10 Steps To Live A Successful Muslim Life in the West - Sayed Hossein Qazwini|Night 10 Muharram 2020

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[0:14]foreign muslims who live in the west who migrated from the middle

[1:40]east from their home countries and came to the west they came

[1:43]to america to europe to australia to new to new zealand and

[1:51]have been living in the west for years we can put them

[1:55]into three different categories three different kinds the first kind are the

[2:02]muslims who completely assimilated they forgot about their faith they forgot about

[2:09]their religion and they became completely western their their life is westernized

[2:15]in the complete sense of meaning whether it's positive or negative complete

[2:22]sort of assimilation so there's no going back home and whatever came

[2:28]from home stayed at home faith religion school of thought culture language

[2:35]even names were changed last names were changed clothing was changed a

[2:44]complete change in culture this group saw that there's a clash in

[2:52]cultures there's a clash in uh civilizations so to speak and that

[2:58]you could either become an american or european dutch english australian or

[3:04]you remain a muslim and they chose to be the the first

[3:08]because they saw that islam being a muslim being a practicing muslim

[3:14]is incompatible with being american as incompatible with being european so they

[3:21]chose to be european they chose to be american this is the

[3:26]first group the second group they moved here and they also saw

[3:30]a clash of culture a clash of civilizations they could either become

[3:35]american or european or australia or they remain true to their faith

[3:43]true to their religion they remain muslim so they chose the second

[3:47]rather than the first they saw that to be a muslim to

[3:54]be a true muslim you cannot integrate in american society or in

[4:01]european society you cannot live an american life or a western life

[4:07]or a european life you have to practice your faith and there's

[4:10]not much you could do you have to disconnect from society you

[4:14]have to disconnect from your surroundings your neighbors uh your friends the

[4:21]society that you live in and a lot of people from category

[4:25]number two end up going back home because they feel there's a

[4:30]a clash they can't work out the two they can't be both

[4:35]american and muslim and they can't be good in both you can

[4:39]either be a good muslim or a good american a good muslim

[4:43]or a good european you can enjoy being the two so a

[4:46]lot of them they either live a life of contradiction and a

[4:51]life of torment a sense of guilt of being a good muslim

[4:56]but living in the west or they end up they pack their

[4:59]banks and they go back home they go back to lebanon to

[5:03]iran to pakistan to their countries and then you have a third

[5:09]group a middle group a group that sees that there is absolutely

[5:14]no contradiction between being a good muslim and a good american or

[5:19]being a good muslim and a good european living a life of

[5:26]islam and living a western life is completely compatible it could be

[5:29]a good muslim you could abide by islamic rules and laws and

[5:35]at the same time live the american dream live a happy life

[5:41]a life of assimilation in in the west but without forgetting your

[5:47]faith and without forgetting your religion you might ask that does group

[5:53]number three exist do they really exist absolutely they exist and we

[5:58]know many of them it's very much possible to live a successful

[6:06]muslim life in the west without giving up your faith and religion

[6:14]nor having to feel embarrassed and ashamed of living your normal life

[6:17]in the west in america or in europe or other parts of

[6:24]the western world is this possible absolutely and today tonight on this

[6:30]very important night we will discuss the steps and how to live

[6:35]a successful muslim life in the west to be a good muslim

[6:41]in the west to gain the best of both worlds to win

[6:46]dunya and is this possible it's very much possible and today or

[6:51]tonight we will discuss this inshallah step number one to living a

[7:00]successful muslim life in the west seek a good education to seek

[7:05]a good education is the muslim thing to do and it's the

[7:09]western thing to do first of all there is no religion like

[7:14]the religion of islam that pushes its adherents and followers to seek

[7:20]knowledge more than islam you don't find this in judaism you don't

[7:24]find this in christianity the emphasis the amount of emphasis put on

[7:31]seeking knowledge gaining knowledge to seek an education the quran is full

[7:41]of verses that push us to gain knowledge raises the status of

[7:51]those who believe and those who have knowledge have attained knowledge or

[7:57]those who seek knowledge those who have been given knowledge or gain

[8:03]knowledge allah raises their status to those who know are equal to

[8:11]those who don't know those who are educated those who have knowledge

[8:15]are they equal to those who don't know and do not have

[8:19]an education there's a hadith recorded by both schools of thought the

[8:23]sunni school of thought and the shri school of thought it's a

[8:27]it's a numerous report we call it in arabic s knowledge is

[8:44]an obligation upon every muslim and in some narrations it's an obligation

[8:53]upon every muslim man and every muslim woman to seek knowledge the

[9:00]famous hadith seek knowledge from cradle to grave it's an ongoing process

[9:09]there should never be a time when we stop seeking knowledge or

[9:13]we've reached a position in which we're you know we've sufficed we

[9:18]we have enough knowledge no seek knowledge another hadith says even if

[9:27]it's in china travel to seek knowledge even if you feel lonely

[9:32]even if you have to live in a country by yourself even

[9:34]if you have to leave to leave your hometown and to leave

[9:39]family and to live in poverty islam says go and seek knowledge

[9:41]there's no other religion that emphasizes on seeking knowledge like islam and

