in alhamdulillah he nahi me don't wanna
stay in wanna stop Pharaoh when I owe
the villa him in cerulean food Sina
women say Yadier Molina may Allah Allah
Melinda
woman yo dill hoof ilaha illallah wa
ashhadu an la ilaha illallah wahdahu la
sharika lah why should one muhammadan
abduhu wa rasuluh am a bird we thank
Allah Subhanahu WA Ta'ala and we praise
him for all that he has blessed us with
and as we come here today to resume our
class after an interlude of around six
weeks or seven weeks because of the
blessed month of Ramadan all of us from
Haneda we feel a sense of post-trauma
bond if you like depression all of us we
feel a sense of emptiness especially
when Ramadan finished it was just a
shocking if you like experience that
here we are surrounded by iman
surrounded by brotherhood surrounded by
or on and then instantaneously overnight
even those the day of Eid even on the
day of Eid we felt a spiritual emptiness
and this is lasting and persisting and
this is in fact the reality of Ramadan
and inshallah it's also a positive sign
because it shows that we appreciated the
blessings of Ramadan and we were
enjoying the spiritual environment of
Ramadan and in that absence we feel a
loneliness we feel an emptiness and the
positive is that it shows that we
appreciated the blessings of a normal
bond now the question arises how then do
we increase that spirituality how do we
re-enter that beautiful spirit of
Ramadan and the response is of course
you can never recreate that feeling of
Ramadan until the next normal bond
that's what makes our all done special
but what we can do a number of things
that we can do first and foremost one of
the biggest differences in Ramadan and
after Ramadan is Masjid attendance let's
do the attendance in the days of Ramadan
mashallah the message it is absolutely
full and we need to have a tent outside
to house all of the people and then the
day after Ramadan that attendance is
one-fifth or 1/10 or we seek Allah's
refuge even less than that and this
really shows that Ramadan is a month of
the messages it's the message at the
house of Allah Jakarta others fold up
and therefore one of the things that we
need to do is to increase our
association with the message in another
way to recreate that feeling of Ramadan
is that of course the Ramadan is the
month of the Quran and we were reciting
the Quran and listening to the Quran and
surrounded by the Quran and therefore
once we are used to this after Ramadan
we need to have a healthy relationship
with the Quran by reciting it by
increasing our prayers in it by
listening to it and as I advise do many
times especially in the month of Ramadan
that we should cut back on listening to
that which is of no value when we go to
work when we are you know going from
point A to point B and instead listen to
beneficial stuff and especially the
speech of allah subhanahu wata'ala
another difference between Ramadan and
post Ramadan is the increase of nephew
worship in Ramadan we're doing lots of
things we're fasting we're praying extra
we're giving charity when a man finishes
a lot of us resume our schedules that we
had before Ramadan and this is a mistake
we should all have an increase mint in
some type whether it is in the quantity
or the quality or both of our deeds we
need to increase that and of course of
the ways to get back some of that
spirituality and to feel what we want to
feel is of course to immerse ourselves
in knowledge and to study the Book of
Allah and to study the Sunnah of the
messenger of allah and to study the seal
of the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa send
them because nothing increases one's
amount like knowledge nothing increases
one's Eman like knowledge and therefore
insha'Allah one of the ways to get back
that feeling is to resume our had a
thought which we were doing and that is
exactly what insha'Allah tada we are
doing now now in our previous lectures
we had discussed the early prophet or
the early seal of the Prophet sallallahu
alayhi wa seldom and his childhood and
we had gotten to the place where he
became orphaned once again for the third
time with his grandfather Abdul Muttalib
and we explained some of the reasons why
Allah subhana WA Ta'ala tested this
young child with so many different tests
and that was as we said to make him
stronger to make him independent to make
him someone who has a sense of
compassion at the same time
so that Allah could say that we took
care of you allow me adjudicate a team
and for our nobody has any favor over
you a lot directly took charge of taking
care of you and there are many other
benefits and blessings hidden blessings
in that the next stage of the prophets
systems life involves a story that all
of us are familiar with and that is his
travel to Syria as a young child now
this story is a story that we all know
and to summarize the prophet sallallahu
alayhi wa seldom undertook a journey to
Syria when he was around nine ten eleven
years old his uncle Abu Paul II would go
with the caravan and it is said that the
year that he was going the Prophet SAW
said who are you leaving me with how can
you leave me all alone here he's a young
child and so I will taught him cried out
of compassion and he decided to take the
young boy along even though that was not
the initial plan and they went to the
land of Syria that ended the schita it
was life as we mentioned over and over
again they had a summer journey and they
had a winter journey they're going up
north to Syria and then they're going
down south to Yemen and so the Prophet
saws have traveled with Abu Talib as a
young child and they would pass by the
monastery of a monk by the name of
Baha'u'llah Baha'u'llah
monks or Hermits were those people in
medieval Christianity they had cut
themselves off from society and these
days they are very rare but you find
them there are still certain chapels and
certain monasteries in the mountains in
the faraway places and this is still
around even here in America we have
places that nobody goes in or out except
if you're a part of that order a part of
that if you like a servitude you have
dedicated yourself to the church and
there are special monasteries for men
special monasteries for women and in it
all they do is they worship they pray
they sing to their Lord they have cut
off themselves from marriage from any
type of recreation and their 24/7 just
worshiping Allah and it was more common
in the past and it is still a it is
still a phenomenon that is existent in
our times so
they passed by a monastery and the
monastery is has nothing to do with the
travelers and they have gone by this
monastery many times this time the
leader of the monastery them the monk in
charge of the monastery he followed them
out and he called them and he said to
them - there's a number of versions of
the story in one version he invites them
to the monastery and in another version
he simply discusses with them directly
and in the end he tells about thoughted
that this young boy that you have with
you is going to be the prophet of the
Arabs I saw every single tree prostrate
a spiritual prostration that he did it
nobody else saw but he saw and I saw the
cloud shelter him and in another version
he sat under a tree and the monk said
that the sign of the Prophet would be
that he would sit under this tree and he
asked him who is your father and so I
thought I said I am his father and the
monk said no this is not possible so I
will thought have said I am actually his
uncle and so the monk said yes the
Prophet cannot have his father living
that is of the signs and this is a long
story and at the very end of it the monk
allegedly says that be careful because
the Romans and another version the Jews
are going to kill this light if they get
a hold of him and therefore be careful
and protect him and he is going to be
the leader of the Arabs now this is the
story that all of us have heard is time
for a little bit of critical thinking
and a little bit of a snide analysis the
story is problematic on many levels
first and foremost the story mentions in
one version that Abu Bakr was
accompanying the professor salam and
another version it says that bilal was
the slave of the caravan and this is
simply historically impossible because
abu bakr and the prophet saw saram Abu
Bakr would have been too young and there
is no recorded friendship when the
processing was ten years old
additionally Balad has not yet been born
much less become a slave in Mecca when
the Prophet system is ten years old
another problem with this story is that
the contents raise our eyebrows not that
the processing has been predicted in the
