Alamikum. Peace be onto you. How are you
guest? Alhamdulillah Alamine. How are
you, Eddie? Good. Alhamdulillah. It's
nice to be with you again after all this
long intermission. It seems like
forever. It's been a while, but I'm very
excited that you're back here on the
Dean Show. Yeah. It's nice to be with
you. As we introduce you in the opening,
this is uh Shik Yustf Estis who's has
his own section at the deanshow.com.
He's the founder president of Guide Us
TV. Oh yeah. Here in America. And it's
viewed in Canada and the US. And you can
catch it at guidestv.com.
Yeah, that of course that'll go all over
the world if you go that route. Yeah.
But as far as the satellites go, we do
have Canada, United States both. Yes.
Mashallah. We're going to be talking
about today, you know, one of the most
important topics, important things in
our life is establishing a relationship
with the one who created us. Trying to
live that life that's pleasing to the
creator. But many of us, we get caught
up into into the day-to-day activity. So
we want to give our viewing audience and
the audience that here's some tips on
how we can go away from making the
conversation just
baseball many people don't feel they are
qualified to talk about Islam but and
they feel that how can I break the ice
or they some feel it's not an obligation
to open their mouth and to invite people
to have a relationship with the one who
created them. So let's talk about that
point. How can we break the ice and get
people a little motivated to open up a
conversation and to invite them to what
will give them peace, Islam? Well,
naturally, the first thing I always look
at, as you well know, is the ethmology
of words. Because the more I understand
the words, the more I understand what
people are trying to tell me. In Islam,
we do have something that's more than
just a relationship with Almighty Allah.
We have something called a connection.
In Arabic language, there's the word
sila. Silah means to connect to
something and we have from that the word
salah and salah obviously is our
connection with Allah that we make five
times a day. But when we talk about our
connection with the people or our
relationship with the people then we
have another subject and this is our da
and da this is related to another word
dua and dua is to call on Allah and dua
is what we do all the time or what
people call pray. So
silah is connection with Allah but dua
is calling upon Allah. Now let's bring
it to the subject of the people. The da
calling the people to the way of Allah
to call them back to the worship of the
one God which you're always talking
about in every show. I never heard you
open any show except you always mention
the creation, the creator, the
relationship. It's always you set that
as the format for every show you've ever
done. I think I don't I didn't miss any,
but I I think that I've seen that in
every single show. So, people should
know just when they opened up the
program and started watching, you're
serious. You're talking about one God,
worship him on his terms. Well,
essentially, that is what we're always
trying to do. But how can we help our
brothers and sisters have a better
understanding? And you already mentioned
that a lot of times we're kind of
nervous with the people. We don't know
where to go. They're not Muslim. We
don't know what to say. Uh, how's the
weather? Weather's nice. Well, it's kind
of cold. It's windy. It's Who cares, you
know? I'm not a weather man. Well, I'm
talking about that. Well, how about the
big game? Okay. Well, let's talk about
the game and that was a three-point
spread and was, "Wait a minute. I'm not
a sports caster either, you know. So,
why am I getting into these subjects?"
And usually, it's because people are
nervous when they meet each other and
they want to find a common ground. So I
like the idea again going back to the
Dean show the things that are stressed
again and again that our common ground
is to go to the subject of the creator
and there is only one creator. He
created everything. Now whether they're
a
Hindu or a Buddhist, a Jew, a Christian
or even some Muslims that kind of
strayed far away, you know, they still
know there's a creator. There's
something behind everything that
happened. But if a guy gets hung up on
that and he doesn't want to go forward,
then what do you do? You know, there's
quite a bit of atheism now because so
many people are seeing the fallacies of
these madeup religions. And so they
assume that all religions are the same.
