alayum Adam how are
youum alhamdulillah very good thanks for
having me on the show how you been
alhamdulillah very good keep you keeping
busy last time we had you in it was
Jesus and Muhammad Jesus and the last
messenger the prophet Sall wasallam yes
that was the last book that's right yeah
because when you accept Muhammad as the
last and final messenger sent to mankind
as a Mercy to Mankind you automatically
accept Jesus Moses Abraham all the
proceeding Messengers absolutely correct
and now tell us about the new book
alhamdulillah the new book is called the
greatest man of all time a mercy to the
world and it is a true story that over a
billion people love around the world now
wait stop stop right there you said
something great it's very exciting he
said look if you want to make but
somebody's out there talking about let's
make America great again how are you
going to make America or the world great
again if you don't get to know who the
prophet Muhammad Sall Ali wasallam the
greatest man of all time you want to
make America great again you have to
learn about the greatest man of all time
and this is a man the reason why he's
the greatest man of all time is that he
was a model businessman he was a phen
phenomenal pH philanthropist he was a
just military commander he was an
influential political leader he was a
beloved spouse a nurturing parent and an
ultimate Peacemaker we struggle in our
lives to just do two of these things
well and he had half a dozen to a dozen
roles where he excelled and he showed us
the best example so whether it's
Democrat Republican Trump
Clinton uh the Green Party candidate the
libertarian Party candidate politicians
non-politicians they need to pick up the
story of the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wasallam and this is done in a way that
it appeals to Muslims and non-muslims
the way that it's branded and we really
they need to have this as a core part of
their knowledge base and their
reading how do you some people have
heard of him
but they've heard of him in such a
distorted misinformed way how do you
deal with those people say well I I I've
already uncovered enough the fact that
his marriages or you know uh him being
in so many wars that he was you know
um a violent person that he did all
kinds of evil things this is the
distorted view right and they say it is
a distorted view and they say you know
what uh I don't need to get I don't need
to go much further what would you say
something to someone like that the truth
will set you free and you just need to
pick up this book the way that it's
branded you know a lot of books in the
life of the Prophet sallallah alaihi
wasallam biographies they they read like
history books may Allah reward the
people that wrote those books we took an
approach of using indirect references at
the beginning instead of starting out
with the prophet Muhammad sallallah alhi
wasallam from the beginning we call him
the messenger instead of calling makah
by its name we call it the city and
these are all things that were okay with
the scholars like shik yaser kadi who we
talked to in the first book and shik
Omar saloman who re uh reviewed the
entire first book and so you know to
answer your question folks just need to
pick up the story read it on in an
unbiased fashion and that's the way we
approached it right we didn't put a
picture you know of the Caba although
that is the holiest of lands people's
guards go up their defenses go up they
go blind deaf they don't want to
consider the message so you have to do
it a way that is going to be inviting
appealing uh and invite them in in a way
that uh they will consider it and not
reject it immediately yeah and if you
put things in context you know people
you know usually the winners they say of
History rewrite history and then there's
been a strong push to suppress this
truth coming out the true life of
prophet Muhammad peace be upon him and
if you you know if you talk about
battles there are just Wars and you
would see him as actually a liberator as
a man of Justice as a man of Peace you
know never having when we talk about
marriage he didn't promote
promiscuity something that was there of
of the best of morality so anything that
you can try to bring that will be of the
highest morals he exemplified that in
the highest state you'd be robbing
yourself by not getting to know this man
absolutely you you'd be doing yourself
an injustice if you didn't try to
understand the story and there's a lot
of resources out there but the main
thing is to pick up one where you're
going to have fun you're going to have a
good time there's a lot of books out
there that people read and they don't
have a ton of value to them you know I I
have a lot of friends family that I've
read for example Harry Potter that's a
great read but you're not going to drive
a ton of value from it you need to read
something where you're going to learn
where you're going to become stronger I
my day job is in Corporate America and
there's a lot of people that spend
millions and millions of dollars right
in corporations to develop effective
leaders you don't need to spend that
much money you can you can get it for
practically free by understanding Islam
reading the Quran and reading the S of
the Prophet Sall wasallam the life story
of the Prophet Salli wasallam and you
can read this book the greatest man of
all time to have a fun engaging
effective way of understanding how to be
a really excellent leader among other
things you see these dirty tricks being
played nowadays it's been played before
it's played today these adamm attacks
that go directly at a person you know to
try to discredit him lies deception
deceit you know to try to get people
away from the message that the person is
bringing there was a I don't know if you
