Everything Starts with Knowledge | Shaykh Yasir Qadhi

alhamdulillah We Begin by praising Allah subhanahu wa taala the one and the unique it is he alone that we worship and it is his Aid that we seek he it is who revealed the Quran to the prophet sallallah alaihi wasam and he taught Adam how to speak he it is who hears the Dua of the one who is oppressed and he is the one who answers the plight of the weak so mayat and Salam be upon the one who has chosen to embody the prophetic Peak as to what follows we're all aware that the very first revelation that Allah revealed was in a society in a land where people did not know how to read reports that there were probably 15 people in Mecca that could read and write and mecah had a population of roughly 3,000 you do the math that is .5% literacy rate of Arabia in a land where there was not a single School in a country or a region that did not have a library there was no library in that entire Arabian penena Allah subhah wa ta'ala chooses to send down the final book upon the final messenger and he begins the revelation of that book with a word that we have all memorized and our Prophet sallallah alai wasam is terrified and shocked he's confused and agitated what do you mean it I don't know how to read how would I know how to read what's education was there there's no madasa for me to learn no child is taught how to read and write how do you expect me to read I don't know how to read and then jel says to him no your is not going to be from the readings of men your is a different your is the only where when you don't know how to read and you are for you it becomes an honor and a praise and for anybody else it would not be an honor and a praise because you Allah you don't need to read from an encyclopedia you don't need to read from the writings of men you don't need to read from the latest theologians and scientists on the contrary you shall read your recitation will come from Allah by Allah through Allah your recitation is linked directly to him who needs the writings of men when you are connected to him so our Prophet sallallah alai wasallam was told you don't need to read and write the writings of men you shall read and write your recitation will come directly from Allah with the name of Allah the blessings of Allah the Baraka of Allah that's where the Quran is going to come from but then Allah subhah wa taala in the same Revelation underscores another type of and that is a that is different from the first one in this revelation of five verses Allah mentions two types of two types of knowledge two types of reading the first knowledge the first reading it is divine that is the Revelation that's something that is going to come from Allah through the prophet to us and he doesn't need the knowledge of men but there's another knowledge and that knowledge Allah has gifted all of of us Allah has gifted it because he is Al he wants to be generous by Nature he is generous there is none who is more generous than him and his generosity was manifested in the knowledge that he allowed us to acquire and then he allowed us to build upon what our predecessors have acquired you see we take knowledge for granted we take we take reading and writing for granted but imagine just imagine a world where every single generation had to start from from square one where you didn't know what the research of the last generation had given you imagine you had to rebuild the world from scratch every single generation and you couldn't pass knowledge down where would we be the reason why we are standing where we are standing today the reason why we have reached the Pinnacle of technology and of scientific achievement and of medicine is because the akam has taught us a mechanism of how to cumulatively accumulate knowledge how to pass Knowledge from one generation to another from one civilization to another from one mind to another when we write it is literally almost like magic you know the Mongols chenes Khan the Mongols they were so scared of writing that they would execute every writer and they would burn every book why because they said this must be magic how can somebody communicate from his mind to the mind of another person this must be magic it is not magic it is Al who taught us who taught us and no other species no species the animals talk yes the animals talk our previous speaker told us the plants talk everything talks but only one species writes only one species records that knowledge he taught us the he taught us how to read and write he taught us so that we can learn what Allah wants us to learn and we can take the knowledge of the last years of the last centuries of the last generations and keep on building from them and because we can build from previous generations and previous scientists engineers therefore we can go higher and higher every single era and we're now living in an era where Allah knows what the future will hold so these verses mention two types of knowledge Divine knowledge and what we call secular knowledge the both of them are gifts from Allah but the one is direct and protected and sanctioned and the other is indirect and trial and error the one is infallible the other is fallible the one has a direct communication with our creator and the other Allah allows us to experiment with the creation and Allah allows us to go as far as we can sometimes fallible sometimes with mistakes and sometimes we get