Yaser Birjas – Summer Fun, Keep It Halal! Faith And Food

			Assalamualaikum warahmatullah wabarakatuh
		

			as salaam alaikum
		

			Alhamdulillah Allah Allah means that Allah wa salam ala Carnaby, Muhammad Anwar Ali Salam, the
Sleeman Kathira mama but I want to welcome you all to our first session of this summer 2023
Hamdulillah we always try to keep some are alive and keep it fun and also active for our community.
So we kick it off the session inshallah Tabata Kota Allah with our fun summer, and of course food as
well to open the last version every week, inshallah every Friday, at least for the next maybe five
fights were to interruption for the Raiders will do. We're gonna have a speaker Inshallah, that we
bring to the community to talk to us for a few minutes about one of the aspects of our family life,
		

			especially in the summer insha, Allah azza wa jal, and then we socialize outside Bonilla, Baraka
Wattana. So tonight, we have ice cream for you. So don't leave before you enjoy your time and
chalazia so what is my talk for you? Since this is the beginning of the summer, I wanted to discuss
with you the concept of having fun in the summer, but at the same time keeping it halal. We need to
have fun and keep it halal. Why is it so important? Because as Muslims as Muslims, we don't believe
that there is any break any break from learning from worshiping from living alive, dedicated to
Allah subhanho wa Taala the way that our time has been divided, unfortunately for families, it
		

			usually revolves around the kids schedules. And it's always around school times. So as long as the
kids are in school, we feel trapped. You can travel you cannot do this you're gonna have to go home
right? You cannot do this. There is many limitations when school is going on. Once the school is off
Bismillah doors of heaven open for us hopefully. But as a Muslim, I don't want to live that way.
Because the summer for me, it doesn't mean to break from studying my deen or doing my hair or my
Quran Oh my bad no, there should be no limitation for that. But at the same time, I don't want to
live all my life all my year so serious and you know, studying and learning and doing all these kind
		

			of things. So how can I create that balance by which I can still handler continued to learn and grow
but at the same time, take some some break in my time and that's what we're talking about inshallah
terracotta Allah when Allah subhanho wa Taala designed us in this world, he made the purpose of the
slide very clear, what did he say? One o'clock two general INCEL Allah Buddha, that you did not
create jinn and mankind but to worship me. And that purpose, that purpose is not limited by time, by
geography, by age by generation by any of these things. at all time, we requested to worship Allah
subhanho wa taala.
		

			When it comes to the worship of Allah azza wa jal is not limited by device by devotional acts only.
So worshiping Allah subhanho wa Taala is not just through Salah and cm and giving charity, even
living your life completely should be for Allah azza wa jal, he says in the Quran, called inner
Salah to you and also Kiva Maha materiala Blumen say to them, yeah Muhammad in Salah to Nozaki my
salah, my salah, and my acts of sacrifice, my life I my death are always dedicated to Allah subhana
wa Tada. So I need to live a life that is worthy, that is worthy to be accepted by Allah subhanho wa
taala. And when it comes to my moment of death, I need to make sure that that moment is also worthy
		

			to be accepted by Allah subhana wa Tada for me. So therefore, even when summer comes, we still need
to keep in our mind that look, I mean, we still need to be dedicated to Allah azza wa jal. How can I
enjoy my time and make sure I still benefit from it? Insha Allah Allah. Let's talk about the Prophet
sallallahu wasallam at the time of the prophets of Allah, Allah was that Imani? He was the most
serious man you've ever met in your life. How come? I mean he's been commissioned by the Creator
Himself subhanaw taala to deliver the message of Allah to the world. You can't have it a serious
mission more than this. So he was the most serious of Allah wa salam. So he dedicated time for Ebola
		

			and Salah at night he would fast as well to during the day. So he's always dedicated an Ebola
devotional riba even to the extent that some of the Sahaba like Aisha della Anna, she even she asked
the Prophet della sola semirara surah Allah, why do you keep doing this? Why do you keep doing this
yourself when ALLAH SubhanA wa has already forgiven your sins? He says, if Allah Hakuna Abdullah
Sakura, shouldn't I prove that I'm worthy of Allah subhanaw taala has mercy so I would like to be
grateful person. So even in our times of break we need to still be couldn't be count as grateful to
Allah subhanho wa Taala still, they had some
		

