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dunun we're going to let you get
involved your family we're going to read
out some of the different questions and
we're going to let our next guest when
we come back let us know is this dun
does it qualify under that and the
non-muslims we want you to get involved
too so if you see a Muslim doing
something that's not according to Islam
you can nicely smile at him and say dun
and this maybe will help him get his act
together so then we can all live in
peace because if we're doing things the
way our creator wants us to do it that's
how we're going to have peace when we
come when we come back saraja
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Allah there's only one God and muhamad
is his messenger
Allah there's only one God and Jesus was
his messenger Allah
I don't know why I did that maybe maybe
it's just to break the ice allum Eddie
peace be unto you peace be upon you how
you doing doing great thanks be how are
you doing thank you very much people
have they can see you have your own
section at the dean show so they can go
there see some of the shows that we've
done in the past and we're really
thankful that you out of your busy
schedule you find a time to to be with
us here no I I want to thank you Eddie
and not not only on behalf of myself but
on behalf of all of your guests um you
know we have an opportunity people have
an opportunity even myself I watch your
show alhamdulillah opportunity to go and
see some of your guests that you've had
and is very educational very informative
and uh and also
entertaining Halal entertainment Halal
entertainment yes and that's what we
tried to do we tried to give the
non-muslims a better picture about Islam
to eradicate some of the false fears and
clear some of the misconceptions and
also to help educate the Muslims with
people who are qualified to talk about
this beautiful way of life yes it is
Islam the way of life of all the
messengers of God absolutely now just a
little bit about yourself you were
actually the first Muslim to open up in
Congress is that true prayer will be
offered by Our Guest chaplain Imam s was
member of the American Muslim Council
Washington DC saraj wahaj of Brooklyn
New York he's the first Muslim leader to
work in cooperation with the New York
New York City Police Department and he
is nationally known for his leadership
and establishing a drug-free zone in the
drug glading Neighborhood his
neighborhood of edford serson in New
York in the name of God most gracious
most
merciful praise Belong To Thee alone oh
God lord and cherish of all the worlds
praise Belong To Thee who shaped us and
colored Us in the wombs of our mothers
colored us black and white brown red and
yellow praise belong to thee
who created us from males and females
and made us into Nations and tribes that
we may know one another most gracious
most merciful all knowing all wise just
God Master of the day of judgment thee
alone we worship and from thee alone do
we seek help guide the leaders of this
nation who have been given a great
responsibility in worldly Affairs guide
them and Grant them righteousness and
wisdom guide them and us on the straight
path the path of Those whom thou Hast
bestowed thy favors the path of your
inspired servants the path of Noah
Abraham Moses Jesus and Muhammad guide
them and us not on the path of the
disobedient ones yes talk about this for
a second it is interesting that Mo most
people don't realize that uh Congress
never opens up a session without an
invocation from some clergy
usually it's done by some Jewish rabbi
or Christian minister M so for the first
time in the history of the United States
of America an IM a Muslim leader
actually did an invocation opened up the
session of Congress I think it was 1993
if I'm not mistaken I think we're seeing
that now I think they're seeing this
right now this is you is that right
that's me that's me I was a little bit
younger then uhuh you know still looking
good my brother still looking good
alhamdulillah so I think that's that's
important I think what happened I found
out that
uh that day and the next day in Saudi
Arabia almost every five minutes that
played because it was important it was
important for the Muslims around the
world 1 billion 500 million Muslims for
them to see that Muslims in America are
part of America we we we we we're
American citizens and we're part of this
nation and so to acknowledge that
presence to have a Muslim Imam open up a
session of Congress was huge how big it
was it was so big that everybody wasn't
for it um um I I I forgot his name on
um Pat um 700 Club uh he said he was
angry that a Muslim opened up a session
of Congress he he says he says what next
you have witches doing it so he was he
was very upset it's pretty childish very
childish very childish you know as if
