This is the dean. The danger.
This is the dean show. Oh man. Peace be
with you. How are you toes? Is that you?
That is me. Yeah, brother. You got all
this time to hit the bag. What about
time for the Dean show in the da. Well,
let's go. Are you ready? Let's go now,
bro. We're going to be right back where
Hamza Dors is here on the Dean
Show. Alhamdulillah. Peace be with you.
Thank you for tuning in to another
episode of the Dean Show. All over the
news is
hysteria. One of the greatest men to
walk the earth has been insulted and we
be up in a war too if Jesus, Moses,
Abraham, all these mighty messengers who
came to teach the people out of love.
God sent them to us and there's a
certain group of people insulting them.
And we want to know how should we as
those who have submitted to the creator
and not his creation. How should we
respond the right way? Not the wrong
way. So when we come back, our next
guest, Hamza, is here on the Dean Show.
We'll be right back. This is
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the show. Peace be with
you.Um, how are you? Good.
Alhamdulillah. You got a nice right
cross there. You know, did you get
surprised? They jumped out from the bag,
invited you to be on the Dean show.
You're working out, training. How long
you been boxing for?
Um, a while. A while. Yeah. At least um
maybe 5 years now. Yeah. Five years. So,
I mean, look, we're not here to about
talk about boxing or jiu-jitsu. You
heard me open the show. I mentioned
that. Look, we'd be in an uproar. We'd
be upset, man. Jesus, peace be upon him.
No Muslim is a Muslim as he loves and
rever Jesus. One of the mightiest
messengers of God. Moses, Abraham, they
all came with Islam, submission to the
will of God. The last and final
messenger, Prophet Muhammad, peace be
upon him, he came with that same
message. He was a brother to Jesus. Is
right. Yes. Yes. And he called people to
worship the creator, not the creation.
Yes. And to be of the best character
that you can be, loving mankind. And
now, how should we tell us? You you
obviously know what's going on. You got
some jealous people, some envious
people, whatever they are, you know,
sick heart, sick minds, and they made
this horrific movie. What do you got to
say about that? Well, there's a lot to
say. First and foremost, we have to
react in a positive way. Okay? It
doesn't mean keeping silent. We
shouldn't keep saying because as Muslims
we're here to do what? To call people to
this amazing beautiful message called
Islam. Allahaw he
says call people to the way of Allahel.
Keeping silent is calling no one to
anything. Now it doesn't mean we're
going to burn embassies and kill
ambassadors. This is haram and we know
this. Even the prophet sallallah.aihi
wasallam upon whom be peace. He never
killed any ambassador. Even mima the
fake prophet there was a respect. So we
don't do things like that. We don't kill
innocent human beings. The prophet
sallallahu alaihi wasallam said there is
no harming and no reciprocating of harm.
And he said that if you want to be shown
mercy then you have to show mercy and
compassion to others. He said
and his wife relates that if you put
compassion in something and kindness it
elevates it. You take away compassion
and kindness it degrades it. So we we
know these teachings but go ahead. Go. I
I mean to cut you off before I lose my
thought. You said mercy, compassion. Why
do people see that as the antithesis to
Islam nowadays? It's usually when you
say Islam, they think barbaric. They
think, you know, swords flying, you
know, you know, kamicazis, suicide
bombers. Why? There are two reasons. The
first reason is that some of us, we
don't get up and we don't warn. We don't
get up and we don't talk to people about
this beautiful message. Although its
self-image psychology defines who we are
as an um as a Muslim community because
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam
said you won't truly believe you won't
come closer to allahel to the creator of
everything that exists unless you love
for others what you love for yourself
and what do we love the most we love
Allah we love Muhammad upon whom be
peace we love Islam so if we want to be
believers we have to give it to other
people so people just don't No, the
other point is we have systemic issues.
What does that mean? It's a big word.
Systemic means there is a system out
there. There's the media, Fox News, Bill
O'Reilly, Pamela Gella. I don't believe
she wants to ban what's that food.
What's that food? What food? Falafel.
Falafel. Because she said it's the food
of the of the mujah. Oh my god. I mean,
this woman's she needs help. May Allah
guide all of us inshallah. So the point
is that we have all these people
filtering this information giving da
their da their call to the wider
society. So it's input output. If you
give people rubbish to listen that's all
they're going to know. So we have to one
call people to Islam and expose this
kind of systemic effect the effect of
the system. And the way to do that to do
that is arise and warn and talk to
people in a really nice way cuz we
shouldn't fall for the trap brother
Eddie that this is about freedom of
speech. It has nothing to do with
freedom of speech. Do you know why?
