dying but I also think they should be
committed to some study I mean I believe
you know it's not the idea of maybe
becoming an academic or becoming a
scholar but we should be maintained to
growth to intellectual growth because I
really don't see any excuse for that we
should all be committed to some people
should commit themselves to learning the
Quran to to reciting it to thinking
about it to listening to what the the
scholars say about it and committed to
going to the Masjid you know and
partaking in circles that are beneficial
right that are imparting knowledge and
other than that I think we need to look
at areas we need people
in media we need we need people
journalists we need artists quite
literally I mean you know art is is an
essential element of civilization and
the Muslims the prophets are licensed
all stood in the light Demeter we are
but Jenna Allah is beautiful and he
loves beauty and one of the beauties of
Islamic civilization is that even the
Bedouin have have these you know they
make beautiful rugs they have beautiful
pillows the you know in Mauritania I
always like to mention you know they
take these Bic pens these plastic pens
they take off the plastic and they they
make their own beautiful metal cases
because they think it's the pen well
none of them is photo and you know a lot
swears by the pen I've never been kind
of that it should be honored and they
just you know they don't think that the
plastic is really befitting and that is
some aesthetic understanding that that
really real automatic the Navy says that
you know one of the essential elements
of civilization is the aesthetic aspects
and he said one of the proofs of the the
extraordinary level of of loss of our of
our civilization is that we you know we
ornament our houses with plastic
calligraphed
plastic cups and things like that that
have been made in some factory in china
by non-muslims or something like that
and and we don't respect the so I think
we need calligraphers you know we need
people to go and learn calligraphy
that's not an academic task but it's a
beautiful and wonderful and as a means
of Dawa it's a path for sometimes I mean
Western I can't argue with the sonic art
you can argue with Ahmed Deedat pamphlet
mr. Brown does that knee other wrong
but if you present him with a carpet
from a little below zero it should
attachment a lot like he has to accept
it on something that accurate but to do
that what I produce that exactly I mean
what you know when I went to Grenada
seeing the alhambra i think this is
barbarians can't do this
you know the heavy barbarians cannot
produce what these people produced and
this is a proof against all their claims
about you know this know that but we we
have to stop living on the glories of
the past you know as an OMA we have to
stop pointing to the past like you know
the and reducing certificate I thought
oh that's a doodle I need a fun little
bandana that's a tea these are our
traces they indicate who we were so look
after we're gone at what we left behind
and this is what we have an only have to
ask ourselves can we say this to the
generations that are gonna follow us
here's what we've left behind look at
our traces and see who we are what what
what are what you know what is it
telling the future generations about who
we want look at our pamphlets we don't
even have academic we've become an Ummah
of pamphleteers you know everybody
writes these pamphlets what is Islam
you know why you shouldn't move your
finger in the prayer why you should hold
your hands here as opposed you know
where the great works where are the
great intellectual achievements where
are the artistic achievements you know
even clothes have become it's true I'm
sure that one of them is damning
indictment one could make of the modern
Islamic revival this ideologists and I'm
not talking about all the individuals
who qualify but the Gen
parameters which they set up for
themselves is the fact that really for
the first time in Islamic history we
have a mass movement with no cultural
riches to it rather look at what the
Sahaba produced within a hundred years
there was the Dome of the rock in
Jerusalem one of the great monuments of
human civilization there are the cellar
more so a part of the Senate the
must-haves that they wrote that
architecture the art extraordinary
poetry that athlete other or easy enough
creativity from the human spirit because
of the human spirit is truly enlightened
by religion it date has to flow up like
light from the Sun it has to make a
really beautiful but where is the calm
feel very nice honor that goes with the
modernist I know you're going to a
mosque now and and Muslims that we've
been transmogrified into just these hot
creatures I mean even our clothes don't
you know one of the things about western
clothes I mean they're they're they're
really kind of ugly clothes in my
perspective I mean I thought that before
I was Muslim Muslim clothes are
beautiful they really they're they're
they're heavy for clothes that's what I
like to call them they're highly for
clothes that they honor many Adam but
one of the things about I mean at least
a lot of Western people know how to wear
