Salam alikum my name is mmed I'll be the
guest on The Dean show telling you about
my life and don't get go anywhere we'll
be right
back alhamdulillah Alum peace be with
you I'm Eddie your host of the dean show
and this week oh man you are going to be
amazed this is an incredible human an
incredible human being that you're going
to meet an amazing person SEL got a
chance to spend a little bit of time
with them we got to interview and this
will help all of us who complain we just
complaining day and night when you look
at this brother's situation and how
buoyant and happy he is how he's passing
his test and he doesn't have many of the
things that we have and you're going to
get to see that firsthand when we come
back here in the deel now just before we
cut out and go to this week's show just
a friendly reminder for myself first and
foremost and for all the millions of
viewers that are out there it's Ramadan
we need to get the most out of it
alhamdulillah all praises to the crator
of the heavens and earth that's given us
life that we can experience another
Ramadan so this is training ground we
want to develop ourselves that's right
to be the best human beings that we can
be so we got to watch out for all the
evil things that will not be conducive
to the development of our spiritual side
our Taqua Our God Consciousness
developing ourselves so we can get and
have a closer relationship with our
creator this is what the plan is this is
what we need to be doing so then we'll
have a boost we'll get pumped up and
we'll be ready for the rest of the year
and if Allah gives us life we'll be back
at it again because the Iman goes up and
down and this is the time through all
the extra acts of worship to really
refrain from every evil Vice that's out
there it's tough it's not easy but you
know what as you go higher up you want
to get that PhD you want to get that
doctorate there's less people in class
isn't there so the higher you are in
developing yourself you know what it's
going to take a little more patience
it's going to take a little more
commitment but Allah knows you can do it
so he wants to bring out the best in you
so you can have the higher levels of
Jenna that's right we want to get to
Paradise this life is short it's going
to end at any time so the reminder is
especially during during this month we
have to be cautious about all the bad
things that are out there and you know
what some of those things now are the
gossiping the backbiting getting in
other people's
business saying things about people as
the prophet peace be upon him said to
say something that your brother wouldn't
like when he's not in front of you when
his presence is not there that's
backbiting but then to say something
about her or him that's not true that's
slander so we have to be careful
have our tongue moist moist with the
remembrance of Allah the cror not with
things that are of no benefit that the
angel on the right he's not writing down
the good he's writing down the bad and
another thing we have to be aware of so
if we train ourselves now it's going to
be easier for the rest of the year when
we get out of Ramadan this is the
training ground you know it I'm just
reminding you and myself and another
thing we have to stay away from there's
a lot of good that can be accomplished
with a lot of the social media tools
that are out there so I don't want to
just speak generally I want to give you
something tangible to work on you know
we get taken away with a lot of the
technological advances and Facebook is
one of them millions of people got it
and we're on there chatting
away we're chatting away but a lot of
times we're chatting away with useless
chit chatter Jibber jat and you know
what is the angel on the right is he
writing the Good Deeds what are we doing
are we refraining
from things that we should be refraining
from are we getting into you know what
it starts off with the innocent hello
how are you you expose
yourself and now what happens now you
end up talking to the opposite gender
without your parents' permission the
women especially strike a pose and now
everybody's like hey you're looking so
fine there honey and what happens now
your head gets a little big and now what
happens you're full of yourself and what
happens now it's harder to disattach
from this you're liking the attention
but is this pleasing to
Allah is the attention of all the boys
out there more pleasing than the
attention of Allah same thing for the
young men out there you're posting all
the pictures maybe of women that
shouldn't be on your page you're
exposing yourself and your body your
or you're exposing your body and you're
putting things out there that wow we
can't believe as Muslims that these
things are up on your accounts man you
need to chill especially during this
month we need to refrain we are Muslims
sisters brothers please now is the time
get away from the useless Jibber jat
chit chatter don't expose yourselves out
there the wolves are on the hunt and
they looking to get those good sisters
they're out there and same thing for the
brothers don't get caught off guard you
see something it's like an arrow through
the heart and now your Iman what does it
increase no it decreases and you're
looking for looking at things you
shouldn't be looking at you should be
lowering the Gaze you should be staying
away from these things but you know what
we get tricked we get trapped because
shayan's the pimp he's the biggest pimp
and he's looking to pimp us so please
now is the time to refrain from all the
evil things sisters if this month you
got a chance to observe the hijab don't
take it off at the end of Ramadan don't
turn the corner and put the tight jeans
on when nobody's looking don't do that
these are tangible things these are real
things in the real world that we're
