Meet Sheikh Okasha Kameny & John Fontain | Young Smirks PodCast EP3

really you know the lifestyle is that you know if you come out you know from time to time the person has to and lock you know so in case you know things get and if you need to be straightened up they're gonna street you one maybe two percent our youth in the Masjid where are they you know the Imams that giving them hot but the Imams is big big Papa you know who big Papa you know we get JC now we get T top you know and we get you know breeze or howl of his burden hundred or hundred is better than a belief abilities better than if you are ten open or ten is better than even observers is the man of legacy the sin of prophecy principle of virtue proclaim of peace Reno so of egoism donoso of racism the spring of wisdom the world of Wyndham the source of aspiration moderation temperance fortitude rectitude sobriety integrity and true Republic and simplicity of the black character is a key I haven't seen anyone who respect hijab like Somali people hmm somewhat the Somalian people a chap to them even she's two years old three and when we say hey Jack now now let me keep it straight in twenty-first century we have hijab and we have his jab the sister he must ask one he said because my Sheikh said I can't add female she died a key come on a does somebody's dollar there's somebody's wife that someone's mother understanding the religion if you just say shake said said what did Prophet say and know that the first day of first night of Ramadan and I will never let you go home except you are forgiven Aki you come to the message of that first night you don't go home except you forgive this villain Rahim Salam when I come to LA welcome to today's podcast young smirks podcast sorry come check our local said I have a very special guest Sheikh okasha coming all the way from the stakes Hayakawa it's my pleasure see maybe I'm doing the world how uh sure it's been a good amazing few days I felt like I've known you for years it's my pleasure as well how's your time in the East Africa in East Africa East Africa is beautiful I've seen what I've never imagined you know spending most of our time in you know in North America and when we travel we travel to Europe to Asia to Middle East but first time coming to East Africa I've seen what I've never actually imagined in my life seeing the work that you know you guys put in it's only for us to remain thankful to Allah the amount of work that you just before we get into the into the deep into these podcasts because this might go on for a while how do that I just wanted to choose people to you okay so you born and raised born in West Africa I was born in West Africa yeah and you know when I my early teenage you know I was taken to the west so basically my memory about Africa so leave from home to classroom so I'm not quite familiar with the country here is from born or from school to my house yeah for the most part so basically my eyes open in the United States and ever since this is what would be named not just the United States a very specific part of the United States from Philly yeah I'm from Philly from Philly and Philadelphia is by far the only city in the world that if we put ourselves together we can do what the other Muslims around the world will not be able to do so only if we put you know the baggage that some of us carried with us when we graduated from either as her or graduate from Saudi or from any you know Islamic University if we put that and really focus on the dowry that prophet gave us as some legacy in Philly I believe we have you know leading individuals that will be able to change not only Philly man the world even later individuals like you know multi monir individuals like him no individuals like dr. Parker white individuals like Ally Davis you know who certain individuals like she did Muhammad you know exogamy in the poetic line I said for me move Tina called Latino white boy hero no hanami you know she didn't a bursa Gd you know so that's Belson's I wish she did a couple years ago my man and we've been in touch when I love here too you know you can't find extra deed man you know he might man you know what I like about you Dave I saw he's very relevant for the times you know I don't call him Shadid Mohamed I called me ma'am because this difference between Chafin in when we say me ma'am linguistically so she did is not just a shame he's an imam who had put you know families together so had helped individuals in the city the mess that some of us had made or some of our brothers maybe came and fixed it you know you know you will never do something positive except people talk about you know all what people say about mom she did Muhammad it's just a talk you know we didn't care about that hit man in the sea some people people don't know unless you've met him you wouldn't really know the extent you know sometimes when you see people on you know behind the cameras or in front of cameras it's different you know then meeting sitting and talking to them definitely you know mom's did Muhammad is on different level I you know we only make du'a for different you know after I'm from England I mean I know you've been swimming before you have been to England you know I thought I was like I thought under the streets basically right you know where I'm from in England you know I spend a lot of time in it might not from I just lived in London you know went to school houmous I lived in Peckham in England this is quite rough so I went to America thinking I kind of understand it's a whole different ballgame so my when I was in Chicago I felt like I could die any moment for Panama you know in Philly I went to Philly as well oh you killed the flea you some of the Imams as well they you know you moms in Philly you know when we see someone is an environment fully it's not an imam of the masjid do you know he opened something you know you can't mess with a man from Philly hey mummy moms in Philadelphia you know the Imams yeah so they're not just Imam lead in prayer the imam leading and if you need to be straightened up they're gonna street you were you telling me as well that it's it's quite dangerous in Philly and some of them have to carry guns and stuff you know in Philly you know that the lifestyle is that you know if you come out you know from time to time the person has to and lock you know so in case you know things get heated you know you don't call and that's the good thing about the constitution of America you know since the Constitution is written in an hour city hmm you know I mean Philadelphia in Philadelphia is the oldest city in America and it's the most populous I don't care what people would say why because that's where the Constitution was written that's where what do you call him you know Benjamin Franklin when he left Boston he came there you know the 16th president you know Abraham Lincoln he came there basically you know Washington you know John Adams and sample a National Institute of Philadelphia knows we you know back even from the inception of America and even when people made the you know the colonies when they came together to put together be Constitution so Philly has this history and that's why you know Philadelphia you can't be soft the big history of is long as well when it comes to Islam in Philadelphia you know back in the days we had the nation hmm the Nation of Islam and the Nation of Islam you know they've done a quite remarkable job regardless of the akkada that they are upon yeah you know they've done a job that none was able to do my cleaning people you know taking people from you know restoring people's values and ethics those who were getting high you know following Bob Marley trend wash them clean them you know from this game you know many many many Muslims today that we know Malcolm X is from this movement so many of the men of the legend but they came into a they came into Islam you know they they became people of Sunnah but the transition was from nation hmm so even though people will talk about nation is the Nation of Islam it's not just religious you know movement its political and religious movement so they were able to do a lot you know so the credit is given to them for you know washing people those who were in deep you know dejection and deep trouble and Confused they were able to wash them so we give them credit for what they've done what advice would you give to someone who's watching who may be influenced by the Nation of