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awkward uh first of all thank you for
inviting me chefs Adam I am originally a
resident and a student of the United
Arab Emirates I studied here between
1979 1984 so I lived here when shaddup
out was much smaller none of the boys
here were born yet and but I've been
coming back every once in a while and
seeing the changes that have been quite
radical in terms of I you know talked to
the boys first before addressing any
issues I I guess the most of the parents
are probably working or something
because right there's a lot of chairs
that are empty but the boys the chairs
are full almost so one of the things
that I wanted to say I mentioned to the
the the principal and some of the
teachers here that one of the major
problems now for the students is the
types of distractions that you have
what's in Arabic they call mahiette and
mobile yet there's a lot of distractions
for the young students you young boys
have distractions that were not around
when I was very small and learning and
studying at your age you have a lot of
toys electronic toys that waste an
incredible amount of time and have been
proven also there's a lot of evidence
that there actually many of these games
are harmful to brain development and
there's they're actually having effects
on the brains that haven't been fully
studied so one of the things that I
suggest really is that you strengthen
the policy about television and
electronic toy the prophets Allah I am
sent min and Marui T and yes ma'am a
hadouken DF he can emit a column that is
it's part of Moodle or Manliness to
listen to somebody when they're speaking
to you especially young people if you
don't listen to your elders you won't
benefit very much so a lot of these toys
are a complete waste of time so I want
to talk to you a little bit about your
time time is the gift of life you have
time but your time is allotted you know
what allotted mean it means you have a
limited amount of time none of you know
how long you're gonna be here none of
you and it's a good thing to go visit a
cancer ward in a pediatric unit in a
hospital because you can see children
that are there they've got cancer there
they're literally dying and that
happened so none of us know how long
we're gonna be here you want to make the
best of your time while you're here and
especially during a ssin you have a
limited amount of time you're gonna be
here and it goes very quickly just like
the summer goes quickly the school year
goes quickly and it gets quicker and
quicker as you get older so you have a
very limited amount of time and it's
very important that you utilize that
time the prophet sallallaahu Ali was
said them said nimittani boon and Fatima
Kathy Roman & nass two blessings that
the majority of people are cheated out
of a sachet oh well for your health and
your free time leisure time your spare
time the time when you're not
preoccupied one of the blessings of
having parents is that they take care of
you you don't have to work you don't
have to go out and and find food for
yourselves you have time now your
parents are working your father and your
mother taking care of you and you have
time to study and to develop your mind
and your intellects and tools that you
can use in your future if you don't use
this time how many of you have seen the
film Pinocchio almost everybody
all right do you remember pleasure
island pleasure island in Pinocchio you
remember you there raising your hand
yeah you remember pleasure island what
happened there and what happened what
did they turn into donkeys hammy Oh cuz
they could do whatever they wanted they
could eat whatever they wanted they
could play whatever they wanted they
turned into a hammy oh you know why
because people that occupy their time
when they're in school and utilize their
minds for education they under they end
up working manual laborers what they
call oh man
they end up working manual laborers it's
the hardest life on earth because when
you're 4550 years old
and you're still using your body to lift
bricks and build buildings and do these
type things it's a very hard life but
those people there's no fault in people
because it's Hilal livelihood and
they're not donkeys those people out
there doing that but they didn't have
the opportunities that you have if you
were given this opportunity to learn and
you don't use the opportunity than you
are a team ah but if you were born in a
place where you couldn't do anything
else but become a laborer there's
nothing it's not your fault you didn't
have the opportunities and if you're
living an honorable life and a halal
livelihood then you're a good person but
people that squander the blessings
they've been given they're worse than
donkeys and that's what you don't want
to become like the boys on Pleasure
Island that wasted their time Pinocchio
was on the way to school and he got
tricked into going to Pleasure Island
and forgetting about school right so
it's very important to utilize this time
and also health
masha'allah some of you might have
asthma you might have eczema you might
have some things that are problematic
but generally everybody here was able to
walk into this room and sit down by
themselves that's a blessing some young
people don't have that blessing many old
people don't have that blessing the fact
that you have your physical health is a
great blessing from Allah subhana WA
Ta'ala you should utilize it in a hadith
that even a bath and if not bass was a
young boy he was about your age most of
you in here he was about your age when
he was learning from the prophet sallahu
sent him some of the boys from the
operation on saw said to even abbas come
play with us he said no I want to go sit
and listen to the the prophets Elijah
ham and they said oh there's plenty of
Sahaba doing that and they're all
learning and he said but they're going
to die and then who will be knowledgable
and so they went and played any but a
bus went to learn later on the boys said
when they saw even a bus become a
scholar and people honored him and
people sat at his feet they regretted
the time they wasted when they were
young people at the same age of even our
best oral delano even our bus relates a
hadith that the prophets Eliza damn said
if
tanum hamsun table hamsun if tenem
hamsun table Hampson a Fannie Mae Fannie
Mae even a mu means to benefit from
something Hanina is like something you
get from struggle you struggle and you
get the rewards of your struggle is like
what they call in English booty like
some type of unthawed so he said benefit
from five things before five things the
first one he said Shabab akka habla
harem iike your youth before your old
age who can tell me how long saab lasts
right there
good that's 40 years old from the Asian
