Amen.
[singing]
Yes.
[singing]
There is none [music and singing]
greater
than the creator. [singing]
in a Oh,
Uh, can you unmute yourself?
Alhamdulillah.
Welcome to the Dean Show and we have the
biggest online event of the year with an
all-star lineup and we're going to get
right into it with my next guest. Needs
no introduction. He is the founder and
dean of the IOU Islamic online
university
and he's also published over written
translated published over 50 books. He's
no stranger to the dean show. Without
further ado, let's bring out my shake
your shake Dr. Bal Phillips here on the
dean show.
Sh. How are you? Thank you for accepting
invitation to be with us here on the
special occasion.
My pleasure to be able to help in the
effort.
Well, we'll go ahead and let you take it
from here.
All praise is due to Allah and may
Allah's peace and blessings be on the
last prophet Muhammad Sam
and on all those who follow the path of
righteousness until the last day.
[clears throat]
The topic that I have chosen
to briefly share with you
is that of the importance of Islamized
education.
First and foremost, we need to
understand what is education.
And there are many different definitions
of education. But the one which for me
sums it all up is the definition wherein
it's stated that education
is the way by which a civilization
transfers its culture to the next
generation.
We're talking about the transfer of
culture.
So education the facts and the figures
are wrapped in a package of culture.
So naturally because there is a distinct
difference between
Islamic culture, the culture of Muslims
when practiced according to the
teachings
and
other cultures that are around in the
world.
And the dominating culture right now is
that of
Western civilization's culture.
That's reality. Now what do we do with
that reality as Muslims? Whether we live
within
America,
UK,
Canada,
Western countries, France, etc.
or we live in Muslim countries that are
not necessarily implementing Islamic law
across the board to varying degrees.
The educational process is ongoing
and for the west
western civilization
they have chosen to go secular
basically to re remove religion from
education and the process of education
and in that removal
they have removed morality from
education. So all the subjects we study,
we study them without any moral compass
guiding us. We just study the facts and
the figures and we get the skills etc to
get out after graduation to work within
the system and earn a living for
ourselves, vacations, holidays,
retirement, etc.
However,
as the prophet wasallam said,
each and every one of you is a shepherd
responsible for his or her flock. And
then he went into the details of the
husband and the wife and the family etc.
But the main point here is that the
children that we raise,
they have a right to Islamized
education.
That's their right.
And if we don't give it to them, we will
be asked.
Each and every one of you is a shepherd
like a shepherd responsible for his or
her flock. We will be asked about how we
looked after the flock which was put
under our responsibility and control.
So raising up our children especially
those of us who are in living in western
civilization
there are many many challenges
what is being taught in the schools
across the west
in many instances go against Islamic
teachings.
So we as Muslims are obliged, if we're
going to live in the West, we are
obliged to develop an alternative,
an alternative way to convey the facts
and the figures, but in an Islamic
cultural package where morality is
embedded
from the very first day.
So this is
a look at education
as a responsibility which we all carry
for ourselves as well as for our
children
which requires us
to integrate
Islamic teachings into the various
sciences departments etc. you know
where people specialize all of the
various subjects whether mathematics,
science,
uh geography, whatever
the Islamic
principles and teachings should be
integrated and of the most important
is that of morality because Prophet
Muhammad wasallam himself said
I was only sent to perfect for you the
highest of moral character traits.
So the prophet sallallaihi wasallam
summed up the whole message of Islam in
the one word morality.
Worshiing Allah is morally good.
Worshipping other than Allah is morally
bad.
Being kind to other human beings is
morally good. Being evil to other human
beings is morally bad.
Being destructive to the
environment that we live in is morally
bad and being protective is morally good
and so on and so forth.
that Islamic morality
which is not to say in it's unique in
the sense that people don't know this is
good and bad and no of course
Islam didn't bring new good that people
didn't know for the most part for the
most part is the same good but the point
is that it is connected with belief in
God and introduced into all subjects
which are taught in school
and as such
It is then
our duty to develop Islamic schools
where students have the opportunity to
be exposed to modern
knowledge, modern
advanced uh civilizations
products,
but to be exposed from an Islamic
perspective. This is what is required.
So
considering this responsibility,
Muslims in different parts of the west
and the east have set up Islamic schools
or what we call Islamic schools. But of
course there are principles that govern
what an Islamic school should be and we
have to be particularly careful to
ensure that the necessary components of
what makes up an Islamic school are in
place.
So we in fact convey to our students
the teachings of Islam from
the oneness of Allah that he alone
deserves to be worshiped all the way to
charity, zaka, fasting, all the other
principles of Islam right on to
kindness, gentleness
in dealing with our each Other Islam is
the religion of peace. The religion of
Adam. The one religion which Allah
chose for human beings as he chose one
set of human beings
to live in this world.
And he created for them this one world.
He created one religion.
And that religion begins with
the oneness of Allah.
So
in order to achieve this goal,
the Dean show
has been active in trying to develop in
Florida
the Dean Center.
And that dean center
has in it a recording studio to
prepare and develop and and and uh
distribute the dean show segments.
Alhamdulillah
keep it going strong. It also has
athletic
facilities
for young people, children to play. It
also has within it a masid,
full-fledged masid
and most importantly
it has an Islamic school.
They have
importantly included the Islamic school
as a key element in the dean center. So
my brothers and sisters, we ask you to
share in this good, be a part of this
good by supporting, donating,
providing whatever help we can give to
make this dean center a reality
for Muslims in America.
and as an example for Muslims around the
world.
Arsh Dr. Balah Phillips, thank you very
much. May Allah the Almighty reward you.
Thank you for being with us and all your
support.
My pleasure.
Hold on for inviting me.
I I want I got one more person who's
going to give salams. Special guest
here. You know him. I know him. We know
him. Abd Raheem Green, can you give
salams to the before he leaves?
[laughter]
We can't hear you. I'll mute your mic.
I'm really sorry. Yeah. Thanks for the
reminder, Sheh Bal. Mah on point as
always.
Sheh, how come you look younger every
time I see you? How do you do that?
[laughter]
Ask
all right. We'll see youam.
Seeing you.
Good to see you again.
And my next guest coming up, no stranger
to the Dean Show, is Sheikh Abdul Raheem
Green. But before we bring him on, let's
have a word with Dr. Haf Im Musalamikum.
Brother Dean show.
Go ahead. We got We got 30 seconds. We
got to We can't keep Shake Abdahim Green
waiting. So we got 30 seconds. Go ahead.
Talk.
My brothers and sisters, you've been
listening to Dr. Phillip. You know the
message resonate that he has spoken.
enter into our hearts. It is the time
for our action inshallah. All the
brains, all the intellectuals, all the
scholars all across the globe are
supporting this noble cause. It is our
time to support them inshallah tala and
say to their investment
opportunity that they are offering us.
Support the dean center. Dean center is
about to become a reality which has been
the dream of many of us. I would like to
urge you all to do whatever you can
inshallah. Can I urge you all on the
statement that the Dr. Phip has said
make the donation inshallah tala we are
looking for donations as small as even a
dollar. It's a baraka that we need to
start out with. Everybody out there can
do everything. The link is already there
on the comment side. I would like to you
to go and log in and support. But
inshallah tala while you all doing all
you can I would like to appeal to those
individuals who could give us $10,000
15,000 25 if you can if Allah bless you
now is the time to do it. It is the
opportunity that you could invest with
Allah subhanana wa ta'ala and deposit in
the hereafter bank. This is the
opportunity and if you even if you can
give $1,000 $100 do it inshallah can I
have at least two or three brothers
giving $1,000 each inshallah. $1,000
each inshallah.
Let me see on the comments box inshallah
if you can do that. I would like for you
all to get the word out to your friends,
relatives, let them log in, let them
listen to it and you never know who
Allah subhanana wa tala will guide to
participate in the beautiful noble
cause. So inshallah tala can I have
couple brothers inshallah tala and we'll
be having green also speaking while
you're listening to the sheh say
in your heart so shanan can go away and
the message will enter in our hearts
inshallah tala and our hearts and our
wallets will open for this noble cause
may Allah make it easy for all of us
inshallah
thank you sh let's bring out shik abdah
green here on the dean show go ahead
take it away shealam
alaikum brothers and sistersamikum
everyone. Um, let me just flip my
camera. Maybe that will be better. Okay.
Yes, brothers and sisters. Listen, I
don't know much about, you know, uh,
Eddie's Center. I've obviously watched a
little bit of things uh, here and there
and been keeping up with what Eddie's
been doing. I've known Eddie
um, Subhan Allah, I don't know how long
since he started his amazing work. And I
want to say this is this is really what
has to be said to everybody. The work
that Eddie has been doing for years now,
probably coming on to decades,
maybe 20 years, I don't know. He'll tell
us how long he's been doing it for. Uh
this is very important work. This is
groundbreaking work that he's been
doing. Um, and I don't think there there
can't be that many people in the
English-speaking world who haven't I
mean of the Muslim English speaking word
world who haven't heard of Eddie and
have not watched at least some of his
programs uh the Dean Show.
But one of the things that I think is
maybe one of the most important things,
brothers and sisters, and you know, I
know maybe these days I come across
maybe as a bit of a broken record and I
keep saying the same things over and
over again because I think they're very
important and that's why I emphasize it
and that's why I stress on it. And this
is the whole subject of inviting
non-Muslims to Islam. And one of the
things that I do feel um is that
unfortunately the Muslim ummah has
become so obsessed with itself almost
narcissistic
in the sense that we're so wrapped up in
our own problems. We're so wrapped up in
our own concerns and for very good
reasons. Um especially for Muslims
living in the west, we are struggling a
lot. We are seeing we are losing our
children. Just yesterday a brother FI um
and his 11year-old son who is in the US
of A um is saying that he feels like
he's bisexual and that the Quran is made
up.
This is the sort of thing that many of
us are encountering encountering.
um even people who come from pious
families whose
fathers and mothers are practicing
Muslims sometimes even imams sometimes
even scholars
and it's very tempting to think that the
solution to these things lies in
becoming even more inward
um retreating even further from society
trying to isolate ourselves even more
from all of these things. But
personally, I don't think that that is
an effective long-term strategy. I don't
even think it's going to be particularly
effective in the short term, but in the
long term, it's it's probably really not
going to work out that well.
What do I think will work out? And I'm
not saying that we won't leave lose
people on the wayside. I'm not saying
that people, you know, we won't lose
some of our children. But what I do
believe that is if we have a daer
mindset, if we have a mindset that we
are the people with the cure, we are the
people who have the guidance from Allah.
And this guidance from Allah can enable
us to transform not only people's lives
individually, but to transform people's
lives collectively. And we only need to
see the mess that is happening in the
world today when it comes to economics,
when it comes to the rising the
astronomical rises in prices, of fuel,
of the cost of living, of many different
things, of inflation, which is just
another way in which people are robbed
of their money. Because in reality, what
it means is that whatever you're earning
actually buys less. That's what really
it means. Because the worth of your
money is just it's not worth as much.
You can't do as much with it. Which
means in effect you are poorer. And the
thing is that we know that Islam has
real practical solutions for these
issues. We see divisions in society. We
see society breaking down in so many
different ways. And again,
we know as Muslims that Islam has
solutions. In fact, Islam is the only
real solution for these problems. And
it's, you know, it's a slogan. We hear
this slogan a lot. Islam is the
solution.
And unfortunately, in some ways, that's
what it's become. It's become a slogan.
And you know we love to say it but
unfortunately many of us don't live it.
And even more unfortunately many of us
are not really skilled or capable of
explaining to people and conveying the
message to people as to how and why
Islam is a solution. But one thing we
have to say about Eddie and one thing we
have to say about the Dean show is that
is what he has consistently done week
after week after week, show after show
after show. He has tried to show
non-Muslims in a very beautiful, very
approachable
manner
not only the errors of their ways but
the beauty of Islam
and this attitude, this mindset, this
way of thinking. Imagine if our children
when they went to these non-Muslim
schools, when they went out into
society, they did that with the mindset,
with the understanding not of some
inferiority complex, not of the idea
that somehow they are living at the
behest of this super advanced
civilization,
but rather understanding that although
the West may have achieved some things
materialistically, They are lacking many
things spiritually, mentally, even
materialistically.
And that Islam is a solution for the
real problems that people have in their
everyday lives. Whether it is stress,
whether it is worry, whether it is
economic problems, whether it's social
problems, mental problems, so many of
these things, division, uh, of so-called
races and color, Islam has and will deal
with these things.
But unfortunately
very very few Muslims have taken up the
mantle of da. And that is the only
reason I am right here right now talking
to you brothers and sisters and
participating
in this event that Eddie has organized.
The real reason I'm here right now is
because I know that Eddie is someone who
cares very deeply, very profoundly
about inviting and calling non-Muslims
to Islam. And I am very very convinced I
believe very firmly that one of the big
one of the main causes
of the mess that we find ourselves in as
a nation as an ummah is that by and
large unfortunately we have abandoned
this obligation of da. We we do not give
this obligation of inviting humanity to
to Islam. We do not give this obligation
of inviting humanity to Islam. We do not
give it the priority. We do not give it
the importance that it deserves.
Just the other day, my son was telling
me, "Oh, Aba, you need to go to America.
Mashallah, they have fantastic
communities there. They're really,
really sorted out, etc., etc."
And I said, "You know what? Probably if
I go there, I'll just get upset and I'll
just get angry." He said, 'N no why you
know it's just amazing. I said well let
let me ask you a question. What's their
da like? How good are they are? How good
are they at talking to non-Muslims about
Islam? And then he went quiet. He said,
"Well, yeah, maybe there's not that much
of that." Okay. And when I say da'ah, I
mean, you know, I don't mean interfaith
work, right? I don't mean you know um
social work. Um I don't mean you know um
advocacy. I don't mean um you know just
joining hands with various groups and
various people. I'm not saying that type
of work is not important is I'm not
saying that. But let's not pretend it's
dao.
Dao is calling people to tohed.
That is what da is inviting people
clearly and unambiguously to Islam
[snorts] as Eddie does. As Eddie does
and we see it in the dean show. We see
him doing that. We see him inviting
people. He's always inviting people.
Always. He takes the time to invite
people either to be Muslim or to find
out more about Islam. That's one of the
reasons I love Eddie. That's one of the
reasons I love his show. And that's one
of the reasons I'm supporting his work.
And that's the one of the reasons that
um I'm encouraging everybody else to
support what he does because I know that
what he does will have that element that
key element for me. It is key. Um
without that key element of DA being
very prominent, being highly prominent,
I don't think that there is going to be
long-term successes.
Unfortunately, what we will end up doing
is building what I call, you know, rich
ghettos. That's what I said to my son.
Is it maybe that's what it's like in
America. You know, everyone just
isolates themselves and you have a rich
ghetto. I mean, it's it's a ghetto, but
it's just with lots more money. You
know, people are well off and they drive
nice cars, but they still leave these
lead these isolated lives, right? And
when I say isolated, I mean, and it's
strange that Subhan Allah, I remember
one of our teams went to America and
they went out and they went on the
streets and they were giving da and
people were saying to them, "Where have
you been? Why haven't you done this
before? Where why aren't you out there
talking to us and telling us about
Islam? It's just so good to see you
people out here telling us about what
your religion is about. I you know, you
have so many freedoms. We have so many
possibilities and so many freedoms
living in the West. But unfortunately,
we don't make use of them. But I know
that Eddie is one person I feel really
confident that not only has he done and
he will continue to do that because he
has the same passion that I have, he has
the same concerns that I have. So
brothers and sisters, may Allah bless
you for listening. Inshallah, please
support Eddie. Please support the Dean
show. Please support the new center
because I'm sure it's going to be a
center for calling people to
which ultimately is the job of all the
prophets as Allah said
which means that Allah did not send to
any nation a messenger except that he
called the people to worship Allah alone
and reject the worship of the false gods
brothers and sisters
keep watching
You really hit the nail. You know when
you talk about dawa is not is an
obligation many have taken as a optional
thing and you really brought the point
back to this obligation and it is the
duty that everyone of us have to take
care of it and if we cannot do it
individually we have got to at least
support those individuals and
organizations who are doing the job for
us in this absolutely that you have
Eddie is doing this job and we need to
support Eddie in any shape and formah
may Allah reward May Allah reward you.
Amen. Amen.
To bring the best in us.
Alhamdulillah. Alhamdulillah.
Allah. Dear brothers and sisters out
there, you've heard the sheh. She is
talking about from his experience. The
words were coming out directly from his
heart. This is the moment. This is the
reality. We really need to live up to
the requirement that we have as a
Muslims. Dawa is a must and this is the
best way to support this inshallah
inshallah. So I would like to also
request everybody to understand that we
can accept donations through credit card
online. You can go online click on the
link and support us or you can mail in
your checks as well. And local brothers
and sisters here in US you could also
sell it or send any other shape or form
that you know how to get the money. But
the money is needed. Time is of great
essence at this time and we need to make
sure that we raise the needed funds in
order to bring this dream into reality.
The dean center you know scholars said
that if Allah subhanana wa ta'ala like
what you do he might give you another
opportunity and that is a sign of your
act and good deeds being accepted. Allah
blessed brother Eddie with the dean
show. with that dean show he was able to
reach millions
single-handedly
so wisely addressing the Islamophobics
clearing the misconception inviting
people to the true Islam like Dr. Green
was saying and also giving the dawa
which is the obligation. Allah granted
acceptance to this work to the degree.
Now Allah has trusted him from dean show
to dean center from the dean center will
be able to call 300 million Americans to
Islam
and your participation in this regard
will go a long way for generations to
come will benefit from it. If you only
understand and realize the need and the
importance and the depth of this cause,
you need not anybody to tell you that
you need to donate right now. So I would
urge you all to do whatever you can to
participate in any shape and form and
every little bit counts. It is not the
dollar that you donate that matters. It
is the tawa that comes from your heart
that matters and your support. So
inshallah I urge you all to give
whatever you can. go online and talk
[clears throat] about it and give so
others can be encouraged by your giving
and you will also get the share from it.
So inshallah any amount 1,000 3,000
5,000 10,000 please do it do it now
don't just think that okay I will donate
will convince you not to do it again
later now when you feeling you want to
give discharge it before it is too late
inshallah we have another guest who's
ready to inshallah tala encourage us to
do this noble job [clears throat]
accept it from all of
I cannot hear.
Eddie, you need to unmute.
We're We got an allstar lineup. Thank
you. Thank you, Shakes, for coming on.
And I'm going to keep We're running a
little bit behind, so don't worry. We
got Shake Hamza You uh I'm sorry, Shay
Hamsa [laughter]
at the back and Shake Osama here with
us. Shake, we're running a little bit
behind. Uh we're gonna jump in with Shik
Osama and then we got Hamza Zorsis. My
brother Hamza Zors is coming up next.
Shik Osama, how are you? Go ahead and
take it away.
amlaykum.
Thank you Eddie for this invitation
[clears throat and cough] and it is a
pleasure to be with all this wonderful
group and subhan Allah what I want to
talk about as if we complete each other
me and Dr. BL and Abdul Rahim, brother
Abdim.
Uh, in fact, uh,
when we talk about DA, I'm always
thinking about the seed. When we want to
plant a seed, we have to know the soil
and the nature of this soil. What we
need to improve the soil, what
fertilizer we need to get a good healthy
plant.
And the soil of the da is the world is
the people is the humanity. And if we
look at the world around us nowadays, we
find that the the world are suffering.
Suffering economically, suffering
politically, suffering socially and so
on.
And this happened uh as a as a direct
uh reason of controlling of one union
paradigm of the people which is a
western paradigm.
We are not talking only about the west
about the other countries all other
civilization are being affected
negatively by controlling of this
paradigm on us. Ask any youth anywhere
what is the definition of success you
will find the answer all materials. When
you talk about freedom you when you talk
about many things you can find this
paradigm control even Muslim societies
in a Muslim countries. So we are in
front and facing a real uh challenging
in in da and in our life. And when I
travel around the world, you know, I
always find the people complain from the
same thing. Demolization
of the societies even in a big and and
and rich countries like Japan, like
Korea, all of them losing their their
identity for a benefit of the this
paradigm. Now why we are talking about
these things? Because we reach the why
what is the solution? Where is the
alternative? When I look I find the only
the only religion on earth qualified
to give alternative the humanity for the
humanity to save the humanity is Islam
to save the family which is
[clears throat] start to to be diluted.
you know every every thing in our
society is start to be lost and it
reached the other countries not only in
the west. So I consider you in the west
is in the front line actually. You are
not only making da in America. You are
making da for the humanity because
America is the one who transferred this
paradigm to the rest of the world. So
you are in the middle. You are there. So
let me uh share you my my experience and
my what I did in some countries in in
Da. So I start to contact NOS's I start
non-Muslims and I start to to see the
communities and what what problems they
have, what social problem they have and
I offer the Islamic solutions for it.
You know, of course, I make it brief,
but it it needs a lot of of of work and
amazingly amazingly that I found a lot
of good responses and I am not hiding. I
am Muslim. I have the solution.
I will quotation
with one journalist. He told me you want
to promote social value uh Islamic
values. I told him do you have
economical problem? He said yes. You you
try to get solution from the west,
right? Or from China. Yes. You have a
traffic problems. Yes. I you you get
some solution from Japan. Said yes. I
told him do you have a a social
problems? Said of course. Said we have
the solution. Nobody ask you to be
Japanese. Nobody ask you to be western
to take their solution. Take my
solution. the guy shake hand with me and
we start to work in many social works as
a Muslims and we are telling them we
have the solutions and it was amazing uh
results. So what I am looking for dean
uh center you know dean show was unique
and I am looking for a deemed center to
be unique too to solve these problems to
be a place you know to introduce Islam
to the others that's good that's very
good to be lighthouse to the society to
let the Muslims in their society
as add value not versus each other. How
me as a Muslim can be add value to the
place I'm living in. How I can help in
stopping drugs, stopping crimes, in
stopping abusing of childs of or
children or or all other uh problems
because others cannot give these
solutions. The other thing I'm looking
for and this one of the challenges we
face in DA the division of the Muslim
and tag each others and even it reach
and public debates
Muslim against Muslim is something maybe
some of you don't know it but we saw it
in some countries and some countries
where the Muslim are minorities.
So we need to learn how to disagree in
in in in a proper way.
how to to to when we disagree, how to
accept the disagreement and how to look
for the common between us and I inspired
you know you know by the Quran when he
said how to deal with non-Muslim or
when we talk to the other
societies and tell them come to the
human value to common value and this is
what Islam giving It works a lot. So the
other thing
I'm looking for for
Dean center is what after shahada for
the new Muslims. Many of us working in
dawa and less working in what we do for
the new Muslim to enable them to face
the the life and to be good das also.
