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my dear brothers and
sisters so I want you to imagine if the
responsibility of keeping people
interested in Islam was on your
shoulders meaning that you are
responsible for not only bringing people
into the door but making sure that they
stay there and this was one of the very
first questions that was you know posed
to me I remember when uh I first had my
first public speaking training that as a
it is your responsibility to make sure
that you keep people interested in the
fold of Islam and you encourage them to
study and you encourage them to grow and
I believe it's very important to
understand this as a very you know
beginning concept that this is in
essence what you're doing when you
deliver a bad you're potentially turning
people away from Islam and that's why
being a is as a very very very huge
responsibility that needs to be taken
seriously and that's what I want to
begin with so now in terms of our
structure for tonight we're going to be
discussing three main topics topic
number one is the of the itself so in
terms of location number of people can
we have multiple hbas in the same place
and then what is you know your actual
dress etiquette the number two is the
actual of the itself what are the
minimum requirements that are required
for a to be valid then uh we'll be
covering um the preparation of the
itself how do you actually prepare your
and then we'll conclude with public
speaking
techniques so let us start off firstly
with the timing for Salat when are you
allowed to pray Salat J the scholars
differed on two opinions over here
opinion number one is of the majority
and they said the timing for Salat is
the same
as this was the opinion of the Malik the
and the shaf they said that when the
time for begins then you can also pray
jum the time time for is when the Sun
Passes uh the Meridian meaning that it
starts to decline you've reached midday
and is now going on into the second
portion of the day and that is what they
call the passing of the zenth okay or in
Arabic the Z uh so once that begins then
the time for jum is valid and this is
the opinion of the majority and this is
based upon the Hadith found inkari by
Salam he said that we used to pray J
with the messenger of Allah s wasam and
we would only begin doing so after the
Zenith of the sun opinion number two is
of the H and in the of itself they had a
difference of opinion in terms of how
far you know can this go and their
opinion was that you can actually
hold before the time for before the time
for Sal now the safest opinion inside
the he mentions is that you divide the
morning into six parts this is based
upon the Hadith of the messenger of
Allah sallallahu alaihi wasallam that
whoever goes early to jum then he's made
a sacrifice the earliest being you know
the one who shows up extremely early for
jum it's as if he sacrificed a camel the
one who shows up extremely late before
the just gets onto the M it's as if he
sacrificed an egg so this Hadith it
divides the morning into six parts and
they
said mentions that in the the correct
opinion is that you can start it in the
last sixth of the morning so you take
the time from f to the time to of Za and
then you divide it into six parts in
that last sixth that's when you can
actually start it but when you actually
look at the narrations themselves you
find that some of the sah
particularly he would start very very
early and you know I was just as I Was
preparing for this I was thinking about
this I was like if you do this in you
know in this day age people would go
crazy
so he once LED during the time of
so meaning you know the sun ra Rose a
little while after the sun rose he got
someone to give thean for Juma and they
prayed Juma early in the morning at like
if you wanted to give it a time it's
like 8:00 or 9:00 in the morning he had
someone give the aan and he was asking
why did you do this and he said I feared
for the people that they would be
overwhelmed by the heat if we did it at
the time uh closer to Z so obvious
ABD he wouldn't do this out of his own
accord but it is presumed that he
learned this from the messenger of Allah
s Al wasallam and there are other
narrations like the
of where musl he says that we prayed J
with the messenger of Allah sallallah
alaihi wasallam and then we took our
camels to go and rest and the sun had
not even reached its Zenith yet the sun
had not even reached its Zenith yet so
this proves that it was permissible to
pray Sal before the Zenith so now in
terms of what is the best case scenario
the best case scenario is that you
should pray Sal J after the time for
begins that is the best case scenario
you avoid all second case scenario if
you can't do that then try to do this at
least that start your before the time
for begins but in terms of the actual
Salah try to have that after and in the
case that that can't be done then you go
for pinion number three that you go for
the last sixth of the morning time and
then that is when you should hold uh the
Juma prayer and that is you know the
sequence that we should try to follow in
terms of the prayers number two in terms
of the location for Juma can we just
hold Juma in any random locations and
the answer to that is no so for example
you know uh sad myself and we have a
late night on Thursday and I was like
you know what guys we're going to be
really tired why don't we just hold Juma
at my house at 3:00 in the afternoon
when you guys wake up would that work no
it wouldn't the J Salah it has to be
held in the location that is known to
the people and as a place for jum right
so we can't be using people's houses
unless it's you know that's the place
where people pray Juma so when you go to
like certain like isolated areas maybe I
don't know like maybe like in the place
of Cochran you know they don't have a
Masid in Cochran to the best of my
knowledge so for Juma what someone might
say is hey you know what I'm going to
make my house available for jum so every
Juma we'll be praying Juma at so so and
so time you guys can come over here so
it has to be a publicly announced thing
with no restrictions to it we can't just
say you know only us three are going to
come and pray jum at my house it
wouldn't work like that so it has to be
a publicized location known for jum
itself in the Hani and it's a very
interesting opinion they said you're
only allowed holding one jum per City so
one jum per a city and it's meant to be
the biggest location that will
accommodate to the most amount of people
now the point of jum and this is what
people need to understand is that it's
not only just to come for the worship of
Allah subhana wa tala and to be reminded
but it's also for the sake of
congregating like that's why it's called
jum because it comes from congregation
it's a jam of the people right so you
want to try to gather as many people as
you can for jum and the more people that
you have the more blessed the Gathering
is now this leads us to what is the
absolute minimum requirement for the jum
to be valid what is the absolute minimum
requirement for jum to be valid and this
is when you study something very very
interesting in terms of how Scholars
derive rules of fi how Scholars derive
rules of f so if someone was to say you
know we need 300 people for Salat what
