welcome to another episode of the dean
show
in this show we're going to dedicate
this
to our new brothers in faith
people that have acknowledged what's in
their very nature that there is a
creator and he's one and alone worthy of
worship i'm not gonna worship his
creation
and what entails his creation a man a
woman the sun the moon anything that was
created that had a beginning
is not the creator that's his creation
i'm not going to submit i'm not going to
worship his creation i'm going to
worship the creator and i'm going to
follow the example of his last and final
messenger sent to mankind the prophet
muhammad peace be upon him the same way
you would have followed jesus moses
abraham if you were living during their
time you declare that there's none
worthy of worship except the creator of
the heavens and earth and every we say
allah and muhammad peace be upon him is
his messenger and now you're
our brother
in faith
you're a muslim and we want to give some
beautiful advice to you because you have
made the best decision in your life
and we're going to come back with dr
sheikh wilipasuni so we can get some
more
examples on how you can stay on this way
be firm on this way and die on this way
the same way of life is all the messages
of god and then you can attain the best
reward peace and happiness in this life
and paradise in the next we'll be right
back
thank you very much for finding the time
to be with us we know you're the vice
president of el mugrave you're the imam
of the clear lake islamic center very
busy very busy and i'm honored that you
find the time to be with us here on the
d show i'm the one who's honored by
being here and i really appreciate
inviting me again to your show
masha'allah please send salam we send
salams to your family who's out there
and all the muslims and this is for the
new muslims and we started with the
greeting of peace and why i emphasize
this because if i'm wrong correct me
this is a greeting of all the messages
of god and all the messengers of god
were muslim and they did islam so the
people they got through all the false
propaganda and all this you know baloney
that's attributed with islam and they
did what's in their very nature they
submitted to the one guy they're doing
islam now they're muslim
what advice do we have for them
uh first uh all praise to you to allah
and his praise and blessings and peace
be upon our prophet muhammad all the
prophets and messengers and their
followers
let me start by saying congratulations
and may allah accept from you it's a
wonderful thing it's a great decision
that you
have made to
accept allah to be
your uh
god and basically the only one that you
submit your soul to and you choose
muhammad sallallahu alaihim to be your
messenger by doing this you just
accepting all the messengers and all the
prophets that allah have sent before
and as you just said it's that just the
greeting show you it is we're just the
natural extension of all these prophets
and messenger that allah sent them to
humanity through
history
for those
brothers and sisters who became muslim i
would like to say first of all always
thank allah for this great blessings
because this is the greatest blessing
that allah can give it to anyone
this is the best
the best
blessing that he can bestow upon anyone
so thank him be grateful to him thank
him all the time don't ever quit doing
that that that's that's one thing and
the second thing i would say to those
brothers and sisters
learn your religion this religion is
based on knowledge it's very interesting
it's just not an empty emotions it's
based on knowledge and understanding and
this knowledge is not going to be
acquired by anything by to dedicate part
of your time to learn the deen to learn
the religion
this this knowledge is not gonna come by
just feelings or just by
uh dreams that you see in your in your
uh while you're sleeping and you become
spiritually motivated to this of that no
it's religion
you need to pray how can i pray i need
to say certain things of prayer what i'm
going to say there is a quran there is a
prayer that you do every day there is
things you say when you get into the
house and you get out of that you need
to learn so many things it's based on
knowledge
and if this been said that lead me to
the third advice which is
this religion is so deep so white the
prophets of said no one can ever yeah
any compete with this religion think
that in overnight i will cover all
aspects i get everything in it
no so he said
take it step by step graduate and be
easy don't basically try to
or to think that i'm going to learn
everything in one day or one month or
one year we are in a process of learning
that's why this religion i always say
when it comes to offering good deeds to
the worship of allah there is no maximum
there is minimum but there is no maxim
that's so make sure that you know what
are the minimum that is required from
you as a muslim let's say for example
you pray the five-time prayer when
ramadan comes you fast and basically you
know how to perform the salat how you
perform the so yeah the zakat and the
head ones in your lifetime whenever you
are capable of making it the five
pillars then these pillars when you have
it when you have it strong when you have
it built
you build on it otherwise why it's
pillar
it's not pillar just to be have you ever
seen a building has five pillars and
that's it it's a structure to build on
it so that's where the other things
comes you build on it uh basically uh
other things that you you need to add to
it later on
so basically one be grateful thankful to
allah two learn your deen three take it
graduate step by step be easy don't rush
to do everything at once and
the last thing i would say
that basically
this religion
guide us to the best of manners
this religion guide us to this is very
important aspect in this religion the
spiritual aspect of it and the concept
of mannerism and ethics
iman will not be complete without this
aspect when you
spiritually pure when you are and this
nothing can purify you like avoiding the
indecence act avoiding the sins and the
same times to
beautify yourself with these beautiful
manners that islam taught us be gentle
be nice be and all of us alhamdulillah
