and they would think you're going to be
dead or in jail rest of your life you
know it started off just like smoking
drinking going to parties and stuff like
that we're seeing the end result with
the p diddies and others their life is
upside down what's up yo coming to live
from London extremely humble grateful
and blessed sha Diddy Colmes is now the
subject of a federal criminal
investigation and he was just hit with
another lawsuit and he's planning to
sell his massive Mansion you can go
deeper you can look at the the Su
Knights of the industry me and puffy we
was
friends understand one thing the
Streetman you known as the best become a
trophy everybody wants to Trophy to the
man who was once once the most feared
figure in all of Hip Hop now facing life
in prison I was really crying because my
soul felt torn I was really trying to
find God and seek God out I used to ask
them questions but they to me I feel
like they really didn't answer it you
embrace you feel the love like you know
like this my first time meeting you and
I feel the love I feel the genuine yeah
he got killed at one at a party that we
was all at from the driveby shootings to
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Alum how you doing young brother
alhamdulillah I'm good I'm doing great
today um it's a pleasure to be here I'm
excited um I hope this can reach some
people and uh you know Inspire them to
look into the religion of Islam and I'm
just uh proud to you know get this
opportunity like I watched your show and
just happy to be here man just hearing
some highlights of your story it can be
actually uh a good film man you got all
sorts of stuff there so you grew up in
Minnesota yep St Paul yeah that's where
I'm from you Church going your mother
made sure you were going to church
Sunday school is that right and then you
got involved with some gangs Drive buys
and yeah see a lot of uh some some of
your friends died at a young age mhm and
then uh your story of redemption
actually the true story of redemption
which I can really relate to myself yes
let's start off with those beginning
years uh talk about um your childhood
growing up and your mother making sure
you're in church and Sunday school and
what kicked off from there yeah so I
mean basically my childhood you know it
started off it was it was it was fine
like it was cool it was like a regular
childhood and um I would say things took
a drastic turn my mom began to use drugs
and stuff like that um that's when you
know cuz like before because honestly my
mom she wasn't even really the one that
had me going to church it was her sister
cuz like by that time my mom was on
drugs so it was like you know my aunt
was the one that made sure like it was
the boys in the house like the girl she
wasn't really you know too much on them
but the boys it was like you know y'all
need to go here and so I did that but um
I always felt like someone right about
it like I wasn't really too sold on it I
just did it because she made us do it
and um so I did that in my younger years
but I would say in my early teens I
started to like cling more to my friends
and like that's when I got involved in
the gang stuff and you know it started
off just like smoking drinking going to
parties and stuff like that eventually
you know that led to serious stuff like
you know it started off with small stuff
stilling fighting and then eventually it
led to you know me I mean it led to you
know people being shot being murdered
you know going to prison federal prison
State Prison like a lot of this stuff it
was was a Snowball Effect and um you
know I had got into drugs real bad like
hard drugs and that's I feel like that's
when I went into like a downward spiral
with that was one of my darkest times
mhm yeah so the whole time I mean now
okay so it's your mother sister yeah her
older sister she was trying to get you
into uh the church you were going to
some yeah I was yeah yeah so now what
happened there that it was the
environment just took over when you go
to church I mean what were you Lear
learning there um really to me when I
what I from what I remember I just
remember learning about Jesus like it
wasn't even like really too much about
God kind of like it was just Jesus this
Jesus that you know it may peace be upon
him like but I feel like it was more so
them pushing Jesus more so than God so
did did that do anything at that age did
that have you think did you have any
kind of internal what were you thinking
at that time okay like
um Jesus
God you know you're saying that God was
it's confusing already because when you
when as a Muslim you know God is number
one Focus that's Jesus is a messenger of
God like Prophet Muhammad is a messenger
all the other Messengers were Messengers
and God is God there's distinct you
don't put them together what's going
through a young mind of yours at that
time um I was very inquisitive at a
young age like I always had questions
and so like you know I just was kind of
my main thing used to be like you know
how could like this one person like die
for everybody SS you know like and I
just kind of felt like you know like
everybody is accountable for what they
do and so like for one person to come
and just die for everybody like I
couldn't really wrap my head around that
and so um I really didn't understand the
concept of like the Trinity and all that
or saying Jesus was God at the time but
at that time that was my main question
like how could this one person just die
for everybody saying so like you can
