alhamdulillah Alum peace be with you now
let me tell you something you can't buy
a sixpack of peace peace is something
that money cannot buy peace is something
when you have purpose in life when you
know why you've been created and this
way of life gives you every single
answer to all your questions why you've
been created where you going when you
die and this is what the dean show is
all about delivering the message of
purpose of life and talking to people
who are living the purpose of life doing
good not only for themselves for the
community but for all of mankind and the
D show here to help Serve and Protect
protect you against evil and serve you
so you can help get the message so you
can live a fruitful life my next guest
is doing something great he's a
president now I'm not talking about
President Obama I'm talking about a
president of an organization that's
doing some wonderful work and we're
going to meet him it's a surprise I'm
going to tell you his name when he comes
out don't move we'll be right back with
this exciting show here on the dean show
we'll be right back this is the de
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the this is the dean show welcome back
to the dean show I'm going to be talking
a little bit slower than usual we have
the president of the global de Muslims
and the vice president so I said look
not President Obama but
somebody who's dear to us who's our
brother your brother in in in humanity
my brother in
faith Salam
alaykum so we're going to learn
something through this show we're going
to learn to be grateful and thankful for
all the blessings that we
have so and we're going to learn some
sign
language
alhamdulillah so I want to start off
with a couple
things peace be with you how do you say
that peace be with you assalam
alayum show me show the audience how do
you say
it go a little bit slower go
slow peace be with you peace be with you
yes do it a get that shot again from
both of them go ahead peace be with
Europe thank you for making time to be
on the dean
show you're you're the President and
Vice President of the GL Global def
Muslims we want to talk to you a little
bit tell us a little bit about your
organization and what you
do so the organization is the global
death
Muslim it's a it's an American
organization here also we have Canada
involved to try to educate Islam in
terms of sign language for the death
because we have about maybe half of the
the deaf you know half a million about
to the deaf who are located in in uh in
America don't don't have the the access
to Islamic knowledge and you know the
concept is not being taught all of these
children are you know being neglected
away from that information so
alhamdulillah we're the only
organization here to try to be able to
educate the deaf children also the
adults so what we're going to do here
we're going to deliver the message of
all the messengers of God it's a very
unique show alhamdulillah how do you say
alhamd how do you say all praise to the
creator of the heavens and earth
alhamdulillah how do you say that
alhamdulillah how do you do it
alhamdulillah dillah say right now
alhamdulillah say alhamdulillah for all
the blessings that the Creator's given
us we're going to you can you help me
could deliver the message of Islam to
those who can't
hear
inshah let's start off with this word
Islam let's define what Islam means
Islam is a simple word that means
submission having a relationship by
submitting yourself to the one who
created you the one
God Islam here would teach yes there's
only one God and no other God so this
Prophet Muhammad he's the messenger to
deliver the message and revelation of
the Quran that's what we intend to do to
the death
Community to try also trying to educate
them about the five pillars of Islam and
you know as as we know the the first one
is Mr Shah and how to pray five times
they you know Ramadan and in the varant
mea let's talk about the pure monotheism
for a second pure just only worshiping
God one God how just one how do you say
one God one God just one God
like do let me see let me see one that's
it one that's it we just we don't
worship
Jesus we don't worship Muhammad we don't
worship the sun we don't worship the
moon not a
monkey not an elephant not a man not a
woman just
God that's Islam just one God and as
soon as you make a holy ghost into God
or you make Jesus into God you give
anyone Divinity next to God you've set
up a partner with God and that crushes
the pure monotheism it's only one
God so go ahead and and expound on this
I want you to expound on this for those
people who let's say they don't know the
purpose of life and we're trying to
explain to them the purpose of life have
you had Encounters of doing daah
inviting people to purpose what do you H
how do you start off a conversation in
sign
language
so often what we do we often go to
colleges mids um schools you know any of
those local community centers what we do
is we provide community service we
always teach about in the the one God
only worship only know neglect all the
images idolatry all of these things and
reflect on pure monism for Allah subhana
tala you know even if you're deaf you
know blind or for whatever reason that
you are neglected away from pursuing
those kind of things but you always know
that Allah subhana tal is flexible with
us we're here to worship and only
worship the Creator so we're here to
also educate the deaf people to try to
understand different side language how
