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0:00So as most of you are aware one of the
0:02projects that I'm doing is about the s
0:04of the prophet sallallahu alaihi
0:06wasallam examining the s from multiple
0:08angles and uh one of the projects which
0:12is a summary today inshallah I'm going
0:13to be doing that looking at the s and
0:17extracting from it the teaching
0:20mechanism of the prophet sallallahu
0:22alaihi wasallam how did he effectively
0:24teach what are the pedagogical tools
0:28like if you look at the s of prophet you
0:30can extract everything from it right so
0:33let's look at it from the lens
0:35of mud teacher what are the effective
0:40techniques that we can see that he
0:42employed and when you do this one thing
0:45you will find is that subhan allah all
0:48of this that you extract modern
0:51pedagogical tools are mentioning the
0:53same things as effective teaching
0:56mechanisms for students so this is a one
0:59of the projects I'm doing. So a summary
1:01today inshallah of that project and
1:03obviously the goal today. So what my
1:05goal is to give you maybe 10 15 however
1:07much time presents specific scenarios of
1:11how the prophetam taught and then give
1:13one example because we don't have time
1:15for lots of examples and then contrast
1:17this or not contrast but explain the
1:20same idea is used by modern PhDs in
1:24education modern you know professors who
1:27teach you how to teach right the
1:30teaching tools we
1:32find understandably we don't to say this
1:35that he sallallahu alaihi wasallam is
1:37the ideal role model in all of these
1:39fields. So in no particular order and as
1:42many of you aware I'm writing multiple
1:43books. So one of the books I'm writing
1:45in is just being published now.
1:46Leadership from the s leadership from
1:49the what does the s teach us about
1:51leadership right? Another book I'm
1:53writing is undergoing trials from the s.
1:56So what does the s teach us about trials
1:58tragedy grief tribulation? This is
2:00another project. These are all you know
2:02projects on my computer. One day
2:04inshallah it'll see the light of day. So
2:06this is the project is pedagogical tools
2:09from the how was the prophet the best
2:13teacher. So let's begin in no particular
2:15order. The first of
2:17them many times the prophet sallallahu
2:19alaihi wasallam would begin a lecture
2:22with a question or begin an information
2:24with a question. So instead of just
2:27handing the information, you begin with
2:31a question. And by the way, this is well
2:34known in pedagogical teaching
2:36mechanisms. This is called the Socratic
2:38method.
2:39Socrates, he was famous for this. But
2:42our prophet didn't need to study
2:44Socrates. This is something that he did
2:46because it is the effective mechanism.
2:48You begin with a powerful question. The
2:51question causes you to think and then
2:54while you're thinking then the process
2:55will give you the right answer and when
2:57you get the right answer you will
2:58remember it for the rest of your life
3:00but in the process your brain was forced
3:02to think and again many examples again
3:04today's lecture we're only going to give
3:06one or two examples we don't have time
3:07for the examples the goal is the
3:09template of the examples actually I
3:11should quiz you let me quiz you let me
3:14follow this right here let me see do you
3:15have an example in mind when he began an
3:18information by not handing it but by
3:20asking the question. He begins the
3:23hadith with with the
3:26question. Excellent. Excellent example.
3:29The prophet asked the question who is
3:31the bankrupt person. And everybody
3:35thought bankruptcy with the banks,
3:38bankruptcy with ma money, bankruptcy
3:41with declaring default. And then the
3:43prophetam said no no the real bankrupt
3:46person, the one who comes on the day of
3:47judgment. And then he hadith goes on,
3:49right? He has good deeds like mountains.
3:55But he did so much and all of his good
3:59deeds will be given until he's left with
4:01nothing. That is the bankrupt person.
4:03Now you tell me if you had been in that
4:05audience. How how can you forget this
4:08ever? The impact right of this teaching
4:10mechanism. And this is the same thing as
4:12the Socratic method. You tease the
4:14answer via question back and forth,
4:17right? And this is the uh uh modern
4:19educational equivalent of it is also
4:21called guided inquiry. Guided inquiry
4:24series of questions until you get to the
4:26answer that you want. Another teaching
4:29mechanism is and this is very common.