it right these two knowledges both of them come from Allah and these five verses they reminded the prophet sallallah alaihi wasallam and through him all of us that Allah wants us to have both types of knowledges the first revelation mentioned both of these knowledges it is as if Allah is saying everything starts with knowledge everything starts with and that's why IMI in his famous booki he has a chapter in the very first book he has a chapter the chapter of knowing before doing the chapter of learning before speaking you have better learn and then you do your everything begins with that knowledge and that is exactly what our Prophet sallallah alai wasallam did he began teaching and preaching the very first madasa if you like the very first system of learning it was our prophet sallai wasam and the university that he founded was the University in his own Masjid it wasn't a physical University it wasn't a structure but there was and there was knowledge and the sahabah understood they have a task ahead of them and they would eagerly flock to the prophet sallallah alai wasam they would study they would memorize he had a person who would go with schedules one day he would go one day his neighbor would go and they would swap information and they would do business one day and learn the other day Malik some of these famous graduates says we learned to memorize five verses from the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam and then we would understand those verses before moving on to to the next Vibe we wouldn't just memorize in our era we memorize which is fine not a problem per se but the companions understood that the Quran wasn't just meant for memorization he said we memorize five verses then we stopped and we did not continue until we understood and acted upon them then we moved on to the next five and by the way do you know how many sahabah memorized the Quran in the life of the Prophet sallallahu alai you will be shocked to discoveri is inkari four people four people because they understood the responsibility of what it entails to memorize the Quran they thought it such a big task that they would rather do it peace meal bit by bit and then understand it and then make am upon it so our Prophet sallallah alaihi wasallam taught the best generation of students from that University graduated the best of the best all of them graduated from that University the prophet produced movers and shakers leaders this is the mark of a true leader a true leader produces leaders and every single major companion became a leader in his own right every single companion contributed in some way to the umah the true leadership of the Prophet sallallahu alaihi was nurtured the talents of different sahabah what he saw in one he didn't see in the other so he nurtured that and therefore KH is not known for narrating a Hadith he had a task to play and he did it Abu Hur is not known for Battleship that's not what he's meant for he did what he was assigned to do hit the official poet of the prophet sallallahu alhi wasallam he had a task to do and he did it the best that's what the leader does and that's what the University of our Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam did those sahab after the prophet left this dun they went their different ways and each one began their own madasa it wasn't a madasa like ours it wasn't a physical structure but they carried the with them they understood this this religion is everything about everything begins with knowledge this is how our religion is going to be preserved and so IB Mas moves to kufa kufa was the nether regions kufa was the far away land the very last city on Earth that was still Muslim IB Mas moves the farthest away and he opens his own school again not an actual school and he graduates students after students I Abbas moves to mecah zabit stays in Medina different people go different places and each one begins graduating batches upon batches throughout our history those people of knowledge have been the ultimate backbone of the um not politicians not leaders notf how many of you know thef of the and ab and the and the Ottomans they did their job but every one of you knows IM Al bukari every one of you knows IM shaf every one of you knows IM abua these are the people who preserved our religion is the backbone of our religion yes it's good to have a nice khif yes we love the and and aans for the good that they did but Islam is preserved through so when these sahab graduated students slowly but surely the concept began we need to begin to codify scholarship the sahabah didn't have manuals that they would teach they didn't have textbooks it was impromptu what you would expect but eventually second third Century people began writing down Imam Malik said let me write a book of Hadith and that began an entire trend ofth Scholars of said let me compile Scholars of language 150 said let me write the first Manual of Arabic grammar he wrote the first manual Scholars of language began writing dictionaries so knowledge began to become in different disciplines and this happened in early Islam so then the idea became why don't we have different specialities these specialities the prophet didn't have no he was everything together but then later on these specialities began because knowledge began to be codified and so in the second third Century we have this this specialization beginning and so a student of