			am fun at the time of the prophets of Allah, Allah wa salam ala, let's see what type of font that we
say we have seen the creation of time they spend at the time of the Prophet sallallahu wasallam.
Number one, certain exercises like what they would,
		

			they would enjoy
		

			wrestling. And even the Prophet says amaz was participating in that. A man by the name, I think his
name was Americana. And he was known to be one of the greatest wrestler in Medina. Like he is that
tough guy, no one can beat America. So this man, he came to them to Medina and the Prophet SAW Salem
and he was gonna, like,
		

			try to bet with everybody. Like if you win, if you can beat me in wrestling, if you can pin me down
the ground, you get this money, goats, so everybody in Medina would lose. So the capital prophesies
of a prophet Sallallahu wasallam. He said, I'll do that.
		

			And then here's the deal. The Prophet SAW Allah, Selim and the provinces immediately pinned him down
to the ground, and the Prophet was on top of his chest. He was stunned by that. Can you imagine I
want to Subhanallah I wish I was there to see how the Prophet says he flipped this man over all the
way and it flew in the air and put them down on the ground would have been a fun sight. And the
Sahaba will probably will cheering loud, for the fun that of sightsee in the province, and when are
you against this man? So the man who was stunned by that he goes Carla after me, which means you
know what? I was ready. Can we try again?
		

			Like, can we try that again? And the professor said, Sure, we'll try that again. And immediate the
moment they hold hands, he found himself flying in the air on the ground and the provinces him again
on top of his chest. And that's when he realized, you know, what, no one ever in the Arabian
Peninsula when wrestling against me, your power is not from this world. And that's what made this
not to become Muslim SubhanAllah. But you can imagine the entertainment the Sahaba they had in that
moment, the fun time. They had as they were watching the provinces and wrestling and other people
wrestling against this man. That's Subhanallah Alfonso Juma?
		

			Another thing horses, racing horses. They used to do race as well too. And they used to there was a
place in the Medina at the time, an area closer to banjos, right? They had a masjid in the area
called McDonald's, right? Like, a significant distance, where they were draw, go and raise horses,
and the Prophet sallallahu sallam, he would even assign a prize for people who win.
		

			Now you can imagine the community all gathered and back then it was still a tribal system. So what
does that mean? Every tribe will bring what their best horse and their best riders
		

			and they would like to raise And subhanAllah can imagine the excitement in the entire community.
Men, women, children all get together to watch this and enjoy that.
		

			When it comes to also some exercise, the Prophet says I'm used to have fun with the people archery,
archery. One time the Prophet Salah Salem, he came by a group of Sahaba della Donham different
tribes, and they were competing in archery. They're shooting at targets. And the Prophet says and
says thermobonded was smile. Keep doing it, throw more of this, do that and I will be with you. So
the other Sahara desert cholera. So if you're gonna be with them on their side, we can't we can't
you know, we can't compete against you. And the Prophet says, Okay, fine, I will be with all of you
just keep going Bismillah and they were having fun and exercising at the same time. How about
		

			children, the Prophet sallallahu Sallam even was considered of children's time and of course their
hearts. So he would also make competitions for the children among themselves as well to like even
race, like Abdullah and Isabel de la Nevada, and also from Al Hasan her saying the report of the
Prophet sallallahu Sallam used to bring the kids and he asked him to go and race. So it would go a
distance, and then they come running back and he was the finish line, the Prophet himself, his
hands, his arms were the finish line. So they said that they when they used to come back, they come
back running, and they jumped the Prophet sallallahu Sallam until he falls on his back, and it will
		

			be giggling and laughing.
		

			Imagine the fun time these kids are having in the community, their parents, the adults enjoying the
sight of the prophets, Allah sampling with these kids. So all these things that you've seen,
entertainment, and it's physical entertainment, all of this. What does that exactly mean?
		

