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show alhamdulillah Alum peace be unto
you we start off with peace and this is
our sincere intention for everybody to
establish peace in their life but how
can you have peace if you don't know the
purpose of life if you don't know why
you've been created my next guest has
been touring the whole world sharing the
purpose of life the purpose of life with
the people but how do you share this
purpose of life if you're not giving
what we feel is that invitation we're
going to be talking about the importance
of this invitation the invitation that
will give you peace prosperity success
in this life and success in the next
life my
guess when we come back here on the dean
show is going to share to us the
importance of giving this invitation the
legacy of this
invitation my next guest here on the
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the peace be unto you
Alum how are you sh alhamdulillah very
well brother now time is limited thank
you very much for finding the time know
you're very busy individual you're T
touring the world as I mentioned sharing
the purpose of life with the people used
to be a former Christian not to go too
deeply into your past but uh this is
true you used to be a Christian then you
accepted this beautiful way of life yeah
that is true as a matter of fact um I
don't say the people I used to be a
Christian uh the values of loving Jesus
Christ and relating to the mission of
Jesus Christ and the principles of the
life of Jesus Christ I've maintained
that uh as far as I'm concerned so I
think I got the best uh out of
Christianity if we want to call it that
uh I got the best out of that by
becoming Muslim so when I meet
Christians I say to them that I still
carry the values and principles of
loving Jesus Christ and perhaps maybe
more than people who call themselves
Christians now you said an Arabic word
you said muslim was we we probably say I
mean is it true that Jesus was a Muslim
absolutely the word Muslim mean the one
who submits to almighty God and the
Mandate or the scripture or the
Revelation that God sent so all the
prophets Abraham Moses David Solomon
Isaac Ismael Jesus Christ and of course
the prophet Muhammad peace and blessing
upon him they were the best of those
that submitted so to submit means Muslim
and uh Islam means submission So based
upon that uh a basic uh principle and
definition of course the prophets were
all Muslims and we following them so
we're Muslims so are you safe to say
also that you're worshiping the god that
Jesus worshiped the god that Jesus
prostrated to the god that Jesus peace
be upon Him called upon of course I mean
this is the god of the Creator uh the
the God who is the creator of the
heavens and earth and the only one who
has the capacity to create uh who
creates uh the creation and you know the
creation is not the Creator and the
Creator is not the creation so Jesus
Christ certainly was the son of Mary
nobody can doubt that so he was part of
the creation Now those that want to
deify and make God a man a man of God
that's a different historical phenomena
uh but certainly it's the same God that
we're worshiping now the purpose of life
that's the crucial question let me tell
you a a true story okay myself I'm also
trying to break the ice with people get
to know them and share the purpose of
life tried to have them think now I was
at the Home Depot the other day you know
the Home Depot you have it on your parts
all sure so I I I I kind of established
a rapport with one of the people working
there and after seeing him several times
you know I just come see him the first
time say hey have you consider the
purpose of life no you think I'm crazy
or something but after he saw you know
that you know I I'm just an average
person coming there asking talk making
you know small talk after maybe after
half a dozen times of of seeing me and
having small talk conversations I
dropped in his ear we somehow LED in
that direction and I thought you know
what I'll bring it up you do this all
the time you you you you actually have
thousands that come to listen to you but
it seemed like I was trying to give this
invitation just for him to consider it I
wasn't trying to prze and try to push my
beliefs on him but just to have him
consider think about it and it seemed
like the next time I showed up at that
Home Depot I mean he he it seemed like I
I had I had brought up a question
that was just something it it was real
heavy talk to me did and we want to
learn from from your experiences and you
know the importance of giving this
message this invitation and how we can
be more sensitive to the people around
us the culture and the best way to
approach this issue of having people
consider the purpose of life please talk
to us sh uh well Eddie you know I'd like
to just say to yourself and say to your
uh television audience that um the
question the Great question the central
question um about life is its objective
not just its end or its beginning but
its
objective um and the objective of Life
uh is spelled out by understanding its
purpose uh and if you don't understand
the purpose of life it doesn't matter
what you acquired in life doesn't matter
what people say about you in life but
you if you don't know the purpose it
means that you didn't consider the end
you didn't consider the final value and
so uh what I've uh learned to do uh by
