Zaynab Ansari – Queen of The Deen S2 Talha #3

Hey. What's up?

Hi, everyone. Thanks for tuning in to a

new episode of Queen of the Deen.

And, we're in the 2nd season. Alhamdulillah.

So

today,

I'm going to be interviewing

a very special lady. So for the very

first time,

we're gonna be interviewing,

Sheikha on the show. Her name is Sheikha

Zainab. Sheikha Zainab is an Ustazah who teaches

Al Quran to women and children.

She also trains people on how to teach

others to recite the Quran. Ustazah Zainab received

her Ijazah with Sanad in Quran Taj and

memorization from Algeria where she is originally from.

She recently completed her master's in Quran and

Sunnah from the International Islamic University of Malaysia.

Yay. Alhamdulillah. We're here.

I hope I'm not too late to meet,

Sheikha.

Hi. How are you? I'm good.

Nice to see you today. Nice to meet

you too.

I can't wait to do

The entire page of the Quran is first

written by hand, and then it goes through

the computer for digital cross checking for more

than 10 times, and then it proceeds to

its final stage of digital printing.

The reading and recitation is checked again after

it's printed.

The mission of Yahya San Rastoo is to

spread the message of Islam throughout the world

to strengthen the faith of Muslims and revive

the field of Islamic arts.

We are here now at, Nyasa and Ristu.

Inshallah, we're gonna be trying to do a

bit of calligraphy while I ask you a

few questions. No problem.

For, the people out there who don't know

what you do, please do give me a

little bit of a background of of yourself.

Okay. Bismillahirrahmanullahi.

Alhamdulillahi. I'm a teacher of Quran. Mhmm. Since

more than 12 years,

teaching Quran, alhamdulillah.

Since I was a kid, I start to

learn Quran.

Alhamdulillah, I, finished memorization,

in my country in Algeria with my Sheikh.

Alhamdulillah. After that, when we finished memorization,

he chose some of us to be,

to give us, Ijeza. Ijeza is the sonnet.

Since that you read the whole Quran from

the beginning until the end, he will listen

to you with the different ways.

So you have to to practice how to

pronounce correctly, how to pronounce every harp,

every letter

in correct way. So after that, like, I

took it from my sheikh. I read the

code and, and he listened to me. He

the same thing do it from his sheikh

until

we reach the prophet, so

it will be like a chain from you

until the prophet,

so, to Allah.

Sheikha Zainab believes that the key to learning

and reciting the Quran is to ensure her

students have the right pronunciation of every letter.

And once this has been learned, you'll know

how to read a sentence correctly, which will

then lead to reciting the whole Quran smoothly.

Ustasa Zainab also has interesting ways of teaching

children from various games and contests.

Many of her students have won a number

of Quran recitation competitions.

So

in in your journey of, teaching,

of learning and teaching the Quran Mhmm. What

is your main inspiration and motivation

to to you continuing

your journey and your teaching?

Okay.

Sometimes if I stay for example for 1

week or 2 weeks, I don't teach. I

feel that something missing in my life. Mhmm.

I cannot I feel that I have to

do. I cannot how come that my time

is going without teaching even any

one person or

only one letter. Mhmm. So it's something you

would feel that is missing. SubhanAllah.

As you know, the prophet said,

the best among you who learn or end.

So after you learn what you have to

do, you should teach.

Yeah. So it's 2 ways. Learn first, then

go to

teach.

Okay.

So this is our very first,

not very first attempt but together No. To

do a bit of calligraphy

and freehand. Yeah. Mind you, we didn't trace

anything. Mhmm.

Yours is so nice. No. Yours is looks

so nice.

Color. You just go through a hand like

this. So a? A plus? Oh, great.

Okay.

So now we are here at coloring department

and, this is where they do a lot

of the intricate paintings for this type of

design as you can see in the mus'haf.

And, there is a special Arabic term for

this. Okay. And masha'Allah, the designs are so

beautiful.

Coming back to the

Quran, you know, sometimes I find that we

tend to really focus too much on,

reading the Quran properly and we forget to

act upon the Quran. How important is it

to actually have this other part of of

Quran?

