ISLAMIC SPEECH REVIEW

OPTIMISM THE BEST ANTIBIOTIC

BY : SHAYKH WALEED BASYOUNI NAME PROGRAMME ID NUMBER LECTURER MUHAMMAD YAZID BIN TAHIR INFORMATION COMMUNICATION AND TECHNOLOGY 17103 USTAZ AHMAD RUSHDI HAROON

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PREFACE

Assalammualaikum WBT.

First and foremost, praised to Allah SWT for His blessing and occasion that He gave me a chance and opportunity to finalize the errand. I am very thankful to Him for his Barakah, wealth and health given to me during the completion of the task. He is such a great Creator who gave His pity to whoever seeks well from him.

Next, I would like to portray tokens of appreciation to the dearest Islamic Study lecturer, Ustaz Ahmad Rushdi Bin Haroon whom his know-how could not be doubted. He such a prodigious educator, gave all of us acquaintance that we have been looking for before. He imparted us deeply on what we did not know before. He was so astounding and wonderful, in fact, he possessed a wonderful versatility in doing his job as a lecturer. He is the most compassionate person I have ever met in this university, generally. Perhaps, everything she gave was a rahmat from Allah SWT for us to discover the beauty of Islam.

The most importantly, I am very thankful to everybody that supported me from every single ways in order to make a successful project being willed into reality. I am eager to show my enhancement in making progress on to this study to be a better muslim in the future.

Sincerely, MUHAMMAD YAZID BIN TAHIR

SPEAKER BIOGRAPHY

PROFILE
Hails from Expertise Famous Quote : : : Houston, Texas, USA Theology (Aqeedah) The optimist is the one who sees opportunities in their difficulties and the pessimist is the one who sees difficulties in their opportunities. Extreme sports like scuba diving and mountain climbing. Shaykh Waleed has been to many exotic places and surprisingly found masjid in the most unexpected spots.

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EDUCATION
He graduated with a Bachelors Islamic Science from Al-Imam Muhammad University, KSA; did his Masters in Islamic Theology, World Religion and Modern Religion Sects from Al-Imam Muhammad University; and acquired a Doctorate in Theology. He studied under great scholars such as Shaykh Ibn Baz, Abdul-Razzaq Afify and others.

CAREER
Shaykh Waleed Basyouni is the Vice President of AlMaghrib Institute and the Head of Aqeedah and Adab Department. Students know him well for his sincere care for their well being and progress in studying. He has made an appearance in media around the world including Al-Huda Channel, Islam Channel & PeaceTV. He is an active member of various organizations and Islamic Societies including NAIF, AMJA as well as a Director of Texas Dawah Convention. DESCRIPTIONS

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OPTIMISM THE BEST ANTIBIOTIC TVSunnah Shaykh Waleed Basyouni 2012 Masjid An-Nur, Universiti Teknologi Pertonas 30:53 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFAhCCfBcp8

