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This transcript was auto-generated using AI and may contain misspellings.As-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh everyone. Welcome back to Qur'an 30 for 30, the Eid edition. Alhamdulillah, we had 90 lessons through the 30 episodes and we decided that we couldn't just leave you all hanging like that, so we had to do one more where we would have 10 lessons so for some reason we're still sitting together. Shaykh Abdullah, how's it going man? Good, good, good, how you doing? Alhamdulillah, Eid Mubarak. Eid Mubarak to you too, Shaykh. I have to say Shaykh, the nur, mashallah, the light that's coming out of you is, I'm not just talking about your face, I'm talking about your shirt. It's the shirt, that's right, that's how we Africans do, you know, Shaykh, we represent, we're not confined to the social makeup of pink and blue and all that, no, no, no. Come on, come on. This is Eid, brother, come on. Come on. Mashallah. How's it going, Shaykh? I'm good, I'm good. I mean, when you're as swole as you, you can wear whatever you want, man. Alhamdulillah, mashallah. You can pick up a building, you can wear whatever shirt you can find in the building. I'm almost done, whatever shirt I can find. Sounds a little mutant, but alhamdulillah. Isn't that what Iman Cave does? Alhamdulillah, that's one of the goals, right, mashallah. Come out of the cave as Neanderthalic strong men. Neanderthalic, mashallah. Yeah, that's a new word of mine, alhamdulillah. Neanderthalic. It's Eid, you know, we can do it. Mashallah, mashallah. So, Shaykh, we're gonna do these 10, inshallah. So, 10 lessons. The way that we'll do this is I'll say a lesson, give a quick reflection, you say a lesson, give a quick reflection. Let's get just five lessons out of each of us, inshallah, that are really powerful lessons, inshallah, to have from the Quran to help with the... Did y'all see, he said, I give a lesson. It was like a ping pong, he held, you know, like back and forth ping pong. Do you wanna release that footage? I'm ready. The world is waiting, yeah. The world is waiting,
although they know there's a round three. I mean, we don't, you know, don't do that, Shaykh. Stop it, stop it. Everybody knows there's a round three. Isn't that footage like older than COVID now? Yes, it is, yes, it is. And you've been challenged, but you have not responded to the call. So wait, unless there's something in the vaccine that's gonna make you better at ping pong. Did you get the COVID vaccines just made you somehow good at ping pong? And I'm sorry, folks, it wasn't pretty footage. If you all wanna see it. All right, we have the Musajjil, noted. I got you. Okay, the lesson is there, right? Yes, yes, alhamdulillah. But were you this swole before COVID or after COVID? Alhamdulillah before, alhamdulillah. Alhamdulillah, we wanna get smaller though, so we're working on that. Me too, man, so sorry. I feel like my biceps are about to like tear my jacket up, just like you, you know what I'm saying? Yeah, yeah, yeah, we see, yeah, alhamdulillah. Yeah, I think so. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. All right, you ready to do this? Yes, sir. Bismillah. All right, so first lesson that I have here, and obviously I was in Surat Al-Baqarah and I almost pulled all five of my lessons out of Surat Al-Baqarah. But remember Allah's blessings upon you to prevent you from sin. Remember Allah's blessings upon you to prevent you from sin. Ya Bani Israel, udhkuru ni'mati allati an'amtu alaykum wa anni fadhabtukum ala al-alamin. Allah Azza wa Jal mentions, oh, children of Israel, remember my blessing upon you. And so, subhanAllah, it's really interesting because the forgetfulness of Adam alayhi salam that Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala mentions is one which caused him to eat from the tree. And obviously he fell temporarily from favor, but he repented to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala and was elevated. The forgetfulness of Bani Israel was a continued trajectory of disobedience and transgression, right? So here, remember my favors upon you. If you remember Allah's blessings upon you, that will prevent you from sin. And I don't think we often make the connection
between gratitude, which we generate, especially in Ramadan, and staying away from sin, right? Because every sin is an abuse of a blessing. And so if you remember those blessings of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala upon you, and you really master the gratitude that comes with those blessings from Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala upon you, then you won't find yourself as tempted to then use those sins and use those blessings, I'm sorry, to become sins and means by which you drift away from Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala and transgress the way that Bani Israel did. So that's my first lesson. Remember Allah's blessings upon you to prevent you from sin. Yeah, that's Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, when you talk about blessings, it sometimes can be a tricky word at times because your blessings sometimes, and this is the title, your blessings sometimes can be a distraction. You know, what Allah has given you, you're