facing the issues brother you're in the
Masid you ain't swearing or cursing but
you turn the corner and you're speaking
French and I'm not talking French fries
of French food I'm talking about the
foul language that's coming out of your
mouth so these are just a few things
that we need to be aware of we're
Muslims we're ones who have consciously
submitted to who to a man to a monkey no
we've submitted to the one who's created
this whole universe and everything in it
and he's got a great reward for us he's
got a great prize it's the ultimate
prize of Jenna get your eyes hypnotized
to that prize stay away from many of the
R-rated movies and this Ramadan you're
refraining from what from food and drink
but now you're watching the big screen
you're flickering through the channels
and promiscuity and women naked and men
naked and they kiss in an American Idol
and again you're losing your fast you
don't even know what you're starving
yourself but you know what it's all
going out the window because again we're
not watching what we should not be
watching and that's the reminder that I
want to remind myself and my brothers
and sisters out of the love that we love
you here at the dean show so please
these are some practical things that are
going on so if you find yourself your
Iman is going down check yourself you
got some CD or some music in the car
bobbing your head to 50 cents or Lady
Gaga goooo and all that other
nonsense these
are these are the things that do not
help us or bring us closer to the
creator of the heavens and earth they
don't remind us about Paradise the day
of judgment the Hereafter doing good
they take us away from doing good and we
end up falling into trickery we end up
falling into things that decrease our
Imad so please this is the advice that I
give you especially during this month
that we strengthen up our selves we walk
straight we proud to be Muslims ones
again who have submitted to the will of
the one God acquiring Peace by by doing
all the good things that he's told us to
do the same way Jesus Moses all the
righteous predecessors all of them did
this and the last and final messenges
sent to mankind his Sunnah is the way
that we need to follow and we need to
this month really get to know it tune in
to the dean show tune in to P T who
there's so many other media Outlets stay
away from the things that will only
hinder you from growing in the dean from
growing in your relationship with the
one who created you but only decrease
you and you know what death hit you and
you die in a bad State and as Allah says
the Creator says do not die except in a
state of full submission so when you're
chatting away and you're looking at
something that you're not supposed to be
looking at you're doing some things
you're not supposed to be doing you know
what they are ask yourself is Allah
pleased with me at this moment am I
earning his pleasure or you know what
I'm getting closer to the fire oh Allah
please protect us from this please
protect us from this and grant us your
Jenna grant us your Jenna let's be more
in a constant state of self-development
according to how the Creator Allah the
almighty has told us to be that's
worshiping him alone following the
Sunnah of the last and final messenger
sent to mankind the prophet Muhammad
peace be upon him the same way you would
have been following Jesus Moses and all
the messengers if you were living during
their time and this was the reminder to
myself first and foremost and to all my
brothers and sisters in
humanity and my brothers and sisters in
faith I love you for the sake of Allah
keep me and all of us at the dean show
in your duas let's go on to meet brother
SEL SEL an amazing an amazing individual
you'll see in a moment when we come back
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peace only muham is his messenger Allah
Allah there's only one God and Jesus was
his
messenger I don't know why I did that
maybe maybe it's just to break the
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welcome to the dean show this is your
host today a new face this is Dr MDU
Muhammad welcoming you to a wonderful
unique program today today I am
interviewing a new person a person that
whom you will love whenever you see on
this screen and you will be proud of a
person that I felt so proud of meeting
him today I came to Chicago today and I
was lucky that brother Eddie uh the host
of this program the original host of
this program asked me to interview this
brother I've been here in Chicago only
for a few hours and I was lucky to have
this opportunity to meet this brother
called SEL uh let me he let him
introduce himself to you and let's hear
from how he wants to introduce himself
Alum my name is s
m I'm 13 years old I'm from Bosna uh
and I live in Chicago Illinois and
that's basic my information okay and you
love to live in Chicago yes I think
everybody lives in Chicago loves Chicago
very much why do you think that Chicago
is better than other places because it's
more diverse and more diverse a lot of
Muslim do you like do you like diversity
yes and there's a lot of Muslims here
yes do you interact with them the
Muslims here yes my friends are Muslim
musl and for example like my friends
that come from different countries to
are Muslim oh you have friends from
different countries that are Muslim too
so that are Muslims too yeah okay good
that's good I'm glad to hear that uh
tell me I see that you speak English and
do you speak other languages I speak
sign language um you speak sign language
English
bosan a little bit of Spanish and little
bit of Spanish yes wow so four languages
yeah that's you are much better than my
case I know only two languages and a
half alhamdulillah do you thank God for
that yes so now you know few languages
you know sign language how did you learn
the sign language um from my parents cuz
