alhamdulillah alayum that's that
greeting of peace peace be unto you my
name is Eddie and I'm the host of The
Dean show and we are here at the second
annual Journey of Faith conference so
why are all these Muslims coming
together Under One Roof that's because
it's a journey to Allah Allah is the
creator of the heavens and
earth from the my brother to meet
you inah brothers and sisters we're
happy that we're again meeting our
brother from Chicago Eddie from the dean
show welcomeing to our city Toronto
Ontario Canada this is where we we
practice the strictly Sun boys here
inshallah tal we're very happy to be
here again and to spend time with our
brother and to benefit from the Muslims
in the atmosphere here the
knowledge the what Shake is talking
about uh right now they're just testing
the machines how's it going they want to
know why you have the headphones on talk
to us uh well I have the headphone on
because
yeah we're pretending we're important so
are you with the
FBI um I'm joking we just trying to
break some ice you brothers are doing
some wonderful work tell us tell us now
real quickly you guys are doing some
wonderful work what goes into something
like
this a lot of hours a lot of uh
sleepless nights you got to walk and
talk are you the police no no no I'm no
police I'm no police I'm just another
volunteer like everyone else tell us
you're here it's Friday night what
brings you here to to volunteer your
time put all this effort into helping
out this good organization you know what
at the end of the day Subhan Allah it's
all for Allah and um you know we just
got to do it for him and him only right
so I'm wering putting my hours inshallah
may Allah you know bless our efforts and
uh you know accept them that's the main
thing inshallah and that's that's the
only reason I'm here for so
alhamdulillah you know just make Dua Dua
is our most powerful weapon we have and
if we all cumulative make Dua we can
inshallah succeed in in this life and
also the Hereafter and may all the
volunteers and everyone's efforts be
accepted you said Dua and you said
weapons some people might get a
misconception tell what do you mean Dua
du what I mean is that we don't realize
as Muslims sometimes how powerful a Dua
can be du Dua means praying to God and
absolutely so we basically have to
inshallah you know pray to God make Dua
make strong Dua and have the have the
tawa and the Nia and be honest
with with everything you ask and that's
about it
in this is
where ones who have submitted their
s their entire selves to the creator of
the heavens and earth are taking a time
out from the rat race of life and
prostrating theirselves to the one who
gave them the ability to do the many
things they that they do throughout the
day
the one God who's given them the
ability to be here who's giv them the
air that they breathe the food that they
eat the eyes that they see with the ears
that they hear with this is the god who
Jesus Muhammad Moses All The Messengers
of God peace be upon them they prayed
this way they prayed to the one God who
created the Sun and the Moon who created
man and woman but is not a man woman in
Arabic we say Allah and we're at the
Journey of Faith and you're
witnessing
the prayer in Arabic
Salat look at these
beautiful
positions that the Muslims go through
minimum five times a day
prostrating to the one God to the one
creator
light on the tongue heavy on the scale
light on the tongue heavy on the
scale you're a young
man you're sacrificing days nights
weekends many people out at the clubs
youth it's it's it's a reality the youth
out there today are doing a lot of
things they shouldn't be doing you're a
young man what drives you to be at a
place like this doing this good thing
instead of the bad Paradise Paradise
Paradise yes we want this is this is
we're looking for the the green greenish
is a which is Deeds doing good deeds for
Allah which inallah we accepted uh day
of judgment and we'll get Paradise one
person being guided through you is
better than the whole world and and
everything in it pleasure of Allah tala
I should work for the herea more than I
work for the student and that's it cuz
this life is short this life is short
next life is forever forever forever
ever yeah once again working with the
the team the brothers uh there brothers
or sisters that are working on
uh on this convention so it's what do I
say it's uplifting to the IM and the
Soul this inshallah Allah accept this
and shower us with his blessings same
reason that you do we're here at the
Journey of Faith and we're in the
bizaar some different booths right now
people are setting up this is the lunch
area people here will be coming together
to eat some Halal chicken you see
everybody's busy people volun tearing
their time it's good we get the youth
youth off the street and we get the
youth busy because while the youth are
chasing the dunas their parents have to
be really educating them about this
beautiful way of life the way of life of
all the messengers and the last and
final messenger sent to mankind the
prophet Muhammad peace be upon them so
if they educate them properly and get
them involved in activities like this
they're going to be better off less of a
chance of them getting involved in gangs
less of a chance of them getting locked
up less of a chance of them ending up in
boyfriend girlfriend
relationships things that are not
productive for themselves for their
families or Society so get them involved
with the Journey of Faith what goes into
putting event a fabulous event like this
together I think it's a lot of
dedication hard work a lot of patience a
lot of time uh a dedicated team um a
very you know hard working team so you
have to have a lot of unity and
everybody on the same page we are uh
coming up on Noah Noah was one of the
prophets of Gody but he's not Noah the
prophet but this is Noah the man he's on
the phone he is also one of the brothers
here who's uh doing a lot of good work
tell us what goes into something like a