knowledge realized if I want to become a scholar I need to go from teacher to teacher spend two three years with a scholar of Hadith and then travel to the scholar of then go to the scholar of so that I can become a well-rounded scholar and this happened in the second 3rd Century at this time as well the the the the the rulers began to realize that we need to protect our Scholars because Scholars they have a difficult time you know living in fundraising they have a difficult time with students and so rulers understood that it is our responsibility to help and therefore some of the most famous rulers of the Abbas of the theuk of theid theid in our land of India Pakistan Afghanistan the gavids began sponsoring madrasas this was the first time around the third Century of the Hijra where people understood if we really one scholarship we can't expect somebody to just start a madasa on their own there were no fundraisers back then the way we have them there was government money there was money that the government had and the government realized if we want to defend Islam we need to have scholarship and by the way the scholarship was every every group The fatimids of Egypt this is an is group they weren't sunnis the Fatimid of Egypt in order to spread their Daw they founded a university called alar alhar became one of the first universities founded back in 350 they did it in order to spread their ideology and da until came and then of course made it into a sun institution the point is the rulers understood that if we want to support Islam we need to support scholarship it was also at this point in time when the idea came why not how can a student go from teacher to teacher and then spend a decade why don't we bring all the teachers Under One Roof and have the student study different subjects and of the first first people to do that was n Al mul the famous uh the famous uh general or the Prime Minister you can say the one of the most famous Prime Ministers of the entire umah almost everybody has heard the name n mul right n mul he was of the Prime Minister of the sjuk Empire the sjuk were the predecessors to the Turks the sjuk were the first Turkish Dynasty and then from them the Ottomans came so the sjuk when they took over n mul was their chosen prime minister n mul made an Institutional reform that was to Forever change the course of Islamic history n understood we need to found madrasas we need to counter these wrong ideologies coming at the time there was manism and all of these different other isms coming other false ideologies he wanted to defend Islam and so what did he do for the first time in Islamic history and some say in human history there's a bit of a controversy is this the first in human or only the first in Islamic he decided why not found what we now call a university bring together different Specialists of different fields Under One Roof and then bring together the top students so that they don't have to travel place to place to place no they can be in one place and they can study the sciences and hey if we're going to do this let's have a curriculum let's have an actual set subject how many hours of how many hours of and so n began a university that was named after him in honor of him the n colle and he founded the first one in his land of nishapur he was from nishapur and then he wanted to build the grand the grand one the ivy league one and he did this in of course the capital of Bagdad he did it in the capital of Bagdad and he said to his friend his great uh Mentor from his childhood his name was IM Al a great scholar of the shaf and thear tradition he said to IM Al I need a young Dynamic person to make the Rector of this ivy league university in Baghdad it's the heart of the heart the capital the choicest land is going to have the best deem give me your best student and so n mul asked IM Al Jani and J said I have just the guy for you and that was Imam Al gazali Imam Al gazali was then sent from nishapur all the way to Bagdad and the rest as they say is history the isia was replicated in at least eight different cities the same curriculum the same syllabus it proved to be such a success that it was exported to other lands even in India as well you had the dynasties before the mugal what was the Dynasty before the MS who knows before the MS the famous not the Lis the Delhi sulate very good the Delhi sultanate the Delhi sultanate copied this type of curriculum and then imported it to India from them eventually the farangi Mahal opened up and they had their own curriculum from them the de came so it's all the Chain Reaction all going back to n and the n and and therefore the notion of having one institution that caters to all the Sciences it really began within the Islamic tradition a very famous orientalist non-muslim expert of Islam George makesi who used to teach at Yale before I came he passed away before I was accepted he was uh in the generation before me George mcus he wrote a book you can find on Amazon the rise of colleges in Islam that's the title of the book The Rise of colleges in Islam and his thesis is very simple and it's actually pretty solid his thesis is Muslims were the first to Institute colleges and universities and they were the first to have different levels and back then there was a basic level which we now call undergraduate and there was a higher level called graduate in fact according to him the PHD