they're both deaf and I picked it all I
picked up words and letters As I Grew
Older your two parents are deaf yes they
don't listen and you learned from them
sign language and now you are using
using this language to communicate with
them and you're making life much easier
for them by Communication in fact it was
very difficult for me and for brother
Eddie to communicate with your father
until you came and we found that you are
helping us a lot do you thank Allah
subhana tala for this or do you thank
your parents for this I think both of
them because Allah subhana tala gave me
the chance of learning something that
other people wouldn't have yeah and I
don't have it myself I don't have I have
a handicapped child and I could not
learn sign language I could not could
not communicate with
her so I think you are blessed
alhamdulillah Allah glorified you and
blessed you with this ability to help
your two parents you're doing a
wonderful job although you are young you
are handicapped but you're doing a
wonderful job that I'm quite sure
inallah that Allah is so pleased with
you right are you pleased with Allah yes
okay why are you pleased with him
because he
um made my life um easier and more like
um exciting and more like educational
more educ so you can learn alhamdulillah
although you handicapped you still have
some uh blessings and bounties from
Almighty Allah that you can learn and
you can communicate and not only one
languages you're talking about four
languages approximately wonderful your
English is amazing perhaps it's better
than my English yes I'm I'm glad I'm
really proud of you uh now let me tell
me ask you I've seen
some Tournament of these wonderful
things that tell me about that um well
these are the trophies the I won that on
a tournament that I played with Buddy
baseball which is do you do you play
baseball yes which buddy baseball is
which like baseball for kids who are
handicapped okay and so I won this you
won this with my school so with your
school so it's a teamwork yes okay and
tell me about your role in the team were
you leading the team or were you just a
member or a player I was probably both
cuz both everybody was a leader in okay
what they where they played like I was
the usually the
um the pitcher or the uh the yeah and so
uh yeah so everybody had different parts
and roles and tried their best to lead
and you were proud of yourself that you
did that and your parents are proud of
you yes and I'm proud of you well I'm
quite sure that Allah subhana T loves to
see you achieving these things because
Allah says that I I have perhaps taken
some uh of the bounties and the
blessings that I have given to others to
test him and alhamdulillah it's quite
obvious that you are in the process of
passing the test we ask Allah to give
you support to continue passing the test
and achieve more okay now I'd like to
ask you tell me about your future I've
seen uh other things also you achieved
other things would you like to tell me
about this thing also as well it's the
same body same one but it was a little
older than the other one we just showed
you okay it was my first year this one
okay of buddy basball so okay how long
have you been practicing this book I'll
say about four years four years oh so
you've been practicing baseball since
you were nine years or eight years yes
oh amazing amazing so although you are
handicapped but this did not prevent you
from enjoying your life tell me how do
you spend most of your
time um well I read you read books
everything so you read different types
of books or specific types of books just
anything that anything that you okay and
um the internet oh you access you have
access to the internet at home and you
use the internet and you use your left
hand and you're comfortable with that
mhm and tell me what what do you like in
the internet um well like anybody I go
okay I do the games or watch videos good
my email your email you correspond with
other people by email yes okay this
wonderful opportunity here let's take a
break and come back one God wish alone
do what he wants you to do put your
desires this thing inside you that just
wants this and wants that and you just
can't get enough you know what you never
get enough until the dirt's in your
mouth don't let it come to that be
sincere and honest ask the one who
created you to guide you is the first
step put off chasing all the women and
the good times and the parties and this
and that there is no one worthy of
worship except Allah don't wait you
never know if death would come today for
you or not
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Li by side I am not afraid to stand
alone I am not afraid to stand alone if
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alone uh this is your host again M
Muhammad welcome to the dean show
welcome to this unique episode that's so
unique in our life in my life because I
have a handicapped child and in the life
of every Muslim let's hear from him now
we've heard from him that he is enjoying
his life he has a lot of readings he has
a lot of hobbies and he got some
trophies because of his alhamdulillah
practicing sports with other people that
would suit him so although he is
disabled this did not prevent him from
practicing a normal life almost close to
normal but tell me about your
relationship with Allah with God uh you
are in a situation not like you are not
like any regular or any normal uh human
being you are handicapped tell me about
your experience does this affect fect
your relationship with God do you thank
him do you still thank him do you feel
that something what what what what is
how can you describe your relationship
with God well I think Allah was for
giving me everything and even um like
for me being disabled is not really like
something that I hate because I get to
