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to everybody all around the globe that's
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Your family member, your cousin, your
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you've heard that we're talking about
serious issues, purpose of life, where'd
you come from? Where you going when you
died? This is the crucial question that
all of us should be asking because death
is a reality and we don't want to take
this life as a joke cuz it's not a joke.
So we have our next special guest who's
been with us before, Nomman Ali Khan on
the Dean Show to discuss some very
serious issues that on the minds of all
the people. You got baseball, football,
clubs, nightclubs, dancing, all these
other things is distracting us. But is
that the way to go? Is that the way to
have peace and happiness in life? Or is
there more to life? Find out the answers
to all these questions and more when we
come back here on the Dean Show. Be
right back.
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It's good to have you back here again on
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to be here. You're actually here.
Alhamdulillah. With the Bayana
Institute. We talked about it in our
first shows about the institute that you
have teaching people the Arabic lang.
Are you teaching people how to be an
Arab or why are you teaching them
Arabic?
Um, well, yeah, people should be Arabs,
all of them. No, no, no. I [laughter]
Uh we're trying to learn the Arabic
language as best we can here to be able
to study the Quran and actually even
beyond that study Islam more in depth.
Okay. Before we get into that, we want
to scare some people off because some
people when they hear Islam Muslims,
they get turned off. They get turned
away. So we want to start off with some
baby steps. And people when they hear
about Brad Pitt, they want to know if he
bought that goldfish, what JLo's doing.
You know, Facebook 50 cents.
Wait, Brad Pit bought a goldfish?
No, I'm just saying if it was, they'd
want to know. So I would have known
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but purpose of life this is the crucial
question and we should be asking this
question. Why is it important to ask the
question or or reflect about the purpose
of life and where you going when you
die? Why is this so important? You know
it's most people don't ask themselves
that question and I'm very have happy at
the institute that we have people that
have made such a big sacrifice in life
to try and study here and leave careers
and studies put them on hold and you
know convince their families of making
this sacrifice which actually in and of
itself is proof that they have a very
clear picture of what their purpose in
life is and may Allah accept these kinds
of efforts from especially the youth
that are here. Um but you know this
question is not something everybody
cares to ask about because the answer is
difficult and the answer requires a lot
of change in one's lifestyle right so
it's something that really on one's own
time if Allah blesses somebody if if God
blesses somebody to have the the
conscious mind to think and to put the
brakes on everything else in life and
just stop and think uh this question
will you know uh lead to some very
serious consequences and some very
serious changes in life. But as
important as this question is, it is
probably the most ignored question in
most people's lives.
Why does everything else seem more
important than the creator, what he
wants us to do? You know, these things
are just like for some people just fairy
tales, you know, that their parents told
them. You know, for some people, for
many people, baseball is more important.
football, you know, who won the Super
Bowl, uh what that girl is wearing, what
that boy is saying, all these things
that really at the end of the day, it's
like a false reality that people have
created that is really it's a false
perception of life is. Why do people are
more entertained by that instead of
these more important topics that we're
talking about?
I think to some extent all of us are
like that to some extent
and it's hard to avoid things that are
happening around us in the world. The
basic thing you know the basic matter
boils down to what you can see and what
you can't right when we talk about God
the creator the sustainer the provider
we talk about the afterlife we talk
about one's purpose in life and where
they're going after they go into the
ground and all of these sorts of things
these are all matters of not the scene
but the unseen and these are not matters
what people see their actions they don't
see the consequences of things like not
praying or things like eating whatever
they want or saying whatever they want
they don't see those consequences right
away right and even people who warn them
about these say the real consequences of
these are coming much later, right? So
somebody lies right now, their their
tongue doesn't get cut off. Somebody
does something wrong, they don't see the
the impact of their action right away
unless they're like robbing a bank and
the cops show up or something, you know?
So you don't see the consequences of
your actions in this life immediately.
And that's another reason to easily
procrastinate, to put it off. And this
is part of uh human nature in some
sense. uh we love to work on things that
have immediate rewards and we like to
put things off that have long-term
rewards. I mean, I'll give you a simpler
example, not just religion. Um, you
know, you have a workout program, you
have a diet program and if you stay on
this program for 60 days or 90 days or 6
months, then you'll lose these many
pounds and you you'll feel much better
about yourself and etc etc etc. You work
out the first day, second day, you see
results or no, you don't. You work out
for a week, you see results. Not really.
