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Isra & Miraj @ Averroes High School

Shaykh Alauddin ElBakri (unverified)

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um we're just going to start with uh
introducing all the the teachers with
saying a word to the community and then
we'll pass it along to chef dean so um i
think i will start with
anyone who volunteers this is a
microphone by the way i just found that
out so you're supposed to hold this and
talk from it
all right
is it good can you hear
me should i just speak normally
okay ah somehow
so i mentioned today in our 10th grade
class because alhamdulillah we got to
see our i got to see the tail end of
what usted siddique was sharing
and he was sharing this nice video about
the israel and the mirage and what was
interesting i was thinking about it
afterwards reading the room like
are people into this does it make sense
and then i was thinking about my own
personal experience with these kinds of
stories and i remembered that in my
travels on my way to becoming muslim
this was probably one of the first
stories i was actually told about and i
remember how disconnected i felt from it
and i remember sitting there like
okay yeah yeah stories are great but
like i'm looking for the ultimate truth
right now so like
you know
um can you give me like how things
really are because i thought it was just
a myth i thought it was like you know
some symbolic maybe
story so i was like no i just want like
the real capital truth team like i don't
know i don't want the stories
and um
it took time for me to really
one really believe the story but then
have that deeper understanding that
there's an outward meaning yes that you
take that yes this literally is what
happened but then there's lesson upon
lesson upon lesson to learn from it but
you have to put in effort and work on
yourself to start to understand what
kind of lessons you can get out of it it
takes time to reflect right so we're
talking in 10th grade today also about
why do we need to actually spend time to
reflect and think about things more
deeply and take time to question stuff
so you don't have to just take the story
and maybe there's a part of you that's
like did this really happen
um
did this really happen
is this real
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so if we were in a muslim community or a
muslim country that would have been the
then
calling us to god
but here we're called to this thing
called time
interesting
yeah
the irony right
so we're in a society where we're trying
to remember god and this keeps happening
and we have to keep putting in the
effort right so don't give up if the
stories don't make sense if you feel
disconnected it's okay
but keep trying keep putting in the
effort and inshallah things will make
more and more sense
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is it does it um
i i have very little
little to add that other than to say i
guess i'm i'm i'm still back where you
were i also caught part of uh brother
zadik's class today and i just meant to
pop in and then i found myself seated
and then i found myself engaged and then
i found myself oh no i'm going to run
late for my own class so i got out of
there um
but yeah i just want to say thank you
for letting me be here and get closer to
these stories and to the meanings and to
you all and it's been a pleasure and i
look forward to it continuing so thank
you
anyone need this thing does it do does
he do anything
oh okay yeah
um
oh okay
uh islamic so um
kind of building up on what sister
danielle mentioned
um about time i'm i'm going to try to
not build science into it but i may not
be able to resist right
but do understand
and what comes to mind is the
environment in which this
event happened
the situation the timing
um
one of the toughest if not the toughest
times on the prophet saws and then this
happened
so
that in one is a lesson for us
you know like when the going gets tough
the tough get going so to say right
also uh reminds me
of allah says that he does not
burden any soul
more than they can bear
right so if tough times come
they came on the prophet sallam the
relief is common
right
so the one thing and here comes the
science again it was it was difficult
for people in those times to
you know understand that when there were
no planes flying about there were no
rockets going to the moon and so on so
forth
it makes it slightly easier for us
and if anybody is interested
look into
the space time issues
time is only one directional for us
right
and more and more you learn about
science and more and more scientists
learn about it it can happen time is not
a limit for allah so these are the
thoughts that come to mind i couldn't
resist building a little science into it
so that's it
one thing i've learned about islam it's
about service to others service to
mankind and i'm
i'm delayed to say that in my class
eighth in action particularly in the
last three days the number of light
bulbs have gone on
and i see possibility this we're going
to conclude this year with massive
service to others and i'm going to be
helping you in providing lots and lots
of energy because man we need it
so i just wanted to say this school is
about service it's not just about you
know fractions and compound
covalent bonds
it's about service and
you know rock and roll
i don't know i'm more of a please tell
me early let me prepare for
my speech type of guy
i'm not one who just you know on the fly
thinks of things
is he sub-tweeting
but uh for me uh
i don't know if you guys know this but
the entire year in developing muslims
we've been pretty much working on
character
and so like when you hear these stories
and
you learn about the prophet and the way
that he carried himself and the things
that he had to endure
a lot of is about character
and so we constantly work on that and
try to get you guys to understand and
see things that will benefit you and and
and make your character stronger
and so i hope that we're accomplishing
that and you're moving forward and you
are better than you are when you first
came to various this year in charlotte
so
i'm gonna
okay
uh i too
like to be prepared
ahead of time
but i'm doing that
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okay
that was good so but one thing that i
will say um the idea came to me to share
the video that i shared today number one
it was for you but it was for me as well
uh every time i go back and revisit the
story there's something new that i i
take from it so i took something new
from it today uh i had read narrations
about uh certain things that the prophet
alaihis
saw
during the
raj
his ascension and also on the way back
and
one thing that i took away this year was
the story of the handmaiden of
the daughter of
and
the way that that story i'm trying to
figure out what was the connection why
