to
proceed respected
Elders I grant
you the warmest Islamic greetings of
peace asum
May the peace and blessings of Allah be
upon you
all brothers and sisters today we're
going to be talking about a very
important topic which is the purpose of
life this is a very important topic
because without the purpose of life in a
way we don't have any life if you think
about it because you have in today's day
and age in the 21st century you have the
secularists which are those people who
want to divorce Allah Asel away from
social Affairs and essentially from your
life you have the atheist who deny Allah
Asel and you have this resonating in
society whether it's in on education at
education at the media wherever you go
you see
it and their perspective is that we
don't have a purpose in life their
perspective is we don't have any meaning
ultimate meaning we have to to make it
up as we go along and I would argue
without purpose of life without a Divine
Purpose for our life we don't really
have any meaning to our lives in the
first place because if you think about
it take Divine Purpose outside of your
life then it's all your subjective
opinions your opinion on how you should
live your life or why you exist is
subject to yourself subject to your own
subject to your NS your own disposition
subject to your ideas subject to your
own thoughts so it's all relative it's
subjective to yourself and relative to
your own ideas so we could all
disagree and if you take Divine Purpose
out of the window if you just Chuck it
out of life then essentially you're left
with someone who is a cosmic orphan
we're like a human being and we've just
been thrown into existence with no
reason someone's thrown into this ocean
full of shars and has left you alone and
you have to find your own way
out and if you continue this thought
that you remove the Divine Purpose
outside of our Lives then what
difference does it make if I live my
life as a Shan as a devil and you live
your lives as Angels it makes no
difference if there is no Divine
accountability no Divine Purpose if I
live my life as a Shan as a devil as an
evil person and you lived your life as a
very Pious person what difference does
it make if we're just going to be worm
Buffet we're going to end up in the
grave if we're going to end up in the
grave the worms are going to taste us
and we're going to be one with the mud
and the rats and the worms and the lice
and the dust if we're going to become
one with this what difference does it
make maybe I should just live my life
and get away with it and do what I want
what's in it for me I'm a right jack
kind of attitude and this is why it's a
very important topic but we don't think
about it though that's the situation
sometimes we just live our lives we're
brought up in a Muslim household and we
just basically react to our social
environment we don't really think about
our
situation but Allah tells us to
think do you not use your intellect do
you not use your
mind Allah has given you these qualities
these amazing qualities to refine to
understand your perspective your basis
your purpose in this
Dy and it's very important this is
one of the famous classical theologians
he wrote a text about the and the he
said there's no contradiction between
the and the text but you have to have a
sound it has to be sound has to be
refined with the Quran and the Sunnah to
really understand the text what it is so
use our minds so we know our situation
and purpose in
life continuing from this we know that
purpose in life is the most critical
question because if you look at the
state of the human being he's been
thrown into existence it's like we life
could be like a huge Factory and you
just wake up in this Factory all the
windows are closed the doors are closed
and people are just
working and you wake up and what are you
going to ask yourself how on Earth did I
get there how on Earth did I get here
what am I supposed to do and where am I
going these three fundamental questions
you would ask if you woke up in a
factory with the window shut and the
doors closed and people are just doing
the work now who is the intelligent Guy
the one who's going to ask those
questions and get answers or the one who
just gets up and starts working in the
factory just joining everyone else like
sheep think about this who is the
intelligent one you just wake up into
into this Factory say you go to sleep
you pray you pray with you go home home
you have something to eat maybe have
some tea have some cha have some Pak
have something whatever you guys eat
yeah you then you go to
sleep then you wake up in this Factory
you're going to ask those questions how
in else did I get here where am I
going what am I supposed to do
here but many of us we just wake up in
this Factory and we start working like
machines we're no different from a robot
we're no different from a social
biological robot cuz this is very
important because if you think about it
there's an American writer once wrote
that your birth my birth our births was
like being born and then being kidnapped
and then sold into slavery listen to
what I'm saying your birth Uncle G your
birth a your birth
brother aat sisters your birth was like
being born and then being kidnapped and
then sold into slavery W that's the
state of the human being that is the
state of the human being where even the
kufar the non-muslim philosophers said
that this was a concept called
thrownness you just thrown into reality
with no choice because you never chose
that you're going to be a black man did
you choose you going to be black no did
you choose that you're going to be
Kashmir M or whatever you are Punjabi oh
Punjabi yeah oh whatever you didn't
choose this did you choose that you're
going to be
white did you choose that you're going
to be gorgeous
M yeah I never chose I was going to be
Greek that looks like a
Pakistani yeah but W he think about this
dude you have a choice you'd even choose
that you were going to be a
man sisters you'd even choose that you
were going to be female you had
absolutely no choice and by the way you
had no
choice concerning your parents
no choice at all even your DNA the
biologists talk about that we have DNA
even your DNA you had no choice in your
DNA the thing that really shapes your
biological makeup no choice zero
finished and then we think we're
free and we think we're free we didn't
choose our parents we had no choice we
didn't choose the social economic
environment where our parents came from
we didn't choose the geography we didn't
choose our lineage we didn't choose
where we came from we didn't choose our
color our gender our size our shape none
of these things and we think we're
free and on a side note sometimes we
Define ourselves by these things we have
no choice over sometimes our tribe
or nationality is is bigger and more
important than Islam which is called in
Islam and it's har you can't take
nationality over the dean of Allah
subhah wa taala there's nothing wrong
with being proud where you come from the
sahaba belonged to tribes and there was
a element of Halal Pride if you want to
use that term but to take it over the
dean this
was totally and there is even a a very
damning Hadith that someone who takes
the nationality over the dean it's
equivalent of biting the father's
private parts this is a Hadith check out
for yourself I'm not ashamed to say this
it's the words of the prophet Al
wasallam and many of know many of you
know this Hadith as well but you've been
too scared to mention it but we mention
it because we're not afraid and we have
to speak the truth because imagine if I
took my greekness over the dean I would
never become a Muslim because in Greece
they have this concept
of in Greece that means in Greek it
means the the Greek christian community
so being Greek and Christian is one and
the same thing if you change a religion
you're not GRE anymore you become a
traitor anyway so the point let's go
back to the main point which is we don't
even choose our parents are color our
gender all of these things now let me
just go a bit more further not only are
we enslaved to this because we have
almost a slavery to this because we had
no
