the dean show alhamdulillah peace be
with you thank you for tuning in to the
dean show very interesting topic today
Aaron Hernandez if you guys haven't
heard about it we're going to be talking
about his life a little bit here NFL
football player was about to make $40
millionar dollars now he's sitting in
the jail so how did he end up there how
he how did he end up there my next guest
we're going to be talking about drugs
we're going to be talking about music
we're going to be talking about all the
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thean back here on the dean show har how
you doing brother peace be with you
how's it going alhamdulillah good how
about yourself alhamdulillah
alhamdulillah we we're trying to
really help people understand the
purpose of life and we see what happens
to people when they don't live the
purpose of life right you know they end
up in some real bad predicaments we have
uh Aaron
Hernandez who was on his way to be
making a a whole lot of money $40
million could you could you imagine that
went from being in the hood to the NFL
now he's in a jail cell wow so we we we
want to try to analyze his life a little
bit and see like what would lead someone
you know he's still not convict uh
guilty but you know a lot of times
Association you know with the wrong
crowd can can have you um convicted
convicted right so we we want to you
know a lot of people are are idolizing
the the people such as himself and they
look up to him and they think this whole
you know Thug Lifestyle is something
that's cool and if we can help change
someone's life for the better A lot of
the you know you see a gentleman like
that he wasn't a kid right you know but
you see he's still emulating you know a
lot of the the rappers and a lot of the
where people get these crazy ideas and
they end up going and and maybe watching
Good Fellas Tony Montana then they try
to you know uh take it to the streets
and you see what happens yeah so what
are your thoughts on this well you know
a lot of times we believe that Fame and
money it buys us happiness it buys us um
peace in our hearts it buys us you know
whatever it is we're looking for and
it's absolutely a fabric it's absolute
fabrication when we are if we are to
analyze the reports for example that the
guy you know um Hernandez had um what
people said about him prior to the event
you know prior to the few days before
you can see that even with all of this
money this guy was really really looking
for happiness right he was begging for
happiness you know he had women money
cars everything that he could materially
want but that happiness that peace of
heart he still was searching for it and
proof and evidence of
that is that he needed it every day now
he's sitting in the jail cell without
it and he's probably talking about what
he had you know just a few weeks ago
right so um and he misses that now now
no one is safe and secure from going to
jail right the best of the best of us
have gone to jail right prophets have
been imprisoned um they've the uh uh um
people have been accused of doing things
but the question is which one of the two
had the Peace of
heart had the completion of life so
we're going to take for example him and
we're going look at the story of a very
common person among the people of the
book Joseph
Yousef is the one of the prophets of God
he was one of the prophets of God yeah
who was also accused he was also
convicted and he was he also spent a lot
of time in jail and he was betrayed by
his family right so um before we start I
want to start with a statement that he
says towards the end and he says
indeed for those who fear God meaning
stay away from that which God has
forbidden and remain steadfast and
patient God never
forsakes the uh
rewarding of those who strive towards
his
Perfection Okay so now we're going to
look at two similar
situations situ situation number one
2013 Hernandez messes up and he ends up
going to
jail right when now we're going to go
back about 5,000 years the story of yfam
May the peace and blessing be upon Him
is um falsely accused or we're going to
go back even further he's betrayed by
his brothers and he's thrown into a well
and sold out to slavery falsely accused
eventually goes to
jail right while he's in
jail what does he have is he talking
about how many women he had had right
how much money he had how much cars he
had how much money he used to
spend no he talking about what he
has because he's still
content with what he
has which
wased Oneness of Allah Oneness of God
pure
monotheism right Devotion to God so now
we're going to move back up you know
another 5,000 years I want to come back
till today's
situation here he is
convicted a grown man for the first time
ever going to
jail many times will
cry will
cry you can imagine the different things
that are going through his
head $40
million I just blew it m he's been in
jail before I'm he's been he's been yeah
he's been had run-ins with the police
before yes but nothing is Big nothing is
Big yeah so now he has his all of that
money you know this is this is what's
going through head all of that money
that's what he used to worship is that
money yeah all of those women that's
what he used to worship true yeah right
all of those cars that's what he used to
worship M so guess what all of that
stuff that you just used to worship has
left you and why are you I'm trying to
figure out if you're you have all this
money and many people think okay I get
the money I get the women I'm going to
be happy great career I mean people just
fantasize you know about being in the
NFL you know it's a major league
