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Sincerely, Yahya Ibrahim
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“Be a Man!” Constructing Prophetic Masculinity
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This transcript was auto-generated using AI and may contain misspellings. If we're live. We might be going now. Inshallah. I think I missed toggling a couple of things. And it might work now. It is my first time using this platform. I'm going to just say it's my first day on the job. Inshallah. Imam with technology. Alhamdulillah. It's 2022. We're stepping it up. Exactly. I think that's exactly it. If you're working as an imam or a shaykh, you can't just be teaching people about Islam. You got to learn how to use your camera and edit and lighting and audio and all of that. Alhamdulillah. Salamualaikum everyone. We're really happy that we are now finally live. Alhamdulillah. We're going live and we got a great program. Alhamdulillah. This is a new program that we just started a new talk show called Sincerely Yours, where we will be bringing on different shaykhs, teachers, preachers, movers, shakers as our guests, inshallah. And it's going to be a great opportunity for us to benefit from them. Find out a little bit more about who they are and, you know, gain some of the wisdom, inshallah, that they have to share. We have a great program coming up. Great guest, inshallah. We want to hear from all of you. We even have a portion of this program where we will take some of your questions and let our guests answer some of those questions. So you guys have questions, put them in the chat. I will try to pick out a couple, probably only be able to pick out one or two, but put them in the chat, inshallah. Hopefully we'll be able to pluck them out and have our guests, inshallah, answer some of your questions. And let us know, inshallah, where you're coming from. We see, masha'Allah, a lot of you are tuning in and leaving your comments. Let us know where you're coming to us from. It's amazing. We have people from all over the world who are joining us, Sheikh Abdullah. I should probably introduce us.
I'm Ibrahim Hindi, and this is my amazing co-host, Sheikh Abdullah Al-Duru. And we're geared up, right, Sheikh? Yes, sir. We're ready to go. Alhamdulillah. Let's go on this beautiful, beautiful journey about learning about one another, inshallah, and benefiting from one another. Inshallah. I see Brother Abdullahi from Wellington, New Zealand. Masha'Allah. Thank you for joining us. Brother David Wilson from Arizona in the United States. We have Salam, Sister Fatima from North Carolina. We've got people all over the place, masha'Allah. Sister Aino from Malaysia. All over the world, people are tuning in. And this is, inshallah, going to be a good, strong program for all of us to benefit and to learn. So now that we got a lot of you coming on board, we hope all of you will, inshallah, leave some questions in the comment. Hopefully we'll choose your question and have our guest, inshallah, answer it today. And with that, let me introduce our guest. Sheikh Yahya Ibrahim is our guest today. He started his knowledge journey with the memorization of the Qur'an in his teens. And then he pursued his studies in exegesis and jurisprudence and hadith with scholars from the Hijaz in Egypt as well. Imam Yahya is a registered teacher, currently an assistant principal. He also serves the Muslim community at Curran University and the University of Western Australia as the Islamic chaplain. And he teaches Islamic ethics and theology and exegesis at Al-Maghrib Institute and is a contributor with us at Yaqeen Institute as well. Welcome, Sheikh Yahya Ibrahim. Thank you for joining us. As-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh. It's a pleasure to be with you, my brothers. Allahi barak fikum. Jazakumullah khair for having me. I'm honored to be actually your first guest, masha'Allah. I don't know if I'm the guinea pig that you're going to experiment on, but we'll see how it goes, insha'Allah. Insha'Allah. You know, Sheikh Yahya was so ready for this. He was actually here yesterday.
He messaged me yesterday. He said, I'm logged in. Yesterday for me is today for you. So we're always ahead of you guys down here, masha'Allah. It's true. I told him it's Wednesday. And he said, it is Wednesday because he's in Australia. And, you know, Tuesday here is Wednesday there, masha'Allah. We're so happy that he's here. And, you know, we know that everybody's going to be wanting to learn so much from you, Sheikh. You've produced a lot of content actually at Yaqeen. And I'm sure, you know, so many of our, you know, our listeners and our viewers that they've read, you know, you have a paper on masculinity. You have a couple of video series, Guidebook to God and Road to Return, which masha'Allah have done amazing. Lots of viewers who have really taken to that content. And so, you know, I think though that people, you know, when they take some of this content, they watch these video series or they read the papers or they see the infographics. They want to know a little bit of, you know, who's behind the video series, who's behind the khutbah, who's behind the paper. And so that's what really this program is about. Let's find out the person behind the content and learn a little bit more about him. So insha'Allah, you know, Sheikh Abdullah, maybe you could take it away, ask a question, and we can find out more about our older brother, Imam Yahya. No, Alhamdulillah. I had the opportunity of meeting Sheikh Yahya years ago, actually, subhanAllah. This is probably around the 90s, the late 90s. And he gave me some, you probably don't even remember, Sheikh, he gave me some, I think I told you this before, but you gave me some sound advice as far as being a student of knowledge. I was just in the beginning of my voyage of being a student of knowledge, and it was in Detroit, Michigan. It was very cold, and I was just asking you some advice on, you know, how to properly navigate through the social ills of being a student and also the academic challenges that may take place. And you gave me just the sound advice to just stick to the knowledge and stick to memorizing the Quran and be around the people of knowledge as much as you can.
I still remember that. It was in your hotel room. You barely knew me. I saw one of your lectures, masha'Allah. You were probably the best translators back in the day, man. The translators of the shiuk and stuff like that, and I was, I had a lot of envy. I was like, man, masha'Allah, who is this brother who can translate Arabic and English and the knowledge like that? And a lot of brothers said, masha'Allah, that's Sheikh Yahya, masha'Allah. So this was, masha'Allah, very beneficial. But I want to ask you, your journey to knowledge, how was it in the beginning? I mean, you memorized the Quran and then you went on to go to study the knowledge and who was probably the most influential figure in that after you made that choice to go and study? Alhamdulillah wa salatu wa salamu ala Rasulullah salallahu alayhi wa salam wa ba'ad. You know, subhanAllah, it's an honor that we are associated with ilm, even though we remain ignorant. And it's one of those kind of worrying things where at times there's, you know, there are so many incredibly knowledgeable people that we've benefited from. And our process of knowledge is simply to make naql. My aim and really all of our aim is to be from those who are conveyors or transmitters of what people before us have gathered. Because they've gathered it from the spring that is unadulterated, pure, the sunnah of the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam. So in anything that we ever do correctly, it always has to be attributed to those who kind of came before us or something that we acquired from those who are more learned than us. And that's why Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala even references this kind of chain of narration back to him. So Allah tells us in the end of Surat Al Baqarah, aamanal rasoolu bima unzila ilayhi, the Prophet demonstrates faith, has completed his faith in what was revealed to him.