Islam you know from Al Queda paper you know from the RT the perspective we didn't take al Qaeda from them because they are cleaver is not their art either that or n came with all this enough profit came with so RT the wise you know that's not where our kata is our K this directly from Quran directly from sooner based on the understanding of Salafi Ummah so RT the wise we not we're not even messing with you know that chef I know you're you know I don't know digging in to more about you too much because I know you're shy and you know but for the purpose of the podcast I want to speak about some of your work that you've been doing because you actually memorize the Quran from a very young age and I would like to you know because many people don't know you know you and I want to introduce you you know certainly to my followers and especially people around the world so they can benefit and also to get inspiration you know we've been spending a lot of time to give her over the last couple days I'm so inspired masha'Allah you know we've doing some recording and you are very much into the quiet and you've memorized the Quran and he memorized the coin in the different forms as well can you tell us a little bit about this you know some people know where that the Quran can actually be recited in different ways as well you know the purpose of this religion is to make things easy upon people so Islam is not a burden Islam came to yank people from darkness to light so whatever is regarded as burden upon people Islam came to you know remove that from people's shoulders mom is not like an Ebola it removes Ebola from people's shoulder so this religion is to serve the purpose of human dignity so the purpose of that religion as almighty says you read to love become Medusa you know I'm not only intense you know easiness for you and also Allah Subhan Allah Tala see so much are they confident I mean how she did not place burden upon you in this religion logically falafel of something those are Hannah you can't even walk on of the dilemma at there are many many verses so part of the easiness of this religion is that the Quran that was given to prophets amanu sallu it has more than twenty different methods of recitation in reading so if you cannot read it in this dialect and the made it easy for you to use different dialect so imagine you from my Manchester you know some white man you have your pronunciation and some words that the way you pronounced in in the States we can't pronounce them that way yeah so if you ask a person from the state to say for instance you know in his talk to keep on saying kata or water or you know just the way you talk you know it's gonna be difficult yeah so almighty made it easier for us to use different dialects that he allowed prophet to read all so different recitations did not come from the Imams it came from property just to give someone an example just like a quick example can you can you just give us a small example right from the Fatiha because I remember with you decides in the the Quran okay the other day in the Masjid way and and you know you did it in a way where if you're not aware of it you think it's doing it wrong in that's right that's right okay so now before I answer their request brother John Fante knees I will like to explain to our audience and how many three why we have and also who are the maps basically we have ten in korat tenkara at each of the ten has to rewire three-way miss methods so every wire means a method or a mode of recitation so each of the ten has two avenues so in total we have Tony rewire lat so I can read for an INT when every wyatt that Almighty revealed so if i recite house and someone comes to recite warsh i cannot blame him and say that my watch is burden you have saw your house is better than mine or come boole's burden you know buzzy all disease burden ignition ignition is burden Halla for Halloween spirit and hundred or hundred is burden a belief abilities burden ignored an open or then it's better than even observers the 10 the 10 imams are the first is imam abu nasr a maddening the second imam is up to life in kefir and machi the third is the third a man is mm of armor and Bosley and the fourth Imam is imam hassan and Nujood ii v imam is a man of no honor a shammy the sixth imam is imam al qussair and the seventh Imam is imam hamza as a yet and cuvee the eighth mm is Abu Jafar is Eden Kaka and maddening the knife Imam is Amamiya hope al hot Ronnie and the 10th Imam is hull of a bizarre of dead fish at 10 and each one of the ten has to so the first amount that we mentioned never he has to student the first student is Kowloon and the other student is watch the second email we mention is Imam ethnic until he has also - he has unbusy and he has fumble the third Imam we mentioned is Imam Abu am bringing Bosley he has two students the first is a dorita's other one is Suzy and then the fourth mm that we mentioned and we mentioned Imam if namishyami he has also two Imams or two student the first is Hisham and the second is agnostic one and then the next mm v is Imam Hassan and Nujood he also has to he has house and he has Sherpa now this Imam is the one that he his students recitation became popular this is the popular more people than the world common in recitation that the world knows but this one is no difference than the other ones it's not to say that Bey is better than darude all from allah subhanho wa taala and then he'll move forward the next is Imam will kiss a or Imam Muhammad to go in Chronicle you know order him am a Hamza and say yet and Kofi he also has to he has a ma'am hallo and he has her net and then the next Imam is to say he has Imam a duty and Apple hair is honorable and then the next Imam the 8mm is a puja for who has also two students even or ten and even jammers and then the knife mm you see how cool hot Rami Yacoub O'Callahan always an oral whom he has always and here sorrow and then the tenth in ma'am were kuba : who is an oral home was helping my it isn't enough Intel is hot and it is both from college so all the 20/20 emails an old recitation from Provost Lord is Allah from Alma now one of the blessings of Allah upon human being is to be able to have chained to this immense to Prophet - Allah subhana WA Ta'ala directly because you cannot just pop up in public it's not reading without having the chain if that's the case everybody will just stop reading you have to have a chain that links you to them to profit this is how is presenting this house is being preserved so as of today by the permission of Allah in chain number twenty eighth two prophets Allah while it was setting the chain this is just for one key rot or not that's all all all of them all ten or twenty which way would you look at you look at ten all you look is they you know technically we do not want to confuse our audience because they are some techie technologies that we dealt in details even the students of this they may get them come so we say in all the twenty to make subhanAllah that's an amazing achievement you know - I'm on it you know you know to meet some of the you know to meet yourself and other sheiks who were her actually preserve actually taking part in that preservation know you know that subhanAllah and and subhanAllah brother journeys is really remarkable you know thing to recall that soon meaning the hadeeth of Rasul Allah is Allah who seldom also serve the hadith deserve this carrot hmm to explain them in great details so it's not befitting for a person to be a student of Quran and know all this cannot act without knowing the Sun hmm hadith and that's why since childhood when you memorize Quran the next thing they used to tell us is that you go to Bihari I'm gonna memorize that book then go to Muslim you're gonna memorize that book and go to tell me you're gonna memorize it then go to even imagine memorizing so I encourage the youth that not memorizing Quran that they should not get stuck hmm you know behind or and once they memorize they say I'm done finish not Quran is the key to all the sciences of the world so if you have Quran and you city more yourself have then you see it's like you sitting on my dime you know when I first came to Islam I was where not when I heard that someone can actually memorize just the cat yeah I was like what's this impossible right you know but when I learned that you know there's so many people who've memorized a crime every Muslim takes part in you know at least parts of the