it's a common sense it's common sense so
anything you see you hear about the
religion it doesn't make any sense to
you it's not common just ask and and
basically and insha'allah
it will be explained to you
we before we go to break tell us right
now i mean the person obviously when you
come to islam you know many people who
come to islam they appreciate islam more
than people who are even brought up in
muslim family absolutely you know so now
you know they come to the masjid and and
they take that first step the
declaration of faith that there's no god
but the one god muhammad is the
messenger and now they kind of get
overwhelmed they're excited they get the
hugs and kisses and now they come home
everybody's giving them a book and they
got about 50 books and you know this
person is telling them look do this roll
your pants up this person is telling
them uh cut off with the girlfriend put
throwing the miswak in his mouth and
he's like you know excited but kind of
overwhelmed so when we get back can you
tell us how he can balance this out so
he don't break
absolutely how's that i'll be right back
and
answer this question here on the show
but you figure out that you know man has
to have a purpose
if you were to take away mosquitoes from
the planet within a few months
everything dies you just took away what
the mosquito
that's a fact right it's a fact
mosquitoes mosquitoes but if you take
away mankind nothing happens
so this whole ecosystem this whole wheel
this whole cycle doesn't need you so why
are you here
back here on the dean show with dr
sheikh waleed basuni giving some advice
to the new muslims our brothers in faith
who have made that conscious decision to
worship none other but the creator of
the heavens and the earth allah so now
they're kind of overwhelmed all right
they're excited they meet all their
brothers they took the shahada and now
they got like 50 books everyone's
telling them do this do that they got
you know all the shakes in the masjid
now everybody out of the love people
have good intention but sometimes you
know people can overwhelm someone give
them too much weight to push we don't
want the person to to
break so what advice do you give in this
situation uh
my advice is basically to
set your priorities straight when it
comes to learning the religion and i'm
practicing it there is something called
pillars there is something a fundamental
issue principle of faith the article of
faith these are the one that you have to
start with and basically the pre the
pillars of islam these are the things
that you start with
said if the first thing allah revealed
on quran don't drink don't fornicate and
do this and do that no one will quit
fornication no one will start will pray
but the first thing was the reveal
is to have that love for allah is to
have that faith in allah is to trust
allah is to fear allah is to think about
the day of judgment to know that you
will be standing before allah one day
and he will ask you about your deeds
about what you have done in this worldly
life the more you establish these
foundation you put these thick layers in
your heart this belief
that when you are ready to go to that
next step to go into these details and i
said earlier step by step the most
important thing the pillars of a snap
stick to it do it when you establish it
when you have it
basically down masha'allah you are doing
it very well go to the next level which
is the extra prayer the extra volunteers
and here i want to tell you something
don't get confused see someone who has
knowledge who knows of his righteousness
and let him basically your mentor you're
somebody that he can help you
break this down to you consult him but
if you
start basically every person a person
muslim tell you something you might get
confused and you might also get wrong
information because unfortunately a lot
of muslim they don't differentiate
between culture and religion so they
introduce maybe to certain cultures as
if it's part of the religion i know this
guy this brother
in colorado he mashallah became muslim
they took him downstairs they took off
his suit and they said it's all change
your clothes now you have to wear muslim
clothes and they put on him like a a a
soraa or a pants with a long uh shirt
you know like which is usually dressed
in certain countries yeah uh
whatever they call it and basically they
put
socks on him and shoes and everything
was new and everything different color
you can imagine and put a koofi and put
coil in his eyes i'm serious one in his
eyes
you know what is that it's a certain
like it's a like a mascara kind of yeah
some people do that it's cultural it's a
cultural
thing and it's maybe the prophets undo
it but also it's part of his culture
so he went back to his wife
he knocked on the door and his wife when
she saw him she thought that this is
maybe a guy from talaban or something
coming to her out and she called the
police and he said oh but i mean she
opened the door imagine your husband
went to work with a suit and coming back
with completely different clothes from a
different culture
and he said what happened to you and he
said i became muslim he said what i mean
is that what muslim islam is about is
about the clause about just changing
your your clause i think this is this is
just an example of how sometimes our
community
behave in in a wrong way with the new
muslims i want him to look like
me or my culture or to eat like me you
know what's something bit about this
religion this does not strip you from
your culture if you are latinos if you
are african-american if you're a white
american if you are
whatever chinese whatever your culture
you're coming from
islam does not strip you from a culture
you stay with the culture of the but the
only different islam put guidelines to
control this culture so if you cross the
line and you do something
stop this culture stop you you cannot do
it you cannot being part of your culture
does not justify it but other than that
it's up to you the way you dress the way
you eat the way you live your life as
long as you follow the guidelines of the
religion so you you emphasize getting to
really know the basics that's where it
starts the five pillars of islam and
slowly building from there yes and then
