did you think this was going to be in
[Music]
English my name is Yousef can you say
Yousef
first time you got it right all these
years my wife still pronounces it
useless could be a speech imp peppermint
I'm not real sure about
that alhamdulillah it's great to be with
all of you here in Dubai this is a good
chance for all of us to come together
for the sake of getting true knowledge
out about a very important subject and
what a better place to do it than
knowledge Village make sense
and along the way they said let's talk
about the chaos that's happening around
the world and how we can deal with that
as Muslims in in the west of all places
we were just talking about that with the
folks from the Dubai television and one
of the things that we were talking about
is suppose we took a microphone and a
camera went out to the streets you know
like Chicago New York Miami something
like this you know and you walk up to
people and you say look I want you to
finish this sentence for me I'm going to
give you just a short little sentence
give me one word the end of the sentence
you choose the
word all Muslims
are now what do you think they're going
to
say peace loving
individuals maybe not or ask them Islam
is finish the sentence Islam is
is
yeah yet at the same time and I'm
talking about the news today's
news because we have a News website that
we've been running for the past several
years presenting news from our point of
view news that we need to know
about and one of the things that's in
today's news right now is about a
man an elder
man who is charged with I forget how
many cases of
rape many cases of
rape and they said likely would be a lot
more except it's past the statute of
limitations in other words after so many
years you can't bring it up against
somebody no matter what they did except
I think murder
and this man very old imagine
this cut down on the number of rapes
after he had his last heart
attack and this morning they found him
dead from
suicide well that was all it was that's
not even mainstream news anymore except
the fact that his son is also being
charged in a murder case of his
girlfriend being strangled to death in
the
bathtub after she told him she was going
to leave him and the question that they
have and this is all the talk shows you
know the Talking Heads here's the
question they
have whether or not this is very
important whether or not this is a
genetic thing you know that it runs in
the
family that's pretty chaotic to me to
imagine that that's the only thing you
care about
in the face of how many women been
violated out here what about that and
what about the family of the victims
especially this girl who's just been
murdered the direction that our news is
taking bothers me a lot because it seems
like they maybe in uh intentionally
maybe unintentionally they missed the
main
point let me give you a couple other
examples they're hitting a lot closer to
home
when we find in some places in the west
that if a lady is seen following the
Sharia well a man for that matter they
want to arrest them have you heard about
this Murphy's Boro Tennessee just a
couple weeks ago tried to pass a law if
anybody is following Sharia they could
be
arrested and we were wondering right
away what do they mean by that in other
words if I pray five times a day I can
go to jail
and why all of a sudden Sharia is a bad
word to
them what's going on with
that now you can have a long beard you
know cuz all the hillbillies and all the
guitar bangers okay they got long beard
so that's okay that's not a big problem
but if a lady wants to cover up
especially if she wants to cover her
face okay that's
it that's it man what are you covering
your face
for you better have a doctor's written
excuse to cover your face huh but if she
wants to uncover stuff hey that's all
right in fact we could like to encourage
that a little
bit and uh I really feel strongly about
this because I grew up with women liers
all around me okay I was raised by my
mom and sisters so I understand their
point of
view and one of the things that really
bothers me is the way that men try to
sell women on the idea that hey what
we're doing is good for you uncover some
more stuff H it's good for
you selling them makeup clothes whatever
you wore last month it's no good anymore
you got to have new stuff to show off to
show off to show off because if you
don't look right we're not going to
approve of you everything for a woman
has to be her look she has to look good
or she's an outcast that's
it imagine
that and God forbid that she should have
any kind of infirmity something like
let's say she is missing one eye okay
that's
it or that she limps when she
walks because it's all about looks
nothing else nothing else
is that a
problem I think that is maybe one of the
major problems that we've got in the
west is judging people only on this it's
so superficial and it's worse than
superficial it's
artificial and they joke about
it like it's a a funny subject but at
the same time they get real
serious if a woman chooses to cover
herself
up now at the same time there are
legitimate complaints against what some
Muslim men do there's no doubt about
that if a man is beating up his wife or
family obviously that's not an Islam to
start with but it shouldn't have been
associated with religion but rather the
lack of it or in opposition to it in
reality so from our point of view as
Muslims we're seeing something
today that we have a difficulty in
relating back to the time of our Prophet
sallallahu alaihi wasallam almost well
in fact anything and everything you want
to know about how to live as a human
being is covered by Islam in the Quran
the Hadith the teachings the things that
our Scholars have shown us how to use
what's been sent down from Almighty
Allah how you can recognize how to use
that to live as a better contributing
citizen in your community we know that
hamdulillah that we have it and in some
places I visit you actually see people
putting it together and doing something
with it moving forward progressing using
what they call Modern enity I don't know
if that's a real word or not but they
use it and in any case we see this in
some places and Muslims following Islam
right alongside of it the problem is the
way the West has distorted this picture
to the extent that words like Sharia
Islam and Muslim bring bad vibes even
before we get into the
subject you can't even get into the
subject without somebody being upset
already at the time of our Prophet
sallallahu Al wasallam there were those
who very much denied the message with
which he came there's no doubt about
that as a matter of fact you'll probably
remember this better than and I will cuz
I'm reading a lot of this stuff in
English but I think it was right after
the message comes to the prophet Sall
wasallam that he calls all the tribes
out you know when he stands on the
little null or the little small hill
whatever and he starts calling yeah
Benny so and so yeah Benny for on come
on guys and all the tribes are coming
out okay what's going on what's going on
because the way he was doing it is this
