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about alhamdulillah Alum peace be unto
you do I have your attention well today
we're going to be talking about the
money God yeah the thing that people are
chasing they chasing this day and night
the women selling their bodies the men
selling their souls for what for this
paper so sit tight we're going to be
having a discussion about the money
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back one can never be too
cautious hey man I'm really sorry can I
get you another drink hey what up player
man you just got it all over my pants
and my shoes man man I'm real sorry man
let me get you another cup man I don't
want another cup we got to watch when
you're walking man man I'm sorry I don't
want any problems I'm going to get out
of here okay where you going to go man
please get your hands off me what you
going to do about it you going to do
about let's go
man cool dude man let go my arm man yeah
I got you man ah I've had enough in
your one can never be too
cautious
shum I'm going to have to switch hands I
don't need hand I want the
money we're talking about the money God
people what the money God you know
people today are compromising
everything everything they believe in
all the good they're chasing the power
the money the wealth people are selling
out selling their souls for this dollar
for this paper we want to talk so you're
holding the money up to get everybody's
attention yes did it work I don't know I
hope I hope so let's talk about this
because people have turned this paper
into a
god what do you
think the paper that we have in front of
us right here is actually not worth very
much at
all because it's just paper with ink on
it it's not until another person is
willing to accept it that it has any
value and according to economics this is
called
currency and it has a value only when
other people are willing to accept it
and the value placed on it is got to be
backed by something that people believe
in when the credibility is there then
it's worth more when it loses
credibility then it goes down and that's
how it works it's very simple but
actually this currency is not the actual
money the actual money is stored
somewhere whatever value or Goods that
you have is stored somewhere then you
issue a paper like a check and actually
that's all this is a check or a note and
it says right on it it's a Federal
Reserve Note and so this is a note
payable in lawful money at a Federal
Reserve Bank that's usually what they
used to say a long time ago lawful money
and and according to con should be
silver and gold they don't use that
anymore they tie it to the gross
national product and consider that to be
something of value but anyway you're
absolutely right the people have sold
out to this so-called money not even
realizing that this isn't the money
itself anyway it just represents
something that's somewhere else
sad if you think about this in Islam we
have something that's much more valuable
it's much more tangible whereas instead
of a dream a pipe dream that's going to
go down in value when you have the
belief the right belief it increases
every day in in the right way your faith
is worth much more than a pocket full of
money because the money you have to
spend it in order for the money to
benefit you you have to spend it is it
right yes what was the benefit if you
piled this up 5T tall but you don't ever
spend it somebody told you I'll give you
a minut million dollar but you can't
spend
it well if it initially that sounds good
you know a million dollars but you can't
spend it you can't use it for anything
in fact you've got to haul it around
take care of it guard it hope that
somebody doesn't break in and kill you
to take it away from you you're going to
wait a minute then what is the benefit
of having it in Islam we have something
called Iman Iman or faith and our faith
is based on something that is testable
and proven and something easy to accept
and it is something that will have a
cash value on the day of
judgment tell us is it true that with
enough of this that someone can buy
peace Security in life and
success this is absolutely the concept
that most people have about money if I
just had enough yeah Ministries are the
same way a lot of Ministries are that if
we just had more money we could do more
things we could help more people we'd
like to build an orphanage in the
Philippines we'd like to build a school
and for the children in India we'd like
to put in uh you know a computer lab
somewhere in uh Indonesia and help these
people to get better education to get uh
you know on their feet to establish
factories to do you know to help people
but it all takes do me money so we we
need money
so then they have these programs you'll
see them send your money in and do this
and do that and so and so for donations
or you know or other people would just
work real hard the whole life saving up
their money with the idea when I get
enough money I'm going to do some good
deeds I'm going to you know get a degree
become an engineer or get my degree in
medicine get my degree in education and
then I'm going to work hard I'm going to
maybe sell books I'll do you know I'll
be famous I'll go on the Oprah show you
know and then with all of that I'll take
this and I will do good deeds with it
this is a goal but how many people ever
achieve
it because instead it goes the opposite
way in order to do that okay you want an
education so you've got to get a student
loan well that student loan is going to
be at x% interest and blah blah blah by
the time I get out of school I owe so
much and I'm have to take other loans to
do these things so I can pay that loan
then when I get my medical practice for
instance or my law practice and I get
started I've got so many things and I'm
in debt so far so I'll borrow more money
and then I'm into bigger debt I'm going
to Banks I'm going to Savings and Loans
I'm going now to insurance companies and
borrowing from them and uh and I've been