previous scriptures we know this that he
has been predicted but the
manner of the story and the fact that
had Bo Hara actually said this to the
prophecies em in front of abu talib the
Quraysh would have known and Abu Talib
would have known and many years later
the Prophet Sunnah would have said oh my
uncle why are you doubting I'm a prophet
don't you remember when I was a teenager
such and such happened don't you
remember that boy IRA said this when I
was ten years old how can you doubt it
now and the Quraysh would have known of
this story as well and all of this sends
our alarm bells ringing and this shows
us that subhanAllah we don't we need to
be a little bit more careful in what we
read in books and folklore and legends
not everything is authentic and when we
look at the chain of this narration we
find that indeed there is some problem
even with the chain there is some
problem with the content and that is why
many of the early scholars I'm not the
first one critiquing it a mammoth I ve
been Cathy even say Eden asked a lot of
the classical and medieval scholars they
they found this story problematic for
example Imam Isaiah be said Abu Bakr was
only ten at the time and asked for Bilal
he was purchased by Abu Bakr after the
Dawa began thirty years down the line
and he had not yet been born and the
heavy is speaking why would the trees
shelter him when according to the same
report the clouds were walking on top of
him it makes no sense for the trees to
offer a shelter when there's already
clouds that are going over him and why
don't we find that the prophet saw some
reminded Abu Talib of this incident and
the statement of the monk and why didn't
he mention this to the Quraysh when he
began preaching his prophethood and if
this really had occurred they would not
have found his prophethood something
strange and they would have welcomed it
and if a tree if it had really occurred
then when Jibril visited him in Hara
Hara he would not have wondered who is
this angel and he would have welcomed it
instead of roaring running back to his
wife in hadiza out of fear and quote now
this is the mind of a critical thinker
he's thinking that it doesn't make any
sense that if the prophets arm knew that
he's going to be a prophet then he must
be waiting for and expecting it now
somebody can ask
what's the big deal why do you have to
be so critical it's a beautiful story
and our prophecy system is praised even
more the angels are sheltering him the
clouds are coming the / the trees are
prostrating why do you have to be so so
academic can't you just tell these
fables and and and let it be you know
easy about this to which the response
comes indeed the stories of the Serie by
and large have not been narrated with
those same rigorous chains as the hadith
pertaining to Hallett and Haram and even
a map Megrahi mahalo he said when it
comes to Helen and Harun will be very
strict and he went like this and when it
comes to hadith sorry when it comes to
sorry when it comes to serum he said
mikaze when it comes to serie he went
like this no big deal let it be and this
is true because many of the details of
the serie are mentioned in reports that
are not 100% verifiable and so we know
the details of the Battle of Badr and
the number of camels in the Battle of
ahead and a specific fight in the Battle
of the Honda many of these stories are
not narrated with those rigorous chains
and by and large even in my narration of
the serie to you I let these stories go
by no big deal however sometimes we have
to stop it why and when when the story
raises problems and this is one of those
stories why does it raise problems
because the primary problem really of
the story is that many people who don't
believe in our Prophet Muhammad system
they have to answer a very difficult
question where did the prophecy let him
get the idea of being a prophet and the
knowledge that he came with as a prophet
and this is something that is a
mortgages are a miracle and I mentioned
this many times previously that our
prophet sallallahu alayhi wa seldom did
not know the stories of essa and Musa he
never heard the name of you knows this
not it's not of the ancestry of the
Arabs what has he got to do with this
with that branch of humanity neither is
the concept of prophecy known to the
Arabs
after the time of Ismael - three
thousand years ago the Arabs have never
seen or heard of a prophet and they
never knew what is the Prophet so for
the Prophet Muhammad SAW seemed to come
and say I am a prophet he is bringing
something novel for the Arabs of his
time and the Quran mentions this many
verses you didn't know what was Amman
you didn't know what was why you didn't
know what were the stories of the
prophets of old and for the longest time
people would say the Prophet SAW saw
them learn to this the non-muslims would
say he learned these stories in his
journey to Syria and this is an example
here whoa hey Rock fired up his
imagination one of the famous
Orientalists of the last century he goes
this monk fired up his imagination he
must have told him stories of Jesus
Christ and Moses and so the young lad
came back and thirty years later those
stories are found in garbled form
because they're not in the pure form of
the old and new testament the islamic
version is always different and so
apparently from this guy's perspective
he learned these stories and then he
regurgitated them as an older man and
the response to this is that really
without even you bringing in this this
tangent the story doesn't make sense
many of our classical scholars rejected
it and in my heart I I don't find this
to be a comforting story a mama debbie
said i think the story is fabricated and
so the story of the monk the story of
the process and a meeting the market has
some problems and it is not mentioned in
every book of ceará and it's not has
issues and its content as issues and
therefore it is best to simply narrate
it and point out that many of our
classical scholars did not find this
story acceptable the next phase in the
prophecies in his life was that when he
was a young man probably around fifteen
sixteen years old and as we said many
times the early life of the Prophet
system is the most undocumented
we have nothing from the time he was
nine ten till the time he's fifteen
except for one story here one story
there and we explained this many times
nobody is witnessing what's happening
and recording it nobody knows that this
person is going to be a
prophet of Allah nobody is writing down
anything there is no writing in Mecca
right there is no records additionally
those who lived long or few the people
who accompanied the processor when he's
a young boy who are they where are they
now
by the time he's 5060 most of them have
passed away by the time he passes always
sought asylum where are the people who
would have remembered oh this is what
happened he when he was a child even
look at your own father's you have
memories of course you know your own
fathers and your grandfather's how much
do you know when they were eight years
old nine years old ten years old what
happened to them all you know is one
story here another story there isn't
that the case and this is your own
father
how about someone 14 centuries ago the
Prophet saws a time when there is no
records there are no photographs there
are no nothing so imagine now and so we
have a lot of blanks in this regard so
the next bit of information we have was
the first job of the prophet sallallahu
alayhi wa seldom the Prophet SAW said
I'm said hadith is and Behati so it is
completely authentic Allah never sent a
prophet except that he was a shepherd he
was a shepherd
of sheep so they said not even you
almost injure of Allah and this shows
notice this the majority of the Sahaba
didn't know that the process and about a
job as a shepherd and they are his
companions and so how about the other
details when he was a child
so they said how about you they thought
he would be an exception because they
never thought he was a shepherd how
about you Yasu Allah so they're trying
to find an exception because he's just
said all the prophets are shepherds
so they said but how about you so
they're tryna so but you weren't a
shepherd so I said yes I was I was a
shepherd and I used to tend to the flock
of the people of Makkah in return for
some thought all eat some pennies the
smallest denomination some cheap coins
some pennies because what is a shepherd
gonna get you in return for some pennies
this is what I would do and in another
hadith the Prophet Sal Allahu alayhi wa
seldom in one of the later expeditions
