and I publicly inwardly and outwardly
declare that there's nothing worthy of
worship except for Allah tal insh tal in
this beginning of this uh class in due
to the time constraints we have to make
this short and concise so I'd like to
begin insh tal going back way back
1991 Abu shahada at that time was
driving his Mustang and the song at that
time was by the famous rap singer called
Gangstar and he dropped the joint called
who's going to take the weight and in
the beginning of the song he said his
very first lyric was I was raised as a
Muslim praying to the east at that
particular time just blew our mind the
beat of the song what he was saying how
he was rhyming on time it just
captivated our mind also back in the day
we heard of a group called The Tribe
Called Quest The Tribe Called Quest and
they're DJ Muhammad Ali Shahid this is
where I got my name from I took my name
from him they dropped two joints The
Joint they dropped was Mr Muhammad and
the other one was we're on a Award Tour
with Muhammad my man again this just
blew our
mind also a few years ago some of you
young Brothers you've heard of this
singer called the rapper called M's
death am Mo's death in his videos he has
got videos and he's in movies he dropped
the joint called my Umi says Shine Your
Light On The World a few years ago when
I was in Egypt at the time the brothers
of Philadelphia were telling me about a
rapper and all these rappers that we're
talking about right now are all Muslim
there was the Dr it called beanie Mac or
beanie seagull he dropped the the joint
called die and in one of the last parts
of the lyrics he talks about all these
different ways of getting killed and he
uses a lot of abusive language he says
and his one of the last verses he says
and I'd rather and I'd rather go out in
the Masid making Salat meaning that if
he's going to die he'd rather die in the
Masid making the
Salah the thing of it is is that the
Muslim children they're not listening to
these so-called Muslim Rappers that's
not who they're listening to they're
listening to 50 Cent everybody knows who
50 Cent is they're listening to Lloyd
Banks they're listening to Young Buck
they're listening to ziss and Fat
Joe they're listening to Cameron and his
pink T-shirt what we seen last year some
of the Muslims wearing pink t-shirts
going around the city and when we ask
why are you wearing a pink T-shirt
because Cameron the old gangster rapper
he's wearing a pink T-shirt so I think
it's cool to wear a pink T-shirt too
what a buffoon we say to you this
Brothers for all those guys that were
caught up in the biggie and the Tupac
Clash that's a bunch of nonsense all
those kuf all of them all of them are in
the Hellfire n they accept Islam so with
the time restraints that I have I'm
going to try and make this and try and
give the top 10 reasons why I think Hip
Hop is evil but there was more than that
but I don't have time to present it all
number
one the
prophet he
said whoever imitates a people is like
them so we see the Muslim youth wearing
corn rolls in his head
wearing stupid gold in his teeth wearing
the chains of fire hipping and hopping
up and down the street doing grabbing
parts of his body like a bunch of
buffoons and monkeys and we think that
this is cool well I'll tell you Brothers
I came from that and I left that while
alhamdulillah to me it's not nothing
talking acting like a fool trying to be
rhyme in on time and all that
foolishness there's nothing in that
one of the young Brothers he came to me
and he said brother is it permissible to
be bop and to hip hop and to beat box I
said are you going to get a million
dollar deal he says I don't know until I
try I said so when you go in front of
Allah and Allah say speak Abdullah
you're going to start hipping and
hopping and be bopping and be boxing the
brother put his head down he said wow
brother Allah guide me I said yeah
guides Allah needs to guide you inal
from amongst the evil things is the
Shah fueling the sexual desires and as
we know that Allah he said in the
Quran Allah said but as for those who
feared standing in front of
Allah they prevent their souls from the
Lord
desires and indeed they will be from
amongst the people who enter into the
paradise
so we say to youan the beatbox the
hipping the hopping the rhyming on time
you think that that's
cool imagine yourself on the day of
judgment
when and his companions are drinking
from the hold because they implemented
the Quran and the Sunnah and we see you
dressed up like Allen iring with corn
rolls and tattoos and the bling
bling where are you going to be
we say to you youth you young
Brothers fear Allah tal there no time to
be a monkey to act like a fool jumping
and hip hopping and be popping this
isn't cool this is not cool to Allah
this is not cool to me this is not cool
to your
parents the influence of this stuff is
destroying the
youth another one of the things that we
see that it
does is that it promotes gang
violence the East Coast against the West
Coast the southerners against the the
Northerners what is this jamest town
against Jan and Finch some of the
Muslims even in Miss Saga beautiful miss
Saga has some of the most biggest Muslim
gangs there called the Arabian Knights
some Arab
Brothers trying to gunsling selling
drugs lying stealing cheating trying to
be cool
we see many many brothers in the states
who came from jalah and now they're
practicing Islam but we see the born
Muslim he wants to be the biggest fool
and be hip hopping and be hopping why
the question is why is it cool because
you see it on TV which is Haram because
you listen to it on the radio and it is
Haram Haram is never cool we also find
that in some
people want to do this to be heard of
and to be seen and as we all know
the brothers why do you want to be heard
