alhamdulillah
peace be unto you we have an exciting
show for you today you see the tie
what's the tie what's he doing with the
tie never had a tie we're going to be
talking about the tie and we're going to
be talking about Islam submission to who
to your nephs to your desires to a man
to a woman to a monkey no to the one who
created you but some people have come to
that state they've acknowledged that
there is a creator there is a purpose
why I'm here in this life but now they
want to try to form an agreement with
the one who created them and say you
know I'll submit to you but you're going
to let me still drink i'll submit to you
and you're going to still let me have my
girlfriend no it doesn't work like that
and to cover this very I mean this is a
very important topic because you want to
be successful in life in this life and
the life to come you know there's going
to be a day of judgment you're going to
be judged and then there's two places to
go the delights of paradise or the
hellfire we want to stay away from that
so let's bring out my next guest to
cover this topic my brother and your
brother Kali
come on out my brother
have a seat you're here on the Dean Show
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thank you for being on the Dean Show
it's my pleasure to be on the Dean Show
this is exciting to have you here thank
you very much now I heard something or
you heard me say something from back
there i mentioned something i t I've
never worn a tie in the show now there's
some might be somebody who's like "Man
Eddie sold out what's happening man he's
imitating the so and so." So can you
tell us clear this up is there is
because we want to talk about uh uh
something that's so important to us and
this is very important also so let's
just clear this up is is this is this
permissible in Islam to wear tie okay
yes first of all yes it is permissible
yeah okay so I don't want to get in
trouble with anybody well hopefully cuz
I want to do this the right way we want
to do this show and we want to do
everything dress right look right and we
want to talk right and and you look
great if I may say mallah exactly well
you know there's nothing wrong with the
tie yeah and um initially or
historically the tie had another piece
to it that made it look like a cross so
basically your shirt had two extra
buttons here and then you had a material
similar to that of your ties same design
same pattern and you would basically
button this other piece across and then
when you put the tie on you'd look like
you were wearing a cross so because of
that some kind of hatred and and and
issues developed in the hearts of of
Muslims specifically for the for the tie
but obviously it's no longer that and uh
and uh so as scholars say that there is
nothing wrong with wearing the tie
because it's become a common uh you know
piece of clothing it's not anything that
would single you specifically to be
belonging to a specific like creed or
religion because everybody wears the tie
you know so um so there's nothing wrong
with it as long as you you're not doing
it for the sake of of imitation you're
just wearing a normal garment and it's
not made of pure natural silk so there's
nothing wrong with it but what about
imitation now now where some people say
you're imitating a certain people what
do you what do you got to say about
those well the the scholars have spoken
about that and they said that you know
imitating uh where it's per not
permissible it's where you wear
something that signifies you belong to a
specific belief system or a specific
creed so wearing the yarmaka for example
would make you would make most people
think that you're a Jewish person or
wear that uh that color with I don't
know what they call it but that color
the priestly color with a with a white
part in there would make you look like
you're a priest or you know something
like that but or wearing a cross would
make you specifically look like you
belong to a certain belief or creed but
wearing the suit and tie if you wear if
you see someone in a suit and tie even
in the Muslim lands you don't think is
this man Muslim or not Muslim it doesn't
it doesn't necessarily represent any
belief system or religion yeah and for
that reason the scholars say it's
permissible you'd have to take off just
the the whole suit then i mean that just
Yeah because you sometimes you wear and
and I also wear a lot of suits and ties
and I love wearing the suit and tie and
a lot of times people will meet me and
they'll say take off the tie because
then you're resembling non-Muslims well
what about the rest of the outfit you
know the the shirt the pants the the
jacket and the vest and everything else
so you just have to remove everything
but because it doesn't specifically mean
you belong to any certain belief or
anything like that there's no issue with
it inshallah is this is what the
scholars have said okay so now you guys
can continue editor
to Freddy and everything's all good and
steady so here excellent all right so
let's go on to the topic we need to
submit and we need to do it how the
creator wants us to do it but there's
some people that now they want to submit
which is something natural to submit to
the one who created you and do the
beautiful things that he's called you to
do and then get that beautiful thing
that money can't buy peace yes but now
some people want to barter now they want
to start playing games talk to us see
first of all you look at Islam and Islam
comes from the rootst Islam which means
to submit and it's funny that you you
want to enter the religion of submitting
but you don't want to submit 100% that's
why people laugh at at the oxymoron or
of saying I'm a non-practicing Muslim
because the Muslim is the one who
submits to his creator so if you're a
non-practicing Muslim that means you're
a nonsubmitting submitter it really
doesn't make much sense because we're
supposed to submit 100% we're supposed
to submit to Allah and when Allah says
go right you go right he says go left
you go left because that's the attribute
of someone who has submitted to the
creator you know just like if you have a
student who doesn't listen to a single
word the teacher says teacher can't
describe him as being a submissive
student or or a child you know if you if
you have a child who doesn't listen to
you you can't say "Well he's very
submissive." So when you submit to Allah
you do what he tells you to do because
he's the creator and you are the servant
or you are the slave if you want to be
more specific even you see so uh a lot
of times you'll find people they and and
we meet sometimes non-Muslims in the
street and they want to become Muslim
but they have stipulations so they'll
say something like and I'll become
Muslim but I don't want to stop drinking
alcohol or I'll become Muslim but I love
my pork chop so I'll be a Muslim but
I'll still eat pork or they'll tell you
things like you know I want to keep
doing whatever it is that they want to
keep doing because their heart is
attached to it sometimes there's one
person who made so many stipulations and
then he said I'll become Muslim i had
just had to ask him like you're
forgetting that Islam is about
submission you've had a lot of these
practical situations happen absolutely
and we're going to get to the the
Muslims as well because some Muslims
have submission issues as well but uh
some non-Muslims would say you know they
would have so many stipulations and then
say I'll submit if I can do all these
things and you tell them look this is
the religion of submitting to Allah but
you have conditions and you want to
submit only if this happens or only if
that happens and and that's not really
sub coming into Islam not really
submitting because I always ask people
who is the Lord and who's a servant you
know you're trying to put set down the
rules of your own religion now and yet
claim that you're submitting to Allah
