Yousef Bakeer – Reflections on my trip to Egypt

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to mostly moon. He says all believers have taqwa in Allah

subhanho wa Taala which means that we should be conscious of him, we

should be aware of him, and we should protect ourselves from his

punishment and his wrath. And we shouldn't allow ourselves to die,

except in a state of la ilaha illAllah Muhammadan rasulullah

sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, I begin my hotbar by asking Allah

Who subhanaw taala first and foremost, to send blessings and

prayers upon our beloved prophet muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa

sallam Allahumma salli wa sallam one mo barik ala nabina wa

Habibollah Muhammad wa ala alihi wa sahbihi wa salam, Sleeman,

Kathira and bad My Dear Brothers and Sisters in Islam, As Salam

aleikum wa rahmatullah wa barakato.

Allah subhanaw taala says in the Quran, called see rueful Earth

from Guru. He says, walk through the earth,

and over, learn, observe, reflect. And then there was a heavy

emphasis in the prophetic tradition, about this idea of

traveling Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam says, semi-feudal

per se who were talking to him. There is so much health, gain and

benefit from traveling Subhan Allah, I got I was blessed to

visit Egypt in the past couple of weeks. I was blessed really to

meet one of my old teachers of Al Azhar Sharif. So the first day,

once I arrived to Egypt, decided to go directly to Jamel as half as

her Masjid as her mosque.

And then handler got the honor to me, my old Musharraf, and in

particular, my favorite chef is one of the giants of chef here, he

might have madhhab Madhavi sheffey.

And he is in his late 80s. And I told him, We are shy.

I'm here to learn from you, this visit, I want to I want to be in

your, you know, company, and these two weeks.

So my shifts, Hala has such a unique character.

I've never seen somebody like this, in his late 80s has so much

dedication and love towards Island towards knowledge, raising

generations after generations. So he told me, You know what,

come to me tomorrow after salata book, and then I'm going to teach

you hand and you're clean, I'm going to teach you thankfulness.

And you're clean certainty in Allah. And I thought that this is

going to be you know, something very classic, very traditional, is

gonna give me a couple of talks as they fit. I'm gonna come to you

Inshallah, tomorrow.

Next day, I visited my chef.

And then I knocked the door, no answer. I called him. He's not

picking up the phone. And then, you know, I decided to stay in

front of his house. I'm just gonna wait for him until he gets out. So

I get to learn, really learn from him. Because this is an

opportunity I want to take advantage of, I don't know if I'm

gonna be able to see him again. Two hours later by she got out of

his house with a bag. And then he told me, let's go. So like, where

are we going here? He said, We are traveling. So we're going to we're

going to be out for five days. And I told him, she says, I need to go

back, pack my bag and get ready for traveling. And he told me no,

no, no, no, no, you're not doing all of that. You're just going

like this.

And I was, you know, obviously I wasn't ready. I need to you know,

get my stuff, packed my bag, get my clothes, be ready for a

challenge five days. And he was you know, insisting that I don't

take anything with me.

Anyway,

we hit the road and we went to a place beautiful place in Egypt

that's called Russell bar.

And reservoir is a beautiful place because the Nile River starts the

journey all the way from Ethiopia, going through Tanzania, Sudan. And

then Cairo, Egypt. And then this journey ends at Russell birth. And

at the same point, the Mediterranean Sea meets the Nile

River. So the two seas meet each other in this point.

And then he has been reciting and our way to

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and then he said, well how Alevi monitor behind Heather as boom

footrot waha, the American judge Allah subhanaw taala, saying that

one of His Signs is that a salty sea salty water, salty flowing

water, will will will meet a pure water, but the don't transgress

the don't mix.

And that's like why my Sheikh is reciting this. And then I figured

that we are going to that place. He took me in a boat. And then we

went all the way to that full meeting point, that focal point

where the Nile River with a pure water meets the Mediterranean Sea

with a very saltwater. And what was mind boggling. He told me

taste the water here. So I put my hand in the water and I tested the

water. And that's it's very pure. And then I tested the water of the

Mediterranean Sea, and it's very salty. And both of them are

flowing water SubhanAllah. And as liquid looking at this, and you

seeing the Mediterranean Sea with a lot of waves, and then a very

calm water, which is the Nile River right there, very cold. And

we don't make Subhanallah one of the signs of Allah subhanaw taala

and this universe, and then my chef told me, You know what? Now,

our our journey will get tough. And I know my chef, when he says

something he means he's not playing around. He means every

single word. So I told them, we all have a similar. He taught me

from North Egypt's. And then we hit back to Upper Egypt, South

Egypt, in a place that's called the root in Upper Egypt inside

very close to Sudan.

