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theam alum peace be with you another
episode we're alive we're taking a deep
breath because God Almighty the creator
has given us this ability to breathe for
the heart to pump he's given us so many
favors that you cannot enumerate all the
blessings that he's given us shouldn't
we be thankful and grateful so when
you've acknowledged that there's nothing
worth worship except the one who created
creation I'm going to worship the
Creator and not his creation and then
you have to prove it by action and one
of the first actions after you submitted
in this testimony there's nothing worthy
of worship Allah the creator of the
heavens and earth Muhammad is the last
and final messenger the same way if you
Liv in different Jesus's time you accept
him as a mighty messenger nor did he
ever claim say propagate that he was God
Son of God none of these things he was
calling people to worship God so after
that they called the people to pray to
God to establish the five daily prayers
in their lives as Muslims so can you be
a Muslim can you be one who submitted to
the will of God if you're not connected
to God through the five daily prayers
we're going to have our next guest
answer this question we come back don't
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youum how are you very good Nas how's it
going I'm it's going real good good to
have you on the show it's my pleasure to
be here got a nice grip there that's how
we roll that's how we roll K Fu
Master Fu Grip it's it's it's the
southern Texas grip yeah yeah thank you
for being on the D show oh no it's my
pleasure um really admired uh Dean show
and your work for a very long time my
younger brother Abdullah is a huge fan
of the show and watches it all the time
and um you know I I had a little story
to share with you please go ahead um a
couple of summers ago three Summers ago
I visited
Vermont um and there's one mid in the
whole state of Vermont uh the Juma
congregation the Friday sermon the
Friday prayer is probably about 70
people at the most really small
community and um so I went out there to
give some lectures do some programs I
met a young man an Albanian young man
and um he was he was really struggling a
lot of challenges um they had literally
um seen their own father killed before
their own eyes
uh him and his two older brothers and
they came here and they were basically
living here on their own working like
you know some type of a Night Shift like
a janitor job somewhere um just trying
to get by and unfortunately they'd
fallen into a lot of bad stuff they were
drinking and partying and gambling and
doing all this stuff and the youngest
brother who was probably you know 18
years old 19 years old right out of high
school he said that one day he was
searching for something I think on
YouTube he searching for something about
music and you must have done an episode
about something in regards to related to
music and it showed up in some of the
related videos and he clicked it and
started watching it and he said he got
hooked he said he did not leave the
computer for like two days he just kept
coming back kept coming back and just
watching he said he saw every single
episode that you had ever
recorded and he said it changed his life
and um I didn't even know you back then
um he introduced me to the dean show but
he just said do you know brother Eddie
do you know brother Eddie I said I don't
know brother Eddie and um he showed me
the show and you know uh I just wanted
to let you know that there's uh
hopefully inshallah he'll watch this
episode as well but there's lots of
people out there like that that have
really benefited so may Allah bless you
and reward you and accept this blessed
effort alhamdulillah all praise to the
creator of the heavens and earth who's
given us this ability to be here and
inshallah God willing
inshallah God willing that the creator
of the heavens and earth accepts is for
us I mean I mean I
mean so I'll feel some of the silence
you know you you interview everybody I
know you've made a movie um there's a
movie there's I have yet to get the
pleasure to watch it in I intend to God
willing but um so I want to watch it but
I've you know I don't know if the local
Dallas folks have gotten to and some of
the folks in my community have gotten to
know enough about you yet so from I hear
on really reliable sources that you're
pretty nasty when it like if you get in
the ring with brother Eddie he could
tear you up pretty bad that's that's
what I hear mallah alhamdulillah the
creator of the heavens and earth has
given me this ability that you know um
uh I've I've excelled in this sport
Gracie Brazilian jiu-jitsu but before
that you know going through life you
know basically blinded by the Delights
and the tantalization of this life you
know and I got to experience that life
of the days of ignorance and then you
taste the sweetness of Iman you taste
the sweetness of Islam it's a gameer
exactly so I I investigated many of the
different ways of lives that were out
there but Islam provided the proof and
the evidence that it was the truth from
the creator of the heavens and earth
right after that I found out hey the