now you're in the Shabaab until you're
40 you have strength that you don't have
after 40 it begins to diminish because
life is what they call in English
curvier linear in Arabic m'appelle was
you begin here you get stronger stronger
stronger Hutta but other a de ho
you know he reaches his strong point
better or Bernina when he reaches 40
he's at his peak it's downhill from
there and then you begin to hula and
then she ha ha see ha ha you know sama
Tanisha Han what is to be shaken in the
mushiya woman leader Buddha vive a man
proposed to a woman she said you're too
old your share
he said she claims on the old man but
I'm not a chef is the one that walks
around slowly
I still have some energy she ha ha is
the last phase and then right before the
final phases ages I Jews is after she ha
ha you become a Jews you can't do
anything so when you have your youth
it's a great blessing do you know what
shut but an R means schibetta not
schibetta not you don't know schibetta
know a Latin or Shabaab is from HT ad
it's the time you have fire you have
energy and you have to use that energy
for good
don't waste your life don't waste your
time the prophet salaallah alayhi wa
sallam warned us about your bharat and
man wasting wealth the next one he said
was Socata sahat ik publicity Mika
benefit from your web health before your
sickness if you left after Allah may
Allah give you all a fear you might a
token beside he was sadhana and I dumped
him area but if you get sick the one of
the who , he said us
tattoo tajen adderall selasa ha layer
Ajo inland mobile that health is a crown
on the healthy only the sick can see it
it's a crown on the healthy only the
sick can see it so your health is a
great blessing guard your health some of
the Shabaab here already getting pouches
not good you guys need to exercise don't
eat bad food don't eat McDonald's don't
eat it's bad food really if you know
what was in it you would need it
don't eat you know really take care of
your health
eat good food healthy food don't eat a
lot of food the Arabs they say le Befana
to to be beautiful Tana having big
stomachs will cause your intellect to
deteriorate I just read three days ago
in the International Herald Tribune an
article on a study done in Sweden
proving that the bigger the waist
expands the more mental deterioration
there is and they actually have proven
that young people that have too much fat
around their girth or their waist they
actually are already developing plaque
in their brains so exercise get out run
around you have your health take
advantage of it you need to recreate you
know exercise is a good thing you have
to recreate don't be studying all the
time but also don't be playing all the
time there's a time for each one right
now you have to have balanced life and
then he said so la la la was Sedna he
said to benefit from your Malica a brief
Africa benefit from your wealth before
your poverty some of you are given
allowances don't squander your
allowances use them for intelligent
things as you get older you see a lot of
people waste their money
wallahi i was just in Mecca and Medinah
and the amount of food that is wasted
from people in those hotels they go to
the buffet and they piled their plate
and then they leave their plate at the
table and like it's nothing is froth
Kulu was horrible well at to silly fool
eat and drink but don't be wasteful
don't be extravagant in hilarious
anything because God doesn't love people
that are extravagant or wasteful my wife
and I we took food every single time
there was food leftover we took it down
and there were poor people on the
streets of Mecca that were so happy to
get the food don't think there's not
people here in this country that if you
brought them a food they wouldn't be
happy that you gave them food wallahi so
really recognize the sacred trust of
having blessing some of you come from
wealthy families don't squander your
parents wealth utilize it on good things
there's orphans you can pay $30 a month
my wife and I have orphan in Indonesia
we get letters from from this orphan a
$30 a month supporting an orphan you can
do that things simple things that you
can do at your age now and then he said
Farah Hakka publish' halika as tenem
utilize your free time before you're
preoccupied your young people now you
have a lot of free time you have a lot
of free time your young people but your
free time is going to be lost you won't
have it forever
you'll get preoccupied say now omar said
to fucka who table and tesu do learn to
learn how to live before you're in
positions of authority
we have ministers in many countries now
not just Muslim countries in the West
you know Dan Quayle he was a vice
president in the United States he
misspelled potato it's a famous story
he wasn't very bright you know what he
said
when he got elected vice president if I
knew I would have got this far I would
have studied harder in school you don't
want people in positions of power that
don't are not educated
you don't want doctors that didn't study
hard we have doctors now that cheat on
their examinations they go to school
they don't study they cheat now how is
that going to be when you go to get
surgery and the doctor doesn't know what
he's doing and that's why the number for
cause of death in the United States is
from doctors mistakes
number four according to the Journal of
American Medical Association the number
four cause of death in the United States
is iatrogenic diseases doctor induced
diseases misdiagnosis giving medicines
people don't need mistakes they make in
treating the patients
you don't want doctors like that you
want doctors that know what they're
doing that studied hard you know what
they call a graduate from a medical
school who got DS all the way through
when he graduates they call him doctor
and he might be your doctor so you don't
want to be that type of person because
you have a trust
- so benefit from your time don't waste
your time and then he said well my mad
wahi attica problem America benefit from
your life before your death you have a
short time here you don't know how long
it is maybe 20 years 30 40 50 maximum
you're going to go maybe a hundred more
years maximum 120 people don't live
beyond that very rare for somebody to
exceed 120 most people now average death
is between 60 and 70 years globally the
Prophet said our motto
almaty ma baina Cetina was 17 it's a
miracle of the Prophet because he said
the lifespan of people after my religion
starts until the end of time will be
between 60 and 70 years that's a miracle
of the prophet sallahu cinema that he
didn't need to do statistical studies to
find out the the mean the median
had the average lifespan Allah told him
how long people were gonna live for his
Ummah which means Muslim