western clothes one of the things you
find Muslim people they you know they
don't even they look like caricatures
did you take a Sudanese villager out of
his group and tear them and put him into
what Western plates you can find and
it's all suddenly panic sort of yeah
guest workers yes rather than these
noble people with Subhan Allah there's a
hadith and very happy relates that has
some weakness in it but but I think in
historically it's fascinating he said
that I'm not a multi generator
either was i oh ha what Aloha is zoom
that the turbines are the Crown's of the
Arab people and when they take them off
Allah will take away their dignity and
and it's fascinating that you can see
that the 10z mass in the 1850s I ain't
you're much more knowledgeable about
this in iron but when one of the things
that they did was literally get the
turbines off the oume and this is a
really major turning point
in the in the beginning of the decline
and disintegration of the the Muslim
power and dignity in physical change
people's outward form it has an effect
on you well absolutely believe in the
intermingling of rebellion this very
often my father and I I'd do something
to your outward it affect your spirit if
you just details there it will manifest
on the hour
absolutely their survival it's very true
anyway and thank you very much for your
time I hope ten times more than you have
well it's you know I one of the reasons
that I was excited about coming here and
I'm not just you know this isn't just
some weed a minute but I really was
looking forward to seeing you I think
that the work that you're doing is
you're just one of the few scholars
right now that's that's just doing work
of such a high caliber that I think it's
that there's nothing I just hope that
Allah will exceptional times in it I
love it so and I really hope that that
more people begin to take this task upon
themselves of presenting Islam to to the
West I think that you know just to
finish this this off I think
the Europeans and the Americans are at
such a deep crisis right now they really
are they're aware of it they're
intellectuals are aware of it they're
there they're the writings are shouting
it out you know Thoreau said most people
live lives of quiet desperation the
desperation is no longer quiet
it's literally people are shouting it at
the top of their lungs and this long
took the most savage bloody people
people that could bury their daughters
alive people that could eat the livers
of their their enemies you know on the
battlefield a woman that can do that it
took those people and transformed them
into these you know these deeply human
compassionate people that had a thirst
for knowledge for EM and we reviewed
with the love of God that they literally
went and they transformed the world and
and we cannot you know the anglo-saxons
have a horrific history you know of what
they've done to the world the havoc that
they wreaked upon the world but they are
recipients of the mercy of Allah just
like anybody else the French we know
what they did to the Muslims but we also
know what the mushrikeen did to the
prophet sallallaahu so no and he took
this long to them he gave it to them and
they became the people that literally
went out and transformed the world and I
think Allah in his deep and infinite
wisdom has placed the Muslims in the
heart of the Western world and this has
happened historically before the
Christians were thrust into the heart of
the Roman Empire and they transformed it
they really did they transformed it and
that their enemies who had persecuted
them for three centuries adopted their
religion and
and I don't see why it can't happen
again
I mean I just I believe in the power of
Allah and I believe in the
transformative message of Islam and I
and I really believe that this is deenal
Haq that that people will recognize the
truth of it we have massive amount of
work ahead of us you know you're fully
aware of that and I'm aware of it and I
just we don't have time to bicker you
know we don't have time to get in petty
confrontations with each other this is a
time where we really have to unite and
and and and do some serious jihad and HT
HOD and do some thicker thicker and
sugar and take this Deen out to the
people you know I think they're thirsty
for the herbs the earth is thirsty for
it you know this earth wants to be
worshipped on it doesn't want that
and the earth is thirsty for and we need
to heal the earth as well not just the
people on it but the earth is suffering
from our gross injustice is so I hope
inshallah you know the people hearing
this you know we'll just think about
these things and then and I hope and
shallowed there's some benefit money one
of my favorite verses in the Quran and
all of the Quran is really my favorite
verses but and the Dean yes Tamera they
just Amira now called a theater owner a
son of those who listen to what's said
and they follow the best of it so in
Shaba ask allah subhana wa qarna that
this conversation is some benefit and
people can derive some benefit meaning
from it and take what's useful from it
and discard what's not something that is
like alchemy