me and sheikh yusof

a long due post
thanks to my incompetent in english

why in english ?

because the talk and note about this talk\lecture is in english. thats why

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i was given a chance to sit in a lecture/talk by Sheikh Yusuf; former mufti of Canada about 4 months ago

the topics varied from promises to marriage [ another reason why i purposely delayed writing this post ]

we had to wait for quite a moment before the sheikh appeared

apparently he was not feeling well that night plus the condition of traffic in egypt which is as bad as my german; very bad indeed

as soon as he arrived, he sat at the provided chair and the emcee for the talk/lecture did his thing

then he rose while holding a cane to support his body

honestly i was expecting the sheikh to speak in heavily accented canadian-english

but to my surprise, he spoke with egyptian-english accent

apart from that, this talk/lecture had been a huge eye-opener for me

first thing that he said was " respect your promises and others time "

this was the reason why he mustered his strength to come even though he was sick

because he promised he would come, so he came

even though the person in charged of this talk/lecture offered to cancel or to delay the talk until he recovered

but he insisted to come

oh how beauty his akhlak is 

* then i look into myself, who try to find excuses all the time in order to escape my responsibilities *

then he continued his talk/lecture by stressing on the second point,
respect others time

other people has their own schedule and plans so don't do injustice [zalim] to them

and that include,
cancelling plans at last minute
and came late to any event

he asked us to fulfill our promises

then he continued by asking us to implement what we preach

to walk the talk 

after elaborating quite a bit on this topic [ about how da'wah is not effective due to our failure to act what we preach and so on. i fail to remember the rest. blame my incompetent on note-taking ability ]

then he continued, saying " organize yourselves to organize the world "

[ maybe he was implying to the fact that we are in fact khalifa sent to this world to govern it ]

then he advised us to be with trustful/honest person

he said " a society is build with honesty "

a society without honesty as its main core will beleaguered by problems

a dishonest police will took bribe 

a dishonest businessman will sold incompetence product to their customers

a dishonest engineer/constructor will use below par-material in their construction/machine 

all of this will resulted to a damaged society

then he get side tracked a bit and start talking about building in egypt

he complained about the architecture and city planning of egypt which allowed food-stalls to be open under an housing-apartment 

he said this is very dangerous, what if the propane tank used exploded ?

this will certainly resulted in the death of many people

he said that even form the fume released by the food-stalls is endangering human health

this is not the case in canada where industrial areas is isolated from housing areas

and food stalls are forbidden to be open in an housing-apartment 

i agreed with his points 

and then i remembered a saying

" in order to bring orders to cairo's traffic, the only way is by throwing all the egyptian into the nile river "

and he complained about the passport system 

i'm not sure when but it was there

he had some uneasy experience with the passport system

he was staying in egypt [or indonesia or somewhere, i don't remember ]

and he wanted to return to canada

after buying the ticket and the day to board the flight came

only to his shock, he cannot board the flight due to his passport's expiration date was less than 6 months 

he questioned, if he cannot board the flight why the company still sold him the ticket ?

this is dishonest in trading

and the only way to renew his passport is by returning to canada 

an act which cannot be done because he cant travel with his expiring passport

this is madness 

then he continued to speak about marriage

a topic which will be delayed again

why ? because this post is already too long

and i'm lazy

thats why

haha