keeping it real real how we keep it get
ready for Edie sit
back Lindsay Lohan and they crucified me
for it in America they made me seem like
Satan I was a bad person for holding
that Quran famous
model Hollywood
actress did she accept Islam I don't
know trying to connect with the Quran
the re word of God we're going to go
ahead and take it to this clip diagnose
the situation and share some very
interesting facts with you about the
Quran that you probably didn't know
about and give some
suggestions be right back and they
crucified me for it in America they made
me seem like Satan I was a bad person
for holding that Quran and that and I I
was so happy to leave and go back to
London after that
because I felt so unsafe in my own
country after this I mean people were
like horrible to me and just because
this is my belief if I want if this is
something I want I want to learn this is
my personal my own will this is not for
you to express if you want to say it
keep it to yourself I'm not looking at
what you do every day maybe you're not
doing enough cuz you're bored hurting me
but I can't imagine how many people go
through this all the time and that made
me feel like an outsider so I
understand why uh you know the Turkish
people are upset because they live in a
great beautiful place and I understand
why women that wear headscarves are are
looked at differently because I felt
like that so when the woman when I was
in ontap she put that headscarf on me I
felt really honored because of that
because she went out of her own way to
allow me to be part of her culture and
she didn't have to do that you know I
was a stranger to her and I merely said
I really like the color of her head
scarve and she gave it to me and maybe
she only has two and she gave me one
there's more to that story that occurs
and I said you know what because this
woman took the time to give me this and
and a part of
herself not even knowing me I'm not
taking it off and and my first thought
and I and I said to my good friend H I
said but it scares me cuz people are
going to look at the headscarf and only
talk about that yeah they're not going
to ask the real questions about why
because that's not interesting it will
become headline suddenly right you know
and it should wow
interesting you know a
person could have done all of the some
of the most scandalous things out there
so what we
know of the Hollywood lifestyle is that
this is a lifestyle that really I mean
we've seen it over and over it just
drains the life the
spirit out of a human being you the
whole world opens up to you to you so
you get to experiment and taste and
finding dining and all of the music and
drugs and parties and you're with the
the crowd the a star crowd and life is
good but not so good for a lot of people
because after some time like everything
else it just gets tiring and gets played
out and that's what happened over and
over we seen with Y and many people so
we can first see the benefit of seeing
other people hit a dead end and then ask
ourselves do we want to also hit a dead
end in life and we can see she she has
been on in and out of rehabs she had the
money she had the money she had the
status still
does but when the heart you can be
bankrupt
but if you're not bankrupt in the soul
in the heart you're still
rich but many Class A actors will tell
you
this try everything and anything but at
the end if the heart is empty your life
is empty and that's why we have today
more people on painkillers than on
nicotine because of the pain in the
heart and this is has me thinking of and
we'll get into the Quran and some of the
facts about it that you probably didn't
know but it has me thinking about a
verse in the Quran verba and word of God
where God Almighty is saying that the
one who turns
away from God will have a a very
difficult strained life a depressed life
so on the outside the
facade of the house it looks very nice
but inside
the human body there's a there's the
heart and truly in the remembrance of
the Creator does that heart find rest
now you can do whatever you want but I'm
just sharing the other side because
there's two sides there's your side and
then there's this side and then you
reflect you reflect on your way the way
you're doing things and what it's
accomplishing for you do you really have
that true peace and
happiness or you reflect and you think
wow
maybe there's something to what this man
is telling me what this Quran is telling
me what is being communicated to me
something to think about my friend
listen now that is what Lindsay she
experienced all these things so why
would someone want to crucify her for
picking up a book and reading if she's
looking to get enlightened instead of
just going from one party to the
Afterparty to the coke to the dope to
the man to the drama trauma and all of
the other heartbreak that this woman has
experienced and many of you probably
didn't know I mean for every hater out
there there is an optimist there are
good people who will not crucify someone
for picking up the word of God and this
is this is something very interesting
that it's just another proof of bound
proof that you know when you have the
truth there's going to be great
opposition against you and you know
Wayne Dyer once said this is a thinker a
person who had a very powerful quote he
said the greatest form of ignorance is
to reject something you know nothing
about so it just compounded
ignorance on top of ignorance because
some people say no no no we know about
Islam but you don't
know because let let me give you an
example if you you sitting at a
table and you were talking about Jack
you never met
Jack but everybody at the table's
talking about
Jack all of this gossip and all these
negative things they never ate with Jack
they never sat with Jack they never got
to Jack what does that tell you they
don't know Jack excuse my
language so you don't know Islam you
don't know the
Quran but this woman is trying to get to
know the Quran she's trying to get to
know Islam from the
Muslims why do you have a problem is
this just something inside of yourself
you got to think about that because you
can't give something you don't have so
if you don't have love how you going to
give love but if you have hate you can't
give Benjamins if you don't have them so