you wouldn't I mean just interesting if
I can eject i mean if you had a boss at
work and you know a big corporate
company and now you're not going to go
and sit there and you know give him
ultimatums and say I'm going to you know
uh change the rules and or I'll work for
your company but you know you know I
have to be able to leave at this time
and I can do that take this any time off
that I want to say you know what go
we'll get someone else or the police
pull you over and say you know what I'll
drive on this road if you can make it 60
instead of 40 or and you don't have that
choice you know with many things in life
but people are okay with submitting
there I'll tell you I actually met this
guy one time and and he claimed to have
an issue with submitting so you'd think
that he's probably a very stubborn guy
who doesn't submit to any authority or
anything on earth so he started telling
me I don't I have a problem with
submitting to anything or anyone on so I
immediately told him "But you do submit
you submit every single day to so many
things." And he immediately realized it
that he submits to the traffic laws he
stops at the traffic light he does this
he drives at the speed limit you know he
doesn't do what's illegal he has to do
you know certain things to stay out of
trouble so then he That's submitting
you're submitting so I told him "But you
do submit." And he immediately realized
he said "Yes you are." Because maybe the
word people aren't used to hearing this
word submit that's true and because you
know this exaggerated thing of freedom
you're free to do as you please as long
as you don't step on the toes of the
majority which isn't really true because
when you look at society you'll find so
many dos and don'ts in it that you're
not really free and that's why you know
a lot of Muslim scholars and
philosophers they argue that there is no
such thing as absolute freedom let's
stop right there so there's no such
thing as absolute freedom and we're
going to take a break and be right back
on the Dean show excellent no speech is
better than to do that to call people to
Allah and to do the work no speech is
better no nothing is better than that is
it true that if one person on the Allah
giving you the ability to guide someone
with Allah's permission the creator's
permission that is better than
everything in this world better than the
whole world and everything that's in it
in in another narration it's better than
the best of wealth but if we really felt
that Eddie would we not be g out giving
da and this is something that we
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Shay Kiml Mali on the Dean Show you're
really not free you think you're free
talk to us that's where we left off yeah
you can't find anyone on earth who is
100% free and has no restrictions no no
limitations doesn't have to follow any
law or anything i mean there's no such
thing as absolute freedom is what people
tell you there's no such thing and so
everything you know it comes with its
price and even if you want to imagine
some guy out there in the wilderness who
has no laws and nothing he's still bound
and he's still a slave it might be that
he's a slave to his own desires and some
people are slaves to their own desires
they follow their desires so much that
they can't break away from that they're
just pulled in so they're even not free
when they pursue their desires to the
max they're still not free but hold on
hold on free there's some song back from
job free to do what I want free what
there there's so many of these songs and
so every commercial is talking about how
we love freedom and that's why you have
you know you get free minutes so what
are you talking about now they're like
what are you talking about we got songs
about freedom we're this that i'll tell
you something interesting all right so I
I grew up around the world right and
before coming to the states immediately
before coming to the states I was in
Africa and it's funny that when when I
came from Africa to the states people
would always tell me "But you definitely
enjoy your freedom more here right?"
Like what are you talking about all
right no one assigned any number to me
when I was in Africa nobody took
anything from my paycheck nobody told me
where I could park no one told me how
fast I could drive nobody told me how to
do anything it's it's a mess there mhm
so if you want to argue even though it
is a mess if you want to argue though
but I was more free there than here but
of course I mean I'm not saying let's
not have a structured society what I'm
saying is that you know people if you're
told that you're free enough times as
many as many like of your liberties as
they take away as long as you're being
reminded that you're free you may not
notice that you're not as free as you
think you are you know so uh so anyways
the idea is that nobody is totally free
absolutely and 100% free everybody
submits to one thing or another whether
it be their desires whether it be
man-made laws whether it be a government
or any kind of entity so we always argue
with people that if that's the case then
you might as well submit to your creator
if you're submitting anyways submit in
the right place put in the right place
and you get some reward out of that you
get to paradise as a result of that
because you're eventually going to die
and Yeah and you're going to submit to
the wrong place anyways you just change
that submission switch it over direct it
to the right place because everybody
submits to one thing or another so now
we're talking about that submission to
the like you said the right place to
your creator but people realizing
acknowledging because Islam is rational
it's practical all the proofs and
evidences are there it's not blind faith
absolutely it backs up everything that
you need with clear authentic evidence
mhm but even people they realize this
but again back to what you were saying
they want to continue doing things their
way right and and actually in the Quran
in the second chapter of the Quran
Allahel says
oh you who believe enter into totality
meaning enter 100% into Islam not 90%
not 95% not 98% but enter 100% into
Islam But like we were saying you know
people they have issues with submitting
it could be that their desire you know
is pulling them in a different direction
so they don't want to submit to Allah
whatever it is something that they love
of of this worldly life too much and the
example as I always say even with
Muslims you'll find Muslims will have
submission problems like I said someone
who smokes when he's told that it's
prohibited in Islam is not allowed to
smoke they try to argue against that
they say "No it's just disliked it's not
it's not you know prohibited." Yeah to
smoke because what he's attached to you
know he's attached to his nicotine to
his cigarettes so he wants to argue
there because there's the attachment
somebody else you tell him you know it's
not permissible for you to to use
or get a mortgage through a certain
system that's not permissible but they
badly want a home so they start to argue
with you and someone else or a woman for
example or sister doesn't wear hijab she
has no problem submitting when she hears
that smoking is haram or prohibited but
then when she hears about hijab then she
starts going into you know excuses but
well we live in this country and if I
wear hijab I might be assaulted in the
street so therefore it's probably better
for me to not wear hijab these are all
submission problems and Allah says
submit 100% no excuses so what do we do
now what do we I mean is this a is this
dangerous thing now is this something
that can be fixed how do we fix it
well uh yes it it is dangerous and it
can be fixed of course and this is and I
like what you said earlier because Islam
is rational and it's reasonable and
Allah will never command you to do