that as if the Muslims are not the
legate religious people I mean you're
talking about again um 1400 years old
the old 1400 years ago the Quran was
revealed and you talk about all of these
followers all over the world and for him
to get upset that a Muslim opened a
possessional congress yeah surprising
this is not how you work towards peace I
mean this man that you mentioned I hope
we we pray that God Almighty guides him
yes because if we have people working
towards you know Harmony and peace we we
won't talk about I think that people
like you whove done the job of
explaining Islam bringing Muslim
personalities and um Scholars to talk
about Islam and let the people seeing
and and and and have conversations we
ought to have uh dialogue and
discussions so people have
misconceptions about Islam um then then
it need to be clarified yeah he needs to
watch the dean show and then maybe we
get a copy of the tape and we send it to
we could talk with them you know
dialogue we have nothing to hide I think
Pat Robinson is his name if I'm not
mistaken yeah yes so you have nothing to
have of course exactly tell us now also
before we go into dunun you've also
gotten a lot of rewards from the
community you've done some great
Community work you helped clean up some
of the drug infested areas crime now one
of the areas one of the areas um where
I'm the Imam Mas tawa yeah and we first
opened up that Mash in 1978 according to
the um the uh captain of the 79 fre
which is the area of the police captain
lik the main police chief yeah he said
that it was it was one of the worst in
the city but after alhamdulillah the
Muslims we had our anti-drug Patrol in
about
1988 Allah blessed us to close down 15
crack houses on the block of the Masid
do wow dope dope houses crack houses um
and and ran the drug dealers and the
drugs out of our community and if you
look at the area now you compare it to
1978 to now it was an area of blight
abandoned buildings you know when when
we went there in 1978 there was not one
Muslim business you go there now you
know buildings uh no abandoned buildings
no crack houses and over 50 Muslim
businesses in that area of the Masid
alone and non-muslims can come into your
mosque and talk to you and get to know
about the Muslim they and they do not
only uh people in the area we have um uh
law enforcement we have political people
we have religious people coming into the
Masid and having uh dialogue and
conversation with with the Muslims and
that's how we get to know each other
that's how we get to so we can live in
peace that love and peace we all want
the same thing we all want peace when we
come back get ready for dunun here on
the dean
show so if you find yourself your Iman
is going down check
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doesn't become born he doesn't die he
doesn't eat then go to the bathroom this
is not God you got problems here it
doesn't make sense who is Jesus
worshiping because it's recorded in the
gospel despite all of the other issues
about the gospels we put those aside we
just say it's mentioned there that Jesus
worship
back here with Imam s on The Dean show
dun dun and I'll get ready and if you
see that now you can take this to your
local Imam to your scholar and ask them
say does this really qualify for dunun
and then you'll actually Define what do
we mean before we do what do we mean
when we say dun what does this mean you
see that's really it's a great question
yeah when you talk about dun everything
in this life is is dun yeah right the
food we eat is dun clothing we wear uh
television programs even your television
program it's D I mean it's D I mean you
know it's not the Hereafter it's this
life here and everything in the dun is
not bad but sometime it has a negative
connotation and when we say oh that's
the dun that's it's it's implying that
that's something that's not good that
you don't take in uh you don't take in
consideration
um the afterlife you you know you want
to do things that's going to be
beneficial in this life as well as the
Hereafter so some sometimes Muslims say
you know oh that's a Dun that's what
they do in the dun you know so it's a
negative connotation yeah so we want to
balance it out so we have to be in this
world like the prophet peace be upon us
said be like a traveler huh there you go
yeah now tell us when Friday Juma rolls
around the brother rather be downtown
talk about this
now he we say it again wait KN deep
in now elaborate on this the importance
of Juma and why this qualifies for dun K
you got to realize that the lord of the
world is telling us something mhm you
can go do what you want to do but Friday
at a certain time is time for us to go
to the Masid for congregational prayer
that's the house of that's the house of
worship God it's called bah the house of
God it's you know if we were Christians