[9:48]so too in the west you're given the opportunity to seek knowledge

[9:54]and to get an education in the west there's a value to

[10:01]knowledge there's a value to education that's why there's an abundance of

[10:04]universities there's abundance of colleges in the west we have the best

[10:09]universities and we have the best colleges our youth living in the

[10:16]west muslim youth in the west should aim to get entrance to

[10:22]the best of the universities to the ivy leagues starting from harvard

[10:27]to stanford to yale to berkeley to princeton to the best of

[10:33]the universities it's uh the doors are open there's an opportunity and

[10:39]there's no discrimination but we we live at a time where college

[10:44]entrance to some degree of course there are there is a discrimination

[10:49]again against some groups unfortunately like african americans and blacks but for

[10:56]others there might not be discrimination there's an opportunity for you to

[11:01]apply and to get accepted at these ivy leagues apply aim high

[11:06]let us teach our youth to aim high when it comes to

[11:11]education don't settle for a university close by to your home because

[11:15]you don't want to leave you don't want to leave your family

[11:20]no on the contrary aim high aim to get into the best

[11:23]universities in the country it's possible others have done it and so

[11:27]can you we should push our children and encourage them and once

[11:31]they're into that university we should push them to get a higher

[11:37]education what do i mean by this i mean that a bachelor's

[11:38]degree is not enough let's push our youth to get a master's

[11:43]degree to get a phd this is a cornerstone into living a

[11:47]successful life in the west that you equip equip yourself with the

[11:54]right amount of knowledge with the right amount of education you can't

[11:58]live a successful life in the west without a proper education you

[12:02]can otherwise you'll end up on the welfare system you'll end up

[12:07]getting money from the government or having to go back home or

[12:12]having to get loans get a proper education you can get the

[12:17]best education in in the west let us be in the habit

[12:26]as parents to teach our children the culture of aiming high to

[12:30]go to the best universities let's push them there's i know some

[12:34]parents that don't want to send their kids off to school abroad

[12:38]to other states because they want to monitor them control them yes

[12:43]i i understand where you're coming from but at the same time

[12:45]if you instill in your children the sense of responsibility when they're

[12:50]young when the when they're in their when they're in high school

[12:54]when they go off to college they're already responsible they will know

[12:59]what is right what is wrong and they will they will learn

[13:02]on their own sometimes a person learns on his own or on

[13:08]her own let them be responsible let them travel let them live

[13:11]you know on their own to gain experience and they will learn

[13:15]what to do what is right and what is wrong but let

[13:17]them get an education it all starts off with a proper education

[13:22]you cannot and i cannot emphasize on this enough you cannot live

[13:27]a successful life in the west without having a proper education and

[13:32]our communities we should have scholarships for the bright students for the

[13:41]bright kids in our communities we send them off to harvard to

[13:46]yale to to berkeley to stanford and we provide them with scholarships

[13:49]we could do this at every islamic center and every hersenia in

[13:54]the west we put a budget for the brightest of our students

[13:57]and we encourage them to go to the best universities and those

[14:00]who get accepted we pay for them we provide them with with

[14:07]scholarships our communities alhamdulillah in the west they're well off they're well

[14:12]to do we could do this when we encourage our kids other

[14:15]kids will be encouraged and other communities will be encouraged and before

[14:19]you know it we'll have hundreds of our children in ivy league

[14:24]universities receiving the best of education and when you have the best

[14:29]of the best education you'll have the best of jobs and you'll

[14:32]get the best positions you have to think of it this way

[14:36]this is number one this is the first step step number two

[14:40]now that you're off to college and you you've left home and

[14:45]you don't have your parents to monitor you you could go out

[14:49]you could stay up as much as you want you could go

[14:52]wherever you want you could befriend whoever you want here is when

[14:57]you start monitoring yourself here your parents will pass on the torch

[15:02]to you your parents at 18.

