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The Grand Qiam - Powered by the Quran

Shaykh Alauddin ElBakri (unverified)

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so we're gonna get started
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so we're going to get started
insha'allah with our program once again
welcome to our grand slam tonight at mca
this is a collaboration between pawaso
and mta as long as um
as well as with mta youth and so before
we get started let me just explain a
little bit about what owasso is if
you've never heard of it um basically
it's an organization that's founded by
sheikh al-azin al-baqi
it works on empowering the youth right
through their space and their identity
and this we do through learning we do
through mentorship and we also do
through community service and um
we're partnering with mcau today so that
we can raise well-rounded individuals
right you're confident and you're dean
insha'allah and actually throughout the
night here's a little fun surprise for
you um we are going to be having trivia
questions for the youth in our audience
like high school and college students
inshallah because we really want to hear
your voices as well so
stay tuned for that throughout the night
we also have like gift cards and prizes
for you all they're gonna be hard
questions though okay
insha allah but anyways to start off our
event obviously it's called powered by
the quran right so
what better way to start than with the
recitation of the quran in allah and so
our body tonight is actually
only 17 years old his name is
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and allah presents examples for the
people and allah is the knowing of all
things
such niches are in mosques which allah
has ordered to be raised and that his
name to be mentioned
therein exalting him within them in the
morning and the evenings
our men who remove the communists
from the remembrance of allah and
performance of prayer and giving of the
heart that they fear a day in which the
hearts and eyes will faithfully turn a
town about
that allah may reward them according to
the rest of what they did and increase
them from his bounty
and allah gives pervision to whom he
wills without account
next i'll be reading the translation for
sure
indeed we send the quran
down during the night of the crew and
what can make you know what is the night
of night of decree the night of decree
is
the angels and the spirits descend there
and by commission of the lord for every
matter
peace it is until the emergence of god
next i'll be reading the foundation of
sunderland
by time indeed mankind is involved
except for those who have believed and
unrighteous needs and advised each other
to truth and advise each other
oh
okay next we're going to be introducing
uh imam
anwar
he's uh an american muslim scholar and
preacher born in london england he lived
in the san francisco bay area since 1983
after completing his religious studies
imam has served the bay area muslim
community
since 2000
he also teaches islamic law at zaituna
college he is currently the chairman of
the board of nissan north american
islamic shelter for their abuse
an organization that works towards
alleviating issues related to domestic
violence please help me welcome my
father
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in the name of allah most gracious most
merciful i bear witness that there is
none worthy of worship except the one
allah
and that his beloved nabi and prophet
muhammad
peace and blessings of allah be upon him
is his last and final
it gives me great pleasure and honor to
be here with all of you on this blessed
night
in this blessed month of ramadan in this
extremely blessed faith
for those of you that may not know i've
actually lived in the bay area for
almost 40 years
which means that
this
was
a dream
growing up
i traced my route so far back when i was
maybe your age
that we used to come to the mca for yam
in the morning
but there were no four facilities
so we would actually bring our support
with us in our cars
and our cereal and milk and bowls
everything and after the yam we go into
the parking lot open the trunk of our
cars and stand and have our support air
so times have definitely changed
for the better alhamdulillah
but in any case
the thing that i want to speak to you
about today happens to be from the quran
specifically
our relationship with our parents
and primarily
our relationship with our
mothers very very interesting that when
we open the quran
we find of course verses in the quran
where
allah god almighty reminds us
to be kind and beautiful to our parents
but not just that
there's
specific mention of mothers
in multiple places so for example
there's a chapter in the quran called
mary maryam
there's an entire chapter in the quran
and the story begins
or sorry the chapter begins
with
there's three verses that i'm going to
touch on really quickly
allah refers to
the specific incident when she gave
birth to
prior
to him being born allah
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allah refers to
the difficulty
can we just get everyone in the back to
quiet down please
thank
the pain that she was having as a result
of that pregnancy
brought her to a
date palm tree underneath the date palm
tree
and in that moment for those for those
of us that know the story of maryam
the miraculous pregnancy in the
miraculous birth
in that moment she said
i wish that i had died before this and i
was completely forgotten that no one
would even know
who i was
but interestingly enough
allah had different plans for her
right interestingly allah had different
plans for her she gave birth
and the story
generations later
makes mention of her in the quran in an
entire chapter not just a verse not just
two verses rather an entire chapter
happens to be the only woman in regards
to whom allah has an entire chapter not
even the blessed wives
of the believers have an entire chapter
after them despite their importance and
despite the the need for our
revering them for being the wives of the
prophet
there's two more verses i want to touch
on i don't have a
we reminded we gave advice to the human
beings to be beautiful to their parents
she bore him the mother bore him with
difficulty upon difficulty
i'm mentioning the difficulty piece for
a reason because there's a hadith that i
want to mention at the end
she bore him with difficulty upon
difficulty right that's what allah
subhanahu wa
the verse is longer it carries on but
that's i'm going to move on
then another place right around there
allah says
and we give advice to the human beings
to be kind to their parents now listen
to this says
if they force you
to associate partners with god
because of them not having knowledge
the only time in your life in which you
are not allowed to obey your parents is
if they ask you to associate partners
with allah
otherwise you always have to obey your
talent then interestingly allah
that we will all return
be with them
so we recite the quran we read the quran
but the message of the quran is very
very powerful
and when it comes to parents
and specifically mothers
allah not the prophet
himself reminds us to be
a human being
can never
never ever
repay
their mother
for what she has
but
interestingly enough he continues and
says that maybe
maybe if your mother was a slave
and you freed her she was a slave and
you freed her
that maybe you might have been able to
repay her for a few moments
of the pregnancy
and so many of us myself included
have immigrant parents
and they don't necessarily understand
the culture that we're being raised in
a lifestyle around us
but let's not forget that our parents
come from
religion and culture
in which
they've been top down
they have certain values
and they do have in reality sometimes
an interesting way
to share those values
they have an interesting way of sharing
those values with us
but their hearts are in the right place
their hearts are in the right place
these are the very parents
who when they wake up in them and i'm