it would be the church if we were Jews
would be the synagogue but it's the
Masid it's the mosque it's the place
where Muslims go to pray to God and and
and we required on
Fridays at a certain time to congregate
ourselves together and go to the Masid
and those who would not go to the Masid
to go do something else whatever they do
in this dun unless it has something to
do with the health the hospital so forth
and so on but we're told that when when
that day comes we should leave off all
trade and business and hastens to the
remembrance of Allah the almighty after
all after all he created us and gave us
even the Duna that we have the Duna car
that we have the Duna clothing that we
have everything he gave us the brain the
brains that we have the body that we
have the jobs that we have and and he's
saying okay for about one hour a week
stop all of that yeah and come and
remember me that's not too hard for the
one that's given you every very
easy stop you can't stop for a moment to
go to the Masid to worship the God who
gives you the air that you that you that
you breathe the water that you drink the
beautiful wife that you have and the
children that you have the parents that
you have you mean to tell me you can
spend some time glorifying him mhm you
probably heard it all I mean you are the
as they say the OG the O the oi the
original Im so tell us some of the some
of the excuses that you know you sitting
there and you hear it and you're just
like you know in your head you like man
talk to us give share some example some
stories about some excuses and then
maybe the the after some good you know
advice you know talking to these people
that maybe they turned around or what
happened you know you have every excuse
you know you know from well I got to
make my money money thear
a good old dollar I got to make money
and I'm saying that that God knows that
you need to make money and he'll test
you yeah I mean I I know you know Muslim
businesses uh who who who make a
sacrifice and maybe that one hour
perhaps uh they they lost some sales but
in the end you really win by Allah and
you get more from Allah because you are
in obedience with him um so you may lose
money and you may not there's some
people who actually make more money so
God knows best um so um they want to
spend time with their girlfriends which
there's no such thing as girlfriends in
Islam No you know so they want to do
anything they want to go to the movies
they want to go i' I've I've heard every
kind of excuse but really simply there's
no excuse in the worship of God the
almighty and again you can you know some
of the things you want to do you can do
them but after mhm and a lot says and
after and after the prayer then go you
go back you go back to your business go
back to your doing your business go back
to making money you can do it but there
there should be a time that you
shouldn't same thing with the Jews yeah
Jews were given a commandment about the
Sabbath that on that day they had to
stop they couldn't work yeah you know so
it's not something that's just unique to
the Muslims but all of religious people
uh many Christians they they close down
their businesses on Sunday yeah so they
go to the church on Sunday Jews go to
the synagogue on Saturday Muslims go to
the Mas on Friday and all of them in the
process of doing what remember
remembering their their their creator
and then you got people don't want to do
it okay fine do what you want to do he's
not going to make you do
it there's no compulsion in religion but
there's a price that you're going to
have to pay you'll die you're going to
die and he may even give you long life
that's not even the issue but in the in
the in the end you know is going to be
held account you we're going to be held
accountable for what we did and what we
didn't do he asks us to do a simple
thing and again by the way when you go
to Juma prayer in the congregational
prayer on Friday who benefits you can't
you can't benefit God that's the thing
that people have to understand you can't
benefit him if if nobody in creation
worships him it doesn't take anything
away from his kingdom and if everybody
in the universe worship God together all
day long does not add to him it doesn't
add to his power or anything like that
he doesn't need us we need him and so
when we uh every every every week on a
Friday and we give him one hour and we
remember him it's good for us it's good
to get out of the Duna for a while you
know the the rat race to get to get
involved in in remembrance of him and
then you be shocked you go to the Masid
you listen to the sermon the IM gives a
A or sermon and he says something that
will change your life even help you in
your D it'll help you in your business
help in your business that's the point
and you know you you get uh uh so much
edure and so much reward from Allah the