Because in every single society, freedom
of speech is restricted. Every society,
give us some examples. Liel laws, hate
speech laws, product defamation, you
have perjury, contemporary court,
there's a whole list in European and in
American culture, in legal theory,
there's so many so many restrictions to
speech. So, in a way, this like a smoke
screen for open season on Islam in a
way. Now, we don't react in a negative
way. We're not victims. The prophet
sallallahu alai sallallahu alaihi
wasallam was never a victim. But we take
this opportunity to now expose the
duplicit behavior. Why is it that a
cartoonist in France was sacked from his
job? Because he wrote a piece against
the son of Sakosi. So for political
sensitivities, there's no freedom of
speech. When it comes to the best man
that walks on this planet, there's
freedom of speech. So in this particular
situation, he what did he do? He wrote
Yeah. He he wrote against the son of
Sakosi who was a polit who was Well,
Sakosi was the president of France. the
president of France. So for our viewers
who have no idea. And then he got
canned. He got fired. He got canned,
man. Okay. But there's so many more. For
example, in Kate, what about this recent
that's recent? Duchess of Kent, I
believe she's called now. Yeah. Okay.
What happened with that? Well, they took
a photo of her. Okay. Freedom of speech
expression. European outlets wanted to
take that photo and publish it
everywhere. France, what happened? They
apologized. They said sorry. They said
she's a human being. She must be
respected. But what about prophet
sallallahu alaihi wasallam the best man
that walked on this planet. So we have
to expose this as not a freedom of
speech issue because you know people
think now that we don't want debate and
dialogue. Islam is all about debate and
dialogue all about intellectual
discourse. For instance even in the 8th
century 9th century we had these people
called the now the were the equivalent
atheists of the of the time. You had the
likes Abu Hanifh and all these big
scholars Al Gazali Ibia and others
discussing with these type of people in
a very nuanced articulate manner but
couched in human language. Now even if
you look at political philosophy we have
this man called John Stewart Mill. John
Stewart Mill was the 19th century
British philosopher and he was the kind
of prophet if you like of the liberal
tradition of freedom of speech. And you
know what he said? It's very interesting
and they should learn from their own
tradition. He said that speech you must
speak for the competition of ideas. So
you have truth, accountability and
progress. So this was the objectives of
freedom of speech. But in this day and
age we don't have the real freedom of
speech or the real speech or the
objectives of speech. Why? Because we
think freedom to degrade an insult is
part of speech. But this is haram in
Islam and we have to teach people these
values. I give you an example, Eddie.
Say you done something wrong, right?
Yes. And I want to count you. I want to
put you in your place. And if I start by
saying, "Eddie, you smell man. You're so
ugly. You're so this. You're so that.
Your mama this." Yeah. What are you
going to say? You're going to be like,
"What?" You're going to hear me, right?
Am I going to account you properly? No.
So, using vile and degrading language
goes against the very objectives of
speech. Think about it. Using vile and
degrading language goes against the very
objectives of speech. So I wanted to
account you accountability which is part
of the objectives of speech. But using
vile language and degradation goes
against that very objective. I give you
another
example. Say I'm President Obama. Okay I
don't look like him but my smile is as
big. Alhamdulillah. Say I'm President
Obama and I win the current elections
and I start my speech, my address to the
people by swearing and rapping. Imagine
he goes, "What's up? Yo, yo, beep beep
beep." Is he going to fulfill the
objectives of his speech? No. Do you
see? So freedom to insult is actually
goes against the very objectives of
speech in the first place. What about
truth and science and progress? Steven
Hawking, a very famous British
physicist. He wants to explain string
theory, some complex theory in physics.