Now many in dawa when we talk about our
work and our many I hear them say we
want to share and when we tell them come
to share they have no time. It is the
time now share by your money. You will
take the whole reward with us with with
Eddie with everybody working in DA. Let
us save the humanity of what is going
on. Let us raise up the Islamic paradigm
to save this generations coming
generation. And we can do that
inshallah.
I believe that we
save the humanity is the call.
Save the humanity. help inshallah in
this dean center
and all of us with you inshallah till we
find it a real center.
Now is the time dear viewers please
support this noble cause as the sheh has
said this is the cause of Muslims and
one very important point the sheh
brought to our attention what Muslim
American does matters and affects the
rest of the world. If we understand our
obligation here, we can be impactful for
the rest of the world in a very positive
manner. There is no one out there who
can paint a very positive picture of
ours other than when we assume the
responsibility. And in order for us to
do this job effectively, we need to have
this dean center become a reality. So I
urge you all to do whatever you can
inshallah to support. Now is the moment
to do it. I really would like to see
online our people can go and support
this. I have now mashallah text
messaging internationally people are
watching Dean show live and have many
people internationally known brother
Eddie of the Dean show for years and
they've been following him and the
interviews that he has done been used in
many part of the world. I would like to
appeal every corner of the glo globe to
extend your support in any shape and
form to bring the dean center into
reality.
Brother Hamza Andreas
this and I want every single one of you
to support Eddie from the Dean Show
financially and otherwise. But in what
way? I want you to support his new
project, the Dean Center. It's going to
be a transformative experience, this
center. Why? Because it's going to be a
masid. It's going to be a place of
worship. It's also going to have fitness
facilities. And it's also going to be a
da center to call people back to Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala, Muslims and
non-Muslims. And we trust Eddie
completely. I for one would take a
thousand bullets for Eddie. He has a
vision. He has more [clears throat] than
15 years of experience in the daer. He's
had a huge success with the Dean Show
and he has the support of many dua and
preachers and scholars from all around
the world. It's going to be an amazing
project for everybody. Go to the
deanscenter.org, donate now.
Without further delay, my brothers and
sisters, my brother, your brother,
Hamza, take it away. How are you?
How you doing?
Alhamdulillah.
Your smile makes other people smile.
Alhamdulillah. Bless you. May Allah make
you smile on the day of judgment.
Inshallah.
Amen. Amen. When I heard those thousand
bullets, brother, that melted my heart.
Alhamdulillah. [laughter]
May Allah bless you too. Thank you,
brother.
So, what I have to say, brothers and
sisters and friends, is very clear and
it's very important. The first thing I
would like to say is that when we look
at the work of brother Eddie over 15
years of experience with the YouTube
channel and all the other great work
that he's done, this has shown
consistency.
And what's extremely important in
building trust with the community is to
be consistent. And to be honest, I'm not
aware of anyone more consistent than
Eddie from a Daer context. And may Allah
bless him and preserve him. And from
this I want to anchor off on a very
important point where the reason we have
to support the dean center.
There are many reasons but one key
reason I want to talk about is the ayah
in the Quran when Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala says in verse 33
and who is better in speech than the one
who calls to Allah does righteousness
and says indeed I am one of those who
submit. Now this ayah for me is a kind
of holistic approach to the da. Allah is
telling us who we must become and what
things we have to have in place in order
to effectively give da to be of the
people who are praised by Allah. Meaning
that Allah is saying that those who are
better in speech are the ones who call
to Allah are the ones who do good deeds
are righteous and they say that I am one
of the Muslims. So let's break this
down. So Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says
that those who call to Allah call to and
we know not only from Eddie's work but
because of his amazing vision for the
center that he is going to be calling
people to the oneness of Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala to affirm his oneness and also
to know Allah to love Allah to obey
Allah to be humble before him to fear
Allah and to direct and single out all
acts of worship to Allah alone the
internal acts of worship and the
external acts of worship. This is what
the center is going to be doing. It's
going to be calling people to Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala making that direct
call. The second thing, the second thing
that the ayah talks about is
righteousness. That there are people of
righteousness. And we know that the dean
center is going to be facilitating this
righteousness. Not only in speech,
calling people to this righteousness,
but there's righteous people
facilitating this project. I don't want
to throw dust in the face of the
founders or the organizers but we know
throughout the consistency that
righteousness righteousness is there not
only in behavior and conduct and the way
they interact with the best manners but
also what they call to as well. So
there's going to be that righteousness
and the other thing is what Allah tells
us and they say that I am one of the
those who submit they say that they are
those who submit to Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala. In essence, they are connecting
the righteousness to to imm.
So all the great activities and actions
whether it's the fitness facilities,
whether it's helping those in need,
whether it's counseling services or it's
all the amazing things that going to be
happening in the dean center, it's going
to be connected back to Allah and his
messenger. It's going to be connected
back to So what am I saying here? What
I'm seeing here is the dean center is
going to be implementing holistic da'ah
as per the words of Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala. They call to Allah. They do
righteousness and they say I'm one of
the Muslims. They connect that
righteousness to their submission to
Allah. Cuz remember, let me just remind
you, what does Allah say? And who is
better in speech than the one who calls
to Allah?
The one who is righteous does
righteousness. and the one who says that
I am one of those who submit. And what's
interesting here from a point of view
when Allah is saying that they say that
I am one of those who submit it could
also mean that I'm just any other like
any other Muslim because sometimes when
we get involved in the daer we could get
arrogant. We can say it's all about me.
But we've seen from the work of Eddie
we've seen of the bulls who support him
and we've seen what the vision is for
this center is that it's not going to be
like that. It's going to bring the
community together. We are the ones who
submit to Allah. There's no arrogance
here. So the reason I wanted to frame it
in this way is to show you that if
you're going to support anything,
brothers and sisters, support a project
that implements holistic daer. They call
to they call to Allah. They are
righteous and they say I'm one of the
Muslims. They connect their actions to
iman. And this is exactly what Allah
tells us in the 41st chapter in the 33rd
verse, which is absolutely phenomenal.
So if I were to give money, I wanted to
give money and yes, inshallah I make a
commitment to support this as well.
Inshallah, after the the the what you
call it, the the live, I'm going to go
on the link and I'm going to donate
myself. And I'm not just saying that
just to say like, you know, uh I don't
want to show off my deeds, but it's to
encourage you that I'm not just here as
a speaker. I'm here as a supporter as
well. And I'm going to also walk the
walk and give a donation. And I want
every single one of you to donate as
well because this is this dean center is
going to be implementing an amazing ay
of the Quran which is holistic da. Now
what's very interesting is the ay that
follows that is phenomenal. Verse 34
Allah says good and evil are not the
same. Repel by that which is better and
between two people there's any enmity or
hatred it will turn into intimate
friendship.
This is such a beautiful ayah and this
is Allah is telling us how we must
become in the da as well. What does
righteousness really mean? Is to have
hilm to have forbearance to to emulate
the prophet sallallah.aii wasallam. And
we've seen through the consistency of
Eddie's work and we've seen from the
vision of this center is to have people
who are people of helm of forbearance
when there are islamophobes or haters
that you repel by that which is better.
And what do the say? The say repelling
by that which is better is repelling by
that which is more virtuous and more
beautiful. We need to be Muslims of
virtue and of beauty. And this is
exactly part of the strategy of the dean
center. So how can you go wrong? The
dean center is a manifestation of
verse 33 and verse 34. And it's very
hard to find centers like this. And we
need this especially in North America to
make that much needed impact. And that's
why it's not just bricks. It's not just
pestl and mortar. It's not just cement.
You are supporting a vehicle that's
going to express and be an embodiment of
surah verse 33 and verse 34. Brothers
and sisters, how can you go wrong? How
can you go wrong? And just finally, I
want to add this very clearly for you to
understand. When you support the Dao,
brothers and sisters, the reward is
phenomenal. Now we should never compare
between humanitarian efforts and da
efforts. We we need both. But if if
there was no choice and you had to
choose one or the other and this is what
I believe in. You support the da. Why?
Because when you support the da you
facilitate people you could becoming
Muslim. Those Muslims are going to have
iman inshallah and they're going to also
give sodaka. They're also going to
support other da organizations. They're
also going to support humanitarian
organizations. So supporting the da is
supporting everything because you
increase the iman of people and you
create people with iman by the will and
mercy of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and
all of that is yours. So imagine the
dean center and I know this is possible
because we've seen it before. The dean
center get a,000 shahadas a month. In a
year they get 12,000 shahadas a year.
They have a new Muslim program that
takes care of all of these shahadas.
Just look, think about the the the
reward. It's mindboggling because your
donation that supports these 12,000
shahadas a year, each of these 12,000
shahadas, inshallah, they're going to be
praying because there's new Muslim
support. They're going to be fasting.
They're going to be reading Quran.
They're going to be giving sodaka. And
you're going to get a share in all of
their reward based on the hadith of the
prophet sallallah.aii wasallam, which
I'm paraphrasing that if you call
someone to something good, you will get
a share in that reward as well. So think
about the mind-boggling numbers. It's
beyond anything you can imagine. 12,000
shahadas means you get the role of all a
share in the role of all of their
prayers, their saddaka, their good
deeds. And if they get married, that
makes it 24,000. If they have two kids
each, that makes it 48,000 people. And
you get the share and the reward of all
of their good deeds. And that is just in
this generation. Imagine the generations
to come. all of that for you just by
supporting the da you can't go wrong
brothers and sisters everything that
I've mentioned so far is it should be
enough and with iman it should be enough
so dig deep the trust is there the
vision is there the holistic da is there
and the reward is there how can you go
wrong donate now now I'm telling you
okay donate now please there how else
can I do it if I could shake you and
tell you I would shake you look I'm
shaking the
donate now. All right. May Allah bless
every single one of you. I love Eddie.
As I said, I'll take a thousand bullets
for him. May Allah preserve him and his
family. And may Allah preserve every
single one of you.
Hamza, thank you so much for being with
us, taking the time, and we're going to
meet inshallah next time. We got our
Shay from Bosnia here. We wanted you
before you leave. We got Shay Golo here
from Mustad. When you were in Bosnia,
uh, Hamza, did you visit Mustar?
I think so. I don't remember now.
You know where That's where the bridge
the bridge is where they do the jumping
off the bridge.
Yes. Yes, I went there.
This is the This is the she who jumps
off the bridge. This
with the festival. [laughter]
Well, bless him.
So, inshallah when you visit, this is uh
uh this is the MUI from
bless you.
You too, Shay. All right. and I'll talk
to you soon.Um
and our next guest coming up here, take
it away. We got She gush all the way
from Bosnia.
[clears throat]
Uh first of all I have to say that my uh
this is my first speech in English and
my English is not so good. So because of
that I apologize for any possible
mistakes in my speech but I hope hope
that you will understand me. Uh I want
to take thank brother Eddie for invite
uh in inviting me to take a part in this
uh event and also all brothers speakers
before me. Uh they mentioned so many
useful things. Uh in this few minutes I
will talk about uh few things which I
consider very important. Uh first is uh
importance and value of da. I think that
uh already most of us know so much about
these things but we have to remind our
yourself uh about that. Uh I will say
that very often when we uh when we are
doing dava or talking about dava
uh we are not so uh aware of importance
and value value while value of it. I
think that we'll uh I think we will best
understand it if we imagine for example
uh a man who is very very sick and he
feel pain
uh very big pain or feel pain for uh for
many years and after that uh he's going
he go to to to the doctor and after he
is cured uh can we imagine
how his happiness or or how many happy
is that man? Uh someone who lives uh
without real belief.
In fact, he lives with pain.
So one of really meaning of dawa it that
we are uh helping people to lose their
[snorts] pain and suffering.
uh so many people uh here in Balkcan and
maybe next time we can uh talk about
that about accepting Islam in Balkan
uh in Boston, Croatia and Serbia. Uh so
many of them they asked me why are you
inviting us uh to Islam? For example,
they say we are believers, we believes
in one God, but why are you inviting us
to Islam? So uh I like to say
uh I like to say uh I like to answer uh
to them saying I'm I'm inviting you
because I wish you all the best. I'm not
inviting you because I hate you because
like we believe uh uh we believe that we
have to believe in one God in all pro
prophets including Jesus and Muhammad.
So can we be in paradise? So I'm
inviting you because I wish to you to be
with uh with to be with us in paradise.
Uh so if we see the mission of all
prophets uh was inviting people to Islam
including the Jesus and the Jesus for
example uh he didn't say to to Jews or
people look guys I'm prophet it's very
good to be a prophet if you want to send
uh follow me you can follow me if you
don't follow me it's no problem we can
be in paradise or something like that no
he say to them God sent me. He say to
them, you have to follow follow me. If
you follow me, you will be with me. But
also what I want to uh mention uh what
we can find in gospels if it's true that
Jesus say to his students and I will
make you fishers of men. I think it's in
Matthew chapter 4. I I will make you
fishers of men. uh the meaning of that
is I will uh teach you how to invite
people to the true. So because of that
we are inviting people to to God to
worship one god to follow the the
prophets and all of of uh basic things
basic things in Islam. Uh I I uh al also
I will mention one ayah from Quran
Allahhana waala says
And this one who was dead and we gave
him life. In this ayah Allah subhana wa
ta'ala uh tell us that one who does
don't have true belief. In fact he don't
he he uh in fact he he has not uh he has
not life. So can we how we can
understand that? We can understand that
if uh uh for example we have one who uh
doesn't know where is he from who is his
creator creator maybe he know what his
his name his surname like in passport
but he don't know uh where is he from
who is his creator where is he going
what is the after after the life I think
I think that this question what is after
life this life but after death that is
one uh uh hardest uh and most big u uh
most difficult question in uh in this
dunya in this life even for biggest
philosophers in the history of human
being what is coming after life so uh so
many people or most of people they are
not thinking what what is coming after
life because they don't know what is
coming after life. So they are so afraid
or they are confused but we know because
we have we have Quran we have sunnah we
have tradition. So our fear manifest in
preparing for day for day of judgment.
uh uh also um here I can mention. Okay.
Okay. uh because of time I will only say
uh
ayah the same ayah Allahhana wa ta'ala
say
and made for him light by which is by
which he works among the people
in
we can find that is the
how to make difference between uh
difference uh between true and False. Uh
we can say that one of the meaning is uh
how to make a relationship with
anothers. How first of all how to make a
relation relation with his god. After
that after after that how we can make
rel relationship with another people
with with his parents with his friends
with his children's and uh another
people. So uh uh I uh uh honorable
mention that uh Islamic legacy is most
richest legacy we can find and I think
that this is one kind of the Quran that
uh for example in Christianity in
Judaism we cannot find so many texts
about
uh about for example Zud about
and things uh like this uh and I will
finish uh because of
uh my speech that uh importance of dala
and like like as I say that is helping
people how to leave her feels and uh
their pains uh all this da uh this dava
have to be organized this very uh this
very important thing so we uh we are
reading in the s that prophet Muhammad
sallallahu alaihi wasallam am uh the
first thing he did uh when he entered to
Medina he built the masid. The masjid in
that time was like Islamic center in our
time. So uh uh uh in in in in in worry
in the fact uh uh this is chance for all
of us to help brother Aadi to make uh to
finish his Islamic Islamic center. This
is a chance for us to do something what
will be happy for that in the day in the
day of uh in the day of judgment
taking
building Islamic center in an organized
way you really send the message across
you said this is your first speech
on English
blessah may Allah reward you should
speak more like this
thank you thank you
any among the audience out there must be
thinking I have never supported the da
work just like she never spoken in
English. If you two also support I can
guarantee you this will be the best
feeling that you will have support this
actually want to after I learn Arabic I
forgot English and also Norwegian but in
maybe after maybe it will be a reason to
to make me to to repeat my my English.
uh only just uh seconds. I will say that
I know brother Eddie uh very very good
because he's from Boston. He's coming to
to Bosnia and when he comes to Bosnia
spending some time with with him. So
brother Eddie is is the person I who who
live uh who like who love and also he
live the Dava. Uh he live Dava
he's living the Dava. I have some
stories with with him. I don't want to
talk about that because it will be talk
with in his
we love to hear those things inshallah.
We would love to hear those things on
the next show. Inshallah we will have
inshallah inshallah. Thank you very much
and I'm very pleased for talking taking
part in this event. So
and I may Allah subhana wa ta'ala to
help brother Eddie to finish his center
and bless him. Amen. And also I'm sorry
because of my my English also I'm sorry
for my English just like sheh said
please come forward and support we would
like to see the numbers on the screen
brothers and sisters I know we can make
this a reality inshallah tala be part of
it where Allah and his malai can write
in our account as a donors the previous
you know speakers and the lot of lines
of scholars who are supporting this
noble cause that is beyond anybody's
doubt whether it is a good cause or not
This is the moment to do whatever you
can. Inshallah.
Inshallah. Inshallah.
I think you're on mute, brother. Brother
Eddie.
Thank you, Shay Golush, for being with
us here. Inshallah, we can get allstar
line up there. He's been wanting to put
something together in Bosnia so we can
get Shake McCarthy. We got Muhammad
hijab coming up. We got a uh we got
allstar crew. Shake McCarthy. Sorry to
keep all you guys waiting. We're we're
got a whole line all-star lineup in the
back coming out. Shay McCarthy, how are
you?
I'm good. Alhamdulillah. Zak, thank you
for having me.
Thank you for being with us.
So, go go ahead. It's all you now.
Alhamdulillah. I'm very excited about
the this project and ever since I I saw
it when you first I started seen
advertisements for it. And you know, as
the sheh was saying, very impressive.
Mah, he hasn't um it's his first lecture
he gave in English. I did a very good
job. May Allah bless him. And I
apologize. I'm just I'm kind of on the
go. I wasn't able to really set myself
up for for that. Alhamdulillah, I'm here
with you guys. I had to take part when I
was asked to uh be part of this program.
Uh alhamdulillah what he said at the end
which is very interesting. thing I think
we always need to focus on it especially
talking about Muslims in America and you
know living in the west in general
wherever we are in the west as Muslims
that the prophetat
the first thing that he did when he came
to Medina was establish the masid and
establishing the massid is the way of
the we see Ibraimis
and the first masjid ever established on
the face of the earth in Mecca when he
established thea so we see subhan allah
that the uh you know this is this is
what a community needs to do when they
come to a country that they establish
their mass. But something very
interesting that he mentioned as well
the brotherh from Bosnia which you
really need to focus on as Muslims in
the west and around the world in general
is what was the masjid during the time
of the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wasallam. It was not a place for the
five daily prayers. It was actually a
play. It was of a more of a community
center. And that is exactly what uh
brother Eddie and the brothers are
trying to do with the dean show. They're
with the dean center is they're not just
establishing another place for Muslims
to pray, but it's going to be a place
for an outreach for da. It's going to be
a place for uh the Muslims to to you
know have fun and enjoy themselves. It's
going to play be a place for the the
dean show which Allah is one of the most
any beneficial and consistent programs
that we've had and he in in the last you
know 10 or more years where mashallah
brother Eddie may Allah bless him you
know he's keeping it real bringing the
things that the Muslim ummah needs to
hear not just in the west but around the
world as well he's bringing the things
that we need to hear the things that
benefit us any from from the dean side
to you know medical issues uh mah any
in-depth any uh podcast you know with
great uh scholars and and and and
preachers and educators that he has come
with him on the on the show and and and
to benefit the um alhamdulillah so this
is something that's been consistent and
beneficial it's going to get even better
now we have the the platform there where
it's going to be the studio the
professional studio studio and at the
same time you're going to be able to
train some jiu-jitsu with brother Eddie
and and that's what the community needs.
The community needs places where they
can go they can you know kind of you
know wind back have fun you know take it
do do some sports you know work out and
then have a place to pray as well. The
kids can come and learn Quran they can
learn jiu-jitsu on the side as well and
and then and go and pray their prayers.
So this is is exactly what we need.
Alhamdulillah. So this type of center is
is it's what's missing. Alhamdulillah we
have the the mass that have been set up.
Alhamdulillah. Our elders when they came
to our countries this one of the first
things that they did as well just like
the prophetat wasam did is they set up
the massid and this is something
brilliant. But now in the days that we
live in, do we actually really need more
massagit?
And something even more important than
the mass it and this is any one of the
or some of the scholars talked about
this before the importance of any
to build the the people who are going to
utilize and benefit the massid
before you you you build the the the
masjid itself. And that's that's very
important. And this type of center is
going to help us to be able to do that
to have a place where any it's it's more
of a community center. It's a place
where people can have fun. They can come
there. They can enjoy themselves. And he
having someone like Eddie who came from
you know aah background and we know the
hadith of the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wasallam and it's not something
obviously we come and brag about our our
backgrounds inah but if it's something
that can benefit us to benefit benefit
the um that's something you know it's
very helpful. We we've been there. We've
done that. We've seen it. We've been
down that path. So now when we we've
been there, we can help the youth. We
can help the community in order to bring
them in closer to the massage and to
benefit. And someone like Eddie, he
knows exactly what the community needs.
And that's why we need to step up. We
need to help and to support this
project. And I was I was very happy when
I was invited to be part of this program
in order to encourage the brothers and
sisters inshallah to take part in this.
When it comes to the massid,
the prophetat
he said
that the masjid is the house of every
believer. And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
said about the mass in Toba chapter 9
verse 18.
that the mosque of Allah are only
maintained by those who believe in Allah
in the last day and establish the prayer
and they give the zakat and
that they do not fear except for Allah.
And then Allah said at the end of the
verse
that perhaps these are the individuals
who will be from the rightfully guided
among those may Allah make us among
those.
So this shows that the one who has true
im he is the one who builds the massid
and establish this massid and frequenc
for Allah subhana wa tala. And the
prophetat wasallam when he mentioned the
seven who will be be in the shade of
Allah and when there's the day there's
no shade except for the shade of Allah
that they will be from the ones whose
heart is attached to the massid. So
building these type of mass we have to
realize that this the dean center is not
just any ordinary you know five daily
prayer masjid it's much greater than
that you said you know the support the
sports facility where the youth are
going to come and they're going to train
and they're going to benefit and that is
going to make them closer to the masjid
where they can have that and I've seen
many many many examples like that not as
many as we'd want to but we see in the
examples that when you have these type
of activities the youth become attached
to the masid and They might go for for
for the other reasons as well, right?
