their seriousness of their Pakistan eNOS
of the know we inculcate in our youth a
sense of their Islam that Islam is
paramount and that were one OMA we're a
body and it doesn't say we all have to
become like each other no it honors
cultures Islam honors people's
traditions it honors their cultures the
Sudanese have a beautiful culture you go
and you see things that you don't see in
other places if you go to Egypt then you
eat I'm redeemed for the iftar they
don't have that in Sudan but Sudanese
like it when they go to Egypt for iftar
maybe they have it do they have I'm
gonna dine in Sudan they got it from
Egypt you see so so good things come
from culture you see you go and you know
they like it and they bring it back
Islam just gets rid of the dirt it's
like if you have a big feast and you go
in and in the middle there's a pig and
all around it are good things fruits and
all these things all Islam does is it
takes the pig out it says this is
harmful throws it away but everything
else is cool Allah shareable and that's
what Islam does with culture it comes
into a place and it looks there's good
things in Canadian culture not
everything is bad most thing but not
everything so there are things that
Islam if it came here it would preserve
them it would honor them and it would
say no there's nothing wrong with that
but it would also clarify because it's
for fun you federal banal happy would
happen so what the good things that it
would do it would keep like punctuality
that unfortunate we have to learn from
them and Islam the Prophet SAW lies in
Subhan Allah he waited three days for a
man before Islam in one place he waited
three days that was how strong his word
was and when the man finally showed up
he forgot all about his appointment the
Prophet to all he said it was
honey you know you wear you wore me out
waiting for you so long Madison I mean
the prayer itself teaches us punctuality
not obsessive like clocks people saying
when's he gonna finish here we don't we
don't have to be that punctual so then
he says this is so amazing the strangest
thing to tell of this mosque concerns
the column which stands between the old
and the new max Ora it has a fixed walk
for the benefit of those who lean
against it in meditation and study there
were pillars that somebody donated from
his wealth money to support anyone that
wanted to lean against that pillar and
meditate to oh I mean what kind of
people were that there's something
amazing in fest they have a walk there
to this day that feed stray cats
somebody left a walk that somebody goes
out and feeds the cats the these Muslims
were extraordinary human beings we saw
decided a Fafi from Seville called
Elmo Roddy in the morning at the end of
the assembly for the reading of a 7th
section of the Quran each man leans
against a column while in front of him
sits a boy who instructs him in the
Quran the boys also have a fixed
allowance for their reciting but those
of their fathers who are fluent prohibit
their sons from accepting it they're
teaching them if although the remainder
do so then he says this is one of the
virtues of Islam - Elam infidel and
Islam the walk system where people
donate money for people to study to give
them Etha
and traditionally one of the in the
books of thick in in the book in ham
doon on his hasha of mayara
says that it is not a fault or a blemish
for the paula venom to ask from wealthy
people to support him the wealthy people
should be looking for the love to
support to help them in their studies
and if you look in this kaffir system
they give endowments they
endowments they help people what for
Kufa to increase their power they have
think tanks they have RAND Corporation
Ford Foundation Carnegie Foundation the
Rockefeller Foundation they give huge
amounts of money for people to spend two
years doing nothing but studying so that
they can write a book that ends up in
the in the Pentagon or in the State
Department they let them go and study in
Syria for two years so they can
understand the social system and how it
works they do this for ku phone and
we're supposed to be I said to her belly
laugh we should have more love for Allah
so behind Wattana than these people for
their Tahu and yet we don't see it with
rare exception and then he says here
well then he says for orphan boys there
is in the town a large school with a
generous endowment rock phone from which
the teachers draw enough to sustain
themselves and disembark from it to
support and clothe the children this is
also one of the uncommon things to tell
of the virtues of these lands the
instructions of boys in the Quran and
all these eastern lands consists only of
making them commit to memory writing
they learn through the medium of poetry
and other things the book of the a lotta
Allah is thus kept undefiled from the
markings and rubbings out of the boys
efforts
I mean he's saying in Andalusia they
didn't have this habit but he was
praising equality that they would give
the Quran by telling Shafi'i in order
that the boys wouldn't write the Quran
and then erase it they didn't want to
defile the book with the erasure is so
beautiful and this is tahleen women you
out them shy or loving I'm otaku Kalume
those who exalt the these these
standards of allah subhana wa ta'ala
this is from the taqwa in the hearts of
the people and they had great taqwa and
Colleen for the Book of Allah subhana WA
Ta'ala and this goes on it's it's a very
beautiful it will make you weep when you
read it you weep you know because it's
lost these traditions are gone you know
so I think just in summary
we as people and here in Toronto there's
something that we can do and there's
