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Virtual Qiyam- Empowered by the Quran

Shaykh Alauddin ElBakri (unverified)

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very beautiful allah bless your health
your wealth your time your energy
your parents your brothers and sisters
insha'allah
and uh
it is it's a surah you know just in a
nutshell
at the end of it it has an offer that is
not mentioned anywhere else in the quran
it says that allah would
painfully punish one who associate
partners with him
one who commits murder
killing and the fornication
and adultery except those who repent and
follow
themselves with good deeds this is what
allah said this is
mind-blowing this is you know we know
that if you sin and you ask forgiveness
allah will forgive you
but here is another one there's another
offer of forgiveness in the quran
and in the hadith which is forgiveness
you did the sin
it's on your record and the forgiveness
is on your record
you will not be held but it's on your
record then there is afu
which rasulullah told isha when it's
night of uh
al-qaeda if you think it's a night of
al-qaeda
what is afu is that the sin gets wiped
out from your record completely
when you're resurrected on the day of
judgement nobody you cannot remember you
made a sin
nobody can remember you made a sin the
angels don't remember it it's not in
your book
it's omitted from history it's literally
as if you traveled back in the past
and took that part and threw it out of
your record
this surah offers a third mind-blowing
forgiveness
not only allah will forgive you not only
allah will expunge it from your record
but allah will go back to that bad deed
and turn it into a good deed on your
record
so when you wake up on the day of
judgment you see yourself that you did
something
great and you forget that actually what
you did was
a great sin now that is called
time travel you get to go to the past
you get to change the past and turn the
mistakes into good choices
and put that on your record and move
forward to the future on the day of
judgement
and meet allah with an amazing record
you can't beat that this is unbelievable
three different levels of forgiveness
each one of them
is mind-blowing so what's the format for
tonight
um we are going to have uh
if you put your request for dua on
social media
between the speakers we're going to
promote your dua inshallah
for you so you can do that
that's one option and then we're going
to hear
recitation of the quran from different
people and
some performances inshallah but the
first one that i thought masha allah
would
enlighten us tonight is sheikh
yasir who is masha'allah have been
leading
efforts day and night with al misbah and
he has a surprise for us because he's
not the only one who's watching
he's actually having a whole they call
it the warehouse it's in sacramento
it's a it's an unbelievable group of
brothers and sisters who actually do
volunteer work community service they
speak the same language we speak
at tawasa and in at mca
so alhamdulillah we're all on the same
bandwidth
almost the same thing that we teach the
community service and all of that stuff
alhamdulillah
the mic is yours
i appreciate
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you know to be told to speak here uh
this evening on the suspicious night
is
respected brothers and sisters in islam
i want to share
three points short and simple that we
can ensure
hold very close to our hearts that will
take us very
far in life and ensure
it will raise our statuses in the
hereafter as well
number one is the sunnah
with all the different advancements that
we see in society
technology and this thing is coming out
this vehicle
and and we see the world is just
you know racing with each other you know
within itself to
be the next big thing
alhamdulillah that allah gave us the
sunnah
that we are to remain grounded in the
sunnah
we have to have this conviction that
every any other way of
life that we are to adopt and we believe
that is that is the type of lifestyle
that's going to lead us to success
which is besides the sunnah our
conviction
should be that any other
lifestyle and methodology of doing
something which is against
the sunnah is guaranteed
going to lead us towards destruction and
that is something that we
need to you know internalize
regardless of how advanced everything
else is going our methodology is within
the sunnah and
it may seem like okay there's this
paradigm or there's this
uh uh you know conflict oh as
if the sunlight is backwards no no it is
not don't don't you know don't think
that's the case
we need to do our part
and study the seerah under masha'ikh
under mustand
because we we need to believe that all
of our problems
that exist today the solutions are found
in the seed of rasulallah
the different incidents that took place
what are some points that
this author of that wrote aceta
is able to derive from this point that
from this incident
you're able to derive this point and
from that incident you're able to derive
that point
so this is something that i want all of
us to hold on to
is the sunnah of rasulullah now
my next point point number two is from
the sunnah of rasulullah i want everyone
to
hold dearly to your heart i believe
which is which is one of the forgotten
sunnah of rasulallah
and what is that sunnah that is the
sunnah of
having worry and concern for the umba
it's that flame as i like to say that
creates this pulp the zeal
to do more which is the motivating
factor which pushes a person
to do whatever that needs to happen for
the ummah
to deliver a food box to counsel someone
to answer someone's phone call that we
know is going through problems
to assist someone in any way possible
that
requires motivation and
the motivating factor should be the
sunnah remember
and one of the forgotten sunnah of
sunnah is to have
legitimate worry and concern for the
ummah so much so
that rasulullah sallam he would stand at
night and he would cry for the ummah
he would lose sleep because of the ummah
he would lose his appetite because of
the ummah
he would toss and turn at night you and
i toss and turn because
we have exams coming up or we lose our
sleep because of
you know different challenges that we
have the man
would experience these emotions and
challenges regarding the ummah of
rasulullah
and number three respected brothers and
sisters in islam my third point and i
will conclude here inshaallah
is all of us want to
have the keys to be able to draw from
the trenches of allah subhanahu ta'ala
we recognize who allah subhanahu wa is
we recognize how
amazing he is and how vast his kingdom
is it is beyond our imagination
combined allah with his
treasures is like infinite treasures
we need to be the smart ones intelligent
ones to be able to tap into such
treasures
and the one of the keys to tapping into
those treasures
is by being sincere sincerity
is that key to unlock that lock to draw
from the treasures of allah
it is to be doing it for the sake of
allah wa
so i remind myself first because i'm
listening
i'm able to hear and listen to myself
first before the audience
number one the sunnah of rasulullah
sallam
just because i don't know the solution
to a problem does not mean it does not
exist it is my weakness and it is my
shortcoming i need to do a better job to
understand the seat of rasulallah
number two we need to hold on to this
amazing sunnah of
having worry and concern for fellow
human beings
i'm not saying fellow muslims i'm saying
fellow human beings
because islam came for the world islam
did not come
for an exclusive group of people and
number three
in order for us to draw from from the
treasures of allah
what is this verse talking about you
boil what
if you boil this down if you may it
comes down to ikhlas may allah grant us
these amazing qualities
may allah accept everyone's efforts and
my dear respected sheikh
al-awlin as i was telling him over text
messaging
you gave me the umar and i'm here uh
you remind me what we learned in the
books uh
for an action to be accepted by allah
you need two things sincerity and
following the prophet sallallahu alaihi
sallam
and as long as it is you know within the
guidance of the quran
are you speaking on your phone or this
computer i wanted you to show us
the the people because you know
sometimes the numbers on the facebook
does not reflect
please go ahead unmute yourself so that
you go back on the screen
okay so they see me coming because
they're also watching inside
but uh
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from that corner right there so we'll
pray we pray our jumrah here and
we have some shabbat here masha'allah
and uh
on the sister side and the warehouse as
well but yeah
i mean thank you very much bless your
effort and the youth
brothers and sisters and may allah give
you tawfiq
and success in dunya
um yes
um what better way to reintroduce our
theme
that we are focusing on this night which
is that the empower that we are
empowered by the quran
and insha allah as you guys see the rest
of our guest lineup
that we are really bringing this theme
to life our next speaker is one of our
own very youth amina mahadeen who is a
fellow middle schooler
and has a passion for public speaking
insha allah she will now be taking the
floor to talk about her
identity in faith
his face can easily be fixed if they
look at the crowd
everyone my name is amina and today i
would like to talk about how to quran
empowers me
one problem that many people face is
that they aren't happy with the way they
look
they want to lose weight measure up to
society's impossible
yet in the quran allah tells us in surah
95
ayah 4 we have indeed created men out of
the best of worlds
this empowers me because i know that on
the day of judgment i'll be judged based
on my character
how i treat others not by how i look or
the way i dressed
the quran is also empowering because it
has answers to every problem that i face
whenever i'm faced with a situation or
question i look at the crime for answers
or what the prophets peace be upon him
did in similar situations
the quran is a guide to how we live our
lives
in conclusion the quran empowers me
because i know i can turn to it whenever
i feel anxious
afraid or i simply need a boost of
confidence
the quran is advice on every possible
situation
and i'm and most of all it empowers me
because it shows me i'm perfect just the
way i am
i'm special because i was created every
day i try to remember
thank you
what are your thoughts on that i think i
need to take some uh public speaking
lessons from uh from sister amina
yes she is she is always killing it
masha'allah
may allah bless her bless her parents
who raised her
and she has been with us from the first
class
at the tawasa alhamdulillah
her and her sisters are amazing so
go ahead inshaallah brother bismillah
all right
um that was refreshing to hear to start