telling you from experience
when they wake up in the middle of the
night to pray to allah they're probably
praying more for their kids than they
are for themselves
this is not something you tell your kids
you just don't it's not like i go to my
kids and say hey kiddo you know when i
wake up in the middle of the night i
pray a lot for you i don't do that
it sounds weird
but that's the
reality and it's as a result of those
prayers
that we end up succeeding with the
result of those prayers that divine
doors open up for us we sit in classes
and we're able to understand and
comprehend we meet people that may be a
benefit to us in our life at a later
point you end up getting a job interview
at a place where you never thought you'd
get a job interview you end up getting
into a college or university you never
thought you were going to get into hard
work no doubt
hard work no doubt but we believe in the
muslim tradition that it's not just
about hard work we believe in the power
of prayer
and that's why and the most powerful
prayer amongst the prayers that are
definitely
always accepted you never never ever
and so while we do the hard work don't
ever forget that it's those prayers that
even inspire us to do the hard work
right it's those prayers that get us
into places that we need to get into
don't ever forget that that's that's
and that's why when we talk about
prayers you know
the common habit amongst
the eastern culture or the muslim
culture is we ask our elders to make you
up for us we go to you know go to
grandma you go grandpa if they make your
outfit right
and
the ulama our teachers remind us and
they tell us and of course the prayer of
the mother is far more powerful
my parents happen to be alive
and i'll go to my parents for prayers
and my dad will say go to your mom
she said he says go to your mom my dad's
a so you know you kind of think
like dad knows you know and he's on
um but in any case
um you know he'll say go to your mom
because
there's one thing to ask someone to pray
for you
but it's an entirely different thing
to do things for someone
you do you do things for them
you do things with them
as a result of which
the prayers come from inside
that moment of excitement that moment of
happiness that moment of life
and while sometimes you and i might not
take it for granted because she's just
mom what does mom know
that's his dad what does dad know
but they have a spiritual relationship
with the almighty
which has been given to them and every
parent has it which means when you
become parents this is going to happen
as well
when you become parents
it just automatically happens
and so they have that spiritual
relationship with the creator with the
almighty
that when we do things good for them
there's a prayer
when we do things to please them to
conduce your prayers and i'll share this
very personal and i'll close with this
you know i've shared this in the past i
don't like to make it public
but it is what it is and this is just an
example for you right for those of you
that for those of you that know me no
i'm kind of busy okay just for the
record you know what i'm saying i i
this is my third event tonight you know
what i'm saying
um
and so you know you're kind of busy
but you have the honor of looking after
your parents the mom
it's a busy day and mom just tells you
we're indians
okay
you may find the non-arabs non-babies
and they haven't been their wife
i mean for reality most of us that are
being raised in america are probably
going to get married from muslims
regardless of their effort background
you know what i'm saying again i don't
want to go again i'm sorry
i'm bringing up controversial issues
here okay okay okay um but mom tells me
hey kiddo
no matter who you are
no matter what your life may be no
matter where your bios get read no
matter no matter what your
accomplishment may be no matter when you
walk into a hall everyone gets up and
you get to sit at the front table
this is part of this is part of my
territory this is who i am as an
individual
but you know what
i believe i brought there
i'm being
and when you go home with that
medication
even before mom thinks you're going to
pick it up tomorrow
that prayer
is what will make all the rest of my
events afterwards in my days
now i get
um
i recognized
simply making them happy
and so and so you know we think and of
course importantly we we respect our
elders and our prayers but if you happen
to be in the in the mall or in
a parking lot and there's an older
person that happens to be here and you
decide to maybe help them you know what
i'm saying offload their cart or take
their cars and put it where it belongs
and so on so forth and they say thank
you they don't have to be muslim they
say thank you that in and of itself is a
prayer that is because allah recognizes
our service to others especially those
that happen to be older
and even more
and you know i i alluded to just a few
moments ago
we think our parents are old they don't
get it
there's some things they don't get
there's some things they do get there's
certain things that they choose to
ignore
um you know
but don't ever underestimate the values
of
and for them being alive and for those
prayers that come your way i'm going to
share two stories with you
my grandfather
very highest man in his old age he would
prowl to make the praise to do his
prayers you know i would call him
and i would ask him i would say you know
i say maybe up for me and he would get
obsessed
he would say you're not supposed to ask
me to make you out for this job
i cried i didn't cry because you died
like it was just time to go
i cried because
a person who would wake up in
young people must acknowledge that our
elders especially our parents and even
more
you know a lot of us are you know
here at this event rightfully so there's
probably going to be a volunteering
event on a saturday morning rightfully
so but if there's stuff that needs to be
done at home and your mom is asking you
to do that that comes with anything else
in the world
what mom tells you to do what dad tells
you to
the do
what the people need to do
yeah i already answered
how many
is
and i understand there may be a little
bit of a difference there but in reality
the fact is that the fact that your
mother gave you birth that's enough for
us to be at her service
for the rest of our lives that's what
that's what our that's what our
solutions
want i want to leave everyone in a state
of gratitude for those of us that have
the ability right um i i i got a phone
call from someone a few nights ago
there's a young family
the mother in her late 30s
died of cancer three years ago
now four children all being raised by
the father
young men
he passed away a day before ramadan
so all of a sudden you got four kids
without any chance right now i
understand that some of you may be among
those who may not have parents
whatever the case may mean but in every
moment of ours
as parents um of us and many of us may
not have been raised by our grandparents
but the very command that allah gives to
us when it comes to looking after your
parents with the things of grant which
is why in islamic law when you give your
zakah for example you can't give the
people whom you are required to
financially look after and you can't
give your zagat to your children you
cannot give the task to your parents you
can't even give the cash to your
grandparents because if your
grandparents were old and had no means
of income
and it's not just looking after them
it's also knowing that our success lies
in ensuring that we continue to look
after them and i will tell you this i
said this
listen guys
i want you to know i was your age at one
point you know my parents were young too
my dad walked with a cane now and i i
never thought in my life a day would
come when i would see my dad walking
with a pain it was just it was just
mind-blowing you know what i'm saying
like you don't think about this as a
young kid you just think dad is dead
like he's going to be hustling bustling
you know screaming driving around his