They want to go and train. They want to
be with their friends. But what happens
when the adan gets called he's in there
and and there's a there's something very
important for the parents to know that
most of our kids don't make wudoo.
Pay attention to that. And I have my
son, he's probably in the kitchen now.
He's listening to me. We call him Mr.
Woo because he never breaks his. He's
always on. Maybe he does. I don't know.
But the point being is that most kids we
found this this is this is studies prove
this is that kids if they're honest with
you they always say yeah I got woo but
when he goes to the masjid we found this
some of them they had these these
activities in the massid that they you
know they see their their colleagues
making woo right so they would you know
go make woo with them and then they
start to pray more and get more more
involved in the prayer they see the
importance of the prayer so when when
you have this atmosphere when you have
you have a gym you have a basketball
court and this place has places outside
like for for a football field as well.
Alhamdulillah. So all these activities
are happening there. You have the dean
show that's going to be there. The
guests are going to be coming uh all the
you know the lessons the Quran lessons
and if you take part in that whatever
you give you're going to have a part of
the anyone who reads the Quran there.
Anyone who learns every dean show which
is filmed there and spread out you're
going to take part of the as well.
Inshallah anyone who comes close to the
dean an outreach program for the da for
the non-Muslims anyone who comes and
accepts Islam there you get part of the
reward. anyone who learns about Islam
and the misconceptions are removed from
them from the dean center also you're
going to take a part of that reward as
well. So my advice as I end our brother
Muhammad hijab may Allah bless him he's
here now inshallah to step in. So as
he's about to step in in shall I would
like to encourage all my brothers and
sisters to take part in this great
opportunity. Realize like I said it's
not just a regular maja
it all. You gave every reason out there
that people might be looking for to
donate. If you believe it's a
you believe in dawa, it is a da project,
donate. If you believe the youth need to
have a safe place to grow, donate. Every
reason is out there, my beloved. So in
the interest of time, take the message
that is given by sheh to your heart and
allow your heart to do what is right.
That is to donate generously and time is
not to donate inshallah. Inshallah.
Without further ado, I would like to
request the next guest inshallah tala to
come on. And I really wanted to thank
all those guests and heroes online
waiting patiently continue to make dua
inshallah that may Allah guide the
hearts of the humanity to donate
generously for this noble cause
for everyone who um has been waiting.
Um, I've also been waiting cuz I wanted
to share something with you. I think
maybe start anecdotally cuz sometimes,
especially if you're familiar with my
work, the way that I usually articulate
an argument is in a very kind of rigid
format, logical format and so on. But in
the spirit of speaking about this new DA
center and um that Eddie inshallah is
going to become uh the operational
manager of
I wanted to start by saying that really
in the beginning of I'm 30 years old
now. Uh most people don't believe that
because I look much older. You know,
most people think I'm in my 50s or 40s
or something. I'm actually 30 years old.
And I I remember when I was growing up,
I used to um watch the Dean Show. In
fact, I used to watch the Dean Show in
my formative years when I was maybe 15,
16, 17. uh and it was a substitute of
some sorts of like television series or
television shows or something like that.
It was an Islamic substitute and it was
a fantastic it was it was really amazing
because it was the first time the
Muslims had been well at least on the
online space introduced to something
like that in the English speaking world
and I remember my own formative years
you know watching the Dean show and
watching Eddie very consistently
uh you know introduce different guests
from from America from different parts
of the world talking about different
issues
that I would say that this really in
terms of my own development as a Muslim,
it was integral. It was actually
integral and this is me in the UK like
you know thousands of miles away uh on
the online space discovering what what
Eddie done and the Quran when it talks
about certain deeds
you know Allahh for example in he says
that non-equivalent are the people who
give in the sake of Allah subhana wa
ta'ala and strive in his sake. Those are
higher than those who come after. And
obviously the Quran also says
the ones who came before. So the idea of
coming before and doing a deed
and you know this is something which is
in the Quranic discourse. Eddie from
Nadine show he really he was the the the
SS we would say the foundation he was
the beginning of the online podcasting
space the interviewing space after that
people started to kind of mimic it uh
copy it do but he laid the foundations
and as I say I'm speaking from my own
personal experience the last 15 years
I've seen him be the most the single
most consistent person online uh on the
online space doing Islamic da and I've
seen his own progression as a host. He's
never come outside of his lane. Always
been very humble and sincere. Always had
very very interesting conversations
and really made an impact in the Muslims
space. Now, just the fact that you have
Eddie probably the most consistent
individual in the online space being the
operational manager for this particular
dowence, I think that's enough. I think
that's all you need to know about the
situation because you know the Quran
says
The best person to employ is the is the
competent person and is the trustworthy
person. And in terms of online da'ah,
the most competent and consistent
individual I would say in the English
speaking world is Eddie from the there's
no one more consistent than him by
I would say. So from this perspective, I
mean that's why I wanted to come on and
speak because I thought I owed it to to
Eddie. I owed it to the Dean show. I
owed it to the online daer for someone
like Eddie to be able to do that. And
the fact that as as mentioned as well
that he's he's also involved in sports.
People won't know that Eddie from the
Dean Show and his brother as well and
other people there are top tier athletes
in in jiu-jitsu. top tier athletes and
is you know in involved in in in sports
which like grappling the grappling arts
and that's going to be an integral part
of this particular DA center there's a
book that was written by in fact which
is called Mos
which is that hastening to grappling and
I think it has been translated I'm not
sure but it's it's this idea of
grappling as a sport as a martial arts
sport you know it's one of I
if anything is sunnah. With boxing and
striking sports, there's discussion
about it. But with anything, this is
sunnah. And the fact that he's putting
this in there, teaching young men, young
women, young people how to defend
themselves, how to I mean, it's
everything you need. It's and it's
everything you uh want. And this is
really why I think that, you know, this
cannot be an opportunity that we miss. I
think we will regret this opportunity.
this if we miss this opportunity to to
really to contribute to I'm telling you
that if it wasn't for me if it wasn't
for Eddie that I probably maybe I
wouldn't be here today be giving dawah
maybe that was the the piece of the
puzzle that Allah he wanted me to see
those episodes with Eddie and show Eddie
and no Ali Khan and Eddie and Yasi and B
Phillips and Abdraim Green and all of
those figures even Zak
amazing episodes maybe Allah
needed me to see that when I was 15 to
16 years old so that I can become a dire
and do whatever I'm doing today,
bringing people to Islam, stopping
people from leaving Islam. You see the
multiplier effects and maybe when Eddie
comes on the on the day of judgment,
he'll see all of the good deeds that I'm
getting, maybe he'll see a copy of those
as well because of that. But then the
question is, if a daer center is created
and there's an organizational effort,
what will the future hold?
And that if you put money into this, if
you contribute to this,
I mean what would you see on the day of
judgment? What will you see? Because
the prophetam said the one who leads to
the good is like the one who does the
good.
So we have to be brave and courageous
here. We're not we we cannot be stingy.
We cannot be miserly because honestly
these are the most for me they're the
most important projects in terms of
that's why I always advertise for these
kinds of da centers and stuff because I
personally believe that it's the number
one priority for Muslims. If you get
people who care about da'ah and become
generous and they know the virtues of
Islam, then they will help the
humanitarian situations
then they will by themselves be. So
you're creating a an environment
where people will want to give sodak and
other causes. The da center is really
the it is the foundation of everything.
It is the thing which will stop people
from becoming apostates. Our children
and our grandchildren from becoming
apostates. It will bring people to the
religion of Islam. It will create a
community center so that people can feel
proud of their religion. It will
engender a a deep state of Islamic
identity in the community. What more can
you want? What what else can you invest
in if not this? This is an opportunity.
And in fact investing in something like
this it will engender a sense of bravery
in your own heart because it takes a
brave person to give money to give
charity and something they will not see
the immediate results for in the age of
uh immediate gratification. But what can
we say and what can we do? This is this
is what we I would rather feel as if I'm
losing something. Okay.
But then create a virtue from within
which is the virtue of being generous,
the virtue of being brave, the virtue of
being a strong believer, then have to
wait 20 to 30 years and then regret it
when your children or your
great-grandchildren or whoever it may be
are leaving Islam in droves.
So this is an opportunity and I I wanted
to start off with the anecdote and you
know subhan Allah one of the great
evidences
uh of the fact that shows da and his
efforts have been successful is the fact
that it has so much so much approval and
acceptance. Now you may think what's
that got to do with anything. There is a
hadith I'll read it to you. In fact it's
a hadith in Muslim where the prophet
Muhammad wasallam said I'm going to read
in English. When Allah loves a slave, he
calls Jirel and says, "I love so and so,
so love him." And then Jirel loves him.
Then he Gabriel announces in the heavens
saying, "Allah loves so and so, so love
him." Then the inhabitants of the
heavens i.e. the angels also love him.
And then the people on earth love him.
And when Allah hates a slave, he calls
Jirel and says, "I hate so and so, so
hate him." Then Jirel hates him. He
jibrel then announces amongst the
inhabitants of the heavens verily Allah
hates so and so you hate him thus they
also start to hate him then he becomes
the object of hatred on the earth also
if you look at the dinow and the
acceptance in the Muslim community it is
the emblem of mainstream acceptability
in terms of sunni discourse online it is
if you want to know where the middle
ground is if you want to know where the
is if you Want to know where the kabul
and the approval is? Look no further
than the dinow where it is the hub of
all of the mainstream speakers in the
Islamic world today. Look no further
than the dshaw. The fact that it has
this much backing that has had this much
approval that has had this much
acceptance is inshallah I will say
inshallah based on the hadith we've just
read an indication of the sincerity of
its founders. And inshallah once again
more evidence to us that this is the
kind of thing you want to invest in
because once again we want the competent
people and the trustworthy ones. And you
know I will say one thing else in in
fact on this in this this regard uh the
came before me Abdi
Abdim Maki Abdim Maki he was mentioning
something inah toba and there's
something else that came to my mind in
surah tba as well
uh where Allahh he he cautions the
prophet Muhammad wasallam from praying
in the masid, okay? Where it was
established by the
Okay, in fact, Allah says,
"Do not ever go to that masid."
A mas that is established upon tawa on
God consciousness is better that you
stand in it.
The masjid is called masjid. It was a
masjid that some of the the hypocrites
they established it for social and
political gain. Nowadays when Muslims
were investing in projects and stuff
it's not enough okay what project is it
because we can be investing in any part
of the world in whatever project it may
be but it's about what is the track
record of those individuals who are
heading this project.
It's it's not good enough to just invest
in a masid or invest in a da center or
invest in wherever even a humanitarian
project. We must do a due diligence
check to see if those who are
who are the mushs or the supervisors of
that particular operation are themselves
figures of tawa and sincerity.
And as I say from what is apparent and
that's all we can say from what is
apparent we will get no better and I
tell you this with all
viferousness and all vigor
you will not get anything more sincere
than Eddie from the dean show. You'll
not get something more continuous than
Eddie from the de not get something more
competent than him. So this is I say
with all certainty in my heart and no uh
incentive whatsoever. I'm not I can
guarantee you and Eddie has not given me
any uh monetary compensation for this or
I'm not you know I'm saying this because
I mean this uh and
because because I'll say I feel like I I
have a duty of care to say this kind of
thing as a means of
whoever does not thank the people does
not thank Allah. It's about the
personnel.
It's about it's about the it's about the
track record. It's a it's an opportunity
you don't want. It's you cannot It's not
even that you don't want to miss this
opportunity. That's putting it lightly.
It's actually you can't afford you can't
afford to miss an opportunity like this.
Think about it. How can you afford to
miss an opportunity like this?
How can you afford to miss an
opportunity like this? I I I don't I
really I I really cannot I cannot fathom
why a Muslim living in America or living
in the west.
Yeah.
Thank you so very much where your
encouragement, your support, you are the
testimony, mashallah and you are the
product of the dean show encouragement
and the services that has been offered.
May Allah subh reward you immensely and
thank you very much. I see the beautiful
smile of my beloved sheh or rather I
should say our beloved sheh who always
inspired us. May Allah subhaha bless him
with the long healthy life. I cannot
wait to hear from him inshallah it's all
yours.
Uh you cannot imagine the great joy and
honor that I feel um this afternoon to
say a few words in behalf of my good
brother Eddie our beloved and behalf of
the dean show. I have to be honest with
you. Um for me I love the masids the
Islamic centers and if you ask me to go
anywhere in the world to help raise
funds for a masid I would I would gladly
do it. And but I have to be honest with
you, but my real love and passion
is to do it here in the United States.
Onethird of the Muslim Ummah
live in non-Muslim countries. So where
do you find them? You find them in
United Kingdom. You find them in
Germany. You find them in France. You
find them in Belgium. And you find them
in United States of America.
I don't know what percentage of Muslims
are in this country. Maybe 1%, maybe 2%
at max. But yet, if I were going to
invest some money, if I had the money,
if I was a man of means, easily, if I
could afford it, I would give Eddie the
$700,000 that they need to complete uh
this particular project.
Let me tell you why I am so touched by
the work that Eddie has done. He has a
track record. He's not a Johnny come
lately. He's not somebody, you know,
trying to find traction. He's been
around forever. You know, to me it
seemed like I know Eddie ain't that old,
but it seemed like he been around at
least a hundred years. That's the kind
of impact that he that he's had. And um
I I want to say something and I have to
be honest with you. Every mass should
have two doors.
It have a front door by which people
become Muslim. I came to that front
door. Eddie came to that front door.
Imam Zade Shakir Hamza Ysef Bella
Phillips Abdul Aim Quick. We came to
that front door. And we also have a back
door by which Muslims that leave the
faith of Islam. Uh my sister Morales um
I listened to her. I attended the IKNA
conference a couple of weeks ago in in
Baltimore, Maryland. And she said
something that startled me and
frightened me. Um she said that 70% of
the new converts, the reverts leave
Islam.
My immediate response was, "How do you
know that? Where's the evidence? What
are the facts?"
And then I asked the question to myself,
what percentage of Muslims leave the
fold of Islam? It's the job of the
imams, the leaders to open wide that
front door, that's what Eddie does, and
close that back door so that no one will
leave the fold of Islam.
The thing that I love about the Muslims
in the West, by the way, I am the West.
We are the West. I am as west as anyone
else in this particular country. And
this masid to be established in Florida
will continue to be a great beacon light
of hope um for for this country not just
for Muslims but for non-Muslims.
I want to say something about our
children and those who would leave the
faith of Islam and me. I cannot even
imagine me leaving Islam. Alhamdulillah.
This is my 48th year of being a Muslim
once I recognized what Islam was in 1975
under the teachings of Imam Wu Muhammad.
Um I became Muslim. Alhamdulillah. And
as a result I fasted for 48 years. Never
missed a fast. Alhamdulillah. Uh at the
end of this year I would have made
87,000 salats. Alhamdulillah. And I
cannot imagine not being Muslim, but
some of some of some of the Muslims are
leaving the faith of Islam.
Thanks be like for Eddie and and people
like him and his programs, you know, who
really uh shine the light of what it is
to be a Muslim in this country, to be
proud of being a Muslim. Um, for those
of our youth maybe who's saying I don't
want to be Muslim, I want to be like
everybody else.
Really, you want to be like everybody
else. You want to be like the majority.
Let me tell you about a man who was not
in the majority at all. you know and
what the prophet peace and blessings be
upon him said about this great prophet
Ibraimisam
only something that Allah would know. So
at one point um Ibraimatam
had a conversation with his wife Sarah
Sarah.
Oh Sarah there is not one believer on
the face of the earth other than you and
me. talking about minority. You talk
about South Africa, 1% of the Muslims in
South Africa, you're talking about them,
you talking about one man and one woman.
You know the um this country, they call
it the Marines, the model of the of the
Marines are the few, the brave, the
Marines. And when you talk about being
in a minority,
the majority of the people don't
believe. And you go back 1400 years ago.
The best of my um is my generation. The
generation of the prophet peace and
blessings be upon him.
The best of my um is my generation and
then the generation that follows it and
then the generation that follows it. Why
I'm saying all of this? My friend Yak
South Africa texted me a few months ago.
He said, "I im s do everything with a
good heart expecting no reward."
I said, "Fine." I texted him back.
Do everything with a good heart
expecting no reward except from Allah.
Nowhere in the Quran, nowhere in the
Sunnah do you see Allah telling us to do
something without us expecting to get
something in return. You know, the
Congressional Black Caucus, these are
the black legislators. You know, they
have a model. Black people have neither
permanent friends or permanent enemies,
just permanent
interests. And this is what we learned
from Sharia. You know, Martin Luther
King Jr. said, "Life's most persistent
and urgent question is, what are you
doing for others?" I agree with him.
We're building this masid for others.
Yeah, I agree with him. But I would like
to change Martin Luther King's uh speech
just a little bit. Life's most
persistent
and urgent question is what are you
doing for yourself? By the service of
others. Where I get that from? Where you
get that from? I got it from Quran.
Whatever good you spend is for yourself.
Yes, this masid. Maybe I'll never go to
Florida and attend that mass
Doesn't matter. But somebody will go
there. And knowing Eddie,
that hardworking brother, knowing him,
he's going to have an impact wherever he
go. So I'm making a dua that Allah
subhana wa ta'ala will bless him, raise
all the money that he needs, and to see
this Islamic center, this masid. And I'm
going to close with this shake. I'm
going to say something that's a little
bit controversial.
Um, and people you may you may not like
what I'm going to say yourself, but I
say it because I' I've really have
studied this thing for a long time.
And um, you know, there's no question
about about the Sahaba, how great they
are. One, in fact, one day he's talking
to his companions and the prophet peace
and blessings be upon him said, um, uh,
would that I can meet my brothers. They
said, "Aren't we your brothers? you my
sahaba. My brothers will come after me.
They will believe in me though they have
not seen me. Now you know shake I used
to be a Christian and there's a very
interesting uh verse in the Bible where
Jesus is talking to Thomas and he says
to Thomas because you have seen me you
have believed but blessed are those who
will believe me and not have seen me. So
seeing is something important. People
say seeing is believing. No no no no.
Seeing is affirmation.
not seeing is believing. Let me give you
let me give let me give you the proof.
Allah subhana wa ta'ala asks the angels
and whenever Allah asks a question, he
don't ask a question because you don't
know the answer. He asks a question to
teach a lesson. He asks the angels, what
are my servants saying? What are they
saying? Alhamdulillah,
they're praising you. Allah asked them,
do they see me? No, they don't see me.
What if they saw me? Oh, if they saw
you, they really be right. And then he
Allah said, "But what are they asking
for? They're asking for your Jenna. How
the do they see it?" NO. NO. WHAT IF
THEY SAW HERE? YOU ARE DOING ALL of this
for Jenna that you have never seen. What
you believe? And what are they seeking
refuge from? They seeking refuge from
the hellfire. How? Do they see it? No,
they didn't see the hellfire. But they
believe. So I'm saying I'm going to say
something. This is a controversial
statement. And you say, "I didn't say
it. I im said it. He came on. I couldn't
stop him." He said, "Let me say first,
the prophet peace and blessings be upon
him is comparing us to his companions."
He said, "Letuhi,
don't you ever insult my companions.
For if you spent
gold the size of Mount Uhood, it
wouldn't equal a handful of what one of
them spent. even a half a handful. So,
nobody can argue how we gonna compete
with Abu Bakr and Umar and all of the
rest of our companions. And this is the
this is the point I'm gonna say. Don't
get mad at me. You may not invite me
again. Right? When you read when you
read literature, right,
and some hadith says
the mother of the faithful. Why? Because
Allah says, "And the wives of the
prophet are your mothers." So she's our
mother
Abdah.
Aisha never had children. Why is she
called the mother of Abdullah? Who is
Abdullah? Well, Abdullah is the son of
her sister Asma.
And here it goes. This is the point.
Abdullah
was the first Muslim born in a Muslim
family.
Every one of them were converts or
reverts.
You start
every one of them. Every one of them.
The best UM EVER WAS THAT GENERATION.
And so I'm saying that alhamdulillah
because of people like Eddie and and and
by Allah's permission all of these
people coming in the front door come to
the fold of Islam as shake you and I
begin to close that back door and don't
let nobody else out. So may Allah
subhana wa ta'ala bless this program to
bless to raise the money. We we'll raise
it inshallah we'll raise it and more.
And I I pray Allah subhana wa ta'ala
continue to bless brother Eddie a good
brother really a good Muslim may Allah
bless you and your family
may Allah give you long healthy life and
allows to benefit with your presence
inshallah for generations to come
inshallah
my dear audience the way that you have
heard every word that came out of Imam
Siraj came directly from his heart and
he has urged many Muslims raised
millions of dollars. Now Allah has
blessed us to have sheh encourage all of
you to donate for this dawa center. This
is it my brothers and sisters. Do
whatever you can to support and take
part in this project. And this is the
new hij year 1444.
Start your new year by donating in this
new project. Inshallah subhanana wa tala
this will become the legacy of Muslims
here in America.
Shake Musa, we're going to try something
new here because of time constraints.
We're going to bring all of our guests
on together.
So, uh, we're going to do it the dean
show style. We'll ask Eddie to join as
well and we'll get the brothers on
together in
we have brother also from international
community as well.
How you all doing? How are my brothers
doing? We got all the
all the brothers joining in. How's
everybody?
Doing great.
We got an all-star lineup.
Alhamdulillah. Sorry to keep some of you
waiting in the back. We had some people
go over their time. So, let's go ahead
and let's take it take it away. Who is
lined up next? We had everybody's here.
Yeah, we got im beautiful smiles.
Mashallah. I'm looking forward to
hearing every one of you. I'm very
excited to see you all.
We're even more excited.
Mallah.
So, we got Imm Wesley in the house. From
the right to the left, we got uh we got
our brother from Vosnia. Faith. How you
doing,
Fate?
Fate. How you doing, Fate?
I'm doing good. Alhamdulillah. How are
you? We got Shake Mustafa.
And we got And we got Kuwait in the
house.
That's right.
Wait. Who's from Kuwait?
Nisar Ahmed here. Nisar here.
Mashallah.
He's been watching Eddie for years now.
He said Eddie is very famous in our
country.
Mashallah. [laughter]
Mashallah.