[15:06]they've done a wonderful job in raising you islamically they've raised you

[15:10]in the best of manners now they pass on the torch to

[15:15]you now they tell you you have to take care of yourself

[15:17]not just financially not just educationally but you have to take care

[15:23]of yourself spiritually and religiously you monitor yourself you be your own

[15:26]guide you be your own mother and father because when you leave

[15:33]the house and you move out of state and you go to

[15:37]a uh another state or city to study there'll be a lot

[15:41]of temptations now you have freedom now you're all on your own

[15:45]no one can see you no one can judge you no one

[15:49]can hold you accountable other than allah you have to be careful

[15:52]where you go where are you invited who you befriend how do

[15:55]you spend your time these years should be years for you you

[15:59]don't waste them in anything other than seeking knowledge and seeking a

[16:06]proper education yes you need to relax once in a while you

[16:10]come back home to see your parents to see your family members

[16:12]and your siblings but don't be distracted college years are the years

[16:16]of distraction you're out of you're away from home and there's lots

[16:23]of temptations you have to be careful that these temptations don't take

[16:27]you away don't deviate you from your goal and that if your

[16:32]parents are not watching allah is still watching allah didn't go anywhere

[16:36]the same allah that was watching you back home he's still watching

[16:42]you at university at college you monitor yourself you be your own

[16:46]judge and you avoid temptations is this possible absolutely it's possible if

[16:52]we have if we feel the sense of responsibility and that we

[16:58]know that allah is monitoring us and he's watching us because when

[17:02]you go there'll be a world of temptations you'll see lots of

[17:08]opportunities all kinds of opportunities you have to be very careful that

[17:12]you don't get distracted from allah that shaytan does not distract you

[17:17]and you don't forget your goal your goal is there to seek

[17:24]knowledge and then come back home step number three in the west

[17:29]to live a successful life you have to be a hard worker

[17:33]you can't stay up all night and sleep in all day and

[17:38]not work and expect others to provide for you and to provide

[17:44]your sustenance that's impossible any person that wants to live a successful

[17:49]life in the west has to work has to produce has to

[17:53]achieve has to be a hard worker has to work has to

[17:57]have a job from eight to five from eight to six i

[18:02]don't know what hours it is unfortunately we have many muslims that

[18:06]migrate from the east they come to the west and they rely

[18:10]on the government that they live in they want welfare they want

[18:15]income support they want financial support they want medical benefits some of

[18:20]them go to great lengths they even break the law or claim

[18:26]disability just to get a couple of dollars or money for rent

[18:34]such people will never live a successful life in the west if

[18:37]your intention is to live in the west and benefit financially from

[18:42]the government receive an income receive a check every month and financial

[18:47]benefits and not work you will not have a successful life in

[18:51]the west if you want to live in the west you have

[18:55]to be a hard worker you have to train yourself put put

[18:58]it in your mind that you work you achieve you get a

[19:03]job you produce you make money and this is what islam encourages

[19:07]us this does not conflict with islam absolutely not islam encourages us

[19:14]to work to produce to be financially capable and financially independent the

[19:23]hadith says he who goes out and works and makes money and

[19:29]brings money back home to his family it's as if he's fighting

[19:32]for the sake of allah it's as if he's in the battlefield

[19:35]protecting islam and protecting your country and protecting your land one day