was it mentioned here you guys know the
story
um
the daughter of faraon has a handmaiden
and she was combing her hair
and one day the comb fell from her hand
and she said bispinda to get the call
and
the daughter said when you said
bismillah you met my father right
and she said no she said i meant the
lord of my lord and his lord
and she says well how do you feel about
this if i tell my father what you said
and so she uh says
danny and in words that it's okay and so
pharaoh informed about what happened
and so
he tells her that listen
if you decide that you have a lord other
than me
then i'm going to
punish you
by having you throw
your children into this cauldron
along with you and so the story goes
that she's she stayed firm and resolute
in her belief
and her children were put in that
cauldron but she said by the way the
conditions there's one condition and
that is that
you uh
that you bury me and my daughters my
children in the same place
by the way i skipped one important part
when they were coming back down they
smelled the fragrance
uh a very strong fragrance was very very
beautiful and the prophet peace be upon
him actually where that was coming from
and it was coming from uh this the
handmaid in this this servant
but anyway she stayed firm and resolved
and i'm trying to figure out what's the
connection between that story and the
story of islam islam and i realized that
it's coming at a time when the prophet
allah is really
undergoing it's right after the year of
sorrow the year where he loses
the year where he loses
he loses his strong support
the muslims were being boycotted
so it's a time where
people are being tried and tested
and even in that time he stays firm
and in allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala gives
him with the khasa they call it
something
special or
a gift that's given to him and that's
what took place so there's so many
lessons to learn every year there's
something new that you get out of it
this is the first time i realized that
that story had a connection in terms of
giving you an example of being firm and
resolute on your faith and in your
belief so
at a time where people's faith and
belief was being really tested so it's a
good lesson to learn from them and
there's so many you could you could
spend the whole day on those lessons
my job is to
test people with resilience
and
on the spot so that they can perform
it's just a joke
um
jazakallah for being here we're so so
excited about these events this is what
bear was about it's about an opportunity
to explore beyond the classroom um
without much more time wasted i want to
invite shakaladdin to come up and
enlighten us with some uh some uh
inspirational talk and uh we'll all join
in the back inshallah
thank you what's up
get you out of the sun find some shade
brother
um
it's not necessarily it might be more
you see the palm trees
in the middle we can go amongst the palm
trees and be like in a circle right
so um
the only good speaker is the one who is
aware of the state of his listeners so i
we have one of two options um
is one is we we stay here and i speak
or we find somewhere
uh
under shadow of palm trees
would it be sitting on the floor on the
ground on the ground
so my question is
if we take a vote of staying here how
many
if you take a vote of going there how
many
so
i'm thinking i'm gonna with this son i'm
gonna have to you know
anyway half an hour yeah so half an hour
here or half an hour there
no i feel i i i i'm both i'm fine both
ways but i'm thinking i want them to pay
attention not be like when is this man
gonna stop talking you
know so final vote if you want to stay
here raise your hand
if you want to leave raise your hand
okay so bismillah let's get up
i think
the movement
you
right
there's plenty of shade there by the way
plenty of
shade
very good
there over here
okay
all right maybe we can all uh
start with
um
oh
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give us a small taste but uh the whole
uh event of alistar walmart was moving
from
the city of mecca to the city of
jerusalem
and so there was that movement
and i don't know if allah wanted to give
us a small taste of that
but we were sitting there
and we had to move here
so there was a movement from one place
to another i don't know so maybe this
was meant to be
and
under palm trees
i feel i'm back in medina
or in mecca
uh telling you
about the story of alistar mirage and it
wouldn't matter that you were the second
or third generation after the prophet
like you could have been the children of
the sahaba the companions
the fellows of the prophet sallallahu
alaihi
and
it could have been you could have been
that it wouldn't matter
uh if you were not living at the time of
the prophet you were not living maybe
one generation later or 15 hundred
generations later is still the same
uh so alhamdulillah
so the story of alice
is
very beautiful and very long and very
detailed and so many lessons that could
be learned
and i know like some of you are sitting
here you're 14 15 16 17 18 19 maybe
and you're already studying mashallah in
so
how could the story relate to you why do
you need to know about the story well so
many reasons
but
this story has a lot to do
with
stress
and depression
and the name of the game today in our
world
is stress and depression so the united
nation
uh has released a report a year ago
that for the next 50 to 100 years
the main cause for chronical non-chronic
diseases
you know
chronic and non-chronic diseases is
actually
stress and depression heart attack high
blood pressure high cholesterol
stroke you name it the stuff that kills
comes from stress and depression
and the whole world right now is trying
things so
uh there's two trials one is through
medical medic medication medical drugs
or through actually what we call the
holistic approach like how
do you
approach this so they started talking
about spirituality they started talking
about faith you know to incorporate that
because that
thing
that
faith helps people in their daily life
so
why is this very very very important
insha allah i think we can be less
comfortable than completely laying down
so maybe we can sit down may allah bless
you
you can easily uh yes if we can sit down
that would be fantastic
so
if i were to run for you
just in three minutes
if you can be patient with me
three minutes to run for you ten years
of the life of the prophet sallallahu
alaihi
right
so
who knows the prophet salallahu sallam
received the first revelation at what
age
huh
40 years
and these are four lunar years which
means he was 39
in the solar years because the
lunar years are shorter so they come
faster
so 40 years of lunar years
he became a prophet sallallahu alaihi
wasallam and for three years
he was inviting people who are close to
him who knows who was the first believer
khadijah
