first the first,

00:49:22 --> 00:49:23

one of the first days I sat with

00:49:23 --> 00:49:25

them, how the Quran Halakha came about and

00:49:25 --> 00:49:26

the Halakas.

00:49:27 --> 00:49:29

So when you get out at your being

00:49:29 --> 00:49:30

hospital, the first thing all the kids love

00:49:30 --> 00:49:31

saying is hello

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

because they wanna show they know English. So

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

I was like, why don't we say salaab?

00:49:35 --> 00:49:36

You get 10 good deeds. So I'm like,

00:49:36 --> 00:49:37

it's 20 good deeds. I've got a piece

00:49:37 --> 00:49:38

of salaab. But they just want to show

00:49:38 --> 00:49:40

off that they know the English language and

00:49:40 --> 00:49:41

say hello. And so

00:49:42 --> 00:49:43

they, you know, they gravitate to to, you

00:49:43 --> 00:49:46

know, foreigners and stuff. And so I spent

00:49:46 --> 00:49:47

time with them and I tried to make

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

our relationship not based on candy because, like

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

you said, you can't really give out candy

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

because it becomes a riot. So it's it's

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

very tricky. You have to get people from

00:49:55 --> 00:49:56

there to to do it. But, so I

00:49:56 --> 00:49:58

said, they said they wanted to sit and

00:49:58 --> 00:50:00

and and and sit together with me. So

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

I said okay. But then it was close

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

to makr time. And I had to read

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

Surakkah.

00:50:03 --> 00:50:06

I hadn't read Surakkah yet. And so I,

00:50:06 --> 00:50:08

I had like 6 and a half pages

00:50:08 --> 00:50:09

left in the Surah. And I said, I

00:50:09 --> 00:50:10

have to finish 1st. Are you guys okay

00:50:10 --> 00:50:12

with that? They said, sure. No problem. So

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

I I sat and I recited. I said,

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

okay. Come back when I'm done. They just

00:50:15 --> 00:50:17

sat or stood. Most of them actually stood.

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

The few like in front of me sat

00:50:18 --> 00:50:20

and the rest stood. And for 6 and

00:50:20 --> 00:50:21

a half days, they just

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

sat and listened to the whole recitation.

00:50:24 --> 00:50:26

And then after I finished, I said, they

00:50:26 --> 00:50:27

want to recite with me. I said, Look,

00:50:27 --> 00:50:28

if we do aye aye, we're not going

00:50:28 --> 00:50:30

to finish my mullah. So so let me

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

recite. So then we recite Shirk of Fatihah

00:50:32 --> 00:50:34

together. I recited and they repeated. And then

00:50:34 --> 00:50:36

we still have, like, 10 minutes left before

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

before.

00:50:37 --> 00:50:39

And so, you know, in the last hour

00:50:39 --> 00:50:41

of of of Yom and Jummah. So we

00:50:41 --> 00:50:43

all sat and made dua together. And they

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

all sat and made dua and said, I

00:50:44 --> 00:50:45

mean, and,

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

it was beautiful. And then we played Doctor.

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

Goose together. I taught them how to play.

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

They actually didn't know Doctor. Goose. They taught

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

me how to say goose in Arabic, and

00:50:52 --> 00:50:53

I taught them how to play duck

00:50:54 --> 00:50:55

goose. But it was it was a great

00:50:55 --> 00:50:58

experience and, subhanAllah, like, you just want to

00:50:58 --> 00:50:59

put a smile on their face, you know,

00:50:59 --> 00:51:01

and you if you can, the headyfroze even

00:51:01 --> 00:51:03

just, you know, wiping the hair of an

00:51:03 --> 00:51:05

orphan softens your heart. Just spending time with

00:51:05 --> 00:51:07

them and letting them smile and

00:51:07 --> 00:51:09

absorbing some of that energy into you.

00:51:10 --> 00:51:12

I hope, inshallah, that our parents today, and

00:51:12 --> 00:51:14

you can really, learn from this experience,

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

that you know what, you can really build

00:51:16 --> 00:51:18

these kids at a very young age to

00:51:18 --> 00:51:21

become mature. Mature enough to understand life, understand

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

the responsibility, and really become productive in the

00:51:23 --> 00:51:24

society.