Imagine he does that by using
pornographic imagery. Are you going to
understand him? You're never going to
understand him. So this so-called
freedom to insult and freedom to degrade
goes against the very objectives of
speech. How does Islam solve the
problem? Well, we're all about
truth. We're all about accountability.
commanded them, forbidding the monk,
commanding the good and forbidding the
wrong. We're all about progress and all
about the search for truth and
knowledge, but couched in human language
with manners, true
civilization. This is why allahel in the
Quran says he doesn't like the utterance
of evil speech in the public domain. So
you see how Islam we fulfill the
objectives of
speech but we don't have this ridiculous
concept called freedom to insult. A
Muslim mustn't insult anybody. We
shouldn't harm anyone. There is no
harming and no reciprocating of harm
according to the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wasallam. And that includes with
your tongue. There are many a hadith
prophetic traditions attribute to the
best man that walked this planet that
says be careful of your tongue. Be
careful what you say. It'll be one of
the first things that's going to be
thrown into the hellfire. Be conscious
of Allah. Be conscious of the creator,
not creation. And let's discuss maybe
after the break on how Islam fulfills
the objective of speech, but yet it's
couched in human language to connect
with human beings in a profound way. Not
like this. This means they've lost the
debate. They don't want to have
intellectual discussion. It means
they've lost the debate. Exactly.
Exactly. Here with
Hamza Tarses. Dors. Dorses. I got it.
We'll be right back here on the Dean
show. 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? Because 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 have.
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And if we're going to worship something,
I figured I might as well worship the
creator instead of any of the creations.
Now in upon investigating all the
religions I remember finding out the
meaning of what Islam is, what a Muslim
is. Those who surrender theirself to God
is a Muslim. Those who surrender submit
to God. God's will. That is it. Islam
was pure. It was just you just pray to
God your creator.
All I am not afraid to stand alone.
I am not afraid to stand alone. If Allah
is by Messiah, I am not afraid to stand
alone. I am not afraid to stand alone.
If Allah is by my side, I am not afraid
to stand
alone. I am not afraid to stand alone.
If a lies by I am not afraid to stand
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alone back here on the D show and we're
discussing this movie that was made
insulting the last and final messenger
sent to mankind who came with the same
message of Jesus, Moses and Abraham
calling people to be the best that you
can be by worshiping the creator, not
his creation, doing good. And we see
some events that are unfolding. Muslims,
you know, it's sad to say, you know,
burning flags and embassies and all
this. So, in the early opening of the
show, definitely this is opposite of
Islam. Is that clear? Yes. We don't have
a right, a green light to go looting and
to of course not. And isn't it
interesting just before I go on, I mean,
when there was looting in UK, I heard
the Muslims were the ones who were
stepping up and they were guarding the
business. We were that's exactly what
people from you know the non not all of
them obviously but tell her you're from
UK what was going on with there was the
summer riots the England riots where
there was huge riots up and down the
country and the police were scattered
everywhere so they couldn't protect the
community so what the Muslims did they
they rose up and they commanded the good
and the forbid forbid the evil defended
the community the whole community
doesn't matter if you're a Muslim not
they were defending all Muslims well
well that's the role of Islam Islam is
here to defend the humanity
Allah says in the Quran which means
we're here for the people. We're here to
protect people to maintain their affairs
to help them. I heard this was in the
papers and this is it was everywhere. It
was everywhere. Huh. So this is what we
should be doing. This is how we should
be example to mankind. So does this
sadden you know your heart. You see this
when they start to you know bring the
snapshots Muslims going crazy and you
know what what what what what should be
our response to that? Now we know this
obviously when we see these move this is
horrific. This has been there since day
one. They're going to be insulting us
the truth, trying to degragate the
truth. But now, but we need to teach
people who Muhammad was sallallahu
alaihi wasall for example, Muhammad was
a prophet. Yeah. He was sent with a
message just like all the other prophets
like Jesus and Abraham and Moses upon
whom be peace. And what did they say?
Worship the one true God. Have have pure
montheism. Would you be offended? Now
the not yet Muslim out there, he's like,
man, hey, you know, if if they insulted
Jesus or Moses, let's say, how would you
feel? Any prophet? If you offend any
prophet, this is blasphemous in Islam.
This is against Islamic tradition. Any
prophet, Moses, Zakaria,
Elas, Jesus, do you love Jesus? Of
course, I love Jesus. Loving the
prophets is part of our faith. You don't
love Jesus, you can't be a Muslim. Well,
I mean, but do you believe he's God? Of
course not. Why not? Someone Someone
says, "Look, he said, "I'm the way, the
truth, and the light. No one comes to
the father except through me." What do
you got to say? Well, how can you love
us if you don't worship him? The
Christian now our brother is in in
humanity. Of course. So first and
foremost Jesus he taught us to worship
the one true God to worship the creator
not the creation he never so how can
someone who's creation now saying
worship me and Jesus never claimed that
anyway so you know never of course he
never called people to worship him never
okay never ever we don't find it
anywhere and the point is what we have
to understand is this is that it fits
the whole plan of god if you look the
old testament the new testament even the
Torah the Quran you see is all about
worshiping the divine not worshiping
your ego No woriing human flesh, not
worshiping animals, not worshiping
society, but worshiping the creator.