baseball whatever case but he's on angel
dust you ever heard of his angel dust
what do angel dust it's a horrible drug
I believe it's it's a form of acid yeah
uh from what I understand which causes
huc hallucinations and a whole bunch of
other what the hell you doing on angel
dust can I say that hell what are you
doing on angel dust if you got all this
money you know you're smoking rolling up
blunts you know the guy that actually
that he killed what they say he killed
the guy Lloyd he was known for Rolling
his blunts up for him right so why
smoking angel dust uh Blunts and alcohol
and you're at strip clubs and you know
and now you're committing allegedly
committing a murder he was already
killing himself yeah you're already
killing yourself so are you living the
purpose of life the way it's intended
for you to live by the Creator if you're
doing all these things not at all not at
all not at all and when we look at his
situation we'll we'll find that whatever
he used to worship other than God just
like everything else that we can worship
other than God MH it leaves us yeah it
leaves us and we're left with nothing
else M but God in the end who we should
have worshiped MH and so when we look at
yfam Joseph yeah when he went into
prison the story that's given to us is
about two people who were people of of
the
prison and um with this story they asked
them they ask him about some of the
dreams that they
had and before he tells them the
interpretation of Dreams because he was
very skilled in interpreting the
dreams the first thing he tells them
instead of what he had what does he tell
them he tells them about what he has he
says I left the people who don't believe
in Allah they don't believe in God and
they disbelieve in the next life he's
talking about what he
has
right and I follow the way of my
forefathers ibim
and Abraham and Ishmael and Isaac pure
monotheism once
again and we did not associate any
partners with God right so he instead of
him talking about because the first
thing you do when you go into jail is
you talk about some of the to some of
the guys you talk about your lifestyle
you talk about what you used to have you
talk about the things that either you
loved or you hated M right and here he
is talking about both talking about
people who didn't worship Allah and you
talked about the people who worshiped
the one and only deserving of worship
God himself we're going to take a break
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it's simple to understand I wouldn't
know what the sky looked like what the
trees looked like I would have never
seen the faces of my beautiful children
if I didn't have the ability to see how
blessed we are by Allah and obedience is
born out of gratitude so thank him call
upon Him establish a relationship with
him forget about the past take it out of
being a ritual and make it a spiritual
experience Islam is not something
dubious unclear hazy it's really
straightforward he said it changed his
life he said he saw every single episode
that you had ever
recorded ever
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brother Haron and alhamdulillah you're
very young I mean you you you you it
would be something that nowadays you
know for someone to quote unquote be
religious to be talking about the
Creator it's something that people think
like maybe I'll get to do when I'm like
50 60 but how did you come to this point
in your life where you've actually
dedicated your life to a better cause I
mean all Praises do to Allah subhana
tala the whenever I uh when I was a
young kid you know my my parents really
instilled they tried to instill the
devotion of worshiping Allah worshiping
God you know and educating me on the
importance of of doing it and um you
know Imam bukari uh who is the narrator
of the or the the writer of the most
authentic narrations of the uh Prophet
uh he has a special chapter in his uh
book called and it's The Book of
Knowledge and it says the the first uh
sub chapter of the Book of
Knowledge is the it says the chapter of
knowledge before you speak and act right
and so that shows the importance of
knowing compared to not knowing and also
um when we look at the the formulation
of the pillars of Islam and the pillars
of Iman right the pillars of Islam is of
course to worship no one other than God
um to pray to fast to pay your zakat or
your your annual um charity that's
obligatory and to make your pilgrimage
right and then the second part is Iman
right which is Faith and you can't have
faith unless you know you can have Islam
with knowing just a little bit but but
the the more you know the more you love
and if if we look at the bringing up of
someone for example Hernandez who we
were talking about
earlier we look at what he was taught as
as a child right who were his parents
and we're not going to say he had bad
parents or anything like that but what
was your son doing did you know you know
there's a lot of things even as a lot of
the Muslim families we don't uh devote a
lot of time towards educating our kids
importance of the religion of Allah
rather we would force them to do this
and force them to do that and they grow
up to become teenagers and they start to
question and they don't know why they're
praying they don't know why they're
giving charity they don't know why
they're the ladies don't know why
they're covering up they don't know why
they need to be Muslim it was because
their parents made them do this made
them do that without properly educating
them can someone use that as an excuse
if they had parents who are on
drugs they came from a very corrup
background can they use that as an
