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some advice we know it's very
challenging being a Muslim in today's
day and AG there's a lot of Temptations
the world is tantalizing you calling you
in trying to suck the Iman out of you so
how dides this young brother keep
focused and how's he able to do such
wonderful things so we're going to get
some tips and tricks from him so you
guys can stay focused and we can get the
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the peace be with
you how you doing my brother
alhamdulillah thank you how you been I'm
great where you been all my life um I'm
just chilling man you heard me open up
the show look time is short but there
are a lot of people struggling out there
you follow me you know it's it's it's
sometimes hard enough to just to get up
you know the people young kids in the
universities they're being invited to
all these frat parties you know they're
trying to hold on to their identity now
they see someone like you you're able to
hold on there's hope now at the end of
the tunnel there's light now how do you
do it okay to be honest
um it's very difficult to do anything
alone nowadays right you have the the
main problem right now is peer pressure
and friends all right so when you have
friends who are telling you all right
come to this party smoke some weed do
some drugs this and that but on the
other side of the story you have friends
who are telling you don't do that you
need that you need good friends who will
tell you don't go there who will keep
you under you know under control because
come on let's face it we all make
mistakes we all want to try and that's
the problem with you uh with the youth
Eddie they want to try they want to be
happy you know they want to go they want
to smoke weed they want to do drugs just
because they want to they want to feel
happy you know so I feel like we lost
the sense of happiness and that's a
problem with the youth today they're
trying to find happiness and they they
forget that true happiness comes from
Allah subhana wa tala and comes from you
know um from reading Quran
saying and um yeah I guess this is one
of the main problems that we have today
at what point what because everyone has
to people ask me look are you a convert
to Islam look in in the sense that that
I convert from not knowing the way of
life to knowing the purpose of like
converted from following the lust and
desires and just you know uh the state
of ignorance to the state of now really
knowing what the purpose of life is you
got to make a conscious decision to be a
Muslim right at what point in your life
did you have did you have a turning
point did you like what point in your
life what happened in your life that had
you get serious okay well um one day my
family decided to take us back to Gaza
City right I'm from Gaza City and when I
went there I lived there for almost 10
years and I realized how blessed we are
here in North America okay there there
are no opportunities in in Gaza City
there everyone is so depressed everyone
is sad because of the the problems that
they go through over there so when I
came back here I was like Subhan Allah
Allah blessed me with a life you know
with opportunities with with good
friends with with a with a great country
where I can practice freely and where I
can you know go out there I'm I'm safe
I'm I'm having fun no problems
whatsoever right so from that point I
was like you know what I need to change
I need to help the community I want to
become and better Muslim inshallah this
way I can be thankful for all the
blessings that I have and this is a
problem that here in the west we don't
really see the amount of blessings that
we have and this is why a lot of people
when they go back to the mid Middle East
or places like Africa they see poverty
they see how tough life is and how
blessed we are they come back and they
become active they become more religious
so this is something that we are missing
today in the west the uh sister we'll
we'll we'll deal with the ladies first
you know the guys like look honey you y
you only live once you know what I mean
why you wearing that hijab why why you
why you you know restricting yourself
baby come come with me let's go for a
ride what what would you tell this
sister okay obviously for the sisters
it's much more difficult and even though
it's much more difficult for her because
she's wearing the hijab she's wearing
the hijab she's she's going through all
these things she needs to remember that
obviously the reward is much greater for
her Allah subh T is watching okay and
Allah will bless her and the the other
thing when it comes to Sisters I would
say is that they they also need to make
sure that um they're not fooled by the
by these words especially when it comes
to men like you can come tell a girl
some poetry and tell her you are the son
in my world and you know all this you
know nonsense okay that they don't
actually mean you need to be very
careful man cuz guys when they get what
they want that's it that's they they're