00:51:25 --> 00:51:26

They don't have to go through stuff for

00:51:26 --> 00:51:28

a lot of trauma just to, to learn

00:51:28 --> 00:51:31

that. They can learn, inshallah, but the turbia

00:51:31 --> 00:51:33

is very important as a community, as one

00:51:33 --> 00:51:33

family, inshallah.

00:51:36 --> 00:51:37

Doctor Fermi, right now, I want to hear

00:51:37 --> 00:51:39

from you, InshaAllah, your experience,

00:51:39 --> 00:51:42

being there, alhamdulillah, with this team. There is

00:51:42 --> 00:51:43

no doubt, of course, you know, it's a

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

it's a new thing. You guys are experienced

00:51:45 --> 00:51:47

in hospitals, but that is a whole different

00:51:47 --> 00:51:48

thing.

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

How was that,

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

to you being there?

00:51:56 --> 00:51:58

I would say that, you know, there's a

00:51:58 --> 00:52:00

reason that this is such a big crowd

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

here. It's not because people wanna listen to

00:52:02 --> 00:52:05

us. It's because people are attracted

00:52:06 --> 00:52:07

to the people of Isaiah.

00:52:08 --> 00:52:10

And the reason is, if you go, especially

00:52:10 --> 00:52:11

if you go there, I mean, you probably

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

already see it, but if you go there,

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

you realize why

00:52:14 --> 00:52:17

it's because the of this ummah

00:52:17 --> 00:52:18

is concentrated

00:52:19 --> 00:52:21

in that one's Uh-huh. And in those people.

00:52:21 --> 00:52:23

That's as as a

00:52:23 --> 00:52:26

steroid. Right? Yes. I mean, that's why everybody

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

if if you look at anywhere in the

00:52:27 --> 00:52:28

world,

00:52:29 --> 00:52:31

you can and you say, okay. Where does

00:52:31 --> 00:52:33

the Ummah have real is

00:52:33 --> 00:52:36

that? I guarantee you that everybody would point

00:52:36 --> 00:52:36

to a

00:52:38 --> 00:52:40

they're not gonna point to us. They're not

00:52:40 --> 00:52:42

gonna point to somebody else. They're gonna say

00:52:42 --> 00:52:45

the real people of ISA are the people

00:52:45 --> 00:52:46

of Gaza. And that's what we saw over

00:52:46 --> 00:52:49

there. And that's why I think all of

00:52:49 --> 00:52:51

us had such an unbelievably experience

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

because then

00:52:53 --> 00:52:54

we felt

00:52:55 --> 00:52:56

what it means to have

00:52:57 --> 00:52:58

is, as Muslims.

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

Despite

00:53:00 --> 00:53:03

the tragedy, despite the difficulty, the first day

00:53:03 --> 00:53:04

that,

00:53:05 --> 00:53:05

I got there,

00:53:06 --> 00:53:08

we did an amputation on a woman

00:53:09 --> 00:53:10

at this level of her arm

00:53:11 --> 00:53:12

and her 6 year old daughter.

00:53:13 --> 00:53:15

Wow. Same exact level. Because

00:53:15 --> 00:53:17

over there, the snipers,

00:53:18 --> 00:53:20

basically, for the children and the women, they

00:53:20 --> 00:53:22

aim for their limbs. Sometimes. And they aim

00:53:22 --> 00:53:24

with very high power

00:53:24 --> 00:53:25

or high caliber

00:53:26 --> 00:53:26

ammunition

00:53:27 --> 00:53:29

such that the injury is so,

00:53:30 --> 00:53:34

devastating in terms of the muscles, the bone,

00:53:34 --> 00:53:37

and everything that is very difficult to reconstruct

00:53:37 --> 00:53:38

and salvage

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

that. And then

00:53:40 --> 00:53:42

the second day, same thing. 7 year old

00:53:42 --> 00:53:43

girl,

00:53:44 --> 00:53:46

amputation at this level because the gunshot was

00:53:46 --> 00:53:47

right to the bicep,

00:53:48 --> 00:53:50

completely destroyed the bone, the muscle, everything. So

00:53:50 --> 00:53:52

there was no way to No. They're trying

00:53:52 --> 00:53:54

to handicap an entire generation, basically.

00:53:55 --> 00:53:57

And and that same 7 year old girl,

00:53:57 --> 00:54:00

her sister, 13 year old, had a gunshot

00:54:00 --> 00:54:02

wound to the back of her knee or

00:54:02 --> 00:54:03

back of her calf.