there's one thing we need to understand
which is important and it keeps the
Muslims and this is something that is
borrowed from a corporate model but I
think it's very valid and what a heck
might old volatile movement there's an
idea of what's called a circle of
concern and a circle of influence the
circle of concern is the greater circle
like our concern is for the whole Ummah
man I offend the amur and meaningfully
Simon home o ammidon muslimeen the one
not concerned about the Muslims isn't
from amongst them so we concern
ourselves with the Muslim but where is
our circle of influence where can we
really have to fear now we can have fear
by making dua for the umma
so the fear extends beyond even what we
have physical or monetary power to
change so we make dua for this Ummah and
the door has an effect but what about
that physical effectiveness that we can
have we have to limit ourselves to our
circles of influence to recognize that
each one of us has a limited data data
to Theia this circle of influence and we
have to benefit by recognizing where it
extends to and then work within that
circle and part of one of the I think
mechanisms of Kufra now in this day and
age is to exhaust all of the Muslim
resources by scattering all of their
work all over to where there's no
emphasis on the local at the local level
and the primary concern of a community
is always at the local level always
zakat in most of the books a fifth is to
be given back to the same community that
it was taken from it's taken from the
rich and it's given to the poor before
it goes into a central collection it
only goes into the central collection
when there's no one to collect zakat at
the local level so there should be a
local concern because if you increase
your local infrastructure then that your
sphere of influence increases when
people see the Muslims successful here
then Toronto becomes a model and I've
heard
- used as a model in other places as a
way of encouraging people to do things
that's not I'm not making that up
I've heard things that are happening
here being used as examples in other
places so if we strengthen our local
communities we need to create
neighborhoods where Muslims can be our
children can be raised as much as
possible in that first model within a
society fixture where they have a sense
of Islam around them so if we create
Muslim neighborhoods where Muslims live
in the houses together buying houses in
the same areas and we literally create
Muslim neighborhoods so that people pray
fudger together they pray Asia together
they have the the women and the children
are in an environment that's conducive
to their Islam and the women have a huge
responsibility they have a huge
responsibility because you can't be
frivolous people you can't let shelf on
just take your intellect steal them away
from you know your your beings endowed
with intelligence and integrity just as
much as the men are Allah subhana WA
Ta'ala has not preferred in these things
the men over the women know there were
great women of scholarship in this Ummah
and if you study the some of the
greatest universities there's a whole
college in Alaska that was donated by a
Muslim woman that still functions to
this day Fatima Fatiha
the great Muslim Walia from fairs who
donated the entire University of the
Caribbean which has produced again and
again allama all over the spread the
message of Islam all over Africa
especially North African Andalusia we
know the foundation of the Sun Cory
University young artists ancora
in Timbuktu was donated by a woman women
had great concerns for education because
it was their children that they were
going to be putting into those
institutions and we have never had a
great and I said this before and I say
it again we have never had a great
Muslim or Muslim at that didn't have a
great mother behind them unless they
were your team and then they had a great
moral Bureau Rabia and you reads mr.
Roop his grandmother who raised him
because he was an orphan she used to
hide food in his house
when he grew up as a little boy and and
he was I'm hungry and she said let's
make dua and ask Allah subhana WA Ta'ala
if there's some that he'll give us some
food
and they would make Dora and then she
said let's look maybe Allah put some in
the house and they would go look
together and then he said they would
find it and he would praise Allah
subhana WA Ta'ala and he would eat the
food and he said I realized when I grew
old and I had my intellect she was
inculcating in me telecon she was
teaching me how to trust in Allah
subhana WA Ta'ala these are the kind of
women that we need that are going to to
raise another generation at Ulmer Madras
and at the tire shop on Eva Libre rappy
the mother is the madrasah she is the
school if you prepare her you've
prepared a deep people of people of
roots of people of substance and if
she's ignored and belittled then you've
ignored and belittled your own oh ma so
this is something we have to be aware of
the women have a great responsibility
and a great challenge in this age and we
need to understand what our a tradition
is and I'm not saying that we have to go
back to to you know the some kind of
madrasah model where there's nothing no
their benefit there are beneficial
things that have happened and occurred
in this time but things need to be put
into perspective and we need to realize
what are our goals the goal of education
has never been economic fulfillment in
Islam because our risk is the armor of
Allah super Hannah were to Anna
one minute akela Maharaja the one who
has suffered a la Allah will give him a
way out well Rosa woman hey Julia says
