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alayum peace be with you peace be with
you too now the million dollar question
is what is going on we've had everyone
on the program we had shik w buasi we
had Yas Yas this that everyone from
because you're the CEO of el M and we've
had our eye on you where you been the
wants to know not just me you know
what's interesting actually you know I'm
going to shout out to my father-in-law
every time we do a m Institute class he
doesn't show up and all he does is watch
the dean show so I said alhamdulillah
you know what I'm gonna come on The Dean
show just so my father-in-law can
benefit in thank you very much no
problem pleasure being here thank you
thank you may this be a benefit to the
whole world that's watching because you
got some knowledge and you can't be
stingy with it so we're going to pick
your brain so we can all learn
I can learn and then the whole world can
learn who's watching it' be my pleasure
thank you Muslim identity Muslim is one
who has chosen to consciously submit to
the one God alone without any Partners
equals nothing like that and just
identity in general people are looking
for someone something to identify with
and when you're not identifying with the
right people the right thing you're
identifying with the wrong thing so
let's talk about this sh sure okay so um
human beings I think in order for human
beings to like cultivate life on Earth
they have this sheep they call it sheep
mentality and people kind of make it
into a negative but it actually it
brings Unity amongst people it's like
you can find common people you get
together with them now this hurting that
happens with human beings what we're
talking about identity if somebody
doesn't consciously come along and guide
them in the right direction then you
know the word I would say is like Shan
or the devil the evil one basically
becomes you know the hder of of these
people and their and their thoughts and
their minds so leaders need to come
along guided people who pull people in
the right direction for a moment tell us
now you said shaan the devil is this
real is this something from Hollywood
Bollywood there's really satanic forces
that are working talk about this briefly
before we move
forward is there satanic Force I think
you know there's um obviously when you
have good you just take it to the other
spectum you have you have bad right you
have heat take it away you have cold for
those people who just want to understand
that concept that it might be like you
have you have extreme good and then you
that good starts getting pulled away
pulled away until it becomes bad so I
mean that obviously we know in Islam uh
about Shan and it's in the history of
all the scriptures so our agenda
here sh is to help people to understand
the true purpose of life why they're
here who their creator is and we're
inviting them to what's good okay and
now before we can even get to that a lot
of times there's confusion out there
because people have confused like who am
I so again they're mimicking mocking the
rappers the hip-hop stars the actors and
actresses so how can we get them away
from mocking people who will only lead
them to destruction and considering
mocking the best of people which were
the prophets and the last and Fin
messenger is the best example please
talk to us okay sure so if you look at
um say a school that has a dress code
yes and I remember once reading a
cartoon um or and in this cartoon it was
a bunch of kids from another school that
didn't have a dress code and they were
saying haha look at those uh foolish
kids they're they have you know a
specific uniform but the cartoon was
making fun of the kids that were saying
this because they all had their hats on
backwards they all had their jeans even
backwards and their shirts and all of
that stuff in other words that everybody
is basically copying right and that's
human nature that we're going to copy
now when you say um who becomes our role
model basically the role model is
defined by the television it's by the
camera so the people they get that stage
are the actors and actresses they're the
musicians and so on and so forth so you
look at our children and and our
generation it's like a whole nation of
people are being raised up that this is
their role model now back in the olden
days if you take out television out of
the picture then who are the role models
those are people who are um actively
involved in the community people who are
you know doing good things in the
community that's the person that they
see everywhere because you don't see
actors and actresses everywhere you see
the the leaders in the community hence
say when I was growing up somebody who
was a role model for me were like the
older youth the older boys in the
community who were doing activities in
the local Masid and I was able to you
know absorb from that but if I was to go
to a Muslim kid today and say who's your
role
model you know it's going to be
Wolverine it's going to be Spider-Man
it's going to be something like that
yeah now now now tell us why is it do do
you feel again that when we mention like
let's say Moses okay peace be upon Him
Abraham peace be upon Him Jesus Christ
peace be upon Him peace be upon them the
prophet Muhammad peace be upon him and
and we see we we we we we have so much
utterance and respect for them but now
it's not cool like to bring them this is
weird but to talk about you know Brad
Pit Koo Reeves JLo we can have a
conversation but if you talk about these
great men and the Legacy they left
behind I got time for that why do you
think this is well I guess that that's
coming from um from a culture that is
trying to pull away from those things
right so obviously um Here Comes these
religions they come along and and and