and not only khadijah was the first
believer a woman but she is the first
one that made wudu and prayers after the
prophet salallahu learned how to make
the abolution the wubu the washing
before prayers and prayers
he prayed behind jibril alaihissalam and
then he went home and khadijah was the
first one to make wudu and salah behind
the prophet sallallahu alaihi very good
so he invited people around him who can
give me another name who believed in the
early days yes
was his uncle
so abu talib actually did not declare
his shahada but some people said he had
it in his heart we don't know yes
abu bakr thank you yes
ali thank you may allah bless you you
guys knocked out the first
boy and the first man wonderful
ali
himself who else so we have khadijah abu
bakr ali
hamza later on
and huh
omar later on
the boy the adopted son of the prophet
sallallahu alaihi who for 10 15 years he
was called zaidab muhammad but then
allah said call them back to their
fathers right so these few people so for
the first three years islam spread to
around 30 40 people became muslim
it was private dawa under the cover not
announced not declared and the people of
makkah started hearing of it right so
now after three years the prophet
sallallahu salaam allah told him stand
up and declare the message so he stood
up and declared the message
what was the message
what was the
message what was the message
yes so
if you look at me inshallah what was the
message that the prophet
stood up and declared at age 43
to the people of mecca what did he stand
up and invite them to what
what is islam stands on one statement
may allah bless you you see you know the
answer
so amazing so he stood up and declared
for them the message now
why is this relevant you guys are
learning you know service and you're
learning how to stand up and how to
become you know stewards of this earth
and the society
do you think people of mecca had a
problem with islam because islam invited
to the worship of one god
do you know do you think that's why they
had a problem why did they have a
problem
they had a problem because
it invited for uh it invited people and
it asked people for a total reformation
total change
way of life
it has to change
the social
status so it called for social justice
it called for
political justice it called for
economical justice
and that's why quraish
had a problem the tribe of quraish in
the city of mecca had a problem with the
prophet sallallahu alaihi not because he
invited them to worship one god instead
of many do you want me to tell you why
that was not the problem i'll tell you
so much it was not the problem that they
offered him we will worship your god one
year and you worship our gods one year
how about we compromise does that sound
to you someone that care about their god
does that sound to you that someone is
very religious and very firm on their
faith
no so what was it
it wasn't about worship one god or
multiple god it was about you're asking
us to change the way we treat our slave
that us and our slaves are created by
the same god and that they are actually
equal to us
you're asking us to treat women as if
women are equal to men you're asking us
to
stop charging interest that makes the
rich richer and the poor poorer
you're asking us to change the way we
run our elections we are asking us to
change our way of war affairs we make a
living out of war you're asking us to
have peace and the rule of law who wants
a rule of law we can't even make a
living like that
you understand
you're asking us to stop discrimination
you're asking us to stop racism you're
asking us to stop
everything and change everything so
quraish realized that the prophet
sallallahu alaihi islam was not just
after you know just lets people believe
and that's it
people
you know they they realize that what he
they realize that he's after something
bigger same thing with with moses by the
way the pharaoh realized if i let the
israelites go and leave
and there are no more slaves
to me
then that's going to create an upheaval
social change then another group of
people will say we don't want to be
slaves and they don't want to believe
they want to leave then another group of
people so the pharaoh had a problem even
with just moses saying can we please
leave we will leave you alone in egypt
can we please leave insha allah
so
maybe
some people need to be like uh if you
find yourself so much
attracted to talk to the one next to you
you maybe change your seat and sha allah
so that you can pay attention
all right
so
that's why the journey of alistar mirage
was important so after
three years of private dawah two years
by the fifth year in mecca
the prophet sallam told us the
companions go to abyssinia emigrate
leave the country
they're gonna torture you to death and i
cannot protect you
leave to abyssinia and they left
and then two years later it even got
worse and he said leave to abyssinia
again so there was probably you can
count them on your hand the number of
people who were
who stayed in mecca do you know what
leave to abyssinia means these people
never left their country never left
their city and some of the people who
left were rich and from a strong tribe
and they
it was the last thing for them to leave
some of the people that believed in the
prophets could represent today bill
gates
jeff pesos
tim
cook larry ellison
you know
it represents big names there was only
group of handful of rich people one of
them was uthman do you know that uthman
in the fifth year who's from the tribe
of beni umayya
his cousin is abu sufyan number two in
command after abu talib number two
personality when abu talib died abu
sufyan became the leader uthman left to
abyssinia
do you understand
otherwise they would have killed him
okay seven years now to the mark the
prophet is 47 years old
most of the believers left to abyssinia
the prophet is left with few people do
you know what quran said okay so the
muslims left and the weak left because
we can't torture them anymore so what is
left who's protecting prophet muhammad
the muslims are gone
the only one who's protecting him is his
own tribe so let's boycott his own tribe
so three years seven eight and nine
right or eight nine and ten you can go
like that
the most the muslims the few muslims
that were left and the tribe of bani
hashem
where
something was done to them
it was siege sanction and embargo
do you know what that is
can you tell me what steve sanchez and
embargo is
when a country declares seizure in
another country do you know what's
happening right now
what the whole world is doing against
russia for example
yeah they're called
they're putting sanctions
we're not gonna deal in business with
you
we're not gonna buy from you we're not
gonna sell you and you cannot even buy
from anyone else
basically they surrounded them it was a
siege do you know what the siege is when