Creator he wants to be worshiped alone
no Partners next to him shiing God alone
without any associations and then you
establish the prayer I got hooked up
with that and I didn't leave that
alhamdulillah since that time I have not
missed a salot so we want to help those
who are out there who might not know
they say you know I'm a Muslim but they
didn't know they have to pray after the
show we don't want anyone to have an
excuse on why they're not prostrating
and thanking the one who gave us so many
of these blessings you specialize in
this topic is this right this one one
that you love talking about yeah I I
traveled around the country for the last
three years uh teaching a Class A Course
a workshop where I go through not only
how we pray but why we pray and what are
we saying when we're praying uh and it's
been a real pleasure I've probably
interacted with close to about you know
7 8,000 people um all across the country
um just talking about this topic of
prayer and it's it's really interesting
um one of the things that you just said
you know um when you were searching for
truth and you said that you know of
course Islam was was a no-brainer it was
automatic you knew Islam was meant for
you when you came across it one of the
things about the prayer in Islam that
makes Islam so beautiful so unique and
makes the prayer such an important part
of our faith in our religion is that it
adds the practicality to our faith it
becomes something practical it's not
just theoretical but it's practical it's
implemented on a daily basis it's
something you interact with it's it's
something that you you you you s you
know you roll up your sleeves and you
you just dig into and you feel it so
it's not just something you talk about
you talk about or you think about but
it's something you do and and that a lot
of times is something that's really
really um life-changing for a lot of
people because when we talk about when
people try to figure out the purpose of
life and why they exist there's a lot of
fancy talk and there's a lot of
philosophical you know exchange of ideas
but Islam brings a practicality through
the prayer what I always tell people is
the our five times daily prayer is Faith
manifest is Faith manifest it's
manifesting itself so you say this is
what I believe but you're showing that
that's what you believe and and you hit
the nail on the head when when you say
that you know the question a lot of
times that comes up well you know could
can you be Muslim and not pray right
that's a common question can you be
Muslim and not pray uh what kind of a
Muslim would not pray I think that the
dialogue needs to change M we need to be
asking the question to make people think
in this manner why don't you want to
pray yes yes why don't you want to pray
you mentioned about blessings I mean
think about all the blessings that we
have of Allah how blessed we are by
Allah and and I mean just take any one
blessing for instance anyone blessing
random uh the ability to see what an
unbelievable blessing of Allah I mean I
I wouldn't know what the sky look like
what the trees look like I would have
never seen the faces of my beautiful
children if I didn't have the ability to
see now if I realize how truly blessed I
am you know gratitude it motivates you
to do something about it so brother
Eddie if you know I was in some really
hard times I lost my job I lost my house
I lost everything and you helped me out
alhamdulillah praise be to God you
helped me out you rolled up you gave me
some money you gave me some cash you
gave me a place to stay you let me
borrow your car you found me a job and
everything you hook me up if you call me
a year later asking for a little favor
hey I'm at the airport I need a ride to
my house or something before you even
finish asking the question I'm there
don't go nowhere I'm coming absolutely
yeah I'm on my way and when I come to
pick you up if you try to thank me I'll
be offended no no don't say thank you to
me thank you for giving me the
opportunity to do something for you and
if you tried to give me some gas money
when we reach your house like here you
go here's a little something since you
went to all this trouble I'd be
insulted like no man after everything
you did for me you I finally got a
literal opportunity to do something for
you now the human
being Muslim non-muslim alike has just
got to take a minute of their time to
sit down and think about how truly
blessed they are by God how minute a
minute in line just stop chasing all the
material things and stop and think it
that's it like we're about to go to a
commercial break during that commercial
break everybody watching I want you to
literally just sit down for that 30
seconds 60 seconds whatever the
commercial break is and I want you to
close CL your eyes remove the
distractions and just think about how
blessed you are count your
blessings and then ask yourself the
question what are you willing to do to
thank him for giving you all of that
that's right you got your homework we'll
be right back think about it on the dean
show 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 protect us from
Hunger back here on the dean show and
we're talking about the second pillar of
Islam Islam has been there since time of