So go ahead. Uh we were going to have
everybody speak for 10 minutes. We're
going to kind of cut it down because we
kind of many of the previous speakers
some went over the time. So we didn't
want to keep many of you also have a
schedule. I know Shay Mustava you got a
you have another appointment also. So
let let's start uh let's go with fat. Uh
you are lined up next. Uh let's go ahead
and take it with you and then we'll go
with uh uh everybody else who just come
on in. And we we're the topic's Muslims
in America. We're talking about the
importance of da you know and people
know what we're trying to do with the
dean center and everybody here is
involved in conveying this beautiful
message sharing the purpose of life with
the people they know you know the value
of it you know trying to remove the many
misconceptions uh all of you most of you
have been guests on the program
uh and I've seen the young brother here
also to see you know fate from uh I
remember when we met uh you came out in
Texas you were how old were you like 12
[laughter]
No, I was about 15, man. Subhan Allah.
So, like
he's all grown up now.
Yeah, long time. Long time ago.
Yeah.
Alhamdulillah.
Uh first of all for having me here and
like you said um it seems like ages ago
when I was in Texas I was very young and
you were still doing amazing work even
back then and until now you've continued
your amazing work and I've been
following you uh over the years and
myself I've benefited from you a lot and
um uh what I really wanted to come and
say here today because I do watch a lot
of your podcasts with your guests and um
one that really stuck with me subhan
Allah like you know this this one moment
in one of your podcasts that you had
recently that really stuck with me. Uh
it was uh with one of the convert
brothers. I think he was from uh Mexico
or from the cartel and he was talking
about his journey to Islam and how he
became Muslim. And one thing that really
really really stuck with me that I think
about all the time is when he was
talking about when he was in his darkest
moment when he was struggling and uh he
wanted to call upon Allah subhana wa
ta'ala and ask Allah subhana wa ta'ala
for help. uh he was suicidal. I believe
he mentioned that he failed a suicide
attempt and he was just sitting in the
room miserable and uh he didn't know
what to do. And what he mentioned was
the fact that he just looked up in the
sky. He looked up in the sky and he
said, you know, you know, whoever you
are, you know, whatever you are up
there, if you're there, you know, please
help me. Um and that really made me
appreciate us as Muslims, one of the
things that we don't really appreciate
and we take for granted. I feel like
most Muslims we take for granted is the
fact that at the bare minimum,
alhamdulillah, we know Allah subhana wa
ta'ala's name. We know God's name and we
know how to call upon God. And when we
call upon him, we know how to pray to
him. Even if we're not the most
practicing, the most religious, you
know, at the bare minimum, somebody
that's been born Muslim, that has a
relationship with Allah subhana wa tala
at any level has the ability to call
upon Allah and have that comfort and
confidence to know Allah subhana wa tala
by his name and call upon him and pray
to him in a way that's befitting and
that Allah subhana ta is pleased with.
And that brings so much comfort to our
hearts and our souls because when we're
going through that difficult time, first
of all, we know that Allah subhana wa
ta'ala is there. Alhamdulillah, me as a
Muslim, even when I struggled and went
through some of my hardest times. I
never when I prayed to Allah, I never
had to say, "Oh Allah, if you're there,
you know, I I always said with full
confidence in my heart, you know, Allah,
I know you're there and uh please please
help me." And just even knowing Allah
subhana wa ta's name is a huge thing
because it makes it like a personal
relationship you know like for example
you Eddie I know you if I come up to you
and I say you know brother Eddie I need
some help you know can you help me I
feel a lot more comfortable because I
have that relationship with you I know
your name than if I went to some random
stranger you know on the street and said
hey first of all if you're there but you
know he's there you could see the person
on the street but if you go up to a
stranger and someone you don't and
you're like, "Hey sir, can you help me?"
You don't have that same confidence and
reassurance as you do when you actually
are able to call somebody upon their
name because that indicates that you
have some kind of relationship with
them. So even though that was maybe a
small thing in that podcast cuz mah that
brother he talked about a lot of things
but it really made me appreciate you
know looking back at my own life that we
take it for granted the fact that we
have a relationship with Allah subhana
wa tala and that we can call upon him.
So it is amazing work that you're doing
and this institution obviously uh you
know is a source for dawa and many
people inshallah through this uh
institution in this mazjid and dawa
center will come to Islam and um you
know the only thing I just want to add
to this I don't want to take up too much
time is as Muslims we have a concept in
Islam where we rely upon Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala where we rely upon Allah
subhana wa ta'ala so a lot of Muslims
they rely upon Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
But some people they practice something
that's called which is another Arabic
word which means relying upon Allah
subhana tala but not putting in the
work. So basically you just sit at home
and you expect Allah subhanaa tala to
take care of you and to feed you and to
give you you know money or whatever it
is right that's in Arabic but is where
you rely upon Allah subhana tala and you
don't sit at home you actually put in
the work you get up every day you do
your best you try your best and Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala provides for you so
we as Muslims in America we have this
reliance upon Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
that he's going to take care of us that
he's going to preserve the dean in the
United States, in the West, that he's
going to take care of our children, that
our children are going to grow up and be
good Muslims. Okay? But a lot of us, we
just seem to think that we'll rely upon
Allah subhana wa ta'ala and that
everything will take care of itself. But
it asks of us that we actually put in
some effort and we actually do something
to make sure that Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala will help us. And some of the
things that we can do to ensure that
Islam spreads in the United States and
that our children are able to grow up as
practicing Muslims is building centers
like these and putting the effort to
make centers like these and supporting
causes that help establish and spread
Islam uh wherever it is especially uh in
the United States. So I call upon my
brothers and sisters uh to support
however they can. Whatever you can do,
it's going to obviously contribute a lot
and it's going to benefit a lot. And
maybe it won't benefit you, but it will
benefit the next generation and it will
benefit the youth. And inshallah,
through your efforts and your donations,
many people will enter Islam and like
brother Imam S. Juaj was just saying
before us, they will stay in Islam and
they will make the change that's needed
not just in the United States or in the
West, but Islam is a change that we need
for the whole world right now. And
inshallah wherever it begins whether
it's here whether it's you know the UK
it will continue inshallah and spread
around the world and improve the lives
of many many people for having me I just
ask all of you guys to kindly donate to
to this cause may Allah subhanaa tala
bless you and reward all of you
once again thank you so very much you
heard it brothers do what you can to
support this noble cause inshallah I
have a next speaker inshallah next in
line to speak. He has other program also
you need to patch catch up with indul
want to make two real quick points is
that the first thing is uh you know the
the effort of da'wah it's really
important that some people have a
personality uh a more extroverted a more
uh you know brave and courageous
personality when they're conveying the
message of Islam. I think every Muslim
or most Muslims have in their heart the
desire to spread the message of Islam.
You know, Muslims love their religion.
They believe it's the truth and they
want to share that truth with other
people. But not everyone has the the
personality or the wording or the style
of of presenting the message in the in
the best of ways or even has the courage
to present the message to get a little
bit timid. Alhamdulillah, one of the
greatest things that I've noticed about
the Dean show is is Eddie and the other
people that he brings on the show.
they're able to convey the message of
Islam in a way that's people can
understand, a way that people can relate
to. Alhamdulillah, I've seen Eddie's in
his interviews uh with people come in
and just deliver the message of Islam uh
in the way that it's supposed to be
delivered. And not everyone can do that,
but we can support people who have
experience and who have, you know, no
one's no one's perfect at this, but who
have more experience, who are
specialized in this. So, this is the
first point I want to make. I think this
is a great cause uh because we got the
right people who are backing it who are
behind.
Number two is that the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wasallam said in
authentic hadith he said
he said that the people who are extreme
uh will be destroyed. So Islam is really
about balance and when we talk about
conveying the message of Islam through
dawa we also have to realize that it's
very important to present a good
balanced perspective and picture of
Islam. When people come into the
religion, you know, they also need to be
cultivated into the religion. So, you
know, people who've been in the da
scene, people who've been, you know,
taking Islamic classes, you know,
sometimes they start out on this side of
the extreme or that side of the extreme.
Eventually, if they keep learning, they
keep interacting with other people. They
start to kind of balance themselves out
and realize that we got to be inclusive
of all, you know, different types of
scholarship. I've seen that messaging
with Eddie. I've seen that messaging
with the Dean Show. I've seen the
variety of speakers that they they bring
on. Of course, always within the
boundaries of
but uh they bring in different
perspective. They bring in different
styles and that's something very
important for one bringing you know
conveying the message of Islam and also
keeping people you know in the fold of
Islam nurturing their Islam. So
alhamdulillah I definitely encourage
everyone to support this center, support
this great effort. May Allah subhana wa
tala put baraka in it. May Allah
subhanaa tala bless it and bless each
and every single one of you.
Thank you so very much once again. You
spoke very clearly and every word that
you said resonated with all of us. Now
here I have the beloved imshallah
waiting.
Brothers and sisters, wahi, we are in
this beautiful sacred month. Not only is
this the new year,
this is also a stamp for us, a mark for
us regarding the migration of the
prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam from
Mecca to Medina. Not only that but this
is also a stamp and a mark for us
showing the love the commitment the
dedication and the submission that the
prophet wasallam and his companions did
when they migrated to Allah
right and this migration in we're
talking about this time period consist
of that love for Allah everything right
not knowing when we were going to reach
Mecca what they were going to have but
they knew that because they left
everything behind it they would love,
right? And subhan,
this is what this project is all about.
This project is about spreading the love
of Allah. Getting people to love Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala through them
embracing Islam inshallah and them
finding the love of Allah waala. And I
can remember mashallah I've known Eddie
for maybe over a decade. The first time
I was on a show was probably a decade
ago. Subhanim a a brother who's sincere.
A brother who mashallah is hardworking.
a brother who really cares about the
dean. Subhan Allah. Right? And this dean
center is something that is way overdue
here in America. Right? We should have
had dean centers, right? Forget a dean
center. We should have had dean centers
by now. And this is why we need to
support Eddie and this cause inshallah.
Right? As the brother mentioned, right?
Subhan Allah. The reward he says inshall
it may not benefit you but I
donor you are going to be one of the
biggest recipients of this inshall if
money
to establish this answer on the face of
the earth for the sake of Allah subhana
wa ta'ala the prophet sallall alaihi
wasallam said
the one who guides someone to good is
like the one who does good every time
someone makes s in that place you get
the reward every time the door is open
for salah for activities, for whatever
it is, for every
ent
[clears throat]
There should always be a group from
among you inviting and calling that is
doing now in
joining
and I have my brother in the time and
era in which we are living where so many
difficult situations brother Eddie is at
dealing
talking about the
lost by the wayside and Allah says when
we do all of these things when there is
that group of individuals who have
invested in a project like this so that
we can call to the good forbid the wrong
he says that they are the
success with Allah
why because this is a complete
investment for forget about your ROI
forget about your 401 K. Forget about
all that. Forget about your residual
income that you've invested in this. The
best residual income is with Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala invest
already
in front of us brother
and we ask to keep him sincere to
keeping him and to keep him busy doing
the work that needs to be done that many
individuals don't have the time for and
we're going to put the time the heart,
the effort, the love and the dedication
into it so that inshallah those of us
who may not have the opportunity can do
it through so I say donate invest going
to find it with Allah and there's never
going to be any loss with Allah show the
same love that the companions had when
they gave up what they love meaning your
wealth give it up today and if you do
that inshallah your tomorrow your is
going to be much better we love you
brother Eddie inshallah and May Allah
subhana wa tala continue to increase you
as always very inspiring very
motivational
mashallah may Allah reward you. I love
the spirit that you bring to the stage.
You have inspired many and you have
inspired many our audience today as
well. May Allah reward you. And please
brothers and sisters understand this is
our obligation. It is our opportunity to
do whatever we can inshallah inshallah
here in United States of America we can
make it happen but I have seen a great
concern overseas for this kind of work
very passionate individuals and
institutions out there who are longing
for opportunity to give generously and
ready to offer their advice in this
regard and through this kind of work we
are reaching out to those individuals
such as in Kuwait other UAE KSA a other
Muslim countries over there who are very
passionate and very appreciative of the
work Muslim Americans are doing in Dawa.
What is Da what is Din is doing? Din is
literally painting the picture and
telling the story that the way Muslim
ought to be telling their story. The
world need to know the true reality of
Islam Muslims and it's about time that
Muslims take charge of telling their
stories the way it's supposed to be. and
Eddie for decades has been doing this
job single-handedly through the help of
Dean show. Now is the time to have a
dean center where that work can be
multiplied many folds. Inshallah with
that I would like to invite our brother
from Kuwait to say a few words inshallah
who's been following Eddie for for years
now.
[clears throat]
My dear brothers and sisters, uh I'm
really you know thankful to Allah
subhana wa tala for giving me an
opportunity to speak with you. So Dean
show uh I've been watching it for quite
for some time and as you all know Dean
show is watched across the globe and
they are doing a wonderful job
especially brother sis uh brothers and
sisters we need to keep in our mind one
important thing you know uh when it
comes to whatever good deeds that we do
we do for the sake of Allah subhanana wa
ta'ala expecting reward from Allah
subhana wa t'ala two of the activities
that are going to fetch us lot of reward
immense reward are going to be combined
that is building of mazjid and a da
center together. So imagine what kind of
immense reward it's going to fetch you.
It's going to bring it to you. So my
dear brothers and sisters, this is going
to serve as a continuous charity for you
throughout your life and even when you
have left this you know dun and it is
going to benefit us not only us but it
is this this center is going to serve
the for the next decades to come for
Muslim generations Muslim um inshallah.
So here my dear brothers and sister I
would like to you know like you know
bring forward two important points. The
one point that brother Eddie is doing he
has been doing is that he he invites
every eminent scholar to the show and he
provides an opportunity to directly hear
from the eminent eminent scholars not
only eminent scholars of Islam but
sometimes he brings you know like he
invites non-Muslims as well so that we
can get to know the different point of
views or you know the misconceptions
that they have. It provides us an
opportunity to dispel their their
misconceptions. This is one of the
important things. And the second thing
that this din does is it you know
spreads the correct knowledge of Islam
the true knowledge of Islam according to
the Quran and Sunnah. So this is an
activity which everyone has an
obligation to support. The third thing
was made to say he was asked to say in
the Quran
The Quran in surah yuf it says say that
it is my way that inv I invite people to
Allah subhana wa ta'ala I invite people
to Allah subhanaa tala with with insight
with knowledge with evidences I and my
followers so this verse is a unique
verse it's an important verse that that
shows our responsibility that tells us
our responsibility the way ofasoolah
sallallahu alaihi wasallam was calling
people to Allah subhana wa tala with
evidences what's inside and so is our
way so should be our way so ought to be
our way so my dear brothers and sisters
no none of us who has knowledge of Islam
little knowledge of Islam can neglect
this obligation so brother Eddie is
doing this you know on a larger scale so
it is it becomes our responsibility to
support him this this this has to be you
know kept in our mind another hadith in
which saham says that
whosoever invites to goodness, he will
have the similar reward. You know that
of the reward that of a doer, the one
who does, he gets a reward. The similar
reward is given to the one who invited
him to the goodness. So imagine what
kind of immense reward you're going to
have. So here I urge all of our all of
our brothers and sisters to spend your
money. support him and whatever way you
can contribute contribute to him and you
know many many of times we spend lot of
money on unnecessary things without
thinking without fearing anything but
when it comes to the dean and this kind
of activities shaitan puts in our heads
lot of you know like you know different
kind of fears because of the those fears
we do not you know we hold our hands do
not hold your hands please you know like
open up your hands this this act
whatever ever you know you you spend
here for this deo and this masjid
inshallah inshallah it will serve as a
uh means of nad for us inshallah. So I
request all of my brothers and sisters
to generously and you know support this
act.
You bring that spirit of the Kuwaitis
you know they are very generous and
passionate about these things and the
generosity and the passion. May Allah
continue to bless you brothers out there
and continue to help you and support you
and motivate you inshallah tala. Do
really appreciate your word of
encouragement. Mashallah and
appreciating.
Thank you so very much.
I have brother here now. Brother Wasim
after a long time I have not seen you
brother. How are you?
You look ever younger man. What's going
on brother? The spirit of im.
Alhamdulillah. As much we can do for our
dean. Alhamdulillah. How are you?
Alhamdulillah. Amazing event.
Alhamdulillah.
It is beautiful. You're doing a fabulous
job at your place as well. Please let
our
as much we can do in down under as they
say here in Australia.
Australia. Let our audience know exactly
where you're from.
I'm in Melbourne here. Alhamdulillah. So
down under as they say probably the the
far end of a of of our globe of of
Australia of of the world.
Alhamdulillah.
So I'm here in Melbourne and uh you know
mashallah I've just joined in here with
the dean center thing. Mashallah. A few
things I just wanted to you know um put
together. We've heard a lot of speakers
and and uh lot of uh details of the
upcoming project inshallah. Three
aspects. The first one the da of the
prophet. The second the da in the 21st
century and the involvement of me and
you as individuals in the da. So the
first the da of the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wasallam and the previous
prophets. We all know and we have been
hearing this that the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wasallam and all the prophets
their main job their core responsibility
was to convey the message of Allah's
dean to the people around this was their
responsibility this was the job of the
prophets so as you can title it the
profession of the prophets that would be
the da'wah of the dean of Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala so while the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wasallam strived for
it while all the other pro prophets
before the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wasallam they all strived for it they
set a benchmark for us that we need to
follow that in their footsteps. So we
know the the troubles the trials the
tribulations that the prophet and his
companions had. We know that one of the
significant events that one of the
brothers just earlier mentioned that we
are now in the sacred month of Muharam
which happens to be the month of the
migration of the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wasallam from where the entirety
of the setup of Islam started as the
scholars pointed out the historians
pointed out in the past that it was
those fewer steps that our beloved
prophet took during the hijra during the
migration from Mecca to Medina. It set
precedence for the entire Muslim
community to come until the day of
judgment. So the entire Islam that we
see today was through a few steps that
were taken as hijra as migration from
Makkah to Medadina. Now that set up a
benchmark for all of us. Now coming or
moving forward to the da in the 21st
century the purpose
the impact
the strategy majority has remained
similar from the time of the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wasallam we are
talking about human nature we're talking
about a human involvement we're talking
about the human response we're talking
about the reaction of the human beings
when and as they come in contact with
Islam that remains the same you know
somebody told me a few months ago when
we were having a discussion on the
street dawa with with Australians here
um and and someone asked the question
that have we not changed have we not
evolved centuries ago from the time of
the prophet so should not the laws
change in our time well on one hand yes
technologically we did progress we did
evolve we did change so all of that
requires some sort of upgradation you
know my iPhone that needs upgradation I
don't know if you guys use iPhone
anymore but we all have different
gadgets that we use the laptops that we
use the computers that we use the the
technology does change the cars that we
use you know from from uh you know
fuelbased cars from diesel cars from
petrol cars we have come forward now to
to electric cars and to solar cars and
all of those you know evolving of
technology yes we acknowledge that but
what we're talking about is human nature
our emotions if you slap me I still feel
the pain. If I hit you, you will feel
the pain exactly as a human would feel
14 centuries or 20 centuries or 30
centuries ago. The human nature seems to
be exactly the same. We still have two
eyes. We haven't evolved to three. We
still have two feet. We haven't evolved
to three. We still have two ears. We
haven't evolved to two to three. We
still have one tongue, right? It hasn't
splitted into two. So all of these human
characteristics do remain exactly the
same. We still have relationships. We
still have, you know, we cry when
somebody passes away. We we we feel hurt
when it bleeds. We we feel happy when
something good happens. All of these
human characteristics remain the same.
So the so the nature of the religion, so
the laws of the religion concerning the
human nature remains the same. Yes, you
will see the fatawa changing about how
to use the phone, how to respond on
social media, can men and women talk
about each other, premixing, whatever it
is that the technological fatawa will
evolve as well. However, the rulings for
the human character would remain the
same. You still cannot tell a lie. You
still cannot harm people. You still
cannot humiliate people. All of the
halal and haram remain the same. You
know, if alcohol was prohibited 14
centuries ago, it would remain
prohibited now. So all of this gives us
an UNDERSTANDING THAT THE DAO esteem
from the time of the prophet to the Dao
in the 21st century would remain the
same based on the human characteristics.
However, the strategies may change
depending on the technology demanding
depending on the access of the people.
So now the Dao in 21st century we see a
lot of different strategies being used
by the imams, scholars and the people
right now. One of that is street da. One
of that is da centers. One of that is
having live shows such as the dean show.
Subhan Allah. Here in Australia, people
love brother Eddie's the the dean show.
And I have to tell you, even the the
little song that comes right in the top,
the the dean show. My kids love it. You
know, when they watch it here from down
under from Australia, we all love it.
You know, here in Melbourne, Sydney,
wherever you go, people know the Dean
Show. This is one of the most popular
online shows for the longest period of
time that we have been know knowing it
for. So these are different strategies
of giving dawa to the people in our
time. The da scene remains the same. Now
the da in the 21st century has its own
challenges. We got people asking
questions against Islam. We got people
questioning the very essence of Islam.
We got people questioning different
aspects of Islam. People asking is
Sharia fit for for our time? people
asking the from the questions from the s
of the prophet all of these aspects are
being tackled and responded accordingly.
Now what is required is the
establishment from the migration of the
prophet when the prophet migrated from
Makkah to Medadina. What was the first
thing he set up? He set up a masid a
place of gathering a platform for the
spread of Islam. Whether it is a masid,
whether it is a da center, whether it is
a show, a live show, whether it is a
YouTube channel, whatever it is, all of
these are different strategies and
platforms for the da'wah to spread. That
is where the dean center comes or kicks
into the picture. Now, as I said, I
would like to talk about three aspects.
The da of the prophet, we know how the
prophets did dawa, how they were engaged
in it, how were they involved in it. And
now comes to the da in the 21st century.
We got so many imams, scholars, dua
giving da'wah across the globe,
including our dear brother Eddie. And
now comes the third aspect. My and your
role in that big dawa scene. What can I
do? What can you do? This is where it
comes. We need to talk about the action.
Now I remember sitting and watching some
of the dean show, you know, um sessions
and and being very happy about it.