choice we also have a slavery to our own
self the carnal beastial aspects of
humanity our instincts our animalistic
drives many of us are slaves to our
NS this is why one of the 11th century
theologians Al gazali and even T wrote
about this and even T students wrote
about this as
well they basically said especially
Alazar in his book The Alchemy of
Happiness he basically said you think
that you know yourself you think you
know yourself because when you're hungry
you
eat when you're enraged and angry you
fight when you have the passions you
make love and you think you know
yourself you're no different from an
animal but the reality of yourself is in
your inwardness who you are your AA your
actions your belief your
Iman but many of us are like these
animals and you see this in our country
in England go on to the Town Square on a
Friday
night go to leads
City Center Bradford you see nothing but
fitner and facade and Chaos right
because these people they're just
reacting to the caral beastial desires
right now don't judge them though cuz
sometimes we do that H look at me I'm so
great and Pious look at the kuf this is
not a Sunnah by the way the Sunnah is to
forer for them and help them and want to
guide them and be there and we want to
bring them to us because in reality when
it comes to the lay man the awam Joe
blogs next door there is no such thing
as us and Them Do you know this it's
actually us and we want them to be us
cuz we have a beautiful home called
Islam the door must always be open and
invite people in so when we see people
in this state we should actually feel
for them and empathize and say come come
back home because this is back home for
them it's the F it's the innate
disposition so as I saying many of us
are just
enslaved to our desires this why Allah
says in the Quran have you not seen the
one who takes his NS his desires as his
as his object of
worship so you're enslaved we can be
enslaved to our desires our the carnal
beasal aspects of
humanity it doesn't stop there there's
another type of slavery that we can't
even Escape social pressure Society what
Society tells you and I'm going to speak
to the sisters about
this if I were to ask you what makes you
feel pretty many of our definitions
would be not the definitions according
to the Quran and Sunnah because
according to the Quran and Sunnah beauty
is holistic we don't say does he have a
nice arm does he have a nice ear does he
have a nice eyes we don't reduce people
to single parts we see them
holistically that's why our Dean is a
dean of Oneness that's why we see the
inner aspects of Beauty and the outer
aspects of beauty and it's all
together but if I were to ask you you
probably give me a reductionist view on
beauty meaning oh if I have nice eyes or
if I have nice fingers for example this
attitude itself has not come from your
fit and it hasn't come from the dean
it's come from advertisements like
L'Oreal because I'm worth it yeah isn't
it we see this all the time and it
permeates our society and it develops
something called the social Norm the
social Norm Let me Give an example I
used to be an international project
manager I used to work for the
government many years ago and I was a
bit of a loudmouth okay this is why I
talk now yeah and basically we had a PA
a personal assistant and she was wearing
high heels fair enough and I'm not
judging her I'm just going to give you a
reality of the example I'm trying to
show she was in high hills and what I
noticed was she had like two plasters
over her heel and it was slightly
bleeding and I asked her the question
what's wrong with you are you really
comfortable in those yes it makes me
feel better about myself I was like are
you sure are you really sure because you
could if you ask your feet that question
they'll testify against
you so why do you think that should make
you feel better about yourself because
it makes me look good okay good why does
it make you look good and by whose
definition is it really yours and then I
made her think and this is the power of
questioning W da is just about
questioning
the Quran gives you
questions and in themselves do they not
see do they not reflect within
themselves have you not seen the camel
and how it was created questions
questions Allah doesn't always give you
answers he's giving you these questions
to direct you through this madness of
life to come to a conclusion that Allah
is one and that he should be woried so
use questioning as well use the power of
the Quran so when you give them the
tools of questioning they're like you
know what and then she took her shoes
off because she understands this is not
really me it's not in line with my f
it's a socialization it's been as a
result of the media and you know why
human beings are social animals I did
psychology at University and one of the
reasons are that human beings by their
very nature they want certainty they
want certainty they want to feel certain
they want have
y if they don't feel certain about
something including their own Beauty
they go to society because it's like
almost like the most powerful thing
around them CU it's a consensus it's the
masses and they will adopt what the
society says this is why Brothers how
many of you have daughters put your hand
up may Allah bless your daughters many
of you let me give you some advice make
sure from a very young age your daughter
feels she's intelligent your daughter
feels she's beautiful your daughter
feels she's beautiful outside and inside
cuz if you don't as a father I know it's
very hard because you're from the Asian
subcontinent words like love and being
soft and nice is not part of the culture
get over it this is your J cuz the
Sunnah is like this the prophet used to
kiss his grandchildren he used to have
mercy on them he used to say Ya Allah I
love so and so so love so and so so at
the end of the day we have to break
through this it's not just good wearing
beards having long robes and looking the
part but if our hearts are messed up
what is the point because even goats
have beards it's dead protein isn't it
now the reason we get reward because of
The Obedience of the love of of sub of
the Prophet sallallah alai wasam and
Allah subhah waala but if inside it's
not there and this is why many of our
youth are astray because it's the
parenting W the most important thing so
make your daughters feel pretty make
them feel intelligent you know why cuz
if they're uncertain about themselves
where are they going to go to the social
Norm it's a psychological process it's
very
simple and there's two processes for
this it's called informational social
influence and normative social influence
you don't have to know the
technicalities in the Academia the point
is it's almost an established fact
Society counts this is why in the Sunnah
the prophet sallallah alaihi was would
go to the influential for the da because
the tribes men would influence their
people do you see the social effect so
make sure our daughters and even our
brothers they feel confident with
themselves have low self-esteem I travel
the whole world brothers and
sisters and what I see from our youth
low self-esteem no confidence not
ability to talk not ability to say
something good about the dean have a
infity complex and it's not their it's
not the Deans for is the parents W he is
the parents and we need to fix up all of
you are future parents so we need to
instill this Confidence from the dean
inside them so they could be people who
go out there and they are people ofed
because what does it do it should make
you think you could take over the world
that you could move mountains by the
will of Allah why because this is
real you know we always think you
know all the categories of yes this is
Academia this is Academia but what does
it really mean what do we say about
Allah
sometimes there is no true power apart
from the power of Allah subhana if this
is true here not here here if it's true
then it should change whole lives we
should never have an infernity complex
anymore and we should believe that we
could move mountains why because behind
everything is the will and power of
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala when things