something that's an impossibility that's
why one of the definitions of of the
halal that I like it's what Allah
permits but also agrees with you you
know it goes with your nature yeah it
goes with your nature so Allah is not
going to command you to do something
that just totally goes against human
nature and you find it you know
distasteful it's not like something like
a weight that you can't lift like
someone say lift 500 lb and you can't do
it it's something that the weight that
you can lift and and very few people can
lift 500 lb just me and a few other guys
you know so so the thing is that you
know we're in the day and age where a
lot of people they want they they don't
want to submit 100% and when we have
something that the Muslims do they do
fatwa shopping you know when you know
they they find out that this is not
permissible in Islam they keep looking
all over the place they either
physically drive to other imams and
mosques until they find someone who
tells them it's okay or they go online
and they do fatwa shopping online and
then they just add the fatwa to the
basket now we're playing I mean this is
serious now i mean this is uh you're
playing games with the with uh the dean
i'll tell you Eddie it's gotten to the
point where some people pray
which is how do you translate into
English this is like the prayer of
guidance yeah I how about I invent the
term decisional prayer does that sound
decisional prayer that sound fancy
enough all right so you pray to for
Allah to guide you should I do this or
should I not do this some people
actually praise
and to see if they can do something
that's haram you know like they want to
buy a house through prohibited ways and
they'll praise to see should I sign a
mortgage or not that's like basically
putting some alcohol on the table and
then praying to and saying "Okay well
Allah help me if drinking this alcohol
is good for me then make it possible."
And it's right there you know you don't
you don't make that prayer about
something that you know is clearly haram
you know but it's it's that that's
what's happening now people are so
pulled and drawn they don't want to
submit 100% and so they have all these
colorful excuses for not following and
submitting to what Allah commands us to
do in the Quran tell us how do we
balance it out because it is I mean we
know that if this dean would have came
upon a mountain that mountain would have
crumbled is this correct excellent but
now you know for the new Muslims who are
coming into it we're gonna still and and
even Muslims who are starting to turn
their life around and now they look at
this as just a lot of rules and
sometimes it can be just overbearing how
do we balance it out where they know
that this is out of Allah's love that he
loves us he wants what's best for us so
how do we balance it out where we don't
play the games and we strive to submit
to everything that the creator nice
wants us to do and and let me work off
of of answering that question from the
verse that you just mentioned where
Allahh says
so Allah is saying that we we offered
this like this responsibility or this
trust uh to the the heavens the
mountains the earth and they refused it
and then human beings they took this
responsibility of themselves this test
of life being tested in this life
allah says
the human being accepted it and his
nature that he is that he is unjust and
that he is ignorant and the scholars say
that every problem on earth can be
traced back to these two sources
ignorance and following your desires
either you're ignorant or you're unjust
because you follow your desire you know
that this is justice but you want to do
something that's unjust because you get
some kind of benefit for it you follow
your desire so every problem and if you
contemplate every problem on the planet
it goes back to ignorance or it goes
back to just someone being oppressive
because they're following their desires
look at wars look at things that are
happening around us you find this
oppression or total ignorance define us
so someone might know if they don't
already when we say following your
desires what does that mean it means
basically that you you follow whatever
you're you would like to do for example
uh you know that
let's just make a simple example that
doing a specific deed is not permissible
you know but you have the desire to do
it you know that Allah said don't do it
but you have that desire to do it and so
now you follow your desire in doing it
even if it means let's say for example
someone might uh you know take the money
of the orphan or take the money from you
know a business partner and and rob him
and be oppressive in that sense why
because he's following his desire his
lust his love for money so uh so in that
sense all problems can be traced to uh
one of those two things now it's one of
the ways to to kind of understand
submission as far as it comes it's
related to the commands of allahel is
that you know you find that when Allah
commands us to do something you when you
examine it you'll either find that it's
100% good or 100%
bad if he tells us to stay away from it
or a mixture of the two so just very
quickly when you look at for example
worshiping Allah alone and not
attributing any partner to him right
this is 100% good there's not 1% of evil
in that so when Allah calls us to what
we call wor worshiping him alone we look
at it we see that it's 100% good then
Allah will warn us of worshiping things
along with Allah which is known as shik
in Islam so you don't worship anything
with Allah we don't worship anything
besides Allah that's like worshiping the
sun the moon a man a prophet a saint an
angel it could be a prophet an angel it
could be someone really a saint a good
person still not worthy of worship so
now when you look at worshiping things
besides Allah you see that it's 100%
evil and that's why it's so clear to us
when we should stay away from it but
then there are things in life that have
a mixture of good and bad in them and
these things when you look at them and
you see which one outweighs the other
you can understand why Allah made it
halal or haram permissible or lawful for
example alcohol you know we know Allah
says in about wine in the Quran that
there's good and bad in it but the bad
outweighs the good and that's why we can
clearly understand why Allah told us to
stay away from consuming alcohol because
all the problems it causes in society
from accidents from destroying homes
from destroying people's wealth from
getting people to do all other kinds of
sins so we can see clearly why Allah
told us to stay away from from alcohol
or from you know wine or whatever
intoxicant specifically yeah so then it
makes sense to us and it's not that hard
for us to submit but now there are
sometimes issues where you cannot find
the exact reason not the exact reason
sorry the exact wisdom as to why Allah
forbade it i'll give you one example you
know when people go and make around the
cabba when they circumambulate the the
sacred house in Mecca they make
counterclockwise
so why not clockwise mhm i mean
obviously the reason we do it is that
that's how it was taught to us by the
prophetam that's the reason but what's
the wisdom for going counterclockwise
around the the cabba and not clockwise
around it and you ask this question to
people most people don't know how to
answer because really there isn't a
clear answer some people have said that
well the heart is actually on the left
side actually the heart is not on the
left side it's in the middle the loudest
part is thumping on the left it can be
heard on the left so but suppose the
heart was on my right shoulder can I
make a left turn what does that have to
do with it so suppose the heart is on
the left is that why we make you
circumambulate counterclockwise all
right some other people said "Well the
earth is spinning counterclockwise
that's why we make counterclockwise."