non-muslim because it includes everybody
after his message so he said I'm on
Ultimate Team a Venus a teen with Sabine
so most of us will live between sixty
and seventy years it's a limited amount
of time my suggestion to you don't watch
television except maybe on the weekend
and then watch things that are
worthwhile I wouldn't just watch waste
things if it's a film that has some good
meaning or something useful or it's a
there's a lot of interesting you know
National Geographic and other programs
that you can benefit from some of the
the programs that use good Arabic you
can learn Arabic so I you know there's
some even some of the cartoons and
things are using FASTA that you can
benefit from that but don't waste a lot
of time doing that I wouldn't watch
television during the week because you
have to study and then the time that
you're not studying instead of watching
television you should be out kicking a
ball around getting some exercise
exercising your body visiting your
friends doing intelligent things with
your friends these are the things that
you should be preoccupying yourselves
with and I'm finished with a story I
told the girls all right because it's
useful for you as well there were three
fish three fish in a lake one fish was
brilliant the other fish was intelligent
and the third fish was a mock sama cone
a mock a stupid fish right and one day
the lake wasn't big one day a fisherman
came and he started casting his net so
the intelligent fish the brilliant one
he said it's time to head for the sea
because the lake is too small and will
get caught in the net eventually so he
left went to the river down to the sea
the smart one he said that's the most
intelligent fish in the lake and if he's
heading for the sea I'm gonna head for
the sea the stupid wasn't said to him
it's a long journey to the sea
and it's a big lake small net we should
just stay here enjoy what we have
nothing much has changed he disagreed he
took off for the sea so the third one
the stupid fish he got caught in the net
and then the fisherman took him out and
he was frying him and in the frying pan
as he was frying he said if I ever get
back to the lake I'm heading for the sea
okay so don't be like that last fish
life is a journey to the ocean you're
not meant to just stay in your limited
understanding expand your you don't get
trapped in the trivialities of in in in
in suffice if an or more the Arabs call
it low things said OB Tsui please don't
let these dark forces pull you away from
your higher calling to be productive
intelligent human being that actually
has something to add to the world and
you're not just filling space too many
people filling space and not benefiting
others alright in terms of the parents I
hope you take seriously the the advice
about television televisions a major
problem
these games are a major problem you
should read some of the studies about it
PlayStation nation is a good book to
read about serious studies that have
been done about the negative effects
that these games actually have on
neuroplasticity on attention deficit
disorder there's a lot of work that's
been done in this area obviously it's
not published because the same companies
that owned the newspapers right own the
shares in Nintendo stocks right really
there was a book written in 1958
called the evil eye which took me a long
time to find I read about it as a source
book in another book I found a copy in
Australia on the internet because it
wasn't ever reproduced this book had
documented research from the 1950s about
the negative effects on television on
children that were done serious
scientific studies one of the studies
that was done found
that small children will not watch
real-time television they get bored so a
three four five year old they won't
watch a movie like regular they just get
bored so that's why if you look at
children programming it's speeded up
it's not in real time so Sesame Street
it's all quick things changing images
now we have the MTV phenomenon which is
children that grew up on that that type
of programming cannot watch normal films
if you watch a film from the 1950s
they're very slow if you watch them from
the 40s they're very slow they're driven
by dialogue not by movement now all the
films are driven by quick moving car
crashes bombs exploding it's all
stimulation because young people can't
watch if you watch plots like crash
older people that watch those films
can't even keep up because it's just too
fast for them this is what's happening
and then we have in touch it attention
deficit disorder is a major problem in
an Indian in the developed nations and
increasingly a problem in in other
places one out of every 58 males in the
United States of America is now
diagnosed with autism two out one out of
58 it's a disease that wasn't even
identified until the 50s and very
handful of people now after that since
the 1980s there have been a massive
explosion of Asperger's disease autism
and you're starting to see autism now in
the Arab countries children are
overstimulated there they're becoming
hyperactive because you're putting them
in front of all these interactive things
so they can't sit in a classroom without
fidgeting and getting completely you
know their train of thought is lost they
can't concentrate for long periods of
time they won't be able to read books a
book like The Brothers Karamazov and
English English literature is a long
book there's a lot of plot changes
there's a lot of characters that you
have to keep in mind if you've read ever
read Russian literature you have to
memorize several names
to keep up with what's going on it and
some of the characters have three or
four different names you won't have
students are able to read that they
won't be able to read the great
literature of the Arabs Moton FB video
samanid hamid ani al-hariri even omo
kapha they won't be able to read the
hamas a minimum bharat you know any of
these things because it takes directed
thought to do that so there's a massive
responsibility now and you can't just be
like sheep that kind of accept
everything that happens and just oh yeah
and the papadum so a lot of these things
are not progress they're quite the
opposite there's a study going on right
now it's a major long-term study on the
effects of cellular phones but the
American Association of Pediatrics
physicians says that children before
their skulls are developed shouldn't be
using cell phones because the the the
the skull is too thin and the radiation
is reaching their brain at higher levels
we don't know if they're gonna have to
MERS in 10 15 20 years because this is a
guinea pig generation and we have
something which called the cautionary
protocol the cautionary protocol which
is used by Europeans and Canadians and