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Bismillah Alhamdulillah Wasalatowassalamuala rasulillah Waala Alihiwasahbihi waman walah, Allahhummalakalhamduhakkan hakkah walakalhamdu kaabuda warikka All Praise due to Allah. And his praise and blessings and peace be upon of prophet nabi Muhammad SAW. His family his companion his followers and they asked Allah SWT to shower this university and the faculty and the students and this semester and those who attended with his mercy and his blessings. And Im so happy and glad to be with you today. I would like to extend again my thanks to the vice chancellor of university and the an-nur masjid and the great scholars who Alhamdulillah yakni have been blessed to meet in this trip. Brothers and sisters I would like to talk to you tonight about a very dear subject to me personally. Because whenever I think about optimism I think about Muhammad SAW. Anas Ibn Malik R.A, once described the Prophet Muhammad SAW by saying Kana yuhibbul fala kama fissohi hain, as in sahih Bukhari Muslim reported that the prophet SAW he used to love optimism, and not only he love optimism of Muhammad SAW, now he himself is very optimistic person, very optimistic person SAW. Not only that his personality is based on optimism its also his syariah is based on optimism. Their ideology of Islam, the foundation of our tauhid, of our believed is based on the concept of optimism, that you always view Allah SWT in whatever He decreed in the positive manner, in the positive way. Even the ruling of the syariah is based on the optimism. For instance, the prophet SAW told us whenever you make doa, whenever you asked Allah SWT, in Sahih Bukhari he said, Iza ha daa aha dukum fala yakul Allahummafirgli insyiq, when you pray to Allah, you shouldnt say Oh Allah forgive me Insyaallah, if you wish, if you want. No! you said Oh Allah forgive me. Without if, without but, because that certainty in the heart is motivating by your optimism, that Allah SWT listening and accepting what you saying. Its not like Oh if you want, if you wish, no you shouldnt do that. You know the whole concept of taubah(repentance) and you repent to Allah SWT in any time while you are deeply believed that Allah SWT will coming to you no hesitation, dont think about it twice. What motivate you, what is based on, based on the concept of optimism, Nabi Muhammad SAW, his level of optimism, beyond yakni this, An Nabi SAW has also Imam Muslim reported in Sahih, that when he leaves in a journey, let say this is a journey, and he will hear someone is named Salim, kana iza samina salim, kana rajikna salimin, we will come back, yakni salim means safe, so he said he will come back to our family safe. He want to build that sense of optimism in the heart just by hearing the name Salim. If its a journey where is war involve, and heard somebody named Nasir, he will said, Thats it, we will gain victory insyaallah Nahnu mansouri biiznillah, he even use this name to build, plant the seeds of optimism in the mind and heart of the people.
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An Nabi SAW when Allah told him to migrate from Mekah to Madinah, do you know what Madinah used to be called? Used to be called Yathrib. Whats Yathrib?Yathrib has a negative connotation in it. It means the something would decrease minna tahrim ok, so Nabi Muhammad SAW said, qala la tu sammuha yathrib nobody should call Madinah anymore Yathrib, ah, nobody allowed to called anymore this. Innamah yah toibah The Goodness, The City of Goodness. So he want to build that sence of optimism in their mind, in their heart. Rajun ja ilannabi SAW, and he said, ya Rasulullah, my name is Harb(war), no!, now change it to peace. Name with softies. Two men came to the Prophet SAW said, Whats your name, he said we both known an our family as Al-Muhanan, yakni The Disrespective ones he said no, from now on, your name should be Al-Mukraman, The Two Honorable people. Qala rasullullah ana minsyikbi qadla syikdulallah ana bil ardimiqardaghahabrah all this in the Hadith of Nabi Muhammad SAW. Over the course of these years somebody said to Rasulullah, Im came from a valley known as The Valley of Misguidance, he said no, go back till you change the name of this valley. Let it be The Valley of Guidance. Ya Rasulullah, I came from a land known as Gabbrah, The Dusty Land. He said No, change this to be Khadirah, to be Green. This sence of optimism in the Prophet SAW it is so unique. It is one of his main character of SAW. In one the most difficult time, during the Prophet SAW time, at life, when he was surrounded with the kufar from every corner in Madinah. Every corner around him from Madinah, the Arab tribes have settle at, they came, they gather to attack Prophet SAW. At that moment, the Prophet SAW what he was stealing his followers, what he was stealing the believers, what was he stealing from his companions, he was stealing them, li iblughanna zahanam ma balaghah, In this religion, would reach us that light teach, yakni every corner of the earth, it will go to the farthest east to the farthest west. It came all over from Madinah to Malaysia, it come all over from Madinah to Japan, it come all over from Madinah, for somebody like me coming from Eustan to speak about Islam. Allahuakbar. This theme has no borders, this religion has no limit, that not have specific yakni race or colour. Its a religion the Prophet SAW have given that sense of Optimism in their mind in that difficult moment. But being an optimistic person is not something like I said today we do not about to impush I want to became an optimistic from now on. It doesnt work this way. Nabi SAW have put some rule that when I teach person in ethics, and when I teach the students I told them, that one of the thing that Prophet SAW told us, that is one of the principe of ethics that Nabi SAW said, Innamal ilmu bitaallu wassabbru bittassabbu walhilmu bittahallum he said, In order you to achieve Sabr, you need to go process, you need to go struggle, you need to achieve that. Its not gonna happen in demandly like that, to became all this good character you would be inherited it or its naturally coming. No, you have to work on it, its like knowledge. Knowledge you dont just born yakni knowledgeable person. You have to acquire the knowledge. Same thing with character. You have to build your character. So how can we build that character. How can we became an optimistic people. Optimism it is
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simple.It is to be able to see almost opportunities in your difficulties. Versus pessimism, the pessimist person is the who always seek difficulties. Yakni every time Allah gives him opportunities, he sees difficulties in it. How can you became an optimistic person. I have few points I want to share with you. I will make sure this is the practical point. That you can start from know, working on yourself. Number one, in order for you to be an optimistic person, you need to understand the right and the standing of the concept of the Qadr. Because if you dont understand this concept clearly, its very rough to be an optimistic.And hard for the big subject that I will be teaching Insyallah in this coming weekend. What concern me in this particular topic which is related to optimism, to know one thing, that Allah SWT put a rule in this dunia. Which we called it al asma al musabbillat wu ki in order for you to get the results, how have to take the necessary means. Allah SWT have made this thing like this. Its like you study engineering, its 1+1=2, you do this process, you get this results. Veridically, thats the system that Allah put in this life. That know the sense of optimism, so I know if I do one, two, three, that will lead to that result. If I dont do this, I might gonna take that result. Thats how Allah build that system. Thats more to Qadr Allah SWT, He didnt make thing based on no system. Everything on this earth, everything happening to us, there is a system of it. You can see, you can achieve the pattern of it. You can know of you do one, two, three that means you deserve Jannah, if you do one, two, three you deserve Hellfire. If you do this you will be happy, you will be successful. And when Allah SWT decrease something upon you, because of reasons, He did this way because this is the birth for him to do it, because this is the best way to do it, thats the right formula for it. One also thing that help you to get understand the concept of Qadr make you an optimistic person, to that we have the free will. Were not like some people believe human being have no will at all. Mean, if you have no will, you will never be an optimistic person, you have the free will, you have free choice. And Allah SWT out of His justice, that He let you to choose your action, and He will hold you countable for it in the Day of Judgment. But you have the freedom to make your choice. So its up to you what you want to do. Its up to you too to be an optimism or pessimism. Its up to you to choose how you react on certain thing that coming to you in your life. We might not be able to change the direction of the wind when we are sailing. But always we can adjust our sailing to sail to go to new destination of life. You always have that choice, to make a new start, to make a new beginning, to start over again. Thats the power that Allah SWT have given to human being over angel for example.