memorization know and then I heard that people memorize the hadith you know in the first cases I was like what you know this is blowing my mind that's right and this is also something that you've yeah yeah actually when we started we were in hadith in the science of hadith the science of terror art is something that I was encouraged by my teacher so in school I was in hadith you know but the teacher encouraged to take something from Quran so we took that as surplice you know to add to this so we encourage the youth to really take part in hadith because a person of our n is known as a person of our n if he or she knows sooner if you don't know soon and you don't have a hadith thousands of a hadith memorized you are not a half hmm if you memorize Quran in a the notion to scarless of knowledge er not to heaven but to the masses or to regular people if you have currently called a half by yesterday when they say to someone like sham subpoenaed their behalf of they don't mean he memorized Quran when they call someone like him in Rajab humbly or if someone like him am even hotter in las colony or someone like imam abu jafar it Baha'i or someone like chef Elise number Ventimiglia and Ronnie or someone like evening am would domestically or someone like him I'm sure of didn't know we as her fault they don't mean they just memorize Quran that means this individuals we have thousands and thousands of I had it memorized so they say it's not the same and that's why at an Harris Institute we taking the Ummah back to Indonesia and I always tell our students back in North America that if you can memorize or n it's not befitting that you don't know the car the tuition of the land supreme law of the land hmm because the you know articles of our Constitution in North America or in the United States it's not more than seven hmm and it's not more than you know the pages from so rotten idea to Ness hmm so imagine if someone can memorize from so ratnavati had two broken s how about from ideot the constitution of America is not more than the pages of my idea to borrow penis so if you can do this then this supposed must be like drinking water you see so we encourage the youth to be not only fourth and graduates of you know islamics universities and be dysfunctional in the society no half of at the same time you're the one responsible of building bridges of your city hmm bridges of your state yeah half is responsible make the best surgeon the first dentist you know one of our students hums and hibachi may Allah preserve him and preserve his family very bright you know he reads or an you know every day five days a week and when his reading I really don't have to think much about his mistakes because he's just reading you know scarcely make misty hmm and it's just like we have to give the listeners an example because a lot of people I'm Toni sure a lot of people never heard they had they're gonna be shot I know you're thinking what you're talking about seriously sure you know you know I'm a trouble right a lot of people are not aware there's different methods you know so I want to give them an insight okay let's give them an insight we've left the Fatiha because this is something that everybody knows okay no problem we start with imam kowloon since he is the first thing the mists mean ottoman and logically but you are the headphones you know we've been having for Malaysia you know you know I don't you know it's fine I don't need the hidden yeah you know Baraka Baltics how to be lurking in a shape on rajim bismillah r-rahman r-rahim al-hamdu lillahi rabbil aalameen rahmanir rahim Maliki emyjane econo air canister in Dennis new album you stopping syrup on live in an entirely him viral of booby Allah Allah I mean this is called a macaron in fact he has two methods so even the students has very small batches Latisse camera so you can have been dealt intervals because alone here seller to me my German hmm with here meaning he has optional : and pitifully he Jenna so this is : now let's read even a field from kombucha silicon fira has Percy and Pumbaa bismillah r-rahman r-rahim al-hamdu lillahi rabbil aalameen a woman or Mahim manikyam meeting ya can our GUI here canister in Tennessee Walton mr. team say rotten Lavina and non Tala him voiding of Gubbio lady mu me I mean so in company you can see Dennis sellout we decided it with seen anything as Serato hmm and we did not say Dennis Lee in SC you see so this is what happened and this is mm homeboy so serrata Edina sirat al-mustaqim sirata al-ladhina move would see me so in kampala instance if you recite a hit in a Scirocco that's wrong hmm and also if you said ready mcdougal a him waterboarding that's also on you have to reset irregular he move one of body hmm to the untrained ear they might even not here yeah these money difference yes at this manner there's some obvious ones yes some of them were obvious and some are not so obvious and that's why you asked the student articulate hmm each when he is learning and the next is imam the next in line that we would like to read is imam abu amber and bossy the Muhammadan Muslims the scholar from bustle and this is how he reads through Suzy bismillah r-rahman r-rahim al-hamdu lillahi rabbil aalameen al Rahman al Rahim Medicare meeting young can our boudoir here can estoy de no sir opening stopping south on Medina and none time a him while mubahala him what a balmy I mean so this is Susie hmm now the next mm is mm if no I mean you know however he decided many just like the way we did so there's no need to recite his because he agrees with a mom Kowloon so basically if an imam agrees with Anna diamond is no need to repealing and the next day ma'am after that is in Miami awesome and awesome is well no no need now the next day ma'am is in ma'am hamsa mama Hamza now he has a big big this is it so this is you always can cause some fitness or the wrong question you know Egyptians be my family so I think Joe can talk about my family yeah you know I recited kind of and house the ones the Masjid about to flip on me so after mess after the prayer you know they started making noise and when I saw people come in and the way they were angry to them like every is just switching me this guy is like maybe a kafir playing with Quran and they just came and with the way they were coming I have to change my mood of being a man to Philly move think if something is going wrong so we can bring Noam Chomsky this is in Egypt no this this was in America but Egyptian and even when I was in it in Egypt also the same thing here you see sometimes when you have so familiar with the recitation house and the other ones become like the same thing team t wasn't it on purpose so it's not like something purposely done hmm so sometimes you have to because if you review in everyday the last one that you review is the one that naturally comes and all of them will be like they the same to you hmm you see if you are eight man and someone is you don't need someone to attack you from front to do some big man move is coming from here you get some moves you know like Bruce Lee with nunchucks you see so you know because if Dino's Virata in Egypt is something shameful okay so it's life so when I recited some of them did not quiet so this is actually evolved to be something you have to release yeah based on yeah yeah yeah but you know Quran is if you take in different dialects sometimes you can hear a word of Quran in someone's dialect that is a big problem but do we say because your dialect is is a word in it is shameful so we don't normally we this is foreign from a Moscow in China Asuna muntaba in the Sunnah that people can fabricate you can switch it hmm it has to be recited the way it came so this is how hamza reads and you will see the big difference when I read bismillahi r-rahmani r-rahim al-hamdu lillahi rabbil aalameen arrahmani arraheem manikyam Medan yeah Kanagawa air canister day knows where walton use 13-0 polythene entirely whom reading of booby Holly me mean so subhanAllah see how very different yeah welcome and this the pronunciation by the way is not in the normal Arabic yeah because in Arabic the words is not there we don't have the sounds in Arabic we house and hmm we have so now when you mix both you have the sound that is called issue murmurs hmm so that's why people can get it hmm because it's not a world or a letter that has in a well-known letter what's interesting even today sometimes people are trying to recite the well-known