do you think the possible reasoning
behind that might
be what would a possible reason 300
people go
ahead yeah exactly they said battle of
bad these were the first group of
righteous people so you need 300 people
for the jum to be valid now this is what
we will call a far-fetched this is going
very very far in terms of this is not
what the Shar came to you know mandate
then you'll find other groups that say
40 and this is perhaps the most popular
opinion amongst the M they say it is 40
but what we want to look at is do we
have any indication from the messenger
of Allah sallallahu alaihi wasallam in
terms of what the minimum requirement is
that's what we want to look at and this
is something very interesting that you
guys should all know that when you look
at rulings of f what is you know the
logical sequence that you should be
partaking in when deriving a rule of f
not saying that you guys are deriving
rules of f but you should understand
where the scholars are coming from when
they do this so the first thing they
look at is that a term if it's given a
definition by the Shar then that is the
application that will be given priority
secondly if there's no you know
definition given by the Shar then it
goes according to the customs of the
people and if there's no set recognized
custom of the people then it goes to the
language so this is the general sequence
that will be followed so when it comes
to Salat you know the term J comes from
Jam as we as we mentioned already from
Gathering of the people so what does the
Sharia recognize as the jam of gathering
there's nothing defined in the Sharia
not from the Quran nor from the Sunnah
itself in terms of the does the have you
know a set recognition that this is what
we call a jam of people and the answer
to that is no then you go down to the
language and then you look in the
language that jam in the Arabic language
means one of two things either a group
of three or either a group of two right
this is what they differed over so you
know coming out of the opinions of the
in terms of the validity of J we'll say
that the safer opinion is three make
sure you have at least three people for
the jum to be valid for the jum to be
valid try not to have more than less
than that obviously you want to have as
many people as you can try not to have
less than that if you have two inshallah
the the Salah will still be valid but we
want to try to have more than that now
who can tell me the proof of why two
would be valid why would two be valid
based upon
what there's a linguistic side and a
side to this and then we'll get to your
question
inshallah why would two be
valid okay what happened they were there
for for a while right okay they were
there for a week they had to
perform there was only okay that's very
very farfetched that's what I'm looking
for though Allah if they pray J I don't
even know if Juma was legislated at that
time wam go ahead every uh listener
needs at least one speaker okay so
that's like the logical aspect of it
fantastic every speaker needs it one
listener fantastic but let's focus on
the Shar side of it why would we need
two people from the Shar side of
it okay I mean but I'm saying can you
think of a Hadith that substantiates
this this goes into the of Salah is it
inter with Witnesses
no the prophet
said when the time for Salah comes let
one of you give the aan and let the
other one lead the prayer right so the
prophet himself when he defined what a
jam was one person gives thean the other
one leads the prayer so this is the the
minimum requirement for the JAMA itself
for the JAMA itself Now we move on to
the last aspect of this and this is the
of the himself does he need to dress in
a certain way you know is there any
particular thing that he needs to do
does he need a cane and a staff when
he's the and I have some crazy stories
when it comes to this and the answer to
that is the general rule is that there
are no requirements until they can be
proven so the the K can dress any way
that he likes as long as it you know
meets the minimum requirements of the
Shar so his a is covered that's the
absolute minimum requirement if he's
able to wear something nice that is even
better now that's the the best thing to
do but he's not required to wear white
he's not required to wear
to hold a staff I remember when I was
giving in South Africa in Cape Town I
believe if I'm not mistaken you know um
I got onto the mum I started the and
this brother starts knocking at the
bottom of the mum I'm like what is this
guy doing and he has a staff in his hand
and he's beating the the mumb with the
staff and I was like what is this guy
doing I continued my anyways when I sat
down between the two hbas the brother
came and he like forced the staff into
my hand and I'm like what am I supposed
to do with this
and he's like it's you have to do this
and I I didn't want to get into debate
with the guy at that time so I held the
staff but I told him after your brother
the prophet used to do this because he
was old at that time he needed something
to support himself with it doesn't
become a sunah with of itself just
because the prophet did it but rather
proph had a reasoning behind it same
thing with the wearing of the Hat the
wearing of the hat is a tradition
amongst the scholars and the students of
knowledge IB AB Z you know one of the
great Maliki Scholars and one of the
great Scholars of Islam altogether he
has a book called Al J and in this he
mentions that the wearing of the hat is
not from the Sunnah of the messenger of
Allah sallallah alaihi wasallam but it
is from the tradition of the scholars
and the students of knowledge so in
order to retain and you know continue
that tradition it's good for the to
cover his head but it is not mandatory
it is not mandatory and a lot of people
think that you know the covering of the
head it has to be something like a kofy
like this or a white one like that but
going according to the customs of the
people and I'm not saying you try this
but even if a was just to wear like a
skull cap or a Kangle hat that might be
acceptable as well but I was going to
say even like a baseball cap you know
that that could be part of you know
continue on the tradition but just in
the in a modern day context I'm not
saying we should go that far but that
would meet the minimum requirement and I
actually share a really nasty story with
you now so uh this deals with covering
of the of the head the last time I went
to to Pakistan I was about like 14 15
years old and I went to the Masjid for
Salah and uh it was a really awkward
experience really really strange
experience so I'm praying uh my my Salah
when I'm entering the Masid just by
myself and obviously I'm not wearing any
head covering at that time so I'm going
going through the the rituals of Salah
and in Pakistan in the back of the Masid
they have this box of like shared hats
where if you don't have your own hat you
can come and take this hat and you know
use it while you're in the Masjid and
it's so unfortunate but these things are
filthy and disgusting really really bad
like never washed they smell like sweat
you know who knows what else is
happening in these hats so I'm praying
the Salah this brother sees me I'm not
covering my head he goes and he grabs a
hat and he puts it on my head the Hat