Well that could be a wisdom somehow but
suppose the earth spun clockwise i can't
make a counterclockwise turn so you see
with this issue we don't know exactly
all the wisdoms why we go that way but
we submit you have to know when to put
your reasoning logic on hold well no put
it in its place and actually I'm coming
to that because a lot of people think
that there's a conflict between your
intellect or there could be a conflict
between your intellect and what Islam
teaches and they could never be because
your intellect you know good intellect
will always agree with what Allah
commands but opinion can disagree with
what Allah commands that's why you find
some people they put their opinion in
front of the commands of Allah and they
and they make mistakes and guess who was
the first person to do that the the
devil the first one to do that was
because he was told he was given the
command and he put his opinion in front
of what Allah commanded him to do he
started to say I'm better than him you
know he's created from clay i'm created
from fire exactly that's what we see
prevalent today exactly and and and so
your intellect will always agree with
the Quran sound intellect will agree
with Islam but your opinion can disagree
because you follow your desire let's
take a break and we'll be right back i
come from a science major when you look
at the Bible and it says the the earth
has four corners the
that's wrong
if any Christian can point out a single
unequivocal statement a single
unambiguous statement where Jesus Christ
peace be upon himself say that I am God
or where he says worship me i'm ready to
accept Christianity
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welcome back to the Dean Show okay my
brother so we're continuing on now the
thing is we we want to use our reasoning
our logic the tools that the creator has
given us to find out what the truth is
right but at what point do we say okay
now we have discovered we've been
blessed that okay Islam is the way of
life from the creator at what point do
you now put the revelation before your
reasoning and balance things out do you
understand what I'm saying okay well uh
first I would like to assuage any fears
that any non-Muslim might have that you
have to blindly do things in Islam and
this is the great thing about Islam is
that everything you the wisdoms are
explained as to why you do or don't do
something there's a logic there's
nothing that's just irrational that you
have to do out of the blue or that
you're told you know to roll around in
the dirt because there's some kind of
blessing you'll get from the there's
it's nothing like that and and I also
will take this opportunity to explain
that you know in some religions when
they use the word faith it's totally
different than how Muslims use the word
faith faith it just means this kind of
blind belief just like closing your eyes
and just jumping in that people would
tell you you have to have faith in God i
don't have proof i don't know anything
but I just have something called faith
which is basically almost like this
blind belief in Islam allah asks calls
us to contemplate his creation to
contemplate his book the Quran itself to
to really contemplate it and look at it
that if it was from other than Allah it
would have you know flaws discrepancies
contradictions in it so uh this is
something that me personally I love that
Allah tells us to think to look to
contemplate we were never taught oh shut
off your your intelligence and just
that's why one time one of my professors
my biology professor we're talking about
religion and she said that I have to I
have like there two me like there's one
me the scientific me and then there's
the religious me and of course this is a
very this is a very bad thing to admit
to so I immediately came in with well in
Islam you don't have to separate your
religious self from your scientific self
because we don't have that conflict in
Islam you know you're never you're never
told to do something and it goes against
logic and it goes against studies and it
goes against you know rational or
rational thought and that's why you know
that's this is a great comfort for
Muslims that you don't have to have the
scientific U and then the religious U
and so I shut it off then and then now
okay now science is gone my my years of
study you'll see that with lot the
typical lot of the people that practice
some some religions yeah and it's a it's
problematic for them you know because if
if I understand science and logic and
I'm smart then I have to shut it off
just so I could believe in my religion
that means that religion requires no no
logic no thinking no rationale that's
not a good thing we as Muslims we don't
have to do that we never have that
problem this is the great thing but I
actually wanted to to to go over real
quickly how we we can convince someone
when it comes to simple issues and like
I said we encounter this a lot when
someone will say you know I'll I'll
become a Muslim but I want to keep
drinking you know or I love my my beer
or actually some people will tell us
things like I I want to become Muslim
but I love pork chops too much you know
and sometimes we we make them realize
what they're saying because really what
they're saying it's something very
shameful you know so we actually make
them aware of what they're saying and
this is something we actually do we'll
tell someone tell us we'll tell them
this look so someone will say "Look I
really love my pork chops." That's the
only reason I can't become Muslim so you
believe that there's one God one creator
yes the prophet sallallaihi wasallam is
his his prophet and his messenger yes
you're okay with the five pillars and
everything else yeah absolutely the only
thing stopping you is that you love pork
chops too much yes so actually guilt
them out of it because it's very
shameful we tell them listen so Allah is
the one who gives you everything that
you have your health your intelligence
your your the provision the work the job
that you have your family your loved
ones think things that you cannot put a
price on your eyesight you know your
hearing your all these things and every
minute and every day he is keeping you
in good health how many days you could
have woken up sick how many potential
accidents could you have had and none of
that happens to you and then he gives
you of so many kinds of juice that you
can drink so many kinds of meat you know
you can eat all kinds of things from the
sea seafood all kinds of fish all kinds
of birds and you've got cows and sheep
and goat and you've got all these things
and he's given you so many different
kinds of blessings and fruits and
vegetables and the human being can go
without drinking for 3 days and without
eating for 30 to 41 days and you know
you can go through so much and survive