wal mu'minoon, then the believers, they take it from him. What did they take? kullun aamana billahi wa malaikatihi wa kutubihi wa rusuli They have accepted this faith because they believe in God, the angels, the scripture, the messenger. And that's a syntax that's really important. Allah sent the angels carrying the scripture to the Nabi, the prophets who then we receive this inheritance from them. And that's really powerful word where the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam said that the knowledgeable are those who are waratha tul anbiya. So I guess, sorry to make a little bit of an introduction like that. I wanted to make that caveat that knowledge isn't something that resides within us. It's something for us as Muslims. One is of discovery, something that you can learn and read and experiment with. And the other is naql of revelation. And we always put the naql before the aql. We always put that which was revealed, that which was transmitted, that which was carried to us, that which was passed down, chained back to the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam as being an important foundation of everything that we seek to do spiritually, intellectually and physically in our pursuit of the pleasure of Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala. So, you know, you kind of let the, you know, yeah, it was probably the late 90s. And, you know, SubhanAllah, I'm 45 years old. Allahumma barik lana fee asma'ina wa absaarina wa quwwatina. May Allah put barakah in our hearing, sight and the energy of our being. Allahumma ameen for all of us in the Ummah of Muhammad salallahu alayhi wa sallam and humanity. So it really was a moment of righteous jealousy. And that's why this hadith of the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam really always sticks in my heart.
Where the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam said that there's two types of people that you can be righteously envious of in a halal way, in a good way. The first of them is a person whom Allah has given the Qur'an and they recite it by night and insha'Allah they practice it in the day, meaning that they live a good life. And, you know, I was maybe 15, 16 years old. My father took us to Salat al-Tarawih as we grew up doing. I come from a family, mashAllah, my grandfather was an Imam, a scholar of Al-Azhar. My father, Alhamdulillah, was a practicing Muslim, a person who loved the Sunnah of the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam. Same with my mother and our entire family, mashAllah. My relatives and everybody associated. But we were nominal Muslims, mashAllah, nothing in terms of depth of knowledge. But it was something that my grandfather every year that when we would travel to Egypt, he would take extra care of our Arabic studies, making sure that we filled in Silah al-Talmiyya and all of these different kind of books to make sure that we were literate, competent and able to engage in the Arabic language. And I remember praying Salat al-Tarawih and my first Shaykh, may Allah have mercy upon him, he passed away in Hajj, a Shaykh Hamid Jabir, who was the Imam of Tariq Islamic Center, Toronto and Region Islamic Center. And he said it was maybe about the 20th night. He said my student, Hanif Nuri, may Allah give him success and comfort. He's an attorney now or a solicitor in Ontario. He's going to lead Salat al-Tarawih. And this young man stood up and began to lead the prayer. And he wasn't Arabic.
He didn't understand entirely everything that was being recited, but he recited with beauty, with calm, with serenity and with precision. And as I was standing there in Salah, I said to myself, I can do that. I'm going to do that. I can do better than that. I want to do that. SubhanAllah. And I was just, you know, I wasn't jealous of him leading the prayer. I was jealous that he knew the Qur'an. And then I had only known, you know, Juz Amma, parts of Juz Tabarak, obviously Surah Al-Mulk and things like that, but nothing substantial, nothing more than two, three pages at a time without, you know, break. And I don't know what I'm reading. And that's when I began to memorize the Qur'an. And Sheikh Hamid, he came from a religious family, a knowledgeable family. He had memorized the Qur'an himself in under four and a half months. SubhanAllah. In over a year, you know, he had arrived to study at university and they said, hold on, you don't know the whole Qur'an. No, no, you can't gain admission until you finish the Qur'an. You have to be tested in it. He said, oh, I didn't know that. Nobody told me I had, you know, he was on scholarship, they said, from the Comoros Islands to study. And they said, no, you have to know the whole Qur'an before you can gain admission to the university to do your degree. And so in the three months before he memorized the Qur'an, in three and a half, four months, he committed it to memory. And SubhanAllah, it was inspiring to me. So that was really the spark for me to begin to take interest in the book of Allah, in the capacity of memorizing. About 16, 17 months later, mashAllah, I completed the memorization of the Qur'an under Sheikh Jaber. MashAllah. That's beautiful. That's amazing, SubhanAllah.
Sheikh, you know, like I called you my older brother earlier and I felt bad. Did I date the Sheikh or something like that? But really, I called you my older brother because I remember, you know, we grew up in the same city and I remember being younger than you. And people being like, wow, you know, this young man, Yahya Ibrahim, he's giving khutbahs and mashAllah, he's out there. And it was inspiring to me. And, you know, one thing that I was thinking about, you know, we talk to converts all the time. Whenever there's a convert, we're like, tell us your story. When did you become a Muslim? But I think everybody has that moment where we decide, like, I choose to be a Muslim. I decide that I'm not just following what people are doing. I consciously decide to believe in this. And, you know, SubhanAllah, you began at a very young age giving da'wah and learning and studying. But was there a moment that you could think of where you said to yourself, like, this is what I believe in, this is what I want to pursue? And what was that moment? Yeah, I think it was in high school. I attended Kipling Collegiate Institute, which is now a predominantly very heavy Muslim population in that area, in Etobicoke, in Rexdale, with a lot of, mashAllah, the Somali community moving into that area. But when I first started high school there, there was very few Muslims. It wasn't as the community is today. And, you know, I still have pictures of me being like 16, 17 years old, doing battle with the Department of Education for wanting to pray Jumu'ah and wanting to have room to pray. So it might not be known by many, but, you know, it was a really hard fight in 1994, 1995, to be able to just be given a classroom to pray.
