 Okay so today guys I wanted to go over the five main things that Allah gave me and blessed me with through the Arabic language. I'm going to go straight into the point and I'm going to share this with you because when you when you do tafakkur and ta'amul and you know and you pound upon these things you you're really grateful for what you for what you have in terms of the Arabic language. So I'm going to share this with you guys inshallah and and hopefully that this will benefit someone and and perhaps push you even more to start learning the Arabic language or to continue learning the Arabic language at a you know a higher speed I would say. So first of all first of all learning the Arabic language it gave me more taqwa it gave me more taqwa and taqwa you can define this as being you know the thing that prevents you from from falling into from falling into sin basically or the thing that prevents you from going to hellfire. So there is always a little kind of like like a wall in between certain things which I ask Allah that He helps me to keep it that way but there is certain things that you know obviously we all humans and we all have habits from our times where we were in practicing at least most of us that are hard to get rid of and are hard to you know to just stop but you know little by little the more knowledge you gain the the easier it is to erase all of those things and drop those bad habits but there is things that perhaps you used to do before that right now just because you know Arabic and through knowing Arabic you have been exposed to way more understanding of certain aspects of the religion and certain you know verses verses certain hadith certain things like for example being able to be in a private room with with Sheikh Saleh Suhaimi or you know different maseikh from Kuwait where they speak about things that they wouldn't speak in public and you'd be like Subhanallah like oh my god this is actually the scholars like they actually talk about these things obviously it's good things but it's things that that if I didn't know Arabic I wouldn't be exposed to and so certain things like this that you have lived you know obviously if you are if you don't know Arabic you are exposed to the hadith or the translation of the hadith the translation of the must have you know speakers and things like that but it's not the same way you are exposed by experience to things like actual things like I said for example as an example being in a private room with different scholars or being able to to to be in the middle of the haram while they are making adhan and you know get close to sheikh wasiullah abbas and tap his shoulder and and ask him a question there is certain things that if if I didn't know Arabic I would never be exposed to that and and so it gives you a different type of understanding which equals to give you a different type of of taqwa and a different type of not only taqwa but muru'ah there is certain things that just because the knowledge that Allah has gave you and I'm not saying by by no means that I have knowledge but the knowledge that that that Allah gave me the the limited knowledge that Allah gave me in the Arabic language in different in different things um you know it it gives you a different type of understanding it gives you it's even hard to put into words to be honest but what I'm trying to say is that that um that certain things you know them through through text and through and through uh you know text versus etc and and and other certain things you you gain that taqwa that type of taqwa comes with experiences kind of thing like you know something might happen and and then it makes you say subhanAllah after this it's not even you say it it's just it's just in you it's encrypted in you basically so so that's the first thing I don't want to make this too long but it gave me more taqwa and this also something that I was talking about with uh with sister um Haula as well one thing I've noticed in Arab uh one thing I've noticed is that you know people who who start practicing and like for a couple of months they can actually fall back right some people can fall back and they stop practicing and they go back to the jahiliyat time so when they're in the jahiliyat time and they go practicing they can actually fall back right but for me this is why I noticed that you know the Arabic language the more you know basically the more you know the more you have knowledge of the Arabic language or the deen the more you have fear of Allah if you have khashatillah if you're Allah azawajal even more right I feel like the people who are practicing and they learn Arabic like they learn Arabic they cannot go back they cannot go back to how they used to be that's what I think they cannot go back because I don't know if Allah Azawajal says are those who know equal to those who do not know and of course the answers don't they're not the same so I feel like those who know Arabic and those who have learned Arabic they're in a level that basically you cannot fall back to how it used to be even if your iman is very low you cannot fall back to how it used to be and because you know because you know you have more knowledge and you that's what I've realized but if you're practicing and you do not know Arabic Allah even though you know the deen you can easily fall back because you don't know the Quran you don't know Allah azawajal in the Quran I'm pretty sure that many other people things about this and and realizes these ones they learn they learn the Arabic language so yeah that's the first thing it gave me more taqwa now the second thing is that it gave me ease to memorize and ease to expand my knowledge if I want to because like I said there's certain things that if you don't know the Arabic language it's either going to be so hard for you to memorize or it's either going to be so difficult for you to understand the actual the actual you know original meaning and and not just that because me as being someone who speaks five different languages and this something as well that we agreed on with with the brother with the brother abdel fatahus a polyglot as well is that when you learn a language not only you learn the language but you learn the you learn why people behave that way in in that particular culture you learn the culture as well through the language I would say that every language that you add to your own own any personality it opens you up a little bit more about like in general like it gives you it gives you like okay that's how now I understand why French people move like that now understand why Spanish people like that now understand why from that perspective like the psychological it helped me a lot because I wasn't I would I never felt strange being around so certain things like you know this why there is the eloquence and and it gives you a different type of understanding just because you understand how the people that speak this language things and what are the the adad the the the you know the the