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dean show is your boss driving you crazy
are you just living from paycheck to
paycheck party to
party and everything is just getting
tiring it's getting played out and
you're asking yourself what's this all
about what's the purpose many people
don't reflect and why am I here you're
born to die and then what do you got in
between it's a big drama some days are
good some days are bad some days you're
sick some days you're sad so we're going
to on this episode of the dean show
answer that crucial question that I'm
glad you're thinking about what's the
purpose what's it all about life here on
the dean show with my next guest Imam
John will'll be right back
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am alikum peace be with
youum peace blessings and mercy of the
almighty God be upon you thank you for
joining us Imam John Yahya named after
John the Baptist in Arabic Yahya yes you
accepted this way of life that provides
all the answers to life purpose why
you've been here and I opened up the
show with these facts that some people
they're having like most of us is a
struggle in and of itself life and the
boss is driving him or her crazy he's
become a slave to an individual and to
the paycheck and to materialism and then
the person wakes up one day and they're
like man I'm not happy there's got to be
more they're finally reflecting all the
friends are gone they're by themselves
might have had a loved one just passed
his wife left him after 30 years his
girlfriend that he lived for he was a
slave to her she was a slave to him
they've broken off maybe he's gotten
everything so different circumstances
different situ one got all the money
he's still not happy the other one lost
everything and they're just going in a
big circle wondering now they tuned in
and they want to know what do these
people have to say maybe they got the
answers what's the purpose of life right
what's it all about you see brother
Eddie the reality of life um that we
want to believe is that money Fame
power um status is going to make you
happy well the STA statistic show that
the actors and athletes and so on and so
forth that uh even doctors engineers and
and very wealthy people um often time
are some of the most depressed people
filled with anxiety their life is not
fulfilling they have a lot of of of
things that they're not able to deal
with and that is as simply as you said
it in in in their life they feel
themselves subject or devoted to worldly
things to material things and as human
beings brother we have um a Creator as
all things on the universe but as human
beings we have this awareness of self of
morality of right of wrong of the impact
of actions of what's good for the world
what's bad for the world it's something
built in it's an inate uh knowledge so
in the Holy Quran we were told in a
verse um in the end
of where he
says now someone's like okay you're
quoting something I can't understand
what you're saying he said who's he
please tell us for the very good so the
Holy Quran is the final revelation of
God um to Mankind and in this Revelation
it um is telling all about the
relationship between God and humans and
and then how humans should understand in
the light of God and His will the
relationship amongst themselves so that
they could properly arrange their
Affairs and deal with each other in
peace to attain this understanding so in
that verse that we uh recited and we
prefer to recite a verse of the Quran at
least first in Arabic to reference to
everyone that it is preserved in the
original language it was revealed which
is something that is not um the luxury
of any other previous Revelation you
know think people's uh time has changed
people's different uh versions and so
forth and and so on so the Quran is a
very special book so the verse says to
us that God says I merely created human
beings for the purpose of serving me now
somebody might say well that's just you
know God is just seems to be full of
himself why not he's the creator of the
universe
what he's saying is is that he is this
all powerful all knowing source of
everything he's the absolute truth and
out of all of his Creations he has
Preferred and given the Precedence to
mankind that they know the reality that
they're living in they know right and
wrong they have this creative
intellectualism and this ability to make
the world around them and to build the
world around them so he has um given us
this innate inherent knowledge so so he
says he created the human being and then
he inspired all human beings what is
beneficial to their soul and what is
good for them and that which will harm
them and corrupt
them it is a fact true success true
success and success is what makes you
happy when you're truly successful then
you're happy and that is in purifying
that soul that is in taking care and
nurturing that soul with spiritual food
and
uh remembrance of of
God and the fact is that lost and um
astray is the one who has uh corrupted
their soul now I don't mean to cut you
off but someone says look you know I've
been down that route I used to be a
Christian Bart Aram for instance the
Bible scholar you know who Bart Aram is
no I should have know been okay he's a
great Bible scholar of today's age born
again Christian and he was look devout
but then for instance many people like
him they dwell deep into their religion
their roots and they said this is
man-made this has contradictions in it
this can't be from God so they put all
religions everything in the same boat
and say look this is all man-made Mumble
J so now yeah you're bringing me back to
this religion thing what you got to say
and and they're thinking that you know
what Islam is just another opinion it's