I remember, I think it was Miss Berlin was the principal. You know, what I would have to do was in period two or period three, I think I'd have to leave class, main qudu, I'd have to lie, basically say I need to go to the bathroom and I pray under a staircase. And then a complaint came, you know, this guy's doing, you know, you know, this guy's doing this and three or four other people are doing the same thing with him. And other Muslims, they said, oh, Sheikh, we'll pray with you. And we were like 15 years old, 16 years old, you know, just begun memorizing the Quran. It wasn't meant to be rebellious or anything. It was just, we need to pray Dhuhr and it's 12, 12, 15, 12, 30 and school finishes before we can get home for Asr. And, you know, I asked permission and they said, no, no, no, we can't have you. We'd have to put a teacher there to supervise you. And nobody wants to give up their lunch. And I was like, oh, that's all right. You know, I'll just pray at, at, under the staircase. And, you know, there's glass everywhere. So people could see you praying. And it became a problem. And I remember this one occasion where one of our teachers, you know, one of the administrators actually stood in front of me and said, you have to stop this right now. And I'm like, Allah Akbar. You know, as a young person, you know, those kinds of things today, this is pre 9-11, you know, so back then it wasn't seen that you're, you know, and I was, I wasn't a person who's trying to buck the system. I just wanted to pray. And it's ironic, of course, that today those kind of things will probably get you flagged and put on a list. And, you know, this person, you've got to keep your eye out on them. But in reality, I was a Canadian. You know, if you ask me, where are you from? I'm Canadian. I wouldn't say I'm Egyptian. I'm Canadian.
My cousins back home in Egypt, they get so upset with that, that I identify with a Canadian more than as an Egyptian. So eventually, it came to the point where they gave us a room and I remember one of the counselors actually came and attended Jumu'ah. And there were newspaper people that came and there I was, I was giving Jumu'ah with the students. It was probably the first Jumu'ah in that area in Ita'a. I don't know if it's in the Toronto school system, but I was giving Jumu'ah and like five other students were sitting there, you know, three sisters and three or four brothers. And I led the prayer and they were like, there's nothing wrong with this. Let them have their space. And from that moment on, Jumu'ah began to grow. And SubhanAllah, in that moment, the Somali community began to move in. By the time I graduated from Kipling, we were praying in Gym C, which was like within two years, all of these Somali brothers and sisters moved in, learning English as a second language and so on. That we actually had maybe two, three hundred people for Jumu'ah. And I was leading Jumu'ah in the gym. And that's the very first place that I began to train giving Jumu'ah as a 14, 15, 16, 17 year old. SubhanAllah. And really a lot of credit goes to Dr. Abdullah Hakeem Quick, who is known to all of us, mashallah. But Dr. Abdullah is, I consider a Shaykh and a mentor to myself, to my family. He was a person who in the youth camps would say, OK, you lead the Jumu'ah instead of him giving the Jumu'ah. And at Masjid Tariq, you know, he and Shaykh Jabir kind of engineered it that I gave my first talk in front of two, three thousand people.
I wasn't even aware I was going to give the talk. And he just said, oh, I'm sick today, Yahya, you have to give Khutbah al-Jumu'ah. And I was like, no, you know, I can't give it. No, no, you have to give it my voice. And I stood up and I gave, I still have the recording of it, a talk about Taqwa. And that was really from then on, it would be myself and Shaykh Abdullah and Shaykh Jabir would alternate Khutbah al-Jumu'ah for years in one of the largest masajid in the city of Toronto as a teenager and growing up. Yeah. Masha'Allah, that's amazing. And Shaykh Abdullah Hakeem, of course, he's a great teacher. He's a legend. We were just talking about him, myself and Shaykh Abdullah earlier. He's a legend and he's done so much to to help the youth. SubhanAllah, it's a beautiful story, really. I think, you know, one of the things of, you know, we talk about Islamophobia and how it's so difficult and things like that. Sometimes, like when there's like opposition to your deen, it almost like it makes you make that choice. Like, do I want to fight for this or not? And SubhanAllah, like you were able to fight for it and allowed you to cherish this religion even more. I think a part of it also is Qadr, you know, it was winter months. Had it been summer months, I would have just gone out, prayed under a tree and nobody would have, you know, nobody would have known. But it was just it was Qadr, it was something that was meant to be. It kind of enshrined the right for students who want to gather to pray. And SubhanAllah, it then went from Kipling to Martin Grove to, you know, to different schools, to Thistletown, to different schools that students began to be able to pray Jumu'ah. It kind of radiated in that effect. And people just said, OK, let them do what they need to do. There's nothing wrong with that. And some of the Muslim staff, I think, kind of said, oh, my God, maybe we should have helped in this rather than let them be. And that's something that I would say to those who are in positions of power.
You know, sometimes it's easy just to look the other way and let people kind of deal with it on their own. But if you could lend a voice, it does become an important, important step. So since memorizing the Qur'an, I wanted to know its meaning. And in I think it was like 1994, 1993, maybe 1994, there was a conference that was held in Toronto. And all of these incredibly knowledgeable Arabic speaking scholars came from all around the world. And they were hosted at a Qur'an and Sunnah conference. And nobody was there to translate. And I was like, you know, 15 years old, 16 years old. And I remember hearing people and I said, oh, I can do it. They're like, what? You know, I just put my hand up. I said, I can do it. And they're like, what do you mean you can? I said, no, I speak Arabic. You know, I can do it. And I got up and I sat on the side of the stage. And, you know, it was at that time Sheikh Saleh Al Sheikh, who became the Mufti of Saudi Arabia. And it was his talk. He was an elderly blind man. And there was a Sheikh Mohammed Hassan and there was Sheikh At-Turk Mistan, you know, a few of these high caliber scholars. And I translated the first talk and everyone was like, this is the guy. Keep him there. So I ended up doing, I think, something like 20 hours of just translation, one after another for the rest of the two day conference. And since then, it just became a personal network that I developed with some of these scholars where I would travel in the summer months and be able to stay in their homes, be able to attend their classes, be able to study particular books and receive the jaazas with them and to be able to gain the background of what I was reciting.
So this is the Qur'an that you're reading. These are the hadith that you are stating and are memorizing. You know, you memorize Riyadh al-Saleheen, but what does it mean? So then you begin to understand how these building blocks are put together. Yeah, mashallah. Sheikh Ibrahim, if you don't mind. There's a lot here from what you said. I just want to start. I mean, subhanallah, you mentioned at the beginning how your father used to sit you all down and have you all complete, you know, whether it's filling in the blanks and certain books of Nahu and certain books, books of Islamic knowledge and mashallah, one of the papers that you mentioned, it wasn't Islamic knowledge. It was like primary school Arabic, then middle school Arabic. And a lot of it is al-ajroomiyya, for example. So we consider it a book of knowledge, but to them it was like Arabic. I used to hate it. Subhanallah. I would absolutely detest as a 12 year old, 13 year old having to do year three Arabic when I was like in year in grade six. And I do year three and year four and you'd make us, you know, you give a spelling test and things like that. Subhanallah, my grandfather, Allah yarhamu. I'm probably the greatest influence on my life. Subhanallah. And that that's what brings me to this question. I tell a lot of parents two things in regards to kids at Islamic schools, you know, their kids being at Islamic schools or public schools, whatever the case may be. The first thing is that Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala can expose you as a parent through your children. And the ones that would really see that and know that are the Islamic school teachers, other public school teachers.
