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noi he was with this nation and now he
is here on the dean show he's been with
us before and he's got a really great
explanation of how you can give birth to
what's already inside of you so you can
really fulfill your purpose in life and
you can have that peace contentment and
happiness we got so much to cover with
our next guest Imam kasim Khan when we
come back here in the dean show don't go
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Alum how are you sh how you doing great
alhamdulillah I feel good good to see
you again good to see you too don't give
it up yet we talked about giving birth
to something that's already inside every
IND every human being but we're not
going to tell him quite yet okay that's
right how Snoop Doggy do remember the
show we did and we about did he except
uh Islam I remember that yeah have you
heard anything about Snoopy no I haven't
heard anything yet except on YouTube
I've seen a couple things where where
the people who don't understand Islam or
listen him among famous people that
accepted Islam that's the only problem I
have with it you know because it's not
really pure Islam that he accepted now
you I mentioned you were with the former
noi most people who watched that show it
really you know uh resonated with a lot
of people a lot of people ended up
coming to the Real Islam how was the
feedback have you gotten any a lot of
feedback even when I travel because I've
been I've been traveling around the
world quite a bit giving CP Buds and
lectures and so forth and I'm always run
into people who have watched the dean
show and who watch it continuously and
they reflect on that particular episode
more than the other ones that I've done
you know and so um they it really helped
them to understand because many people
still don't understand and they in fact
I refer to that episode when people ask
me what's the difference between between
um Muslims um now and farakhan they
asked that question no matter what
country I go to and rather than for me
to spend a whole lot of time explaining
I refer to that show I said watch it and
then come and ask me some more questions
because it was pretty thorough you did a
great job asking the right questions MH
you did a great job answering
alhamdulillah so what do you see are
some of the obstacles you're out in the
field you're sharing this message
because we love for all of mankind what
we love for ourselves that people be
upon uh the way that's from the Creator
and they really find what the purpose of
life is now when you're out there you're
talking to the not yet Muslims because
everyone has the the the innate
mechanism built in to submit to the
crater Al what are some of the obstacles
that you've seen out there actually I
only run into one obstacle and that is
the people's addiction to the media M uh
even many even many Muslims uh but but
the people who I talk to about Islam um
many of them are so attached to the
media that they begin to think that
whatever they see on TV or see on the
internet or whatever reading the
newspapers is accurate information for
the most part it's not accurate and so
that's the only obstacle I would have
thought that just because you know some
people just don't um like Islam you know
that it would be an obstacle but that's
not an obstacle what I find is I talk to
people that it's not that they don't
like Islam they just don't understand it
because when I explain to them uh what
Islam actually is and what Muslim
actually means then they find out that
they actually love it so then if they
accept it they understand what they're
accepting if they continue to reject it
at least they'll know what they're
rejecting M do you see sometimes Muslims
getting in the way of The Da sometimes
Muslims who are who are um uh over
assertive uh who don't study they get in
the way the other thing that that gets
in the way as far as some Muslims is
some Muslims who are not serious about
practicing in the dean they get in the
way because they have a tendency to
compromise their weaknesses you know the
there's Muslim women who refuse to cover
and they and they um uh discredit the
importance of covering by blaming it on
the western society and so forth in the
modern times and they blame it on 911
you know but and they get in the way
because they will open their mouth and
start trying to justify it and that will
weaken uh the the new people the people
who are just beginning to embrace it
Islam then we have the men uh the males
who uh want to justify their weaknesses
because some of them like to hang on to
their cigarettes some of them like to
use profanity some don't even like to
dress properly we have some males that
are Muslims that sag their pants wear
short t-shirts and so forth um and they
and they refuse to be
identified uh and in a in a modest
Islamic way in Islam this the the the
Islamic dress is not necessarily the way
that I'm dressed this this thobe is not
necessarily Islamic what's Islamic dress
is Modesty that's the Islamic dress what
you have on right now is modest a loose
fitting sports jacket you're neat you're
clean you trim your beard it looks nice
that's that's Islamic dress you know so
but but the U the some of the people the
Muslims and men and women have a
tendency to compromise their Dean by
struggling too hard to fit in in and
it's not our responsibility as Muslims
to fit in we're supposed to stand out
MHM stand out and you uh before we
started the show you had mentioned that
now just by your behavior you are
setting an example either the bad the
the the wrong example or the right one
right can you emphasize on that
absolutely absolutely the best form of
Da is character the best form of Da is
what we do not necessarily what we say
we don't have to be a scholar to to
attract people to
just carry yourself in a in a in a
dignified way with basic human ethics