excuse and say look you know that's I'm
a product of my environment and to
continue on just following their desires
I mean what would you say to someone
like Aaron Hernandez who says you don't
you haven't walked in my shoes you don't
understand what I've been through and
just like you know someone like
Hernandez you know I haven't walked in
his shoes at all but at the same time he
hasn't walked in mine nor has he walked
in yours right and so God says in the
Quran no one is held accountable for
what someone else is doing so just
because your parents were going through
what they were going through it doesn't
mean that you're held accountable for
what they did nor will they'll be nor
will they be held accountable for what
you do so you can't blame what you're
doing on your parents once you know
better you need to change cuz there's
people in two predicaments who have been
in the same ghetto but one went to
prison and one ended up in the white
house for instance yeah I mean I mean or
someone went to that I mean two people
I'm saying they can end up in the white
house and it's going to end up in the
penitentiary yeah so but they came from
the same Hood yes or they same
environment is that right yes and like
God says in the
Quran God doesn't change what's within a
people until they change what's what's
within themselves yeah so if you want
better for yourself if you want to move
forward in your life then what you need
to do is change H how do you get someone
to really contemplate more on this okay
you're because we're talking about a
subject now if we're talking about uh
baseball football entertainment and
really people get plugged in but now
when you start talking about this very
important topic purpose of life and why
we've been created and know where we're
going when we die judge the the day of
judgment and you talking about God
worshiping the Creator not his creation
you know a lot of people they're just
they they some many people fall asleep
to this because when they look in there
you know it doesn't fit with their DVD
collection Orest
and John Clooney or their CD Lady Gaga
50 God I don't have him anywhere here so
when you start playing my prophets he
start talking about a lot of this is
foreign to people why is it so important
to talk about this reflect about it why
is this such an important topic to to go
away from that direction to this
direction what would you say to someone
like eron Hernandez if you had his word
on why is this so important because we
need role models we need good Role
Models people who you open up their CL
and all you see is clean clothes mhm
right and uh we don't need the role
models who you start to open up closet
their closet and you know there's a
little vomit there there's a little
there a dead person in the corner over
there there's a uh um something that um
you know uh you didn't want to see over
there and you know it's just a whole
bunch of disgusting stuff in this closet
right we need good role models and there
are no better role models than the
prophets no better role models than the
prophets so
um you know Hernandez For example Aaron
Hernandez he was a role model for the
for the NFL he was a role model for the
people who play football in terms of
playing football but if you came to look
at his character you probably wouldn't
want to hang out with the guy right I'm
not saying he was a bad guy maybe he was
a nice guy right maybe he had friends
that you didn't want to hang out with
right especially if you were trying to
be clean let's say you were an alcoholic
you didn't want to be around the guy
let's say you were addicted to drugs
trying to recover you didn't want to be
around the guy you didn't want to be
around him you don't want to be around
his friends or
nothing but you can always always look
towards the prophets and the people who
were clean righteous purely
monotheistic and always say that's
someone who I'd like to be in some way
shape or form MH is it is it true
because naturally if you keep watching a
particular movie star are a particular
NFL player you're going to start growing
attraction towards them yeah I me not
even physically but I'm talking about
just emotionally your heart will get
attached yeah and then you're going to
want to mimic them isn't that right and
we've se you start mimicking them yeah
and we've seen people like for example
who died who um cried when Michael
Jackson died when Houston died um uh we
we've seen people who who cried when a
lot of the the uh James Brown when James
Brown died you know uh
people uh cried because they they LED
these characters they and it wasn't the
real person that they loved and that's
the amazing thing it wasn't the real
person that they loved they loved the
character that the person
represented they loved the voice they
loved the musical Artistry they loved um
the acting capabilities but they didn't
fall in love with the person themselves
mhm and for example if you were to look
I remember um if I recall correctly
Whitney Houston had had a show with
Bobby Brown right and they were
constantly fighting and arguing yelling
and and screaming at each other you know
what kind of lifestyle is that is that
the kind of lifestyle you want right is
that what you want your house to be like
these are all good questions that you
need that each and every one of us needs
to when we look at these uh role
models we want to look at their
character
first and their abilities second MH
instead of looking at their abilities
first and their characters to have their
characteristics
second this way when we grow up as young
kids and you know have wives of our own
