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Tawasaw Speech Competition Award Ceremony 2021

Shaykh Alauddin ElBakri (unverified)

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to our beloved
and uh
to all the viewers
from all over the world brothers and
sisters
especially from uh california from the
tawasau
dot org we are in team came along uh
come along uh straight far away from
malaysia
and uh good evening to all of you we are
here in in malaysia early in the morning
yeah and uh yeah about uh nine a.m in
the morning yeah
we are very proud to be
with with all of you guys and inshallah
we we're gonna open this uh
award ceremony with the two casitas or
the first one will
we're going to try to fix the technical
difficulty inshallah
and they will be back online
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this and we go back to our sheikh insha
allah
salaam alaikum
after this
thank you
our lovely brothers from in team um as
always beautiful beautiful performance
uh may allah reward you guys
halfway across the globe but here with
us virtually so thank you once again
so like they said of course we'll have
uh much more nasheed later on um but for
now i want to just take a moment to
formally uh thank you all for being here
and joining us it is 601
p.m um and our program has officially
started we got warmed up with the in
team uh with some beautiful vocals uh
today is a big day not only will we have
a uh many speakers that we'll be
chatting with um but we will be
announcing the tech the award today is
the award ceremony for the why do i love
this little law um competition that went
on and um i my name is shafiq i am an
active volunteer with stalazzo
i
really really appreciate what pawaso has
going on here uh several years ago when
um i had the opportunity and pleasure to
help out with the lasso i
really realized there's something
special for the youth
um being formed i was at the end of my
youth and beginning of my i guess you
know non-youth or adulthood whatever you
want to call it so i was i was really
able to observe both sides of this
this this group of people coming
together uh to remind each other to do
good and and on that note a little bit
of history of colossal it began in 2014
it was essentially a youth enrichment
program started at sbia uh but really it
evolved to much more than that into its
own nonprofit um in 2019 and the
organization tawaso speaks to the
mission that we carry out because
linguistically it means a group of
people who actively advise and support
one another and that was the feeling i
sensed early early on when we would
gather at sbia and have events like this
in person pre-covet days
um
so also continues to uh
aim to inspire muslim youth through
faith companionship and service to
become leaders and the best version of
themselves in addition to
overall vision is to connect with muslim
youth with each other and with their
local centers massage it and leaders so
that they can serve and grow their
communities that being said i will have
the honor and pleasure of passing on the
torch to um your amazing host uh live
hussein who will make sure
uh you know your evening goes smoothly
and we all reap the benefits uh of
tonight inshaallah live as a first year
student as a tuna she's a proud granada
islamic school alumni and she's a
die-hard they'll also volunteer um and
you know it's my pleasure to introduce
her and pass on the microphone to her
and we'll be seeing you later on
throughout the program
yeah i'm really excited for this event
tonight inshallah everything will go
smoothly i wanted to add regarding to
oso um
one of our main missions here
you know based on the observation
recently that youth in our community are
constantly being pressured by negative
influences right so we kind of recognize
the need to empower muslim youth through
mentoring through learning through
volunteering and so this speech
competition that we're doing
actually falls into one of five methods
that we use to achieve our math our
mission which is learning mentorship
identity community service and then
leadership and so
to promote leadership in our youth we've
been doing public speaking training
we've been doing debates and
competitions like this one today so
through these various programs inshallah
we hope to instill values of speaking up
for one another right empathy
responsibility and respect and youth
involved in our organization and of
course thanks to all of your support and
involvement we hope to continue on this
journey of inspiring our muslim youth
insha'allah
and to start off of course
any event we are going to have some
recitation by
zakariya in sha allah and i'll pass it
on to sheikhala al-baqri to introduce
him inshallah
born and raised in morocco
currently resides in the beautiful city
of mcnas
and recites the quran comfortably with
the riwaya of hafsa and masha'allah
a world-class party actually he won the
best party in the muslim world a few
years back masha allah a world-class
moonshid
nasheed of the love and the praise of
allah and his prophet and messenger and
a world-class human being and a brother
that i love to see and hang out always
with masha allah beautiful company and
and very good in at hiking also masha
allah so uh
please uh help us to start with a
recitation from al-quran
me
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we would love uh for you to
makes
for us which is insha allah in two
minutes
um alhamdulillah
so um
what's the plan sister liba for the uh
next we're going to have uh
the mother if so that people know who
are watching how are we going to handle
the next few minutes inshallah
definitely inshallah so throughout the
night after we have our event we're
going to have a 10 or 15 minute break
from maghrib during that time we're
going to have some nasheeds playing in
case you have some little kids or you
come back early you want to listen
they're beautiful mashallah
and then um
we are going to have
a winner of our speech competition
followed by
a speaker
and we're gonna go through that process
throughout the whole night we're not
gonna tell you if the winner is first
second or third you're gonna have to
wait to the end for that but it
definitely we're gonna have some winners
throughout and so you're gonna hear
clips of their speeches that they turned
into us
and then we're gonna have a speaker
speak to us insha'allah we have lots of
speakers throughout the night and that's
how it's going to go i'm really excited
inshallah alhamdulillah so
the adhan is in one minute
i think and then we are going to be back
there will be after the adhan
two minutes probably of break and then
the brothers from the in team will step
in and given a sheet so that the
children and the people who are not
praying you know the this can they are
they can watch
and then what time we're gonna go back
to the program start again i believe
it's
starting 6 25 inshallah 6 25 inshallah
to 6
30 so we're breaking i think from 6 15
uh
all the way
to 6 25 or 6 30 insha allah so that's
the plan
and um
i think
um
yes inshallah inshallah so the
the mic is yours
hold the finger
along with
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in about a minute or two our brothers
from the in team will step in insha
allah and may allah accept from you the
salah that you're gonna do ceremony
adhan from our beloved brother from
morocco
alhamdulillah we are so proud to be with
you guys uh from usa
and maybe all the viewers from all
around the world
and uh we would like to give a
compliment to our beloved sheikh allah
for a beautiful head covering our caps
we call here uh
it's a it's a traditional cap from from
malaysia and also from indonesia
for this second session uh while our our
brothers and sisters in in europe in the
u.s
performing prayer and we are here in the
morning
um we're going to
perform to you
know two quesadas the first one will be
elena
and
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thank you so much thank you so much
we have another session of these and
it goes to you go back to brother
one question uh where do you got the the
cap the song
i actually
like
i got it as a gift
um i got two days ago from the
indonesian community here in the bay
area i got a gift sunko from the
indonesian and i think this was a gift
from the malaysian
uh community masha'allah and um
i love it
thank you for the performance beautiful
masha allah the voice is way much better
and the stage is beautiful masha'allah
we are going to start off by presenting
one of our elementary school level
winners for our speech competition
inshallah
inshallah so
our first
display
and again we're not going to say who's
first and who's second who's third
in terms of ranking we're just going to
show you the speeches
and then at the end we will tell you
just to keep the excitement going but
mashallah there is future imams and
future sheikhas and alima's happening