So there are a number of issues that
people can pick up on. For instance, um
I was talking with some of our brothers
the other day and I said that you know
if we do the ethmology of words and look
at words they give you something to talk
about. For instance, somebody said he is
from Palestine and I said to him why do
you say Palestine? He said what do you
mean? I said well you know and I know in
Arabic it's called
Philistine and in the Bible it's called
Philistine. Who came up with this word
Palestine? So why don't you use the word
that you know that what we say in
Arabic? He said well then people won't
know. I said no they you they'll learn
real quick if they say where is that
look at the opportunity if you said I'm
from Philistine. This is just an
example. But then he says oh wow where
is that? Well it's in the Bible. That's
where it is. You know about the
Philistines. Uh not exactly sure. Do you
remember when David threw the rock and
killed Goliath? He was the
Philistine. And after that, what
happened? So you have to realize that
the Philistines lost the battle to who?
The followers of David. And what was the
religion of David? Ah, now you get to
open up the subject. The same would be
true if you want to go to the New
Testament. For instance, if somebody's
talking about Jerusalem, again, that's
Philistine, right? But Jerusalem, what
is Jerusalem? Ethmology of the word
jar
salam. Later they pronounced this word
salam as shalom. But originally even the
Jewish pronounced it salam. Jarus
shalam. And what is that? Well in Arabic
you say dar. In the old Hebrew they said
jar. Daro salam. What is that? Place of
peace.
So if you think about it, by the way, we
have schools and massagid mosques in the
United States called Dar Salam, place of
peace. So if you said Jarus Salem and
they're going, "What's that? That's
Jerusalem. You believe in Jerusalem?"
Well, yeah. Okay, there you are. A place
of peace. Of course, it's been anything
but that for the past many centuries.
But this is beside the point. The point
that we're trying to stress is a
commonality that we can come to that we
can talk about so people can see and
understand where we're coming from
because once we establish Jerusalem
Jerusalem pace of peace this is where
who lived did Jesus live there
ah and after Jesus what religion did
those people follow because some of them
continued to follow Judaism as was
understood by Moses but at that stage
they are Jewish no longer believing
correctly because Jesus has come with
the message to clarify and they didn't
accept it. Average Christian will say
that's right. So those people are no
longer on the right
religion. Likewise at the time of
Moses when Moses came and he talked to
his people they were all the sons and
daughters of who? Abraham. So the
followers of the Abrahamic faith when
Moses came he clarified and brought
clear commandments for them. And if you
didn't follow those, then you're not a
follower of the true religion anymore.
Then if you come to Jesus and you said,
"Okay, anybody not following Jesus now,
it doesn't matter what you believed
about David or Moses or
Abraham, it's Jesus in front of you. You
don't believe him? Then where are you?"
Likewise, the last and the final
messenger from this same Abrahamic chain
through Ishmael who is Muhammad
sallallahu alaihi wasallam. Whoever
knows about this message of the unity of
God, the oneness of almighty Allah, and
they want to worship him on his terms,
following his commandments, obeying him,
then they need to be a follower of all
of these prophets and always ending with
the last prophet in this case would be
Muhammad. Give us some tips. You're in a
plane, a train, or an automobile, and
you have a few minutes. You got to break
the ice and you want to go ahead and
leave them with something to think
about, to contemplate about the purpose
of life. How in your experience have you
did it and give us in our viewing
audience some of these secret tips? I
don't know if it's a secret tip. I think
it's a forgotten tip. Forgotten tip.
Yeah, I do. I believe it's a forgotten
tip because everything from the prophet
Islam is not a secret. We're just kind
of dumb. We don't pay attention. But
here's a
tip. Before I get in the airplane,
before I get in the bus, before I'm in
the public talking with the people, I've
already done my work. My homework really
literally homework. What's my homework?
At home, at night, in the middle of the
night, get up. Get out of bed. Make If
you have trouble getting up in the
night, just drink a bunch of water
before you go to
sleep. Oops. And you'll get
up. Alhamdulillah. Our studio audience
is laughing, but you know, it will work.