doesn't fit my head so what does he do
he goes and he gets the second hat he
thinks it's bigger tries that on my head
it's not working and I'm still praying
this whole time so I go down for come
back up the guy has a third hat third
hat still doesn't work and this guy's
getting annoyed and frustrated he's like
why are none of these hats fitting this
guy now this is the nasty part so I'm
sitting for tud now and what does this
guy start to do he takes a handkerchief
out of his pocket he takes his
handkerchief and he starts wrapping it
around my head now handkerchief you know
had it been clean unused I'd be no
problem it's parted after Salah was
finished there's like these brown stains
on the anch and I was like why are you
doing
this and you're in Salah and you're like
what can you do at that time so the
point being you know people go to
extremes you know and pushing these
Concepts we'll bring it back to a simple
principle that look if you want me to do
something please bring a proof for it
right we're not just going to blindly
follow Customs over here yes we believe
in Tradition we believe in customs but
to make it mandatory we need a proof for
it so the is not required to cover his
head and the is still
valid okay so that's in terms of the
dress code try to address your nicest if
possible but the general requirements of
covering the a as long as those are met
then the then the validity of you being
a is still valid so now let's get into
the components of the itself the
components of theba itself are very
simple theba is divided into two parts
the first and the second and the way
that they're divided is by the sitting
in between the sitting in between thank
you very
much and the first part has three
elements to it and the second part has
three elements to it the first part of
the consists of three things number one
praising Allah subhana wa tala number
two reminding the people to have ta and
number three sending Salah and Salam
upon the prophet so the first part of
the it has these three elements to it
praising Allah sending Salah and
reminding the people to have TAA sending
Salah and Salam upon the prophet that's
done in the first part of theba then you
will sit down and then you have the
second part of theba the second part of
the you will praise Allah send Salah and
Salam upon the prophet wasam and you'll
conclude your by making Dua you will
conclude your by making Dua those are
the minimum requirements that we should
try to achieve for now the ideal case
scenario is that the messenger of Allah
sallallahu alaih wasallam and this is
found in all the six books of Hadith
taught us something
called this is like the of necessity and
the messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi
wasallam used to use this in his jumas
used to use in his Eid prayers and
anytime there was like an important
announcement he would use this so for
the we would recommend that you know if
you're giving regularly memorize this
because this is from the of the
messenger of Allah sahu alaih wasallam
that he wouldn't leave off that he
wouldn't leave off and that's the famous
that begins
with till the end of it and the
messenger of used to remember mentioned
three verses of the Quran as well the
verse of Al IM vers of and verse of
and that is something that should be
tried to be done however in the
situation where you can't you or you you
don't have the time or you don't know
then in that situation you know minimum
requirements Right youve Said praised
Allah send Salah and Salam upon the
prophet and in English you can remind
the people to be conscious and have tawa
of Allah subhana Waal so what are the
minimum requirements for the first half
we mentioned three things Adan give me
one of them
mention Allah praise praising Allah
fantastic someone give me a second na go
ahead remind people to have ta remind
people to have tawa and what's the third
fantastic so now we go to the sitting
down in the sitting down you sit down
some of the scholars mentioned that you
should make at that time at least three
times when you sit down however there's
no proof from that if a person wants to
make it's fine if a person doesn't want
to make then that is also fine as well
now the second part of the
praise Allah send Salah and Salam upon
the prophet and conclude with Dua
conclude with Dua does the Dua need to
be in Arabic and the answer is no if you
know Arabic that's perfectly fine but
making Dua in English in this situation
is perfectly fine as well perfectly fine
as well now we actually get to the Salah
component itself the Salah component
itself the Salah component it does not
need to be led by the person who gave
the J so sometimes you may have a very
eloquent speaker he can deliver a
fantastic but he may not be qualified to
lead the Salah because perhaps his
pronunciation isn't that great and you
know he's not pronouncing the words of
the Quran properly there's nothing wrong
with someone else leading the Salah in
that situation okay now in the situation
that you know you're going to be a then
you want to make sure that you get you
know your Surah F down at least at least
make sure your is correct and you're not
making major mistakes in
it in terms of suras that should be
recited in the Salah
itself what is what the messenger of
used to recite
likewise is something that the messenger
of Allah sallahu alai wasallam used to
recite so try to recite those suras if
you can if you can't recite those suras
then anything from the Quran will be
sufficient anything from the Quran will
be sufficient now who had their hand
raised for a question I know you had a
question and you had a question go ahead
no go ahead well I we're dealing with
right now so I'll let you go first cuz
you raised during the f i forg question
you forgot your question that's why you
wanted me to ask him what was your
question there's also something when you
hear the recite before they sit down and
uh right before uh second right is that
a necessity so when the ends you'll
usually hear something
like no this is not a necessity that's
not a necessity to do so it's just
something that was was done by the of
the past and just continued on from
there but it's not a necessity to do so
but in terms of when you start up your
again then you should be begin with you
know praising Allah and sending Salam
and Salam upon the prophet in the second
part
yeah the you said you have to remind
people
of yeah what if you uh I've heard in
opinion that if you forget to remind
people that the
entire now that is an opinion that is an
opinion because it was not recorded that
the messenger ever gave a without
reminding the people to have tawa of
Allah I mean that's the thing there's no
direct proof for it that's why we won't
say it's invalid but we will say that
the is deficient that's what we will say
so can we say this is like an extreme
opinion an extreme opinion no that's
going farfetched okay sorry it's a
unpopular I would choose not to label it
I would say just try to remind the
people to have ta because the prophet
did so if you forget the is still valid
and we shouldn't make a big deal out of
it that's what I would say in last
question we move on couple years ago me
and my buddies we us go to spray in the
back of a
aut that account even though like you