and seen some of the brothers they told
me there's some Muslim Brothers here in
the city they went and they shot a video
over in their country and it's selling
and people think it's popular who wants
to be popular to be popular why so the
women will look at you so you'll make
some money so you'll be cool yeah
is coming you're going to be asked were
you from them strictly Sunnah brothers
or were you from them fools that were
hipping and hopping into the Hellfire
this is the question that we bring for
you Brothers the guns in the violence
some of the Muslims they have what they
call a poker and this is what they call
it in
Philadelphia when we were in Egypt some
of the brothers there because they're
used to carrying a gun in Philadelphia
they bring these little knives they see
I got a poker some of the youth they
carry this to school
guns violence knives blades switch
blades even the little small blad some
of the brothers they carrying it in
their tongue so they can cut somebody
this is not permissible
yeah we also see the Muslims wanting to
be like those KU with the cursing and
the swearing we know a Hadith where the
Prophet sallallah alai wasallam he
said whoever believes believes whoever
believes in Allah in the last day only
speak good or remain silent just now as
I was walking in
here I heard some of our Muslim youth
that are listening and I can see them
with my eye
swearing it's not cool to
swear can't you say something good with
your tongue Subhan Allah
alhamdulillah but the Muslim it's so
easy to say the words of Haram and you
do not think about
it the bragging in the boasting and this
is one of the things that rap it
promotes we see that the people that are
rapping they're bragging about their
bling bling the 20in rims on their car
that cost
$10,000 their gold chains their bling
bling on their finger that cost $100,000
are you living for this world or here
after I don't care if some stinking
Cather in California fixed his car it
looks so good he's got the fully
equipped kid in it and he's got all the
so-called girls that you see on there
running after him the question is I'm
asking you is that guy in
Paradise the the felicities that are in
the paradise is far more than what
they're promoting and we see from the
bragging we see Allah he says
Allah says and do not praise yourself he
is the one who knows who is the most in
tawa so we see these people I'm this and
I'm that and my gang is this and my gang
is that and my boys are this and my boys
are that and we can do you damage like
this and we can do damage to you like
that and we got this gun and we got that
gun and we can tear this guy up and we
can tear that guy up is this how the
messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi
wasallam I ask you did he speak like
this no he did not we find that the
Muslims they want to now they're getting
into something I seen a Muslim from a
certain country recently with a stud in
his
tongue body piercing tattooing listen to
the words of the messenger of Allah s
wasallam he
said thisth is in BK Muslim that the
curse is on the person who does the
weaving of the hair and they do the
tattooing some of the Muslims they're
tattooing all kinds of stuff gangster
this and that on the day of judgment I
want to ask youan do you want to be
called by the most beautiful names the
son of so and so the son of so and so
the son of so and so of goodness or oh
the gangster come up here gangster come
and roast into the
Hellfire some of the youth they're just
not understanding and the story that
we're going to tell you guys right now
which is a true story
recently I had the opportunity to visit
one of the Muslim high schools and this
High School is very big it it's out in
the suburbs I was coming around the hall
on a Friday just after Juma just after
Juma I was coming out and around the
corner I heard some of the aat some of
the sisters in hijab in jilbab singing
one of the song of 50 Cent and it's
extremely graphic when they bump into me
around the corner oh brother brother oh
oh I said sisters you're listening to 50
Cent you know who 50 Cent is I said yes
I know who 50 Cent is what do you think
about oh he's so cool he's so sexy he so
this he so I said why oh well he was
shot with a gun eight or nine times and
he didn't die and he's so muscular I
said wearing hij wearing jilbab going to
the Islamic school and thinking like
this I said I know what you guys are
doing and I know that the parents here
I'm going to tell you what your kids are
doing they get their CD they put it in
their CD player the very first song you
think is on there or track the track
that's on there
is but when you press the track two
there's 50 Cent the other day in the
Masid the other day in the Masjid we're
lying up for the Salat and 50 c came to
the Masid believe it or not 50 Cent was
in the Masid when we were getting ready
to make the Salah some of you are
looking at me like I'm crazy I'm not
crazy I'm going to tell you what
happened sh said it's time for Salat
it's time to straight in the rows all of
a sudden we hear the phone go off and we
hear 50 Cent on the
telephone and everybody that is from the
youth they started laugh 50 c 50 that's
the p i m p ringtone the kids know it
and when we looked W I was shocked out
of my mind when we look to see who it is
because they let it play to three or
four rings we look and W it was a
brother in his
50s so we looked at it we say Subhan
Allah a brother in his 50s has 50 in in
the Masid maybe his children downloaded
it but the thing of it is is money was
spent to get that downloaded on the
phone is that money Halal is that Halal
50 c in the Masid before the Sal it
destroyed my the brothers who were
behind me they were laughing all
throughout the
Sal so we say this to you Brothers this
stuff is destroying the kids's mind
