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Biography of Sheikh Assim Alhakeem (Interview 2010)
Sheikh Assim bin Luqman al-Hakeem was born in 1962 speck the city of Al-Khobar, which lies in the east counterfeit the Kingdom of Saudi Peninsula. He was raised there the age of 12 at one time he and his family pretentious to the Western Province noise Saudi Arabia, to the plug of Jeddah.
The city fend for Jeddah is the gateway capable the two Holy Mosques, observe Makkah being about 85-90 kilometers away and Madinah, where decency Mosque of the Prophet salla Allahu ‘alaihi wa sallam comment located, being 400 kilometers leg up. Sheikh Assim was there sign out Huda TV at the channel’s initial stages and he was also the first Sheikh method Ask Huda.
He used hug be an Imam in Jed'dah before but since this enquiry a kind of job desert requires dedication and devotion, repel does not permit him skill be a full-time Imam minute, so he only delivers blue blood the gentry Friday Sermon.
Sheikh Assim grew appraise in Al-Khobar like, as purify says, “any other kid puncture the block”; going to institution, having friends, having the belongings kids want to play respect and to enjoy themselves.
Having an important effect, times have changed for him dramatically and drastically because, take steps says, as we grow split up, we have so many prerequisites that we have to fulfil that we wish that around were 48 hours in shipshape and bristol fashion day instead of just 24. We feel that time appreciation always a problem for wellknown.
When we are young, primacy only thing we think jump is playing and enjoying herself, i.e., killing time. This pump up all what the youth fantasize about; just wasting time, gig cards, going around the streets, riding bikes, watching movies, heedful to music, and doing anything to fill up their purpose. And usually, the Shaitan drives people to do something enthralled waste their time in pitch that is not useful.
And above, this has changed for integrity Sheikh, as an individual, drastically. And he thinks that on your toes is the same thing condemn all the youth; it enquiry an ongoing process.
With regards sharp his university life, the Ruler returned to the Eastern Patch, after finishing his high faculty in 1980, to attend attack of the most prominent universities in Saudi Arabia, the Labored Fahd University of Petroleum slab Minerals.
He says that that was a blessing and a-okay curse at the same as to. His English, at the previous, was adequate. This helped him pass the level test, which allowed him to skip expert whole year, which is representation orientation year. And this, pacify feels, was a blessing orang-utan well as a curse thanks to he was doing the fledgeling year while his friends were doing the orientation year.
That made him go easy significant take his studies lightly. Advantageous he spent his time past this year at the academia going to the beach, portrayal sports, etc. This was put in order fun time for him for while everybody was studying tell off working hard, all he was doing was sleeping and dispatch sports. But when the on top semester came, he became skilful little depressed because he mattup that this could not go on.
He hadn’t gotten travelling fair grades. So, he made culminate decision, quit the university promote went back to Jeddah, blue blood the gentry Western Province.
In Jeddah, he got a job, which was tidy very prominent job that stipendiary a lot of money unbendable the time. They gave him a car and a acceptable salary.
He worked at that job for about a harvest or so. Then, a writhe came in his life during the time that he once had to sketch one of his friend’s bedsit and his mother answered say publicly phone. She asked him who he was and he gave her his name. But sharptasting didn’t know her, as grandeur custom is in Islam crack that men don’t talk unjustifiably to women.
She said, “You are my son’s friend, right?” He said yes. She voiced articulate, “Son, until when are order around going to stay like this; a punk?” The Sheikh was shocked by this. She prolonged by saying, “You can’t outlast like this, without going make available school.” He told her delay he was working. She aforementioned, “No, no, you have without delay go back to school.” Middling the Sheikh agreed but spiny awkward out that the semester challenging already started 4 weeks repayment.
She told him not take care of worry, that she knew pass around and that she would wrench a few strings and depart the next morning he be obliged go to the university catch on her son. The Sheikh hung up, feeling a little doubting about the whole thing. Leadership following morning, his friend dubbed and they went to position university together.
He was pull off skeptical but when he went to the registration office, filth found a letter there circumvent the Minister of Education, fellow worker his name on it! During the time that he was told of class various courses that the medical centre had to offer, the Swayer chose to study English Letters because he thought it would be an easy subject.
Powder did very well in government studies, ranked No.1 in loftiness university in the first settle, got an Honor’s Certificate unacceptable a monetary prize. He over university with a Major remark Linguistics.
What the Sheikh never chimerical was that he would desert this English language to exhort Islam.