You go for a month, you barely see any
results. What What do most people do?
Ah, the goal is way too far out there.
I I mean, people have become so
accustomed, most people, including
ourselves to some extent, have become so
accustomed to results right away.
Anything that's even a little bit
long-term, we say that's not for me.
Give me a shortcut. Give me something
else. Right? The things you make
reference to often, you know,
entertainment,
um, you know, um, different kinds of
company and partying and all this kind
of stuff. What is it? It's instant
gratification.
It's I need I want something to happen
for me. It's happening right away. I
don't want to wait for it to happen. And
this is at the heart of the problem. You
know, the the the the human problem of
not having enough patience and wanting
to go just just think in the now, live
in the moment. And these are actually
advertising taglines that millions of
dollars are spent on. Live in the
moment, you only live once, you know, uh
obey your thirst and whatever, right?
These are people that get PhDs in
marketing and come up with these small
taglines which actually become
philosophies for people to live. You can
I I have friends whose probably your
whole their whole life you can summarize
as they obey their thirst. That's all
they're just a sprite walking around.
You know that's what they are. So what
we have to instill into ourselves, into
the company around us and slowly our
friends, people that we know is this
idea that there's more to life than just
these immediate pleasures that you're
pursuing that leave you empty anyway.
You know,
we're going to try to just jump around
cuz time is short and hopefully one of
the things that we discuss will resonate
with some people cuz some people be able
to relate to one thing rather than
another. like the letter that we got
that we discussed on the show from the
sister who got caught off guard or on
guard and she got led away and she was
hypnotized by the guy. You remember that
letter and she was asking for advice
what to do gave her some wonderful
advice and from that letter of hers and
you giving alhamdulillah by the
permission of the creator that advice so
many other people got to benefit. So
let's let's talk about the sisters, you
know, a little bit and our sisters in
humanity. The sisters in humanity who
now a lot of times are seeking the
attention instead of from the creator of
the heavens and earth, they're seeking
attention from the boys. So instead of
wearing more, they're wearing less. And
you'll see one person came up to me
said, "Man, I just saw my family member,
you know, on Facebook and I couldn't
believe it. How do I, you know, talk to
her, do some kind of show? I can send
her this video because when I saw her,
she was like this and everything was
off." And I knew her when she was 13,
14. And now let's give her a name, Jazz.
Okay. Uh, you know, she shortened it for
maybe it might have been something else,
but it's Jazz, right? So Jazz is like
this. It's up here. That and the other.
And he's like, man, he feels so saddened
in the heart because he knows
that she's going to get eaten by the
wolves. Man is out for one thing. He's
hungry and she's going to be just a
captive, enslaved, and a prisoner
that's out there in this scandalous
society.
My advice to my sisters is uh it's
complicated and it's it's difficult for
me to talk about especially because I'm
a father and I have four daughters
myself and my daughters are getting
bigger and bigger. Actually, my
10-year-old's running around here
somewhere. Um and it's something I think
about and worry about a lot.
Scary, huh?
Uh yeah, it is. It is very scary. But we
have to the one of the things that our
religion anchors us in is to not get
caught up in the symptoms and to
understand the disease. understand a
disease.
Yeah. And so like the way somebody
dresses, the the way somebody talks, the
behavior, these are all symptoms, that's
not targeting the disease. So for
instance, telling you know, some some of
the viewers that are watching this may
have teenage kids that were brought up
religiously and then they hit a certain
point in life and then they just became
a different person all of a sudden. And
now you can't control how your daughter
dresses or where your son goes and
things like that. and you try to get the
imam to give a hudba about how important
hijab is and how important you know good
company is and how you know but th those
things they just fall on deaf ears. Why?