This is why he was a 14th century
theologian. You know what he said? If
you want true freedom, you want true
liberty, you want true freedom, then
don't worship your desires. Don't
worship others. Worship Allah. Worship
God, the one true God. That frees you
from the shackles of your ego. Because
we're we're enslaved to our ego and our
desires. We're enslaved to society, what
they want from us. But if you enslave
yourself to God, it frees you from these
things. Can you be like someone who's
not really into talking about the
prophets and that and they're just got
their mind warped with MTV? Do you got
that in UK? Yes. Yes, we do. And you
know, nightclubs and that. Can they fit
into this area of obviously this is a
big thing like let me tell you what
phone do you have? What? What? What
phone do you have? Oh, you don't want to
know my
phone. I got a $5 phone. Oh, do you? I
don't. But okay, say you had the iPhone,
right? Or the iPad or the Blackberry
famous phones. Okay. You see, I'm not
kidding. See? Oh, subhan Allah.
Alhamdulillah. Muslim should be humble.
That's that's the only way forward. So
the point is, brother, let me just make
this point. Yeah. They don't know that
the reason they have the iPhone, the
laptop, and the iPad is because of
Muhammad upon him peace. What? Mr.
Hamza, you crazy? No, I'm not crazy. The
reason we have the iPhone and the laptop
is because of Muhammad upon him peace.
Why? Let me tell you the scientific
revolution in Europe, the renaissance in
Europe that allowed us to develop these
things and be a milestone for these
things in history only came about as a
result of Muslim Spain. What was Muslim
Spain? Muslim Spain was when the Quran,
the book of the Muslims, the hadith, the
traditions of the prophet Muhammad upon
him, peace were implemented socially and
individually in Muslim Spain. And the
historians called it the convenencia
which means the coexistence where
Muslims, Jews and Christians could work
together in love and harmony to look
into the interconnecting principles of
nature which means to look into the
science and to look into progress. And
this is why professor Thomas Arnold
famous historian famous academic Arabist
what did he say? He said if it wasn't
for Muslim Spain we would not have the
Renaissance and we developed things like
the algorithm which wasn't from the
Islamic era. The algorithm is the thing
that you require to have things like the
iPhone, the iPad and the PC. Now the
reason is from Muhammad upon whom he
peace because he was the carrier of the
message of Islam which was the Quran and
the traditions. This was implemented in
Spain. Spain facilitated all this
tranquility to look into the
interconnecting princip principles of
nature that formed the renaissance and
the scientific revolution which
subsequently in our era formed the
things that we have. It's all from
Muhammad upon me peace. Another one.
You've been to court before. Mhm. You've
been to court. You when you go to court,
you're supposed to be presumed what?
What are you presumed? Guilty or
innocent? You presumed innocent, right?
Before you before guilty. So innocent
before proven guilty. Well, in most
cases anyway. Yeah. So the point is you
walk into a court of law and you have
confidence that you're innocent before
proven guilty. True. Yes. Who is that
from? Muhammad upon whom be peace. They
don't know this. The last and final
lesson. I am telling you, bro. Let me
tell you why. Let me tell you why. King
Louis the 9th who was responsible for
forming this principle the presumption
of innocence in Europe. He traveled to
the east. He met a monk and this is
according to his chronicler. Yeah. His
chronicler was writing all of this
history down. He met this monk. This
monk knew the Bible. This monk knew the
Quran and he knew some hadith the
prophetic traditions of the prophet
Muhammad upon whom be peace. And he
quotes a hadith to King Louis the 9th.
If you want justice in Europe then
follow this civilization because they
implement. He said that and he quoted a
hadith word for word. If you don't
believe me, go to and hadith is this is
a saying of the last and final saying of
of of of the last and final prophecies.