or husbands of our own and kids of our
own houses of our own and businesses of
our own uh jobs of our own we can start
emulating the
proper character of the righteous right
and start uh and use people who have
good capabilities to
learn what benefits us from their
capabilities and ignore the character MH
makes sense makes sense so that's very
important and would you say that you
know people they should really reflect
upon what happens when that moment of
death comes and is that like the the end
of it that's when you have that that
last I mean that's it you can't your
your ability to make choice now is over
is is that right so Now's the Time to
Get It
Right death is
inevitable no one's going to say that um
I mean if anybody says they're going to
live forever they're either lying or
crazy yeah right so what's going to
happen after you die if you've gone to
anywhere else and you haven't received
the proper answers the book of God the
Quran has those answers for you has all
the answers all of them and it makes
sense let's talk a little bit more about
that when we come back here on the dean
show we'll be right back alhamdulillah
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that's tuning in to the dean show this
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show Aaron Hernandez topic of this show
NFL superstar was about to make $40
million yeah I mean the majority of
people won't see this in in in 10
lifetimes yeah so he's in a jail cell
now so the question is do we want to
follow people such as himself you know
actors actresses who are putting on a
great show for us but you talked about
better people to follow the messengers
that the crater sent to guide Humanity
what I mean what what was the message
that they came with they came with you
know every prophet and it's described in
the Quran it's described in the the
Torah it's just described uh in the
Bible right every messenger came with
the same message to worship the one and
only
Creator nothing else and to obey the
Commandments that the messenger has come
with from the Creator from the Creator
from the maker of mankind yeah what does
that mean when you say say worship
people think okay now I got to give up
my job go in the room you know and and
just lock myself up and what are you
talking about when you say worship bring
it home with that you see God says in
the
Quran I have only created man and Jin to
worship me meaning worshiping God right
and what ises worshiping God
entail um the basics of course you know
to make your five prayers a day or to
supplicate him to worship God uh The One
and Only God but let's see H you worship
God right you need to eat right how many
of us can live without eating right in
order to worship God we need to maintain
this beautiful body that God has given
us right so you need to take care of it
you need to maintain it what do you need
to do that you need a job right so that
means and there's a basic jurist
Prudence rule right among the the people
of Juris Prudence
right any anything that is that you need
in order to
accomplish what is necessary meaning um
like prayer then that is also necessary
right so anything that you need in order
to accomplish what is
mandatory is also mandatory so
therefore you going to work work uh work
in order to be able to take care of your
body in order to be able to take care of
your family in order to be able to eat
in order to be able to drink in order to
be able to think in order to be able to
um call mankind all of this working
becomes a form of worship right you
being Ed you going to school becoming
educated this can be a form of worship
right you smiling to your neighbors
having good relationships with your
neighbors having being good to your
children being good to your family
members all of this becomes a form of
worship because you cannot
possibly um have an easy time worshiping
God when you have problems everywhere
right so therefore you keeping good
relationships with your family not
causing problems and doing things to
prevent problems becomes a form of
worship so in a nutshell anything that
we do that is
good that coincides with the the
Commandments of
God is a form of worship if we have the
proper intentions for it proper
intentions and doing it for the pleasure
of the Creator everything that he loves
yes can we can that be constituted as a
form of servitude worship yes so you
mentioned being good to your neighbor
rather rather he be a not yet Muslim or
Muslim is that true yeah okay uh uh
saving saving a human being let's say
you know from from you know destroying
himself helping someone get off drugs or
helping someone to become a better human
being that's an act of worship being
kind to your parents definitely what
else can we listen to act alongside with
the five uh pillars of praying five
times a day fasting all of these things
that help us to be more GC conscious
what else the list goes on being good in
being good to your community being good
to your neighbor how how about uh
avoiding bad things if problem can can
like say avoiding adultery gambling
where you might have
the um the tendency that you want to do
it but you avoid it and you did it for
the Creator is that an act of worship
all of that's a form of worship all of
that's a form of worship as a matter of
fact um there's a there's a beautiful
story I don't think we have enough time
to go through it but this one guy was uh
was on the verge of committing
fornication and he withdrew and God
rewarded him tremendously because he
withdrew and he didn't commit go through
with the fornication for the sake of God
MH so what advice would you have for