through that myself I know where it goes
and the more money you have the more you
want because your goals and your
aspirations are greater your desires are
greater and your lusts are much greater
because you say if I just had more if I
could just you know and along the way
though there's the country clubs that
you want to be well I got to be with the
right people I need to have the right
kind of car you don't show up at a
country club in a Honda I need to be
there in my new Mercedes I need to be
there in the rolls or something maybe I
need a chauffeur hey that would look
pretty good I mean you know I still got
my goal here I want to help the poor
children here in Africa or something but
still at the same time you know it'd be
kind of nice to have all the guys over
and we have a shrimp fest and and and
play around of golf and you know and
gosh it be nice let's Charter a plane W
fly down to uh went to um New Orleans I
remember one time we took everybody down
to New Orleans other time let fly out to
Vegas just you know for the Sun not not
for the G well slot machines not you
know cuz so what are you doing and and
another time we take all the kids to
Disneyland well that'd be great whose
kids my kids and my friend's kids so so
there's a benefit maybe but really what
happens the more that you
accumulate the more you want and the
more you compromise and compromise and
compromise this is not in every case but
this is the majority of cases what
happens and instead of increasing in the
wealth you really increase in debt the
debt goes up up up up until you can't
imagine what some people when they go to
bed at night they're thinking oh how
will I ever oh my God how will I ever
pay all of this and whenever you see a
comma in your debt okay that's one
thing but when you see two commas in the
debt that you owe this is another thing
when you owe more than a million dollars
more than $10 million more than $20
million you owe that money I didn't say
you have it I said you owe it and maybe
if you cashed out everything you've got
you could never pay it then what will
you do and what happens these people who
are living in these big houses these big
cars these very big titles they have and
then they commit suicide and you wonder
why well that's one of the reasons
because no matter what they work for
they don't get what they want now not in
all cases just money there's other
things besides just the money it's the
things that go with the money there's
SLE that goes along with that too a
woman who wants to get ahead so she sees
herself as well uh you know on my
intelligence alone nobody will
appreciate that on my um you know my
talents alone their own appreciate so
she begin to compromise well they say
raise that skirt up a little bit we're
going to put you in a movie or you know
take off clothes or show something or do
something and they start to compromise
compromise compromise thinking you know
I'll just do it this one time and it
always goes the wrong way it always goes
the wrong way but this according to the
Christian religion they said that the
root money is the root of all evil
actually the expression the old
expression was the lust for the money is
the root of all evil because the money
itself is not evil this is the same
piece of paper that uh it was before
they put the ink on it before there was
any ink on that piece of paper I don't
think anybody would have want to give
very much for that would you with
nothing on it what that but once the ink
is on it and once these little seals and
watermarks and all the thing you see
people looking and mhm and once that's
there then suddenly this is something
that somebody would actually fight you
for it and there in fact there are
people who have lost their lives for
less than a $20 bill just we walking
down the street and in some City maybe
somebody kill them they're a drug addict
they want drugs and kill a person just
for 20 bucks $20 bill Let's uh I got to
take a break we'll be right back on the
dean show we'll be ride back one can
never be too
cautious hey man I'm really sorry can I
get you another drink hey what up player
man you just got it all over my pants
and my shoes man man I'm real sorry man
let me get you another cup man I don't
want another cup you got to watch when
you're walking man man I'm sorry I don't
want any problems I'm going to get out
of here okay what are you going to go
man please get your hands off me what
you going to do about it you going to do
about had enough let's go
man cool dude man look go my arm man
yeah I got you man ah I've had enough in
your one can never be too
cautious hey man where'd you learn that
I trained you you got time I'll show you
come
on remember these techniques is only for
lifethreatening situations self-defense
okay come
on come and see what everyone's talking
about okay guys let's look at the
technique that we applied earlier we
call it a shoulder lock it's going to be
where the aggressor is going to place
his arm onto my shoulder okay there's
two variations of this self-defense
Technique One is if just like so the guy
grabs you by the shoulder but you notice
the elbows bent or loose the second
variation is going to be where that he
has my shoulder but his arm is stiff
okay this is going to be another
variation we will not cover today the
one that we're going over is shoulder
grab bent arm okay so haris is going to
place his hand on my shoulder now I'm
going to use the same side that he's
controlling I'm going to use that arm to
come up and above his
elbow I come up and as soon as I get to
this point now I'm using his grip
against him okay his grip his wrist is
secure tightly under my armpit I'm going
to go Palm to Palm and now making sure
that his wrist is secured under my
armpit I'm going to start to raise his
elbow up applying the pressure onto his
shoulder
okay let's take a look at that one more
time same side he's attacking comes up
and over the shoulder at this point I
have to really focus on making his grip
tight under my armpit if the grip is