the Americans just because of our kind
of capitalistic enterprise and stupidity
refused to follow that cautionary
principle the cautionary principle
states if you're unsure about the
harmful effects of something then you
should have precautionary measures
before you actually do it until you find
out whether or not it's harmful if in
the in the volcano in in Europe that was
based on the precautionary principle
because the Europeans practiced that a
lot of the American commentators were
saying they should have let the
airplanes fly but the Europeans were
saying no we don't want to risk
airplanes crashing and people dying
because we're not sure the effects of
these that the the volcanic ash is going
to have on these airplanes yet that's
intelligence its intelligence who though
Heather come in
be be precautious so you have to really
think about what's happening because
you're gonna have problems with your
children before you know it if you don't
and and in Korea now they're thinking
about Bandung broadband after 10 o'clock
because so many of the Korean children
are addicted to these video games and
they're flunking out in school having
major prompt these are social problems
that are going on all over the planet
and their new social problems and
they're not being addressed
intelligently and a lot of the parents
are completely ignorant about them so
that's all I have to say right now if
anybody has any comments or questions
you can feel free and any of the young
men out there if you have any questions
feel free okay go ahead you would you're
the only mother your hand up go ahead
yeah
with that
a videogames there's several now young
people have died from playing video
games for extended periods of time
literally one child in Japan had a heart
attack because he kept playing for
several days and couldn't stop I mean
obviously those aren't the majority of
kids aren't gonna be doing that but
there are kids that get addicted or
early
I personally my kids don't play any
video games I just don't have them in
the house
you know sometimes they go to their
friend's house and they do think but I
would not recommend video games
personally I know it's some people think
you know it's unreasonable but I've read
too much of the research about it you
know I wouldn't do video games I don't
think they're healthy and a lot of them
you know they're just total waste of
time there's nothing there's nothing
educational about them at all go ahead
yeah I mean look you know when I was a
kid you went out and played you know you
did things you went out and played I
mean it's much more life is much more
interesting than a video game really I
lived with Bedouin kids in the Sahara
they're they're some of the happy as
well-adjusted kids I ever met they spend
their whole time outside outdoors you
know go outside and play say it's too
hot or something like that get used to
the heat you know really get used to the
heat most of your Arabs the Arabs say a
shrimps will hammam it out on the Sun is
the sauna of the Arabs Arabs that's why
your skin color is the way it is so you
go out in the Sun I can't go out I get
skin cancer God knows what he's doing
where he put people and how they look
and how they can handle their
environments you guys all in
air-conditioned I lived in a lion in a
lion for four years without air
conditioning in a cinderblock house
between 20 and my I was 20 and 24 I
lived in a lion for four years without
air conditioning the whole time because
I don't like air conditioning half these
guys are getting rheumatism now you know
look at the older
people in this country they're all
suffering all having problems these
things aren't you know you guys are
gonna you'll see eventually but you know
a show she nope in an amateur that's a
doom you know say now almost said be
tough on yourselves because you won't
always have blessings Western most
Western people can't sit on the floor if
you see Western people try to sit on the
floor there their knees are all they
can't put that they don't have any why
because they never sit on the floor they
always sit on chair I can sit I've been
sitting on a floor all my all my adult
life since I became Muslim I can sit on
a chair of the chairs there but at my
house I sit on the floor because I
choose to I can do a full notice at my
age there's a yoga position that most
young people can't do it's only because
I've always been sitting on the floor so
I have elasticity now there was just a
study done about just stretching and how
important stretching it was you can
learn things from cats have you ever
watched cats cats are always stretching
you know cats are the most flexible
animals in the world and just watch them
humans used to stretch now they're just
shriveling up really you see people that
are 50 they look like they're 80 you see
people that are 20 and they're behaving
like they're old people in America we
have people they're dead at 25 buried at
75 really living dead people that have
really they're hollow people because
they're spending so much time we have we
have pornography is a major problem in
the United States I just was at a
conference in Princeton University and
there's published papers I delivered a
paper at that conference on pornography
one of the major problems in the United
States of America pornography addiction
it destroys families it causes impotence
males become impotent after they get
addicted to pornography ten years of
addiction
they've lost their their you know their
their their potency so what got them in
it ends up being destroyed anyway these
are major problems that are going on now
and you know you're from a culture who
didn't want me to hold women upside of
him
you know that's the this culture is a
culture of modesty and modesty is a
beautiful quality Europeans and
Americans used to be very modest people
and there still are some modest people
on undeniably there's many good
Christian people there's many good even
secular people that have basic modesty
and things but many people now they've
completely lost their sense of shame and
do things publicly that would have never
been done even 20 years ago even 20
years ago I mean I see bumper stickers
all over California would foul words on
them as if children weren't around you
know I mean my kids sometimes ask me
I've got a five five-year-old kid that's
starting to read and he sees words that
you know I can't even explain to him
what they mean because there's no shame
and I believe in preserving innocence of
children I don't want to see a
sexualized culture where naked women are
naked men are all over the place and
before children are ready to even grasp
what these things mean there's not like
Aboriginal cultures because there's
Aboriginal cultures that don't have the