happen is because of his will and
because of his because of his power not
because of Jo blogs the Zionist media
Sky News this that the other the
government oh I'm a victim when did the
prophet sallallah alaihi wasallam act
like a victim never because they knew
this basic principle ofed nothing
happens except by the will of subhana wa
tala this is why the
sahaba they had nothing they didn't have
the iPads the iPhones they didn't have
computer systems no technology effective
Weaponry they just had the Quran and
Sunnah they haded in their hearts and
there were a bunch of villagers
equivalent in a contemporary sense and
they arose and they took over the world
and spread the peace and Justice of
Islam what do you think that was because
they had great Weaponry they had inter
ballistic missiles they had nuclear
weaponry they had diplomacy you think
they had that stuff they used to eat
lizards what are you talking about it's
because they knew Allah now they knew
Allah lot and when they saw creation
they never said creation has intrinsic
power meaning that this piece of
Creation with it's human being or an
obstacle that has the power to change my
destiny then you know it's
Allah and since they didn't know the
will of Allah only Allah knows the will
of Allah then that gave them an infinite
possibility this is the empowerment
ofed so we can be enslaved to society as
well and we see this even in our Asian
culture maybe not you guys because
you're the pious type
mahab but let's let's be honest in many
types of our family if you go to a
wedding what do you see you see people
who have been poor all their life spend
money thousands and thousands and
thousands on wedding dresses and gold
and you know a thousand people are there
and half of them they don't even know
yeah they're not even related they
somehow you know used to comb one of
their pet rabbits hair or something you
know that's how distant they are yeah
and then they're there it's all about
show and how much gold you had and where
you going to go and the m and all of
this stuff and you know God forbid one
Auntie wearing the same wedding outfit
she wore last
year it would be D judgment scenario
yeah you can't be seeing her with the
same shoes ain't wearing the same shoes
yeah do you see the point it's all about
status and what you look like and this
is a social Norm in our own communities
we've adopted a Bollywood
concerning the social Norm education he
has to be a doctor if he's not that
clever an engineer if he's not that
clever a lawyer if he's not that clever
mu isn't it like the dean comes like on
the bottom of the list and if you want
to marry someone even I've seen this
with practicing sisters nikab gloves
shoes Nets the works yeah everything's
covered right and they will be like oh I
want him to be a doctor and then the
dean is like fourth what's wrong with
these people we've been social ized
isn't it we still this kind of this cast
Hindu system kind of culture and is
permeated even amongst Pious people W
there's a
Hadith to the best of my knowledge and I
can be corrected obviously in tii where
the Prophet sallallah and
paraphrasing he said if someone comes to
your daughter with good
morals and you reject him there'll be
FNA and facade in the world there'll be
facade there'll be facade and and then
they said what if he doesn't have any
money listen what if he doesn't have any
money and do you know how he replied
sallallah alaihi wasallam he said if
someone comes to your daughter with good
morals there will be facade and then he
repeated it
again what is the prophet sallallah
alaihi was indicating here that this is
the most important thing not the money
money comes and
goes but yet we have that social in our
culture that if he's not of a high
status it's it's
terrible it's just terrible he just you
know my my landlord
is an ex- Hindu who' converted to Islam
and he's got a job working on the trains
okay and he said I can't find any
sister he I can't find any sister
because they want this they want that
and de for them is
secondary and and he and and that's his
issue you see he's got a concern and the
reason we have these issues because we
adopt another social Norm so we're
enslaved by the social masses by the
influentials in our in our culture so
look at this what we've discussed you
didn't choose your parents you didn't
choose your biology you didn't choose
your society that you're enslaved to as
well you didn't choose social biological
conditioning you didn't choose your DNA
you didn't choose your gender your color
your parenting your lineage your your
Society your
nationality you and and we're enslaved
to our NS as well to our caral beasal
aspects of mankind so we're
slaves we're slaves this is it the only
Ru for Freedom you have if you shoot
yourself
honestly honestly that's the only Act of
real Freedom even the Western
philosophers would write essays on on
suicide Arthur schopenhauer wrote an
essay on suicide David Hume he wrote an
essay on suicide I think some of them
really understood the only Act of
freedom is to kill
yourself that's the state of mankind
without purpose forget the drink and the
alcohol and the fun and games they have
you you go underneath that you scratch
the surface they're just slaves we're
all slaves but how do we find true
Liberty how does the soul the the how
does it find Liberty and interestingly
the word is linked to the
word which means Serenity Liberty and
the only way to escape from this slavery
is to become a slave of Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala that's the real bloke that's
the real man not the man who's enslaved
to his desires the man who's enslaved to
society the man who's enslaved to things
that he didn't even choose Subhan Allah
was so proud to be the chief of a tribe
you didn't even choose that you're a
slave to that it's
rubbish sometimes we're so proud because
you know we have the G Dam yeah as we
say in hne you know what I'm
saying isn't it but you're enslaved to
your caral desires you're just like an
animal you know different from the lion
with many lionesses big deal wagan yeah
make this make it real let's make it
youth so you're just a Slave oh you
think your hair looks nice sister yeah
well you just copying so and so from the
L'Oreal advert you you you're just a
slave to her really you're just a slave
you're always going to be in slave but
how do you free yourself from this stuff
by enslaving yourself to Allah subhanahu
waala as said The 14th Century
theologian and Scholar of
Islam having a servant Hood a worship
ship to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
because Allah transcends you Allah knows
Hamza better than Hamza knows Hamza
Allah knows Fatima better than Fatima
knows Fatima Allah knows Muhammad better
than Muhammad knows Muhammad Allah knows
AA better than Aisha knows
herself and he created you and he
created everything that exists so
therefore he transcends that so he knows
what's better for you so having that
enslavement to Allah frees you and
elevates you from the D
elevates you from enslaving yourself to
your conditioning the enslavement to
your NS your ego the enslavement to the
things that you had no choice the
enslavement to your color to your
background to your nationality to social
pressure to the L'Oreal adverts to
everything that is the true Freedom it's
the Paradox that you your soul is
liberated the attains it has the same
linguistic root VI the worship
enslavement of Allah subhanahu wa taala
Subhan Allah you know someone really
realizing this that no matter what I do
I'm going to be a slave to these Emeral
empty
things things of the
D coming from the word adna which means
something
lowly I'm not going to enslave myself to
things that have hardly any worth I'm
going to enslave myself to the
animalistic instinctive desire of myself
I'm going to enslave myself to things I
had no choice over like my gender like
my parenting like my Society like my
nationality of course
not so how then do you escape this these
shackles by enslaving yourself to Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala and interestingly
what does Allah say about our purpose in
