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Enabled by Faith - Sara Minkara | Confident Muslim

January 11, 2019Yaqeen Institute

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I seek refuge with Allah from the accursed Satan. In the name of Allah, the most Gracious, the most Merciful. All praise is due to Allah, Lord of the worlds. As-salatu was-salamu ala ashraf al-anbiya wal-mustaleen Sayyidina Muhammad wa ala aali ashabi ajma'een. My dear respected brothers and sisters, as-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi ta'ala wa barakatuh. Alhamdulillah, we're going to get this session started inshallah. As we start, we want to thank first of all the Muslim American Society for allowing and for hosting the Yaqeen Institute for Islamic Research and to have our session on Confident Muslim. If you have not heard of us yet, go to yaqeeninstitute.org and inshallah find out the great work that we're doing trying to not only dismantle the doubt that exists in the minds of people who are both Muslims and people of other faiths, but also how to celebrate and indeed look at all of our contributions that Islam has made. So as we do that inshallah, this is one of those sessions that contributes to the overall mission of Yaqeen Institute. So with that, I want to introduce to you, I serve as the Vice President on the board, but I want to introduce to you our President and founder of Yaqeen Institute, Sheikh Omar Suleiman. Give him a big hand. Assalamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh. Jazakallah khair Dr. Altaf for everything that you do for our community and for what you do for Yaqeen. I want to thank all of you for being here today. This is personally always my favorite session of the convention.
A lot of you are familiar with the work that Yaqeen does and to many people you think about the academic part of it. So tomorrow we have an academic conference inshallah ta'ala where we'll be hosting various academics and speakers that will go through some of the topics that are relevant to our community right now, essential to us in rooting our faith in our hearts and then producing through that conviction in a way that benefits everyone and everything around us. Today we talked a lot about courage and we talked about how courage has different manifestations. Subhanallah the person that we're going to have speaking today is one of the most courageous people that I've ever met. She is an incredible inspiration to me personally and inshallah ta'ala I'm sure that she'll be inspiring to all of you. Confident Muslim, the idea of Confident Muslim was to find people in our community that are doing incredible work with their faith. Where we see faith in action, people that have not shied away from their religion in very hostile spaces and people that have been empowered by their religion to beautify all of the spaces that they're in. Alhamdulillah Rabbul Ameen, the person that we award every year in the name of is Muhammad Ali. So every year for Confident Muslim, we've been doing this now for two and a half years, we give an award annually to one of the presenters at Confident Muslim. The very first Confident Muslim award winner was a young sister by the name of Sister Hira Hashmi and she was our first Muhammad Ali Confident Muslim award winner. Alhamdulillah we're honored to have her here. Inshallah ta'ala she'll come up and she'll introduce our speaker for Confident Muslim inshallah ta'ala and then I'll see you all in about 25 minutes inshallah ta'ala to interview our Confident Muslim speaker. Jazakumullah khair.
Jazakumullah khair Imam Omar Suleiman for that introduction. Confident Muslim is a platform in which it empowers young bright minds to use their faith to do good in the community and I am honored to introduce today's Confident Muslim. Sara Minkara is the founder and CEO of Empowerment Through Integration. ETI, a non-profit committed to developing a more inclusive society through empowering youth with disabilities and transforming social and cultural stigmas against disability globally. ETI is committed to achieving inclusion for all people through groundbreaking initiatives that challenge stereotypes about people with disabilities. Sara strives to elevate marginalized voices and viewpoints and promote a robust authentic respect for individual value through the organizations. A Lebanese American Muslim woman who lost her sight at the age of age of seven, Sara has transformed her passion for empowering persons with disabilities into innovative empowering programs. ETI programs support individuals with disabilities to become catalysts for change in their own lives, their communities and beyond. Sara's personal pledge to equip young people with disabilities with the confidence and skills to succeed as individuals and advocates blossomed as an undergraduate at Wellesley College. With support from the Clinton Foundation, she founded ETI in college and expanded its programs and mission while earning her master's degree in public policy at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government.