saw this movie it's called killed the
messenger have you heard of this
journalist who was exposing some truth
that was out there and he got a call
from someone and he said look be
prepared to be controversial ised I
never heard that controversial IED mean
they're coming after you they're going
to attack you personally and everything
that you uncovered of truth they're
going to forget about that we kind of
see that here happening with with with
the greatest man that had ever people
taking his life isob islamophobia time
right billions of dollars get spent to
discredit and slam Islam but the thing
that Muslims need to be at peace with
and I've said this to many family and
friends that Allah has guaranteed that
Islam will be Victorious and the
question for us in these difficult times
is not so much do I want to go into the
Shadows but do I want to be a part of
this Victory do I want to get on this
bus that is headed towards Victory
Because by the end of the century when
you talk to demographers people that
track population Trends by the end of
the century Muslims will be the most
numerous people they will outnumber
Christians they will outnumber any other
faith and it's not going to be about the
quanity brother Eddie it's about the
quality understanding who the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wasallam is
understanding the Quran and staying true
to our beliefs even in these times of
fitna and difficulty and you can
understand that when we say Islam sub
mission to the will of the Creator not
the creation will be victorious because
God created creation he sent out of his
love the way we need to live and Jesus
brought it Moses brought it Muhammad
brought it that's that complete
adherence to loving God with all your
heart your mind your body Soul How Do
You Love by submitting to your creator
that's how you get it and that's going
to be victorious at the end that's right
we'll be right back with more of the
author Adam Rahman the greatest man of
all time prophet Muhammed peace be upon
him get to know this man we're going to
be talking about more about the book
don't go anywhere
back here on the dean show tell us a
little bit uh Adam you a seen on ABC NBC
Fox tell us about how you got uh was you
were on there with the book how was this
alhamdulillah so earlier this year you
know we've seen a lot of coverage of the
presidential election Clinton versus
Trump versus you know two other
candidates libertarian candidate Green
Party candidate and
Donald Trump was calling for a Muslim
ban in into this country I was born in
the United States I lived in Saudi
Arabia for eight years I love the United
States I love Makkah Medina I love Allah
T I love the prophet Muhammad sallallahu
alaihi wasallam more than any other
person past present or future and this
really got under the skin of a lot of
folks in my community you know we are
productive peaceful citizens we want to
see America continue to be great and so
my nonprofit organization awake I
Revival it's a 51 cc3 nonprofit
organization we issued a press release
calling Donald Trump out and basically
if he wants to make America great again
we said in the statement you got to get
to know the greatest man of all time a
mercy to the world and as a result of
just doing that that action for the sake
of Allah we got picked up by over 200
media organizations around the world
alhamdulillah and the four big
television networks ABC NBC CBS Fox have
us featured and so this is alhamdulillah
you you try to do something for the sake
of God the Creator not the creation and
fantastic excellent things happen that's
amazing it reminds me uh
because when people can relate when they
can understand that when we talk about
Prophet Muhammad peace be upon Him
automatically Jesus is hooked up in
there Abraham Moses all of the greatest
men to ever walk to Earth you know and
there's one saying this Hadith that
Prophet Muhammad he described a
beautiful peace be upon Him of a
beautiful house brick house mansion with
you know the beyond what you can imagine
of beauty and people walking around it
and then they stopped at the corner and
they said hey there's one piece missing
here there's a brick missing here he
said I am that brick right you know this
Hadith this this statement so that's all
it is it's a completion because what we
have of Revelation today many has been
distorted edited you know know tamper
with but that's why pro God out of his
love sent Prophet Muhammad the greatest
man of all time out of his love to guide
Humanity to that which is pleasing to
God he's the final messenger tell us
something else uh in your book what
people can expect when they go into um
the whole s his whole life is covered
here absolutely absolutely and to your
point he is the Seal of The Messengers
so all the prophets The Messengers
before that Allah sent them to the world
to Nations to countries to different
people and many a community rejected
those Messengers and Prophets and the
people that accepted M alisam Moses who
accepted
isaam uh Jesus and the prophet sallam
you know over time essentially there
were distortions you know in
Christianity and Judaism and that's why
Islam came to us it came to us to be
essentially Superior to all other
religions this is written you know in
the Quran and in the book itself it's a
bigger better Bolder version of my first
book alhamdulillah there's over 200
sources that we we took a look at to put
this together and it's written in a
story based form it's all non-fiction I
was particularly inspired by one of my
favorite Scholars shik yaser Ki and he
spent over three years uh doing over 100
lectures in the life of the Prophet
Muhammad sallallah alaihi wasallam and I
was just so inspired by it I mean after
the first book uh I was getting a lot of