appreciating myself is that when I meet
people not to talk about religion you
know not to talk about
politics uh not to talk about things
that divide us and put put us on
different sides of the aisle but talk
about a theme that everyone can relate
to whether it's time whether it's
weather whether it's values principles
uh the economy and then relate that to
purpose because then people can
understand that you able to make
relevant almost any subject and in the
course of doing that I ask people have
you ever considered uh your purpose in
life and you'll be
surprised people are they're stunted
they're
startled they get confused uh if they're
intellectual all of a sudden they become
cloudy and they ask what do you mean by
that well it's a simple question do uh
have you considered your purpose in life
why are you here you know uh is there a
mandate uh that you carry uh uh your
beliefs and your values how do they fit
into that purpose and all of a sudden
you find that most people never really
gave it consideration because it's not a
subject in school uh it it's it doesn't
relate directly towards religion or or
faith or philosophy or academics it's an
inner question uh it's a question of the
heart a question of the mind uh it
speaks to the kind of person that you
are
it sorts it sort of uh uh begins to
dictate even U how you act how you
behave how you think how you interact
with other people so uh I say to the
audience uh the world audience your your
studio audience uh I say to people that
we need to take the time to consider our
purpose in life and when we consider our
purpose in life then you'll find out
it's an even plane you can even start
all over again you don't have to be born
again uh you just reassess yourself and
then when you reassess yourself you may
find that you need to make some
adjustments to change where you're
heading because you're going to wind up
uh you're going to wind up in a place
based upon what you're doing if you're
riding a bicycle you're not going to
wind up in a place where plane lands you
know where planes land um uh you know if
you um if you're doing bling bling if
that's your branding if your branding is
bling bling you're not going to wind up
on the top of society so purpose almost
dictates where you're going to wind up
at literally even after this life you
know like after life or life Hereafter
or Hereafter or after here uh the way
you interpret purpose so sort of
dictates where you're going to be head I
mean in your inter personal
relationships whether with wife or
children and other people the values
that um that you personify has something
to do with purpose so I think that this
theme purpose is so profound uh it's
like our nose on our face uh uh we look
at it every day uh but we don't even
some sometime we miss it so if we
reconsider purpose each one of us
whether we are Hindu or Buddhist or
Christian or Muslim or M or Das or
whatever we are put purpose in there and
begin that purpose it may reorientate
your life even a small amount sh we're
going to take a break and we'll be right
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nowhere on the outside everything looks
good you see the $100,000 cars you see a
lot of diamonds you see a lot of females
and they think that this is you know
this is a life this is this is like you
know Paradise right here on
Earth it's not anyone's job to go into
someone's heart and change their heart
your job is to tell people what the
truth is and the reality of it is while
we're sitting here while I'm sitting
here constantly paying for the disease
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Yasin now we're talking about purpose
crucial question and you have toured the
world you've given hundreds of lectures
on this very topic is this correct well
I kind to say a thousands of lectures
thousands of lectures yes and a lot of
non-muslims potential Muslims have
accepted this way of life the way of
life of Jesus Moses Abraham all the
messengers of God that complete and
total submission to the one God not to
his creation but to the Creator is this
true that so many we we've seen you know
dozens of people lined up after they've
listened to your presentation by the
grace of uh the creator of the heavens
and earth and they've accepted this
beautiful way of life you talk about
this well you know uh Eddie to be honest
with you um I'd like to sort of
depersonalize uh the issue uh by saying
that we see people every morning lined
up uh in McDonald's
uh why because it's a brand it's not
that the food is good it's just that the
branding is in their minds and they line
up for it every day Starbucks um uh
McDonald's Burger King Pizza Hut uh it's
not something phenomenal it's something
that people need they identify with and
they fit into that pattern of their
lives and what I have found uh is that
when you speak to people's hearts and
Minds uh not with the objective of their
being become Muslim but maybe adding
value to their life they appreciate it
and not only do they appreciate it later
on but some of them appreciate it right
away and you get reactions from people
almost
immediately and so uh when you see
people accepting Islam at the end of a a
lecture or presentation that I do it's
not she KH Yasin uh is that I've
switched on something inside of them
that they didn't identify before and
when it's switched on uh they feel good
um uh a glow comes you know um they
