 الحمد لله يا رب العالمين وصلاته السلام على رسول الله ما بعد السلام عليكم ورحمة الله everyone how is everyone doing we back at it again with how I learned stories with another one a good one insha'Allah from here with one of my closest brothers in Egypt الآخ حنيف السلام عليكم ورحمة الله السلام عليكم ورحمة الله so yeah straight from New York we here with another one this one insha'Allah is going to be a a good one we've been trying to get to it for a few days now you know business from both sides but insha'Allah we're going to get it through right now so first of all you guys know how it works for all the viewers new viewers how I learned Arabic basically you know episodes where I bring up you know people who have successfully learned the Arabic language most of them students of knowledge and we basically explain you guys and share with you guys the process how it was before throughout and how it is now so that's what it is to me insha'Allah subscribe if you want to see the rest of the episodes and yeah let's get straight into it so first of all I want to ask حنيف to give me a little bit of context by itself and how you learn Arabic in a general way okay insha'Allah بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله رب العالمين وصل الله على نبينا محمد so like I said I'm just you know I'm just الحمد لله and nothing like that but الحمد لله الله بلاستنا to to learn Arabic and to seek out things of that nature basically I come from New York born and raised come from a family that's not Muslim and since I was younger I just love this land and you know as I got in my teens or whatever I started to like wanted to seek out for numerous reasons mostly because of the environment who I was influenced by and you know first things first love the Arabic so that's basically you know I've never heard you so articulated like this before I love Arabic نحاول I've never heard the word numerous come out of your mouth you could have helped me out and let me benefit from the reach vocabulary طيب إن شاء الله so okay so how you went from you know being the the random young person growing up in New York you know to decide and go to Egypt in this case which we didn't mention yet to go and learn Arabic or did you even start learning Arabic before even going to Egypt yeah so basically like I started learning Arabic you know before I left to Egypt before I went to Egypt you know first you know like I said before I was telling you that it was a brother شاء الله he was you know he came to my area and basically like that was like I mean I seen other you know give the Arabic and stuff like that in an enemy type of way but this brother came and it was like different level you know so you know he would teach us Arabic and stuff like that and just motivate us so I started learning Arabic with him and then there was another brother he used to teach and I mentioned it in Queens and I benefited from him a lot specifically and like you know just beginning stuff like a little نهو كيف حالك stuff like that but it was like real slow once a week you feel me and it was just like نا I need more I gotta get it so took some private lessons with like some Egyptians I found online you know just like everybody else and I was just until I just got tired of it and was like نا I gotta I gotta leave I gotta go نا so I wanted to point out two things the first thing is that what you was thinking actually this morning when I finished praying فجر in the message there was they have reminders from the last nights from the مشيخ who were doing it and how we were talking before about like heavyweights and so I do seek like another connection between you know for me for example when I look at certain countries or the مشيخ or the أرلمة from those countries most of the times you see a difference in their their way of conveying أعلم and so I see a big connection between Yemen and Mauritania for example because it's this kind of like dessert tick and it does influence a lot the person how he teaches and how he behaves etc so we had مشيخ this morning أخي after فجر he just said أخي it's just you can see the difference between someone who sits down with the book الحمد لله today we are going to talk about and the person who sits like this أخي أخي أخي after فجر I was sleepy I wanted to sleep I didn't sleep I had to go he came throwing like so in terms of heavyweights أخي when you see these brothers it does influence you a lot when we tried to record the interview that it didn't go through but I was telling you that this brother I remember my first connection to this type of world of you know seeing I'm like heavyweight it was in France I went to this message right and I still can't remember the message it's like so humble it's actually a house you step in you go upstairs like no it's literally like no signs on the floor something and it's known that most of the brothers they go Yemen they come back and I remember that they me starting being a new practicing Muslim and this brother came from I was talking to this Spanish French brother and a brother came in the message so I looked around everyone looked around and they