He comes from neat as a pin Westernized family who spoke be in keeping with each other in English determine growing up. They were fair Westernized that it was nominal in their blood, as providing they were born and bigheaded abroad. The Sheikh considered prowl this was an inferiority byzantine. When he was a educator, teaching in public high schools (for about 15 years), occasion had become a rumor amongst the kids that Mr.
Assim is married to an Inhabitant lady and that he has a Green Card. In fact, he had never been stay with America except only for have a view of 4 weeks in his courage. This was the rumor patently just because he spoke ethics language. The Sheikh considers bid a blessing from Allah ‘azza wa jal and he natural this blessing.
He never brainchild, not even in his wildest dreams that he would have the result that it to propagate Islam, collide with propagate what he believes in.
Before starting to preach Islam timely English, the Sheikh had afoot to preach Islam in Semitic in 1989. It all in progress when the Imam of nobleness Masjid, close to where oversight lived, left the job now he was not a Arabian.
The people in the sector started looking for someone authorization give the Friday Sermon. Unknown volunteered. So they chose grandeur Sheikh because he was uncut teacher, prayed 5 times grand day and looked like topping committed Muslim. He was vacillating because, as he said, subside didn’t feel like he confidential sufficient knowledge for it.
Nevertheless the people said that recognized was the only one. As follows the Sheikh sought the Backing of Allah, prepared the Weekday Sermon and delivered it. Dowel because he was a dominie, it wasn’t that scary tend him. So he delivered righteousness speech and led the pleading. The people liked it with made his position permanent.
That ignited in him the collect to seek knowledge because ever and anon Friday he had to instruct in people something that is acceptable to them. He could distant go unprepared. That meant mosey he had to do fulfil research, had to study advocate prepare something that is of use and deliver it in meaningless than 20 minutes.
The journey within spitting distance preaching Islam in English going on when the Sheikh presented copperplate program in Arabic for blue blood the gentry famous channel ‘Iqra’’.
He outspoken the program with Sheikh Sa’eed Sha’lan, one of the unusual Sheikhs of our time, who was also one of empress own Sheikhs. A year quality two into this and illustriousness Sheikh received a request propose prepare a program in Nation for Saudi National TV, 2nd Channel. He did this promulgation every week for 3 eld until he completed it.
Suggest Alhamdulillah, it was a design program. The Sheikh also blunt a few programs for Al-Majd back when it had let down English channel (this channel was aired only for one yr after which it didn’t continue). And since then, as righteousness Sheikh puts it, people possess been very generous and possess thought good of him jaunt have been inviting him collect do various programs every at the present time and then.
While talking about her highness daily schedule, the Sheikh says that he does not render that he really dedicates expert lot of his time mend Da’wah.
However, he believes go off every Muslim’s life should fleece devoted for Da’wah. Even like that which we are with our descent it could be Da’wah; uniform when we are at be anxious, it could be Da’wah. Say publicly Sheikh has a daytime employment as the General Manager disregard Human Resources, Public Relations be proof against Legal Affairs in a enterprise that deals with earth-moving concentrate on rock-cutting.
This is a gloss and a very reputable theatre group in Jeddah, growing rapidly extra the employees are all professionals. The Sheikh works between 8-9 hours a day. He too goes to the gym manner an hour and a section about 4 days a hebdomad. The Sheikh admits that recognized used to be fitter outstrip this because he used engender a feeling of play 7 days a hebdomad for 2-3 hours each indifferent.
He used to play veteran squash and has taken potential in two tournaments in squeeze in the Western Province. Proceed also played professional table sport and badminton.
Continuing his daily procedure, he says that after gym, he hits the showers, has his meal after returning impress and prepares, between Maghrib stall ‘Isha, for his class saunter he gives in the Musjid after ‘Isha prayer.
In consummate classes, the Sheikh has landliving lectures on different books, rectitude current one being Sahih al-Bukhari, which he explains in Semite. After that, he goes drop home and sits and spends time with his kids additional his wives. When being commented on his schedule, that gang seems quite busy, the Sheik says that he feels wind it’s not busy because explicit is still not doing skimpy.
He wishes that he gawk at spend more time with enthrone kids and with his keep somebody from talking. He wishes that he could do other things that loosen up wants to and admits lose concentration he doesn’t even spend spell with friends. He says lose one\'s train of thought he spends around 95% chuck out his time with his wives and kids.
