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Dean alhamdulillah alayum the greetings
of peace peace be with you thank you for
tuning in to another episode of the dean
show today we have another exciting show
we're going to be talking about our
youth this is for everybody everyone can
benefit because somebody is a youth or
you got some kids teens that are out
there and some of them are getting in
some trouble so when we come back we're
going to have our brother all the way
from Minnesota Imam shik Hassan and then
we'll tell you his nickname that people
calling we come back here on the dean
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show there's only one God and muham is
his messenger
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Allah Allah
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
ium peace be with you my brother
alhamdulillah thanks brother ad thank
you for being with us alhamdulillah
thank you for inviting me in this
important occasion thanks yes you also
have a a nickname I I heard that some of
the youth and people you know yeah Hass
J that's what they call me J uhhuh yeah
so you're the cool
Shake exactly the sometimes they say
like they call me like uh she shabab
which means like uh the she of Youth so
because uh I always uh involve in all
youth youth activities or issues like
all the time I'm with them like you can
say like 24/7 I'm with them so so you're
with the youth but you're also you get
serious now because that is serious
business too but you're also an attorney
you te you're professor at the Islamic
University talk to us a little bit about
your yeah I I I I teach uh uh I'm agent
professor of William Mitchell College of
Law I teach Islamic law introduction to
Islamic law uh basically it is like a
compar comparative type of subject what
I do is I teach uh a law school student
is a principal of Islamic laws and then
I compare to uh to the principles of
American legal system mhm I also teach
Islamic University of Minnesota which is
the only Islamic University in Minnesota
I teach uh two subject this one is it's
called
like in Arabic which means introduction
to the Islamic law and the other one is
like especially which means like one
that focus on especially rule is related
to the Salah from A to Z I teach that
one uh I work for legal aid Society of
Minneapolis uh I'm legal Advocate I do
uh uh uh immigration work which means uh
anything related to the immigration law
almost I do help most of immigrants uh
majority of them are somalis or Muslims
or oroma or east Africans but they do
help like uh Hispanic Community uh M
Community uh Arab and other communities
uh coming to our office for seeking free
legal service we are free legal service
and I do also presentations about their
rights know your rights especially
what's your rights when it comes to the
homeland security we I do that and uh
and this is like a a good connection to
my office because for example we have
youth who have a problem and they end up
to the deportation procedure and then as
uh immigration unit office we try to
help them uh to find way out from this
uh deportation procedure which sometimes
is very difficult especially for the
somalis so you're very active you're out
there not only helping the Muslim
Community but you're helping anyone
Hispanic africanamerican a caucas
doesn't matter you're out there and
that's what Muslims should be doing they
should be people who are benefiting the
community isn't it yes yeah it's only
it's not only that what I also do is I'm
board member of uh Red Cross yeah of
Minnesota and uh I've been board board
member since uh
200 uh 7 2008 uh I'm also a member of
advisory committee to the both Chiefs
chief of the police of Minneapolis and
chief of the police of St Paul so there
is here also a good connection to the
police system so I can help those young
people out uh of trouble okay and that's
our topic today the young youth the
shabab would you say yes yeah lot of
them today are out as some of us who've
been in Jah you get caught up and you
get mixed up in the cultural norms and
you got colors some killing each other
over red and blue some killing each
other over boyfriends and girlfriend yo
you talking to my girl no you talking to
my guy and next thing you know the guns
are being pulled and now you got a some
even doing stickup all sorts of things
are going on exactly are the movies to
blame are the parents to blame are we to
blame let's talk about this and you can
give us some some real situations that
you encountered it is uh I remember
always uh two two poems it is both of
them are Arabic let me translate them in
English one says
like which means uh when you are in
defense and in the battle if one Arrow
could face you you can defend yourself
it's only one Arrow but the the poet
says if it's more than one arrows coming
from different directions you will have
difficult to defend yourself and that's
the situation of our young people today
like many problems FNA if you want to
call that and all types of the uh social
problems coming from every direction uh
they cannot stand alone to resolve those
problems they need help and then another
poem that I remember uh according to
your question which is very important I
love that poem that poem says in English
like
you uh threw me in a big ocean in the
dark of the night and uh a big wave and
you do not teach me how to swim and at
the same time you tied my my two hands
and legs uh how will I survive that's
the meaning of the poem so this person
will never survive yeah so that means
like uh I'm talking this now about the
somalis oros oros are East
African uh immigrant communities who
live also about 10,000 in in uh in in
Minnesota so when they come or they came
to uh Minnesota to America they have
they are not well equipped to know about
the system about the culture and uh ER
they're blind so and they end up to find
out like way out from where they are
when when they face all these
difficulties and they create your own
system or they might join to the system
exist the system that that says like we