we can connect with each other how we
will share that same boundary you know
when you have a hearing person you know
they speak and you can you can share
that relationship but when they de we
that's a boundary we have so we rely on
the sign language to try to teach that p
monism as well as other Islamic teaching
let's talk about the
relationship the loving relationship
with the loving God Allah the Creator is
the most loving the most
kind and he we dial up to him direct
five times a day when he explains the
importance of connecting with God
through the Salah the prayer how does he
like to explain it the second pillar of
Islam pray yeah prayer five times a day
just our way to develop our relationship
with Allah Allah subhana T through
prayers and to maintain our
communication to ask for forgiveness ask
for you know have have mercy and
forgiveness for others you know and to
be humble and and to do the best Deeds
that we can do and and hopefully inshah
to repeat them and to learn from my
mistakes and always ask for forgiveness
during a Dua you know the Quran clearly
clearly states that Allah is very
merciful you know the you know whichever
sins that you may do Allah subhana is
merciful but we need our duty is to ask
and this is this this method of asking
is for us to maintain relationship with
Allah through through prayer and through
Dua tell what what was it about Islam
about this way that all the prophets
lived Jesus lived Islam Moses Abraham
Noah they all lived Islam they all
submitted not to any saint not to a
messenger not to themselves but they
submitted to God what was it about this
way of life that fascinated you and
motivated you to do what you're
doing now this the prophet Muhammad and
you Prophet you know prophet Abraham and
Noah and all of them yes they're all
Muslims why because all believe in one
God when they come to deliver all the
same message
which is to worship only one God Jesus
himself said the same thing all to
deliver one message so our our community
should understand that because they have
difficult to understand uh the concept
of I thought Jesus is only related to
you know Christianity how does Jesus
relate to to Islam so here we here to
educate them you know we're not here to
to commit partnership with with Allah
subh there's only one monotheism and
this is what we're trying to do to try
to teach the de and how to maintain that
relationship with
us so the message is very you know it's
emphasized and we're trying to make that
clear to to the death audience we're
going to take a break we and we'll be
back with more inshallah take a break
how do you how do you say inshallah God
willing inallah insh inshallah God
willing will be right back you think
these things are going to bring you
happiness you know why you keep going
back to the club and you keep going back
to these
desires cuz you never find satisfaction
it's going to end up causing you if it
hasn't already a lot of
pain you think you're happy you're
kidding yourself you really
are what we are offering in Islam what
we have found in Islam for ourselves is
a means by which our hearts are at peace
they're at rest they're not discontent
we are pleased with what we
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back here on the dean show with the
president I said we're not here with
President Obama but we're here with our
brother from the global deaf Muslims and
the vice president and they're doing
some wonderful work and we should be
grateful and thankful for all the
blessings that we have and we're trying
to deliver this message of purpose of
life to all the people that don't have
the blessing of hearing so how do you
feel when people look at you you look so
buoyant happy but when some people
they're having so many blessings and
they take these things for
granted what do you like to tell
people that are falling into despair but
if they just look a little bit and count
the blessings of hearing of sight and
all the things that they have from Allah
maybe this will cheer them up what do
you like to tell them
now I always thank Allah for the day and
and you
know you know as I was born out you know
being born born deatha did not change
who I am you know s language here is a
method of communication just to you know
the blind is given different way of
communication everyone's giving a
different way of communication but all
we have the same relationship with Allah
subhana tala which is you know to make
certain adjustments on how we can
communicate with our creator me being
deaf doesn't why should I be depressed
you know I'm at least I'm giving the
life here to live and you know there's
million other people here that who are
living some of them you
know have have have the same gift yet
you know some don't you know in don't
have you know arms or legs or or
whatever you know every one here is
given distinct reason and distinct
purpose the most important thing is here
is to use our ability and how to
communicate with Allah subhana tala and
we should be thankful even though is
that you know Allah takes away something
but gives you something you know this is
how this is how I feel and I live
through my life like that I if if you
weren't if if you were able to hear
maybe you wouldn't be doing this
wonderful work and getting all these
wonderful rewards so this is a great
blessing how many people are you able
ble to influence to help because of the
situation you're in this beautiful
situation now because you can reach out
to so many people through your