And King Louis the 9th went back to
Europe and he established the
presumption of innocence. By the way,
before this principle, do you know what
people had to do to prove themselves
innocent? They'll fight a duel and if
you win, you're innocent or you be burnt
at the stake or burnt alive and if you
survive, you're innocent. So Muhammad
upon whom be peace gave our whole
civilization the presumption of
innocence. And we could find this in the
article by Marcel Boyisad in 19 1980. It
was published in the journal of Middle
East eastern studies and it's called on
the probable influence of Islam on the
presumption of innocence. We have even
more tolerance came from Muhammad upon
him be peace because John lock who is
the post-enlightenment thinker in
Britain he developed treaties on
tolerance and civil governance and he
even he even influenced the founding
fathers of this nation of America and
John Lo was influenced by Edward Pop the
first orientalist that traveled to the
east and he learned from Islam and he
was taught Islamic studies at Oxford
University and John Lock says I'm only
influenced
I'm only influenced by Edward PCO and
John Lo wrote on civil governance. Do
you know what he writes in that book?
Where he says governance is a vice
jercy. Translate that in
Arabic the Islamic principle the words
Allah uses in the Quran. So Islam
influenced Edward PCO. Edward PCO
influenced John Lockach. John Lockach
influenced the whole of Europe in terms
of tolerance and the founding fathers of
America. So these were three things
brother progress and science presumption
of innocence and treaties on tolerance
and governance all from Muhammad upon
who be peace they don't know who this
man is and now he's and now he's who he
is because the creator chose him to be
the last messenger links back to the
creator of course is you know why
because you think any man could develop
these three core principles that develop
every single civilization you think it's
a joke an aberration of history some
kind of chance no this is a divine plan
and we see that's why the Quran says
Muhammad upon peace is a rahma and mercy
to mankind. So every time you use the
iPhone, every time you use your PC,
every time you look into science at
school, every time you walk into a court
of law, every time you see different
people and different nations in this
society because of tolerance, thank
Allah even if you don't believe in him,
you know why? Cuz he's Muhammad peace to
give us these things. Amazing. Amazing.
So many these are these are facts, not
fiction. I gave you all the references.
Myself Basad, Professor Thomas Arnold
and Jay Walker, a historian that talks
about John Lock and Edward PCO. It's all
there. These are facts and history
fiction. Get to know this man. Get to
know this man. Be better for you to get
to know this man. The last and final
messenger, Proph Muhammad, peace be upon
him who's a messenger like Jesus. Moses
Abraham came with the same message. Yes.
What was that message? To worship the
creator of the creation. That's right.
We'll be right back with more here on
the Dean Show.
On the outside, everything looks good.
You see the $100,000 cars. You see a lot
of diamonds. You see a lot of females
and they think that this is, you know,
this is the life. This is this is like,
you know, paradise right here on
earth. It's not anyone's job to go into
someone's heart and change their heart.
Your job is to tell people what the
truth is. And the reality of it is while
we're sitting here while I'm sitting
here constantly paying for the disease,
the cure was free. is the one who
protects us from hunger. Listen Eddie,
you've been showing on your videos on
YouTube that you're some kind of
jiu-jitsu master. Now you've met your
match. I'm going to show that boxing is
better than jiu-jitsu. Hamza tosses
getting
aggressive. I'm a Muslim boy. I got MB
printed on my ring. I sing for my Muslim
boys and my sisters doing their thing
for the sake of him. Allah, when I'm in
need of anything, I turn to him. Allah,
success is what he brings. Oh, Muslim
boy. I got envy written on my ring. I
sing for my Muslim boys and my sisters
doing nothing for the sake of him,
Allah. When I'm in need of anything, I
turn to him. Allah, success is what he
brings. Oh, Muslim bal from South
London. They don't even know what it
means. It's too real for them. I'mma put
it on and thick for a reason. They need
to start thanking a laugh for the air
they're breathing. Don't diss me back.
That's a waste of time. I'm already
subitting. I'm already on a straight
line. I'm already repenting for spitting
foul lies. Already planning to quit
rapping, bro. I got mine. Don't worry
about me. Worry about you. I'm in a
large army instead of a little crew. You
sign to record labels. I signed to
Allah. I worshiping God. You're still
worshiping your car. Bro, I'm a Muslim.
You don't know what you are. Just a lost
clown on the road trying to be a star.
Screaming out real talk. A little boy's
game. You need to get serious. Start
using your brain. Don't want to hear
about your life. How you grew all your
pain. How you draw your four fight.
it back and let it rain. I don't know
that before, bro. It's time for
something new. I know you guide the
youth just like I'm guiding you. boys
and my sisters doing their thing for the
sake of him. I am not afraid to stand
alone. I am not afraid to stand alone.
If Allah is my side, I am not afraid to
stand
alone. I am not afraid to stand alone.