loose he's just going to pull his arm
out okay which gets rid of the grip that
can be another way of just disengaging
but we're going to try and take
advantage of the situation okay it comes
up come under the elbow I go Palm to
Palm I secure his grip and now I start
to raise Elevate the elbow up as I raise
the elbow up elbow up trapping his wrist
that's where he starts to feel the
pressure on the ligaments of his
shoulder okay and we saw one example of
how to diffuse the situation with
jiu-jitsu the beautiful thing about
Jiu-Jitsu is that you don't need to hurt
okay punish the guy to diffuse the
situation if I decided earlier to punch
or to kick the aggressor I'm not
diffusing to this situation I'm just
increasing the chances of that becoming
an extreme situation big headache okay
one more
time oh over and now I have the option
maybe he's not in the best situation to
now be an aggressor I have him at my
Mercy at the moment I can talk to him I
can diffuse the situation God forbid if
I need to really defend my life there is
the possibility of putting the pressure
on the shoulder to do some real damage
but it should not come to that okay we
can talk diffus and I feel that I'm the
situation is diffused can let it go and
Situation's done without harming the
aggressive that's it for today's episode
of the self-defense Workshop until next
time guys be safe and take
care welcome back to the dean show and
today we're talking about the money
God can you uh shake you cestus talk to
us with your experience now tell us how
have people taken this as a god well in
my own case let's talk about that years
and years ago I had an idea when I was a
young man that I wanted to work hard
make money save it up and then help
people and I don't think that that's
different from a lot and all along I was
thinking I wanted to do things for the
Lord at the same time I wanted to
establish a music industry of music
business actually it turned into an
industry and I thought that along the
way that the music would help soothe the
the people's Souls I also felt that that
if I had enough money that I could go
out here and build places for children
for the homeless for those who are
destitute and uh The Runaways and the
children of the streets and the people
the bag ladies all the rest of it all of
that sounded good but along the
way the money became the object
I need more of that money I need I need
yeah just a little bit more oh yeah oh
that's nice and then one day you get oh
that oh that was nice too and oh here's
some yeah well if I just had more and
just more because you keep thinking if I
just had more but it's not just the
money that we have a problem with today
CU this is well known I mean there are
many stories throughout history about
money and the things that how it
corrupts but today we have credit which
is corrupting people it's not just this
what about the credit cards because all
of a sudden people are spending what
they don't have you're not spending what
you do have it's not talking about
Gathering money together you're talking
about spending before you ever get it
not even knowing if you're going to get
it suppose a man owes 50 $60,000 he
loses his
job then what his wife has to take a
second job she's already working got
another job they're going to lose their
house they're going to lose their cars
they're going to lose their position
they've even had uh movies humorous
movies about this there's one I think it
was called Fun with Dick and Jane that
came out and it was exactly about that
that a well-off family they lose their
money they lose their position it was a
it was sort of a parody on the story of
Enron you remember Enron the big
corporation that folded up and all the
people that lost it was basically making
fun of something like that and although
there was
some unusual twist to the story it
really revealed a lot of the things that
all of us are looking at today when you
go out here and work hard and try your
best then at the end of the day you say
I owe more than I did
yesterday let me try harder tomorrow and
the harder I try then tomorrow I wind up
even more than I did before so how is
this different than 100 years ago 100
years ago in this country they had
something that was almost like slave
labor camps where people worked in the
coal mines and they said they had sold
their soul to the company store it means
what it means that here is a person who
is working as hard as they can but
whenever it's all over with and they
bury him they can't put even a single
extra thing in the box with him cuz he's
totally broke so tell us how do we can't
pay off the guy can't pay what he owes
how do we balance it out now now we know
we have to work to provide for our
families you know what there's something
that Prophet Muhammad peace be upon him
said I think this is a good time to
mention it he
said that this life that we live in is
actually a prison to a Believer but it's
the paradise to the unbeliever it's only
Paradise they're going to get and Allah
tells us in the Quran that you love your
wealth with an with an
unbelievable desire Lust For Your wealth
and that this is the problem that we
suffer from we we love wealth so much
and this is why we compromise these
original good ideas we had we start out
with these really good ideas but then we
begin to compromise them because of the
wealth and and now also because of this
credit machine that's working on us okay
but what about for those because we know
we have to work we have to provide but
how do we not let this interfere with
our purpose in this life Allah tells us
in the Quran that he is our which means
the one who provides your daily bread he
is your Source he is the one who takes
care of you then if you put your full
faith and trust in him as your R your
provider he is the only provider and he
is alah the one who is the bestower so
if you'll turn to him and ask him he
provides and he'll continue to provide
and in our religion in Islam we don't
ask people to send us money so that we