off from one of our youth our middle
school or sister amina
but i want to shift gears a little bit
introduce um um our next
speaker uh sister amen who uh
has who is actually dr eman faraz should
introduce she has a
doctorate in psychology she's the
president and founder of iman network
um she has masala a list of diff you
know other degrees and certificates
um and she's she's also teaching she
teaches at a
university she's very active with the
mca and i've actually had the pleasure
of working with her
in the last few months without further
ado let me just
introduce her and give her the mic uh dr
iman farazella
and i'm going to be talking about
inshallah the quran and
what the quran means for me in my life
um
uh i am a firm believer that the best
word that allah gifted our beloved
muhammad sallallahu alaihi
wasallam uh on behalf of his ummah is
basically the revelation of the quran
which was revealed to him in the 23
years
and uh subhanallah jibrin and when he
used to come to the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wasallam
every ramadan he would actually
um recite the quran or review the quran
with the prophet sallallahu alaihi
for that month and then um
subhanallah after that uh in the day
when allah chooses the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wasallam
to be with him he is he actually
reviewed the quran with him
two times at ramadan um and that was an
indication for the prophet sallallahu
alaihi sallam
for for the agile for the time that is
the time to go
um and uh why i'm saying that because
subhanallah during the month of ramadan
we compete among each other like we
we try to see how many times did you
recite the quran how many
times did you finish the quran but do we
actually
reflect upon the quran that we recite
every um
every uh ramadan do we do tadaburg
this is really very important it doesn't
matter how many times you read the quran
what matters is the tada
that you do when you read the quran
and subhanallah um you know for me
one of the greatest areas that actually
um
subhanallah affect me a lot and
um it plays a huge role in in who i am
or achieves who i
am the ayah 14 of surah
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we have believed say you have not
believed
but say we have submitted for faith
has not yet entered your hearts but if
you obey allah
and his messenger he will diminish none
of your deeds
allah is forgiving and most merciful um
you know subhanallah the reason i i this
ayah touches my heart is because
i think we need to revisit all the time
ourselves
we need really to visit our hearts and
to see
um are we from the group of the muslim
mean are we from
from the menin are we a group of them
and the top iman is the son
and subhanallah a lot of us we say that
we are
menin or we actually claim that we have
iman in our hearts
and this is why i am a firm believer
that every now and then we need to
revisit our heart and we value
our relationship with allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala in order insha'allah to reach the
the the time of isa or that
the top relationship which is uh you
know
when it was revealed in the hadith uh of
uh
the prophet sallallahu alaihi man
you know and his uh the levels of iman
the other point i would like to um point
out
is and i know like i am i have only
three minutes and three minutes you
cannot say too much
but you know the uh you know the other
ayah that really uh always uh
remind me uh of also the the phase of uh
visiting the iman as we are familiar
with the story of the
muhallabhina and rasulullah they have
that when he went to yarmouk to fight um
the room
and uh a lot of the arab
said to the prophet sallallahu alaihi
salam we will not join you because
they said that we cannot join you
because we are worried for our
families and we are worried for our
women but unfortunately that wasn't the
reason really
and they left the prophet sallallahu
alaihi send them to fight that battle
when he came back
there was only three faithful sahabah
who told
rasool allah that we have no excuse that
we left you in that battle we should
have been there
and then allah revealed
um the other thing that i want to say
for the quran that we not only that
adapt and see the
the uh the meanings of the ayat and at
the same time we try to work by it
is that basically trying to make
sure with ramadan or without ramadan
that we have
always we always have to make some time
of our day or our night
to basically especially in in ramadan
also
to read the quran as we say in arabic
um always make birth of the day
or the night for three the quran but
also make
part of the day for your dicker for your
a better for your pm
for your work for your sleep as the way
you put
time for to sleep or visit your raheem
or to to
to work also made a little bit of time
for the quran
allah
uh that was a good two points
from al-quran because the whole point of
today is to be
empowered by the quran so the question
is how can we have
iman enter our hearts and how can we
not make excuses that don't hold off
they don't hold any grounds we can
live and die making excuses and that
will not get us
um anywhere subhanallah we have people
mashallah watching with us
from malaysia from indonesia there's
we're multi-streaming into many channels
and one of these channels actually has
750
000 uh participants obviously not all of
them are watching
but alhamdulillah maybe you cannot see
them on the
um on the channel that you are in but on
other channels we see
all the feedback here and alhamdulillah
for every um one
participant is having a whole family so
right now inshallah you know we're
around maybe four or five hundred people
watching alhamdulillah i mean from all
the channels
uh distributed on small and large ones
um alhamdulillah we have here
um our brothers
the band from uh malaysia
our brothers against masha'allah
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brother shafiq you can introduce our
next middle schooler
yes so i will take it away because i
think
away from the camera but alhamdulillah i
had the pleasure of introducing another
one of our tawaso youth we have
another youth by the name of farhan who
will also be speaking
and i am excited to see what he has in
store for us
has empowered me in many ways the quran
has always been kind of a beacon of
inspiration for me i've always been able
to look to it
whenever i am sad or when i'm angry or
i'm just not completely
i'm completely feeling like i can't do
anything and i can't get anything right
um the quran has always been kind of um
the paragon of inspiration for me where
it kind of tells me that oh
um don't worry you know everything will
get better allah gives us to everyone
it's not just you
uh everything will be easy for you after
this and
um the ayah that highlights this that i
thought would be great to share would be
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will give us all hardships first but
then after that he's going to give us
ease and he's going to give us rewards
for all the hardships and the struggles
that we went through
masha'allah brother very outspoken
and he was nervous because we told
everyone not to exceed two minutes
so he was trying to fit so much in a
very so little
alhamdulillah that's an
excellent reminder um let's hear another
reminder from one of our youth inshallah
uh sister
now if we can roll that
everyone my name is nina and today i'd
like to talk about why built what end
empowers me
the quran empowers me because it shows
me that everything happens
for a reason anytime something doesn't
go my way something i
really wanted doesn't happen then or
something i really didn't want
does happen i know it's for the best
allah says
and perhaps you hate a thing that is
good for you and perhaps you love the
thing that is bad for you
allah knows what and with that
i am content in the midst of this
pandemic of people
dying all around the world injustice all
around us
and people being evicted from their
homes unfairly i find strength in the
fact that with hardship
comes ease last but not least
do you not see that allah has made the
heavens and the earth subservient to you
astronomers say that there are over a
hundred
if sorry about that uh if you can give
us just a brief moment i think uh the
video was having some issues so we're
going to go ahead and try to reload that
for you all
mashallah i uh make dua for all of the
listeners
meanwhile when you're sitting and
enjoying the speeches make sure you
hydrate you drink water you drink your
tea
you enjoy listening to our youth you
enjoy listening to quran
there is nothing that we're looking to
accomplish tonight
more than listening to the quran and
enjoying the youth speeches and our
scholars and guest speakers
to be together in this environment of
covid and everyone is distant
so that's uh we're spending a night fee
so um inshallah if sister sadia
is the video um
uh is the video ready alhamdulillah you
can start it again
with a sound and picture um
these technical difficulties are
expected to happen
no matter what um
please go with the next session
inshallah i will rewind the video and
we'll play
after it no problem so
let's see who we have next on the list
actually i'm going to interject because
um you know knowing that it's a
difference of two to three hours
my dear brother riyad shamma is with us
from
ohio masha'allah he also leads a youth
organization
he has a passion for creating
mentors like teaching how our
youth the older youth can mentor the
younger youth
when they mentor they themselves grow
and they help the other youth grow so i
don't know
if uh brother riyad you're still with us
here masha
allah i am can you tell us a little bit
about
your organization 25 years ago when i
met brother riyad
we both did not have white hair now we
both
we were like a shiny redheads
masha'allah
and now you can see what time has done
to us
uh for inviting me i do remember our
first
meeting and how exciting it was uh to
have you with us you brought so much
energy masha'allah
uh to the youth and that's uh always
carried through for me
uh i started the institute of youth
development and excellence
a number of years ago with the principle
of
enabling our youth to live to their
fullest potential and that's our vision
that every youth in the world will live
to their fullest potential
and we believe that happens by putting
positive adults in their lives
i.e mentors and that when mentors are
trained they have the skills to best
help the youth and help them grow and so
about a club fake for all the work that
you're doing
there with the youth and inshallah we we
really hope that
others can start to step forward to get
trained so that they're
actually working with the youth in the
very best of ways
and of course people can check us out
iyde.org
or why transform dot com but uh