00:54:03 --> 00:54:05

The entry wound's in the back, so it

00:54:05 --> 00:54:07

tells you that somebody shot her from behind.

00:54:07 --> 00:54:09

And there's a huge wound in the front,

00:54:09 --> 00:54:11

which is where the the bullet exited,

00:54:11 --> 00:54:13

you know, destroyed her artery.

00:54:13 --> 00:54:16

We were able to save that leg. But

00:54:16 --> 00:54:17

these were

00:54:17 --> 00:54:19

kids that were,

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

aimed at.

00:54:21 --> 00:54:23

But the patience of the people there I

00:54:23 --> 00:54:25

mean, yeah, it's it's chaos over there.

00:54:26 --> 00:54:27

People are emotional.

00:54:28 --> 00:54:29

But in the end,

00:54:30 --> 00:54:32

their level of tawakul in Allah

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

their level

00:54:34 --> 00:54:36

of that they are going to be victorious

00:54:36 --> 00:54:37

is

00:54:38 --> 00:54:39

difficult for us to imagine.

00:54:40 --> 00:54:43

Sometimes, you think when somebody's there talking and

00:54:43 --> 00:54:46

they're talking about they're going to be victorious.

00:54:46 --> 00:54:48

We know we're gonna be victorious.

00:54:48 --> 00:54:49

We're not leaving.

00:54:49 --> 00:54:50

You think,

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

you know, are these are they just

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

under some kind of delusion?

00:54:56 --> 00:54:57

But the real

00:54:58 --> 00:55:00

I would say the thing that I saw

00:55:00 --> 00:55:01

was because

00:55:01 --> 00:55:03

we were able to go in Ramadan.

00:55:03 --> 00:55:06

And, you know, we had tarawee and.

00:55:07 --> 00:55:09

When you hear the Quran, when you're over

00:55:09 --> 00:55:09

there,

00:55:10 --> 00:55:12

it's like it's a different book.

00:55:13 --> 00:55:13

Because

00:55:14 --> 00:55:15

when you when you hear the Quran, when

00:55:15 --> 00:55:18

you're living in comfort or ease and you

00:55:18 --> 00:55:19

don't have difficulty,

00:55:21 --> 00:55:22

a lot of times, we take it as

00:55:22 --> 00:55:23

information

00:55:23 --> 00:55:24

that comes to us.

00:55:25 --> 00:55:27

When you're living in difficulty,

00:55:27 --> 00:55:30

when you don't know if you're gonna be

00:55:30 --> 00:55:32

alive tomorrow or not,

00:55:32 --> 00:55:36

when you're suffering from pain and loss and

00:55:36 --> 00:55:37

all of these things.

00:55:38 --> 00:55:39

When you hear the Quran,

00:55:40 --> 00:55:41

it's a true

00:55:42 --> 00:55:45

reminder to us. You know? It's a constant

00:55:45 --> 00:55:46

reinforcing

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

of

00:55:48 --> 00:55:49

our purpose in life,

00:55:50 --> 00:55:51

our goals in life.

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

It's building a relationship with Allah Subhanahu Wa

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

Ta'ala in a way that

00:55:57 --> 00:56:00

I think for us, maybe the Quran

00:56:00 --> 00:56:03

doesn't have that impact unless we really have

00:56:03 --> 00:56:03

our mind

00:56:04 --> 00:56:07

focused on that. And that's what I learned

00:56:07 --> 00:56:10

from from from the people over there. I

00:56:10 --> 00:56:11

mean, people literally told me,

00:56:12 --> 00:56:15

word for word, we have, Yaqeen, that we

00:56:15 --> 00:56:17

are going to win. Somehow. You know, it

00:56:17 --> 00:56:20

may not be me. You know? I might

00:56:20 --> 00:56:20

die,

00:56:21 --> 00:56:21

but

00:56:22 --> 00:56:24

me or my children or my grandchildren.

