spinda five minutes left is that I don't
mind I swear to god this Mina Rahman al
Rahim was sought out to a ser amada say
Mohammed why daddy will slap you was
said I'm Disney mincha tiara what I how
would our apple with a level da da da da
da hamdillah first of all it's always
amazing for me to see all of the youth
that we have in this community we have
all over the United States and those of
us who travel around the United States
we see this and it's it's very inspiring
because I see so much dignity in in our
young Muslims in a time when human
dignity is being challenged just the
whole concept of kurama what we're
seeing everywhere is the degradation of
culture culture is being degraded there
there if if anybody knows one of my
favorite playwrights is George Bernard
Shaw he wrote a play called Pygmalion
and in that play he he has a character
who's the father of Eliza Doolittle and
this character is basically so he's a
rogue he's outrageous he comes to to try
to make some money off the fact that his
daughter he finds out is in the house of
a gentleman which at that time in that
period in England was considered
scandalous but he tries to make some
money out of it and his his the
character in the play Higgins who's her
teacher allocution teacher says don't
you have any morals and he says I can't
afford them governor in other words i'm
too poor to have morals but the play as
it goes on higgins rights to a ethicist
in america and mentions that the that
the greatest moral ethicists that he's
met is this case
character doolittle and so he puts him
in his will and he ends up inheriting
all this money and he said it's very
unfortunate because you've made me a
gentleman in other words you forced me
to be good and even though he's mocking
all of these bushwa values in the play
it there was a time when poor people
aspired to be like the educated people
they wanted to be gentlemen they tried
to speak proper English many many
characters in literature are actually
parodies of this idea of people aspiring
to be educated or appear educated what's
happened now is the inversion of this
aspect you actually have people now that
pretend to be poor we have middle-class
youth now that actually pretend to be
homeless in this culture really they go
out it's kind of a trend to go out and
and they wear rags you buy jeans now
with holes in them and you pay more
money for good genes people when I was
growing up the people at war that had
tattoos you had to be there was only
three possibilities to have a tattoo you
were a prostitute you were in a gang or
you were in certain branches of the
military and always noncommissioned that
was it there was no other reason so if
you saw tattoo you immediately
identified one of those three categories
now everybody has tattoos in California
which is a very bad sign because what
happens in California usually happens
everywhere else it used to be 20 30
years later now because of the texting
era it happens much faster the trends
that we're seeing in California are very
disturbing so the Muslim youth today
represent to me an important barrier in
essence between this collapse it's like
preventing a group of us because the
Quran talks about always a group of
people there should always be a group
that represents this high oh that calls
to this good and if that group is a
lemonade
in a society then there's no reason for
that society to exist anymore and either
they perish or they're destroyed one or
the other but this is what happens in
human societies they collapse and
societies do collapse so the idea of
being a torch bearer is very interesting
because light carrying light and
carrying fire because fire is one of the
foundational myths that we have of fire
being really the beginning of human
civilization in fact we have a character
in Greek mythology that was punished by
the gods for bringing fire to human
beings so this idea of fire is a really
interesting concept a torchbearer one of
the words in arabic for fire is also the
same related to the same word word for
youth shabaab if you talk about fire
when it really becomes inflamed you say
ship baton all that the fire entered
into a cheb right state so the Shabab
are they are the people with fire
they've got fire but that fire you see
the nature of fire is that it is the
most beneficial element that we have out
there after air but it's also the most
destructive fire is a very destructive
element so if you don't learn to control
that fire and this is what humans do
with fire they learn to control it but
fire can get out of control and in that
way the fire of your youth is something
that has to be controlled because if it
gets out of control it will either
destroy you or it will destroy others it
can destroy families families are torn
apart because of the fire of youth
really they're destroyed and so it's
really important that you recognize I'm
talking to the young people here that
you recognize that God has given you
this fire in fact faha dino rossi in his
tafseer hawaii mentions in the
introduction that god
put a fire so great in the heart of the
human being that he had to put the lungs
as a Fanning system for the fire of the
heart and so he said that the lungs were
actually a Fanning system to keep the
fire of the heart cooled it cools and
that's why it's interesting that as we
get hotter we begin to breathe faster
right not to flan the fame have to fan
the flames but actually to cool the fire
to cool it down but the point that he
made about this fire that God put in the
hearts of human beings he said that fire
was to come to know God that it's an
energy in the human being that wants to
know why he or she is here and then once
you know why you're here how do you act
how do you behave these are the great
issues that our prophets came to talk
about and so as you think about your
role in your position here in the United
States I would argue that first and
foremost you should be exemplars
exemplars of human dignity because
people recognize dignity it's a very
hard word to define but it's something
that when you see it you recognize it we
are an oma that was dignified in the way
that we walked muslims walked in a