even he will provide from him from where
he is has no man hey laetus if it means
where he didn't even expect it to come
from so there are people that study for
years to be a doctor and I know a man in
in California he's from a Arab
background he studied for years to be a
doctor he hates medicine and he told me
he just did it because his father want
him to do it now he's a businessman he's
very successful and he's very devout
Muslim so the point is you don't know
where Allah is going to provide you and
the truth is this is an age in which
nobody has any ailment there's no Easter
table anymore and there never was in
reality it's an illusion because like
the Prophet said and mode to October
with a common shyrokyne adikam
that is closer to you than the
the strap on your sandal so no one has
any there's no Eman I'm into Memphis
Somalia and yes it will become an art
you have any security in the earth that
he won't just shake it up so we have no
security our security is without loss
super Hannover to Allah and the moment
is the one that your immune have so home
at Allah he's the one that get his
security he praises it with Allah super
Hannah tanika's Allah is also an muckman
there's a name of Allah and if you're
Mormon be la Allah you're a manuka yo
come in at Valaya or isaiah was sharp so
these all of these things we have to be
really start waking up we're in a deep
sleep and we're in a crisis situation
and our crises is one of knowledge it
always has been it always will be
and I'm not talking about information
I'm talking about deep knowledge that is
transformative by its nature that
changes people that makes them better
people make some people up in Mohammed
and this is where we have to go we have
to create institutions where Muslims can
learn again we need to bring life to our
massages with the Quran with the
remembrance of Allah subhana WA Ta'ala
and this is all within the possibility
of the human being because we're an
extraordinary creature and Allah has
endowed us with extraordinary gifts and
and if we turn to him then Allah gives
us a Maharaj
a way out and really I don't have more
to Sam inshallah tomorrow I'm gonna talk
just about planting seeds in other words
looking for you know what more practical
things that we can do I mean a lot of
this I'm just trying to just give us you
know an alternative perspective that's
based on my own research into classical
Islamic education and also that I had
the benefit of spending a short time in
a traditional method ASSA
so I actually could see because in in in
the Sahara Desert there's still
mattresses that are functioning the way
mattresses functioned a thousand years
ago quite literally that have had no
outside influence and although their
shortcomings to their system what I
noticed is they produce human beings and
this is the great omar bin al-khattab
they were sitting around the Sahaba and
they were making wishes and
them said I wished I had a mountain full
of gold that I could spend feasible ela
and another one said I wish that I had
all of these camels and things that I
could give to the Jews so they can ride
fisa Beulah and they asked what do you
wish for he said I wish I had a room
filled with men like Miranda Benjamin
and Albert Veda and Bilal even Rafa
that's what all my wish for a group of
men because with men you can change the
world you don't change the world with
with dunya you changed the world with
region and the prophets all nice that
have built human beings he didn't build
in fact even Hajj or Alaska Ronnie says
then Yasu role I had Ranade Hodja he
never put a stone upon a stone in his
entire life he planted the the the Kaaba
with that Hodja but he did not build
buildings Medina there's no place to go
and see the great buildings that the
Prophet Elias son left behind he left
behind men and women that transformed
the world that's what he did and that's
what he was concerned with and that's
what the Sahaba were concerned with and
so we should be concerned with
transforming our youth into Rashad and
Nisa of Allah subhana WA Ta'ala and this
is possible to do that I don't think
it's far-fetched so I've just I have a
question here that please talk about
even Hut dunes place in Islamic
education even hard on him oh Allah was
a brilliant scholar he was a Malachy
Holly he was a Mufti as well as being a
historian he memorized the model one at
Cobra which is a huge book in Maliki
he had brilliant intellect his ideas
were literally centuries ahead of his
age including the Muslim the Muslims
weren't ready to hear what he had to say
because he was talking about the decline
because he was witnessing the decline of
the Muslim Ummah and he was explaining
its reasons and it was bitter for people
so his
books were ignored for a long time and
it's interesting enough that it's the
Europeans that picked up his books
I mean Europeans actually kind of
discovered even some dude in a lot of
ways the macadam as an extrordinary book
he does have a section in there which
I've read about education and he
basically just is it's a descriptive the
importance of education and he talks
about the differences between different
locations like for instance in
al-andalus he says they were more
concerned with beautiful penmanship and
the memorization of poetry than they
were with the memorization of Quran and
he explains the reason for that is
because they wanted to create very
eloquent people and they realized that
the Quran is inimitable it cannot be
imitated so so they felt if the the
young boys would memorize a metal case
and Watanabe and and all of these jihad
poets that they would have abilities to
speak in eloquent Arabic and it's it's