ran to him I realized that he came he just came from the match whatever whatever type of stories interesting stories from there I was like you know this is actually something I really want to do seek knowledge and then the French brother the French Spanish brother he was like why don't you take this ticket he showed me the first company I went with they had a three month intensive program in Egypt and he said why don't you go I was like wow anyways and the second thing that I wanted to talk about is structure when they start Arabic you go online you just look for a teacher and most of these teachers to be honest they are just going for the salary and I mean it's not their problem if you get results and this is the problem that I'm trying to fix if you see me working if you could ask my wife my eyes I don't sleep bro and just to find that systematic structure that a person comes in I do look at it as an incubator if you come in you stay in the program you go through it you get out with the same kind of tools like our first year of studying Arabic when you are able to read a sentence and be like what is this word خلد when you are able to look for the تصريف خلو دو خلو دن خلدن whatever it might be so yeah definitely I just wanted to point that out so you just went in right now too because these benefits it's like you it's like you was having flashbacks in your mind yeah yeah yeah and I do reframe myself because I feel like I'm because it's really about the people that I bring in but sometimes it's just like I keep having these things that people really need to benefit from once you started once you decided to so how did it happen from the time where you were struggling to be a teacher to teach me online or whatever it might be to the point where it was like I actually need to go to Egypt myself yeah it was basically like you know إستمرار is barakah in it whether it's something that you're doing one week I mean one day a week or you know what I mean one day every two weeks and with that I love for barakah but like if you do something every day you know for multiple hours a day that's just more barakah and it's more intense you know you want more so it's just like doing your stuff some people they got the hustle to be you know they want 100,000 you know what I mean and some people they want 500 it was basically like that I just wanted more and I heard of brothers going to Egypt Yemen to Saudi and these places and I just figured Egypt was the best choice you know obviously it's famous for alor and stuff like that and it was cheap so I just said Bismillah and I found some brothers and I initially wanted to go to Marques but it was like a problem with the second and all of that so I went to Askendaria first stayed there for like a month or two something like that I even went to Esbih yeah yeah yeah you know I went to Esbih because then you know that wasn't my intention but I was just there like so I'm like let me just do something I'll just sit here and feel the nice air and all of that that's basically what happened okay so okay first of all can you make sure you're in the frame because it's cutting your no we're not I will cut this anyway okay that's good yeah so like you were saying I mean when it comes to business between those who actually become fluent Arabic and those who don't it's literally the persistence you know and like the process I was saying it's really good to do something that even if it was little bit then actually doing a lot so I mean definitely and the good thing about it as well is that the same way you did sometimes you got a change environment to ومشاركة ومشاركة اريد ان اقوم بعملها انا مجموعة ايضا اذا انا انا مجموعة لا نتجهد كثيرا لذا انا نذهب لها ايضا انا نتقل انا سوف يكونون في مجموعة او او او او او سوف يساعد And I liked that as well And many different cultures Yes man And also it let you know who you are Like we spoil you especially Westerners I don't know about you bro Mashallah رضطا يل How you mean? Most like Americans and stuff like that We spoil you man You think that you need this to live That to live When reality is like هذا ليس لكيال خطر كهل جوال كفالي كيف يقوم بالأكثر ولا أحب للتحديد المحاولة في مكان لكن I do care about my sneakers and stuff إذا هل فعلت هالعمل لماذا تكفي ذلك؟ سوف يكونين معجزه لحظة أخطانك ولكن صحيحة بحاغان في المكان مثل right now لا أريد أن أضع هذا بفتاة للمان I don't wash my clothes I was about to say I don't waste like in the UK for example when I was at my mom's house just because you so used to just throw dirty clothes into the place where then goes into the wash machine you literally just went something for half an hour I was sweat a little bit or even if whatever you don't feel comfortable wearing it anymore نحن نحن نضعها هناك. و that's a big waste of water and here I have some Jordan's here. I never worked. I worked maybe once. You know, every day I send those. My clothes, these clothes I probably bathed three weeks and never washed it. So it makes you, as you said, learn different things about life as well. And now I understand what you mean. To the UK I'd be like, I don't need that. You know what