one but but saying Cerato in the in the wrong way yeah no not intentionally right you know that's that's kind of openness is the beauty of Quran and it's it's of Hanuman and it's so amazing that you brought this issue hmm because many people are not aware of it and yet they don't know how to acquire so you know by the permission of Allah we will praise Allah that brother John Fante not made it possible for the world you know to get to know much about this no marshal is is to meet someone who actually knows is it's amazing just to get this is that this opportunity hamdulillah no so subhanAllah you was originally born in Ghana went to Philly in the past two days we've been but past week you came to Uganda you came visit me and you can never did the journey of faith how did you find you and you got this beautiful you know Uganda I get to see Muslims with the collaboration and the units and it's a beautiful land is just the Buddha Buddha multiple the motorbike I wanted to get you on my motorbike I got Shaykh say yeah you know Sheikh say it Draghi became afraid when you scared him out the video went viral is it he said after he rode behind you you started scaring him out I told him okay when the next I will come to ganda we make sure we right but you know and I love the place the place is really nice and beautiful and subhanAllah the work that you've put and the amount of people that showed up during your faith it's a number that is you know it's beyond apprehension you never thought you know this amount of people who come and subhanAllah wherever we go this age this social media is something that yes analyse like they be knowing us for like years and years and it's like we believed in Uganda for many years and first time in Uganda but you know wherever you go masha'Allah masha'Allah Sheikh and all these so this actually emphasizes on our unity as motherhood that you know even though we never lived together but the Brotherhood bring us together hmm shaken what you to tell us a bit about your organization in Philly no now I have you know geared many organizations and many many mosques or places of worship the first place that established in in America is after being any man for different places being him in New York you know leave him there go into Michigan living there going to Washington State Seattle and then coming - Chester first place you know I'd be I will see I was named a Manchester and and by the way the people of Philly they don't mess with the people in Chester it's not anymore so does the really hood miss P but yeah you know even if you put a person in Philly to go to Chester he say no I appreciate your offer do they have a chest the cheesesteak disease D so so this I just what I found interesting when I went to Philly you have this culture non-muslims dressing like Muslims so the further the pants up they did trim the moustache they leave the bed they call it the Seneca you know in Philly in Philly one you know one you can say maybe eight out of ten people that you will meet they will give you greetings of Islam and Islam Allah even though they almost even though they're not Muslims that's our failures in philippi gay you know the sisters police officers hmm and I know now people who did Eman and I and you know some extra men bothering them they're gonna study you know some talk just reserved the talk for now but sisters in Philly the only table Aki hmm you know we asked a lot to preserve them help me just just don't provoke them you know hey we'll bring some committed finish last time I came out I was just giving a lecture in university but I'm gonna come and see the real cities you know big Shadid uh you know she'll my man here after bring Shae couple of summers you know oh shut up with summer man I tell you what you know shock abu-salha he my that's that's the shake I mean I love him daily you know I haven't seen him in a minute but you know I have a good relationship with him and that relationships handle law even though we don't see each other for sometimes three years but it's like we live together and and I regard him as the Sham sedated the happy of our time so each each epoch in time you know have your own the happy you know Chicago some he did that beautiful that's gotta lotta place I mean preserve him I mean and you know he I was on I went to think it had your own room with him oh my so it was doing you know they didn't did they take them around to show them the sights and he's was the Leal toss it was like this is not authentic he was just giving you the pure offered this is not from our religious virtual available area you know I mean he doesn't cut corners I was with him for weeks ago which is my who's doing something for the youth oh my love my shadow yes come in reserve him so I'm getting that you know in Philly are not blessed us tremendously so as he asked earlier about the institution so after being a moment just in all that I established and wasn't the Islamic school in Philly hmm and my student was a three-year does separate we of Islamic school in more of the Masjid was lovely and then after that I went to Jersey for three years to help Unwin Han Academy and I helped the students the university students down in what they call the university students down in North Carolina I have those students for alien half and I established in TV and TVs in a national network of knowledge by by three beginning of this year we served more than 11 million that fielded the channel praise allah subhanho wa taala who had allowed in TV to spread out russian you know and we thank the team and the brothers but you know sometimes when people have to good work and you don't have the team that you pay sometimes it's difficult but I'm do not they doing their best to sustain the channel and then finally we have al Harris Institute now that's the real deal soil health institute is where we teach the islamic sciences we have the facility and our branch is in dallas texas so those who have been asking you know we've been asked and we had been asked by many you know students from it even sometimes student from Saudi they call ask for some help and student from as hard the same thing and we've been receiving emails from students all around the world most of them from UK and some from Indonesia some from Malaysia some from our brothers in planning some well brothers from Nigeria you know they've been asking but you know because you know doing a lot everyday sometimes you can get to them so that's what we have the online platform so whoever wants to learn directly from us on site it's only in Texas hmm on the higher level you know if you if is if it is lower level meaningfully you can get there or in North Carolina you can get that but a higher level you know on site is in Dallas Texas but online we do it worldwide so online this year inshaallah would start you know by the beginning of August so whoever wants to learn what is Arabic language or is the size of hadith or mainly the size of cut if it is on site this year we will became insha'Allah I'll ensure the beginning of August be even later on personally goes to the blue double dot and here is that hawk and here is that ok al h ir z that odd orgy and the person can submit his or her application from there now we have four adults and four children as well mashaallah now that's great where someone has to take advantage of the online platforms now maybe you can do in the future and show us something like we can toast courses you know intense you know if you thought about anything like this yeah yeah now i have that we do have that at that you know in straight but I'm not the one doing because we have the top student of this institution someone like who study sublimity our study rates of numata was a non-muslim he was disbeliever and point out who was once he said to me that he was actually an atheist Jillian's you know a plus plus student from Kentucky very bright he embraced Islam subhanAllah he followed me for two years and after two years is he can I learn from you he is observing its Mahanama and then he asked do you know i sat with him for 15 minutes not 15 hours 15 minutes although he lived in Orillia Havel I gave him eight coded words in 15 minutes you learn how to read and read Arabic so this is the basis of the code that we devised at an heresy Institute that we used to teach the students and you allow them so right now here the top so he holds the seminars in a weekends and whatnot and all the the things