were saying it has to be a place where
the people yeah so if it's a public
place and people know that you're
praying Juma there and Outsiders will
come and pray there then that's fine in
the back yeah I'm not going to give a
ruling to say it's invalid but I'll tell
you the requirements so what's done in
the past is done but I would suggest not
to to to do it again in the future
go
ahead are these rules applicable to just
a j or some other that you could
probably no so this is just for Juma
right now we're just discussing Juma
right
now for say for example we're in cauer
and there was no place for us to pray
Salah would we be allowed to if there
was two guys and we just really wanted
to pray jum pray J no you can't just
initiate it by yourself so this is
something that you know it's like a
public decision that the the Muslims
will come come together and say look
this is the decision that we're making
so traditionally it is the ruler or the
governor that will make that decision
but in a situation where we don't have
Muslim governers or rulers of localities
then in that situation we say the public
should come together and they should
decide on a location now we'll open up
the floor for general questions later I
just want to address some of the things
here one of the things um that I forgot
to mention is what are the what is the
ruling on multiple congregations the
rulings on multiple congregations the
general ruling is that you should not
have multiple congregations except kep
out a necessity and this is a necessity
that is recognized by the Shar so for
example you're in a place that cannot
fit you know the amount of Muslims that
you have so in a place like downtown you
know we have like three places that you
pray Juma in downtown and there's still
an overflow right we have two jumas over
here I think epor has two maybe even
three they have four epor has four and
then the other musah has at least two
the church has one you know all these
jumas going on and there's still not
enough place for people to pray so so
this is a recognized necessity by the
Shar so you are allowed to have multiple
you know jumas in that situation however
let us take another example you're at a
University campus and you know a lot of
students they have class during one jum
so they're like you know what let us
have a second jum at at the University
campus something like this would not be
recognized by the Shar we will tell the
students that you know defer your
classes at that time make sure you don't
take classes during Juma because you
actually get to choose your schedule
it's not as if those classes are forced
upon you so to have multiple jumas just
because students can't attend this would
not be a valid reason however if there's
not enough space for people to pray then
having multiple jumas would be
acceptable so that was something I I
forgot to mention in the previous
section now getting back to the itself
the with itself we mentioned the two
parts first part has three uh praise
Allah send Salah and Salam remind people
to have tawa sit down and then the
second part has three as well praise
Allah send Salah and Salam and make Dua
and then you go on to the Salah the last
thing I'll mention is the issue of thean
and the thean and the so for J we say
that there are two aans if it is done
properly and if it is not done properly
then there should only be one aan what
does that mean exactly so during the
time
of as the um continued to grow having
onean was not sufficient in the sense
that if they thean only from the M then
only the people close to the Masid would
hear it
so he said you know what we're going to
have one aan inside of the marketplace
and then we will have the second aan
inside of the Masjid so the first aan is
actually done before the time of jum by
about an hour or so and it's done in a
public space it's not done in the side
of the Masid that is when you should
have two adans for jum in the case that
you're praying inside of the Masid and
you're not giving aan in the public
space then there should only be one aan
in that situation and that is after the
says you give the and then the he starts
his once the concludes his you give the
and then you start the Salah then you
start the Salah and then this will be
the last point that I mentioned
pertaining to theba and that is does the
have to be in Arabic does the have to be
in Arabic and the answer to that is no
the does not have to be in Arabic but
rather Allah subhana T he tells us in
the Quran that Messengers were sent to
speak to the people in their own
language so the should be in the
language that people can relate to and
people will understand so that's
something that's very important to keep
in mind however what should be the
minimum requirements the minimum
requirement is at least keep your aat
that you mention in Arabic so if you're
going to quote aat quote those aat in
Arabic first and then then mention the
translation but rather do not give you
know verses without knowing the Arabic
or mentioning the Arabic to it that's
the absolute minimum you want to go even
higher than that then even the Hadith
that you mention try to mention them in
Arabic first and then mention them in
English as well so that's in terms of
the now we're going to go on to the
second section of preparing your so does
anyone have any F related questions any
F related questions how did the how did
the the people who held the popular
opinion of 40 people as a minimum number
yeah what was their proof just if I'm
not mistaken I believe it
was that had 40 people and these are the
people you know Allah mentions that
Allah was pleased with these people so
this is where the number 40 came
from I'm not 100% sure though go ahead
go ahead yeah so in take coming back to
Alberta in Calgary or going to ban yeah
there's a place called bison cour has
been assigned as a Juma place by MCC and
uh you know people who go to B like
instead of missing their Juma they tend
to go there and have a fo right so is
that so you're saying that that is not
allow it's not valid or have the people
of bam decided that I mean I'm not sure
if there are any Muslims that actually
live in bam they don't but I have
personally gone there and prayed with
people so the group of people that are
there they're all Travelers they're all
travelers they they have come to bank
and there's no yeah I would say that not
like not only is this not allowed but
this falls into the realm of innovation
because for the traveler there is no jum
there is no jum right and that is why
there's not a single Hadith that the
prophet prayed jum while traveling right
not a single incident of this happening
because the general rule is that when
you're traveling Allah has given you
concessions from those concessions is
that you're not required to pray Juma
right so the fact that Prophet never did
it while he had the ability to shows us
that this is something that we should
not be doing as well so it is
permissible for a to go and deliver a to
a congregation that needs to pray Juma
but for travelers to get together and
establish Juma when they don't have to
this could possibly be considered
Innovation and it's better not to
however if there are people that live in
B and you know we should confirm this
then yes they have to pray jum they can
establish their own Juma and we can