thankful for it, but sometimes you could overdo it for lack of better words and take advantage of the blessing to where it could be something that is detrimental to you and your Iman and your remembrance of Allah, being that Allah is Al-Khaliqa, Al-Razka, Al-Mudabbir, He is the creator, sustainer, and maintainer and has control over all things. So Allah says in the chapter of Takathur, for example, Al-Hakum At-Takathur, you have been distracted by gathering things in abundance. And those things that you have could be, you know, a blessing in disguise, in actuality. You know, Allah uses this verb, Al-Hayulhi, which is distraction. He uses this verb as well in other chapters of the Quran. When Allah says in the chapter of Munafiqun, Latulhikum amwalikum walaa awladukum andhikila Ya ayyuhallatheena aamanu latulhikum amwalikum walaa awladukum andhikila Oh, you'll believe, do not allow your money nor your children to be that which distracts you from the remembrance of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. Money is a blessing, children are definitely a blessing. And it was a way that sometimes they would do Takathur, they would gather in abundance. I have this many people in my tribe, this many men in my tribe, you know, and that was a means of bragging rights for them. But it is a means of distraction when you gather these things, and it could be that which takes you away from focus.
Meaning that whatever you've been given, you show gratitude to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, but you don't allow those things to divert you from the remembrance of Allah. For example, you know, our children wanting them to pray, waking them up for Fajr. We say, no, they're young, leave them. You know, that love that we have for them from Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, but knowing how to control that and to be patient on doing the actions of good, rather than being patient on doing the actions of sin. So, SubhanAllah, remember the blessings to prevent you from sin, and then use those blessings to please Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. Exactly. So, don't forget them, don't be distracted by them. Exactly. Incredible. So, turn the blessings of this dunya into blessings of the akhirah as well. Exactly, yes. All right, so that's two lessons. Third lesson, don't look for loopholes, but accept Allah's concessions. And so, I want to actually bring this up because Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala mentions to us, with the legislation of fasting, right? Immediately as Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala gives us, kutiba alikum al-siyam, kama kutiba ala ladheena min qablikum la'alakum tattaqun. That fasting was prescribed upon you. Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala also mentions the concessions for those who are sick, those who are traveling, and so on and so forth, right? And Allah says that he desires for you ease. He does not desire for you hardship. And we talked about this in a previous episode, right? But there's something really interesting here. Bani Israel was condemned for looking for loopholes, for questioning the legislation from Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala for trying to distract from their obligations to Allah by questioning the actual commands from Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala So they were looking for loopholes. There's a big difference between that and accepting Allah's concessions. You're actually rewarded for accepting Allah's concessions. So this is something that the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam talks about. Allah loves that you take his gifts, right? The rukhas, the concessions that he gives to you are gifts from him. So it's not rewardable to torture yourself
when Allah Azza wa Jal has given you a concession. Like a person who is very sick and they still fasted in a way that could have furthered their sickness. It's not rewarded for that, right? So don't look for loopholes, but accept Allah's concessions. And I think that speaks to the overall idea that this revelation itself is a blessing. Wa li-tukminu al-iddata wa li-tukabbiru Allah ala maa hadakum wa laa'alakum tashkurun After Ramadan is over now, you thank Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala for what he guided you to. And this is the greatest blessing is revelation that Allah Azza wa Jal has given to us. Iman, faith that Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala has given to us. So Allah did not mean for this revelation to be a curse or to be an undue burden upon us. So don't try to skewer it. And at the same time, don't try to act outside of it. Yeah, there's so much that goes into that, SubhanAllah. The verse that I have in regards to this is the one that you mentioned, SubhanAllah. When Allah talks about Ramadan, roughly in the chapter of Baqarah from 183 to 185, 187 roughly, you know, at the very end, when he talks about the concessions that are given, whether if you're sick or if you're traveling, that you can, iddatum min ayamin ukhar, the appointed days, you can fast on later days after that. But then he mentions his intention here and his maqsad sharri, as some would say. You know, you'll find