uh was actually based upon the license to be able to teach that once you have reached a certain level the sh says you have have the license to narrate that's a bachelor's degree but if you go higher and higher the Sheikh will say you are now an independent person you have the right to hold your own opinion this was called and this is the equivalent of the PHD the point being within a hundred years of the time of the sahabah the landscape of the Muslim world had changed from literally literacy being 0.5% in Makkah it went to un uh it went to unprecedented levels we don't have exact statistics have said 80 90% which is a fair uh estimation point being from 0.5% you get a literacy rate of almost 90% in the Muslim world for the first time children are going to a madasa called a Mak to this day across the world children are taught makas we know even in the most rural of villages even if the child does not get an education in The Sciences they will be taught how to read and write they will be taught how to write the Arabic and understand the Arabic and this is the reality that no civilization did before Islam No civilization raised literacy to the level that Islam did why because the foundation the backbone of our religion is education and both types of Education there's no doubt religious education is the more spiritual what it's what's going to get you to Jenna no question about that but Islam wants you to be educated in the secular Sciences Allah is he wants you to know this Muslims understood this from the beginning there was never this dichotomy of science versus Faith as was the case in the western tradition we never had the equivalent of a Galileo being threatened by the grand Muti if you dare research more we'll burn you at the stake that never happened in our 14 and a half centuries not once was a scientist threatened by the clerics the clerics understood they have a role the scientists understood they have a role role and generally speaking generally speaking Once Upon a Time our were educated to a basic level in The Sciences and our scientists were educated to a basic level in the SEC in the religious Sciences there was no dichotomy by the way this was even the case in the western tradition the IV leagues you know the eight IB leag of America Harvard Yale Princeton all of these what were they do you know initially they were Christian colleges when they were founded there were colleges for Christian missionaries the the emphasis was on the Bible and theology and then you had the Arts and the Sciences all of this changed in the last century where did they get this from According to George Maki this is coming straight from the N is coming straight from our tradition this merging of religious sciences and secular sciences and that is why Subhan Allah it's so sad to say this but once upon a time it's so sad to say in light of our current situation Europeans would go study medicine in Muslim lands this is well known in Toledo totila in Toledo in Spain Toledo fell in the 11th century uh to the to the conquesta before before Granada did but Toledo was half Muslim half Christian and so because it was half Muslim half Christian they didn't expel the Muslims they kept the institutions the madrasas and students began flocking from Europe from England from Germany from France to study especially in Toledo because Toledo in particular they had Christian atmosphere along with the Muslims there and we know this very well because the first time the Quran was translated into a European language the very first time it was done by somebody called Robert of ketton from ketton is a city in England Robert of ketton this Robert of ketton in 1140 he translated the Quran the pope told him to translate the Quran the Crusades had begun the pope wanted to get a translator he traveled to Toledo because Toledo was the place where people would study Arabic Christians would study Arabic why so that they could study medicine right just like now we travel to America or some of you came to America to study medicine you had to learn English and you studied English to study medicine once upon a time people would travel to Toledo learn Arabic so that they could study Theif OFA and they could become doctors so this Robert of ketton was a British person who spoke fluent English fluent Latin fluent Arabic and the director of the University said to the pope this is our brightest student and so the pope paid a medical student Robert of ketton was a doctor he paid him a typen to go and translate the Quran which we still have to this day the first translation of the Quran was done by a medical student from England who was studying in Toledo and who used he actually used you find the footnotes there that he Tri took from to understand the Quran and his story was what a medical student learning Arabic to become a doctor and he has to study shifa which was the medical textbook for 400 years you all know kab shifa of IB CA the 17th volume book for 300 years it was the standard textbook of medicine across Europe it was one of the first books translated into Latin from where to where dear Muslims from where to where once upon a time and I don't say this with a false sense of nostalgia with a with a mythological past and a romanticizing no the fact of the matter for a thousand years for a millennia we led the world in every single field in technology in physics in astronomy in chemistry