dignified manner the prophet saw i sem
had a very specific type of gate that's
described he had a gate that was a gate
that indicated that he was a serious man
he wasn't somebody that meandered he
wasn't somebody that walked without
intention he walked as if he was on a
declining slope and it was hard to keep
up with him because he was a very
determined person if he was called he
would stop and he would give his whole
body because the Provencal item was a
present human being he was always
present he was never absent with people
if he looked or spoke to a person he
gave them their whole being in fact in
the hadith it said about his death that
if anybody sends him a Salaam
Allah returns his soul to him and he
will return that salam to that person
Imam su Li said that what this means is
that his intense is still rock in the
barzakh this complete drowning in the
Divine Presence is turned towards the
creation because the prophet saw and
that's the meaning of the the rudder Roy
the returning of the soul because the
prophets all I said so it's not going
back and forth like alive and dead no it
means that he turns towards his creation
in that moment now if people say you
know if people are doing that all the
time how is that possible like we're all
saying a Ottawa said I want a
quieres o de la this is my color hola
how Coe cutlery this is people that have
a worldly view of things a worldly view
of things they're trapped in the
dimensions of this realm that we're in
which is a very limited realm it's
called dunya once you leave the dunya
you enter in a completely different
realm let me give you an example we have
computers today that monitor all of our
phone calls if you go to a bank and you
and you swipe your card they'll they'll
get approved or disapproved immediately
that same computer database is doing
this for millions of transactions in
every instant this is a computer that a
human being created and so we don't have
you know a lord that can create a heart
that can do all of that the Provos
license heart can't do all of that he
can't be getting all those incoming
messages and responding to them
instantaneously this is materialism and
people are trapped in materialism we
know that all modelled Yolanda one of
his miracles is that he used a the first
cell phone he was in Medina and he was
on the mimbar and he said yes sorry
Ethel geben Satya was his commander in
Persia and they were in a battle and
they're worthy they needed a place to
take refuge to and a no ma Xiao de doubt
on the mimbar yeah sorry Ethel Javad and
then they turned and he heard the
is in Persia this is a recorded miracle
people say oh you know this is they
don't believe in miracles anymore the
whole Islam is a miracle this whole
thing is a miracle and there's miracles
everywhere you don't believe in miracles
it's hold thing intimate this is a
miracle how do I talk into these little
things and and my voice has hurt all
over the place how is that possible the
whole thing's a miracle and you can
explain the whole technology to me and
it takes your your voice and it
amplifies the boy you can explain all
that to me it doesn't it doesn't
diminish the miraculous nature of the
world that we're in miracles all over
you know David Hume didn't have the
ability to see that that's his problem
it's not my problem you know really we
believe in miracles what pretended
oleate kurama woman in FFM be then
kodama this is our teaching this was the
op-ed of the muslim assert the miracles
of the saints and anybody that rejects
them reject him I believe in miracles so
the Prophet ICM he was he came not only
to teach us about other worldly Affairs
he gave us to teach us about worldly
affairs and at the center of this is the
idea of dignity the Prophet SAW son was
was the most dignified of human beings
and anything that diminished his dignity
or his model he rejected it this is why
Imam Shafi said out of the Aloha know if
I thought that drinking water would
diminish my dignity one iota I would
have left drinking water this is how
concerned they were about dignity so the
prophets lies him he dressed in a
dignified manner and he encouraged
people to dress in a dignified manner
we're living in a time of degraded dress
people literally look first of all
they're wearing underwear in public when
I was a kid t-shirts were considered
underwear that's how old I am I don't
have a problem with it but I'm just
letting you know t-shirts were
considered underwear when I see people
in a t-shirt I see somebody in underwear
it's not the way that we should be
encouraging our youth to dress
we now you know this this the way the
women are dressing today la Llorona poet
la halle allow him in le liya in Nyala
here are your own even in the 1950s it
would have been considered outrageous at
the turn of the century people would
have heart attacks on the street if they
if they if you took somebody from the
19th century Victorian England and you
put them teletransported them through
time and put them out on a street in
Washington DC in 2012 they would
literally either pass out or they would
have a heart attack because they could
not believe that what they were seeing
was actually happening and that these
people they would they would assume
immediately that they were primitive
people probably like savages and I liked
what Tolkien awad the Yemeni most many
of you saw her remark about wearing the
hijab the woman who won the Nobel Prize
when she was asked about her hijab she
she said I don't see this as a
reactionary thing on the contrary I see
it as an evolutionary thing because
according to your sciences we started
out naked and we evolved into dress and
so the more naked people are the less
evolved they are that was her argument
and I think that's a very solid argument
so you have to really think about
dressing in a more dignified manner and
not accepting this degraded culture if
you look at Muslims anywhere in human
history you look at the clothes that
they wore and you will see that they
were dignified clothes they always wore
dignified both and clothes are not
insignificant they're not insignificant