just do what you want to do then like
basically you know that was the question
that I had did you go to any um learned
people at that time did you ever have
any discussions about it did you um I
used to ask questions in the church and
like because like you know when I
started to go to like juvenile
facilities like you know we used to go
to church there too and so like I can't
remember the exact questions cuz I'm 29
this is when I'm like 15 so this like 15
years ago and so like I used to ask them
questions like but they I to me I feel
like they really didn't answer him like
and so I I feel like I I never really
like from the quote unquote learn people
that I did go to they didn't give me a
clearcut answer so like that kind of
made me still be in a state of like I
don't know like just confusion or not
understanding M the concept so then you
just you left it alone yeah I just left
it alone after that I left that alone
and then when I was 16 this I was in um
like this uh Juvenile Facility like
treatment place and so like this lady
cuz I wanted to go to school for
psychology when I was young so she
brought me this book B it's a famous
book and you know the audience y'all
might have heard of this book it's
called um The Secret by Rhonda burn I
think that's her last name and it talks
about like the Law of Attraction and
stuff like that and so I kind of start
getting into that type of stuff and like
I just kind of fell back on religion at
the time to be honest like cuz more so
Christianity and I had gotten into that
you said you were always a logical
person right so what you were learning
there was illogical it just didn't make
sense with Christianity yes yeah it was
It was kind of illogical to me that one
person can just you know bear the burden
of everybody else you know because like
the concept that I use was like okay so
you know you saying like this person
right here can commit a murder right you
know and then I can just come and say
you know judge you know let me be the
sacrificial lamb quote unquote and like
just take this case for him and then
like let him go free you know like and
I'm like that don't really makes sense
you know for somebody to be a innocent
person to take on like the sins of you
know what I'm saying Sinners that don't
have no you know respect or obedience to
God at all you know and so like uh and
you know and sometimes you get into
these debates with Christians and you
ask them like okay so will Adolf Hitler
be forgiven you know will Adolf Hitler
go to heaven you know so it's like some
people you know they just I don't know
like
I don't know I just I I couldn't really
get with that to be honest so then you
move on now now you get there's the the
gang how how did you end up joining the
gang really it was just my friends and
so I feel like yeah I feel like a lot of
people with the gang stuff it's like it
started off as a friend group like you
know that you go to school with y'all go
to the rec center play sports and that's
it started off like that but we are you
know standing in a specific neighborhood
though you know and then I feel like
once it got the and then you know y'all
make a little name for yourself like oh
we going be caught this like just to
give I think it was more so to give us
our identity you know to give us our
identity and like you know how you got
tribes and stuff like that you got races
and Nations and it's all identity at the
end of the day and I feel like at the
time that's what we was lacking and so I
feel like we created our identity for
ourselves and you know that's what we
was and so I feel like it started off
like that you know cool friendly but
then you know we start having problems
with people from different neighborhoods
and you know it start off as petty stuff
fights arguments and then you know
somebody brings a gun and somebody get
shot now somebody get killed and then
it's like revenge and now it's like
never ending and now y'all just going
back and forth trying to kill each other
mhm and so you actually saw you said you
mentioned that you actually had young
friends that died yeah yeah yeah yeah I
had um some young friends like I think
the first friend that I remember dying I
was what 13 at the time yeah he got
killed that one at a party that we was
all at um in my neighborhood and it was
over something so stupid and um yeah he
lost his life at a young age at 15 years
old so like that was my first experience
with death like and you know I went to
the funeral and it was just that was at
a party crazy it was at a house party so
what happened someone came in with a gun
from the so what happened is so the one
of the D two of the dudes that that came
there they was from the opposite gang
but they wasn't like it wasn't like a
real problem at the time but so the kid
that came there he went to school with
the one that he killed and so basically
they had some problems at school and so
when he came there he tried to shake my
friend hand but my friend was like I'm
not you know shaking your hand like so
he he took that as a sign of disrespect
he took that as a sign of disrespect and
so like then after that you know they
was outside and he ended up shooting
them yeah over that situation and he
ended up killing them and sadly you know
yeah and so now the other one he's in
jail now he got out yeah he's out of
jail yeah cuz he went when he was a teen
so he got released he didn't I think
maybe maybe there like 10 years maybe it
wasn't that long mhm yeah and so he he
back on the streets now so those are the