sometimes in the deen that Allah will mention the reason for the ruling, which they would call the illa. What's the reason behind the ruling? Amongst many other reasons, because he is al-alim and al-hakim. He mentions here, SubhanAllah, yuridu allahu bikum al yusr wa la yuridu bikum al usr. And then he mentions, wa litukmidul iddatu wa litukabiru Allah ala ma hadakum wa la alakum tashkurun. Allah says, after mentioning the concessions, he all of a sudden says, and I do say all of a sudden, Allah wants for you ease and doesn't want for you hardship. It's as though it's like, SubhanAllah, fasting, some may perceive it as difficult. It's 30 days, I'm fasting, you know, I'm sick. I have to make these days up. I'm traveling, man, I gotta make these days up. As I heard many of my congregants say, and you know, and we may say at times, oh, I have to make these days up, you know, but Allah says that he wants for you ease and doesn't want for you hardship.
This is important because it's important for us to always rely on those names and attributes of Allah, that Allah's knowledge is much greater than mine and his wisdom is much greater than mine, to where even though this may seem hard at that time, it's really how I perceive it and how I work towards it, to where I realized that I can't live without it. So when you see that, wow, there's a month where I have to really push myself and deprive myself of food and drinking to have spiritual conditioning. And you realize, and you look back and you say, man, every year I've done this and every year I make it seem difficult, but I've done it. Why is it so difficult? And every year I take for granted the blessings that Allah has given me. And then right after that, he says, he talks about Eid, which is this beautiful day. Wali tukmilul idda, to complete the period. Wali tukabbirullaha ala maa hadakum. And to say that Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar, takbir, upon what he has guided you, completing this beautiful month, celebrating this day, smiling, giving gifts, having fun. You know, when I'm on the microphone of my masjid, at the end of every Eid khutbah, I grab the microphone and I say, make sure you have fun. Go out there, dance, have fun with your children, spread gifts, go to people's house, make this, celebrate this day, because we know when we walk in these stores on December 25th, the rohaniyah of all these holidays is spread like crazy. We need to overemphasize this beautiful day and just celebrate the fact that Allah wants it to be easy for us, but he gives us a system for that. The next lesson, Shaykh, that I have is, use the sight of Allah upon you to stop your sins towards him. First ayah of Surah An-Nisa, where you hear it, subhanAllah, on the minbar. Ittaqoo rabbakum wa ladhee khalaqakum an-nafsin wahida wa khalaqa minha zawjaha wa batha minhuma rijalun kathiran wa nisaa wa taqoo allaha ladhee tas'aluna bihi wa al-arham inna Allaha kana AAalaykum raqeeba Allah says, oh people, ya ayyuhan nas, fear Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, be mindful of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
Obviously, Ramadan was an exercise of taqwa for us to learn how to be God conscious, how to be pious. But Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala mentions this idea that he is upon you raqeeb. He is ever watchful of you. See, taqwa is generated, God consciousness is generated through depriving yourself of his blessings at times so that you can understand and appreciate those blessings. Because with the magnification of those blessings, there is a magnification of Allah's source of those blessings, or Allah being the source of those blessings. But the greatest and most consistent way to gain taqwa is to become mindful of Allah watching you. Once you feel like Allah is watching you, then your circumstances are becoming irrelevant. And this was something in the Ramadan series that I covered as well, like the other side, who's on the other side, who's watching me? This creation of Allah Azza wa Jal around me perceives me in ways that I can't perceive it. Then there are angels that perceive me. There are those that have passed away that perceive what's happening in ways that Allah Azza wa Jal delivers to them. The prophets, the greatest one who perceives at all times, who sees at all times, who controls at all times. That's Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. And he's your greatest audience. So that is the greatest way to generate taqwa. That way, no matter what happens to you now, no matter what you have in your life now, what's come back into your life, you're still able to lean on that as the original generator of your taqwa and become more aware of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. Yeah, that mindfulness, subhanAllah. And the translation of taqwa is so vast, right? It's shaman, it's so comprehensive. Someone translated it as fear, but then mindfulness is something that sticks as well. Just remembering that when one wants to be a mutaqi, firstly, having the desire to be a good Muslim, because we have a good person, and a good Muslim is a good person, but one wanting to submit to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, having that desire to submit to him.