Memorial first man Adam did Islam
absolutely Moses did Islam Jesus did
Islam abut and Muhammad peace be upon
him he's the final messenger he taught
and brought Islam submission to the will
of God and after that you agree what in
your very nature that I want to worship
the Creator not his creation Now the
best of examples are the prophets and
Prophet Muhammad peace be upon him he's
teaching us how to get close to God
right absolutely so some people say well
why does God want me to this is one
argument that some people let's say we
say why aren't you praying why does God
need my prayer I'm busy at work I got so
much work to do how you know why does
God need this from me and that's that's
a really really valid question because
somebody who's trying to wrap their head
around it would have that
question again I'm going to flip the
question around let's not ask ourselves
whether God needs our prayers or not
because we know he doesn't but let's ask
the question whether we need to pray to
God or
not I mean you know I I I often give
this example when trying to explain to
people the Practical role of Prayer in
their everyday lives you know we have
these unbelievably awesome devices these
smartphones brother Ed you got you got a
smartphone iPhone nothing really iPad oh
nice okay there you go close enough so
these little cool devices you know
iPhone Android iPad all these great
devices they're unbelievable yes oh man
they do everything you know you can surf
the web you can check your email book a
fly
play video games you know and they make
phone calls too right so they do
everything and anything there's one
problem with these devices anyone
regardless of what brand or model of
device they have they all have one
universal complaint everybody who uses
these devices let's see if you can guess
what it is what is it battery life
because they're so awesome because
they're so multifunctional because
they're doing 18 things at the same time
battery runs out like this they need to
recharge all the time
all the time that's why like I'll talk
about an iPhone cuz I have an iPhone
like iPhone users they have Chargers
everywhere they have a charger by their
bed they have a charger in the kitchen
they have a charger in the bathroom they
have a bath they have a charger in the
in their car you know I'm pretty sure
sister's walking around with chargers in
their purse I got a charger in my
backpack Chargers everywhere and so you
got to always keep charging you got to
keep recharging it's very multi
functional it's a really awesome device
it can do a lot it's awesome but it just
the charge runs out so you got to
recharge well the human being is the
best of God's creation he's amazing this
human being is an Amazing Creation
capable of so much I mean look at the
earth look at the world that we live in
but there's a problem that battery runs
out that that capacity Withers I was
actually talking to a couple of
Physicians yesterday uh one of them
who's a psychiatrist and he was kind of
talking about some research about
willpower and you know uh talking about
mental fatigue and things like that and
he was actually commenting on the same
thing that you know if if mentally you
become fatigued then the entire body
everything else that you're capable of
emotional mental fatigue leads can lead
to a big strong healthy human being
becoming completely worthless so that
emotional mental fatigue spiritual
fatigue and that's life I mean look at
the terms that we got you know road rage
frustrated nervous anxious angry upset
tired exhausted fatigued there's wear
and tear we go to work it's the grind
we're driving home from work It's a
Grind taking care of the kids at home
It's a Grind so the human being keeps
wearing down wearing down wearing down
well then what's our charge where can I
plug in to get my re my recharge charge
my battery back up
and that's our prayer that's the prayer
that's the prayer cuz when we pray see
that's the thing I think we all miss the
boat on when we stand up and we pray
we're talking to Allah and the most
remarkable thing the thing that
personally for me changed my life was
that we have a prophetic tradition it's
actually called a sacred tradition
Hadith where the Prophet tells us what
God has said in those exact words and he
tells tells us that when the slave when
the human being the creation stands up
and prays to the Creator and he recites
F the first opening chapter of the Quran
the holy text at that time for every
verse that we
read God responds to every single verse
so not only is it that we are talking to
God when we pray but he's responding
back to us we're having a conversation
with god when we pray you know you know
if you're having a tough day
you know everyone's got somebody in
their life you talk to when you're
having a tough day you know I'll talk to
my wife it's just kind of unloading kind
of helps me deal with what's going on
imagine talking to God at a minimum of
five times a day minimum minimum of five
times a day like your burdens are gone
what else do you have to worry about
it's it's the most unbelievable feeling
mhm and so your question was why does
God need me to pray to him no no no no I
need to pray to God I need this prayer