attend that but for us to go out of our
way to travel and then arrange a for
travelers this is not something valid
go ahead uh confirm there are two Muslim
families that I know of that live in
okay uh and when you say that there is
no J for travelers yeah for instance uh
me and uh my friend here right uh work
uh place called Morley it's around 40
minutes Drive outside Calgary right 55
km right uh it's a Native Reserve there
is no M right right everyone else is
either mush or Christian right there
uhuh so can we not pray like so do you
do this journey on a regular basis uh we
like they're 4 days on four days off
yeah so that's considered regular so you
wouldn't even be combining your prayers
there because it doesn't meet the
requirements the Comming your prayer
requirements are is that it should be
considered travel according to the Shar
travel according to the Sharia comes by
one of two ways either the minimum
distance of 80 plus kilm or according to
the out of the people if you're
considered a travel meaning that you
make special preparations for this
journey so if you're doing 4 days on 4
days off you wouldn't be considered a
traveler in this situation so in that
situation you are required to pray Juma
there right so in that situation if
there's a group of Muslims that you can
get together then you should establish
Juma there that's what you should do
what if there's no group it's just you
then you need to find a new job I
actually worked at at the Indian reserve
for months right I was lucky to get the
day off on Friday or half day off to
come back to Southwest mid right but I
was lucky I don't know if everybody has
that yeah so in that situation try to
find a new job try to find a new job if
you can because if there's no group of
Muslims there then in that situation
there's like four or five Muslims then
yeah I would say go ahead and establish
the Juma and you know let the people
know that we're praying Juma here make
it like a public thing so even if the
non-muslims want to come and attend the
Juma you know let them come
inshallah my second
yeah
now we get into preparing your itself or
did we have another question go ahead
what
about usually mention their
names so this is something
that used to do and some of the the
after him and this was just to you know
show that there's a high reverence of
these great companions in Islam so when
people started cursing the companions
the would get onto the m and praise the
companions to repel that that that evil
thing so we won't say it's a Sunnah but
if there's like a trend in the community
where people are like saying bad things
about the sahab then there's nothing
wrong with doing that on the m and
praising the
the in terms of prayer you have a
question as well well um my question is
that I traveled to uh Brooks like a
couple weeks ago and it was doing like
Thursday so we kind of stayed over till
Friday right and there's a there's a m
there and everything and they have um is
that like am I allowed to go or is it
like yeah you're allowed to go you're
allowed to go it's fine you're allowed
to go and pray Juma there uh but in that
situation you cannot combine your
prayers so you pray jum and then you
have to pray ass at its proper time
you're not going to combine ass with jum
my issue is people who travel for the
sake of establishing Juma so if everyone
in the congregation is a traveler you
don't give Juma you just pray and that's
what you should do so now in terms of
preparing the preparing the I would say
one of the most important rules I don't
want to say the most important rule but
one of the most important rules is the
issue of relevancy as a you have to be
relevant to your people you cannot be
speaking about things that are not
relevant to them right so when you speak
about like Pakistani Politics on your
member and you have like a bunch of
converts from Canada as your
congregation it doesn't work right and
that's when you turn people away from
Islam and they're like you know there's
no point attending Juma my goes down by
attending Juma you hear those sort of
comments and that is because the the is
not relevant so I would say you have to
keep the extremely extremely relevant
now how do you keep the relevant these
are three things to keep in mind number
one speaking about current events right
so right now the situation inaz is going
on speak about the situation inaz and
what we can do to help the people so you
can speak about current events number
two speak about something that you are
passionate about so there's a particular
Islamic subject that you're passionate
about that you know that you can deliver
well go ahead and speak about that
subject number three and this is like
the The Insider tip you know those weeks
where there's nothing going on in the
news I'm like I don't feel passionate
about anything this week what should I
do the secret tip is you open up and you
just take one of the chapters of and
there IM has brought some of the ayat
he's brought relevant Hadith for you and
he's like prepared the for you so you
can just you put it all together and put
your together like that and that's like
the spiritual application so in that
situation you're addressing the
spiritual needs of the people which is
what the people need so even if you're
speaking about current Day events or
something that you're passionate about
make sure that there's a spiritual
element to it because this is once a
week where people who might not even
pray are coming to hear what you have to
say so you need to connect them to Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala that is of the
utmost
importance now in terms of the
preparation of theba there's actually a
form formula that I use that I'll share
with you guys each and every person can
come up with their own formula but this
is something that I found that works
really well for me and this is what we
call the ab B CDE e of the so the a is
the captivating anecdote captivating
anecdote and a captivating anecdote
starts off with one of three things
either a
story either a question or either a joke
these are the three things that a
captivating anecdote will be begin with
and the captivating anecdote the purpose
behind this is to grab the person's
attention so if a person has really
beautiful recitation then a person can
start off with recitation of the Quran
and you grab the person's attention and
you can start your there so that's what
you want to use now you'll notice that I
mentioned joke is a person allowed to
start off the with a joke and we'll go
back to our principle is that the
general principle is that this door is
open until we have a specific proof to
prove otherwise
so if your joke is going to grab the
attention of the people we say it is
permissible to use that group but
understand that there will be
consequences of that because your
audience may not be used to this and
accustomed to this you know I've heard
about K now using PowerPoint
presentations in their Juma right and to
be honest with this is the way you know
the world is moving forward right so if
a PowerPoint presentation is going to
help the people retain their attention
then this is something permissible to
use because there's nothing the Shar to
come and prohibit this a person come
might and say how about theith of Ja
