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Islamic Speech Review Optimism - The Best Antibioticby : Shaykh Waleed BasyouniTRANSCRIPT
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NAME MUHAMMAD YAZID BIN TAHIR
PROGRAMME INFORMATION COMMUNICATION AND TECHNOLOGY
ID NUMBER 17103
LECTURER USTAZ AHMAD RUSHDI HAROON
ISLAMIC SPEECH REVIEW
OPTIMISM – THE BEST ANTIBIOTIC
BY : SHAYKH WALEED BASYOUNI
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NO. CONTENT PAGE
1. Title
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2. Table of content
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3. Preface
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4. Speaker Biography
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5. Video Descriptions
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6. Video Transcriptions
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7. Positive Feedback
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8. Negative Feedback
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9. New Things Learnt
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10. Suggestions
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11. Recommendations
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12. Conclusions 14
TABLE OF CONTENT
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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
PREFACE
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SPEAKER BIOGRAPHY
PROFILE
Hails from : Houston, Texas, USA
Expertise : Theology (Aqeedah)
Famous Quote : “The optimist is the one who sees opportunities in their difficulties
and the pessimist is the one who sees difficulties in their
opportunities.
Known for : 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.
EDUCATION
He graduated with a Bachelor’s 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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Title : OPTIMISM – THE BEST ANTIBIOTIC
Publisher : TVSunnah
Speaker : Shaykh Waleed Basyouni
Year : 2012
Venue : Masjid An-Nur, Universiti Teknologi Pertonas
Duration : 30:53
Link : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFAhCCfBcp8
VIDEO DESCRIPTIONS
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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
fa’la’ 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 it’s 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 da’a aha dukum fala yakul Allahummafirgli insyiq”, when you pray to Allah, you
shouldn’t 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. It’s not like Oh if
you want, if you wish, no you shouldn’t 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, don’t 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 sami’na 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 it’s a journey where is war involve,
and heard somebody named ‘Nasir’, he will said, “That’s 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.
VIDEO TRANSCRIPTION
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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. What’s 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,
“What’s 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, “I’m 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. It’s 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 doesn’t 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. It’s not gonna happen in demandly like that, to became all this good
character you would be inherited it or it’s naturally coming. No, you have to work on it, it’s
like knowledge. Knowledge you don’t 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 don’t understand this
concept clearly, it’s 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. It’s like you study
engineering, it’s 1+1=2, you do this process, you get this results. Veridically, that’s 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 don’t do this, I might gonna take that result.
That’s how Allah build that system. That’s more to ‘Qadr’ Allah SWT, He didn’t 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, that’s 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. We’re 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
it’s up to you what you want to do. It’s up to you too to be an optimism or pessimism. It’s 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. That’s the power that Allah
SWT have given to human being over angel for example.
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Number two. The second point that help you to be an optimistic person which is
interesting. It’s 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 don’t know few of you saw this movie or not. It’s 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. It’s 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, “Don’t make our religion dead”.
Stand up. That’s why Nabi SAW when he stand, when he walk, his back straight. Jabar RA
said “sometimes we’re kind of run of breath to catch up with Prophet SAW. When he walk,
he doesn’t dried his feet like *** person. He walk with full of energy, that’s 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. Don’t walk with arrogant, walk with high esteem, with
confidence, that will make you believe or not an optimistic person. Raise your head up and
don’t walk like somebody who sick or like that. The style is the image of the character.
That’s why Nabi SAW used to love to dress in a nice cloth. I’m 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 it’s 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. It’s not like some
go here, some go there, you know, you have to look nice. That’s why you trim your
moustache, you don’t want your moustache eat with you okay. It is the appearance, the
look, also Nabi SAW in another hadith he said dye your hair, don’t give it white like that.
Dye it. Because it is so messy, it’s like a cloud. So this is something that you need to work on
it. Make sure you have a good style. Even though when you’re 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, it’s 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, he’s smiling inside the house and outside the house. You know, there are some of you I
don’t know, did you lose your smile? If you lost your smile, I have a good news for you, your
smile didn’t go anywhere. It is just right under your nose. Yes, you’re 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. Don’t 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, “iyya’lamillahufikulubikum khairaiyu’tikum khairaa”, “If Allah sees in your heart the
goodness, He will give you goodness.” . That’s 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, you’re 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, I’m gonna be confuse which one I’m gonna play with, this
gonna make me feel bad. And you know what, why did you give me the shiny bicycle for, it’s
easy to scratch. And when it scratch, it will look bad. And now I’m 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 I’m sure, this is just the introduction.
He’s 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 I’m not sure
you’ve 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 don’t
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 Ka’abah 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 didn’t 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 that’s
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, dosen’t know about the bad or evil feelings. They’re 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,
don’t do that, don’t 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, he’s 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 isn’t it, it’s 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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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 audience’s 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.
1. He always used the same word to strengthen his statement.
2. Often use the term “Ya know?” and “Ya’nee”.
3. Some of the verse in Quran he recited it fast and the audience did not be able to catch
some of the words.
POSITIVE FEEDBACK
NEGATIVE FEEDBACK
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1. Every muslim need to have a very strong faith towards Allah SWT.
2. We need to learn about Islam truly so there will no wrong thoughts about Islam.
3. Muslims should have an optimistic personality in themselves.
4. Show to others the good, nice and how Islam managed the way of our life.
1. Use slideshows to make the speech more interesting.
2. The speaker should use more body language.
3. Include montage or short video for a clearer view.
4. Relate the points to the current issue.
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. Let’s 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 non-
Muslims. Insya’Allah, we are among the peoples being shelter by His Merciful.
NEW THINGS LEARNT
CONCLUSION
SUGGESTIONS AND RECOMMENDATION
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