I heard Allah's messenger salallahu
alayhi wasalam say my example and the
example of the people he's out of a man
who made a fire and when it lighted what
was around it moths and other insects
started falling into the fire the man
tried his best to prevent them but they
overpowered him and rushed into the fire
the ignorance of the insect can be shown
as an example of humanity just as the
insect is fooled by the bright lights of
a trap that would eventually destroy it
man is also fooled by the bright lights
of this world which would also destroy
him although many men have been fooled
in the past some have managed to run
away from the fire before consume them
my name is Amon 26 and a couple years
ago I was a club promoter dancer big on
social media and just everything that
wasn't writing like I was blinded by
Shaitaan like the glitz the glamour I
think to myself being what I was used to
be a dancer jumping in the middle of a
circle and having all eyes on you and
making people clap and cheer I thought
that was glamour I thought that was well
what a rush my name is no they used to
know me as Noah aim is my best friend
inmates within since high school
I used to go out together do everything
together you know the promotion's the
festivals the whole lot you know at the
time when you're there you enjoying the
way the environment is girls coming at
you the lights the the music your heart
pounding and you know the goosebumps and
you know the really good the really good
feeling that everyone wants to search
for and Shaitaan did you know he
beautified everything around me you know
from women to money to acquiring more
and he made it look so so so good that
you wanted more and if you took a bit
you weren't satisfied you still wanted
more and always felt to myself I can go
out every night you know Wednesday to
Sunday night and just party and hang out
and meet people and socialize and I'm
not hurting anyone when the actual sense
I was letting myself with the lifestyle
of non-stop parties music and dancing it
wasn't long after until both Aiman and
Nour soon came to realize the emptiness
hiding behind all the glitz and glamour
lighting my doubt you go out you think
you had a good night out but once you
rest your head on that pillow you
realize they're empty
that's in your heart you know you just
went to sleep and everything you just
did was a waste I had a really big night
I think the next day when I woke up in
the hotel I just kind of stood for about
half an hour and sat there and thought
like he's like is he see like is this
what life is you know like work Monday
to Friday go out on the Saturday and I
thought at that time that's that's to be
something more to it the time came and I
started to realize to myself what am i
doing you know what's the purpose of
this why am i why am I only seen anyway
from to begin with and when I started to
realize to myself I actually sat down I
still remember this day I just came back
from a night out went to sleep woke up
and I was sitting in my bed for
literally no joke half an hour at the
most
and just wondering what happens when
death comes death itself when it comes
and it takes you what happens after that
to Molly Markert and then that's when I
started to change and started to realize
you know and I started to attend a
lecture or two at that time when you
make it we know when I came to make that
decision I was um I was planning to go
to you know one of the really big music
festivals that I had been to probably
the year before and I had a ticket you
know I had had it with me and I think
about a week before I was getting offers
of over $500 for it
even some of my friends were coming at
me with money after they found out you
know that I put on Facebook or something
that I didn't want to go anymore but I
knew I knew that the only way I was
really going to feel like I had let go
cause it was to burn that ticket
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so yeah yes I went one day after work
just went into the kapa threw it on the
ground and yeah got a lot of someone and
torched it
probably the best feeling of all
basically one of the best feelings I've
ever had till today soon after making
their change both Amon and Lord realized
that sacrifices were needed to be made
and the shaitaan was going to wait for
them at every doorstep one thing I
realized about being in the same is one
thing that Shaitaan the devil threatened
you with is is being alone you know who
threatens you that if you leave these
people that you're within the circle you
have no one which is completely false at
one point was actually only me Lord you
know as mates and as brothers but then
through Islam and as we started to
practice our Deen we started to realize
the Brotherhood became bigger ten grew
to twenty twenty to thirty forty grew
into a mount that you can't even explain
you know sometimes you go pray at
another mosque that's completely out of
your area and you meet someone that has
seen you before you've seen them and
they're like oh I remember your brother
you know you're sitting at this talk or
I met you at this dinner or maybe at
this fundraiser it's an amazing feeling
because that person's coming up to me
just to say hello
it doesn't want money from me he doesn't
want Fame he doesn't want entry into a
place that you know that he wants to go
in he just wants to speak to me because
that's what Islam is about love the
sweetness of faith was slowly falling
into their hearts and over the past
three years the fruits of their labor
were beginning to pay off
Hum Dil about the will of Allah the past
three four years have been beautiful for
me you know hamdulillah Alice panatela
invited me to Hajj in 2011 that was an
experience I'll never forget I took my
mother as well and Hum Dil now I've been
to a few countries around the world to
you know spread the deen of allah they
France New Zealand also go around
Australia the Prophet Muhammad peace be
upon him taught us that the best of us
in our days of ignorance are the best of
us in religion to understand what this
means entirely we only have to look
towards what happens next in their
journey last year me and brother Lord
actually went to one of the festival's
one of the big music festivals that
happen every year and we went there to
call people to to not go in you know to
save them back in the day I used to
actually call them to come to the
festival it's actually enter and enjoy
and discount and so on and we we thought
that we'll try to redeem ourselves from
what we were doing before you know like
calling people to that environment so we
thought would go to this and you know
tell people to stay away and I try to
convince the people what they were
getting themselves into because we had
been there and we knew what it was like
we have you know we've experienced it
before aiming an order not the first to
make such a change and they surely
aren't the last however despite their
efforts many Muslims are still sinking
into the same traps and falling into the
bright lights of this deceptive world
today he burns the heart to know that my
Muslim brother sometimes Muslim sisters
out there they they're still in this and
it burns me to know that I can't do
nothing about it except ask Allah to
guide them because if we die in this
state our state of ignorance a state of
not caring what will not ending be so
it's a strong urge from myself turn to
Allah for too late
just run away run away from the fire
because it's not worth it
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