you surround a group of people and they
cannot go anywhere
it was a sanction and it was embargo
three in one
yes
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that's a different story and that
happened after the prophet
but no problem but what you're what
you're trying to say is people wear
their back was to the wall see sanction
and embargo you understand yes
embargo is
you cannot trade you cannot
exchange business
boycott thank you allah bless you
understand
do you understand that
do you know what muslims and the tribe
of bani hashem do you know what they
went through
they went through hunger to death
two people died because of hunger one
was the wife of the prophet khadija two
was abu talib his uncle do you know that
i'm going to ask you a question how
would you feel if your mother died of
your hunger in front of your own eyes
how would you feel if your own father
and mother and brothers and sisters one
by one started dying because you can't
eat
you see guys this didn't happen this
didn't happen many years ago do you know
just
just 10 years ago there was a sanction
on the country of iraq do you know that
do you know how many children died
because of that sanction
half a million children
500 000 that was from 1990 to the year
2000
and it passed on to
and then it turned into a war after
sanction do you know why children were
dying not enough food not enough drink
and no vaccine do you know why you know
how they're trying everyone please take
a vaccine please take a vaccine today
they used to say i don't know i'm not a
scientist i don't know how you can make
this said because we're afraid that
country is going to make chemical
weapons out of vaccine i don't know how
you make chemical weapons out of vaccine
i think it's not possible but i'm not a
scientist
you understand
anyone of you here is born in the 90s
anyone is born in the 2000s
raise your hand between 2000 2010
okay 2003 we invaded iraq do you know
for 13 years before we invaded iraq iraq
was under siege sanction and embargo
and half a million children died
you understand
so what i'm trying to say here is these
things didn't only happen in the past
and they never happened again they
actually keep on happening
all right
so now the prophet salallahu who died
who died that is relevant yes
you are the right answer now now
comes his uncle his internal support and
his external support
who is left for the prophet sallallahu
alaihi
his internal support at home his wife
is dead
his external support that's the one who
stood up between him and all the leaders
the statesman of his time
is done
so internal support and external support
i'm going to ask you a question
and you don't have to raise your hand
how many of you felt that you reached to
the point where you have you feel no one
is there for you and no one can help you
you're just alone
and you're stuck in your own stress and
depression alone
and know what is there for you
this is a human experience you don't
have to raise your hand like your back
is to the wall no one even if they
wanted to cannot help you
this is what we call a human experience
each and every one of you i'm very sure
have experienced
high level of stress or high level of
depression or high level of what
of confusion do you know what the
prophet salallahu did he went to another
city next to the city of mecca but that
city had an old animosity between it and
between the people of makkah called the
city of
had two three tribes
the city of had two three tribes very
big very huge
it's next and it's on a mountain and
it's green and they grow grapes and
apples oh my god it's like the heaven of
arabia five
it's like on a high mountains the
weather is cool and nice and you even
get cold empires
very nice weather you got it so
rasulullah went there what did the
people of thailand do to the prophet
when he went and invited them to islam
after 10 dark years
huh
they stoned him they threw stones at him
until he started bleeding
do you know
the prophet sallallahu alaihi sallam sat
down and made the dua
that dua triggered so many things one of
which is
the night journey and the ascension to
heaven i want you to listen to this dua
and i want you to repeat after me allah
i complain to you
my weakness the weakness of my strength
it's what you call oxymoron
the weakness of my strength my strength
is weak
so imagine my weakness
my strength is weak
i complain to you the weakness of my
strength
and my plans are not working
whatever i'm planning for 10 years it's
only been getting worse and worse and
worse nothing is working
and how insignificant i am in the eyes
of the people look what they did for me
lokia allah what they did in mecca
three years of sanctions
they are in control like we couldn't
even escape we are under siege
okay repeat after me and tara be
so what he's saying
to whom you're leaving me
to
someone who is close to me because the
the people in the city of mecca they're
all cousins but the cousins makes tribes
tribes tribes the tribes their fathers
were brothers so they're all cousins
basically
so he said to whom you're leaving me to
the people of mecca that control my life
or to the people of taif that stoned me
look how they attacked me
you are the lord of the weak
the disadvantaged the oppressed and you
are my lord i'm gonna ask you a question
listen to the words carefully ya allah i
complain to you the weakness of my
strength
and the inefficiency of my plans
and how insignificant i am in the eyes
of the people and it does do you see
the
guys you are turning from children to
adults
and i remember vividly and clearly when
i turned from a child to a dog you know
what was the most thing that used to con
to to frustrate me confusion
i don't know what do i need to do
i don't know what's next in my life i
don't know
which college should i go to i don't
know if i even want to go to college
altogether
i don't know what job do i want i don't
know what i want to do next
and i know that my mom wants me to do
something and my dad wants me to do
something and my this wants me to resign
and i'm confused
and then very easily you fall into
depression
you know what the prophet was saying
he's saying yeah allah i am making plans
and my plans are not working
my strength is weak
and i am so insignificant in the eyes of
the people
this is your story and my story this is
not only this this is the story of every
human that will go through these stages
that will go through these experiences
if you're not mad at me
if you're not mad at me i don't mind the
struggle but i just actually don't even
know maybe i did something wrong
what did i do
ya allah if you're not mad at me i don't
mind it
like even the prophet sallallahu alaihi
we think you guys think that the prophet
is walking on clouds the whole time yeah
i know i know they're going to do siege
and embargo but i am the messenger of
