# 12. To show patience (Sabr) towards hardships and calamities [AUDIO]

Ustadh Mahmud A. Kürkçü is the founder of Young Muslims of Australia YMA since 1980s and he was the imam of Coburg Islamic Centre.. The YMA aims at bringing young Muslims together from all over Australia, uniting them in an Islamic atmosphere, allowing life long friendships to spark and develop. YMA runs classes every Tuesday and Friday night. Some of the classes run by Imam Mahmud Kürkçü are: Science of Hadith, Aqeedah at-Tahawiyyah (rh), 54 Fara’id of imam Hassan Al-Basri (rh), and many more…YMA has also been organising Youth Camps since the 1980s and other important events around Australia. YMA is an Australia wide youth organisation, dedicated to learning and living the Islamic way of life here in our beautiful country of Australia. We aim to be people of benefit, not only towards ourselves, but to all of creation.