the basic human ethics that were taught
to us by Prophet Muhammad s Al wasallam
peace and blessings of Allah be upon him
that that that beautiful character that
he had to demonstrate that in the public
to show peace and and and and and
measurable
measurable um uh compliance compliance
means that we want to uh
tolerate we want to be tolerant of
people only to the point where we we
show them that we appreciate the
diversity but appreciating appreciating
diversity does not mean compromising our
religion so we have to be polite to
people we have to be patient we have to
understand that that almighty God Allah
subhana wa ta'ala he put some of him in
everybody and and and we have to see
that there's some good in everyone and
if someone has a a bad personality or or
negative attitude then it's our
responsibility to try to show them the
good that's inside of them and bring it
out that's the dawa that's how we do it
that's how we attract people to Islam
and now if you are not um executing or
implementing one of the injunctions that
the creator has told us to do uh you had
mentioned a lot of people they end up uh
not just you know keeping they uh
keeping silent saying this is one of my
weaknesses but they start to uh fight
against this and Advocate against it
actually doing doing opposite what they
supposed to be doing yeah they they'll
they'll begin to justify what they have
and it doesn't help them you know or
they may accept Islam uh in principle
but they won't practice it yeah there it
da is so easy nowadays every time
somebody says something negative in the
media about Islam that becomes easier
but what happens is we don't follow up
correctly yeah people will people will
claim shahada the shahada attain meaning
to Bear witness of two things I bear
witness that there's no God but Allah
and I bear witness that Muhammad peace
be upon Him is a messenger of Allah
that's a
sh muham and they'll say it with words
and we'll get happy in the Masid and
we'll call T beers Allah abbar and we'll
embrace them and all of that then we
just let them go but they need to be
nurtured they need to be they need they
need to be a mentor
and and and what happens is they don't
embrace the practice of Islam they just
embrace the name you know and if and and
then some weak Muslims and by weak
Muslims I I mean I don't necessarily
mean those who are totally corrupted I
mean those that have some weaknesses
that they justify and they go around the
new Muslims justifying their weaknesses
and they give the new Muslims the
impression that it's okay you know and
that's the and we're making the same
problem or or committing the same
offense against our
youth our youth meaning the Muslim youth
the Muslim parents or making a huge
mistake justifying um the weaknesses in
the presence of the children we're going
to take a break and we're right back
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really good to have you back again and
we're talking about you know always on a
de show we talk about uh really
important issues we're going to be
people are tuned in are like what is he
talking about what's inside of me that I
can give birth to don't let it out the
bag yet uh and you know what we we we we
hear the sound right now and like what's
this what's going out there's a a a
three uh top three that we need to ask
you to get familiar with you many people
seen Y show before but they don't some
people don't know too much about you so
real quick uh we're going to ask you
three of um uh three of the things that
the people want to know a one is uh
what's your favorite food Sheik my
favorite food yeah if you have one yes I
do fresh fruit fresh fruit so you like
fruit too what kind of sports you know
they see a lot of the imams out there uh
they're um you know really active and
engaged but for for leisure time is
there any sport that you like to play
spectator or participation either one
spectator is football highlights
basketball highlights all highlights of
the sport I like to watch the highlights
no matter what sport it is baseball
soccer football basketball I watch the
highlights I don't like to watch and the
last one are you uh Imam SJ waj younger
brother no well in Islam No actually I'm
I'm one year older than IM s how how's
he doing by the way he's doing terrific
he's doing so good that he's worried
about us you know we give him salams I
know he's he uh watches the dean show
he's been on the dean show uh we hope to
have like me S so continuing on now
where we left off people getting in the
way by justifying their bad behavior
that goes against the Quran and the
Sunnah so what advice do you have for
them if it's a weakness you uh obviously
you want to change that but don't
justify it now um f what I would like to
do is is answer your question by
beginning with the parents I'd like to
start with the parents yes because the
parents um have have children in in the
palm of their their hand actually and
the children are kind of like clay you
know in all of the scriptures whether
Christian scriptures uh Islamic
Scriptures it it man's begin man's
beginning was with clay and Clay the
nature of clay is pliable you know in
its original form you know you can shape
it and mold it and then when you apply
heat to it heat or thy to it it becomes
permanent in the in the shape that you
put it in and that's the way our
children are the children come this
world pliable and we shapee and mold
them and if we don't shape and mold them
correctly the heat uh or the time will
will will make them almost permanent in
that in that spot so we have to be very
very careful and we give children the
wrong impression and we and we have a
tendency as parents to take attention
off of the Oneness of Allah which is Ted
we take the attention off of that and we
and we subconsciously condition our
children to seek the approval of
uh and the validation of human beings
how do we do that because we the parents