become a bit naturally inebriated how
they become motivated how they do some
soul searching right on the spot and I
take advantage of that by saying to them
that well uh we don't know where life
ends we don't know where the
interruption comes and whatever you're
going to Bear witness to whatever you're
going to testify to uh it's going to be
um uh written on a tablet uh that's
going to set your values and your
balance it's going to dictate where
you're going to arrive at and so uh you
should testify now because you don't
know if you're going to speak if you're
going to wake up tomorrow and people do
uh uh they Embrace Islam on the spot uh
in the past 15 years the purpose of life
Foundation has been instrumental um in
um facilitating people to enter Islam
and my colleagues tell me that the
figure is somewhere around 38,000 that's
what I'm told however um that figure is
a bit deceptive or misleading uh because
in fact uh a figure that I'd rather give
to the audience um and say to people is
that for every one person that have
accepted Islam there's another 10 They
didn't accept Islam they didn't Embrace
Islam but they have accepted the values
and they came from a distant point to a
closer point they came from being
perhaps enemies in confrontation or uh
uh about Islam to become allies and so
if we look at that figure the 38,000 and
another 10 people who didn't enter Islam
but they might be family they might be a
colleague coworker um a family member uh
they might be a neighbor uh who is no
longer confused about Islam uh who is no
longer apprehensive about Muslims who
understands the values so they have
embraced the values but they haven't
embraced Islam that's an ally so that's
like 38 that's like 380,000 so that's
the figure we like to deal with to give
Muslims the understanding that we have a
chance to touch the lives of the
American people and people around the
world positively uh secondly when you
touch their lives in that way uh their
lives no longer it they cannot be the
same again
and so we about touching lives touching
hearts and if some people's minds and
hearts and lives are touched and they
become Muslims the benefit is theirs uh
and and also ours we receive a residual
residual from God you know when somebody
enters Islam is like a Salesman we get
our percentage yes it's a residual
that'll be on our scales on the day of
judgment uh for them they are the
greatest winners because they've been
relieved of their sins and now they have
become Muslims and now they can make
something better of their uh they can
see their purpose in life and they can
do something better with their lives we
talked about now the purpose of life and
the importance of bringing people to to
to consider this and so many people that
when when they listen to your lectures
and they consider this they accept this
wonderful way of life but now let's talk
about the invitation the invitation is
crucial and many Muslims who are living
Islam they're they're not sharing this
invitation can you talk about in Arabic
it's called daah the importance of
sharing this message this message that
brings peace to a person's life that
brings happiness and success the
importance of sharing the purpose of
life with Humanity well you know it's
it's uh it's it's very natural uh uh
when you think about it and I'd like to
use the analogy uh because analogy
sometimes get points across quicker than
Doctrine um you know out of uh some 180
transnational companies in the world
today about 120 American companies now
that needs to be explained put into
context uh this is because Americans uh
have no problem in promoting their goods
and services uh they believe that their
goods and services are the best and they
go everywhere in the world and say I'm
an American and their goods and services
are embraced by people all over the
world if a Muslim believes that their
faith system and their values is the
best that the world has to offer why
wouldn't they share that with another
human being and if they're not doing
that then there's probably some
psychological or personal um uh deficits
that they have uh maybe they have a a
conflict in their uh uh self-esteem
maybe they're socially dysfunctional
maybe they're afraid and all of those uh
psychological um um we can call it um uh
psychological barriers uh prevent us
from delivering this message and our
Prophet Muhammad peace and blessing be
upon him his main mandate from God was
to deliver the message he was the
messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi
wasallam so if Muslims are Muslims by
culture or they're Muslims uh by just um
uh by birth if they're Muslims just uh
by virtue of saying the words and being
Muslim and by performing the prayers and
so forth who cares about that nobody
knows what we do inside the Masid nobody
knows what we do inside our homes what
people understand is the behavior what
people understand is the character what
people understand is the residual the
final product and if people are proud
about the products and services that
they represent they speak to the world
about it and so when we give daah the
invitation to Islam we're not inviting
people to ourselves we're not inviting
people to Muslims we're inviting people
to Islam submission to the one God we're
inviting people to a premise of life
that will give them benefit in this life
and also in the Hereafter so why
wouldn't people do that and if they