you're giving something else that you do
have something that's projecting from
inside of you outside of you to outside
of you is that hate so leave the woman
alone Lindsay ignore the haters they've
hated when you were making movies
they're going to continue to hate even
more when you're leaving them behind
you're leaving everybody else back in
the
nightclubs on painkillers and you're
like I don't want to have that kind of
Lifestyle anymore they're going to hate
I've been through that I know from my
personal experiences when I wanted to
Enlighten myself to what in the world is
this life about what's the purpose of
life there's got to be more than just
the Afterparty and the party making
money and then partying on the weekends
it's got to be
more and I started to search and I start
to ask the one who created that just
makes sense if someone created something
you would ask the owner of that
something how does things work how does
this thing work and what's the purpose
of it but the human body the one who
created us that's where you got to start
and I start to ask and then I start to
investigate and to really use this gift
that the almighty has given us and
research and look into all the other
religions and and I found that sub I
mean Subhan Allah that this way of life
that you're looking into Islam it
provided all the rational logical
evidences based on authentic book a
believable message and then I start to
share it I used to go back and people
look at you like you're an alien
whoa you're the one that's that's
leaving this played out lifestyle behind
you want more substance you want
substance in your
life so don't give
up you're going to have to make a change
of friends A Change of Atmosphere and
continue to persevere forward and know
that you and others like you you put up
with all the side effects to the alcohol
nasty hangovers and you kept going back
to that it was tough right I know how
many pills you had to pop to get over
that ailment to that side effect to that
from the drugs and then people
criticizing you backbiting against you
dealing unfairly
maybe with your family and all of the
other things the
promiscuity and jumping from this
relationship to that one and all the
trauma
and disobeying your parents disobeying
God living people living a a a a
lifestyle a challenging tough lifestyle
that just goes heavy on the soul and all
the side effects to that
and people keep going back and they keep
putting up with it but now this is a
test this is no side
effects because side effects is usually
something negative that comes as a
result of you going towards something
that's not good for you then you have a
side effect Islam there's no side effect
but you're going to be challenged you're
going to be tested of your
sincerity to see if you're sincere in
these decisions and who you going to
love more the
friends so you stay with them all the
way to the end and you keep going back
to them or the one who created you who
fashioned you who gave you all these
blessings in life so not
to make this too long again this was
something fortuitous just wanted to put
this together very quickly because
there's a lot of people out there who
are searching for purpose and then they
get bantered and teased and
ridiculed welcome to the party that's
what it is that's how it happens but
there are good people I mean if you look
at in the Hol just start from the
Hollywood industry look at Francis Ford
let's see what Francis Ford had to say
about the Quran but if you know the
Quran the first words of the Quran the
very first I believe are something like
in the name of God the gracious and the
merciful praise be to God lord of the
worlds the most gracious the most
merciful Master of the book of judgment
they're saying gracious and mercy is
what's at the they repeated it twice in
the first
page it's you we worship and you we ask
lead us to the straight path the path of
those you have blessed not those against
whom there is anger or are misguided so
anyone who knows this beautiful religion
this beautiful uh that was the height of
civilization in the 13th
century the Arab civilization that we
had that gave us me mathematics and
science everyone knows that at the root
of that religion the two most important
words are that God is gracious and God
is merciful and we trust to that God to
Deliver Us from this misunderstanding
that is doing these terrible things that
is hurt are hurting people God does not
want people to be hurt God is gracious
God is merciful and that's what I have
to say wasn't that wonderful and this
was a another Hollywood Superstar some
consider him a legend look at har
University
honoring honoring the Quran by
recognizing one of the chapters chapter
4 one verse one chapter 4: 135 as the
greatest expression of Justice you're
going to have this in America in the top
university in America the Quran for
those who want to bring up all of this
nonsense that Islam oppresses that is
injust but the the most prestigious
University in America honors the Quran
by establishing this verse as the
greatest expression of
Justice wow that's deep so these are
some things that you probably probably
didn't know so continue to to get to
know the Quran and for all those people
again who are seeking to no purpose you
will find it in this book did you know
that the Quran is the only book book on
the face of the earth now that we have
that's tamper free tamper proof that is
a living Miracle that's the only book
that if you were to throw all of the
other books out into the ocean burn them
lock them up the Quran is the only book
that you can bring back because it's
been
memorized by millions living today it's
an authentic book that has been
preserved
that has a challenge in it challenging
you the reader that if you feel that if
you say this is not from the Quran do
such and such and such because it's
making a statement a bold statement not
only challenging you but also making the
claim that the one revealing this book
the Quran is the creator of the heavens
and earth there's no book like it no
book out there that explicitly states
that it's from the creator of mankind in
Arabic Allah in Aramaic allaha that's
deep that's profound not
only Lindsay
Lohan through time through establishing
and other people who who established
this
Quran in their lives living by