everybody's saying you know I'm the one
following the truth someone says no not
them follow me follow me so the the
names that are being thrown out are the
names that you've mentioned people are
just like throwing them out but so the
person who's listening to that they just
don't want to hear it anymore and so
their solution is to like shut down so
what I would say is that no that's not
the solution the solution is not to put
your head in the sand and shut
everything out the solution is to will
search out what is the truth there's a
lot of chatter out there there's a lot
of hiss and noise but somebody needs to
basically say well what was the unifying
message of these prophets and really you
know go to a higher ground and look at
that and you will see that they're all
unified that there's no God but Allah H
how can we get people to to because
obviously if you're you're hungry you're
going to eat okay but now if you're not
hungry your belly is full no matter how
great that Gourmet dish is dessert is
you're not really interested right okay
so how can we get people to really to
consider this this proposition proposal
to take this matter seriously because
the lights will go on the party will end
and you can only acquire so much wealth
how do we get them because sharing is
caring we love our brothers in humanity
and we want them to be our brothers in
faith you know what's what's interesting
about your question is like this person
their stomach is full even if it's a
gourmet field as soon as you said that
I'm thinking to myself that actually I
disagree that their stomach is full
their stomach is empty and if anything
it's their heart that's empty right so
Allah puts something in the heart of
everybody it's like a GPS so even the
person who wants to deny God will not
deny God they'll say I believe in a
higher being because they can shut off
their brain they can shut off their
heart Allah is you know like it's he's
beckoning them to to come to him so this
person is actually starving but they're
saying that they're full so they go into
drugs they go into you know um into
fornication they go into all these
different areas but they're still empty
on the inside so when we want to come
along and this is even for a Muslim was
trying to pass on the message rather
than coming to this person you know head
on and say hey follow the prophets I say
we address the problem from an angle of
you know what's the purpose of your life
let's shut off this pain and let's test
something out so for example somebody
who um there is a rapper like really
intense rapper and he became Muslim
later and he was doing alcohol and drugs
and you know and the whole deal and then
there was a Muslim who invited him to
pray yeah and he said once his head went
on the ground the sweetness of his
forehead touching that carpet and he's
like you know I'm hooked and that's what
I'm talking about they're starving and
they're actually trying to feel
themselves but it's not getting the job
done it's like eating cotton candy right
it's like eating cotton candy let's take
a break and we'll be right back with
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show and a matter of fact you get
testimonies from Christians in Eastern
Europe thanking God for the rule of
Muslims when the otoman Empire came and
occupied because now they can have
tolerance and religious
freedom I declare from today there is
none worthy to be worshiped except Allah
alone the one God the one God because
the Muslims would not you know force you
to convert to their religion and the
prophet Muhammad is the last messenger
of Allah that's the same in Aramaic
Jesus said allaha so it's the same God
the same God
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back here on the dean show talking about
serious issues you mentioned the purpose
of life many people they know the
purpose of their job they know the
purpose of many other things but now the
purpose of life The crucial question
people aren't reflecting aren't asking
this question why do you think this is
okay you know um obviously they're not
asking the question then they might be
asking the question but they might be
shutting it off as well so it's like the
purpose of life I don't know so let me
just move on right but when it comes to
the topic of the purpose of life I think
everybody like we're here for a reason
and actually you know what um I was
watching Iron Man recently uhhuh and
Iron Man he gets out of um he gets out
of the caves and he said if I'm still
alive then there must be a reason yeah
and I said that that's an interesting
point and even you know it was It was a
for me I'm watching Iron Man I'm
emotional because if I'm still alive
here then there's a reason for me to be
here right and anybody who's watching
for you for anybody it's like when did
you think that you had no purpose right
and who convinced you of that and who
led you in that direction so you have a
purpose and if you can accept that there
even a pen as simple as a pen if it has
no purpose once the ink dries up you
throw it away it's worthless now are you
worthless and you'd say no I'm not
worthless I'm a human being so then the
the value comes from purpose right so
what is the purpose what why are you
here on Earth and alhamdulillah like
questions like that where other people
get confused in Islam we don't get
confused we actually know exactly what
our purpose is and then that's where the
peace comes from is knowing what our
purpose is now now for our not yet
Muslim audience you said two Arabic
words sure so they don't think we're
saying some code words here you said
alhamdulillah and you said Islam please
define those please okay so ISL is the
religion of Islam um literally mean it
comes from a root called Sal which means
peace and Islam is like a way of life a