god it's not going to affect me i'm
going to be so strong i'm superman
this is how we imagine prophets and
messengers are
you know when
when allah told moses and the children
of israel to leave the pharaoh and he
said go to this point so he went to this
point and he was surprised
everyone was surprised in front of them
is the sea and behind him is the pharaoh
and his soldiers
they said we gonna be caught
what a plan what is what kind of plan is
this
you brought us to our death we're going
to either drown or get slaughtered
and moses said
name my lord is with me and he will
guide me what do i do allah say take
your staff and hit the ground with it
you see when you watch these things you
think they came someone sat down so with
big white imagination and imagine
something called magic wand
the magic one traced itself back to the
staff of moses just remember
there's no magic wand the only magic
wand that existed was the staff of moses
it could turn into a snake if he throws
it on the ground it could split the sea
it could he hit the rock with it
12 springs gushed out of one trough one
rock every spring was for one tribe of
the israelites there were 12 tribes
because of the 12 children of israel
who's jacob
magic carpet guess who had a magic
carpet
speaking animals what did allah tell us
you think this is someone just imagine
that oh very big imagination this is all
narrated generation after generation
solaman spoke to the birds spoke to the
ants
understood the language of the ant
spoke to the bird long conversation back
and forth
spoke to the jinn
oh the genie of aladdin i can show you
the world you know
you understand
who had the magic carpet sulaiman alayhi
who had the jimmy not one jimmy the one
who built the temple most of them were
of the gin
it was so significant do you know what
was the temple built off it was mostly
glass especially the floor and there was
running water under the so when the
queen of sheba of yemen came and she
walked in allah said she left her skirt
because she thought she was going to
step into water she did not realize that
this is a glass
who manufactured that the gin not one
the magic wand is the staff of moses
there is human beings and finally the
unicorn
where did it come from
and where's the word burak comes from
bark and what's bark lightning the speed
of light
what did the prophet ride from mecca to
medina something that he could
understand something the space machine
looked like a horse
because that's what he's used to riding
you give him a car he's not
you don't even know to get inside or to
sit outside
if you've never seen a car how do you
ride this thing
you understand
and you think i'm laughing you go to
some countries in pakistan in the bus
there's more people sitting outside the
bus and then there's people inside the
bus as a matter of fact it's a
disadvantage to be inside the bus
that's where the hut on oh you get the
view on the top of the bus people are
fighting to what's on that you know you
just want to hold very well because when
the driver hits the brake you're going
to be in front of the bus the first
passenger who will land will be you so
you have to be always holding tight to
the back of the bus you understand
so allah gave him something you know
today it says oh there's a unicorn it
has to have a
a one horner and it has to have wings by
the way in in the narrations that we
have it didn't have wings and it didn't
have a horn
that's just addition
because how could a horse fly without
wings
right so they made they gave the horse
wings
that's the addition of human beings
so
there's a journey
today if you tell a person oh i took a
plane from mecca
to amman jordan
which happens all the time do you know
how long is the flight 45 minutes
one way
if the prophet salallahu was today and
he took a flight from mecca to amman
jordan or from mecca to jerusalem and
from jerusalem back to mecca nobody will
say oh my god did you lose your mind
because everybody's doing it
so the first part of the journey
explained the second part of the journey
it's getting explained right now
what's what's the desire of all
scientists today physicists
astrophysicists
time travel
do you i just wanna
maybe end with this so maybe then we can
open a discussion
guys if i tell you
if i tell you i went to a place called
kuala tengano
and i swam with the turtles you know the
big leatherback green turtles you know
human thighs
and
we they give us the babies because
they're still born but there is oil and
oil spills so they give us and they give
us like a toothbrush and a special
cleaning solution and we clean the small
turtles that just broke out of the egg
and once we clean we have to send them
to a specialist and if he says they're
ready then we release them back into the
sea i did that
so i'm going to ask you a question
do you doubt that i did that do you
think i'm lying to you
why do you think i'm not lying to you
how do you believe the news because you
believe what
the source of the news you understand so
kuala tringano is a state in northern
malaysia everybody goes there for
snorkeling you don't even have to do
scuba diving
you you when you swim there it's like
you're swimming in a fish tank every
fish has a different color
mind-boggling
coral reef and you also get to swim with
the sharks too which i did
but they're not white tip sharks they
are black tip sharks so i'm not going to
claim so much carriage they don't eat
you they don't do anything to you
but they look scary
they look like a shark
and they circulate you they go like they
really check you out but their mouth is
not in the front of their mouth in the
head it's under
so they're like feeders like but they're
like
two times my size and they circulated
and circulated and circulated and i
didn't freak out because of the sharks i
out because of another fish that
nobody told me it's gonna come from the
bottom up it's called barracuda
as big as a van i swear to allah i
thought i was going to be
going to be
i was going to be swallowed
you know by the fish because it kept on
going up and opening its mouth bigger
and bigger and bigger i've never seen a
fish that big and i think it's water
also the effect of light on the water
maybe it looked two three times bigger
than its actual size but i'm looking
down i forgot about the sharks i'm like
where do i go from here i can't swim i'm
not going and it's going up and up and
there is three of them why because how
they you have to swim under the bridge
and they throw chicken pieces of chicken
that's how the sharks come to swim
around you but they didn't tell me there
is and i'm like
you know
i don't even speak the language
and they're like barracuda barracuda
don't worry about it
i think i'm going to be but a swallowed
not barracuda you know so it's
unders unbelievable but do you doubt
that i told you is a lie