same problems in a culture that's
manipulating people sexually go ahead
yeah there are like four if you're gonna
go into surgery then there's certain
decks you know manual dexterity skills
like you get very good at certain skills
that you can do if you're going into law
enforcement a lot of kids that play with
those video games get very accurate in
fact we had a kid in Virginia who shot
eight kids at school and he got head
shots on every single one of the kids
when the FBI came to examine it they
were amazed at this kid's marksmanship
it turned out that his father had bought
him as a present a game that you got the
the head shots were given the highest
awards in the game so he had actually
mastered killing people in a video game
and then he just went to school one day
with his father's gun and he killed all
these kids with headshots that he
learned on the video game so if you're
gonna go into the army it's probably
there's some benefits like that but you
know those those benefits to me are that
the harm is greater and and in in our
tradition and muscle high which is
benefit is always looked at masada you
way the to what's called da da da da was
yell belma's la avoiding harm and
accruing benefit if the harm is worse
then you avoid it and if the benefits
greater then you then you do it and to
avoid harm is preferred over accruing
benefit so harm is considered first
before benefit so there are benefits
undeniably mmm-hmm go ahead study what's
that some people are poor yeah what how
could they go study a lot of them can
there's children all over the world now
that are daily they're laborers as
children is happening all over the world
South Africa has a massive problem with
child labor
India has a massive problem with child
labor really even in Egypt you know
there's a baboon the people the kids
that go out and collect garbage we have
this problem everywhere in Morocco
there's kids that are your age that are
working full-time 15 hour days you know
and that comes with social justice and a
concern for others so people like you as
you get older you have to
of commitments to changing those
conditions first in your own place it's
always better to fix the place that
you're at and then extending that out
but you're lucky you're fortunate that
you don't have that problem you're here
so utilize your time
Oh
well yeah there there's a lot of books
in the United States have been written
on this that I wish the Arabs would kind
of look at and translate into Arabic
like 365 things to do with your children
that don't involve television you know
that's a book you know it gives you a
lot of ideas like things you can
actually do young people like to do lots
of things you know my kids do archery my
two oldest sons are black belts in
karate you know they've been doing
martial arts there's a lot of things
that you can do that are really
interesting one of my son's is a painter
you know he has oil paints he actually
paints amazing things and he's 15 years
old you know that was something he was
interested in we encouraged it because
it was he showed talent he was
interested in and I'd much rather
haven't doing that than doing wasting
his time doing other things because it's
creative it's imaginative Einstein said
if you want to have intelligent children
then then develop their imagination
painting is a great way of developing
imagine if he does amazing pictures
really creative things so there's a lot
there's lots of things you can do but
you have to be actively engaged with
your children a shelfie has a poem about
that your team is not the one whose
parents died it's the one whose mother
is ignorant and the fathers are too busy
to be taken care of and that's the real
orphan right so you have to be engaged
in raising your children but it's a it's
an Amana people should not have children
if they're not going to raise them to be
good kids
because we all have to suffer the
consequences of all these kids that grow
up without real parenting and real
education and they end up you know the
criminal class and all these Wall Street
people that have no morals at all where
did they grow up who was teaching them
you know who was instilling in them a
sense of right and wrong my mother
instilled in me right and wrong she's a
Christian woman with very strong moral
principles from an early age I was told
right from wrong not with religion she
didn't even associate it with religion
you just told the truth and she lived
that she always was truthful in
everything she did that's what that's
what I learned from my mother
be truthful be upright be honest you
know
expect other people respective of who
they are whether they're a South Asian
Indian some of the Arabs here treat the
Indians like dirt one day you'll find
when when India becomes a major power it
could happen in your lifetime you'll be
down there after all the oils gone and
there's nothing here some of the
Emiratis you might be down there trying
to get a job in an Indian corporation
and some of those guys are going to
remember how their father was treated
when he was working here what comes
around goes around
Sitka diam New Delhi we don't have a nun
s I mean that's not a reason to be good
to Indians but it's a reality so even
from a pragmatic point perspective it
might be a good idea just to treat
people a little better than you're
treating them Filipinos here some of
them are treated like dirt
some of the maids here are treated like
they're subhuman these are human beings
they had mothers and fathers you know
they have emotional I mean I asked a
maid in a house I was staying in in a
neighboring country I won't say which
one I just asked her how she was doing
and she started crying literally started
crying you know there's things going on
God knows what's going on but yomo Kiama
it's a big day at Iowa know that I gotta
know the truth or do manal mean people
don't think they're gonna be a Super
Nintendo and Yutaka sudha people think
they're just gonna be left without any
judgment it's not true
go ahead and what edge gets okay for
cell phones well cell phone like I said
the the research is still out they don't
know most of the studies that the
cellphone companies did were in ideal
situations because for instance if you
have a cell phone here it's coming
through your brain that's different from
when it's coming that way so it just
depends I mean there's ideal conditions
most of the studies that the cellphone
companies did were in ideal conditions
and I have a friend who's a CEO of a
cell phone company so I know I got this
from firsthand right
so we don't know if it's safe at all but
generally before the age of about 15
because the the brain the the Jim Jim
you know the the skull is developing so
before that if you're gonna use it even