4:31There's at least a dozen examples in the
4:34and other authentic books. Another very
4:36common technique is you begin the piece
4:39of information by an analogy by a
4:42metaphor. So again you begin with a
4:45completely different topic you start
4:47with an analogy you start with a
4:49metaphor and then from it you
4:51extrapolate the information that you
4:53need. So for example the prophet
4:55sallallah.aii alaihi wasallam said there
4:57is a tree who is that is equivalent in
5:01its efficiency to the Muslim the mmin
5:05what is that tree there's a tree that
5:08it's anology it's metaphorically it's
5:10like a mmin what is that tree so it is
5:13the date palm but again does none of the
5:15sahaba could answer none of the sahaba
5:17could answer and then the prophet
5:19explained another example that he gave
5:22for example is that that can you imagine
5:25If there was a river next to your house
5:28and you would just dip
5:31in regularly, would you have any dirt
5:35left on you? And that was the ideal
5:37house. This is like the luxury luxury
5:39house for the people of that time. The
5:42biggest luxury is running water. For us,
5:44this is even the lowest house has
5:46running water, right? How times have
5:48changed. For them to have a river right
5:50next to your house, this was the highest
5:52form of luxury. So he said can you
5:54imagine if you had that and you would
5:56just dip in to your you know river few
5:59times a day would you have any dirt left
6:02and everybody's like obviously the
6:04imagery is there in their heads who
6:06doesn't want such a house then the
6:07prophet is basically saying all of you
6:09have such a house because that river it
6:11is the daily salawat and if you pray
6:13five times a day you won't have a speck
6:15of dust left so again this is analogy
6:18this is uh uh giving a metaphor and then
6:20teaching from there another you know
6:23this is Again very common throughout the
6:24s and this is the way we all learn our
6:27facts and in fact the entirety of the s
6:30is an example of this and that is
6:32gradual learning or it is called
6:34scaffolded learning or it is called
6:36progressive disc disclosure. You teach
6:39the people a basic fact let it sit with
6:42them then you go higher let it with them
6:44then you go higher and this is the
6:46default of how every Islamic teacher
6:49should teach any person. You start with
6:51the basics and then you build up. And
6:53this is called scaffolded learning. And
6:55our entire western system is based upon
6:58this. Look at any science or even
7:00history or mathematics. What do you
7:02study? You know, in grade three of
7:04science, really basic stuff. Then in
7:06grade seven, a little bit more, then in
7:08high school, then in your biology class
7:11in university, you keep on going back to
7:13the same detail. But then you build and
7:15you build and you build. And of course
7:17the entirety of the s this is how the
7:19religion of Islam is you begin with
7:21small and then you work your way up
7:23until you have more and more and this is
7:25again well known that even when the
7:27prophet sent muad to Yemen he taught him
7:30this technique he said when you go to
7:32Yemen then begin with the basics teach
7:35them just to how to pray once they learn
7:38how to do this then go once they do this
7:40then go on and he gave them the tiered
7:43system of learning so again the notion
7:45of what is call scaffolded learning or
7:47gradual progression. This is a
7:49well-known technique and the prophet
7:51himself he he embodied this. Another
7:54example of the prophet sallallahu alaihi
7:56wasallam in teaching is to begin his
7:59lectures to begin his teaching with a
8:01story. A story and stories subhan Allah
8:05we never grow out of stories. You know
8:07it is in our nature we love a story. If
8:10you take any class on public speaking,
8:13if you listen to any lecture about
8:15public speaking, if you listen to any
8:17effective TED talk, it always begins
8:20with an anecdote, a story. Because it
8:22doesn't matter how old you are, how many
8:24white hairs we have, we are children at
8:26heart when it comes to stories. We all
8:28love a good story. And the prophet would
8:30many times begin a hadith that has a
8:33moral. The lesson is at the end, but the
8:36beginning is a story. Again, I can quiz
8:38you. Any example comes to mind of a
8:40hadith that has a lesson, teaching
8:43point, but it begins with a story.