organization it's a wonderful gift is it
look at
that so right now we have money hearing
the hearing people you see they have
money opportunities money money
opportunities now if you if you go for
example to any Masjid you know theas
none of them are you know being
interpreted and how can we educate the
death today you know uh on what the
purpose of of what theas are about you
know we can't learn them and many
families are you know holding away their
their their children you know even if
they're de with limiting them their
access to Islam you know even if for of
them are maybe a 9 years old you know as
we can always hear I don't hear it but I
just go ahead and pray and you know I
and I lose it I lose everything during
the so the death learn primarily based
on visual visual knowledge so this is
our advantage we're here to try to show
that kind of you you know how to read
the Quran H how you know all of these
things to be able to translated for the
de community and this is the opportunity
that we're trying to make and create for
them we know that when someone comes to
that realization that look I'm going to
die I'm going to be in the
grave and I'm going to have to leave
everything behind all the money all the
material things it's all staying I'm
going and it's either Hellfire or
Paradise so now I want to live according
to how my Creator wants me to live why
he created me that's the life I want to
fulfill so I can please my Creator
before I meet my Creator so now the
person starts to investigate and they
find out that Islam is definitely from
the Creator it provides all the evidence
that a person needs to be full of
conviction that this is the truth it's
not Blind
Faith now someone wants to take the
first step and acknowledge what's in
their very nature that there's only one
God nothing worthy of worship except the
one Creator and Muhammad is the final
messenger of God excepting Jesus Moses
Abraham and all the preceding Messengers
they take the testimony the shahada have
you had
people except the
accept Islam accept
Islam yeah we we've had some tell tell
us tell us this uh story or tell us
something that you've encountered uh
when someone's accepted Islam and how
you guide them through it using sign
language so I would say we go ahead with
one you know rev from yourself one month
ago he's he's he was a DE
he coming from
Maryland he've been traveling to
different countries to see uh H H how
Islam you know is related to to personal
life and and how is it different from
here United States according to other
countries but all but he's been trying
to you know as soon as been visiting
been contacting me and how how to do
that how we how I can be of guidance to
him when that person came in you know to
to to Virginia started to learn sign and
started to read the Quran and said you
know starts to believe in one God and
and Prophet Muhammad is the final
messenger I've had many many stories but
I've had someone from college his name
is
Charles you know and he took
the I think 2007 since he's been being
with me from Muslim took the Shada that
that year you know he's trying to now to
to embrace this religion trying to read
the Quran as much as he can you know you
know some people will look at him if
he's a Muslim or not but he's truly
devoted to reading the Quran try to
understand this is the effort that you
know the da that we're trying to give to
try to understand the Creator up to this
day so you know there's many many death
now are are are converting but you know
but this is the negative but we don't
have the materials to give them you know
you know they access compared to to a
hearing person directly you you you have
spoken languages you have DVDs you have
all of these things that are available
but to the death what can we do how can
we give them so it's so it's difficult
but you know but we're doing everything
we can and inshah a lot a lot are trying
to to come into Islam and Global death
Muslim is here to establish that reasons
and and and it's get becoming better
inshah we have the verbatim word of God
the
Quran it's tamper free tamper proof it's
not edited by man to suit the times it's
been preserved it's a living miracle
for anyone who takes a look sincerely
they will see that the Quran is from the
crater it's in the original language the
Arabic it's been memorized by millions
talks about phenomenons prophecies
everything is in this book How can
someone who is deaf now they can
obviously they can read right so how is
it something different for someone who's
who can't hear to pick up the the Quran
how can they get access is it harder for
them to be able to to read the Quran
obviously they're not they're not blind
but is is it uh is it is it any more
difficult for someone who can't hear to
read the
Quran yes now what you see I'm educated
I I went to college you know our vice
president is the same our board is the
same all of us had the opportunity to go
to to to to attain this education and
we're using our education to teach them
so if if you if you look at the you know
the the the first chapter Surah fat you
know most of the time the first Ayah you
see in in the name of in the name of God
but this this kind of thing usually it's
it's very it's very difficult to explain
but we have to explain the concept we're
using our expressions using using our
understanding and try to use specific
sign language for them to be able to to
understand this because most of them
pick up the Quran and read and it's