someone like Aaron Hernandez who's
sitting in jail cell right now and if
this gets to him or you know maybe uh
he's able to get some first class
treatment he's watching the dean show
yeah or one of his friends watching they
can get him the message what would you
tell
him look for
peace look for peace in the
Creator just like Joseph even though he
was in prison he told people what he had
he told people what God has given him
and that was the peace and worshiping
the one and only
Creator rather than looking
for the things that won't last you buy a
car today next year it'll be old you get
a pretty girl today three years she'll
be old right is that how long it takes
for them a lot a lot a lot slower than
that
right everything gets everything just
Fades out yeah it gets tiring you get
bored with it maybe she's still pretty
or he's still you know but you get get
tired yeah yeah but when we worship
Allah subhana wa tala the Creator yeah
right he's forever MH and he'll be there
forever yes he'll always be there and
just like Joseph said at the end of that
story
right those indeed those who are uh
God-fearing and they persevere in their
patience then God will never ever
forsake the rewards of those who strive
towards his Perfection strive towards
goodness yes strives towards the Creator
uh before we go good company please in
one minute because it was also said that
he went from his Bad Company of friends
he went up scale Uptown met some new bad
friends and brought his old bad friends
to meet his new bad friends and you see
what happens when you have bad friends
you're doing bad drugs and you're going
to bad parties and you're just living a
bad life and you see what ends up at the
end so for for people now who aren't in
jail and they really you know most
people want to change but they need a
little extra motivation good company is
very important too isn't it extremely
and the prophet wasam
said the um every human
being their lifestyle is the same as
their friends right so if you want to
change the first thing you have to do is
is try to change your friends if you and
one of the thing one of the amazing
things is when you start to change right
the F the friends that you had before
the bad friends they begin to kind of
fade away if you change for the worse
those good friends that you had will
start to fade away and you'll start to
get you know those the whatever group of
friends like the old saying you know uh
a bird of a the birds of a feather
together together right it's a very true
statement it's a very true statement and
there was a story of a man for example
who killed 99 people um and when he
killed 99 people he went to a monk and
he told the monk you know is there any
possibility that I go to heaven and the
monk said no you're going to hell and so
he killed him too right and this was
before the time of the Prophet Muhammad
s alh wasallam and so he then uh goes to
another guy and he he says is there any
possibility that I go to heaven I killed
100 people I said yeah but you got to
leave this place this place is not a
good place for you mhm so he just packs
up and leave he didn't even pack up he
just walked and on his way out he on his
way to the next place where the guy
advised him to go to he died right but
he left his friends behind him leaving
shows that he was trying to leave it all
behind he was in a state of repentance
also that that was being in a state of
repentance yeah um so that he can he can
change the guy was telling him the truth
he couldn't have changed with that group
of company that he had before and even
if he stayed there and tried to get rid
of that group of company guess what
they're still there yeah they're still
tugging on you they're still pulling on
you right so if you need if you want to
change um eventually the long to make a
long story short this guy eventually
went to heaven because he was trying to
change and he left that that
place not everybody can leave the place
they are that they're in but the moment
that you find that opportunity if you're
trying to change
the moment that you find that Gap in in
that that that hole in the light in that
tunnel the moment that there's this
little hair length of an opportunity you
need to get out of yes good compan is
very important mhm lay down with uh dogs
you're going to get fleas like you said
birds of a feather flock together so you
got to be around good company thank you
very much nice being on here thank you
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you couldn't do it so one of those is is
great health you know when we have good
health that the creator has given us and
Aaron Hernandez was blessed with that
good health I mean how many people how
many athletes are out there like him who
are able to because of his gift of
athleticism he was able to to almost
achieve a great reward of for $3 million
imagine how much good he he could he
could have done with that now he's
sitting in the jail so so maybe if we
reflect more about the blessings that
the Creator's given us we Ponder more of
these many gifts that the maker of
mankind has given us it help us to be a
little more thankful because when
someone gives you a dollar bill you say
thank you $100 buys you a meal you say
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one who created us so we can be on a
path of goodness and we can achieve that
Greatest Prize Paradise at the end on
the day of judgment when the Creator
brings us to account for everything
we've done in this life because it's a
test and we want to pass the test and
avoid the Hellfire we'll see you next
time here on a Dean show until then
peace be with you