Today, Sara is an internationally recognized advocate in the areas of disability inclusion, female leadership and social entrepreneurship. Dynamic and memorable, she speaks and facilitates workshops across the globe leveraging her personal background and professional expertise on disability inclusion, social entrepreneurship, empowerment, women's leadership and more. Please join me in welcoming Sara Minkara. Beautiful. My name is Sara Minkara and I'm the founder and CEO of ETI as you can tell. And I'm blind and I'm proud of it. I'm going to start off with telling you a little bit about my story, even though you've heard of heard about it the past five minutes, but it's okay. So, 22 years ago, summer 1996, on my seventh birthday, I woke up and my world was completely altered. I was standing on the balcony in our summer house in Lebanon in the mountains. And I turned to my mother and I tell my mom, I can't see the mountains.
Those mountains are huge, enormous, but nothing was there for me. And my mom turns around, she remembers this really clearly. And her heart stops and she realizes that her second daughter has become blind. My sister, two years previous at seven years old on her birthday had become blind. And she says, everything is going to be okay. And everything was okay. And better than okay. It turns out to be the biggest blessing in my life, alhamdulillah. She and my family, my parents, my community, especially my parents, my mother, never let us, never allowed the narrative surrounding disability to enter the home. The lack of expectation, the negative assumptions ever to enter our home. We lived a life of empowerment. And that was because my parents believed that what Allah decrees is a blessing. Islam means to submit to Allah and submit to what Allah bestows upon us. So instead of them saying, ya Allah, why us? Why my daughters? They said, there's a purpose behind it.
We're going to embrace it and we're going to embody it and we're going to live with it. And we never saw our disability as something different. They normalized it in our homes. They never had a pitying narrative, but they had an empowering narrative. She never allowed me and my sister to utter the words, I cannot do this because I cannot see. That was never allowed. She pushed us to tap into our potential, the abilities that Allah gave us. We went to the regular public school systems. I went to college and majored in math. I went to Harvard for grad school. I hiked a volcano and slid down a volcano in Nicaragua, biked through a jungle in Indonesia. The list goes on. And this is because my parents had full faith in what Allah bestowed on us. Allah will never, ever test us with things we cannot handle. Our human capacity is greater than we ever realized. Viktor Frankl, in his book for Man's Search for Meaning, I definitely recommend this book. He's a psychiatrist that lived through the Holocaust and lived through the concentration camps. And as a doctor, he would always say, you know, people cannot live without X number of hours of sleep or food or water, what have you. But then going through the concentration camps, he realizes that the human capacity is greater than we ever realized. So it's important for us to explore what Allah gives us.
Our wealth, our rizq, of our mind and body and soul is so much greater than we ever can imagine and explore. Let me tell you something. Has anyone heard of echolocation? So echolocation is when blind people, when they're born blind, they use sound and vibration, like with clicking their tongue or snapping their fingers, to create sound and vibration so they can actually navigate the world independently. They can imagine in 3D what's around them. But when a baby's born blind and they start doing that, what happens? The parents and the people around them, no, no, no, this is weird. They don't know what's going on. And they conform them into what quote unquote normal behavior is. And they remove that subhanallah natural instinct for that human. But when you use echolocation, you're able, for instance, to bike independently throughout the streets. Because our other senses, through the sound and vibration, allows us to navigate independently. But you don't see people doing that because it's seen as weird and awkward. We tend to move towards what society conforms us to versus tapping into our potential. There's a blind person that's climbed Mount Everest. There's a blind person who's a famous photographer. I can go on. But we shouldn't see them as inspiration, no. They're like any of us. They were only able to accomplish what they've accomplished because they had the space and the ability to explore their capacity and potential. But most people with disabilities don't have that reality, unfortunately.
And I was exposed to that reality when I used to visit Lebanon during the summers growing up. The narrative of yacharam, charity, pitying. The narrative that there's something wrong with you, we need to fix something about you. The narrative, oh, you should hide that you're blind. Don't talk about it. The narrative, there's an elephant in the room, let's go around and not even address it. What does that do to you? That disempowers you. That makes you feel like, I don't like myself. There's something wrong about me. We forget that Allah is the one who created us. He created me in this way for a reason. We're all created imperfectly in a perfect way, and we should not forget that. But when realizing that most kids with disabilities, whether in Lebanon, whether across the globe, or even here in the U.S. in our communities, they're ostracized, they're marginalized, they're pushed to the side, they're seen as less than, they're seen as a charity case, yacharam. We create a cycle of disempowerment. Then the people with disabilities start embodying that and believing that, and because it becomes a vicious cycle. And we're losing out on their potential. We're losing out on the value that Allah has put forward. And that's why I founded Empowerment Through Integration, an international non-profit that focuses on empowering youth with disabilities to embrace who they are, to embrace their disability in a positive way, to love themselves, to believe that I have the potential to make a difference in my life and the life of others. But it shouldn't stop there. The burden should not be on the shoulder of the youth only.