just you know another man-made religion
why should I follow this right brother
see the difference between of of course
we have to clarify Islam did not start
um in Arabia with the prophet Muhammad
it was finalized at that point Islam was
being revealed throughout history all
over the world to many many prophets
thousands of prophets um for mankind to
have some knowledge but one of the facts
of previous prophethood was that God
would reveal a message and he would test
them by saying this message and its law
and its teachings it's your
responsibility to live it and preserve
its meaning in your lives right because
there might be a new Prophet there will
be a new Prophet that will come and
clarify if people did go astray well he
testified that the prophet Muhammad was
going to be his final messenger and so
he preserved that message that he came
with which is good for All Peoples and
all times and all places so most people
are judging Islam through the lens of a
judeo-christian experience and that is
not a a fair objective judgment um yes
it's the same God that revealed those
scriptures to those prophets previously
but it the human being's corruption
cannot erase or remove or distort um the
actual texts yes they can interpret them
in their own corrupt ways but the good
thing is we have a very tied in
scholarship to it that has a general
orthodox in a general understanding
which is very rich and very flexible
that is telling us you know the
understanding as it was passed down
through the generation so Islam if you
take a fair shot at it you will see that
the purpose of life is in getting to
know your creator how can you serve
someone you don't know like if you
walking down the street imagine you're
walking down the street and some person
just walks up to you out of nowhere and
says hey can you do this and that for me
now of course as a person of very strong
faith and mercy compassion and
generosity you're going to try to do
what you can to help them but most
people aren on that level what are they
who are you what are you talking about
right but if their close friend or their
mother or their father their brother
their sister came to them and ask them
can you do this for me they have this
knowledge of that person they have this
closeness they have this awareness of
them in this close intimate way and it
makes them feel much more obligated to
want to serve them in their request so
similarly is the case if you know God
and you've come to know him through an
authentic Revelation that has its proofs
you know the Quran is different from the
previous scripture in that obviously
there is no contradiction in it there is
no verse that says this and then a later
verse that says no that's not the case
this is and there's a very compatible
reality between modern science and and
the verses that talk about the real
reality of Creation in the Quran so
there's so much about the life of the
Prophet Muhammad the Holy Quran that was
revealed to him that an objective
researcher when they look into it and we
find so many people we find many great
scientists um people of intellect uh
people of you know what was it the other
day Tony Blair's sister-in-law be
embraced Islam she he was the Prime
Minister of England Islam is is being
embraced by people who have this
um desire to seek knowledge and try to
know the truth not just people who are
looking for a philosophical way with all
due respect to other religions most
people that convert to Buddhism or
Hinduism or something you know they're
just looking for some philosophical
self-help system of life or whatever
they're in some mystical Journey but
whereas Islam you you usually find those
that come to Islam they're really
seeking the knowledge they're really
wanting to know who is God so that I
could really serve
I feel like I can't serve him whenever I
look at the scripture and it doesn't
make sense it's ambiguous yeah Islam is
clear we're going to be right back with
more Lucid clear explanations of what
the Creator wants from us what the
purpose is here on the dean show okay
you've got your dream home and you've
got your dream car but you're going to
get old and things are going to happen
to you in your life and then what have
you got at the end of the day it's an
empty dream that has no real Foundation
we are going to die and we're going to
meet our Lord and he is going to judge
us
it becomes an obligation for each single
human being to find out what the Quran
is Islam is telling us to stay away from
things which are bad for your person and
bad for the
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society back here on the dean show with
Imam Yahya you came from a Catholic
background born bread and raised in
America you were searching for purpose
of life you went from Catholicism to
born again Christian and then you
stumbled upon Islam and you were using
your mind you were taking an analytical
scientific approach that's the way we
got to go that's the way we got to go so
you weren't looking to be an Arab you
weren't looking to get you know into
some freak Show or something you were
looking for the truth yeah and you found
it is that right yes yes you've
memorized this book The verbatim word of
God the Quran is one of the
Miracles that are tangible that people
can investigate look at to see the sign
scientific proofs that you mentioned
prophecies authenticity it's all in this
Quran yes now my next question is the
person lived 30 years serving their boss
they just got fired now we got their
attention they might get another job
they might start becoming a slave to
somebody else right uh
now the person who just broke up with
suie uh Mikey and they're listening to
the country music and they're getting
some solid because that's all the