Because you're you're trying to target a
symptom and you're not addressing a
disease. The the disease is something
that can't be discovered without
conversation. The mo especially with
Muslim youth and Muslims that are kind
of off the beaten path and you can't
even tell sometimes if they're Muslim or
not from the way they're dressed. It's
really easy to pass judgment and it's
really hard to slow down and sit each of
these people down and actually have a
heart-to-he heart conversation and say,
"What's going on? Why do you think this
is a good good way to go?" And you'll
hear things like, "I can do whatever I
want. I'm a free person. You can't tell
me what to do." And you'll hear all
these arguments. And you know what?
Respectfully hear those arguments and
try to address each one of them one at a
time. And they they should be addressed
this way. One of the biggest, at least
phenomenon that I've seen among sisters
that have left a modest lifestyle, I'll
just put it mildly, that have left a
modest lifestyle and have chosen a
different way of living. Among Muslim
sisters, the one of the most common
things I've seen is isolation. They had
low self-esteem. They were people
constantly putting them down. They had,
in some cases, actually recently, I even
saw a father telling his daughter that
she's too ugly, nobody's going to marry
her, this and that. and father is
telling her that I mean the place you're
supposed to gain your self-esteem is the
place her self-esteem is being destroyed
you know then there's matters of feeling
judged like you know I you know
everybody has good days and bad days
right so she has a bad day and she
doesn't wear hijab and all the sisters
around her pounce on her like you know
what are you doing this is so wrong etc
etc and she says these people are so
judgmental and she just distances
herself from what would have been good
company anyway and we sometimes even in
our talks and our lectures
talk about those people in a way that
even further distances them. We want we
don't want to just tell them they're
doing something wrong. That much is in
my argument is most of them already know
that that that's wrong. Our purpose is
not to judge, but our purpose is to find
ways to soften hearts to bring them
back. We do want to be honest about the
message. I don't want to water down the
conversation, but at the same time, we
have to first kind of feel for these
people
and especially their families to not be
impatient and impulsive. Make time for
these people and don't don't cut them
off. They've they're already cut off
enough, you know,
and it's the love. We got the love.
That's why we're doing it. We love them,
don't we?
Of course.
That's why we're sharing because we
care. We right back with more here on
the Dean Show. In paradise, there's no
death. Yeah.
You know, there's no sickness. No
sickness in a world of peace and
tranquility. No wars, no fighting, no
fighting, anything that you want.
Yeah.
Now you can have it.
Yeah.
In the in the paradise. And God wants us
to have that.
But the price we have to pay is give up
the
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on the outside. Everything looks good.
You see the $100,000 cars. You see a lot
of diamonds. You see a lot of females
and they think that this is, you know,
this is the life. This is this is like,
you know, paradise right here on Earth.
It's not anyone's job to go into
someone's heart and change their heart.
Your job is to tell people what the
truth is.
And the reality of it is while we're
sitting here, while I'm sitting here
constantly paying for the disease,
the cure was freeer. [music]
back here on the Dean show with Nomman
Ali Khan. Inshallah, God willing that if
we're still alive, we can look back at
some of these and may Allah the creator
of the he accept it. Maybe we'll be old
men with gray hair. I'm already getting
some. We'll be like, "Oh, you remember
the time when we did this show?"
I can't remember anything. [laughter]
Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah. So, tell us now, can men and women
can boys and girls, can they be friends?
Can the girl like have this this
confidence that look I'm just going to
hang out with the guy and you know the
girls they're jealous of me. You know
they give me prom. He's nice to me
actually. He praises me. He's always
telling me sweet things. He's so nice.
You know I'm not going to do nothing
with them. We're just hanging out. Can
they Can this happen? Is this Is this uh
I mean can it It's happening.
Uh-huh.
That's for sure. Um it shouldn't happen.
That's also for sure.
But can it be that that we're just
friends? Is it going to stay like Can
boys and girls be friends? No, no. Boys
know that all too well. They won't admit
it, but it's they know that very well.
Um, sometimes girls don't. And that's
what I worry about for my, you know, my
sisters, my daughters, is that sometimes
they don't realize the the the elaborate
scheming of men.
Elaborate scheming of men.