entire life
okay
but in reality you know there came an
age where that changed
that change nothing
um
don't get me wrong my dad is awesome i'm
just gonna be honest my dad's really hot
my dad
if i may share oh man i'm going to get a
lot can i get into trouble no
no i okay a lot kind of hesitated
i'm not going to get in
um but in any case uh i love i love my
parents but what i mean to say is
you know now he even needs i like i need
to open the corridor for him for him to
be able to get out when he gets out like
sometimes he's wobbly he's got to hold
him you know what i'm saying and like it
changes really fast but that's when you
need to be emotion we all need to be
mentally emotionally prepared
maybe for that day to come
and if the responsibility of looking
after your parents like how many of you
have multiple brothers and sisters i'm
sorry my answer is very long tell me
this thought okay we all have multiple
okay some of you so so sometimes when
your parents get old and if they need
you okay siblings usually fight like why
do i have to look after them all the
time why do i have to do things for them
all the time your parents may do this
with their siblings too by the way okay
i'm just saying
okay
but the reality is
what we've been taught
is the is the child
or the children
who look after their parents are
actually the lucky ones
they've been chosen by allah and so that
burden that financial burden that
physical burden by the way there's a lot
of burdens when it comes to looking
after your parents it's actually not a
burden it's an honor and don't ever
forget that because as a result of that
we believe in our tradition allah would
look after you the rest of your life
allah will look after your children
allah will look after your means of
sustenance like god opens his defined
doors when we are there for our elders
and our parents and that that's that's
what makes our tradition so unique i'm
not saying we're perfect
i'm not saying i'm not saying anyone's
perfect just saying that we have to try
to do our best
you know
and so
our next speaker
mashallah is going to be joining us
online is
hussein kamani so he's an instructor at
flam institute he was born and raised in
elizabethtown kentucky and his journey
to pursue sacred islamic knowledge began
at the age of only six years old so by
the time he was nine masa allah he had
already become a hafiz and to further
his studies in the islamic sciences he
actually traveled to the uk and pursued
you know formal islamic authorizations
in gaza after that he was selected for
a postgraduate level course in islamic
law and legal verdicts so he completed
that within two years he later earned
another graduate degree in business
management and he currently resides in
dallas texas with his wife and four
children masha'allah so you know as i
mentioned
kentucky right so he grew up in rural
america and so he comes
you know with this perspective of
knowing how to connect to the quran
regardless of your environment and so
he's coming with us online mashaallah
it's 3am there so we're really grateful
for his time so inshallah please help us
welcome mosti hussein kamani
i wanted to start off the evening by
first and foremost thanking our dear
beloved chief aladdin for inviting me
and for the tawaso team for setting this
up
an amazing awesome program
i had the opportunity to listen to imam
tahir and his amazing stories and may
allah reward him for
being here and for
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for
sharing his wisdom allah subhanahu wa
elevate him
the
subject that we have
for today
being muslim
is a
is a beautiful
i don't know if you guys can hear me or
not
uh we'll start again
so i was saying that i start off today
by first and foremost
uh thanking sheikh al-din bakri for his
generosity of inviting me and setting up
this program and the tawaso team
for setting this amazing event up may
allah subhanahu wa reward you today is
the 29th tonight is the 29th night of
ramadan 23rd night sorry and it's
one of the possible
nights of later
and
this is one of those nights that we
spend wisely and
in reality it's a night of ibadah
we do these lectures just to motivate us
and engage us but the true essence of
the night lies
in
doing your worship
right committing to a schedule and
making dua allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala
doing tilawa of the quran abundantly
that's where the baraka is may allah
subhanahu wa allow us to be from those
who make the most of this night
the quran is an amazing guide
and it teaches us
that which we would not know without it
the quran is a road map for us
and it teaches us to walk through the
different paths of life and overcome the
various hurdles
so we can reach our ultimate goal which
is the love of allah
and by attaining the love of allah
be from those who benefit from the
reward of allah al-jannah inshallah
the quran consists of stories
and each of these stories carry
a moral a lesson for us to learn from
because it's through stories that people
see
complicated and very technical and
sophisticated issues manifest in a
simple easy way
taqwa for example
which means to be conscious of allah
in essence is a very simple
concept
but
when you bring this awareness and
consciousness of allah into your life
and as you go through life and you face
different scenarios and you apply that
taqwa
it becomes
um
it becomes challenging
because one thing is a word that has a
definition
to now a reality that you live every day
it challenges you so the quran teaches
us through examples and stories of how
people in the past did this
when i look at the stories of the quran
i find them to be in two categories
either allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala is
telling us of people
throughout history and throughout the
passing of time
who really messed up
who did things that were so
consequential
they were so vile and horrible
that allah warns us of their actions so
that we take heed and avoid making those
very same mistakes
whether it was sexual immorality
whether it was societal harms being
inflicted on on others through
economical oppression
or
whether those people chose arrogance as
a path and return oppressed others
ultimately
attracting the anger of allah subhanahu
wa
but on the other hand we have stories
of
prophets of allah and friends of allah
and allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala captures
from their lives
the most sincere moments in history
it's as if their stories are like the
wall of fame where allah lists out their
names and captures those parts
those few moments
in history
where sincerity reached its peak
whether it's the wife of pharaoh
asia
who was tested for everything
she had to give up everything she had
to prove her love for allah
or the many stories of rasulullah
sallallahu alaihi wasallam where allah
subhanahu wa revealed verses
and the sahabah prove their loyalty to
rasulullah
so between these stories there are many
lessons
today i wanted to take a look at some
verses of surah al-furqan
allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala shares with us
a story of a person
and the reason why i share this story is
because when we're in school
you know on the day-to-day or whether
we're at work on the day-to-day
we have a responsibility to
carry our iman
on our chest and on our shoulders with
pride and honor
being muslim in the masjid while
surrounded by fellow muslims is
somewhat easier because there's an
environment there and that's why
gatherings like these are so important
but ultimately
your iman can't be left at the door of
the masjid that has to follow you
wherever you go where you become a
billboard of dawa no matter where you
are
and
as a result of that
the beauty of islam spreads to the world
and people are honored
by finding iman
and begin their journey to allah
it's where your environment no longer
exists that
things become difficult
praying salah in the masjid is easy
praying at home is easy for many of us
but praying salah work
and praying salah
