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What is modern education actually designed to produce?

In this Snapshot, Imam Tom Facchine argues that modern education is never neutral—it shapes how people think, what they value, and whom they trust.

This episode explores the tension between education that cultivates moral independence and education that rewards conformity to answer a single question: Are students actually trained to seek truth or to simply function within existing systems?

This episode examines:
— Why modern education prioritizes compliance over wisdom
— The relationship between critical thinking, authority, and social control
— Why moral and ethical formation can’t be separated from true education

#education #islam #schoolsystem #tomfacchine


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Social media rewards what is seen. Allah rewards what is sincere.

Make sure there are deeds in your life that nobody knows about except Him.

Watch “Modesty Is More Than What You Wear,” with Imam Tom Facchine: https://yqn.io/56f192

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The Prophet ﷺ gave us a chilling warning: a time is coming when knowledge will quietly vanish, leaving ignorance in its wake.

And where knowledge fades, chaos and immorality will thrive.

Are we already living in this era? Learn why protecting sacred knowledge, and the scholars who carry it, is our final line of defense.

0:00 - The loss of scholars
6:08 - Political or spiritual authority: What “imam” really means
13:40 - How we react to the death of scholars
19:04 - Will scholars become dependent on AI?
23:41 - Knowledge without sincerity leads to Hell
27:00 - The importance of saying “I don’t know”
30:30 - Signs within not giving salam, spread of entrepreneurship, breaking of family ties, false testimony, and the spread of literacy
34:35 - The importance of verifying information
38:55 - Many reciters of Qur’an, few scholars
45:28 - New “interpretations” and popularity
49:58 - Taking knowledge from unqualified people
54:39 - The signs of a true scholar
56:51 - The baseline Islamic knowledge you need
1:02:33 - Du’as related to knowledge

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Even in the loneliest parts of grief, you are never alone.

Watch Dr. Omar Suleiman’s from San Diego, “Only Allah Knows What You Went Through”: https://yqn.io/me9p

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Abu Lubabah (ra) was a top chief and one of the very first to pledge allegiance to the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ. But when he made a devastating mistake, he didn't run, deny, or cover it up. He went straight to the Prophet ﷺ's masjid and did something extraordinary.

Learn what his powerful story teaches us about true self-accountability, honesty, and the mercy of Allah.

The verse that was revealed about him:

“Some others have confessed their wrongdoing: they have mixed goodness with evil. It is right to hope that Allah will turn to them in mercy. Surely Allah is All-Forgiving, Most Merciful.” (Qur’an, 9:102)

0:00 - One of the first Muslims from Medina
2:39 - The Expedition of Sawiq (Barley)
5:20 - His hint to the guilty Jewish tribe
9:08 - Tying himself up to a pillar in the Prophet ﷺ’s masjid
12:22 - Lessons in repenting to Allah
14:50 - The Pillar of Tawbah in Masjid an-Nabawi
15:46 - How he was forgiven by Allah
17:43 - Seeking accountability before being forced
18:45 - The Prophet ﷺ’s du’a for rain

#thefirsts #sahaba #masjidnabawi #omarsuleiman #lecture

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Notice how fast you straighten up when the manager walks past. How your tone changes the second your parents are in the room. We're capable of being better.

We just ration it out to the people we think are keeping score. Someone always is. And one day the record reads itself back to you.

The Prophet ﷺ revealed the day your own body stops keeping your secrets. Watch the latest Signs of the Hour: Acts of God: Disasters Foretold by the Prophet ﷺ: https://yqn.io/wbxi


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Do you want a good ending in your life or do you just want the appearance of one?

Some people spend their lives building a reputation with people while neglecting their standing with Allah.

To learn the difference between a good ending and the appearance of one, watch the full lecture with Dr. Omar Suleiman: https://yqn.io/jt8i

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Forgiveness is everyone's favorite virtue until it has a face. In a story it's beautiful. Across the dinner table from the person who actually did something to you, it's a different thing entirely.

That's the gap nobody likes to look at, the distance between the version of you that admires mercy and the version that has to live it.

The Prophet ﷺ closed that gap with the last person you'd expect. Watch the latest episode of The Firsts: https://yqn.io/vemb

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As AI becomes faster, more responsive, and always available, many of us are becoming more impatient with the human beings around us. We begin to speak to our families and friends in prompts instead of with human dignity.

How can we put guardrails on this from the Sunnah of our Prophet ﷺ?

0:00 - Are you speaking to AI more than people?
2:24 - How on-demand culture affects your worship
5:04 - Speaking kindly to your masjid volunteers
7:00 - If the Prophet ﷺ had not been gentle
10:00 - The Prophet ﷺ’s servant, Anas ibn Malik (ra)
12:45 - Funny story of a man who spoke during prayer
15:14 - Abu Dharr (ra)’s kindness
18:07 - Speak in requests, not commands

#ai #family #khutbah #omarsuleiman

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Most people know Malcolm X, but few know the Malcolm X who returned from Hajj.

The Malcolm who saw Islam erase racial barriers. The Malcolm whose message expanded beyond race and became a universal call for justice, dignity, and human equality.

What if the most important chapter of Malcolm X's life is the one most people never learned? Watch the latest episode: http://yqn.io/p1o2

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The ground under our feet will feel more unstable as the Day of Judgment draws near.

We pray for safety and relief for those affected by this week’s earthquakes in Venezuela, Japan, and elsewhere.

And we urge you to reflect on what the Prophet ﷺ said about earthquakes that would occur. Watch Signs of the Hour Ep. 8 to learn more: https://yqn.io/zptj

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What does it take for a minority community in the West to live with dignity?

In this episode of Focal Point, Imam Tom Facchine examines the Nation of Islam within the broader history of state surveillance and the struggle for communal self-determination in America.

The episode does not present the NOI as a model of orthodox Islam. Instead, it distinguishes its theological errors from the serious historical questions it raised: how communities build institutions, resist criminalization, protect dignity, and construct power on their own terms.

0:00 - Can a Minority Community Build Dignity in the West?
0:58 - Why the Popular History of the Nation of Islam Gets It Wrong
1:57 - Black Nationalism Was Never a Monolith
3:23 - The Great Migration and the Conditions That Created Black Nationalism
5:37 - The NOI’s Economic Infrastructure: Businesses, Farms & Muhammad Speaks
7:42 - How Media and the State Delegitimized Black Nationalist Movements
9:01 - The Hate That Hate Produced: The Documentary That Defined the NOI
10:27 - Epistemic Violence and the Power to Define the NOI
11:13 - Muslim Prisoners and the Fight for Religious Rights
13:05 - The Folsom Prison Prayer: Resistance Under Surveillance
13:52 - Good Muslim, Bad Muslim: How the State Managed Muslim Identity
15:46 - The NOI in the Courtroom: Turning Surveillance Tools Against the State
17:22 - The 1962 Killing of Ronald Stokes and the LAPD Mosque Shooting
19:27 - Malcolm X: A More Complex Biography Than You’ve Been Told
21:16 - Why the US Government Feared Malcolm X’s Universal Islamic Vision
22:48 - Why Islam Became the Language of Liberation for Black Americans
26:21 - The NOI’s Global Consciousness: Bandung, Anti-Colonialism & Third World Solidarity
28:42 - The NOI’s Decline and 1975 Transition: What Actually Changed
30:53 - Separating NOI Theology from Its Strategic Inheritance
32:39 - What Does Muslim Dignity Actually Require?


#islam #tomfacchine #focalpoint #nationofislam #history

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