When I went to this place for the sisters Wallahi this experience

was very overwhelming. Because

I've been in different countries, I've been you know, traveling in

Africa and doing some really for contains money and other

countries, but by Allah. I've never seen a place like that.

Very underdeveloped place, village, very poor village, no

houses, no water, no electricity.

My chef took me to visit one of his friends out there. He's a chef

also. And the chef told me I'm gonna take you to a tour, we're

going to show you the village.

So we went to a couple of not houses, it's from Jared is like

palm tree leaves. They're building their houses from a palm tree

leaves. So like very humble houses. So we got to visit the

first house. It's that obviously it's close to Sudan and Africa in

the summer in July. It's absolutely indifferent level of

heat. And obviously, there is no air conditioning, there is nothing

there just living very simple life.

We visited the first house, if you want to name it, a house, because

I don't

sit down with the with the first house talking to a very old man in

his 70s and he was talking to me about his journey.

And he was telling me

I am diagnosed with cancer.

And looking at him he is a disabled man. In addition

to you know, him being blind, now obviously there are no hospitals

around. They have a very old fashioned doctor we call it

Hakeem, someone who's just had a little bit of knowledge about

medicine and the you know, rely fully on him. And the chef told

me, you know, brother, the government doesn't even know that

we exist here. Nobody knows anything about us. No schools, no

indication they're not even concerned about us. We're just

living day to day, we traveled 50 kilometres to get water and head

back and if you look at the water containers that are full of

insects and flies,

I mean, she looked at me and said you know what? You are staying

here for four days? Because like Allahu Akbar

so I had to obviously no blankets, no, there is there is nothing from

what we have for Allah there is absolutely nothing I don't know. I

don't know if I can find words describe how these people live

because there are no really words that can deeply describe how these

people operate. You know, in a daily basis so hard. It's so hard

to describe that.

And Allah He looking at this and reflecting on myself and having

these conversations with these people. And there is a repetitive

words that

You say, constantly saying Alhamdulillah Alhamdulillah

Alhamdulillah.

And I'm thinking about, you know, their status. We are privileged,

we are, you know, drowning into, into tremendous blessings. And

they are the ones who are seeing Alhamdulillah they're the ones who

are thinking Allah subhanho wa taala. And I, I had hard time to

process these thoughts. I had hard time to process it. They're living

like this. And the these are the ones who are saying Alhamdulillah

every salah, they gather together in a JAMA and the pray.

And the man told me, You know what, we don't have anything but

we have our iman,

we have our faith. And that's sufficient for us. I was

reflecting on this, in the time of efficiency and technology.

It makes us you know, lack of how to wonder things, how to, you

know, experience things. We live in a time where we're too

comfortable.

We don't want to get out of our comfort zone.

And Wallahi by Allah, this is a message hit me hard and, and it's

even thinking about my children and our children as Muslimeen we

need to invest in having our children experience something like

this.

This is the true knowledge that Prophet Muhammad Sallallahu sallam

was talking about a global enema. Well, Officine Prophet was saying,

even though we don't have airplanes, we don't have trains,

we don't have buses, but Prophets saying if I were to get the chance

to seek knowledge in China, for him, this is the forest place that

he can throw it off, I would go, I will go to do you know, through

this journey, so I can learn, learn through this life

experience. Subhanallah even experts say that kids that they're

diagnosed with with with autism, traveling is good for them because

they're exposed to different sceneries. It's it stimulates

their brains, it stimulates their brains.

So it is something that we really need to take into, into

consideration. We can sit down here and hear tremendous lectures

about hand. Even in this hotbar, you will not learn

this idea of Hampt. The same way you experience it. When you go out

there and you see those types of people and how they suffer.

You will not learn the same. You can hear his tremendous lectures

about your pain, but when you see yourself I am in I Atilla one of

the signs of Allah subhanaw taala of the universe right in front of

you to flowing water right in front of you and the don't mix. It

hits you hard It penetrates your heart, your heart. So I ask Allah

subhanaw taala to first bless my chef, my chef gave me a message

towards the end of this of this of this trip. He told me la li la el

COC by the by the army Heather I might not be able to meet you

after this after this year because he's he's, you know, he's a little

sick. And then he's I asked his his consent and his permission to

share, you know, this experience that I have with him to you. And

he said as long as you don't mention my name, you're okay. But

ask them to make that for me for Allah to always use me for

goodness and to redirect me with with His Beloved Prophet Muhammad

Sallallahu sallam, he asked me to give you this message. So may

Allah subhanaw taala redirect him with his beloved Prophet Muhammad

Sallallahu sallam, and bless him and use him and never replace him

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