can help you uh and that's why when you
ask like these young people I talk to
them they're with me right now so I and
she nelan so assistant Imam we have six
young people who are with us we are
eight of us right now so two of them
were like uh street boys and one of one
of them was uh uh from gang system yeah
that's like the street boys like out in
being in gangs and on the streets
running and and then we divide them
sometimes like Street Boys still
attending the school but we have Street
Boys the who are in the gang system but
left the school dro the school and do
all types of the bad things harming
hurting people and uh snitching and all
this so we divide and categorize them
but one of them was even like gang
leader he organized head head head uh
yes head of headman headman well armed
uh doing all that like violence how did
you deal with him now okay this example
like the one that who is with me right
now he has been with me almost the last
uh since 2007 the end he left now he
left the gang system and the way was
like there was a fight one time and that
fight fight caused him almost uh ER to
slaughter him like from neck down to the
the opposite opposing gang almost cut
his cut his almost his neck this was a
street gang fight street gang fight and
he ended up to the hospital and he has
been there he has been in coma for 30
days 30 he was in coma he was in coma so
he's not anymore and then what happened
was the doctor say said after that he
might die no no he had like a life
support system and then family and
doctor they signed that the family sign
that he cannot be anymore in this system
yeah let him die like and then doctor
gave like uh signing papers that uh he
might die after 6 hours 6s hour yes he
was almost dead let's hold it right
there we're going to take a break and be
right back to hear this story back on
the dean
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show people of say to me why have you
become a Muslim now I I give a very
frivolous answer I say I want to be on
the side of the
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Angels is a guy he's the number one rap
artist in the world he sold over 60
million records worldwi 60 million he
was a young guy who had basically
everything that some of you would think
that life is all about he had everything
you can
imagine back here on the dean show we're
talking about the brother he was in a
coma and they disconnected the life
support he was on life support yes talk
to us what happened then okay what
happened was the doctor came and told
the family that he will die after 6
hours and then we uh fortunately came
from the mosque so our young people what
we do is like as a Imam leading those
young people we visit most uh hospitals
by the way we visit also non-muslims and
we wish them well yeah so and uh and we
went the hospital we as one of the
member of the hospital told us there is
a young boy that is about to die would
you please go and place and read some
type of supplications and then I said
like oh this is the right time and uh
because he's young I'm leading young
people I want them to reflect to this
person and we had some type of History
and background and the fight the gang
fight that he has been and all this we
came and we saw like a man but whenever
we came what's surprising was uh the
doctor told us there's a type of
movement his body he feels but he cannot
move at all yeah and then as a Imam I
went and I put his hand on my hand I
said we are going to read some Quran on
you and we asked
Allah God to give you shifa now Quran is
the verbatim word of God Almighty Allah
yes okay and it's basically and Muslims
traditionally whenever they are sick or
whenever they're not feeling well they
use it as a medicine so is this like we
doing Ria on him exactly we did Rya
which means like uh uh reading specific
verses or Surah or chapters of the Quran
on the body of the sick person okay
that's what we did and then after that
when we uh we were at the end a said
this I said like Abdul Kad I know uh the
doctor says this is your end and it is
the last momentum of your journey but we
believe in Allah which means whatever is
Destiny so you might die today you might
not die today but I asked this question
this is what what happened I said like
your hand is on my hand will you
promise if God give you life back that
you will join to dawa Caravan we have a
youth da Caravan M which means like a
group of Youth trying to help street
boys and girls right now not not only
boys anymore so out of the street out of
the violence will you help us will you
promise now he's on his death bed this
is it make a choice you going to do good
or you continue doing evil exactly and
you know what he said this is the first
time even the nurse watching moved his
head saying like Subhan Allah yes this
was like the miracle we did finished uh
all type of Rya which means like
recitation on his body recitation of the
Holy Quran and we
left and then after a few days we found
that he's
alive and then couple months they
brought him back to his home anyway
finally he ended up coming back coming
back to the real life and he came to the
MOs yeah and we saw him walking coming
to the Islamic Center mhm and how long
after was this after it's after a couple
months because few months yes few months
yeah and then he said do you remember me
I said like I remember you like I'm here
for the promise now he kept his word he
was true to his word yes yes Allah
healed him yes took care of him and now
he came back and then like I'm paying I
have to pay back to Allah yes and then I
said like okay here is the young people
I I introduced to the young people and
then we start uh helping him like
rehabilitate uh we put him like a
process called proc of Rehabilitation
young people who came out from this type
of the life which requires like a lot
and then after long discussion we agreed
uh because our Center H has Apartments
like uh uh the the first floor is mosque
MH and the second floor are Apartments
so most time if we think like a we have