[19:45]he came in the masjid he came in his mosque and he

[19:50]saw two brothers he saw one who would sit in the mosque

[19:53]all day and fast he was fasting and he'd pray all day

[19:58]and recite quran but at the time of his brother who wasn't

[20:02]in the mosque who would go out and work all day he'd

[20:05]bring food and put in front of his brother so one was

[20:09]a worshiper all day and the other was working all day rasool

[20:11]allah looked at the two brothers and he said you know who's

[20:16]the true worshiper it's the one that's working the one who works

[20:19]is the worshiper not the one who prays and fasts all day

[20:24]long but he expects others to take care of him this is

[20:28]not true worship you see tells us the essence of worship it

[20:34]gives a new meaning to worship those who pray all day pray

[20:39]all night and fast all year long and they expect others to

[20:44]take care of them this is not worship this is not true

[20:47]obedience of allah obedience of allah is to work is to rely

[20:52]on yourself and not rely on others it's not to be a

[20:55]burden on others and to be dependent on others true worship is

[21:02]to be independent financially and to help others not that you expect

[21:04]help from others one day he saw a gardener a farmer and

[21:15]a gardener saw him in in medina his hands were dirty his

[21:20]hands were were were dirty from working in the soil rasulullah held

[21:25]those hands and he kissed them and he embraced them he said

[21:30]these are hands that allah loves these are working working hands these

[21:34]are hands that achieve these are hands that make money that bring

[21:39]you honor and grace when you make money you earn people's respect

[21:43]and you earn allah's respect you're independent you don't put your hands

[21:47]forward to others allah said these are hands that allah loves allah

[21:54]wants us to be financially independent to make money to work this

[22:00]is what islam wants from us and this is what we can

[22:04]achieve in the west if you want to live a a successful

[22:10]life in the west get a job and not just any job

[22:13]but the best of jobs if there's two jobs that you can

[22:17]make that you could get one job pays mediocre and another job

[22:21]that pays more and you have the capability of fulfilling the first

[22:27]job take it make more money take the better job fill the

[22:33]best positions let's get the best of jobs and not be lazy

[22:36]even if it requires more work extra work less sleep less rest

[22:42]but it produces more you'll be achieving more pick the better job

[22:47]be the best that you can be this is what islam wants

[22:50]from us may allah have mercy me allah bless the person who

[23:02]does a job and does it correctly does it the best when

[23:08]you don't suffice for a mediocre job or mediocre work but you

[23:12]you be the best you could be in the west hopefully hopefully

[23:19]there's no discrimination no one you know in some parts of the

[23:22]world they ask you are you muslim or are you christian in

[23:25]some parts in the muslim world they'll ask you are you sunni

[23:28]are you shiite as soon as you say your chances of getting

[23:33]the job decreases even if you're the best in your field even

[23:37]if you're the best doctor you're the best professor but you're shiite

[23:40]you lose you'll you will lose your chance to gain that position

[23:43]but in america no one asks you if you're muslim or christian

[23:46]to get a job no one will ask you are you a

[23:49]sunni or ishii no one will ask you who do you follow

[23:52]which marja do you follow none of this matters it's the land

[23:56]of opportunity anyone who has a decent job and is capable of

[24:02]working and could go out and work will be accepted will be

[24:05]hired that is why we do have muslim professionals in the workforce

[24:09]we have some of the most professional muslims the most successful muslims

[24:14]out there and they are proof that it is possible you could

[24:19]be a successful muslim you could be a a a religious muslim

[24:25]god fearing righteous and at the same time allah abiding citizen and

[24:29]at the same time living a very successful life and you choose

[24:34]the best job it's a line of opportunity you could be whatever

[24:38]you want to be as long as it's halal you could be

[24:41]whatever you want to be and be the best that you could

[24:45]be you want to be a journalist go ahead but be the

[24:48]best journalist you want to go into economics go ahead but be

[24:50]the best you can be you want to become an athlete that's

[24:53]fine be the best athlete that you can be so that you

[24:59]inspire you inspire others like you young muslims like you you show

[25:02]them that it's possible to be a good muslim and a good

[25:07]athlete and a successful athlete and a successful american and a successful