don't do that well they are the losers
uh and then uh those of us who have
adopted that mode uh uh of
responsibility and that's what it is
it's a social responsibility that we
have to what deliver the message because
if we don't deliver the message then
we're like an ambassador that was sent
out from the King and we arrived in a
place to deliver a message on behalf of
the king and we got so engrossed with
the society uh that we were sent to we
forgot to deliver the message so we
Muslims have been sent by the king of
the heavens and the Earth and we are
ambassadors to deliver this message and
we cannot forget uh our mission
statement before we go to break just if
you can help clarify you mentioned
something about the the person's mind
becom a little clouded but why is it
when we talk about sports when we talk
about football baseball when we talk
about the opposite gender and dating and
you know Facebook and all these other
things that are out there people you
know you can carry on a conversation but
sometimes usually like this IND
individual at Home Depot real life
example you bring up this crucial
question and the person's mind becomes
clouded how do you think this it uh well
it's a it's a natural natural um
psychological knee-jerk we call it kn
jerk yes knee-jerk it's like um I don't
know if you took psych Psychology 101
and the whole um analogy of Pavlov's
Pavlov's uh salivating dog um that when
you think about food you start
salivating when you look at the golden
arches of uh of MacDonalds you start to
salivate so this is something natural
inherent in the human being and so
people uh when they talk about sports or
girls talking about boys and boys about
girls and uh whatever it is that people
feel motivated about and whatever they
have have a natural uh ability to
communicate uh and and talk about my
team okay and to talk about it real
enthusiastically but when it comes to
the issue of their faith-based
principles if they're not clear about
that they don't salivate they're not
motivated and therefore they start
talking about it in a very clinical way
they become reactionary so you know we
need to do this in a very natural way
just like fish swim and birds fly and uh
uh and if we do that people receive it
in the same way and knows best we're
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Alone come and see what everyone's
talking
about but the argument here is that God
out of his
love cuz in all honesty if you really
wanted to do something you're going to
find a way where there's a will there's
a way
absolutely there are a few problems here
why were people of generations and
generations and generations being told
to worship one God ask that God for
forgiveness ask him for for salvation
seek his mercy no one
else's so he picked up the Quran which
is the last and final Testament the last
and final
Revelation I was 16 years 8 years
inactive reserves and 8 years active
duty but uh the bottom line is that I'm
an opthalmologist I'm specialist in
Cataract and refractive surgery I'm the
medical director of the major
is these are not God God is the one who
created everything in this universe
that's the one I'm going to worship and
prostrate to how can you go wrong doing
that you don't believe in him you're out
of Islam top 10 reasons why Jesus cannot
be god let's get right to it cannot be
God number 10 number
10 back here on the dean show with Y
purpose of life crucial question you got
to get motivated to give the invitation
to have people reflect and consider the
purpose of life before death it's a
reality is coming isn't it yes so what
would you feel is a positive way a
natural way a way that we can get more
people to consider this we can get more
people to consider the purpose of life
before that that ultimate reality hits
death in the grave and then bye-bye to
all the baseball football and all these
other things that people were consumed
with give us some advice Shake
please well um Eddie I think that
um talking to human beings about the
purpose of life or uh trying to get
people to consider or to share that
value uh it should come naturally um I
think that uh if I'm on a train or a bus
or
uh in a cafe or in a school or and I'm
talking to a person uh we talk about the
weather uh we talk about the economy and
we have to make relevant uh the value
systems regardless of who we're talking
to and what we're talking about the
other thing is that uh we need to
basically um put into that when people
see a value in something they want what
is valuable nobody wants what is
invaluable secondly people want what is
contemporary they don't want what is old
they they can appreciate Nostalgia uh
but they want what is modern what is
contemporary what is relevant today and
so in the course of my interaction with
people generally I tried to make
relevant to them the value of Life the
principles of Life uh and I get them to
agree to to have consensus about those
values uh and to want those values and
that we want the same values when I get
them to agree to that then I ask them so
how can you sort of Ensure uh that
you're going to become a beneficiary of
those values when they're not clear
about it I say well let me make a
proposition to you and people like
propositions uh and not um uh things
that um we order them to do you know we
try to give them Clos in propositions no
we give them open propositions and we
say consider this here we say think