If Allah is by Messiah, I am not afraid
to stand
alone. I am not afraid to stand alone.
If by not afraid to stand
alone back here on the Dan Show. Special
guest Hamza here on the D show all the
way from UK. How is everything in UK? UK
is good. UK is good. Alhamdulillah.
We're moving forward. Mashallah. Tell us
now why do you think it is people have
this animosity this hatred in their
heart you'll see when you'll talk to
some people about Islam you'll try to be
rational reasonable you know kind
compassionate and some people will take
to it they'll accept because it's the
fastest growing way of life in the world
it makes sense some people they just get
this and they they get this rage this
this anger some will you'll hear on
you'll see on the on the comments the
curse words the foul language the
insulting movies why do you think this
is well if you think about it Eddie if
you live in an environment okay and
everything in this environment says
Islam is bad it's terroristic it kills
people it's backward and they hear this
not only in the media on the radio on
the news and the newspapers and also
sometimes they may see Muslims who may
not be the best either sometimes okay so
you have all of this environment what
are you going to think you that's what
you do human beings have an ability to
stereotype. Human beings look at
patterns. That's why even science is
based on looking at
patterns. So the point is we have to
break that pattern now and say, "Wait,
wait, wait. There's some issues here.
You got the wrong side of the story."
This is why the things I told you now
about Muhammad upon him peace. John Doe
next door doesn't know about this. He
doesn't know how Muhammad upon him peace
affected his life in such a profound
way. The iPhone, the iPad, science,
technology, tolerance, justice,
presumption of innocence, all these
things from this man. And they don't
even know. They don't even know. So this
is why we have to tell them it's our
responsibility to go out there and to
call people to Allah as ael to call
people to the creator to worship the
creator not the creation. And this is
our responsibility. We shouldn't be
pointing the finger anymore Eddie. We
shouldn't be victims. The prophet
Muhammad upon peace was never a victim.
He never said oh look at these people
that people look what they're saying
about me. The man's bringing me down.
Exactly. He's not saying that. He's
saying, "Wait a minute. I am I'm here
with a message."
Even even in the battle of the trench
what happened when we were defending
Muslims and non-Muslims of Medina
defending everybody not just Muslims and
the Sahaba the companions of the prophet
they thought we're going to be taken
over and wiped out clean the prophet
Muhammad upon him peace what did he do
when he had to remove the boulder and he
striked it so it could break and there
was sparks and what did he say he went
Allah Akbar God is great God is great
God is greater Persian is yours. The
world is yours. And they're thinking,
"Look at this guy. This guy's almost
going to be
annihilated." But yet his vision is to
spread this beautiful harmonious
tradition, religion to the rest of
humanity. That man was a leader. That
man was didn't fear creation. He feared
the creator. Whoever fears the creator,
whoever is conscious of Allah, conscious
of God, is not conscious of anything
else. And that was the reality of this
man. He had such a vision for humanity
and that's how we should be. We should
have this vision too that we're going to
call people to this amazing tradition.
Don't worship the creation, worship the
creator. Just a few more questions in
short. How can we and how do you like to
when you're talking to the youth or
talking to the adults and it seems like
all they have on their mind is Lady
Gaga, Google and 50 Cents and you know
all this is wrapped in their mind.
They're consumed with movies, music and
we're talking about now oh religion
something that's kind of odd for a lot
of people but you know hey look we've
been there done that and it's beautiful.
You get excited talking about the
creator and paradise the rewards that
you get for worshiping him and at the
end of this life. What do you what do
you like to tell them, you know, to get
them from out of that non-reality to
this reality? What do you what do you do
to get them out of this zone? It is very
hard, but I think the most important
thing to do, especially when it's
connecting with other human beings, is
basically to empathize with them. You
have to empathize cuz sometimes Eddie,
you know, when we're giving dawa, which
means calling people to Islam, calling
people to the worship of the creator,
not the creation. When we do this, we
already judge someone. So for example,
say you were an atheist. Yeah. And I
knew that. But my view of an atheist was
he's cold-hearted, he's scientific, he's
arrogant, he's egotistical. I have all
these judgment on what an atheist is.