We also change the narrative on the family level and the community level, societal level. Everyone needs to be involved. Me, you, everyone. Everyone needs to look at a person with a disability and see Allah has created that person, and that person has a value to give to this world. And that's our mission. And how does it relate to everyone in this room? All of us has experienced marginalization. Every single one of us has been judged, has been labeled, has faced isms, whether it's ableism, racism, ageism. And on the other hand, we've also created these isms. So let me talk about the first experience of being marginalized. I want you to always to take a step back. I would even say write a journal. Write down your identities, all of your identities, and what isms are associated with these identities. What are the assumptions associated with these identities? And how have these assumptions prevented you from tapping into your full potential? To give you an example, blind people in Lebanon are not comfortable using a white cane. Why? Because they don't want to be labeled as blind. They want to be judged. So they don't use a white cane. So they're tailoring their behaviors. They would rather be hidden than be out in society and independent. We do it in extreme ways, but we also do it in subtle ways here. We're not always comfortable as Muslims to be praying out in public when we need to do our prayers. We have so much racism in our society.
We have so much isms, and we are exposed to that. So write down your identities, what are assumptions created to attach to those identities. Then I want you to reflect on the 99 names of Allah. Allah is the most loving. Allah is the most generous. Allah is the most empathetic. And when you reflect on his names, you can start seeing your identities that have negative assumptions turn them into positive. For instance, I see my blindness as a blessing. I wouldn't change that for the world. Yes, there's technical this to my disability, but there's so much more positive. It has given me strength and resilience and a greater connection to Allah. So I want you to really reflect on your identities and start loving yourself and how Allah created you. So that's one side. Now the other side. As I said, we all create these assumptions. We're in this society, we're constructing these isms. We are all humans, and we all judge, including me. I judge through my hearing. I want you to reflect on what are the isms that you focus on when you see others. Reflect on that. Realize that. And start working on yourself. Start delaying your assumption. We should be moving towards a path where when we see anyone and everyone, no matter who they are, their background, how they look, whatever, that we only have one assumption. Allah is the one who created this person, and this person has something beautiful to contribute.
Not seeing them through a pity lens, not see them through a negative lens, see them through a beautiful positive lens. What happens when you do that? You create an empowering space. We want to make sure that everyone in our society is included, everyone in our society is empowered, feels like they belong, and they can contribute. We should try to learn from the Prophet Muhammad, salallahu alayhi wa sallam, on his characteristics. He was the most inclusive. He was the most respectful. When he would see someone, he would look at them and focus on them and see them and include them. He would not judge them or exclude them. So let's always try to remember the Prophet's behaviors and try to emulate them. Let's take it a step further. We go through tests and struggles, conditions that we never would have thought we would go through. And we say, Ya Allah, why? But we need to have the benefit of the doubt of Allah. What we see on the surface level in this dunya is never the full picture. You know, today is Friday and we read Surah Al-Kahf, right? And there's a story towards the end, a story of Prophet Moses with Khidir. And there's like three experiences that he went on a journey with Khidir. And he used to ask, why is this happening? Why are you doing this? Why are you doing this? Why are you doing this? And on the surface level, it looks awful. But when then Khidir explains to him the true meaning and the true picture behind the story, you see that Allah has a greater purpose. We need to realize that this dunya is just a test and the akhira is our end goal.
So try to really embrace every single condition in that positive way. I never asked, never in my entire life made a dua, Ya Allah, give me back my asset. Never. But the dua I make is, Ya Allah, bring to my life whatever gets me closer to you. That's all I ask. So I want to close off with a few dua and remembering the names of Allah. So we'll start off and say, Ya Allah, Ya Rahman, Ya Rahim, Ya Ghafoor. O thy merciful, forgive us for every time we have judged a human being. Forgive us for every time we have prevented a person to tap into their full potential. Whether our children, our students, our employees, our colleagues, our friends, our community members. Let us create a space where everyone feels like they are included. And they're seen through your lens of your creation. Ya Allah, you are the most generous. You are al-Razzaq, al-Karim. You have given us so much, whether internally into our human capacity or externally. Our family, our love, our shelter, our food, our community. Let us realize and understand and reflect on that Rizq. And try to use that Rizq for something beneficial for others. Ya Allah, you are the Alim. You are the all-knowing. We might be experiencing a condition and we don't understand it. And we say, why? But let us have at least the strength to have peace in our hearts. And understand that this is a blessing for us, whether in this dunya and akhira. Ya Allah, you are the most loving, al-Wadud.
