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because many times when we try to bring
up these very important topics you know
what many of us we just don't got time
for it the economy is bad you're about
to lose your house on foreclosure your
kid your child your girl just got
pregnant and your son's on drugs on dope
and the world just upside down and you
want to just talk to me about religion
now i don't got time to that i got major
issues well this way of life
that's from the creator of the heavens
and earth solves all your problems so
we're going to be doing some problem
solving showing you
that this way of life is a way of life
that when you implement it it is
something that brings not only peace and
contentment to one's
life but solves all the problems
that are out there we'll be right back
here with sheikh khalid yasin
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this is
thank you thank you for joining us again
here at the dean show studio i'm glad to
be here brother
and we
you know
it just
something that for us
we're convinced
through research i know myself i
personally went through a lot of
struggles in life
a lot of problems and islam solved all
the problems it wasn't something that
was
accepted by blind faith did a lot of
research took a scientific analytical
approach
and the more i studied it along with
many millions millions and millions of
people they were convinced
that this was a way of life from the
creator of the heavens and earth through
deep research through researching all
the other world religions so now for
those people who are having problems
you know they're about to foreclose on
their house the economy's upside down
so many problems and you know what don't
bring me this
this religious stuff i i you know how is
this going to change my life how is it
going to
solve my problems
you know what what do you got to say
about this
well you know i think that um
that's a very simplistic uh approach
and it may seem
uh
over simplistic to most people
um but it's not
you know at this at the source of all
problems
there are some fundamental issues
and
from a purely religious point of view
unless religion
can be manifested through the solving of
problems
why should anybody want to join our
religion or even
talk to us about religion as i was
mentioning just a
some time ago
um
even though america is a very religious
country
um according to most statistics 81 of
americans believe in god
uh go to church
uh once a month or whatever the case
might be which is a phenomenal uh place
to be uh where uh it's no problem about
believing in god it's something to
everybody but what kind of
implementation do we have
so
but today people are running away from
the religion running away from it yeah
not running away from the religion
itself but running away from the
principles yes
nobody want to talk about religion today
as you said unless the religion has a
solution
now because it's solution
you know if your muffler drops off in
the middle of the street
what are you looking for you're looking
for a place somebody can put that back
up there so you do something with that
sound uh if your car stops you're
looking for
a mechanic
uh
somebody to solve the solution
and uh unless muslims the eight million
muslims living in north america unless
we become
uh solution oriented
so so what if we recognize the same
problems that everybody else recognizes
if our religion
doesn't somewhat lead to the solving of
those problems why should somebody have
time i want to talk to us about religion
so i think that what we need to do is
take uh sit down for a moment and set
aside doctrine
for a moment set aside culture for a
moment set aside all the nostalgia about
the most powerful religion 1.5 billion
people blah blah blah and ask ourselves
are we solving problems and if we are
solving problems then we should be like
that dentist
okay that everybody wants to come to
because he's giving them a good smile
that doctor that everybody wants to come
to because this guy got some procedures
or whatever makes them feel better you
know that psychiatrist or psychologist
who's solving problems in homes and
marriages you know and restoring
people's dignity and sanity if we're not
like that
then why should people listen to us
i mean how did toyota come into america
and take over the automotive industry it
wasn't because they had chopsticks you
know what i'm saying in good chinese
food or whatever or japanese food no it
was competition
it's producing the best product and
service and giving people um that when
they buy a car the best warranty that's
how they did it and americans ate it up
and now we're toyota or nissan or
whatever addicts that just once you buy
one you're not gonna you're not gonna
ride in something else well why wouldn't
people listen to muslims if they knew
that we had a way
to restore our economic integrity
and i mean we got something simple in
islam to do that stay away from river
stay away from compounding interest stay
away from that whole idea of something
for nothing
don't buy credit cards you're being
ripped off you're being set up and don't
americans see that right now so if
muslims were to say hey we're eight
million and we got our own bank
you know and our bank is worth you know
something 38 billion and we're willing
to buy back the homes
of
of of 10 000 americans if they qualify
what's the qualification okay
let us manage your debt number one cut
up your credit cards number two do not
engage in any more you serious
transactions
and take a course in islam 101 so at
least you understand the principles and
if you do that we give you back your
home so how many americans then would be