You get up and then after you make your
woo face the kimla and pray to Allah
raketain two raqa and then one by itself
which is called witch and then when your
head's on the ground just cry to Allah
and ask him let me share this message
the way you want it shared with the
people help me Allah help me and I
guarantee it has happened to me every
single time something good happened to
me the very next day some way or another
I benefited, somebody else benefited,
but together mutually everybody
benefits. Now, when somebody comes to
me, I used to be looking for these
secret tips. Okay? Which, as I just
said, there is no such
thing. But in that, I would think, well,
I'll say this, I'll say that. Okay. Uh,
sir, did you know that if you don't
believe, you're going to go to hell or
you know that sound like the old
Christian sales pitch? Do you believe in
Jesus? You know, you don't believe in
Jesus. All right. Okay. Well, we don't
really have that. In fact, I've seen it
happen that I sit down in the airplane
and I'm just looking through something
that they got there and somebody will
tap me and say, "Excuse me, how come you
wearing that thing on your head? Are you
Jewish?" One time a lady in the security
line, you know, when you go through for
the so-called security check. I call it
insecurity because everybody feels
insecure. But as you're going through
this thing, you know, here's this lady,
old lady. She looks at me. She sees how
I'm dressed. She goes, "Um, um, uh, what
are you?" Poor little old lady. She's
scared, you know. I said, "I'm a
chaplain." Oh, okay. We went a little
further in the line. She turned around.
She said, "What's a
chaplain?" As long as I wasn't a Muslim,
she was
okay. But when people begin to open up
and say something to me, that's when I
really want to be prepared. I don't
think that it's really a big benefit to
to talk about the ways to open a
conversation just like to walk up to
somebody and say, "By the way, did you
know that Islam is the fastest growing
religion in the United States?" I mean,
that could add to their phobia that they
already have. And you might even find
them coming back at some weird things
and you wouldn't be prepared for it. So
if they see you as a Muslim or suspect
you might be one of those at least it
gives you a place to open up. I use the
words because of course English was
my forte. I spend a lot of time studying
English language and I enjoy that any
language really whether it's Spanish,
Arabic, English. But when we come to the
subject of the person themselves then I
look at the person as though I from them
I got to get it from them. I need to
know when I do a Juma for instance a lot
of times they'll ask me what's the Juma
going to be about? I say about 20
minutes. By the way, if you'll laugh a
little louder, you don't have
microphones and we do.
Anyway, we don't often have a studio
audience, but uh anyway, to come back to
that, when I look at the the people in
the Juma in the masid and I'm I'm
thinking what is today's topic? Well, if
I look and they're all Arabs, it's going
to have to have a lot of Arabic in it.
But if I'm looking at they're all youth,
I need to think in terms of what they're
interested in. I need to bring it down
to where we can all be on a common
ground. And that's the same thing if
you're talking to a housewife about
space travel or something. She'd be
like, "Huh?" And at the same time,
you're talking about a guy that's a
computer geek. He wants to talk about
megabytes. He wants to talk about, you
know, how much RAM that you get.
Different things like that. So, put it
in perspective. You got to think who
you're talking to. And sometimes you
don't need to be a conversationalist.
You don't need to be a lecturer. All you
need to do is have some basic knowledge,
answer a few questions. How come you
Muslims have to kill all the Jews and
Christians? Well, I don't really think
we have to cuz I never heard anybody
tell me that. Well, I saw on TV I saw on
the internet my pastor said, "Well, you
know, it's good thing that God led you
to somebody that lives that life because
we really don't." Now, I'm not calling
your pastor a liar. I'm not saying the
media would proaricate and I'm not
trying to indicate to you that the
internet's not the best place to get
information, but as a matter of fact, we
Muslims are ordered to be the best to
the Jews and Christians. So that's
really the opposite of what you heard.
And in fact, Allah said in the Quran,
the Jews and the Christians from them
are the closest to us in belief. And
certainly we give the highest respect to
everybody but especially those who are
closest to us in belief. Couple more
questions before we come to a close.
Tell us a shake da given the invitation
to the purpose of life. Is this
something that is restricted to the
imams to the people of knowledge or is
this an obligation for every Muslim?
Well, I want to give credit to our imams
and our teachers of Islam and mention
that it's their responsibility to teach
us how to do the da. no doubt and to
give us some evidence and proofs for
what it is we're doing in the da they
should be active with us in helping us
in sharing the message but then after
that we each and every one of us are
responsible to do whatever it is that we
know our prophet sallall alaihi wasallam
said this in a way that it's very clear
he said convey from me even if it's only
one ayah and with that I mention a
couple of things you might be surprised
to know that one ayah now we're going to
talk about One verse of the Quran,
right? One. Is there a single Muslim you
know that doesn't
know? Every single Muslim knows. Is that
right, guys? Yeah. Don't nod your head.