we talked about the culture anything
that's good in the culture good food
maybe even good dress but long as this
modest dress you know you're not showing
what is considered immodest in islam
like the color of the dress it can be
different from one culture to another
yeah okay and becoming a new muslim one
who submitted his will to the creator of
the heavens and earth you don't now like
this situation have to put on a thobe
and change your name all of a sudden no
no it's not because this is prevalent
this happens a lot yeah it happened
unfortunately you don't need to do that
at all there is nothing called islamic
clause it means a clause that covers
your aura cover the your private part
that's if you're a male or a female to
cover her body that's what islamic
clause means is not to wear this stub it
doesn't wear kofi it doesn't it just not
to do with that you can wear whatever
clothes that you want whatever food that
you want to
drink whatever
language you use whatever name that you
have the prophet sallam so many people
became muslim he never ordered them to
change their names and some of their
names are not arabic names it could be
for example salman al-fadisi a persian
would not a muslim country at that time
is romans from from basically europe he
didn't ask him to change his name
because it's not an a muslim name
there's no such thing as muslim name
there's no such thing as like a muslim
name no
any any name which is has
uh a
meaning or whatever yeah it's a muslim
name the only
uh
an islamic names if these names
will have a wrong meaning in islam like
somebody called himself god
that's unislamic not acceptable yeah or
somebody call himself i'm the slave of
uh so-and-so
so if it has some pagan origins or
something yes then you will be changed
but if your name is mike if your name is
tom you keep your name you don't have to
change it absolutely and you can
continue to dress in your suit and tie
you don't have to throw on the thub or
anything like that no at all okay i'm
sure many muslims are learning this is
important for them because you know they
they have this misconception this notion
also and also a lot of people became
muslims you know new muslims in the time
of the prophet muhammad
they always
went back to their family the arabs
became part of their family and you know
to some of the new muslims the moment
they became muslim they have nothing to
do with their family with their people
with their basically their their the
people from the same maybe culture that
they belong to they feel that islam
encourage you not to be
any more have a relationship with your
mom or your family or
you know that's absolutely wrong that's
wrong totally absolutely islam encourage
you to be better
basically son better daughter better
husband better uh uh uh
basically
father and and mother and uncles and so
forth so you have something so beautiful
don't shy away from people go to them
and basically share with them the the
advice that you the beautiful thing that
you have if you think yourself under a
pressure if you go to maybe some family
member you're afraid that this is will
maybe
take you away from the dean you cannot
face these challenges in this case you
know what i would advise you to
strengthen your iman first and you go
back to your basically to face these
challenges in the future one more thing
which is make sure that you hang out
with good people
friends is a very
important element if you're surviving
actually
in this religion make sure that you
surround yourself with good muslims that
people will educate you care about you
take you step by step and they will not
take you to an extreme path
because this religion has not to do with
being extreme or they will make you just
teach you certain cultures which is
maybe it's not part of your own culture
yeah with that said we're going to take
a break and get some more beautiful
advice when we come back here on a deen
show sit tight one god worship him alone
do what he wants you to do put your
desires this thing inside you that just
wants this and wants that and you just
can't get enough you know what you never
get enough until the dirt's in your
mouth don't let it come to that be
sincere and honest ask the one who
created you to guide you is the first
step
chasing all the women and the good times
and the parties and this and that there
is no one worthy of worship except allah
don't wait you never know if death would
come today for you or not
back here on the dean show and we're
giving some beautiful advice to the
new muslims
now i mentioned earlier before i go to
my next question i said look look we're
following the same way of life as all
the prophets and i said that look jesus
was a muslim abraham was a muslim am i
lying here no
at all actually by by being muslim
you're just in the same path of all
these prophets and messengers
that were sent before muhammad saw
i mean what do you think abraham used to
tell people to do believe in what one
guy believe in one god and i'm his
messenger what do you think noah was
saying his people what do you think
all these prophets were were doing the
same thing that the prophet muhammad
was signed worship allah alone and
basically i'm his messenger that's why
the prophet said
i'm not something new
i'm just similar to all these prophets
and messenger before me and isa jesus
also peace be upon him also did the same
thing he said worship the creator of the
heavens and earth and i'm his messenger
to you they never call people to worship
themselves no idols icons saying statues
none of these things right nope okay
this is a fact not fiction you're
getting here on the d show now our
responsibility
as a community when someone embraces the
same way of life of all the messengers
islam how should we
help these people
that's a very good point actually for us
as a muslim community especially in the
in the west when we when we see somebody
accept islam and declare his shahada and
the masjid so many times we say allah
akbar we give him a hug and that and
that's about it and and believe it or
not those brothers and sisters who
became muslims they need a lot of
support a lot of education to be
provided the prophets of sallam after
atta if the city of
accepted islam