in medicine in personal hygiene everything we we were the ones who were leading the world what happened in the last 3 400 years that the situation has changed Topsy Turvy that is a topic of another lecture altogether but my point is where did it all begin and and now when we look at the Muslim situation Subhan Allah how things have changed where does one begin to highlight the problems one of the fundamental problems is the splitting up of the secular and the religious Sciences this is a fundamental problem that we have so many people who study the religious Sciences are completely unaware of the world and how the world works and so when they speak about the world those that study the world kind of sort of dismiss them what are you talking about how can you say that and so many people who study secular sciences and who are Masters or phds in their fields are completely ignorant of the most basic things of the dean W this is a problem it goes against the first revelation of the Quran we're supposed to merge the two together the Divine along with the secular that's how we form the Muslim identity that's how we become who we were there should be no division Once Upon a Time our were taught the basics of logic of chemistry of physics and then they specialized in the sciences and our scientists study andth and then they specialized in what what what they wanted to specialize in but when you have this dichotomy then you're going to get a lot of problems and of those problems and I speak as somebody who has lived in both worlds many of you probably know I was a chemical engineer Once Upon upon a time I have a degree in chemical engineering I worked at Dow Chemical I used to devise computer programs to simulate polymer reactions I mean I have some time in Corporate America and then I've done what I've done so inshallah allow me some slack I have the right to say this and I say this not to criticize but so that we can change so that we can bring a solution one of our fundamental problems is this wide gap between the secular Muslims and the religious and the clerics and this Gap frankly there's a lot of blame on both sides but because I'm speaking to a particular audience let me shift the blame into our camp more our meaning the people sitting here yes it is true that many of our many of them don't quite understand the world that we live in and so their fwa seem a little bit backward and disconnected but let me throw that burden back on you let me put the ball in your court since when did our topnotch students go to the madrasas and become Scholars who goes to the madrasas and becomes which type of child do we send there are Muslim countries I'm not going to name them but the government assigns which college you go to if you get above a 90 free pass to the you to the medical above an 80 you go to engineering 70 accounting whatnot if you fail the only option you have is what who can tell me madasa and school this is a Muslim government so do you blame when you you know in in engineering we have you know the input and output you literally calculate input and output if your input is going to be failed students what do you think your output is going to be I speak to you and allow me to be a little bit harsh because we don't have the luxury W it's not meant to be on you personally but on a community and I speak as somebody who is also amongst you inshallah your own children going to the best of schools right you want them to go to the IV leagues good for you but out of every 10 that go to the IVs can't you send one to go and study Islam the best and the brightest Minds because that's when you're going to get a different type of scholarship that's when theim will come out understanding the dean and the dya when the secular Muslims the upper class the elite the nobility I.E all of us here when we understand we need to send our kids to go study Islam we need to send the best and the brightest the highest SAT scores the best MCAT scores let 10 go to medical school and send one or two to the Islamic madrasas that are going to then rechange and that's where alhamdulillah alhamdulillah we're seeing the beginnings of this change with institutes like M with institutes like so many others that are happening across North America alhamdulillah change is beginning but it is too slow it has to become faster and faster if we want Islam to flourish in North America our scholarship has to be from within North America it's as simple as that brothers and sisters I grew up I was born in Houston Texas my father came 1962 one of the first pakistanis to come he founded isgh if you know is G he's one of the founders of G my father came back then there was nobody there of course he builds the first Masid who is going to be the IM fully understandable he brings somebody from Pakistan he was my first you know teacher my first what do you expect okay alhamdulillah one of the reasons I decided to go to Medina in 1993 one of the reasons I decided I didn't understand the not a single I understand it because either they don't speak Arabic or if they try to speak English you'd rather they speak Udu anyway you know like is complete disconnect and I felt I don't know my Dean this is pre- internet pre- books in English if you remember the da scene in the '90s very different I felt an emptiness I wanted to go study there was no nothing for me to do to understand this Dean now for how long