want we tell our children if you say
your prayers mommy and daddy will be
proud of you if you wear your hijab
mommy and daddy be proud if you say your
prayers if you memorize the Quran mommy
and daddy would be proud and so we're
subconsciously training and conditioning
our children to seek the approval of a
human being which is us then we send
them out into the world to the to the
schools to the marketplace or where have
you you then we're not there but they
condition in their condition that we put
them in to seek the approval or
invalidation of human beings there's
other human beings there to influence
them but they may not have the best
interest at heart our young children
will hear things from their from other
human beings like if you take off that
scarf off your head we'll be proud of
you we'll like you more if you smoke
this cigarette smoke this marijuana will
be proud of you will like you more if
you have a boyfriend have a girlfriend
if you have a baby you know if you join
our gang you know we'll be proud of you
but actually and then we our children
will come back to the house with those
bad habits and we'll blame it on their
peers but we're the one that made them
uh conditioned to seek the approval or
validation of other human beings because
we're human beings what my advice uh to
the parents is change our language we
should say if you say your prayers if
you wor your hijab if you keep your
mouth clean Allah will be proud of you
and will'll be happy with you as parents
because you're trying to please Allah
that way when they go back out into the
world and their friends try to say that
to them uh to something negative if you
join this gang if you take this thing
off your head or so on and so forth
smoke this cigarette we'll be proud of
you said yeah but God won't be proud of
me Satan the devil might be proud of me
because that's who you're trying to
please but God won't be proud of me and
that's who I'm trying to please and that
will help the children that will
strengthen them but we wait too long
we're not fair to the kids we we we wait
until they get 16 17 years old and we go
whining to the Imam when you talk to my
daughter she won't cover can you talk to
my son he wants to marry nonm Muslim
said well you messed him up you spent 16
years messing up your child and you want
the Imam to fix in one 30 minute kba
would you spent 16 years messing up
that's not fair to them or anyone else
yeah that's profound that's deep so we
start with the parents the raising the
children right from the beginning at
home not waiting now till the Ship Sails
16 years later yeah I mean there's still
hope for the ones that are older but but
now there's no sense in talking to the
parents after they get older we had to
go straight to the juggler now we have
to give a message which I hope to do in
this segment of going giving a message
directly to the the the the the
Adolescent Muslim teenagers that's what
we're going to do when we come back
along with giving BR birth to what's
already inside you so you can have that
peace happiness and contentment in life
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below back here on the dean show okay so
you gave the message to the parents but
now you're going straight to what you
call the juggler yes okay so now you go
straight to the to the youth now or not
this is a young adult yeah but now he's
stuck uh playing Xbox all day maybe
smoking weed you know going to the
nightclubs uh cursing listening to music
and he hears from his parents saying
come to Salat come to success once in a
while maybe for Juma but I mean some
other things are tantalizing him what
what advice do you have okay I want to
deal with the youth uh on two extremes
cuz you mentioned one extreme the the
youth that the Muslim youth that are
they're becoming corrupted the ones that
are using drugs the ones that are
sexually active without marriage the
ones that are dressing
inappropriately the ones that are
cursing their parents that's one extreme
The Other Extreme is those have become
um totally uh over
educationalization but yet they have
become so westernized and so uh and so
debriefed islamically that all they're
thinking about is money all they
thinking all they can see is their
career and they put their career ahead
of Salat they put their career ahead of
I they want they put their career even
ahead of of of Ramadan or going to the
Masid to make Salah they put their
careers there but but and they don't
think about the importance of the fact
that they are Muslims and they're Islam
that should have been put in in them
that they should have internalized all
their life should be put into their
careers so that when they become a
doctor an engineer a nurse an attorney
or whatever field they go to even if
it's a carpenter electrician that they
should take the best of Islam and put it
in that field of their Endeavor that
they don't just become a regular doctor
a regular nurse that they become one
whose influence in that field was
influenced in the society in in humanity
uh has has been
embellished by their love for Islam
their love for Allah and their loyalty
to the sooner the life example of
prophet Muhammad peace and blessings be
upon him and that's how we can change
the world that's the role the
significant role of the Muslim youth
here in America that when our youth
enters the job market and they enter the
Industrial Field and they enter the
professional fields and all of these
fields of endeavor that they can change
the way they think look at the
professions now that have that where
there's so much corruption
um athletes we have a lot of good Muslim
athletes that have a lot of potential
but we don't want them to follow the
footsteps of the ones who are get who
become Millionaires and kill people
Millionaires and and and start using
drugs and and so forth partying at night
in nightclubs and getting in brawls and
all of that we don't want them to become