insha allah i just want to share a few
things about the quran however
tonight and one of the key things was
how do we make the quran impact our
daily life
and so the number one tip is read the
quran
every day of your life so you can't make
it a part of your life if you're never
spending time with it
so number one is as dr iman had
mentioned and some of the others
make some time every day for quran even
if it's just a little bit of time
then make some day for all the quran
number two i would say
find a reciter that moves your heart you
know mashallah we live in the digital
age
and any of us can get onto youtube and
find a hundred or a thousand different
reciters
somebody out there will be reciting in a
way that really
moves your heart and and different types
of recitation resonate with us
differently
but find someone with a beautiful
recitation that
that you particularly enjoy that
connects your heart
masha'allah our malaysian brothers uh
what a beautiful recitation
and and just subhanallah spend a little
bit of time
and what a great use of your time to to
go through youtube and
you're gonna get sucked down that social
media hold but spend it
being you know reviewing hundreds or
dozens of different quran reciters
uh and then figure out which ones speak
to your heart
then make sure that while you're
listening to the quran you understand
the quran
so if you don't understand arabic and
that might even be true even if you're
an arab
you're hearing the quran but you don't
understand it read along in a language
you understand
a translation so as you're hearing the
ayat and the verses
you're understanding what's being said
so that that
movement of your heart is tied to an
understanding
and then ask allah to grant you insights
and
an understanding that moves you to
actually taking
some action in your life so have that
again as dr eman said that to double
that deep reflection and thinking
so here in aya that for some reason it
stirs your heart
and then look at the meaning and
translation and see
what it's saying and then reflect upon
why does this particular ayah
stir your heart at this moment in time
and understand that
you might hear the same ayah 10 years
from now and it moves you in a
completely different way
because allah opens a different
understanding for you at that time
and this is the beauty of the quran that
you can never exhaust its meaning and
its understanding
and that's why you can keep going back
to it over and over but really reflect
upon
that ayah read the tafsirs about it
again you can find them online very
easily
and then most importantly take some
action
based on that ayah so
inshallah this is something that all of
us can do
listen to the reciters that move our
hearts read the meanings of the ayat
and then reflect on them and figure out
how you can take some action
on that ayah whether it's motivating you
to give
or to volunteer or to forgive somebody
or to turn back to allah or maybe it's
to not lose hope
or maybe it's something that gives you
that
sense of constant
ease in times of hardship and difficulty
but look for those ayats and then always
keep them with you
and implement them in your life
insha'allah
we have read the quran understand the
quran
in a language that you understand don't
don't stop understanding the quran until
you learn all the arabic language
read english french persian urdu
whatever you know you can understand and
three
take one concept implement it and enjoy
it
you know alhamdulillah we couldn't have
a
more concise precise advice on
a night that could possibly be laylatul
you know these words i grew up from age
13 growing up hearing them every year
and you mentioned something absolutely
profound
you can hear the same thing every year
and every year you will understand it on
a deeper level because you're getting
older
wiser more experienced and life will hit
you
with so many things that you will always
come back to the quran and find
a deeper meaning uh masha allah what's
the difference between us two or three
hours
three hours so
you're almost having to eat your uh
suhoor
um we are um having
uh and also another interjection uh
we have uh uh alhamdulillah
this will be a refreshing to remember
tonight could be leila
so i want to stop here and say may allah
everyone that is watching
your family your loved ones may allah
give you
health and wealth and barakah
in your iman may allah give you a life a
productive life
a prosperous life a a a purposeful life
may allah use you to
serve humanity to serve his deen to
serve the truth
to honor allah's name on earth
you know we can make dua all day long
ya allah heal me ya allah finish my uh
you know get rid of my financial
problems ya allah get rid of my
social problems okay let's say allah
takes care of your health problems
all of them financial problem all of
them
social problem all of them and now they
have no problem
you still don't have a purpose you need
a purpose and a goal so that if allah
will take all of this
you're going to be and and that's why
allah gave us
a big problem so that when we get busy
with the big problem we forget about
the smaller problems the smaller
problems will go away
when you have a bigger problem so that's
my advice to you and that's why i say
allah make our concern humanity
the planet muslims the truth
allah goodness mercy
enlightenment you know spreading justice
peace eradicating
poverty racism prejudicing
all of these things that is why we're
asking allah
to take all of our problems away so that
we can get busy
with a bigger problem but we need to
start getting busy with a bigger problem
right now right here tonight
make an intention that you want to give
your entire life for allah
and then go and conquer the world go to
school
go to college graduate
open a business start your own company
get rich and with that money turn around
and change the world to a better place
that's what we want to make dua with
that may allah heal you from any
sickness
all of those who are sick including
myself
physically may allah heal us from all
spiritual sickness
from all the diseases of the heart from
all the diseases of the
mind and you know like the twisted mind
may allah
make us live a life of security and
peace and happiness
so that we are always busy and concerned
how to guide people to the truth
serve them give them justice give them
mercy
make the world a better place that's
what we want
make big dreams brothers and sisters
only little
don't make small dreams just yes just
heal me
okay and allah will heal you insha allah
but then what
make it make a big plan right make a big
resolution
uh with that we want to refresh
ourselves with surat al-qaeda inshallah
go ahead malik
assalamualaikum everyone
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night be peaceful until the crack of
dawn i mean
a night better than a thousand months
insha allah
allah grant us
we go back to our brothers and sisters
from the end team from malaysia
with their superb sound system
masha'allah
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you have another program after this
inshallah and
it is our time here in malaysia it's uh
4 p.m
already inshallah we are fasting
thank you so much for the chance for
opportunity
that was a beautiful recitation from
malik and now then
she's from in team that really just you
know revives us here
who are in the pm i am very pleased to
announce our next guest speaker who is
also one of our thewalsa youth
it is um her name is zaineb and she will
also be touching on the topic of how the
quran has empowered her so without
further ado i introduced zainab
and to nourish our souls assalamu
alaikum everyone
my name is zainab and today i'd like to
talk about why the quran empowers me
the quran empowers me because it shows
me that everything happens for a reason
anytime something doesn't go my way
something i really wanted doesn't happen
or something i really didn't want does
happen i know it's for the best
allah says and perhaps you hate a thing
that is good for you
and perhaps you love a thing that is bad
for you allah knows while you know not
and with that i am content in the midst
of this pandemic with people
dying all around the world injustice all
around us
and people being evicted from their
homes unfairly i find strength in the
fact that with hardship
comes ease last but not least the quran
empowers me because it shows me that i'm
special
in surah allah says do you not see
that allah has made the heavens and the
earth subservient to you
astronomers say that there are over a
hundred billion galaxies in our universe
yet when you look at a map from a bird's
eye point of view
you'll see that in the grand scheme of
things our universe is so small
that we don't even exist yet allah has
made the heavens and the earth and
everything in our universe subservient
to us
and i find that so powerful in
conclusion the quran empowers me to be
content and more confident
thank you
subhanallah it is so amazing to hear
these strong words of wisdom from our
muslim youth who have really interpreted
the quran in their own way
as a reminder to us all and with that i
would like to introduce our next guest
who is also
a fellow youth here at the wasa her name
is maryam sirhan she is in college
she has mentioned a lot memorizing the
entire and with
mca and so without further ado
i'd love for her to take the floor
today i'm going to talk a little bit
about how the quran empowers me
so as i was growing up the quran was
really kind of like a homework right and
so it was like one of those things where
you're like okay you know medium if you
don't finish your foot and you don't get
to play on the tablet
or whatever it may be but as i grew up
i realized the importance of kind of
getting
these lessons and these meanings from
the quran to relate to my own personal
life
and it would kind of come in random
times so it would be like the sheikh was
you know reciting
that would be like wow you know that's
kind of profound or even you know
i was reading alone or whatever uh
whatever it was and
one of the really big lessons that stood
out to me in those times
was the concept of forgiveness in the
quran you know so many times
uh so much about how allah forgives and
about forgiveness in general and even
even you know the
prophets when they made mistakes about
how they also were forgiven
and that stood out to me and empowered
me as an individual because
it was a matter of like also not only
allah forgiving me i
i realized that if allah can forgive me
then i have to try
to forgive myself as well because when
you're kind of living in the past and
you're living in the mistakes you've
made
and you know you're always thinking oh
it's over for me like i can't do this
you know i'm a terrible muslim
then there's no growth you're not moving
forward you're only staying
in the same place if not if not moving
backwards so