because you trust the source you
understand it's very easy for you
go to your google when you go home and
just put koala trangano and then you see
everything i told you it's not a it's
not a big deal it's everywhere you can
go tomorrow i actually my dream
inshallah is to
take people to trips to these places to
enjoy
this unbelievable because it's just like
a
you don't think it's possible until you
see it so in kuala tringano
i saw three buses full of girls
stopping on the beach so i'm like
they're all wearing hijab like you girls
and they're all wearing like long shirts
and and i'm like okay
that's nice that they came to sit on the
beach three buses i think
around 150 girls
all went down and swam like fish because
they were born in on the island
with their hijab
and it was quite a scene because you you
know you never think that's possible you
think if you go to the beach to swim
like basically you just have to take off
your clothes
and that's the only option i was really
shocked and nobody even looked at them
it's so normal that ladies go down with
the hijab nobody's even looking i was
the only one i'm like okay i don't need
to look right
because i'm like everybody's like oh
yeah that's life that's normal yeah
these muslim girls come from all the
universities around malaysia and the
high schools and this is a place where
they come they camp for three four days
and they swim and what's the big deal
wow i didn't think that's even possible
i'm talking about nikabi's like you
understand guys
like some of them were hijab some of
them were in the cabin they're all
swimming
and they just got up and had a towel and
wrapped themselves and got back into the
bus and went back to where they came
from
so it's really interesting so
this is called when you trust the
narrator you trust what he says so i'm
gonna tell you something to us have you
seen the day of judgment
have have you seen heaven or hell it's
all unseen to us
now if someone comes to you trusted
source and says
i saw heaven and hell
with my own eyes
and that source is trusted then
believing in life after death and
day of judgment and heaven and hell
is not even an issue anymore to us it's
no more believing in the unseen it's
actually believing in a solid knowledge
from a solid source like it depends if
if you think of me as a liar
none of you will believe but i swear by
allah i did everything i told you and
more
i did parasailing and i you know and i
did god knows and jumped off the with
the you know the parachute and million
things right
i did more but the idea is
like you trust the source when you trust
the source then you trust the story and
when quraish the prophet do you know
that the prophet didn't tell quraish
about the mirage about going up
ascension in heaven he just told them
about the first part and they went crazy
he knew if he told him the second part
they will actually like totally reject
him so he just told them the first part
abu jahl looked at the prophet and he
said today you look good muhammad
you look good what happened he said
yesterday i visited jerusalem and abu
jahl
the vows enemies the vowed enemy of the
prophet said you went to jerusalem yes
would you say that to the rest of the
people he said yes i would do. so babu
jahil ran and invited all the leaders of
quraish and said listen to what muhammad
that's it today we're done with this man
today his message will die
now they know the prophet saw
has not been to jerusalem before so when
he said i went to jerusalem and i came
back they said then describe for us
jerusalem
and the prophet panicked
because he didn't pay attention when he
went in the night journey it was all
night he couldn't see like
so the prophet salallahu said the image
of jerusalem came right in front of my
eyes in the horizon and i started
describing it to them door by door
window by window
they said we stoned but don't believe
you you just
learned that image from someone else who
described it to you he said i'll give
you another sign there are people when i
was on my way back there is a tribe that
is coming
this tribe
lost a camel a camel ran away on it and
when you say a camel that's a wealth
that's like a ten thousand dollars ran
away on you right
and they were chasing it and that the
description of the camel is such and
such and this tribe is at such a such
distance from madi from mecca if if i
saw them right they're gonna arrive
after two weeks
so
now
after two weeks a tribe comes exactly
and they ask them have you lost a camel
they said yes how did you know they said
describe the camel for us and they
described it was exactly how the prophet
saw described it
so the first half of the journey was
from mecca
to jerusalem
second part of the journey was from
jerusalem
now that second part
is where the time travel happened okay
so we are here today right the prophet
was 1400 years ago we're here today
right still earth god knows will goes
through a long time you understand
and then life on earth will collapse
because our star is bound to die and
when our star dies it's going to implode
and it's going to expand all the way to
planet earth and our earth will
vanish
and then the universe will go into
becoming a cold place as allah described
in the quran and the stars will go far
away as allah described in the quran you
know what allah said in the quran there
will come a time that when you look at
the sky you will see no stars
the stars will be put off their light
will be put off do you know what they're
saying right now
stars will die and the universe will
become a cold place and you will look in
the sky if earth survives and you will
barely see a star or two
that's already ayat in the quran 1400
years ago
when the light of the stars will put off
either
or even
when the light of the sun will be put
off like extinguished which is the death
of our star the sun and when the other
stars will also disappear and die
imagine if you were at the time of the
prophet
and someone is telling you the sun light
will die and you would see no more stars
at night you would have said what kind
of talk is that
you understand
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so why is this important because guys we
don't build our faith anymore so look at
the time travel
time travel
had to happen from 14 years 100 years
ago
all the way till life on earth ended
and they're talking about hundreds of
millions of years if not billions of
years and then
another creation
which is another
heavens and earth and then the day of
judgment and us us resurrected and then
after the judgment people went to heaven
or hell and then after that the prophet
saw the people who are enjoying heaven
and the people who are in hell he saw it
with his own eyes
do you know how much time travel is
there
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that's trillions of years in the future