so much you know physically and you're
telling me that this great creator who
provides so much for me I won't enter
his religion i won't submit to him
because I love poor
and you know when we do that they but
but at this point they're looking at the
ground they're like of course of course
I can leave for okay there's so many
other things okay let's do this let's
become Muslim you know so it works very
well for us alhamdulillah we're going to
have to cut out so little time we have
so much to cover we're going to have to
inshallah have you back again some
closing comments and advice for those
who are going through some of these
things that we just tackled in the show
well uh you're not alone and every
problem and every obstacle that you
encounter someone else went through it
and a lot of times when someone would
say "I can't leave pork." I would bring
them my brother-in-law and say "Look he
said his problem was he couldn't become
Muslim because of pork." Then we ask him
right in front of the person he went
through the same issue is pork an issue
now like I never think about pork every
problem you're going through someone
went through it before and they overcame
it because Allah will never ask for you
to cross to jump over a mountain or an
insur surmountable like obstacle so
everything that you're going through
someone went through it and they they
made it over that obstacle and you will
yourself inshallah thank you very much
my pleasure may Allah the creator of the
heavens earth reward you for being with
us
i hope you got the benefit i surely did
and all those who are sincerely humbly
trying to learn the truth this should go
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Dean Show until then peace be unto youam
all of the prophets would have been
labeled Muslims because this essential
message was the same message submission
to the will of God
this is God talking to you directly how
could I stand behind the pulpit on
Sunday morning and preach a sermon that
I knew was at variance with the actual
taproot of Christianity
alhamdulillah peace be unto you welcome
back to the Dean Show we're going to be
discussing something that now you've
come to realize that there's a purpose
in life and I need to fulfill my purpose
the way my creator wants me to live my
purpose that's to serve him to worship
him to do the most beautiful things as
he's told me to do and then paradise
that's the reward but now as we
discussed in the last show this is part
two to submission what does it mean and
who am I submitting to after I agree to
submit to the creator now there's other
things getting in the way so when I come
back we're going to be talking about
this continuing talking about it with
brother She kei
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thank you very much for being with us
again we just had to continue talking
about submission the good stuff right
the good stuff okay now let's just go a
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you and the first one that we did this
is a part two was about submission right
and just kind of recap what we what we
discussed in last show before we
continue on okay so first of all in uh
in the last show we spoke about first
that Islam means to submit to Allah
which is who is your creator so whatever
he tells you to do you should do it if
he tells you go right you go right go
left to go left but at the same time
he's not going to ask you to do things
that are beyond your means he's not
going to ask you to do things that don't
agree with human nature or things that
are impossibilities things of that sort
so it's very rational very logical what
Allah asks you to do and a lot of times
out of his his mercy and his wisdom he
lets us see the wisdoms behind why he
prohibited something or the wisdom
behind why he made something permissible
or commanded us to do something but like
we were saying a lot of people has
submission issues some people want to
become Muslim but they love you know
their alcohol or love a certain meal or
love a certain act that's prohibited by
in Islam so they'll tell you I'll become
Muslim but then they'll give you the
stipulations the stipulations there
likewise same thing for Muslims you know
they'll they're Muslim they pray they
submit where it's comfortable and easy
convenient and convenient that's the
magic word right there so it's it's
convenient for them to submit they'll do
it but then when it disagrees that's
when they either try to find an excuse
go fatwa shopping find somebody who says
that it's halal it doesn't matter who
the person is whether they're
knowledgeable or not just someone
somewhere tell me that this is okay so I
can do it and that's not right not right
at all you know and and just to throw it
in there when when you let's say someone
gives you an answer to a question and
suppose for some reason you didn't feel
comfortable with that answer and you
don't have enough knowledge to either
investigate it yourself in this case you
go to someone that you trust that you
trust them to be you know pious and to
be knowledgeable and then you ask them
and you get the answer so what what that
means is you don't go looking for the
person who will tell you what you want
to hear you know you'll just go to
someone that you trust their knowledge
and you believe will tell you the truth
this is in the case where you don't have
the knowledge yourself to weigh the
evidences right whatever way you look at
it you don't just pick based on your
desire you know I want to find someone
who says this is halal now just not to
divert too much but interestingly there
have been historically scholars who have
said kind outrageous kinds of things but
they didn't have the evidence for it so
it's all about the evidence not about
who said what because you'll find in
historically this has happened scholars
who said dog meat is halal right we
don't want to we don't want to try that
do we dog meat is halal others have said
that your mother has to wear hijab in
front of you these are opinions but they
didn't have the valid or or the strong
evidence that's behind them right so the
same thing is like we don't just look
around for someone who will say what I
want to hear we look for someone that we
believe will tell you the truth and has
the evidence to support it which is all
under the umbrella of submitting to
Allah you
It's a lot of people now when they when
they hear a command of Allah or his
prophet wasallam the first thing they
try to do is find a way around it no the
first thing try to do it as much as you
can and if not then there could be a
fatwa and an excuse for you so a person
has to be sincere really wanting to know
what the creator God almighty Allah
wants them to do yes what he told the
messenger just like at that time of
