Assalamu alaikum wa rhamatullahi wa barakatuh Maulana. I was wondering, I made this like 6 or 7 month ago, the time I did it I was fasting when I did not fast I did it again and I was Melancholic- Cloleric, so yes when you said autist I was like Subhan'Allah how did you know. Anyway I was thinking I can hear you have a lot more knowlegde of this than the sister who wanted me to take it just to see my temprement. Q: What would be realistic for me to look for in a spouse? I consider the Melancholic- Phlegmatic to be mostly me in terms of I don't care for leading (a reason why I want to marry actually) if I cannot decide what I want for breakfast I am not capable of leading. So I can easliy remove that part since I don't like to anyway but I am a firstborn so to say. I know very little about temprements and understandings of public and private situations as again you pointed out Melancholic are quite autistic and I am that on papers. Q: Also you mentioned about the ideal is not to revert for a spouse we see many today do so alhamdulillah but I wondered, why is it not ideal? Umm Sulaym mother of Anas ibn Malik had Abu Talha accept Islam as her mahr from him even though money was no issue, due to the hadith she heard of the blessing of having a person accept Islam through you. (She is a sahabiyat I study to learn from since I look up to her a lot) We see in many situations when muslims accept Islam for a spouse they either way end up being more practising than their spouse, it is a common phenomen known between reverts, the biggest problem I have heard leading to the divorce is the born muslims lack of following up on the Deen becuase the revert now take everything is and now the born muslim spouse starts to complain to the Imam or a like, how to deal with him or her, they expect this and that etc. Q: So what makes is less liked that a person accept the religion for another person whom they see some much goodness in they are ready to leave their own or lack of one?

So while watching this podcast, I wondered if I should keep my reflection to myself or not. Then you answered that for me in the podcast: that students getting involved and interacting is something you really like. And I also know you said, as an online teacher, you never know what reaches the students, so here you go. Sorry it's a bit long, but two hours, Mawlana — I am summing up two hours of the most important reflections I think. I really enjoyed listening to this in so many aspects. One of the first like really reflections I made was about the clothing, and it made me think of Imam an-Nasa'i, raheemullah — I think it was him. He never dressed as the scholars of his time, and at one teacher he was not allowed in due to his clothes not looking like that of a student of knowledge. So he would stand by a wall and listen to the sheikh giving hadith. If I am not mistaken, we only know this sheikh through Imam an-Nasa'i in his Sunan. I guess clothes have just always been a part of it somehow. I wonder why. The whole thing with Egypt is just frightening, honestly. I didn't know the situation was so bad. Like, even when I ask anyone about these things, they all say those are fake news or propaganda. So I had come to think so too. Because no Egyptian is going to tell you this, so I had to ask secondary sources, right, because I have sisters in Egypt, I know. I never would have known this from them. I won't even start on the whole isnad thing. Because as a student who dream of becoming a muhadithah and specialise in the isnad, I share the frustation 100% Last thing I thought about is how important Aqeedah is, but not just that — to understand what it actually means. When I became a Muslim, I learned about fiqh very fast. All the flaws I had were pointed out quite fast, only two weeks into Islam. I had been a Muslim for over a year when I was invited to attend education in my local masjid and heard the word 'Tawheed' — I kid you not, no one had taught me this word. When I asked sisters what Aqeedah meant before entering this course, this would be what I was told: 'It is our belief in Allah.' OK, yes, I understand — can you be more concrete? 'Where is Allah?' 'He is above His Kursi.' 'Good, that is your Aqeedah.' Me be like ..........

Assalamu alaykum. Part two is finally here. I said it would be soon, but then I left Cape Town for ten days. I want to be honest about that instead of making excuses. Part one was the honest version of how I got here: two years of Arabic grammar, started with an intention I am still not proud of, and what Allah did with it anyway. If you have not watched it, please start there. It took me longer to record this part, and not because I was busy. Part two is about why I love the Messenger of Allah (Allah bless him and give him peace), and saying that out loud is harder for me than anything I shared before. I want to be careful with that sentence. Love for the Prophet (Allah bless him and give him peace) is easy to say but much harder to truly live. We sing about it at mawlid, hang his name on our walls, and get upset when someone insults him, which is understandable. All of that matters, but there is a difference between defending someone and really knowing them. For a long time, I could have given you a full lecture about him without sharing a single thing I loved. What changed was not an argument. Nobody debated me into it. It was reading him, the small things, the domestic things, the way he was with people who had nothing to offer him in return. You cannot love a summary. You can only love a person, and he left us enough detail that a man fourteen centuries later can actually meet one. So this is not a defense of him, and it is not a lesson in the sīrah, his life story. It is simply the specific reasons why a man in Cape Town, after nineteen years of teaching, still feels his chest tighten when he hears that name. Some of you asked for the sīrah when you introduced yourselves. This is not that course. The sīrah will come, chapter by chapter, and it deserves to be taught slowly instead of being rushed through in just a few sessions. Consider this as the reason I want to teach it in the first place. Now it is your turn, and I want the simple answer, not the well-known one. Tell me one thing about him that you love. Not the miracle. Not the battle. Share the detail that touched you—the one you think about when no one is watching.

Assalamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh Maulana. A new reflection but very different from the previous. I never knew about Mufti Taha Reheemullah. Even not knowing him and only watched your video of him about the Mawlid I have come to love him as an inspiration that now have made me text a sister I study with that we need to save up and go to study in Strand for '1' semester. She know not what I do now. Because excusses will maybe come about work etc. but she is also from South Africa but live en UK. So now I am prepping her for in 1 year we reach in shaa Allah advanced studies in our alimiyyah program so we need to attend classes irl and get out and experience a new community. Pray for this because she is considering it. I really like how this was so fouced on studies and much on adab in a way that really touched something in me. I often feel like I am later to everything. Because in school I never had the same possibilities and even after I became a muslim I am now in an age where many have finished their hifdh and alimiyyah. 2014, I graduated high school in 2015 at the age of 23 always behind hah. So I love when I hear the talkes about it is never too late. a 60 year old connecting to the Quran does something. I think at my stage 35 year old I want to attain the knowlegde so fast but akhlaq and adab cannot follow because I have no one to look up to in flesh and it really does something sitting in a classroom. When scholars have come from other counties to Denmark I had no issue sitting infront of mufti for 7 hours on a saturday and 10 hours on the sunday after, in the masjid just to enjoy the possibilities. The motivation from hearing about Mufti Taha and the positivness of South Africa has just made it an consideration and Allah knows best where I will end up.