kind of things that you were witnessing
huh yeah that was like my first
experience that was my first experience
at then like I said at 13 and so after
that like I kind of like that changed me
like you know that changed me and it
kind of put me in a state of
like I'm all in type of mindset like you
know and I was like yeah I was all in
ever since when I asked you if you uh if
you grew up listening to a P Diddy you
were
like yeah he asked me did I listen to
Diddy man no didy oh that wasn't your
generation I mean don't get me wrong
like Diddy he had his songs and stuff
like that but wait was was he wait hold
on was he around at that time was he no
yeah you know Diddy Been Around since
the 90s but I mean like that's not
really like my I mean he has some songs
don't get me wrong that they probably
played at family gatherings and stuff
like that but I wasn't going on YouTube
just searching P didy you know like I
wasn't doing that n cuz the music
industry you talked about touch upon
that how demonic it's become right and
then you look at in the news right now
you see uh Puff Daddy P Diddy sha Diddy
Colmes is now the subject of a federal
criminal investigation and he was just
hit with another lawsuit and he's
planning to sell his massive Mansion A
man is accusing sha Diddy Combs of
drugging his alleged sex assault victims
that's one of the new details we're
learning tonight about the sex
trafficking allegations against the
music mogul yeah yeah and you'll see
what's happening you know what's being
uncovered many people they end up
idolizing people like this exactly but
they take them down a road
of the whole uh Satan industry yeah and
I feel like honestly to be for real for
real when I really think about it now I
this just came to my head now I feel
like the industry been satanic it been
demonic but I feel like it was more
covered and they had more control over
it compared to now I feel like it's it's
not it's not hiding no more like people
is embracing the Demonic side like you
know like even like rapper saying like
like Oh I'm a demon I'm this I'm that
like or I'm the devil like you know and
stuff like that and it's like I feel
like it it becomes something that now
people was conditioned so like when they
see this stuff and here it don't bother
them you know unless like you musim or
somebody that really know what's going
so before we say it was more overt now
it's more up in your face I feel like
it's more in your face now but I feel
like they've been doing demonic stuff in
the industry like to be honest yeah I
think so and U how much do you think
that that has an influence this kind of
uh music has an influence on young
people how much did it have influence on
you because with the music comes to
drinking with the drugs you can't
separate the two can you no you really
can't and I and what's crazy you know
just to give a quick backstory to the
audience is going to be real quick like
a lot of people may not know how music
originate and this is the Islamic you
know what I'm saying belief uh you know
so at a time when you know like once you
know Kane killed Abel and like you know
these two people like they they family
separated Kane people went on one side
AEL people went on one side and so um I
think they needed like a worker or
something right to help them to do
something and so like the Shayan he came
like as a man and uh he was helping them
build or they was doing something like
that and then he started like making
sounds like with the tools or whatever
they was using and then like eventually
you know it turned into drums and you
know now people was like oh what's that
like you know the the human uh like you
know they never experienced or heard
nothing like that at the time so I would
say like they was kind of like uh
tooking it back of PA like wow like you
know this is but at the time I don't
think they really knew that it was
something that was bad I mean obviously
I you know I think uh you know able like
family end up telling them like you know
like that's not right you know like
don't get into that and so but you know
at that time so like they start getting
into music and like they was having
parties basically you know and able side
like they used to watch them and see
what they was doing like what they doing
over there and then you know they had
the pretty girls you know and able side
they didn't have a pretty girl so it was
stuff that I feel like the Shayan like
he played he played on them and like he
knew the weakness of of humans and at
the time humans didn't know and it's
crazy to say that it still goes on now
with the party and the music to 23 in
the morning it this started thousands of
years ago with our people and it's still
going on and you know with the liquor
and drugs being involved this make you
more susceptible to the Gen you know
especially and you know they got they
called some of this stuff Spirits they
call some liquor G like you know if you
really put it together and look you like
oh this makes sense so I feel like
this one brother used to tell me that
the uh uh music is the shaan of yes you
know and like I'm like wow like that was
a powerful statement and so this is nice
when you go back this story that you're
narrating yeah uh how the first musical
instrument how it started when it was
created and then the fitna then the the
trial that came and the temp Temptations
and how the party kicked off from there
and then fornication and everything uh
started from these musical instruments
exactly yeah I'm I'm I'm impressed you