Sometimes they're put in a position because they see the actions of the student that may not be befitting, but they don't know whether to tell the parent. They don't know whether to be someone that talks to the student. It kind of puts them in, I want to say puts them in a situation, but it is an encounter that the parent may never know. And sometimes we as imams and influencers, you know, we see, you know, parents and whatever the case may be. And, you know, their child is doing something that it's going to be a journey, if you will, in telling the parent or telling the youth how to deal with that particular situation or challenge. The second thing that I tell them is that subhanallah, you don't know if your child is praying, Lord, ultimately. Right. If they're at school and you're not in contact with the teachers, you don't know if your child has prayed, Lord, today. So when they come home, did you pray, Lord? Yes, mom. Yes, I pray, Lord. You know, in some days, Allah knows. If you can recall. What was the moment like, what was it that made you get up and as you said, and I don't want to use the word what you said, I mean, like to tell the teacher going somewhere, but doing something much more preferable, obviously, is praying, Lord, in the middle of the day, because Asir comes in and the time hasn't changed, right? Certain times of the year, Asir is going to come in before we get out of school. What was it that pushed you to get up and do that? What was it? I mean, OK, if you may say I was raised that way, what element of being raised from your grandfather or father, may Allah have mercy on them. What factor. Was inculcated within you to where you did that by yourself at your teenage years to leave the classroom and go pray? Hmm. I was listening to your Jumu'ah talk a little while ago, Sheikh Abdullah, you were talking about Hidayah.
And mashallah Hafeezah, she did, you know, an animated thing from it. I don't know if you've seen it. Mashallah, she did this really nice note. Yeah, Allah reward her, may Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala bless her and her efforts, mashallah. And, you know, you spoke about Hidayah in the different categories of it. And one of them is Hidayah that Allah just places in the heart. So there's certain things that just happen to us because we want good in life. So when I kind of look back, well, where did Salah really begin to take? It was like I was trying to be a good person. I don't mean I was trying to be a good Muslim, like I was just trying to be a good person. I was like, you know, I think, you know, there are things that I saw in people around me, even some of my friends that I had that I didn't like. And I said, no, no, this isn't what it's meant to be like. And one of the rules that I try to instill in my students, even in our high school here, in my own children, is to do what's right just because it's right, not because people are there to reward you or acknowledge it. This is what's right. Do what's right. And don't expect anything for it. And stay away from what's wrong, even if there's nobody there to, you know, to to kind of monitor you. If you if you and I can master that, if you and I can improve in that, our quality of life, our own humanity, our interactions, relationships with everybody, and especially with Allah, improves dramatically. So I think a part of it was in that point in time, I was like, I just wanted to be a better person. I wanted to be a better, a better individual. And then the second was I was beginning to learn the Qur'an.
And when you give the Qur'an more attention in the things that you didn't plan on it affecting, it affects them first. So, you know, I was trying to learn the Qur'an because I want to I want to read it and I want to see how quickly I can finish it. You know, my brother also began memorizing the Qur'an at the same time with me. We were competing who's going to finish first. And all of a sudden that Qur'an, the barakah of the Qur'an, the sound of the Qur'an in your home, the silence of the TV in your home, this, you know, lessening of the hip hop and more of Shuraym and Sudais and Muhammad Saleh Abu Zaid. And, you know, Abdul Basit being recited, that the quieting of the other voices and the amplification of the Qur'an has a natural effect. So, Salah was hit and miss. And SubhanAllah, it's, you know, there are the thing that I think kind of kind of tipped it over was that I, my father, MashaAllah, may Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala grant him khayran baraka. He's probably watching this. As-salamu alaykum. He was, he spent all of his wealth on his family and children. So every single year, every single year, we would travel as a family to Egypt. Now, I want you to kind of consider that people found it difficult to call back home because phone calls were expensive, like at that time. Right. Every single year, my father would book tickets for five of us, six of us, seven, you know, MashaAllah, we had a large family. He would book tickets for all of us, even, you know, younger brothers and sisters. And we would stay in Egypt for four months.
And that was at a considerable expense for him, and a lot of it he would take unpaid work, unpaid time from work. So he could be with us in the beginning and at the end, he would travel with us and then pick us up. That kind of thing. And I remember, I remember listening to people saying to me, mihaq aadil, lazam tahawush, you know, you got to save for the future. You got to, you know, and my father, I remember he pointed at me and he said, that's my savings plan. My retirement plan, this guy. And it's his, you know. So my father also was a person who refused to take riba, never purchased a home in Canada. We lived in the same, you know, modest place, a comfortable place, alhamdulillah, blessed place for 25 years. The same place renting, imagine renting in the same place for 25 years. We paid that person's mortgage over maybe two or three times. Right. And I remember my father saying, my wealth is not the house I live in. It's who lives in it with me. It's who's with me in it. That's my wealth. That's my health. Right. So the barakah of salah, the barakah of Qur'an, the barakah of, you know, it makes me emotional just saying it's Muhammad. May Allah give him success, him and my mom. The barakah of salah is always attached to your commitment. And that's why I'm saying the hidayah, as you spoke correctly about it in your khutbah, if those have been listened to it, go find it, inshaAllah. Is there is this hidayah that is from Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la, and it arrives maybe from something you didn't even do, but because somebody else had righteousness. Wa kaana abuhuma saaliha. You know, Allah says in the Qur'an in Surah Al-Kahf, their father was a righteous man. Moses, you must work as a mason, the job of laborers and slaves.