life that he created man and
Jin except to worship Allah
is the most important aspect of worship
of course but worship is a comprehensive
Concept in Islam it means obeying Allah
loving Allah taking him as your
Authority and knowing Allah let me
repeat obeying Allah loving Allah taking
taking him as your
Authority and knowing Allah
as mentioned some of these things as
well so this is
the ultimate Act of Liberation this is
the ultimate Act of being a true human
being in my humble opinion if someone
knows this and they don't start
worshiping Allah how can you consider
yourself a human being how could
you in reality you're no different from
a piece of wood or this pen it's made of
carbon you're made of carbon what
difference does it make if you're just
reacting to your just biological and
physical nature then then you're no
different from a pen it it it it it
obeys its physical nature if you write
it
works even a rat a lowly rat when it
nibbles on decaying matter and it runs
through the sewer it's obeying its
nature it's enslaved to its physique its
materialistic biological
reality and if you just do that the same
what makes you different from a
rat what what makes you different from a
rat that's why Allah says nay b b in the
Arabic is like saying it's like a
rhetorical it's Baga
meaning they're not animals B they're
even worse than
cattle so someone who does this as Allah
in the Quran in Bak says they are worse
than
cattle so do we want to be worse than
cattle do you see the unique spin on
this because we think when we move away
from religion we're actually free we
think when we move away from religion
we're free when we move away from Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala we're actually free
but it's actually the opposite when you
enslave yourself to Allah you remove the
shackles of all of these types of
slavery
so how do we know this now how do we
know that this is actually true we must
worship Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala well
there's a few things we could articulate
here let's talk
about IB talked about the
F the F in Arabic language comes from
the
root and you have works
like and that Allah created something
within you to acknowledge his Oneness
and worship him and if you really think
about it if you take away parenting if
you take away your conditioning if you
take away some biological aspects if you
take away strip away all of these social
effects as well the F will be there and
you could ask it a question
almost who is your and they know it's
Allah this is why even atheists on a
sinking ship are no longer atheist
there's a famous saying there is no
atheist on a sinking
ship W and this is not just a cup out
this actually a key intellectual
argument because it shows the
disposition the natural disposition of
man
why are you calling out to something
that you don't believe if you look at
the BBC Archives of the Titanic there
were some survivors saying that although
we didn't believe in God our last things
were just praying to God
wall that was the only hope and what
does Allah say in the Quran they
remember Allah they worship
Allah but when they get on the shore and
they safe they forget
him and this is the aspect of the F and
the F can be justified even
academically even academically read The
Works of Professor Bruce Hood Professor
Petrovic
Professor Bartlett and others from
Oxford they are anthropologists and they
said if you took children even from
atheist households you put them on a
desert island they would eventually
believe that God
exists you even see this in atheist
communist countries atheist communist
countries like China and Russia look at
communist Russia they used to have huge
statues of Lenin and and Stalin and they
used to almost worship them they would
have them in awe and rever them which is
an act of worship so even in atheistic
cultures that f is coming out so we know
this is true because the fitra is
dictating this that Islam is true that
worshiping of Allah is true so there's a
f aspect there's an innate aspect we
have another aspect which is is
intellectual Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
answers these questions for us we don't
have to go outside of the Quran Allah
Asel in chapter 52: 35- 36 he talks
about the creation of the human being
and he says do you think you came from
nothing you were created from nothing
did you create yourself or did you
create the heavens and the
earth now this according to the those
who explain the Quran the executes like
IB and others and this is also the
opinion of Dr jaf
and talks about this argument as well
this could be applied to anything that
begins the universe began we know this
now so it can't come from nothing it's
impossible what's 0 plus 0 plus 0 is it
three it's
zero can it create itself can you give
birth to
yourself can your mother give birth to
herself self- creation is a paradox it's
impossibility can we have a forever
chain of
creation this is impossible so he must
be an uncreated creator that
exists very simple very simple key
intellectual
argument so we know that Allah the
Divine is true and we also know the
Quran is true as well because it says
your purpose in life is to worship Allah
it's just a verse right that verse comes
from the
Quran the Quran is from Allah we have so
many reasons and you know the answers as
well let me remind you Allah
says and if you're in doubt about this
book we have sent down to our servant
referring to Muhammad s. wasallam then
bring one chapter like it call on your
Witnesses and supporters besides
Allah if you're truthful in your claim
and we know this opens a whole window of
intellectual arguments linguistic
historical natural phenomena a whole
aray of array of arguments that show
that the Quran is from Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala concerning the linguistic for
example we know that the Arabs of the
time were the best at expressing
themselves in the Arabic tongue but they
failed they absolutely failed so they
can't come from a human being came from
Allah this is why even Western Academia
testified to this you have Professor
Bruce Lawrence from Duke University in
his book a the Quran biography on page
number eight he says quranic verses as
tangible sign
are expressive of inexhaustible truth
they signify meaning laid with meaning
light upon light Miracle after Miracle
we have Reverend AB BOS Smith in his
book Muhammad and muhammadanism he said
the Quran is a miracle of purity of
style of wisdom and of Truth it is one
Miracle claimed by Muhammad s. wasallam
and a miracle indeed it is you have
Professor Anthony Jones He analyzed
chapter 12 of the Quran and talked about
it imagistic features you have the book
by professor Neil Robinson who used to
lecture at Leeds university around the
corner he became a Muslim as well he
wrote the book discovering the Quran a
contemporary approach to a v text he has
a whole chapter on the dynamic style of
the Quran you have Professor Martin Zam
from the Netherlands he said
notwithstanding pre-islamic poetry the
Quran is the most eminent written
manifestation of the Arabic language we
have Professor Hamilton Gibb would go on
and
on it challenged the best people who
could affect ly challenged the Quran
they failed it can't come from the best
people therefore it comes from the
Divine it can't comes from nature it
comes from the
Supernatural and that's one argument we
have so
many and even the life of the Prophet
sallallah when we look at his life we
know the dean is true because we could
never say he was a liar if he wasn't a
liar then we know his claim was true
because if you I studied psychology
University and to claim that Muhammad
Sall alaihi was is a liar is to claim
your own mother never gave birth to
you if I were to ask you prove to me
your mother gave birth to
you You' be very hard to find
proof prove to me your own mother gave
birth to
you all you have to rely on is five
testimonies the testimony of your
mother the testimony of your
father the testimony of the
Midwife the testimony of the doctor and
the testimony of the birth
certificate you have five chains of
narration concerning your mother gave