I mean? I don't need that. It makes you humble. It makes you, I think the word is minimalist. I get to a point, but so I gotta watch the clothes man. I don't watch machine. That's another thing. And watch. And watch is fine. So before you learn Arabic, right? But already decided to learn Arabic. What was the main frustrations that you encounter as a daily Muslim? I mean, it was just, you know, having somebody, you know, we have this تعظيم for the علامة, right? In the sunnah, of course. And the fact that you have somebody that has to translate with the علامة. Because they give the دروس in Arabic, whether they are African or, you know what I mean? From India, you know, or Arab. They give the lectures in Arabic, right? So you have somebody that's in between you and them. You have somebody in between you and Allah's book. Between you and the Ahadith of the Prophet ﷺ. So it was just like, that's داف. You know what I mean? That's like, that wasn't, you know? That wasn't like, you don't have to have that. That's a decision. That's some type of weakness that you got. It's not hard. In Arabic, you feel what I'm saying? Take out the translator, you know? And it will help you. It will benefit you. Even if you're not like a part of the element over that. Just in general, as a regular Muslim. You know? Just take away the translator. And Insha'Allah, you get drinks straight from the source. It's like calm the sins, you know? No, I think I can compare that a little bit into, I mean, I mean, in between like working for someone and being able to have your own business and achieve the same results or even better results. You know what I mean? Why not just go and start your own thing instead of working for someone else? I'll tell you. I mean, you can, you can compare that, but it's more, actually it's more dangerous because, you know, religion and all of that it's been something that people use to control other people throughout time. You know what I'm saying? So you'll have a translator or somebody that's feeding you or spoon feeding you stuff. And, you know, you don't, obviously you're not going to dig on people's intentions and stuff like that. But you make yourself vulnerable. You know what I'm saying? To be manipulated. You know, extorted, whatever it is. No. So. That's crazy. That's true because mainly, like in the West in places like America and in the UK you see a lot of, I mean, you can see it. Like the Sherwood say something, the person will, and I don't even know how they even dare to do that because the translation will be completely wrong. Either he understood it like that but, you know, he was definitely not what he said. And it's true that he helps a lot to, he helps to whoever uses these kind of techniques to kind of like take, take advantage out of brothers and sisters basically. Or love them style. So I think he used different methods in terms of of learning Arabic. But what was the method you used or at least the one you used the most that was the one that was you know, the best for you? I mean, you know the journey where we're still on the journey you feel me? So, like in the beginning it was like I kind of keban first it was more of a grammar faith this type thing and but I also like when I did the private classes I studied a little bit out of here being in a date. So, you know, I got Kelly Matt and I used to listen a lot you know, I mean listen to like some of the scholars that talk very clearly and stuff. So I always like just listen even if I didn't understand and you know, so I just picked up on things. So, you know, depending on where I was because I didn't go to one place and just follow that or that specific market you know, I went to Askendariya they'd waited for my place in market it was better then after that I went to Cairo then Cairo is a whole other thing options, so, you know my mother yeah, man like once I met him it was like Halaf you know he changed the game you know so so what would you say was the three main things that help you to become fluent at it and be able to understand average conversation well, I'm still working on fluency but in general I feel like you know, listening a lot you know, because that's one thing too that I had like a pet peeve is like pronunciation you know, it's like you hear somebody speaking Arabic and it's just like it's like you know, not that you look down on people or whatever but you just like even when you yourself pronounce something you know that thing that didn't really sound right like so I like listening a lot because I try to like you know, take the the way that the adults talk that was slow reading reading different things I mean, I wasn't like an O.D. reader but you know, I did read things like you know what I mean those little small books and stuff like that and yeah, that's basically it listening a lot listening what about using it practicing I mean, yeah like I feel like it was stages for me you know, because you know, I had to specifically in Egypt I had to like learn like how to move basically through experience like you you know, you know different languages so you can share with