country music I lost my dog my house but
now why is it so important that you
really take the matter seriously and you
don't just drift off again and you start
going like a dog chasing his tail you
know you go around life in circles now
you just get another relationship and
then you live for the weekends and then
you take her out you take you know let
him take you out and then again you're
just you know living according to your
lust and desires accumulating wealth and
then again it's the same thing then you
die and you didn't live your true
purpose in life the way the Creator
wanted you to live why is this so
important while we have their intention
they were flickering through and they
tuned into the dean show or a friend
said you got to watch this show they
talk about reality truth why is it so
important you see brother um when we
look at people's lives and we look at
the purpose of life we see that people
are engulfed in a material that a lot of
people they they have spiritual and the
real of what might happen after I die it
seems far away and it makes sense
because even in the Arabic it calls the
afterlife and what we're facing
eventually is which means far right
means worldly means closeu something
close to you something you can touch so
really what a person needs to weigh out
is human beings are obviously not
animals like others we we obviously are
superior to monkeys and we obviously
aren't um monkeys
we we C when we look at this studio
we're sitting in find me bring try to do
whatever you can with any chimpanzee and
and develop some sort of ability to do
what we're doing right now at least have
a conversation in the first place so uh
we are clearly different and special so
somebody needs to think about why am I
different why do I have these abilities
that no no other creature has the
abilities that we have and then they
need to look at creation itself is
creation some halfhazard thing that just
popped up out of nowhere or is it a
bunch of very systematic
structured um um systems that are
functioning all around and the fact of
how our how our body digests food and
how the brain works and how the blood is
Distributing nutrients and getting rid
of waste and all of the different things
that are happening right now the way our
eyes are taking that light bouncing it
making everything how all of that is so
very deep and complex the first thing we
need to come to is how did it get so
complex and clearly creatively designed
not haphazardly blown up and Luckily
everything on planet Earth just became
very structured for all this life and
all of this intelligence and so forth so
when we look at that then we look at the
history of the world um what is about
God what is the most clear part of
History it's called prophethood prophets
came with Miracles throughout history
they did things that blew everybody's
mind and caused them all to become
devout Believers in what those prophets
were teaching then what those prophets
taught Even in our modern world you know
you have this argument right now should
we have the Ten Commandments in the
court or not of course we should have
them in there well they're saying well
because that's religion well the whole
society's laws are built on religion's
laws that came out long time ago and so
then what's interesting is those same
people if you go in this argument with
them that are struggling with God and
all of this they will admit that they
think that humans made these
Commandments and that they for our
benefit right so the fact is that they
are not made by humans because they come
from these prophets who did these
Miracles who represent God's message to
Mankind and they came and they
established this law and we're all
living don't steal don't kill it's not
of course now Society wants to follow
his desires some people are fornicating
but deep down if you ask somebody if
your wife is with someone else if your
mom slept with someone else besides your
father is that okay with you they will
say no they know that that's wrong right
so we have a society that has all of it
right in front of their eyes the
question is are we going to seek for the
deeper purpose or are we just going to
try to be like other animals clearly
we're not like them so we need to
actualize where is the truth about all
this intelligent design that we live
amongst what is the truth about what
we're doing here on on on on Earth the
fact is this Revelation has said over
and over some people bring the argument
they say well if you say there's a god
well then why is there you know
earthquakes and disasters and people
born with diseases and yeah well the
fact is no religion no people that are
attaching themselves to prophethood in
some way whether it be a a perfect
message that was purified and preserved
as Islam is a proven fact to be or as
other ones which they even admit amongst
their scholarship that there's been some
human interest in writing and developing
of dogmas and ideas um all of them are
in agreement that life is a test and
that life is not perfect and life is not
heaven we're not living in Paradise so
we should not expect there to be a
paradise we're living in a test to prove
are we attached to the Creator is our
ultimate Devotion to the Creator and in
recognizing that I am grateful to be
created I am loyal to the one that gave
me my life I want to spread the good
that he did in giving me my life he gave
me my life that's very good he gave me
the ability to hear and to see and all
of the fruits and vegetables and oxygen
that I breath are just facilitated for
me in the world around me it's so much
um of a blessing that he has surrounded
around me so am I going to be grateful
am I going to yearn and seek a
relationship with that Creator through