birth to you you have no other evidence
and you know it deep down inside is
true but I would argue if you reject
Muhammad Sall alaihi wasallam it's
equivalent of rejecting your mother
because we have 10,000
thousands of chains of narration that
are established to be true effectively
saying that this man would never speak a
lie that what he came with is true this
is in the science
ofi in the science of the biographies of
people we have 10,000 biographies for
sahabah and people in the chains of
narration 10,000 we know their nickname
we know where they came from if that
good memory their age if they met the
other person in the chain of narration
and they're all
trustworthy so to reject the narratives
concerning the prophet sallallah alaihi
wasallam that he was speaking the truth
it's equivalent of rejecting your own
mother cuz you only have five chains of
narrations and the people in these
chains they're not perfect they're not
fully
trustworthy do you
see so if you want to reject Muhammad
upon who be peace fine go reject your
mom I did this once at Queen Mary
University after a debate with an
atheist Professor Graham Thompson and
there's this half Greek half Serbian guy
name is George amazing he has now
yeah I could
just that morning after F I made Dua to
Allah subhah wa taala Ya Allah let
someone come to the dean via our
hands it was a proper sincere Dua I was
feeling down I was like give me a signal
w
I was shocked I was like nah this too
good to be true here I was shocked I was
there some guy called George he he had a
bit of doubts he read some books had to
build doubts and he was like I could
just see in his face he's like yeah but
I don't know I'm not too sure and we
were there for an hour and a half
nearly and I was like you know what I
gave him my phone cuz he's Greek he
knows AIT Greeks like punjabis by the
way yeah our speech could be very vile
yeah very aggressive sometimes although
he's very poetic as well
and we very like kind of you know we
break plates at weddings so I had my
phone I was like listen bro you know the
historical narratives you believe them
to be true yes you do well if you reject
Muhammad today sallallah alaihi wasallam
go reject your mom cuz you know it's a
CRI rejecting your
mother because you know you got more
evidence that he was truthful than your
mother's truthful so go reject your mom
take the phone I threat him take the
phone man be a man call and he was like
this oh my God what is the guy bro I
just want you to be honest fine I'm not
I'm not forcing you reject him reject
him that's your freedom but be
intellectually honest then go call your
mom and say Mom I now have to doubt that
you gave birth to
me he became
Muslim he's been Muslim for a year now
and wah this brother has amazing adab
amazing ad you know his mom his mom is
like Subhan Allah like B than I seen us
Tre our own mothers and his mom is
non-muslim she calls his halfway having
fun with the brothers I got to go guys
straight away no
complaints my mom wants me home at 9:00
he's there at 10: to 9: I mean he's very
good adab he says brother I love you for
the sake of Allah brother do you need
anything brother take care of yourself
you know you know you could just see
that Islam has really penetrated his
heart yeah so that's an example of
showing the prophet sallallah was
speaking the truth so we have good
Arguments for the dean there's no excuse
for us so what we have to do is be
people of the Quran and start
reflecting for example Allah subhah wa
tal says in the
Quran and thus do we explain our signs
and evidences in detail for
those for those who reflect you know if
you go to the classical dictionaries you
know what this means it doesn't mean oh
this is a nice water bottle it's not
superficial reflection go to the
classical dictionaries don't be a desert
romantic you're sitting on the deck
chair writing poetry to your loved one
touching the sunand looking at the stars
and sipping a glass of milk just to make
it Halal yeah is not that kind of desert
romantic rather the thing that you're
reflecting upon you must inquire the
meaning of it the implications what does
it mean that there's a beginning to the
universe what does it mean I'm in a
state of slavery how do I free myself
from this what does it mean I have
Consciousness I have a that
Consciousness came from nonconscious
matter how can this be these these are
all questions that Allah gives us and
makes us think about man life in the
universe and our own position this is
why Allah subhah wa T
says and where are you going you
speaking right to you where are you
going forget Jo blug so and so but what
about you wan yeah if you want it in
your language speak it in your
language where are you
going we always looking outside isn't it
always looking into to the stars but the
Quran always makes us look at the small
Universe inside the micro Universe
within the macro
Universe this why even Allah subhah wa
tala says are you going to follow your
forefathers even if their Sur name was
Ahmed or s or Abassi or B yeah whatever
the Pakistani names you have these days
yeah even if they that's their surname
are you going to follow your forefathers
even if they were wrong even if they
were baseless even if they were not
based on the truth even if they followed
nationalism and we have to reject
this Quran makes us
think it's a thinking man's
book now it doesn't mean you guys have
to be intellectuals and phds no although
I heard there's a lot of phds in dubury
private hire drivers am I
kidding so the point is you don't have
have to do this but you have to use
whatever you know to be thinking your
own in your own
realm any anyone could do it w go speak
to one of your grandmothers if your
great grandmother is alive speak to her
she'll come with hikma and wisdom and
she's never been to school I'm talking
about the natural type of thinking the
questioning about what is going on in
life Who Am I who am I for whom am I why
am I answering all those
questions cuz no matter what level of
you have if you're stuck in a dark room
everyone's going to ask the same
question how did I get here where am I
going what's going to happen to me
after and don't
forget the reality is that this life is
nothing it's nothing it's like a blink
of an eye the reality is
the the reality is the
one family member just spoke to me a
while ago and said when are we going to
start
living and I said we haven't really been
born yet our real birth is when we
die this is why Mo and the other terms
in the Quran for Death Do not mean
Annihilation they mean a
transition linguistically they mean a
transition so this is like we're still
in the embryonic stage of our life
we're still an
embryo we are still an embryo when we
die we're going to be born and we're
going to see reality J
or human beings naturally want to go
towards pleasure they want to run away
from pain so let's talk about the pain
Janam is forever do you know what
forever means eternality Eternal
infinite let me describe infinite for
you you're in a desert
island and all you see around you is an
infinite spacee of sea and you have a
small spoon and a bucket and it's really
hot and you dip your spoon in the ocean
and you tip it into the bucket and you
wait A Thousand
Years and after a thousand years you dip
your spoon into the ocean and you empty
into the bucket then you wait another
thousand years then you dip your spoon
into the ocean empty into the bucket and
you wear another thousand years when
would the ocean be
diminished never
never cuz the heat of the sun is always
going to evaporate what's going to be in
your
bucket that's
Eternal that's forever that's the nature
of this life is a minute long we got a
minute left maybe you don't know some
sahab when they tied the shoelace they
didn't know they're going to survive
until tying the next
shoelace this is forever and we don't
want to be in Janam we want to attain
the pledge of Allah subhah wa ta'ala
and there's a road mapap for this and
what's the road map of attaining the
plge of Allah first and foremost
believing in Allah believing in the
pillars of Iman and worshiping him the
most important thing after this in my