good feedback a lot of good reception
being on the top 1% of the Amazon
bestselling list but I wasn't satisfied
with that I will not be satisfied with
these efforts until all people around
the world accept Islam so in in
reviewing additional material from Y and
the and the Quran and
the we wanted to have a more extended uh
unabridged version so my first book it's
an Abridged version of the life of the
prophets s alhi wasallam and this second
book now the greatest man of all time
more Miracles More engaging more fun you
know backed by over 120 very influential
people around the world in United States
and Canada and Mexico outside of the
West as well and so we've gotten a lot
of good reception there's Congress men
Congress women that that that know about
these efforts that that our
organization's been doing so we really
want to continue to reach out to PO Ians
to Christians to Jews to to Muslims and
uh just like we did with the first
effort where we wrote letters to 10
world leaders brother Eddie around the
world and three of them responded back
the president of France the prime
minister of Canada and the president of
Brazil France Brazil Canada
alhamdulillah and they thanked us for
the efforts so three out of 10 responded
alhamdulillah so I look forward to
sending this book around to even broader
list now that we've kind of tested it
and this is the prophetic tradition
right he wrote to the ruler of Persia he
wrote to the ruler of Byzantium the
Roman Empire he wrote to the ruler that
was presiding over Egypt all around the
world it it's a global message we are a
global community and the vast majority
of us I think you had a show on this
basically trying to quantify the
percentage of people that are peaceful
versus people that choose extreme
versions that that are not from our
peaceful tradition yeah we are a
peaceful people 1.7 billion of us
encount
it's the fastest growing movement
fastest growing
religion the only reason why that's the
case is because the prophet Muhammad
sallallah alaihi wasallam the greatest
man of all time he came with the truth
and Allah promised to preserve the Quran
it's the most memorized book in the
world most memorized book in the world
and so when you just look at a few of
these facts hopefully Islam will enter
your heart I am speaking to the
Christians and the Jews that are
watching the show right now and it will
mix and that is true religion and I hope
that they will accept Islam and if they
don't AC accept Islam then at least they
will respect Islam yeah if you're you're
a um God-fearing god-loving perp person
and you are open-minded objective you
know you will look at the evidence look
at the Quran with an open heart open
mind look at the life of prophet
Muhammad not Through The Eyes of some
hater some islamophobe things will
uncover you'll see something so
beautiful
something so amazing we'll be right back
with more here in the dean show don't go
anywhere back here on the dean show tell
us uh from studying the life of uh the
last and final messenger Prophet
Muhammad peace be upon him tell me what
stood out are there you know there's
it's such a vast of array of things of
history is there something that sticks
out right up until now that you remember
that kind of uh just increases your IM
and alhamdulillah there's it's it's sort
of like asking somebody to you know name
their favorite book or their favorite
moment in life you know alhamdulillah if
we're thankful to God to Allah there's
so many to pick from so I'll pick one of
the favorite uh true stories from his
life and I think this is an important
lesson for our um for our community
today to not go back into the Shadows
when there's so much islamophobia to
really be proud to be Muslim be be
humble but proud to be Muslim one of the
first things that the prophet Muhammad
sallallah alaihi wasallam did when he
reached Medina when the qur were trying
to assassinate him for his peaceful
message Allah T did not give the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wasallam permission to
fight against them although they were uh
being very very mean to him they were
trying to take his life he fled to
Medina to to seek peace and one of the
first things that he did when he got
there was that he commanded that a place
of prayer a mid be erected before he
even built his own house right he stayed
with some extended family members so
that the mid the mosque the place of
prayer could be erected first and then
he also asked where is the where does
the buying and selling happen the local
Bazaar where Merchants do their Commerce
and he was told that oh um the Jewish
Community is running it there's nothing
wrong with that but he wanted the
transactions to be more pure to be more
Halal permissible for there not to be uh
others taking advantage of exactly
interest is not eings that make sure
that is right fairness and and right and
wrong fairness when you're trading
buying and selling so the prophet
sallallah Ali wasallam the other thing
that he did was he commanded that a
local Bazaar the the local economy for
the Muslims be established and obviously
non-muslims could also uh conduct
Commerce there so in summary one of my
favorite moments is when he got to
Medina he commanded that the mid be
built and that a local bizaar be built
and let me extrapolate this to the year
2016 in this time when we're some of us
are struggling with certain jobs with
other things in life we need to be brave
we need to have courage just like you
have your own television show you're
you're an example to a lot of us in the
community Muslim non-muslim we need more
people to be like you like fellow
businessmen that uh are entrepreneurs to
start our own businesses to start our
own schools to start our own pharmacies
to start our own political