Great. Amazing. But none of those shows
would be of benefit if we don't put that
into action. The whole idea people talk,
the whole idea is given, the whole idea
a lecture is given is so that people can
benefit and bring about in their actions
a change in their actions. This is what
is expected. Now the dean center is
giving all of us that opportunity. Me as
an individual can be part and parcel of
the da. You know maybe I can't get time
all the time to be on the street dawa. I
can't be I can't become a khib all the
time. I want to but I might not be able
to do everything I want to do for the
sake of Islam. Now remember everything
is worked as a team. Remember at the
time of the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wasallam Abu Bakr did what he did. Omar
did what he did. Abu Bakr did not do
what Omar could do. Omar could not do
what Osman could do. Osman could not do
what Ali COULD DO. EVERYBODY CHIPPED in
together to achieve what we see the
prophet and his companions achieved
altogether. So the conclusion I would
come towards is from the ayah of the
Quran where Allahh says in surah surah
number six ayah number 162 and 163
that Allahh reminds us and tells us say
that my prayers my sacrifice my living
and my dying is all for the sake of
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. These are all
for Allah subhanaa tala. That is how our
lives should be. So my skills, my
abilities, everything should be
contributed towards the dean of Allah
subhanaa tala. So my action plan now
what can I do now while the dean center
is coming up? What can I do as an
individual to be part of the da of the
prophet all the way down to the da in
the 21st century? I have got an
opportunity today. Now I might not be
the street da'wah every moment even if
I'm doing it an hour or two I'm not 24/7
I'm not going to be able to be a kib for
all the time I'm not going to be a a big
public speaker for all the time but
today I've got the opportunity what my
chance is as an individual I can
contribute today to a da center that
would make me involved in every single
thing that is being done. People ask me
you know how how do we get the reward by
donating to some a center like this well
try and understand every single speaker
that is going to give a there is going
to give a talk there every single Muslim
and non-Muslim that is going to visit
that place and learn anything you got to
understand you have a share of reward in
that imagine somebody who never prayed
came to the center AND STARTED PRAYING
ALL HIS PRAYERS OR HER prayers
throughout their lives you got to share
in that you got to share in that A
person who becomes Muslim through that
imagine imagine this reward. A person
becomes Muslim through the center that
person his his partner spouse children
generations all their progeny you have a
share in that reward. So it is my and
your responsibility my dear brothers and
sisters. Now every time I used to watch
Dean show every time I've been on it I
used to think how can I contribute.
Subhan Allah. Today we got the
opportunity now we can all contribute.
So let us contribute for the sake of
Allah subhanaa tala and make this center
one of the most lively centers one of
the most active centers. And let us be
THE MOST IMPORTANT PART. LET'S BE
SELFISH HERE. LET'S BE SELFISH. YES, a
big dean center is going to be there.
What am I what am I going to get out of
that? Right? I have an opportunity. I
put a dollar there, I will have a share
of everything that is going to happen in
action on that center for the rest of my
life and up until the day of judgment
inshallah.
May Allah subh what everybody is going
to contribute and may Allah give us all
equal share from the entirety of the
center and all the
million Americans.
Wake up. There are over 300 million
Americans that don't know what Islam is.
This is why we are opening the Dean
Center, the first of its kind 35,000
[music] square ft dais and masid to show
America the beautiful message of Islam.
Inshallah with your help and donations,
we can close on the property, launch
nationwide dao programs, a
state-of-the-art production studio for
online content, and an on-site da center
[music] to show what true Islam is.
Donate right now. May God Almighty Allah
reward all of you.
Powerful powerful points you always talk
about in a way that really relates to
their audience. All those three stages
with the action plan. You spoke very
well. May Allah subh give all of us ti
to utilize this inshallah. And along all
the thing that you have mentioned that
where donors will have their share,
donors will also have their share for
every single reach that Eddie will have
through the dean center and the dean
show as well. It is their golden
opportunity to be part and parcel of
this successful dawa opportunity that
Allah has presented to all of us and
it's not going to last long. Time is now
to take part in it and before you know
it inshallah inshallah the center will
be a reality. So my beloved waste no
moment and participate inshallah tala
with your generous donations.
Love you inshallah tala we welcome you
inshallah please help us enlighten from
your wisdom.
amlaykum.
We could hear you.
Okay. I did I did not know if I was up
next or how things were panning out.
Okay.
May Allah subhanaa tala reward you all
for for for doing uh what you're doing
and for everybody contributing and doing
their part and may Allah reward brother
uh Arian the dean show for uh
considering me to be one of the
panelists and one of the speakers uh
that's very considerate and thoughtful
of them anyways moving that out of the
side um it it's very difficult to try to
be creative and bring something new uh
to the table just so your speakers are
not listening to the same thing over and
over again and so when you come kind of
at the and uh you have to be creative
and come up with something uh different
just so you're not being uh repetitive.
And so uh I thought of of of bringing
something maybe different to the table
and that is the concept of authenticity
uh in America and authenticity when it
comes to the da in general. Um
unfortunately what I see happening time
and time again is that we're talking
about the same things over and over and
over again uh when it comes to just
mainstream da. that what I mean by that
is that usually when you walk into when
you walk into a speaker, we're talking
about somewhat of the same subjects,
right? And maybe you could narrow them
down to perhaps five or seven subjects.
Uh prayer, being good to your parents,
uh the necessity uh of voting because
you're in America, um being good to your
neighbor. So there are four or five the
mercy of Allah. There's about four or
five different subjects that you're
going to hear on any given day uh and
predict that the is going to talk about
that subject. And so what we need I
think and this is where brother Eddie
comes in. We need a voice, a courageous
voice, a voice that is willing to step
forward and not to worry about the blame
of the blamers, right? And that is to
talk about unsavory topics that people
usually don't want to delve into because
the word of the whiplash, the word of
the he said, the she said. And I found
brother Eddie
Subhanahu wa ta'ala I have found edit to
be that refreshing voice when it comes
to mainstream da'ah and what I mean by
what I mean by that and I can give a few
and I will uh give a few vivid examples
what we don't want and I find this to be
a a horrendous mistake when it comes to
da and that is that some of some of the
da in America revolves on it's
predicated on showing other non-Muslims
how we as Muslims
are no different than what is out there.
And I find this to be an egregious
mistake and methodology when it comes to
displaying the message of Islam. Why
that is is because we don't want people
going to the grocery store and looking
at our product at Islam like all the
other million products out there. We
want the non-Muslims to walk by down the
aisle and look at our product and say,
"Ha, this is really different. What is
this?" We don't want them walking past
Islam looking at it like because listen
to be very honest and blunt they've done
to Christianity they've done to to to
Judaism what they now want to do to
Islam and we have to fight tooth and
nail as Muslims on the da and the daist
scene to say no we're not going to allow
anybody to do with those other religions
to do with Islam forgive me what they've
done with those other religions right so
we don't just want to be another product
on the shelf. I find this to be
dangerous and it is not going to it's
not thoughtprovoking. Hey, we're just
another product on the shelf. Why me?
Yeah, we want to show them that we're
different. And the only way we can do
this is by remaining firm, remaining
steadfast and not playing around and
going into that which is obvious
and to say, "Hey, we're going to change
this. Yeah, we're going to water this
down. Oh, we're going to compromise on
this. I think it's only good because
we're living in the 21st century. We
have to cater to 21st century
sensibilities. No. And again, I want to
reiterate this is where brother Eddie
comes in and does I believe
a phenomenal job. He honestly does. And
I again I'll give a few proofs for that.
Brother Eddie aloh has been doing this
for going on two decades, right? He's as
many brothers and many speakers that
went before me uh will attest, he is
consistent, he is honest, he is
motivated, he is courageous, he is
creative.
This is
this is something I think that anyone
who knows Eddie will casually and
conveniently and confidently say that
Eddie is the man for the job. Here's the
issue. Some of us we get overjoyed and
again no one is to be blamed for that.
We get very very comfortable and we're
anxious and we want to spend for the
sake of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
without digging in to see well where's
my me going I mean I know it's a mid but
let us not forget that the at the time
of the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wasallam they built a mid and they
called it
right it's it's it's a mid that was
built but guess what it was a masid that
was built to cause strife and divi
division amongst the prophetic masid
alongside the prophetic masid. Yes, it
was a masid, but we as Muslims, we have
to really kind of dig a little bit
deeper when it comes to us giving our
hardearned money. We don't just give it
to anybody and say, "Hey, here you go.
Here's my wealth." What kind of masid is
this? Is it a liberal masid? Whatever
that means. Is it a progressive masid,
whatever that means? Right? What are
these Muslims who call themselves
Muslims? What are they promoting? Right?
Is it a 21st century watered down
version of Islam of hey the only thing
about them about Islam is hey we're
Muslims or so I think this is where uh
credibility comes into place the of the
person who's uh behind this enormous
project. This is where it comes into
play and this is where Eddie comes into
play. So authenticity is something that
we need more than ever today. We I think
are sick and tired of seeing the same
status quo online. And this is where I
think it's befitting for me to give the
examples about um uh Dean Eddie and uh
about our brother Dean, brother Eddie on
the Dean Show, right? It's the weekend,
so don't hold me accountable for for the
tongue twists here. Um, I was scrolling
through I was scrolling on Facebook not
too long ago and I came across a post
where it showed a hijabi not picking on
sisters here by far. Um, but it I came
up on this post that uh the dean show
shared and it was basically a hijabi
that was very that was wearing the
garments were a little bit too tight
exposing everything that was not
supposed to be exposed. Right? A woman
only exposes that kind of material for
her husband. And so I thought to myself,
I said, "Allahbar, wow, you can still
Muslim duad still do this today." So
that was a breath of fresh air. Guess
what? Sisters need to see that today
because no one is talking to them about
what is the proper hijab. No one not
mean and no one absolutely no one. But
it's quite controversial just to say,
"Hey, this is halal. This is haram."
Especially when it has to do with
women's issues. And this is something
that I I it's rare to come online and
see, right? I want my daughter if she's
watching the dean show, I want her to be
reminded of what the proper hijab is. I
want her to be if and if she is wearing
the proper hijab, I want someone that
she's going to come across and for that
person to reinforce,
right? and for someone to h offer her
some con some counsel or some courage or
some motivating words to encourage her
be firm dear sister with your proper
hijab for verily that's the hijab that
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala requires of us
there are women who need to hear that or
when I came across another post about a
woman's obedience to her husband I mean
let's be frank and honest everybody a
woman's obedience to her husband is an
Islamic concept irrespect perspective of
what men do and how they abuse it.
That's one thing. But the concept
itself, no one can deny it's an Islamic
concept. So to see this refreshing
material that nobody wants to delve
into, it's refreshing. It's to say, hey,
at least someone is talking about it,
right? And one last thing is the concept
even of uh masculinity. Masculinity in
all of its forms today is being shunned.
Now, I know people will argue and say,
"Well, no, no, brother. It's just we're
talking about the toxic masculinity."
Okay? Masculinity in all of its forms
today is being shunned. It is something
that is not embraced that people have a
problem with. And when I heard about the
whole concept of grappling and this is
these services are going to be offered
there. We have a problem with
masculinity today. And the guests I've
seen on brother uh Eddie's show, other
duat would probably think twice about
bringing them on. Why? Because it's too
controversial. It should not be
controversial. If we're it's intramuslim
dialogue and it's Muslims amongst
ourselves, between ourselves, between
one another. It should not be
controversial to talk about and what a
man must do in his house to protect his
wife, to protect his honor, to pro
protect the honor of his daughters, and
so on and so forth. So, when I see this
kind of content, this refreshing
material that other people would
probably close the door in their faces
and say, I can't really have you on our
show because you're not following the
status quo. So, this is what I
appreciate about Brother Eddie. He's not
afraid to ruffle the feathers on the H.
He's not afraid to dance. He's not
dancing around the tulips. He's not
afraid to rock the boat when the boat
needs to be rocked. And this is
something that we How can you not admire
that? He's truly a breath of uh fresh
air. Now, I am not sure how many um how
many uh uh minutes I have left here, but
the concept of masculinity in these
messages that a lot of our young men and
young women are seeing out there um
reminds me of Abu.
was he says a beautiful bait. He says
he says that not having something to do
empty time, right?
Your youthful years
is money, right? He says these three
things when you have them for a young
person, it is literally the vice of all
vices, right? to accumulate these three
things into one and to find these three
ingredients actively present within a
young man or a young woman, it is a
destructive vice for that person. So
what we're expecting inshalla from
brother Ali with this uh uh with this
new center is that he will provide at
least a friendly Muslim friendly
environment where Muslim women can go,
Muslim men can go instead of going to
the gym, instead of going to these other
communities inshallah this can be
somewhat of an alternative for Muslims
uh to go to. I think a healthy
environment growing up being around
Muslims. I think that's very very uh uh
important. I think that that that that's
of utmost importance. However, I will
end uh by this inshallah to allow and to
make room for the other speakers
inshallah and that is that uh a hadith
of the prophetat
he walked in on his wife
after them slaughtering a sheep. So he
asked her he says
what is left from the sheep that we
slaughter? So
she says,
"Oh messenger of Allah, what is left
from that sheep is only the shoulder
is the shoulder." Now I want you guys
first to kind of compare the shoulder,
right? To the rest of the body. I mean
that's a lot. That's literally what
three4s maybe we could maybe no one hold
me accountable to the estimate, right?
But when you look at the shoulder in
comparison with the rest of the body
that's 25% compared to 75%. So literally
she gave away right this was the
generosity of the mothers of the
believers
they gave away 75% and left for
themselves 25. Now the prophetatam he
corrected her understanding of what's
gone versus what's left. So he says to
her
Right? The prophetat wasam he corrected
her understanding of how to view things
because life is again it's about
perspective. It's about how you look at
things right and that's why there's the
uh English adage don't look at the cup
half empty look at it half full. So it's
it's a matter of perspective. So the
prophetat wasallam saw and he said no
everything is left and the only thing
that's gone is the shoulder meaning that
what really counts in the sight of Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala what's of value
what's really of worth is what we left
out and gave charity what we are going
to eat this is what's gone right so I
think it's a matter of perspective so
encouraging inshallah when I when I see
the the she's face basically this is an
indicator of okay thank you for your
time now we need more time for the other
one of so please dig in your pockets and
dig deep for I will be donating myself
inshallah
shake thank you very much it's a
pleasure having you on the program
inshallah we can have you back again for
an episode to talk about some of these
really important topics that you just uh
touched on yes
please please that that's that would be
a wish come true
so we we could ruffle some feathers that
you said [laughter]
please please
may I may I say something quickly before
I leave um I don't know if you can
incorporate this inshall in your new
shows
and that is um keep uh uh uh let your
iman glow by watching the dean show
let your iman grow by watching the dean
show it again
yes yes allow your let your iman grow by
watching the dean I like that. I like
that. Let your
It's yours. I'm not charging you.
I'm not charging.
We'll do a We'll send you a check.
[laughter]
Just Thank you so much. May Allah reward
you. Bless you. And then inshah
inshallah when we get u the keys, we're
going to have to have you also come down
to the center. Inshallah.
It will be a pleasure. Wah. Allah's my
witness. That that'll be a dream come
true. Inshallah.
All right.
All right. So, now we are moving along.
I want to apologize to everybody who's
been waiting in the back room and we've
had so many we have a traffic jam. Some
people have gone over the 10 minutes but
alhamdulillah may Allah reward all of
you. Everybody's came out. I didn't get
a chance to to thank Raj Haj Muhammad
hijab shake McCarthy and everybody that
came before him and after him. And now
we got uh who's this uh this is this is
one of my best this is my best friend
here Dr.
who's going to be a key part also he's
going to play a key role uh in the dean
center after we get the keys inshallah
go ahead take it away Dr.
Ahmed, the director of gain peace.
Alhamdulillah.
Everyone welcomed.
Alhamdulillah. It's an honor. You know,
when I heard about the Dean Center and
this fundraiser and the purchase of the
property, I was thinking to myself,
alhamdulillah, it is happening. It is
happening in the America. It is
happening for the world. Uh this
connecting of the creation with the
creator.
You know this is one of the dreams that
many Muslims may have had in the past.
They were not able to. They aspired to
it. Alhamdulillah. Allah subhanaa tala
has given opportunity to our generation.
Muslims living in the USA with the
leadership of brother Eddie and and and
the whole team that he has. May Allah
reward all of them. So this is
happening. Alhamdulillah. May Allah
subhana wa t'ala you know make it easy
for us give us success uh have uh us the
the right intention which is so
important and help our fellow Americans
and people of humanity they they realize
that who is the creator what is the
purpose of life and uh how to go to
paradise
you know brother Eddie last weekend I
was in Canada right now I'm I'm in
Detroit I was in Canada so when I was in
Canada we had a masjid open house many
people came close to 150 people came
when these non-Muslim brothers and
sisters when they came to the masjid one
of my very first thought it went to the
about to be uh you know um uh hosted the
dean center I was thinking that
inshallah as soon as the dean center is
going to be like uh modified from inside
and purchased with the help of Allah
subhanaa tala and the support from all
of you I was thinking inshallah let's
have a open house every single month.
Let's open the doors for our fellow
Americans so they can come, they can
taste the beautiful message of Islam, so
they can inshallah realize the truth of
Islam. So one of the ladies or one
couple who came up there and they said
that they live like across the masjid
and they passed by the masjid for the
last like you know 25 or so years. They
never got the opportunity to come in the
masjid because no one invited them. The
masjid did not had a open house before.
So this was the very first time the
masjid had the open house. So I was
thinking to myself, you know, perhaps
there are so many other non-Muslim
brothers and sisters all over all over
the USA, all over the world. They may be
living around the masjid. They may be
living, you know, down the masjid, but
they never got the opportunity to be in
the masjid to meet the Muslims and to
learn about Islam. So one of the
important missions of the dean center is
to make sure that we invite our fellow
Americans so they can come inside the
masjid. They can see the peaceful
environment of the masjid and of this de
of this dean center inshallah. So their
misconceptions they will go away and
they will feel that Islam is not a
threat but it is a blessing for them and
for all of humanity. So that would be
one of the missions or one of the
objectives of the dean center. One of
the three object objectives I would say
is to share Islam with our fellow
Americans to having a state-of-the-art
studio, a state-of-the-art masjid, uh to
have a state-of-the-art
uh new Muslim mentorship program. You
know when I was young when brother Eddie
we all we both used to go to a center
which was next to the MCC masjid I used
to watch the scholar and non-Muslims I
used to drop in they used to come in as
they were passing by and it says Islamic
reading room and people used to come
there sometimes by group sometimes
individually and me and brother Eddie
and other you know young people of that
time we learned a lot we got empowered
from it so This this deen center
inshallah the second objective besides
sharing Islam with our fellow Americans,
it is going to empower our own Muslims.
How to break the ice, how to start a
dava conversation, how to explain Islam,
how to respond to the uh to the
questions people may have about Islam.
So the second objective of the Dava
center is to train the youth and the
adults and the women and all the Muslims
how to share the beautiful message of
Islam with our fellow Americans. The
third and the most important or one of
the most important I would say is that
all the thousands of people with Allah's
guidance who are converting to Islam or
reverting to Islam as we say there would
be a resource library like a resource
center one of the dedicated spaces in
the dean center inshallah. So they can
come in they can be connected with the
Muslims they can become empowered and
inshallah they will they will be
integrated in an organic way. So for any
and all of these reasons I would say
that dean center of this nature is a
really important concept. It's a it's a
dream of many many scholars of the past.
It's a dream of many scholars of the
current times. It's a dream of scholars
of many many countries. So this will be
the very first center dedicated solely
to share the message of Islam purely.
That's the main focus. That's the main
mission of the of of of the dean center
is to make sure that we connect the
creation with the creator. So what I
would say brother Eddie is not just one
dean center in in Florida, right? Not
just one dean center. There should be
dean centers in every single major city
in the USA starting with Chicago
perhaps, right? New major and LA and
Houston and Dallas and Detroit and many
many cities. So once we perfect the
model in one place inshallah very soon
with the help of Allah with the support
from all of you just imagine there are
50 dean centers in the USA
all of them they open the doors for
people to come in and to learn about
Islam they will have a state-of-the-art
you know studio uh there would be
vibrant and dynamic programs for new
Muslims and born and raised Muslims and
non-Muslims imagine how far and how fast
inshallah with the help of Allah Islam
is going to be spread in the USA. So not
just in the USA, brother Eddie and Imam
Musa, just imagine Dean centers like
this all over Canada. You know, just
last week I was in Canada. Just imagine
Dean centers like this all over the
Caribbean island, even in Mexico,
Central America, South America, all over
Europe and Australia. Mashallah, it was
so nice to see Rasim and the rest of uh
the wonderful scholars.
So imagine dean centers and this concept
all over the world. You know we say that
Islam is spreading the fastest in the
world. Just imagine dean centers all
over the world. How fast Islam can
spread. And it's not just how fast or
slow Islam is spreading. Our job as
Muslims is to make sure that first and
foremost we do dawa individually.
Secondly, we should be doing dawa
collectively. And thirdly, we should be
also supporting those individuals and
those organizations and those centers
and massagies who are also sharing the
message of Islam. So again, I hope and
pray that every single one of us who
watching, who's listening either now or
in the future, I hope and pray that you
do contribute but $10,000, $50,000,
$200,000, right? Even $20, even $10. And
it will also help us if you can do
recurring donation also. Just imagine
right you may not be here your family
your parents may not be here but the
perpetual reward be coming back to you
inshallah as brother Wasim beautifully
mentioned every person who's going to
come and pray there every youth who's
going to be empowered with the message
of Islam. Every new Muslim who's going
to be integrated every non-Muslim who
would be educated the reward be coming
back to you. So may Allah subhanaa tala
help us not only to purchase the
property but to renovate the property
and really soon inshallah to have active
dynamic dean center and with that we
hope and pray that may Allah accept it
from all of us so we can get the best in
this world and inshallah
in the hereafter. Amen.
Dr. Sabil thank you very much for them
very encouraging inspiring words. Really
thank you so much. I want to introduce
uh you Dr. Sabil to our next guest
Shikima Musa has met him. We've known
him uh now for over I believe 10 years.
He'll correct me if I'm wrong. He also
saw the vision and he put a plan
together and kind of uh you know uh is
is helping to get us to this next level.
Shake Shaquille, how long's it been? Has
it been 10 years?
Hey guys, how's it going?
feels probably 10 plus. Yeah,
10 plus. So, let's uh welcome uh Shay
Shaquille. How are you?
Good. Alhamdulillah. How's it going? How
you brothers doing?
Really nice seeing you. I was looking
forward to seeing you.
Yeah, same here. It was great meeting
you here in Florida
and Dr. Jak for the beautiful talk.
Alhamdulillah. Good to see you, brother.
So, we're going to go ahead and let let
uh Shake Shaquille take it away from
here and talk about the vision and talk
about the the up and cominging
generations and all the other needs that
we're going to be working on in the Dean
Center with Shake Shaquille. Go ahead.
Take it away, bro.
Yeah, I think the next generation uh is
a crucial topic here in the United
States of America.
