I spent the last two weekends in Houston with Eman Rush helping with the Recording of the Heavenly Hues seminar, when Sh Yaser suggested that I should make a GemReel for Qabeelat Hosna. After some internal discussion I decided to do it. and thus below was the result!

I posted the video on the “Oh So Fabulous!” AlMaghrib Student forums when one of the forum members (Taraqa) posted the following:

bismillah. is there a way to force the youtube page for a video to show only certain content?

because when i went to see the Durbah gem reel… which rocked by the way, mashaAllah

…there were some good videos and some obscene ones displayed in that righthand margin. I expanded the video size so that the screen was filled with the gem reel, but my basic rule is I do not visit youtube precisely because of how vulgar so much of the content on the site is.

so i feel bad that i have to answer for what my eyes glimpsed, and i think you should be aware that your links invite the eyes to a place that is good and bad. and the eyes are a gate to the soul.

sure, you may want more hits on that site so that these videos gain prominence. but here’s an alternate strategy to achieve that goal: if embedded videos also gain prominence, so that you could embed all the al Maghrib videos on one site that had no porn/obscenity — like a video blog controlled by you — then people could hit that blog all day long like a boxing bag, and drive up hits for the video without exposing Muslim eyes to what they should be protected from. and perhaps the hits would make the blog noticed by the kuffaar, too. wAllaho ‘Alim.

With that point made, I decided to make a website dedicated to hosting the AlMaghrib trailers and GemReels. I called it GemReel.com