almighty for doing what he commands us
to do your life is more blessed more
more much more blessed absolutely we're
going to be right back with another
question and let you decide dunun or not
we'll be right back on the dean
show not afraid to stand
alone I am not afraid to stand alone if
a li by I am not afraid to stand
alone I am not afraid to stand alone if
a li by side I am not afraid to stand
alone I am not afraid to stand alone if
Li by I not afid stand Al
coming to the truth requires two things
it requires deep thinking that you've
already done but it requires another
step and that's courage if you have the
truth but you don't have courage you
won't stand up for the truth and that's
as good as standing up for
falsehood I I would say this thing that
you just told me it's not in the
scripture and they would say a marginal
note added by a scribe yeah okay we know
that and I'd be thinking if you know
this is not the Bible why are you
preaching it as if it's gospel
us
from back here on the dean show with
Imam SJ wahaj on this episode
dunun let's read off the next one and
then we'll see if this qualifies for
dunun now you'll be ready to and
everybody collaborate and if something
you have some doubts take it to your
local Imam take to your scholar and see
if he'll agree with us too that the main
thing is that we're sincere and that we
want to change for the better doing
things how the Creator wants us to do it
then nothing less than Paradise is that
right absolutely all right when the
Muslim convenience store owner has been
advised and talk too many times about
selling alcohol lotto tickets in the
inner cities and all he has to say in
response is this is America brother this
is America what do we have to say
d g
capital capital let me say this I think
it's important that the the the
beautiful thing about our our religion
uh the prophet peace and blessing be
upon once
said
c that which is permissible is is plain
clear clear that which is not
permissible is clear mhm but in between
them are doubtful matters not many
people know about yeah right so so there
there are some issues that is very very
clear this issue here selling alcohol I
don't care where you are it's not
permitted it's Haram there's no
ambiguity there's no ambiguity it's not
like well you know I'm not really sure
uh really it could no no it is
absolutely prohibited now now I I know
for a fact that that these people who
sell alcohol lotto tickets and and all
those other things but G lotto tickets
about that is that clear that that's
under gambling it's under gambling it's
clear again it's not there's no
ambiguity there and don't these things
destroy people's lives it does of course
it destroys life you know you have uh a
basketball player recently for the for
the Washington Wizards um I think his
name is
arenus um got in trouble he lost you
know I you know he has a contract worth
over
$100,000 but he he he was gambling with
another person on his on his on his in
his on the team and somebody didn't pay
the debt right they were gambling and
the Quran talks about it brings enmity
alcohol and gambling what he do take out
a gun wow they they pull guns on each
other huh they pull guns on each other
wow and now he's suspended from the from
the NBA cuz they heard about it right so
you have gambling is a serious addiction
you have you have one of the great
baseball players Pete Rose yeah who uh
you know he's a Hall of Famer a baseball
player one of the B best ever but he
can't get into the Hall of Fame because
he used to gamble and he used to gamble
in baseball yes that's a no no you have
people that have lost millions of
dollars gambling uh one of the great
basketball players uh Michael Jordan had
a game gambling problem Charles Bley
great basketball player has an has a
gambling addiction admitted gambling
addiction so these things are clear now
you're a Muslim now you are supposed to
be a good example for the people in
America people in Chicago the people in
New York the people in Philadelphia
you're supposed to be a good example now
here you making money you making money
off the people but the people don't even
know that you're not supposed to be
selling those things you're not supposed
to be selling alcohol alcohol is is has
been implicated in I think onethird of
the uh accidents that had fatal
accidents in this country attributed to
alcohol uh um oneir of the people who
commit suicide attribut attributed to
alcohol you talk about murder and all
alcohol so how can you a Muslim say that
you want the good for the people you're
there making a lot of money off of the
people but God told you don't don't you
the prophet said you can't God don't
allow you to sell the alcohol not only
don't drink it but don't sell it so so
no it is dun of the worst kind and I'm
saying to any Muslim if you want to be a
successful businessman then do what God