that was a really big thing for me that
i have to
find it in myself to kind of
move forward instead of kind of thinking
okay like i'm done for
or um you know there's no there's no
going forward from here
and so that was just a really big
empowering moment an empowering lesson
for me uh from the quran about
forgiveness and
sometimes you know when we think about
forgiveness think about others but not
only others but also being able to
forgive yourself
and learn from your mistakes as well
two excellent video reminders from our
youth from
zainab and maryam being that uh the
topic tonight is all about the quran i
would love to
um you know have one of our youth um
recite some quran for us
insha'allah so i'd love to welcome uh
zainal abdeen for some quran
it's all yours
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his parents are from iraq his father is
a hafil himself
he is a half of his sister is a half ira
masha allah
he also teaches quran and
he is looking for more students
masha'allah that will be taught by him
which is unbelievable to see our youth
not only memorizing but wanting to teach
it and
help others memorize alhamdulillah
so it's good to have you and we make dua
for you brothers in we make du'a for
your father
and masha allah talking about the
empowerment of the quran
the father of brother zen subhan allah
went into a car accident on the fifth
day of ramadan
that no human can survive it can survive
he was driving 65 miles per hour and
suddenly the car in front of him
stopped and he slammed into it and
nothing he broke his thumb
and the seat belt just pulled on the
middle
uh bone and which caused the crack a
little bit
but everyone is just wondering how is
this man still alive
his name is brother imam hafiz
he was the imam of the greatest and
biggest university in iraq the iraq
university with all of its diversity he
was the imam of the masjid
in that university and it is uh
alhamdulillah we make dua allah heal
brother adele
completely sooner than later give him
his health back
make him live a long life full of good
deeds and bless his children
and his progeny eliamine
and may allah bless you brother
he recited surah yusuf because yusuf is
still alive in this youth
uh yusuf said no to temptation
yusuf did not answer hate with hate and
revenge with revenge he did not
do that uh and as a result allah made
him
the the prince of egypt the man in
charge so
we still have use of allah alive in our
youth
who are still alive today with that i
would like to
introduce my dear friend and
like a confidante and consultant and
brother in islam
and sheikh masha'allah imam tahir anwar
who masha allah after a long night still
agree to come and join us
the floor is yours insha allah please a
reminder of the quran and any comment
you would like to give
him
to everyone um i it's been it's been a
very very long day for me
uh alhamdulillah i i had uh
three events earlier today and
um just got done with the khatam at sbia
and honestly
i was climbing into bed
and my wife reminded me and said don't
you have something you need to do right
now
it's a good stuff sometimes i share my
schedule with her
and i had honestly i had like i
completely forgotten and i was getting
ready to climb into bed and i said yes
absolutely how you know how could i
forget and so
here i am alhamdulillah by the father of
allah
you are you uh you were alluding to such
a beautiful story of
of uh use of alahi salatu
you know when we look at the look at the
quran
you know of course every story from the
quran is
is an amazing beautiful one
but you know when we when we talk about
stories there's the story of musa
alaihissalam there's the story of no
hare salam
but there's one that's just really near
and dear
to my heart of all stories
is the story of ibrahim and isma'illa
the the relationship between
um a father and son the relationship
between
a parent and a child
and the story begins you know so humbly
and so
beautifully um you know when when
ibrahim alaihim ali
and his mother in the middle of the
desert in mecca
and um you know and and
and you know he when she when he started
walking away
she asked him and said has has allah
command you to do this
like is this the command of allah and
at that point she realized that this was
the command of allah and at that point
she didn't
question the fact that he was literally
leaving her and her infant
in the middle of the desert and and
such a strong and powerful couple
that you know they they had their
complete this
against all odds they had their trust in
allah
and then the mother performs an action
just literally almost any any anyone
would do this you know run from one
place to the other like literally you
know you're looking for food or looking
for something
and and she just she just you know like
any mother would
looking for water for herself and her
infant you know
climbs to a hill because it's the
highest place in the area and says hey
you know maybe i can see something from
this hill and she
she climbs the hill and looks around and
doesn't find anything and then she
strolls back down up to the next hill
and looks for something there and
the love the mother has for a child you
know
um despite everything you know this this
is the love a mother had for
for her child and then you know there's
there's just just in this story there's
so much that allah reminds us to make
the effort
but the result is with allah subhanahu
wa right the results are always with
allah we have to do our part
and allah doesn't reward us based
on the end result allah rewards us on
the actions that we do to get there
whether they end up resulting um you
know in
uh you know in our favor or not and
and subhanallah this running of this
mother from one place to the other
literally becomes an act of ibadah and
worship
for generations to come
until the day of judgment that
it's such a powerful
form of worship and then of course allah
subhanahu wa
allah blessed them with zamzam and you
know we just as muslims we kind of go on
umrah or hajj and just drink the zamzam
and bring some back and
you know we're reminded that there's
shifa in this and so on and so forth
but like just think of the legacy right
something as simple as a well and and
how it began
right the love between a mother and a
child
is where it all began right the love
between a mother and a child
is is where it all began and that you
know
billions of individuals drink from it
you know on on a regular basis on an
annual basis and
god knows bring you know take takes they
take it back with them wherever they go
we believe that there's shifa
in the water there's acceptance of duas
in the water
but really while it happens to be holy
if you come to think of it it's just
really a well and and it started with
the story of a mother and a child
right and then the gift that allah
subhanahu wa
blessed them with of course we move you
know they built the kaaba
and they made dua to allah for
acceptance but one of the things
and you know we we when we think about
all of this is that is that is the dua
of ibrahim
ibrahim the quran is filled with a lot
of duas
and many of those duas happen to be
in the quran
right the the dua that we make make for
salah
make you know make me amongst those who
establish prayer and from my progeny
oh allah accept my prayers there's
another place where allah says and this
is
the two of us those who submit to you
and our progenies until the
day of judgment
in other words that you know of all the
things that we
continue to do in life uh never
ever forget that um
we can never achieve success without
certain foundations
okay certain foundations and
the first foundation is our
one of the rights of allah and that is
prayer
right like no matter what happens
whether
our mind is present whether our heart is
present or not
whether we feel like it or not because a
lot of times people feel like
you know what's the point in me praying
if my mind is not present or what's the
point in me praying if i don't feel like
praying or what's the point of me
praying if i'm forced to pray
it doesn't matter we we are a people of
a tradition the ulama our pious
predecessors the scholars remind us
that even if you are forced to pray even
if it's hard to pray even if your mind
and heart is not present pray because it
will eventually become a habit
and then slowly that habit will turn
into something that you enjoy it may
take some time
it's struggle but there's we can never
achieve any success
whatsoever without salah without
establishing
our prayer and if there's one thing that
i you know if
i can share this evening or this morning
uh with with all of us and myself
included
and you know i like all of you uh you
know there's a lot of young people that
have logged on
uh like all of you i i was young at one
time
you know there's days when i still think
i'm young
um but you know i was young and i
struggled you know we all we've all been
through this waking up for fajr
you know is challenging sometimes you
know the middle of the day there's a
prayer that needs to be done and you
know you're busy or at school or you
know you're not in the most best place
to pray
in the evening you're home you're tired
but we have to keep in mind that
our success right literally our success
the doors of god's mercy the doors of
god's blessings open up for us
with prayer and you know sometimes we
feel like
oh but no my life is still hard i mean
think about it you know the terms easy
and hard are very very relative
right they're very very very relative
i mean if if
subhanallah i don't mean to say this but
i just want people to think about this
for for the vast majority of us if
if our lives remain status quo
we received nothing more than what we
just have right now
we would still be amongst the top one
percent of the people in the world
right just in terms of our
you know access to luxuries you know
health care hot wa water
i won't even say hot water fresh water
you know health care yes i understand
the american health care system is
messed up
and you know and i know about this very
well as as
you know people who have individuals in
our families who
you know have uh health issues but
despite that you can get it my family is
from india
my family is from india right now we as
you know as india so so the mother assad
that i studied at you know i studied it
i studied there for seven or eight years
they along with a local hospital came
together and converted one of the large
halls in the madrasa as a covid
hospital okay um we all sent money you
know i mean
even i got a request you know please
send some money we went so we all you
know whatever we could do
you know all of us students people from
that town we all
sent in money as we normally would
subhanallah
you we have all we have the beds we have
everything set up
but something as simple as oxygen can't
find it anywhere
the the supplies the supplies that have