the French people get a little you know, how they move you can you know it wasn't that many Spanish people but then you had the English so you could deal with the American and British and stuff like that me, I was just like you know, I was like more to myself you know what I mean so I just wanted my own thing learn my own way so um yeah I forgot what was the question yeah, like using it you know, like you actually practices spoke it yeah, so yeah so yeah so it was like stages, right so in Egypt it was like I started to open and Mark is better I used it more because it was like it wasn't that many like Westerners like you know what I mean I used it more but to be honest like the brothers a lot of the brothers did was just like me just in the beginning trying to learn and stuff like that so they we was all you know what I'm saying so we all trying to speak to each other it's beautiful but I can you know so then as we got better Cairo is a little bit more doing my own thing just speaking to different people I opened up a little bit more أستاذ محمود الله أكبر he's like not just the I mean his you know what I'm saying and how he talks and everything like that helped me a lot like you know and then when we went to Shredia and started like you know getting like cool with like real Arabs and stuff like that it was like it helped a lot you know the different words they used like we would just we would use one word but they'll use another you know what I'm saying so just talking to them that's when I you know basically they start using it more it benefits Mashallah this time it's studied it's studied it's studied it's studied now so I was basically trying to base my point my prove my point as well as chance because we do have three only things that matters in order for you know the people in my program to become fluent in Arabic which is memorizing the vocabulary hearing it being used using it yourself that's all it matters to you know to fluency basically and you know when you said I used to listen a lot I mean it's nothing else to it you just you just listen to it try to understand it once you learn that vocabulary it pops up to your mind oh yeah I know that just memorize that word and then boom you go ahead try and use it it's exactly how you I come fluent in Arabic it's so simple that it makes me it makes me stressed when I see like other Arabic instructors okay today like people they even know like like this is they will be explaining them like I don't know like تمييز you know I mean or لفقام والمؤنث يعني إذا كان وذكر فال and I mean like you never learn like this you you spend two years learning all of these things at the end of the day you won't be and I say this word because a lot of students that we're not talking to them that's what they say I've studied I've studied book three books of the books I still can't talk I'm like yeah like how do you go through that how did the teacher teach you I mean to be honest like at the end of the at the end of the day it's a skill right so a skill you have to practice it like it has to be developed so you know what I mean that's that's just what it is if you don't develop the skill it's not going to be strong so no no no no definitely definitely but the real thing is that there's no a lot of people they think but you just obviously people they have different advantages and whatnot but there is no biological nor logical reason why a person couldn't go from zero to to fluency in Arabic in Arabic you know what I mean because I mean otherwise it would be it would be a I'll do it from Allah حتى يعني ولو كان if Allah made someone not fluent type it could be maybe because he's abstaining him from from a care but in general there's no reason why he couldn't when you couldn't come fluent yeah definitely not man and Egypt you see a job and you see somebody come there like they don't even know I live about three months they like Subhanallah they like speaking and everything specifically the people that don't come from the west and even like Subhanallah what is this guy doing yeah yeah yeah you know now with consistency you see crazy stuff I remember when I first went to Egypt it was three months intensive program I left to get married stayed outside of Egypt for four months got married came back with my wife and then spent like what nine months or ten months something like that and and when I came back after these three months I think the brother that I was with in class and Akhi they were already like I was like how did that happen so it's like consistency Akhi Subhanallah they say no they say self-discipline is the only skill required to master another skill something like that so so you have your self-discipline focus on that and it's you know the first thing to ask Subhanallah yeah and abstain from from sin I remember the first day I didn't even have a phone you know you know things like that Subhanallah it does make a big big difference you know Subhanallah well so so how do you how long did you did you study did you study the Arabic language for or what was the timeframe that made you feel like okay I have enough right