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This will help us grow and help us reach others in recall time. 20 ladies for the very first time visiting a mosque in Australia. It's going to be very interesting. That video has gone out of 2 million views on YouTube in the past 10 or 12 days and I think it's really interesting. Let's see really what happened there. Please remove your shoe first. Please remove your shoe. Please remove your shoe. Make yourself easy. First time everybody? First time in Penang, I guess? The first time in Penang. And first time to the mosque? First time to the mosque as well? My name is Din. Din. If you've forgotten don, ding dong, ding. That's all right. But my full name is Kamaru Din. So it might be difficult for you to pronounce it, so make it Din. Very universal. I guess all wearing a traditional clothes, I really don't know who, they're wearing rubber like Africans. This is quite amazing honestly. So welcome to the mosque called Kapitan Kaling Mosque. Why this word Kaling? This is origin from India. 250 years back and this mosque is about 225 years old. When the British came over, they brought the Chinese, the Indian, and also they brought the Indian Muslims. So we settled down here, my ancestors, and it will build this mosque and it was very small. It was until here. The later, after 50, 100 years later, it expanded, expanded until here. And you see like a pigeon hole, they wear, they put the lamp. So in Penang, we have about 224 mosques, 224. And each mosque has their own design and architecture based on the culture of the people. And this you can see the architecture, Motu Indian, Mongol, Chinese, Indo-Pakistan architecture, if you see this. If you go to New Delhi, India, you can see mosques like this because they're very Indian origin. There's something they observed. It should be a shame on the West today that Islam is the only religion, the only Abrahamic faith that's the uphold, decency and dressing and respect for sanctity. If you go to various churches in the world right now, especially the West, I can assure you that if you enter some of the churches the way people dress the church is unbecoming because when people do this and there's no penalty and there's no restrictions to what they do, they would actually see that as not being divine or holy. This exactly was happening the West today. The West needs to go back to the root of decency where Islam is really holding forth now. And beside the history, 224 years and the different architecture, but all the mosques in the world, they have the same pictures inside. This is the direction facing Mecca. See this is the direction. And men, women, children come from mosques. Men, women, children come from mosques. And when we pray, we face towards Mecca. And what you see, what you can observe, you don't see any pictures or any images to say that is God. Then to whom we pray, we still pray to God. And the direction is towards Mecca, the Black Cabba. Have you seen the Black Cabba? That was built by Adam, the first man, Adam. And later magnified and make it complete was Prophet Abraham. And later Prophet Muhammad continued it. And Muslims in their lifetime they will go to Mecca for their pilgrimage, pilgrimage in Mecca. So what you see, very simple, no chairs, no tables. What is this carpet for? This carpet for not to fly when we pray. You see, if you remember the movie Aladdin the Lamb, there's a carpet. So I thought you might be thinking we can fly to Australia, you see. Now this carpet, when we pray, we pray side by side for standing purpose, comfort purpose for the lake. Ah, there's no fire, there's no music, very quiet, very simple. Men, women come to the mosque. We pray at the same time. We do all the same postures and actions, but we pray separately. So like this mosque we have on the right hand side, certain mosques, they are upstairs. That's the division. Come, let me show you something else. Let's look like a swimming pool, don't jump. Okay, come, come, see the inner part. Since this is an old mosque, it is very unique. You have a pool of water, look like a swimming pool, don't jump please. But it's a place where we perform our, what you call physical cleanliness before we enter prayer. Muslim men, women and children, before we perform our prayer, before we recite our Koran in Arabic, we will take what we call ablution. What do we do? This is a normal tap water, it's not holy water, we don't have anything holy here. It's a normal water, we wash certain part of our body. We start with Bismillah in the name of Allah, we wash our hand and we rinse our mouth three times, our nose, our face three times, our hand begin from the right to the elbow three times, left three times, and the head could be once or twice, and the ear once, and the feet right and left above ankle three times. In English we call it ablution. So Muslims, before we enter the prayer, we clean our certain part of the body five times a day. If you're Christian and I will say this is a minor baptism, why minor baptism? The Prophet Muhammad peace be upon him he says, when you perfected your ablution, your minor sins were dropped together, your minor sins. We have minor and major, in university you do minor and major. So we have sins also minor dropped together, beside the hygiene, beside the cleaning less, also the spiritual part cleanse your minor sin. And after cleaning ourselves we will come here, over in here, come, follow me. Hafiz, we will, men and women after washing we come here, we face towards Mecca and where we now will perform our prayer. And the first is standing position, I'll say Allah, this is the standing position, very important position. All the Muslims in the world, whether they are from China or from Japan, in this position they will read their prayer in Arabic. Today Muslims about 18.8 billion Muslims including in Australia, in this position we will recite something from the glorious Quran in Arabic which I will share with you later. The second position he goes, the bowing position, not the Japanese bow, not this, where you can put a cup of glass here. So in this position he prays God, come back. In this position he prays God, by saying, Subhan