that the prophet face used to turn red
when he used to deliver theba and we'll
say yes that is true certain you will
get angry you will get upset and you
know maybe that's when you you give a
very fiery passionate you're speaking
you don't start off with the joke right
that' be insensitive but you're speaking
about something else you're speaking
about you know the etiquette of a
husband and wife you can start off with
a joke in there's no problem but be
prepared for the consequences that your
audience might not be used to it there
might be a backlash so make sure you
know your audience really really well
before you try to do something like that
so that is the captivating anecdote you
use something to grab the attention of
the people either a story a joke
whatever you can to grab their attention
you have beautiful recitation you can go
ahead and use that number two you right
after you get to their attention you
tell the people what you're going to be
discussing the B is what is the basic
problem that we will be addressing in
this kba so today we're going to be
speaking about charity so the story that
you mentioned the Ayah that you
mentioned as your captivating anecdote
that should be related to charity that's
how the two will tie in together and
then you solidify the subject matter in
their head number three conceptualize
the solution conceptualize the solution
you mentioned a problem now you need to
give them solutions to this as a you
can't just mention the problem you know
we're an um that's very lazy with our
Salah and everyone feels bad yeah you
know what I haven't been doing my Salah
you can't leave them hanging like that
but rather now you have to give them a
solution and the solution I would
suggest try to keep it Point based so
three to five points in terms of what
your solution is inshallah is very
effective three to five points maximum
you go over five points you're going to
lose your audience and not going to
retain it try to keep it to three and
that's perfect people are able to me to
remember three points in terms of that
number four this is very very crucial in
terms of determining a powerful versus
just an average regular and that is the
dramatic details so when you're telling
a story when you're translating a verse
when you know you're just speaking in
general try to mention as many dramatic
details as you can so you're talking
about you know giving charity you can
simply say you know brothers and sisters
Islam has legislated that we have to
give her zakat it's
2.5% and this is something that is
obligatory upon every Muslim you've
conveyed the message right that's it's
done it's perfect but you can mention my
dear brothers and sisters I want you to
imagine you just passed away and you're
feeling regret what is the regret you're
feeling Allah subhana wa T tells us
about that regret that regret will be
that I wish I could come back to this
world and spend some more money so why
wait till that regret and give your
zakat now before it's too late so you
add dramatic details you get the people
emotionally involved and that's what's
going to make a successful kba versus
just your average Medi mediocre kba so
the D is the dramatic details and then
we get to the E which is the ending the
powerful conclusion that you want to
come with and the ending will have two
things in it number one is you summarize
yourba so you the average I would say
should be between 15 to 20 minutes it
shouldn't be longer than that you speak
longer than that you're boring the
people they're going to forget most of
it at that point anyways and you're just
rambling on for no reason the prophet
used to keep hisas very very short and
his Salah long now I want you to think
about this by Salah being
long how long is that going to take you
to recite even if you elongated it like
you know Abdul Bas sty in your Salah 10
minutes 15 minutes that means the Salah
was longer than the your should not be
longer than that right so now in our
situation where you know people don't
understand the Arabic language did not
as moved by the Quran so I would say
elongate the a bit more keep your Salah
you know a relatively long size but to
make your hbas longer than 20 minutes
you're doing a disservice to the
community you're doing a disservice to
the community so at the end of yourba
summarize the points that you covered
right you know what was the point of the
what was the problem what were the
solutions likewise powerful endings
always conclude with action points your
it is imperative that you leave with
action points sometimes you may not find
you know relevant action points in yourb
but try to find them anyways so for
example you're addressing the weakness
of Im so action points at the end of the
brothers and sisters you know what let
us try to read one page of the Quran per
day right just a simple action pointed
like that it doesn't necessarily address
you know the issue of IM itself but at
least you've given them something to do
so now that when they leave your they're
like you know what the gave us this
advice let me try to read one page of
Quran per day we don't realize this
people really are like sheep if you
don't tell them to do something they're
not going to do it and that is the role
of the that he gives them action points
to do so that people will go on and take
care of those action points as well so
those are the ab b c d and e who can
remind me what the ab C D and E
are what did the a stand for go ahead
fantastic what is the
B basic problem fantastic what is the c
solution conceptualizing the solution
what is the
D dramatic details and E go ahead ending
the ending powerful ending so those are
the a b c d and e of the this is not set
in stone this is what I use if you have
your own techniques that you can come up
with and insh you will come up with them
as you get experience and you'll
naturally you know develop as a speaker
now let me conclude in terms of tips for
public speaking tip number one success
in public speaking comes from Allah
subhah wa ta'ala alone right M he made
Dua for this to Allah subhana wa tala
right inah he tells us that M he
supplicated
with the last two points loosen the the
knots for my tongue and let the people
understand what I'm trying to say right
so mam is teaching us a very valuable
lesson that the way that you deliver
your and people understanding the and
appreciating it is from Allah subhanahu
wa taala alone so if someone ever tells
you that you know Mah brother that was
an amazing never ever think that you
know what that is from my doing never
it's only from the doing of Allah
subhanahu wa'ta'ala and that is why it's
very important to keep your intentions
in check number two always always
prepare you know people think that you
know I've gone into the the habit of
giving a I can wake up you know in my
pajamas change my clothes and show up on
the mum it doesn't work like that people
are able to tell when you deliver a good
and a bad when you're prepared and when
you're not prepared and your preparation
isn't for the sake of the people but
it's a preparation for Allah because
this is an right so prepare as much as
you can you know you're going to be
giving the 3 weeks from now start
preparing 3 weeks from now rather than
preparing on the Thursday night before