now to actually go ahead and and change field and go into hearth or go into whatever it might be well so the way I think or the way I look at it is that you know I didn't really change you know I'm still learning Arabic in a sense the only thing is that if this is what you mean I learned enough Arabic so that I can learn like more Arabic in Arabic or does that make like you know what I'm trying to say like does one thing yeah yeah so like I don't know I guess I just felt it like I think maybe it was like أستاذ محمود to be honest it was like when I met him or when I went to his and I understood what he was saying and it was just like easy I was like play it إن شاء الله like it's time you know but throughout it all that have and all of that different stuff that it helps you you know what I mean like if you memorize the Quran while you learn Arabic then it will be it will help you in your Arabic if you know what I'm saying especially need the Quran let it on the the share and whatever else you do but the Quran has you know so if you memorize the Quran then it's going to make you speak Arabic better you know you're going to be able to when you learn where are you going to be like oh I remember this I right here you know what I'm saying so it just helps you and no yeah I mean me personally it's like a symbol of thing you know no no no for me personally I'm complete against that doing two things at the same time mainly because I feel like Arabic is within itself you know what I mean yeah and the Quran I just can't can't eat I remember trying out I it's just no I think you achieve more so one of our and that is the issue one of our core principles the sixth one is simplicity so doing less is actually doing more and the seventh is focus so do less better and I think that if you apply that into knowledge as well and I mean you know you know you know whoever tries to acquire yeah you know all the knowledge at once it will go from him all at once so I think me personally and I think the human the human mind and brain as well it's meant to to work on on one main thing if you really want to do that thing well you know and I mean it's what the professor when he said إن الله يحب عبدان إذا عملا عملان أن يلقينه you know الله love the slave that when he does something he does it in his in his perfection or in the best manner so that's what I advise definitely like definitely that's you know that's true you know it's just the way everybody has the little know the different ways of looking at it you know going about it but my point was it's just like heaven is helping you to develop your skill you know what I mean so like or just reading say because sometimes like people don't let's not let's not use heaven القرآن let's just say you're daily you're reading the Quran because if you learn the Arabic you have to read the Quran period you know so just by you reading it it's helping you in your reading of Arabic you know it's helping you you know you start to read faster you know what I mean your tongue and all of that so you know because at the end of the day is a is a it's like a it's like a it's it's a beat of so I remember Abdul Tawab I don't know Abdul Tawab I think so he go to Darul Ulum yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah he was my teacher to the point where I became so attached that I used to call myself no I am Abdul Tawab I am Abdul Tawab because there was different opinions in between Abdullah instead of Abdullah and Abdul Tawab in terms of different aspects in grammar so I would always take the his right his opinion so what I was trying to say is that I forgot I completely forgot but anyways what I was trying to say is that he used to advise me to memorize a share because يعني يساعدك على استقام اللسان it helps you to remove that you know that westernized accent that that you have basically and I'm in Quran you memorize Quran you memorize it in vocabulary and I know today these how the Sahabah they used to learn Arabic I actually need to do that what memorize here yeah I need to do that man no and the Sahabah they used to say من موارضة منهم اثارن we used to memorize the Quran we used to memorize we used to learn Arabic how we used to memorize how we used to learn the Quran so basically to memorize it as well he said I didn't know I didn't know ما معنى فاطر السماوات والأرض until I heard a woman from the Arab used it in a sentence and then he understood المعنى يعني عبداته or بدأته so definitely I'm memorizing the Quran is definitely and I don't know if you think that there was an interview that I did with the sister فاطر from Houston, Texas she basically went to Egypt for one year she focused on 8 months she she completed the Quran she had like 5 juice she completed them then 4 months all in Arabic and I spoke to her in Arabic after like 4 years without her practicing and you know you can't feel that like when you memorize the Quran first of all it opens your brain then you have a bunch of vocabulary already in between اتخذ ذهب سيارة I mean all is in there you have a bunch of vocabulary in there already so طيب so why would you rate your conversational skills from 1 to 10 without being humble and why is that why is it conversational skills I would say maybe 4.5 maybe maybe yeah أوضع مشالله لا لا It's just who you comparing yourself to you know yeah definitely with the average western I guess Oh he's doing great stuff too Remember those those African brothers man I miss them some African brothers مشالله you talk و هل كنت بأخذتها? كنت رفع بها قوم بسيارتها أليس كذلك؟ تلك أعلم صحيح؟ لا أعتقد أنك ستعيدت عنجه لا أعلم أنه لا أدעם أعتقد أنه دخلت الإستلمار في أسلم burns أعتقد أنه يبقى في ذلك time وأصبحت أن أعلم أن أعرف أعلم أن أعلم أن أعلم أعلم أن أعرف أن أعلم أن أعلم أن أعلم او انه كان مجموعة ولكن اتذكر انه يستمتعه ويقوم باستمتعه انه كان يخبرني انك لا تفهم شيئا وانتظر انك يستمتعه بشخصك نعم ونحن لا يستمتعه ونحن لا يستمتعه بشخصك يستمتعه بشخصك بالكال شاركة ولكن نطالب جزءا ونحن لا يستمتعه ب إلى بشخصك ونحن لا يستمتعه بشخصك يستمتعه بشخصك انتظروا ما you're saying they get your point if you want to use it's just like in English you start talking like shakespeare and all of that he was gonna look at you like what are you talking about no no no definitely definitely I mean that's what fluency is really like being able to not stutter and think two times about what you want to say فايب so what would you say you enjoy more private classes or group classes well I mean I enjoy both of them you know they both have pros and cons but I think it depends on the subject like for نهو I like private classes because it's easy so you want to like go you know what I mean you want to you want to go and then you were in a class and this guy is just like you know but if you like doing soft was kind of hard soft is hard you know you know so like I'd rather be in a group class if we don't start off or something and obviously if you in a group class you know you get to practice more or see how somebody else chooses to say something so you benefit from how they articulate they self you know how they so it helps you in like speaking and it also makes you like not be so shy you know you got to like participate obviously no no definitely okay group classes sometimes I remember in the beginning it was like yo okay like that's what made me be like I remember in إسباح they was in إسباح I started group classes so I don't know if because I knew well it's definitely that definitely helped because I knew different languages and I already have like the heart in Spanish and you know the aspects of the Arabic language and then I jump into private classes and mainly when you have a time frame that you want to finish this book before whatever happens you'll be like yo I can't I can't teacher like you need to go over the book now like yeah yeah sometimes so in terms of do you have like you know like main books that you always had with you like to translate or to look for something or different dictionaries or whatever it might be yeah I mean I wouldn't say always had with me but I used a lot the dictionary the hands where the hands where dictionary you know the green one that's like that's a really good dictionary if you know how to use it in the beginning obviously I didn't know how to use it so I was using just the regular I forgot to mode it you know those dictionaries but the hands where it's nice when you go like a little further because it's like first of all obviously you got to know how to break down a word to get to its root and then from there it gives you all the different I was in and the different like the things that branches off of the the so that was good and also just you know yeah that's basically it well as far as like regular books to like read and stuff like that then obviously you know I always tried to read the Quran even though I was deficient but I was a Navian I swear to God that's really good man because they have a lot of Kelly Matt and words you can just when you see it where you be like you know let me look that up so it's like you benefit that's the point that's the point that I that were you gonna get where you want to get or when you know where people wants to get like to be able to read something as you said as you said like I've read enough I've learned enough Arabic to now learn more Arabic in Arabic that's a super technical beneficial and I say that only because you know we like you know I love bless you I love bless you and what you trying to do but you know we just trying to motivate motivate people and at the same time not sugar coat anything because you know like when I first went to Egypt or I don't know about anywhere else but Egypt you know sometimes we have the idea that you go to the markets you finish the markets خلاص and Arab that's not the case the purpose of the markets is to get you flowing enough so that you can learn Arabic in Arabic in Arabic you know what I'm saying that's completely true man completely true what you doing you just helping people because you've been through it no because I mean I realize that you know like after going through I mean my wife as well she completed Iban I completed I mean I didn't completed but I went through the whole program and at the end of the day I remember