And I think one of the things uh that we
see directly um in our centers is that
the next generation needs to feel a
sense of belonging to our centers. Um so
that means strength strengthening our
infrastructure. You can imagine today
with all that they see on Tik Tok um and
the bombardment of misinformation
online, we're seeing that a lot of the
youth are, you know, having questions
from atheism all the way to what their
gender should be. And so, um the sense
of belonging, I think, is an important
part of our youth in America. What does
it mean to be American and Muslim at the
same time? So there are uh people who
feel like you can not be American and
Muslim at the same time that you have to
be one or the other. But I think by
having uh this sense of belonging in our
centers where an American Muslim can
walk in and feel like that they have
not, you know, landed in a foreign
country. you know, uh, when I was
growing up here in the United States, I
remember going to some of the centuries
and I felt like I left America for a
moment just for that jum, you know, I
felt like when I walked in the center, I
felt like I wasn't in America anymore.
And that was it was there was there was
culture clash. It was challenging and
that continues to happen today. Um, and
so I think one of the things that's uh
challenging today is that our centers
need to have this sense of belonging.
And I feel one of the most important
things to foster this sense of belonging
is to actually
uh
deal with the misinformation that's
being spread about Islam online in the
schools. Um
there are uh so many challenges that
need to be met in this regard and so we
can't expect our youth to have to feel a
sense of belonging with our centers uh
where they can proudly be American
Muslim when there's so much confusion
about their identity about Islam itself.
So I think like like we look back in the
time of the prophet Muhammad sallallahu
alaihi wasallam
um while the polytheists were spreading
misinformation the prophet Muhammad
sallall alaihi wasallam had dedicated
people there were people like
right who would respond to the
misinformation with poetry so the
prophet sallallaihi wasallam this was
the prophet's dedicated poet to respond
to Islamophobia at that time and poetry
at that time was the media at that time.
And so while there are many efforts and
may Allah reward all the brothers and
sisters for doing great efforts to to to
spread the proper information and the
proper definition of Islam, I feel just
as the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wasallam had dedicated committed people
for this cause. I feel like there needs
to be a center that is dedicated that
deals with Islamophobia.
Um and honestly the Dean show is the a
platform
um of for the media there's already uh
uh efforts being done in this regard in
the media and so the dean show you know
upgrading itself to be the dean center
using the media of our time the social
media online platforms to correct and to
clarify what Islam is. also important to
clarify what Islam is not right and so
this is what the the the poet of the
prophet Muhammad would do tell people
what Islam is and what Islam is not so
it's also important not just to tell
people you know who we worship what
Islam is but also to negate all the
false misconceptions about Islam and
that sometimes I feel at certain
situations can be more powerful and
that's why we have the shahada beginning
with what Islam is not right then. So it
tells us what Islam is not. And so by
understanding what Islam is not, we also
understand what Islam is.
Um, and so I think this dedicated
committed effort where one body in the
United States of America focuses only
just on this because it's difficult for
Islamic center to do da to deal with
Islamophobia to have classes to, you
know, teach taps or to do chron
memorization is just is is difficult to
do all of that at a high scale. And so I
think we need to enter a stage of
specialization where we strengthen our
infrastructure in our communities. And I
think the Dean center uh is needed
there. There are we have in schools
where children are being you know subtly
taught that violence is associated with
Islam. So there needs to be a dedicated
organization that goes and questions the
curriculums of these schools throughout
the United States of America. Right? a
masid or average Islamic center may not
be able to take on that task. But if we
have let's say the dean center that is
focused on you know going and speaking
to the people uh in the schools in
public schools where Muslim kids are
going where non-Muslim kids are going
and being taught uh in subtle ways of
how Islam is violent and etc. that that
curriculum uh the books that they choose
to use to read if there could be an
impact or there can be a workshop that
that can be set up in in schools
throughout the United States of America
where you have a seminar to the kids
about what Islam truly is and let them
directly ask Muslims instead of you
having you know a non-Muslim trying to
represent or tell the kids what Islam
is. So I think that kind of dedication
we are at that stage in the United
States of America where we need these
dedicated organizations like we have
care that's dedicated for civil rights
right uh and so I think it's now high
time for us to have a dedicated
organization that will deal with the
misinformation
uh that's out there and I think Dean
Center is primed to be that organization
um and honestly speaking uh you know the
Dean Center will be relief. You know,
I'm saying for me personally because I
feel and I and I'm sure every Muslim
does feel every time we see, you know, a
a misinformation online or we see, you
know, a movie where Islam is being
represented in a bad way, we feel this
responsibility that it has to be
clarified and many of us may not have
that platform, that media platform to
reach thousands of people uh or millions
of people as the Dean Show does. Um and
so for me personally you know the dean
center the work that it will do I will
feel a lot of relief and and a a a
lifting of this responsibility that
someone alhamdulillah is actually in our
institutions actually taking care of
this important task that I believe all
us Muslims are responsible for. So, I
think the least we can do is is support
and build this Dean Center um and and
and make it uh a reality so that
hopefully in the day of judgment we
won't be held accountable for the
misinformation and the lack of action um
or or not enough action uh on our part.
So, may Allah subhana you know bless
your efforts uh brother Eddie and all
your team members you Musa uh Dr. Sabil
and the whole team that you have uh to
bring about this amazing organization
that will inshallah be uh stand uh and
clarify what Islam truly is to the
masses.
Amen. Amen.
So yes definitely this is uh this is the
team here and we are working hard to
make this a reality and we have uh Dr.
Sabil. So you've met Imam Musa but have
you ever met doc Dr. Sabil Shaquille?
He's the director of game peace. He'll
be working on the he'll be also a key
component here.
Alhamdulillah. [clears throat]
I have not met you but just listening to
you I'm like really drawn by the
powerful words that you have said
before of Mary. He's a son of Mary.
Okay. [laughter]
Yes.
Alhamdulillah.
Thank you so very much. the very
inspiration word and Eddie
congratulations to you for putting
together such a wonderful job and work
and inviting scholars from across the
globe. We have audience watching from
entire Middle East, India, Pakistan and
as far as mashallah she was there from
Australia. So before Allah subhanana wa
ta'ala the work is being done and I'm
really really happy and glad that we are
putting this together and the way that
Dr. Zabil and Shakil has suggested and
said that it is a need of our time. It's
about time that we really look into
investing in dean centers across the
nation and possibly inshallah across the
globe. And with the hiji that's marked
as the establishment of Medina
al-Nawara, Muslims now need to think the
same way that it is about time the
struggle times of ours should come to an
end. We should establish and establish
through the establishment of being
centers across the globe inshallah where
we can reach out humanity and address
the misconception that the world has
shakil put it really beautifully. He
saidillah
it starts telling people what is Islam
is not and that's what the need of our
time. People really need to know that
and I love the encouragement Dr. Sabir
and others have offered Sheikh imam
Saraj Wahaj and others that invest with
the intention for you to benefit and
also on behalf of those who passed away
of your loved ones and what better way
to do this you know one thing that
always stands out especially when I
visited the site in Florida Tampa
Florida and it is full of n you could
see the reality over there and people
walking into this mazjid it's right on
the street and it is visible ability is
very clear. Many cars pass through the
streets. It's not hidden somewhere in
the jungle. Rather, it's right there out
there. A bluron billboard can also
convey the message like we want to offer
open house, open masjid that will invite
many people just passing by. They will
see that and it is an opportunity for
many out there who've been long wanting
to give the message to the Americans and
to the others. Now you can do it by
generously donating this and converting
this church into masjid. This idea did
not even come from anybody else. It's a
pastor of the church himself who had the
choice of selling this property to some
other business owners. He said no no no
no. I want this to be sold to a place
where it will remain a house of worship.
From the same building that he was
telling people to worship Jesus the son
of God. He know brother Eddie will
contradict and counter that Allah has
caused the same preacher to come and say
to brother Eddie I want you to preach
from here the message of Islam.
Yeah, that was interesting. Uh, Shay
Shaquille, uh, we had the, um, the
pastor, they could have accepted this.
Before we bring out our next guest,
Gabriel Romani, I just want to touch
upon his point. They had two other, they
had a few other offers and they would
have to had tear it had tore down to
make a car wash or a uh, a storage
facility. That was really interesting,
isn't it?
And then the% Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah. I find it
Yeah. And I think it it goes to to show
that people who believe in God want to
see this is also recognizing
the the the anti-religiousness that's
happening in the west where even you
have Christians who want to give the the
the facility to a house of worship,
right? Even if it's not the same their
same religion, at least they're in their
mindset, they're saying these are people
who believe in God and believe in Jesus
Christ as we Muslims do. So I think
people are are looking at, you know,
they've tried atheism. They've tried so
many different things and even science
is not backing atheism as atheists used
to claim. So there's so many I think
there's a a pendulum shift right now in
in in the United States of America and
the outlook towards religion. It's not
the 80s, not the '9s anymore. Um, and
this is not just this church itself, but
you know the the the church that we
purchased in New York City, the pastor
themselves were were happy that they
were giving it to us, which is a mosque.
Um, the same thing in Tampa, the same
church there. They were happy that it
was becoming a mosque and the name Jesus
Son of Mary center. So, I think it's a
phenomenon. I think today is it's it's a
new it's a new year. It's 14:44 and it's
an amazing time to launch the the Dean
Center online. I think every single
Muslim can start the brand new year by
supporting and donating uh for Allah
subhananaa and start the new year fresh
and clean with a amazing good deed.
Imagine the dean center that will
outlive us inshallah 5 10 15 20 100
years after we're gone and the next
generation the generation after that
will be continuing to do this important
work of clarifying the message of Islam
uh and we will be in our graves getting
the reward for that. So it's an honor
that we have the ability to support uh
such an endeavor. This is the true
investment with an ROI that is
guaranteed by Allah subhana.
Thank you very much. Let's uh without
further ado bring on our next guest our
brother Gabriel Romani.
How are you doing brother?
Alhamdulillah.
Go ahead. The it's all you from here.
Zaker for having me on. I've known
brother Eddie for mashallah
what is it like almost probably 18 years
17 years mashallah the first time we've
met was in Chicago in one of the classes
and I did the first interview there
entitled Romanian loving Islam
alhamdulillah and since then we've been
in touch and we've done a lot of great
work together alhamdulillah
and I think what I wanted to say today
for the brothers and sisters
and that the important
of such a center in the United States of
America in the west from my perspective
what I want to bring to the table is and
I spoke to Eddie I'm going to see Eddie
as well I think uh the next weeks
probably within two weeks inshallah
we're going to be recording some stuff
together we're going to meet but what I
would like to see and hopefully we're
going to see that is more pastoral care
more uh mental health issues being
addressed that is is alhamdulillah we
know that there's a lot of dao going in
United States of America mashallah
community has been doing a lot
billboards Quran printing distributions
um pamphlets
um tables outside in different parks you
name it there's a lot of da that's being
done one of the things we got to work on
is also in our community our brothers
and sisters the Muslims the existing
Muslims and one of the greatest
challenges today that we find is mental
health issues
okay you have to be um aware of it. It
is I mean what's the point of bringing
Muslims in only when our Muslims are
leaving? What's the point of just
bringing people in in da'wah and then
just recycling them and others are
having issues. So we having a lot of
problems within our communities that
need to be addressed and I hope that
such a center goes beyond than just
doing da to non-Muslims but actually
doing da to Muslims. And what is da'wah
other than inviting?
Know as the principle in Islam and the
hadith of
those who are closer to are more
entitled to your good behavior.
So a lot of the have commented then is
or islah is more important sometimes to
our own people first than to the others.
Now we can do both in parallel but
hopefully what I will try to convince
brother Eddie we've been discussing this
and he knows my work is to focus on
mental health and building that helping
having counselors having just uh ways
for people to turn to the right people
with the right skills to
family issues we need to have strong
families they're the building blocks of
the um so that is something very very
important. That's number one. Number
two, I really believe that we're
addressing a lot of adults. We need to
focus on our children, specifically our
[clears throat] boys. Our boys are
suffering. They're being emasculated day
and night. They don't have great role
models today. Who if you if I ask my
students, who do you look up to? They'll
give me some non-Muslim. We really need
to start putting in some strong
programs. I'm not talking about ballet
or something like that. I'm talking here
about like jiu-jitsu, martial arts, um
camps for boys to become men, from boys
to men. We need that wall. You know,
sisters might be like, "What about us?"
There's sisters have a a better way of
connecting. There's more support for
sisters. Our boys are struggling. How
can we expect for them to lead the
community in the next 20 to 30 years if
they don't know even what a man is? I
mean there's also confusion these days
about who is a man. So imagine that. So
I hope that we can focus on that
building that masculinity that strength
in our voice. And I know brother
Mashallah having been an expert in
jiu-jitsu for so many years training on
the Gracies and so on is is the right
person. And I tell with the right
support cannot do it alone. There needs
to be cooperation in this. There needs
to be I mean we have resources brothers
and sisters. Allah this one thing we
don't lack. We do not lack resources at
all. We have resources. We just don't
know how to cooperate. We just don't
know how to
we just don't know how to make.
So these are two things major things
that I would like to say to see. So
again, mental health issues being
tackled, counseling for our ummah
and uh targeting our boys, getting our
boys from boys to men. There's so many
amazing programs and I'll be talking to
Eddie about him as well that we can do
and with a center such as that it can
accommodate that. can be an amazing
place for an for so many different
activities where people can feel safe
that their kids have an actual social
environment, not just to hang around and
do nothing but has an objective, a
curriculum. There's key performance
indicators, things that can lead to the
development of a strong masculine leader
within our um we're lacking that. We're
lacking that. And last but not least
maybe point three for you know our
brothers and sisters the families a
place for them to you know to be able to
feel safe again and to they themselves
be involved in da'ah training
development and so on and so forth. So
these are three things that I would
personally like to see from the center.
I know that Eddie has a lot of plans
mashallah and I'm sure you guys have
discussed many things in these past
three what hour 3 hours now mashallah
but um please if anything focus on the
first two points we need this I'm
telling you from you know about what
some now like almost 18 years of
experience as a counselor that we need
to help our brothers and sisters yes
alhamdulillah I know that the center is
going to do da'a alhamdulillah I know
everyone likes to see shahada I know
alhamdulillah everyone likes to see
Christians embracing Islam and so on and
so forth. But trust me when I tell you
that our community needs help
everywhere. And it's not easy to see the
problems and to understand the problems.
You need a specific skill, specific way
to allow people to open up and to have
the courage to come and say, "Hey, I
have a problem. I want to talk about
it." And also takes a specific skill
within in line with the Quran and Sunnah
to be able to tackle those problems.
So I pray that Allah puts barak on this
and that you guys fulfill this purpose
inshallah.
Thank you so very much. You spoke
directly from your heart and it really
resonated well with all of us.
He brought back some good memories, huh?
Wow. Going on. Look how time has flown
by
when we first first met. Huh? Subhan
Allah.
Subhan Allah.
May Allah unite us in a better in a
better union.
Amen. Amen. Amen.
Amen.
And I and I I look forward to seeing you
soon here in uh
in Chicago.
May Allah bless you and keep you here
safe.
Amen. Amen.
This is a platform through which we were
able to address the issues that many
massagid members may not be comfortable
or welcoming. And this is a platform
where we are very passionate and talking
about the issues which are desperately
needed in our community in the
societies. So my beloved this is our
opportunity to bring this into existence
so we can address the issue that is
desperately needing our attention. And
if you believe in this work need to be
done, now is the time for us to support
generously and bring this dream into
your reality by helping us build and
complete the project of Dean Center.
Transitioning from Dean's show to Dean
Center. Now is the time and I really
would like to encourage all of you. You
know the pastor's story in this
particular church is that Allah has
guided this pastor. He himself is saying
that I would like for this building to
remain a house of worship.
Allah has even caused non-believers to
see the value in the efforts and the
work that is being done here. What are
we waiting for now is the time for us to
do this. May Allah subh make it easy for
all of us to continue to do this job and
may Allah bless brother Eddie with the
long healthy life with his strong iman
and the spirit that he always have
towards this cause to continue to work
for which inshallah tala we are all
looking forward to and inshallah tala
generations to benefit from it. Now is
the time to help establish the dean
center with the beginning of the new
year 1444. Let this 1444 mark as a
history making here in America.
Inshallah.
This is your brother Imam Musa Azam. I
would like to encourage all of our
Muslim community. Consider giving
generously for this noble cause that is
desperately in need and need of our
time. Mega Dava Center is needed to
address the Islamophobia
effectively. And this is what brother
Eddie through dining show has been doing
whose reach is now just as it with the
din show over 5 million. Imagine if we
give Eddie the dean center how much more
we will [music] be able to reach and how
many people are going to benefit from
it. Once Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
accept any effort from your [singing]
side then he gives you another project
and that is a sign of acceptance of the
previous one. Brother Adi have started
his dean show. Allah subhanaa tala grant
acceptance to it. Now he gave him
another opportunity to have the dean
center to serve the humanity. It is our
duty my beloved to do whatever we can to
support and bring this into reality.
Desperately needed funds are few
hundred,000 and within with that we'll
be able to bring this into existence.
35,000t
building will come into existence as a
mega davawa center here in America that
will serve millions for generations to
come. So my beloved, please do not miss
out this opportunity to take part in
this noble cause, a historical thing
that's about to take place. Please
donate generously as soon as possible.
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for
Allah.
My dear respected brothers and sisters
in Islam,
this happens to be the first day in the
new hiji calendar, the new hij year,
the month of Allah Muaram, the first
month in the Islamic calendar.
And this is the year 1444
years after the hij of the prophet Sam.
And I want you to picture this.
Almost 1,400 years ago,
Sam. Wasam was sitting with his
companions in the desert. In the Arabian
Peninsula,
in the desert in the Arabian Peninsula.
Then he tells them,
This religion will reach as far as the
day and the night reaches.
This religion of Islam will enter every
single home on the face of this earth.
Brothers and sisters in Islam,
I just want you to picture that. Picture
that they are still in the Arabian
Peninsula. They haven't even gotten out
of there. And the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wasallam is telling them that
brothers and sisters in Islam, we being
in America is a testimony to what the
prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam said.
And here we are opening massagid
taken over churches which used to serve
polytheism.
were taken over sites and places
lawfully legally according to the law of
the land so that we can spread Islam
more and more and more brothers and
sisters in Islam so we can contribute
more to the cause of Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala brothers and sisters in Islam
you're being called today for an
emergency
to help
establish lish this dean center, this
center where we're planning, brother
Eddie and his team planning to have a
masid.
Do you know what is the reward if you
contribute only
the
size of a brick
or the value of a brick
to the building of a house of Allah
house of worship
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam
says
Whoever builds a house for the sake of
Allah, even if it is the size of a bird
nest like a brick,
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will build for
this person a house in Jenna.
Your address will be Jenna, brothers and
sisters in Islam. Not just the house but
the house in Jenna. Not in a a street
random street here in on earth in Jenna
where you will not die
where you will not feel any more pain
anxiety.
Do you want to build your house in
Jenna? Contribute. Scholars said what
does it mean? The prophet said a bird
nest. You can't pray in a bird nest. So
they said whoever contributes the value
of a bird nest. So a lot of you today
through this noble cause noble project
can have a house in Jenna if you
contribute as little as a birdness
brothers and sisters in Islam. Brothers
and sisters in Islam, in this mega dean
center, we're going to have a school
where we protect the
identity of our Muslim kids, brothers
and sisters in Islam. And you know quite
well now what is going on in the public
school system. It's becoming completely
unsafe
for our children, brothers and sisters
in Islam. First of all, the separation
between the religion and the system is a
main cause. Meaning that your children
will never receive anything that would
even hint to the existence of a god of
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala which is
totally against the teachings of Islam.
And we know recently now how the moral
decay, the moral decline, the moral
defect gotten into our school system
regarding morality,
regarding basic things which our innate
inherent
condemn and rebuke. Brothers and sisters
in Islam, a school protecting the next
generation of this ummah, the children
of those Muslim of the Muslims, brothers
and sisters in Islam, a community
center, a place where you can come and
join the rest of the community members
and bond with them, build that
brotherhood, brothers and sisters in
Islam, around the masid, around the
school, around the facility And above
all, brothers and sisters in Islam,
you're contributing to the spread of
Islam. Like the prophet mentioned that
it going to end up entering every home
because of you. Brother Eddie has been
doing this for years.
For years, we witness that. I have been
a host on his show more than one time.
He's been doing it for years,
volunteering for the sake of Allah,
educating the ummah. And I know this
brother quite well, brothers and sisters
in Islam. He's very careful about what
he disseminates out there of
information. He calls me all the time.
What do you think about that? What do
you think about that? This is something
that someone that you can trust brothers
and sisters in Islam and I'm not
praising him
but he has displayed his uh keenness on
disseminating
valuable
and authentic knowledge to the ummah to
the community.
He addressed issues brothers and sisters
in Islam that needs to be addressed.
He he did I I witnessed to that. Now he
his experience has grown. His team
mashallah is up and running. Now he can
offer this to the um brothers and
sisters in Islam. Imagine after we die,
this place will stand out there in
Florida serving the cause of Allah after
all of us die. Even Eddie, even me, even
you, everybody.
This is what you call
ongoing.
Brothers and sisters in Islam, held the
cause of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
Brothers and sisters in Islam, remember
when you spend in the cause of Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala, remember Allah will
give it back to you.
Some of us may not believe that. Hence,
took an oath on this.
Three things I'm willing to take oath
on. Number one,
your wealth will never decrease. You're
going to go right now and click donate
towards the dean center right now. Rest
assured, be certain that Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala will return that to you
manifold.
Beside it will be your reward on the day
of judgment.
Sai wasallam says
the believer will be under the shade of
his until Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
settles the disputes and uh arbitrate
between the people.
Brothers and sisters, in Islam, the son
of Adam says, "Mali, mali, mali, my
wealth, my wealth, my wealth." What do
you need the wealth for, son of Adam? To
eat and to wear. That's all. But the
true wealth is what you spend in the
cause of Allah and what will stay for
you on the day of judgment. One day,
brothers and sisters in Islam, the
prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam was
given a very nice sheep by one of his
neighbors.
Knew that the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wasallam loves to eat the shoulder.
So the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wasallam in his way out, he didn't want
to keep anything from it. He said,
"Yeah, slaughter it. get somebody to
slaughter it and please distribute the
meat to the neighbors and the needy.