and you're like you know IM I'm giving
tomor what should I speak about don't do
that it's a disservice to the community
and it's showing that you're not
fulfilling your responsibility and Trust
to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
number three document and record in
terms of documenting yourb what I mean
by this is type up your cbas right type
them up keep them saved I've created a
Gmail account for myself called
lectures. n@ gmail.com every you know
major lecture that I give or talk that I
give I type it up I save it and I send
it to myself in case I ever need to uh
reuse it again or number two is that the
material is there and I can add to that
material so next time I'm giving a talk
on the same topic I have that material
ready and I can add to it the more
research that I do so that's in terms of
documenting in terms of recording this
also serves uh two purposes number one
is that when you get into the public
Spotlight people are going to accuse you
of saying things IM you said this you
said this and you'll be like no I didn't
say that you have your recording as
proof so make sure your hbas are
recording are recorded so that there's
you know no one can ever accuse you of
anything and you're in the clear at all
times number two the only way that you
will improve is by feedback right so
listen to your hbas yourself share it
with your close friends that you really
really trust and get them to give you
feedback on yourba you do this
you'll continue to develop as a speaker
and when it comes to criticism as a you
have to understand there's no on the
planet that gives killerb every week
every has an off week you will make
mistakes you will you know just have a
bad week and you need to be prepared for
that so when people say you know what I
I think your stunk don't take that to
heart right it just means next week try
even harder prepare even more you know
ask Allah subhana tal for more help and
inshallah you will deliver a
good number four overcoming fear people
Fear public speaking more than they fear
death itself can you imagine that when
you look at the things people are afraid
of number one on that list is getting in
front of people and speaking and they
fear this more than dying Subhan Allah
this is just a general study that was
done so now how do you get over the fear
of public speaking now the only thing
that I can mention over here is two
things number one is sincerity so always
rechecking your intention Are you
delivering this for the people or Are
you delivering it for the sake of Allah
subhana waala when you're delivering it
purely for the sake of Allah you're not
going to fear anyone other than Allah
subhanahu waala number two is that your
first time as sincere as you're going to
be you will be afraid afraid even though
there might be just like two people in
the audience you're like how are you
going to pull this off in that situation
you need to understand that this is a
natural fear the first time you're
driving the first time you're riding a
bike that fear is going to be there you
give it you do it a second time a third
time that fear will naturally go away I
remember the first time I gave a to a
big audience know I've been giving hbas
in high school and in colleges you know
since I was in that in that stage but in
my first year of Madina coming back um
from Arabic Institute I was asked to
give a in m in Montreal Mah it's like
four floors and you can fit like 5,000
people in it and I was like how am I
going to deliver
this and you know what I was like let me
prepare I typed up my notes have
everything prepared I show up on the
m i sayam alikum I sit down and I made a
mistake at that time I I Enga like
gauged my audience so I'm looking at the
floor above me the second floor the
third flooor and there's a floor beneath
me which I can't even see that was a big
mistake I shouldn't have done that but
as soon as the Adan is finished I stand
up and no words are coming out of my
mouth and you can see my knees shaking
like my knees are literally shaking and
no words are coming out till the IM of
the Masid he like in the he's like don't
worry you'll be okay just you know say B
and begin and for about 7 minutes you
know 7 minutes I've gone by I'm standing
there everyone's looking at me nothing's
happening and I was like okay I got to
pull this off and I just read myba no
engagement whatsoever just read theba
didn't look at the people whatsoever and
I was like let's just get this over with
and that's how my first you know major
went now you move you know I would say
what is that maybe 11 years down the
line uh I get invited to Malaysia uh the
Islamic University there and you have
something like 16,000 people you know
that are there and rather than than you
know getting onto the mumb and this is
interesting space the mum had like 100
steps going up it's was like really
really high rather than getting excited
H sorry rather than getting nervous
about giving the I'm actually excited
the first time around I was like wow you
know Allah has given me such an
opportunity to address 15,000 people
these are like students of knowledge
that in are going to become duat in
their countries that was like a big
honor and privilege and now that fear is
no longer there because you have the
practice right and you're accustomed to
doing this so that fear the first time
is going to be there that's natural and
realize that the more you do it the less
that that fear will be
around the last point I'll conclude with
having the highest standard possible for
yourself in delivering your cbas right
it's not a competition between you and
other but it's a competition in terms of
you pleasing Allah subhanahu wa taala
how much can you please Allah subhah wa
ta'ala right and this will be seen by
you know how engaged the audience is how
much action they're willing to take from
your and in terms of you know having a
higher standard for yourself there's
nothing in the sh that prevents us from
holding papers and holding notes while
we're giving hbas but I would suggest in
terms of having a higher standard if you
really want to deliver an effective do
it handsfree right you shouldn't be
holding anything in your hands memorize
yourba have it down packed and that is
how you deliver so you prepare seek
Allah's help and then you go and give a
you know that's going to change the
world that's the attitude that you come
with I'm coming to deliver this cuz I'm
going to change the world with this hold
a higher standard for yourself and
deliver like the best
possible and we'll open up the force for
Q&A now
inshallah go ahead so what about having
some flash cards or something so like I
said that's perfectly fine in your first
P couple ofas I would actually suggest
that have flashcards with you have notes
with you but as you progress as a get
rid of it memorize your talks right and
you know go out and deliver
that y so have a practice session with
you oneon-one
for I've never done that but I would say
rather than using myself just get a
group of of friends together right just
get a group of friends together you know
how what how do you feel about this idea
one of the most difficult aspects of
giving a is finding relevant examples so
examples that people can relate to so
when you come up with an example ask
group of people okay can you relate to