they're out they're gone all right but
in in Islam they're much more precious
women are much more sacred than that and
obviously um we need to tell the guys to
fear Allah tala because whatever goes
around comes back around and if they do
that to a sister someone else is going
to come and do that to their sister to
their mother or their daughters so we
tell the men to be careful and fear
Allah that's definitely that that that's
so important because like you said look
the man is usually out for one thing and
and he'll have those sweet words of
nothing definitely right but how have
you see now how expensive now this the
ncah is right and z has become cheap
what are your comments on this we
actually did a short film about it
called the price of marriage where one
of my friends came to me in real life
and he told me bro I wanted to get
married but the dowy was
$100,000 and then we made a short film
about it $100,000 Subhan Allah if you're
going to make the Halal difficult what
am I going to do as a young man I'm
going to go and do the the Haram because
the Haram is easy okay obviously we're
not justifying doing the Haram but at
the same time Allah tala will blame the
parents they will be held accountable
for making it tough for the young men
Subhan Allah and also the the the elders
they didn't live in such a difficult um
environment with in a hypersexual um um
environment where you find everything
you know all these posters are
everywhere so we tell the parents
obviously please put their themselves in
in the shoes of their kids because it's
everywhere in the school everyone is is
doing all this stuff and it's difficult
for them so please you know help them
out inshallah we got some more for you
we'll be right back back here on the de
show don't go anywhere why don't you
want to pray is he not worthy of praise
and thanks I mean think about all the
blessings that we have of Allah he
created you he's the one that feeds you
he's the one that takes care of you the
ability to see one unbelievable blessing
of Allah and he loves you start fresh
today a new page a new beginning and
reach out to the one who created you and
ask him for
guidance Islamic terrorism misconception
Muslims are
terrorists this is by far the biggest
misconception of Islam given unfairly by
stereotyping and the Public Image that
the media gives has anyone else noticed
how when a specific group of people
attack another group of people it is
labeled as a hate crime but when a
Muslim opens fire on anybody it is
quickly regarded as terrorism many
political dictators and officials or
extremist groups use the name of Islam
as a strategy to Garner followers and
attention when many of their practices
go against the true basis of Islam the
media has also portrayed Islam as a cult
or a club where if you join you become a
terrorist and that is now part of your
agenda however all over the world people
practice Islam in the true form and use
it as a way of life there are many
verses in the Quran that go against the
idea of terrorism some of these verses
include fight the way of Allah those
that fight you but do not transgress
limits for God does not love
transgressors this basically means do
not fight except in self-defense and
even in doing so do not go beyond
defense another verse States if they
seek peace then you seek peace which
means do not attack people for no reason
or kill innocent people there is nowhere
in Islam whether it be in the Quran or
the teachings of Muhammad that promotes
the killing of innocent
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ikna and we're with Muhammad z z Zara
you know I'm sorry I chop up so many
people's names man I messed up Yas B's
name Kamal Al mecki and uh I finally got
it right I'm so excuse me uh you uh
you're not the first but definitely
won't be the last but uh tell me now
look what I want to know is now you did
this series also inspirational series
and have a lot of non-muslims because
the idea is that we want the not yet
Muslims those out there who have there's
so many misconceptions about Islam has
it affected them have you got some
feedback from the not yet Muslims
alhamdulillah you see people are bored
of um you know going out there and
preaching okay the prophet wasam did
this and that even though that's the
truth the prophet did do this and that
the prophet had the best of manners but
when it's more of a visual material it
does affect people even more so
alhamdulillah we had so many people who
actually
commented and sent us messages and said
I had no idea that the manners of the
Prophet Muhammad Alam was like this you
know so many people were inspired to
read about Islam and it's amazing to see
that you know there's actually a huge
influence on non-muslims from this
professional you know professional um
work and professional projects that's
being you know um put together inshallah
for the Muslims and the non-muslims so
alhamdulillah it's been very successful
when it comes to preaching to the
non-muslims now I said okay we'll get to
the brothers we we briefly gave some
advice to the sisters and it could be