And I think if I think you're an
atheist, what am I giving da to? I'm
giving da to the judgment, not to the
person. So as Muslims, we should be like
the prophet Muhammad upon whom be peace
and come with a blank canvas and not
really judge them even if we know they
may be a disbeliever or they may be an
atheist. Don't use your judgments
because you're going to be giving da to
the judgment not to the reality. So
first and foremost we have to empathize
and understand the position. Why are you
in this state? Why do people drink and
take drugs and go to parties all the
time and go to clubs? Why is because
this is called self annihilationism
which in a simple way means they don't
like who they are. They don't know who
they are. The big questions who are you?
Why are you? Who's are you? For whom are
you? They haven't answered these
questions. So we have to fulfill that
gap and tell them about these things and
tell them that the thing that they're
doing is also religious. That's what
it's still religion for them. doing
these repetitive acts continuously
whether drinking alcohol playing games
whatever the case may be is like a
religion it's part of their way of life
and we say we have a way of life too and
how do you know your way of life is
correct well I don't know I just want to
have fun well you know what I think I
got evidence for my way of life what do
you mean evidence well do you want to
hear this do you want to understand the
concept of Islam yeah sure then talk to
them talk to them about Allah his
reality God his reality talk about the
Quran this book that shook the world.
This book that made the world. This book
that would save the world. We got to go.
We got to cut out just real quickly.
Some people just so they know, you're
not an Arab. No, I'm not. I look Arab.
You're actually from uh Greece. Greece.
All right. All right.
So you you actually uh Islam is reaching
the Greeks, the Italians, the Polish, I
mean Latinos, Latinos, everybody from
all over the world. So just to make this
clear, the Bosnians, it came to Greece.
It's there. Is there a lot of Muslims in
Greece? There's about a million Muslims
in Greece. A lot of them are migrants,
but indigenous Greeks about 300,000.
Amazing. So tell us now in short for the
Greek out there, for the uh the the
the Mexican, for the Italian, whoever's
out there, the American, and they like
what we had to say, and they're like,
you know what, they're getting a
different perspective. Now tell us in
short, you know, what is Islam calling a
human being to? In short, what is Islam
all about? Well, Islam is fundamentally
Islam is fundamentally brothers, sisters
and friends that Allah God is calling
you to the house of peace. He wants
peace for you. He wants mercy for you.
And the way to do that is by
understanding your purpose in life. Your
purpose in life is to worship the
creator, not worship your desires and
self. Not worship social pressure, the
celebrity culture, but worship the thing
that's much higher and transcendent
above and beyond. and to by worshiping
God and seeking his pleasure, you get
pleased. So you have double pleasure and
then you end on the day of judgment with
good deeds on your scale and you enter
paradise cuz God is inviting you to the
house of peace. In the Quran, the book
of the Muslims, Allah, God says God
invites you to the house of peace, to
bliss, to tranquility. This life is just
a test and you pass his test by being
the best person you can possibly be. So
believe in his oneness. He's not two.
He's not three. He's not four. He's not
five. He's uniquely
one. Say, God is uniquely one. And then
you just worship him. Simple as that.
And how do you know how to worship him?
You follow what the Quran says. That's
the word of God. And you follow what
Muhammad says upon him be peace. Because
we believe this to be revelation too
because he was the carrier of the word
of God. So worship God. It's that
simple. It liberates you from the
restrictions of this life and allows you
to see the expans expanse of the
hereafter. And it's as simple as that.
And you don't have to be an Asian or a
DIY or any other thing. You don't have
to change your DNA to be a Muslim. The
one of the first Muslims was black. One
of the first Muslims was a woman. There
are Muslims from all across the country.
That's why Malcolm X when he traveled,
he went to Hajj the pilgrimage. He saw
all peoples together in the same white
clothes equal in front of God. That's
what Islam is. To liberate you from your
ego and your desires. to liberate you
from social pressure. We got so many
pressures by enslaving yourself,
worshiping God, loving God, and it frees
you from that and you enter
paradise. God bless you. Thank you very
much. May God Almighty, the creator
reward you for being with us, time. We
look forward to having you back here on
the show
again. Peace be with you. And thank you
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Dean Show. You got to hear it here. We
don't like when people insult the last
and final messenger sent to mankind or
Jesus or Moses or Abraham. They were the
best of mankind. They were calling
people to worship the creator, not the
creation. But there's a way that we go
about there's a way that we go about
explaining things to the people. And
it's not through flipping cars, burning
flags, killing people. No, it's by
educating them and calling to them to
the truth with wisdom and fair
preaching. the best way because we're
following the best of mankind, the
Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him. So
get out there, invite the people to the
truth, live the truth, invite the people
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