this example they're like no I don't
understand what you're trying to say how
does this relate to the topic try to run
those ideas off of them so it's not just
about delivery but it's running ideas
off of them and she do this with your
close group of friends inshallah and I
think there's a lot of people here that
if you're interested in you know
practicing your I'm sure they they'd
love to help you out and give feedback
inshallah and I'll try to attend as many
of those as we can inshallah
with any other questions go ahead in
terms of topic is it better just stay
away from issues and just concate on
issues
or fantastic so in terms of detailed
issues I would say try to stay away from
them as much as possible unless there's
a necessity to do so so for example
you've been coming to the Masid every
week and you notice that people are
always talking in the J or they're
giving salams to one another during the
J so you dedicate one of yourb to the
etiquette of Salat that's perfectly fine
but in order to you know but using the
to teach them or to teach them that's
not what you what you should be doing
the general rule is you're using the to
increase the of the people and to remind
them and you should only be teaching
unless there's like a relevant issue or
needs to do so at that
time have good questions yeah first you
spoke about uh having two in one
location but you didn't speak about the
same doing the twice are they allowed to
lead twice so what's what's the deal the
other question is if the when when the
sits down in the middle of the
can I just address the first question
first and then yes yeah so in terms of
can the same give the twice there's no
wrong with giving twice so the same
can't give the the issue is with the
Salah what should he do in that
situation so some of the they allowed
the Imam to have a different intention
uh besides what the followers have and
some of the imams they said no that's
not allowed so to be safer in the
situation it's always better if you have
someone else lead the Salah if it's
possible in the situation that you can't
and you have to leave the Salah both
times then I would say it is upon the IM
to make his intentions different so uh
I'll tell you what we do at the IC so we
do one jum before the time for and one
jum after the time for so the the first
Juma that the gives he makes the
intention as just as na prayers so he's
reading the leading the people in N
prayers and then the second Juma that
comes in after the time for to avoid all
the that is the intention for jum itself
and that's what we usually do
now second question second question
is sits down yeah so you mentioned that
there's an opinion that they do stuff
there was no evidence for that right so
would it be I mean if if the has notes
yeah he's not using them but they're
there and in the break he just wanted to
G over whatever he wanted that be that's
perfectly fine in that break you know a
lot of the times you may even want to
drink water you're like you know I'm
feeling really thirsty you can drink
water you can do whatever you want at
that time that's not our problem
inshallah go ahead
yeah prayed twice yeah that was mu and
that wasn't for that was for is so he'
pray is with the messenger of allaham
then he'd go back to his people he would
have the intention of Na prayers and the
people behind him would be praying Isa
and that's what the scholars use that is
permissible for the IM to have a
different intention uh than the people
praying behind him but some of the imams
they didn't allow that they said this
was something you exclusive to and that
you know the IM and the people behind
him should have the same
intention and
then so that's the Hadith of uh of the
sahab he entered late after the Salah
was finished and the messenger of asked
him you know who's going to give this
companion Sak right in terms of of
praying with him so there is that Hadith
but I would say apply that very very
selectively so for example if someone's
praying their Sunnah prayers they want
to Pray by themselves they don't want to
be disturbed however if you know that
the person is praying their far the
prayers then you can join in and there's
no problem with that but in terms of the
Sunnah prayers just because you haven't
prayed your father and they're praying
their Sunnah it doesn't mean you should
join them in fact when people are
praying their sunnas just leave them
alone that's the the general
rule any other questions go
ahead
yeah no
problem I see that he would be
distracted because the is already
talking so there is no
whats is it
permissible yeah so the according to the
majority of Scholars is sunah it's not
something mandatory to do so a person
chooses to sit down that's perfectly
fine inshallah however if he comes in
you know and there're still he's just
doing the at that time he can quickly
pray two raas and start and that's the
better thing to do
inshallah top
yeah we are living very life so
is very specific subject to that we uh
people don't don't get benefits from it
right and the problem that we have is we
have a lot of I can at least talk for
myself disease in the heart right and
the Heart gets Rusty I know that 1 hour
per week is not enough but at least if
that hour can get you connected then it
will open your appetite to go
and in your own right no I mentioned
that the importance of being relevant to
the people that's very go ahead
um being held multiple times in one
ipity is there not uh is this not
against the general
rule I mean like there I've heard of
opion that not have
without the authorization of
right's that you canot have in one city
right right there actually as you know
many opinions what opinion applies so it
all goes back to the same same thing in
terms of if someone's going to stipulate
if someone's going to stipulate
something then they need to mention the
proof for it so if they're saying you
can only have one Juma per City or one
Juma per locality we will say where's
the proof for
that that's because there wasn't a need
for it right and there was you know a
set system in that place already but in
the situation where there is no set
system you know that doesn't apply so as
the um grew just because there was a and
b that doesn't mean that there wasn't in
sham right so that's one but according
to the needs of the people so whatever
meets the needs of the people that's
what should be done
inshallah so I think the for question no
no problem I mean I thought no one else
had questions I have until M so we have
another eight minutes to go inshallah
the couple that you mentioned at the
beginning about so the one from when he
said they would pray with the prophet
and they will go back to
their so the the two Hadith that I
mentioned are both inah Muslim the
statement of abdah that's from
the so the one in Muslim Muslim actually
mentions proof for both opinions the
proof for before Z and the proof for
after he was very very strict in that J
can only be after the for after Z so
when you look at his commentary on S
Muslim he does like a a very forceful
job in saying you know this was like a
once in a while incident and not a
general rule and that's when it should
be implemented when there's a great
necessity for it and as a general it
shouldn't be applied
yeah yeah we'll conclude with
that