a young person who's qualified to put
him there we move him there and that is
like type of isolation from the rest of
the society yeah so and then he has to
follow rules because we don't want him
to be connected back to the gang system
yeah and and he was head of the gang he
was not member of the gang and you know
how many calls that who could receive
all this no cell phones nothing so some
discipline here now discipline so we
call like a tbia yeah so and then I put
they Define t for some non-muslims t
means like it's like Islamic dis uh
disciplining system that helps the
person uh not only physical discipline
it is like Mosaic or comprehensive type
of the discipline yeah spiritual
educational physical so physical
exercise we have a shik nan who was
teaching him martial artists martial
arts yes yeah to balance his life and
he's one of the students of the martial
busy doing good exactly and then
educational we have two type of
educational attending the programs that
we have we call like
uh means like Islamic circles he is
studying like how to pray and uh how to
read the Quran that's the first time
after 10 years involving with the gang
system nothing to do with the Quran or
or with the good things and then I I
Reed him with the Gad program GED
program is the program that qualify you
to go to college after three or or two
years it depends on like how far you got
a complete system yes it is complete
system tell us cuz we only uh have a
little bit of time we want to hit a
certain a few more important points tell
us for those youth and parents who are
trying to get some advice for their
youth the parents might have not been
implementing the way of life that the
Creator wants them to implement Islam
total complete submission to the will of
the Creator not their desires so the
TV's been raising the kids the big
teacher the music The Hip Hop and two
and 50 cents and all these and it's
innocent they leave the kids in front of
the TV and now they wonder why things
and they're acting and imitating these
other people give some advice now to
those parents who children are in gangs
the women also they might be out there
going to the nightclubs and now you have
their attention the children the youth
are listening and the parents what do
you counsel them to do you see uh first
of all I don't know if every Masjid can
afford to have like B who can who can be
like morab in Islam we have like a
category of the people like who are in
the MOs or Islamic cist
a teacher Imam murabi murabi is someone
who has who has like a comprehensive T
type of Islamic knowledge not only he
knows how to teach but not only he can
lead the Salah and he know he knows
rules of the Salah but he has practical
uh approach uh to resolve people's
problem so that's even that person is
called like morab so my point is like we
need first of all many morab
and morab is the one that uh the kid in
front of him not only he teach the Quran
and the kid lives but he's connected to
the kid and his daily life so what even
he does when he's at home so for example
we have like a program that what you do
when you're at home so three type of the
program to help your mom and your dad so
for example one of the part of is once
you come from the school you kiss your
mom and dad and you say thank you all
the time and and you say like whatever
you did like for me I will never I
cannot like pay it back but but but
thank you and then you ask the first
question before I do the homework what
you want me to do how can I help you
that's what we teach our young people
and the second is do your homework the
school duties and number three is
disconnection from TV in case that you
want to watch TV only the news because
you don't have enough time to watch the
TV and and basically like for example
our Center we have like homework club we
want the students to come to the mosque
and do their homework people who have
difficulty we have toring mhm and then
we have coaches like for example East
Africans they love soccer we have a
soccer coach now we are trying to get
like a basketball coach so so that's the
physical part and we have martial artist
in the mosque so students who are
attending so taking away the the the non
allow things Haram and replacing it with
yes and then during the the the play We
do we do teach them even like for
example not to use in the bad any bad
language for example they're playing and
one hits the other one the other one so
the one hit says like and the other one
says H the f word or yes something like
that yeah to avoid all bad things and
still say like Subhan Allah
alhamdulillah Allah abbar and then uh we
advise the parents most of the time to
bring them to this program because if we
if they bring them the the kids will
involve this PR
programs and they become good examples
and the other Muslim kids and even
non-muslim kid will help like for
example now we have like 13 we have like
almost in a
year uh about 50 young people uh non
Muslims became Muslims because of the
example of our young Muslims the
non-muslims accepted this way of life
they saw the kids one one of them 13y
old this is the best example that I can
share with you David 13y old
Caucasian he saw like young from m Da
and he was say like I want to be like
you yeah he said like what what do you
mean because I I'm 13 but I'm involving
drugs uh boyfriend and girlfriend I do
all this bad stuff but you don't do it
yeah how did you get all this and he
said that I'm I'm I'm connected to this
Islamic Center and he explained you know
what happened his father man Muslim
called me yeah let's hold it there he
called you David's father called you
let's take a break
and we'll be right
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back when you look at the Bible it says
the the Earth has four
corners that's wrong yeah
yeah if any Christian point out a single
unambiguous treatment where Jesus Christ
peace be upon himself says that I am God
I'm ready to accept Christianity
back here on the dean show we're trying
to share with you some experiences from
the youth and some advice and you're