Number two. The second point that help you to be an optimistic person which is interesting. Its one the thing that make you an optimistic person, your appearance. How you carry yourself. Huge impact to you. Moral psychologist, in all psychologist we studies, the new ones, the new studies agreed, that our physiology impact our psychology, not the other way round. All the new moral studies agree on that. That our physiology impact our psychology. The way you carry yourself that will affect your mood. Will affect the way you think. Subhanallah. This is something in Islam take great care of it. Why you think Islam speak a lot about you being clean, you look neat, why our masjids look nice, why our city should be clean, our street should look nice, why Islam speak about An-naghafah The moment that you be always clean. It is because when you like that, you act upon this. Subhanallah. I studied the history of African-American in America when they brought them as slave. They were not slave in Africa, some of them were princess. There is a new movie called The Slave Prince. I dont know few of you saw this movie or not. Its a movie just recently came out speaking about a muslim prince is taken from west America and later on Abraham Lincoln freed him and gave him his title back. Its a beautiful story, very inspiring story, but one of the thing that is so interesting about this dark era in the history of America, how they treat slaves, the slavery, the slave masters, one of the thing that they used to do, slave are not allowed to take shower for a week, they are not allowed to wear good cloth, why do you think they do that? To break their spirit, to make them act like animals, not like human being. Its because the outside impact the inside. So if you want to be an optimistic person, you have to look at your appearance. Allah SWT when He describe the believers, Wa ibadurrahmanillazina the servant of the Rahman, the one who, what do you expect that gonna come? The one who pray? No. The one who fast? No. The one who donate? No. Has nothing to do the one who have certain article or fact, no. allazinayamshunaalalardihauna speak about the appearance. The way they talk, the way they walk, because the way you walk that will impact the way you behave. Do you walk with arrogance? Do you walk like ***. Umar Al-Khattab saw a man walking like you know, trying his *** Then Umar he liked, he said straighten up, Dont make our religion dead. Stand up. Thats why Nabi SAW when he stand, when he walk, his back straight. Jabar RA said sometimes were kind of run of breath to catch up with Prophet SAW. When he walk, he doesnt dried his feet like *** person. He walk with full of energy, thats the walk that we want to see our sisters n brothers walk with confidence. You might not be a king or sultan but you can walk like one. Dont walk with arrogant, walk with high esteem, with confidence, that will make you believe or not an optimistic person. Raise your head up and dont walk like somebody who sick or like that. The style is the image of the character. Thats why Nabi SAW used to love to dress in a nice cloth. Im not talking about to be too expensive but it could be nice something you care about, you care about your appearance. Nabi SAW saw a man, who is old, and his hair is white. His beard is white, and its messy.
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The appearance is messy. Nabi SAW said two things, he said If you want to grow your beard, take care of it. If you want to grow your hair, take good care of it. Its not like some go here, some go there, you know, you have to look nice. Thats why you trim your moustache, you dont want your moustache eat with you okay. It is the appearance, the look, also Nabi SAW in another hadith he said dye your hair, dont give it white like that. Dye it. Because it is so messy, its like a cloud. So this is something that you need to work on it. Make sure you have a good style. Even though when youre young. Because that will build your character, make you have your confidence for yourself, and that also one of the thing that will probably build the sense of optimism. Number 3. Just do with the appearance, but I put a bit itself, smile. Smile. You know what, I always noticed this when I go to country, visit to community, visit to masjids, you know how many people smile at me while I am a stranger. Smile is such a beautiful thing. Sisters and brothers, your teeth is not aurah, you can smile, you can show it, its okay. You know smile. Smile is such a beautiful thing. If you yakni find your friends, your colleague without smile, give them one of yours. And he will have it immediately. Just spread that smile. Nabi SAW, Aisyah, Jabir, so many other, so many companion said, I never find Nabi SAW unless I found him smile said Jabar. Another one said, Every time I saw this person in my life, he was smile. Can anybody said that about you? Can anybody like, Every time I saw this person, every time I lay my eyes on them, on him, or her, she always smile.. And his wife seeing he is smiling because Mashaallah some of us, all smile with their friends outside but when he go home, okay.. you know completely different attitude. But Aisha said No, hes smiling inside the house and outside the house. You know, there are some of you I dont know, did you lose your smile? If you lost your smile, I have a good news for you, your smile didnt go anywhere. It is just right under your nose. Yes, youre smiling. So, the smiling is not gonna make others feel good, it gonna make you feel good. Smile gives us the sense of confidence. Sense of happiness. Sense of acceptance. And that is the basis of optimism.