this prayer is a gift it's not a burden
it's not an obligation it's not you know
something that's forced on me it's a
gift a treasure and an opportunity and
and I know that a lot of the audience
that watches the dean show and and um I
want to emphasize one thing about the
prayer the prayer how we pray it you
know we with the timings are very
specific that we pray five times a day
but even the format of how we pray you
know somebody who's watching this uh
video maybe they seen a Muslim praying
somewhere and they see them kind of like
doing these awkward movements and
putting their head on the ground and all
these different things and trying to
figure out what's going on something
remarkable that our tradition teaches us
the sacred tradition that was given to
all the prophets all the messengers
teaches us that the prophet Muhammad
peace and blessings be upon him he
prayed but the Quran is telling us that
Jesus peace be upon him he also prayed
in chapter number 19 Surah 19 Surah
that's named after his mother Mary it
actually
says my Lord has commanded me to pray as
long as I'm alive ishma the son of
Abraham peace be upon them prophet of
God he prayed Not only would he pray but
the narration uh the the verse actually
says Not only would he pray he would
tell his family to pray with him he tell
his family to pray with him it talks
about Abraham praying it talks about
Mary the mother of Jesus being told by
God to pray so every single Prophet from
the beginning of time has prayed so when
we pray we're following in the footsteps
of not only our beloved Prophet but in
the footsteps of all the prophets all
the prophets every single one that's the
same tradition every single one of them
Jesus fell on his face and prayed Moses
Abraham and the last and final messenger
sent to mankind Prophet Muhammad
absolutely we're not making up anything
new nothing new this is the original way
that's it it's the highway that leades
to leads to Paradise absolutely I know
that for myself before we go to break
when I was submitting to the Creator and
all the wonderful things that he wants
us to do and I started to pray I know
that some of the things weren't right I
know I was in places I shouldn't have
been this was in the beginning stages
but I was still connected I leave and go
in the car to pray when the time was to
pray go back in a place I shouldn't be
but the more I was connected with the
crater the more more it established that
consciousness of God of Allah in my life
and I started to slowly clean up it was
like a medicine you were taking and
little by little all these bad habits
the more you started to think of Allah
the more you started to remember him
through the prayer you didn't like a lot
of these places these things that you
were doing you start to live a good
organic life and I'll tell you something
else because that's beautiful what you
just told us you know why because that
prayer can be your anchor
mhm so a storm came in your life and it
drifted your boat a little bit off the
dock but your anchor was there holding
you back and when the storm settled it
brought you back home yeah alhamdulillah
aldah we're going to take a break we'll
be right back with more we're talking
about the prayer connecting with the
Creator through the prayer get plugged
in with the Salah with the prayer we be
right back and if we're going to worship
something I figured I might as well
worship the Creator instead of any of
the creations
now in upon investigating all the
religions I remember finding out the
meaning of what Islam is what a Muslim
is those who surrender theirself to God
is a Muslim those who surrender submit
to God God's will that is it Islam was
pure it was just you just pray to God
your
creator
alone I am not afraid to stand alone if
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I am not afraid to stand
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alone back here on the dean show and
we're discussing the second pillar of
Islam first is really all of Islam is
really easy to understand it's clear
it's nothing esoteric where it takes you
know a lot of mental gymnastics to make
it fit only one God I'm going to worship
him alone I'm going to obey the
messenger that God sent Prophet Muhammad
is the last and the prayer we're not
going to go too far into the charity and
into the fasting and then the Hajj Five
Pillars so we want people to get hooked
up with the second pillar because people
will come to you I'm sure and their
lives are upside down Y and then you'll
ask them I'm sure you know do you pray
five times a day the guys like or the
girls like no that's your answer is that
right absolutely absolutely I don't want
to simple over like simplify uh people's
issues and or insult anyone who might
have any problems but you know we we can
only give an answer that was given to us
by God and His messenger peace and
blessings be upon him so and really the
solution is right there it's right there
in front of us that if you can just
connect yourself back to God you know
there's a beautiful verse in the Quran
that
says when somebody truly believes in God
when somebody reestablishes their faith
that
relationship with God then he guides the