at school becomes difficult because no
one is really watching over our shoulder
and there is a big transition that
occurs for
many of our children who spend years in
islamic schools and then now it's time
for them to move on to college
university high school
it's an opportunity for them to live
everything they've learned now in this
environment
it takes a heart for a person to say
it's a lot of time i'm going to pray
for them to talk to their deen for them
to talk to their principal and say that
it's jummah we need a place to pray
on the other hand there are some muslims
unfortunately due to peer pressure
social pressure
intimidation
that at these very critical points
they walk away
they hide their islam
they cover their name
that is
a representation of their islam
and
this
creates great harm in your own spiritual
growth
why should a person be shy of something
that allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala has
honored them with
was once sitting with some persian
generals
and they were having a meal
he dropped a morsel from his hand these
were the wealthiest and the most
influential human beings on the planet
the persian generals
so
when he dropped his morsel he did what
rasulullah said he was
taught them to do which was he picked it
up cleaned it and it was getting ready
to eat it
the person next to him elbowed him right
away and said hey man what are you doing
you know there's enough food here you
don't need to pick up food from the
ground and eat it
you do realize that these people will
look down upon you if you
pick up food from the ground clean it
and eat it that's not that's not proper
so half one looked at the person
and gave him a
look of amazement and shock and almost
belittling him like are you crazy
and then said to him
that you expect me to abandon the sunnah
rasool allah for these idiots
every person does what they want to
every person chooses what they wish to
do these guys are going to do whatever
they want to do and i'm going to do what
i want to do because i'm proud of it
or persian or roman or indian or whoever
it is
companions that this is who i am except
me for this
in the quran we have a story of an
individual who
unfortunately made a bad decision
there was a person in makkah karma
who was a successful businessman
was giving dawah to people in the early
days of islam in mecca
he hadn't accepted islam but when nabi
is speak
he would listen
he would listen attentively
he didn't read
ridicule the prophet
maybe he said allah
had his eye on him
and was waiting for the opportunity to
give him
one day he returned from a trip he
gathered everyone in mecca together
because of the successful
nature of the journey and the prophet
that he made
so he threw a big feast
he also invited rasulullah
when it came time to serve food and
every summer said to him
i won't eat until you become muslim
now that's a bold move i won't recommend
you guys to pull something like this off
did this because he knew that person and
had his hand on the pulse and knew that
he just needed a nudge
and in front of everyone like this
the arabs would never turn away their
guest or their request
so
he
did what nabi is expected him to do and
you can see how the prophet
sallam's pitch was very much calculated
he said allah
the next day
when he was in the streets of makkah
he met his buddies his old buddies
i heard that you became muslim last
night so you're hanging out with the
muslims these days
is that what you're planning to do
so
this individual said no i became muslim
but i still want to hang out with you
all you guys are my friends
said well you're going to have to choose
either it's them or us
and this is a situation many of us find
ourselves in that there is immense
social and peer pressure
this man unfortunately
made the wrong decision
and he said to abu jahl i choose you
guys
over them
abu jahl said to him well then go to the
prophet sallam
and publicly
reject his faith
and in one narration he also said to him
go and spit on his face
humiliate him
was a very
horrible man
who took advantage of the kindness of
navi
so this person came to the prophet
saddam publicly in front of everyone
and rejected the prophet he said a man
also
attempted to spit on the prophet
sallallahu alaihi
in one narration jibir ali salaam took a
spit and threw it back on his face
you had it
you had iman it was in your heart you
were one of us
and then for these fools you folded
the oppressor will be biting away at his
fingers something people do when they're
nervous and they know that there's
trouble on the way
he will say
only if i had kept my path with the
prophet if i was loyal
because it's at these moments when life
throws all sorts of scenarios at you
that
your iman is tested and whether you
understand what taqwa means is tested
whether you understand what love for the
prophet of allah means
this is tested
because
he
distracted me dissuaded me
misguided me
from the remembrance and indicating
meaning from this deen from the quran
from this beautiful message
after it had arrived with me
after i had it in my hands and my heart
it was here
so in these blessed mubarak nights of
ramadan
one thing to make dua for is ya allah
give us confidence in our iman
make us firm
make us advocates of this deen ya allah
allow
iman to reach the roots of my heart
where it becomes a part of me
and i am proud of it and you are proud
of me too
this is what a confident muslim is
and this is what our deen calls us to
this story of the quran is one
that relates to many of us
and i pray that allah
allows it to be an inspiration for us
that no matter where we are
our allah is with us
when we're walking in the hallway and
the thought of haram enters into our
minds
we don't engage it because we know that
our allah is with us
when you're sitting in the traffic and a
thought crosses your mind to look at
something haram don't do it
your allah is with you
when you're at work and the thought
crosses your mind let me cheat let me
waste time let me do this let me do that
let me just kill a little time on the on
the internet and look at something or do
something or skip my salah or skip my
fast no one's watching
taqwa is the reminder that your allah is
with you no matter whoever you are
whenever you are or where wherever you
are
time place or individual
your allah is always with you
may allah bless us with this
understanding and bless us with the
purest form of iman
once again it was a pleasure being here
uh with the tawaso team you guys are
always doing amazing work i hope that
very soon we're able to be together in
person may allah prolong the life of
for
being such a positive influence on the
community and something i mentioned
before i
uh was cut off earlier with the bad
connection that uh it was a pleasure
also seeing him on fire and hearing his
stories
the gathering of
a source of mercy and so
[Applause]
all of your thoughts
um
and sold them subhanallah until they got
enough of 100 halal income to
allow him to pursue his education and so
i mean subhanallah this is the fruit of
his parents labor so may allah
bless them and bless him insha'allah i
mean
um so
we are going to move on to some trivia
as i mentioned earlier this is just
going to be a few questions we're going
to throw in before our next speaker and
this is specifically for the youth and
so we're going to go
one round for
the males and one round to the females
and there are ten dollar
gift cards in sha allah for the winners
so be attentive insha'allah so you want
to start off with the first one
all right
brothers
you guys want to talk to you when you
hear the question
all right so the first question
this one's not too hard
how many prophets are mentioned in the
quran
[Applause]
from the sisters
okay
this one's a little bit trickier but you
guys should be smarter in seoul
okay so question number two
which surah has the name
allah in every verse
yes all the way in the red scarf
yes masala
[Applause]
amazing masala
so we're going to have
do you guys want more questions or
should we go to the next speaker
sure