are we going to continue to import our they did their job W I'm not criticizing them what else could they do they did the best they could we had to bring from Karachi from Cairo may Allah bless bless them we're standing on their shoulders we're not I'm not critical of them they did the best they could but for how long are we going to continue to import when we've reached critical mass we have critical mass here alhamdulillah so you're going to continue to have people come in from overseas your child will not be connected to them your child will have nothing in common even if they learn English the content of their is not going to be relatable to your child do you blame your child for saying I don't want to come to the Masjid you need to have role models that your child can actually look up to religious role models that your child can look up to and that's where it becomes so necessary if we truly want to plant the seed of Islam so that it flourishes in this land that seed will begin with we need to make America we need to make this land a place where we have our own scholarship like every Muslim land had its own scholarship you know brothers and sisters Spain andalus there was a time when Muslims were less than 10% of andalus in the beginning in that stage they founded some of the most prestigious madrasas in the madasa was there 90% of the population is christian but they realize they need to found a madasa and andus produced some of the most amazing minds of the Muslim empire some of the most exotic Minds Al you find these amazing atypical Minds if you study Islamic history frankly andalus is just a a hot spot of of of eccentric and yet original thought why because it was a place where different Minds mixed together you had Jews you had Christians you had Europeans you had Arabs and Muslims all coming together so you had a different type of thought I say we have the potential in America to recreate An Andalusian mindset An Andalusian Paradigm we have the best of the best we have the brightest Minds we have the most amazing talent in this land but we we don't have an Islamic scholarship for how long are you going to import you must bring something from within your teachers have to be from within your students have to be from within and then inshallah we're going to see a flourishing you know I have a interesting anecdote how much time do I have by the way okay let me just finish up I have an interesting anecdote here let me finish up because I hand it back to our esteemed host alhamdulillah Allah has blessed me to travel many countries I think 50 55 countries I forgot how many I've been to and I like to absorb I like to see what's going on I like to ask questions one thing that terrified me when I was traveling the world was to realize that almost everywhere where Muslims have been a minority for a 100 plus years almost everywhere they have lost their Islamic identity this really terrified me South America is the classic example even here in North America the first batch of immigrant Muslims not the slaves The Immigrant Muslims that came came here to Detroit and flint and Idaho and uh Calgary 1900 you had batches of you know ottoman syrians they came here by and large by and large many of them have lost their faith you now have fourth fifth generation Muslims in these lands that have lost their faith and I'm speaking to you here in in Detroit in in Dearborn right I have met members of your community who whose great great great grandfathers came and the only thing they knew and W I swear to you I hear this with my my own the only thing they knew I know I'm a Muslim and I don't eat pork I asked this was a sister that came to me I asked do you know the K she said what's that she did not even know the K but she knew she was a Muslim and that's why she came to the mid saying I know I'm a Muslim I want to learn more what do you know about Islam how are you a Muslim complete I thought you was a complete Caucasian no no actually I'm originally you know OT Syrian or whatever well what's your story my great great great grandfather came what do you know of Islam I know we're not supposed to eat pork well what else do you know nothing and it's something eye openening to me across the globe South America is another example you had tens of thousands of Muslims around 1900 1910 go to Argentina go to Brazil where are they now the previous president of Argentina Carlos Menendez Carlos Menendez his great great great grandfather was Muhammad something come from came from Syria right and when Carlos Menendez was born he had a Muslim name Mustafa look it up I forgot it you can look it up he had a Muslim name but there's no Islam he turns 18 he goes to University he enters University politics this is back in the 50s he changes his name to Carlos men Ines the rest as they says history slowly but surely the rise begins he becomes the president of Argentina Muslim blood Muslim Blood by the way footnote here there was an article that when he passed away the week he passed away he told his children bury me in the Muslim graveyard Carlos Menendez was buried in a Muslim graveyard and his child actually said there's an interview that towards the end of his life my father started reading the Quran again Subhan Allah So alhamdulillah eventually it came back but nobody knew for his whole life he was Christian Carlos Menendez what not this is the reality of Islam 100 years