Yeah. The
So, we're just meeting because, you
know, we're lab partners or
Uhhuh. we're discussing a project at
school or
the MSA, the convention, we're
discussing Islam, you know, and the
sister won't see through it at all
sometimes. And actually, we have to
raise the level of awareness and caution
among our sisters. Um, so that they it's
there's no harm. You're going to
interact with men. That's going to
happen, right? In the in the business
world, in the school setting, at the at
the work setting, it's going to happen.
You are going to have interaction. But
what are the what are some uh guidelines
that you have to respect that can make
those interactions healthy as opposed to
unhealthy? I actually personally believe
we should have guided interactions
between brothers and sisters especially
young boys and young girls as they're
coming up guided by the elders so they
know how to respectfully interact with
one another also because in in you know
in this society if we try to for example
if I cut my my daughters off and they
don't ever talk to anybody else right
eventually they will go to college
eventually they will go out in the
workplace or they'll go to the airport
or travel or this and that and there
will be other people around. I don't
want them to be shocked when they see
the the outside world. You know, keeping
our children in a bubble is not going to
save them. But at the same time, letting
them loose and saying, "Hey, do your
thing." That's also insanity. We have to
find a way of guiding interactions
between brothers and sisters, especially
boys and girls, even teenage boys and
girls and things like that. It's okay if
they have an interaction with each other
so long as it's respectful and the the
boys are trained where to keep their
gaze and how to keep the conversation
business only and how to, you know, how
to how to make sure they recognize when
they're crossing a line and the elders
are supposed to be there to guide those
conversations. A lot of times in youth
settings, even in religious youth
settings, there's no older figure
shephering the conversation or
shephering the interaction. like youth
groups exist and the guys and the girls
are all a bunch of teenagers and they're
running their own thing because youth
should be leaders. Well, yes, in most
things, but in some things you guys are
ridiculous and you need you need elder
older people to be there, older folks to
be there. As far as you know, this like
uh unnecessary interaction between men
and women. Um especially you know where
this happens, this happens with people
that you spend a lot of time with. So
you go to college with some people or
you go to work with some people and you
know there's lunch and there's just you
know meetings and this and that and it's
regular and what that does it givesan an
opportunity to maybe not convince you
one time but take hammer away at you 1%
at a time and it adds up you know until
it becomes a very very big problem. Just
the other day I got a phone call it was
one of the most um it was a very typical
phone call. Usually I don't take these
kind of phone calls, but this time I
just said I was in a bad mood, so I took
it. So guy calls me, says, you know, I'm
going to this college and there's this
girl. She takes all the classes I take.
Actually, it's the other way around, I'm
pretty sure. But that's nice that he put
it that way, you know. So she takes all
the classes I take. Yeah. Uh-huh. And
you know, we we discuss classes and work
and career cuz she's in the same major.
Um and uh you know, and we've been
talking for a couple of years. I haven't
done anything wrong. I was like, yeah,
sure you haven't. And and then he says,
"You know, but she just told me the
other day that, you know, she's
considering a proposal."
And my heart sunk and I don't know what
to do. What should I do?
And this guy is like in just this deep
shock that she proposed. Like, "Did you
propose to her?" He goes, "No, we were
just friends. I didn't realize we were
more than that until she said, "There's
a proposal." [laughter]
So the heart started getting attached.
Yeah. And I said, "Uh, dude, what do you
want to do?"
You just tell him like, "Yeah, so what
do you want to do? You want to marry
her? Talk to her parents. Go."
But there's already another proposal and
she's I think she likes the guy or
something. I, you know, I don't even see
life is worth living anymore and blah
blah blah. And I was like, "Okay, here's
the first thing you do. Go tell your
parents."
He's like 21, 22 years old. I tell him,
"Go tell your parents." And he says,
"No, I can't. They'll kill me."
And I said, "Okay, so you can't live
without her, but you can't. You're not
mad enough to tell your parents." No.
Why were you spending so much time with
her? I just liked her. She was a real
friend. She used to listen to me. Blah
blah blah. All this stuff. Look, if
you're going to go around, did you know
religiously? I asked him flat out, "Did
you know religiously what you're doing
is wrong? Going out with her and sitting
and having fries at McDonald's is wrong.
You knew that or no?" "Yeah."
Well, now you know why Allah says don't
do it because it hurts.
You know,
there are consequences of this in the
but emotionally people get scarred.