You created us with love. Every single creature and human in this world is created through your love. Let us see the beauty behind every single creation and every single human. And let us always move forward with loving each other in the most authentic and prophetic way. Ameen, Ya Allah. Jazakum Allah Khair. Assalamualaikum Warahmatullahi Wabarakatuh. Jazakum Allah Khairan. I assume there isn't a single dry eye in the room. May Allah bless you, Sister Sara. Barakallah Fiki for sharing your story in such a beautiful way. So I'll give you the story of how I met Sara. I was at a conference a few years ago. And we had a side session on how to do better as a Muslim community with disabilities. And I was there on behalf of Muhsin, Muslims Understanding and Helping with Special Education Needs, speaking on that panel. I met Sister Sara. The first thing that she says to me is, you're much taller in person. MashaAllah. So you said the voice, you could tell from where the voice was coming from. SubhanAllah. And she gave probably the best lecture that I'd heard at the convention that year. And it was maybe 30 people in the room. And you know, this room right now, SubhanAllah, there's about 3,000 at least people here right now, SubhanAllah, that just were moved by you. And I thought to myself when I saw that room, I remember remarking, I said, that was the best lecture at the convention. And no one, you know, not many people had had a chance to hear it. So then we invited Sister Sara to come to our Muhsin banquet actually here in Chicago, Alhamdulillah, and she spoke there.
And now Alhamdulillah, I'm extremely pleased that so many people got to hear your story just now. And I think it so far is the best lecture in the convention, right? It probably will be no matter what. With all due respect to all of our Masha'ikh and all of our speakers and wonderful presenters. Your story is incredibly moving. You truly embody what Allah says in the Quran, that it's the hearts that lose sight, not the eyes. And I think all of us can see that your heart, Masha'Allah, has an incredible amount of foresight. And empowers everything around it, everybody and everything around it. So may Allah bless you. You're an incredible inspiration to me personally and to everybody here. May Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala increase you in all that is good. And grant you an eternity of comfort and felicity in Jannatul Firdaus. And allow you to be comforted by the sight of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam in Jannatul Firdaus. Allahuma Ameen. So questions. I think all of us are blown away by the amount of faith that you have to get you through everything that you've been through. And it's not charity, I think. Can you inspire us a little bit further by just telling us, is there a particular verse in the Quran? What is it in the faith that you lean on most when you're going through those times? So you mentioned the 99 names of Allah, which were meant to interact with the names of Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala. Could you tell us a little bit about that, the Quran or a story from the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, or something that really powers you through? First of all, JazakAllah Khair. Sheikh Omar, thank you for inviting me and allowing me to present my story and be here with you guys. I'm really humbled and JazakAllah Khair for everything.
In terms of what inspires me from the Quran or the Sira, it's so much. But to be honest, it's the stories of the prophets that we've grown up to learn, whether it's Prophet Sayyidina Yusuf and Sayyidina Musa and Sayyidina Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. I think they've gone through so much more trials and tribulations that we've ever can imagine. And if you read the Sira from A to Z, you always think, oh my God, how in the world did he handle what he experienced and faced? We just face one millionth of what the prophets have experienced. And for me, when I'm really down and really in a moment of hesitancy or struggle, I try to go back and reflect on these prophet stories. And I think for me, I don't think I would have gone to this point if it wasn't for my parents and the family and the culture that they created at home. I think that's the first stepping point for me. And is there a person, you know, so we did this thing recently at Yaqeen called spiritual personality tests. So we wanted people to find in the Sahaba or the stories someone that they really felt like they could relate to and identify with and then grow into that role model to the best of their ability. Is there a companion, a Sahabiya, a person in the past in our history that you really identified strongly with? I think for me, it's to start off with Sidna Hajar when she was in Mecca and she was trying to get water and moving back and forth and trying to kind of, you know, and she was alone and in desperation. And I think that is probably the most difficult moment that a person can ever face. And but she had full tawakkul.