and then after going to the future he
had to make it back to his time you
understand
so the time travel both to the future
and back to the past already happened
and at that time there was no physicist
that was even thinking remotely that
that's possible there was nobody even
claiming such a thing people didn't
think traveling to the future is
possible but traveling to the past is
possible and all of that the most that
we're thinking about that your soul
keeps on coming back coming back in a
different body sometimes you come back
as a human sometimes you come back as a
cockroach somebody can come back as a
rat as a snake or you come back as a
holy person
until your soul is liberated and you
don't have to come back again you
understand with me
so
you know i just wanted to again
talking about this
i can spend literally to give it it's
right it needs around six to eight hours
of deep explanation
but
if you ever got depressed in your life
you need to listen to the story of
israel
if you've ever felt confused so confused
that you don't know what's going on
you don't know what you're gonna have to
do next in your life read the story of
israel if you ever got stressed to the
point of like you feel you're about to
snap
read the story of allah it's a human ex
story and
and you know
you're saying but why should i read it
is
happen to the prophet it's not going to
happen to me no no no
[Music]
it can't happen to you
who can tell me how we can go into
israel
[Music]
[Music]
ship to mars
the bird is answering me
how can you do is
today you not the prophet
it doesn't have to be physically
yeah
do you know the prophet actually told us
how to do maharaja
in a hadith
three words
where did the prophet receive that you
should pray five times a day
where
do you know
yes
do you know after we meet qiyam and roku
and sujud then we sit down in the
position of tashahood
do you know that position of tashahood
is like the the
this the same way the prophet sat down
in the presence of his lord and we
muslims don't believe that god is a body
physical he's beyond he created the
physics
he created the physical his men he's
beyond
your mind cannot comprehend the idea of
who god himself is because our mind
stops when there is no time in space if
you tell me something has happened
outside of time and space my brain stops
this is what
this is what physicists today are saying
can we even get it
is our mind even capable of calculating
certain physics
outside the realm of time and space our
brain cannot even go there
but we're sure it's part of the equation
but can we ever think of that equation
can we ever get our mind to think
outside the realm of time on space maybe
we need to teach it to a machine and
then the machine can do the calculation
i say to you come to me when sheikh
come
in any time and no time what does that
mean your brain cannot get it shall i
come yesterday
i can't come here shall i come today no
don't come today shall i come tomorrow
don't come tomorrow come at a time of no
time
your brain will stop functioning
where do i come to you come at a place
of no place
how can your brain functions your brain
stops when you say a place of no place a
place where there is no space
and no place
you understand
so i'm going to stop here and i'm going
to see if you have any questions
did i confuse you did i
yes
yes
he was a muslim
he was a muslim but he was from benidi
and he was always trying to
help and support
yes
became muslim in the seventh year
and upon the news of him becoming a
muslim and hamza becoming a muslim
they people from abyssinia some of them
came back thinking allah became muslim
but it was only omar and hamza who
became muslim
and that made a huge difference in the
status of the believers
right
it was like you know how
we have george bush
and donald trump
imagine george becoming a muslim
and start defending islam in america
that's how it is yes
time
yes
sorrow and sadness
yes the prophet the prophet salallahu
like low point in terms not of his faith
but in his reality his reality was a
very low point
so god took him on this journey
and then because for the prophet to
continue after that for another 13 years
he had to
have a a very major experience
imagine 10 years and things are getting
worse by the day
so yes very good question
i'm going to ask you yes
how did he
so there was
as we say seven skies
and now they're talking about we have
time
wet
depth height so these are four dimension
plus seven makes it eleven so they're
talking about the multi-dimension
universe so are these seven skies are
the other seven dimensions we don't know
we leave it up to god but the idea is
this guy had action
huh
we don't know exactly
if you were to ask me
in the first guy he saw adam in the
second sight he saw john the baptist and
jesus
and we know
jesus jesus was left body and this is
called time dilation that's what
einstein's
theory of relativity it's dumb dilation
which is time passes to me different
than to you
who knows the story of the youth of the
cave
how long did they stay in the cave
yeah but they did not age 300 years
because they were in a zone of time
dilation that cl the clock was ticking
in the cave different than it was taking
outside the cave
it's called time dilation it's what all
what einstein theory of relativity is
all about
you can go to youtube and put time
dilation and watch it
i will explain to you how that my clock
that you know
the higher you go
the slower the
so basically your head is aging
slower than your feet
yeah that's why you
no actually slower not higher
not faster
they put a clock on the plane and they
shoot it up and leave another clock on
the ground the one on the plane ticks
slower than the one on the earth
because the faster the speed
the slower the time
so everyone has his own time zone
there's no unified universal time in the
whole world
it's not one time
so on earth we count time by 24 hours
and minutes what if you go to a planet
that the planets revolve around itself
every 48 hours
every day will be 48 hours so how are
you going to calculate your age
how are you going to calculate your time
the speed and the gravity affects the
running of time
yes
i'm going to ask you a question
suffer
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so from what we know in like
thousands of years back people used to
live longer
and our age has been getting shorter and
then now with the advancement of science
it went longer
more and more and more
so we went from longer age to shorter
age and now we are back getting to a
longer age
um yes
do we want to get back to where we are
but i don't think that's real
that's tick tock real
not real life real
i met a person that is older than 100
years that was my grandfather
was 104 when he passed away
and he was very very healthy he could
have lived another 20 years