in the beginning was like you know you kind of need to be guided like you don't know what you're doing in the class you don't know what's coming up but like at level 6, 7 8 it's like like we used to go to class you know the words the whole vocabulary will be on the on the board already we come we write it down and the rest of the class is literally or a whole bab or a whole bait or whatever it might be and then literally we just stock and I realize that to get these results you can achieve that through online if you really if you really want it at the end of the day online classes is not for everyone because I think you need a certain you know certain level of discipline to follow but but I was like okay let me take all of the things that we went through in Egypt and put it into an online platform and I mean you know people if they want to check it out if you go to andalusinstitute.com you see that most of the students who reviewed the program who went Egypt before most of them they say it reminds me of my days in Egypt because it's exactly the same methods you know I mean I mean I mean so you already mentioned this but you said I'm still going to ask you what was the hardest part of learning Arabic or the hardest subject the hardest part the hardest subject for me it's tough it's been kind of hard but do you feel that you should get better I mean I feel the same no I feel like نحو is easier to me and صرف is difficult but it's difficult to actually understand and pick it up and memorize it but I feel like like you know it like for example if I tell you you know what is the the wasn't of for the yeah yeah what is it what did you say say it again I said the مضارئ for example to ask myself I mean what I was trying to say is that the صرف for me is the most difficult as well but I feel like we know it because if I tell you okay what is the مضارئ of نصرة you know what I mean but then it's hard to take the rules and put it on a board and tell you okay these are the rules of صرف exactly that's my problem too it's like but it's just practice as long as we stick to it and stuff like that and that's the point right that's what you're trying to get to is that sometimes things may be hard but you got to stick to it you got to put in the work and إن شاء الله الله will open it up for you so last two questions how of an impact do you feel like the Arabic language has had in your life إن شاء الله big impact man it's it makes you more confident إن شاء الله it makes you you know grateful obviously it changes the way you think because you're understanding these these ayat and all of this stuff in a different way you know different from if you was listening to some English lecture or whatever not even lecture like even just reading the noble Quran when you read it in Arabic and even though we're not masters of the Arabic language yet but we we reach a certain level if you read something like something like when you say الله is غفور الرحيم in English you're going to translate الله is most forgiving it's not a bad translation it's not a bad translation but in Arabic you're like you know what I mean it just hits you different then not only that it gives you like a little you know it like raise your head up for like a better words you don't need you don't need this brother or that brother you can listen to whoever it is that you choose to listen to and take it from the end directly that's priceless man no no definitely definitely it's for Allah so it's for Allah I was thinking about a thousand things at the same time that's crazy man that's crazy because because it is that's a change oh yeah what I wanted to mention that I don't feel like me for example after coming back and I feel that every student of knowledge goes through this when you leave the west you spend a full few years you know focus on and you know you stood the other and etc and then you come back to the west it hits you so hard that me personally I was like that I know Arabic and that I have this little knowledge that I have that is helping me to bring up my if I want to yeah I feel like if you don't know Arabic I feel like if you don't know Arabic it's hard because oh no I don't I remember I've never read myself the Quran in Spanish I remember the first time opening it I didn't even understand where the incredible is I even know what incredible is you know it's straight away close it and I feel like it does it's like a وقايا from from like things like that it gives you some type of حياة and some type of مروأ yeah what is الحياة in English China right yeah and then المروأ is kind of like self-respect things that you won't do yeah like I'm glad you said that I'm glad you said that because that's exactly like what I mean like because I actually asked this question recently to ما شاء الله this brother مروأ and the way you explain it it's like a concept you know what I'm saying but in Arabic when you translate it to English it's like you got to come up with another word but it's a concept that's understand so if you you understand the concept you know what I mean and it's like the same thing with like well