it establishing all of the things I mean
there's there are about
6,236
6,236 verses in the Quran
and only around 80 deal with the penal
system so most people they get thrown
off they get
misinformation and this is another topic
we talk about a lot of these things the
misinformation versus quoted out of
context but now if someone walks
away having better character becoming a
better human being from this book and
that's the initial goal of Islam to make
you rise to your full potential
potential as a human being so not only
does it talk about
morality manners cleanliness
charity not only charity but the
eradication of of of of poverty
prayer respect of
parents women's be women being the twin
halves of
men it talks about the future what's to
come the day of judgment Paradise
Hellfire like no other book giving a
detailed description of a your creator B
the purpose of life C the day of
judgment that wouldn't make sense that
wouldn't make that doesn't make sense
that you would live life and all of the
oppressors all of the people who have
got gotten away with horrific crime just
pict yourself watching a movie and you
had the most evil
villain that you're just rooting for at
the end that he's going to be brought to
Justice and at the end he got away with
murder rape and all sorts of atrocities
what kind of movie would this be what
about life that's it we just you're just
an accident that happened like some
people claim just an accident purpos
less no the Khan God teaches us that
we're we're purposeful we've been
created for a purpose and the Quran
establishes what our purpose in life is
where you're going that there is light
at the end of the tunnel that this life
is a
test and while you're here you recognize
that there's only one God that you
worship him alone not his creation and
that you
learn you know God you love God and you
establish that in Truth by obedience to
your creator all of these wonderful
concepts are there in
Islam so to continue on in
short Thomas Jefferson had a Quran so
many
intellectuals read this book at the end
you ow to yourself to at least read this
book there are going to be people who
banter and tease there going to be
people who
hate but at the end of the day the party
will end you're going to be by yourself
when everybody when the lights are
out and there's no one else around it's
just
you that's how it's going to be in the
grave it's just going to be
you and now what did you do to prepare
for that meeting that you're going to
have in the
grave that's what really motivated me to
think to ponder there's got to be more
than me is turning to dust and Bones
there's got to be a
purpose and I often say if you ended up
on the moon you want to know why in the
world you are on the moon and then you
can enjoy the other things that are on
the moon just like the beautiful things
that are on this
Earth so the Quran calls us to good to
wonderful things there are things that
people quote out of context ignorant
people who think they know Jack and as I
gave you the example earlier they talk
about Jack they gossip about Jack at the
poker poker table but they never sat
with Jack they never ate with Jack they
don't know
Jack's so you want to
establish a
connection with a Muslim before you talk
maybe visit I'll give you some things to
do visit a
mosque if you're someone like
Lindsay and you're curious to know
establish the connection before you go
off following ignorant people who are
out there bashing Islam just like may I
was giving an example bashing Jack Who
Don't Know
Jack people bashing Islam don't know
Islam get to know a Muslim go to a to a
mosque ask your questions and then make
an informed decision very simple instead
of wasting your energy and breath
cursing acting lwd like a lunatic
expressing and personifying hate making
your heart hard
bitter you just hurting yourself because
no matter how much you
spit at
the sun it's going to still
shine so and if you can't even do
that if you can't even do that call US 1
800 if
you're too
busy to visit amas to connect with a
Muslim a learned Muslim who can answer
your questions pick up the phone and
call call US 1 1800 662
Islam ask those tough
questions let us put things in context
make the
connection and I leave you with that so
Lindsay keep moving forward change the
Friends The Bad Company the atmosphere
that you're in continue to do something
very simple very simple ask be sincere
and within yourself ask the one who
created creation the reality guide me
this is a place to start and start
putting aside time to research to grow
and to realize that everything around us
is going to pass it's in the past tense
we're going to leave all of this all of
this behind and I'll leave you the
successful person who that person is I'm
going to share with
you a verse from the verbatim word of
God the Quran then we'll conclude how's
that the Quran is preserved in Arabic
I'm not an Arab but that's one of the
Miracles of
it it says every soul will taste
death and only on the day of judgment on
the day of assembly will you receive
your full payback people been harmed
people have been oppressed people have
been doing good why are things upside
down the way they are but when you know
look this ver gives you that confidence
that on the day of
judgment the criminals will be punished
and the doers of good will be
rewarded the one who was saved from the
Hellfire from the fire and who is
admitted into the garden into Paradise
will have achieve the ultimate reward
the ultimate
purpose that is success to be saved from
the Hellfire and to be admitted in to
the paradise rewarded on that day of
judgment the life of this world is
nothing more than material gains and
Illusions think about that ponder about
that
reflect and ask because when you ask you
shall receive so ask the one who created
you who's given you all of these
blessings to guide you to guide your
heart to what the purpose of life
is and I gave you those recommendations
call us if you can't visit us and make
the connection for God's sake it's not
that difficult it's not that hard and
it's much better than hating that takes
a lot more stress a lot more anxiety and
it's a lot harder on your
heart thank you and continue to tune in
to the Dean show every week thank you
very much Salam alaykum peace be with
you