way of like peaceful life that's Islam
um to worship Allah alone and uh Allah
meaning um God alone and to follow the
message of prophet Muhammad peace be
upon him and the second word was
alhamdulillah which is uh thankfulness
right so alhamdulillah literally means
um thank you God I was actually reading
a bumper sticker it's an it's a habit
that Muslims do in the afternoon in the
mornings to thank God very specifically
and I was reading a bum bumper sticker
as I was doing this um Muslim habit of
thanking God saying alhamdulillah the
bumper sticker said have you thanked God
today I'm like I'm doing it right now
we're doing it all the
time okay we we mentioned purpose of
light now where does someone who's
confused they see all these religions
okay and they say you know what it's all
the same I'm just going to do my own
thing how do we get them to think out
inside the box and how do we get them to
think serious and how do they
differentiate what's the true way of
life the way of life God wants that
person to live from all the different
man-made religions okay sure so people
are confused with the different
religions and and we've all gone through
this stage even when I was younger I
said you know what it's not about Islam
it's not about this I'm going to find
the religion of Truth and I actually
came to the conclusion that I found it
yeah right so this is what this would be
my recommendation in the muddle and in
the in the quick sense and mud of
everybody disagreeing and yapping and so
on I recommend the person to step above
that okay now you've got higher
principles that unify multiple people
now usually people who have reached the
higher principle stage they kind of like
reject religion at that point they're
like I'm just going to take the higher
principles but I'm saying take the
higher principles and you'll find that
those higher principles are found in
Islam right so for example if people are
saying oh worship this idol worship you
know this worship that and you'd say
well I just want to worship God boom you
came to a higher level instead of
rejecting the religions that's what the
message of Islam is worship one God
Alone one God one God that's it and no
and that's the basis of everything in
Islam the other thing is realize that um
God created you so inside of you I was
saying earlier about a GPS your body can
sense when some you know there's some
you know funny stuff going on and the
body doesn't you know it doesn't accept
that so when you actually go to this
Islamic laws your body is naturally
inclined to that so very often you'll
hear Islam and then you like that makes
sense you hear something else about
Islam that makes sense that makes and
you're like the whole religion is like
that is there anything just to assuage
any fears in Islam do you have like
rolling around with rats you know
beating yourself over the head with a
knife or a whip and you know cuz people
you know they might think these things
that's as weird it is to us but what
what do we got to say about that is
there anything like that in Islam I mean
obviously the actually the cool thing
about Islam is that there's a set
criteria of how to check whether
something like that is authentic or not
a falsification test a falsification
test in Islam and a lot of times you
know when you have with other religions
you know some person of authority tells
you something and just kind of like okay
I got to accept it because he's a person
of authority in Islam you don't really
have that authority figure you've got
Authority tests okay so if somebody says
something to me he's like Muhammad I had
a dream last night that you know this is
the way to go to Paradise I'd be like
whatever right I'm like let's put it
through the filters and I actually
studied that in detail automatically as
soon as somebody starts talking I'm like
boom boom bo here are the filters where
did you get this from so if you're going
to make something up like you made it up
then you're going to need to have proof
right and if you're going to um if
you're going to quote somebody else
you're going to say so and so said this
right then you're going to need to bring
up the citation where did that come from
so with those two rules what's your
proof or where's your citation then
you've got like that's one of the basic
filters right there so in Islam we have
the truth and it's backed up with proof
of course and we're not doing it's not
blind faith for sure there's there's no
such thing as Blind Faith in Islam so
how before we submit ourselves did we
actually you know even on the point of
the Blind Faith I would say that even
the scholars of the past they would say
that it's not even permissible for
somebody to accept my opinion unless
they know the proof right right so the
whole concept of Blind Faith they're
even protecting the future followers
saying that like you have to know the
proof so here's the proof and a lot
sometimes people they just drop the
proof they're like well just take
whatever you say but they're saying like
no you have to know the proof because
the authority is coming from the proof
it's not coming from the person so it's
not where you start digging in Islam
things start getting confused and
they're just it's a mystery man just
just believe is that that's not how it
is inl absolutely not that's amazing
seriousness of taking this topic serious
death can we just
that is what helped me get my act
together okay was reflecting about death
is this a serious
matter you know ultimately you know in
the topic of death I know a lot of
people try to Avid in and so on you want
to live your life um prepared to die
yeah right so in other words you know
recently in my city there was an
earthquake when an earthquake strikes
that's not the time to start thinking