that he does that and also we have our brother now he is an african-american brother we have our you know Caucasian brother known as brother Angela Esposito brother Anju Esposito Mia me on the preserve him he also knew she had both of them took is she took Shahada it's not more than six years out but now they the ones given hot but teaching Islamic Sciences and that's why I mentioned to you that they and I've been serious about this that someone like you hmm like Hugh I mean Joan Fontaine Allah blessed you with this religion and this religion that Allah blessed you with you can do what those who were born in it came hmm and I've seen it you've traveled throughout East African West African different parts of the world teaching and see what you're doing for the deep mmm-hmm some that were born in the Dean did not even do a fraction of what you've done so take this as a privilege and not get tired and smear about those who will say whatever they will say nobody will do things positively for except people who talk so you know I asked a lot to keep useful for what you do and I hope and pray that allah subhanho wa taala accepts it from you and those non-muslims that embrace in Islam I called them the Sahaba of 21st century because they the ones that can take it to the next level there is no habitate and they the ones that they have the love of Islam in their hearts to share emotional it's amazing to hear about these brothers masha'Allah Allah subhanAllah how they such spending Islam for such a short time yes yeah the serious students of knowledge my son had a lot this study he said that I talked to you about he read Bible back to back when he loses let me read Quran back to back he read Parvati back to Bath how many students that would even graduate from Islamic universities who have really mean Holly back to back so this is effort yeah and plus the difference between someone who was born in the Deen and someone who is new into the Dean a person that is willing to detain for the most part we know we take the Dean for granted but the newcomers it's like okay I've done some things in joy here let me use Islam - why so they do even extra hmm than the old Muslims you know in Fela we get different terminologies for this we get new Shahada always you had a bunch of head shake what what else you wanna speak about okay you know want to keep it relevant you know - you know you know today when you see the dynamics of the Muslim world you can see that we are suffering as Muslims Islam is not suffering and never all Islam suffer hmm but Muslims we are beat feeble dysfunctional support need you know inactive and thanks for the most part is because the call of RN is not being utilized we read Koran but reading Quran is not what makes you different listening to Quran is not what makes an individual unique applying what is in that book and listening to it to understand your environment and to use it to keep it relevant to your own place see the problem in the West or in Africa is that most of us that travel to do different part of the world to learn when we come back or return back to where we came from we try to take the culture of the place or to tradition of the place where we learn back to our people and we try to enforce it upon our people and if they don't accept it we look down upon them this is what killed the Dawa in fully a person wants a fully to be like Riyadh a person wants fill it to be like Medina a person wants fill it to be like Mecca the person once filled to be like cow like Alexandria like Casablanca shape look every single state or city or country day you know people are used to their own society the only thing that can change the wrongdoing of individuals in any country it's not implementing somebody else's culture in that country you know the culture of Riyadh can't fix our problem the tradition of what we call it cairo can't fix our problems in Philly hmm but or an can sooner can do it because people have direct relationship to the Creator so if we utilize our own the situation will change and for the most part look the Shiites today do you know the yesterday I was informed when we the lecture that here in Kenya there is a place called Nakul in this place or the city Nakul most of this you know Medina graduates had turned into Shiite what yes in Kenya right here in Nakul how because Shiite they've dominated the place they come to you do you have tuition for your son to go to university no I've done do you want your child to be in the street and smoke what they call it here you know how they call that the to depart the cut you know in doped hmm Fanta knows you know sniffing cocaine is that how you want your child of course nobody wants to see his child like that okay what is the alternative you can send him to university you can't send your daughter to university the shared hotel okay we take it we take care of that we pay for your son we pay for your daughter we pay and pay and pay and pay and pay and gradually deep earning and gaining and taking them so now those who graduated from Islamic universities around the world in the environment when they were coming there's never a place in the world or a Muslim or an institution that is established by Muslims and well known around the world that people go and graduate and when they're returning back home they give them a fortune hmm they give them wealth and say now that you have the knowledge go to your homeland establish your own institution and what you learn apply to the people based on Quran and Sunnah do you know of any Islamic University that does that do you know of any you will ask to the day you will ask from now probably till the day of judgement you will never hear it unless we change that so they go back we go back to Philly we go to Egypt learn go dr. Philly I'm usin Philly because that's my spot that's what I know the most so we go to Egypt come back to Philly on what we have is the knowledge we go to Islamic University of Medina Islamic University of Oman coral or you know here or Casablanca all say tune all this and come back we broke hmm the university did not give us a dime when we return back now we appreciate the knowledge but when we coming back we did not come back with anything hmm so when I come back now I have to go in search whether I can find a master to be any man and the other thing is you've been out of the area for ten years five to ten years five to ten years up to date with what's going on you know look at the gap so now it's gonna take you longer hmm and that's why people today hmm they when they return they trying to enforce they trying to enforce whatever they have learned from the crowd I know and it's not working so which is many out of the day and we push them away from the deal hmm we come bro now we go ask for people to employ us as Imams for two years they're gonna hold you in there when your contract is over you have two options it's either to go and struggle find another job or you fight with the board members and that's why you see thousands 95% of the misogyny in the world today have problems talking about the West yeah Imams and you know sure or Imams and the board never agree on something and always fighting and who is paying the price the youth in the community the society okay in the price and some of them wanna believe in the tea we've seen that and that is so the best thing to do okay you get the Islamic Center vacation you return back if you did not finish cargos go back and finish it hmm you did not finish University go back and finish it you know I noticed with you is you you're very up-to-date yeah you're very cleared up on popular culture you know what's going on you know we're speaking about the rappers in Philly and things like that the other day yeah you know you have to know who your community are because these are the ones who are giving down to our youth there's no tie hey no no doubt you get the point yeah you get the point you just head in it right now no they listen you know you will come on the member on Fridays check the mast you can see 98% are all grown people hmm maybe 2% are youth in the Masjid where are they you know the immense that giving them hot but the Imams is big big papa you know who big Papa is that's that's a biggie yeah they listen to bigger than they listen to any man in the world I'm just keeping it real you know just you know you know I'm sorry brothers if we keep it in overall they listen to be apart than they listen to any