Imagine the messenger of Allah who speaks to Allah is putting bricks to build a building for orphans wealth, not to be taken unjustly. Allah sends the messenger of Allah, Musa, to work as a laborer. Why? Because this guy was a good man. I'm going to protect his children, their interests and their future. So it's not something that I can say to you, Shaykh, what I did or what clicked or what book I read. That's not my experience. I think it's a totality of my life experience. My grandfather, in those four months that I would spend, living Islam is different than knowing about Islam. Knowing Allah is different than knowing about Allah. Following the Sunnah is different to learning Hadith, right? You know, those are all different things to each other. There are people who know the Sunnah, but necessarily are not on the Sunnah. There are people who have knowledge of the Qur'an, knowledge of Allah, but don't know Allah. They know about Allah. My grandfather, my grandmother, SubhanAllah, on both sides of my family, they were people who were connected to Allah. In my grandfather, on my father's side, in a literal sense, in a religious sense of knowledge base, but also in a practice sense. So I remember my grandfather, every day before Salatul Fajr, would wake up two hours before and would read his two juz of the Qur'an in the morning, and then would go out to the masjid that he built by hand. Literally, he was the imam of the area. It was a masjid he founded 60 years earlier, built it by hand. He would lead the people, the community in prayer.
And then we would walk out and he would go to the bakery and to the ful, you know, you get Egyptian ful. And the people already knew, every day they knew exactly his order. So they would have 15 loaves of bread, 15 stacks, all of them three or four loaves, and they would have a little bag of ful, and they were each individually packed. And he'd be carrying these 15 or 16 bags, and we would take a three, four kilometer walk. And he would basically go hang the bag on the door of different homes of people who were poor, or somebody who'd lost their husband, or, you know, he would just put a couple of eggs, some ful and some bread. And it took three, four hours, the sun would rise, we'd come back, he'd have his tea, make his breakfast for my grandmother, and have a little bit of time as qaylullah before Salatul Dhuhr. So the practice of Islam was something that I was able to see, subhanAllah, and I think that has a great influence. MashaAllah. SubhanAllah. You know, we asked, you know, Shaykh, for you to go over a hadith or a verse that, you know, is really touching to you. But actually before we do that, you know, this comment came in the chat, Brother Ryan Peterson, he said, Hello, brothers, I'm going to revert to Islam tomorrow. So caught my attention. I thought maybe we can offer, you know, him some advice and certainly keep him in our dua. So Shaykh, you know, is there anything you can you can share for this brother? I think continue to be mentored by Shaykh Abdullah, MashaAllah, who I think will be of great value to you in that regard. He has a wonderful series that I actually enjoy using with my students, by the way, Shaykh Abdullah, of the basics of Islam, which is, you know, I think essential knowledge for, I guess, young people or people who are beginning to become in tune with some of the things that we're kind of talking about.
So that would be probably really good advice. But in terms of your personal practice, my dear brother, Ryan, welcome. May Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la grant you firmness and steadfastness is to associate yourself with good people, not necessarily just Muslim people, but good people, people who are kind hearted, compassionate, who seek to live a life of balance and harmony with themselves and with others, with their neighbors, people who are builders, not necessarily, you know, vultures or hard and harsh upon others. And may Allah give you stability. May Allah brighten your path, light your home with his light of faith. And may Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la allow our hearts to connect, inshaAllah. Ameen, Ameen, Ya Rabb. So Shaykh, is there a verse or an ayah of your choice that you think can bring a lot of benefit to our audience for you to reflect on, for all of us to reflect on, inshaAllah? One of the early surahs that I memorized was Surat As-Saf, and in it Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la, He says, Ya ayyuhal ladheena aamanu la takoonu kal ladheena aadhaumoon. Sorry, Ya ayyuhal ladheena aamanu lima takoonuna ma la taf'aloon. O ye who believe, why do you say and speak words that you do not practice? Kabur maqdan inda Allahi an taqoonu ma la taf'aloon. It's an enormity in the sight of God that you say that which you don't practice. And then Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la speaks about the nation that came before us. The nations before us, one of the ways that they went off the path was that their hearts were turned away from the truth because they chose not to practice what they knew. So when you and I read Surat Al-Fatiha and we make dua to Allah, O Allah, guide us to the straight path, the path of those who you blessed before us, not the path of those who anger you or have been led astray.
So there's two types of people in this world. There are those who know the truth and choose not to follow it. So upon them is the anger and the wrath of Allah. That always worried me. The second, abwaleen, those who are misguided, those who don't know the truth and don't desire to discover it. They intentionally blind themselves. I don't want to know. Don't tell me about it. No, I'm enjoying myself now. It's going to change everything. So those two types of personas, you want to be very careful that you don't develop them. That if you hear the command of Allah, sam'i'na wa ata'na, I hear and I obey. And if you are unaware of what you should do in life, investigate it and ask questions, because the cure to ignorance is to ask, is to seek knowledge. Those are the two pathways. And actually, both of the series I have on Yaqeen are a representation of these two themes. So the first is guidebook to God, which is, you know, what is the truth? Where is Hidayah? How can we be guided to God? And I've transgressed and I want to return to Allah. It's about fearing those two, which inshallah in the middle is that balance. So that verse, why do you say what you don't do is powerful? falamma azaahu azaagha allahu qulubahum And in the continuation of the verse, when they departed from the practice of what they knew they should maintain, I turned their hearts away from faith. Many of us should really be scared to know that Allah misguides. Allah can cause your heart to abandon the truth because you chose not to practice it. So within yourself, you say, no, I'm not gonna do this. Well, what happens is the remorse of not doing what you know you should do diminishes.
And when that happens, you sink further away from Allah. And that's where a person who we knew in the masjid, knew used to pray, knew used to wear hijab, knew used to be on it, all of a sudden two years down the road, we see him in a shopping center and we can't recognize him. What happened? Well, it began in that moment where there was a conscious choice to choose other than what we knew is right. It's one thing to not do as what we know, it's another thing to accept it and say, I don't care. You know, to be obstinate with Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la. May Allah protect us, Ya Rabb. Ameen. Ameen, Ameen. Shaykh Yahya, what, I mean, being at your position now, you deal with a lot of youth and Alhamdulillah for yourself, your presence and your diligence and dealing with youth in different facets of their life. When you see them get to the level of, I don't wanna use the word rebellion, but, you know, I just don't care. Whether it's from things that are going on in their household and you see them as a product of that, parents may get a divorce, you know, a family member that they loved, grandfather, grandmother, they were very close to, you know, Allah has taken them. And they're just at the point that, you know what, does it all even really matter? Right? And then, you know, doubt can come about in God. What would you advise a youth like that? And I know you've seen it and ran into it, because what you just mentioned is, you know, those choices that they consistently make can lead them to be of the daaleen, may Allah protect us and all of our youth from now. Ameen, what would you tell them? And I know it's not just one answer, but I mean, you know, just, yeah. It's always, and that's why it goes back to what I said, try to be a good person.