know this
story yeah um but then you see the
culture now you see what's what's taken
over via Rock music country music you
know these are tools that uh it don't
even matter yeah you see these um
singers and you look at their lives and
what is it calling you to it's calling
you things the displeasure of God Allah
exactly yeah so then you see um the
right now the unfolding of p didy and
you see like what is going on at these
parties and then the undercover cameras
with they're filming and the
blackmailing and I mean nothing good
nothing good nothing good at all yeah
and you know some people that I meet
that's not Muslim like they kind of feel
like Islam got like a lot of
restrictions or a lot of prohibitions
but you know I'll tell these people that
like it's for a reason you know and so
like it's it's for a reason and I feel
like the reasons that you had just
mentioned like you know like these
things has caused this so it's it's like
if alala is telling you to do something
or giving this ruling on this best
believe it's a reason for it it's not
like he's trying to make you not have
fun or you know don't do nothing like no
it's a real reason because Allah he
knows what this stuff can lead into and
I feel like now it has like I said we so
conditioned to where it don't even
bother us no more it's just normal life
goes on without it yeah and I compare it
to uh malware you know you have a a um
clean computer the virus is in the
malware so these beats and Like Rappers
they'll have the the hook that's the
hook to get you in so so now you have
these Dirty lyrics that are in there
talking about you know do you know I had
a psychiatrist psychologist on and he
was talking about the effects of these
words uh so in in the that's the virus
so now if you look at some of these
songs and what I went we went step by
step we saw like you know because people
don't stop and and just read sometimes
the lyrics but they're really involved
with the Beats wow right to the beach
that's the malware it opens them up so
that opens you up and then the virus
comes in the lyrics that's how it
gets the arrow hits in so that's why the
rappers when I've interviewed people in
the rap industry and they'll talk about
how much time they spent on just fing
that that certain beat that Rhythm the
beat to gets in you because that opens
you up gets your emotions going and then
you're all loosened up and then the
lyrics the poison is put in that's the
virus the malware virus and that's how
it gets into your mind and people don't
think and then just and that's the be
the blessing of Islam right there it
cuts it off all the all the before you
can get to the symptoms you cut it off
from the root wow L it's crazy that you
say the word a hook mhm and when you
think about it it's
like wow I never thought like why do
they call this the hook you know because
it hooks you in obviously like you know
and then they play it over and over the
hook on a song probably go like two
three four times like you know and it's
repetitive and so it's like if something
is competitive like that is is trying to
like you know bring you in wow that's
crazy and you don't see many many of
these uh stars out there uh like the p
didies and whatnot I mean what uh what
good influence what role models do
people like this have for the community
yeah and then another thing too like I
want to touch on briefly like these
people that's in this music industry
because like you know a lot of people is
impressed with the material stuff so you
know they see the flashiness like the
cars the clothes whatever the money and
it's like number one you don't know what
they doing to get this stuff you don't
know what they doing to keep it and so
um a lot of these people that do have
all this material stuff they so that's
why some of them that's why a lot of
them is addicted to drugs and because
they got mental issues they got um stuff
that trauma they dealing with within and
they soul and it's not being fulfilled
and so the reason it's not being
fulfilled so I I seen the cookb where
this guy was explaining how like okay
like our our flesh right it comes from
the earth it comes from the dirt where
do we get our food from the Earth the
dirt so the same place that our flesh
come from our Foods come from so that's
the nourishment that you you know that
we give to our body to um be able to
thrive and survive on Earth and so it's
like okay now we have a soul that's
inside of this body so where do we get
the nourishment for the soul from The
Source right God so um I feel like a lot
of people are definitely that's in this
music music industry that got all this
money and can do whatever they want to
do they are not getting that nourishment
and I feel like the soul and the flesh
got two different diets and so a lot of
people don't know that and um definitely
that's living that fast life and if you
just feeding feeding feeding your flesh
and your soul is you know starving like
I mean what do you expect M absolutely
and you went you went around and you
started studying you read you mentioned
that in your cell you guys and your
cellmate used to read a lot of different
books yeah lot of different study
different religions yeah and how did how
did they when you put them all together
how did you end up now deciding that
because people think okay all religions
are the same and you know and then you
just pick one and you'll be okay no it's
Islam there's one that's from the
Creator how did you come to F to
understanding that Islam this was a