Actually, the main idea of having Quran, we

have to understand. Mhmm.

And there are many aya talking about the

thebur. Mhmm. So you will learn and understand,

SubhanAllah.

There is this, point of tadabur.

Tadabur,

it doesn't mean you go through all the

tafsir.

Okay. It's like maybe one ayah, you can

understand something Allah will send you understanding

that maybe no one understand it. I heard

many people,

they change their life just by one ayah

when they understand the meaning of this ao.

Mhmm. So they try to to change their

life. So it's very, very important to get

all this pronunciation, our recitation,

reflection Mhmm. And how to apply how to

apply that in our life.

It says a line up. We are going

to play a game. Because usually every time

we do an episode of Queen of the

Deen, there's a challenging game. So for this

one,

we will be given a name of Surah.

Mhmm. And we have to draw something that's

got to be related to the Surah.

Oh my god. It's a very hard game.

Anything. Okay. I will try my best.

Take a long time I didn't draw, you

know.

Okay.

So we should relax. Can I add a

a fourth leg or cannot? Okay. Okay. It's

Yeah. Okay. We're still up. Ready?

Okay.

It's supposed to be a cow. Yeah.

It's

the

cow.

Oh my gosh. Do you know what they

think? Ashom's is,

how do I draw?

And it's, Jordan. It's, Palestine. We let her

continue or we should tell her? Where is

it? Where is it?

Sun.

Oh, it's the sun. Yeah. The sun. Yes.

Asham's.

Is he right? Yeah. Okay. Okay. I can

do it. I can do this. Oh, your

son is smiling. I love it.

This is shimps for, for children. But your

Is it? From Oh, it's an abstract.

Oh, I know. I know. Related.

Related. Okay. Okay.

Oh, you've got texture.

Okay.

What is that, Elisa? It's a boat.

Look. There's the sea and there's the fish.

The fish is there, Elisa. Yeah.

Oh, I forgot. You look like where you're

staying. Yeah.

You have to have k. You can just

see a real bee. Yeah.

Yeah. Do something here?

Very hard.

Oh, okay. Mine, you shouldn't see. Just like

a meal.

Yay. We did it. Yeah. I'm good. We

survived. We did. Yay.

Okay.

So we are in the gallery here.

And,

there's so many beautiful,

drawings and writings of the Quran. Indeed. It's

so beautiful. It's so beautiful. And I don't

think there's many places like this

in

the

world.

So, okay. What would your advice be for

people who want to learn

and also teach the Quran?

Is this something like when we learn the

Quran, we need to aim that yes, I

can teach this also? Yeah. It's very important.

Actually, the first thing, you have to bring

your Ikhlas with you, the sincere. Okay. Bring

it with you and just go ahead and

Allah will make it easy to you. You

have to be patient. Don't say that I

cannot. It's impossible for me. I cannot learn.

It's like we have to give it time.

Okay. We shouldn't let it like as like

if I have free time, extra time, okay,

I will give it time. No. It's not

like we have to feel that it's the

most important thing in our life.

So have to be good intention with Ikhlas,

be patient and go ahead. Every time, keep

in your mind that

Quran.

If you teach your children or your,

mother or father or anybody.

Yeah. Anyone you can teach him, you will

get the blessing of, of the Of course.

Oh. So whatever you learn, try to teach

it to the others. The rewards will come

back to you. It will come back to

you. Oh my god. Even you died, you

are in your grave, but still,

the bank of rewards

is still working after you. Sometimes

I wonder how do we continue to keep

having good deeds even after we pass away,

and this is it. Yeah. By passing on

your knowledge of Quran.

To the final question,

what is the biggest change you would like

to see in the world today?

We would like to see the peace in

our as Muslims, we have the key. The

key is Quran. We have to return back

to Quran, not only reading, but we try

to apply it in our life. Mhmm. And

we'll keep this

good love and relation

between us and Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. Mhmm.

Along with solve our problems.

Beautiful,

wish for for the world

This is a series about how I reverted

to Islam and also I'll be sharing Okay.

Pick it up again and you catch it

again. Okay.