00:56:25 --> 00:56:26

But in the end, we believe in the

00:56:26 --> 00:56:28

promise of Allah, and we are going to

00:56:28 --> 00:56:32

win. That level of iman is, especially in

00:56:32 --> 00:56:33

when you're,

00:56:33 --> 00:56:37

you know, in such a dire situation is,

00:56:37 --> 00:56:40

unique. And I think that's why all

00:56:40 --> 00:56:41

these people

00:56:41 --> 00:56:43

and the whole world is really,

00:56:44 --> 00:56:45

attracted to those people

00:56:46 --> 00:56:49

and has such admiration for them. Hello. To

00:56:49 --> 00:56:51

to your to your watch, doctor, you know,

00:56:52 --> 00:56:54

I watched, some of the videos from doctors

00:56:54 --> 00:56:55

over there as well too. So there was

00:56:55 --> 00:56:58

a Jordanian doctor talking about treating the child,

00:56:58 --> 00:57:00

I believe he was touching actually his arm.

00:57:00 --> 00:57:02

Maybe the same kid probably.

00:57:03 --> 00:57:03

And,

00:57:04 --> 00:57:05

so he said the next day they wanted

00:57:05 --> 00:57:07

to change and and check on his wound

00:57:07 --> 00:57:09

and so forth. So the the kid told

00:57:09 --> 00:57:10

him, and he was a kid, a child.

00:57:10 --> 00:57:13

He said, doctor, please don't hurt me again.

00:57:13 --> 00:57:14

He goes, last time you hurt me really?

00:57:14 --> 00:57:16

Could you please don't hurt me this time?

00:57:17 --> 00:57:19

And then eventually, so the doctor told, you

00:57:19 --> 00:57:21

know, to increase the dose on on his

00:57:21 --> 00:57:22

anesthesia a little bit.

00:57:23 --> 00:57:24

But still,

00:57:24 --> 00:57:26

he was hurt. He felt the pain.

00:57:27 --> 00:57:28

Then he said, didn't I tell you that

00:57:28 --> 00:57:28

you,

00:57:29 --> 00:57:30

don't don't hurt me?

00:57:31 --> 00:57:32

Then he turned his face. He said he

00:57:32 --> 00:57:34

goes he said to Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala,

00:57:34 --> 00:57:37

You Rabbi forgive me because I asked somebody

00:57:37 --> 00:57:38

else besides you.

00:57:39 --> 00:57:40

Like, wow.

00:57:41 --> 00:57:42

I heard that. I'm just like,

00:57:43 --> 00:57:45

what are what kind of children are these?

00:57:46 --> 00:57:48

Like, literally, what kind of kids these are

00:57:48 --> 00:57:50

when they now they even which is natural

00:57:50 --> 00:57:51

for them to say ask a doctor to

00:57:51 --> 00:57:53

make it easy on their pain. And he

00:57:53 --> 00:57:55

says, forgive me because I asked somebody else

00:57:55 --> 00:57:56

besides you.

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

For that's that's a different level, subhanAllah. One

00:57:59 --> 00:58:01

last thing I wanna mention, I wanna ask

00:58:01 --> 00:58:03

you guys about your experience in terms

00:58:04 --> 00:58:05

of, with these circumstances,

00:58:06 --> 00:58:08

there's always an expectation of people, of course,

00:58:08 --> 00:58:10

you know, fighting for survival.

00:58:10 --> 00:58:11

But I read and I heard from other

00:58:11 --> 00:58:13

doctors who visited there

00:58:13 --> 00:58:15

about the, the, like I said, the, the

00:58:15 --> 00:58:16

people, dignity of the people,

00:58:17 --> 00:58:19

also the generosity of the people.

00:58:19 --> 00:58:21

Like even in these situations, subhanAllah,

00:58:22 --> 00:58:23

people would not beg.

00:58:24 --> 00:58:26

If they, whatever they have, they're willing to

00:58:26 --> 00:58:27

share,

00:58:27 --> 00:58:29

And even I've seen kids sharing whatever they

00:58:29 --> 00:58:30

have with other people and they say, I

00:58:30 --> 00:58:32

don't have money. And they just said, go

00:58:32 --> 00:58:33

ahead. Take it.

00:58:34 --> 00:58:36

What's your experience with that, with the people,

00:58:36 --> 00:58:38

with the their situation and their generosity? In

00:58:38 --> 00:58:40

the last few minutes insha'Allah we have here.

00:58:43 --> 00:58:44

Anyone wants to share?

00:58:46 --> 00:58:47

Yeah. Actually,

00:58:48 --> 00:58:49

so true.

