When looking for a video on the KhalifahKlothing channel the other day, I was met with this message:
This video is no longer available because the YouTube account associated with this video has been terminated due to multiple third-party notifications of copyright infringement from claimants including:
- Life of This World Media
- Salam Studios
- Challenge Your Soul
Sorry about that.
I was a contributor to the KhalifahKlothing channel. A lot of the lectures and Gem Reels I produced for AlMaghrib Institute had been uploaded on KhalifahKlothing with AlMaghrib’s permission. Those videos are now gone. However, I have all the original files and I will be uploading them to my own channel over the coming weeks.
If you want to be kept aware as I load up that content, go ahead and subscribe to my channel by clicking here.
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Waseem writes:
Asalaamu Alaikum (May peace and blessings be upon you) Belal.
I had a question I wanted to ask you. I’m having a tough decision on what camera I should buy? I’ve been reading you’re site and it’s interesting. I want to bring the beauty out of the picture because a picture can tell a thousand words.
Walaikum Asalaam (May peace and blessings be upon you as well).
It is my assumption that you don’t just want to capture a beautiful image, but you want to be able to tell a story and convey a message. If my assumption is correct, you should instead ask, “What will it take to tell my story?”
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In the hit film ” The Last Samurai” starring Tom Cruise, an emotionally wounded Captain Nathan Algrun accepts an offer to train Japanese soldiers in American warfare as a means of suppressing the samurai rebellion. In the face off against the samurai, Algrun’s soldiers are defeated and he’s injured and captured as a prisoner of war.
While recovering, Captain Algrun finds himself a prisoner in an environment he’s unfamiliar with and among people he doesn’t understand. One day after waking up from a bout with one of the samurai where Algrun was knocked unconscious, he meets Katsumoto, the leader of the samurai who is curious about his American prisoner.
During the conversation, Algrun find himself frustrated with the exchange of dialog and screams,
What do you want from me!?
What the hell am I doing here!?
Katsumoto replies,
What do you want for yourself?
The snows will melt in May, and the passages will open, and the events of the world will unfold. Until that time you are here.
Although the story is fiction, there is wisdom in the last words.
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