[25:10]european you want to go into politics you want to go in

[25:14]into business as long as you remain restricted to islamic values and

[25:20]islamic laws and rulings the sky's the limit go out go out

[25:25]and work go out and achieve islam doesn't tell you have to

[25:28]pray all day and and worship all all night and fast every

[25:31]day if you can fast that's good but if fasting other than

[25:37]ramadan of course if fasting hinders you from working no go and

[25:41]achieve go and work go and bring money back to the house

[25:44]go and raise a family and provide for your family the quran

[25:57]says try to achieve a good place in the hereafter and do

[26:04]not forget this life as well work for both dunya and archer

[26:10]number four steps to living a successful muslim life in the west

[26:17]number four live the american dream buy the best house buy the

[26:26]best car live in your dream house eat the best food go

[26:33]to the best restaurants you can wear the nicest clothing you could

[26:39]go on vacations enjoy yourself you could have a summer home live

[26:44]the american dream no one stops you no one says this is

[26:49]haram no one says it is haram to live in a fancy

[26:50]house or a luxurious house absolutely not no one says it is

[26:55]haram to eat delicious food good food as long as it's halal

[26:59]food no one says it's haram to to buy expensive clothing or

[27:05]to wear a nice watch or drive a nice car you can

[27:08]live the american dream you can do this you can enjoy yourself

[27:14]as long as you're not breaking any islamic law you're not doing

[27:20]anything haram you can enjoy yourself who has forbidden us from the

[27:29]ornaments from the beauties of allah there's beautiful homes and you can

[27:33]afford it go purchase a a nice house for you and your

[27:38]family and your children live in a nice house drive a nice

[27:43]car you don't have to be buy a a used car a

[27:46]beat up car no drive a fancy car you could drive the

[27:49]best of course car is for you and your family and your

[27:53]children we have a hadith that says a rich person who is

[27:59]grateful that lives a nice life and allows others to live a

[28:03]nice life who spends money on others is better than a poor

[28:06]person who is patient someone who's poor but says to be rich

[28:12]but grateful is better than being poor but patient no go out

[28:19]be rich make money earn your living be the richest you can

[28:23]be but don't forget faith don't forget religion and don't waste we

[28:31]shouldn't waste quran says eat what you want and drink what you

[28:42]want however don't be wasteful don't be wasteful how much can you

[28:47]eat eat that much don't buy more than you can handle but

[28:52]don't buy more than what you want otherwise it will be wasting

[28:57]you need two cars buy two cars but when you buy four

[28:59]or five that's wasting that's being lavish that's what arun had he

[29:04]was being lavish all the money that he was spending on himself

[29:09]that he did not need he was being crazy and that's why

[29:13]he he perished do not be wasteful because those who waste are

[29:24]the brothers of shaytan step number five don't don't forget your spiritual

[29:31]well-being what do i mean by this we said in step number

[29:37]four live the american dream here we say but do not live

[29:43]in a dream live the american dream but don't live in a

[29:48]dream don't forget reality don't forget that we're here in this world

[29:51]temporarily and sooner or later we will be told to pack our

[29:56]bags and leave but unfortunately our bags stay all travelers their bags

[30:01]go with them but there's one travel one journey where our bags

[30:05]stay own whatever you want but don't let anything own you own

[30:11]the things that you want and the things that you need but

[30:14]make sure that they don't own you make sure that they don't

[30:18]take control over you and over your mind and over your heart

[30:23]this is very important live the american dream live a nice life

[30:29]live in the fanciest homes and drive the fanciest cars but don't

[30:32]forget your naps don't forget your spiritual well-being don't forget that you

[30:40]have a nafs to take care of and not just a body

[30:42]you take care of your body you relax you you let your

[30:48]body sleep on the best mattresses in the best homes but take

[30:51]care of your naps your nephew needs to be fed as well

[30:55]don't forget your mosque don't forget your masjid don't forget your hussaini

[31:02]don't forget salat don't forget thursday nights to recite these are all

[31:09]things that you will need to live a successful life in the

[31:13]west it's not about it's not all about materialism you could own

[31:18]whatever you want but at the same time don't neglect your naps

[31:21]your nephew requires nourishment your nephew requires admonishment you need to work

[31:26]you need to hear a word of advice we all do i

[31:30]need to hear a word of advice every once in a while

[31:33]we need to be reminded that this life is temporary that we

[31:37]are here for a certain amount of time and we need to

[31:40]make use of it and benefit from it for achara and for

[31:44]dunya and then we're told to leave we have to be reminded

[31:49]of this we cannot become arrogant and say i no longer need

[31:53]to go to the mosque the mosque is for the poor the

[31:55]mosque is for those who cannot afford to live the way i

[32:01]live this is nonsense be rich live the american life but don't

[32:04]be arrogant we shouldn't become arrogant materialism is not is not enough

[32:12]to bring us happiness don't think that by living the american dream

[32:16]and you have the best house and you have the best car

[32:19]and you have all the money in the world and you have

[32:20]a vacation home that you'll be happy materialism is part of it

[32:25]some of our happiness comes from materialism the other half comes from

[32:30]our neps our nephs has to be happy our nephs has to

[32:36]be well fed and we're not and well nourished we need spirituality

[32:40]in our life we need religion in our life we need admonishment

[32:44]and advice in our life we need to be reminded of the

[32:48]otherwise materialism is not enough materialism won't buy you happiness it's spirituality

[32:55]you will need spirituality otherwise you will not gain happiness that is

[32:59]why we see a lot of people in the west they have

[33:01]all the money in the world but they'll commit suicide or they're

[33:06]not happy or they're on drugs or they're on alcohol you think

[33:10]they're living the dream but they're not why because all they cared

[33:16]for was materialism and they forgot about spirituality they forgot about their

[33:21]nuts they forgot about their they forgot about their spiritual well-being we

[33:26]should not let materialism take over us we should not get lost

[33:33]into materialism we should not let life fool us this is important

[33:38]to live a successful life in the west don't get fooled by

[33:43]life in the west or the materialistic life and the west there's

[33:46]another life waiting for us whether you live in the east or

[33:51]the west we will all end up in the same grave and

[33:56]we'll all wear the same same shrouds and we will all be

[34:00]washed before our death and put into that grave we should never

[34:04]forget this this should always be on our mind number six to

[34:10]live a successful life in the west you should make your your

[34:14]family and your children a priority this is very important we've put

[34:21]what do i mean by priority you know a lot of times

[34:25]we care for our children we put them in the best schools

[34:29]we we get them tutors private tutors we put them in the

[34:35]best after after school programs soccer football i t swimming lessons karate