been sent
uh as aid to this land
um have not been distributed why because
they're probably being sold
in the in in you know in in this you
know in
in a market where you know whoever has
top dollar will get the supplies in
other words the poor and needy are not
getting it
if you happen to be of a certain faith
background a certain ethnic background
you're not getting those services
there's no way you will ever ever see
those supplies
right and so you know subhanallah
and i'm not saying that we ask allah for
status quo all i'm saying is that
when we continue to pray sometimes we
may not
get everything that we so desire but
let's not forget that some of the things
that we have in life
right now could simply be with us as a
result of the prayers that we're already
doing
right we may not have the luxuries in
life but we may have the basic
necessities in life as a result of our
prayers
the second takeaway from this entire uh
you know story
is uh the love uh between um you know a
parent and a child
um you know i i i'm you know i i will be
the first one you know subhanallah the
muslim community has grown
um and you know you have a lot of youth
programs
events mosques mosques that have
services in english
you know when i was when i was a young
man growing up here in san jose
california
in the 80s and the 90s you could forget
about half of the things that you know a
lot of young men and women have today
and i don't i don't mean to say like oh
my god you know you guys are
no i'm just i'm just trying to state a
fact here right just state a fact here
that you know um you know immigrant you
know immigrant parents were all the same
like if if a lot of if a lot of you feel
that your parents or some of your elders
you know
uncles and aunties at the mosque they
don't understand our challenges
trust me 20 years ago 25 years ago
it was a whole different level of not
understanding your challenges if you
know what i'm saying like at least today
our parents you know go to the khutba
they probably walk away with something
you know about modern day culture
and you know um issues that young men
and women have
at the local you know in their
communities 20 25 years ago
you know that was like parents just went
to the khutba just kind of heard
whatever
you know and i'm not i'm not trying to
bad mouth to show you or the mosques or
anyone that's not the goal that's not
the intent that's not the point i'm
trying to make
it's just that if if some of us if some
of us young men and women have a hard
time thinking that
you know our my parents don't get it
trust me 25
those of us that are in our you know 40s
now that have lived here for this many
years
like 25 years ago if you think parents
don't get it now they totally didn't get
it
but it was not it was not to any fault
of theirs
like don't blame them you know it's it's
it's it's part of the immigrant
experience it's just
part of you know um cultures you're kind
of not
our parents are kind of not there but
they're not here
if that makes sense right they're not
here they're not there when they go back
home wherever it may be
syria palestine pakistan egypt india
you know indonesia wherever they go it's
almost like oh you're not from here
you're a foreigner you know what i'm
saying
and then when they're for when they're
here it's like oh
okay but you know yes we're americans
but what does that even mean
you know so they're even they're trying
to figure this out
so you know and it took me a little
while to figure this out and i feel
happy to be in a place where i could
share this with you guys that
you know um you know give our parents
give our parents a break at times
give them a break just because they
sometimes don't understand some of the
things that we do
um does not give us the the hup or the
right to disobey them
does not give us the huck or the right
to you know um scold them
to speak with them um you know with with
a bitter tongue
um you know and and just earned their
respect and
i'm telling you this and i might have
shared this with you and some of you
might have heard this before
um you know i mean some of you might
have seen my father
definitely don't know him per se but you
know she's of course knows him
you know my dad growing up was just a
very old school
very conservative um a parent and and
you know honestly sometimes i feel like
it was a beautiful thing you know i mean
i'm not you know growing up it might
have been a little hard
but over the years as i got older
i figured this out very very soon and
very very early
and some of my older cousins from
england gave me this advice they said
listen
your parents come from a culture where
they want to be respected
okay our parents come from a culture
where they want to be respected
and if even in your most bitter moments
and even if
even if in your most angry moments you
can maintain their dignity and respect
you will win them over and when you win
them over
then they will do everything you say and
i can tell you this from from my own
personal experience
um you know my father is in his mid to
late 70s
um he has changed so much
in the last 20 years but even the last
you know people think that once you get
older you don't change
much and it's hard change is very hard
when you get older
and even in the last 10 years i've seen
my own father change
so much changed so much of his views
changed so much of his interactions
because because you know i'm able to
have that conversation with my dad and
and he respects he respects and this is
not about me being imam tahir really
okay i don't want i don't want you to
think like oh yeah but your mom taught
her no
it's not about me being about just me
being about a respectful son where my
father says oh okay you know what
i'm able to have a conversation have dad
you know have you thought about this
from this perspective
like you know they you know it's like
yeah maybe not and they may not say it
in front of you
but they think you know and so that's
what we take away young men and women
your our our rights with allah
and and our rights with our parents
it'll take us a long way
if anything if anything
it'll take us to paradise okay if
anything
is going to take us to paradise and
that's what we're all on that's where we
all want to get eventually but
in addition to that it makes our life
here easier as well
now i will also add that i know many
young men and women have come my way and
you know some of their parents have just
been you know
um just very very difficult and very
very hard
honestly that's what these blessed
nights are for raise your hands and make
dua to allah say allah my
my father or my mother they just don't
understand something about my life it
could be something around
school career marriage you know
different things and
like genuinely raise your hands and and
and
and make do up for them um i i have a
friend
um you know uh growing up and you know
we grew up together
um here in california and um you know
father became the family was initially
not very practicing at all
um and this is a this is years and years
and years ago um you know
maybe even before your parents got
married let alone anything else but
you know his father became practicing
very soon
and and a mother on the other hand was
not practicing at all in fact
you know she was on the deep end of not
practicing if that makes sense
and again we're not bad mouthing anyone
i'm just trying to explain to you as an
example that's all i'm saying
and um and he would always tell me that
you know
my father and this was when his father
was relatively younger in his 30s and
40s
he said my father wakes up in the middle
of the night and makes so much dua for
my mom
right makes so much dua for my mom and
of course from the over the years things
changed and you know
it shall look you know it's just amazing
but what i mean to say is
ladies and gentlemen the power of prayer
is very strong
don't give up on prayer don't give up on
prayer
um and and you know we you know with
prayer comes with a lot of other
responsibilities sometimes we feel like
oh yeah
i'm gonna raise my hands for about four
minutes ask allah and then wake up in
the morning and then disobey allah you
know like go back to my regular life
well
kind of doesn't work that way you know
what i'm saying like it's a package deal
you got to put it all together you got
to stitch all the pieces together to
make it actually eventually work if you
don't stitch all the pieces together
it's not going to happen
so yeah that's that's really all um you
know i have to share i don't i don't
have a lot to say
god bless you all i'm happy to see all
of you online this late in the morning
or or this late at night and may may
allah bless you and your families
sorry about that
we said this will be a relaxing uh event
alhamdulillah
and everybody is is welcome and uh
masha'allah
for the reminders relationships with our
parents
aside from the quran that we need to be
reminded of
tonight make dua for your parents
parents make dua for your children and
let's all make dua for one another may
allah make our relationship
amazing and beautiful
for coming and joining us and may allah
give you a blessed
what one hour of sleep you know
barely anything if you give me
permission i will i will take
leave as i have to um i have something
to do early in the morning
of course thank you so much and i see i
see my dear friend
hussein so maulana good to see you
brother man it's been a while
next uh our brother mufti hussain kamani
uh
talking to us are you in dallas mufti
yes
sharing with us on this blessed night um
at a faculty at the kalam institute
and i don't want to take much because
time is ticking and they're close to
suhoor
so may allah reward you i met mufi
hussein kamani 10 years ago
if not more actually more 15 years ago
at isla convention
and he gave me two thub as a gift
masha'allah
which i actually gifted to my two sons
and they were the coolest two kids in
the masjid
everyone was asking where in the world
did you get that though
man and it was the clothing line of
mufti hussein kamani which still
actually exists kamani
but that's just a side item we are
in the 27th night getting empowered by
the quran
inshallah give us a boost
foreign
so i'm going to attempt to explain
something
that's a little intricate but
uh i'm going to attempt to do it anyway
so i need you guys to give me all the
attention you can muster
i also have limited time bakari
mentioned our
suhoor is just an hour away and what
just about an hour from now it's going
to end so it's going to end and i'm
still at the masjid because we just
finished
right now i still have to go home so we
have a short window and i'm going to try
to fit the census give me your undivided
attention let's see if we can do this
there is an ayah in which allah says
that when my servants ask you of me or
messenger of allah
say i am near.