00:58:49 --> 00:58:51

3 days after the world kitchen, as I

00:58:51 --> 00:58:54

said earlier, there were some things starts coming,

00:58:54 --> 00:58:56

and one of the things came is actually

00:58:56 --> 00:58:57

chicken.

00:58:57 --> 00:59:00

Now you may be laughing, but to see

00:59:00 --> 00:59:02

a chicken after about 5 days of eating

00:59:02 --> 00:59:03

whatever Allah

00:59:04 --> 00:59:05

gives you, it's a feast.

00:59:06 --> 00:59:06

So there was,

00:59:07 --> 00:59:08

orthopedic resident,

00:59:09 --> 00:59:09

Khalil,

00:59:10 --> 00:59:10

insisted

00:59:11 --> 00:59:14

that we have to feed you a typical

00:59:14 --> 00:59:14

Palestinian,

00:59:16 --> 00:59:16

meal.

00:59:17 --> 00:59:18

And then he gave us options

00:59:19 --> 00:59:20

and said,

00:59:20 --> 00:59:22

And I was like, where are you going

00:59:22 --> 00:59:24

to get the bread? Bread is a huge

00:59:24 --> 00:59:26

issue because there's no flour. Subhanallah.

00:59:29 --> 00:59:30

5 minutes before,

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

the door

00:59:33 --> 00:59:36

knock. We opened. Khaleed brings a big I

00:59:36 --> 00:59:38

have a picture of it, actually. A big

00:59:38 --> 00:59:39

huge tray,

00:59:40 --> 00:59:42

and it is so well

00:59:42 --> 00:59:45

not only cooked in generosity, but it's well

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

presented.

00:59:46 --> 00:59:48

Next to it is salad,

00:59:48 --> 00:59:50

and next to it is a typical Palestinian

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

cookies.

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

So I said,

00:59:53 --> 00:59:54

where did you get this?

00:59:55 --> 00:59:56

I mean, you need a lot of material.

00:59:56 --> 00:59:57

He said,

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

everyone in my family,

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

whatever they had, we brought it all together

01:00:03 --> 01:00:05

to bring this. Subhanallah.

01:00:05 --> 01:00:06

Subhanallah.

01:00:08 --> 01:00:09

And I said, you don't have to.

01:00:10 --> 01:00:12

We'll come next time, and we'll visit you

01:00:12 --> 01:00:13

in here. They said, no. No. No.

01:00:14 --> 01:00:16

You you came. You have to

01:00:17 --> 01:00:17

extremely

01:00:17 --> 01:00:20

generous. I fully agree with you. I learned.

01:00:24 --> 01:00:24

Whomsoever

01:00:25 --> 01:00:28

wants dignity, dignity is with Allah. And you

01:00:28 --> 01:00:30

are absolutely right. Even children,

01:00:30 --> 01:00:32

they are walking bare footed

01:00:32 --> 01:00:33

but they have dignity.

01:00:36 --> 01:00:38

I know, subhanallah, the experiences is just you

01:00:38 --> 01:00:40

guys just gave us the tip of the

01:00:40 --> 01:00:42

the iceberg. There's a the the surface, scratching

01:00:42 --> 01:00:44

the surface of that experience. And I hope

01:00:44 --> 01:00:46

inshallah that if anyone is interested in learning

01:00:46 --> 01:00:48

more and if they would in whichever capacity

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

they can help, they can reach out to

01:00:49 --> 01:00:50

you, inshallah,

01:00:51 --> 01:00:52

I wanna thank you on behalf of the

01:00:52 --> 01:00:55

community for being there and delivering that message

01:00:55 --> 01:00:56

to us. May Allah

01:00:57 --> 01:00:58

bless you and bless your families, protect you

01:00:58 --> 01:01:00

all, You Rabbil Alameen. And we order you

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

immensely for what you've done for our brothers

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and grazza. And we ask Allah Subhanahu Wa

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Ta'ala to protect our brothers and sisters in

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Gaza, You Rabbil Alameen.

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We ask Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala to give

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them victory against their enemies, You Rabbar Al

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Amin. We ask Allah

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to restore peace and tranquility of their lives

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in the dunya

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We ask Allah to accept their martyrs as

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shuhada

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to heal the wounded, to protect those who

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are lost. We

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ask him to keep them safe.

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And the way we all gather here, we

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ask

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Allah to guide us with them in general.

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Would the prophet Muhammad

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Move back to the section there. And, Michel,

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we're gonna call that down

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