right now in the make and the first one
that i would like to introduce to you
beautiful young inshaallah future imam
rashid sheikh insha allah so
sister sadie if you can display his
speech
assalamu alaikum my name is rashid today
i'm gonna talk about why i love
rasulullah i love rasulullah because he
had the best character
he was kind
merciful
loving
to everyone
when he went to taipe
to spread the message of islam
nobody listened to him
they drove them out of the city
pelting stones at him
the prophet was
bleeding
from head to toe
sandals were filled with blood
he was filled with grief and this was
one of the sad day of his life
when he
reached outside of
taif
prophet muhammed was standing and
angel jibril came with angel mountains
and said yeah muhammad if you want i can
take these two mountains and crush
the city of thailand
the prophet said no do not do that even
though
hey i want the city to become a muslim
city and
the children to become muslims someday
prophet was even though the prophet was
emotionally
physically hurt
he said no to the angel
that
even his heart had so much mercy in him
that's that's why i love
rasulullah because he had
he was immersive
out of this world unbelievable
very captivating and uh
heart melting masha'allah and next
actually from the elementary also
another contestants and by the way you
know
people have been submitting for two
weeks i am not one of the judges i don't
get involved i don't even know how to
judge the speeches
but um i i have the access to watch them
so i have been crying on and off every
time i watch one of these videos it
revives the
the hope and the love and the amazing
like inshallah the future is better
we're going to watch another amazing
speech by
our sister liba
khan
not the libra that is introducing the
program but
i guess the name libra comes with lots
of talents masha allah go ahead
i am seven years old and i am in second
grade
why do i love prophet muhammad
sallallahu alaihi he was solo
our prophets muhammad sallallahu alaihi
wasallam had many great qualities like
being caring
forgiving
truthful respectful and always remain on
path of justice
i would like to talk about his forgiving
and humble nature by describing the of
atamaka this was one of the greatest
event in the life of prophet sallallahu
alaihi wasallam
bismillah
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the people of america killed many of his
companions and family members of
prophets
but when foot they boycotted his family
for three years
and tortured him oh and
he was in position to take revenge
yet he just forgive
while entering he said
that day was the day of mercy and he
forgave everyone
while entering the city of makkah he was
not arrogant he humbled himself put his
head down declaring the praise of allah
subhanahu wa tala
reciting
again and again
he came back victorious to the people
who tortured who harmed him for years
and he forgave them
this is a sunnah this is the fact of
allah
mercy compassion and forgiveness this
from this we learn we need to forgive
people even if it is hard and to be
humble
may allah make her a pleasure to the
eyes of their parents
and all the participants i'm telling you
it was i guess for the judges it was
very very hard
uh to judge between all of these kids
they were all amazing masha'allah sister
liba what do we have next
masha allah all right next up we are
going to have our first speaker and i
will introduce her a little bit before
she comes on
dr hibba abneven she is a physician by
training who obtained her medical degree
from damascus medical school in syria
and then she obtained her masters of
public health from northeastern
university in boston she worked for
several years at the massachusetts
department of public health as a women's
health consultant before moving to
california
she has been working as an independent
muslim health consultant and educator
for eight years
dr hibba is currently working as a
part-time academic researcher at the
muslims and mental health lab at
stanford university please welcome dr
hippa
sister
raheem
allah
for inviting me and it's an honor to be
with you all today and um let me set my
uh alarm for five minutes because he
said that we'll be talking for five
minutes
so insha allah i will make it five or
less
inshallah
he asked me uh you need to talk in five
minutes why do you love rasulullah
and i was thinking like subhanallah um
every day every day why do i love
rasulullah i have so many reasons why i
love him
and then actually i i was not like able
to describe
my love um
unless i remember one quote by imam
razali and i can't agree more what he
said he said imam gazali
beauty
is the reason why we fall in love with
people so when they have a beautiful
character we fall in love with them and
the prophet muhammad sallallahu alaihi
wasallam he was the most beautiful
allahi indeed
subhanallah
this is how i describe why i love him
because i can feel that love in my daily
life in every situation i go through
subhanallah as a mother as a wife as a
daughter as
a physician you know in my work with my
friends subhanallah as a neighbor so um
i wanted to
share my experience
uh just like in few minutes in three
words
uh i hope that you take it as you know
for the youth take it as a you know a
takeaway message and allah it will help
you in your life insha'allah as it
helped me three words
knowledge
and
love
and the third word dua
so remember the three elem knowledge
love and
how is that islam this is subhanallah
increasing my knowledge um to know who
is my prophet this is actually one of
the best things ever
i have you know made in my life
subhanallah is to know who is my prophet
muhammad
and that made me love him so much
subhanallah and get closer to him
and benefit from that and apply what i
learned in my life
in different situations of how i
remember him
was with me if prophet
he do subscribe
so
when i was young in your age i started
studying the seerah i studied it from
different resources alhamdulillah
different books and with muslim scholars
and it helped me a lot building that
knowledge and love and the trust and
being proud of my prophet muhammad
and alhamdulillah my husband he did the
same when he was young so when we got
married to each other we benefited a lot
from his
how he treated his wives how he treated
his daughters
and how he treated women in general in
his society at that time so subhanallah
it's really beautiful the more you know
your prophet the more you fall in love
with him so remember this adam
um the second thing is um
he says you know like in the quran
allah
so if you really say muhammad tell them
if you want really love allah follow me
follow muhammad me muhammad muhammad so
allah will love you back so subhanallah
loving prophet muhammad and following
his sunnah
help me discover the path
to allah
and and i felt i feel it
the second thing
is
love the second word so you study the
seerah and you try to apply it in your
life
and one tip i learned that when i was
like asking myself one day how
um you know how can i increase the love
of a prophet
and i heard one sheikh telling
subhanallah on youtube saying this is a
practical tip it's very practical he
said
try to practice sending salam and salah
every day to prophet muhammad
not just during your you know your salah
prayer no but even
um when you you remember him in the car
for example when i'm driving my car they
say allah
subhan allah i'm talking about my
experience i i i i can feel the
difference in my life subhanallah and
the benefits of how the sending salah to
prophet muhammed helped me the last
thing um is uh
always make the
make dot to allah to
increase the love of prophet in your
heart and to make you insha allah
among the people who get the shafa he
will be your intercessor in the day of
judgment
allah benefit us from your knowledge
and masha allah dr
teaches
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about puberty to girls masha allah
directly through her and we also through
tawasa and her success has been
masha'allah the class has been a great
successor
and inshallah we see you more and more
and more
our young talented speakers we're so
enthusiastic engaging and passionate so
we are going to move on to our middle
school level speakers and present one of
our middle school winners right now
inshallah inshallah
so uh the next will be inshallah we will
display maryam farhat in sha allah
and see what she has
to say very amazing speech and talented
younger inshallah
this was our lesson today
i hope you guys learned something your
homework assignment would be to write
five to seven sentences about why you
love prophet muhammad sallallahu alaiha
salaam alaikum guys see you tomorrow
when i was young my mom always told me
to love prophet muhammed
and don't get me wrong he's an amazing
person
but you can't love someone just because
you're told to