[34:42]lessons and we take care of them physically we take care of

[34:47]them materialistically we make sure that our kids have whatever they want

[34:50]they wear the best clothing they wear the best shoes they have

[34:55]all the latest equipment but we also have to make sure that

[35:01]their spiritual well-being is taken care of we have to make sure

[35:03]that we raise them in a proper islamic manner with islamic values

[35:08]if we could put them in an islamic school we should put

[35:11]them in islamic school if we can't then there's saturday school or

[35:16]sunday school or friday night youth programs or summer camps or winter

[35:21]camps this is important your children are a priority there are some

[35:25]they think that just by putting their kids in the best schools

[35:28]and buying them the best gadgets and buying them the best clothing

[35:33]they've fulfilled their responsibility towards those children no my dear friends you've

[35:39]only taken care of you're taking care of them you've taken care

[35:43]of them materialistically but not spiritually it's like a car we take

[35:47]the car to the car wash and we wash it from the

[35:51]outside but we neglect the inside from the outside people will assume

[35:55]this is a beautiful car because they see from the outside it's

[35:59]nice it's clean but as soon as they open the doors they

[36:02]will see the mess inside we have to make sure that that

[36:06]doesn't happen to us and it doesn't happen to our children we

[36:11]shouldn't get immersed into our business and our jobs into living the

[36:17]american dream by neglecting our children by not seeing them by not

[36:22]spending time with them not going out with them not having discussions

[36:26]with them not being their friends by not saying what are their

[36:32]challenges what are the problems that they face this is very important

[36:36]your children are a priority number seven do not forget your identity

[36:41]you can live in america for 50 years you can live in

[36:45]europe for 50 years you can live in australia for 60 years

[36:47]but don't forget who you are don't forget where you came from

[36:53]don't forget your religion don't forget your heritage don't forget your culture

[36:59]don't forget your language don't forget your names and your last names

[37:04]and your forefathers and your family tree and your lineage don't forget

[37:13]your manners you know there's a lot of youth they come to

[37:16]america or the west and they forget their culture they forget their

[37:23]matters a guest comes we don't even stand for them we sit

[37:27]on the couch when a guest comes home we don't greet them

[37:30]at the door we sit at home we sit on the couch

[37:34]when they leave we don't walk them to the door we call

[37:36]them by their first name we don't respect the elders we call

[37:40]them by their first name or we we walk in front of

[37:44]in front of the elders this is wrong this means we're forgetting

[37:50]our manners we're forgetting our forgetting we've picked up manners from others

[37:55]be american be english be dutch be australian but this doesn't mean

[38:01]you forget who you are or you forget the language you forget

[38:04]the language you don't speak your language anymore arabic farsi urdu gujarati

[38:09]you forget the language why this means that you're you're forgetting your

[38:15]identity you're forgetting your heritage you're forgetting who you are and where

[38:22]you came from and what you represent don't forget this just because

[38:25]you live in the west it doesn't mean that you're you forget

[38:29]the east and you're disconnected from the east no visit your countries

[38:33]go to them go to your family members know the history of

[38:38]your country know where you come from don't change your names and

[38:44]your last names this doesn't mean just because we live in america

[38:48]that means we forget all about our heritage and our custom and

[38:52]our culture let's take pride in our names let's take pride in

[38:55]our last names let's take pride in our language in our culture

[39:00]don't forget your identity you could be a lebanese-american just because you're

[39:07]american it doesn't mean that you're no longer lebanese or iraqi or

[39:11]iranian or pakistani or indian or hoja or no you could be

[39:15]a lebanese-american you could be an iraqi american you could be an

[39:18]iranian dutch you could be dutch we joined between two cultures and

[39:25]two civilizations we're the children of that's the east and the west

[39:30]we shouldn't forget who we are and where we came from we

[39:33]shouldn't forget our lineage and our heritage number eight you want to

[39:38]live a successful life in the west be involved politically you live

[39:46]here you pay your taxes here the laws here concern you the

[39:50]domestic laws the domestic policies and the foreign policies if you live

[39:56]if you are allah abiding muslim in the west that means you're

[40:04]paying taxes you can have a say in how your taxes are

[40:06]being spent domestically and abroad you can have a say we live

[40:15]in the west in countries that are democratic there's no dictatorships you

[40:20]can choose your political leaders you can have a say in how

[40:23]your tax dollars are spent unfortunately there's a lot of muslims that

[40:27]don't vote they're not politically engaged they could care less what happens

[40:33]in politics hence politicians in the west they don't cater to muslims

[40:37]because they know we don't vote we could care less to vote

[40:40]and we don't sponsor political campaigns imagine if we were to vote

[40:47]how powerful would be imagine if we were to sponsor political campaigns

[40:51]how powerful would be our voice would be heard and there would

[40:57]be no discrimination against us imagine if we had muslim political organizations