truth it was not man-made but it was
sent for mankind from the Creator okay
my cmate that I had at the time like we
used to read a lot of books like the
Bible the Torah the um I didn't read
like uh handu text all type of stuff
like you know but um so at the time like
was Muslim at the time still but like I
was just I was still on that search I
was still on my journey and U my Ean and
my IM wasn't you know as high as it is
now alhamdulillah and um so the brother
actually ended up uh he had got released
and like I was in the Cell by myself and
so like so this morning I was like
tossing and turning and stuff like that
and then like I swear like by Allah like
this is verba and what happened like I
was tossing and turning in my bed and
then it it was a voice came to my head
like go to the Quran and go to page
121 like that cut clear and I set up on
my bunk and I because at the time like a
couple nights before that like I'm not
going to lie like I had cried like I was
really crying because my soul felt torn
because I was really trying to find God
and seek God out and like trying to
understand like who is God and I was
reading so much stuff and it put me in a
state of confusion and my soul was
feeling torn and so and I was feeling
trouble and so like once that had
happened to me set up on my bunk we
didn't have bathrooms in our room and so
I'm like okay like I'm going go to the
bathroom but looking back it's the shaan
trying to distract me from what I'm
really need to do and so I jumped off my
bunk and then I grabbed the uh Quran at
the time and then I grabbed it and then
I just opened it to Page 121 and now
it's not what what uh it opened to Sur 7
uh ayat uh 172 and now every book not
gonna be page 121 you know because you
know it's different Quran so at the time
that's the page what it was though and
what kind of blew my mind was that like
I didn't go to the table of contents or
none of that but this stuff I thought
about afterwards and so once I read the
Surah the Surah basically said this in
so many words that Allah subhana wa tala
send signs to people and like he said if
we if we we could have elevated him with
our signs but he chose to cling to the
Earth and follow his own vain desires
and the similar to that he gave was that
you know like this person is like a a
dog you know with his tongue at off you
tell him this or if you tell him that
it's going to fall on De ears it really
don't matter and it said the shaan
follow him up and so this kind of put
TAA and fear in me cuz I'm kind of like
is he talk is this like to me you know
and why I was kind of tooken it back
because I know stuff like that don't
happen to people like you know it's
people don't get these exact messages or
guidance from a lot like this direct so
for that to happen to me like that it
was very personable like w and that's
when I knew y'all can't can't nobody
tell me nothing like inshah I'mma die on
this religion like I'm Muslim like and
ever since I was deaning and I got
really into it like I'm not saying like
you know I know a lot or I know
everything but like that's helped me
really turn my life around and get away
from the gang stuff and get away from
this and I know some people especially
where I'm from kind of think like I did
a 180 so they kind of look like dang
this guy like how did he get to this
it's it's my religion that's really how
I got to this bro this not me this not
nothing out there this is Islam what
stood out about Islam it was very
practical like so once that happened and
I started reading it and it was clearcut
and the way that Allah subhana speaks in
the Quran with the authority and it's
like when I used to read it I mean
obviously I don't know A's voice but
it's just like the voice that I was
hearing it was very powerful like it was
very like and how I started to
understand the Quran was like I would go
to the index and glossery and read that
and then go back to the Quran and so
once it opened my mind up to helping me
understand it that's when I really start
realizing like wow this makes sense and
then once my M grew and I start getting
around the brothers and I had this one
brother tell me like you know like Islam
is going to grow on you like don't try
to learn everything right now and sure
enough it grew on me and like it's like
the more knowledge that I learned the
more my Ean went up mhm your your faith
started to increase inre so it did it
didn't take long before you took your
shahada did did you knew that this was
the truth yeah so like in 2017 I took my
shahada I studi Islam for maybe like a
month maybe a couple weeks boom I was
Muslim like that and So like um like I
said I'm I'm from Minnesota so it's a
big um there like so I grew up around a
lot of um Muslims but I I didn't really
know that much about it like they didn't
really give me do I was just kind of
around him and I knew bits and pieces
and so um you know Islam made the most
sense to me though Islam cuz I did study
a lot of religions but Islam made the
most sense the uh it's pretty
straightforward God is one that's it
toit the toit the pure absolute
monotheism worshiping the Creator not
the creation that did that stand out was
there any ambiguity there that stood out
to me because like you know I met people
that were saying like God is in trees
God is in this or Jesus was God and to
me I felt like my vision of God you know
especially at the time was like it's no
way that Allah is like in a man or in a
like somebody I had one person tell me
like God is in his chair like and I'm