about this here and uh the value that
God says uh in one place in the Quran it
says God says and I'll just translated
quickly he says uh can I invite you to a
business or a proposal that will save
you from a Grievious chastisement and so
I think that uh since life ends uh in
such an Abrupt way uh we need to say to
people that suppose I suppose I give you
a value or a suggestion that may help
you to understand the other side of life
the continuation of life and also add
value to the life that you have do you
think they will be motivated to listen
of course they would uh and we haven't
said a word about Islam or the Quran or
the prophet Muhammad wasam or no Arabic
terminologies or no religious
terminologies we just given them a
straightforward proposal that all human
beings psychologically are receptive to
and God knows best we're out of time but
just for the millions of viewers that
are out there there are many who are
reflecting about this and you know what
they just turned the channel and they're
catching us here they might have gotten
away from all the different other
distractions and now you have their
attention what would you have this
person consider now we just have have a
few few seconds left it's a heart-to-
heart with that sincere soulsearcher out
there who really wants to know what the
purpose of life is why he's been created
where is he going when he dies talk to
him please sh yes uh I'd like to just
say to the studio audience wherever you
are in the world or this uh great
country of America that each one of us
need to think about the shortness of
Life at the end of the day um life is a
capsule of time uh and you don't control
time uh if God had any power over his
creatures at all it would be time and so
we don't know when time is up there we
have to use our time properly we have to
consider the power and the benefit of
time and uh when life is over it's over
it's wrapped up it's packaged and you
only have your Deeds it's only your
Deeds it's not what you have it's not
what you have wished for or hoped for
it's your deeds and so on the day of
judgment you'll have your Deeds to speak
for you and we ask almighty God to cause
all of us to be cognizant of that and to
be the beneficiaries of our time with
good deeds and with good deeds uh we'll
find that good breeds good and there's
no other reward for good other than good
we want to just thank you so very much
for being here at the dean show and we
want to be able to come back and forth
many different times brother we' love to
have you good breeds good I like that
the way that we can we started with
peace we end with peace that's correct
brother thank you very much may God
Almighty the Creator reward you for
taking the time to be with us thank you
so much brother thank you and thank you
for tuning in to another episode of the
dean show purpose of life we really want
you to consider it for
some reason reason that you have tuned
on and you got to just get a little bit
of a taste of we were talking about if
you like what we had to say continue to
tune back here to the dean show continue
to reflect before the end of life
approaches and as the shik was saying as
our guest was saying time is all we have
so we need to make the best out of our
time doing good breaths good and we're
inviting you to do the ultimate good and
that's to establish a relationship with
the one Creator who created you beseech
his help call upon him alone
the same God that Jesus called upon the
same God that Abraham Noah Moses All The
Messengers of God they sought to know
the purpose of life from the creator of
Life the one
God thank you for tuning in to the dean
show we hope that you can join us again
next time until then peace be unto you a
lot of you out there are in the exact
same position he said I would never give
up worshiping God as one I will never
give up spreading this message I hope
that you take that message step you
don't know if you're going to live till
tomorrow so you got to find that urgency
to do the right thing right
now just clarified everything for me
that's when I became
Muslim majority of people you talk to
yeah they know they got to change they
know they got to do good but they don't
do the good why is this
the ranking of the 100 most
influential men in the history of the
world
laziness the reality of Life usually
doesn't sink in until tragedy comes you
know this is when you find people yeah
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know you get a few bad people the media
grab a hold of that and Spins it the way
they want
to and in it he puts Muhammad as number
one he said no human being had more
influence one of the amazing things
about Islam that everyone should know is
that we are the only other religion that
is a tenant of faith that you must
believe in Jesus Christ and everything
that he did or you cannot be a Muslim if
that is missing if you say that you do
not believe in Jesus you have stepped
outside of Islam you cannot be a Muslim
is a tened our faith to to believe in
and love Jesus
Christ these are not God God is the one
who created everything in this universe
that's the one I'm going to worship and
prostrate to how can you go wrong doing
that you don't believe in them you're
out of Islam cannot be a Muslim top 10
reasons why Jesus cannot be god let's
get right to it cannot be God number 10
number 10
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