talking to us about David's father yeah
David's father called me say like uh I'm
David's father I'm not a Muslim uh I
don't know nothing about Islam but David
has a friend from your Center and and
and David is involving many bad things I
wanted my son uh become like one of the
best students he he's he he's he's about
to drop the school and then and is it
true like if someone joins to to your
Center becomes like drag free and he
talked all the word is spreading you
come here you're not swearing drug fee
gang free everything free everything
like bad bad things you'll be free and
then you know he said uh he he want he
wants to accept Islam I said
father uh uh do you agree that your son
accept Islam because this is the key
because he if he accepted the Islam he
has to follow system certain rules and
those rules are the one that guide him
to be free from all this say like I want
him to to to to accept hislam can I send
him tonight and he came night time the
mosque with the young people David said
as
usual accepting the Islam now tell us
let's start with that we got to start to
wrap it up when you say accept Islam
what does that that mean because there
might be some people out there now
they're thinking that you know they
accept Islam and what they're going to
be terrorists now or they accept Islam
they're going to be doing they they
accept Islam to change his life so he
doesn't want to be like uh like uh
evolved all types of the drag things he
uh and an alcohol young people drinking
like a beer and all B things he wants he
wants to be like a a nice boy uh good
grade and uh uh avoid from all types of
the violence this thing that he
declared yeah that that means when
person say means like I bear witness
there's only one God and that God has a
book called like holy Quran and I will
follow that teachings and that teachings
part of it is uh avoid all bad things
drinking drags violence and all this all
the and then you are saying like I will
have only one example when you say like
a with this uh prophet Muhammad's final
messenger means like I want to have only
one example to follow and the human
example is Prophet Muhammad so he was
not drag dealer he was not violent
person he was not like uh a man that uh
hits his kids and all bad examples in
every aspect as a father as a son as a
brother I want to follow that person as
example that's the meaning and that's
what David accept and changed his life
for the better yeah for the better and
his family loved him even his his his
his uncle came ahead that he wants to
took take him yeah tell 30 seconds we
got tell us uh where this community
center is so if someone wants to drop by
and visit uh 478 University Avenue West
uh St Paul Minnesota and our telephone
number is 6 651 224 6726 yeah and we
have a website
ww. MN dawa which is d a
wah. net mhm and you have some event
coming coming up you sir yes we have uh
the first annual Muslim youth convention
on May 29th at the convention center in
Minneapolis we're expecting more than
about 2,000 young people coming to that
convention pen it from our experience
that's on the website the information OB
okay sounds good thank you for being
with us may Allah the creator of the
heavens and earth reward you in
abundance thanks brother Ed for giving
me this opportunity thank you you're
welcome and in short you've gotten to
learn again that that call to the
perfect system your kids might be out
there getting involved in all sorts of
drugs and killing each other over colors
and following the worst of examples but
when that person comes to the
realization that all the other systems
they won't perfect a human being's life
your moral Cod that you are born with
gets off track you want to get back on
track as the one who created you to
guide you he is one and alone worthy of
worship and he sent the best examples
for you to follow Moses Jesus Abraham
these were Messengers and Prophets of
God and the last and final messenger
sent to mankind it's say living example
today we have his living example
recorded in authentic tradition so we
have the verbatim word of God the Quran
and his explanation of it the Hadith the
Sunnah this is the example just like
Jesus was an example at that time
Abraham was an example at that time we
have the last and final messenger and
you see the outcome that comes from this
worshiping the one God Alone
establishing a connection with him
through the prayer the fasting and
leaving off all vices drugs alcohol and
dating and you see what happens
legitimate children know you come
together to marry in harmony man and wom
the right way the way that God Almighty
wants them to come together in marriage
and these are the things that our
brother Imam they're doing at this da
Center and this is what the Muslims are
doing and we invite you all to this
beautiful way of life the way of life of
all the messengers you can visit us here
every week at the Deens show.com we have
our radio program also at the blog
section and we'll see you next time God
willing until then asalam alikum peace
be unto you no speech is better than to
do that to call people to Allah and to
do the work no speech is better no
nothing is better than that is it true
that if one person on the Allah giving
you the ability to guide someone with
Allah's permission the Creator's
permission that is better than
everything in this world it's better
than the whole world and everything
that's in it in in another narration
it's better than the best of wealth but
if we really felt that Eddie Would we
not be out giving dollar and this is
something that we encourage all the msas
all the da organizations the mids to get
this we want to print more we give these
to the non-muslims for free for free for
free we want our brothers in humanity to
become our brothers
in it's
lame everybody sleeping
I
arise and ask a lot to forgive me oh la
you
see oh Allah you
know all the sins I
do I turn to you to forgive my sins and
my
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heart I'm your sinful
slave you're my love and Lord
I'm the one runs
away oh Allah guide me