for adults they should be used it's
better to use it with an earphone keep
it away from the body that's what they
say hold it away from the body or use it
with the voice on or text a lot of young
people prefer to text anyway texting is
safer than that but radiation is real
it's radiation its low-grade radiation
but it's radiation people keep it in
their pockets we don't know how it's
going to affect fertility rates you know
the highe aphid Dean the the male sperm
count around the globe is half of what
it was 50 years ago so we know that you
know fertility rates are being seriously
affected they think it has to do with
plastics because plastics are estrogen
mimickers and so all this plastic that
everybody's living in everything's
plastic your car's plastic a lot of
people wearing polyester that it's
actually affecting our bodies you know
so there's a lot of very troublesome
things going on but generally I'd be
very careful you should not be spending
a lot of time on a cell phone use it for
emergencies if you have a cell phone
they're useful tools but I would use it
for emergencies I have a cell phone in
my car I don't like to use cell phones
to talk on mmm-hmm no let me tell you
something there's a bomb all right in
America there's there's a bomb it's
called napalm they used it in World War
two do you know what napalm is it burns
the skin
it's a goo it's like gel all right it
burns the skin they used it against the
Germans in World War two when they
bombed aerial bombing of Dresden and
Hamburg in these things in Vietnam they
were using napalm what the what the
Vietcong would do is in the village they
would make a big water basin and so if
the napalm hit them people would get hit
by napalm and they would run and go in
and submerge themselves and it would
stop the effects of the napalm
so their skin wouldn't burn so you know
what they did in the United States they
developed napalm that was waterproof all
right we have people like that they're
sick people they don't think about the
moral implications of what they're doing
so the same is true greed
you know the Arabs say Obama you live
you live it happen huh my greed makes
the intellect go away
you can't think when you're greedy a man
you know you can't think so people are
greedy and you have to be aware these
people could care less about you or
about your health there have been many
times where they know things are harmful
and they hide it from the people the
tobacco industry knew that tobacco was
addictive in the nineteenth early 60s
and they hid it from people we had
class-action suits in the United States
you know what the deal they made with
the tobacco industry in the United
States this is all history you can read
all this stuff the deal the United
States government made with the tobacco
industry in the United States of America
is that we're going to shut down tobacco
in the United States but we'll make sure
that you can export it around the world
you know we're the biggest now markets
for tobacco China India the Arab world
we don't smoke puffs in public it's
illegal in the United States of America
to smoke in public illegal you know why
now that all what out there are because
secondary smoke is more harmful than
primary smoke so you're actually hurting
other people when I go into these Arab
hotels here that are largely owned by
Western companies that in their own
countries they don't let them smoke but
here they're all smoking puffing away
without any concern about anybody else
you know what Thailand when Thailand
tried to outlaw tobacco do you know what
America said it would take away its
favored nation status because this is
just Machiavellian politics they don't
care about people they care about
profits and money they care about their
own people to a certain degree they
don't care about other people they could
care less if you guys all die of cancer
as long as they make a lot of money from
selling Marlboro you know and convince
you that the Marlboro Man is something
to emulate in America you know what our
Marlboro commercials are they show a
cigarette that's wilted and they say
cigarette smoking causes impotence
because they want people to stop smoking
it
have those ads over here seriously go
ahead when a person he starts playing
games and is soon afterwards he becomes
addicted and when he hears that games
are harmful he tries to give it but it's
impossible it's compulsory that's a good
question
addictions a problem if you're addicted
to something most of the video
addictions are low-grade a low-grade
addiction is like tea or coffee you can
give it up with a little willpower
cigarette nicotine is actually a it's a
high-grade addiction it's very hard to
give up nicotine some of the same things
because the the brain when you play
video games you get and Orphic releases
so it's it's it's like a drug very
similar to taking heroin or cocaine has
a similar effect the same type of things
are happening in the brain so you want
to do it again and again and again but
willpower is something God gave every
human being and the best thing that you
could do you have to get rid the most
important single most important thing is
to get rid of the stimuli you have to
you have to remove it from the house if
it's in the house you're gonna be
tempted it's like an alcoholic who has a
bottle of liquor in the cabinet
if he gets weak he'll get tempted the
best thing to do is avoid it just don't
don't get it out of the house and you
have and there's times when you'll feel
strong and say I want to quit this thing
those are the times when you should do
it and then you need help to be
consistent find a friend who's willing
to you buddy up with him and you both
make a commitment together we're not
gonna watch video get to it for six
months just do it for six months and see
how your life changes make a commitment
I'm gonna stop for six months when
Ramadan comes around say I'm gonna stop
TV altogether one month no TV at all
zero people now they watch more TV and
Ramadan than they do in other times
you're wasting your time Ramadan is a
precious time I am and might do that
might do that is what's called general
Kuna you know it's short days few days
mm-hmm
go ahead you
some people like it their body gets
seized to nicotine so much that if they
try to quit smoking or something they'll
die so are they supposed to at least
once a day
yeah no nicotine won't kill you there's
there's no nothing zero scientific
evidence that giving up nicotine will
kill you but they do have serious
withdrawal symptoms for some people you
know if they're addicted to smoking then
it's true nicotine can actually be like
a you know like a medicine for them
because they get so nervous so angry so
frustrated but they have nicotine
patches there's other things that you