big conference a lot of people a lot of
responsibility Subhan Allah it's a lot
of hard work and um you won't believe
the hours that the organizers put into a
conference like this and this is one of
the brothers who is is uh really putting
a lot of work into making it happen what
does it take to actually make something
like this happen you got thousands and
thousands of people here you're doing
some wonderful
work I feel honored to be interviewed by
uh the famous Eddie and the and the dean
show um um quite frankly it takes a lot
of work a lot of effort and a lot of
dedicated individuals um without the
help of hundreds this couldn't have been
possible it's not a it's not a oneman
show it's not a two or three man show as
everyone can imagine there's quite a bit
involved here uh and alhamdulillah
without the hundreds of volunteers
without the great sha members we have
without all of the dedicated extended
team we had this year um you've seen the
conference grow twice in in in one year
you've seen it double so without the the
the the really dedicated people this
wouldn't have been possible it's a lot
of work um our families can attach to
that and inallah they forgive us for for
for uh for the amount we've put in and
time we've left them alone but uh as
inshallah everyone can witness it's it's
been well worth the effort alhamdulillah
well you see we have about 600
volunteers who've been working
constantly all the organizing team have
probably have not even caught one
lecture um and that's how it's been for
for the most of it I'm not sure about
most of the volunteers but I know for
the organizing team they've been working
hard from 7:00 a.m. till 1:00 a.m. every
every day so it's been a hectic day for
the whole organizing team excuse me does
anybody know where uh tenir is is that
you stop don't move come here this is
the busiest man this is the man who's
making things roll here this is the man
who's the Mastermind along with a lot a
lot of other people Al together working
cohesively together as one unit but this
brother masallah is doing a lot of good
work what goes into making something
like this happen talk to us brother
putting him on a spot but he's got to
talk now that's it
okay of course u i mean lots of planning
lots of coordination
months of hard work sleepless nights 20
hours a day you got to pull it sometimes
you can't sleep sometimes you have to go
for 48 hours because there are tons of
work lots of people to manage and you
can see the chaos that's how it results
first thing that I have to acknowledge
this is from Allah subhah wa taala
what's the theme this year the theme is
journey to Allah uh journey to all God
Almighty the Creator talk to us what's
going on this year it's going to be a
big bang inshallah I mean literally a
big bang it's going to be in it's going
to be
hot as you know the brothers and the
sisters are working alhamdulillah we
have 6 600
volunteers all of them as I said
volunteers none of them are paid for
anything yet mallah tab Allah the number
number of number of hours that they put
just to make this thing happen is
countless hours I mean literally a big
bang it's going to be in it's going to
be hot blowing up I mean people already
associating Muslims with things blowing
up what do you what what I'm saying is
it's going to be a big band as in
Muslims getting together we're going to
be doing something good for the Muslim
Community I don't know if you guys know
but for the first time in North America
Muslims are actually going out Muslim
event is happening and they're going out
advertising in public we have TTC we
have Muslim Transportation where Journey
of Faith names are all over the buses
alhamdulillah for those people now that
want to support they want to help how
can they help they can visit the the uh
website and they can submit any queries
to us at uh uh info@ Journey
conference.com so we're recruiting
people for next year's conference so if
someone wants to get involved with
organization or marketing or sales or
anything we're actually recruiting
people right now other thing is I think
is uh it's about planning and having big
names like zakar n phip Abdullah or
abdah Qui and others and alhamdulillah I
think the umah at this time in the city
of Toronto they also need something
unique and Journey of Faith presents
something very unique um it's all about
following the of theallu alaihi wasallam
following the Quran strictly and at the
same time be able to live with the
society that we part of alhamdulillah
Alum we're here at the Journey of Faith
we brought you to behind the scenes when
things were getting set up now things
are getting close to a finale we have a
brother here we want to get some
feedback from the people that were here
so those that didn't make it this year
can make the intention and put forth the
effort that they can be here next year
so let's talk to some people get some
feedback on how their experien is I
think it's a fantastic conference uh
we've had a number of uh great speeches
here and great uh uh interactions with
the with the speakers uh it's been
excellent because we've had a number of
people also accepting dawa and accepting
the da of Islam and then also embracing
Islam as well I is the best thing that
that ever happened to me for the people
that couldn't make it this year 2010 is
going to be coming around what do you
got to say if you weren't here this year
the only thing I can say is you need to
get the DVD set or the CD set and listen
to what went on here alhamdulillah it
was an amazing conference a lot of uh
major shaks they were able to give us a
lot of insight onto a lot of different
topics um that are not usually touched
on in English so we're able to actually
get a lot of the things that some of us
who are non arabic speaking were able to
actually get on so alhamdulillah it was
excellent I'll say speak to the people
that have showed up this year because
everybody all the testimonials I've
gotten were fantastic alhamdulillah it
was very good I like all the speakers