just kind of like bro like it's no way
like God is like in a chair like you
know and so stuff like that
um yeah I just I just couldn't really
get with that and really it was like
that t and learning the aita and stuff
like that where I'm really like this is
the truth like this makes sense right
here and so yeah this is the the
fascinating part this is uh really um so
important that the that's the foundation
right there everything else you know
Falls in place after that the the pure
absolute monotheism the toed like uh no
other way of life everything every other
religion is man-made and it has you
worshiping the creation exactly Islam is
the only way of life religion that caus
you to have a direct connection with
your creator right no doubt about it and
no going through a confession box or
praying through a messenger a saint uh
stick of stone no but just the one who
created you right and another thing that
really got me was that and the Muslims
like they they they worship actually
like Islam that's really what it was too
it's a way of life that's what really
got me like it's Incorporated in
everything you do when you eat bis when
you use the when you in a shower like
everything is is a act of worship
compared to like other religions it's
just kind of like you know you might go
to church or do this you do have some
Christians don't get me wrong that are
devote like you know but you know I feel
like in Islam for it to be that
incorporated in your life like that
really made me like you know this is
this is the way you live like this not
just for one day you go do this like no
you got five times a day that you got to
go pray like you know and then even that
like another thing that I really thought
was beautiful that in Islam before we uh
uh approach we have to clean oursel we
have to offer wo ablution you know you
have to clean your nose your mouth your
ears your arms your hands like and it's
like you know compared to some other
religions you can be in you know
whatever you got going on it don't
matter and you can just go pray like you
know and it's like you addressing the
creator of the earth like you know be
clean purify yourself and that made a
lot of sense like so as I said once I
started to learn more I'm like this it
this it for me right here yeah so from
the former prayer so people know the
former prayer you have to prepare
yourself like you're saying Mak an
evolution wo but if you're right now if
you're somebody who's smoking weed or
you want to get off weed or drugs or
anything you just got home and you're
watching us from you know another time
zone and you're like man you know you
you you you want to submit to God you
can call upon your creator say Guide Me
Guide Me Guide Me you right exactly yeah
you can yeah absolutely so uh it's for
every it's a universal way of life uh
what did you see as far as you know you
have the the uh beauty of Islam like
when Malcolm X went to Hajj oh man and
then he said the solution when he wrote
in his letter the solution for the race
problem in America is Islam yeah what
you what you think now when you study
this part the the beauty of bringing all
of humanity all the colors together from
all backgrounds under the worship of one
and only one God I think it's beautiful
and bro it's crazy I've read Malcolm X
book in prison maybe five six times he
played a big role even with me embracing
Islam too I forgot about that I swear
yeah and so like um what I think about
that is like um especially with him you
know making H and stuff like that that
really changed his perspective and he
realized that um you know what was going
on in America and what he was being
taught within a Nation of Islam was B
and it wasn't right you know and you
know alhamdulillah that Allah subh even
allow him to go make this trip and learn
his stuff before he died you know so
that was a blessing on him but what I
think is that you know Islam is
beautiful like it's it's not about your
race it's not about your background like
when I go to mass jids whether I'm in
Chicago whether I'm in Minnesota
wherever I'm at like you embrace you
feel the love like you know like this my
first time meeting you and I feel the
love I feel the genuine like it's not
like you know I'm looking at you or you
know I'm thinking suspicious like you
know and I feel like that's the beauty
of Islam like right now bro like I go to
cuz like I don't always go to the same
mid cuz it just depends on where I'm at
if I'm coming from work and I go to any
mid and I really feel welcome W like the
brothers embrace you like it's really a
Brotherhood you know it don't matter
about your race or where you come from
they don't care they don't even care
about your past like it's been sometimes
I try to like you know talk about my
past and brothers like it don't matter
like don't even you know you took your
sh mus alhamdulillah so it's a beautiful
religion and I love it and I'm happy to
be Muslim I must say your story a real
story a um an example of redemption
going from the driveby shootings to The
Gangs to drugs and now changing your
life so much so that you're helping
others in that state you're a part of a
health um and wellness institution what
is the title the C uh it's uh it's
called the crss or what it is your crss
yes Certified Recovery support
specialist so it's the mental health
field you know like basically and um and
so like work at a mental uh Wellness
Center for team so like there you know
basically I'm like what I do there is
