Summary: In shaa Allahu taala' tonight's topic is something that I feel very personally hurt about.<br> By Allah's permission and His favor I have had the opportunity to travel to about 80<br> or so communities all over the United States in the last 5 years and I have made about<br> 2 weeks stops in each community alhumdulillah. And I was the youth that was raised<br> in New York and you know when you live in one place for a long time you kind of<br> you don't know what is going on in the world outside of that little bubble of yours you<br> know. So as I travelled a lot outside, in some ways it was a very eye opening<br> experience in some respects it was something that I had never expected on the other<br> side it the end was very positive. But at the other hand at the same time I came to<br> observe that there are certain problems that the Muslim community has<br> that it doesn't matter if they are in California or they are in Boston or they are in<br> Texas or they are in Arkansas, they are the same. And one of those problems thats<br> probably to me atleast the most pressing issue of all of the issues is the problem of<br> how rapidly we are losing our youth. how rapidly we are losing connection with our<br> kids. And in shaa Allahu taala in this talk though I want to start with the importance of<br> this topic from the point of view of Allah's book Himself. I want to share with you the<br> legacy of Ibrahim as just to give us an overview of the importance of this matter and<br> towards the end I will share with you something from my experience and some faqs<br> that I have on this subject I do not claim to have solutions. Honestly I do not claim to<br> say anything that probably hasn't been said before. But my hopes are really in the end<br> you can not hope to even solve the problem until you are aware of the problem. So<br> the first step really is we have to be cautious and aware and accept that ther eis infact<br> a problem. And the next step is we have to put our heads together and we have to<br> seek out solutions of course in the light of Allah's book and the sunnah of His<br> Messenger (saw). But then among ourselves the people of share concrened how do<br> we take the next step, how do we take conclusions. But the very first step for you to<br> talk even about medicine is you have to convince the patient that he is sick. He doesn't<br> think he is sick, he doesn't need any medicine that does not make him concerned<br> itself, finding what prescription I should be on you know. So now I began with these<br> few ayat of Surah AlBaqarah and I wan to go with the very quick dars on these ayat,<br> a reminder, by no means an elaborate tafseer of these ayaat. Some brief reminder.<br> Ibrahim (as) went through many many many trials. When ever Hajj season comes<br> close you hear the Khutbah about Ibrahim (as). And many enormous feats he has<br> accomplished. And when he accomplished all those incredible things at the end of all<br> of them, Allah gave him a certificate.And this ayah is about the certificate. Allah says<br> to him tells us تل<br> َُّبهُ ب ِيَم ر إِْبرَاه َٰى وَإِذِ اْبَ<br> كِ<br> َ<br> اتٍ ف َِمل<br> َ<br> أَت<br> َ َّمه َّن ُ When His lord tested Ibrahim (as)<br> especially ibrahim (as) thoroughly, بتْا<br> َ<br> َٰى ل<br> , and at the end of all those tests he completed<br> all of them, ف<br> َ<br> أَت<br> َ َّمه َّن , ُ he completed every last one of those tests ق<br> َ<br> ل ِ َ اع ِّي ج الَ إِن<br> ُ<br> ناسِ إَِماًما<br> َّ<br> ِلل<br> , كَ<br> at the end of passing all those tests, Allah says to Ibrahim (as), There is no doubt I am<br> installing you Imam over people. I am making you a leader over people.I am making<br> you a role model for humanity. This is the certificate, this is the honor, this is the<br>