he saw some of the shepherds taking care
of the sheep that they had and so he
said I advise you to find the
of the IROC a specific type of tree and
find the darker branches because it will
be better for your flock so they were
shocked and they said how do you know
this o Messenger of Allah how do you
know which plant is the best for the
sheep and not even which plant but which
season of the plant is best for the
Sheep so he said I used to be a shepherd
I used to be a shepherd and every
prophet that Allah has sent used to be a
shepherd and in another version of the
hadith in western a muhammad he said
moosa was sent when he was a shepherd
meaning sent by allah to the people when
he was a shepherd and the wood was sent
to become a prophet when he was a
shepherd and i too was a shepherd in a
jad where is a jad now there is a big
hospital called a jad Hospital and it is
right behind the harem right and that is
a jet that is the place of a jet I you
as a shepherd in a jad that hospital
behind the atom the closest hospital to
the atom itself is called a jet and it
was in a valley and so I said that is
the valley that I would go take my sheep
in and I was a shepherd in this valley
of a jet and this is so true musa
alayhis salam was a shepherd he where he
was a shepherd for the the man in Midian
remember when he went out and the man
said I need you to take care of my flock
and if you do then I'll marry my
daughter - he was a shepherd and as he
was a shepherd then he became a prophet
similarly Dawood the story of David and
Goliath right
Dawood was not a famous person the
Dawood was some Shepherd that would was
nobody and they were all wondering how
are we gonna kill Goliath Janet and so
that would came to the Prophet - the
King Saul da doot and he said I will
kill this mighty giant and everybody
laughed what do you as a shepherd and he
invented and he invented the what did he
invent the slingshot right and he
figured out how to throw a stone at with
great force at the mighty king or the
mighty emperor goliath galoot and this
is how he became the king and the
prophet he was a shepherd and similarly
our prophet muhammad saw sallam he was a
shepherd attending to the sheep of the
people of mecca what are some of the
wisdoms why would Allah so what you do
this
if Allah had willed our professorson
would have been born in the lap of
luxury if Allah had willed he would not
have to lift a finger if Allah had
willed money would be poured upon him as
a child and as a teenager and as an
adult why would Allah will that our
professor sanim starts his life with the
most menial the lowest paid the most
difficult job in really in all of Mecca
why would Allah Azza WA JAL will this
because there's a lot of wisdoms here
first and foremost being a shepherd
gives you the opportunity to engage in
solitude to think when you're a shepherd
you're all alone you'd go away from
society from people you take your flock
of sheep there are no other human beings
and you have solitude you contemplate
and you think about the purpose of life
and subhanAllah is this is a something
we just look around us those people who
are busy with the dunya are the least
spiritual those people are engrossed
with the world with our jobs those
people have nothing to do other than
this world they can get by ignoring
religion and it's not a coincidence by
the way that atheism is more popular and
more common in the most opulent and rich
countries and also among the professions
that have the most money
generally speaking farmers you know
people who are involved with nature
they're very religious people isn't that
the case right why because when you're
involved with nature with the creation
of Allah automatically it has an impact
on your soul you cannot really be an
atheist if you're attending the flock
and you're seeing nature and you're
taking care of your cultivation and
you're seeing that when you're involved
with this you have this Eman this raw
Ania the spirituality and when you're
cut off from the creation of Allah and
you're immersed in this dunya your heart
becomes hard then you can ignore Allah
subhana wa ta'ala you can even be so
arrogant as to say there is no God and
again it's not a coincidence the people
who are the poorest on earth are
generally the most religious and the
people who are the most immersed in
materialism they have the hardest hearts
and they can ignore the fact of religion
being religious another benefit of being
a shepherd sheep are very similar to men
in that they need to be taken care of or
else they're going to go astray they
need to be taken care of or else they
will go astray sheep need a shepherd and
every single animal has a personality
and the Shepherd understands this
personality and I have never been a
shepherd but I have spoken to shepherds
I've spoken to those who took care of a
flock in Arabia and they told me the
exact same thing that you need to treat
every animal according to that animal's
personality some sheep are stubborn some
are soft and gentle right some they know
where they're going
others they follow the pack some where
the leader some are not so the Shepherd
gets to understand each and every sheep
in the flock now someone like me they
all look the same I can't tell them
apart but the Shepherd knows everyone if
you go to any farmer he'll mention yeah
he'll mention names this is this this is
that this is this to me they all look
the same right but to the shepherd he
knows everyone and everyone's
personality and he deals with every
animal according to its personality and
this is what a leader needs to do and
this is what a prophet of Allah needs to
do that they need to deal with every
person according to their massage
according to their personality also
another blessing of being a shepherd is
that being a shepherd makes you soft and
tender on the one hand and brave and
courageous on the other soft and tender
for your own flock and brave and
courageous in fighting wolves and in
fighting other beasts that will attack
the sheep and you are all alone in the
desert you're all alone you have you
don't there's not a group of people
there with you and so it simultaneously
makes you soft and loving because these
are your animals you have to take care
of them and it also makes you brave and
fearless because you are responsible to
protect your flock against the enemy and
our prophet salallahu alayhi wa seldom
said that the people who own horses are
going to be the ones who are full of
pride and the people who own camels are
going to be the ones full of arrogance
and the people who own
sheep will be the ones full of Sakina
and with our humility and humbleness
right horse owners they're always proud
nothing wrong with that if you don't
take it a ton Islamic the Russell making
a factual statement that horse owners
they have this sense camel owners they
become course and they become arrogant a
little bit and sheep those who take care
of sheep they have Waqar and Sakina
humility and humbleness and this is
exactly one of the reasons why allah
subhanho wa taala made every prophet a
person who took care of sheep and so a
shepherd inculcate certain qualities
patience humbleness humility bravery
mercy tenderness and it is not a
coincidence that later on in life our
prophet system was very tender towards
animals because he was a shepherd and
there is a whole aspect of animal rights
in Islam which inshallah maybe one day
we'll give a talk about animal rights in
Islam I've given a whole talk previously
in other places about animal rights in
Islam our Prophet SAW Salam once a camel
came to him a camel came to him and
began making its noises and tears came
out of its eyes
the hadith isn't so known in Asahi and
the prophecies in him soothe the camel
and calmed it down until they stopped
crying and then he said where is the
owner of the camel and a man came and he
goes this animal has complained against
you
span Allah this animal has complained
against you that you overwork it and
underfeed it and you beat it fear Allah
with regards to these animals that Allah
has blessed you with subhanAllah
subhanAllah you're not allowed to be
cruel even to animals and he's telling
the owner fear Allah with regards to
this animal that Allah has blessed you
with there's a tenderness even towards
animals where did this come from
of course from Allah but all of this
builds that up being a shepherd and
taking care of the flock another aspect
of being a shepherd at this young age
he's hardly fourteen fifteen years old
it shows that he understands he needs to
earn money he's not going to be a
freeloader off of his uncle Abu Tata