So on this day of Eid, just remembering that, man, I've concluded this month of Ramadan, and I want to thank Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. Now it's about what can I do to continuously thank him? What is that one thing or a couple of things that I have a promise with myself that I want to improve in on the rest of these 11 months? So I think of the verse of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala where regarding taqwa, where Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala speaks to you through his signs. You know, when Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says in the Quran, in the chapter of Adh-Dhariyat, when Allah speaks about working hard towards doing good deeds. So when we look at these 11 months, one struggles to submit. And that struggling to submit is submission. And that struggle that you're doing is the actions, are the actions of a mutaqi, of one that's pious. So Allah says at the last verse in the chapter of Al-'Ankabut, the spider web, walladhina jahadoo feena lanahdiyannahum subulana wa inna allaha lama'a al-muhsinina I love this verse. I mean, you mentioned when we're in the gym or when you're dealing with stressful situations, it's the concept of jihad an-nafs, to where you're struggling to do the right thing. That struggle in and of itself, when you look away from something online, when you stay away from something offline, people, places or things, that struggle in and of itself is submission, that jihad an-nafs. So after Ramadan and this day of Eid, on these months to follow, recognizing that when I persist in trying to do the good deeds, that is the actions of the mutaqi. And it'll make me more pious, inshallah ta'ala, where I'm aware of his blessings. I'm aware of what he's giving me. I'm aware of what he's taking away. And I deal with it in a way that he's pleased with. But dealing with it is not gonna be easy. It's gonna be, you're gonna make mistakes at times. And that's okay. Acknowledging that you're gonna make mistakes. And when you make that mistake, it elicits an emotion of vulnerability to who? And that's where you turn to Allah and you use the name al-ghafoor, al-ghafar, al-afoo. You turn to him, not only in Ramadan, but now outside of it.
And that's gonna be the real challenge. So just remembering the blessings of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and knowing that struggling to submit is submission. The next lesson, and I'll connect it actually in a way. You know, when someone's really messy, you say that person has too much time on their hands. You know, like they've got too much time. The fact that they have time to engage all this nonsense means that they are truly distracted from their purpose. And this is of course one of the things that the Prophet ﷺ taught us. That one of the signs of a person's soundness in their Islam, to leave off that which doesn't concern them. And Imam Hassan al-Basri (rahimahullah) said that one of the signs of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala abandoning a person is that he busies him with that which doesn't concern him. So this verse that I'm gonna come to, Surat al-Hujurat, it's actually connected to the overall discussion we're having. Not all information needs to be verified. Not all information needs to be verified. It's a very interesting concept and I'll try to explain it inshallah ta'ala. This doesn't mean pass on unverified information. That means don't engage all information in the first place. Where Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala mentions, When a wicked doer comes to you with information, then verify it. The word that's used is naba'. And one of the things about the word naba', if you look at the beginning of Surat an-Naba', What are they asking about? The great news. Some of the scholars mentioned that the word naba' is news that's consequential. It's news that actually has weight to it in the first place. Whereas khabar is more broad. It's just all news. Everything. And in the information world, information overload, fake news, AI, whatever it is, all the stuff that's out there, the deception that's out there. You need to actually ask yourself, should I even be involved in this in the first place? Do I even need to ask questions about this in the first place or should I ignore it at face value?