			In our religion, our deen even our recreation activities are supposed to be meaningful. They're
supposed to be meaningful. If they're not meaningful, they becomes questionable. They become
questionable, like entertainment for the sake of absolute entertainment. It's considered low and
low.
		

			It just like an empty low, empty game, and level distractions that
		

			benefits you nothing in the dunya on the akhira. But as long as the entertainment recreational time
that you do is bring benefit whether it's physical benefits such as the exercise that we've done
there we're good
		

			let's see other example okay. So it can there be any kind of you know, law who just for the sake of
entertainment without having to have any specific intellectual, you know, or physical exercise? The
answer is yes. Like what? During eight the Prophet salAllahu alayhi wasallam The Prophet said about
the law of ceremony, he allowed the seniors, the overseers to have their festivity in the masjid
		

			imagine the magic over here, having the other scenes are the people that come over here, and they
have their war exercise.
		

			They're basically they kind of like playing with the swords and the spears and beating on their
shields. Imagine the noise and the sound that comes out from this in the masjid of Rasulullah
sallallahu alayhi wasallam.
		

			Today, people want to see kids running around playing soccer, for example, the measured Alon was
done like this committed Coover.
		

			It's still in a reasonable way. It was allowed at the time of the Prophet Salah Salem, what was the
majority of the people doing and that that kind of festivity they were watching.
		

			They did not participate physically. So you don't have to run. You don't have to ride your horse.
You don't have to wrestle yourself. But just being there and watching is also Halon.
		

			It's a halal entertainment that they're watching. And they're enjoying that time.
		

			Another containment that happened at the time of the Prophet sallallahu sallam, which was also an
eight, the young little girls, they were actually singing, and they were playing with the deaf,
		

			somewhat like an instrument, a specific instrument was called dwarf, which is basically is allowed,
you know, for the younger ladies to do during celebrations and festivities. And they were making
this they were singing these songs. It was during the eighth day and the Prophet Salah Salem was in
his house and he was kind of like,
		

			resting on his side, facing the wall and the girls on the other side, this little girls abaca study
comes in and he was appalled by that said he thought that that was offensive. This is what is going
on here and down to the Prophet Salah Salem. So the messenger of Allah he says, Yeah, Baba can leave
them, leave them. It's read.
		

			Which means okay, that's fine, that's fine. We can enjoy that we can have that fun hamdulillah but
again, these innocent little girls singing for everybody. Imagine little kids making songs,
activities, like these are choir of little ones. They do that and people listen and enjoy that. But
also permissible to do that.
		

			What about other fun activities that we can do? What about intellectual activities, intellectual
recreation, even our bass are they allowed to run our da was Hubbard Khurana terjemahan Quran
Hubbard OMA autojumble Quran he was a great master of our religion, and also the interpreter of the
book of Allah subhanho wa taala. He would sit down in the masjid, teaching people the Quran and also
Hadith the NABI sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, but then every now and then he would pause and he would
stop. And he would ask the people in the magic because anyone knows some nice poetry over here.
		

			Does anyone know poetry can sing us you know, can read or recite, or at least you know read for us
some of that point beautiful poetry. Some of the students, some of these students who came all the
way from countries beyond you know, the Arabian Peninsula. They came to Medina to then had it in a
bit Salah Salem. They they will tell him an ibis. colorable Father, we didn't come for this. We
didn't leave our home. We didn't leave our didn't leave our families. We didn't take that journey
all the way to Medina to listen to poetry. We came here. I didn't abuse Salah Salem. He says he said
no, no, no. He goes, Listen,
		

			in nearly Haidian who's humble?
		

			These nerves, the nerves, your nerves, your heart means your energy level he goes has humbled does
that mean it becomes sour every now and then. They become sour. He says we need to rejuvenate
ourselves, our spirits, our hearts. Our energy. Pay che immunol hikma some beautiful words of
wisdom. It's okay. Every now and then. It's okay. Every now and then. So, yeah. Intellectual
entertainment. Like what? Reading stories, reading novels that are beautiful, although unfortunately
today's novels and stories even for the youth and the kids are unfortunately horrible. All come with
ideological agenda. And by the way, just for those parents who have assignments for their children
		

			to read in the summer, you know, Texas Board of Education unfortunately assigns the bluebonnet list
of readings have many many, many books for the youth and for the children. Be careful.
		