but the problem is uh they messed up his
medication which led to kidney failure
it wasn't his fault actually was the
doctor's fault
but anyway
i'm gonna ask you a question
if i go from here to san francisco
on the back of a horse how long would it
take me
from here to san francisco
on the back of a horse
on the bridge on the bay bridge
best four hours you think
half a day i would say four to six hours
if i go from here to san francisco
in a car how long would it take me
45 minutes or not if i go from here to
san francisco
on a rocket
huh
what makes the distance shorter
what makes that time shorter
and what is making the speed higher
that the means of transportation the
cause of transportation
if i want to go from here to san
francisco
and the means of transportation is allah
himself how long would it take me
huh
no time
you get the point guys
how in the world did the prophet go from
mecca to mid to jerusalem from jerusalem
to
beyond our universe
yes if you're trying to talk about
even with the journey of
above the barack is not even there
it's we don't need the barack anymore
the animal
so you guys if i take
you i went from here to san francisco
minutes because i was launched with a
rocket or with one minute then you will
believe me right
do you know what the verse that i read
in the beginning of the surah says
subhanallah
glory be to the one to god who took his
servant muhammad from mecca to jerusalem
in one night
so did prophet muhammad said i took the
transportation
or what who took him there
god you understand
so the faster the means the stronger the
means of transportation the less
problematic to understand that the
journey was faster
you understand
so that's why
and because the sister was talking about
also
very as we all when we grew up we heard
the story of israel and we're like wow
did that really happen yes but when you
grow up and you realize who was the
cause
because none of you will be surprised if
i say i went from here to
l.a in five minutes on the back of a
rocket none of you will be surprised
and time travel and space travel
happened and continues to happen
do you understand guys that there's
people in our history
we cannot prove it but this is what they
wrote
they're like in jerusalem they will say
bismillah
and they will make the intention that
they will be in front of the ka'ba they
take one step and they're in front of
the kaaba do you understand
we have stories like that
in our history
we cannot prove it scientifically nor we
have a quran to confirm it but people
did that
it's not a big deal for me to believe it
if allah took his messenger
someone can do that
shall we call it today that's it
inshallah we're done
any question
how could the story of israel marriage
help you if you are going through stress
huh
don't give up
okay how would the story of israel
marriage
thank you help you
if you're going through stress
how about if you're depressed
hardship is
hardship gets rewarded
what if you feel depressed and confused
huh
turn to allah do you know what's your
problem guys and what's my problem in
every human problem
is many times
we want to be god ourselves
and you want to figure out everything
yourself to me i don't care how i figure
it out if allah can help me figure this
out i'm very happy
less pain less suffering so i will just
have to make dua to allah call upon
allah
you always try to carry the load
yourself i don't know what to do well
nobody knows what they're doing
i mean
at certain point in certain subject each
one of us is in a way unsmart what do
you call that stupid
one of us is stupid in one way or in one
this you can't figure out everything
sometimes
you don't need to even figure that out
you know what i have learned in life
sometimes there is a problem
like you you get so stressed
about how to solve it
you're so stressed you're so depressed
do you know what's the best way to to
what to do
do nothing
and leave it to god do you know i'm so
surprised i've lived long enough to
realize sometimes you're like oh my god
what do i do
nothing do nothing just leave it alone
and things will get sorted out by
themselves
just combine that do nothing with ya
allah help me please god help me out
i'm confused figure it out for me do you
know what's
do you know what's
basically saying god i'm confused
inspire me to do the right thing do you
understand god
you don't have to figure out everything
yourself
god can figure it out to you
i'm going to ask you a question you
enter a
a competition you know that cube that
you have to match it you don't know so
then they say you can bring a partner
with you so you find a guy that is very
smart in this thing
so this guy says i can help you so you
enter the competition because you can be
too and and you you start the
competition and you
take the cube and all what you have to
do is take the cube
and then some of them can do it in what
five seconds what's that what's the
world record
four seconds
so 12 seconds
one cube this thing huh
six seconds
okay so i'm going to ask you a question
which way is better in that competition
you trying to do it yourself of good to
someone who knows how to do it
you understand that's all what you have
to do in life take your matter and give
it to allah say you figured it out
i'm gonna wait here for your decision
and then you go and live your life happy
and not trying to figure out everything
certain things we have to figure them
out and certain things are already
figured out for us we already have halal
haram good bad right wrong
we have ethics we have rules we have red
lines we don't cross it we don't steal
we don't lie we don't cheat we don't
kill
we don't hurt people for no reason these
are already figured out but there are
certain things like what do i do do i do
this or do i do that
ask god and give your matter do you know
what you know the man who believes in
musa he's who at the time of moses he
said he got so stressed out because they
want to kill moses and he was in the
house of the pharaoh he was one of the
pharaoh families he said
in allah i delegate my matter to allah i
don't know how to solve this problem let
god take care of it let god protect
moses
i don't know how to figure it out
yes
right
so i have to choose between two things i
want to go to law school i want to go to
medical school
and i go
and tie my camel i take the law school
exam i take the medical school exam
that's my part
but i'm stressed out which one of the
two
so i threw my part and then the one that
i get
the past then allah figured it out for
me
what if you were
oh the worst one what if you failed them
both
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you're very optimistic masha'allah
what do you pass them both
then you pray again
one
something is going to reveal itself to
you
you just do your parts
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