humble opinion and we say this to all of
the reverts we don't say grow a beard we
don't say do your hair like this we
don't say do your shoes like this we
don't say do this that the other we
don't even say none of that because W I
think it's irrelevant at that stage if
you take the Hadith of
when he went to Yemen the prophet said
get them to believe in if they accept
then the Salah and if they accept then
the Zak so there's a gradual process so
the point is for the new Muslims what do
you teach him Salah most important
prayer prayer prayer prayer prayer it
defines who you are it's the Vick of
Allah it's his obedience and is the
manifestation it's the enactment of your
true belief in him and your purpose in
life is to worship him so if you don't
worship Allah by praying the obligatory
prayers you're still worshiping other
things your naps your ego Society social
pressure this is the tool the mechanism
that's been obligated upon you to free
yourself from these things and so you
can come closer to Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala and for the Bliss of the worship
but
also fulfilling your purpose in
life this why Allah says in the Quran if
you forget Allah Allah will make you
forget your own self which means that
you having an identity as a Muslim as a
Believer as a true human being is only
through the worship of Allah subhah
waala W I see this in my life you cut
away from
the prayers from thear from the worship
you're hanging on a thin thread and you
see it I come up with things I don't
usually come up with even intellectually
because we believe in Islam even your
mind is affected by your C your heart
your state of heart
you know my inclinations towards
brothers and the um is a bit
less I'm not treating my mom so well my
family so well and I always think look
it's your worships messed up W every
time I have it solid it's Bliss not
Bliss you have your struggles but you
feel it you feel wholesome you feel
wholesome major cause of depression
amongst the um is because they've moved
away from Allah subhah wa ta'ala Allah
is making them forget their own selves
because the identity the the holistic
nature of what it means to be a human
being for a Muslim is via the worship of
Allah try it taste it trust me try it
taste it and you come to the point that
if the whole
world were to argue against Islam you
still believe cuz once you've tasted
Paradise you know it's true I said you
will never you probably will never go to
Jenna if you haven't tasted J in this in
this life life and the J in this life is
the worship of Allah it's the reading of
the Quran is is praying to Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala
now you may think who am I I've come to
this
Masid I spoke to some girls the other
day I've got a girlfriend I drink some
alcohol I do this and I do that I'm not
good I lie to my parents I pretend to
pray I'm a fake Muslim I'm a big sinner
I do major
sins listen to me very carefully please
in the last few
minutes he by Allah this attitude is an
attitude from
Shan Allah always allows you turns
always always allows you turns don't
despair of the mercy of Allah Allah says
in the
Quran yeah oh my believing servants do
not dispel my Mercy
for Allah forgives all sins all sins
even sh if you don't die on shik
obviously cuz the sahab were in sh they
became Muslim they were forgiven if you
did previous shik and you do repentance
Allah forgives the only sin he doesn't
forgive you die upon shik or you didn't
repent from
shik so Allah is saying all those sins
you're thinking about Allah's R and
forgiveness overcomes this
don't play into the hands of Shan that
you won't go to the Masid you won't
start praying because you got all of
these bad
Deeds don't be like that this is not
from Allah Allah your lord is a merciful
Lord your lord is Al you know what Al
means it's his name it's an intrinsic
part of who his being which means the
excessively loving the excessively
loving it's an excessive form of love
the prophet sallallah alaihi wasallam
said that Allah loves you more than a
mother loves her child you find me a
greater love in the
Dy the greatest love is the is the
Mother's Love But Allah loves you more
to indicate the greatness of his love
all he wants you to do is repent that is
it to return linguistically means to
return just to return to him that's all
he's saying that's all he is
saying and you can't for you to do
Toba cuz that would mean there's no
meaning to it so us having free choice
is a blessing from Allah and he's saying
I forgive just repent raise your hands
tonight say Ya Allah I have done these
sins you know me better than I know
myself I've done sins that I don't even
know than you know but forgive me I'm
taking the first
step and continuing and you hit the
floor bounce back
no one's going to be
perfect no one's going to stay the same
Iman
fluctuates but keep with your prayers
that is the key to the
success indeed unquestionably successful
are the
Believers so don't dispay no matter even
an hour ago you did the sin even 2
minutes ago you did the sin don't be in
that state of despair cuz Allah says in
the Quran elsewhere
only the disbelievers despair of his
Mercy remember the doors of repentance
are open until the time of
death the door of repentance are open
into the time of death and repentance
doesn't have to be public you don't have
to write it in the skies and the walls
all Allah wants you to do is to humble
yourself before him wake up in the last
s of the night raise your hand say Ya
Allah forgive me I beg for your
forgiveness I strongly intend never to
repeat those
sins and have an action plan for
yourself but don't get don't make it
difficult don't think now I have to wear
these clothes recite the whole of the
Quran and learn a 50 Hadith and learn
you know the statements of the scholars
and become a scholar and learn Arabic
and B and rhetoric and know the works
of blah blah blah no no one's expecting
that from you just
pray pray start with the prayer and move
forward and if you don't know how to
pray there's plenty of brothers that
know how to pray and just ask them Allah
says in the Quran if you don't know ask
those who know if you don't know ask
those who
know and just a word of War not warning
but some advice remember the Hadith of
the Prophet sallallahu Al wasam he
said the believer is a mirror of another
believer we don't want our community to
become a society of snitches a society
of pointing the finger ah look at him he
missed his F I didn't I feel so great
about myself oh look at her hijab has
changed from from black to Pink is too
bright or she's not wearing jilbab
anymore she's wearing maxi dresses yeah
or whatever this is Shan because
according to this prophetic tradition
and other values in Islam when we see a
fault in your brother or sister it means
you have that fault when you see their
sadness it means you have that sadness
when you see they're happy it means you
have that
happiness if you're looking at the
mirror and you've got a blemish on your
face are you going to wipe the mirror no
you're going to change
yourself so we should treat our brothers
and sisters like that so we Elevate each
other not condemn each other to make a
place of love and Rah the prophet
sallallah wasallam said that you would
not go to paradise until you believe and
you won't believe until you love one
another love one another not hate not
mock not ridicule not point the finger
not think you're better not be arrogant
not be non approachable unapproachable
not to be harsh but to love one another
so you facilitate this like when people
come to this Masid for example they
should feel a loving home they should
feel love in this Masid that's what they
should feel just like the mashid of the
Prophet sallallah alaihi wasallam so may
Allah subhana waa bless
you obviously all the mistakes are mine
and from my ego and Shan and all good is
from Allah subhah
waala
uh there's a question here that sorry
there's a question here that says if you
go to hell can you ever enter into
heaven the answer is yes if you're a
Muslim um if you we read basic works
like which is a credle book that many
all the Muslims agree with obviously the