he needs to get in his own feet and be
independent
and to help his uncle out to take care
of the expenses of the house yet another
blessing of being a shepherd is to show
the simple lifestyle of the Prophet
Muhammad Sal Allahu alayhi wa send them
that he used to do the most the most if
you like baseline of manual labor
there's nothing really that is more you
know difficult and more and lesser paid
than this this is the baseline of manual
labor and our professors Adam did it and
he got paid for it and this really shows
us that there is no sin there is no
dishonor in working for your own money
and in working for your own RISM our
prophet saw them did it and the prophets
as a time said that the purest money
that you can earn is the money that you
earn from the labor of your hands this
is the purest money you do some physical
work from the sweat of your back you do
some physical work and then you get paid
for it and then he said and even the
prophet Dawood alayhis-salam he would
earn his money from the labors of his
hands what was the prophet who can tell
me what was he there was an iris myth
and he was also a carpenter he was a
carpenter and a tyrant Smith and he
would get money from these things and
that is how he would take care of
himself and this shows us as well that
one of the greatest signs of sincerity
is that you do something for the good of
the people in return for nothing from
them the profitsystem earned his own
sustenance he didn't get it from the
people around him and there are many
verses in the Quran as Oroku male he
addre monokuma rahim allah i'm not
asking you for money I'm not asking you
for sustenance when I'm preaching to you
what Islam is I have no motive for doing
this other than allah subhanahu wa tada
and this is the reality that when you
don't have a favor sorry when the people
don't have a favor on you then you are
more pure in your call to them when
they're not paying you what excuse a
motivation do you have for being a
prophet of allah and also one final
point here it shows us that
even when the profitsystem became a
prophet and he had all that he wanted if
he wanted to have it he could have have
it he was not embarrassed to tell people
of his simple past I started over there
and this is the reality of everything
not just religion but the Deen and dunya
you need to start at the bottom and work
your way to the top and then you will be
the most successful if you start at the
top
somehow it happens a fluke of
coincidence a birthright something
you're not ever going to be as
successful as those who started from the
bottom and work their way to the top and
this is the reality of business as it is
the reality of the religion as well look
at the most successful entrepreneurs on
the face of this earth people like Bill
Gates and and Steve Jobs and all of them
they all started from the bottom from
their basements and from their backyards
and from their garages isn't that the
case and they are the ones who then
build the largest empires never is the
one who inherits all of this
instantaneously as successful as the one
who builds it from scratch so son of
Allah and the same applies with the
Prophet Muhammad system he started right
from the bottom to get to the highest
pinnacle he went through every phase of
life and then when you get there then
indeed Allah has blessed you with it and
Allah has caused you to deserve it and
earn it otherwise if you just get it
without any labor then you will not
appreciate it and you will not do
justice to it so our professor son
begins being a shepherd and he works his
way all the way to the top of being the
prophet of Allah and look how true is
the statement of Allah subhana WA Ta'ala
when he says now add arabic o Malc Allah
your Lord has not abandoned you nor has
he shown you any harshness what an a
hero - hydraulic a minute Allah and
every stage that happens to you will be
better than every stage that came your
life will become easier and even the
next life will be better than this life
what an athlete oh hello come in Allah
what a sofa your tea got a book of fate
Allah Allah will give you until you are
content you will be content everything
Allah meeya deity meant for our didn't I
find you an orphan and I was the one who
protected you
whoa whoa Jeddah called all and fajita
and we found you not upon guidance and
we gave you guidance
Dakara Ilyn for Donna and we found you
with nothing and we gave you all that
you needed we found you with no money
and we gave you all the money that you
needed
therefore for Amelia team fnatic are oh
what a masala for a tan huh what am Abin
ear matter a big of a head did be good
to the beggar be good to the orphan when
Allah has blessed you with so much have
a soft heart and that's what we said
when you begin in a such a harsh manner
you will have a soft heart and you will
appreciate the blessings of Allah and if
all of this were to have been handed to
him instantaneously then he would not
have had that appreciation that he had
after this incident of taking care of
sheep and being a shepherd only two or
three things are narrated before the
prophethood begins the first of these
are the feature Wars the fees are Wars
of the Quraysh when the profitsystem was
a teenager probably around 1817 maybe
even 15 we don't know for sure exactly
because again nobody is recording dates
between 15 to 18 when the processor was
a teen it and most likely by the way
closer to 15 because he didn't
physically fight he didn't participate
and this shows that he was not of that
age that he would carry a sword and they
would usually allow a person to carry a
sword at around 15 that's when he became
what we call 18 and those in our days
that's the being a man in those days
they didn't have the luxury to each
other 18 15 14 is when you become a full
adult so the the fij are Wars is a
series of small battles that broke out
between two large tribes of Arabia and
again not to get too much into the Arab
you know tribes of old but we need to
have a little bit of understanding the
tribe of Quraysh belongs to a much
larger tribe it's called a branch not a
tribe of Canada keen Anna is not the
name of one tribe Canaan is the name of
many large tribes of them is and
on the another large branch of of the
Arab race was a tribe or not a tribe but
a branch called place Island Iced Island
face Island it is composed of tribes
such as hata fan
such as hawazin these are tribes are
going to come up in the serum right
cotta fan hawazin they belong to the
larger branch of place Island Quraysh
and others they belong to the larger
branch of Canada to make a long story
short a person from the kin Anna which
is one of the larger tribes of correct
so garage belongs to Canada a person
from kin Anna killed somebody from the
hawazin and when they found out the
hawazin attacked the Canaanite tribes
and polish is one of them this is what
jellia is you kill one of mine I'm gonna
go kill one of yours so the tribes of
kin Anna including the Quraysh they
rushed back into the harem what is the
harem the holy sanctuary of mecca right
and the outlying lands why did they do
this because the rule of law which is
still the rule of law in our religion
when you enter the heart on what happens
Roman de cada who Cana Amina whoever
enters the harem you are safe so they
rushed back into the harem hawazin
followed them and because they were so
angry so incensed they didn't care about
the harem and they attacked the key Nana
now this is interesting here the initial
fault was that of the side of the
Quraysh but the rebuttal was much more
severe because killing one person
outside the harem is a crime attacking
the sanctity of the harem is a much
bigger crime much bigger crime and
therefore the Quraysh declared all-out
war against hawazin and against the pace
agile on you guys understanding this
point here right both sides are at fault
the initial fault was done by the
Qureshi side not somebody from Quraysh
but from keen Anna the larger subtract
the initial fault then the other tribe
attacks Mecca and they break the haram
sanctity now the Quraysh are incensed
you have broken the sanctity of the
harem we're going to attack you and so
all-out war broke out this is called the
Wars of figa and initially the opposing
side was winning and the Quraysh was
losing eventually the Quraysh won over
and then a peace treaty was enacted they
was fighting
was limited finally a peace treaty was
enacted and the horatio agreed to pay
the blood-money and so the fighting
stopped the profitsystem says in an
authentic hadith when he's much older he