The TV can't see you. What' you say?
All right.
Now, means in the name of Allah. Alman,
the gracious, the most merciful, etc.
So, if you know that, convey that. And
you might say, "Well, I don't know what
that's going to mean." Watch. In
Baltimore, Maryland, a couple years back
in Ramadan, I met a brother
there who told me he came to Islam from
that. I said,
"What?" He said, "Okay, I was a
Christian. 14 years ago, I became a
Jew." Or, "That didn't impress me yet."
He's like, "Wait a minute. You went
backward. He said no because in
Christianity there were too many
controversies. There's too much contrast
between Old Testament, New Testament and
too many things. He said so I went and
to the Jewish and became a Jew, studied
it, learned
Hebrew. With the Hebrew and the
experience with the rabbis, he came to
know that it was unknown to them what
God's name really was. And you're not
supposed to even attempt to pronounce
the
tetronomogram, which I hope I pronounce
it right, but what that represents is
the actual name of God. And even the
rabbis that I know will never pronounce
it. And even one time I said, "Is it
Allah?" They said, "We're not allowed to
even speculate. Won't even say that."
And they refused to say Allah, by the
way. So he argued with them. He says 14
years he's put into this thing talking
about they said we don't really know
what's the name of God and he's thinking
how can I be in a religion believing in
a god that we don't even know the name
of until one day some brothers playing
playing sports had put their Quran down
on a bench somewhere and he looked down
at it and and he said hey guys what's
this they come over what you talking
about he said right there in English in
the name of God the most gracious the
most merciful he said do you know Who's
what's God's name? Is that what this
means? They said, "Yeah, everybody knows
it's
Allah." He said, "What? It says in the
name of God. What's God's name?" He
said, "Well, in Arabic it says
bismillah. In the name of Allah, we
translate it as God." He said, "His name
is Allah." They said, "Yeah, you know
that?" Yeah. It comes from
Ilah. And that's a god. But Allah, it
means the one and only God. That's his
actual name. That's one of the of Allah.
They begin talking about the of Allah.
His names, his characteristics, his
attributes. He is the epitome for
instance of which is the ultimate
patience or persevering. He is he is the
peace. From him comes peace. There is no
peace that except that it has to come
from the peace. He is the peace. The
more they talked about the brothers just
stand there
going he entered Islam with that. And
when I met him he said I'm learning
Arabic now. I want to be a Muslim. My
wife who also converted to Judaism has
now converted with him over to Islam.
Their children now are in Islam and
they're doing great. That's from one
ayah. Another ayah right after that.
Alhamdulillah. How many people know
Alhamdulillah Alam?
Huh? I met a guy who came to Islam from
this
ayah and how that came about. Well, he
was talking with some of his friends.
He'd known him for a long time. They he
said they weren't even good Muslims.
They don't even, you know, many things
he said about him. But the bottom line,
he also saw something in the book that
somebody had and it says
alhamdulillah. And then English
translation it says all the praise is
due to the lord of the worlds with an s.
Why do I emphasize it? He said that all
of his life he said if there really was
a god he left Christianity. He said
because they have no provision for
anything outside of some god that's the
god of Abraham and Moses. But what about
being the god of the entire earth? What
about being the god of the moon and the
god of the sun and the god and they
don't have any answers. They said that's
fake worship. That's uh polytheism,
idolatry. Don't mention the moon. Don't
mention the stars. So when he sees this
and he's asking a brother about it, he
said, "Worlds?" He said, "Yeah, Allah is
the Lord of the
worlds. Any life that's there,
regardless if it's on Earth or in outer
space and people that we don't see," he
said, "people we don't see? What are you
talking about?" Said, "The gin." He
started explaining about the gin. The
guy's like, "You believe it?" Said,
"Yeah, of course." He said, "I've always
wondered if there was even another level
of people or beings or or ghosts or some
kind of demons or something." And they
said, "Yeah, we know all about it in
Islam." He said, "Oh my
god, and this provides what he said."