challenging but you hold on like the
prophet s said it'll come a time we
holding on to this Dean it'll be like
holding on to a hot piece of coal but we
have the great reward of Jenna now you
have some brothers also and they're
looking at the young ladies not lowering
their gaze it affects us all you mention
the world
hypersexuality the society that we live
in how about the brothers now that now
are getting invites every weekend Johnny
Tommy is say like man come with me I'll
pay you drink I'll pay the gas money you
don't even have to wait in line I paid
off the bouncer what advice you got for
him all right that's a good deal man
okay so when it comes to lowering your
gaze one thing that we notice that it's
becoming more difficult for sisters to
get married why is that because guys are
getting more picky why is that because
they can't seem to lower their gaze if
they're going and looking everywhere and
looking at you know different post ERS
and um super models and all these things
their standards increase and now they
want someone who looks like that that
lady in the poster which is very
difficult cuz they they spent Millions
on their bodies on plastic surgeries and
all that stuff so Brothers become much
more picky when it comes to choosing a
wife all right so this is why the
prophet wasam taught us to lower lower
our gaze always lower your gaze because
this way you'll be satisfied and you'll
be happy with whatever Allah bless bles
you and you'll focus more about the love
that Allah is going to bless you with
inshallah now some people are like look
Eddie why why are you guys talking about
these things you know this is something
that is is prevalent in today's society
you got so much uh so many things going
on out there that's trying to take us
away from our Dean right the black spots
on the heart the more sins we do
obviously it starts to Blacken our
hearts and I like to get you know you're
a young man you alhamdulillah Allah has
blessed you and you're able to hold on
to your Dean we all have struggles I'm
sure you struggling like many of us are
struggling but it's different when it
comes from a young man like yourself
maybe uh you know older shik we have
respect for all of our shakes but
sometimes the youth they identify more
with people like yourself now let's go
and transition we jumping around here
and there now you know that there's a
lot of misconceptions about Islam in the
media you did one program with the film
about terrorism right you're on the bus
is that right tell us a little bit about
this for the non-muslim watching his
Muslim friend got him uh glued to the uh
to the TV but he's like in his in his
mind he's like man those are those
Al-Qaeda guys man right how do you clear
this up okay obviously um the best way
to clear these
misconceptions is via good manners and
that's how the prophet did it it's very
cliche for us to hear that you know with
good manners this is how you clear
misconceptions but that's the best way
to do it are we doing it that is the
question when we were filming that scene
of um you know clearing misconceptions
about Islam and how you know while
you're walking with your beard and your
th people start saying oh go home you
terrorist you know you know it's very um
uh typical in this St for it to happen
while we were filming there was a guy
who was driving and said go home you
terrorist while we were filming Subhan
Allah so um you got a lot of sisters
especially wearing that who wear the
hijab they say I don't know what to do
in school the best way to do it is to
prove the media Wrong by your good
manners if they see that you're
following the prophet Muhammad Alam and
you're always smiling you're always nice
you never lie do you think they're going
to believe the med
they're not okay so the best way is to
follow the prophet and to follow his
manners and trust me that will clear a
misconceptions by
themselves we got to take a break don't
go anywhere we're going to come back for
our final segment here on the dean show
with our brother and your brother don't
go
anywhere word can't have defects in it
can
it if it is literally God's word yes it
cannot have
defects I mean this was written by men
we know that this is a collection right
even if you have Matthew Mark Luke and
John The Gospel According to according
to right um the thing about the Quran
and the biggest and and you know I'll
leave you with this is the biggest thing
for me is if the Quran is exactly what
it says it is and this doesn't matter
whether you're Muslim or not if the
Quran is what it says it is the Quran is
literally the word of God delivered via
Gabriel to Muhammad who was an
unlettered man who couldn't read or
write right and he was just told to
recite right that was the first thing
right
first thing he was told recite right um
so if it is literally the word of God
then that's pretty important to me and
and before I became Muslim I said if
this is the word of
God then I'm going to follow it because
I'd be stupid not
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below back here on the dean show and we