8:45There's so many. The story
8:47of the three people, the three people in
8:50the in the cave that were blocked. Very
8:52good. The man killed the man who killed
8:5599. Excellent. So, all of these stories
8:57are there, right? So, there's so many
8:59stories that the prophetam said and of
9:01course, everybody's mesmerized. And at
9:03at the end you get the moral, the
9:05lesson, you get the anecdote, the fact
9:07that you need. You're never going to
9:09forget it because the story has driven
9:11that point home. This is a teaching
9:13mechanism we can use. And by the way,
9:15when we were kids, what did our parents
9:17do? Tell us some story. And then at the
9:19end of the story, the the kid who cried
9:20wolf, right? They tell us a story. Then
9:23at the end of the story is the lesson
9:25that you shouldn't do that as well. So
9:26this is a very well-known technique and
9:29of course the prophetam is mastering it.
9:32Another mechanism of teaching is
9:35practical
9:39demonstration. He was sitting with in
9:41the time of his sitting with a group of
9:43people. He said bring water for me. So
9:45they brought water for him. He sat down
9:48and he started doing wudoo and he did
9:50wudoo perfectly and then he said this
9:53wudoo that I have done the prophetam
9:56demonstrated it for me. He showed me how
9:59to do it. Right? And the hadith is well
10:00not I don't have time to get there but
10:02the to go into the details but this is
10:04the most famous about
10:08where practically demonstrates how did
10:11he practically demonstrates because he
10:13said the prophetam practically
10:15demonstrated for me he literally sat
10:18down showed me bit by bit and of course
10:21this is uh education via demonstration
10:24this is handson learning which is of
10:27course you know that's how you learn
10:28your teacher does it And then you see
10:30how how the teacher does. So this is
10:32practical demonstration also. For
10:34example, the prophet would say pray as
10:37you have seen me pray. And he would say
10:39take from me how to do Hajj. Pray as
10:41you've seen me pray. Follow my Hajj. So
10:44he is doing it. And then he wants the
10:46Sahabah to observe and pay attention.
10:48This is also of the learning techniques
10:50of the teaching mechanisms of the
10:52prophet sallallah.aii wasallam. And
10:54again we find at least half a dozen such
10:56hadith is that he would use and this is
10:58very interesting very rare for that time
11:00frame visual aids and drawing. He would
11:04use visual aids and drawing. So for
11:07example multiple times he would take a
11:11stick and he would draw something in the
11:14sand and then he would begin his
11:16teaching from that drawing over there.
11:18So for example he said this is the life
11:21of man. and he said a straight line and
11:22then he pointed right he goes this is
11:25calling you here and there and he gave
11:26the whole hadith again I don't have time
11:28for the details I'm just telling you
11:30what he did that he's demonstrating this
11:32reality by a visual diagram and of
11:35course I mean modern teaching mechanisms
11:38PowerPoint and all of the visual tools
11:41you need some image so that the fact is
11:43in your head and the prophet multiple
11:46times he used that imagery in fact hand
11:49gestures while you're teaching this says
11:51again I I do this a lot by I I speak and
11:54done this with my tongue with my hands
11:55as well everywhere they're going
11:56everywhere at least I can say there is
11:58prophetic sunnah to do so so the prophet
12:00is giving the is in and he literally
12:03uses his hands to make the point he says
12:06the hadith is in he
12:10said he used his left hand whoever
12:13humbles himself he put himself down
12:15whoever humbles himself for Allah then
12:17he took his right hand Allah raises him
12:19up now you tell me if You saw the
12:21prophetam using his hands like this. How
12:24can you forget the imagery? How can you
12:26possibly forget? That's why when the
12:28sahabi is telling us, he literally says,
12:31I saw the prophet put his left hand
12:35down, then take his right
12:37hand. Look, he's using this is even
12:40imagery in the air, right? Hand gestures
12:43in the air to bring the point across so
12:45that you learn the lesson. Another uh
12:48teaching mechanism of the prophet and
12:50again this is the
12:51norm actually says this was his sunnah
12:54and that is repetition and this is well
12:57known repetition you hardly learn a fact
13:01the first time you hear it to hear it
13:03over and over and over our mother Aisha
13:05said the prophet would generally repeat
13:08himself three times and we learned this
13:10in so many traditions that the prophet
13:12would you know keep on saying the same
13:14thing over and over again. So for
13:17example another hadith in Bkari he said
13:19shouldn't I tell you the biggest sins
13:21they said yes he repeated the question
13:24shouldn't I tell you the biggest sins
13:25yes shouldn't I tell you the biggest
13:27sins yes why is he repeating you're not
13:29going to forget now so repetition and
13:32every teacher knows this you have to
13:34repeat so that your students understand
13:37another uh core of the prophet sallall
13:39alaihi wasallam's teaching mechanism is
13:42using emotional and physical cues now
13:45this is something that we have to be a
13:47bit careful in our modern world because
13:48of all of the controversies and issues.