Yeah. He
said, he said that brought him to Islam.
And then he studied and learned a lot
more about the details of the jin and
things they do, the difference between
angels and jin, the devil is not an
angel, etc. things that there's a lot of
evidence for and common sense and he
said I'm the happiest guy in the world
because of that one verse. So again
we'll go back to what said convey it
from me even if it's a single verse
in the last couple minutes that we have.
We're about to close for those of our
brothers in humanity who are tuning in
for the first time and they like what
we're talking about and they're also
confused in the chaos that's out there
and they want to know the truth in the
last few minutes that we have. Can you
express to them what is the call? What
is the invitation to? Well, the
invitation of course is to to your house
for dinner. Well, uh, let's go to your
house for dinner. We're in Chicago and
you're the likely one to be the host
here.
Let's do this. When I'm wrapping things
up with people, you said it right. We
only got a few minutes with somebody and
then they're gone. Oh, and I wanted to
say this. I wanted to say that. Why
didn't I? Oh, man. I forgot this. I
forgot to tell them. Oh, oh, oh. This is
why we developed websites. I have 2200
websites for Islam. And they're very
simple to deal with. Most of them it's
easy to memorize because they're they
are what it says. For instance, just ask
Islam is where you can ask questions.
Search for Islam. That's where you can
search for the topic you want. And these
are all dotcoms. Another one that you
can go to, very simple. You want to know
about God, Allah. Even if you forget my
website, just put God space Allah in
Google and it'll be the first one pop
up. All the rest of them, by the way,
are going to attack Islam. But at least
you'll remember ours is
godallah.com. after that prophet
ofIslam.com scienceislam that's for the
atheist.com and then when you get all
done with this long list
islamswomen.comaboutji.com
linkstoislam.com
etc etc and you say I should have wrote
them all down well the last one I said
is the only one you really need to know
links to
Islam.com and you can find these links
and go over it because what we're going
to say on your show there'll be a few
highlights
But nobody remembers everything. I won't
even remember it tomorrow what all the
details you you and I just talk about.
But if I have a reference point and I
think that's more important than trying
to be a great speaker or articulate in
what I'm talking about, just let them
have their own reference point on their
own. They go to the internet, they type
in something when they're comfortable,
relaxed in their home, and they can sit
there, take their time, drink their
coffee, answer their phone, and it's
right in front of them and they say,
"You know what? That's what I believe.
This is what it's all about. I too want
to join this and I want to worship my
creator on his terms, his way. And I
want to be one of those guys that does
it. And of course, we know that's
the person who's not that techsavvy. We
just have I want to really take
advantage of the last couple minute
almost that we have. The person that is
not techsavvy, they don't use the
internet and we got their attention.
What advice do you give them? I'd ask
them, "Where did you see the Dean Show?
It's on the internet." Hello. They're at
somebody's house. Someone brought them a
Muslim brought them over. They were
drinking some tea, eating some biryani,
and now we we we got they might never
tune
back. Oh
boy, you got me, Eddie. All
right. If if they know how to turn on a
TV set, they can watch us on satellite
on Guide usv. If they don't know how to
turn a TV set, ask an eight-year-old to
come turn the computer on because they
all know how to do that. And go to the
Dean Show. The put the word the in
frontow.com or put in guide
us.tv and watch us there. Thank you,
Shay. Thank you so much for being with
us. May God Almighty, the creator, Allah
reward you. and you sar,
we'll be right back. When it's close to
death, they say, "Oh, God, don't let me
die." Um, but he's got something better
than this world. What's God going to get
out of punishing you anyway?
We have to connect to this understanding
that the Quran is from God, that
Muhammad is his messenger, and the
answers to the problems in our life are
there. And if we're going to worship
something, I figured I might as well
worship the creator instead of any of
the creations.
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 my side, 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.
[Music]
We're taking some questions from our
live studio audience and the sister who
asked the question, what are the things
to emphasize about Islam when you only
have a little bit of time? One of the
first things that I try to remember is
the talhed the oneness of God is the
thing that all the scholars told us to
work on that. Don't get into a lot of
other things like somebody might even
say like why do you cut off people's
hands? Well, I never cut anybody's hand
off in my life. I've never even seen it
done. I don't even know what that's all
about really because they say, "Well, I
read on the internet you chop off
people's hands." Well, I got both hands.