sorry but i kind of have to go right now
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what i mean by that is his love to me
was so powerful that it made me want to
love him back
i could talk about this in any situation
for example my mom loves me so i love
her my friend loves me so i love her
back
this was what caused me to love
rasulallah
you may ask me how do you know that he
loves you
well prophet muhammad sallallahu alaihi
wasallam always talked about how he
loved his ummah and how he was awaiting
the moment when he would see us
nsm thematic reported the messenger of
allah peace and blessings be upon him
said
i wish i could meet my brothers
the prophet's companion said are we not
your brothers
the prophet said you are my companions
but my brothers are those who have faith
in me although they never saw me
prophet muhammad sallallahu alaihi salam
also saved his dua for us
what i mean by that is allah subhanahu
wa
has given every prophet and messenger
one dua that will be accepted
every prophet before him has used this
dua in the world for himself
except for rasulallah
it is narrated in sahih muslim that he
said i have kept it from my own mouth
and i will use it for them on the day of
judgement and my dua will be o allah
forgive my entire ummah he said aloha
could have used this toward for his
uncle abu talib when he was on his
deathbed and died as a disbeliever
if he wanted to he could have asked
allah to cause his uncle to embrace
islam
or for hadith
and his children one day passed away
he could have asked the law
to allow his family to be with him until
he passed away
for all these hard moments in his life
but he chose us his ummah over his own
family
this is why i love
for he rasulullah us more than anyone
else could
prophet muhammad solo allah has said i'm
suffered for us just because he soloized
him loves us and i love him too
like a movie production
may allah bless him bless her parents
who helped her
fascinating
and inshallah maybe we'll ask for our
last time
our brothers at m team to do the final
nasheed for us as masha'allah they have
another engagement that they have to go
to so please go ahead brothers
together
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and may allah make your next event
successful insha'allah
for joining us all the way from malaysia
are you in kuala lumpur now
yes yes
we're going to have another performance
of this
we are very proud and honored to be part
of this uh barakah even inshallah
and we hope inshallah in the future we
could uh go there physically inshallah
maybe
what do we have
next insha allah we are going to move on
to our young and upcoming speakers the
high school and college level winners in
sha allah
um
yes inshallah
and
we are
going to share the
screen inshallah and i will share with
you
we will see
one of our contestants
um
amazing sister uh
inaudible
why do i love rasulullah sallallahu
a thousand things come to mind he's our
messenger he bore allah's love letter to
humanity he's a mercy to mankind
he warned us about janna and he showed
us the way to jenna
and while all of that is true
is that really why i love him
or are these just facts in a history
book memorize them in my head but never
hold them in my heart
so why is it that i love rasulullah
sallallahu they can send them
not just respect not just admire
but love
i love him because he knew me before i
knew myself
he cried for me tears dripping down the
palms of his hands and the recesses of
the night
um
before i even had a name
i love him because he thought of me long
before my heart began its ticking clock
and the blissful piece of my mother's
womb
i love him because he remembered me when
i was still in the company of the angels
before i had forgotten when my feet were
placed on this earth
i love him because he mentioned me
he mentioned me proudly in the company
of the best his ummah who would love him
without seeing him he would follow his
way blinded with his love deafened with
his praise and speechless in his all
i love him because he loved me
i love you because you love me
i love you because you wait for me cup
in hand by your gotho
i love you because you won't accept your
agenda until i have entered mine
i love you because you hear me and you
answer me when i pray for you
i love you because you hurt for me you
gave for me and you broke for me
allah
i love you because i have never deserved
your love your affection your thoughts
your tears and yet you spent your nights
praying for me and you spent your day
suffering for me
rasool allah
i love you because you are a light a
bright star bursting through pure glass
devoting your whole life to saving mine
rasulallah
i love you because all it takes is your
name to secure the delivery of my
prayers to my lord
maybe allah ridiculous
i love you because even when i can't
understand the feeling something in the
cadence of your name makes my eyes swim
and my lungs swell and i wish i had
gotten to see your face hear your voice
walk amongst your most righteous
companions so that i might behold even
the faintest glimpse of the blessing the
immeasurable blessing of the air through
which you walked
yeah muhammad prophet of allah blessings
and peace be upon you every moment of
all eternity
i love you because allah loves you
i love you because you love me
i mean wow what a powerful uh
what do you think liver
so mashallah
and just passionate heartfelt from the
bottom of our heart martial
unbelievable
uh masha'allah
and
next actually
was in our program imam tahir
and there is no
serious event that will happen in the
bay area that imam tahir is not part of
alhamdulillah every event at tawas
albeit
like 12 to 4 a.m in ramadan twice he
attended with us
this is the third time that he was
supposed to attend the competition with
tawasa but subhanallah today he was
flying back to the bay area his flight
got delayed by american airlines and he
is right now in flight so he could have
not uh
come with us and spoken with us
alhamdulillah
so uh in
to he give us the permission sha allah
to fill his spot with the speeches of
our youth in sha allah i actually uh the
one that was next after imam tahir was
an elementary winner but i wanted to
feature the middle school winner
uh the the the second show of the middle
school so sister sadia if you can show
us the speech of uh brother amman
hussain inshallah
and today i just wanted to tell you
why i
love the prophet muhammad sallallahu
alaihi wasallam
and why you should too
now i could go on for today
speaking about
why we should
and we do
love the prophet muhammad sallallahu
alaihi wasallam
but i'm just gonna highlight one which
stands out to me the most
he never gave up
and it's not just saying like never give
up in a sports game or something like
that but
just imagine yourself in the position of
the prophet muhammad said
when he went to
which he says was the hardest day of his
life
and he was thrown out of the city
and little kids
were
picking up stones
and throwing it at the prophet muhammed
little kids
how humiliating would that be
blood
covered his sandals
a layer on his handles
it's it's just so hard for him
so i think that we could all
take a little bit of that just a little
tiny itty bit
and implement that into our lives
when he got revelation it was also very
hard for him whenever he got revelations
from the quran
he was in pain
because it was intense and it was hard
but he didn't just stop there or give up
and there are so many times
where
i myself would probably give up
because it's so incredibly hard
but he never did the prophet muhammad
didn't give up in the year of sadness
when the closest people in his lives
died
he didn't give up
he pushed on
and he was rewarded by
allah
by going in
that just shows
that with perseverance and trust in
allah
you will always get rewarded and always
get back something
whether it's in this world
or the next
that's why i love the prophet muhammad
just in s you guys are wondering aman is
the younger brother of our host
or hostess
sister laiba
so masala may allah bless both of your
parents who raise you make you pleasure
to their eyes
and make you always adding to their
hasanat
very confident and
beautiful and calm performance by your
young brother amman
masha allah i think
we have actually you know
uh a moonshed someone who does nasheed
and islamic um
they call it in turkey ilahis like uh
divine songs
allah in the quran said one of his signs
that he
put a difference in their skin colors
and in your languages
so imagine allah and his messengers
are being praised
in every language
so just like we have tasted people who
joined us life from kuala lumpur
uh from malaysia our brothers and
sisters the in team we have with us
brother murat uh bellet masha'allah he's
actually joining us from istanbul turkey
and he loves to sing for allah subhanahu
ta'ala and for his messenger
and he has couple songs that he will
share with us
so maybe he can
