Why Are Retired Imams Driving Uber? | Sh. Waleed Basyouni & Sh. Ammar AlShukry

We have Mother's Day and Father's Day, but no day for the Sunday school teacher who taught you the Quran. Sh. Waleed Basyouni says we live in a "move on" culture, where people forget whoever helped them once they reach the next stage of life. The Prophet ﷺ taught that honoring old ties is part of iman.
In this episode, Sh. Waleed and Sh. Ammar AlShukry explore a chapter from Kitab al-Adab in Sahih al-Bukhari. Years after Khadijah رضي الله عنها passed away, the Prophet ﷺ would still send meat to her friends at Eid al-Adha.
They talk about:
• Remembering the good in your parents and spouse, even when things went wrong

• The difference between correcting the teachers who raised you and trashing them online

• Masajid that don't know who donated the land, or plan for imams after they retire

• Showing up for widows and seniors long after the first 3 days of condolences

• Telling your children the names of everyone who helped you, so they keep making du'a for them

It ends with the story of an 8th grader who saved for over a year to buy his masjid a water fountain in his father's name.
Imam al-Shafi'i said that even a single moment of kindness puts him in your debt for the rest of his life.
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Chapters
0:00 Intro
3:04 Honoring old ties is part of iman
4:10 A culture of "just move on"
7:07 The Prophet ﷺ and Khadijah's friends
9:14 What institutions owe their imams and teachers
12:12 Remembering who helped you: spouses and parents
15:12 Don't forget the good, even after a divorce
16:00 Trashing the teachers who raised you
17:28 Who built your masjid?
19:08 Tell your kids who helped you
22:03 How masajid can care for widows and elders
23:38 When sisters fund the masjid
24:39 Pioneers who end up driving Uber
26:29 Small ways to honor old ties
27:31 The 8th grader and the water fountain
Host: Sh. Ammar AlShukry is a Director and instructor at AlMaghrib and the imam at Clear Lake Islamic Center in Houston. He studied the Quran, hadith, aqidah, fiqh, and tafsir with teachers across the United States. He is known for courses such as A Mindful Salah, His Majesty, The Names of Allah and the Dhikr series, and for his poetry, collected in his book What the Pen Wrote.
Guest: Sh. Waleed Basyouni is the President of AlMaghrib Institute. He holds a bachelor's in Islamic Sciences and a master's in Islamic Theology, World Religions and Modern Religious Sects from Al-Imam Muhammad University in Saudi Arabia, and a doctorate in Theology from the Graduate Theological Foundation in Indiana. He is the director of the Texas Da'wah Convention and serves on the fatwa committee of the Assembly of Muslim Jurists of America (AMJA).
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