Jesus Moses Abraham at their time they
were the teachers they were teaching the
people now we have the prophet Muhammad
peace be upon him who we have to follow
not and his teachings remain not pray
through him or go through him but just
follow his instructions exactly yes so
now being sincere and wanting to know
the truth because as you said if you're
trying to look for some different
opinion from this person that person
you're going to find it something to
match your desires and you might trick
the people but you can't trick the one
who knows the hearts exactly exactly so
you just try to find an allowance then
you're not really being very sincere
here so so don't don't play games don't
play games you'll get caught you'll get
caught and the beautiful thing is
evidence islam is all based there's a
basis behind everything we do and
there's evidence we have what what are
the criterias now that we're looking for
basically and and this is what um Allah
also tells us that in the Quran that if
you disagree about an issue you you
return it to what Allah and his prophet
sallallaihi wasallam have said about the
issue
if you believe in Allah and you believe
in the last day then you return it to
Allah and to the prophet you see what
they say about the issue you know
because if you want to follow like some
someone somewhere said this is
permissible you're going to actually you
can gather a lot of very very strange
things just like I gave the example with
dog meat being halal you know and woman
wearing hijab in front of her own son
others have said some really outrageous
things but they didn't have the evidence
to support it so when someone is sincere
they look for the truth when someone is
not they just want some way out of it so
your first effort is to try to apply
what Allah commands us to do or what the
prophet wasallam commands us to do and
then if you can't they might find you
some kind of excuse but your first
effort is to try it today there are some
people the minute they hear a command
from Allah the first thing they want to
do is find some way around it before
even attempting to do it that's the
first That's not submission that's not
No let's uh take a break and we'll be
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that's wrong
if any Christian can point out a single
unequivocal statement a single
unambiguous statement where Jesus Christ
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back here on the Dean show with my
brother and your brother Shake talk to
us now we are talking about what it is
to be a submitter to the one who created
you something beautiful this is how one
gets peace and we know that people in
this way of life the way of life of all
the messengers God sent messengers and
they revealed the same way of life
surrender and submit to the will of the
creator and now God Almighty we look at
people nowadays are slaves they won't
say they are but they're slaves to the
fashion they're a slave to consumerism
to materialism to nationalism all these
different isms and now when you try to
bring up this word about being a slave
to the one who created you there's like
they feel like there's some stigma
attached to this but on the contrary
they're already slaves to something else
let's talk about this what does it mean
when we say that being a slave to the
one who created you excellent and the
word for that in Arabic would be abd and
abd has two meanings one meaning is a
worshshiper of allahel and at the same
time abd is actually a slave and that's
how the word was used also by the
companions they would you know was
referred to as a slave like if someone
had a servant or something and that's
why the proam prohibited them from
saying this is my abd because only Allah
owns truly owns people so he taught them
to say this is my boy or my girl so the
thing is that uh and like you were
saying and I've actually seen um some
fairly knowledgeable people when you say
the word slave they cringe a little like
it's a bad thing or like we're we're not
owned by allahel but the truth is Allah
owns us we are slaves of Allah we we're
owned by Allah subhana tala and so
therefore he tells us what we can and
can't do even if it's with our own
bodies that's why when you look at the
Sharia or the Islamic law it goes into
great details of what we can and can't
do with our own bodies that's why
there's restrictions for men or what
kind of hair they can remove what kind
of hair they can't remove for women
they're not allowed to shave their head
bald they're not allowed to you know
pluck their eyebrows why because Allah
tells us what we can and can't do with
these bodies of you say tattoos for men
tattoos forbidden just like you know if
you were to rent a car suppose you know
Eddie you wanted to for once drive a
really really nice sports car right so
you go and you rent a Hyundai Accent
right and it's black in color so but you
wanted to drive a yellow car for those
two days you know and um I don't know if
you know Hyundai Accents they're not
really sports cars that was a joke but
maybe it wasn't a very good one the
point is
can you change the color of that car for
those two days that you've rented the
vehicle maybe make it green or yellow
like you said could you doesn't happen
you couldn't because you don't own the
car same thing with the tattoos you know
you don't own your body and so you can't
color it and disfigure it that's why
you're not allowed to change your face i
mean unless obviously there's a horrible
accident or something but so what we see
a lot of the celebrities with you know
the Botox and you know the the the face
stretched out here from about a 100
different uh plastic surgeries this is
things that you you cannot do not
allowed plus they look horrible anyway
yeah you're destroying yourself
mutilating yourself
and that's why you're not allowed to to
commit suicide to kill yourself because
it would make for Islam absolutely
it's not if you owned yourself you could
probably kill yourself but you don't own
yourself this is a good fact we weren't
discussing terrorism and all these
things but it's a lot of times is is you
know there's a stigma stereotype
attached to Islam and and they think you
know Muslims you know killing themselves
blowing themselves up you're telling me
right now this is prohibited and what
we're talking about is is like someone
like the going gets tough they can't
handle it anymore and then they just you
know they poison themselves shoot
themselves jump out of a window you know
like uh or but uh that or or someone
going into a pizzeria and killing a
thousand innocent people right exactly
this is not permissible in Islam yeah
and and then and well they say there's a
joke they say the guy was about to jump
off a roof so they called the priest the
priest came to him he said "On your
mark."