from now there was one land which was a complete exception complete exception and that was South Africa the first first time I've been South South Africa many times the first time I visited South Africa it was just surreal fourth fifth sixth generation full beards hijab no Gujarati Punjabi Udu all forgotten okay except Roy Dal they still remember okay and the food was spicy alhamdulillah alhamdulillah that we need to preserve guys we cannot ever let go of our spices guys you agree with me okay oh half of you are Arab sorry okay that's that I visited South Africa and I was honestly shocked at how vibrant Islam was they are percentage wise similar to us 6 7% 5% but you go to Durban right you go to Cape Town mahab you go to these cities and mallah the only Western Country in the 70s or 80s that was sending to Egypt in the National Quran competition the global with South Africa the only country back in the 70s and 80s and I was shocked how did you guys preserve your Islam for 100 years I've never seen a country like it not a single country in the western world except for you and the first time I went was 2006 I think seven and I met an elderly lady 93 years old she's passed away she wrote a book about her own life I have it at home 93 when I met her and her grandfather had come do the math her grandfather had come from rural India so I said auntie I have a question to ask you this is before I did my research what she said I backed it up with research but this was anecdotal I asked her auntie I have a question to ask you I've traveled the world I've never seen Islam preserved as much as it has been in your land for the last 100 years in any Western Country what was your secret how did you do this instantaneously I swear to you she said this without thinking twice instantaneously she said the madasa my grandfather came from the village whatever and he opened before even the Masid he opened a madrasa and I remember going going to that madrasa and I said wait Auntie hold on your father grandfather came from India and he opened a madrasa for you as a lady you do realize I said to her that there were no madrasas for ladies back in India and she he she said to me yes I know but my grandfather understood that if we want to preserve Islam we have to educate the boys and especially the girls so the fundamental difference between between South Africa and other places was the madrasa system so here we are today planting one of those important seeds and what a seed masah tab masallah tab a few years ago this place would have been a place where you know with all respect to them nothing of nothing against may Allah bless any religious person in this era that we live in some religion is better than no religion some religion is better than no religion few years ago this was a place where other than Allah was worship we don't like that but there was some religion here that religion declined as all religions are on the decline in America but alhamdulillah alhamdulillah our IM is still here alhamdulillah and I find this to be inshallah somewhat symbolic inshallah a symbol of optimism because this isn't the first church SL mosque that I have visited in America it's pretty common alhamdulillah but this particular Church SL Masjid mashallah what a gift to your community what a gift walk around this campus Acres 100,000 square fet how can you not support this institution this institution and this facility and the family that is behind them alhamdulillah alhamdulillah so I am not here today to make any case the case has been made in front of you I'm simply here to be a part of the Baraka that inshallah we are going to see brothers and sisters what this generation does in particular Our Generation because we are the first generation Our Generation that is fully acclimatized east and west fully and we are the last such generation maximum one and a half Generations it goes zaban goes away immediately the Arabs you understand within two generations you're not going to be speaking Arabic your grandchildren it's going to go away that's the reality we cannot afford our religion to go away we cannot this generation Our Generation whatever we do it will have a ripple effect for at least 100 200 years because this is the generation of planting that seed the Next Generation it's too late so whatever we do this generation in our understanding of Islam in our protection of our heritage in our planting the seeds for the future this is what will be the main factor after Allah's blessings to preserve our Dean so I pray that Allah subhana wa taala opens up our hearts and our minds to understand that responsibility and that Allah guides us and guide others through us and that Allah subhana wa tala utilizes us and that Allah protects us and protects our children after us I pray that Allah subhah wa ta'ala allows us and our children to be of those who establish the Salah I pray that our children become better role models than us I pray that the K is descended down generations to Generations for as long as our children live I pray that Allah Asel blesses our children with the love of the Quran and the love of the Prophet Muhammad sallallah alai wasam I pray that Allah subhah wa taala causes all of us to live as Muslims Muslims to die as Ms and to be resurrected with the prophets and the Companions and what a noble companionship they 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