			Be careful a lot of these books are actually has agendas and have very subtle, very subtle,
mentioned here and
		

			They're too LGBTQ actually agendas and so on in a very, very, very subtle way. Like a whole novel is
a story. And then somewhere in the middle, they say, so she, she spoke to her mother's as simple as
statement like this mentioned in the story, you don't pay attention to, like, Whoa, where this is
coming from. It's an agenda, unfortunately. But still, we are required. As a matter of actually my
daughter, she reviews all these books, and she puts them on her Instagram page, if anyone interested
to know about these books anyway. So the idea is that we need to also grow intellectually, and
entertain ourselves intellectually with some beautiful poetry, some beautiful stories and novels,
		

			and it's okay. It's okay, you can do that.
		

			Okay, what about just sitting there with no particular serious agenda that we want to just talk
about, you know, chit chat, people that just chit chat isn't even allowed to do that? Talking
without having any specific, you know, see the subject? Absolutely. Absolutely. You can do that. And
it happened also the time of the Prophet sallallahu, wasallam Sahaba, they used to say, after salah,
		

			they will sit down with the prophets, Allah, Allah ceremony. And they will be reminiscing the days
of Janelia not in a positive Of course, you know, remembering them to
		

			in a joyful way, rather, they look back at these days, and they laugh at them. They laugh at their
ignorance of terms of Janelia they would say we would be talking, we were talking around and start
talking about how foolish we were when we used to worship these idols. Even Omar Abdullah and he
said, there's one time he said that sometimes when people don't have, they don't have any idol with
them on the journey. What do they do, they pick a stone, they pick a stone, actually, they pick four
stones. They choose three to become a Daffy, which means the bass for the cooking pot. And the
fourth one, that the cleanest maybe or the most fancy is one for them. They use this as God to
		

			worship. And when they're done, they throw it away.
		

			So they would laugh at that kind of story, because I remember we used to do that. That was so funny.
Back then. Another example it says, if someone didn't even have if you didn't even have stones, or
rocks, what did they used to do? He goes, we used to bring dates, dates, and they make an idol out
of it. Like they put the dates together. They make a figurine out of it, because then they start
worshipping that. When they go hungry, what do they do? They eat it.
		

			And they start laughing at that. So just sitting down and chit chat and mentioned these fun stories
about you know, what they've done in the past and so on. Is that permissible? Absolutely. It's Halal
fun. There's nothing wrong with that.
		

			Even around the Prophet Salla salon, they used to say we mentioned these stories, we would laugh, we
would love this it and we look at the Prophet sallallahu Sallam and he would be just smiling
		

			is like he's amused by these stories as well too. So he's sitting there not scolding them, or saying
you guys are wasting my time I'm going to be going just read the Quran. It's okay, but this time
just to have recreation time with your friends as well too. It's okay to socialize Sahaba Allah Tala
annum, the vignette Kenyatta by the whole interview question, but what does that mean they the core
of the watermelon season for it right now, the core of the watermelon. They used to throw it at each
other.
		

			Now, I'm not sure if they were actually smacking each other with it. But I know they used to throw
it at each other for fun how they did that Allahu Allah, but they would even have like pranks, these
kind of pranks just to to laugh and have and have some some moments of joy for months with each
other, together as a community. So as we can see from the Prophet SAW Selim Stein on the Sahaba of
the autonome, as serious as we know they were, they steal the spirit of the law, I don't have time
to enjoy and have fun, have fun together as a community, and also as individuals, and even with
their children, are they allowed to run home or the home. Some are starting a handlebar, I mean, and
		

			there are so many things you could do with your children. Make sure that whatever you try to do with
them, make it meaningful and has value add value, whether it's a spiritual value, physical value,
intellectual value, social value, don't just present fun for the absolute sake of fun, because
sooner or later, it's going to become boring for them. It's going to become boring for them because
it just doesn't doesn't add any value to them anymore. Diversify that entertainment for your
children for your families, inshallah Tabata Kotara. I know a lot of parents, a lot of parents that
would like to
		

			like to travel.
		