i answer the call of the one who calls
up to me whenever they call out itadan
so they should respond to me well you
know they should believe in me
they may be rightly guided this ayah
talks about
calling out to allah making the law of
allah and when you look at the verses
before and after
someone may argue it doesn't fit in
because there are some filthy rulings
that come before islamic law
issues and then this ayah comes in
and then the ayahs continue on with some
other rulings what's this ayah doing in
the middle
such an intimate beautiful ayah so i
wanted to examine
that question that issue and try to
understand
and i feel like if we're able to
understand it there could be great
and tremendous benefit for all of us if
we come a few ayats back we find allah
subhanahu wa
saying
fasting has been made obligated upon you
so you may gain consciousness of allah
now when it comes to purification of the
lower self what we call the nafs
the human being is basically suspended
between two forces
the first force is what we call the
which likes
it likes to rise connect with the sub
and then underneath the is what we call
the
the self of the human being and
underneath that column is the nafs the
lower
in san haiwani material loving
force in the life of the human being
maybe what sigmund freud referred to as
the it
so there's a lower pulling force and
there's an upward pulling force and then
in the middle there is the south in sun
that houses
now now when because there is an
overwhelming
force that's constantly pulling us to
materialism into
worldly distractions into sometimes even
disobeying allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
speak of the importance of purifying
yourself of that
now how do you go around purifying
yourself so
there are two principled approaches they
take the first is what they call tahlia
which is to purify to clean the heart
and then the second is tahlia which is
to beautify
so a simple analogy if for example
here wants to take a picture of the of
the shelf behind him and post it
on instagram what he needs to do first
is first he needs to clean it up make
sure he gets rid of all the gunk all the
garbage all the dust
any crumbs he has and wrappers get rid
of all of it clean it up
and then he needs to bring in the props
bring in all the decor
bring in the books that he wants to
showcase or any lighting that he wants
so first you have to clean and then you
beautify this is why
we say la ilaha first and then ii
la ilaha is a negation it's you
purifying
it's cleaning it's
an affirmation it's you beautifying your
heart and adding
the most absolute truth into your life
which is that only allah
exists so now when we go back to the
ayah we find allah in this ayah tells us
to
fast and fasting is about negating
you're not doing something in fasting
you're negating in fasting you're
negating
submission to your carnal passion you're
negating submission
to your appetite you're learning to say
no to your own nuts that i won't do it i
won't do it i won't do it
for the sake of allah otherwise hunger
itself
doesn't result in spirituality it's
hunger for the sake of allah
that takes a person on the whole journey
without the sound intention
actions themselves don't carry much
weight this is what
makes the awliya of allah the friends of
allah unique that their actions lead
their ahmad
well for us lead our actions where we're
trying to constantly catch up with
intentions because
our actions aren't just meaningless or
mundane they're going
happening you know anyway
now if you look at the ayah after that
allah subhanahu wa then says
so the first ayah is about refraining
the second ayah
is about engaging beautifying
as a month of the quran of allah when it
took me right that way
glorify praise allah and if you do this
you will be perhaps thankful to allah
with god so when you
negate your submission to your lower
self and you stand up against temptation
and you say i won't give in
when you become aware of it when you say
no to the nephs you become aware of
yourself it's almost a moment of birth
like you're breaking that
collar off of your neck from shaytan and
you're saying i'm done
and then as you begin to praise allah
you're watering that plant and then you
begin to see the soul come to life
and perhaps you'll thank allah and in
these na in these
nights of ramadan these days of ramadan
after almost 25 plus days of fasting
the nufs has taken a beating all that no
no no and then on top of that
all of us it's giving the soul some
some strength and when these two things
come together
now the insane spirit of the insane is
released
and the first place it wants to go is to
connect back with allah as it's
natural disposition of the inside to
connect with allah
and as it wants to grow and elevate and
connect to allah
now allah answers
as soon as that soul is released it's
going to come searching for me
and muhammad when they go searching for
me tell them that i'm close
i was always close i actually didn't go
anywhere
i was right next to you unfortunately
you were fogged unfortunately you were
blind
you didn't see it but i've always been
here waiting for you
waiting for the moment that you would
turn back
unfortunately our relationship with
allah subhanahu wa has become like that
of a cashier
where we acknowledge their existence we
transact with one another
but there's no affection love needs to
be brought back into this relationship
because as long as we continue on this
path of worshiping allah without loving
him
i'm not sure how much spiritual benefit
we're going to gain
and how many more people will be lost in
this battle
who will see no value in worshiping
allah
these movements represent our submission
but ultimately submission is of heart
our purpose in life while we live in
order for us to start our journey
back to allah to connect with allah
starts with us
admitting our buddhia that we are slaves
and servants of allah
when i go into sajdah i'm going to have
to kick the arrogance out the window
and if i i'm not willing to do that
there's no such thing acceptable
so many things to say so little time
but i'll leave it there and i pray that
allah grants us still fear
i wanted to thank chef bakari for
inviting me honestly
um his love is just so unwarranted i
can't tell you guys
it's so unwarranted his love is just
overwhelming
i remember i think i met his brother
once in indiana and i thought it was
hey he said i get that a lot and then he
told me of his
uh dean was in the bay area
but anyway i'm very thankful to him for
inviting me once again and for
allowing me to be with you all folks it
was great being here with you
i ask you all to keep me in your duas
maybe one of you is
all of you are the only and i'm in need
of those duas so if you can
in that moment when you raise your hand
and if you find yourself at the moment
of sincerity
say this sinner's name before your lord
too for we hope for someone's
intercession
to reach our abode in the hereafter
allah
thank you for answering our invitation
um and
uh may allah bless your health your
wealth your
family put barakah because this is
allah said
is actually with us from indonesia
he teaches quran and masha'allah his
brother here
is now leading salah at wvma
and it's uh his brother ibrahim
and uh masha'allah they are a family of
her father family of
and they're beautiful and amazing and
masha allah
i the original intention that it was
recite for us quran but i asked him
right now to if he can give us
a nasheed he's well known in indonesia
well known teacher well sought after
their teacher they are from yemen masha
allah their teacher
has one of the highest is not all the
way
uh to prophet muhammad when he memorized
the quran
his teacher from the teacher to the
teacher to the teacher is
one of the highest ejazzas in the world
recognized so much allah blessed family
if you first could yani recite for us
maybe just two ayat
and then after that you can give us some
nasheed insha allah we want to hear your
voice in the
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oh
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go
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who's carrying the quran you
are a beacon of light you are a source
of guidance you
are a source of joy uh you
you see the world differently you're
gonna be up for a lot of challenges
so that's the song about the carrier the
hamil
of al-quran in sha allah ibraheem
we will allah
so i told him we're going back to him
inshaallah allah ask brother shafiq to
introduce our next speaker
thank you
our next speaker is a young man a very
talented youth
he's also you know a product of tawasa
very heavily involved um omar wasim he's
an amazing
filmmaker and photographer actually he
went um
he went with the wall saw on an amazing
morocco trip where he documented it
using his videography skills and uh
i'm sure he has a lot to tell us about
that um he graduated high school last
year and i think he's now taking a gap
year to pursue different things
he has a a clothing line as well
mashallah is a very busy youth and i
pray to allah that he continues to use
his
creative talent to empower uh the quran
and to
shine light on the quran to other youth
like him uh
it's all yours brother all right well
jazakallah for the introduction
um all right so i guess at some point if
you're scrolling through instagram or
facebook you might have come across the
motivational quote that reads
you're the sum of the five people
closest to you or
my personal favorite surround yourself
with five millionaires and you will be
the sixth
like okay like how am i supposed to just
find five millionaires
in fact i personally find it even harder
to believe when i remember that
i know people that google google
but anyways um beyond the e-commerce
motivational guru posts
i think there's a lot of truth in the
importance of uh
surrounding yourself with the right
people i'm gonna share my story i was
very
easily influenced kid in middle school
and that could have gone very wrong but
alhamdulillah i joined a hips program
and what this meant was that i was
always surrounded by
students and teachers of the quran my
his friends and i
all embraced our muslim identity pretty
early on and anytime we had questions or
any
type of problem in our life our chefs
would like always sort it out for us
and because of the way the program was
because of the way the program was
structured
i spent basically all of my teenage
years at the masjid
my closest friends are people i've met
through my programs and i even got my
first in-person job
through the masjid and credit to sheikh
for that
alhamdulillah i feel like my overarching
outlook on life has always been pretty
positive
i've never dealt with you know addiction
or anything else that people my age
sometimes fall into
and a large part of that is because of