manager I love it when they call me big pop and they loved recently you see and Tupac and even though they dead but they still looking listen to Jesus on allah subhana wa jay-z will be Beyonce Nicki Minaj you know Cyrus Miley Cyrus you know Lady gaga you know Rihanna earlier even though she did still been listening to and today now if I wanna really keep it roll these people are even over now we have new-generation know Jay Z so I know you mentioned is now it's nothing that you mentioned Jersey to new generation are you talking about now is GC disease this guy we care you know we get this one this one with a pink hair you know we come into all of them get JC now we get t-top you know and we get you know breeze snoop snoop had already lost his dog 50k and find his sins Buster had run out of rhymes you know and off cannot even find his daddy you see all of them the owner the furnace well now you get breathe you know you get you know a t-top you get arsenal you get you know you know FC you know those are the generation now that the young kids will spend hours and hours listening to then even open for entry then even reading their own curricula from school hmm so that's why they're our data what is also did now the top of the tab you know subhanAllah I mean before as a Muslim I said listen to this you know it's a DJ and do these things I mean it's Haram you know let's just put it straight in order of the music but even that it had a message it had something I know it I know it's Haram but today is just pure filth it's open field yes Father akhi the one that may see something even though he had some potholes in his statement the one that may see something that makes sense is black ball hmm Tariq trata no I'm not talking about him this would because he from Philly hmm but among the rapper seat top hockey he can go you know from 10 to in freestyle aqui can go to 10 minutes non-stop nobody had done it like that I seen you doing a bit of a freestyle damn estate it just came up you know you know being from Philly from time to time you know you put something in you know what was it today you say on the stage you know sometimes it just comes you went out farewell oh yeah when I was Creason but I love them didn't know is rhyming you know I was looking next to me yeah II think I didn't realize there were present profit you know we saw it was a man of legacy the seal of prophecy principle of virtue proclaimer of peacefulness of egoism Dino so for assessing the spring of wisdom the world of Wyndham the source of aspiration moderation temperance fortitude rectitude sobriety integrity and truly public and simplicity of sublime character and you know it's come time to drop some low B in here you know I told the old boys you know that you know when it comes to this religion here to the young kids on Kenya I told them you know to every young Muslim of Kenya you know in Accra and dunya to earn the recognition of your countrymen first respect and take good care of your neighbor freedom from hard labor promulgate Islam to them in different flavor let the Kenyan know that from God to the world Prophet Muhammad is a favor and his disciples are peacemakers or each one is a peacemaker and so are we increase in our Creator so he that disturbs you unnecessarily be like a razor if he repents than an eraser send this message to Kenyans with or without data if they repudiated then let them deal with Ebola you know that's not just some believe I can't wait to come says the I never thought I'd want to live in the States quote I'd love to live close to you Michelle please we've had a good time you know we did we did indeed I mean our government has allowed some hockey you know panel I see the brothers just asked us to you'd be when I even asked to record you just came and record the prayer and the Salah just few verses do you know just before coming here the prayer that you recorded hmm has 14,000 views mahjong just few hours ago and not just listening to Quran name cuz I put the subtitles in this subtitle hmm so then I just listening they're getting the meaning yeah communication yeah and they get to know what is it that Quran is talking about here we have many men now if you look how many millions of her father do we have millions of her father but do we have equal in impact of Sahaba it's our impact like them Sahaba half of them did not memorize color hmm you know what because to them is memorizing and application simultaneously hmm and that's why sometimes one of them will take eight years memorize assorted bacala hmm now if a person stays in Quran memorizing Quran for ATS they're gonna see what type of memory do you have hmm you tell me as well you took eight years to memorize Quran yeah and this was more beneficial than Russian this is more beneficial than Russia and now you have Quran in your memory just like your name and it's like whatever you want to learn regardless of you know the background of that science whether is something new to you or not or antis clicks and it makes impossible possible as a benefit of that book so we say to the generation today today when it comes to or and Somalians the Somali boys I don't know of any you know country that produces her father like Somalia or to make it you know adequate than some manly kids hmm wherever they are whether in the u.s. in Canada yeah or in different places why because you know the reason is because allah subhanho wa taala had blessed these people with and the reason one and really love some islands I love some islands for three reasons hmm one because of the love for Quran so the law for sooner most of the teachers and scholars that graduated from Saudi or from different parts of the world they took the size of hadith and that shows the love for kid for some men and lastly the alofa hijab yes oh honey I called the Somali sisters they hate the Marines of hijab no no country in the world or group of Muslims in the country hmm the Kenyan even Yankee went to the Russia the other day and is Aki I haven't seen anyone who respect a job like Somali people hmm somewhat the Somalian people a chap to them even she's 2 years old 3 and when we say hey Jack now now let me keep it straight in 20 percent we have hijab and we have his jab we have a jab and his job you know you're gonna find some some his jab going all around his jab from here his jab tight his jab I've seen a sister he in Philly Ikey I can't talk negative about my city let's let's keep with our sisters may Allah bless them assistor she has she has niqab washer with a short pass I see cumin seeds the under part is mob is more deserving the objective take care of her can you please remove me from here and leave your face open and cover the back this is what type of a job is this please mm-hmm I'm not talking about talking about in the club imagine someone with me yeah when you tell me are you totally can't be any mommy xxx us you strapped you know you can't be fulfilling be soft Jake is just that's just our filius you know if you want to be different world other it's just different world in them and the good thing is that it doesn't you can't go to sleep I don't think our last two minutes out I need some potatoes beautiful SIOC is this beautiful city when they say he ma'am from Philly they mean a man not a man from Philly sneeze telling me that they well known for that you know that football Friday yeah you know in Philly in Philly if you come on a member and you just like you know brothers we praise Allah for bringing us on Friday I come didn't let that TT to leave us on I'll keep it in the poly from the number up what you doing what are you doing on there now on the small small miss endings you know you can get away with it for what we you see the team is given hood word and it's like it's about to punch you well sure I seen I've seen a video on each so many people yeah you know you know 1958 they did citywide eight 19:58 we were not even born but in 1950 they did citywide heed according to chart a how to support another pioneer of philly you know when it comes to dour he said they did citywide heed meaning everybody in the city coming to eat you know how many people showed up eight people that was now everything now it inside change by sometimes include ambassador key three people of jihad this is the damage that the the Dawa the Atome employed from different part of the world we did not stick to Koran and call people to Quran people for very long times for very long time called