Number 4. You want to be an optimistic person in life, make sure you fill your heart with goodness for others. Dont fill your heart with hate, jealousy, envy, towards other. Subhanallah. Your heart is like a cup, whatever you gonna fill it up with, its gonna fill up with others. You fill it up with good, it will only producing good. Allah SWT said in the Quran, iyyalamillahufikulubikum khairaiyutikum khairaa, If Allah sees in your heart the goodness, He will give you goodness. . Thats how it is. Allah SWT is looking at our heart. The optimism will never come from our heart fill with envy, fill with jealousy, from with hate, those people cannot be optimistic people.

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Number 5. If you want to be an optimistic person, youre gonna learn to be positive thinker. You know, this is a farmer, he has two children, Mashaallah, he has twins. But they are completely the opposite. One is very an optimistic person, and the other is the most pessimist kid you can think of. So he want to do an experiment to the kids. So he bring a big, huge box as their birthday gifts. So they open the first box, the pessimist kid, he open and he find a shiny beautiful bicycle. And another train, the Thomas Train. Two gifts on the birthday. So immediately the kid said, Dad, mom, why did you give me that gift for. You should give me one, now two, Im gonna be confuse which one Im gonna play with, this gonna make me feel bad. And you know what, why did you give me the shiny bicycle for, its easy to scratch. And when it scratch, it will look bad. And now Im worrying more about it more than enjoying it.. And he made it the most miserable thing ever happen to him. So the other kid open the box. The big one. And what did he found, manor. And he said, Dad, where did you hide the pony, you hide it somewhere Im sure, this is just the introduction. Hes a positive thinker. Where is the horse, where did you hide the horse. Ok. So, it might a be a positive thinker, can you think positively? Why would you think almost in a negative way. There is a hadith maybe some of you have heard this hadith before, but Im not sure youve ever thought about it this way. There is a hadith which is very famous in sahih Bukhari. Nabi SAW said There is three people enter a cave and a huge rock came and block the exit. So each one of them start asking Allah for one of His good did. One of them said, Ya Allah, I used to have a female cousin, and I like her so much, so many time I tried to seduce her but she refused. Good women. One day she came to me, she asked for money. I asked her to give her soul first. And when I was very close to that, she told me, why dont you marry me? If you want me so much like that just marry me, and halal, why did you want to do in haram. Then he said I gave her the money and let her go.. I have a question, when you hear this story, most of us when we heard this story, what would we said about this story. Wow, what a bad guy is taking an advantage to his cousin. When she need money, she took an advantage. See. We take the negative part of the story but Muhammad SAW when he mention this story, he was never talking about this at all. Actually the main point of the story is the last portion, he let her go. So Prophet SAW only focused the positive part of the story. Which is him in the end realizing that it is the noble thing to do and he let her go. That is how positive he is of Nabi SAW. When Nabi SAW look at the society of Mekah, what do you think about Mekah at that time, what they do. Some of them they buried their daughter alive, they steal, they fight for over for nothing. They fought 40 years two tribes in Arabia. 40 years. Bloody war for forty years. Why? Over a camel. 40 years over a camel. Because the camel went the race, so somebody else came and killed the camel, 40 years of bloody war. Ignorant. They make tawaf around the Kaabah nude. Nobody wears cloth when they tawaf. How ignorant this could be. You can think so many things about this. But listen towards Prophet SAW said, I came to complete the good manner that you have. He didnt look at the society a something doom, a something bad or