rest of the way for them he'll guide his
heart he'll guide their heart so if we
can just reestablish our connection to
Allah we can just start talking to him
on a daily basis we can talk to him
morning and evening he'll lead us the
rest of the way there we'll find our way
home and and you know uh something
really
interesting an issue that a lot of
people have lost their way in regards to
in a Muslim Community non-muslim
community all across the world today
especially I can talk about America this
is where I'm from so in America this is
a really big issue and that's the issue
of the home and the family you know
people's homes and families falling
apart the family unit the family
structure is falling apart at the seams
and there's something beautiful in the
practice in the tradition of our Prophet
peace and blessings be upon him when he
first started preaching and teaching the
religion the first one to accept the
faith was his beloved wife Khadijah may
God be pleased with her the second
person to accept the faith was actually
his very very younger cousin who was
actually living with him at the time his
name was Ali but may Allah be pleased
with him and so it's kind of like a
family as a household and they've all
embraced the faith you know what the
first activity was that they would do
together they would pray together they
would pray they would pray together MH
that's deep they would pray together we
we got problems I go around the country
uh teaching a workshop happiness in the
home everywhere I go and what one of the
main things I tell people you want to
fix your family issues you want to fix
the home issues you want to solidify
your home base you know one of the best
Outlets you have it's kind of like you
know I don't want to this kind of a
negative uh example but killing two
birds with one s there ain't no killing
going on over here but to to to take
care of two things at one time to take
care of two things at one time prayer is
that blessing when you stand up and you
pray not only are you reestablishing
your connection with God Almighty but if
you stood up and you prayed with your
family with your wife with your kids
you reestablished your connection with
your family and as a family together
y'all reestablished y'all's connection
with God Almighty that's deep before we
come to an end we see that from the
authentic text there's so much hope
given encouragement through the prayer
you're connecting with the Creator your
sins are being absolved from prayer to
prayer from the Juma to the Juma and
you'll see there's hope I made a mistake
I run to the prayer I need to call upon
the one who hears all sees all I go to
the prayers but now aren't there
consequences where God Almighty the
prophet Muhammad peace be upon him and
the ver word of God and atic had isn't
it true that now you know the prophet
peace be upon him he told us that what's
the first thing that a person will be
accountable for on the day of judgment
he said it's the prayer and then he told
us something really interesting that the
first thing we'll be asked about is the
prayer and if that works out if that
goes smooth everything else will go
smooth and if that doesn't work out
bankrupt we don't because it's a
foundation yeah so you build a beautiful
building on a faulty foundation and it
falls you only have yourself to blame
last 30 seconds what do you got to tell
them now for those who they want to
submit they said look I want to get
cleaned up before I pray I don't feel
like I'm I'm worthy enough to pray we
have all these excuses so what advice do
you have for the advice that I have is
take it out of being a ritual and make
it a spirit spiritual experience
experience the prayer don't let it just
be a ritual don't just go through the
motions read what you have to read make
it an experience in order to make it an
experience you might have to put in a
little bit of time a little bit of
effort but un read and understand and
educate yourself about what you're
saying and what you read in your prayer
what does that mean and internalize the
meaning of that and then stand up and
think about what you're reading what
you're saying to God and engage in that
conversation with Allah with God and
will change your life thank you very
much my pleasure may God Almighty the
Creator reward
you and again thank you thank you for
tuning in to another episode of the dean
show and don't it doesn't matter how
spiritually dirty you are how many sins
you've committed and you feel like how
how can I how can I how can I pray go
ahead and make the woo go ahead and
clean yourself up and go ahead because
when you make the prayer you get
spiritually cleaned up that's what
changes your life for the better when
you get connected with the Creator and
the sins start to absolve and start to
go away through the prayer you get
plugged in and you get hooked up with
God Almighty through the prayer make the
prayer when we finish this show go ahead
and pray to God and ask God for
forgiveness the one who Jesus Moses
Abraham and the last and final messenger
sent to mankind they all prayed to the
one God not to the creation of God but
to the one Creator and give us a call
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