i can't hear you
okay okay we'll do one more round
okay
trying to find a harder question for the
brother
okay this one you guys might have to
guess a little
how many times is the word quran
mentioned in the quran
back there all the way in the back how
many times
no
no
no
no
who's
are you looking up
who said that
yeah yeah
did you look it up
at least he's honest okay let me ask
another question
come on brothers you gotta have takwa
this is the month of ramadan
okay we'll do another one
okay
a little bit easier than the last one
which for profits
are direct descendants of each other
please don't look it up
i saw your hand come up first
okay yeah that's good that's four
no that's four
you said four masha'allah great job
round of applause
yeah
and remember if you
answered correctly then just come over
to us on the side maybe afterwards just
give us your email and we'll send you an
e um gift card inshaallah okay
last one for the sisters i'm gonna give
you an easy one because they were
cheating
[Laughter]
okay
what was yusuf ali islam's real
brother's name
the full brother
vimy ameen marshall
all right
um now we're gonna have malik introduce
sister amina darwish and she's gonna be
speaking for us inshallah
all right guys give us one second
okay
[Music]
okay
if i get everyone quiet down
okay
next i'm going to be introducing sister
amina darwish
darwish started as the associate
associate dean for religious and
spiritual life and advisor for the
muslim life in for muslim life in
february of 2021 she earned a phd
martial in chemical engineering before
her passion for community building she
remains passionate about including
ethics meaning and service into stem
disciplines
she earned ijazat from the balam and
critical loyalty seminaries including
ejazza inten
dr darwish brings unique a unique blend
of understanding with the different
cultures within the muslim community
while staying grounded in traditional
islamic scholarship please help me
welcome
you guys all hear me okay
no
hello
hello
what if i just project is this okay
no
i'm not sure what to do
i'm really good at it though
what about this is this better
okay
eat the mic is the
thing i'm good
in the name of allah the lord of mercy
the giver of mercy and prayers and
blessings beyond his beloved prophet
muhammad
so my my family and i we moved here in
august so alhamdulillah
dream of a master that provides
it's really beautiful to remember the of
our ancestors i remember when people
were talking about the muslim ban and
they were saying we're going to stop
muslims from coming
the biggest migration of muslims to
america was actually enslaved people
first of all you're 400 years too late
second of all even if you belittle our
muslim brothers and sisters that came
before us doesn't mean we're going to do
that
subhanallah when i went to sierra leone
and i remember i was sharing this with
some of the imams there and they looked
at me like oh cute american that doesn't
know anything
as hamdulillah they were my elders
but they said actually those aren't the
first muslims that went to america
the first muslim that we know know of
that went to america was actually a man
by the name of man
so mansa means king he was one of their
kings and if you've heard of mansa musa
this is his older brother
subhanallah we had a muslim king that
landed here a hundred and more than 150
years before columbus doing what muslims
do which is do dawah trade in judah
subhanallah and i just think it's
significant to point out our spiritual
ancestry in this land
these are our elders in terms of this
particular piece of land of allah maybe
we're all here because someone ran
through the fields and said ya allah
subhanallah alhamdulillah it's now past
one in the morning and looking at a pact
masjid alhamdulillah
subhanallah so i was hoping to actually
talk about some of the young people in
the quran
mentions a specific group and it's a
really beautiful era
says
they were young people that believed in
their lord and we increased them in iman
and part of what's significant about
this group is they actually found
spiritual support in each other
and this is the age where actually
support your support groups within your
age group actually become really really
important subhanallah and having good
company and having good friends
is becomes really important
i wanted to talk about actually two
people one of the first one is ibrahim
alaihissalam which
actually i think imam khan had mentioned
he was a young man
and it and he's having this conversation
with his people
and is that these are in surat
allah says
this is how we showed ibrahim
the deeper meanings of everything
and he has this fascinating conversation
with his people and it says
when it was pitch black at night he saw
a planet and the specificity of the
quran is the brightest thing in the
night sky is actually a planet and not a
star subhanallah
but he sees this planet and he says
this is my lord.
when the star disappeared he said i
cannot worship something that's not
constant
which is fascinating our most
foundational belief about allah is that
he is
the one that is ever living and the one
that is sustaining
i have no idea what that is
hopefully that was an approval of al
qaeda
when he sees the moon and it's bigger
and he says this is my lord
and of course he knows the moon's gonna
set the moon sets and he says
if my lord does not guide me i will
surely be lost
and this is so beautiful part of our
belief of allah has to be that he is
beyond even us
if he is above us and our lord he has to
be able to communicate with us
subhanallah and this is again another
foundational belief we have of allah
that allah is beyond everything we can
imagine and then he sends us prophets so
that we can know more about allah
and then the last day he says
he sees the son he's like this one's
much bigger than my lord and sure enough
the sun sets he knows the sun's gonna
set
and then he tells them in fact i worship
the one that created the planet the moon
and the sun
the one that put all of this into motion
and i i think he's subhanallah he's a
young person as he's having this
conversation and when you're
maturing into an adult usually we talk
about like the physical or emotional
maturity into adulthood this is also the
point where someone is spiritually
maturing into adulthood this is the
first time in your life where you become
where you are accountable in front of
allah but this is also the first time in
someone's life that they're able to ask
big questions
why are we here
what is the purpose of life
what do we know about allah i used to
work at youth camps i used to work at
minna and they're 12 to 18 year olds and
we go out into the middle of the woods
and we would have a lot of these
conversations and i promise you nothing
squeezed my brain more than the mini
kids
all of the akita questions where you're
asking who is allah
how do we know allah
and if you want to get to know someone
you learn their name
learn the names of allah
this is our greatest introduction that
we can have to allah
and i just think it's so beautiful how
it's young people that are having this
discussion in the same way that we do
dial with other people it's important
that we have those same conversations
with our youth
they're asking these questions for the
very first time in their lives
and not being able to have the space to
answer them can create a spiritual
crisis and it does create spiritual
crisis for people that aren't able to
sit and intellectually engage and
spiritually engage on allah
which actually brings me to the second
person i was hoping to talk about
so another young person again subhan
allah says
talked about the ayah where she said
yeah
she's saying something that is
inherently so devastating she's saying
if only i had died before today and i
was long forgotten
what would make someone say that
and i and i in some of this fsc they say
it was because she feared the the
physical pain of labor
which i've met women that have had
babies and said let's do this again
let's have more babies