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something wrong. You know, one of the beautiful thing that I have to say since I land in this country in Malaysia, one of the best thing that I ever noticed that the positive way, so many people from this country talk about the great thing about this country land. They talked about how Mashaallah how beautiful masjids we have, how great freedom we have in the society. How advance technology that we have. I never heard anyone say, O like other country I go to, oh we have this, we have this, every country have their own problem, something haram, something halal. Practice, wrong practice. but when you go to many countries all the people from that country focused on that wrong practices in the society. But since I land in this country, I noticed that everybody pointed out positively. And thats why this country go forward. Because they are not focus in this little things. And this is a key-point to success in life. If you want to be an optimistic person you need to learn to be a positive thinker. You think about the positive thing. You focused on the positive thing. Nabi SAW said, and reported in sahih Bukhari and Muslim, there is a group of people who enter the Jannah not because the fast so much, not because the pray so much, no, but their heart is like the white bird, dosent know about the bad or evil feelings. Theyre all positive. When you love be positive even when problems happens, even when traumatizes strikes you think about it in a positive way. A man was brought to Muhammad SAW drunk, completely wasted. So Nabi SAW ordered him to appoint the punishment so one person said, la anahullah, May Allah curse him, always we catch him drunk, and Nabi SAW said, no, dont do that, dont say that, this man loves Allah and His Messenger.. yes he is drinking but he still have other good things in his heart. Yes he is not the best muslim in this kairah, when it comes to drinking, hes weak, but there is other area which is so strong, and there is something good in his heart. Nabi SAW did not disregard that positive thing in this person has. Unfortunately, drinking is not something simple isnt it, its major sin, but still Prophet SAW said he love Allah and His Messenger. A women committing zina, still mention out the repentance is a great thing, she repentant to Allah SWT. He do not focused on the mistake. Because Prophet SAW is an optimistic person. An optimistic people focused on the positive, think of the positive. When you look at the as I said the clematis that strike you in your life you start thinking what is the wisdom behind. What is the benefits that I get out of it. Subhanallah. Sometimes brothers and sisters, our eyes need to be washed with our teers. So we can see live more clear. We can see live more clear afterwards. That tears that come to you, are meant to wash your eye. Think it in a positive manner.

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POSITIVE FEEDBACK

1. Shaykh Waleed did mention the evidences based on Quran and Hadith to strengthen his argument during his speech. 2. He was able to pronounce every word clear and easy to understand. 3. The speaker was very expert in maintaining the audiences attention. 4. He used simple analogy which were very suitable and practical. 5. His performance makes me feel touched and able to produce a new me. 6. The interaction between the speaker and the audiences was very good.

NEGATIVE FEEDBACK

1. He always used the same word to strengthen his statement. 2. Often use the term Ya know? and Yanee. 3. Some of the verse in Quran he recited it fast and the audience did not be able to catch some of the words.

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NEW THINGS LEARNT

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Every muslim need to have a very strong faith towards Allah SWT. We need to learn about Islam truly so there will no wrong thoughts about Islam. Muslims should have an optimistic personality in themselves. Show to others the good, nice and how Islam managed the way of our life.

SUGGESTIONS AND RECOMMENDATION

1. 2. 3. 4. Use slideshows to make the speech more interesting. The speaker should use more body language. Include montage or short video for a clearer view. Relate the points to the current issue.

CONCLUSION
As conclusion, instead of believing and knowing the pillars of Islam and Iman, we also have to show and practice the way that Islam has taught us. We must not reflect the bad and the wrong view of Islam towards Muslims and non-Muslims. Optimism is a very great motivator for every each of us as it is also a sunnah of Prophet Muhammad SAW. Lets start practicing all the points that have been delivered by Shaykh Waleed Basyouni, which I think, it is not only for Muslims only but, also for the nonMuslims. InsyaAllah, we are among the peoples being shelter by His Merciful.

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