All right anyways
so the point is let's stick with our
topic so we're saying that you know when
you're a slave of allahel Allah owns you
so you do what Allah subh tells you to
do you know if if he says go right you
go right go left you go left don't do it
you don't do it because he owns you and
that's why it is it's shameful that
Allahh not only he owns you but he also
gives you all the blessings and
everything that you have that's good and
at the same time the only way you
respond to Allah is by disobeying him
that's actually very shameful and very
sad and there's no one on the planet
that would give you suppose there
there's some billionaire and he just
basically just bought you a house then
he gives you a lot of cash to put in the
bank and give you you know pocket money
and spending money then he gives you a
car and what have you and then you use
that money to put an ad in the paper to
to badmouth him and to badmouth his
business and to say nasty things about
him then he gives you more money then
you put you create a whole website just
to insult him and make and do you think
he'll keep giving you he'll probably
stop giving you no doubt no human being
would keep giving you and which means we
do not liken Allah to his creation but
look how allahel keeps giving you every
day in every moment and then you use the
blessings he gives you to disobey him
but he keeps giving you for for our
non-Muslims you said Allah just so they
know if somebody's never heard this word
Allah basically Allah is just the name
of God in Arabic A lot of times people
when they hear Allah they think this
might be a different god or something
like that but it's actually the the same
god the god of Moses as they say and god
of Abraham and the god of Jesus or Isaam
so when you say Allah basically you're
just talking about god it's the name of
god in Arabic it's not a different god
or anything of that sort now I always
like to add that if you go to an Arab
country and you go to a church there
you'll find that they say Allah in their
service and the Arabic Bible says Allah
as well so Allah keeps giving and giving
and giving even though people are
turning away from him they are doing the
most mischievous things against him they
and whenever they sin against Allah
they're using it a blessing given to
them by Allah to disobey Allah you know
people who use their money in ways that
are prohibited the money is a blessing
given to them by Allah and they're using
it to anger Allah you know some people
use their eyesight to anger Allah their
their hearing to listen to things that
they shouldn't or they use their tongue
in a way that they shouldn't all these
are blessings from Allah but Allah is so
merciful and he's so generous he's so
giving he keeps giving them even if they
keep disobeying him which is really
something that absolutely fantastic you
know but when you recognize and you link
every good thing that you have in this
life to allahel then you start to
naturally want to submit to Allah kind
of like when uh the boss at work you
know you link your relationship with
this boss to that paycheck that comes at
the end of every two weeks so when he
says do this you do it even if you don't
agree with it you might complain about
it with the co-workers you know at the
at the water cooler and what have you
but you do what he says even if it's a
ridiculous idea he says we have to do it
you're going to do it you know because
you link you know something good that
comes to you from this relationship with
your boss that is the paycheck yeah
which means we don't liken Allah to his
creation but Allah you know he he keeps
giving you every good that you have
things you can't put a price on but then
when he tells you go right you don't go
right it's very shameful you know and
and it puts a lot of people to shame
when they recognize that that's why
we're saying when you tell someone how
many things Allah gave you to replace
this one thing that you refused to give
up they start to feel ashamed if when
they start to try to count the blessings
of Allah you know
tell tell us ho how do we balance out
where it's between okay again we we
talked about being rational logical uh
something that is not just blind faith
that we follow Islam uh the submission
of yourself to the one who created you
has all the evidence that one needs to
realize this is the truth but now
someone who is agreeing with that that I
only worship the one God but now all the
other things come into play establishing
the prayer five times a day we see a lot
of non-Muslims that they come to Islam
and they do this most important thing
but then a year two years later they're
still not praying right and they might
see this as now a burden now I got to do
this five times a day how do we
distinguish where and help them to
understand this is a blessing that all
these things of staying away uh from the
let's say consumption of alcohol eating
a pork gambling some of the basic things
that these are a blessing these are
things that are going to only better our
lives right talk to us about this you
know uh the if you look at the religious
people worldwide they don't they don't
drive by a nightclub and say "I wish I
was misguided so I could just be in
there jumping up and down like a crazy
animal." You know they they they feel
that they what they have is greater
they're they have bliss because what
they have is greater and when you feel
the sweetness of iman which is the term
when you feel the the the sweetness of
believing in Allah everything else pales
in comparison you know you don't look at
people with piercings and purple hair
and say "Oh man I wish I could do that."
And and people who are doing all kinds
of things that are illegal and selling
drugs oh that's so exciting i wish I
could live that lifestyle they never
feel that kind of remorse they feel that
Allah replaced them with something
better why because they tasted the
sweetness of faith but when you don't
know the sweetness of faith it's just
burdensome to you prayer is burdensome
to you but as the prophetam used to say
he he would say comfort us with the
prayer so he's saying announce the
prayer so it can be comfortable some
people they become discomforted because
they didn't focus in in the salah they
don't know what they're saying in prayer
so they don't feel the sweetness in that
sense it will always be a burden as one
of the scholars said he said the salah
is really amazing when you try to do it
quickly and get it out of the way it
takes so long and it becomes so
difficult but when you do it slowly and
you focus and you love it it becomes so
easy and I think everybody I think you
know you everyone in the studio and
people listening at home they've
probably experienced this in Ramadan
when they go to the long prayers when
they're focused and it's a surah that
they're familiar with they're like
"Today the prayer was so short."
Especially when they don't eat too much
right you eat too much you don't know
what the imam is saying and you're like
"Man when is this going to be over?"