an objective research looking in my
heart looking in scriptures looking at
history of scripture being objective
removing myself from the idea that my
culture and my family and our society's
beliefs and the way we must just stick
we're not on the day of judgment going
to be judged by our passport nationality
I'm going to be judged and I'm talking
to Muslims too there's Muslims that
think they they should be Muslim because
their parents were Muslim that does not
make Islam the right faith it the
religion that you choose should be based
upon proofs and evidences proofs and
evidences within this SC scripture the
text the one who brought it what it
teaches in your heart what's right and
wrong what makes sense when you put all
that together then you should submit
your will to what you know is going to
affect you after you die because because
at least within the judeo Christian we
do believe that God will judge people
because we're responsible for our lives
and so we have a responsibility over
doing the right thing and when we do you
know there's so many people out there
that did Evil bro they did murder
corruption stealing cheating and never
were they accounted for any of that they
just went through the life doing all
that should they just go straight to
heaven where with all the people who led
a good decent life and kindness and love
and compassion towards others or should
they be accounted for what should they
be purified for what they knew they were
doing wrong and they did not get
accounted in this life similarly there's
people that went out there and spread
goodness and kindness and acts of
greatness to people yet they were never
given any such reward for that you know
we as people believe in rewards we give
out the Nobel prizes and then we have
jails so this is we all what been built
in the system of of recognizing good and
and embracing that and and encouraging
that and then um rebuking and punishing
evil and bad and Corruption so that's
something built into us it is clearly
part of a bigger design of being either
God's people who are a people of
goodness of compassion of mercy of a
discipline that says you know what I'm a
creative person like the Creator and I'm
seeking to follow in his light of
goodness and spreading the well-being
for creation okay and I'm not a person
of destructive evil corruptive ways
which is opposite and antithesis to a
Godly life we're going to take another
break and we right back with more on the
purpose purpose of life here on the ding
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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have back here on the dean show we're
talking about purpose is it meant for
the purpose of life to be something
nebulous that now everyone has their
opinion ask someone and so unclear and
the person gets bewildered and they're
like either a why are you asking me B I
never thought about it see oh well it's
to get a big house on the Prairie raise
a family it's to be good to people the
other one saying this the other one
saying that it's like multiple choice no
one really can answer it lucidly like
you did and we're going to close out
we're almost out of time with what the
Creator is saying but is it meant to be
something that's uh nebulous unclear
just like no that's ambiguous when we're
going back to the fact of history this
is a fact of history this is you know
some people want to say Moses and what
he did Jesus and what he did Muhammad
and what that's all you just wrote that
those are history okay the same people
want to believe in Alexander the Great
and Stalin and all of those they're
taking someone as Role Models yeah yeah
they at least they're believing in some
part of major impacting history whenever
it suits whatever they've decided to
believe for whatever worldly desires and
interests that they have so the fact
fact is prophethood is a historical
reality God sent prophets prophets did
Miracles not like magic tricks but like
Seas parting blind and lepers being
healed by touch uh moons splitting did
they come with different religions or
one one way of life the same message the
problem is did any of them call people
to worship themselves Saints Idols uh or
or Jesus see that's the thing is that we
have to in our research say like for
example with all du respect to all of
our brothers and sisters in
Christianity um the fact is is that if
you look at the history of Christianity
or Judaism or Buddhism or Hinduism you
will see the development of major
dogmatic beliefs over time and human
beings establishing how we should find
you know like for example with all due
respect because I have many dear friends
and family that are Christian people and
they're very good people no doubt about
it the question is is what you're basing
your whole eternity on is that something
that stands up to the test of objective
research and Analysis did Jesus Christ
say worship me I came to die for your
sins did he so that's a question that
people need to ask themselves well when
you read the Bible he's worshiping God
himself he fell on his face and prayed
he went and fasted for 40 days why is
God fasting if he's God and so forth
right so um he's praying to God he's
fasting for the sake of God um he's
telling everybody I have no ability or
powers of my own only God is supporting
me and giving me this um this support so
they say that in the Bible that when
Jesus knew that these uh Greeks and the
the the Jewish rabbis are coming after
him that he went and prayed and he said
oh Lord pass this cup before me all of
the comment say this means don't let
these people get me well if he
understood because obviously he's God or
Son of God he would know his purpose I
mean obviously wouldn't be in the dark