my personal opinion is not physical pain
for someone to say this it has to be
something inherent to who they are
that's getting threatened
and if we think about who she was she
used to she used to be in baton rouge
used to worship all day she had lost
panitata would provide her with us then
she wouldn't give to other people
like this is the person who lived at the
masjid and all they did was pray and
feed the poor
you say salah and zakat and that's all
she did subhanallah
and she knows allah gave her a difficult
test
and as soon as he is born
speaks to her and he calms her down he
literally tells her
don't be sad
allah's got you
and she comes back into the city
carrying sadness
when someone speaks to you you don't
even need to respond again allah's got
you
she walks into the city and they
immediately start shaming her with her
name and with her family and i'm sure
you guys of any any time i used to screw
up and you're like who are your parents
your doctor hannah's daughter did you
really screw this up and it was like oh
my god please don't tell my mom like
there isn't a bigger threat than i'm
going to call your mom
or your dad depending on
on who what your parents relationship is
like subhanallah
they told her maryam what have you done
you're haroon's sister
your father was a good man your mother
was not a bad woman how dare you do this
also i don't know how long it takes to
go like this
because she's holding the baby and she's
pointing to him it says
before she could before anything she's
still pointing towards him
and they immediately said
how can we possibly talk to a newborn
child
and allah allows
them to speak
allah has made me his servant he has
given me the book and he has made me a
prophet
what's also really fascinating about
what he says in that series of ayat he
says
i will be righteous towards my mother
i will have my mother's back
this is supposed to be a religious
community
in a masjid that was giving her a hard
time and threatening who she is and
shaming her
and the first thing the prophet
alaihissalam said
besides that he is a prophet
i have my mother's back
stop shaming people
i don't know why we have this like
culture of like shame and guilt
no one's ever been shamed or guilted
into wanting to do more good
loves us
internalize that allah loves you
allah wants you to succeed
allah set it up so that every good deed
that you do you get 10 times the reward
you make a mistake it only counts as one
allah said anything you do ask me for
forgiveness i'll forgive you
allah forgives all shortcomings
allah will forgive all of your sins if
you just ask
allah wants us to succeed the
manifestation of our parents love in our
lives is a manifestation of the love
that allah gifted us
since you were born allah has given you
people to love you
since you were born allah has fed you
and clothed you
allah the evidence of allah's love is so
overwhelming
don't let anyone shame you or guilt you
out of it subhanallah
let's have these conversations and let's
make sure our spiritual spaces are the
spaces that are
loving and open for everyone to come in
and be able to ask the questions
i want to say this and i also want to
say i completely understand when a
parent and their 14 year old comes home
is like how do we know allah exists and
they panic they're like they forgot
everything i taught them in 14 years
they have it
they're just asking it for the first
time
may allah allow us all to have these
spiritual experiences together there's
nothing more beautiful in the world than
watching a group of young people have
their very first spiritual experience
together and they're bound forever
because of it subhanallah
may allah can continue to put love in
our hearts for each other
continue to put love in our message for
everyone here i mean
grant us your love the love of those
that you love and the love of everything
that brings us closer to your love and
zach
[Applause]
those are my students i'm feeling
beloved
so we are actually going to have to
amina um after our last speaker come
back again for some q a insha'allah so
we're not done with her yet thank you so
much alhamdulillah
and yeah we can see how all these topics
are starting to connect with each other
and
to introduce our last speaker right into
this before we get into our full q a
session so we can have all of our
information in sha allah we actually
have shift of the janda joining us
online from dallas insha'allah so i'm
going to introduce him really quickly
and then we'll go on
online can't help them
okay fine if you guys want trivia we can
do that in between
okay okay
okay let's be trivia and since i'm here
i mean i guess we'll get the sisters
started
um
medic
you have to get the brothers in and
challah um
so
we have um
looking for a harder question for you
guys because
everyone knows a lot of these and so
um my first question to you is
so we have um
sures and medanispures right
did you know that raise your hands
great okay and so you know each soda
from a different place that it was
revealed has different characteristics
and so for example mech and surahs are
usually a little bit shorter maybe
they're rhyming because you know when
they were revealed they were revealed in
the city of the um disbelievers and so
trying to capture attention as fast as
you can so my question to you is
how many surahs were revealed in mecca
yes
30
30 no yes
16 nope
no not 40.
not 40.
okay you got it
come on they're going to steal it
yes
not
not 64.
okay last one
last one
you play higher or lower higher and
lower
higher
[Music]
yes
that took a while guys come on we can go
faster
um
this
okay too slow we're gonna have to get
another question
wow he doesn't believe in you guys he
said you're not going to get it
it's okay i'm sure somebody will die
okay
number
man one
woman appeared
lowered
lower
a little lower
uh
yeah come up to me for the ten dollar
gift card and please if you didn't win
like we don't have you tracked down so
don't come to me for the ten dollar gift
card
okay
okay great so
we got the echo again nice
we're gonna do a really quick um intro
testing
if you guys want to hear my voice and
delay then
the back over there
okay this one now let's just do it so
she called the nostalgia he's the
founder director and instructor at falam
institute mashallah and so he was born
and raised in dallas he currently
resides there with his wife and three
children masha'allah he memorized the
quran also at an early age in karachi
and so after high school he actually
returned to karachi and he pursued um
studying islamic sciences at jamia
binoria
and he graduated
he obtained a bastard bachelors and
masters in arabic from the karachi
university
um
and you know the rest of this i don't
think you need to hear it in an echo
delayed way so let's just have them on
inshaallah assalamu alaikum
sent me some pictures of the gathering
over there and uh such a beautiful uh
lively gathering mashallah so many
people especially young folks uh
gathering together in these blessed
nights of the month of ramadan at the
masjid at the house of allah
to
grow in their deen to grow with their
spirituality to connect with the quran
to connect with the book of allah it's
really inspiring masha'allah and i would
have loved to have been there with you
alhamdulillah
but you know obviously it being the
month of ramadan it's a very you know
busy hectic time
um and so i and i apologize a little bit
for the delay in getting here i
literally was just coming from another
yam program that we were having here uh
locally so um alhamdulillah happy to be
here with y'all
and really uh just excited about this
opportunity to be able to connect
uh
with the quran uh as is the title
powered by the quran and to be able to
spend this quality time together and be
able to reflect on the book of allah
together and be able to come closer to
allah together
so
i'm going to go ahead and jump right
into the session
and you know what i'm going to be
talking about is
how the quran
powered
the sahaba radhiallahu anhum the
companions of the prophet salallahu