do the
arabic one and then the turkish one
inshallah
or in any order you like bismillah
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so
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my
tone uh and beautiful words masha'allah
um
next says sister i think we have a
sister uh amila al-amin masha'allah
yes we are going to present our next
speaker inshallah amina al-amin is a
board member of the lighthouse mosque in
oakland where she resides she's the
co-founder of murray's and program
director of their eating rights project
amina has been combating food scarcity
for over 25 years and for over 20 years
she has been an active volunteer with
various relief organizations such as
ikna alice mohammed's no child goes to
bed hungry program and support life
foundation listening
bismillah
can you guys hear me
alhamdulillah
so i want to first
thank
the
thank team tawasa and i've been going
back and forth with my daughter
as whether or not it's supposed to be
towassel but i keep telling her but it's
a w
it's not a it's not a lamb it's a wow
and so alhamdulillah i want to um first
thank you and i'm humbled and honored
to uh have been invited to the program
i want to say congratulations
to
oh my i want to say congratulations to
the contestants that are coming but also
to the contestants that have already
gone brother rasheed sister laba sister
miriam sister inara
and brother iman
you guys have done wonderful
alhamdulillah very inspirational
and you guys have really let me know
that what i want to talk about
is very important and it is a it is one
of the reasons that we all love the
prophet muhammad
and
for me as an african-american
woman what i was thinking was
um
why do i love the prophet
alaihi wasallam and what is the greatest
lesson that he has taught me
and living in a country that has not
always been kind to my people
and still
it's pretty unjust
to my people
the prophet sallallahu alaihi
gave an example of how to be forgiving
and so it would be easy
for me as an african-american woman to
encounter those who look like those who
enslaved my ancestors and who still
oppress
african-american black people in this
country and have some type of
hatred toward them or
disdain for them but my prophet
salallahu alaihi wasallam our prophet
salallahu he
was very
intentional
in being forgiving
and
loving
those even when they harmed them just
like the people of tights
the people of taif were harming him and
trying to we're humiliating him and when
the angels came and said to him
we will do whatever you want as a
punishment we've been given permission
to do whatever you want as
a punishment for them and what he wanted
was
if if just their offsprings if some of
their descendants were to become muslims
and as we know
taif is one of the holiest places in the
world at this time
um
so
when i was listening to our young
speakers masha allah
and i was thinking about i was like well
they're telling my story but i was
thinking it's not my story it's our
story and this evening is about them and
so again
may the lesson that we all take away
from this is that
to have compassion
for those our fellow man and and and for
mankind even
when
they may not be being very
compassionate and loving towards us to
fight those who fight us so that's not
we we're not to cow
but
to not hold malice and to not hold
hatred in our hearts that is the
greatest lesson that the prophet
muhammad sallallahu alaihi wasallam has
taught me
and that is why i love him so much again
i am so honored and grateful to have
been a part of this wonderful program
and insha allah i look forward for the
rest of the contestants performances
thank you for coming and joining us
you know
at tawasa we partner
with other organizations to
give
an a venue for our youth to volunteer so
one of our the five goals that we have
is the
community service
so masha'allah uh even though sister
amila has an organization
of her own that does
feeding and food security and you know
which is
been there for a long time even with
that she comes every saturday
at mca
from 7 00 a.m to 12
you know noon
and uh
you know runs the program and we bring
the tawasa youth
and the parents so we some the parents
come with their children
whether they are high schoolers or
middle schoolers or elementary to come
at the event at support life foundation
which like it's amazing every saturday
like there's food distribution
um like we're talking about 25 tons of
food 25 000 pounds of food distributed
in four hours to over 500 addresses and
that's only on saturday on friday a
similar operation in oakland that
distributes food to the east bay and uh
on sunday another location it's just
mashaallah very beautiful so uh that's
how we bring our youth to community
service and it's so much fun coffee
donuts uh you know pizza you know
amazing breakfast alhamdulillah thank
you sister
amila for coming and you know talking
about you know subhanallah not holding
anything in your heart and uh
forgiveness how much that message brings
people in i have a surprise for everyone
masha'allah
right now in the middle of our program
inshallah
a very beautiful uh
brother
who will take his shahada with us right
now
and uh he is of french origins from
belgium
so i know he's with us i think on the uh
on this brother oliver
and if you are here you can unmute
yourself and you you can uh
you know turn on your camera insha allah
uh but
you know maybe you can get ready masha
allah so sister sadia if you can bring
him with me to the screen and pin both
of us
masha allah
assalamu alaikum brother
so
brother oliver
if you can share with us few words of
why
you are embracing islam today inshallah
yeah
i want to share my life with mel and i
want to be the imam of the family
masha allah what is it in islam that
specifically attracted you like
as you're going through this journey
you've been interacting with muslims for
now 10 20 years if not more
so what is it in islam
i'm interested about the
the story the culture the philosophy
allah bless you
and inshallah we would like in front of
everyone to inshallah give you your
shahada and welcome you to the folds of
islam and fall of in the muslim
community as you can see masha'allah
very talented young children here very
good speakers masha allah so
if you want to repeat after me and say
ash
allah
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brother oliver for
this peaceful night uh in the
remembrance of allah and his messenger
thank you for coming thank you for
joining us
and we pray for you of a beautiful
journey with islam and we are here your
brothers and sisters anytime you need
anything uh we're here for you insha
allah but thank you for joining us
thank you thank you very much
uh that was a uh you know a surprise of
the night
of
and um
we don't want to forget our youth so i
want to go back to the beautiful the the
next one in the elementary school
speeches if we can have her inshallah
that would be amazing
or i have them uh i'll tell you the name
of the next contestant insha allah
they're uh
they're with us here
and
i would like to hear from habiba ali
where are you happy valley sister sadie
if you can display her speech inshallah
assalamu alaikum
assam alaikum my name is habiba ali and
i am in fourth grade
fourth today i'm going to be talking
about why do we love our beloved prophet
muhammad
so let's start
allah says
except as a mercy to the worlds
there are some social reasons for loving
the last prophet muhammad
the love will overflow by itself
every virtue that the recommended can be
definitely found in him
some people compared his beauty to the
sun while other people compared his
beauty to the moon but internally he had
an achieved perfection like character
like honesty generosity courage loyalty
empathy humility kindness patience
integrity and so much more
can you imagine how all these virtues
blended into one person in such a
perfect way
this is what the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wasallam had achieved
let me tell you three facts fact number
one
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam
loved playing with children and
respected elders including women
whenever some like older people pass by
he put his head down out of humbleness
he did not care how much sad he was but
he respected people that too
um like whenever someone was speaking
with the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wasallam
but the prophet of allah
put his head towards the person towards
that was like talking and the whole body
fact three do you know the city of
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam
went there before he went his adopted
child said
who
and
when they arrived
they were disrespected when the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wasallam was like
inviting them to islam they did not
accept it at all
okay so a tife through big stone that
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam
and they tried to stop him
like them and so um the prophet saw
allah sacrificed and this is not a
single fact how he sacrificed
he did it for his ummah
now let me tell you his last sermon
all mankind is from adam and eve
an arab has no superiority over a
non-arab nor does a non-rub or have any
superiority over an arab a black has no
superiority or a white nor does a white
have none superiority over black
no one have any superiority over another
except by piety and good action
like bad people and good people and good
people are superior than the bad people
so um in the day of judgment the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wasallam is going to
be waiting for us like to come to heaven
if we pray in the mass but then today
like prayed prayer five times a day and
rick
um and so these are the deeds you should
do to like go to jannah and he's gonna
be waiting for us he's gonna request
online he will like i think allah will
send us to jannah inshallah so till next
time it's me habiba ali and my blessings
be peace be upon our beloved prophet
muhammad sallallahu alaihi wasallam till
next time it's me habiba ali and allah
wow masha'allah that was uh
amazing uh masha'allah sister libo what
do you think
mashaallah our speakers just keep on
getting better they're all so amazing
and confident
uh so inshallah we have our next guest
speaker a beloved person to me please go
ahead and introduce doctor
mangura was born in sierra leone where
he did his undergraduate studies and he
has a phd in comparative literature he
has taught courses at the university of
san francisco for 23 years during this
time he used opportunities he had to
seek islamic knowledge and study arabic
in middle eastern countries
in 1996 he founded and is still the
chair of san foundation for west africa
which is a non-profit dedicated to
humanitarian work and community
empowerment
now dedicates his time in retirement to
uplifting communities in west africa
writing and the exploration of
understanding the arabic and the quran
through each other
i feel very blessed to be uh in this
fellowship this evening
actually when i listened to our young
daughters and sons
in this
vika of muhammad sallam there's only one
thing that comes to my mind
i think of my aunt in african sierra
leone she was totally illiterate
and she used to say uh something i would
never forget that is uh in timney and
dinah both
which means that this deen is sweet
this dean is sweet
and and and for her the deen of islam is
is really something to be savored
something to be tasted like food is
tasted
uh and if one does not taste the
sweetness of this deen
one has not tasted anything in one's
life
and this is uh confirmed by my um
participation this evening this blessed
evening um in this victory of muhammad
sallam
you know everything about us is a vicar
of muhammad saw everything
that we will live our lives
our names are the
there is a tribe in africa called the
hausa
some people have five uh five boys they
call them all muhammad sallallahu alaihi
sallam
muhammad
muhammad and so on and so forth so
everything about about us
is is a vicar of muhammad sallam and i'm
reminded of a very touching moment for
me in medina when one old man said um as
he met me for the first time
and he was crying uh
he is his story is so overwhelming for
me
that
you realize just how blessed this uh
human being muhammad
is how much of his love is ingrained in
the in the in the hearts of the most
beautiful people in the world that they
love him to cherish him and what i heard
tonight is just a testament to that to
that to that um a perpetual fact reality
i cannot really
tell you one thing for for which i
i feel so connected to the to muhammad
with him is so is so intense and so
varied uh uh but i'll just pick on just
three things i want to focus on and that
is his wisdom uh he's been very
principled and and the special place he
had in his heart for the young and the
very special place muhammad salem had
for for young people
i wanted to imagine uh
one of the sisters i think she's in
college she just spoke and she brought
me to tears
imagine her in the comp in the comfort
of muhammad salad alison imagine her
there
and and imagine muhammad sallam asking
her something asking her permission for
something would she should she say no to
that to that to that request of muhammad
said i said would you say no would you
have the power to say no
well i want to take you today to a story
that is carried by muslim and bukhari uh
it's a very riveting story in which uh
muhammad was in the comp it was in the
um company of
sahaba
and and and a drink was brought to him
and he drank of this milk very
peacefully very calmly as you imagine
uh but it so happened that on his right
hand side
was a young man a very young person it
says
i'm probably around 10 or 15 years old
that is a person who's right hand side
the only one there
and to his left are the kibar the the
older sahaba i don't know who they are
it could be muhammad it could be
and all of those great people
so imagine this this situation which he
drunk and everybody would love to try to
drink after muhammad said i said
everybody would like to be first to
drink from him
and so he turns to this young man it
says
would you permit me to
would you permit me to give the drink to
to the other people to the older people
that was a question
now you first ask yourself how did he
manage to get there
well he got there because he knew that
mohamed salah had a very special place
in his heart for young people he sought
him he was there not only was he there
he was very very close to him not only
very close to him he was on his the
right
his right hand side and not only that
muhammad
sallallahu salaam turned to him
just not to talk to him
to ask of him almost a favor
a permission to do something imagine
that
muhammad said i said i'm turning to you
to talk to you directly not only to talk
to you to ask you for something that you
wanted to do
what was it that you asked him to do may
i give this string to these people
may i give this drink to these people
first before i give you
now i want you to imagine that there are
two principles here at stake and they're
all about etiquette
there is the etiquette of
the for the older people there's also
the etiquette of
giving
precedence to the right hand
what must be done here
what takes precedence
which principle is higher
the most
amazing thing about all these brothers
and sisters is that muhammad sallam did
not make that decision
he did not decide what to do in this
case he gave that to his
sought his permission
to give the drink to the older people
first
so he had to decide the young man had to
decide
that is the honor that he had for this
young man but there is also wisdom in
this move of his
imagine if he had been the one to decide
whether to give the drink to the young
man or to give the drink to the older
people this is a big topic i don't want
to address that here now the fact is
that he did not and the wisdom there is
so so sublime
and the boy's answer
the young man's answer is
no i will not
i will not give preference to anyone
over myself
on this fortune coming from you
i will not give preference to anyone
over myself
on this fortune that has come from you
and muhammad said i said let me turn to
him
after he drank he gave him the cup the
boy drank first and that was the end of
the story
so imagine
this scenario
uh of this beautiful story of
uh prophet muhammad bin with a young man
and your older people and look at the
respect he had for this young man and
look at the love that this young man had
first of all to find a place in the
company of these old people
and look at how much he desired
to drink after muhammad sallallahu
alaihi sallam before anybody else even
at the expense of disobeying muhammad
sallallahu imagine that situation and
yet muhammad said
he gave him the cup to drink and that
was the end
of the story
a great story of wisdom a great story of
the place that young people had in the
heart of muhammad sallam but also in the
wisdom of the young people
look at the answer of this young man he
did not just say no i'm not going to do
that he said i cannot i cannot do this i
wish i were able to give this to these
young old people i cannot do that i
cannot give up this privilege this
fortune
that came to me
to anybody else
so this is not saying i will not do this
yeah yeah rasulullah i cannot do this i
cannot do this
and so muhammad said i said he turned to
him he gave him the cup he drank and
that was the end of the story so this is
what i wanted to share with you tonight
to see these moments
there are
plenty of them the seerah they're very
silent to don't talk about them
which
exhibit
bring to light
the
incredibly beautiful character and
wisdom of muhammad sallallahu alaihi
um and and of course the wisdom of our
young man he could have been 10 15.