as to his purpose in life well he should
know he is saying don't let these people
come kill me meaning I don't want to be
killed well if then the big hitter comes
when he says a certain prayer when when
he's on the cross it is they have
narrated that he said oh Lord why have
you forsaken me so if his whole purpose
is to die for the sins of man that's
what he wants to do out of his own free
will because that's his gift to the
world to die for their sins why is he
saying oh Lord if he's the Lord why who
is he talking to so these are these are
concoctions by human beings God never
taught or The Messengers never brought
such ideas which you're saying they this
when we're reading the scripture we see
some quite contradictory things so that
Dogma where did it come from it came in
a place called NAA in Turkey three
centuries after Jesus clearly people got
confused and so forth and then some
power play from the new Byzantium Empire
with the new um Greek ruler uh uh
Constantine who embraced Christianity he
wanted to impose what what they've
understood over there against what many
if you just look about the story the
history of the ebionites ebionites are
historical people that lived in the
Palestine region Jerusalem Nazareth
Bethlehem and in the surrounding areas
of Syria and Jordan and they are always
beli that Jesus was a prophet and that
he was just the Messiah who was a
special gift sent to purify the children
of Israel from their corruption and so
forth those people were killed
whenever it was established that you
have to believe Jesus Is God Son of God
Trinity died for your sins this is the
belief we all must accept millions of
people got killed that didn't want to
accept that that we're saying I still
believe in Jesus so political power
plays established so we're being
tionally attached to something if we
look at its history really it's it's
it's it's it's it's not just this love
of somebody who died for your sins it
was a forcing of a political agenda upon
establishing this belief on people uh we
are out of time tell us now I me I
apologize the time is so short and these
episodes go by so quick so tell us now
just in the last minute that we have you
said in the original it's been preserved
tamper free tamper proof
you defined it I have not go ahead from
take it from here we were created what
does that mean we were created when you
said to serve God to worship God what
does that mean in the last minute we
were created with a very beautiful
blessing that is intellectual
creative spiritual awareness so we are
aware of right and wrong and we're aware
of all these realities around us and how
to deal with them so what we should do
is use our brain and our hearts to seek
God to come to know him to have a
relationship with him and we must use
those two tools and if when somebody
comes and says okay the main thing about
God is this and then you say well that
doesn't make sense you're saying that
God in the one thing that he's blessed
you with intellectual ability he chose
to make his reality something that is
not even graspable of course God is
great and unimaginable and beyond our
thought but he's one and he's a Creator
that's loving and compassionate and he's
not many he's not um you know there's no
doubt about him and his nature amongst
amongst the Believers it should not be
so we look to Revelation for those
answers uh last closing comments
suggestions I usually talk to people I
say have you ever asked for guidance
many people again get bewildered stunned
shocked they're like no so should that
be a start after the show that they ask
and won't if they ask God Almighty will
facilitate a
way that you know that is the whole
purpose of life to search for the truth
ask God ask God to pray guide me what's
my purpose yeah yeah do they pray to
Muhammad or Jesus the Sun or the moon
who you talking about now should never
pray to anything other than the creator
of just the Creator so how can they say
if they don't want to say Allah for
instance or what what can they say oh
the one who created me give him
something what you pray to whatever you
know Allah is an Arabic word that means
the god the worshiped entity we have God
we have dios we have uh we have many as
long as you don't put a mental picture
or yeah as long as you know that's the
creator of the universe and he is above
and beyond anything that your little
human mind can can grasp but his nature
is very clear he's one he is the uh
transcendental permeating force of
control and power and lordship over this
universe once we recognize that and we
serve that that is what Jesus was
worshiping that is what he was teaching
that was his message Moses Abraham Noah
all the same thing all the same message
all of the same reality through the if
people want to get a hold of you you
have a website or you have a um yeah
well I mean uh I have I don't have my
own website okay we'll have we'll have
something set up your biography on the
Deans show.com maybe we can add that
there we got to go thank you very much
may God Almighty the Creator reward you
for being with us and helping to explain
purpose purpose of life thank you and
that was it purpose reflect think about
it you live you die in between a lot of
drama and it's a test of Life past the
test of life and God Almighty has the
ultimate reward it's more commodious
than any flat Villa
luxury Palace it's Jenna paradise and
you got to work hard for it plant seeds
of goodness because good breeds good and
when you do good you feel good and it's
all built on that pure monotheism so ask
the Creator for guidance and then you
shall receive but if you don't ask how
you're going to receive and you give us
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peace be with you