Like what I mean is there's a lot of people who live life just for themselves. And people, you know, listen to what others are kind of saying around you, even if you don't like that criticism. But I think a part of the failing within our community and other communities is that we assume that there is a box that everybody has to fit in. You know, a good Muslim is in this box. And unless you're in that, unless you, you know, you're doing it the way we do it, you're not good. There was a sister, she said, Sheikh Yahya, you know, my husband's a good man, but he doesn't, you know, he doesn't do, he doesn't go to the classes. He doesn't, you know, do this. He's not memorizing Quran. And I said, well, what does he do that's good? She said, oh, you know, he's mashaAllah generous and he's this and he's that. I said, well, he worships Allah in those ways. You worship Allah in these ways. Maybe he worships Allah by smiling and comforting somebody. And that's a great ibadah. And maybe you worship Allah by fasting on Monday and Thursday. And you might be in your mind, oh, this is the sunnah, this is the way of the Prophet. But that's also an active action of worship. So I think it becomes important for people who have a duty of care over young people to find the good in them and amplify it because that builds self-esteem. MashaAllah. It builds that self-confidence and that I'm actually a good person, even, yes, I know I missed my salah, but if I'm only being ridiculed and thrashed and, you know, I don't wanna use the word abused, abused for it, then what happens is that it's not worth, I don't know how to come back to being a better person. So when people see the good in us, and that's one of the ways that shaitan leads people off the path is that sometimes shaitan
will find a way for them to feel good about the wrong thing. So somebody is in their ear telling them good things about themselves that aren't actually good about them. And it confuses them of where their morality and where their ethics should be. I think it's also important that young people learn, you know, usul al-fiqh, learn the difference between haram and makroor, learn the levels of haram. Parents, you know, sometimes, and teachers and educators, we make this mistake where we equate things. So I, you know, I had this father, he came to me and he said, Sheikh, I want you to tell my daughter that BTS and Korean K-pop is haram. And I said, no, I'm not gonna say that. He goes, what? I said, no, I'm not gonna stand up in khutbah al-jumu'ah, I mean, khutbah al-jumu'ah, K-pop is haram. Sheikh, there's so many kids listening to it, you have to, you know, this amroo' bil ma'roof. I said, no, ya kheer, I'm not going to say it's haram. Why? I said, see, one of the thing, now there are elements in it that are haram, right? But when we make it a root, that the root cause, so you find music is haram, but zina is haram. Well, I've been listening to music, my mom listens to music, my dad's listened to music, I see them getting up and shaking it at those weddings, although it's Bengali music or Pakistani music or Lebanese music, so they're getting up there and they're, but it's haram generally because it's, you know, English music or Kareem or whatever it may be. But they're telling me also having a boyfriend is haram, having a girlfriend is haram, and this is haram and this is haram, but this is done. And eventually people kind of accepted this, well, what's the difference really? Haram is all haram, it's all the same level, it's all the same thing, so, okay, they'll learn to live with it, they'll climatize to it.
And that's kind of where you find the dilution of our ethics, where people are not representing the truth. It's actually a greater crime to state something is haram in an absolute sense that could be halal than to make something halal that could be haram. That's our usool, right? It's a greater crime to, yuharrimoon maa ahallallat, that you make haram what has levels of halal. You know, some parents are so militant, Doritos is haram, why? It's got that orange cheese on it, it's haram. Okay, so is it like haram, like a pork chop haram? Because those are the kinds of questions kids ask. Is it haram like, you know, having an illegitimate relationship? So are you telling me me eating Doritos is haram and this is haram and it's all the same? And we need to kind of begin teaching our children, you know, there is haram, there is makrooh, there is haram because li thati, this is haram in its essence. And then there's haram because it leads to other things. These are things that are, you know, leading to different other problems. So I think our children are so sophisticated now with their online and their Googling that they're able to actually go and see and there's more than one opinion. And, you know, this person said, so who do I believe? You know, everything I've been told, who do I go to? And it becomes important, I guess, for people who have duty of care to kind of be careful how they represent Allah, how they represent the word of Allah, how they represent the Sunnah of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, not to normalize an antagonistic stance about faith. It's not about being antagonistic. And that's why you hear these kind of silly things about haram police. I hate that kind of statement, the haram police, because yes, we do need haram police. We do need the vanguards of faith.