culture of that language and the people who speaks that language and and and you know uses that language as a day-to-day language basically so so not only it helps you to understand expand your knowledge and in in the Dean but as well it helps you to memorize so so so much easier so imagine imagine right well that might be a bad example but but if I give you a some song lyrics is in your language right so if you repeat it 10 times it will probably be easier to memorize than something that you don't understand what it means just because if you memorize something that you are understanding you can pretty much remember what what's coming next so when when you learn the Arabic language as well and I did experience these memorizing the Quran before knowing the Arabic language and memorizing the Quran after learning the Arabic language it wasn't the same it was like the level of difference it was like being able to memorize half a page per day and really struggling to being able to memorize per day three pages and not only that but understand understand them and not with the evil not with the have the the live evil but the actual good evil that you are able to recite mainly the ayat that have stories in it or the ayat that you know more towards the the middle of the most half and the beginning of it and and being able to read the the tafsir of the thing that of the page that you are memorizing and being like oh Subhanallah you know it's aha moments that makes you oh wow like you know I will never forget again it's like when you are revising and someone points at you a mistake that you keep doing and just because they pointed at you in a certain way maybe harsh or maybe or maybe in that particular moment it makes it it stops you all of a sudden and it makes you feel like oh Subhanallah I'm not making this mistake it makes you not forget again so so that's the second thing that it gave me ease to memorize ease to expand my knowledge in in different fields obviously of of of the Dean and not only that but learning the Arabic language of course is a you know is a practice for your brain learning a new language is just as as simple as that learning a new language is a is a training so there is no doubt that it will give you more intelligence and uh and uh and you know people will look at you different when you learn different languages just because I mean you need some kind of you need to do you need to some kind of intelligence or some kind of some kind of uh you know level upper than the a level above mediocrity to learn a new language basically and to be able to not only learn it but speak it fluently and understand it etc etc I am certified to um be a translator for Arabic because I um took my test here in college so I'm actually certified I can put it on my resume I can actually translate like elementary like it's a bit advanced a little bit but I can translate as an Arabic translator so that that was the message and that always helps you be like oh you speak three languages like in America that's a big because you get hired faster the more languages you speak the better like job employment even school like I went for an interview for an internship and I got it because they're like oh my god you know three languages you're this yeah like it shows a certain type of intelligence kind of thing yes yeah so they always like so that's the second thing is to memorize and ease to expand my knowledge not only in the Arabic language and in the Dean but in different many aspects of of life just because it gives you more intelligence so it allows you to to understand uh you know other things in life differently now the third thing which is probably one of the best ones after you know giving you more Taqwa independently is that not only that but because the big change that it that it you know the it's it changes you as a person so if you learn Arabic for the right intention with the right intentions it will change you to to better and so that caused my my family to change as well just because they seen me before they didn't see me they seen me after learning the Arabic language and that caused literally all my sisters to to you know to get married start wearing hijab you know form families it caused you know different different different members of my family starting wearing hijab from the female side then from my from the from the male side as well it caused you know uh for them to to actually uh you know start start having a beard praying praying actually more because I mean to be honest I grew up as a as a Muslim you know my parents were Muslim when I was born etc but just to just to make you understand like how how uh ignorance was abundant in my family that the first day I remember still remember when I when I lived literally above this this apartment I I got up for Fajr and my father told me where you going I said I'm going to to pray Fajr he said this is a prayer just for for righteous people you don't need to do that like you just and obviously I was already 16 17 and when he says you don't need to do that obviously he doesn't do it either so you can see the amount of you know the level of ignorance that was that was around my family and so me you know living to Egypt and learning Arabic coming back seeing that my family seeing the difference in my in my behavior in how I speak how I wear different things obviously to better it caused literally all my family like you'll be so the the friends of family close to my family they were they were surprised and that causes that that caused the second the second the next point which is the fourth point which is social status it gave me as well social status I remember and this is kind of awkward sometimes and it makes me sometimes you know make me not want want to go some places just because people they you know like learning the Arabic language it will put you in a in the smallest percentage of of the Muslims because it's only a small percentage who actually nowadays practice and not only practices but actually give their life to that to the to the knowledge to knowledge right so me for example when I go to the masjid here in Barcelona in my hometown where where like they seen me start practicing they seen my before they seen my after so obviously as I said it's a little bit of a package of everything but when you learn Arabic obviously it changes it changes you so now when I go to the masjid here I get a overwhelming respect and so that's what I mean by social status like you know it gets overwhelming because you know your you know your your you know your level you know your spot and people they just think that that you know that that because the little you know you are someone so big but looking at the good aspect of this you can actually use if you have the right intention you can actually use this the right way because because people starts to looking up to you and looking at you with different eyes so what that what that does is that your words now are going to have a heavier weight