says I remember participating in the
feature Wars what why is it called
Fijian Wars fidgel means evil fujur
Foggia evil evil wars why because both
sides committed evil but especially
because the sanctity of the Haram was
broken which is the height of evil these
are evil wars
fidgel words because the sanctity of the
Haram was broken so the profitsystem
said I remember fighting in the Wars of
Phrygia and I would collect arrows for
my uncles and hand them back to my
uncles now what does this mean
so arrows are weapons you can use back
and forth when somebody shoots an arrow
and it misses the target in fact even if
it hits the target you can take it out
or you can pick it up and then you can
use it back against the enemies
it's an ammunition that you can use over
and over again correct so the Prophet
says items job was to go find those
arrows and to go look for those arrows
in the mountains when he found them he
would go and return them to his uncle's
and they would then use them against the
other tribe and the Prophet SAW said I'm
said I do not regret participating in
that war I participated and I do not
regret it I don't it's nothing wrong
that I did that I helped the Quraysh
against thee against their enemies of
the ice Island also it is narrated that
whenever the profitsystem
would appear with the Quraysh on that
day the Quraysh would win over whenever
he would not be at home the Quraysh
would lose ground and so when Abu Talib
saw this he said by Allah you're not
going to leave my sight anymore you're
going to stay with us and eventually
they reached a peace treaty and the
fighting stopped after that in another
few years even a more famous incident
occurred and this is called the hill
fell fool or the hill fell mapa yabin
the treaty or the pact of fool also
called the treaty of multiple yabin and
what is this about and at this stage the
Prophet system is probably in his early
20s probably in his early 20s so I met a
number of years after the future Wars
this path or this treaty occurred in the
Haida one of the sacred months in Mecca
according to one report the process was
exactly twenty years old what happened
was a person from the tribe of Zhu bade
and zubeida is a tribe in Yemen and so
the Yemenites when you're in Mecca the
people did not consider this tribe to be
as elite they are a low-class tribe so
the people of this tribe are not the
status of hawazin or thievery and and
they're very far away so when you're far
away what this means is you don't have
people willing to fight for you right
now let's say right now we just talked
about a war between hawazin and kin ana
these two are tribes neighboring one
another if you kill somebody from one
tribe the next tribe is across the
border they're going to come and attack
which is exactly what happened this guy
from zubeida if they were to do
something to him where are his allies
where are his brothers where are his
tribes all the way in Yemen who's going
to come to defend you and this is the
reality of jahaly society so what
happens this person from the tribe of
zubeida sold an item before had she's
come as a merchant he's brought his
leather his butt is good that's how you
get your money and he sold a number of
items to a louse even while the father
of Ahmad in a house the famous a
medieval house this is his father
announced even l.y in and that asked him
when and while he is a chieftain he's a
politician he's a career statesman in
the garage and he's a rich businessman
he sold it to him before Hajj and then
I'll said I'll give you the money
after Hajj before you go back to Yemen
come to me after and I'll give it to you
so he goes ok fine I can wait that long
I don't need it now I need it back in
Yemen so he performs the hedge and then
he says I need my money and al says come
back tomorrow so he comes back tomorrow
Allah says come back tomorrow again
comes back tomorrow and then he
continues doing this until he realizes
that he's not going to get his money
back
he's simply stalling him and he's not
giving him his money and so this person
goes to the other sub-tribes
he goes to the banu hashim he goes to
the benoît
he goes to the table them enough all of
them in flourish and he goes I need some
help these guys not giving my money back
and everyone makes an excuse why because
that our Steven Warren is a politician
he is rich he is a leader and you don't
want to get on the bad side of a leader
everyone makes an excuse oh I really
can't do anything this and that and
therefore feeling completely trapped and
not having any other outlet he decided
to make this a public issue what did
they do in those days they would write
poems and they would announce these
poems poems in those days is like news
media it's like the internet it's like a
blog post right it's like Twitter you're
gonna just send it immediately and
you're not limited to 160 characters
when you write a point and so he wrote a
poem he didn't even I mean in those days
you didn't have to write it it just
comes to you naturally spannabis amazing
I don't know how they did it it just
comes to naturally and then you say it
out loud and then this spreads
everywhere that this person has made
this poem and so one day when everybody
is in front of the cab which is
basically everybody would gather around
also time all the people of Mecca would
now come and they would say this is a
social place as well he now comes and he
says out loud his poem that he has
compiled yeah add a fiddle name of
Moomin below actor who be botany Matt
katana a daddy
when a fairy Oh family affair forehead
is who who can tell me who's fair who is
fair we mentioned this so many weeks ago
her head is
keresh Fair is the name of Quraysh fair
is the name of college purchases title
so he says yeah Aleph Aaron oh tribe
affair Oh Quraysh limb of lumen before
Atta who I am a one who has been
unjustly treated because of my
merchandise be botany meketa I am in the
valley of makita gnaw it daddy
well when fre far away from my home and
far away from people to protect me one
more heading one I'm still in my harem a
chef my hair is not been combed because
he's in a harem
Lamia clear Umrah Tahu I haven't even
finished my room Rob yeah literally
jolly where are my men to help me were
bein an EGD well hey Jerry between the
hey Jerr the maqam Ibrahim and the Hodja
the stone you are doing this to me I am
in a Haram and I'm in this state and I
am between the edge and the Hodja the
the agent is that round semicircle and
the Hodja is the Hydra destroyed and
this is being done to me in harmony man
Tim bad karma to who the true harem
belongs to those who are noble voilá
Haram lethal bells are diddle Fuji D
there is no sanctity to the one who
wears a thought most likely there was a
faux band they're involved as well
who wears a Thome while he is a cheat
and a steal and a lowly person you don't
have any Kurama you don't have any
sanctity simply because you live in
Mecca simply because you're in a holy
land you are a bunch of cheaters and
losers that's what you are as basically
what he's saying and I am in this state
of a Haram and you are doing this to me
just because I'm far away from my house
and my land and my people so the news
spread like wildfire and as zubeidat
nabbed al-muttalib the profitsystem
chunk elder uncle Aceveda Abdul Muttalib
heard of this and he said we have to do
something about this this is not gonna
go on any more and he convened a
gathering of all of the senior members
of the parish in the house of somebody
whose name you should memorize he comes
up in ceará over and over again
abdullah eben judah an Abdullah bin
Sudan Abdullah bin Sudan was a distant
uncle of
assha she was a distant uncle of Aisha
and he was considered to be the most
noble of the people of Makkah of his
time he didn't live until the dour he
died before the Dawa began but he was
considered to be the most legendary in
terms of hospitality in terms of genuine
sincerity and he was known to be the
problem solver and he was the most
elderly so they they convened in the
house of abdullah bin jihad and here is
where they agreed to a pact a treaty
what was the pact and 3g treaty that
they would side with the oppressor
against the oppressed regardless of what
ethnicity or what tribe was the
oppressor they would side sorry to say
the wrong so there the world they would
side with the oppressed against the
oppressor obviously they would side with
the oppressed against the oppressor
regardless of which tribe the oppressor
belonged to and they said even if the
one who is shown injustice is from a far
away tribe and the oppressor is from a