about death you know like every day you
wake up in the morning you want to say
to yourself am I prepared to die today
am I prepared prepar to die today and
that's got to be like in your mind all
that's like your life mission is
preparing to die so that when the time
of death does come along it's like
you've been preparing for this your
whole life right and that's what life is
all about it's not about oh let's live
in the moment it's like let's live in
the moment with our hearts in the
Hereafter so that we make the right
decisions in the moment now living life
according to God's will not your desires
Paradise is that guaranteed for an
individual
if you do all the good that God wants
you to do and you die in a good
righteous State worshiping only the one
God following his last and final
messenger which obviously precedes all
the other Messengers the Glad Tidings is
this what we're seeking Paradise it is
it is but I would also add something to
what you said is that human beings they
make mistakes right so we're not saying
what other people have other religions
have said that you know what as long as
you accept this and that you're going to
go to paradise we know as human beings
Islam is a natural way and a person will
make mistakes so it's not a um just a a
Utopia or ideal or perfect person so in
Islam the prophet peace be upon him said
Prophet Muhammad peace be upon him said
that every son of Adam every human being
makes mistakes right so when I make a
mistake as I've made you know today like
hundreds of mistakes just in this day
I'm thinking myself I'm a human being
I'm not an angel and that's what Islam
teaches me actually tell you this um
this story I was at a um a Tony Robbins
convention yes right and I was sitting
side a Jewish man and um and I was
listening to what Tony Robbins was
saying I was getting excited that's the
big tall guy the big tall guy he's kind
of tall like
you and um and then I was so happy I'm
like I can I can Implement what this
guy's saying and my Jewish friend was
saying to me that you know what he was
feeling sad I said why are you sad he
said because what Tony's saying is um
he's like I know that one week from now
I'm not going to be able to keep up with
that and I said you know what that's the
beauty of Islam because I'm not worried
about keeping up up with it because I
know that as a human being I'm going to
dip and when the dip happens I just turn
it back around right so in Islam when a
person makes a mistake they ask Allah
for forgiveness and Allah one of God's
one of his names is the of forgiving and
he loves to hear our forgiveness so I'm
like I'm a human being I made a mistake
today oh Allah please forgive me for
this and I know that by me asking
forgiveness I'm actually coming closer
to God God Almighty is the most loving
the most merciful the forgiving we'll
leave on that note for a second and
we'll be right back from more on the
dean show he is born about 60 years ago
in former Yugoslavia today is Bosnia
after second world war can you imagine
today you have one child K too much it's
important that we realize that Islam is
a gift so we believe that in the
teachings of Jesus what is left there is
truth in
there but the truth has been mixed up
with paganism and with nature worship
and so Islam has given you a pure
straightforward way of approaching
monotheism back here
with my brother your brother Sheikh
Muhammad Sharif a Sharif and we're
really I'm thankful that you are here
with us thank you very much a pleasure
being here thank you and inshallah we
can have you back again sometime now
we're talking about we started off
talking about identity okay so we def
somewhat just gave people somewhat of a
taste of what Islam is about okay so if
if you push towards identifying more
with
Islam the Creator's way of life that
he's given to us to live by okay what
are more of the positive outcomes that
you'll have as opposed to identifying
again with the TV stars with the rap
stars etc etc okay perfect okay so Allah
Our God has um he created human beings
he knows like the master plan of where
we're all going and what brings um what
will bring us prosperity and what will
not so for example something like
alcohol as a Muslim I don't drink
alcohol so the people that are caught up
and they're addicted and it's causing
all the harms I'm already protected from
that because Allah protected when it
comes to um you know the mortgage crisis
in the US as a Muslim I'm not involved
in um taking or receiving interest
so because of that I don't have a house
I didn't get involved so when the market
collapses I'm already saved from it
because I was never there in the first
place right and so the only one who's
saving me from all of this is Allah
Almighty and it's because I've taken
those promises uh God's message and
implemented in my life and I've been
saved from these harms maybe in the
short term if somebody was to say hey
just have a glass of wine it seems like
oh I'm missing out or so on and so forth
but look at the long long-term effects
of those things and you realize that
Islam has protected the Believers and
sometimes I'm like with my wife and I'll
say you know what we really need to be
thankful for this religion of Islam
because of how many vices we've been
protected from because of Islam big time
Big Time and we thank the creator of the
heavens and earth for guiding us to the
truth and protecting us and tell us now
for the
Muslim that is a little nervous about
his identity so you'll say and you'll be
happy to see the person and you want to
give him the Salam Salam alikum he's
like hey how you doing mhm or you say
you know uh Muhammad is that you no is
it's actually Mo what advice do you have
for them okay so when a person I have
this um this criteria I tell a person