are women al hamdulillah you see one of
the bizarre things about modern Muslims
is you'll see this woman dressed in
nutrition in fact the lady came up to me
The Diamonds honest a lady came out to
me we were in Turkey and an American
came up to me and she was the mother of
a Muslim convert and she said it's so
nice to see the Turkish men and women
who dress in a congruous way like the
women Turkish women dress very the
Muslim women there who are modest they
dress in a very conservative modest
weight but it's very fashionable at the
same time so they look like they're part
of the modern world but they're also
they look like they're maintaining the
tradition because you have you have
something that needs to maintain but can
be changed in its in its form but its
essence has to say the same so modesty
is the essence how you display that that
is a that can be relegated to time and
place but she said but what I find
really strange is when I see these
Muslim women dressed in their
traditional garb but with them are these
Muslim man that look like they're comic
book characters right so you'll go at
Disney World you know you'll have some
guy from a Muslim country I won't say
which ones but you have some guy from US
country his wife like in a black garment
and he's there with it with a t-shirt
you know that says something like I've
been there done that it just looks a
little inking gruis like what's she
doing in a black bag and you're wearing
you know Ben or I'm was stupid right I
mean this is a problem like the the
absurdity of our modern age so that's
very important also another aspect is
food our prophet saw I centum came to
teach food we should represent the best
of our tradition we should be eating
less we should not if you look outside
people are turning into balloons really
they could get jobs advertising Goodyear
blimps you know that advertise because
they're so why'd they could have all of
the corporate logos on one body it's a
bad sign when you have a culture that's
turning into Goodyear blimps I'm serious
it's a really serious problem in this
country in fact one of these czars
recently said the greatest threat to
America is no longer the Qaeda it's the
Big Mac because we're literally turning
into the most obese nation
the planet but it's not just here
because this food is being exported all
over the world so now you go to the Gulf
states and you've got over forty seventy
percent of these people now are being
afflicted with diabetes and diabetes is
a disease of a civilization it's not
unnatural disease you shouldn't get type
2 diabetes it's purely a disease of diet
it's what you're eating it can be
prevented and it is controllable I would
recommend for you I'm not espousing in
any way a vegan diet but I would
recommend for you watching the the the
documentary called forks over knives or
read the china study or read forks over
knives and see what they're doing now
the cutting edge doctors in this country
first and foremost the cutting edge
doctors are recommending for obese and
diabetic people to walk 10,000 steps
that's about a Omaha if you do ombro
you'll find out it's about 10,000 steps
the human body is designed to work at
its optimal level if it's walking every
day at least 10,000 steps you can get a
little counter now and do that people
aren't well they're not walking we're
all sitting behind computer terminals
watching pixelated images and and and
getting sicker and sicker people need to
exercise there's a book that Imams uthi
wrote called el macero a to ellen
mansoura and it's proving that it is
assumed that to actually wrestle that
wrestling was a sunnah of the prophet
Isaiah he was a great wrestler rakhana
he actually defeated the greatest
wrestler he was one of his cousins
distant cousin from Mecca and he met him
and he said you're claiming to be a
prophet prove it to me said what do you
want me to do he said wrestle me if you
beat me then I'll believe you and he
threw him down and he got up immediately
he said do that again he couldn't
believe it because nobody had ever
thrown him Satan Ali was a great
wrestler said now the AXI Rachel
wrestled yazid the son of Maui and
defeated him in an interesting match but
that's an interesting little book and
masada add to it on mospheira arguing we
forget that it's a sunnah to exercise
the Prophet I send people are talking
about sooner they grow their beards a
Pam the user see whack they do all these
things but they don't exercise it is a
sunnah to exercise the Prophet exercised
every single day because he was living
in a society that demanded you exercise
but he also said in Le Jessica konica
haha your body has rights over you your
body has rights over you you should be
eating what you need about 1700 to 2200
calories depending on your levels of
activity that can all be monitored what
you eat you should be eating primarily
foods that are good for you very little
you know now I mean you go in Ramadan
and the consumption levels are beyond
belief the waste levels are beyond
belief if you didn't lose weight this
Ramadan something's wrong with your fast
I'm serious something is wrong with your
fast people eat more in Ramadan than
they do outside of Ramadan food exercise
in the Olympics if we participate in the
Olympics it's becoming really unbearable
now just the whole what's happened to
the Olympics and things like that but
sports is an important element I'm not
anti sports but if we compete we should
be competing in those things that are
particularly Muslim areas like horseback
riding we need to reinvigorate horseback
riding in our communities are you should
be riding horses I grew up riding horses
it was one of the most beneficial things
that I did as a child because i was
actually trained to ride my sister still
raises horses and has a horse ranch in
southern california but you know i grew
up around horses horses are incredible
creatures beautiful creatures the
prophet saw lies have loved horses he
loved horses we should have horse camps
for our youth in the united states of
america really where they go out and
interact with horses swimming get your
youth swimming but in halal environments
right we have bikinis now the women can