Whereas verification is with news that counts. And this day and age, subhanAllah, I think of these words that I grew up with, like kalam fadi. It's empty words. They even use the word fadi. It means nothing. Or the Palestinians say hachi fadi. It's empty words. It doesn't mean anything. What's the point of this? That's actually, subhanAllah, I think very important that just as much as we need to learn to verify, we also need to learn to ignore in this day and age. You need to be too busy for nonsense. Being busy with Allah's blessings and being busy with your purpose, being busy with what Allah has guided you to, being busy with what's going to be of consequence to you in the hereafter, is a natural way of guarding yourself from some of the stuff that will naturally lead you into all sorts of sin and transgressions. So in many ways, using the sight of Allah to protect you from sin, which was an earlier lesson, using your busyness to keep you away from just nonsense in the first place. But again, the main lesson is not all information needs to be verified. Some information you should not be engaging at all. And I think after Ramadan, people really dive back into their social media and their bad habits. Ask yourself, why am I even in this in the first place? What does this have to do with me? Why does this concern me? Why even risk the sin in the first place? SubhanAllah. I had a verse in mind, but you just reminded me of another verse, subhanAllah, where Allah talks about the Day of Judgment. And I think when we get involved in these types of things online or offline, or we're hesitant on saying something that we're not sure if it's the right thing to say, but we want to make someone laugh, there will be a day when we will answer to him. And that's just the title. It's in the chapter of Fussilat, where Allah mentions, He says,
The day that the enemies of Allah will be sent in front of them and they'll be spread out. Allah says, until there will be that time that their hearing, their sight, and then he says their skin will testify against them for what they used to do. And then Allah says, And the inhabitant of the skin and the sight, he'll say, why did you testify against me? Then what did they say? What did the skin, the sight and the hearing say? Allah is the one that caused us to pronounce, to speak against you. And he is the one that created you in the beginning. And to him, you will be, he doesn't say you will return. You will be returned, which is beautiful because you have no ultimate authority, even over yourself. So if that's the case, why would you use what Allah has given you? Most of the time to do that, which is sinful. The tongue that he has given you, the vision that he has given you, use it in a way to show gratitude. Struggling to do it is what Allah loves because you're not going to get it right all the time. You're going to say something, you know, on the WhatsApp group to make someone laugh. That's against someone else. And you don't know if that person liked it or not to make people laugh. But then do you erase it later? Do you leave the group? Do you call the person up? You know, subhanAllah, one brother, he came to me one time and this was, I've never seen this practice. This is the first time it's happened to me, actually. You know, he came and said, brother, look, I've backbitten you so many times. I've backbitten you so many times, brother. And I just, you know, it's up to you to forgive me, but I've done this so much. And, you know, I know Allah forgives, but I know we're supposed to do this. And it took a lot for me to come to you. And I've backbitten you so many times, man. You know, I said, bro, don't worry about it.
I hit him in the chest. I said, don't worry about it, man. And you like, Wallahi Shaykh Omar, you saw his shoulders literally. Was that because you hurt him? Because you relieved him. Hit him in the chest. Yeah, right, no. No, he felt so much relief and his face got really, you know, he started crying. You know, so it was beautiful. We really have to think about that because there's going to be a day when we have to go before him. And we hope that these body parts and these senses do not testify against us. By the way, I'm going to actually say this to the camera so that this clip can be used when needed. Oftentimes, I'll get e-mails, messages, someone like, I said so many things about you. And I feel terrible about it. And please forgive me. I don't want to meet Allah with it. Consider yourself forgiven as long as you seek forgiveness from Allah. So I don't. Obviously, I can't respond to all those e-mails or messages sometimes when they come to the team. But look, if you said something bad about me in the past or whatever it is, you don't have to even worry about like coming to Valley Ranch and seeing me over there. You're good. So it's all forgiven. May Allah allow us all to live better lives. Ameen. Ameen. Last lesson for me, Shaykh, it relates directly to the Ramadan series. The other side, visit the graves before you live there. Visit the graves before you live there. You mentioned distraction by abundance until you visit the graves. Now visiting the graves here refers in the deeper sense to the visitation, i.e., dying. And the time that you'll spend there in the barzakh before you move on to the Day of Judgment. But it's also the minor death, if you will. There's something, subhanAllah, that the Salaf taught us to really deeply embed within ourselves in terms of the rituals of our deen. Like what is Hajj? Hajj is, dying before dying.