could have been one of these people
speaking here today and by hearing these
young men speak today
i am confident i'm confident that the
baton of tawaheed of the love of him has
been passed on to them and what we heard
will be with a heard will be heard by
the one great great grandchildren shalom
is it anywhere nick on you on the desk
next to you
the old one but the new one is coming i
prefer to eat for them you can hold the
the old one i just wanted to people to
know about the book that you've written
recently
masha'allah and now it's a new uh
refreshed uh
this masha allah
exerts from the stories of the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wasallam
and brotherhood
is masha'allah so mashallah oh there we
go indelible footprints that's amazing
so inshallah it's it's on amazon right
if people uh search it
yes yes masha allah may allah accept
from you
and your children
so i think next we have a i think sister
liver we have a um
a middle school contestant a very uh
and uh
he's very famous his name is sami
youssef can you believe sami youssef is
on
on our program masha allah
but this is a a very beautiful young sam
youssef and we would like to hear his
speech before we hear our keynote
speaker shaykh nasir janga inshallah go
ahead
assalamu alaikum my name is samyasaf and
i'll be reading to you why i love the
prophet sallallahu alaihi salaam
why i love our prophet sallallahu alaihi
salam
muhammad sallallahu alaihi
he is the greatest blessing he was sent
down it to be a role model
he's the most beloved he is there so we
can emulate good things that he has done
until the end of days
allah said in the quran we have a
sentence
mercy to all of humanity
the name muhammad means the most and all
praiseworthy
in the quran which is the light to
guidance
a light sent to light up a dark world
his demeanor was so pleasing to the eyes
he was the most handsome out of all men
he added the highest morals the
compassion of the prophet muhammad
sallam
said they'd always seen him with a smile
and a never with a frown i love muhammad
sallam because he taught us
about allah he taught us about his life
and
taught us about the afterlife he told us
right from wrong he told us of how to
live ethically upright with the moral
values
he era eradicate eradicated
racism when it was the norm
the prophetess muhammad sallam said
there is no exaltation no virtue of an
arabic over a non-arab of a of a black
over a white or a white over black every
single one of them is the one and the
same side of god the almighty and
everyone came from adam i love him
because he sacrificed everything for the
guidance of humanity
i would like to end it with a few of the
final thoughts we love adore and are in
awe of our favorites sports athletes
actor singer and so on we want to
imitate to them be like them but there
is something missing
when we cry for them
would uh they cry for us too
most probably not because for them they
are like well what what makes you
something special or deserving there is
someone who will cry for you not that
will cry will more for you
even though he is far more special and
worthy of adoration than anyone else
would it be ever be
the prophet muhammad sallallahu alaikum
a man who would have stand up in the
night until his skin would crack just
praying that we would be here with him
when we pass away
a man who would cry after the thought of
having followers who would believe in
him without having seen him
every prophet was granted a guaranteed
dua and he saved his and he saved his
for us
a man who was loved as a leader
a man and his companions would fight
over the drops of water and that would
have fall off his skin
this is a man who would cry for you i
asked myself is he not worthy of my
tears too
i love my prophet muhammad sallallahu
alaihi sallam
peace be upon him
thank you for listening
and
i would like to uh turn it to you sister
liba to
uh introduce your teacher
masha allah
before i do that i want to thank all of
our sponsors
and uh masha'allah we've been sponsored
by so many massages
and islamic centers
be it mca
uh that is we're hosting so many of our
programs right now
uh be it sbia
where we started like in 2014
uh be it uh masha'allah yasin foundation
in the peninsula in burlingame
masha'allah be it uh san ramon who has
been always there for us always
supporting us masha allah
be it a
moonlight for humanity as sister yasmin
a very big supporter that does work
in
cambodia vietnam and laos and
and even with the rohingyas masha allah
a very big heart sister
uh be it our brother sisters from imrc
indian muslim relief and charities
brother mansour vori and the rest of the
board of directors and all the workers
that helped me took me to india three
times to visit and see with my own eyes
their work
uh so masha'allah we have a lot of our
sponsors that
actually
came and supported us alhamdulillah
so we thank you all all the massages be
it the islamic center
evergreen islamic center which is also
in san jose thank you all for supporting
and they this is this program has been
live streamed on all of their channels
actually so masha'allah
we're been ranging all night between 500
to 1 000 viewers instantly
uh alhamdulillah so that's uh the barak
and the blessing of allah and i'll give
it back to you sister libra
inshallah so our keynote speaker
um just a small bio he was born raised
in dallas has completed an extensive
study of the life of the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wasallam
he studied the islamic sciences full
time in karachi and he also attained a
bachelor's and masters in arabic while
completing a masters in islamic studies
he taught arabic and islamic studies at
the university of texas he worked with
various islamic schools and served as
the imam out of masjid in the dallas
area and now he's the founder director
and instructor at golam actually one of
my teachers
alhamdulillah so without further ado
it's a pleasure and an honor to be here
with you all today
it's nice to uh see and hear from sister
live mashallah
and obviously it's always a pleasure
uh
and just such a joy to see in here
may allah preserve and protect you
um
and this program the tawaso program
uh mashallah every single year
i was just listening to the speech being
presented by
brother sami yusuf mashallah um and it's
just so riveting um
you know i i couldn't stop listening if
he would have gone on for 30 minutes i
would have been glued to the screen just
listening to him to hear
a young
you know bright muslim
a believer 1400 years later halfway
across the world
um speak about the prophet salallahu
from his heart
and to express his love
for the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wasallam just moves
you beyond beyond words
so i find it really hard
to follow that
but
insha allah in just a few moments in a
few minutes here with you today i wanted
to share a little bit about
uh one thought one reflection i wanted
to share a perspective
on why i love the prophet
there is an expression in english in our
culture here
um they say never meet your heroes
and the expression basically what it
means what it speaks to is that if you
idolize someone
you look up to someone
you admire someone
and
from afar
you are extremely impressed
and just blown away by the person
then there's that that's something very
powerful that you have in your life
you have something that you aspire to
you have something that you look up to
but if you meet that person
what you risk
is maybe losing
that
you know
immensely inspirational force that you
have in your life
you know
um the
you know brother uh brother sammy in his
uh presentation
he talked about you know people who
might look up to athletes or celebrities
you know imagine if there's some kid
um
you know and uh growing up
this kid plays basketball all the time
every chance every opportunity he gets
he's outside
you know dribbling a basketball back and
forth up and down you know if he finds a
hoop then he's there shooting
you know shot after shot
and there's a professional basketball
player
a professional athlete that he looks up
to that he admires that he models his
game after he tries to imitate him he
tries to mock him he tries to
emulate him
and
he
thinks that he wants to be just like
that person
and he looks up to that person so much
and now imagine one day
you know he
goes to a game
all right um
it's not cheap
you know uh he has to save up a lot of
money
and he has to beg his parents please
please take me to the game
and they drive an hour two hours away
and then you know park the car and walk
all the way to the arena and then stand
in line for an hour to get in and they
finally get in and they get there like a
couple of hours early so when the
players come out onto the court to shoot
around and to practice
you know he's lying he's amongst those
early people who got there
um
awaiting their arrival
and when they arrive the people who get
there early they're standing in the
front and he's standing there with like
a piece of paper and a pen
for him to autograph
you know give him his autograph
and
the player walks by and he's asking for