13:51But if you're close to somebody like the
13:54real sheh figure, let's not talk about
13:56corrupt teachers that are evil, what
13:58not. The real sheh figure is not some
14:01distant disconnected person. He cares
14:04about you. And there is a physical
14:06interaction as well. There are so many
14:09instances in the s where the prophet
14:12physically held on to a person
14:14physically held on to his shoulders and
14:17he said that
14:21oh he held him by the shoulder. Can you
14:24imagine the prophet walks up to you he
14:26puts his hand on you how are you going
14:28to feel? How can you forget? And then he
14:31says be in this world as if you are a
14:33stranger or you're just passing by. So
14:36that physical that emotional involvement
14:39looking straight at you speaking to you
14:41in endearing terms another you can say
14:44this is a part of this tactic or another
14:46tactic but using names directly to your
14:50students how many times he would speak
14:52directly you know he would speak
14:55directly to his students for forming
14:57that one-on-one bond and connection with
14:59them and again how can you ever forget
15:02when the prophet is literally
15:04encouraging you're a student. So he says
15:07to he says, "What is the greatest verse
15:09in the Quran?" And says, "Yeah, I don't
15:13want to answer. Who who who am I that
15:15you ask?" No, no. Tell me. He literally
15:18forces it out of him. Tell me what is
15:20the greatest verse in the Quran. Then
15:26says, and then the prophetam again
15:29physically taps him on the shoulder and
15:31he says, "Knowledge has been made light
15:34and easy for you. Allah has blessed you
15:36with knowledge. Now how can Ubeay ever
15:38forget this fact right that the
15:40prophetam is literally you know bringing
15:42it out of him that one-on-one speaking
15:44to him and then you know another tactic
15:47you can say encouragement student
15:49encouragement right when the teacher
15:51encourages you when the teacher praises
15:54you I guarantee you every one of you one
15:57of your most vivid memories of your
15:59school will be a time when you raised
16:01the hand and you answered the question
16:02and the teacher praised you isn't that
16:04the case one of your most vivid Memories
16:06of your youth without a doubt will be
16:09something that the teacher praised you
16:11for when you were a child. This is human
16:13nature. You will remember it till you're
16:1580 years old. Why? Because
16:17psychologically that is now literally
16:20seared in your head. This is teaching
16:23mechanism of the prophet sallallah.aii
16:25wasallam. He literally is
16:28studententoriented interacting with the
16:30students one-on-one, praising them
16:32one-on-one. Another uh teaching
16:34mechanism of the prophet sallallahu
16:36alaihi wasallam is through context
16:39related real life situation looking at
16:42what's happening immediately assessing
16:45the situation and then using it to bring
16:48about something of benefit to teach
16:50something. So for example a famous
16:52hadith ink Muslim that somebody passed
16:55away they all walked to his lo and
16:57behold the grave has not yet been dug.
16:59So they all sat down. This hadith then
17:02the prophet began saying a hadith which
17:05is a page long and he described the
17:07journey of death and the journey of the
17:10soul. This hadith is considered to be
17:13the foundational text
17:16of when was it done situation.
17:20Everybody's waiting for the to be dug.
17:23Who can possibly forget? That's why this
17:25hadith is like a page long and it's full
17:28of detail because the mind is going to
17:30absorb all of this. How can you not when
17:33you're at the you're at the graveyard
17:35and the prophetam says when the and the
17:37hadith is famous when I did my barak
17:39series so many years ago that was the
17:41fundamental hadith that we base the
17:42entire you know so many lectures on that
17:45when the person is about to pass away
17:47the angel of death comes and hadith goes
17:49on and on when did he say this context
17:52everybody's waiting in the battlefield
17:54he passes by and he sees you know a
17:57mother screaming where's my baby where's
17:59my baby until when she finds the baby.