When the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wasallam returned, brothers and sisters
in Islam, he asked, "What did you do
with the goat with the shea
look?" She said, "Oh messenger of Allah,
all of it is gone except the shoulder. I
saved the shoulder for you." You know
what the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wasallam told her? Oh, all of it stayed
except the shoulder. What you spend, you
see, the money that you're spending now
is what will stay for you. But whatever
you keep for yourself, you're going to
spend it in this world. And Allah knows
best if you're going to spend it wisely
or not. But this is your saving with
who? With Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. The
prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam says,
Allah would take the from you with his
right hand
and he will grow it for you like you
grow up like you raise up a horse a baby
horse and so brothers and sisters in
Islam this is a
Believe in Allah. Believe that the
religion of Allah will get all over the
place. Will enter every single house.
You got to believe that because the
prophet said that and the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wasallam does not
speak randomly.
He receives revelations from Allah. He
receives instructions from Allah to
speak out. Brothers and sisters in
Islam,
believe that now
spend to make it happen
and spend on from what Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala placed you as trustees over
it. It's not your money. Allah given it
to you. Spend it. Spend it, brothers and
sisters in Islam.
I love you all for the sake of Allah.
And I know I'm certain inshallah
that you will make this happen.
Inshallah, be certain that these good
brothers out there, inshallah,
it happen for all of us. Inshallah for
the um not for you Eddie. For the um for
the um
this is a um project. This is a um
project um for the entire um guys. Help
it guys. Help it. Make it happen guys.
We need to go next month out there and
have the first event inshallah. We've
been talking about that inshallah. and
show you the facility and show you where
the school is going to be, where the
masid is going to be, where the dawa
center is going to be, where the library
is going to be. This is going to be a
hub for the ummah. Make it happen.
I I want to before I bring on our our
next guest, USA Evans, I just want to
see if the audience can guess. This is
kind of a old video here, but if they
can guess who this uh who this uh one
second young man is in this uh video
that I came across
what the Muslims are about. So tell us
now. Now now I got the question on the
show and I said look we got to read the
question. So you're the person that's
qualified, God willing, to help give us
some advice. People go to doctors if
they have a disease or something, but
many of us we have the disease of the
heart. And this is more important
because the pills might fix you up and
you might heal your bone if it's broke,
but man, when the heart is rusted, it
needs that
polish.
Polish. So, let's get some polish here.
So, tell us the sister. She says,
"Message, love your show. Uh, sister
needs a push title." Okay. So, she said,
"For years, my husband has been growing
and improving in his dean." Dean, the
way of life of all the messengers of
God, Islam.
So, and for years, he has been nicely
trying to get me to wear the hijab.
That's the fashion from the seven
heavens from the creator, right? So, uh,
he's been for years trying to get me to
wear the hijab and for years I've
refused. I just can't seem to find the
courage to wear it. My parents are
Muslims, more cultural in brackets, it
says. And it's strange, but they are
against the hijab also, and I feel they
would disown me if I put it on. I I'm
also nervous as to how my friends
friends would react. It's eating away at
me, and I feel Allah, the creator, keep
sending me signs. Now the question is am
I being ungrateful by not wearing it?
What about my parents? What am I going
to do?
Okay, you saw the side of the question
shake. Let's turn this into a program. I
thought we can discuss this and
inshallah at the end the sister will
shed a tear. Her heart will soften and
she's going to run and put the
Can I can I tell you something that I
think I in a previous show with you but
here it is again.
The religion is
that looks like you
is laws
young man. Alhamdulillah.
Look at this now. You know,
thank you.
May Allah give you success
and we'll see you this weekend, Eddie.
Inshallah. I'm up. I'll be there in
Chicago helping out, guys. Come on guys,
let's make this happen.
Just one more month is left sh to do the
closing.
Allah will happen. Inshallah by the
grace of Allah, by the help of Allah,
I'm certain Allah will make it happen
for the um
and we have our next guest coming up
here who's going to take it away. He's
also one of the OGs. We call it the
original guests on the Dean show, Sha
Evans. How you doing my brother?
I'm good. Alhamdulillah. How you doing,
bro?
You sound good. Alhamdulillah. Crystal
clear. Thank you for joining us. Go
ahead and take it away.
Yeah, it's been uh it's been a long
time, Eddie. I think um I think the
first time I was on the Dean show, you
had just started doing English. Uh and
and I think before that you were just
doing Bosnian uh programs. I think this
was like 2007ish.
Yeah, late 2006. Subhan Allah. So, we've
been at this for a long time.
Alhamdulillah.
Um, and you know, you know, I've always
been a big supporter of what you do,
brother. You know what I mean? And I've
always enjoyed the way you approached
the dean in a very logical and in a
very, you know, realistic manner for an
American audience. And it's something
that that was much needed back then and
is and is even much more needed today,
you know, for for people to understand
how Islam can can holistically and
realistically improve upon the status
and value of people's lives. And that's
that's something that that's so missing
in in today's world is, you know,
especially after the pandemic, we
realize that the world is in pain. You
know, I mean, there are so many people
that are lost. There's so many people
that are hurting. There are so many
people that are going through so many
things and they're they're they're
turning to everything. They're turning
to drugs, they're turning to alcohol,
they're turning to medication, they're
turning to the world, you know, they're
turning to clubs, they're turn what
whatever it is they're turning to is
only and and I've said this for many
years. It's like trying to put sand in
the ocean and hope that you will fill
it. You know, I mean, you could spend a
lifetime doing that and you're never
going to displace enough amount of water
to do any any real benefit. But the
thing about Islam is that it completely
fills that that hole and that gap in
people's lives. And I know this because
I was not a Muslim for the first 18
years of my life. And accepting Islam is
I I believe one of the contributing
factors the reason why I'm still here
today because I was on a very dark path.
And Islam has made me a whole person.
It's made me someone who not only
understands my own purpose to serve my
creator, but it's allowed me to
understand why I'm here on this earth.
Not only to serve the one who created
me, but to serve other people. And
that's that's what I believe. And we
haven't even had a long discussion about
this, Eddie, but I'm almost 100% sure
that that's the purpose behind the Dean
Center is to help people. Is to be
helpful to people because that's that's
what we need to do. that that's the goal
is to help people because one of the
things that I think we've forgotten
about with our religion is that yes
we're supposed to serve our creator but
one of the most beautiful ways to serve
the creator one of the most beautiful
ways to serve the creator and we learn
this through the sun of the prophetatam
one of the most beautiful ways to serve
the creator is to be service to his
creation to be to be service to his
creation service to the creation is
servitude to the one who created them
and that's a lot of what we are missing
in the dawa scene. You know, we're we're
trying to convince everybody of the
ideological argument of Islam, you know,
brain wrestling. But in reality, what
people want to know today is how can
Islam help me? How can Islam better my
life? How can Islam better my situation?
How can Islam heal what's going on in my
mind? How can Islam heal what's going on
in my heart? How can Islam heal what's
what's going on in my life? And and
that's where we need [clears throat] to
be targeting. And that's that's what
I've always seen Eddie try to do is
tackle real real world problems with
real world solutions is what Islam has.
We keep talking about the ideological
argument of Islam. But within the the
the tenants of the faith within the
Quran and within the sun of the
prophetatam
is also the answers to the problems that
are facing humanity. It's also the
answers to the problems that are facing
humanity. And we should want to help
that. We should want to help that
because we are part and parcel to this
world. We are raising children. I have
three children. Alhamdulillah.
who are being raised in this world.
Eddie, I know you have children as well.
One of your sons, I've played I've
played wars one with him a few times.
You know, we want to leave this world
better than we found it. And
[clears throat] we're not doing that
just out of some, you know,
self-fulfilling reason so that we can
feel better about ourselves. We're doing
this because we know that this is
service to the one who created us. This
is service to the one who created us.
So, brothers and sisters, support this
project. There are not enough. And when
people say, you know, like, oh, we're
building masses here, but it doesn't
matter. We need more. We need more.
There is not enough places of service
for people to understand the religion of
Islam from an American perspective, from
people who were born and raised here,
who live here, and who are part and
parcel of this community. We need more
and more and more. So, brothers and
sisters who are watching this right now,
support this project. Like
[clears throat] I said, I've known Eddie
personally now for 16 years. I mean, I
was joking about, we were on the phone
the other day talking about this and I
was joking about it, you know, that
we've come such a long way. You know,
the Dean show has come such a long way.
Production has come such a long way. In
the very beginning, I remember it was
like me and Chef Adley were some of the
original guests. Like we were coming
out, we literally were walking out of
like a coat closet, you know, to enter
into the studio. Uh, you know, it was a
whole different it was a whole different
ballgame back then. But that what shows
the sincerity is that it's still here.
You know, things that are sincere stay.
Things that are sincere, things that you
do that are sincerely for the sake of
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. Those things
remain. And that's why you see longevity
in what Eddie's been doing. That's why
you see longevity in the dean show.
That's why you see longevity in some of
the guests that you've seen today, like
our former guest, Imm Karim Abu Zed, who
I've known also for about the same
amount of time, 16 years since he was
imam at PGMA in Virginia. People who are
sincere, they stick around. They stay
around because Allah subhana wa ta'ala
accepts their efforts. So brothers and
sisters, if you're watching this today,
make sure you click on the link. Make
sure you give. It doesn't matter if it's
$5,000 if you can afford it or if it's
$5. What matters is the intention and
the sincerity because what Allah subhana
wa ta'ala can do with sincere amounts of
of of your effort you is is un is is is
unimaginable. I've seen it so many times
and I've been fundraising for so many
things for so many years. And one thing
that's never ever failed me and I've
always given a challenge to this. I've
challenged people so many times when I
go and do fundraisers. You know that the
prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam made
a promise and he said he didn't promise
about many things in this life. But he
said there are a few things in this
world that I'll take an oath upon and
one of them is
that you cannot decrease your wealth by
giving charity. That you cannot decrease
wealth by giving charity. So when you
give charity, it is only to increase
your wealth. And I tell Muslims that
even if you're in a position to where
you know you you're struggling
financially. I remember one of my
earliest teachers. [clears throat] He
was one of the people who introduced
dawa to me and and what it meant and
what it how important it was. He also
got like Ysef essh.
He used to tell me if you're struggling
with anything in this world give
charity. And I used to be like, "This
makes" I called him one time and said,
"Look, uh, she I'm I'm I'm I'm
struggling to pay some of my bills. Can
you give me," because he was paying me
to help him at that time. I said, "Can
you just give me a little bit advance?"
He said, "Give saddak." I said, "Bro,
I'm telling you, I have like $10 in my
bank account." He said, "Give $5 of that
in and watch what Allah subhana wa
ta'ala does with the other five." And
wall, it's never failed. It's never
failed. When you do something sincerely
for the sake of Allah and you give
something sincerely for the sake of
Allah, whether it's your money, your
time, your knowledge, your energy, your
skills, whatever it might be, when it's
given for the sake of Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala, it's going only going to
increase it. It's only going to increase
it. So brothers and sisters out there,
if you want to increase your pleasure of
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, if you want
to increase your wealth, if you want to
increase the goodness in your life, if
you want to do better in your business,
give for the sake of Allah.
Because we are all in this together. We
all in this together. The prophet
sallallahu alaihi wasallam is like one
body. You know Allah says in the Quran
this um is one
and I am your lord. Therefore worship
me. So we are all in this together.
Eddie I have no doubt inshallah I have
no doubt that this center is going to be
established because I have seen what
you've been able to do with much of
nothing from the beginning brother. And
I know that your dedication to to
serving the dean and serving the da and
trying to help uh people understand
Islam in plain simple English is is is
uh is is is unsurpassed in many ways. So
may Allah subhana t bless you guys in
this effort. May Allah grant you
goodness in this life and I look forward
to and I told you last time anytime bro
Tampa Tampa Florida is beautiful. So
anytime you want your brother Yusha to
come down and see the center in Tampa
Florida I will be there inshallah.
Thank you so very much for the
inspiration.
Alhamdulillah. I got another guest here
trying to get on. So, we're trying to
see. Let me Let me Let's go real back
real quick. I want to see. We played
this uh with the previous guest. I want
to do this with
Well, don't embarrass me like that.
No, no, no, no. Let's just let me see if
people can guess this one.
The cameras cut out all the movies now.
[singing]
Alhamdulillah,
which means peace be unto you. Welcome
to another episode of the Dean Show. My
name is Indeed. I'm your host Eddie and
this is the all new show on Islam
and Muslims. Thank you for coming to the
source to learn about the most
misunderstood way of life in the world
today which is practiced by over 1.5
billion
human beings all around the world. So we
want to help you develop a better
understanding
and there are certain issues and myths
that we like to clear up here on the
show. One of them which is prominent in
the world today is the idea that God
Almighty, the creator can be a man. So
we're going to be discussing this topic
with our next guest
and giving you
some of the top 10 reasons why God
Almighty cannot be a man.
One note here is that we're going to be
discussing something that might be a
little sensitive to some people about
one who is beloved to our hearts. His
name is Jesus.
We want to note that everyone knows
before we start that we love Jesus.
We're trying to deliver issue for
Christians, Muslims.
There he goes. Anybody recognize this
young man? First number one reason is
that God cannot be born. [laughter]
God did not come into existence. He's
always existed. He did not come into
existence from non-existence. He was not
born. He was not created.
He has always been before there was even
a thing with the good spirit.
The Eddie, we were young men. We were
young men back then, bro.
You're still young. She
Yeah, I'm still young, but the the I I
tuned my camera so that you can't see
all the grays in my beard now.
Alhamdulillah.
Alhamdulillah. I want
But Eddie, we've been going since back
then, bro. That's why I'm telling you. I
know what I I know that this can happen.
You can do this. Inshallah
to be able to come from all of that.
Like literally we we we this this is the
columination. This is actually putting
some brick and mortar together and and
doing something that is needed that is
needed. We we need we need more brick
and mortar places where people can come
to learn about the dean and also people
who want to be involved in help
spreading the message can can have help
because that's one of the biggest things
we find today is that people are like
how do I get involved? You know what I
mean? and and we just don't have enough
resources here in the states to be able
to do that. And that is why something
like the Dean Center is needed because
we need that hub to where people can get
involved and and and people can can get
behind what you're doing. Inshallah.
I really appreciate it. Thank you for
the support. Inshallah, we'll see you
there when we get the keys. Inshallah,
you know, I'll be there, bro.
Tampa, Florida, no problem. Especially
in in winter time because I live in
Minnesota. No problem.
Yeah. Get some vitamin D in the sun.
Get some vitamin D. Inshallah. May Allah
bless you.
Amen. You too. Thank you,
brother. Okay.
Brother, I would like to take a minute
here to thank all the donors that have
donated for this whatever the amount
that you have donated during this
presentation. May Allah subh grant
acceptance and reward you manyfold in
this life and the hereafter and make
this a perpetual charity for you not
only but for your own generation progeny
till the day of judgment to benefit
from. But I'd like to take a moment to
address this issue. We have only few
hundred,000 left to come up with before
the end of August.
And uh inshallah inshallah we have full
trust in Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. We
will take care of it. But I would like
to appeal to those individuals,
professionals, wellto-do people who we
have not yet reached. When you receive
this message, please consider giving
generously if you can. If not then at
least give us a call and let us know
that you will remain as a standby as a
hassan. We are open to receive any
hassan from you as well. So we can have
the assurance that we can go ahead and
close this deal while continue to appeal
to their generous donors to give
donation in the name of Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala so we can pay this one off if
and when inshallah tala when we have
raised all the funds for that. So, we
need donors. We need individuals who can
give a hass for us. $500,000 is not a
big deal for many professionals out
there. The money sitting out there in
the bank, we don't even know what you do
with it. You don't want to donate 100%.
That's quite all right. But give us a
call so you can offer us that comfort
and confidence that we need to continue
to move forward if we don't end up
meeting our goal of raising all these
remaining until the first week of
September. We would like to hear from
you saying brother we got your back. You
going to close this no matter what. If
you give us this motivation inshallah
inshallah it will encourage other donors
out there. Many donors were saying what
if you don't close I want you all donors
those who he even have given a dollar or
$10,000 or $15,000 donation came from
far east and west and middle east may
Allah reward you immensely they asked us
what if you don't end up raising all the
funds we said to them we have donors who
are lined up who are assuring us
inshallah you will close that is the
assurance that we would like for all of
you to have rest assured like the
brother said Evans that we will close
this inshallah inshallah tala with the
donation but again for the further
projects and everything that we need we
need the hassan also for people to come
forward and talk about it one last thing
inshallah inshallah if we can have
$500,000 is really not that big of a
deal for the health care professionals
I'm in healthcare I know and I
understand that how much money we make
and how much we can give for the sake of
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and I I want
you to know that this organization the
dean center is a tax exempt. Whatever
you give for the sake of Allah subhanana
wa ta'ala, you can also claim on your
taxes. Business people out there,
entrepreneurs out there, you we have
funds sitting on the side that we would
look for the opportunity to claim on our
taxes. Here is your opportunity to do
that. So waste not the movement and
opportunity to utilize this to your
advantage inshallah. inshallah and give
generously.
Let's bring out our next guest. We got a
couple more guests. Uh we had so many
people wanting to come forward and
[clears throat] participate. Uh
apologies to many who we couldn't have
on. We'd be here all night. So, let's
bring on our next guest who has
something some beautiful words of
encouragement to say. And then we'll
bring on former Christian pastor Samuel
on the program after this one.
This is Najaku with you from the Islamic
Association of North Texas in Dallas.
And uh want to give a shout out for
support to our dear beloved brother
Eddie Reevich and his dean center that
he's opening up. Um, I encourage you and
everyone else that you can think of that
can help him to get this place open so
that the great work of what he's already
doing can be multiplied by the magnitude
of having a proper state-of-the-art
facility that's going to be able to host
everything of a misjid of the studio for
the work that the dean show is doing as
well as a training facility, a a gym and
and the likes. that's going to also be
inshallah available for our young adults
and our youth and anyone else that's
going to inshallah be able to avail the
the training and and the benefits of
what are going to be there. We do ask
that you be generous and you give and
since this is certainly work that is
dealing with the religion eligible
anything of which you have help and have
your intention be that you're looking to
continue to promote the teaching
ofahillah
and that you're looking to preserve that
within the um as well as share that with
the rest of the non-Muslims that are
around us and know that Allah is the all
appreciative
and that whatever you help and give and
even in spreading the news of it that
Allah is the one that appreciates and
what he acknowledges of your services of
your donations of your support. Allahel
is the best to reward you and bless you
for it in this life as well as in the
next for here in the hereafter for
eternity. And we ask
that he bless each and every one of you
and that he also continue to bless our
dear brother Eddie and all that are
working with him to help make the dean
center come true and to bless it with
all that it's going to be of
this is only half
and that was our our brother I imo
giving his support and now we have Imam
Musa. This is a very special young man
here who's with us. Former Christian
pastor who was with the riding on the
propeller planes with uh who was that?
Jerry Farwell. I don't know if you heard
of Jerry Far. Was it Jerry Farwell?
Yeah, [laughter]
Jerry Farwell.
And now he's on a de show to share a few
minutes with us. And
welcome.
I'm coming coming to you from Oman uh
from Muscat, Oman.
And I want to uh just congratulate you,
Eddie, on the work you're doing. The
work you're doing is important to the
entire UMA. Uh we're all helped by your
work and we look forward to your
success. Your success is our success.
May God bless you and encourage you. You
know there are so many problems out
there today facing Muslims.
Uh one of them is uh the many tragedies
affecting Muslim youth around the world.
Uh I go to Norway
in to Norway Oslo Norway a couple of
years ago and the Oslo Islamic Center.
I'm speaking there and I needed to take
a break. So, I told Imam Faruk, "Uh,
please, I need to go for a walk." So, I
went down the street. I'm walking down
the street, and there's a young Muslim
uh lad, he's only about 18 years old,
leaning against the wall. His eyes are
blurry.
I asked him, I said, "What? It looks
like you need help." And he started
crying, "Help me. Help me. Help me."
I just held on to him for a few minutes.
He's got needle tracks going up and down
his arm
and I said, "What's your name?" He said,
"Muhammad."
These are problems faced by Muslim youth
around the world.
Uh we need to open up the situation so
that they we can get them back on the
straight path of faith and get them
help. Uh this problem is not just
peculiar to Norway. It's peculi uh it's
indicative of what's going on in Saudi
Arabia today.
Uh we see hundreds of Muslim youth at
Breman prison. Also um they're there for
drugs and alcohol.
I asked them how did you get started on
and they said oh we saw it in an
American movie. We thought it would
really be cool. [snorts]
Now they're addicted.
So this is a problem and this is a way
that I know the Dean show through your
broadcasts and through the pull of your
heart, Eddie, you can help us get these
kids back, get them back on path. Uh
Shayan is our number one enemy and he
wants to pull people left and right
through temptation. He wants to get them
off the path, but we want to get them
back on the path. Sure.
The other area where we're working is
just for unbelievers,
uh, people who know nothing about Islam,
but we want them to know that our
prophet, our prophet was a human rights
activist. It's indicative of what
happened in Medina in the very
beginning, the Medina declaration. our
prophet, peace and blessings be upon
him. He was a civil rights activist.
Remember his last message, [snorts] a
white's not above not above a black, a
black's not above a white. All races are
equal in the in the face of God's
God's grace and mercy.
Uh he taught that women uh women he
taught women's rights at the time of the
prophet. uh many children were being
just female children were being left in
the desert to die.
But through Prophet Muhammad, an end was
brought to that and women were given the
property rights and given the right to
to to be leaders in their own society.
Um our prophet was an animal rights
activist. Wow. What? He was an animal
rights activist.
Remember the woman, the prostitute was
she dipped her shoe in the water and
gave a drink to a dog?
He said she's going to be uh she's going
to
uh because of her work and because of
the love of the animals that she had,
she's going to be in Jedha.
Uh we're very happy at Muslim Voice for
Peace to say that our prophet was a
peace activist, not pro-war.
Uh the world looks at him in with
scathing eyes, but we can proudly say he
was anti-war.
He said, 'You can fight if somebody you
can defend yourself if somebody's
attacking you, but you can't go out and
fight an aggressive war against your
enemy, against any enemy.
And if our prophet were alive today,
he'd be campaigning against nuclear
weapons.
Uh this is a totally different
perspective on Prophet Muhammad than
what the world has. Uh you know, nuclear
weapons kill innocent people. they
destroy crops and animals and all of
that's against the law
in Islam.
But uh we're proudly here to say and to
encourage youth around the world, Muslim
youth to be leaders in all of these
areas. And from our offices, new offices
in Washington DC,
uh with the help of Asal Khaj Hussein,
we're going to be educating Muslim youth
to be leaders in human rights, civil
rights, women's rights in the in the
field of of um animal rights and also in
peacemaking. I took a group of Muslim
youth to Hiroshima, Japan a few years
ago and we bowed and prayed at ground
zero for an end of nuclear weapons.