You're simulating death before you actually die. So what is visiting the graves? It's visiting the graves, recognizing that one day the visit will be prolonged. You won't be visiting from above. You'll be visited from below. And that's inevitable for all of us. And that reality dawns upon us. And subhanAllah, there's nothing that clarifies a person's meaning in life like visiting the graves. Any halaqah, anything that you're listening to, even the other side. SubhanAllah, man, I worked hard on that series and put my heart and soul into it. We had to cut out a lot of content. I think people don't realize, cut out a lot of content. The episodes are actually a lot longer than we got to cut them down so that people can actually follow along. I just hope you go and you stand and you visit the graves. The amount of clarity that you're going to get in your own life, what you're going to tell yourself, what you will hear in that process is so incredible. So visit the graves before you live there. It's extremely important for everyone to have those moments of clarity and to really clear their hearts, clear their minds, and renew their purpose. SubhanAllah. Yeah, you just reminded me when we visited a grave of a young boy in my community. I think we were together. It was actually two. You just think about life, you know, how Allah chooses to take the soul when he does, how he wills, and just dealing with that. It should serve as an incentive for you to ask yourself, what about me? This is from the lessons that are learned when you're leaving that grave site and getting in your car and going home. And whether you're with people, and hopefully the speech is something that is around Allah and about what are we going to do now, or you're alone with yourself and you're thinking about your life, you're thinking about ones that have passed away. It should be, hopefully it is, okay, what am I going to do to live the legacy of my father, mother, relative that's passed away?
Or what am I going to do to live my purpose in life? And I think sometimes as Muslims, we don't even really understand our purpose of life. And Allah clarifies that in the verse, in the chapter of Adh-Dhariyat, which is subhanAllah, really remember your purpose of life. When Allah says after, That I have not created the jinn or the mankind, except that they worship me. And this is a verse that's so profound and foundational, and it's a milestone to what is our ultimate purpose of life. Allah created us for us to worship him. He's given us a system in order to do that. And we may fall short within that system, but what's most important is that we're struggling to do that, to implement that system, but we will make mistakes. But how do we bounce back from that? One of the ways that can really emphasize and bring an intense encounter with life is, as you mentioned, going to visit those that Allah has chosen to take. And you know, subhanAllah, when the Prophet, sallallahu alayhi wa sallam's son died, what did he say at the very end? We're not going to, even though there was the emotional intelligence of him explaining that his heart is saddened, that his eyes shed tears, and Abdurrahman ibn Awf said, He said, even you? He said, Verily, this is a mercy, a mercy that Allah has given us to weep over the deceased, but not to say anything that's displeasing to Allah. When we go to the graves, there may be some things that we may ask, why, Allah? Why? What did this person do? What did this young baby do? But it's important to remember that Allah is the one that's in control, and that helps you and assists you in getting back on track and living your purpose of life. And that's what's so profound, like you mentioned, of going to visit people that have passed away, because it's a huge opportunity to put things in proper perspective. And that's what I hope that any of us do when we go to visit the graves. And may Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala make us of those that live our purpose in this life,
to worship Him and to show gratitude, and to make us die and leave this earth upon Iman, and trust and honor in Him, inshallah. What else do you have for us, Shaykh? You got any other lessons for us? No, no, I mean, really, just this day of Eid, I really just emphasize that, we really, really celebrate the greatness of Allah, celebrate this Sharia, this Deen of Islam, by celebrating and appreciating each other. And I think we need to overemphasize that, particularly on this day of Eid, it's a day of happiness, it's a day of grace, it's a day of accomplishment. Tell your children you've accomplished it, you've made it, buy them gifts, have them, you know, have that encouragement to the next year to fast, or even during