looking for our company so you're
problem solving now we're problem
solving according to islam yes so islam
is saying that there is no compounded
interest interest is totally forbidden
yeah but come leave the word forbidden
alone yeah you know just leave the word
forbidden just give the people back
their homes give them back their homes
okay and then tell them let us manage
your debt
cut up your credit cards and sign a
document that says that you will not get
into this situation again i think people
like this yeah they will hear it because
they're like i'm getting my home back
uh-huh yeah so we got their attention
yeah so let's take another problem
uh you know today we have more young
people in jail
we have more young people in jail that
certain countries have in their
workforce
so can we take those kids out of jail
and provide them with a lifestyle an
option
okay that will reform their lives yes we
can
okay so we tell young people listen
um just roll with us
you got a job roll with us we're gonna
get you through school
roll with us we're gonna set you up and
teach you how to do business on your own
you have to work for nobody else you
don't have to wait for a job just roll
with us but the thing is first reform
yourself where you are
reforming yourself means be disciplined
be decent be good you know uh be
respectful you know be balanced you know
uh uh um prepare yourself for success
dress in a certain way speak in a
certain way okay and while you're doing
all this we're gonna give you guys 300 a
month you know somebody just while
you're doing this it costs so how many
young people
okay uh would want to take that and then
we can go to the courts and say listen
we got an alternative to incarceration
program
you know for one out of every three kids
you're going to put in jail and it's
going to cost 38 000 a year to take care
of them in jail for the taxpayers money
give them to us
and when we show you what we can do with
that young person give us two out of
three until we solve a problem for the
taxpayer we solve a problem for those
parents we solve a problem for those
young people
people don't even care if we're muslims
if we're solving that kind of a problem
so our issue is that we're you know
we're prone towards doctrine
we're arguing about doctrine who's right
who's wrong from a from an ideological
point of view from a school of thought
point of view i mean that's some old
baggage we need to solve problems when
we start solving problems where people
are hungry people are confused you know
people are frustrated people are
committing suicide solve those problems
and then america is going to start
looking at us
for the solutions when they look at us
from the solutions they're going to hear
our ideals and some of them are going to
inevitably embrace islam
problem solving not just talk but action
yes so islam takes care of all these
issues drugs alcohol abuse we got
problems
there big time how do we solve these
problems well you know
islam has solved those problems uh
throughout its history i mean you know
uh i don't like to say to people oh you
know we don't we we're not allowed to
eat pork
we're not allowed to drink alcohol oh
you know we're not allowed to dance with
girls we're not allowed to go to parties
that's like like just like no no no no
no no who wants to join a religion you
know what i'm saying is like everything
is no
no we say that you know we don't drink
because it's obvious what drinking
alcohol does it's not so obvious when
you manufacture alcohol
you know people who manufacture alcohol
they just get rich and rich people who
manufacture cigarettes they just get
richer and richer so why wouldn't i want
to out
manufacture alcohol and cigarettes but
look at what alcohol and cigarettes have
done to our country look what it's done
all over the world okay then you can see
why god said don't take toxins into your
body and don't drink alcohol now if we
were to promote the whole idea of a
sober society a
sobriety okay a society of sobriety that
sounds good right yes a society of
sobriety so what would we do if we
convinced
ten percent of americans not to drink
what would we do if we convince ten
percent of americans
not to use drugs
what would we do in america if we would
teach people uh moral abstinence sexual
abstinence okay you see a decline in
stds and so many other kinds of problems
so we already have this in our religion
or our system of life why don't we
promote it but promote it in a
non-religious way and allah knows best
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whatever allah commands you to do you
need to do it
islam has tolerance and mercy and
compassion
to know that allah you know will forgive
you as long as you do what you need to
do as long as you turn back to him islam
is a system of mercy and compassion and
it is for the best benefit of all of the
people that's around it muslim and
non-muslims
back here on the dean show and today
we're showing
that this way of life that was lived by
all the messengers of god it's not an
organized religion by man or men
or a company it's organized by the one
who created this whole universe and
everything in it and when you implement
it the right way all your problems will
be solved is this correct that's correct
tell us now there was a show on mtv i
got to see it at the andalusia center
with our brothers down in texas
and they were showing us
how they try to reach out to a lot of
the youth and they have these
get-togethers and they
use some of the things that are out
there for instance there's a program on
mtv called cross the line
so what they
showed was
there was
teens there were teens that were 14 15