We do need people who commit what is right and forbid what is wrong. But we have to go back and remember what these words actually mean. Al-amru bil ma'roof, it comes from urf. You know, you're telling people to do what they recognize is right. Ya'ni ya'arifu hadha, they know this is the right thing. But unless they've understood this is actually right, then it's not amru bil ma'roof, because how do I even know it's right? I don't even know, you're telling me to do it. How do I know it's right? So ma'roof, al-amru bil ma'roof, for you to command what's good, people have to understand that that is actually what is good. And an-nahi an al-munkar, it's what's universally munkar. It's what people, you know, should universally begin to understand it. They can, they have the cognition and the ability to understand it. If they're too young, leave it off. If they're too ingrained in it, work your way up to it. And all of that, I think that sophistication is lacking within our communities at the moment. But that is what I would say to people who are engaging with young people. The Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said, yassiroo wa la tu'assiroo. Simplify, don't make it complex. Make it easy, don't make it too hard for people. That doesn't mean we're diluting the faith. It means that we are thinking with wisdom in our path towards Allah, saving a future generation from the pitfalls that we have gone through. May Allah protect us, Ya Rabb. Ameen. Ameen. Yeah, I know one Islamic school teacher, he was telling me like, he's like, I know if I tell the kids music's haram, don't listen to it, they're just not gonna listen to me. So he tells them, for every bit of music you listen, make sure you read a page of the Quran. And I thought that was a very interesting approach because by them saying, okay, I have to read Quran if I'm gonna indulge in this, it kind of creates this dichotomy in them that hopefully they're gonna be pulled more
towards the Quran than towards those other things. I just thought that was an interesting approach that he had, but you're right, we have to be more, we have to understand where these kids are coming from and know how to relate to them better and how to explain this to them better for sure. And that's really the way Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la dealt with us in the Quran as well. Like, you know, when people would ask big things of Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la, Allah still qualifies why yes or no. Like Musa Alayhi As-Salam in Surah Al-A'raf, he says, rabbi arimi andhuru ilayk Oh Allah, I want to see you, I wanna gaze upon you with my eyes. Not in a dream, I just, I wanna see you physically, literally. Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la says, lan tarani, you will not see me, ya Musa, you're incapable of it. walakin, but, andhuru ilayk aljabal Look to that far distant mountain. fa inna istakarru makanu, fa safa tarani If that mountain can withstand an iota of my majesty being known to it, then perhaps you'll be able to gaze upon me in this life in your physical form as you are. falamma tajalla rabbuhu liljabal When Allah's magnificence, a part of it became known to that man, it was destroyed. Musa saw the mountain crumble. wakharra Musa sa'iqa Musa fell down, you know, was dead. So Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la doesn't just simply say no, but Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la qualifies and gives an understanding even to the elite about why, about why yes, why no, you know, this is why the Quran is full of qul, qul, respond, respond, say to them, answer them. This is the question, give them the answer, Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. We have some interesting questions, Shaykh. Here's one that I thought was interesting. Maybe we can take a look at, Sister Sena was saying,
I have a question regarding that. I'm very regretful of my medical school debt that I took when I did not have much knowledge of interest, et cetera. I'm paying it off the best that I can, but I fear the barakah of Allah may be kept away from me due to the debt that I have. Shaykh, what advice would you give Sister Sena? I know this goes towards your- Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la use you for good, Sister Sena. May Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la make you an incredible doctor, a healer, an incredible physician, inshaAllah. Pay off your debt as soon as you can. And if you can structure it in a way that gives you time where you lessen the amount of the burden of interest or whatever it is, do so inshaAllah. Meaning that your heart is alive with Allah. Your heart is alive with what you want to do. Your aim is to doing something good. Don't look at a past mistake. Don't say, oh, now I'm gonna give it up, but your debt is still there. Even if you have to borrow more to get out of the one that you're in, it is better than to be stuck with something that you find more difficult to pay off into the future without it. So continue your studies, finish them off, do the best you can inshaAllah. And may Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la give you an exit from all difficulty and hardship. Allahumma ameen. So, you know, may Allah heal you from debt. And debt in general is a problem for us as Muslims, whether it's structured interest or not. It's something that as Muslims, we don't like to be under. Allahumma inna na'udhu bika min ghalabati al-dayn from feeling overwhelmed by our debts. Allahumma ameen. The sunnah, the dua of the Prophet Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. May Allah assist her with that and assist all of us and keep your head up, keep moving forward. And the moment your heart is seeking Allah's barakah, you will find it. Just that moment of remorse in your heart has opened the doors of barakah to you, sister Sana. Just that very emotion is barakah. May Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la
increase it for all of us. Allahumma ameen. Another question, Sheikh Yahya, why did you move to Australia? Do you recommend it? MashaAllah. There's no question, right? There's a number of reasons. So I moved to Australia. I had come here on two, maybe three lecture tours, 1998, 99 kind of thing. I came for the summer Olympics as a backpacker, did some more lecture tours. I traveled the whole country and I was offered a job as a youth worker at one of the largest Islamic schools. Something you may not know, Islamic schools are fully funded by the government here in Australia. So our schools here are not like schools in America, Canada and the UK. Our schools here are like the Roman Catholic school system, for example. We are fully funded by the government. We have expensive campuses. MashaAllah, my campus is 1200 students, large multi-million dollar business and not-for-profit educational areas. So it's something that is a wonderful place to raise a family and have your children in an incompetent Islamic school system. Our students, MashaAllah, are always achieving the highest standards, top results, ranked fourth in the state kind of thing in terms of our ranking as a school out of three, 400 schools. So it's a place where your children can find comfort in that sense. Number two, the Australian people are really wonderful people. And I know a lot of people have this perception, oh, there is racism, there's racism everywhere. In Australia, the racism is just more overt. It's not an undercurrent. So if somebody doesn't like you, they just tell you, listen, mate, I just don't, we're just not gonna get along.
And that's it. And you smile, they smile, everybody's happy. But it's not that weird smile where they're pretending to, and then all of a sudden you don't get your job, you don't get a position. It's not that kind of, so it's very overt, which is refreshing, right? It's kind of nice. I prefer that way, personally. It's like top shelf racism at times. It's not that bad. But 99% of the Australian community that you will meet are incredibly generous people because they're an island mentality. Everybody here relies on everyone. That's why everybody calls everybody mate. It's like everybody assists everyone. I have incredible neighbors. I have an incredible community, incredible politicians in our seating and in our riding. So an incredible police force. The West Australian Police Force is a wonderful, wonderful police force to engage with, very progressive in their approach and in their concept. So all of these are things that kind of make Perth a nice place for myself and my family at the moment. But when my father, when I first took permission from him, I was a 22 or 23 year old to travel to Australia, yeah, 23 year old. He said to me, Yahya, go. Lakin law talabtak, matis al shilein. Go, but when I ask you to come back, don't ask why. You just come. And that's always been the rule. Alhamdulillah, he hasn't said come yet. So may Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la grant us good and use us for good here for ourselves, our families and our community. And wherever you are, may Allah use all of us for good, Allahumma ameen. And I do recommend it. I do recommend.
No, honestly, it's incredible da'wah opportunities, incredible business opportunities, incredible education opportunities, incredible work opportunities. Yeah, healthy, balanced lifestyle and great weather, mashallah, great beaches, alhamdulillah. I was just gonna add that, like I'm in Shaykh Yahya's hometown and a couple of days ago we had 60 centimeters of snow, which for our American friends is about just under 25 inches, I think. So three feet of snow outside and two days of shoveling. I think I injured my bicep doing so. So I totally get going to Perth. I'm sure you don't have to do much shoveling of snow over there, Shaykh. No, and look, we always come back. We used to, subhanAllah, before the COVID, inshallah, next year, every December and January, we're usually Europe and Canada, and Umrah in Europe and Canada. So we actually, all my kids skate, all my kids ski, because we love the snow. So we actually get the best of both, mashallah. Mashallah. That's great. We have more questions, but I don't know. I think we're running a little bit short on time. And I just wanna remind everyone, we do have a link in the description. You can ask questions for next week and we can try to take up your questions next week, inshallah. Because I do see some good questions, but unfortunately, we can't get to everybody's question, unfortunately. There's just one I will quickly put up here, which is, I don't know if it's coming up here. Kadi said, living in the West and older in age, how can I start learning without support from a Muslim community near me? My learning will be independent. What are things I can do slash resources I can reference? Sheikh Abdullah, maybe you wanna plug convert resources and something, inshallah, for this brother to be aware of?