tell you to do I I know some Muslims I'm
very proud of them I used to go talk to
them they sold alcohol I I I remember
once going into a Muslim store it was a
Sunday right yeah and I got excited I I
saw a sign and it says that um no
alcohol sold here nice huh
mhm on
Sunday oh after 3:00 you know what I'm
say wait so the rest of the time it's
there see I see I when I first saw no
alcohol sold here I got excited excited
but something some stipulation now that
then I looked and I said uh
oh on Sundays so but but a Muslim is
like okay list listen Mr Mr Jones comes
into the store and I I want some I want
some beer well well Mr Jan I don't have
beer well let me go somewhere else well
before you go let me tell you something
yeah you ask me why I'm not selling the
the beer because I know the beer is not
good for you good Dow opportunity a
wonderful opportunity I I know it's not
good for you I'm not going to sell it
for you even though I don't make your
money from you but I'm not going to sell
it to you because I don't want it to
hurt you uhhuh that's what you that's
what we ought to be about inviting the
good and for helping the helping the
people to stay away from those
destroy youres anyway abut we'll be
right back with more you be the judge
you decide here on the de
show you say that you do not believe in
Jesus you have stepped outside of Islam
you cannot be a Muslim it is a tended
our faith to believe in and love Jesus
Christ why is it then when it comes to
one of the most important decisions in
life we literally abuse ourselves it's
not that the main thing we're looking
for is to see what type of money he has
so that he can treat my daughter like a
princess it's not about
that back on the dean show so tell us
Imam could our non-muslims brothers in
humanity because there are brothers in
humanity is this right absolutely we
want them to be our brothers fa I want
you to be I want you to be clear about
that because the Quran says in many
places oh man kind so God is talking to
all of us yeah so tell us our brothers
in humanity the non-muslims after they
see now they know dunun and they walk up
into this convenience store and they see
the big cabba and they see all the
alcohol and they say okay that must be a
Muslim can they tell them that're not
Muslim to the Muslim now that they know
that they shouldn't be selling
alcohol they tell them I want them to
say I want them to tell them I want them
to say I want them to remind them I want
them to embarrass them and sometimes be
surprised Eddie that if a non-muslim
says to a Muslim you know what bad
enough that I'm not I'm not a Muslim I'm
not I don't I don't practice Islam but
you should know better you're a Muslim
you're supposed to be an example you
study the Quran you believe in Prophet
Muhammad and and and and people I want
them to do that I want them to call us
to an account and and sometimes by the
way sometimes they'll do that yeah
you're supposed to be a Muslim you
you've heard that before I love it love
it amazing we need to call them to
account I I you know I one one of the
plans that I had for New York
City was my objective to get every
Muslim store in New York City to stop
selling alcohol yeah and I'm going to do
it one day by God's permission I'm you
know I'm going to try uh to get rid of
the the the girly magazines you know
what I mean by girly magazines the porno
and all stuff pornography get rid of the
alcohol get rid of the gambling and all
of that and and I think that if we would
do that we would send a strong message
to the people of America that you know
what those Muslims are they're serious
and they for real otherwise you know you
know what they're going to say you just
like everybody else man and and and you
worse you know why you worse because
you're a hypocrite because at least at
least they'll say we this is what we do
but you you you you you going against
your own teachings so hopefully those
Muslims who are doing that now you can
use this episode and along with you're
calling them advising them in the nicest
ways to stop this hopefully something
Allah do the rest and they'll stop and
those liquor stores or those places will
turn into maybe some bread stores or
some other I got an idea I got an idea
how about those people who watch the
show make a copy of this tape and give
it to those Muslims that's a great idea
make a copy give it to the listen to
this to the Muslims who are selling
alcohol and the non-muslims can also
help out and participate tell them do do
the last one yes now the person that's
always concerned about smelling good and
looking nice does this qualified under
dunun no no no no no no like sweet
smelling the prophet love those who
smell sweet this is good that's a good
thing that's a good good to smells good
but you got to all just be a little bit
careful okay about the women yeah let me
