Name: "Teach Me From That Which Allah Has Taught You" - Mohammad Ouyoun #ConfidentMuslim
Uploaded: 2017-08-03T14:28:49.000Z
Channel: Yaqeen Institute
Description: Mohammad Ouyoun, Founder of Roll with Me, speaks about how Abdullah Ibn Umm Maktum helped inspire him to create a travel app for the disabled. Mohammad’s presentation is one of three #ConfidentMuslim sessions held at ISNA Chicago 2017.

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 So our first participant today is Brother Mohammed Ayoun, mashallah, who is a Chicago native.  He is an entrepreneur, a world traveler, and he is currently working on building Roll With Me,  an app to revolutionize accessible travel. So we are very proud to have him.  He will be our first participant today. Please give a warm welcome to Brother Mohammed Ayoun.  I'm right in the center.  I'll bring it. Alhamdulillah.  JazakAllah khair. Thank you.  Alhamdulillah.  Now before I start, I wanted to give a quick shout out to my mom and dad who, you know,  because of their motivation, they're motivating me, I'm here today.  But...  So the topic I wanted to talk about today, and the reason I titled it this, is  علمني مما علمك الله.  Okay, that's the title of my topic today, or teach me from that which Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has taught you.  Now in order to do that, I want to take you back to the early days of Islam,  where the Prophet salallahu alaihi wa sallam just started to preach about it.  And what happened, there was one day where all the leaders of Quraysh had agreed to speak to him.  So, here the Prophet is, salallahu alaihi wa sallam, speaking to these guys,  and you have Abu Jahl, you have Utbah ibn Rabi'a, you have all these leaders.  And then suddenly, somebody comes by the name of Abdullah ibn Ummi Maktum,  and he says,  يا رسول الله, علمني مما علمك الله.  Oh Rasulullah, teach me from that which Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has taught you.  Now, I want to put this into perspective, especially being like a youth with a disability,  how terrifying personally I would find it.  In modern terms, if you think about it, it would be like, for example, myself, I'm in the tech industry.  Okay, I love technology, I love building apps, that's what I do.  Now, imagine if, you know, Mark Zuckerberg was having a talk, a conference,  with the founder of Amazon, the founder of Airbnb, all these founders,  and I come in and ask a question about business.  That to me is terrifying.  So, the first lesson, and I'm going to highlight two lessons we can learn from this story,  because we all know the story of Abdullah ibn Ummi Maktum,  I want to focus on a different aspect.  The first thing I want to talk about is the fact that he had confidence.  The fact that despite his disability, his blindness,  he still had the courage to walk in front of all these well-known people,  all these high-ranking people, and ask the Prophet, salallahu alayhi wa sallam, this question.  Despite his disability, and I'm sure even at that time,  they had a negative view of people with disabilities, mind you.  It wasn't like it was any better back then, just because the Prophet, salallahu alayhi wa sallam, was around.  The fact that he had that courage, the fact that he didn't let that disability limit him  to what he could achieve, what he could do, and because of that,  we have the story of Abasah wa Tawalla.  Because of that, he was known as the Mu'adhin of the Prophet, salallahu alayhi wa sallam, second to Bilal.  So you can see, this guy has achieved legendary status,  forever immoralized in the Qur'an, because of his courage,  because of what he didn't allow himself to fall into.  And the second thing was that, you know, he was optimistic.  That he didn't look at his disability and say, you know what, I have this disability, I'm stuck with it, this is what I can do.  No, he pushed his limits.  If you look in the books of Tafsir, and the biographies, he's described as somebody,  a man who was determined to seek knowledge.  He said, you know what, this is what I'm good at.  I have a strong voice, I'm able to seek knowledge, so you know what, this is going to be my legacy, this is what I'm going to do.  And we can especially look at it in another aspect, as American Muslims, you know.  Right now we're dealing with difficult times, we're dealing with difficult situations,  but we should never, ever let those difficult situations push us back.  Force us to conform to what people like, force us to conform to what pleases people.  And now when it comes to me specifically, like I said, I love technology, I love traveling, it's one of my other favorites.  And because of, you know, the inspiration from Abdullah and his story, I decided to start an app called Roll With Me.  Now, Roll With Me all started when I was in programming school.  When I first started programming, I was given a challenge.  They told us, you know what, okay, we're going to put you guys in teams, and there's a lot of public data in Chicago.  I want you guys to come with something revolutionary that will help improve the lives of people.  So from that, we came up with the idea of Roll With Me, which was actually later published in the Chicago Tribune, built in Chicago.  And all these publications started talking about it.  And the whole idea stemmed from the fact that I'm sure a lot of you know this, but not a lot of the stations in Chicago are accessible.  Not a lot of them, you …

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