Everybody I know has got both hands. I
don't know. Well, if you're a thief,
they cut off your hand. I said, 'Well,
you know, the only person you should
worry about that's a thief. Are you a
thief? What's your problem? So then they
start laughing and think about it, you
know, and then but we'll go to this. You
see, the same creator of the heavens and
the earth, he sent a message to the
people again and again and again and
people play with it, corrupt it, do
things to it. So that's why more
messengers come to more people because
God never punishes the people unless he
sent a messenger to them. And the
message is always the same. and worship
God without partners, no images, no
idols. Don't try to represent God with
anything that exists in the creation cuz
he is the creator. Simple as that. Here
on the D show with President Shik
Yusvesta, the man formerly not
president,
president of Guidest
TV, former man of the cloth. Do you call
man of the cloth? Former Christian
preacher, minister,
Islam way back. And we are taking
question from our live studio audience.
And the question is about the the job.
Well, first of all, I don't say man of
the cloth because I really wasn't a
pastor of a church. The most the closest
I came was when I was a music minister,
but preaching the word was always
something near and dear to me. I used to
carry my Bible everywhere I went and put
it into practice. Not just on Sunday,
but if I pick up a stranger or give him
a ride or something, I want to preach to
them. By the way, that's the same thing
Abandat used to do as a Muslim. Did you
know that? And a lot of people that
they're at IPCI in Africa right now,
they originally got to Islam through him
giving them a ride. Mashallah. That
gives you an idea. You can help people
out along the way and then tell them
about Islam. But anyway, to come back to
this uh subject now
that as far as the Djal is concerned,
this is what we call the antichrist.
Djal he is the liar. He is Messiah Djal
which is the false Christ.
Messiah is like Messiah or Christ and
Messiah Deal he is clearly mentioned in
hadith. So sister what you want to do is
go to search for Islam type in either
antichrist or dejal with two J's and
then it'll bring you all of this. But
for sure he will look like a human. He
will talk like a human. He has human
features. The unusual characteristics
about
him are basically his
eyes. He has one eye that's a bulb. It's
like a like a grape. Another eye he's
blind in it totally. He sees out of one
eye and he doesn't see out of the other
eye. And that's that's very clear. But
he will do miracles and make people
think he's Jesus come back again. That's
why he's called Messiah de Jal. So, it's
not the television. Some people said
it's the oneeyed God, but I heard that
from the Christians in the
1950s. Do you believe it or not? They
were saying that's the dal right there
or the antichrist because it brings so
much trash and garbage in our house. Not
like now when it's only nice stuff that
we have on
TV.
Anyway, other signs that you can find
out about this
uh there will be great trials and
tribulations that'll be taking place and
it is not yet that has not come.
Somebody said that Jesus is back on
earth walking around hiding so that the
people won't kill him. That's also not
true. It's clear in hadith that he will
come was angels, two angels and he will
come down from heaven and he will land
in a place in Damascus, Syria. That's
where he will be and it will be time for
the salah. So these things have not
happened. I don't care what other things
they try to relate to it. Political
scenes, economic problems, technology
and all the rest of it. It's not true.
It's as simple as that. Your common
sense. If you read the hadith, this is
not right.
Continue with the question about the
imi. The im mi. A lot of people ask
about that. Again, this is from hadith.
This is not mentioned in Quran. So you
have to know hadith. You go to the
hadith and find out. You can go to our
website, searchforislam.com, type in
mai. Spell it m a hdi mai and then
you'll find out about it. No, what we
know is the prophetam told us that the
mai will come. He will come before Isaam
comes. The fact that he has not come yet
is clear proof that Jesus is not on
earth walking around even though some
big famous person said it. I'm not going
to say his name cuz you know we love him
for the sake of Allah. We hope Allah
guide him. But in any case coming back
to the subject of the Mai. He is going
to be Imam Mai. That's true. And he's
not going to have magical powers,
anything like that. He does not know
he's the Mai until he is the Mai. You
got that? He's not going to be walking
around as a kid saying I'm the Mi. That
also you saw it on YouTube maybe with
some people of a different sect of
Islam. I'm not going to say what but
they came up with this idea is not true
because the hadith is very clear that
when he comes his name is going to be a
clue for you. His name is going to be
Muhammad Iben Abdullah. He said his name
will be my name and his father's name
will be my father's name. That is
Muhammad Iban
Abdullah. And for sure that is one clue.