Quraysh sub-tribe we will side with the
one who has been oppressed and we will
get his full rights from the oppressor
and they all went in front of the Kaaba
and they publicly announced this now and
they signed their names on a document
now there is no document there is no
signature what do you do in those days
you dip your hands in perfume they're
all illiterate they don't know how to
read and write there is no pen and paper
how do you sign your name you go in
public you announce everybody that this
is our treaty and then you dip your hand
in perfume and you put that perfume on
the Kaaba on the same place everybody
puts it on the same place and that is
why this is called hateful multi-year
beam bleeb
means perfume and so this is the Treaty
of those who have perfumed themselves
helful Mulayam it is also called
healthful food many people try to
explain why the most strongest reason
seems to be that when a louse even what
L heard of this he became irritated and
angry and he said why did they have to
and get involved in a manner in a matter
that is Fuli none of their business
because Faludi means none of their
business right forego tea to them it's
none of their business
why are they getting involved so this is
another interpretation of why it's
called hill fell food and then there are
other reasons why people says food but
this seems to be the strongest what is
called hill fell food so because he said
this is a maroon food loli none of your
business what I did and so they called
it the Treaty of no business because it
is our business handful fool
that's one another name so it's called
healthy food and hateful multi-beam and
the Arabs had never heard of such a pact
before this is the first time this is
basically what we call government where
people come together and they say no
enough is enough we're not gonna allow
injustice and the Prophet SAW said
editors aside Behati the prophets as I'm
said I witnessed in the house of
Abdullah he be injured on a treaty that
were I asked to uphold it even in Islam
I would do so if I were to ask to follow
the treaty even now I would do so and I
would not be willing to give up my place
for a lot of red camels meaning if you
were to tell me if you were to give me a
lot of money and I were not present at
that treaty I would not do so I would
not be willing to do so in that treaty
he's saying they all agreed that the
rights would be given back to the ones
who deserved them and that no oppressor
would have the upper hand over the one
who was oppressed now from these two
incidents Hill fell the the health and
food and the phage are Wars what
benefits can we derive and then each
other with that we will open the floor
from these two incidents the hill fell
fuel and the vigil wars what benefits
can we derive
many benefits first and foremost the
profits awesome did not regret
participating in the Wars of Fay job and
the fact that he later says this and
boasts about this somebody can say but
hold on he wasn't a prophet at the time
this is something he did before
prophethood
how can you derive lessons from it we
say he narrated this later on and he
said I do not regret this showing that
what he did was correct and this shows
us that it is permissible and some
scholars have derived a summary lemma
have derived this that it is permissible
to even fight in wars and battles that
are not necessarily religious because
this is a war that has nothing to do
with religion it's a war to defend the
Haram and the sanctity of the harem both
sides are pagan both sides are idol
worshippers both sides believe in the
same gods and yet the Prophet SAW son
participated now others point out that
he didn't quite physically fight he
aided he helped what did he do he gave
the arrows to his people so there's a
lot of fact that you know people are
debating to what level but the bottom
line is that even in such wars where
things are being defended which are not
purely religious the Muslim has some
leeway to do something to get involved
because the Prophet system did do
something and in this war it's not a
clear-cut line of good versus evil
because both sides have done some evil
but one side has done more evil than the
other and the Prophet says was fighting
on the side that was closer to the truth
and again he wasn't quite fighting but
he was participating in some manner and
this is some point to think about in the
world that we live in when many of the
battles that are being waged we're
talking about battles that don't involve
Muslim lands let's say many of the
battles are very murky can we help out
can we support this is something that
can be discussed from this incident
likewise the issue of the hill for food
and multiply beam these incidents show
that and this is a very important point
for us in America that the Prophet
system was actively involved with the
Society of his time even though the
Society of his time was not Muslim and
he
was proud of that involvement and the
cause is that he got involved with our
not purely religious causes so the hill
fund for goon
involves justice involves truth involves
helping the oppressed and later on he is
saying I am proud to have been there and
even now as a prophet and a Muslim where
I took what I called to uphold that
treaty I would proudly do so and this
clearly shows us that getting involved
in public causes is a part of being a
good Muslim and this is one of the
biggest problems that we have as a
minority here in America is that we
think we should only get involved in
what we think are purely Islamic causes
we don't get involved with racism with
oppression with poverty with child abuse
with sexual abuse we say oh these things
these are just other problems we only
get involved with for the sling and
Kashmir and the flood over here and a
flood over there and that earthquake
over here in Muslim lands those are all
good causes I'm not the stuff for Allah
making fun of it but at the same time
from the Sira what do we learn the
Prophet system was an active part of his
society and he is supporting justice in
his society and that justice has nothing
to do with Islam or non Islam with
Muslim or cafe and this is one of the
biggest faults in my humble opinion of
us as a minority that we still don't
seem to have a connection with the
society around us think imagine what
Dawa we would have if a representative
of the red cross society wanting blood
donating blood is a bearded Muslim with
a skullcap and it comes on TV we need
blood for our cause nothing to do with
Islam know that WA but that is the best
that WA imagine somebody talking against
racism talking against oppression
speaking out for the rights of these
migrant workers right emoji of a sister
coming on the television and saying we
need to protect children's rights we
need to do this and not know nothing
about we need to convert to Islam we
need to give that no but her message is
her that WA
and her involvement with society is the
best data that she can do right this is
what our profit system said did because
basically brothers and sisters
oppression is oppression regardless of
who does it and who it's done against
racism is racism child abuse child abuse
poverty is poverty you don't need to be
a Muslim to suffer from poverty or to be
helped because you're a Muslim it
affects all of us and listen to this
when you become involved with the
problems of society people see you as
sincere then when you come forth and say
I'm a Muslim your Islam is shown to be a
sincere faith and that's what our profit
system did he was involved with the
problems of his society and he's solving
those problems then when he becomes a
prophet he is known he's loved he's
respected his message now becomes
acceptable and nobody can come and say
who are you to preach to us where were
you when we needed you
where were you when society was
suffering from a problem you guys are
following this point right and we as a
Muslim community the fact of the matter
is we are cut off from the society
around us we don't have active
engagements with them we don't have any
type of cause that span Allah I mean I
need to be concerned with my just as
much as my neighbor for crime because
crime affects me and it affects him I
need to be conferred concerned about the
murder rates of Memphis I need to be
concerned about all of the issues
surrounding me and when I get involved
in those issues and I become active in
them now when I come forth and I say
while my religion is Islam people are
gonna listen to me
because I have standing respect in
society and that's exactly what our
prophet sallallahu alayhi wa seldom did
the the bottom line here there are