islam in their faith
and
the
i wanted to share a story and inshallah
discuss it from the point of view of
this story
and
you know this is a little bit of an
interesting kind of story
but i really felt that this would you
know help to make the point
of how the quran is just such a powerful
source of light a source of faith
and a way to be able to find you know
it's a means to finding our way and to
gaining that light of iman and faith
and i wanted to share the story of none
other than
one of the most you know um
illustrious people from our history one
of the most illustrious of the
companions of the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wasallam and that is none other
than um
um
is a very interesting story
um and maybe some of y'all have kind of
come across it before
but uh for the sake of you know making
sure that everyone is able to
understand and follow the conversation
and be able to benefit from it um
is
the individual
uh about whom the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wasallam made these kinds of
comments where the prophet salallahu
said there are two individuals that you
know are
uh that that i rely upon that i depend
on in that sense like two individuals i
can count on
in the heavens that is
the archangels gabriel and michael
and there are two individuals on the
earth and they are abu bakr and um
the prophet salallahu
when you
come walking down a street when you go
walking down a path
and shaytaan
is on that path he changes his path
shaitaan runs from you
right we're all trying to run from
shaytan and shaytan runs from you
and the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wasallam said
that i am the seal of prophethoods i am
the finality of prophets
if there was going to be a prophet after
me would have been somebody like omar
so
that is the
you know that those are the accolades of
umar that is who um was i mean to be
given the title why the prophet
salallahu of
that you
as a person
are the distinguisher
between right and wrong good and bad so
just imagine you know how remarkable um
is
but he wasn't always that person he
wasn't always that person um
has a very interesting history before he
became muslim in the first few years of
the mission of the prophet salallahu
salaam he was actually one of
the staunchest
opponents
to islam and to the message of the
prophet salallahu there are many of the
early companions who actually were
tormented and even tortured by um
that's how staunchly against he was
that's how staunchly he was against the
mission of the prophet salallahu and the
muslims there's even a fascinating story
where
there was a
a couple who were from the early muslims
and once the you know the uh
the opportunity was given that the
muslims could
migrate to abyssinia to habasha east
africa and take refuge there take asylum
there
that they decided to take that
opportunity because they were dealing
with a lot of you know
torment and persecution and oppression
and torture
and specifically um
he had
you know tortured these this couple and
he had tormented them so they decide to
go to east africa
and
they are traveling they're leaving and
when they reach
the boundary of the city of mecca they
reach near the city limits
the husband remembered that he forgot
something that they would need
so he said i have to go get it so his
wife said what are we gonna do
and so he said you stay here you wait
here with our stuff and i'm gonna go get
it and come right back don't worry
she said hurry hurry you know i don't
want us just i don't want somebody to
come and get us and snatch us or do
something bad to us
so he goes to get the stuff and a little
while later guess who comes walking
along
and now this sahabi this woman when she
sees
uh this muslim woman when she sees
just like you know her her heart just
drops
and um walks up to her and says you know
he sees bags with her so where are you
going
and she says in that moment i just was
overcome by just this emotion
that you know a frustration of you know
being tormented
so i don't know i just found this
you know this this courage
and i said to him that you know you have
made our lives impossible
so we are leaving
and you did this to us
when he hears that
he has a little moment of
reflection
and he kind of looks down he looks away
he's it's as if he's a bit embarrassed
of himself
and
he just says to her he says
may god be with you on your journey
and without making eye contact he just
kind of turns around and walks away
now she's shocked and astonished by this
interaction like what just happened here
a little while later her husband comes
back and she's just
looks like you know like we say like she
looks like she's seen a ghost
so he says to her
that you know what happened is
everything okay
and she says that you won't believe what
happened
he says
what
so she says omar came he's like oh no oh
my god
what happened
like how are you still here how are you
still alive
and she says that
you know she tells him about what
happened what transpired
and then she has this look on her face
and the husband says to her
attorney islami
that wait a second because you know he
knows his wife and he's like do you
actually think there's a chance he could
become muslim
and she said yes i do
so he says to her at that time
that the
donkey of al-khattab
would become muslim before the son of
al-khattab umar would
and he says you know i regretted that
statement later of course but
that's what um was
now he
has a couple of interactions with the
quran
like where does how does somebody go
from there
to then where he ends up
what i what i started with
and
literally the theme is
powered by the quran
so he says that one day
he goes to
the haram
and the prophet salallahu is there and
the prophet was praying
and the prophet had the protection of
abu talib and that's why he could go and
just kind of pray by himself
and you know nobody could kind of touch
him even though he was assaulted and
attacked a few times but for the most
part they just knew they had to leave
him alone because of abu talib
and
um
who said i said let me just start let me
listen to what this guy is saying
so he hears the prophet saws i'm
reciting
that i swear
by what you can see
and by what you cannot see
it's very powerful very
thought-provoking
that think about everything you can see
and think about everything you can see
that all of it is created by allah
this indeed
is a message being delivered by a noble
messenger
and he says when i heard this i thought
to myself oh i get it
he's a poet
he's a poet he's good with words
he uses these fancy words to kind of
entrance people
and then the prophet saws recited the
next ayah
these are not the words of a poet
why don't you believe
and he says when i heard that i said
whoa
how do you know what i was thinking
i get it
he's not he's not a poet
he's a sorcerer
he's a soothsayer he's a mind reader
he's a magician
and then the prophet recited in the next
verse
these are not the words of a soothsayer
these are not the chantings of a of a
magician or a sorcerer
think why are you not thinking
why are you not reflecting
and he said it hit me like a ton of
bricks i was like oh my god
what's going on here
then what is it
if it's not
poetry if it's not sorcery
then what could this be
and then the prophet recited the next
verse
that this is revelation from the lord of
the worlds
and then he continued reciting the rest
of it
very powerful
that if he were to fabricate this and
make this up from himself
we would grab his right thumb
and we would cut him at the neck
and nobody could protect him that this
is from allah guaranteed
signed sealed and dated
this is a reminder for people who are
conscious of god
and we know
some of you all are rejecting this and
still refuse to believe this even though
you know deep down inside in your heart
of hearts that this is the truth you
still reject it and deny it
that this will be a source of great
regret and remorse and the downfall of
those who disbelieve
this is the ultimate truth
so praise and glorify your lord the name