Rabbil Azim glorify to you the most majestic. And after that he will fall on his face. And in this position he prays God, Subhan Rabbil Allah, glorify to you the most high. So this is how Muslim men and women pray standing bowing, prostrating and five times prayer. I will tell you how many circles that he have to do the bowing and I will tell you. Right? Come this way please. Am I going to answer? Yeah. Okay. All right. This way please. Come, what's your name? Asher. Asher. All right. Your good name? Ben. Ben. Easy, easy. Ben. Okay. Are you all with me? Friends, are you all with me? Right. Good. Beautiful. See this is the glorious Quran in the Arabic text. And I'm minding myself origin and today my mother tongue is English. You know why my mother tongue is English? According to the American psychologist, I write in English, I read English and I dream in English. That makes my mother tongue as English today. According to the American psychologist. Right. Now, this Quran have 114 chapters. This Quran have 114 chapters, 6,236 verses. 6,236 verses. Today, Muslims who are about 1.7 billion, a most 90% of the Muslim world can read the Quran in Arabic. Even they may not understand. And you will be surprised. We have 20 million Muslims from the age of three to the age of 85 years old boy or girl, male or female, Chinese Muslim or Japanese Muslim have memorized the entire book. We have 20 million. I doubt anybody have memorized their lonely planet to Malaysia. You know the lonely planet? Even your psychology book also you have not memorized it. But we have 20 million Muslims have memorized it. That's the fact. Why? Because the Quran is been recited in the prayer. And the Quran revealed to a man called Muhammad 600 years after Jesus Christ. Peace be upon them. So this Quran came to him in the period of 23 years. It doesn't came as a book. I give you one example. There's a woman went to complain to the Prophet Muhammad about the husband. And the husband was doing something not right. She went to complain to the Prophet and the Prophet was silent. He was not giving answer to her and she kept on pestering him until the revelation came. Chapter 58 of this Quran revealed because of her. And emancipated her from the husband. A great example. And these is most important. We call it remember when we are standing just now we're going to pray in Arabic. And these is the seven verses that we recite in our prayer. And it's a compulsory for all Muslim men and women children when comes to prayer. These are the seven verses we recite in Arabic. Have you heard any recitation in Arabic before Quran? Have you? Have you? Have you have? Never heard before. So I'm going to share with you this beautiful moment of yours. I'm going to read it to you. Bismillahirrahmanirrahim. Alhamdulillah, you're a mean I'm reading. The Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, he said, when you read the Quran, read it melodiously. How? All right. One other thing I would I love about the video is simply other way the man is just instructing them in a very, very intelligent manner. I think the man prepared quite well. And you know, it's just very clean and very cool here. Al-Rahmanirrahim. He's the most merciful and most gracious. He's the master of the day of judgment. To you we worship and to you we seek for help. Show us the straight path. Amen. Amen. Show us the straight path, the path that you bestow your favor upon. Not the path will earn your anger and ministry. Amen. Seven verses. This is where we perform our prayer. Let's go that way. One more. You will surely you have heard this. You see the minaret. Since how many I think you spend a lot of time in Penang, have you heard somebody shouting? Yeah, shouting, especially in the morning. They are actually not shouting. They are calling. My Jewish brethren, they have the Trump, the horn to call for prayer. My Christian brethren, they have the bell. But the Muslims in the time of Prophet Muhammad, they was deciding how to call for prayer. Since we pray five times a day, so much. So that was God inspired to compete in the call. And the call is in Arabic. If you go to Istanbul for holiday, you will be hearing a lot. Who been to Istanbul before? Have you been to Istanbul? Don't miss Istanbul, one of the most romantic city in the world. I'm going to bring my wife there again for second animal. So you will be beautiful architecture in Istanbul. So the call is in Arabic, whether from Indonesia, Australia, New Zealand, up to Alaska. The call is Allah Akbar, Allah Akbar. Remember the call? It's not the same like I'm reading the Quran. It says Allah Akbar, Allah Akbar. Allah is the greatest. Well guys, thank you very much for watching this video. It's relatively long. It's about 27 minutes, over 27 minutes of video. A tour of Australian students who, you know, stomped a mosque. I really don't know where it's happened. But I think this is in Australia or somewhere in India, you know, considering the introduction that the Imam gave in the beginning of the video. So it's really very, very clear here that increasing number of young people are really attracted to traditionalism. And they are pounding towards, obviously, those who maintain their traditions, those who maintain the faith until the end. And I think Islam has aimed that respect and that's why people are touring some of those places to really see and know what Muslims actually do in the mosque. Because people have different notion about what really Muslims do. Some say Muslims worship the devil. Some say they're heretics. They're sismastics or whatever, anything they can call them. But the truth is that when you go to the mosque, you'll witness peace, serenity, seriousness, lack of discrimination, lack of racism. Just pray and everybody goes his or her way. Well, thank you so much for being part of the show. You can show our support by subscribing to this channel so that this video can get to a lot of people, share it to a large group of people on Facebook and other social media so that others can witness this firsthand. You can head on to their channel, main channel, and watch the complete video. Thank you so much for being part of it today. Asalaamu Alaikum.