can do they have nicotine gum that
people can chew because smoking harms
the lungs
you know nicotine is is not good but
it's better to chew nicotine gum than to
smoke a cigarette and it has a similar
effect on the on the on the brain that
smoking a cigarette does but people can
quit many people have quit cigarettes
you know I'm fortunate I never smoked
you know a few times I had cigarettes
when I was in high school just kids try
experiment because other kids smoke it
but I wasn't I was I played a lot of
sports when I was in high school so I
never wanted to smoke go ahead you yeah
as you pointed that in Ramadan people
watch TV more than any other normal day
but at that time many school Muslim
scholars started like saying about Islam
so what why shouldn't we I mean if yeah
if the program is worth watching like
that if it's a dollar or something like
that then you know but I would prefer
not you can you can go to the Masjid and
hear a talk or read a book or listen to
a tape cassette there are other ways to
get doodles than television
I want to ask you though do you think
the majority of parents have already you
know got something in their house at
computers yeah we you know everything do
you think that in these types of cases
that parents should exercise restriction
or just eliminate them completely from
the household even if they've been there
and their kids have been used to them
and
all their friends etc for most people to
eliminate it completely as impractical
that it's just it's difficult because
now there's so many things tied to the
computer a lot of people's jobs are
related to computer and internet access
things like that for most people it's
gonna be impacted I know many people in
the u.s. not just Muslims I know many
non-muslims that just don't have it in
the house because of the destructive
effects that it has a lot of the Waldorf
parents will not have them in the house
things like that but you know one of the
things that is recommended is to have it
in an open space don't have it in a
private space where people can go even
husband's because we've got a problem
with some of the men now that are
getting addicted to things in fact I had
a man asked me about it the other day
you know that he was having a trouble
with that we did a conference on
pornography in Toronto before we did
before I did the paper at Princeton and
I was amazed at how many of the Muslim
women in hijab came out to me afterwards
and told me that they were having
problems with their husbands there are
restrictions here obviously I think
there's some internet control for those
type things but there's DVDs and there's
other ways around that so there are
problems but you know I would say have
it in an open space with the screen
facing a public so like in a room where
you can see the screen itself so that
when the kids go on it you know what
they're going on and then also obviously
you can check searches and things like
that
so it's good to know what they're
looking at as they get older Trust is
very important you know and to spy on
your kids as they get older is actually
a breach and that can cause a lot of
problems because you're gonna create
deceptive child so it's dangerous to do
that I personally think I trust my kids
I've sat down with them I talked to them
about it I found some films once I mean
they weren't they were more like just
very violent films and I sat down with
my kids and I explained to them I said
I'm out here combating against these
things and I can't have it in my house
when you guys turn 18 you're on your own
you can do whatever you want but in my
house
this isn't happening and I trust you I'm
not gonna talk about this again but I
trust you and that that's the way I do
with my kids I've never I've never and
then I don't punish them if they do
something wrong and come to me I don't
punish them you know one of my kids came
to me and he just started crying he was
about 14 he start crying and I said
what's wrong he said I went on the
computer without your permission and
looked at some and he would really felt
bad about it and I told him I said look
that is your bummy oh you know it's your
conscience talking to you and always
listen to that because that will always
be truthful you know so I just used as
an opportunity to to encourage him that
when he knows something's wrong to
respond to that and don't don't ever be
ashamed of that that is the best thing
that we have working inside of us is is
that ability to know right from wrong
and to admit our wrongs and then to
commit to not doing it again
so you know that's what I would do and
and you have to have some restrictions
you can't have it open because kids are
gonna go on and now they have all these
allies games that are free on the
internet are designed by Nintendo and
these corporations to get them addicted
to higher games so they're simple games
are not that fun it's all design they
know exactly what they're doing this is
really well researched stuff they have
lots of psychiatrists and psychologists
on their staff that do they do pupil
dilatory studies on kids I mean there's
a PBS documentary that you can watch
merchants of cool which is exactly about
what they're doing these corporations
they're very dark sinister forces they
could care less about human beings
there's a book that was written by back
end back in in which is called the
corporation they made it into a
documentary and he's us psychiatrists
showing from the diagnostic Statistical
which is used for psychiatric disorders
in the United States that all of the
symptoms of sociopathic behavior are in
corporate behavior
corporations are sociopathic they have
no morality there's nothing working you
might have moral people in corporations
but the corporation
as a machine which is functioning as a
person because it has the rights of
persons in Western law is a sociopath
and the sociopaths are running the show
and the victims are these these poor
young people as far as I'm concerned
adults have no excuses I got okay let me
let me get somewhere back there you all
the way back there yeah you looking back
it's you huh
the government government governor or
president or whatever knew that stuff
are harmful anything that's harmful for
the country why doesn't he just stop it
well that's a good it's an excellent
question the in in in in the United
States certain things are illegal that
don't make any sense at all in relation
to other things that are legal for
instance in the United States marijuana
is illegal but whiskey is legal or
alcohol alcohol hard alcohol any any
form pharmacists will tell you that most
alcohols are more harmful than cannabis
but the reason that marijuana is illegal
in the United States is because the
cotton industry lobbied heavily to get