People get really messed up and they
don't realize the price they pay
emotionally even in this world. I would
argue even it's not fair to the people
that these kinds of individuals will
eventually marry cuz they're not
emotionally attached purely to the
person they married. they've their mind
is somewhere else and they're
reminiscing about somebody else you know
and it's not fair to another person. So
even from an emotional point of view
it's unfair you know.
Yes.
The the other thing is in this culture
of dating and you know seeing somebody
and then you don't not seeing them now
you're seeing somebody else and things
like that. You just learn to become
insensitive to other people's feelings.
You just at the end of the day you just
turn into a customer looking out for
yourself. First time a guy gets dumped
he's depressed. The next time he's like
I'm going to be the one doing the
dumping.
Mhm. you know, so you just I'd rather
not be hurt myself. I'd rather, you
know, be dishing out than taking, you
know, so you just become more and more
inhumane and that leaves you incapable
of having a family cuz at the heart of
family is love and compassion and
courtesy and worry about somebody else.
You become bankrupt of those feelings as
a result of these like petty petty
relationships, shallow relationships.
Absolutely. Did you get to see a video
that some not yet Muslims made? And we
say not yet Muslims because everyone has
the potential to submit to the one
creator and not his creation. That's
what a Muslim is. So they did some video
on a college campus and the topic was
can boys and girls be friends. Did you
get a chance to see this?
No. No, I didn't see it.
And they were interviewing say hey what
do you think? You know can you just be
to the guys? You think you just be
friends with the girls? And it's like at
the end no it's very interesting video.
So they see it's not just coming from
our perspective it's coming people know
this is something this is obvious truth.
Okay. So would you say look Islam that
that total and complete adherence to
what God Almighty the creator wants us
to do is the best self-defense from many
of these evil vices. You do Islam you
avoid alcoholism. You do Islam you avoid
gambling. You do Islam you avoid these
heartbreaks and all the things that just
flip your life upside down. So by doing
what God wants us to do is the bel best
self-defense because an ounce of
prevention is better than a pound of
cure.
Yeah. I I would say that, but I I would
also say, you know, somebody could hear
that and hear the counterargument. Well,
a lot of Muslims are into these things.
They have Islam.
Islam lives in people when they're they
have reinforcement.
What young people especially need is to
surround themselves with other people
that are trying to protect themselves.
Also, they're trying to guard their
their their chastity, their dignity,
their shame, their religion at the same
time. You know, you could you could have
only Muslim friends and still be the
most messed up person in the world.
There's plenty of that going around,
right? So, picking your friends
carefully and picking friends that will
safeguard your own Islam. This is
actually the key. Islam itself, of
course, is the solution, but Islam lives
in people. Islam doesn't live in books.
It lives in people. So, you to find
people that are living it and to
surround yourself with them is is I
would argue the best defense.
We're going to be right back with more.
Take a break here with Nomman Ali Khan
at the Bayana Institute on the Dean
Show. Be right back.
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Back here on the Dean show with Nomman
Ali Khan and we love the people. Islam
says love all mankind. So we want to
share because we care. Believe we
honestly care. Do we?
Yeah.
So when we see these things out there
obviously you know [snorts] they really
as the last and final messenger sent to
mankind he said if you see an evil
change it with your hand if not speak
against it and the least amount is to
hate in your heart. So when you see a
lot of these things that aren't good for
the human beings. It upsets you. It
saddens you. So we hope by doing these
programs that people will listen. They
meant to benefit and they'll implement
some of the these advices so they can
save themselves from these heartbreaks.
Women cannot get used and abused by men.
man cannot end up saving himself from
just being an animal out there on the
hunt. And why are men like this?
Allah says in the Quran that the most
potent desire put inside men was desire
for women.
Allah says this. The creator says this.
Allah says this and he made he made a
list of things that we are tempted by.