Um, news media was watching.
The TV cameras were going and some of
the journalists came to her afterward us
afterwards and were laughing and saying,
"You got to be kidding if you want us to
believe this."
But it's absolutely fact.
Absolute fact
she'll be interviewing those leaders
that you're taking them around soon
inshallah at the dean center with the
dean show inshallah
thank you very much for being with us
give
thank you thank you God bless you all
and may God give you victory quickly and
soon
amenum
All right, we are coming down to our
last two guests. Let's go ahead and
bring
here on the dean show. Salamaikkum,
sister,
how are you?
We're good. Alhamdulillah. How are you?
I'm doing amazing. Mashallah. You're
doing such an incredible job with this
fundraiser, with this imit, the vision
that you have for the Dean Center. I'm
really excited to be a part of this.
Mashallah.
Thank you very much. May Allah accept
from all of us.
Amen. Amen.
So, uh, go ahead, sister. We, uh, we
were at the last two and alhamdulillah,
right,
we're coming to an end and it's very
nice. We couldn't go ahead and close it
out without having you on also.
So, we we'll go ahead and um, let you
uh, take it from here.
Sure. Sure. Inshallah. You know, um,
Subhan Allah, I want you to dream with
me a little bit. Okay. I want you to
dream of a society where we have youth
that are so confident, so proud of being
a Muslim that they are able to
contribute to society. They are not
weakened by their peers. They are not
affected by the social media. and they
are able to not only stand strong and
maintain their religion, but they're
able to impact positively the Muslim,
the non-Muslims, and even the Muslim
community. How amazing would that be to
have a society where our youth are
proud, healthy pride, right? Healthy
pride and they are uh strong in their
conviction. And imagine parents who are
connected with their kids who know how
to engage them where they will come to
them when they have problems that they
will be there that they will have the
knowledge on how to connect with their
children. Now sadly we are far from
that. We are so far from that because on
a daily basis I'm a faith-based
counselor for those of you who may not
know. And what you see, what I see on a
daily basis is that hardworking, good
practicing Muslim families who have
devoted their lives to the dean. They
come to me devastated, crying, and just
completely floored because their kids
have left Islam, their kids have sexual
identity issues, that their kids are
taking off their hijab, they're losing
their faith, they're cutting ties,
running away from home. There's, you
know, there's self harm, there's even
suicide, attempts of suicide. Now, you
see this and you think about what is it?
I mean, they're totally baffled because
they think I, you know, I thought I was
doing the right things. I thought that
my kids are turning out fine. But when
you look at it, you see that there are
many reasons for this. First of all,
there's a lack of support. There's lack
of role models, right? There's not a
good solid community. when they go to
the mosque, a lot of times they're
shunned. They're criticized. They're
told to like, you know, sit in the back
or be quiet and, you know, not to be as
engaged. They're not sometimes welcomed
in the community. They feel alienated,
right? They feel alienated for being
different. The Islamophobia makes them
feel kind of ashamed to be Muslim. They
feel embarrassed to be recognized as a
Muslim. So, they want to take away any
identity. They don't want to take away
the hijab. They want the Islamic names
to be taken away. They don't want to be
seen with their families, right? And
it's [snorts] about having like and not
having any kind of Islamic pride. So
that is why I mean this dean center is
so important in our community. You know,
it is awesome because I've known brother
Eddie, mashallah, for years and I I do
trust him and I feel like he has been
working so hard for the Muslim comm
community for years now. And now he has
this vision. He has a vision that I'm so
happy to support and I encourage every
single one of you to support because we
need to save our youth. And why is this
Dean Center so important? It's because
it provides an alternative. There is an
alternative. Instead of hanging out and
being in an environment that is not
conducive to the dean, you're in an
environment, you're providing a healthy
alternative. And it's always important,
you know, we're in on a health kick and
we're always we're actually just today
talking about how you need to have a
healthy alternative. Maybe someone
cannot give up sugar. Okay, let's use
monk fruit. But if you don't give them
an alternative and say no more sugar,
right, it's people are going to freak
out. So we need to have an alternative.
Okay, you're not going to this club, but
you're gonna come to this Islamic club.
And this [snorts] is something that we
have seen within the US that the
non-Muslims have really really embraced
and they have done this and that's why
it makes it like appealing, right? And
the fact that you are mashallah
providing a place that is going to
provide guidance, right? There's
mentorship. you have individuals that
the the youth can look up to that they
can say, "Oh my gosh, this person, he's
so cool. He's so accomplished. Oh my
gosh." You know, and I I remember when
my kids, we were in Egypt for a few
years and I put them in a leadership
camp and those moments being with these
young adults that had, you know, they
had the leadership, they were fun, they
were cool, they were religious, that
impacted them so strongly. And so we
need to have this. We need that
mentorship. We need a positive
association to the dean. Telling our
kids, if you don't pray, you're going to
hell. If you do this, you're it's haram
and it's all haram, haram, haram with no
fun associated to it. We're going to
lose them. And a lot of people have
already lost it. So making sure, you
know, when you have a community center
like this, mashallah, first of all, it
builds that Islamic pride. It makes you
feel happy to be a Muslim and it's a
place where you can bring your
non-Muslim friends. How important is
that? A lot of times people are a little
bit, you know, reluctant like where can
I take my non-Muslim friend because I
don't know how people are going to
behave. I don't know what the
environment is going to be like. So to
have a place like this where you can
bring the non-Muslims and you can bring
your friends and imagine the da'wah
imagine the da and you can you know you
can just strengthen that um the
relationship right with the non-Muslims.
So I really feel that you know it's a
unique opportunity to be a part of the
fabric of this society's dais because
you know in a lot of Muslim countries
the mosques are governmentf funded and
people may not have the opportunity to
help a place help build a place like
this. So what I encourage you to do so
whether you have kids or not you need to
donate. Whether you live in Florida or
not, donate. Whether you will directly
benefit or not, you need to donate
because it will be amazing to be a part
of the saddakar. Just imagine it. I want
you to hear the cha-ching. You know, we
get excited when we're in business and
we, you know, if you get, okay, sales,
sales, sales, you hear the chuch-ching,
chuch-ching, chuch-ching. Well, I want
you to get that excitement about the
edger. Imagine the edger you get. Every
time someone embraces Islam, you're a
part of it. Every time a sister turn
puts on the hijab, you get a share of
that. Every time that someone is
prevented from committing suicide and a
person is prevented from, let's say,
harming themsel or leaving the dean, you
will share in the reward. How amazing is
that? So we need to in whatever
capacity, don't think of any amount
being too small, whatever capacity, I
want you to donate to this cause and
make sure that you give generously and
realize that, you know, we as a
community need to step up, right? We
need to step up. We need to provide an
environment for our youth and not just
you know this I mean definitely what uh
you know brother Eddie is doing in
providing this center is so critical and
we need that we need that in you know
all the different communities. Subhan
Allah. And wouldn't it be great if as
parents we could connect with the youth
and have that positive impact? Wouldn't
it be great if we had the emotional
intelligence? if we had some ability to
connect with them and make this a very
positive experience and I saw the need
in that and I created a global support
group. It's a mindful hearts academy if
anyone wants to improve themsel as
parents because it starts at the home
right. So we need to work on ourselves
to help build our children and then to
help build a community. So what I really
encourage you to do is support this
cause. You're almost there. Mah 35,000
square feet and I think you have 700,000
remaining inshallah. Is that correct?
Less than that.
Less than that. All right. So mashallah,
you're almost there and it's it's a
pleasure to be a part of this.
Mashallah.
Thank you so very much. We really needed
your word of inspiration as a woman, as
a sister, as a mother, as a mentor.
Mashallah, you really addressed the
issue that was very much needed and it
is these kind of issues that can be
addressed through these channels.
Inshallah, inshallah.
Right. Right. Inshallah. May Allah give
you success and to and it's a pleasure
to be on here for being here. Thank you.
Thank you very much sister for your
support for being with us. We we'll see
you tomorrow on Huda.
Inshallah. Yes. Brother Eddie is going
to be my guest inshallah.
Looking forward to it. Thank you so
much.
And we're almost uh out of time. Let's
go ahead and um hear from another
prominent figure in the community. Uh
before we bring him on, let's go ahead
and let this video play for you with uh
another one of our sisters here.
I'm so excited. The Dean Show, okay, is
about to become the Dean Center. I pray
to Allah that this happens. Probably
like you, I have been a fan of the Dean
Show for more than a decade. It's
brought us some of the best, most
consistent content to do with people
accepting the Dean and really good
information about Islam from the inside
out. Mashallah. Eddie, I'm absolutely
with you and the team. Inshallah,
everybody get behind this. They're
talking about having a fully functional
TV center for Daer, a prayer space, and
an athletic hall, athletic center. The
sisters need this space as well. You
know, I'm a I I actually like gyms, but
I don't like going because of the uh
environment there. So, to go to
somewhere like this, I hope it's the
first of many. I'm going to support
this. The Dean Show becoming the Dean
Center. Let's all get behind this. Let's
grow the Dean.
Thank you. Thank you. Mashallah. Yes
indeed. Let's grow the dean through
support of the dean center. Inshallah
tala. Let us support generously.
Inshallah. We really need to raise these
funds my brother and sisters and we can
make it happen. Now is the time to do
show our support in action. It is time
to make and take action.
many of you know Eddie the Dean show
name hasn't changed because the the
message will stay the same the dean and
that's exactly what he has been
consistently calling to so this effort
is long overdue masid gym and daista
center all of this is manifestation of
the dean providing for the mind body and
soul with this gym subhan allah as we
know Eddie has been involved in martial
arts for over 10 years we know Dean show
has been here for 10 years plus. Let's
let's donate to this cause and realize
that this definitely is a manifestation
of our of giving for what Allah has
given us and giving it back to something
that he loves. as you see with the work
that he has done being consistent and in
having integrity with this message of
telling people about Allah from
different walks of life and he
definitely compliments the ummah when we
look at the presence of Islam and
Muslims in America let's donate to this
beautiful beautiful idea that we see he
has the caliber and the integrity and
the wherewithal to see it through May
Allah subhana wa ta'ala bless you all
for your donation for your contribution
ution for spreading the link of this
message to people to where they can give
to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala by giving
to ones that call to Allah.
Don't forget to support this beautiful,
beautiful effort.
Thank you. All right, Musa, we got one
last guest. Let's go ahead and bring him
on and then we'll close it up with uh
with yourself uh making another appeal.
And let's bring on Muhammad Ashawi here.
Muhammad Shinawi, take it away.
Oh, we lost him. Hold on one second.
Where'd he go?
So, let's uh bring that again. Muhammad
Ashawi is up here with us
for for having me uh Eddie and the whole
team down there.
We begin the name of Allah. All praise
and glory be to Allah. And may his
finest peace and blessings be upon all
his prophets and messengers and all
those who adhere to their guidance until
the last day. you know, I uh struggle to
decline an invitation uh to present and
support how I can with inshallah what
will be a an HQ and a hub uh and a
megaphone for the da for inviting to the
path of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala uh in
these lands that I am of the persuasion
that the vast majority of Americans have
not yet been given an honest look at
Islam, an honest chance to consider
Islam for themselves. And so I pray that
Allah enables Eddie and his team to turn
this dean center into a a model for
correctly sharing the treasure that is
Islam with the world and that Allah
allows the ripple effects of this
initiative to benefit people far and
wide uh until the day of judgment.
You know, I just wanted to share a uh a
reminder regarding
a a very uh pertinent verse in the book
of Allah in the Quran regarding dawa and
how dwa inviting to Allah is not is not
the work of the prophets just the
prophets or the scholars just the
scholars or the preachers rather this is
part and parcel of being Muslim. This is
part and parcel of being a follower of
the prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi
wasallam. that's inseparable from
calling to his path. So at the very end
of the chapter of Joseph Ysef in the
Quran, Allah the most high says,
"Oh Muhammad peace be upon him, say to
them, people need to understand this.
Say to them,
this is my path and the path is about to
be described here. What is the sacred
path of prophethood? What does it look
like? What does it mean to walk on it?"
Say to them, "This which we have not yet
explained is my path." And of course,
the path of the prophet is not anyone's
path. Right? This is the path of God.
God put him on this path and had him be
the caller to this path. And those who
follow this path are the cream of the
crop of humanity. And those who will
have the greatest share and be most
deserving of the word prosperity in this
world and salvation in the next. Say,
"Oh Muhammad, peace be upon him, this is
my path."
My path is that I invite to Allah.
That's the path of the prophet.
And you're inviting to Allah means
you're inviting to the creator. You're
inviting to almighty God. You're not
inviting to your culture. You're not
inviting to uh your ideas. You're not
inviting to your opinions. You're not
calling someone to Islam because you
happen to be Muslim. No, you're calling
people to Islam because your prophet
lived for this and was sent by God for
this and because the heavens and the
earth were created for this. And if you
analyze and study the prophet's life,
how genuine and sincere he was from
beginning to end to calling people to
Allah, it's something truly remarkable.
It's the most evident aspect of his
character. Most obvious, you know,
driving force in his personality upon
becoming a prophet is bringing people to
the message of God.
You know, you you think of uh the young
Jewish boy
and it's authentically reported in Bkari
that there was a young Jewish boy who
used to serve the prophet Muhammad peace
be upon him, help him with things uh and
then he fell sick and it turned out to
be a fatal illness. And when they told
him this young Jewish boy is dying, the
prophet Muhammad peace and blessings be
upon him rushes to his house. Uh, and
the narrator says, and the narrator was
a young man, and the prophet peace be
upon him is in his 50s or 60s. The
narrator is saying, "I lost my breath
trying to keep up with the prophet
Muhammad, peace be upon him." He
sprinted. He raced to this young boy's
house. And he raced there. And he said
to the young boy,
ill, say, "None is worthy of worship,
but the one true God."
And even though the the father of this
boy was not Muslim, he was Jewish as
well. uh in a moment of sort of parental
uh honesty, right, parental concern, he
turned to his son and said, "Listen to
Muhammad. Sayahillahillah, say none is
worthy of worship but Allah," meaning
become Muslim. And so the young boy says
illallah. And then he dies and the
prophet Muhammad peace be upon him
leaves that house beaming with joy
saying all praise be to Allah. Once
again, he's not taking credit for it.
But look at also, you know, his sense of
relief that this young boy was saved,
right? Said, "All praise be to Allah who
saved him." Yes, through me. But he
saved him from the fire. Think about
that. What does this young boy serve in
terms of the state? Why would the head
of state do this? Because he is not a
statesman even though he served as one,
right? His primary mission is I call to
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. Even you
think of the prophet Muhammad peace be
upon him when he himself lost a child a
toddler Ibraim his young son people
began to say because on the day of the
death of Ibraim uh the a solar eclipse
happened it went dark during the daytime
so people began to say that the skies
are saddened by the death of the son of
the prophet of God like you get it right
and so he didn't say this sallallahu
alaihi wasallam the prophet didn't say
this. Someone else said it and he was
very busy, even emotionally unavailable.
Uh you would imagine him to be, but
still he did not even allow them on a
day when he was grieving to say that he
walked out of his house and ascended the
altar or the pulpit and said the sun and
the moon are signs of God. He caused
them to eclipse sometimes to strike fear
in the hearts of his slaves. Meaning
it's it's a display of his power, right?
He created this earth and he can take it
all away and the universe itself will
end one day and we'll be arriving at the
last day, the day of judgment, the day
of reckoning. So it's a sign of God
these cosmic events that God ordains. He
says they don't eclipse for the death or
the life of anyone. Don't try to
interpret this in any superstitious way
that a great man was born today, a great
man has died today and therefore
eclipse. He wouldn't let them. He made
sure that the message did not pivot on
him but it pivoted and directed to God.
Yes, he was sort of our earthly pivot
through his example. We worship God but
we don't set these larger than life uh
expectations or understandings about
even him. He wouldn't let that happen.
That's how sincere he was to his call.
He calls to Allah. There is a clear
distinction he came to make between
creator and creation. I call to Allah.
And even in his dying breaths, he warned
the people of, you know, falling into
what the Jews and Christians fell into
of grave worship and worshiping the
saints and otherwise. And he said, you
know, don't you dare turn my grave into
a shrine that is worshiped, you know,
instead of God. You know, don't do this.
You worship the one true God that you do
not see. He is, you know, unseen in this
world. It's the test of believing in the
unseen. And it is the greatest reward of
the hereafter for the believers to be
able to see the face of their Lord.
And so say to them, this is my path, the
path of the prophet. My path is that I
call to Allah. The verse continues to
say upon clear insight. And I know what
I'm doing. I'm calling to Allah the way
Allah taught me. I'm being tactful. I'm
being strategic. I'm being considerate.
I'm accessing people's hearts by God's
permission, you know, through my
character, through connecting with them
on a very human level. That's of the ver
values of, you know, a project like like
the Dean Center, a localized dawa
initiative. This will allow us to do so
much more than what the sort of the
austere and weird online space does.
It's impersonal. it is not as
considerate of people's sort of
sensitivities or people's struggles and
otherwise. And so the prophet Muhammad
used to build real relationships as part
of the insight God gave him through
which he could invite to his path
connect with people on a very human
level be at their assistance and then
extend to them what is of greatest
assistance for them which is the
religion of Allah and his guidance.
And then it says say this is my path. My
path is I call to God. I call to God
upon insight upon clear knowledge. me
and those who follow me. And I'll close
out with that because if you're a
follower of the prophet Muhammad, peace
and blessings be upon him, then you have
to call to his path as well. And it it
it's sort of telling you what you should
already know. When you believe in
something, you call to it. If someone
were to say this is the best restaurant,
and you don't believe that, you say,
"No, that's the best restaurant. That
one has way better steaks or burgers or
salads or whatever or desserts." You
know, when you believe this is a perfect
match for you for marriage, the
youngsters become these automatic
lawyers, attorneys making an awesome
case to their parents why this is a good
fit for me. So, part and parcel of
believing in Islam is not being able to
sit tight. Yes, you're going to be
strategic. Yes, you're not going to
strain relationships, but you're going
to try your very best to look for
opportunities to work around people's
defense mechanisms and give them for
their sake, not your sake, for their
sake, what is in their best interests in
terms of the purpose and meaning of life
and the end goal of felicity in the
hereafter. So may Allah allow for the
team at the din center and their current
projects and beyond to be a mechanism
for that and an instrument for Allah's
guidance going above and beyond uh in
reaching uh people that are unaware of
it in this day and age. Good luck to you
all and you're in our prayers
inshallaham.
Up there are over 300 million Americans
that don't know what [music] Islam is.
This is why we are opening the Dean
Center. the first of its kind 35,000q ft
da [music] center and masid to show
America the beautiful message of Islam.
Inshallah with your help and donations
[music]
we can close on the property, launch
nationwide daer programs, a
state-of-the-art production studio for
online content and an on-site da center
to show [music] what true Islam is.
Donate right now. May God Almighty Allah
reward all of you.
Allah this is so beautiful Eddie I'm
very excited I'm very happy and grateful
to Allah subhana wa ta'ala for the
participations of the shu from across
the globe the diverse city that we have
experienced I have never seen any show
that we have such diversity and the
support from all walks of life that is
where it shows the universality of the
beautiful message of al-Islam and then
Dean center is staying connected so dear
viewers you're not supporting that one
individual called brother Eddie rather
you know that Eddie is not alone in this
cause all of the brothers and scholars
across the globe supports believes and
believe that this is the need of our
time and now is the time for us to do
what is needful time for action. My
beloved, let us have that needed funds
to close this building and start
working. You know the interesting thing
is that everybody have ideas to do the
job. But here we already have the plan
and the record to prove that we have
worked in this particular area and all
we need is to help us and strengthen our
hands so we can continue to deliver this
effectively to the masses. Now is the
time my beloved to do whatever we can to
support this noble cause inshallah.
Imam Musa thank you very much
for being with us here. We are over four
going on four and a half hours and
that's it. That was our last guest.
We're going to go ahead and conclude. We
would not have pulled it through without
the support of those hidden team of the
dean
work. All of those people behind the
cameras all of those people who have
made it possible. May Allah subhanaa
tala I'd like to ask all the viewers to
join us making dua for those individuals
who don't work and support for this
cause for any name and fame or
recognition rather whether we recognize
them or not whether we acknowledge that
or not whether we even notice their work
or not we know deep down in our heart
Allah knows that and nothing is hidden
from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala Allah
subhanana wa ta'ala will reward you
immensely in this life and the year
after my beloved for all your work and
support for this noble cause that you
have been doing in any capacity in spite
of your challenges and difficulties. You
have been working in this regard be it
is in the Midwest or the West Coast or
the East Coast wherever you may have
been in any shape and form or
internationally. Rest assure whether you
get recognized or your name is being
called or not Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
knows that and his angels are taking an
account and you will have the great
reward in it inshallah inshallah. So
thank you so very much for all your
support and dedication and work for this
noble work inshallah inshallah and for
those out there who have generously
supported this noble cause and make this
a reality the show to come to this far
may Allah subhanaa tala reward you for
all the support that you have done be it
is financial or the encouraging words or
dua that you have supported we need all
of that in order for us to continue to
work in this noble cause inshallah
inshallah again I wanted to take
opportunity for those who we have not
yet reached or for those who we have not
yet convinced. Don't let our inability
to convince you the need and the
importance of this noble cause keep you
from giving generously for this efforts.
Rather put your trust in Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala and know it is your
responsibility to support this noble
cause and support us inshallah to
deliver this message to the masses who
are desperately in need of this
beautiful dean through the dean center.
Thank you very much. Thank you very much
Dr. Musa Imam Azim Hafis. Thank you so
much for being with us and everybody out
there. We're coming to an end now and I
want to thank those people like uh Mam
Musa was saying behind the scenes,
people in the front, in the back,
everybody who's contributed from the
small to the big to the medium. And we
know that at the end of the day,
everything's going to stay behind and
the guests over and over reminded it's
one of those things now that you are
having that investment give back to you
when you leave this life. Inshallah,
we'll be doing that work, that important
work that's supposed to be done of
inviting people to the purpose of life,
establishing the school in one of the
buildings, the masid, the athletic
facility, the da recording studio, and
the list goes on. And inshallah, you
could be a part of history. You could be
a part of this legacy. Go ahead and
donate right now. We'll see you next
time. Go ahead and make dua. That's the
least you can do. You can share this so
other people can know more about the
project. And we'll see you next time.
Until then, peace be with you. Alam
allayikum.