16 17 even some young adults and now
they ask the question that how many of
you have
attempted or tried to commit suicide
about 60 70 percent they crossed the
line that's the show crossed the line
big problem now why are teens these
young adults prime and that this is the
prime of their life it's a big problem
for parents and those teens
trying to take their life thinking about
it even how does islam
solve this problem
yeah you know we could say that
suicide is forbidden in islam
yeah we could approach it from that
point
yeah this is haram yeah you know but
that's just a doctrinal statement
uh people just don't wake up one morning
and say i'm going to commit suicide
today
no it's a culmination of frustration
uh low self-esteem other kinds of
complications that bring a person to
that point where they don't see any way
out and they don't see any value to
themselves they don't see any value to
their lives or to the world so they get
to a point where they just kind of think
to themselves hey man i think it's
better for me not to be here this is my
way out so they don't see themselves
crossing the line
of course it's a stage of insanity for a
person to take their life and not to see
anything else but the point is they
haven't been given any value at that
point what islam does is gives the human
being value
when a human being has value of
themselves value of the world they see
they see a light at the end of the
tunnel they see an objective to what
they're doing they're not going to
commit suicide why because they're
striving to live and get the best out of
life so i think what we need to do as
muslims is not going to this thing about
it's haram you know it's forbidden no we
should talk to people and you'll find
that through evaluation what brought
them to that point and give them to
something okay you know a child if
they're brought to the edge of a cliff a
seven-year-old child a three-year-old
child you take them to the edge of a
cliff and they look down what do they do
they're gonna run back they pull back
yeah because they have value it's an
intrinsic value it's the knee knee-jerk
value it's something that's part of the
fitter of the human being when you got a
person that goes to that edge and just
jumps off what have they done
dissonance
they went into something they called
dissonant rejection so now it means that
that normal value that comes up it's not
there anymore why not jump we need to
give them this value and so by
talking to human beings about the value
of life
talking to human beings about the value
of themselves talking to human beings
about how they can change the world
talking to human beings about the tools
that they have been given talking to
human beings not from a religious time
point of view but from a value base
okay so we can change things if we
change the way we deliver it you know we
keep saying religion to people you know
you used to think about a new what's
your religion you know you think about
islam islam is a great religion
the person is not saying you hey man i'm
not even bottom of religion man i'm
trying to make some money i'm trying to
get married trying to be successful i
ain't really got no time for religion
but i'll think about that later on
but all the things that they're trying
to get to and do calls for value and
discipline
so if you say to them listen along the
way towards success
try to pick up some values and tools
that help you stay on point and
discipline they might listen
so i think this is the approach that we
need to do and if we do that
whether it's young people or old people
or people in different situations islam
works
it smells good it tastes good it feels
good it looks good and today anything
that's good is good and the quran said
is there any other reward for good other
than good the answer is bella definitely
i heard a young man once say that
religion he didn't like using the word
religion because it was like something
you put on sunday a real tight suit or
something so can this can this yeah can
this uh religion can we is islam a
system a complete way of life is it
something that you do just you know on
the weekends sunday comes friday comes
you do it once a week or what we're
talking about is this something that is
implemented 24 7 yeah islam is islam is
micro islam is macro
islam is you islam is the world
islam is universal islam is us
islam is everything it's integrated it's
powerful it all fits it all makes sense
and if you if you're a good muslim
you're going to be successful you can
only succeed it's like uh vince lombardi
said there's no option other than
winning if you're a muslim
so when we are able to take our faith
system
and implant it where people can see it
smell it taste it then people are going
to select to stand under our tree people
are going to pick the fruit from our
tree people are going to use our goods
and services and they're going to like
it and invariably somebody's going to
find out hey in fact wait a minute i
should be a muslim and therefore i
become a protracted beneficiary of this
year not just like a consumer but i'm
part of the company what if someone says
you know what
religion altogether is
something that it creates more problems
more havoc in the land look at all the
wars that are out there because i just
rather i'm more scientific i'd rather
stay away from religion i'm a good
person
i don't hurt nobody
what do you guys say
well you know scientific you know when a
person says that have you heard this
argument of course i have you know
scientific is like you know see touch
taste feel you know all the century
whatever the case might be but what
about thinking see thinking