What's this list? Um so first one I'll
say the Arabic and the English
desire of or love of temptation and
desire that comes out of women
and having sons or manpower that is to
say even
and piled up hordes of gold and silver
which just means wealth. We want to have
tons and tons and tons of savings. Even
if we can if we even if we don't live
long enough to spend all the wealth we
have we'd still like to have piles upon
piles. uh one and we'd like to have in
old language translation of would be
cattle but cattle was what it was your
business back in the day right people
love having business and they're
discussing their business what do people
talk about in their break work the new
technology that's coming out the new
trends at the hospital the new that you
know if you're a doctor you're talking
about the new medical trends if you're a
techie you're talking about the new
updates to this software to the new
language that's coming out or the new
trends in you know app development or
whatever right this is your and then
which is the crop. Now what is the
cattle used for? It's used to produce
the crop, right? So the return on
investment is the so people love you
know the the the desire for women then
then sons manpower then in lots and lots
of wealth. Then how do you get that
wealth? Business return on investment.
You know this this is the list that was
made in the third surah of the Quran.
And at the top of that list what was
there? Women. Now if you look at this
list, people will go through to to any
means to acquire wealth. I mean some of
the most corrupt practices in the world
today are at the as a result of
multi-billion dollar industries that
don't care about right and wrong. They
just care about their bottom line. And
we're seeing that in the news every day,
right? The same if that's the case, if
there's an urge inside the human being
and if there's no guidance, then he has
no breaks on how he attains that
appetite. I compare it to an animal. An
animal feels hungry. A gator feels
hungry. A lion feels hungry. What does
it eat? Whatever it can catch, whatever.
It doesn't think about the consequences
or if it's going to hurt something else
or whatever. It's got an appetite. It's
got to be met. Well, if it comes to this
temptation in men, if there's no
guidance, if there's no humanity left,
then you will do whatever it takes to
fulfill that appetite, right? And you
will doesn't matter if it hurts somebody
else. Doesn't matter if it corrupts and
destroys society and ruins families.
None of that matters. All that matters
is your urges. That's the only thing you
see. You don't see anything else. So, I
don't see any difference between people
that are, you know, that are addicted to
these kinds of temptations and people
that are multi-billion dollar executives
that make, you know, these deals that
destroy entire villages in the third
world because of their bottom line or
contaminate water supplies and things
like that because they're going to
produce some, you know, some some soda
for some, you know, for billion billions
of dollars of profit. There's no
difference between them because at the
end of the day you have a desire, you
fulfill it and you don't care about the
consequences. This is why we are the way
we are and those desires Allah put in us
but he also gave us the breaks. That's
what guidance is. It holds you back and
keeps you balanced so you don't turn
into an animal. When the guidance is
gone, that's all you and I are. Then
couple points I just have to mention
before we close. I'm going to ask you
about Bayana and before that for the for
because we really cater to those who
know nothing about the purpose of life
or out there. She might have just came
back and you know, look, we keep it real
here on the Dean show. So, she came
back. Our show is caught late at night
and she's coming from the strip club.
She's a stripper. The guy is coming from
the nightclub. He's smoking weed. He's
drinking booze. And now they tuned in
and they've watched a couple of the
shows and they like this idea of just
worshiping the creator, not his
creation. They're getting sick of
following their lust and desires. They
really want to change their life, but
they don't know where to start. What
advice do you have for them? And just in
short,
the I mean the fact that they're making
time to watch a video like this one is a
really good sign.
Good sign.
Yeah, it's a very good sign that good
lies in their heart. And the first
starting point would be for any person
that's immersed in a lifestyle like that
that you shouldn't look at what you've
done already in the past and say it's
too late for me. There's no such thing.
There's no such thing that your
yesterday will determine what your
tomorrow is going to be. We shouldn't
let that be the case. Also, don't let
your friends and the people around you,
you know, determine who you are. You are
your own man. You're your own woman. You
can't just say, "Everybody surrounded
around me is a certain way. Therefore, I
have to be this way or this is all I
know of." That's not who you are. You're
you're greater than all of those things.