It's the same length of prayer every
single day some days it was so light
some days it was so heavy because you
were into it or not into it you know and
so if you if you don't want to be into
you know the the prayer if you don't if
you want to do everything you know with
half-heartedly if there's such a word
then it's going to become burdensome to
you but you only taste the sweetness of
faith when you start to enjoy these acts
of worship which is a possibility of
course it's not impossible so we're
going to take a break and we'll be right
back on Adisha
all of the prophets would have been
labeled Muslims because this essential
message was the same message submission
to the will of God
this is God talking to you directly how
could I stand behind the pulpit on
Sunday morning and preach a sermon that
I knew was at variance with the actual
taproot of Christianity
back here on the Dean showkum
all right now we're talking about
submission so either you're going to
submit willingly and a lot of things
you're you're having to submit already i
mean you you have to take the call of
nature you have to go to sleep would you
call these forms of submission in a
sense you you you have to follow some
kind of law either laws of nature laws
of gravity gravity you know so nobody's
just totally free there's the law of the
land yeah absolutely yes what's wrong
with saying you know what people feel so
comforted sometimes and and and and very
excited to say I'm a lawabiding citizen
but what's wrong with saying or feeling
like you know what I'm a I'm a a a
person who abides by the law of God
that's the best law that's the best
absolutely isn't it that's the way to go
you know but there's a problem here now
you know we talked about you're happy
and you're voluntarily submitting to the
latest fashion you don't want to wear
hijab but you'll put on you know the
clothes of the the latest celebrity
what's on the front cover of the
magazine you'll do that and you'll
submit to what they're leaning you to
submit to pulling you to right they're
like hypnotizing you and over here
you're having a hard time submitting to
what Allah told you put to hijab for
instance or you're having a hard time
fasting but now for that tournament or
for that other uh let's say uh modeling
career you're fasting to lose weight you
see absolutely yeah so you're doing
other things five times a day but you're
having a hard time doing the prayer five
times a day I'm just giving these
examples but so here you're submitting
in one way but to something that's going
to give you ultimate success in paradise
you're not why is this well uh let me
let me start with a quick story um many
decades ago when I was a young man there
was uh I got pulled over by a police
officer and I didn't have the
appropriate sticker on my wind
windshield i didn't know which you know
which color and all that stuff but it
struck me that this officer was really
really upset i mean it's not your job to
be upset i mean your job is just to say
you don't have this the right color
sticker and give me the ticket and say
"Okay make sure you put the right one
on." But he was so angry that I didn't
have the right sticker on there and I
was thinking look at how immersed he is
into this law how much he believes in it
to the fact that he's offended that I
don't have this pink sticker or the
green sticker i mean take it easy but
people could get so caught up in these
things but at the same time perhaps I'm
not saying for sure but perhaps that
same man would overlook so many of the
rules and laws of allahel but he gets so
angry about this little sticker and it
goes back to what we're saying that if
you if you don't submit to Allah or to
the law of Allah you're you're
submitting to something at some point or
another it could be as ridiculous as you
know the green sticker versus the pink
sticker and you get upset about that so
uh the truth is you're going to have to
submit and you're going to have you're
going to submit to something or if you
don't like it's funny that in in the end
you're going to be brought back to what
you were running away from like in this
the the scholars would say like that if
you not if you don't walk to the masid
when you hear the the call for prayer if
you don't walk to the masjid you'll be
carried to the masid it doesn't mean
anyone's going to force you and carry
you to the masid it means you're going
to die what are they going to do they're
going to wash you and bring you to the
masid and they're going to pray over you
so if you don't come and pray they're
going to pray over you and when they
carry you and bring you into that masjid
so you're going to come in there anyways
it's inevitable how about the woman now
that doesn't want to Yeah i mean like
you'll you'll find one time this
actually this woman told me that you
know be before I put on hijab I I was
saying over my dead body that I that I
put this hijab on which hijab basically
is the veil which is a piece of cloth
and I told that's the truth i mean it
would be over your dead body you would
die and then they'll cover you with a
piece piece of cloth then they'll bring
you pray over you and put you in a hole
in the ground this is the reality of the
situation you know i mean in the end
it's linked to you know paradise or the
hellfire may Allah forbid which is not
something simple so your obedience it
also has something to push you to
motivate you to obey Allah that's the
thing next question how do you get
motivated how there's something within
is it something some people is a
deficiency in the law now which there's
no way that can be or is it something
within the person that a person has to
adjust their way of thinking they have
to go ahead and and fix what's in
themselves so they can get to submitting
well it could be uh it could be 101
different things and that's why when you
look at the way Allah will like get us
to do something where Allah will
motivate us into action he will do it in
many different ways in the Quran
sometimes he'll tell the benefit of
doing something sometimes he'll tell us
the harm of leaving it sometimes he'll
tell us the harm of doing it sometimes
he'll tell us the the benefit of leaving
something sometimes he'll tell us the
reward in the in the next life sometimes
he'll tell us the reward in this life
and everyone a different one a different
one of these things might strike the
right chord as they say with that person
you know so it's not like there's a
specific formula they say "Well this is
how you you know you you you stay away
from your desires this is how you It's
not always that scaring people with the
heller is what will work sometimes you
tell them about paradise and that will
motivate them into action so everyone
gets something different and is
motivated by something different we just
have they're signaling that we're almost
out of time if you can give some advice
to those people the sincere people who
are having some issues with this state
of being a true worshipper a true slave
to the one who created them okay i also
want to leave with the thought that you
are to submit to Allah the one who
created you and the one that he
commanded you to to obey as well which
is the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wasallam over 60 times in the Quran
Allah will command the believers to obey
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam
and sometimes he'll even equate obeying
the prophet to obeying Allah so he'll
say
whoever obeys the prophet he has obeyed
Allah so he made them almost equal in
this sense so everyone has the desires
everyone has what will pull you in this
direction or that direction but We
recognize that we are slaves of allahel
that he owns us he tells us what to do
what we can't do he is the one who gives
us everything that we have so when he
tells us to do something we try to fight
against our desire fight against
whatever is pulling us and of of
material love of this world and obey our
creator because there is a greater
reward coming far greater than this duny
and that's something that we should keep
in mind inshallah may we all be there in
the lights of paradise amen thank you
very much my pleasure that's what we
should be striving for paradise this
life is short where will you live 10 20
30 years from now
you can die at any minute and at the end
you are a slave to everything except who
you should have been a slave to the one
who created you he's asked you to do
something simple to worship him alone to
serve him alone and to be good to be the
best human being that you can be to be
in a constant state of development to
being the best human being that you can
be and that's not going to be achieved
by following your desires it's going to
be achieved by following your creator
and the last and final messenger sent to
mankind the prophet Muhammad peace and
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this message of peace Islam submission
to the one God i come from a science
major when you look at the Bible and it
says the the earth has four corners
that's wrong
if any Christian can point out a single
unequivocal statement a single
unambiguous statement where Jesus Christ
peace be upon himself says that I am God
or where he says worship me I'm ready to
accept Christianity
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it's cold it's lame
everybody sleeping
i arise
and ask Allah to forgive me
oh Allah you see
oh Allah you know
all the sins I do
i turn to you to forgive my sins in my
heart
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i'm your sinful slave
you're my loving Lord
i'm the one who runs away
oh Allah guide me