Go ahead, Sheikh. Let's see if you can answer. Honestly, there is really good online resources. Some of them are more structured than others. I know Yaqeen, masha'Allah, has really wonderful, wonderful resources geared toward this. I have a humble effort and I'm sorry for shameless self-promotion, inshallah. If you go to yahyebrahim.com, you'll find that there's a school section. There's season one, season two, season three is coming out. Basically, it's like a mentored program for young people, older people, whatever it is, short videos. It's got quizzes that you can kind of, and it builds your knowledge along the way. Use that as a resource, inshallah. For those who are converts, what I always like is to embed yourself with a network and a community of people. And I think that's something that Sheikh Abdullah can help with, inshallah. Insha'Allah, yes. I mean, definitely someone that is converted to Islam, whether you're someone that was a born Muslim and had an epiphany and you're trying to get back to just doing your best. And also if you're someone that was of another faith, just like what Sheikh Yahya said, having that network of people, people that you can always constantly just sit and have a conversation with, and maybe sometimes even vent. This is very, very important to having some type of social structure, which I like to call a convert coach, someone that can help you along that journey. And as Sheikh Yahya mentioned perfectly, masha'Allah, may Allah bless him, is someone that you see living Islam. And that's important. So having a person that you can meet, for instance, 30 minutes to an hour after Jum'ah, every Friday that you can just sit and have a cup of coffee with, something minor, but it's something that is consistent. And consistency is key. I think that's very, very important. And Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala knows best. Masha'Allah.
So Sheikh, one question we want to get some real sincere advice from you. If you can go back in time and go to that younger Yahya Ibrahim who was just starting out, what advice would you want to give your younger self? Listen to your parents more. SubhanAllah. It's ironically something that I say to my kids as well, but it is probably the best advice. And one of the things that my shuyukh, they would say is, Yahya, Islam is what you get from the practice of it. But you want to be able to have advice from those who care in an absolute sense for you. And there's very few people, not all parents, of course, not all parents. I have to qualify that. Some are toxic and so on. But on the whole, even parents who are not of our faith, even parents who we've had difficulties in, we, in general, some of the advice growing up that our parents give us is very good advice that we kind of need to listen to. Second is to choose your friends really, really well. And to know that there's a difference between a friend and acquaintance. There's a difference between a friend of a friend. There's a difference between a work colleague and an associate. Even in the Qur'an, there's 15, 16 different terms that in English is just translated friends. But in the Qur'an, there's wali, waliun hameem, sahib. You know, there's all these different words to describe different relationships. So be very careful with the relationships you have because you're looking at your mirror self, maybe not now, but could be into the future. So if you see something in your friends you don't like, be careful with that, keep it in mind, Inshallah. Third and finally is to, you know, don't give up on your dreams.
So don't have something that I think I really want to do this, but people told me no, or it seems too hard, or I don't have the money right now, or I don't know if I can even do it. I'm not even going to try. I'm not even going to start. If you have something that you are passionate about, chances are it is worth pursuing and you should commit yourself to it in that which is pleasing to Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la. That's beautiful. And just a small thing I want to mention about the parents is very, JazakAllah khair for mentioning that. A lot of times, and I think all of us are parents here, when your parents give you that advice, you know, I was telling someone this last week is there's nothing like having a child. And that's why, you know, there's a term, there's a term, because Qurratu comes from istiqrar. So like the apple of your, of our eye, which we translated to mean, but it literally means that what your eyes can just sit and just settle and look at. You just have joy looking at it. And your children are that in essence, because every parent sees an element of themselves within their child. They'll see this and say, oh my God, that's me. That's a sorrow for that way that they did this and that, or, oh, that's, that's his mother. That's his grandmother. Oh, that's his uncle. A certain behavior that they may have. So a lot of times when your dad is getting you advice, your mom is giving you advice. They're indirectly talking to themselves. They're saying, you know, I'm talking to myself. I would have given myself this advice when I was younger. I wish I had this advice, but now you are here. You are my opportunity to talk to myself again. So there's no advice like the advice of the parents because it comes from sheer, unconditional love. And I think we as children, as teenagers, we got to take that into consideration to the best of our ability. And don't forget that regardless of what they've said and done to us,
which sometimes can be difficult, but remember that, you know, a lot of times they're seeing themselves within you and they're giving themselves that advice. And it's out of pure, pure love, inshallah, and mercy. Allah knows best. Yeah, absolutely. SubhanAllah. And you know, you just think Allah Subhanu wa ta'ala says, وَشَاوِرْهُمْ فِي الْأَمْرِ Like seek, you know, the advice, the consultation of others in your affairs. And he's directing this to the Prophet ﷺ. And the Prophet would seek advice from people. And so the Prophet was seeking advice. We are far more in need of doing so, seeking consultation from others. Too often, you know, parents don't take the advice of their children. They really should. And children don't take advice of their parents. And like Sheikh Yahya was mentioning, it's so important for us to do so. Sheikh, we loved having you on. This was incredible. We have a lot of messages and it's hard for me to even keep up with. One message here I just want to highlight as well, which is, will you do these live streams more? Yes, we will be here every week, inshallah, every Wednesday at 7 p.m. We're going to be live with a different guest. We were so lucky to have Sheikh Yahya being our guest this week. I believe next week we have Ustadh Maryam Amir, inshallah, is going to be with us. So we're going to have a great lineup of guests. And we're going to be able to ask them questions and be live here, inshallah, for all of you. I know we weren't able to get to everybody's questions, but really do appreciate people asking their questions and being here, inshallah. Any parting words, inshallah, Sheikh Abdullah or Sheikh Yahya? Love to hear from either of you, bi'in Allah. Sheikh Yahya, tifadhal, sheikhna. Just where we began, do what's right because it's right. Stay away from what's wrong because it's wrong. May Allah bless you with that and increase us in following the love and the tradition and the sunnah of the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ. It's a pleasure and an honor. I look forward to meeting you both live and in person, inshallah.
May Allah ﷻ gather us in the best of places and best of times. Allahuma Ameen. Ameen, Ameen. JazakAllah khair. As-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuhu. Wa alaykum as-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuhu. Wa min Allahi t-tawfiq. Al-Fatiha.
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