values that are human values not
necessarily just Islamic values justice
security fighting against oppression and
the Muslim needs to be at the forefront
in all of these issues and because the
truth is linked together when you
support justice and you have the proper
theology it will come forth as a total
package
unfortunately for us douwe is only talk
preaching through theology preaching
through talking to others debating with
Christians and Jews about no this is one
minuscule aspect of Dawa and it is not
the bulk of Dawa our profit system
showed us what we need to do and finally
as well this clearly demonstrates the
status of the prophet sallallahu alayhi
wa seldom even before becoming a prophet
despite the fact that he is hardly
twenty years old he is called to witness
the treaty of jihad and to participate
along with dipping his hand he was the
youngest participant and this shows us
that they saw in him a future leader or
else they would not have invited a young
man to participate in their gatherings
he was the youngest participant in the
house of Judah and this clearly shows
they sensed in him that he would become
a great leader and that is exactly what
happened and this incident also shows us
that despite all of the differences and
despite all of the problems of the Arabs
and the Quraysh they still had good in
them and they had characteristics of
nobility and a virtue and despite their
tribal differences they agreed to come
together to help the wrong and the
oppressed and this shows us that even
though it was a time of jahiliya they
were still there was still an element of
virtue in them and it was because of
this virtue and because of this element
of good that allah subhana wa ta'ala
chose to send our prophet sallallahu
alayhi wa send them in their midst to
revive those very virtues insha allah
who ta'ala next
hidaka next wednesday we will talk about
the story of the marriage of the prophet
sallallaahu idea he was seldom with
Khadijah and with other two or three
stories the building of the Kaaba and
also how the Prophet system was
protected as a young man before the
prophethood and these are the final
stories that we know before the actual
prophethood begins only two three
stories left and that is all that we
know forty years of the Prophet saws
life really all that we have done
completely I have not left anything I
have given you every story that we have
from the classical tradition and you
find how little it is
and this is a Las wisdom he has
preserved what we need to know and there
as much that has happened that will not
have been a benefit to us and for wisdom
known to Allah it has been basically not
been preserved and charlotta with this
we open up the floor for around seven or
eight minutes of questions and then we
will pray so that I shall bow here
specimens that you can die before the
down and I just thought about that how
he was an old guy you know what doesn't
love you with such people who did not
become Muslim options they did not get
down so the question is what is the fate
of those who have not heard of Islam
this is a question that springs to the
minds of many many many people and the
response is multifold first and foremost
and I don't direct this only to you is
actually to everybody here it is not of
much benefit to us to think about what
is going to happen to other people and
to concentrate too much on this is
actually problematic for us we leave
their affairs to Allah that's the
general rule and the general rule as
well is ask questions that are of
benefit to us and this is we derive it
from the prophecy lessons hadith that my
Ummah shall remain in good until they
start asking about the children of the
idol worshippers interesting vague
hadith my OMA will remain and good until
they began asking about the children of
the idol worshippers some of the
scholars have interpreted this hadith my
own Michelle remain and good until they
start debating about issues that are of
no concern to them I mean what
difference does it make to us what is
going to happen Allah is the most
knowledgeable Allah is the most merciful
Allah is the most wise Allah is the most
just let's leave it at that
that's one response and that's level one
and again it's not just directed to you
if they don't feel because this is
everybody has this question on their
minds right and so the scholars say and
this is again I'm not the one saying
that again this we found find in our
books of theology that
this is a fundamental problem with many
people they worry about others too much
and Islam tells us to worry about
ourselves alaikum and Fusako worry about
yourself and that's a and when you do
that then you actually go very far when
you think about other people a lot what
happens is you get lazy and then you
think yourself mashallah all
high-and-mighty
right that's the first point the second
point after having said don't ask I will
then answer anyway because there is a
theological benefit here scholars have
differed greatly over this issue and the
bottom line is that people who had
access to the teachings of Islam or knew
monotheism but did not but did not avail
themselves to that knowledge they will
not have an excuse in the eyes of Allah
and this particular person Abdullah bin
Jahan there's a hadith in Bukhari that
Aisha asked Aisha is the distant nice
the grand or the great what is called
great niece our grandniece whatever of
abdullah bin jordan and aisha says o
Messenger of Allah even jus daun was a
great man who was kind to the neighbors
and good to the people which will be his
fate what will happen to him so the
prophesies that I'm said he is going to
the fire so Aisha's says why so he says
and listen to this he never said once
Rob billfish lira beautifully now this
is a very interesting point here and I
said this - three days ago in the halaqa
I was having at night in our times
people consider piety and righteousness
to be only being good to others
if you're good to other people how las
that's all we need from you you will go
to heaven if you open up an orphanage in
Calcutta Alice you will become world
famous doesn't care what you believe
doesn't care you think God has a son
this is becomes irrelevant right if you
open up a hospital if you're smiling to
everybody or he was a good and loving
man and this hadith we learn oh that's
all fine and dandy yes but there's an
element that you need to do as well and
that is even more important than being
good to others and that is believing in
the one who created you and worshiping
the one who created you in the end of
the day being good to people is good but
worshiping Allah is better and more
important of what use is it to be good
to mankind when you deny the one who
gave you the greatest good and that is
Allah and so this person image Iran
never once did he say Rob bill philia
bill Finley he lived a life carefree of
religion he didn't have any religiosity
and so it's a very simple question why
should Allah forgive somebody who never
asked for forgiveness why should Allah
reward somebody who never did anything
for his sake very logical question right
why should Allah reward somebody in our
times the verdict of piety is based
completely on how good you are to others
in Islam the verdict of piety is based
on two things what you believe and how
good you are in the ladina amanu why I'm
in a sari hat both go together if you
need to have the proper belief and do it
for Allah and then you need to have good
Amal that follows along with that if you
have one without the other
it is of no use it is of no use and we
say this very clearly as well just
because somebody says there are Muslim
it doesn't mean anything does not mean
anything and we believe as Muslims that
no human being has the right to say
you're going to Jenna and you're going
to help no you don't say this have
anybody unless Allah has said it so we
say Abu Bakr is going to Jenna
this is going to help I can say this
because Allah told me we say Oh mother
is going to Jenna
Pharaon is going to help we say this
because Allah has told me otherwise we
don't say of any person even the
greatest scholars you mama boy anything
mum Schaffer Imam Ali we say we hope
they're going to gender insha'Allah
they're going to gender but we don't say
categorically and the same applies for
the worst people on earth we don't
mention names and say so and so is going
to help we don't say this why because
Who am I Who am I
we leave it to Allah subhana WA Ta'ala
but we speak in generalities whoever
believes in Allah and does righteousness
will go to paradise this is generalities