[41:02]if we had lobbies and would support financially support muslim political organizations

[41:09]or we supported political campaigns our voice would be heard because money

[41:15]speaks louder than words when you sponsor a politician he'll make sure

[41:20]that your word is hurt in the senate in congress in the

[41:23]white house and the government we need to be politically engaged and

[41:29]active no one will come and hand us our rights on a

[41:35]plate rights are taken they're not given we need to fight look

[41:40]at the muslim ban how long can this go on look at

[41:43]the ban on the nikaab in some countries look at the ban

[41:47]on halal in some countries and this could this could happen in

[41:53]in your country and in other countries our rights can be taken

[41:57]away from us what do we do we just say and we

[42:00]say we need to take action political action look at the discrimination

[42:06]in some places in the west in the workforce against muslims where

[42:11]there's hate crimes against muslims we can do something about it if

[42:15]you care for your well-being in the west if you want to

[42:18]live a successful life in the west you have to be politically

[42:21]engaged number one number nine support your religious and charitable organizations if

[42:29]allah has bestowed upon you with wealth you're well off you've done

[42:36]you've done good now give back to the community give back to

[42:39]the organizations that are helping you give give to your mosque give

[42:43]to your these are places where you can find in you can

[42:48]find it for spirituality for spiritual well-being give back to your mosque

[42:52]we should not be in the cult in the habit of taking

[42:56]but also giving back let's have the culture of giving back to

[43:02]the community and not just giving if you want quality services you

[43:08]have to help out you have to help out you have to

[43:11]give your mosque is a must that's where you learn your faith

[43:15]it's where your children will learn their faith it's where your grandchildren

[43:18]will learn will learn their faith it's where you meet other muslims

[43:23]just like we spend money on coffee on the gym and everything

[43:27]else let's spend on our mosque and our religious institutions we can't

[43:31]live a successful life in the west without our mosques without our

[43:36]islamic centers and islamic schools and charitable organizations let's give and also

[43:44]don't forget your friends and family members across the ocean overseas let's

[43:49]give to them in iraq and lebanon and libya and yemen and

[43:52]syria and iran and afghanistan and afghanistan if you're well off in

[43:57]the west give them as well share some of your wealth take

[44:00]care of your family members take care of your distant relatives take

[44:03]care of friends and even those who you don't know allah has

[44:08]bestowed upon you a gift share that gift so that it is

[44:13]not taken from you and number 10 don't disconnect from the from

[44:21]the east don't forget your hajj don't forget your umbra don't forget

[44:25]your ziara you could be living in the west you live in

[44:28]the west and you live a successful life in the west but

[44:31]you have to stay connected by going to hajj by going to

[44:38]umrah these things you should not neglect it should be on your

[44:41]mind at least one of them a year either hajj or umrah

[44:45]or ziyarah come for ziara visit your imams pay allegiance to your

[44:51]imams reconnect with bait come to the ziad of imam hussain come

[44:55]and renew your allegiance to imam hussain how grand is imam hussain

[45:01]when his when he has a ziara in every occasion in every

[45:06]occasion in mid-season and rajab first of all for him he's saying

[45:11]in mind this is saying on the day of out of feathers

[45:16]that's saying on the days of eid there's this year for imam

[45:22]hussein why because allah wants us to stay connected to our imam

[45:26]because the amount of saying is very much in faith it plays

[45:31]a major role in our faith in our school of thought let's

[45:35]not forget him let's not forget what imam hassan ali salaam has

[45:38]done for us so we give for him as well so we

[45:44]stay connected with him and we remember an infant a child you

[45:56]know when you when you go to someone's home and you take

[46:02]a a bouquet of flowers you pick the the most beautiful flowers

[46:06]there is in the store and you take it to that person's

[46:12]home the person you who you're visiting but you pick the nicest

[46:14]flower and you put it on top of the bouquet the the

[46:19]one that stands out imam hussain ali salaam gave a bouquet of

[46:24]flowers on the day of ashura his brother al abbas the finest

[46:31]of his companions and the companions of rasulullah and the companions of

[46:36]amir mohammed but on top of this beautiful bouquet he wanted to

[46:39]put a tiny small little bouquet a tiny small little flower that

[46:45]stands out imam hussain put on his armor put on his shield

[46:54]he wore his sword he was about to enter the battlefield his

[47:00]sister zainab came to him your infant is dying from thirst he's

[47:07]dying from thirst do something about it his mother she had brought

[47:14]the child to say the zainab she told him take your your

[47:16]child this child belongs to you i cannot breastfeed him and he's

[47:21]dying say zainab brought the child to imam was saying imam hussain

[47:28]took off his shield took off his armor put down his sword

[47:32]he brought the child without a weapon meaning i'm not here to

[47:38]fight you show some mercy so show some compassion he came to

[47:45]them and he said if i am guilty of wrongdoing then what

[47:49]guilt what wrongdoing has this child committed this infant has committed if