of your lord who is mighty
who's brand
and he says i heard that and i was just
in a daze
but he says unfortunately
it still didn't
you know kind of break
the
you know just the frame of mind that i
was in
and then the story fast forwards where
one day
the leaders of quraysh are talking about
you know oh muhammad sallam and the
muslims that and islam this and the
sahaba that
and he finally says you know you guys
just talk a lot
i'm going to do something about it
they're like yeah go ahead
so he says that he
brandished his sword just kind of
took his sword out
and it's like somebody walking around
with a gun
and he just started walking
and he said i'm going to go take care of
muhammad sallallahu alaihi
and he says along the way he runs into
a muslim who who was keeping his islam
hidden private nobody knew he was muslim
and he says that i ran into him and he
saw umar
walking around with his sword waving a
sword around and he's like that doesn't
look good
so he says what's going on everything
okay and he said i'm gonna go take care
of this muhammad problem once and for
all
and now this
this guy who's a muslim
obviously and he's keeping his islam
hidden
private
but he hears somebody talking about
attacking the prophet saddam and it just
you know he can't listen to that
so he says you know he says i to he said
that you know you just want to kill
somebody because he says allah is my
lord and he comes to you with proof okay
and he says you sound like one of them
you talk like one let me take care of
you then i'll go take care of him
so then he said i you know the other guy
pulled the sword out as well and they
were about to go at it in the street
and then he said i just got like
you know frustrated and i said to omar
that you know you go around
trying to tell other people what to do
but you can't even keep your own family
in order
and he says what do you mean by that
and he said that
i told him at that time
you know your sister fatima bintal
khatta her husband said
they're muslim they were one they were
some of the earliest muslims um sister
became muslim before he did
and so he says that they're muslim
he says what
he says i'll deal with you later and he
storms over to his sister's house
gets outside the door he can hear
somebody talking inside
bangs on the door
the talking stops his brother-in-law
comes and opens the door
almost pounces on him through the door
pushes through the door and starts
beating him
and then his sister jumps in and tries
to stop him and
he kind of pushes her off and she falls
and is bleeding and
and then i'm gonna realize is like what
am i doing here
so then he kind of stops and his sister
says to him you can kill us if you want
but you can't take our faith away from
us
and so then he kind of settles down a
little
and then he says you know when he
settles down a little he sees some pages
and there's a quran written on it
and
he says that let me see this and she
takes it she goes no you can't touch
this
and he's like let me see it
so then she says okay kind of you know
clean yourself up a little fix yourself
up
and then he takes the pages and he
starts reading
that we did not send down the quran upon
you o muhammad sallallahu alaihi
wasallam to make your life more
difficult
to ruin you no no
this is a reminder for those who will
fear allah
this is revelation sent from the one who
created the earth and the heavens most
high ar
that he is the most merciful positioned
above his throne the
he owns everything in the heavens
everything in the earth everything
between them and everything buried under
the earth
and if you speak out loud he knows what
you're saying but he also knows what you
say silently and even what you're
thinking inside your head
that he is allah there's no one worthy
of worship except for him and to him
belong the most beautiful of names
and he reads this
and he's just
just changed
right we talk about powered by the quran
his life has changed
and he says
he looks up from the pages
tears in his eyes
and he says to his sister
take me to the prophet salallahu
and
there was someone hiding in the house
when he had heard some of the voices
inside it's
teaching them the quran that's what
those pages were for
and he comes out of hiding and he says
congratulations
the prophet saws have made dua for you
that you would accept islam
and
um
they take him to where the process is in
the house
when they arrive at the door and they
knock on the door and somebody looks out
and they say oh my there's this panic oh
no it's alma
three days ago hamza
would become muslim
was big tough guy
so he goes to the door
and he opens the door and he grabs
what do you want
what are you trying to do here
and the prophet salallahu it's okay
leave him
come
and he sits down in front of the prophet
saws he says what do you want what are
you here for
and he says i'm here
to accept islam
and he puts his hand in the hand of the
prophet saws
and he becomes muslim
and from that point on forward abdullah
ibn mas
says we never felt like we
would lose after that day because we had
omar with us
that very few people can say
that
islam was strengthened through them
but
can be said about him
this really remarkable scholar
he said something very beautiful
um i found it quite
thought provoking
he said that all the sahabah
were the mureed
of the prophet salallahu they came
seeking the prophet sasa
but umar was the murad of the prophet
the prophet saw salaam prayed for umar
he wanted umar on his side
so while everyone
was trying to find the process on the
prophet saw was waiting for umar
he was looking for omar
and
this transformation that omar went
through
right to be completely as opposite as
you can imagine
and to end up here
it was a quran
that powered that journey
it was the quran that transformed him
and this is the month of ramadan this is
the month of the quran
so the quran is not
information the quran is transformation
the quran is not informative just simply
it is informative but it is more
importantly transformative
and so as we engage with the quran here
in the month of ramadan particularly
here towards the end of the month of
ramadan
let's keep that in mind let's have that
intention
that we want to transform ourselves to
the quran
and that's why particularly
my advice to everybody
to myself
but to everyone particularly younger
folks
young men young women of our community
is to
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read the translation of the quran
strive to understand the message of the
quran
and that's
what will really allow you to connect
with that message
and that is what will lead insha'allah
to the transformation that we're all
looking for
on everyone uh barakallahu
of course um
um
and uh all the organizers the volunteers
at tawaso
uh may allah bless you may allah accept
from y'all this is remarkable this is
beautiful this is powerful
it's encouraging it's something that
inspires all of us is gathering and all
the programs and all the gatherings and
all the events and
all the efforts that are being made and
i'm just uh pleased and happy to be able
to participate in any capacity and uh
you know especially since
you know 2020 ever since we kind of
became restricted due to covid uh in
terms of you know
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travel and programming and things like
that alhamdulillah that kind of became
an opportunity for me
um you know to be able to engage more
with tawaso and to be a witness to the
remarkable work that is going on and
i have a long-standing an outstanding
commitment and a promise to sheikh
al-audeen in sha allah to come visit in
person and just be able to sit in the
gathering and really uh be a part of
such a beautiful and blessed gathering
may allah
foreign
um
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okay
and i know he doesn't want any
introduction but um just before he comes
up and saw a lot he's you know really
worked hard um with the waffle and so
many different organizations

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