can propagate our religion that's not
what we're about in fact th this is
against what we believe in our teaching
is that each one of us is responsible to
share a message not propagate not to get
people to you know convert or anything
like that the other thing is that we
don't raise money to go out here
toh do this and along the way buy new
cars and houses and things like this and
this is why most of the scholars of
Islam you'll find them to be very poor
in uh in monetary standard they're not
going to have these big houses they're
not going to have fancy cars most of
them and this is not a secret most of
them actually sleep on the floor and eat
very simple some is eat with their hands
don't even have utensils they want to
keep it simple no TV in their houses
keeping it simple because if you refuse
this life if you'll refuse the the
temptation of what's the this money and
lust that goes along with it then
there's something much better for you in
the next life it's a test truly test
does this give somebody excuse now to
just sit at home and say you know what
God almighty's the provider he's
providing I'm just going to sit at home
and just Lounge you could do that you
could do it you're going to lose a lot
of weight in a hurry
yeah and they'll come and take
everything away because you can't pay
your bills you have to work there's no
doubt about it and even the prophet
Muhammad peace be upon him was talking
about that they were talking about
somebody getting charity ra raising
their hand and asking for money he said
it's better for them to go out into the
woods and cut down the the wood and
bring the logs in and sell firewood and
that would be a lot better for them so
if you don't have anything else to do go
out in the woods cut firewood or go out
and mow somebody's grass do you say
that's a menial task well who according
to who
if you do something that you the best
you can do it then that's not a menial
task anymore is it you go out and when
you mow the laan you mow it straight and
good and clean up the edge around it and
do your best and you say well that's not
a highp paying job that's not having a
high status with
who with who with a law you did a good
thing you have a big credit with him and
whoever you mow the law for they'll pay
you something you say well I I have a
degree I have a degree in sociology I
have a degree in engineering I have
three degrees four degrees I got a news
for you you can go to any pharmacy on
this planet any drugstore you want to go
to and buy all the degrees you need it's
called a thermometer it's loaded with
degrees and it won't help you any more
than your degrees when you're out of
work you are out of work get a job
that's it what advice do you have to
those who are chasing a position a
status a degree chasing the power all so
they can acquire this money and they're
forgetting about their main purpose in
this life the main purpose of this life
is not to acquire wealth position power
status or celebity ship you know what
it's about Allah said in the
Quran he's telling us clearly that this
purpose that we have is to worship him
without pardoners and whether and it's
up to him where we're at whether he puts
us at the lowest rank in the human terms
or the highest rank in the human terms
still in front of him he's going to be
looking at our hearts and that's the
rank that's going to make the difference
you want to go to paradise you want to
be in a good place then what you need to
do is get the heart right because when
the Heart Is Right God-fearing righteous
person then they're definitely going to
be the ones who Allah is going to favor
them in the next life and you're going
to be tested you're going to have a lot
of things happen to you so you have to
learn how to be moderate in what you do
don't live beyond your means and if
Allah deals do lemons you sell lemonade
that's how it works give us some advice
for those brothers and sisters those
people who they have a hard time they
won't get up for the morning prayer the
fudger but when the boss calls them to
come in and work overtime they're making
sure to get up on
time well for the Muslims who do things
like this I understand where they're
coming from but you can't do that
because you're you're showing right away
the LA
that you don't trust him you don't
believe in him so he's ordered you to
pray in the morning so instead you'll
run out here maybe somebody offer you
more money to come to work early in the
morning you say okay I'll go do that I
get extra 100 bucks I'll get up early
and go to work but you didn't pray you
didn't pray you didn't went out to work
early and you want the money and it
means you don't really believe that
Allah is the one taking care of you and
this is not a good thing you need to get
up and you need to pray you need to do
your Salah you need to do it in time and
you need to do it in the group together
if you can because that's even better
and all of that's going to be better for
you than anything listen to this
teaching of Islam and the prophet
Muhammad peace be upon him he
said and this means that the two raas of
the F prayer in the morning is worth
more to you than the universe and
everything in it the univer now what if
somebody said you can have two universes
today huh for spending 5 minutes in the
morning two universes what would you say
am in I mean you're out here working
real hard for a th000 bucks thinking oh
yeah or somebody working for $10,000
they said yes this is what I
need but where are you going to be
tomorrow when you find out inflation
made it so that a loaf of bread cost
$4,000 there's no benefit so the first
and foremost thing is to realize that
there is Allah he's your provider he's
the one who is going to take care of you
and this if we can get this in our head
then we're going to be ahead of the game
but until we do that we're going to be
looking at a piece of paper and thinking
that's money and it's still nothing but
a piece of paper thank you again for
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