see i asked a guy touch a thought
let me see a thought
but you are a thinking person and you
make the right decision to make the
wrong decisions if you don't have the
capacity
the ethical moral capacity to make the
right decision you're going to continue
to make it wrong once i don't care how
rich you are you know we can just name
people who made wrong decisions based
upon their moral or ethical capacity and
this is what islam gives to us the
ability to think that's what makes human
beings different from animals we are
able to think and the quran came for
thinking people not just people
youngster who just following us i mean
just rules and doctrines critical
thinking this is what islam gave to us
and so the person who thinks critically
adds value to their lives add value to
the lives of others and adds value to
life and as
value to the world a farmer he's not
just a guy following doctrine he's
adding value and that's why either he
gets a higher crop or a lesser crop and
we need to talk to people about value
and about life and about success and
then if we at the end of it when people
see that i'm successful you know they
see my family and they see the outcome
and they see you know this guy i like
being around this guy but i don't know
why
it's because the residual of my beliefs
inevitably he's going to become an ally
or he's going to inevitably become what
yeah amazing amazing we're going to take
a break and we'll be back with more here
on the dean show death and the day of
judgment the mercy of allah these are
the things that finally made me realize
there is no time to delay anymore i
wanted to take my shahada the right day
the essence of spirituality is to become
more sincere to
allah itself it is very very scary but
it brings you back to reality there is a
life which is everlasting you have to
make a conscious decision of which group
of people do you want to be of the
people of heaven or the people of health
back on the dean's show problem solving
showing how the way of life from the
crate of the heavens and earth it needs
to be a system that solves the problems
doesn't add to it but now today there's
many misconceptions that people say why
am i going to be a muslim it seems like
islam or muslims are just adding to the
problems they're making the problems all
the mischief in the land terrorism
things blowing up what am i going to
become a muslim and then be a suicide
bomber i'm going to end up blowing up a
pizzeria why would i want to be a a
muslim if this is what islam all over
the media is associated with
yeah this is a i think that's very fair
um a question a very fair approach and
we shouldn't um be reactionary in
answering that we should be responsive
um and i say to people a person says to
me well who wants to be a muslim today i
mean you know
my parents not going to like me if i
become a muslim everybody's going to
turn against me i mean you know muslims
are perceived as this and that i said
well i would agree with you that
the way that islam is perceived i
wouldn't want to be a part of that
but perception is only perception
okay
but if i were to tell you you know that
seven of the major deadliest
social
crippling
diseases in this world today muslims
don't have that
i mean a good muslim doesn't have that
kind of a disease because because of our
values
generally we stay away from those kind
of diseases
are you talking about like you know like
uh sexually transmitted diseases
this comes from promiscuity
okay yes uh you know the uh you know uh
smoking cigarettes and you know like
muslims generally muslims we don't do
that neither do we smoke and we don't
sell cigarettes you see you know the
comp is issue about the compounded debt
i mean
we only own and buy what we can afford
we don't buy credit cards with these
this this whole thing about the dream
getting something for nothing and you
know just going out and spending above
our means we we don't do that okay this
the second thing is that this whole
thing of depression a muslim our
favorite statement is alhamdulillah
when somebody dies
we're able to absorb that trauma in a
minute why because our values allow us
to do that you said something in arabic
can you
the owner of transl
you know we say alhamdulillah all praise
do to a god for everything our prophet
used to say salallahu salaam whenever
somebody asked him how he felt even
though he was in pain when somebody
asked him how he felt that he was sick
when somebody asked him how he felt he
was hungry he always say alhamdulillah
praise be to almighty god so because of
that his demeanor is always up he has
dependence upon god secondly a person
depends upon god he's not going to young
he could frustrate him want to kill
himself because he don't own the life he
understands that so
as muslims we are successful people we
we are people that have prominence we
are people that plan with people to have
discipline and so i would say that if a
person took a good look at islam not a
good look at muslims
but a good look at islam they're going
to be able you know it's like they got
the book
if you got the book you get the
principles and you follow the book and
you follow the principles you don't have
to be subject to the people who have the
book but they don't follow it or the
people who talk to principles but they
don't they don't act upon it so this is
what we have in islam and i think that
every american should take a course in
islam 101 you know i call islam 101 for
everyone why
because if islam
is a faith system
that gives the human being integrity and
balance and discipline and focus
uh and gives them more respect for
themselves respect for their parents uh