and I hope to be amongst them and
whoever rejects Allah or does not act in
righteousness will go to the fire of
hell and I seek refuge in Allah from
being amongst them and this is something
we're very clear about our religion is a
religion where you need to have the
proper belief and the proper action and
if you have one without the other
you're not going to get there and the
people in the time of early the Prophet
system early life they knew the true
religion of Ibraheem and they knew that
Ibraheem was not an idol worshipper and
yet they simply wanted to ignore and
live a carefree life and therefore they
were not majority then we're not
forgiving because of that sisters you
have a question
yes good
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healthful multi-beam healthful food oh
hey whaddaya mean yes could we talk
about a very relevant topic about
community involvement that we don't seem
yourself
because in that historical perspective
of how that happens but I also find
blame in a power scholar that our
organization does not create that but
attention to community service activity
to establishing massages what do you say
about that Adam you see that we will
open up
so the question is that what is the role
of the leadership in pushing the
community to get involved in these
community projects there's no question
that the preachers the do a diorama the
lecturers they have a big role in
educating the Muslim masses about this
reality of our faith and there is no
question that you're correct in pointing
out that most people do not mention
community activism you know you hardly
hear a hold but about getting about with
the community and in fact not just this
you hardly hold but about a social
problem
this is itself a problem you hardly hear
about something that is relevant to the
community a lot of times hope does deal
with things that are not relevant to the
people living here and I have I hope
inshallah I don't fall into this because
I have always tried my best
personally speaking to always be
relevant to the community and to speak
of something that the community needs to
hear definitely this is a changing Asha
a lot with the second and third
generation and I hope that insha'Allah
as we progress in the next few decades
inshallah we hope that the Muslim
community will understand the importance
Islamic Lee politically socially to
become relevant to the community around
them of course there is other a lot of
factors here one of the factors is the
cultural element when our fathers came
and some of you are of that immigrant
generation of course there is this this
detachment that this is not my place of
course it's natural something wrong with
that even right I mean you didn't you
weren't born and raised here you know so
there's always this element of you have
adopted this as your homeland a lot of
people when they came they initially
thought five years ten years let me just
get my education let me work two three
years and those two three years became
20-30 years some of them are still
talking about going back home you know
who I'm talking about here okay and they
still have a home empty back home
somehow deluding themselves to think
that they're going to go back and live
there
so when when your foot is still one foot
is still back there I mean the fact of
the matter how are you going to become
involved in society you don't think it
is your own right and I have said many
times I mean for those of us were born
and raised here this is our home when we
can think of no other you know that we
cannot you know I we wouldn't be able to
function well lucky you know I wouldn't
be able to function in Karachi you know
my parents might have lived there 20 30
years
I cannot even imagine living there it's
not my hometown so therefore it's
something that insha'Allah I'm
optimistic those who have been born and
raised here they automatically feel the
need to be socially relevant because
this is their society right and a
shallow with the help and encouragement
of you know a new community leaders and
new activists inshallah we hope this
will change and I'm also very happy at
what we have done here in m.i.c we have
done a lot of stuff you know with the
blood drives with the heart song church
this is exactly what we need to be doing
becoming socially relevant making sure
that the community knows who we are
hamdulillah this is what we hope to
become a type of model institution for
for other massage rooms in North America
you want to add a point dunnage to this
data point is we also should encourage
our parents first-generation
encourage your children to go into
professions encourage their parents to
encourage their children okay our
scholars are the odd and our lecturer
and our communities should encourage the
parents our societies and our
communities do not only become positions
employer to Nike
also she also for sociologists
historians academics and of course and I
think that alhamdulillah any post 9/11
especially I think that a lot of people
finally see the need that engineers and
doctors are great when it comes to
solving equations and curing diseases
but really they're not going to become
make Islam a household name they're not
going to make this a community you know
a name here and somehow Allah all you
need to do is look at the effects that's
somebody like the boxer Muhammad Ali had
write a million doctors couldn't do what
this one man did and that is to make
Islam this is back in the 60s and 70s a
household name and a symbol of respect a
million doctors and engineers could not
do what this one meant it and that shows
us I mean we need to broaden our
horizons we need to be able to we always
complain about you know another group
they do this they do that they do this
they do that you know if you go study
these other groups and what they've done
you know it's not as if they were handed
this plate and it just descended out of
thin air they work for it and they got
people to be active in media active in
the corporation's active in business
active in this and that and therefore
when you're a minority and you spread
your people to the places where they
need to be this is how a minority
survives it's nothing there's nothing
nefarious or evil about it well I am
being blunt here this is a reality if
you're a minority amongst the majority
the only way to survive and to flourish
is to make sure that your minority is in
positions of influence and
respectability and power we are
oversaturated with engineers and doctors
lawyers and accountants hamdulillah
that's that's we need that but there's
an oversaturation we have a whole you
know area here that we need to fill my
thing that I'm always pushing is we need
scholars and activists from the second
generation of course that's my passion
and forte that we need to stop importing
with all respect to our Imams it's
called when you start importing when you
stop outsourcing Islam we need to make
our own
own teenagers find somebody who's bright
educated instead of sending him to
Harvard send him to us hood or Medina
pay for him finance him and Ben then
tell him when you come back you're gonna
be our Imam because we need a second
generation Imam we need somebody who can
give a whole tuba and our youth want to
go listen not give excuses to go run
away right because it's socially
relevant all of this goes back to this
issue of you know not just scholars and
Imams but we need people involved in the
media it represented spokespersons
everybody and to each his own I mean
alhamdulillah I have a certain niche
here that I'm doing this I wish I could
get involved in other things but I can't
but every one of you should have a
passion and a cause every one of you
should have something that look I feel
very strongly about let's say domestic
abuse I feel very strongly about it
excellent go find a non-profit an NGO
that's educating that's preaching and
get involved with that I feel very
strongly about cancer subhanAllah go do
something that educate the people you
know give public service campaigns as a
Muslim all you need to do is you know
Mohammad so-and-so is being the
spokesperson for the National Cancer
Society subhanAllah something as simple
as that that you are becoming socially
relevant as a Muslim this is one of the
best that was that you can do much
better than a debate much better than me
preaching to a non-muslim audience
you're going to preach through actions
which is what our prophet saw them did
inshallah it's time to stop for Salah
Felisha we will resume next week with
salam alikum warahmatu allahi robotic
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