And that source of tawakkul is something I'm always trying to learn and trusting that Allah is there for us and Allah will always, you know, will never leave us alone. And for me, my blindness is actually a surface level. I've actually always had health issues. And a couple of years ago, I did a bone marrow transplant. And I think those that year and those moments were kind of the toughest year of my life, but I will say it was also the most beautiful year of my life. And I tried to think about full tawakkul and what Sidna Hajar had or Sidna Mariam had where she wasn't allowed, you know, when she, Sayyidina Isa was born. And what society looked at her and was judging her and had so much assumptions about her. Imagine how much difficult that was. And she couldn't explain herself. And at times, that's what a lot of us feel. We're in a place where we're judged really harshly. And you feel like people will never see you for who you are. And again, all you need is Allah to see you and knows who you are fully and is there for you. And it's the most ra'oof, the most empathetic. Allah bless you. And SubhanAllah, I think if I'm, so it's Hajar alayhi salam for sure. She has a great impact on us and Mariam alayhi salam. There are some people that are sitting in the crowd right now that are looking at you and they're saying, SubhanAllah, she's dealt with, all of us have our share of hardships, but she's dealt with your hardship so admirably. And there are young people in the crowd that have been shaken in their faith in Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala because of the hardships that they've been facing. And we don't want to minimize anyone's hardship in particular, but to that person, at least that hardship has the potential or had the potential to really break their faith.
And they get into this question of why me, oh Allah, how do I power through? What is this supposed to mean for me? What do you say to that 18, 19 year old person that is going through that struggle right now of faith because they've been through a hardship? How do they find themselves? How do they find the perseverance needed to go through these things? I always look at it this way and it might be a weird way to look at it, but I was always told Allah tests those he loves the most. And when Allah is testing you and brings hardships in your own life, it's almost like he wants you to call out for his name. He wants you to get closer to him. He wants you to depend on him fully. And we need to always realize that this dunya is a small, small, small fraction of what the akhira is. I think there was a sheikh that once mentioned that this dunya is almost like when you pull out a tooth, that pain of the tooth that you pull out is a second. It's very painful. It's a second. But that's the kind of the fraction of this dunya versus the akhira. So I will say when you are going through the hardship, realize that Allah is wanting you to call out for him. When you make one dua, Allah will run to you. There's a phrase, right? When you take one step, Allah will run to you. And know always that after the test, there's ease. It's never going to last. There will always be ease after it. So, yeah. So, we've recognized, you talked a lot about Lebanon and marginalization in Lebanon.
And obviously, as a country that's a second home to you, you've done a lot of work there and you've done a lot of work here in the United States. One of the things that we've tried to do through Muhsen is to impress upon the Muslim community their importance of accommodating as much as they can. Making sacred spaces more accessible to people with disabilities. And we've really tried to speak to this idea that we don't assign value to a person on the basis of their manifest abilities. And say, well, this person deserves guidance more than this person. Or this person needs to hear khutbah more than this person. Or this person needs to be able to sit in the masjid more than this person. What message would you give to the masajids? To the sacred spaces? And by the way, I want to congratulate MAS, mashallah, which has done an incredible job in terms of accommodating people with disabilities and working with Muhsen. May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala bless them. But, what do we do as masajids right now? Have you ever felt like there's a masjid, that there are masajids that are becoming more welcoming, that are doing a better job? And what message would you give to those masajids, to those sacred spaces? So, there are masajids going down that path. But I feel like there's so much work to be done. Because it's two things. One, we look at inclusivity of people with disabilities in a very technical way. Which is needed, right? We need to make the place accessible. We need to make the infrastructure accessible for all. We need to, you know, that is needed. And that is great. But, I think we still lack the adaptive accessibility. And what I mean by adaptive is the culture in the masjid. The narrative in the masjid.
When I enter a lot of masajids and they see me blind, the first instinct is either awkwardness or pittiness or I don't know what to do with you. And for me, it doesn't bother me at this point. Because I can advocate for myself and I feel like this is my space. But for others, it could feel like you don't belong there. And when you feel like you don't belong there, you stop going there. And then what happens is a lot of the community will be like, oh, we don't have people with disabilities in our community. It's because they don't show up. People need to feel like they belong. And you'll only get to that point when you have people with disabilities being part of the policymaking, part of the program making, the program delivery, part of the staff infrastructure, their voice needs to be represented throughout. And only when you see people with disabilities in all aspects of our community and our system and our infrastructure, then we start normalizing it. Then we start expecting it. Then we don't even question, oh, do we have sign language interpretation for this session? Because it's there. So we need to start moving towards that instead of seeing it as an add-on to our system or society. So, yeah. By the way, we have, if you go to the Mohsen booth, get your masjid certified. I think the point is we're missing out as a community on special talents, on contributions, and just the spirit that you bring is just absolutely incredible.