party uh we need to and I'm not saying
cut off from society and be
isolationists we need to be integrated
the best way to spread Islam is Not By
The Sword the best way to spread Islam
is by showing good character go to local
food bank pass out food if there's
somebody that's homeless give them give
them money right don't be stingy by
integrating by mixing with Society but
sitting true to your identity and by
starting our own efforts our own mids
our own businesses our own schools uh so
that we can teach the Leadership Lessons
the uh merciful nature that the prophet
sallallah Al wasallam exemplified as the
greatest man of all time uh we can learn
those lessons the current educational
curriculum I'm a product of it I went to
Public Schools including Elementary
School High School University and also
graduate school they don't teach in a
fair and balanced way about all the
religions and I was talking to our local
congresswoman in California and I was in
a round table discussion with several uh
religious leaders and she was very
interested in trying to see if we could
inject some Fair balanced religious
education you just present the facts and
I hope that we can start with that and
expand to other things so that we can
peacefully spread the message of Islam I
think this is a this is a great example
if everybody would do their part
obviously our job is just to share CU if
you care you share and that's going to
help to alleviate some of the fears and
Mis information that people
have that they've
been victim Fallen victim to because of
this uh islamophobia machine that's out
there so if everybody does their small
part like you're doing we're trying to
do everybody as an individual as and and
with the organizations get out there try
to make the human connection invite
people to the mids help people to get to
know know truly what Muslims are about
what Islam is about they'll see more I
mean people really it resonates just the
simple basic beliefs of Islam you know
the worship of the Creator not the
creation you know doing good deeds you
know trying to be of best moral ethics
and character to deal in business justly
to help those who are less fortunate to
you down and trotten you know it just
there's nothing in Islam you know
especially when you look at Prophet
Muhammad peace be upon Him life you see
like not only is the Quran a living
miracle that we have it other book like
it in the world but Prophet Muhammad's
life when you see you know you can you
can spot a Shyer a mile away man when
you really looked in the deep but you
wrote his you know you you wrote this
book and you see it's a miracle when you
study his life you see like why is he
doing this you know what I mean if you
just look at the the Dua The Fortress of
the Muslim the Dua book you know it's a
fantastic book he's like I mean not only
the Quran if he put that together like
some people say what's he doing I mean
everything they're they're recording his
life you know how today they had the
reality shows and every camera is
everywhere where you go all eyes were on
him and all he was calling people to do
were like prepare for the next life obey
the one who created you before you meet
him do good deeds be just be fair be
upright it's amazing alhamdulillah
absolutely and you know some of the
Miracles of the Quran there's many
miracles in the Quran the revelations
that he received from God because people
accuse the prophet Muhammad Sall alai
wasallam of writing the Quran he didn't
know how to read or write yeah he didn't
know how to read or write and in that
time the stories of prophets in the past
Messengers in the past they didn't have
that knowledge and so when he was
challenged uh by the qures with help
from the Jewish Community to basically
pose certain questions the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wasallam about people
of times past messengers of times past
Allah T eventually sent Revelation to
answer and there's no way that a man
that could not have read or written and
didn't have that education could have
known those stories so there's no way he
made it up and the other thing that I
want to share with your viewers brother
Eddie is that if you read this book the
greatest man of all time you will see a
connection between the
Quran the examples in his life the
historical examples in in his life
written in a true non-fictional story
based form which is very fun and you
will see the connection between the
events that happened in his life and as
the Quran was being revealed before
things would even happen Allah would
foreshadow and predict these things were
going to happen and then later when they
happened it was a miracle being
witnessed over and over and over and
although we're 14th centuries removed um
these things happened and there were too
many witnesses president present too
many witnesses present and too
much documentation he's the most well
one of the most well documented leaders
of all time and if you just give it a
chance
I am uh humbly confident that you will
be intrigued and that inshallah God
willing The Message of Islam will enter
your heart and for Muslims where maybe
they've gone a little bit far from the
message it will
reinspection welcome to order it as well
on amazon.com thank you once again it's
a pleasure to have you on the
program and you guys make sure you want
to make America great hey focus on first
making your life great again and how you
going to make your life great again or
even the world great again let alone
America if you don't know the greatest
man who ever walked the Earth Pro
Muhammad peace and blessings be upon him
who was a brother to Jesus Moses Abraham
all the messengers who called people to
establish a direct connection with the
one who created creation God Mighty
thank you salum peace