to scholars hmm people of a people in go on the minbar and spend an hour without quoting an area without quoting a hadith is just check for learned said Schieffelin say me a sec is important but it's not that important when it comes to the Dean if he's that important he would have been the Prophet hmm if he is that important for the deal I know that reserved him as our prophet hmm so under doesn't love him that much hmm unlettered love him so much if Allah loves him so much prophet mohammed salah is selling mcnabb delight now did not tell even her she not the magnifique no sabía que llevan if it were a bit more he wouldn't have been the prophet my sheikh would have been the prophet your she could have been the prophet the Sheikh would have been the province so since I made it not to smash a or you sure called the Sheikh from this control Duncan that means they're not that important when it comes to the deal they are only important if they call people to the Sunnah of Rasulullah super that's what me that's what makes people special but you know of course we're not belittling scholars subhanAllah we need a key Oh his priorities are not a key whoo nobody will be little as Carl acceptor Jay hmm except a person who's ignorant because of this ahead and shade allah allahu allah allahu allah ma li kool-aid and then Holly stole Adina LM alone didn't die on the moon and then it'll come to fulfill majority of Sophia hello look me that LSU to friendships are very lowly dynamically denote animate object all this yet prison the scholars of knowledge but when you bring them in front of profit that's a problem hmm when you give them status that you could the modern you co profit that is a problem when you coat the mood a new coat or an that is a problem when you take them as the lead now if you take them as the lead to pour em that's a plus hmm a vide to profit that's a loss and the two Sahaba of Rasul Allah does applause but that's not what we did in our societies so I'm talking about what we did that messed up the movement that people for more than 20 years just shake fool and said okay shed fuller and talked about this mm so we can't benefit from you shared full and said shucks I eat frog this morning when we did meet for breakfast he was telling me in Canada because he from there hmm that a brother who was a registered nurse hmm a registered nurse imagine his you know his permit and Isis was taken away from him and now he is driving uber someone who was well known doctor registered nurse driving uber why because they took it from you know what because he left a patient to die while watching the patient that was a female patient she was admitted hmm dime he didn't touched the sister he was asked why he said because my Sheikh said I can't touch female she died I keep come on a bus somebody's daughter there's somebody's wife there's someone's mother understanding the religion if you just say Shaykh said said what did Prophet say what did Quran say how did Sahab understood it this is our Deen when a man gave fatwa and in his fatwa the person who ended up dying the hadith and behold when they traveled and there was not enough war or they was in water for them for him to make wudu and he asked them can I make the Yemen what did they say they say no you can you have to use war he used war and he was injured and wounded the water went in and he died they returned and told prophet professor Salim said he caused his death may Allah may Allah perish may Allah caused them to perish in named war he did he make du'a in their favor because they caused him to die for lack of knowledge so see whenever you channel the Dean to people and individuals you cause problem but you will never cost problem if you channel them to profit if you channel them to program if you channel them to Saheb if you channel them to the student of Sahaba student of the student of Sahaba although it's the scholars of the time so we use scholars to educate ourselves to understand do you go to school and never graduate do you go to school for never to graduate or you go to school to graduate hmm go to school to graduate but for our dour we never graduated and those who cause problem for the forward motion of Islam not to be so conspicuous hmm sad to say but they the castrated II the castrated scholars and the robotic students and the blind followers hmm when his collar is castrated icky like Ebola when a student becomes a robot he's dangerous for the society when a person becomes a blind follower he's not asking is that what I asked me to do is that what prophet asked me to do as this is what so how the practice is that's how is this what they did for the world to get to recognize their you know ethics and levels no it's all about what my Sheikh said and if it is from my Sheikh is is dandy but our team is part of la couleur Rasool Allah saw have Hamada never forgiven him said a Deen religion is what Allah said what prophet said someone is Allah and once I have a said they are the people of understanding and his share of Shia Islam even tamiya rahim allah was reported to have said openly whenever the Quran o morado who were in the shtetl maemunah calling upon you I translated this into English and I wrote a comment on this book it's called Lamia to share Islam in it he mentioned he said may Allah causes the face of whoever throws Quran behind him may Allah causes his face to be disfigured if he places or an behind his back and whenever he quotes he's a scholar so-and-so said all this person and that person said and he has poor onion he doesn't use it he similar costs his face to be disfigured so chef Lee's lamb you said as a scholar hmm didn't kill him it's a scholar but see what they left for us as legacy so only needs to the Quran so they don't point the point individuals to themselves the point people to compare people to soon them but our problem in 21st century we pointing people to individuals that's what caused most of our issues and most of our problems so now it's time for us to point people to Quran because they can relate to that hmm people cannot relate to my shape you see they say they never met them and what they go through in their daily lives the Sheikh doesn't know hmm now the Sheikh if the check is one verse import and we take that from him well versed in soon we take that from him if he is not influential socially connected do we look up to him as our leader hmm the answer is no he's our leader in his field yeah but the one who is influential socially politically economically we should look at that person so that we can benefit hmm but the problem is that when we say he's a shape we put everything put the umbrella so whatever says right or wrong hey let's just go morality there's a religion that's problem for us and this is what caused our problems and now and houses had been torn apart marriages had been messed up children miss pleased this is what happened and it's time for us to change all that sure with Quran with Sun with the understanding of Sullivan Ummah with what they gave us as a legacy for the world this is what Islam is all about and that's why when a person feels as though I'm the I'm the knowledgeable hmm no she'll take from me hmm I'm well qualified they shouldn't listen to you they should listen to me they should um the I'm the Imam I'm the most knowledgeable this is a disease and Imam know we mentioned in the book of Almodovar and at the very beginning he said this is a sign of lack of sincerity that if I am a person of knowledge and you are a person of knowledge I feel disturbed and bothered when people come to learn from you why not why they don't come to me why do you listen to me not listen to me why I think go into that mess he didn't come to my message if you start asking why and why and you are bothered this is a lack of sincerity a diminished loss he mentioned so he said if we are all serving the same religion serving the same Quran the same son the same leader come alone you will send them I should not feel anything and I shouldn't have any reservation when they come to listen to John Fante hmm if they've the data listen to our pleasure and they come to you and listen to you and they benefit why why am I bothered if you call it to the same thing you know you know I'm getting a lot lately look I'm not scholar a straight up yeah you know of course you know my the job that I'm doing is basic tower you know you've seen what I'm doing you know people in the basics of Islam you