keep it real we talk about real issues
that are chasing that are affecting the
youth the Muslims and the non-muslims
out there and now companionship we know
that birds of a feather flock together
and we have several Hadith and Allah the
creator of the heavens Earth talks about
the importance of having good
companionship how has that affected you
now did you go through one point maybe
having a bad friend had to give him up
and how is it now you're Inner Circle
making sure that you have good company
that will remind you about doing good
things okay um so alhamdulillah I I made
sure that I had a couple of my friends
who I can go up to and ask them all
right what do you think what's your
advice and they're real with me okay and
even if they see that I'm doing a
mistake they'll tell me all right wake
up buddy what are you doing right so
with that being said obviously there was
a point where I didn't have good friends
and you'll be surprised how friends can
influence you without you noticing okay
you'll be praying five times a day but
these guys you know you're in group that
doesn't pray They Don't Really Care and
slowly you you'll start merging into
that group Without You realizing and
then after a couple months you'll be
like wow I changed okay it is because of
the friends and at the same time you
find so many people alhamdulillah we
have a good group of friends we bring
slowly like one person one person who's
not so religious into the group okay we
try to take him you know let's go out
have some dinner you know eat have a cup
of coffee study together and slowly you
realize that he's changing slowly you
you realize now this guy is M he's s
starts to say inshallah Subhan Allah
alhamdulillah Alum guys you know things
that he never used to say before um so I
just want to the one point that I would
send is that don't underestimate it
because it is influencing you even if
you think it's not absolutely absolutely
look I know for myself that when I got
to know Islam the more you study Islam
the more you're convinced on it because
it's based on proof and evidence and
it's something that is the natural way
but one thing now after the person makes
that declaration that there's nothing
worthy of worship except my maker I'm
not going to worship anything in
creation but the one who made me and
then you hook up with Allah five times a
day you dial up directly with the Salah
that saved me and definitely you know
being conscious of your maker that
perfect system how important is that for
a Muslim now and how has that imp
impacted your life the holding on to the
Salah the prayer Subhan Allah just the
fact that the prophet wasam taught us
that between each Salah all the sins
that you do in between each Salah are
forgiven that should be enough reason
for you to pray five times a day subh
Allah when it comes to that we obviously
need to take care of of our bodies
physically and spiritually okay it's
like a medicine people need to realize
that it's like a medicine for you to go
put your head on the ground and pray to
Allah T and the prophet taught us that
if people knew the edure that they are
getting well their head their forehead
is on the ground they would never get up
Subhan Allah so um
we need we need to uh when Allah told
us whoever neglects
my prayer Allah is going to give him a
miserable
life
okay Allah promised that he's going to
give you a miserable life if you don't
do it and do you think that Allah's
promise is going to go for Waste Subhan
Allah it's not if Allah said this in the
Quran it's going to happen so if you're
fishing for happiness you're going after
drugs you're going after weed all right
and you don't pray
yeah yeah there's a problem okay then
there's a problem obviously trying to
find happiness when Allah told you that
Happiness is when you put your forehead
to the ground Allah is telling you so
don't come and ask me where is happiness
when Allah is telling you put your head
to the ground you'll find happiness
obviously we're not talking about the
diseases of depression and anxiety
that's a different thing but I'm talking
about people who you know who complain a
lot about happiness when it's right in
front of them subh Allah has given to us
thank you so much for being with us on
The Dean show we started with peace we
end with peace and I hear inshallah
you're going to uh be in Chicago
sometime in the future in very we're
going to be I'm put you on SP you're
going to be maybe my student chaining
graci Jiu-Jitsu it would be a pleasure
let's do it beautiful let's do it thank
you so
much and there you have it all the
struggles that you might be going
through others have gone through it but
you know when you struggle and strive in
the way of your creator there's an
ultimate reward waiting for you Jenna
and it's not cheap you got to work now
hard so if you're having any problems
stop and drop and connect with your
maker and ask him for the help and he
will definitely send that help so
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