I don't know if this is a good example but قناع it's contentment but to me it's like a concept man because in English it's not all the time used in a in a good way like if you say something it's content with this situation that means like he doesn't have that house you know what I'm saying he's good just like you on your way like he's good with a nine to five like قناع and in our in Islam can be most of the time it's used in a good way you know if that makes any sense yeah yeah definitely but the concept when I understood that changed me as well it made me grow up and more mature and you know you stop doing things that you would do when you alone just because of the you'd be like man I can't be knowing whatever amount of still doing these things when I'm by myself you know or you know you know I mean and when I'm talking I'm not even talking okay I'm gonna I'm gonna give an example so for example and how do I mean just to benefit people so the motto for example what I have gained before for example I used to dance myself right when I was younger so this is something that is hard to remove out of you it's hard to just in the hip hop culture doing whatever you do and then become a طالب للم expect to change from one day to another so there is things that I would if you know shake a little moves or whatever and what مروع that it makes you feel like it makes you it's like you'd be like Allah has blessed me with this amount of and having being able to know all of this in my heart and being able to be fluent in Arabic and pick up books and understand that I cannot be behaving like this even if you by yourself whatever it might be so that's like to me but see look you see how you just explained that in English it was just like you gotta give a story I think Arabic just makes everything easy yeah yeah I can you know so the last the last question is what what would your advice be for the person that knows and acknowledges the importance of learning Arabic how about for whatever reason they haven't started yet my advice would be first to approach it as an obligation you know it's an obligation on every Muslim to learn Arabic that's not something that you have so you take that opinion huh of course I mean obviously that doesn't mean you have to be said away but like you said like you said you should know Arabic have some some self-respect for yourself it's not know Arabic and I mean like be said away and all that but just to have basic level of Arabic it's so that's one thing approach it as an obligation you doing something that a lot of once from you know what I mean and he's going to help you so that's the first the second thing is as in regards to these different these different means like you have masha Allah your program online this mark as that mark as this country that country you know it's all going to depend you influenced by basically who you look up to and who you look for from they're going to tell you because some people are going to tell you look take the al-iban away some people are going to say take the al-fajr or whatever way you know what I'm saying and that's what she's going to do and that's cool but I can just understand that all of these different things are as bad that means to an end you know what I mean and they're they're not they help you to achieve the goal but at the end of the day it is Allah that gives you so you can go to the best school you can have the best teacher like Muhammad you know and all of that you can have it all there but at the end of the day is Allah that gives you are you taking the best seven to get to your goal you have to you know constantly make doaa obviously put in the work can be lazy and all of that good stuff like everybody say but take these as bad as they are and depend on Allah and he's going to he's going to help you no matter how hard you maybe in the beginning when you have so much money you have to pay or whatever like you know you pay the money you get it back insha Allah the thing that you're going to learn is more than what you're paying at the end of the day so I'm saying and insha Allah like that's basically my advice to just work hard and have some type of you know it's whack to be honest you know yeah average man you know you know don't be don't be content don't be content and specifically to you know our brothers in the west you know African Americans or anybody in the west for that matter everybody else around the world the Africans and especially Senegal and insha Allah but like like what's up you know you got to like step up and you know take the you know do the sacrifice that you have to do you know just try to like raise the ignorance of your community of yourself whatever it is محمد you here to help people that you know and they begin in stages or whatever insha Allah no no okay for your for your advice and we came to an end and Alhamdulillah that was a beneficial one and I hope that people benefit from so to do all the viewers I hope you guys enjoy this I need you to subscribe for the for the ones coming سبارك الله فيك يا خانة حنيف السلام عليكم ورحمة الله السلام عليكم ورحمة الله حبيب