especially I like like
IIM
and tell us is this a private event
because there's a lot of Muslims should
a non-muslim be scared to come to EV
like this or is this open to non-muslims
if they want to attend alhamdulillah
this year some of young uh sisters they
proposed an idea and they said last year
we only have three people accepted Islam
he said this they said this year let us
bring 100 non Muslim only 100
alhamdulillah and let us invite them to
the event and if they don't accept Islam
at least they know something about Islam
so that's what we did we invited non
Muslims knowing that zakar Dr zakar is
here and will be able to convince them
and
alhamdulillah next year we're planning
to have a bigger session for non-muslims
and show the beauty of Islam through our
Affairs through our conduct through our
proceedings through our teachings what
we're doing and hence we had even today
we had two non-muslims sessions today
Q&A session with Dr zakin n Dr Abu pH I
don't think anyone has ever had that in
the Western Hemisphere especially
alhamdulillah we had had the opportunity
to do that we had another Q&A session
for non-muslims with Dr Abdul Hakim kig
Dr Abu am AB Phillips and inshallah we
are hoping perhaps one day to do a
conference just for non-muslims
inshallah we a for 500 non Muslims and
by the way all the nonm Muslim tickets
was sponsored by Muslims for other
Muslims who are also seeking the a say
inshallah if I purchase a ticket for a
non Muslim and that non-muslim accepts
Islam I'll get the reward I'll take that
risk and this is what we do what I call
business with Allah subhah wa taala
everybody wants to do business with
Allah so the brothers and the sisters
will not here this year no worries next
year subhana wa tala it would be bigger
would be greater and inshallah you will
see a lot more activities it's
completely open to non-muslims as a
matter of fact we have uh guest passes
just for non-muslims we have uh a lot of
non-muslims who attend as uh as our
guests um completely free uh there's no
there's no pressure to become a Muslim
or anything like that it was great the
lectures were incredible I love the
speakers and out of all of them my
favorite was she was the how was the
conference Al it was really good it's
fun yeah very much yeah I love the to I
love the to yeah it was very good it was
the best conference I've ever been to uh
conference was really good yeah uh Dr
zacher n was a good guy too and uh the
other speaker sh and yeah all the other
ones I can't remember their name but
yeah they're good I liked it I hope
everybody come next year who's your
favorite speaker um Dr Zachary Nike and
Dr um
R Dr Zak Nike yeah n no Nike
no not my bad yeah you going to be here
2010 sh a life I live I had a lot of fun
the favorite one of my lecture was Dr
Dak I got to meet him once but it was a
great experience and I wish we can do it
again the Journey of Faith 2009 it was
an incredible experience alhamdulillah
there were many non-muslims who have
come to the religion of Islam the
conference Journey of Faith 2 was
absolutely amazing also I'd like to
congratulate those of the PE those of
the guests the non-muslim guests who
have converted to Islam masallah it's
the best thing that that ever happened
to me for the people that couldn't make
it this year 2010 is going to be coming
around what do you got to say don't miss
it that's it simple as that don't miss
it exactly thank you um I would I would
tell you do what you need to do to get
here uh this is unbelievable uh and
expandable experience uh you have to
definitely try and make it um it's one
of the most found um conferences that
are available right now in Toronto you
don't have to travel far um I I don't
know what to tell you guys but you have
to make it out inshallah it's an amazing
amazing conference and we'd be happy to
have you as our guest here and to be
able to uh have you as one of those
people who we can interact with and we
can share because uh sharing is caring
you need to get the DVD set I mean 2010
inshallah we we are hoping inah it will
be more exciting perhaps multiple sides
of this attendance inshallah we're
hoping perhaps inshah with peace TV and
Dr Z we can have a larger initiative in
mark it off in your calendars do
whatever you need to do to mark down the
Journey of Faith Conference next year it
is something that you should try your
best not to miss absolutely try
absolutely try to make it make it next
year it is it is amazing it is a don't
miss event if you cannot if you couldn't
make it this year please try to make it
next year you need to get down yet I
like the conference I like I like I
really like the lecture we we brought in
professionals I really like brother Bill
Phillips he he taught me a lot and I
like I really liked it the the marketing
and stuff it was really nice it's the
best thing that that ever happened to me
when one of the speakers or any of the
speakers speaking everybody come and
listen so why everybody has to come and
listen where all other conferences you
will find some speakers talking and
everywhere else roaming around you know
this place and that place there is
something unique about the speakers and
the method of the speakers and how we
organize so I request and I encourage
everyone who was not here this year make
sure you don't miss the opportunity next
year subhana tala thank you very much
may God Almighty Allah the creator of
the heavens Earth reward you and
everybody involved with this thank you
thank
you and I recommend Dean show for every
Muslim and not Muslim and not because
he's here I've watched it through
YouTube it's excellent work and
alhamdulillah and it's excellent way of
giving da keep it up alhamdulillah
alhamdulillah thank you and we showed
you the behind the scenes this place is
jam-packed so make your intention and
make sure you're here for 2010 2011 2012
every year at the Journey of
Faith everyone can come back next year
to this conference don't miss
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