You're created for a higher purpose than
all of those things. Making time for
just, you know, reflection. Making time
for pursuit, searching more, making time
to seek out people that can teach you
better is probably the first big step
anybody can take. if you can find, for
example, a local mosque to go ask some
questions to send to send you questions
so you can connect them to people that
may be in their area because that needs
to happen to tap into actually living
resources that can ask questions, answer
questions about religion and things like
that would be the next healthy step
would be a good step in the right
direction and one thing at a time. But
really, you should not assume that first
of all take it ser take the matter
seriously as you keep saying it's an
urgent matter. it shouldn't wait. So if
you know you've been blessed enough to
at least be exposed to something about
the message, at least give it some more
time and explore some more and find out
if this is really the right thing and if
it's the right thing for you. And the
second is to give it to to don't put
this off cuz you don't know how long you
and I are going to be around so that we
can take proactive action.
In the last minute that we have tell us
about your organization, the Bayana
Institute.
Bayana Institute is a complicated
organization which I'll simplify for
you. The point of it is two things. Um,
the vision of it was to make Arabic easy
for Muslims to study and for Quran to to
for Quran to be made easy for Muslims to
study. The point the original purpose of
it was to facilitate that education for
Muslims in America. That was the
original goal. Alhamdulillah, slowly
it's expanding to around the world. Um,
as the goal of the organization grew, so
did some of its goals. So, it's not just
introductory education in Arabic and
introductory education in the Quran, but
actually the where we're sitting now on
campus is actually a pretty advanced
program in Arabic. Alhamdulillah, it's
the only one of its kind in America. um
where our students are studying for a
little over 9 months uh full-time and
they're studying the Arabic language
inshall as as best as I and my
colleagues can teach it so that they
have a really good sounded understanding
of the language enough that they can
read the Quran and read hadith and read
Arabic or Islamic texts in their
original form without translation and
understand them in depth. This is the
verbatim word of God, the Quran,
the the verbatim word of God and the
word of the prophet wasam the the
hadith, right? So they they they're able
to get a firsthand taste of that because
you know something's always lost in
translation and some beauty and some
depth is always missing. So the point of
this training is to give give students
the power to at least taste some of that
depth for themselves. And then the the
the idea actually one of the first
expressions I taught in the program this
year I want to share with you is I I'll
give you a small example I will
conclude. Uh you're passing by and you
see a well right and you're not that
thirsty back in the day obviously
nowadays nobody would look into a well
but back in the day you pass by a well
you don't think twice about it you go
on. Somebody else passes by and says
maybe I should have a little. So they
take a little like they dip their finger
in they taste it a little and they
realize this is actually a well and the
water in it is water from paradise from
heaven. It's incredible. It's nothing
like they've ever tasted ever before.
Now if you had a little taste, what
would you want to do?
You want more?
You'd want to get more. The guy who
never got the first taste to begin with,
what would he do?
Just go on his way. He wouldn't even
think twice. Right?
The point here is, you know, to give
students a little bit of a taste. And if
I can do that successfully and my
colleagues can do that by Allah's
permission, then what will they do?
They'll take a second dip and a third on
their own.
Absolutely.
You know, and the people who never
embark on this journey, they won't never
know what they're missing out on. So
that's that's the that's the beauty of,
you know, this language and the
beautiful book that Allah has given us.
The more we explore it, the more
beautiful we find it.
So people can find you there at bay.com.
Bayena.com.
Thank you once again. May the creator of
the heavens and the earth reward you for
being with us. Thank you.
Thank you so much for coming. We're
really happy to have you here.
Alhamdulillah, the students are happy to
see you. Inshallah, we get time to
interact with you afterwards also.
Thank you very much.
And thank you sincerely for being with
us here on the Dean Show. It's not too
late until death comes. Deaf is a
reality. So take this moment that you
have in life that God Almighty has given
you and do what God Almighty wants from
you. Ask him for the guidance. He sent
messengers throughout time to guide
humanity and they came with the
guidance. last and final messenger sent
to mankind. The prophet Muhammad peace
be upon him. It's all there. It's been
preserved. It's been saved. Quran, the
verbatim word of God. It's the blueprint
for mankind. But if you don't know it,
how you going to live it? And if you
don't ask, how shall you receive? So do
it right now. Call on God alone, not his
creation. We don't need $9.99 from you
to send you a genie in a bottle to send
you some lucky charm. No, we just need
you to ask the creator simple request.
Guide me, guide me, guide me. and he'll
facilitate a way. Give us a call at
1800662 Islam if you have any other
further questions. We'll see you next
time, God will.