these people on these lyrics they lie so
much I've traveled the world I've done
this I've killed these people my crew is
like this this I've done this I've done
that lying a lot of lying in their
lyrics the messenger of Allah s alai
wasallam he said inth Inari Muslim he
said that the signs of the
hypocrite is that when he speaks he lies
when you listen to those rappers do you
believe the words that they're saying
like you believe the words in the book
of Allah this is the question I'm asking
you Brothers again
the question that needs to be
asked do you love the book of Allah more
or do you love that rap music and that
hip-hop because the two of them they
cannot be in your heart at the same time
I want you young Brothers to understand
what I'm saying yo Bubba back there no
talking we got some homeboys from
Detroit and they throw you bounce you up
out of here I'm telling you so you need
to be good we say this to you are you
going to listen to the Quran and the
Sunnah and let this affect your heart or
this hip hop it will destroy
you some of the kids when they listen to
this stuff they try to internalize
what's going on and they think that
they're a gangster I'm a
Gangster see you don't even have a
pencil to poke somebody in the eye
you're a
gangster I've traveled to Chicago I've
traveled to New York I've traveled to
Philadelphia I've traveled to Gary
Indiana I've traveled many places I TR I
went to brickton UK and believe me
you're not a
gangster you don't have no
crew why you trying to go on like you're
a bad
man this is a mentality that is
something wrong with the Muslim
youth so we say this to
youan that this hip-hop music is
destroying the youth it's destroying the
mentality it's putting something in
their head that no doubt your parents
had no intention for you to learn when
you came over here from the land of the
Muslims I myself when I went to Egypt I
went to this very Exquisite huge Mall in
Egypt and I went in there and believe it
or not I seen a hip hop store with the
latest stuff imported from California
and New York and right in the front they
have a big picture of Biggie Smalls and
two pack Shore I went in there and I
said what's going on here they goes
you're from America I said well kind of
I'm from America did you hear about bigy
Smalls and Tupac shakor I said yeah I
know who they are wow man wow I wish I
lived in America when they were alive I
said why he looked at me you American I
said you're all kind of you know I'm
from North America he goes you don't
want to hear the songs of TAC and biggie
I said hell
no no I don't want to hear that kufur I
said you're Muslim he said yeah I'm
Muslim I said I'm Muslim too I came from
the West to come and learn some of the
book of Allah and the sun of the Prophet
you want to go there he said
yes yes yes I want to be a Players I
Want to be a players and a Ballers and I
want to be a gangster say Subhan Allah
I'm trying to come up in this religion
and learn my religion and try and call
to it and you want to go hipping and
hopping in the clubs like a
buffoon yes brother it's very cool very
cool MTV is very
nice I said Subhan
Allah you're going this way and I'm
going that way I said brother W I would
give you my passport and everything if I
could live right here you can go back to
Canada you can go back to America you
know what he said to me he said I wish I
could it's my dream it's my dream to be
in
America I said Subhan Allah everywhere
that I've traveled in America it is not
the place that you want to be me and a
brother a few years ago we were in
Toledo and my time is running
out Friday night 10:30 in the night more
than 60 black people that are obese are
waiting to get into McDonald's so they
can get their eat on say Subhan
Allah Subhan Allah people waiting
outside of McDonald's like it's the last
food that's going on these crack bottles
all over the street you see shells all
over the street you see all kinds of
craziness and we glorify this and we
think that this is good time
constraints when you get the time
constraints you can't say everything
that you want to say but
alhamdulillah what I wanted to say and
what I wanted when I prepared for you
guys is on a higher level but due to
time constraints we can't say everything
so all I'm trying to say to you Brothers
is
this we have a book right here this book
I just got my hands on it it's
called by the
the there's another book I have at home
called by Abu Bakr IB Abid both these
books and there's another book I
referred to in English you can get it on
the internet called the Islamic ruling
on music and singing this book destroys
and it refutes a guy from the past
called haam and it refutes everybody who
wants to listen to music musical
instruments and I had some of that
information here but I don't have the
chance to prepare for it so we say to
you every time that you're listening to
that music when you're listening to that
music I just want to know one question
if
Malik if the angel of death if he comes
to you at that time while you're in the
elevator hip hopping and be hopping
bunks in your head like a buffoon to 50
Cent and he comes and he takes your
soul from your heart I want to
know are you guys ready for
that is that what you want to be the
ending of of your life popping your head
to the song of 50 Cent or as our brother
may Allah guide him beanie ma said I
rather go out in the Masid making the
Salah we like to say inshal we like to
thank the our brothers for allowing us
to say a few words concerning this
hopefully I will get a chance inshallah
tala to give a more deeper explanation
of this with all the adilla that I
prepared but we say to this
if you listen to this foolishness it's
going to damage your head look at
yourself 10 years from now if Allah
gives you life don't waste your life on
this
foolishness