			And travel obviously is one of those fun activities we do. It's scores of the most expensive fun
activities that we do obviously.
		

			Remember, Shadow him Allah Allah call
		

			the rub out on if you certainly thought about the ruler, whatsoever
		

			However as far as humsafar either
		

			whatsoever well as far as humsafar goes develop anilao Taan if you would like to seek glory and if
you'd like to seek you know status, then you're gonna have to try you're gonna have to travel have
to go somewhere else experienced life somewhere else. Well, surfer is a travel, travel as far as
sums of our ego. There are five benefits, five benefits on your travel. What are these benefit,
called the free German work disablement initiative and where ailment
		

			imagine, to freedom what does that mean?
		

			Being at work all the time and family life all the time, it just sits in the same place for a very
long time, it just becomes so heavy. So when you travel away from from from from from home, whether
it's two hours drive, five hours drive, or even go on, you know, an a plane trip, whatever, just
going somewhere, it gives you a break to free to Harmon it will alleviate some of that accident,
some of the concerns of the hands of the heaviness that you have in your life, seeing something new,
seeing a beautiful sight or even Subhanallah creation of Allah azza wa jal, it makes you feel
better. So when you come back, you're you're energized, work the salvation. Sometimes you go there,
		

			you meet people, you network, you make money.
		

			Suddenly you become Richard hamdulillah banana.
		

			It happens. You travel, you meet people on that journey. Subhanallah you start becoming partners,
you make business and so on.
		

			Sometimes you learn, you go there you see somebody you learn from them, you know a new things about
this country, or this area or this region. So there's something that you learn
		

			etiquettes the companionship of people that Subhanallah they become they become part of your life
forever. We've seen that with our communities when we go for ombre together Subhanallah See, this
year one went in the in the spring, beautiful companionship. So you start having that etiquettes you
learn from other people how to behave in certain gatherings and so on. God was able to manage it.
And then you have the companionship of some people that will always cherish a new life.
		

			So if you'd like to plan a trip with your family, go ahead. But also make it meaningful. Don't just
travel for the sake of just traveling. make it meaningful. Don't make by the way don't try to make
it meaningful for your children to the extent it becomes boring for them. Like they have to take
notes and answer questions and you know treasure hunt on that journey. Come on, man. Just enjoy.
Enjoy that time with your family. Have fun with it. Insha Allah Tabata Quwata Allah, it is alright
for you to do that. So as we see in hamdulillah summer, it's time for fun, but you can still make it
halal.
		

			We don't have to do something haram to enjoy it. We don't have to go to a concert to enjoy we'd have
to do this. To enjoy there's so many things you could do. from home, from your town, or out of town
or even traveling to enjoy that summer in sha Allah Allah and also keeping a talent May Allah
subhanho wa Taala give us the ability to worship Him they are natural but Allah when we ask Allah
subhana wa Tada to make us among those who make their life meaningful. We ask Allah subhana wa Taala
to give us the ability to see that which is right and do it for ourselves and our children. And that
which is wrong and stay away from a gerbil. Alameen We ask Allah subhanho wa Taala to keep our our
		

			life and our practice Halal sincere to him and honored to him or Bill Allah mean we ask Allah azza
wa jal to keep the Haram away from us and keep us our families away from the Haram er Abdullah Al
Amin, we ask Allah subhana wa Taala to protect our children from the evil of this time Yoruba al
Amin. The way we all gathered in this place we ask Allah subhanho wa Taala to bring us together in
genitive VEDA Salah Allah with the Prophet Muhammad Salah Lhasa Masada Halal hamdulillah Alameen wa
sallahu wa salam ala Nabina Muhammad Anwar early was salam desert from Allah here. Enjoy the rest of
your evening as your ma outside. We have some social time inshallah we have another 55 minutes until
		

			the karma of Salah Trisha Saramonic rahmatullah wa barakato.