like I um you know I'm the one that has
the the lived experience of like mental
health and substance use so I can relate
to the peers on that level to the kids
or whatever and you know like I'll talk
to them telling my story um and I also
like you know I do like one-on ones with
them like you know if they having a bad
day we talk it's it's not necessarily
therapy it's more in a support form and
like I whole classes on like you know
coping skills and um you know ways to
navigate that or you know mindfulness uh
you know a lot of stuff like that and uh
sometimes I go to a crisis center too
and help uh it's it's with adults and
stuff like that but overall it's the
mental health field and I'm there
helping people you know that's you know
struggling and going through this stuff
alhamdulillah like a year ago I would
have never guessed as you know I was
released you know I went to state and
federal prison for about six years and
some change and so like I was released
last year in March and so um and I would
have never guessed like you know and so
I was living in Minnesota and like you
know up there I had earned a different
certification called the cprs and it's
the same thing but it's more on the
substance uh you side but um you know so
I kind of did that for a little while
but why was kind of hard because of the
environment that I was in and so I had a
good friend up here you know actually
two of them that kind of encouraged me
like man just move to Chicago like get
away from that stuff because I was on
the verge of going back to what I used
to do I was this close literally wah I
was was this close to go back to doing
what I used to do and I saved up some
little money and I came up here I didn't
even have a real plan Eddie like well
like I didn't really know what was going
to happen but I knew that I wanted to
halow I wanted to halow living you know
sustenance number one and I didn't want
to get money in the Haram way and you
know I really didn't want to go back to
prison or you know have something
happened to me so you know I moved and
you know it's a pen a lie like I got my
own place I got a car I got my license
like I got good Brothers around me like
you know I got a good job you know I'm
going back to college in the fall like I
got my classes already suban Allah so
it's like alhamdulillah like bro from
where I come from to be where I'm at now
is it's Islam it's it's Allah that's the
only person I can thank that's the
Miracle of Islam yeah that's the Miracle
of Islam the transformation that takes
place when you implement it exactly and
you start living it's the blueprint for
a successful life and this life in the
next and uh one of the the Miracles that
kicks it off is the Quran and now you're
not uh Arab you do you you don't speak
aramic but you're but you're actually
like any Muslim who now who starts to
learn starts to learn the living Miracle
the Quran and you recite the opening
chapter uh every day in prayer can you
go ahead and let them witness a
recitation of the opening chapter or or
any other uh chapter from the
Quran alhamdulillah
Malik
this is I usually have uh my um guests
who have accepted Islam share that with
them because people can see who are not
yet Muslims non-muslims out there and
this is the living Miracle of the Quran
that you're not a native Arabic speaker
but every Muslim is inspiring to
memorize some of the Quran then you have
people who memorize the entire Quran
aldah and there's the famous statement
we know amongst ourselves but for those
who haven't heard this you can take
every different scripture book throw it
in the ocean bury it burn it uh and the
only one that you can bring back in its
Full Compilation is the Quran that's the
miracle of it and you just exemplified
that right now reciting the opening
chapter of the Quran yeah and wow I I
love and W that's one what you just
mentioned I always mention that like
that's one of my things when I have like
my friendly debates with other religions
it's like bro you can burn every book
and the thing about Islam is that like
me myself like I'm a reverse so it's
just like you know outside of the f I
maybe know like six or seven SAS you
know off the top of my head and so like
just imagine the Muslims that's from a
early age it's Muslims that's out there
3 5 seven that know the whole Quran so
it's just like if y'all take it's it's
nobody out there like you know like what
Christian know the whole Bible it's too
many different versions of it m number
one so it's like how could you memorize
something that's always changing the
Quran never changed ever so we got some
uh some rappers or P Diddy or the used
to listen to the Lil Wayne or something
these people are calling people to uh
the Hellfire basically what would you
from your story what would you say to P
Diddy Little Wayne or any of the others
who probably see this you know to uh
Inspire them to motivate them to look
into Islam um I would say
this what I would say at the end of the
day you know like this life all of our
life will end you know and like you
can't take none of this stuff with you
none of the cars none of the women none
of the jewelry none of this stuff like
you can't take with you at the end of
the day you're going to be by yourself
and you're going to have to face Allah
God however you want to put it like
you're going to have to face this in the
end you know and so the advice that I
would get on that give on that is that
like in this music you know whether it's
these has intention or not like you know