the year to fast and to celebrate the Deen of Islam, and to be proud to be a Muslim. Allah bless you, and JazakAllah khair. And, you know, alhamdulillah, we completed this season of 30 for 30, we asked Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to accept it. JazakAllah khair for all that you put forth in it. Allah bless you for it. Alhamdulillah, we're going to have, inshallah, at some point there's going to be a book, so we're going to take 100 lessons, and put those 100 lessons from this season into a book, bismillah ta'ala. And we hope, inshallah ta'ala, that you all benefited from this new format, and if we do 30 for 30 again, what do we do, Shaykh? I think, we've covered a lot of the world, alhamdulillah. We've bring some other mashayikh, we've diversified guests. Yeah, mashallah. We're going down under, Australia. That would be nice. I also want to say, may Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala bless the crew, the brothers and sisters behind the camera. May Allah bless all the shuyukh, mashallah, that's taken from their time, you know, to give time to sit with us, and remember Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. May Allah bless all of you for tuning in. Every single one of you that's come up to me and said, well, we sit as a family watching this episode, well, we have a Slack group, we have a WhatsApp group, it really means a lot to us, and we share those victories from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala,
and you reaching out and saying thank you, really, really means a lot. It's not taken for granted. May Allah bless all of you, inshallah. So we'll see if we're going to do another season of 30 for 30. Stay tuned. We're going to discuss it, inshallah ta'ala. But we appreciate the 30 for 30 family, and obviously if we do come back for another season, inshallah ta'ala, we're going to make it better than ever, and inshallah, keep it going. Shaykh, what's coming up on Iman Cave? Like what's overall? Like I was sharing with Shaykh before we started, like subhanAllah, some of those episodes, his personal favorite was the one that he did with Ibrahim, grew up in my masjid, alhamdulillah, know what I mean, and conquering his depression through his fitness journey, alhamdulillah. What's sort of coming up with Iman Cave at this point? Yeah, so alhamdulillah, we want to make a lot of them more action-based, so we want to be with that demographic that you saw with Ibrahim, and to just hear from there, we want to hear from you particularly, like the youth in that age group, of certain challenges that present opportunities, and just to see how, mashallah, for them to speak their truth, but also how Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has helped them and assisted them, and how we as Muslims, particularly Muslim men and mothers out there, can understand what a lot of our young men are going through, just to get educated to further assist and help in creating that community, inshallah. So at this point, alhamdulillah, we've got Imam Tom is doing his thing, mashallah, you're doing your thing, Ustadha Lubna is doing her thing for young women, we've got kids stuff coming out, alhamdulillah, alhamdulillah, yeah, stay tuned. The first, inshallah ta'ala, will resume, Shaykh Hassan Alwan is doing an extended series on Salah al-Din, you know, subhanAllah, I had a chance to do a 10-part series on al-Aqsa, which was really, really, personally a journey for me, alhamdulillah, but I'm going back to the first, we're working on the Dhul Hijjah series, believe it or not, you all, the team is already working on next year's Ramadan series, alhamdulillah, I've already given the notes over, they're already working on presentations, inshallah ta'ala,
while I build out sort of the full series, alhamdulillah, but we've already got our 30 episodes for next year's Ramadan series, and that's really something that, as you said, we ask Allah to bless our team, they're working behind the scenes constantly, so you're finishing up Ramadan, they're already working on next Ramadan, alhamdulillah, and that's part of what we want to do, Jazakum Allah khayran, always, for your support, Jazakum Allah khayran, Shaykh Abdullah, I love you for the sake of Allah, I appreciate you, man, Jazakum Allah khayran, and next year, I think I'll be wearing your shirt, maybe like, introduce, if we want to hit Quran 30 for 30 with a bang next time, if I wear that... Yeah, man, that's it, man, that's it, episode one, episode one is gonna overtake the Ramadan series. Yeah, exactly. Jazakum Allah khayran, everyone, keep us in your du'a, Assalamu alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh.
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