know this this is what I'm doing again a lot of stick from students you know people who have either graduated or they're not even graduated you know they're just saying you're not qualified to the additional clawback to do that what do you think regarding this you know I mean I'm not putting myself out there as a chef you know I'm specifically dealing with the basics of Islam you know criticism hmm sometimes it's a ticket of acceptance from on long mmm don't worry about that what you don't pointing people to the basics is what Abu Bakr did they should tell you what type of University Abu Bakr graduated from did he graduate from this university they graduated from did he graduate from Oz ha did they graduate from Medina University did he graduate from ahora did you graduate from Zaytuna what university did he graduate from the University of Oregon and under the tutelage of a cylinder so la la ru assembler and when he embraced Islam 4% or we can say 4/10 of those who embrace Islam at the very beginning all of them came to Abu Bakr they did graduate from any university did he see to take exams what did he learn spawn from Rasul Allah Islam Islam Quran and Sunnah hmm that's what you're doing so long as you stay in you mean keeping it basics for people and this is what I qualified to do it don't worry about what they would say because they already castrated because a person was not castrated will never under my someone who is helping to bring people into the deep hmm so a person who is well knowledgeable and rooted in religion will never criticize someone who is trying to let people understand the religion hmm Abubakar only embrace Islam from that moment he started calling people to the one verse that he learned the D way and say let me learn some you know articulation of an or how to recite you know is that way nyah nyah nyah tiga he went to work now with our qualifications and our what they call it all the diplomas that we have how many people did we influence I'm not talking about how many people we get into the deal I'm not talking about how many people we call to Islam I'm not talking about that I'm talking about how many people did we influence how many people did we change their lives how many people did we really it change so if a person is not changing his own family I tell them a branch trader when I went to Saudi and I was invited to speak I was in Riyadh hmm I was in Medina I was in you know Mecca you know the Sheikh dr. Robert Chambers and may Allah preserve him and also I want to Riyadh as a guest speaker you know when I when I told the students then the purpose of coming here is when you graduate to go back where you came from to call people to whatever Allah blessed you with and when you go you're not going to argue with them you're gonna learn to understand them first you don't criticize them understand them first because prophets also know understood people before he called him to Islam understand but if you go back home and you don't call people and we start just criticizing one another and that's what we've seen since we were growing up in schools I was our teachers some of them will say no even when we were in school this Sheikh he he he even failed me in Arabic and this one he filled in hadith and this we grew up same days going to school here in the Ali's was the benefit is there any benefit in this that's the same ideology in the mentality do you know something just bring it out hmm so I told them if they go back to their lands without calling to what they know then I am far from a doctoral or lanten far from Alpha doctoral below are two long journey if you cannot call people to what you have even you have masters because for the most part today you even see people they have masters but they did not match to anything it's just certificate hmm and that's it tragedy in this one man and so birth John don't worry about that hmm stick to the lane that you want when you go through the turn and if you're driving and you go under the tunnel what did they tell you stay in your in your lane yeah and sometimes they say make sure that when you're coming out remove your sunglasses so that you can see after you pass it hmm so what you have to do just put your sunglass and keep on giving dour when you pass those people who are castrated who are just robots who are just you know following blindly when you pass them then that's when you remove your sandglass and keep moving don't worry about the criticism stay in your lane whatever Allah bless you too and whatever Allah blessed you with just call people to it and keep it relevant we're not making Islam irrelevant we keepin it irrelevant it was it's already relevant the probably missiles we're not keeping it relevant for people hmm we're just trying to implement what people do to the old into our own society and it's not working like a lovely shake just before we go the coming up to Ramadan yeah and it's wondering if you can give us some advice some advice on Ramadan you know first to benefit from now the best advice is what Prophet sallallahu wasallam agathi Sahaba the trauma bond has arrived whenever Ramadan comes that's what he says Ramadan has arrived Allah had asked you to fast during the day and I'm giving you another you know system of worship in Ramadan does praying at night hmm and know that the first day of first night of Ramadan and I will never let you go home except you I forgive in hockey you come to the match if that first night you don't go home except you forgive I keep this brings tears to the eyes it's like just the little that you did it means a lot to Allah and he appreciates what you do and Allah Subhanahu WA Ta'ala mentioned he mentioned in a hadith that he had forbidden injustice upon himself that he will never do injustice and that he gives us from Adan so that he can double and double dare you deeds and whenever I think about the hadith of Rasul Allah is a law and you said no where in Allah subhana WA Ta'ala says Ramadan or fast and in general is his to us it's panel ah now imagine you are asked to give a service to the queen of your country take this prepare it wash it and make sure it looks good to the queen of your country how will you think what will you do for that as you take him to the Queen protecting a key Ramadan is something that will you prepare follow in a proponent for any queen or a king or a governor or president is something that are not asked to prepare it for me and that's why in the hadith of Sophia ignore Elena that Imam Abu Bakri nailed by a commission in shop he said on the day of Pearman when a person is confirmed to be in hellfire and now we take him out and ask him to come back why and they will tell him there is a deed that you've done in dunya that nobody was able to take because it doesn't belong to you anyway is mine and what is mine nobody can take you prepare it for me and I'm giving it to you today use it and make it two gentlemen that son does Ramadan that's plastic so to our carriers to our viewers in audience around the world Ramadan is a gift so don't just take it as worship in time I'm just doing it now you're not just doing it you're not just doing it this is your ticket off survival on the day of Pearman that when you run out of when you run out of good deed and you don't have anything left for you in your scale or on the scale when you ran out of means I know drop it on the scale and in the scale we can become heavy so I ask people when you fast mean it you know black cod black Todd said if you if if you if you if you say if you say it believe it if you believe you do it and if you do it meaning he careful but you know you got it right Gary straight hmm so we give him credit for that and that's Benjamin said frankly well done it's better than you all said so no matter how well we say if we don't do it well it doesn't matter to Allah so you know brother John I appreciate it you know this interview end I appreciate that your company over the past week how didn't I feel like I've known you for years and when I miss you sure I miss we need to stay in touch now we're gonna stay I'm definitely going to Philly yeah oh you're gonna I'm bringing you that the West Africa taking you home they shall age and inshallah we'll see what we can do we'll see if we can get another another interviewing before you before we depart it's my pleasure my pleasure just a whole affair sure thank you very much for your 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