that you know if you going to a park to
pray and you feel nervous whose
permission do you need if they gave you
permission you would feel comfortable
praying so I'm like what is it is it the
government that you want to give you
permission to pray is it you know like
uh a non-muslim walking by you want them
to give you permission to pray who if
they gave you permission you would be
fine and then when they if you identify
who that person is because even in the
example that you gave they've got a
coworker that they've actually made like
their slave master right and they become
a slave to them and it's like well I
can't tell you what my real name is
because slave master so and so and and
that person doesn't even know they were
made the slave it's like arbitrary
they've put people in their lives above
you know themselves and I would say so
when I'm going to pray and I start to
feel nervous I say to myself I don't
need anybody's permission to pray and
nobody's my slave master I'm a free man
right Land of the Free Home of the Brave
and that's what it is Muslims need to be
um you don't need anybody's permission
to pray to Allah subh now we want to
talk to our sisters who we love so much
and they also have an identity the the
Muslim identity but some of the Muslim
sisters they're a little more SC scared
of what the environment the people might
say so they Lear away from wearing the
proper identity to hijab what advice do
you have for them okay it's it's the
same concept as well it's um we were
saying earlier about kind of like the
Sheep mentality we want to identify with
a group of people when you're living in
an area in a community that's not
worshiping Allah you actually have to go
against the um that sheep reaction and
you've got to say you know what I'm a
leader I'm not a sheep here so what the
sister you know that's the you know the
pull of the sheep the pull of the crowd
or is she going to pull away and
identify herself so she really does have
a big test but here's the beautiful
thing for our Muslim sisters is that
because in an early age they're like um
dressing differently they have to become
stronger at such an early age so their
identity in fact if you take a Muslim
man and a Muslim woman a Muslim woman
who's like wearing hijab she's usually
much stronger than the man because her
identity has been you know brought up
all these years and that interestingly
is that protection they always speak
about hijab as a protection a lot of
people don't realize that your identity
is being protected and your character
and your strength is being protected
because you're not becoming a sheep when
you wear that closing comments and
suggestions for those who are having
identity crisis if you have an identity
crisis I say invoke the Sheep okay and
by that I mean that you will have a
sheep me uh a sheep reaction so get with
good companionship go to your local mjid
find some good people and and say
basically like I want I want you to be
my shepherd right and I want to be in in
this companionship so if you with a
group of three four people that don't
swear and you say a swear word they're
kind of shy away from that you'll feel
bad and you'll start changing your
vocabulary with a group like that and
that would be my suggestion getting some
good companionship in the last 30
seconds talk to us talk to them about
your Institute that you're the CEO of
elmb and how people can get involved
taking some classes to get more
knowledge about Islam okay sure so Al MB
Institute we do um two weekend seminars
right now it's one of the biggest
projects Islamic projects in North
America and in the UK you can get more
information at al.org that's a m a GH r
i b.org and um we do cities in about uh
we do classes in about 30 cities across
uh the Western World so there sure to be
a City a class happening near to you we
started with peace we end with peace
alikum and may God Almighty Allah reward
you thank you thank you very much very
much and that was my brother and your
brother Sheik Muhammad El Sharif here on
the dean show giving us some great
advice establish your identity and the
creator of the heavens and earth has
told you what your identity needs to be
you need to be a Muslim one who has
chosen consciously not by coercion but
has made a rational decision that I I
want to do God's will I want to do all
the good that the creator of the heavens
and the Earth has told me to do and then
the reward is Paradise Jenna so do this
good beseech him ask him pray to him
repent to him alone without any Partners
co-equals no one nothing is like God and
pray to that one God when the going gets
tough or whenever you're in distress he
is the only one that can answer that
call your prayers and we'll see you next
time continue to tune in every week to
the dean show until then peace be unto
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you he created the
universe to him belong the heavens and
the
Earth the ever living He is the
first he's the owner of
Mercy he sent his
Messengers to all his creatures
of the Grave
dangers of
worshiping Allah than
Allah there is none
greater than the
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Creator there is none greater
the
Creator you have to pray as if
everything depends on Allah and it does
but you must work as if everything
depends on you and it doesn't that's my
point you see what I'm saying and I
don't like that I don't like us sitting
here what are you waiting for what are
we waiting for right now what are we
waiting for all these people to come to
Islam what are we waiting for what are
we waiting for right now when they going
to come they're going to come Allah
going to bring these people Allah
subhana put in our hand the ability to
do it now do your
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