18:01She jumps for joy and she screams a
18:04shriek of joy and she jumps on the child
18:06and immediately the child is crying and
18:08she gives it milk and everybody's in
18:10awe. What a sight to see immediately.
18:12What does the prophetam say? He says,
18:14"Do you ever think this woman with her
18:16love for her child will harm the child,
18:19throw the child into a fire?" They said,
18:21"No way." Then he said, "So then know
18:24that Allah is more merciful to his
18:27creation, to his servants, than this
18:29woman is to her child." Contextbased,
18:32right? You take advantage of something
18:34that your memory, you're going to never
18:36forget that incident. You use it to
18:38teach something, to teach a life lesson.
18:41You're going to keep it until you pass
18:43away. So again, this is called
18:45contextbased learning or situated
18:47learning. And by the way, this is
18:49extremely common, especially in graduate
18:51level. They'll give you a scenario. You
18:53know, they're going to begin the class
18:54with an entire even medical school,
18:56right? Medical school, they give you an
18:58entire scenario and then you extrapolate
19:00from that. So, this is situationbased
19:02learning. Another technique of the
19:05prophet sallallahu alaihi
19:06wasallam light humor, little bit of
19:09laughing because again, go back to your
19:12middle school, high school. The teachers
19:14that had a little bit of humor were
19:16always your most favorite teachers. The
19:18teachers who brought some levity to the
19:20classroom. They made you smile. They
19:21made you laugh. Always your favorite
19:23teachers. And our prophet wasallam,
19:26believe it or not, he would crack jokes.
19:27Halal jokes. All of them halal. But he
19:30would say things that would make the
19:32people smile. And that memory and and
19:35never did he say something that was
19:37false. Cuz remember the prophet's quote
19:40unquote jokes, his humor was always what
19:43we would call linguistic puns. So
19:46because he cannot say uh something that
19:49is incorrect because of his high status
19:52we are yeah it's going to be allowed to
19:54because it's not so for example we will
19:55say oh there were three people in a
19:57plane you know this and this and this
19:59and then they had to jump out everybody
20:00knows it's a joke we start off like this
20:02you know oh and a lot of times we make
20:04fun of some nationalities you know
20:05Indian Pakistani this and we'll make a
20:07joke like this right obviously our
20:09prophet cannot do this obviously it's
20:11too high m obviously he cannot say
20:13something that is factually incorrect
20:15there were three people. No, everything
20:17he has to say has to be 100% correct. So
20:20his level of humor is very different
20:23than ours, right? And I have a whole
20:24lecture about the reality of humor in
20:26Islam and the conditions we have to have
20:28because even even if we don't have to be
20:30that high, we still have a bar we cannot
20:33go underneath. As for our prophet, he
20:35would always use linguistic, you know,
20:37double meanings that is factually
20:39correct, but the point is to be made.