learn things about being disabled and
like and I still have a great
relationship with Allah subhana tala so
you still you still love him yes okay
and you still do you pray the daily
prayers yeah I try as hard as I can
mashallah mallah masallah mallah I think
I I want every viewer to learn from this
he's disabled as you see he still prays
how about those people who are blessed
with their full bodies I want them to
listen
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I'm sorry for that perhaps you've seen
that I'm so touched by the words that
come from his heart and I envy him of
doing this I ask Allah subhana tala to
give him support we see in the world
millions of people if not billions of
people who enjoy their full body however
they still they are not thankful to
their creator they are not thankful to
the god who created them with full and
strong body uh let's enjoy talking to
this wonderful brother now you have uh
some few minutes now to talk to the
whole world what would you like what is
the message that you think because you
have a unique experience and you say
that you enjoy your life even if you are
disabled uh what is the message that you
want to give to the viewers there are
millions of people are watching you now
so what would you like to tell them I
would like to tell them to um enjoy
their life be thankful to Allah for
whatever you have be thankful of Allah
of whatever you have and whatever you
don't cuz even whatever you don't why is
that cuz like um maybe he doesn't give
you bad things so be thankful he doesn't
yeah so Allah does not give you any bad
thing yes but he may be testing you so
this is part of the test that you are
every human being is going through a
test M but the test is different one of
them may be handicapped the other one
may be sick the other one may be
deprived of children the other one would
be his intellect would be less than the
intellect of others he's not smart as
you you are smarter than many people
that I interviewed in my lifetime so
Allah is testing everybody with a
different test and now what a Muslim
should do when he or she is confronting
a test should we accept the test or
should we reject it and become
ungrateful to Almighty Allah we should
accept it and be thankful to
allaha for testing us and try your
hardest to do like whatever you can to
um be thankful and happy and try to pass
the test mallah mallah and now we are
talking about tests and passing the test
do you believe that if you pass the test
successfully in this life there is
another lat life yes do you believe in
that and do you believe that in that
life you will be given all the powers
that any other human being will have and
you are hoping for that yes you see and
is this a beauty of this religion that
you feel hopeful yeah cuz you know that
you may have a hard life now but would
be better you know later half the
afterlife if you go to paradise okay and
you know now I am your intervie you
where I'm older than you uh perhaps
three or four times if you want to give
me an advice for me what would you tell
me to never like give up and always be
happy never give up yeah and always be
happy yes thank you for this advice and
we'll we'll try to wrap up very quickly
and we'll take a break and then we'll
come back after taking this break no
problem you can take my daughter to
dinner you and my daughter and me
let me tell you something it's natural
that's the idea God created it and he
created us to have a good time we should
have a good time only with our wives
though Islam is the fastest growing
religion in the world and most of the
converts are women not men they see that
the rules of Islam instead of
constraining them the rules set them
free protects us from
Hunger welcome back to the dean show
this is your host Dr M muham Muhammad
interviewing
our M yes again I think that you need to
remember SEL all the time because he's
an example a wonderful example that we
rarely see such an example in our life
nowadays particularly for those who are
disabled and I mentioned in the
beginning that I have one son who's
disabled and I wish that he would see
what's going on although he cannot
communicate but I'm quite sure that he
will benefit from this all the disabled
people would see how cheerful he is and
how hopeful he is and he still have some
plans for the future and I wish
everybody would learn from him not only
the disabled but the abled one and I'm
going to come back to them but let me
ask him first tell me about your future
your dreams what do you want to achieve
what do you want to happen what if you
ask God now first let's ask you if you
ask God now what do you ask God to give
you inshah like
better education knowledge of Islam and
okay um I like to become um anything in
the medical field in the medical field
to give you support this this is not
difficult for Allah this is so easy for
Allah if Allah Wills he will give you
health and he will give you your body
back and we ask Allah subhana wa tala to
give you this and and and I trust Allah
and perhaps you have heard the story of
the Prophet a
he was so sick to the degree that his
family members used to carry him yes he
could not move at all he to the degree
that he lost his skin and he was in a
terrible situation and Allah subhana wa
tala loved him then after some time when
he passed the test Allah subhana tala
gave him his body back and all his
powers came back to him so it's not
difficult it's it's we just continue
asking Almighty Allah that he will give
you this inshallah but tell me about
your future
what do you want to do after 20 years
after 10 years what do you want to do um
in become something in the medical field
and in the medical field you want to to
work in the medical field and give
information about Islam to people who
would you know need to know like how and
to work in the field of dawa to teach
people about this religion yes what is
good about this religion you're 13 years
old you're not adult yet you are in the
in the process of of being adult yeah
tell me what what what attracts you to
this religion that you know that there
is um an afterlife that would could be
greater than yes there's another life
and after death Love of All the Muslim
people and Allah subhana wa taala you
love Allah subhana wa tala mallah M and
this is where you get the Comfort to
your heart yes you feel comfortable by
belonging to this religion right m i I'm
proud of you to hear that and again and
again tell me something that do you when
you pray how can you pray I sit in my
chair you sit in your chair and do it
like any other okay you put your hand on
your chest as much as possible and when
we bend over it and you bend over to Bow
yes so you do exactly the prayer as as
if we are traveling but in sitting
sitting because when we are traveling in
an airplane for example we sit on chairs
and we do exactly as you said yes we put
our hands like this and we start
reciting then we bow a little bit then
we bow more and we finish it so again
and again and again I remind everybody
who is showing us Muslims and
non-muslims he is an example of a person
who is disabled even though he does not
miss his prayer he does the prayer as
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam
asked us to do if you cannot do it while
you are standing you can do it while you
are sitting there's no excuse for the
people to not to do the prayer I want
everybody to learn from this experience
and shame on us if we have all the
organs in our bodies and all our limbs
are in our bodies and we don't perform
our prayers you see this is an example a
true example it's the first time for me
to meet him and okay now I'd like you to
uh to hear from you a word uh for your
parents your wonderful parents your
father who sitting here I'm so sorry
because I cannot communicate with him I
don't know sign language I wish I would
have learned this what would you like to
tell your father that I love him and I'm
thankful for him to you know help me and
teach me everything that you need to
know you love your father you thank him
for helping you and for teaching you
you're enjoying your life with him and
you told me that you have some fun and
some good time with your sisters do you
have the same time with your father and
mother we okay play around and and laugh
with each other okay and the school that
you go and you spend how many times do
you go to school do you go every day yes
I go every day and tell me about do you
enjoy the environment there yes I enjoy
cuz everybody is from a different
culture and okay you get to learn and
the people are really nice there good
wonderful did you have chance to to talk
to some people about Islam in your
presentations or in your discussions at
school well well yeah like my um Aid who
helps me yes you know he didn't know
that I was Muslim so I told them and he
learned a little he learned a lot about
Islam you're a the one who gives you
support yes at school yes you taught him
about Islam yes and he's happy about
Islam and he believes that that the
media talks negatively about the Islam
the media is not fair to Islam and
you're giving him a clear picture of
Islam which the essence of it is peace
which which we hope that everybody would
enjoy peace in the whole world yes
that's wonderful thing okay now you are
on the dean show and have you ever seen
some programs on The Dean show yes I've
seen some um with the little girl yes
and the um rapper Lon okay and you and
have you seen me okay okay uh why do you
watch the dean show because it's um it's
nice to know that like there's um other
Muslims who show how they live and yes
and it gives a real Message of Islam to
people to the Muslims and non-muslims
yes and I think that it's a good way of
saying that this is this is our Islam
this is the mainstream and we're trying
to present as much as possible the image
of our beloved Prophet what's his name
Muhammad Muhammad s Ali wasallam again
this is a great opportunity I thank
Allah subhana wa ta'ala for giving me
this opportunity but before I leave you
I wish I don't want to leave you I want
to stay with you longer time but I ask
Almighty Allah to give you quick
recovery and to give you your health
back inshallah very soon and we'll see
you playing with us we'll come and play
with you inshallah and if it doesn't
happen I hope it happens very soon
inshallah but I'm quite sure that Allah
subhana tala will give you a much better
life in later life you're sure of that
yes I'm glad to meet you and I'm going
to kiss your hand if you allow me may
Allah subhana tala bless you and bless
your family and I'm thankful to the dean
show who gave me this opportunity to
interview salel again I want you to
remember this wonderful name and I hope
I don't forget
itam this is your host Dr m
muhamad obey your lord submit to him
avoid the danger of the major sins obey
your lord repent to him avoid the danger
of the major sins obey your lord
surrender to him avoid the danger of the
major sins obey your lord submit to him
avoid the danger of the major sins stay
away stay away the m
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The
Whispers have mercy on our
soul stay
away ignore the
Whispers oh Lord Oh Lord Mercy on our
have mercy on our souls avoid the
footsteps of Shan who plotting scheme in
247 trickery deception falsehood lies
anything to keep you in the fire in line
he'll tell you anything that you want to
hear he'll be your friend when no one
else is there no matter what he says
he's a stone cold liar he only wants to
keep you in the fire in
night ignore the
Whispers oh
Lord on us
Soul
Stay The
Whispers oh Lord Oh Lord Mercy on us
have mercy on us