tell you what happened once I was on on
a plane right mhm and I and I was
walking down the aisle and all of a
sudden my head turned
turn is as if someone pulled my head and
I turned and I found myself looking in
the direction of a woman did you have a
whiplash after that almost just just
just just about but you and you know
what did it it was a smell yeah it was
so attractive that I was just like I I
followed it and I think the person knew
that so women the the Muslim women and
the women have to be a little bit
careful they don't want to make the
scent too strong it should be very you
know uh uh you know very mild yeah as
opposed to being strong and grab the
attention so that some man can start
looking at her yeah so this attention
should be sought after her husband it
should definitely be sought after her
husband yeah so she can I mean uh put
whatever she wants to wear because now
the dress code and everything is again
how the Creator yeah has put it down but
what about the the man now also how is
he he can be nice and uh not wrinkled
and have a nice you know a TI on where
it's a part of Islam you know you don't
have to look like a bum okay this don't
mean you Pious because you look like a
nice clothes is good nice clothes is
fine you know according to person's
ability person can afford it but we
should avoid for men silk for instance
or gold yeah but but other than that we
should have nice clothing and and neat
and clean now we're going to bring it
all home it goes back to acknowledging
that there is one who gave you life who
give you death talk about this because
these
things he wants us to be in Paradise he
wants what's best for us so if we look
at it from a different perspective not
just a bunch of rules I think it'll make
more sense please and that's the point
that I'm trying to drive home Eddie is
that that God wants for us good and and
the thing we can't you know as much as
we love this world I mean we try to stay
as long as we can people don't people
might a few people try to kill
themselves but most people they want to
live right and when when it's close to
death they say oh God don't let me die
um but he's got something better than
this world yeah as good as it it is to
us there's something better for instance
I mentioned earlier in another segment
Every Soul shall taste of death not in
the Hereafter in Paradise there's no
death yeah you know there's no sickness
you don't even have to go to the
bathroom and guess what you don't even
go to sleep can you imagine in a world
of peace and Tranquility no Wars no
fighting no none of that stuff but
nothing but peace and anything that you
want yeah now you can have it yeah in
the in the paradise and God wants us to
have that but the price we have to pay
is give up the dun give up the dunun
dunun thank you very much thank you we
started with peace we end with peace may
God Almighty Allah reward you we need to
have you back again when you are in town
it's confirmed everybody's heard all the
thousands I'm saying it in front of all
these people confirmed back again next
time with us Imam SJ Raj look out for
that you can visit him at the Deans
show.com his own section thank you for
being with us on the dean show we want
peace the owner of peace is the one who
created us and we need to live life
according to how he wants us to live and
then there's nothing less than Paradise
as the Imam had talked about at the end
we hope that you come back here every
week on The Dean show so we can all
benefit from this beautiful knowledge
that most of these guests who come on
they share with
us we'll see you next time on the dean
show until then peace be unto you the
DVDs for dawa is Allah has said in the
Quran in Surah
16125 invite all to the way of your Lord
with wisdom beautiful preaching and
reason with them in ways that are best
and this is a great opportunity for you
to take up the obligation take up the
call as Allah has told you to do and
share this beautiful message with the
world Islam submission to the one God
and see what everyone's talking about if
you find one contradiction it can't be
from
God but the rational idea the rational
explanation is you do your best give up
worshiping God as one I will never give
up spreading this message I hope that
you take that necessary step you don't
know if you're going to live till
tomorrow so you got to find that urgency
to do the right thing right
now if you say that you do not believe
in Jesus you have stepped outside of
Islam you cannot be a Muslim is a tended
our faith
to it's cold it's
late everybody
sleeping I
arise and ask a l to forgive
me oh Allah you
see oh Allah you know
all the sins I
do I turn to you to forgive my sins in
my
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heart I'm your sinful
slave you're my love and
Lord I'm the one who runs
away oh Allah guide me