my parents but when i was writing this
speech i talked to some of my friends
and we all agreed that it is harder to
fall into the wrong things
when you are constantly surrounded by
people of god and that sense of
community
is probably like the best most
empowering gift
that the quran could have given me the
prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam says
a person is on the way of life of his
companions therefore let every one of
you carefully consider the company he
keeps
um i think we're not to jinx anything i
think we're almost nearing the end of
covet inshallah and most of the events
are definitely starting to pick up again
so try to make it a priority to show up
to at least a few
um they're always a good time and you
know you could make more
you could make new friends or you could
tighten your bonds with your muslim
friends that you already have
i see a lot of i guess my high school
friends and a couple of college students
here
so my parting words to sound
philosophical are surround yourself with
five millionaires
and you might be the sixth but surround
yourself with just one person
who pushes you closer to allah and
inshallah you'll never have to worry
about going down the wrong path
that was a lot of wise words from you
quite
late in the night and it's honestly
great to hear i love hearing
how ortho also you really interpret this
and you know really have their own
experiences to share
um as we you know delve into this so
that was great um and by the way i
realized you did your hives with
mca nour which is great um you are now
the second speaker here who we have
as a product of that which is honestly
quite great to hear um
next we have another though also youth
who i'm very excited to introduce her
name is dima
she have a she has a speech lined up for
us and
without further ado dima the floor is
yours i am very excited to hear what you
have to say
what i just said we say at least 17
times every single day
but do we truly understand what it means
when we say allah is
the most gracious the most merciful
because allah he created every little
microscopic cell
he created humans he created the earth
he created galaxies and universes
and he created the seven heavens and in
comparison to his throne
his ash alone the seven heavens and
everything in them is like a ring it's
like a ring that's lost
in a desert allah does not need us we
are so
small and we are so insignificant and
yet all we have to do is raise our hands
and speak to him and he listens to us
and he provides
and he sustains and the quran in and of
itself is a blessing
because allah could have just let
humanity be he could have let us ruin
ourselves because we would ruin
ourselves
he could have let us ruin our lives and
destroy but he sent
down guidance and it's only when we
really understand how merciful allah is
that we can practice that good trusting
him
because we live we live in a world where
we
are made to believe that if we want
something really hard or if we
if we work really hard for it if we want
it really badly then we'll get it and
when we don't we can feel defeated
um personally a few years ago i had some
friends
um best friends actually we used to talk
about like how our kids would hang out
but
something happened in the group
dismantled and i really wanted to save
our friendship
like these were my friends for like
multiple years but
i did everything i could like i gave
them space i gave them time i tried to
talk to them but it just wasn't
salvageable
and like that was a really hard period
in my life but it wasn't
until i lost those friends that i was
able to get closer to some of the
greatest people in my life
and that's when i really understood that
things happened for a reason
that allah had a better plan for me i
just didn't see it at that time
another instance actually recently was
choosing a mentor i was in a program
where we could choose our mentor
and i had my heart set on this one
person and i believed i would get this
person because we had bonded and it was
like
like it was a perfect match but i didn't
get them and my heart sank
what's upon allah like if i had known
the mentor i did end up getting i would
have chosen this person from the
beginning
so it just goes to show that we really
don't know anything
we may think we know what we want we may
think we know what's best for us
but only
there is no god but him and upon allah
let the believers rely
we have to trust allah's plans we have
to do our part
we have to tie our camel but we also
have to have the faith
we have we also have to have faith that
whatever allah has planned for us
is best for us we may not see it and we
may not feel it
but if we know and i mean truly
understand that allah is the
all-gracious
the all-merciful then who else would you
trust with your fate
will
that was really insightful and another
great reminder of how you know rarely
allah is the greatest of planners
and it's always a good reminder to hear
that um i will now pass it back to
and he can help us close the event
inshaallah
we have last two three segments they're
all short alhamdulillah
including the speech of uh imam
zaitshakir may allah reward him
um i would like to ask our young
brother yaseen masha
this night has been full of youth who
are half of
or active or uh you know masha'allah
you know on the right path very
reassuring to see this
and inshaallah will may allah you know
keep them going so here we have brother
yaseen masha allah go ahead
if you can recite for us from surat
maryam the few verses
about saydna yahya ali
me
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um
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how old are you uh 20 years old
and when did you finish your heaven and
i finished my head around six years ago
six years ago masha'allah you your
father
is from somalia your mother is from
nigeria and you spent how many years in
yemen learning
um i i live in saudi for around two uh
two and a half years yeah
that's awesome a beautiful voice
beautiful delivery
and jazakallahu for joining us tonight
alhamdulillah
um masha'allah um we're we're gonna move
on inshaallah
uh with our uh program and
we have the last uh two three segments
i'm looking here we have the video of
uh imam zaid shakar who recorded a
message
to us alhamdulillah as he was on the
east coast and uh
time was impossible as a matter of fact
tonight we had sister
yasmin mujahid she thought that she
could make it
but then she realized it will be exactly
the time of suhoor in new york so she
uh asked for our permission to uh opt
out and alhamdulillah we didn't pressure
her
so alhamdulillah we have a lot of good
line of speakers
uh sister sadio if we can run the
message of sheikh zayche
and i'm greeting all of the wonderful
brothers and sisters complete uh
participating rather at any level
in the mca youth kian
the mca youth kiam has brought together
teachers
such as sheikh al-addin and beckery and
others
and wonderful students such as
yourselves
those who have supported you
administratively and logistically
to really create a wonderful program
focusing on the
and how we can be empowered by the quran
the first thing is to engage the quran
empowerment to use the term uh
through the quran is not a philosophical
exercise
we can read philosophically about
everything the quran can do for us but
if we do not
engage the quran if we don't recite
is there a problem with the video
because the the connection stopped
alhamdulillah inshallah um
we will try to go back while you know
fix the video inshallah maybe we will
end that with that video
do you have another nasheed for us
um
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foreign
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my
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very desired you know teacher in
indonesia who lives in jakarta
right now so alhamdulillah i mean
inshallah
up to the end of the month insha allah
masha'allah again
uh we're a bit over time we're going to
have a second try with that video and
that will be the last segment
i will end up with a quick short dua and
inshallah you can go on with your
evening inshaallah sister sadia do you
think we can run it again
bismillah
and i'm greeting all of the wonderful
brothers and sisters complete uh
participating rather at any level
in the mca youth uh kian
the mca youth kiam has brought together
teachers
such as bakery and others
and wonderful students such as
yourselves
those who have supported you
administratively and logistically
to really create a wonderful program
focusing on the quran how we can be
empowered
by the quran the first thing is to
engage the quran empowerment
to use the term uh through the quran
is not a philosophical exercise
we can read philosophically about
everything the quran can do for us
but if we do not engage the qur'an if we
don't recite the quran
if we don't endeavor to memorize
something of the quran if not the quran
and it
in its entirety if we are not
passionately
connected to trying to understand the
quranic message be that
through learning and the arabic language
or through reading the various
interpretations and commentaries that
exist in our case
uh in english so it's very important to
engage the quran
omar relates from the prophet salallahu
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allah elevates by means of this
scripture
some people and he debases others
those who are elevated by them by it
they are those who recite it
there are those who study it they're
those
those who endeavor to implement it
and so this is very important uh
for us the unique quranic generation
that's referred to by said kotov and
others
is is a generation that
took ten verses of the quran and didn't
go forward until they
understood and implemented everything in
those ten verses and then they proceeded
and so that's how we are empowered
empowered by the quran is understanding
that
it connects us to the divine the the
the source of all power la
there's no strength or power except with
allah
except with allah and so as we read the
quran we have to understand we're
communicating directly
with our creator with the creator of
all that exists with the lord of the
world worlds
that the when we read the quran this is
the eternal speech of allah
that's being conveyed to us and we have
to understand that because
understanding that helps us to plug into
a power greater than ourselves
when we say empowered let's say your
battery is dead it's lost
out all power how do we empower
that battery how do we recharge that
battery
we empower that battery if you will by
connecting it to a source of power
greater than itself
this is how we empower that battery and
this is how we empower ourselves by
plugging into a power greater than
ourselves
and in this case it's not plugging the
battery and
connecting with jumper cables to a