20:41And there are many hadith like this of
20:42them. the famous one where the old lady
20:44comes right and says you know Allah you
20:48know I've done this and that and I make
20:50dua that Allah causes me to enter Jenna
20:52and the prophet said oh my oh my elderly
20:56auntie don't you know you know elderly
20:58aunties will never enter Jenna right
21:00they're not going to enter Jenna and
21:02she's like well she's like what how am I
21:04going to what happened this and that and
21:05of course then the prophet said don't
21:07worry Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will
21:09transform you until you will be at your
21:12prime time and your youngest and your
21:14most beautiful and healthy then Allah
21:16will cause you to enter Jenna right
21:18little bit of humor and subhan Allah how
21:22powerful the imagery how powerful the
21:24the happiness that would come so a
21:26little bit of humor when you teach this
21:28is something that and again there's a
21:30famous hadith I don't have time to get
21:32into all of the you know the
21:33technicalities I im he said I thought of
21:37this one hadith you know one night
21:39tossing and turning in bed I couldn't
21:40sleep the whole night I extracted ed
21:42over 100 benefits from this hadith and
21:44that is when the child lost its pet uh
21:47there was a child two and a half three
21:49four years old maybe right lost its pet
21:51pet bird and he was so sad and so the
21:54prophetam he would you know this is
21:56child coming and imagine in this whole
21:58audience right a child sitting in the
22:00back and the child is intimidated the
22:02prophet you know is very intimidated you
22:04understand and the prophetam sees the
22:07child crying right and so the prophet
22:10makes the child happy with a little
22:14right that the prophet cracked a joke at
22:17him again I don't have time to get into
22:18the the technicalities but it caused the
22:21child to feel special and to laugh and
22:24smile again little bit of humor to cheer
22:27him up and then you know to make him
22:29feel special so a little bit of
22:31happiness levity to make the person
22:34happy and then you know teach something
22:36this is also from the prophet sallallahu
22:38alaihi wasallam another uh Another uh
22:42mechanism of the prophet sallallahu
22:44alaihi wasallam is let's see time is
22:47coming up here. Um let us see here which
22:49one we going to do. Ah yes
22:51um differing
22:53between speaking to people so teaching
22:56people at the level they are used to and
22:59not becoming too advanced on them. So
23:01I'll give you two examples each one will
23:03contrast with the other. In other words,
23:05the teacher tailors the lecture or the
23:08the the benefit to the person directly.
23:11So for example, look at two incidents in
23:13the both of them mistakes or minor
23:16mistakes or big mistakes. How did the
23:18prophet react? The Beruin urinating in
23:21the
23:22masid
23:23versus Jabal reciting Bakar in or
23:29sorry Jabal
23:31recited Bakar or a long portion of Bakar
23:35ina and the Beruin urinated in the
23:38masjid. Two separate incidents. How did
23:40the prophet react in each one? Even
23:43though technically urinating in the
23:45masid is a much bigger deal. much bigger
23:49deal. But when the man the bedawin came
23:53in and he lifted his th and he sat down
23:56in the middle of everywhere and he just
23:58started urinating right and as you know
24:01what happened that the sahaba began
24:03throwing things at him telling what are
24:04you doing get out of here right and what
24:06are you going to do you began urination
24:08what are you going to do you cannot do
24:09anything the prophetam said let him be
24:11let him be don't don't interrupt him now
24:14as you know and then he called the man
24:17after he was done and he said oh so and
24:19so this is a house of Allah subhanahu wa
24:21ta'ala. It is not befitting that in the
24:24house of Allah we urinate or defecate
24:27and we honor and respect it. What did
24:29the man
24:33say? He didn't beat me. He didn't hit
24:36me. He didn't make me feel any
24:38humiliation. The man himself
24:42said, "I never saw a teacher better than
24:46the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam."
24:47This is the better. I never saw a
24:50teacher who taught me this lesson better
24:53than the prophet sallallahu alaihi
24:55wasallam. Look, you teach at that level.
24:57Now Jab the scholar of the Sahabah. The
25:01scholar of the Sahabah when he
25:04led as you know he recited he recited
25:08Bakar and a man just said Salam went
25:12prayed for and went back and then the
25:15next day he complained to the prophetam
25:16that Allah in my masjid he
25:20started withah we have to go to sleep we
25:24have to go to work the next day right so
25:26he called him and he was angry his
25:29eyebrows could tell was anger
25:33said are you making the religion
25:35difficult when you want to pray
25:40injite then you
25:42recite you recite with
25:46notice he didn't commit a sin but the
25:49prophet is visibly angry and the bedawin
25:53commits a sin and the prophet is smiling
25:56look at the difference why because you
25:59treat people as
26:02said speak to the people at their level
26:05and the prophet saidith is in beginning
26:07of Muslim that the prophet commanded us
26:11to deal with people at their
26:16level whatever is the of the person you
26:19deal with him at that so one of our
26:21problems and I'm saying this bluntly a
26:23lot of times when we preach when we
26:25teach we expect everybody to be like
26:28muad rather than the bedin
26:30And we make Islam super strict and
26:33tight. And when you're teaching the
26:37average person, you need to lower the
26:39bar as low as you can. I've said this
26:41multiple times. The general rule of
26:44scholars when they preach and teach,
26:46lower as much as you can. And in your
26:48private life, do as high as you want.