worth it's been translated by Rosenthal
it's called the pro l-'azim I think of
in Manhattan and there's a section in
there it's very useful to read and
there's also been a book written on even
a hundred serial education which I've
actually read and I benefited a lot from
some of his ideas any suggestion when a
husband wants the TV in home so he can
watch three to four hours of sports
his only recreation that's not
recreation he's watching recreation but
that's not recreation you see recreation
is when you go out and and do something
that recreates and that's what
recreation means to recreate somebody
who can spend four hours watching sports
in front of the television ought to be
ashamed of himself and that's all I can
say about that they ought to be ashamed
of themselves because time doesn't time
doesn't come back time is lost man I
mean it's your capital and it's it's you
know there's like an hourglass and you
only have so many grains of sand in it
and it's dripping away you know and and
this is something if you read there's a
beautiful book for those who can read
Arabic tomatoes lemon and the ulama by
Abdel Fattah Buddha have a low a lot of
the Syrians
from from Aleppo I think he's Aleppo I
love you
he it's a beautiful book that he wrote
and you know he said walk so I'm calm I
need to be heavily he had a mahaki of
the yellow that's how he begin it with
that line of poetry that time is the
most precious thing that you concerned
yourselves with and it's the easiest
thing that you can lose and we have so
much time so we should utilize our time
and then I'm not saying that the
prophets all I said you know I mean
you're Italian to have a saying
certainly lay he was certainly Leahey
right like give a time a time for Allah
and a time for some entertainment or
something like that
Allah he's one of the names of Shaban as
well if you look it up in the dictionary
there so you have to be careful with
that but the Prophet SAW like I said I'm
said when somebody is going to a wedding
he asked I said did the unsought have
lahu and they said they said was there
loud when he said then I'm sorry you go
home and level they like entertainment
and we know the Prophet Elisha he used
to like to have some entertainment cuz
he liked to show the Jews and the
Christians that he had Fatah in his Deen
that the Dinah's are not all rigidity
and not all but our level should be
beneficial it shouldn't be wasted time
because even in Lihue there's benefit
and that's why the prophet sal i said
i'm said that a man practicing his
arrows is level but it's good and
archery is a beautiful sport it teaches
you a lot of things and the most primary
thing that it teaches you which is why
we should teach our children it that if
you miss the air the the the mark the
marma what they call the marma the
bullseye don't blame it on the bullseye
it's the false in the Rami you see so if
we're missing our mark in art in the
dunya don't blame it on the dunya blame
it on the one who's shooting you see and
that's what archery teaches you that
it's you determine where the arrow lands
and then you teach your children sabaha
what Okubo hey on roku bill hail is an
important thing because hail in the
arabic language from who yella which is
pride who yella is pride and the horse
is a proud animal a hail they say that
you know the bun Allah is is the made
from
a male donkey and a female horse and
they say if the female horse looks
behind her and seized the the donkey
mounting her she died instantaneously
out of shame and that's why they don't
look when they're mounted they think
it's a horse there so the the hail is a
proud animal and if you teach rokubu
hail is you learn you teach the child
cxeh how to control the nafs
because the nafs is proud and arrogant
and so you learn how to control the nos
through CSS through Ted beer and through
roku tar cap nav circulate are kabocha
you ride your nuts but don't let your
enough to ride you and then sabaha we
subhanAllah the the supplies from the
same route sabaha is swimming and those
people who are in a state of motion
their Subban is because they're
witnessing the meaning of allah subhana
wa ta'ala they're witnessing the high
yumiya of allah swimming is a beautiful
metaphor for being immersed in in this
unifying element because water is a
unified element unlike the this the the
dry land dryness is separation water is
gathered Ness so teaching children how
to swim is teaching them how to immerse
themselves in gathered nurse as as
opposed to being constantly in
separation and that's why the in the
Hajj Slidell Bihar is permissible but
say that butter is not permissible and
there's wonderful meanings in that so
throw out the TVs that's my advice you
know and I'm going to talk about that
tomorrow about TVs because TVs are we
have to stop because it's the so they're
gonna kick us out of the hall so Hyundai
like yeah I'm Dana see I told you the
Canadians have some good qualities
it's not like the four months ago
I'll ask him to conclude it with a door
inshallah there's just there there's
just a few announcements inshallah that
I'll ask one brother to come up and give
and then I'll just talk about tomorrow
so saying if you would just come up make
a few announcements from the table or
from the podium this one and then we'll
conclude and once again Jews a qualifier
for coming we ask Allah subhana WA
Ta'ala to bless this event to bless
amount comes those words and we ask that
the examples in the message you gave to
us tonight enter our hearts and manifest
themselves and our deeds in sha allah
subhanaka llama will be hum the
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