swim too you know and don't ever be
ashamed I told my wife we went she went
swimming in Oman I told her look don't
first of all don't be ashamed they
should be ashamed you shouldn't ever be
a shame for covering up your nakedness
you they should be ashamed you know so
when Muslims where those bikinis
shameful about des on the contrary is an
honorable thing it's the way people used
to look if you look at pictures of
swimming women a hundred years ago in
this country they're all wearing bikinis
it's a very American thing now finally
just to dovetail and conclude with this
the single most important thing for our
community is educated I confer
wholeheartedly with with what was said
about the importance of being creative
in your education we have to be more
creative as a community economics for
instance what dr. Ramadan mentioned
earlier about economics we study
economics all we do is study the
mainstream economics and we mouth back
what they teach us there now debating
seriously the idea of getting back on a
gold standard this isn't a joke anymore
the number one activity now in terms of
war games you know the Pentagon plays
these war games I ready to go called
currency wars which argues that the last
two wars and probably the third world
war will be over currency but anyway one
of the things that he pointed out in
that book is that the war games that
they're playing now in the Pentagon our
currency collapse in scenarios like you
saw what happened in Greece if a
currency collapses societies fall apart
so they're actually very considerate
about this and you have people in this
country Indiana has a sound money
legislation about restoring gold because
states can actually coin gold and silver
our monetary systems based on gold and
silver gold and silver is the monetary
system of Islam if gold was used today
all over the world as the dominant form
of a welter exchange it would be about
twenty thousand dollars an ounce that's
how much value would have right but
maybe Gold's not the answer that's open
to debate in modern in the modern world
I'm open to a debate proved to me a more
superior system but fiat money is
problematic fractional reserve banking
is is completely honest la me because
fabricated wealth creation and these
things can be studied and there are
serious Western scholars I read a book
by a German economist called
non-interest economies Kennedy she's a
Marguerite Kennedy in this book arguing
that interest is actually profoundly
harmful to a society to its economics
and to its to its well-being and she
doesn't understand Islam on 4G she makes
some really silly remarks about Islam's
views on Ussery but there are
intellectuals in this society that are
actively arguing against usury base
forms of economics and many other areas
so we have to and finally my advice to
myself and all of you you have to we're
living in a time when there's a lot of
mental disruptions people are not well
they're not well we have people dying
their hair orange and going in and
shooting people and these people this
guy was like he was the best and the
brightest of this culture like even his
the people at the University he had a
scholarship studying one of the most
difficult subjects and he was he was
studying neuroscience PhD candidate and
he goes in and kills all of these people
one of the worst massacres in American
history with his hair dyed red because
he watched a film a Batman film I'm not
because you know but that's part of the
story we have people that go in and
literally imitate I mean I saw the
footage of the this guy that went into
mendocino school and killed people and
he was literally imitating Arnold
Schwarzenegger and apparently he'd
watched one of his movies over and over
and over again Plato said if you want to
corrupt youth if you want to corrupt
them the most efficient way to corrupt
youth is by using corrupting stories
corrupting story this is why he actually
argues or Socrates to censor the types
of stories that are told in cultures
most of what's on television is arguably
Haram to be watching most of it arguably
the Illuma I really want to reassess a
lot of the image
ice-watch was of the night late 19th
century and look at what their own mo
we're talking about because I think the
whole image based culture is becoming a
serious problem this whole idea of
everybody can take pictures my this my
image like who gave you the right to
take my picture series and then paste it
up on facebook who gave you that right
did I did you ask me my permission hey
can I take your picture your image can I
take your image and then put it up on
facebook for anybody to see with my
mouth wide open or while I'm eating
something or you know or whatever or you
know did I give you that right seriously
because people didn't just go around
taking pictures of other people this is
some modern thing that's happened if you
watch 19th century just look at some of
the photographs they're always like this
you know why they're like that because
they were in all of the idea of their
image being permanently produced and
they're always dressed in their best
clothes they didn't just go in and their
t-shirts been there done that I'm was
stupid or rabbit ears behind something
you don't see a 19th century guys with
rabbit ears behind his wife or something
like that right because they weren't
idiotic people they were actually
dignified people that had a sense of
human dignity so you know I really think
we should reassess what some of those
early scholars said about that and you
know because I really questioned the
validity of all this image based culture
I think it's very dangerous i read neil
postman's book i'm using ourselves to
death and I think his argument nets I
think it's the second chapter about the
the Decalogue prohibition on graven
images his argument is pretty solid and
very Islamic as far as I'm concerned
anyway god bless all of you may lost
behind with that increase all of our
youth give you strength preserve you
make you dignified people people that
are torch bearers of the light of Islam
said I'm not equal model I ok
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