stronger battery that's being powered by
a car alternator
from from a good car a good battery good
alternator to that
weak battery we don't do it like that
we do it by connecting our hearts to
allah subhanahu wa tala
and we connect our hearts to allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala through the quran
which is a form of vikar so it's through
zikr
that we connect our hearts to a power
greater than ourselves
does not the remembrance of allah bring
contentment and tranquility
to the heart and so the quran
this is the most rewarded letter
and if
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is an individual letter lam is an
individual letter
meme is an individual letter and each
letter will be rewarded 10 times over
and that 10 times is multiplied another
70
times in ramadan 700 times for every
letter
this is the most highly rewarded dicker
but there are others
in their situation so when we get in the
car
uh we don't read quran we say
subhanallah
and that in that instance is the most
highly rewarded
vicar in the way of the prophet
sallallahu salaam
implementing his advice but generally
speaking it's the quran
our all-rod and if everyone should have
a weird that they do in the morning and
evening because that vicar connects us
to allah
and you choose it can be anything from
the weird allah
from the hadrami tradition in scholars
it could be the matarat of al-imam
hassan al-banna
it could be any number of things but can
have a weird of vicar because the vicar
helps to connect your heart to allah
subhanahu wa'ta'ala
and connecting your heart to allah
subhanahu wa tala
opens it up to be receptive to that
power greater than itself
so this is critically important in terms
of
empowering ourselves through the quran
third and finally by humbling ourselves
by humbling ourselves because when we
humble ourselves
we understand that we are the servant
and allah is our lord
these days we have what is called the
new anthropomorphism
the old anthropomorphism we projected
human-like qualities unto allah
subhanahu wata'ala
so when you say falca a d
him we say oh one of these things that's
anthropomorphism it is haram
it is forbidden it can be shirk
but these days we have what one of the
noted christian theologians referred to
as the new anthropo anthropomorphism so
if the old one
the traditional one human beings
projected
human-like qualities unto god so god is
this
man with a big beard sitting on the
throne in the clouds
that's pure anthropomorphism the new
anthropomorph
promorphism we project
godly divine qualities unto humans
and so we determine
oh that couldn't be haram that couldn't
be forbidden
because it's insensitive
and god could never be insensitive and
so we determine
what's lawful or what's unlawful what's
fit or what's proper
what's uh moral or immoral
and to avoid falling into that trap of
modernity or post-modernity
more accurately we need to humble
ourselves why what happens
we're talking about empowerment our
prophet mentions
so people are giving us sadaka it's
ramadan and there's a
charity will never decrease your your
wealth
this is the sound this narration is
and so these are the knights who were
seeking allah's pardon
when uh the prophet sallallahu sallam
advised i shared
what she should say in the these nights
you are the one who pardons you love to
pardon pardon us
and then finally
no one humbles themselves for the sake
of allah
except that allah elevates them
except that allah elevates them so it's
very important for us brothers and
sisters
to understand
our religion to understand its
implications
to understand how we
empower ourselves it's not through
material means
we don't empower ourselves by going to
the gym we our muscles get bigger we're
more powerful
no we empower ourselves by spiritual
means
and the greatest of those means is the
quran and the quran
is a means for us to connect to allah
subhanahu wa'ta'ala
the gold is allah subhanahu wa and
nothing
other better than the quran makes that
clear to us
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then leave them launching into their
empty sport playing amusement
this is imam zai shakir and allah bless
all of you
to all of those who participated who
taught
who helped to make the mca youth
happen
at
uh profound advice um
that all of us need to hear may allah
guide
the youth uh to the best of all
deeds inshallah the point that he's
making like okay
yeah we tell god what
how god has to say and not to say and
then now we become we attribute godly
attributes to ourselves now we get to
decide what halal and
we get to decide what's right from wrong
what's truth from falsehood
oh my god so inshallah we don't go that
route may allah help our youth with that
um um i would like to you know
make dua inshallah at the end as i have
promised
my heart has been very heavy the whole
day the last 24 hours
and i truly feel way much better after
participating in this pyaam
because of what has been happening in
philistine in jerusalem
it's a it's a historical historical
moment of
you know epic proportions what's
happening we're witnessing
another cycle of history subhanallah so
i make dua that allah will
save al masjid al-aqsa from demolition
i make dua to allah azzawajal that allah
will save the palestinians who have been
living there for thousands of years
in east jerusalem and uh what's known as
sheikh jarrah neighborhood
that they will stay at their homes
because they have no other home
and they don't know where else to go but
they're being like
you know taken one after another one
family after another just get attacked
and kicked out of their house very
simply you know done
uh and people were praying seventy
thousand people were praying
salate tarawih and they were just like
stormed
and you know it turned into an ugly
scene so
subhanallah may allah give these people
saber and support
and insha allah may allah preserve
al-masih al-aqsa and the people who live
around it and protect it with their
lives when they have nothing you know
they just like literally have nothing
but their bodies
what uh what a carriage they have
what uh what a print what a principle
that they live with what an identity
they have
really unbelievable subhanallah
we're talking about beyond david versus
goliath you know
you know subhanallah so my dua for al
masjid al-aqsa in such a beautiful night
um i have it happened to that i went to
a miz laksa twice in the last three four
years and
it was beautiful in ramadan like
unbelievable and very
and and the palestinians who live in
that area wait for ramadan
the whole year because that's when you
know islamic tourism comes and they get
to
make money for the rest of the year
because it's becoming less and less and
less
for them so that's what it's uh you know
on so many level economical
social political religious stressful
emotional financial it's on so many
levels
may allah preserve them support them
and and and preserve themselves
the second thing that i want to read
here from
uh you know youtube uh brother um faisal
akbar says please make dua for me
that allah makes memorizing the quran
easy for me may allah
memorizing the quran very easy for you
and may allah make retaining what you
memorized
very easy for you and may allah give you
the
energy and the intention and the
positivity to
go on until you do all of it masha allah
we have sister sophia akbar
who said please make dua for a measure
which i already did
please make dua for my children uh in
this
for their success and afiya in this
world and in the hereafter may allah
protect you and protect your children
and give you
successful prosperous life that you
spend it
serving allah in this dunya and making
great things
in the name of allah for the sake of
allah insha allah mean
we have also like requests and so many
comments
beautiful comments from sister rashma
haider who was attending with us
we have subhanallah from different
channels we have maintained over 500
people attendance the the whole time
even up to this moment late moment which
is really humbling alhamdulillah
and uh it's a it's a success even if
five people attend
let alone a 500. uh subhan allah
alhamdulillah and inshallah we all
repent to allah i want to thank the
people in the back
which is sister sadia and her husband
brother azeem who always are there
and nothing that you can see would be
possible without their offer
their efforts in the background uh i
would like to thank
uh brother shafiq ziyada
like who's like a young brother to me
like a son
and may i would like to make a special
dua may allah preserve
his father and give him a good health
and a good life and a long life full of
good deeds insha'allah
and may allah bless your marriage and
insha allah for years and years to come
inshaallah you and your brothers and
sisters and loved ones and entire family
i would like to make dua for sister noon
you know no one has been with us from
the first
event that we did in the beginning of
2018 uh
honorable mother and beautiful brothers
and sisters masha allah
may allah preserve you preserve your
deen and iman
and always make you answer the call
for allah and serve his deen and iman
insha allah
what a beautiful i would like to thank
the technical team that has been with me
in the same room but you don't see them
i always make you see them in the last
second here so we have brother basil and
his brother masha allah
adil so they are here to make sure that
if anything goes wrong
they fix it on the spot may allah bless
them bless their mother masha allah who
raised them well their father
and the rest of the family may allah
give them baraka in their health wealth
time
energy and deen in sha allah and they
always
have the energy to come and serve the
deen of allah subhana ta'ala
so with that i would like to thank also
mca for
sponsoring this event and all the other
people who
live streamed this event on their
channels masha allah this has been
amazing
uh full night with a lot of youth uh
and uh and and i'm so like it really
brought life back to me and hope
masha'allah seeing these amazing
speakers like as
brother shafiq said can one of them
teach me public speaking even i can say
that about them
alhamdulillah uh
[Music]
for the coming summer events and our
partnership with mca
and beyond salaam
let's go

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Request your own Dua on Social Media with Sh. Elbakri

Published: May 9, 2021
Recorded: Not stated by the source
Length: 2:24:28
Source: Tawasaw Institute (opens YouTube in a new tab)Tawasaw Institute upload
Speaker evidence: Shaykh Alauddin ElBakri: description: "…on Social Media with Sh. Elbakri" (surname/first-name only; not proof)
Transcript: YouTube captions (auto generated), EN, version 1Not yet reviewed by an editor; retrieved October 14, 2026.

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