marijuana made illegal because they used
to use marijuana for all the things they
use cotton for so there's a history for
the prohibition of marijuana as opposed
to right so you you have market forces
and then in the United States in Western
countries generally censorship is a very
sensitive issue even though some things
are censored I'm right now there's us
going to the Supreme Court about
pedophilia material that's done animated
should they make it illegal or not it's
a major problem right so actually
because pedophilia films involving
sexual acts with children is illegal but
there's they're arguing there is and
these are merchants that want to sell
this material they're arguing that this
is animation it's
not but they can make it look as real as
regular film these are major problems in
the United States and there's people
that want to censor these things that
make them illegal and then there's other
people that are arguing for no
censorship but in Islam we do we here in
a country like this you know we do have
certain things that we don't want to see
become public
you know accepted publicly because there
are standards our moral standards that
we still adhere to that a lot of places
other places have abandoned whether or
not people practice is another thing
that's a problem everywhere yeah okay
one more question if cigarettes are
harmful why did they invented it it's a
good cook no it's a good question
seriously it's a really good question
it's an intelligent question you know
what in the Quran it says in whom can
Anam been whom about people that do
harmful things for themselves are like
animals and then it says then whom allah
in arabic ben is a harvested rock it's
where you correct something even though
it's not a mistake it's used
rhetorically so it's not like God made a
mistake but it's to emphasize no they're
more astray than animals why the Mufasa
don't say because animals will never
purposely harm themselves
if an animal sees something harmful it
will flee from it but human beings are
are sometimes they do stupid things
I was once with one of my little boys
and in a store and and there was
somebody smoking and they took in a puff
and blew it out and it was the first
time my son had seen smoke and he just
looked up and he was shocked he thought
the person was on fire and this person
looked down and said don't you ever do
this you know so but people are also
mocked Ella you know the the person
doing it you should have compassion for
them I'm telling you something it's very
important people that smoke you should
have compassion for them you shouldn't
see them as evil people or bad people
they have an empty lab that you don't
have whenever the Prophet SAW people in
tribulation tribulation means if they're
in something that not good for them he
would say alhamdulillah di Fanny
mimicked Erica be he he wouldn't say it
out loud he would say it where they
couldn't hear praise be to the one who
has delivered me from what he has tried
you with the tribulation this hardship
Wafaa Bellini attica theorem in Manhart
of data and has preferred me over so
much of his creation so but people that
sell cigarettes people that sell alcohol
people that sell weapons armaments to
other people so that they kill each
other those people know they should be
opposed boycotted but people that are in
the tribulation alcoholics all those
people we have to have compassion for
them you know really and just thank a
lot that we don't have that tribulation
so you have to feel competin the
prophets eyes and felt compassion for
people even there was an alcoholic at
the time of the prophet his name's
abdullah can he look about him out it's
inside Buhari and he used to drink and
get drunk and they would bring him and
like punish him with us
sandal they used to use sandal and they
just like punish him for drinking and
one time a man said this is inside will
Hadi good sound hadith the the man said
allahu anhu oh god curse this man you
know ma Akhtar oh ho with Jana or Mac
thought oh my you oughta be he you know
he's always being punished for drinking
and the Prophet said don't say that
that's hell and hope for my and him two
men who in Lahore a pseudo don't curse
him because he's a man who loves God and
His Messenger so even though he was an
alcoholic he still loved God and His
Messenger and and the prophet saw him
even Hodja says that's the most hopeful
hadith for the people doing major wrong
actions because even if you're doing a
major wrong action it doesn't negate
love all together it just negates
complete love because complete love you
obey the one you love
right I wish I can answer all your
questions but that was the last question
Allah bless all of you and Charlotte god
bless all of you give you good guidance
and shall I give you open your
intellects
like to thank shake comes up for coming
and spending into the last few days with
us it was a request from the Board of
Governors that he ultimately honored to
give up his time I know he's been very
busy he's just coming from a tour of a
few different countries he's off this
evening or I believe tomorrow again so
the time that he has spent with us I
hope that we've learned something from
him little humility I believe that's
also what Islam preaches is to humble
ourselves and hear especially our
students we hope that you have picked
something up from which a comes I had to
say and I think the most important thing
is that we have the book we have the
Holy Quran we need to read that book we
need to make sure that we understand
what's in there we need to make sure
that we also live out what's in that
book and one of the biggest thing is I
would say is humility it's nice to see
that we have workers in our homes and I
think Sheikh Hamza was mentioning when
he went and he stayed with somebody in a
neighboring country about one of the
mates but if we can think about the
people that work in our homes and the
drivers that collect us and when the
kids are outside and the boys and the
girls are the primary yes in the school
we don't allow the mates to come in when
I first started here seven years ago we
stopped that but yet we still have the
maids that will run up to the door to
make sure that they collect your bag
from you as you drop it down in front of
them remember they're people remember
all right so if we could just work for a
better environment not only here at West
Green but throughout and be better
citizens of the world again I'd like to
thank Shea comes up for the time that he
spent with us here at West Green it's
been a long two days I believe with his
assistance and colleagues and we had a
speaker yesterday for the boys in Mom's
ed so again we appreciate the time that
you've taken out for West Green school
thank you very much