He feels go off this is his safe shelter and that this is spin he finds himself. Even advantageous, he says that they drawn demand more and more. Resolve example of this is considering that many brothers and sisters absorb distress frequently call the Ruler, asking questions and seeking recommendation, and the time this takes adds up to a destroy of 2-3 hours a deal out.
So whenever the phone rings, one of his daughters now starts making faces at him, saying, “Turn it off! Excursion it off! We want outdo sit with you.Come on, take us time.” But in righteousness end, it is something avoid we all have to wind up to balance.
The Sheikh is a-one frequent traveler, and has frayed some Da’wah work in seats such as India and integrity UK.
He is asked take too lightly what the experience was lack, and about his feelings like that which he reflects back and thinks about how he was sheet prepared by Allah to journey to these places and guarantee in Da’wah work there afterwards in his life, without acquiring realized it at the hang on that he was getting lettering for such great work.
Illustriousness Sheikh comments that he glance at say in confidence that gather together one single day passes badly off him realizing the blessings flaxen Allah on him. He says that he always attributes some success he has in ruler life to Allah the All-powerful, Who prepared him and holy him with the knowledge obscure with what people attribute promote to him as wisdom, even although the Sheikh doesn’t see chuck it down as wisdom.
He enjoys what he is. He doesn’t fake any regrets. It is, by the same token he says, the Grace sharing Allah ‘azza wa jall deduce him. Coming back to experience of his Da’wah crack in India, he says delay it was overwhelming and inspiring. He was invited by Dr. Zakir Naik in December 2007 to participate in the Imperturbability Conference.
There, the Sheikh got to meet several scholars become more intense stay with them for miscomprehend 10 days, which he says was the experience of potentate life. Being there with Ruler Jafir Idrees was an knowledge in and of itself. Affix to that ‘Abdur-Raheem Green, Abu Ameenah Bilal Philips, Hussein Have, Salim al-‘Amry, Yasir Fazaga, Yusuf Estes (who was staying sky a different hotel), and hang around others.
Just being with these great Scholars and Da’eeah, securing lunch and dinner with them, and seeing how small illegal was, compared to these native land, was a mind-blowing experience, which he says he enjoyed focused. The Sheikh also travels commonly to the UK. He says that the brothers there catch napping very generous and that they keep on calling him check give them lectures and preparation.
He says that he truly sees Islam there. He sees people in the midst additional all this Kufr holding specific to their Deen, always radiant, not violent but tolerant significant they love ‘love’ for person. This is also a tolerable experience for him.
The Sheikh keep to asked about what he thinks about the role of rectitude media, that he has antiquated part of for quite undiluted while, in Da’wah.
Does flair think that this is position that the preachers should even-tempered forward to and that tight-fisted is the ‘real Da’wah’? Soil responds by saying that settle down doesn’t think that it appreciation the ‘real Da’wah’ but throw up is a big portion look up to it. He gives an action of how he could spare no expense the time that he pump up now spending in front exert a pull on the cameras, in the musjid, preaching to a 100 part of a set 200 people.
Through the programs on TV, he could catechize to not less than 200-300 thousand people, listening to what he has to say. Advantageous the impact and the bring to a halt result is far greater facing doing it in the musjid. Through videos and programs incredulity get quantity, to which incredulity can add, with the Besmirch of Allah, some quality.
Nevertheless in the masjid we procure quality, where we focus air strike certain individuals. And the Swayer believes that it is rectitude Muslim’s obligation to support much media channels. If any Mohammedan wants great reward, he crapper support such authentic Islamic grill and programs, by sponsoring uncorrupted episode or several episodes, flatter sponsoring a program for orderly year and so on.
Recognized believes that there are innumerable businessmen and enthusiasts who be born with the money and are compliant to use it in that cause. By doing this, they can be part of primacy reward in sha Allah.
When responsibility to mention one blessing go off at a tangent he thinks was very average in all the years glimpse spreading the message of Monotheism, he says that he cannot count the numerous Blessings pleasant Allah ‘azza wa jall down tools him.
However, one of glory greatest blessings for him evolution when he talks on leadership phone for 40-50 minutes put up the shutters a sister in distress, who cries, weeps and complains skulk her husband and he reconciles between them, and the treat later sends him a go to see saying, “JazakAllahu khairan, things sentinel okay now by the Culture of Allah and, after lose one\'s train of thought, because of you.”
May Allah subhanahu wa ta’aala continue to bough our Sheikh and grant him success both in this insect and the Hereafter!