difficult for them I see I see and we're
here to provide classes we provide
classes to give them that concept you
know a by a not really a by a but the
concept because you know as they read
they they lose the meaning exactly yes
so so that's that's what we heard to do
you know as you know the Quran is in
Arabic to being able to translate in
English there's so many different
translations we you know we don't call
them exactly the Quran but the concept
of what the Arabic transliteration is
trying to say but we're here doing the
same to try to give that concept similar
in sign language that's so important
that's so and you guys are doing that
work so we're going to take a a break
and we'll be right back to in say
inshallah again how you do it again
inshah inshallah to continue more here
on the dean show with our special guest
be right
back stand
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alone
I would go to my room lock the door
prostrate and cry saying God you know me
better than myself show me the right way
and I will not look back I will leave
everything
behind Allah is our creator and he
creates everything and he gives
intelligence to
people is mamed peace be upon Muhammad
is one of the last Messengers s from God
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back here on the dean show with our
special guest from Global de
Muslims we're almost out of
time let's learn some common
phrases in Sign Language real easy that
the people can go home we we we we
learned alhamdulillah how do you do it
again alhamdulillah praising the Creator
all thanks is to God alhamdulillah
alhamdulillah everybody do Al
alhamdulillah alhamdulillah
alhamdulillah
alhamdulillah alhamdulillah Al
alhamdulillah
alhamdulillah bis that means in the name
of God bis we always start the show and
we say bis in the name of God the
Creator yes how do you say worship the
Creator not his
creation I know it's a little long one
but worship the Creator not his
creation
that's worship the Creator not his
creation creation
worship Creator not his creation okay
how do you say how are you how are
you how are how are you you how do you
say I love
you I love you H how do you say I love
God
I love God I love God I love God how do
you say how do you how do you say what
what are some other
common common things Expressions through
sign language that are that are
important do you
think Islam how do you say Islam this is
Islam Islam submission to one God
Islam submission to one God
Islam Muslim Muslim Islam Muslim Islam
what if someone says look you know how
do you has anybody I mean you know
there's a lot of
islamophobia Hysteria out there you know
people trying to make Islam like you
know it's the other it's from outer
space and these guys are coming to you
know Bring Havoc on the earth so have
you dealt with anyone that
now looks at Islam and Muslims in a bad
light how do you explain to get this
stereotype you know this this false
Persona out of people's mind what do you
like to tell
them oh yeah a lot of time in college my
college Years my own
roommates were not Muslims but they
they're from
Malaysia there roommates and we you know
it's gone every day as soon as you know
911 struck and happened the whole shift
of Islam changed and and it was my duty
you know to explain you know this small
group you know
it's these are the what we call the
extrem you know the extremist and who
are destroying the name of Islam Islam
here is to is to give peace and we're
here to you know abide by the Quran and
and what happened in that that time is
completely different from what what you
know what Allah tells us to do and as a
Muslim we should live by the Quran as
much as best as we can and we have here
to teach our death communities too you
know so when they look and they see the
TV this is the visual media that they're
looking for it you know they they can
they can become brainwashed and they can
become that kind of you know information
that perceives out the outside world not
to be in accordance to Islam but this is
the is Islam phobia and we are here to
change all of that also in and trying to
translate also the message in from the
Quran that we've not we the only
organization you know this never have
been attained before but in in terms of
islamophobia during the college you know
the but it's funny how the death they
know the Bible but the Quran you know
they have all these resources available
for them but the Quran is not there so
you can perceive the information to be
wrong and and become you know it's
islamophobe If U you know uh by by
looking what the media is trying to show
but we are here to educate them to to
worship only the our creator not to
worship the prophets not Jesus not not
any of those
Messengers but just just our creator and
we're here to try to do that uh what's
so special if you had to tell someone in
in Sign Language what's so special about
the Quran I know this can this is a
topic on itself but just in short what's
so special about this
Quran the Quran itself is the Miracle of
Miracles this is this is our Revelation
you know and and there's none other like
it you know this is our living symbol
this is what every day in life you know
all the questions all all the questions
you have in life you know pertaining to
to to usually to anything do anything
that you can think of the answers in the
Quran you know uh we here don't to allow
other people that we don't worship
Prophet Muhammad but Allah only subhana
tala he's the one who's giving us you