like that sin is going to be on you you
know like that you basically influencing
people and inviting them to this so if
they start to act on this like this is
on you now you're responsible at this
point you know because it's literally
people out there that listen to music
and you know to these people music and
you know they that's why they do drugs
or get a gun and now these people they
go kill somebody or they overdosed or
they robbing people because of the
influence of this stuff you know so I
was just tell these brothers like you
know at the end of the day you know like
just you know look into Islam like you
know like because I feel like it's it's
it's the truth and it's something that
can no matter what background you from
no matter what you did don't ever feel
like it's too late for you like don't
feel like oh I'm too far into this like
you can always cuz I know some of these
people have made packs with demons and
done stuff like that so they might
really feel like it's over with like I'm
all the way in on this but it's never if
you repent to Allah subhana genuinely
and you seek his forgiveness and his Aid
he can he will change your situation and
so just my advice would be don't never
think it's too late to change bro it's
not never too late that's beautiful
advice coming from a living um Miracle
yourself somebody who was so deep into
that life um witness people dying in
front of you driveby uh prison and they
would think you're going to be dead or
in jail rest of your life and now you're
someone who's turned your life around
and you're helping others to get on to
the straight path in life Subhan that's
amazing coming from you hopefully they
can see because we're seeing the end
result with the p dides and others their
life is upside down and they have
everything they got all the money all
the drugs all the candy and the women
everything but you can see their life is
is upside down it's hell on Earth yeah
literally and you know so for the people
that's looking at you know people that's
having money and having this stuff like
don't never be jealous of these type of
people like don't ever because the thing
that some people don't know is that like
you know
Allah of course so like I'm not saying
like I know what Allah is thinking but
like some people will have money and
they can be think it's a blessing but
it's really a fitner it's really a trial
like and so a lot sometimes you know I
feel like you know just because some
people have millions of dollars bro
don't think they blessed like and don't
think cuz you have little that you not
blessed like it's poor man out here
right now that's going to Jenna mhm like
you know like and they humble and they
respectful and you know they say it's
the same what they say like if you wake
up and you got food house and yes
security yeah you got everything right
you have everything like you good the
said yeah we see yes yeah wasam so you
know that's a blessing so you know don't
get caught up and pay attention to what
people doing because you don't know
what's going on in the background and
one thing I will say w like nothing is
ever what you think it is like when you
looking outside of stuff like it's never
you you think oh it's it's no I'm
telling you yeah we can go deeper you
can look at the the Su Knights of the
industry you've heard of su Knight and
you see Tupac where he end up he's in
dead the man who was once once the most
feared figure in all of hip-hop but here
he is now Suge Knight a former rap
Powerhouse collapsing in court built an
Empire founding Death Row Records now
facing life in prison sug Knight who's
the biggest of them all he's in
penitentiary in jail right now but then
you have people like uh mutah you know
oh yeah mut he was with
I follow the brother I think he mov to
Saudi right yeah you can see him shout
out to that brother man follow him good
brother you see him he was with Outlaws
Tupac and he left all that alone you can
see he's living a beautiful life now so
you can have your Paradise for the
moment on earth right and you perceive
but your heart is dead inside you see
all the all the wickedness that comes
with it but then you enjoy a little bit
but then at the end if PDD doesn't come
to the realization that he has a Creator
his creator told him to submit his will
to the will of to the one who created
him in Islam he dies Hellfire that's it
but look at Lon also
who his life he turned his life around
you can see the what he's preaching and
teaching now you can see that he's on
the right path and he's happy he's
content yeah so and you're you're
another example of that yeah you're
another example so thank you for sharing
your story with us yeah
appreciate thank you brother a very good
friend of mine brother Eddie from the
dean show who I known for a number of
years from the very beginning when he
started it I was among his early guests
and mashallah our brother Eddie has been
very active in promoting daah spreading
The Message of Islam and he has now
taken everything to the next level Eddie
has now after a number of years on The
Dean show taken the da efforts to the
next level which is that of establishing
a da a center for the USA he is about to
launch it in its fullness but it has
already started in Florida and he needs
your support this is an effort which
began already some months back and they
need your support for spreading The
Message of Islam in the USA so my
brothers and sisters reach out to
support him we need your support
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