26:50When the bedin comes and says,
26:52"Yahoolah, how many salawats?" You all
26:55know what he said. Only five. Do I have
26:58to pray any sunnas? You don't have to
26:59pray in the sunnah and no the sahaba
27:02were shocked because none of them around
27:04him have abandoned the sunnah and none
27:07of them they're shocked how much and you
27:09know the hadith contrast this to to his
27:12advice to to his advice to his advice to
27:16his advice to is that pray to and please
27:20some he's telling them pray to and sleep
27:22as well that advice is not given to the
27:25bedin that advice is not given to the
27:27new convert Make sure you pray. You
27:30don't need to tell that the new convert,
27:32the new Muslim, the new practicing. Just
27:34pray your five prayers. Right? This is
27:37this is the teacher. You look at
27:39students where they are and you teach
27:41them according to their level. Again, so
27:43much more can be said. I don't want to
27:44go on and on. I know it's also a weak
27:45day. Um I'll just give you two more
27:47inshallah and then we'll call it a day.
27:49Um another example that I can give uh of
27:52his techniques of the prophetam's
27:54techniques uh and this is
27:56interesting to delay the response so
28:00that curiosity is peaked everybody's
28:02even more interested to delay don't
28:04answer the question this happened
28:06multiple times I have a number of
28:07examples of this so the man comes and
28:10the adan has been called but not the man
28:13comes says in the crowd yahool Allah I
28:16have committed a sin I did this and that
28:18and I kissed a lady and I had this and
28:20that. How embarrassing. Everybody's you
28:23say this again. You have to understand
28:25not everybody's cultured. Not everybody
28:27there are people that just barge in and
28:28ask the question and the prophet is
28:30sitting and it's time for salah. Few
28:32minutes left. He doesn't even
28:34respond. No response. Everybody's
28:37curiosity. What is going to happen now?
28:40Then is called he gives the when the
28:44prayer finishes he turns around goes
28:46where is that man who shouted that
28:48question where is that man the man
28:50stands up I am the one who asked the
28:51question then the prophet said didn't
28:54you do and come to the masid yes didn't
28:56you walk all the way yes didn't you pray
28:57with us didn't you do yes then don't you
29:00know
29:03that don't you know when you do a good
29:05deed it will cause your bad deeds to be
29:08wiped away The man became so happy, so
29:12overjoyed. He said, "Yeah, is this verse
29:14Allah revealed only for me?" Goes, "No,
29:16for you and everybody else as well."
29:18Right? But the happiness that the man
29:20felt and the the the way the prophet
29:23responded to him, right? This is
29:24teaching technique about you. The man
29:26will never forget and even this hadith
29:28makes us happy as well. The way that he
29:30responded. So simply by looking at the
29:33time, delaying and then giving the
29:35response at the right time. We can go on
29:37and on. I'll just conclude with
29:38obviously the main the main which is the
29:42most powerful mechanism and that is to
29:44teach with action and not with words.
29:47This is without a doubt the the dignity
29:52the the I mean what what I don't need to
29:55even give you this right the role model
29:58that he
30:00was the the role model that he was the
30:03best way to teach is not via lectures it
30:07is via your actions it is via your
30:11lifestyle your living and the entirety
30:14of the s from the beginning to the end
30:16how he walked, how he acted, how he
30:18lived, how he interacted with the kufur,
30:21how he interacted with the bedawins, how
30:22he interacted with the elite of the
30:24Sahabah, everything about him. He was
30:27the best teacher in his actions before
30:30in his speech and this is really the
30:32most effective mechanism of teaching. So
30:35these are some and of course they're
30:36much more than this and indeed the
30:38prophetam is a perfect role model in
30:41every field and facet of human existence
30:44and may Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala bless
30:47us all to take him as a role model and
30:50to allow our own lives to be affected by
30:53his character hisl his teachings and may
30:56he make us follow the sunnah of the
30:58prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam
31:05[Music]
31:13of
31:15[Music]
31:27me. Whatever.
31:33[Music]
31:37Down to river
31:40of down
31:43the river of me.

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