know this life and and everything is
subjected inside the Quran and the way
of life and how we approach people how
we forgive people all all of these
things for for safety and peace is is
all in the Quran this this is that this
is our best you
know this is this this is our best
specialty here that we have in the Quran
also to to love myself also to love you
you know
you know even if if you call me I'll
forgive you this all of these messages
are in the Quran this is the beauty of
it you know and we here as brothers and
sisters we should be one um to to to
adhere to that mashallah tell us how
people can get a hold of your
organization get a hold of you through
your organization the name of the
organization your
website organization name is global
death Muslim the website is G global g l
o b a l def d e a f Muslim m u l m.org o
g and this is the only website that we
have in America you know so far you know
there's many many different
organizations that you see but all of
them are working in spoken language but
but alhamdulillah we are the only
organization that that are included in
Sign Language so as you can see our
community is very tight together so
we're trying to to pursue and explain
explain expl what we're trying to do but
you know we have a website you can do we
can go to um so like like for example
one of our project next year we're
trying to promote 40 death people to to
inshallah go to omra we're trying to
promote that kind of project you know to
bring the death together and educate
them as much as we can you know maybe
one maybe one one to two three years but
probably inshallah maybe the death will
understand what Islam is about so right
now our organization to set up the
the Muslim death Development Center for
example in Ghana we're trying to set one
up in Ghana in Africa there's about the
so many de Muslims that that you know
don't have that kind of uh access and
they're being oppressed and you know
their information is being neglected so
we we're not only here to focus in
America but the world because all of us
will share the same thing you know today
people come you know in religion try to
come and promote you know try to
convince us and preach as much as they
can but but what we're doing is we're
teaching them is you know to try to make
them understand what they say is right
or not you know according to the Quran
uh we often are in contact with Scholars
you know we're making DVD electronic
material all of these things the global
death Muslim are doing so so this is why
we have our own you know material so we
can interchange that kind of information
and this is on our website also so at
global def muslim.com you have videos
de.org de.org you have videos to educate
de um uh people on Islam on the purpose
of life it's
there yes this is a new organization but
now we're creating that so in 2009 we
had that opportunity so right now our
classes are going to be recorded also
and we'll be subjected on on the website
we will start showing that you know it's
some work in progress but inshallah with
your help we can be able to do that
beautiful let's go ahead and one last
time let the people know that there's
only one
God worship him alone not his creation
and Muhammad is the last and final
messenger take it away say it again 10
one
time say s i
can is only one
God worship others no just one God and
the messenger who's the last messenger
of prophet
Muhammad that's all the time we that's
all the time we have thank you very
much for being with us may God Almighty
reward you for the wonderful work that
you're doing both of you thank
you thank you for tuning in to another
episode of the dean show appreciate all
the wonderful blessings that you have
and you'll see some of the most
wonderful people that we have have in
our history who are in the worst
situations but they didn't blame their
situation they made the best out of
their situation and they Rose to the
occasion and they Rose to the top so
rise to your full potential and the only
way you can do that is by submitting to
the game plan not your game plan but
God's game plan the game plan of the
creator of the heavens and earth who
created you who took care of you while
you were in the womb of your mother who
gave you life and who'll give you death
and in the end you'll be in the grave
and you're going to have to answer for
everything you've done done in this life
and at the end it's either Hellfire or
paradise and the only way acceptable to
the Creator is submission to his will
not submitting to Jesus not worshiping a
holy ghost not worshiping a monkey an
elephant but only worshiping the Creator
and not the creation and it starts by
wanting by realizing that you're not
self-sufficient you need the air that
you breathe you need the food that you
eat and who's giv that to you the
creator of the heavens and earth so only
worship Him and develop yourself to be
the best human being that you can be
having good character good manners
staying away from all the things that
he's told you to stay away from and
doing all the wonderful things that the
Creator told you to to do and that's the
purpose of life obeying God submitting
to God loving God because he loves you
and he's given you everything so
appreciate all these Blessings by
obeying him and we hope that you
continue to tune in here to the dean
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sticker and we'll see you next time here
on the dean show until then peace be
with
you