But then the other thing is he has to be
from the
progeny of prophet Muhammad sallallaihi
wasallam and there is no progeny coming
from the prophetam except by Fatim and
Ali. So he has to be coming from Fatima
and Ali. So there's this would be
obvious okay and he would be Muhammad
Abdullah. Uh along the way you can see
the if you study some of the various
sects of Islam, you can see why some
people believe we are this and we're
that and this and that and that's where
the mistakes start coming in. But for
sure it will all if you live long enough
you'll see that happen. We don't know
when it's going to be and you're not
supposed to know when it's going to be
but it will come soon enough. There was
somebody asked the prophet wasam about
these last days. When will they come? He
said what do you have prepared for it?
And that's much more important for us to
be ready for that with our good deeds
and correct belief. I want to go back to
that by the way that correct belief is
critical to have the right belief the
aka of the salafali if without that aid
they will never make it. I don't care
and and they can call themselves salipi
they can call themselves whatever they
want to call themselves but without that
correct belief and practice it it won't
happen. continue on with some questions
for Shik Ysef Estus and from our studio
audience. The brother was asking what's
the best way when you're giving the
invitation to leave a good lasting
impression.
One of the best things I can think of
and you referred to it earlier in the
subject of the briani if you can take
them to eat or offer to take them to eat
or do something nice for them right here
in this world because most of people who
are not Muslim are very attached to the
gifts and things you give in this world
whereas I'm I'm much more impressed for
instance if somebody makes dua for me
and my family I really like it thank you
so much for that but other people would
be like okay thanks for the prayers uh
getting
money. So sometimes if you give them a
little pamphlet, a brochure, a little
booklet, maybe I've even given people
money, you know, just tell them, you
know, cuz they need help. A lot of times
people need financial help. Hey, you
give somebody a $10 bill and tell them a
little bit about Islam and he say,
"Well, thank you so much, whatever." And
well, you know, you get a chance help
somebody else down the road because even
if you say, "Well, they're a beggar. I'm
not going to help them." No, just don't
worry about it. you'll get a reward from
Allah and do your best. Giving gifts
that is definitely a good thing to do.
We had one of our guests, Dr. Seabil, on
the show and he mentioned a live story
about a doctor giving gifts during
Christmas and uh is this something where
it would be acceptable. The doctor, it's
a true story, was giving gifts of wine
to uh his friends. We're not talking
about gifts like this, are we? He gave
away wine. Wine? Yes. At Christmas?
Christmas.
I can't speak on the behalf of a Muslim
that might do that, but I could tell you
that there are better things to give
people than a headache. I don't uh I
can't I can't wrap my head around that
idea. But definitely to be kind and
generous with the people, but not just
at Christmas. In fact, I would prefer it
to be known that when I give something
to somebody that I'm not trying to tie
it into their religion, but I don't want
to stop giving things. I don't want to
have what we're not on really on this
subject, but some people ask me about
like Mother's Day, Father's Day, Easter,
things like this. I say, "Look, if you
can be nice to somebody on one day more
so than the other days, you need to work
on yourself to be that level of good
every day with your mom, your dad, your
friends, or whatever. It's not about
giving a gift on a birthday because
every day that I can do something good
for people. I want to do that. So, I
don't want to I don't want to say it
like just giving something at a certain
time." and forget about the wine. Allow
gifts. Yeah. Even then I want to be sure
it's not just a oneshot deal. It should
be that whatever I'm doing I should be
continuing it. I think our prophetam
said what means that Allah loves what's
done continually even if it's something
small better than something big but it's
only done once. Okay. So that's it and
thank you for attending this uh filming.