his autograph and the player looks at
him makes eye contact with him and then
just keeps walking
and now think about how devastated that
boy is he met his hero
and his hero let him down
so that's
situations like that
is where we have this expression in our
culture this idea
in our culture never meet your heroes
but the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wasallam is the opposite of that
and how do we know that
i haven't met the prophet salallahu in
person you haven't met the prophet
salallahu in person how do we know that
well we know that because
every single person in the life of the
prophet
ev and not just every single person in
the life of the prophet we heard many
people mention these things today about
how beautiful the prophet salallahu was
you know jabbing
he says that i was sitting there looking
at the prophet salallahu and i it was
the night of the full moon
and
laila it was a br like a really bright
night the full moon was out full there
were no clouds and it was just like a
radiant night
and i looked at the full moon and i
looked at the prophet
at the salallahu
moon then i looked at the prophet
salallahu and he says he was more
beautiful than the full moon
and not just that the closer someone was
to the prophet salallahu
the more they were in awe of him the
closer they were to him
the more closely they knew him
the more they interacted with him the
more they loved him
the more they admired him
the more they respected him
the more they
were impressed by him
the more they wanted to be like him
the more they loved him
and i have a couple of excerpts here
very quick excerpts that i'll share with
you to illustrate this point
there's a very famous compilation of
narrations
about the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wasallam called
muhammad
the prophetic personality sallallahu
alaihi wasallam
and this is a compilation
by imam
allah it has
397 or 396 narrations almost 400
narrations divided into 56 chapters
and it beautifully describes intricately
everything you you would want to know
about the prophet salallahu
and in the very first chapter
a description about
the features and the physical presence
of the prophet sallallahu alaihi sallam
you have a narration
from none other than ali bin abidalib
radhiallahu
maybe knew the prophet salallahu just as
well as anyone
he
by relation by blood he is the cousin of
the prophet salallahu but he was a lot
younger than him
so his father
ali
whose father abu talib the uncle of the
prophet salallahu salaam
he was the man who had raised the
prophet salallahu from the age of eight
because his father passed his mother
passed his grandfather passed
and so abu talib raised the prophet
salallahu salaam
now ali
because he was so young abu thought it
was very elderly
the prophet salallahu to help abu talib
he took in ali
and raised him like one of his own
so ali
who knows the prophet salallahu so well
he grew up in his home
he grew up like one of his children so
he knew him since he was a child
he knew him in the role of a guardian
a parent a legal guardian
and not only that but then he would
become muslim and accept islam
in at the very onset of the mission
so then he spent 23 years as a believer
as a follower or as a student
of the prophet salallahu not only that
but then he was married to
the daughter of the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wasallam
so he knew the prophet salallahu as a
father-in-law
so he knows him as a guardian
as a parental figure
he knows him as a prophet he knows him
as a teacher he knows him as the
messenger
and he knows him as a father-in-law as
an in-law
and what does it
say when he describes the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wasallam
he says
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam
was the
most generous of people
he was the most truthful and honest of
people
that he was the gentlest
of people
in demeanor in behavior
and he was the most noble
and respectful of people
if someone saw him all of a sudden
they would be impressed by him
womanhood
and if somebody actually got the
opportunity to interact with him
they would fall in love with him
sallallahu
he says that
i never saw anyone before him nor did i
ever see anyone after him who was quite
like him
there's another excerpt
where this individual is a fascinating
you know situation
his name is
the
son of khadijah
our mother the mother of the believers
she was married before she was married
to the prophet sallallahu alaihi
she had a son from that marriage
his name he was a boy when she married
the prophet salallahu and his name was
hind
so he is the stepson of the prophet
salallahu
once again
pardon my reference but we're all
familiar right growing up about stories
about step parents and step children
right i hate to make such a terrible
reference in such a beautiful gathering
but
we all grew up knowing the story of
cinderella right
and her evil stepmother and her
stepsisters and so it's kind of a
a cliche
in our
culture
about you know step children and step
parents and the relationship there
in our culture
it tells us that it's not supposed to be
really good
this is the stepson of the prophet
salallahu
and the prophet salallahu as his own
and
even
hassan the grandson of the prophet
sallallahu alaihi
s the family of the prophet
he says that
i asked my uncle because he's the older
half brother of his mother fatima
to describe the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wasallam and he says
he was the most elaborate person when it
came to describing the physical presence
of the prophet salallahu
and
when he describes the prophet salallahu
he says
the stepson of the prophet saw
he says
he said the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wasallam
was very honorable
and respected
he was awe-inspiring
he was impressive
he took your breath away
and he says
but
he says that his face would shine and
radiate his face would glow
like the glow of the full moon
on a still night
and so
the people who knew the prophet
salallahu best
they forget about being diminished in
their appreciation of him
forget about taking him for granted
they
were the most impressed by him
because that's the character of the
prophet salallahu he loved everyone he
respected everyone he honored everyone
he looked at everyone he saw everyone
he listened to everyone he spoke to
everyone
he prayed for everyone he cried for
everyone and that
character
that
just
beauty
is why i love the prophet salallahu
thank you for always answering the call
of the youth here at tawaso
you saw them and masha'allah
we would love to
as things getting better to host you
here in person and you know let the
people enjoy the sohbah and the
companionship mashallah like you do
in dallas
and inshallah
please everyone listening check the
kalam institute they have classes online
they have classes in person
people actually move from all over the
world to live in dallas next to their
institution just to go through the
program
as a matter of fact the children
the sons of imam tahir actually are
regular attendees of institute
so
and students masha allah including also
our hostess here masha allah sister
hussain so jazakum for answering our
call and may allah reward you
so uh we have uh we did nasheed
masha'allah
in from malaysia in arabic we did
nasheed from turkey in
you know
turkish actually
so i thought like maybe we need to do
some nasheed in english
so uh we have someone who has a hobby to
give nasheed masha'allah
and uh introducing to you
malik
who will give us some nasheed in english
insha'allah so go ahead malik
so i'm going to be singing a song it's
by maher zain and it's about
the love to rasulullah so just
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there's faith in my world
it comes back to your teens and all your
words from your life
i have learned
to be patient and caring at every turn
the reason i'm strong is
in a world spinning out of control
the reason for my pride you are my guide
and i will always follow your way away
away
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peace and blessings on you every day
i like us allah
you inspire me in every way
i promise that wherever i go
whenever i pray i'll be sending you
praise with the words
blessings on you every day
there's light
in my heart
helps me find my way back when i'm gone
too far
when all my anger
makes me
blind i'll remember your mercy for all
mankind the reason i forgive as long as
i live
in a world spinning out of control
the reason i love i'll never give up
and i will always
peace and blessings on you every
you inspire me in every way
i promise that wherever i go
we'll never pray i'll be sending you
praise with the words that i say
rasulallah
o muhammad
peace and blessings on you every day
i know the only thing i want from this
life and is to follow all your footsteps
to paradise
so that's the way i'm gonna spend all my
time yes i swear
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peace and blessings on you every day
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peace and blessings on you every day
i make us all alone
oh how mad