[47:55]you won't give me water give water to this child the enemy

[47:58]soldiers they huddle someone said let's give them water someone else said

[48:02]let's kill the father let's kill them um was known for shooting

[48:18]arrows he said there should be no argument and the dispute knew

[48:28]what um was saying he meant he knew that he he was

[48:33]saying kill make a kill he said should i kill the father

[48:39]or should i kill the son he told them do you not

[48:45]see the whites how white the neck of the child is means

[48:49]go for the neck go for the child it says that on

[48:54]the day of i shot three arrows one it landed in the

[49:01]eye of ability second landed in the chest of imam hussein but

[49:05]the one that broke my heart was the third arrow that landed

[49:10]in the neck of abdullah it pierced from one side and came

[49:16]out the other he said i through the arrow it pierced from

[49:20]one side through the other the child started shaking and struggling like

[49:26]a bird being slaughtered imam hussain all of a sudden he saw

[49:31]blood dripping from the neck of his son abdullah he gathered the

[49:36]neck he gathered the blood and he threw it to the sky

[49:39]and he said allah i hope that this is not lighter than

[49:52]the camel of the people of the moon when they slaughtered a

[49:57]camel you destroyed that that tribe don't take this slightly i hope

[50:01]that this is not taken lightly i seek refuge and knowing that

[50:11]allah is watching and he is looking over what is happening to

[50:16]me imam hussain he hid the child underneath his underneath his clothing

[50:22]he came back to the camp his daughter sukena did you quench

[50:33]the thirst of my brother and is there any water remaining he

[50:38]said foreign may allah accept the last 10 nights of commemoration and

[51:53]for the family of hussein and the companions of hussein and the

[51:57]children of hussein and the daughters of hussein may allah accept your

[52:02]tears may allah accept the pledges of alicia allegiance that you placed

[52:07]towards hussain and may allah forever reform your hearts and align your

[52:14]hearts with that hussain make sure your tears and your thoughts and

[52:20]your allegiances are not just the ten nights of ashwara but rather

[52:24]we use it to springboard our reformation of ourselves in order to

[52:29]be more aligned with i speak to myself before i speak to

[52:34]anyone else in sha allah on a night like this hussein as

[52:40]well as bidding his farewell to the women and children his brothers

[52:44]and sisters but on the day of he had one more difficult

[52:49]task to do and this difficult task really cemented truth and falsehood

[52:55]when he takes his young son abdullah in the middle of the

[52:59]battlefield and says if you have a problem with me then what

[53:02]is the sin of this child in the poem we are drawing

[53:09]comparisons between imam al-hussein and that of the unborn son of father

[53:21]and the poem comes and says between the two children the first

[53:27]the thirst between the two children the thirst and fight [Music] complaining

[54:08]to each other beneath the night in madina a house on fire

[54:20]burns beneath a moon in carabao for help a father [Music] [Music]

[54:41]for help our father returns a mother protects her child and for

[54:52]her father whilst another mother cries out make sure my son returns

[54:59]the mother protects her child and for her [Music] whilst another mother

[55:13]cries out make sure my son returns one lies within a world

[55:18]one [Music] approaches the sweetest of souls [Music] two children too young

[55:47]to speak [Music] two children to europe [Music] one [Music] [Music] two

[56:42]casualties of [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] he pushed the door against

[57:54]the [Music] he pushed the door against [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] replied

[58:51]husband with his tears replies brother i was thirsty my father took

[59:00]me in his arms toward [Music] all i had wanted was water

[59:16]i found something with me [Music] his blood my father would carry

[59:30]until a child soaked in his blood my father would carry my

[59:40]blood flowed from within crying what was my sin my blood flowed

[59:51]from within the crying white was my sin i sipped from an

[59:58]arrow i wanted a shape of [Music] [Music] a torture of there'd

[60:27]be [Music] [Music] [Music] and fight [Music] as became ashamed [Music] [Applause]

[61:21]complaining to [Music] would cry with me if her beloved sheep see

[61:44]if i believe she ate steely he stands alone crying to wind

[61:52][Music] [Applause] me [Music] headless they were [Music] [Applause] [Music] she forgets

[62:35][Music] [Applause] [Music] this is [Music] foreign [Applause]

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