doctors that that that um that that
compromise their morals treating women
inappropriately just because they're
gynecologists we want we want to we want
our children to get this education
become professionals and then apply the
Quran and Sunnah to their profession so
that they can show the world that this
is how professionalism is supposed to be
and you cannot separate um God
Consciousness from your lifestyle
because that's where the danger is and
that's what's problem that's the problem
with the world now that's one side of
the coin the other side is is those who
have been totally corrupted the Muslim
children that have become a product of
their environment and they become a
product of environment going back to the
last segment because our parents failed
to uh we as parents fail to train these
children to understand that what they
should do they should do to please
Almighty Allah that he can see us though
we cannot see him and that he is
watching us and recording what we do and
that he and he can take away our Beauty
take away our youth because uh because
he everything that Allah created was
created to obey him and and everything
that we have is a visitor we're guests
not only are we guest our youth is a
guest our beauty is a guest our strength
is a guest our age our youth everything
is a guest our abilities are guests and
when these guests come they're visiting
us and they visit us until Almighty
Allah tells that visitor to leave when
when a when life is is with us now the
life is only a visitor
Allah says in the
Quran he said the mutual piling up of
material things will divert you from the
more serious things until you visit the
graves we're just visitors even when we
die we're only visitors Allah says do
not speak of those who die in the way of
Allah as being dead that means that when
you die you only die for you're only
dead for a quick moment you have to die
so you can come alive again so we have
to teach our children to die in that
stage of immorality and come alive in
that stage of morality islamically yes
if we don't do that then we're going to
lose now what the people have been
waiting for they want purpose they want
peace happiness contentment which money
can't buy and you talked about something
already being inside yes giving birth to
it absolutely and not only just giving
birth but bring bringing forth bringing
forth that that was within that's that's
actually what birth is
Allah says in the Quran and and
reverence the wounds that bore you give
respect for for where you came from the
Muslim means literally means one who
that which has the nature to submit to
the will of God everyone and everything
that Allah created has that nature so
it's inside of us people have problem
with the
terminology Methodist Baptists
episcopalians zians Buddhists everyone
has that nature to submit to God inside
inside of them you give birth to that
nature inside of you which is Muslim
which is Islam by by by making a
conscious effort to obey the Creator
that gave it to you that's how we and so
when you give birth to that what does it
mean Allah says we have named you Muslim
both before and in this Revelation so
but but what makes a person call thems
Muslim when we make a conscious decision
a conscious effort to live according to
the nature that we're created to be to
submit to the will of God a constant Act
of submission Islam is what you call is
what is called a verbal noun it means
it's the act of submitting it doesn't
just mean submission means that
everything we do we should consider the
pleasure of Our Lord the Creator
everything that we say even the friends
that we choose we should choose friends
based on his criteria not ours he says
in Surah 3 Ayah 118 he says take not
into your intimacy those outside your
ranks because they will not fail to
corrupt you rank hatred has already
appeared from their mouths but what
their hearts concealed is far worse he's
telling us how to choose our friends we
we can be friendly with people but we
can't get too intimate with them if
they're not interested in God
Consciousness and that's what we begin
to lose God Consciousness that's the key
that's the key and you everyone has it
inside of them to give birth to this
everyone everyone even the meanest and
nastiest people uh have Islam and side
of them and that's why that's why
they're so mean because they haven't
brought the the the the best out of them
and it's up to us those of us who are
believing Muslims our responsibility is
to help bring out the best with that's
with inside of them so they can rise so
the Excellence of the human potential
beautiful thank you for being with us we
started with peace pleasure we end with
peace
alayum good to see you good to see you
too thank you sh and that was what you
were waiting for all the way to the end
to give birth to what already inside of
you and we covered a lot of great things
that guest those guests that visit us as
was eloquently explained by Our Guest
time life all of these things that we
take for granted but remembering that
all of the things that we're doing now
they become a past tense I was here I've
been there and this whole life as the uh
Imam was discussing with us sharing with
us that that guest will also leave us
life and then what have we done with
this life when it leaves us do we
prepare ourselves for the next life do
we just indulge in our passions lust and
desires and let it rule us and run us
and then we didn't achieve any great
thing in this life other than just
following our lust and desires think
about it think about it and really look
to achieve greatness in this life and do
what he said and that's giving that
birth to what's already inside of you
and who is the one that can best help
you achieve that is the one who created
you so beseech his help ask ask him for
this and definitely he will facilitate
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