you inspire me in every way
i promise that wherever i go we'll never
pray i'll be sending you praise with the
words that i'll say blessed
peace and blessings on you every day
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before we announce uh in the last minute
who are the winners we would like to run
the video that actually displays all the
participants
that participated in this one
and i'm telling you each and every one
of you shall we would like to get
permission from the parents for us to
kind of package with an intro and an
outro and introduce the speeches of your
children to the public so that inshallah
other kids could benefit from it it's
very heartwarming so inshallah we would
ask you for permission to post it and
once you send us the permission we'll be
able to even
post these speeches uh to a larger
audience insha'allah i mean you can see
masha'allah our guests including
the nasa jungle said i could listen to
this kid for hours at in the masha'allah
so this is really amazing caliber of
youth that we have here
so please sister sadia can you please
randy
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foreign
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me
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results
for the elementary we actually had two
first places it was very hard to decide
it seems between them
we have leibachan
and
rashid
sheikh
they were both in the first place so
they are double winners and the second
place for elementary was habiba ali
in the third place for elementary was
fatima muhammad
who actually we wanted to display her
speech
and maybe inshallah towards the end
right now we can run her speech he did a
poem with the images
about the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wasallam for the middle schoolers we
also had two first places
equal scores aman hussain and maryam
farhat
which you saw both of their speeches
and the second place we had amina
mahidin which is her and her sister were
winners in the last competition about
the prophet salallahu last year so she
comes back and she again
scores high masha'allah very talented
two sisters
um
but in this case masha'allah
the third place sami yusuf the one that
you heard his speech uh in high and
college category that's a one category
the first place went for inara asan the
second place went for maryam sarhan and
the third place went for none other than
our hostess sliver hussain masha allah
who actually i think won the first place
last competition
and she would never miss a single
competition we actually did a
competition about palestine
um
last uh you know about a designer shirt
for palestine she also participated in
that and won that so may allah reward
you sister liba for doing all of that
um and for being the hostess tonight
this was amazing
and you did a good job very much in
control confident and calm
uh uh alhamdulillah that's mashallah
very powerful for your age
and what do you think of the program
tonight
and alhamdulillah i think it was really
amazing to see all of our young speakers
um can i can i close off with a few
words please go ahead
so i was thinking
knowledge confidence and resilience
these are all ingredients of a strong
leader who can change the world and
mashaallah we have seen that in all of
our winners tonight and all of our
contestants and
once again we hope to inspire the muslim
youth to experience
the love and joy of practicing and
serving islam despite the challenges
that surround them so inshallah we hope
you enjoyed our event you learned
something we helped renew and strengthen
your love for our beloved prophet
and i'll pass it to you
i would like to make dua for
the people the hidden soldiers you keep
on hearing me sister sadia play so
masha'allah sister study of probably
from 8 00 am till now non-stop she's
been working on this and that's only
today so if i mention all the other days
she's like spent a week on this masha
allah her husband brother azeem
fascinating
i want to make dua for sister sadia's
father may allah give him
the most
peaceful experience as he's going
through now through severe sickness
subhanallah may allah
use that
experience to remove his sins and
forgive him
elevate his ranks
and leave him pure and sinless
like the day he came to this life may
allah make it easy for you and for your
brothers and sisters and may allah
gather you and your brothers and sisters
and your mom and dad and your husband
and children
all on the basin and the lake of the
prophet sallallahu assalaam al-qiyamah
under the throne of the shade of the
throne of allah when there is no shade
but his shade anime you enter jannah us
and you and your beloved ones
make it easy for your father big time
insha'allah
when i thank all of the people who
worked with us the judges and sister
sister afrah abdullah who put hours in
in judging these kids and other judges
masha allah
i want to thank uh everybody who helped
us the sponsors again
thank you for every islamic center that
sponsored us tonight and every islamic
organization
um and uh may allah reward you and
inshallah we will put you know your list
your name on the screen and may allah
accept from us what we have done tonight
may allah except from the children from
this young
elementary middle high in college who
participated and expressed their love
i have received a text
that really
from sister amila that says these kids
are unapologetically
lovers of the prophet saws they didn't
hold back they're not apologizing
they poured their heart out they're very
proud and confident and that is true
masha allah masha allah bless all of you
bless your parents
and uh except from all of us and please
visit our website tawasaw.org
check check the activities that we have
in and out especially for high school
and college students which is a very
sensitive age uh we create mentorship
environment and we take them trips we
take them
journeys we kind of create that thing
that inshallah takes them away from any
harm may allah protect our sons and
daughters from any harm that surrounds
them and make them better
muslims and better versions of
themselves insha'allah
for attending with us tonight and i
would like to end
the program with
um the poem that uh
sister fatima delivered and she was
the third winner mashaallah even though
this competition is public speaking but
she combined public speaking with poem
in a very beautiful way so sister sadia
please run her and then we conclude our
program jazakum baker
my name is
is
alhamdulillah so the technical
difficulty happened sorry about that
yeah it looks like it's something i
think it has played two on two windows
i'm sorry let me just try it inshallah
the prophet muhammad was brave and bold
yet he was the most kind
he had a soft heart that shone like gold
and he never left a friend behind
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he went through agony yet stayed strong
faith was his food and
was his song he tried to convince
pureish to take heed yet they were
consumed by their very own greed
when he spoke with them
they would force a laugh
they didn't even change when he split
the moon in half his will was strong and
he never stopped believing because he
knew it was worth achieving
so he strobed for his faith with
radiance on his face his companions say
that he continuously prayed and there
was no human who smiled more than he he
always cared for humanity
yet those close to him also relate that
he did not have an easy fate
he had to struggle through pain
agony that could drive someone insane
and there was no man who cried more than
he as he strove for his community
when the people of law if stoned him for
miles sneering with nasty smiles the
angel gave him the choice to crush his
antagonists with a mountain or leave
them alive
and in a calm voice
he said to let them thrive
for how could we know that their
children wouldn't grow into dedicated
slaves of their lord the prophet
preferred peace to the sword
yet he was mighty when battle raged he
would fight allah's enemies like a lion
uncaged with fierce companions by his
side the fire of hope never died
he gave to his loved ones more than
required and allah's company was what he
most desired even when riches were
acquired he never gave in to greed or
when he was wary and tired he still
quenched others needs he planted the
strongest seeds of friendship and honor
and loyalty he never chose royalty he
always kept his dignity
he never stopped striving for a better
world and thanks to him the squirrel of
islam was unfurled indeed muhammad
sallallahu alaihi wasallam is the most
worthy of praise may we remember him for
the rest of our days his life was a
light that reminds us all that in shadow
of doom we should stand tall
put our trust in a law and keep our
faith with joy in our eyes and a smile
on our face
jazakallahu for listening i hope you
enjoyed that poem
and i hope that you will tell others
about our amazing prophet and share your
love for him
and inshallah i hope that you are
encouraged to learn more about him and
his seerah assalamu alaikum
is
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