there is about 200 people accepted islam
from it the prophet assigned for each
one of them
for each one of them
someone to teach them the religion to
teach them the religion so what you need
to do when somebody became muslim we
make sure that we follow up with this
brother but the sister there is someone
in the community willing to take them
step by step teach them how to pray how
to make although in the correct way
according to the sunnah of the prophet
we must
provide also a lot of counseling for
them so many of the brothers and sisters
who became muslim
they came from a lot of struggle a lot
of psychological maybe
problems financial problems social
problems and and they found an islam
answer to this problem but still this is
the theoretical part of it the practical
part is upon us as muslim to provide
a practical solution for their problems
for the challenge that they're facing
we must provide these services to them
and not to neglect their rights upon us
as a muslim community it's enough to be
happy to make dua for them to give them
a hug and after that what who's going to
basically help this brothers if he was
kicked out of his house or the sister if
she was kicked out of her house because
she's muslim she put hijab who's going
to help him if he couldn't have if he
couldn't survive financially because he
just became muslims i'm not suggesting
that it has become a a completely
welfare kind of system we provide help
but we help them to stand on their feet
to know that we are brothers and sisters
and and we mean that that we really will
stand beside them and help them provide
the advice the companionship
them and their families so many of the
so many new muslims told me
i don't have no family anymore no
friends
i'm just like new
and i need to see that support from the
community and i agree with them
also one thing i noticed
sometimes a new muslim comes to us we
kind of have
some of muslim and i think this is very
rude uh it is
they stare at them and one of them
common complaint from new muslims they
said a lot of time they stare like they
look at us tear us
smile to your new muslim brothers go
ahead and ask them how can i help you
please if you need any help let me know
it's my phone number that's what i do
sometimes you don't need to stare and
look and not reacting even some people
were suspicious about those who became a
new muslim this is shame this is really
shame to see incident like this
one of the things that also i i hear a
lot about from new muslims that when
they come to islam they said you know
what we left whatever religion we had
because the most interesting thing in
this religion it's authenticity
that it's authentic religion it has
very clear sources very reliable sources
just quran and suddenly preserved
protected so when we became muslim we
come across all these people everybody
give me an opinion every give me this
let me go you know do this not to do
that i mean
please don't confuse them
provide for them what is really in the
quran and sunnah don't provide them what
culturally you are familiar with or what
you think is good i remember when this
sister she became muslim and she said
allah i was giving a shahada so this old
lady came and all of a sudden she came
in front of everybody and she gave the
mustaf to her she said
kiss the mustafa because you became
muslim
and the poor lady you know you muslim
she got scared she kissed themselves
they said three times i was like
hold on auntie where do you got this
from there's nothing in the quran
so some people they are so excited maybe
and they don't basically realize that
i'm introducing something it's not in
the quran do you know that this is the
prophet
and finally also we have to understand
new muslims they make mistakes
they not get a prayer pray perfectly
like you you're not going to make
although like like they're one sister
she's a new muslim she came and she is
not wearing a long clothes or proper
cross for the salad he can imagine
somebody pulled her out of the line
i said hey you cannot pray like this i'm
sorry i just became muslim right before
us of prayer and i don't know what to do
so sometimes the muslim community have
to know you know what you're not anymore
in arab country or on a subcontinent or
where you pray in your locality and you
maybe you never saw any muslim before
you're living in a society alhamdulillah
every day there is somebody accepting
islam so open up for them be tolerant
don't be
mean
you know mistakes will happen finally
this guy was praying in the salat and he
there is his phone ring so he picked up
the phone he said honey i'll call you
right back
so i know this is so cute you know and
after that we told him you know you
can't do that in the phone but don't be
mad because he doesn't know yeah you
know just just relax take it easy smile
give support you know
and and and at the end of the day i'll
tell those brothers who became muslims
you didn't became muslim for me
or for my community or anybody's
community he only became muslim
for him for the almighty allah that's it
if people want to get a hold of you if
they have some more questions there are
new muslims and they need some more
guidance what website do you recommend
that people can visit for some of the
questions that they might have uh
you can either go to al-maghrib forum or
if you have a question related to
religion stuff like that you go to um
online
sheikh thank you very much welcome
welcome to the beautiful advice may god
almighty allah thank you thank you very
much and some great advice
for our new muslim brothers and sisters
who accepted the way of all the
messengers islam that complete and total
submission
to the one who created you and that's
how you get that peace and some great
advice focus on the basics the basis
establish a direct connection like you
have with the creator of the heavens and
the earth
the prayer five times a day the zakat
the five pillars that he discussed be
around good people and you can get
some more
information here at this number one
eight hundred six six two islam where we
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help guide you along the way it's been
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until then peace be unto you