so obviously you need to watch what you say but if you use it in the right way you can literally with one word change people's life like literally me when I left to Egypt it was literally one word of one person that I can still remember and I can still remember where he was sitting and what he said and it was as simple as him saying change that you went through you said you started to become more sincere in your practice as a Muslim is that what ultimately brought you to Egypt to attend the azhar no what made me come to Egypt I remember us a speaker I remember listening to him during Ramadan he was talking about the people who complained that the the tarawih is too long and we don't understand why people cry and we don't understand why why people are so so deep and have too much for sure and they were complaining in a way that it's not good that it's too too too long because we don't understand Arabic so the speaker he was saying well maybe the problem is with you and not with the Imam that he's making it too long and maybe what you want to do is to learn Arabic so I took that as a you know it made sense for me so I remember meeting a meeting a French brother whose mother father was a Spanish in a mosque in France and I remember being in Spain because in my neighborhood it wasn't a lot of young Muslims I felt really really lonely so I used to travel to France sometimes and because I knew practicing brothers there and I used to go there and and kind of tried to get some iman from them some more knowledge from them and I used to feel good and and it was like it was my charger for my iman basically friends so I met this brother and he gave me he gave me a little pamphlet of a school in Alexandria to learn Arabic so my first intention coming to Egypt was to learn Arabic to understand the Quran so I came to Alexandria for one year learned Arabic then came to Cairo and you know entered the as a university I went first me just hearing this it changed my it changed my life and that person had that respect and it was seen in front of you know tens of of people so so that's something that gives you socials that it gives you as well social status learning the Arabic language which you can use in in in good and obviously as you can use this in bad as well but but you know looking at the positive side you can change people's lives and by and through changing people's lives and Allah will give you better and then the last thing that that it gave me as well the fifth thing the fifth thing is financial gains literally I remember when I was about to to get married and I went to my wife's house to ask for a hand I was I was 18 I was broke I didn't have anything to offer other than than my religion and my seriousness I guess and my commitment so so they asked me like what are you gonna do after like you don't have nothing right and I was like yeah I'm just going I'm just going to go to to study in Egypt but obviously nowadays saying that it sounds like okay so how is that going to give you any type of sustainable income to to take care of my daughter right so uh so I just knew I was like inshallah make it happen no worries inshallah figure out so eventually they allow me to to to marry her but uh what I'm trying to say is that uh that at that time as well they were my parents were helping me out to to uh you know taking care of me to seek knowledge so that was a blessing but at the moment right now being you know I have been able to you know it's a skill it's your skill like and and there's always people offering me um you know um money to literally teach them what I've learned Arabic and there's nothing wrong with that you know um the same way I have spent thousands of dollars being in in in Egypt getting robbed as well right now is only your your right to to give back in sadaqah with what you have gained of knowledge and and to actually to actually live of it so you know um um charge people for what you for for the quality uh that you give so so on not only that but to give you something more realistic it it allowed me to save 15 000 euros for my my grandmother she passed away uh the 27th of march rahmallah she was a Christian woman who uh you see I forgot about this when once I came back from Egypt not only my my family from the from my father's side and my mom and my father's side started to practice practice more about my grandmother as well she accepted Islam after I spoke to her and and in my family was such a weird thing like to do like to speak about religion but I was like no I really you know my my grandmother at that time was like 92 93 she passed no she was maybe 90 because she passed away in march and she was around 94 so so so she accepted Islam she took her shahada and everything and and basically what I'm trying to say is that uh learning the Arabic now which it has allowed me to save 15 000 euros and give them to my mom to take care of the heritage the heritage because in in uh in Spain well I guess probably in other countries as well when you get a heritage heritage heritage right from any any of your family members um you actually have to pay taxes and those taxes were 30 000 euros so 15 000 he came from it was on my uh aunt side and then the other 15 000 was on my mom's side but literally if it wasn't because of Allah and then this money that I was able to save she probably I don't know what she would have done like she was literally so okay the last option it would be to to give the apartment to to the government which obviously that's why they make it hard and for for them to you know anyways but um but alhamdulillah we were able to pay and keep the apartment so so that's another another you know another uh uh asset that my mom has now thanks to to Allah and then this uh this aspect of learning the Arabic language and being able to save this amount of money so so yeah Arabic can give you all of this literally can give you taqwa it can give you you know just to keep it simple dunya gains and akhira gains and then think about like me for example I will never forget my teacher Abdel Tawab Hafidahullah may Allah increase him in in in in a in a dunya and Akhira and and literally when I think about all the Hassanat inshallah if he if you know if his intentions are right that he has just to just for teaching me Arabic because literally all I know is thanks to Allah and then and then him so you know you can do actually the same or even better by by um by helping people people out learning the Arabic language and and it will give you it will give you it will give you such it will give you dunya um you know benefits as it will give you Akhira benefits as well uh such as you know as um as I said financial gains and in Akhira gains Hassanat and things and things of that nature inshallah so so guys I want to make this long uh it's been already a little bit long so barakah Allah feekum wa jazaakumuna khair wa faqan Allah wa yaakum be kallihi wa yuhabu wa yarda wa as-salamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh