I'm just happy I'm a Muslim that came
from the streets to Islam the girl when
I see my brother give a palm Embrace
with a heart and GRE
with the dean show and his
talk with
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me what your purpose in life it just
like a g to me I would think occasionly
it's my always right I need to fix up my
life tonight could be my last
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night so just before the summer year
2002 my mind already had a w now it's
time to make a mood made my way down to
the stews where I L up with my crew on
theing chair
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my it's
working say that son best M never let me
forget that was just a test welcome to
the Le show
UK uh how do you feel about uh your
experience what are the games you you're
getting from this uh experience in Spain
which was
unexpected the Salam Alum greetings and
peace peace be with you and I was raised
in Christianity I used to go Church mom
would Dro me off the school and she rush
off to work Mom saw her son change when
I turned 19 she still loved me the same
when I converted to this te so we don't
maybe some of us we forgot how this old
Journey started like now we're talking
about millions of viewers including on
Islam Channel many other channels are
putting your show so we we take it for
granted you've been with us doing this
show weekly on Friday but really how
what is the story behind she just
started asking questions son why are you
doing that I said Mom sit with me watch
this DVD of and slowly but surely mom
even recognize the truth and appreciate
the change that I made s my you she knew
I was flying away she wanted to spend
the day together this was our moment we
went to the MOs together from love of D
from the chase the strong desire to want
to amass all of the things of D and then
you have those things and then all that
wains off it's not the same thing you go
through we call sometimes in America a
midlife C crisis you buy now you're
buying a Corvette right and they're like
you're getting older and you start
asking what's the purpose of life you
start really pondering and thinking and
alhamdulillah enough to make me smile to
see my mom with a head and then she the
she wanted to take her sh
allahar but I didn't want to go ahead
and follow blindly so I wanted to make
sure that this way of life was from the
Creator and you know how it goes you go
all around the world you start looking
at all the world religions you
investigate you do what a smart
intelligent person does and you connect
with your creator guiding you along the
way you ask you sincerely ask guide me
what's the purpose why am I here Islam
is clear it stands out from all the rest
provides all of the logical rational
evidences proves that indeed it's from
the creator of the heavens and earth and
then naturally I wasn't even nobody was
telling me you got to give da nobody but
it was a natural consequence I was
learning I was getting excited and I was
like wow this stuff works it's doing
something for me if now you care about
your friends and your family and it was
just a natural result for interviews or
video focus on some celebrities why do
you think it's relevant why do you think
it's important for us to to look at
these type of individuals and reach out
to them through your your platform it's
very important
and and we know when the prophet made
the Dua for the two om right CU he knew
the power the influence that they have
nowadays usually the youth and the
adults people who are taking the wrong
examples as Role Models so when you for
instance you
have Zay Malik for instance okay or Nas
these are the recent shows we did and
from there it CT cap captures the
audience's attention to see not
necessarily we're sending them a message
with love at the same time but Their
audience also they're their fans so they
tune in say what are they talking about
my Nas what are they talking about my so
and so and now not only is this a seed
planet that if Allah wants to deliver
Hey it gets to them but at the same time
they're Mass following and the Muslims
also who normally wouldn't tune in now
they can tune in and see they can
benefit from these gems that the guests
have on that we talk about do you agree
with that all right so you see that
that's the type of thing we want to to
ask you what what do you see in the
future you've been doing that for 12
years uh you're going to continue for
sure but where do you want to take it uh
forever GPS is I always say Jenna okay
so we just going to inshallah stay with
it and do our small part everybody it's
if everybody can do because obviously
Allah the creator of the heavens and
earth he's not going to judge us on the
results it's on the effort that we put
in and it's a beautiful story about the
rock that committed suicide you hear
that story about the rock that committed
suicide small Little Rock holding up a
huge Dam with all these other rocks so
when people Everyone contributes their
small part everybody doesn't have to be
on TV doesn't have to be a speaker
doesn't have but if everybody people
behind the scenes everybody contributes
because if everybody stops contributing
and those small little rocks for
instance what happened with The Rock The
Rock is helping to hold up the D he
didn't see his significance CU he's so
small so he committed suicide he jumped
in the water in the river and then what
happened that Rock came out of its place
and every other walk started falling
down and then the dam collapsed now
imagine yourself is that Little Rock
everyone all of us in unison working
together in harmony like one um doing
with the prophet s his Sunnah and the
Sunnah the way of all the messengers of
Allah conveying this message in behavior
in attitude and in speech in the best of
actions then we're going to collectively
make a huge impact final question you
know like how how doing daah impacts you
in your de because you know most of the
time when we do daah people think are we
doing bad for the non-muslim are we
doing but deep inside like how does it
move you you as a as as a Muslim as a
human being how is it influencing your
life and making you steadfast in the de
allahar this is a a great brilliant
question because when you're doing the
da this is something that not only
obviously you're trying to help others
but first and foremost when I press
record I'm benefiting myself I'm
benefiting from the knowledge that the
person has to share so that is because
over the years it's amazing The more
I've interviewed the she the mutis whove
come over I not literally muties and
from other religions you know the
top Scholars the more they engrossed
themselves into the way of life they
were upon the more they saw the
contradictions the discrepancies the
more it pushed them away now they came
to Islam the more you study learn Islam
and you grow from it you you to you use
the tools that it gives you for life to
get through the struggles to get through
all the challenges it empowers you yeah
but if we're not learning it we're not
living it and we're not sharing it we're
losing it we we have to love our Prophet
more than our parents and but how do you
practically do that if not by following
his number one sunah which is to do da
how can you claim you love someone if
you don't do what he does and it's
something we have to take home inshah
like we have to understand that being a
Muslim is not just by name or from our
parents but it's truly by following the
leadership keep pushing boundaries and
this is to how to showing to show how we
love him is to truly follow FL steps
don't don't shre there's a Hadith where
the Prophet sallallah alaihi wasallam
the last and final messenger sent to
mankind when you automat when you
include when you accept him you
automatically include not exclude all
the preceding Messengers Jesus Moses
Abraham and all the ones that came
before with the same message worship the
Creator not the creation he said he was
talking to all his
companions paraphrasing the Hadith and
he said all of my followers will entered
Jenna except those who refus does
anybody refuse here to go to
Jenna no does everyone everyone want to
get to Jenna yes Allah but they said
well who would refuse use oh messenger
of Allah those that don't follow my way
my Sunnah in his way and the way of all
the prophets of Allah was to convey this
message you know so may Allah save us
from this punishment and talk everybody
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alhamd alhamdulillah
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in we get our host in our right hands
and we all meet Inna thank you for a
wonderful time in London thank
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you so we got some brothers here one
from turkey and you're from sord from
sford where's that in just around the
corner from here and you you actually
have a unique story you accepted Islam
how long ago oh that's uh 20 well
several years ago over over 20 years ago
oh yeah what was your background before
Islam well my my my father actually
converted to Islam um but he died when I
was quite young so we were brought up
with a kind of bit of Islam in our lives
and a bit of everything so I went to
Sunday school we went to uh atheist kind
of socialist youth camps and things were
your parents Christian before Jewish
well my parents were Christian
originally but they both converted to
Islam about the time my father converted
to Islam so we had a kind of kind of
brought up with awareness ofam Islam but
they weren't that you know ke not pushy
you know we were allowed to do what we
want so we all kind of went off our own
ways and H we all found our way back to
it and what what was it what was it that
your parents instilled in you what was
it that brought you back and you didn't
Drift Off to let's say secularism to I I
would consider I was I was an agnostic
probably from about 13 to 20 on and went
21 is when I became Muslim uh properly
yeah so but what brought me back was the
whole process of of thought processes
essentially
and I think ultimately it comes down to
the issue of
um if there is uh purpose in life then I
can have purpose if there if there's no
purpose to existence then my life is
always just part of achieving nothing
yeah and if there's purpose then the
question is if anything ought to be the
case there ought to be Justice and
Justice cannot be limited to this life
yeah people die having LED difficult
lives and suffered and people die having
L life of ease and had everything and
done bad things and you cannot have
Justice if it's limited to this life
yeah so if there's purpose there's
Justice if there's Justice then there
must be judgment there must be God there
must be um uh you know one God who can
judge justly one God you found that that
pure monotheism that many people connect
to the purpose of life in Islam and
you're sharing Islam through this
project that you do what is that project
so the project is called the public
Quran campaign put signs uh with the
Quran in public praise is for God lord
of the worlds there go if more people
would read the Quran connect the Quran
you got a beautiful project to help
people connect with the verbatim word of
God the Quran which tells you the
purpose of life how you got here why
you're here where you're going keep
tuning inam Alum orange
juice we made a nice transition not a
bar but a a juice bar so he said we can
go ahead and keep it clean bar alcohol
free and when we
drink Halal bar
alhamdulillah