gives them a greater loyalty and a sense
of uh of integrity about their country
and about the world gives them a new
world view i think that
if a course in islam 101 might open me
up to that would i want to take a course
like that
yes because that's called empowerment
you know people are buying little small
books with 100 pages and reading it on
the train or plane to do what to become
empowered so somebody said to me just a
little while ago why don't we take you
know 40 sayings of the prophet muhammed
and don't say the prophet sim said that
just put it in a little small book and
put it inside the double day or or
somebody said bookstores bonds and
nobody and see people would take it up
to change their lives
this is what we can do and in a certain
amount of time we would have overcome
this whole issue of islam being
dehumanized and demonized why because we
have shown people tangible
value
now we believe in islam that every
person is born in original goodness born
to do good to live good but it's all
it's built
on a foundation before we come to an end
can you just talk about what is the main
foundation that this way of life is
built on
this way of life is built upon the
principle
of doing good
this way of life is built upon the
presid
the position of reciprocity
not just
having good
but doing good you know it's like the
golden rule do unto others as you would
have them to do unto you islam is built
upon that kind of a principle
islam is also built upon
the principle that um human beings are
beneficiaries we are not owners
uh human beings you see are
creation we're not creators
so we are dependent but not upon each
other we're dependent upon a higher
value and so islam is built upon this
whole idea uh that human beings have
been endowed by their creator and as
such we've been endowed now we become
responsible if you're given something
you're responsible to give something
back so because of this profound
principle that islam is built upon we
have to wear with all to be able to give
and not worry about it coming back to us
it's got to come back to us we have this
idea that telling the truth is not
because if i don't tell the truth i'm
going to be found guilty of
complications no because when you tell
the truth it's therapeutic it's
self-cleansing when you do good unto us
human beings the prophet saws he said
this means an arabic so do good unto
others very allah he loves those who do
good so this is the whole principle of
islam and if we were to understand that
everyone in their right mind would want
to be a beneficiary of that value now
we're about to come to again just a
couple more points actually one more
tell us now everything sounds good and
we know that this way of life it it
produces good when you implement it you
do it you live good you feel good but
for some people say you know what that's
what my religion teaches my religion
of hinduism of uh christianity it's all
the same they all teach good so this way
of life when we start to do it the crust
core now is are there weird things
associated with it too so other
religions might teach
they teach good but then you're rolling
around with rats they teach some good
and they don't
and and then you're bound down to a
statue uh it teach good and then you're
doing some crazy rituals that you know
what the average person his innate
nature rejects this it doesn't fit it
doesn't make sense is there something
weird in the background when
we present islam that people need to be
fearful of a gi joe we're going to pull
it out you got to worship this man over
here eddie i think um i i'd like to kind
of like simplify it yeah
you know
in the world today
countries are measured by products and
services gmp is that what they call it
so
you can talk all about your religion but
i say
let us all bring our religion into a
forum bring it all together bring it
into a forum and just and put it out
there because when you put your product
out there it can be examined
as a visa visa other products yes we get
the best product
we get the best service that's what we
say others say they have best product
and best service okay present your
product and service to humanity and let
us see see americans
um five out of eight americans i'm told
now pro
prefer to buy a japanese car
they outwardly does that means that they
don't have loyalty
no it means they want the best product
most reliable so that's what it comes
down to i think that if we were given
the opportunity to show the products and
the services of islam
okay
visa visa other products and services or
other people's religion bringing them
all into the forum is what would uh what
would prove that and that's what we need
the opportunity to do we need the
opportunity and we should welcome the
opportunity to sit down with christians
and hindus and jewish people and
buddhist people and and
anybody who claims to have a religion
and because the proof of religion is
just like the proof of a restaurant
what's the proof
it's in the tasting proof's in the
pudding huh it's in the pudding yeah so
so we should welcome the opportunity um
to discuss islam in the open forum
of the world and for people to ask us so
what have you done lately you know not
what islam has done but what are we
doing now what's our plan for the future
and if we come into that forum and we
don't have the answers something is
wrong with us nothing wrong with islam
and that's what we need to prepare
ourselves to do and i think when we do
that uh the world and our society and
our fellow americans they're going to be
able to see the beauty and the power of
islam thank you very much we're out of
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