I'm curious, has anyone asked you in public, I'm sure they have, as someone who visibly has a disability, yet visibly wears hijab and is Muslim in public, do you have a story to share of a TSA agent or someone in a grocery store or a waiter that was like, well, why? This doesn't make sense. Or how do you do this? How do you combine both of these in public this way? Oh, I have so many stories. But, yeah, because my combining my blindness and my Muslim identity, it's a cause for trouble. But I think, I mean, TSAs, I have so many experiences where I would walk with my friend and I have to go through security and then the TSA looks at my friend and she looks at me. Because, of course, a Muslim has to be double checked, triple checked, whatever. And she looks at me and she's like, is she functional? And my friend is like, what? Well, they're like, you can ask her, first of all. She's right there in front of you. You can talk to her. But you get a lot of people don't know what to do and they become awkward. But then also there's that Muslim identity. So but on the other hand, you know, what's so ironic is when I walk in society, I don't face so much Islamophobic experience as much as ableism. The first identity that people experience see me with is my blindness. So I think my blindness has been also a blessing in that lens. In the sense that my Islam is almost like secondary to them. But then I'm allowed to kind of enter a space and bring my Islam forward in a stronger way. It's really interesting. Disability is a much stronger force, I guess. Yeah. So you spoke about your mom.
I think that a lot of times the heroes in the story are the parents and then they sort of disappear in the narrative and it becomes that first teacher that really encouraged you or motivated you or that first celebrity or that first hero that you found in the books. But in your situation, the very first person to comfort you was your mom. And we don't take the time out often to publicly thank our parents for the role that they played in our lives. So is there a message that you'd like to send, inshallah ta'ala, in conclusion that all of us can benefit from? And those of us who maybe also don't take the time out sometimes to appreciate our parents for loving us the way that they do. Yeah. I think your parents, our parents, our families are our greatest support system and their parents are the ones who give us unconditional love. They sacrifice so much for you to a point that you take it for granted. And this is why in Islam, your parents are so important because you don't understand how much their love and their support is the one that makes you who you are and how empowered you are. And for me, my mom did so much where she would spend nights throughout growing up where she would be helping us with our homework and making sure she can read our stuff to us. She would be going to the schools and making sure we're getting the accommodations. She advocated for herself and through doing that, she taught us how for us to advocate for ourselves and allowed us, me and my sister, then we went to college and later on we fought for our rights. We knew what our rights were. And that tool is priceless. And subhanallah, I can never, I'm indebted to them forever.
So we need to always reflect and appreciate them and really give them back and show them our appreciation and love because sometimes that gesture will make the world's difference for them too. So for me, alhamdulillah, alhamdulillah, alhamdulillah, and may Allah reward them the highest level of Jannah. And reward our parents the highest level of Jannah. And we're always there to be also a support back to them. That's really important for us always to make sure that we're also there for them later on in life when they need our support. Subhanallah, hearing the way that you say alhamdulillah is so beautiful to I think all of us. And so we say alhamdulillah for you. You've been a blessing to the world around you. You've been a blessing to us today, alhamdulillah, an absolute inspiration. May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala always bless you with good. May Allah azawajal always fill your heart with this joy and with this iman. May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala allow you to have the best moment of your existence in the moment that you meet him. And may Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala bless your family who's been there for you, your parents, your mother for all that she did for you. May Allah bless her and allow her to also be comforted with the presence of the Messenger sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. Thank you so much for coming and taking the time out to do this. Jazakumullahu khairan. To everyone inshallah ta'ala soon inshallah we'll be uploading the session under Confident Muslim. You can download the app, the Yaqeen Institute app. Please do as soon as you see the video of this session go up, spread it like wildfire. I think that the message of Sister Sara is something that can move hearts all around the world inshallah ta'ala and hopefully move us in a way that we can better see not just how we should treat others,
but how we should view our own relationship with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and how he calls us to treat others. Jazakumullahu khairan once again, Sister Sara.
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