interpretations vary but in terms of
this one is there's a credle statement
in that basically says we Muslims
believe that all Muslims will go to
Jenna this is this is our a some will
get purification in the Hellfire others
won't some would enter Hellfire for
shorter and longer than others but at
the end of the day if you were a Muslim
you would eventually enter Paradise ah
it's a good question there's a logic in
the room what's the purpose of the
Hereafter the purpose of the Hereafter
that's a good question
actually I don't know the answer to
that for my initial t reflection on this
which is not an answer so don't quote me
is to be an eternal Bliss and enjoy the
reward of Allah subhana to enjoy his
promise because Allah promises the
reward of his eternal
Bliss for the Believers and that's the
purpose the purpose is to be in
Bliss if anyone has a better answer
please please by the way no F questions
I'm not a qualified Muti in any shape or
form uh no other type of questions if if
I don't know if I don't know something
I'll tell you because just because I'm a
speaker it doesn't mean I'm a qualified
scholar or Muti or she no I'm not yeah
okay so I don't need to be under that
impression uh because that impression is
a dangerous impression because someone
who speaks automatically they're a she
no that's not I'm not even worth the TOA
toenail of a sheh yeah so whatever
questions I can answer I will answer
here's some good how do we break free
from nationalism you know I think most
of the problems in Islam all comes down
to the
NS and Allah subhanahu wa taala helps us
understand or gives us tools in the
Quran to deal with the NS for example
Allah reminds us where we're going Allah
says every soul is going to taste death
your nationalism is not going to save
you in the day of judgment no matter how
big you think you are and by the way
just to be very very Frank the Nations
you're so proud of are
rubbish Pakistan is a failed State
Bangladesh is killing Muslims at the
moment where else are you guys from you
it's a failed State aad Kashmir has no
political
Authority Kashmir the other part is
taken over by
India I mean who are you who are
you who are you you're nobody we're no
one our nationalism is has been cursed
by Allah subhana wa tala look at our
Nations we can't even defend our own
Muslims we can't even feed our own
people and you're proud of where you're
from Subhan Allah I'm Greek I'm not even
proud where I'm from and Greeks had a
bigger Empire than you we we got greater
history than you you're what you started
1950s Bangladesh
1971 and you think you're
somebody I'm sorry this is bakwa sorry
this crazy rubbish I get so angry when I
it's because a disease in the um you
know why w we have black Brothers they
convert to Islam Pious Brothers better
than most of the asian brothers
sometimes and they go to Asian chaa say
yeah
chaa you know I love you tobits I see in
the Masjid can I ask for your daughter's
hand he's going to have a heart
attack yeah g you what the heck is this
guy yes or no and I'm telling you even
some of you have this in your hearts now
even you have the you I know you guys
right I'm in the Asian Community I'm
married into the Asian Community okay so
I know wagan I know what's good going on
even if you're Pious our hearts
sometimes you know we'll never allow our
daughters to marry a black man never
forget that at Punjabi can't even marry
Kashmir a Kashmir can't even marry a
balii an Afghani can't even marry an
Afghani yeah would you see the problem
here nationalism is
destructive it's
destructive and it's one of the main
issues I think why there's a lot of
sisters who are Pious to
unmarried because they can't fight some
within the community and therefore the
door is shut for them they can't go
outside of the community and this is a
shame so remember where we're going
death and and death will break US
national is not going to help us it's
not going to take us anywhere and I'm
not saying this to offend you we should
be proud of our language U is a
beautiful I
mean what a beautiful poet what a
beautiful poet you know there's one
poetry I like that was translated in
English he said you know there's a
there's a big question that's that's
affected the East which is does God
exist but I give them a new
question does the self
exist you don't even know who you are
and you're thinking about God and once
you know who you are you know Allah
exists in themselves do they not reflect
do they not see so respect your language
respect your cultural Customs that are
not against Islam but don't make it now
your cre
your it is the yard stick is the the
lenses the glasses you put on your your
face to see the world and it's all
judged by those nationalistic boundaries
We Are
One whether you like it or not we bleed
in the same color we smile in the same
language and we laugh in the same
language and we eat with the same hand
yeah come on we're
one we are one and remember this
remember this okay you you know my
parents are
non-muslim but they don't have Asia when
I was growing up my dad said oh forget
Greece you know I don't want you to be
defined by Greek I want you to be
defined by your human nature Turks came
to my house blacks Asians whites greens
blues purples rainbows everybody came
into the house and that's my dad he's
not even Muslim so why would my dad
who's not a Muslim follow the values
that we should be following this is why
I'm upset because at home I see Islam
but they're not Muslim but when we go
when I go to the Muslim Community I
don't see
Islam how does that make me feel and
other reverts W and we claim complain
about the
edl there's more racism in our community
than the edl listen to me carefully I
don't care how much you've been beating
up there is more racism in the Muslim
Community than the
edl at least the edl they have asan
black seeks in the
group you know you can't even even in
Bangladesh right a chittagonian could
marry a
CTI isn't that
right it's
terrible and I think really the only way
to break nationalism is to to belittle
it a lot you know CU it's all based on
ego and remember where you came from
Allah tries to break our kns and says
you were a baby you could even wipe your
on backside or keep your head up and now
you think you know you're something you
were a despised fluid a despised fluid
and you think you're
special so these kind of principles and
realities will make us realize that
we're actually nothing only Allah gives
us the isi believing him and worshiping
him nationalism won't do that even the
prophet wasam when he took over Mecca I
believe he stamped his foot he said
nationalism is under my
foot think about this
a few years ago relatively 10 50 60
years ago 70 years ago some guy a
colonist who killed your forefathers
drank their blood almost and burnt their
books went on a map and he drew some
lines on a map and you define Yourself
by those
lines think about
that yes um before the Big Bang why can
we not believe that matter has pre
preexisted eternally and that total
energy in the universe is zero you
probably reading professor krauss's book
a universe from nothing well first of
foremost he doesn't believe it's
actually zero he says it's it's it's
very close to zero secondly if you read
The Works of cosmology at the moment
especially Prophet craft is very
popularized science but essentially when
he means nothing he means the quantum
vacuum which is actually something and
according to most cosmologists the Quant
vacuum actually began so that's not an
issue at all from that perspective how
to argue AR with an atheist please also
a little bit how you came to Islam
that's too much of a long story it's the
last question so how to argue with
atheist the question is wrong you
shouldn't really argue with an atheist
uh you should just basically discuss and
have warm dialogue with them you know
when you see debates online don't see
that's da debates is intellectual Jihad
yeah we're removing the influentials
that affect the umah but when it comes
to normal people they're human beings
and treat them like that don't don't
give da to the judgment give doubt to
the reality if I knew he was an atheist
but say he was an atheist for example
hypothetically I don't want to now start
judging him because he's an atheist cold
scientific rejecting the truth because
the prophet sallallah was never like
that when he said to sahab he said don't
speak to me about anyone else I want to
connect with them how they should be
connected with so if I want to connect
with this guy atheist I don't want to
connect with my perception of what an
atheist is I want to connect with with
who he is because maybe he's atheist
because his mom passed away when he was
3 years old of cancer and he can't
explain it but if I never connect with
him properly I just connect with my
judgment of him I will never understand
that so therefore we have to be we have
to follow the Sunnah don't fall for the
Trap just because people judge us we
don't have to use the same mechanisms
yeah we have to follow the Sunnah give
them the attention Rah compassion Mercy
connection and then you know use the
arguments that we learned from Islam for
example this universe began there's no
doubt about that did it come from
nothing I mean you tell me how it could
come from nothing did it create itself
or was it created what's the best answer
and and start from that and then you can
work your way forward inshallah but to
be honest I think atheism is nothing to
do with intellectuality it's to do with
emotions it's to do with psychology and
a lot is to do with your behavior in tal
so you know there's more other questions
unfortunately we can't address them
because of time but may Allah subhana
bless you guys and
and and Grant you J F and forgive you we
just had one question from the floor off
the floor okay okay one question that's
fine question your background psychology
doing some research on this morning on
YouTube talk
about yes so are you like a cosmologist
no I'm
not no I'm neither I just like reading
and plus that higs boson stuff I Learned
was from a professor although there's
some other YouTube clips saying I don't
know what I'm talking about but they
don't know what they're talking about
because I actually took it directly off
a professor um so we follow the quranic
narrative you don't know ask those who
know and that's very important so you
know you know one thing I find really
difficult as well especially in the west
you know they promote free thinking and
reading and intellectual activity but
the moment you have a stance about
something they say who are you as if you
have to have things the end of your name
for you to to have a perspective and and
that's the irony and the irony is if we
follow that then we'll have a new
priesthood because we could only know
things if we asked the professor do you
see so we have a new priesthood the
point is follow the quranic Paradigm the
prophet said that wisdom is the
possession of the believer where he
finds it he should take it and also if
you don't know ask those who know so if
someone articulates something that is
based on sure Knowledge from an A a
valid source nothing wrong with talking
about it but the key thing in the da is
when you speak about something make sure
you know what you're speaking about
because sometimes we talk about
Evolution but we have no clue we think
evolution is we came from monkeys and
that's actually not true by the way
Evolution means we have a common
ancestor with monkeys yeah not that we
came from monkeys yeah there's a big
difference yeah so the point is when we
know something we have when we speak
about something we have to make sure
that we know and the point about the Hig
bosome thing was was just to show that
it doesn't deny God it's just basically
they found the particle that makes up
the higs field and the Hig field is a
thing that was switched on in the early
universe that gave subatomic particles
Mass that's it it's very simple you
could even go and Google and Wikipedia
and you get the exactly the same answer
so the point was because some Muslims
were really scared because they used to
call it the God particle but it's not
you know what it used to be called the
godamn particle cuz they couldn't find
it and they'll be like God damn we can't
find the particle but but see what the
media does it popularized things in a
wrong way and they called it the God
particle but it has nothing to do with
God it just they they found a particle
that makes up the higs field it's called
the higs boson and the higs field was
switched on to give particles mass and
that doesn't deny God or even affirm it
really so the point of the video was to
show it makes no difference he's like
saying so what get over it pray you see
that was the point uh but you're right
and I think the reason people like me
have to do these videos and others like
abdurahim green and Adnan and others the
reason we do this although we don't have
an academic background in these things
but we're doing sure we get it from the
academics the reason we do it is because
we are the
Muslims I feel like a fraud I don't want
to be here you think I want to do da you
think I want to be here okay I do for
the reward but the point
is there are thousands of from just on
the corner in
newsbury alar Medina Mecca in all the
institutions that are thousands of in
this country million times more
qualified than anyone probably seeing
here including myself but where are
they where are they show me them show me
where are they against the atheists
against the secularists against the Tom
Hollands of the world when he did the
channel 4 documentary saying that
Muhammad didn't exist or there's no
history for him
where are they it has to take msk people
like us and we know we're msk we don't
hide that fact we're msk we're
illiterate compared to the but someone
has to stand
up who's standing and this this why I'm
thinking what have these institutions
done to these they gave them the
knowledge but where's the motivation
where's the Zeal and the is for the dean
what do they end up doing writing books
on
wo don't get me wrong wo is an essential
part of worship but it's not there's no
Gap in the knowledge how many forms of
woodoo do we have fine say four say five
say six but the books are available in
every language why do you have to
reinvent the whe there are so many more
important things that the um is facing
now it's a clash of AA now do you know
250,000 Muslims in Europe leave the dean
of Islam every
year 6,000 in Bradford 3,000 in Bradford
every year
who's standing up who's standing
up and we're all
responsible it's a collective thing you
know you don't have to be a professor to
give da you
know but we do our best and we do many
mistakes of course we do loads of
mistakes but as the say the one who's
never done mistake in the da before has
never done da before yeah so you know
I'm I'm sorry for using your question
just to say something else but I think
it's important because I think the most
important thing that we lack is not
knowledge because we have all the we
have everybody it's just the motivation
it's that seed that we plant in
someone's heart that gives them this the
Zeal for the dean to defend the dean of
Allah subhana and and and and to and to
Proclaim
it call to the way of Allah subhanahu wa
taala and anyone could do it the prophet
gave youa many years you don't geta from
any Muti the prophet said convey from me
even if it's one Ayah now the condition
is that you know the Ayah and you know
what you're talking about and that's it
so so may Allah make it easy for us and
you know may Allah motivate the people
that deserve to be here because I don't
deserve to be here I'm a fraud from that
perspective and I believe all the duat
where the organization that I'm from I
era believe that too but they're
thinking someone has to stand up and and
we want every want to that's why we want
to engage with communities and motivate
them so we see people become better much
better and much more articular and much
more effective and much more in line
with the Sunnah and if we always have
that mentality then Allah will make it
easy for us I think if it's not just
about us and ego and gallivanting the
world but it's about developing people
and making sure they're better than us
then maybe Allah will put Baraka in it
inshallah