exact same way that when there's an
emergency you know a big emergency maybe
somebody's coming to attack you right so
they were out there read what's what's
what's going on and who's calling
us oh it's Muhammad and look at the
title they gave him aad he's the
truthful one we can trust anything he
says the trustworthy one okay so if he's
saying something it's got to be big
let's get over there oh and when they
get there what happened he said if I
told you behind me is a tribe that's
coming to fight us you know an army is
over here and they're coming at us would
you believe me they said yeah you're
never lying to ever
go get the sword son we're ready to go
he
said then I bear witness to you that
there's only one deity one God worthy of
any worship and I'm his Messenger to
you and right away they understood
exactly what he said he was telling them
you have to give
up this filthy habit of worshiping these
statues and idols
give up these false Notions you know the
things that people worship other than
Allah in other words we have a buff
sticker that says it worship the Creator
not his
creations and they rejected it for the
most part almost everybody there
rejected the message on the spot some of
and there are his own relatives some of
his own uncles turned against him and
even cursed him for bringing this
message the way that he did
they didn't like
that cuz he hit home and some of the
things that they did to follow up on
that story a little bit do you know that
they posted people at the entrances to
the valley where they live just in case
these folks would be coming from out of
town to come to worship there this is a
center of worship in those
days still is today for us is it and
these people would be coming and when
they come through those passages in the
mountains they'd find somebody there
warn him be careful when you get there
be careful of this guy Muhammad he's a
magician or he's a you know soothsayer
maybe he's going to work on your brain
he's going to implant Notions in your
mind be careful be careful warning
against him yeah
magician poet different names that they
tried to attribute to him but above all
they wanted people to disbelieve in his
message but what hit me few weeks ago
when I was thinking about this of all
the things that they did and said to him
for that first 10 years you remember how
hard those first 10 12 years were really
tough on
them of all the things that they said
and did I don't recall them ever being
called
terrorists you know
why because they were the brunt of the
attacks they were the ones who were
being put upon they were the ones who
were being attacked by everybody else so
it'd be kind of hard to label these guys
as terrorists after you kick them and
leave them in the dirt you
know but this is the label that we've
got today around the
world in the Sharia that word
oo at the same time in Tennessee when
they're trying to pass the law by the
way they didn't get it through they had
to change the wording instead of saying
Sharia they changed the word to
terrorism as though those were
interchangeable words at the same time
that was going on did you know there was
a group in Australia a group of Muslims
trying to pass something there about
Muslims should follow a kind of Shara
that's more modern or modified to suit
the rulers of the time in their area
what does that mean
what you and I face as
Muslims is a lack of proper knowledge
and then that which is being put out to
being very
twisted and often times things are being
represented as Islam is that has nothing
to do with Islam or opposes
Islam so what we can do about
this because I learned a long time ago
in business you never present a problem
unless you're prepared to offer a
solution for it cuz otherwise there's no
benefit in your talk you either come up
with something to solve it before you
open your mouth or keep your mouth
closed it's not exactly like the had but
there is aith of the Prophet s when he
said oh yes let the one that believes in
Allah on the last day either say good or
be quiet keep
silent and that's a a good habit that I
want to encourage myself to practice as
well and what we're saying here is that
there is a
problem but immediately there is a
solution if we recognize the problem
then it should be that the problem will
help us solve it what do we recognize
well first of all we recognize that
we're Muslims and we're scattered all
over the world we're not just here in
Dubai we're not just here in the Ian
Peninsula we're not just in turkey and
Pakistan but in fact Muslims are all
over the entire world for the past few
years we have traveled I'm talking about
myself and the brothers working with me
on the Gus TV project we have traveled
all the way from the northernmost part
of the world trumps in Norway the most
northern mosed in the world to the most
southern mhid in the world we visited to
New Zealand and Australia and to uh
what's South Africa and these msid and
everything in between have the same
common thing you know what it is it's
the worship of one God asking him to
give us the
guidance it sounds pretty simple the
complication always comes in is how
people interpret that and those who have
the least amount of knowledge often
times want to make the no most noise
about it
this is why it's critical for us all of
us to take the
responsibility to have facilities that
provide the correct knowledge to people
who we feel can really assimilate it and
get it out to the other
people in other words no more homegrown
imams guys that just jump up one day and
hey I had a revelation I saw that in
Christianity a lot guys make up their
own religions and go out break off from
the mainstream and suddenly they feel
like they're going to give you a new
message like the guy who just told us
the end of the world was going to be
last
week even saying that's funny the end of
the world was last where are we at right
now make you wonder doesn't
it and what's really sad about it is
according to the monotheistic religions
we're talking about Judaism Christianity
and Islam all of us agree that and if we
follow our book anyway that for sure
there will be a day of reckoning there
is going to be a last day but in the
meantime there's going to be a lot of
wars and rumors of wars they going to be
a lot of liars out there a lot of false
prophets making a lot of weird
predictions and this is what we keep
seeing again and again so that when the
real Jesus is here peace be upon him
then very few people are going to be
able to recognize this from all the lies
and all the Twisted thinking
and our sincerest desire is to join with
Jews Christians and Muslims on the day
that Jesus comes and be real
Believers we hope Allah will guide all
of us this is this is a beautiful
message but when is it going to get out
to the
West alhamdulillah you know how happy it
makes me feel to be here to be able to
say these things and know it's getting
out here we just wish it would like
trickle over and this is why we opened
the television channel now on the first
day of this year January 1st Allah
blessed us with our own satellite we are
now broadcasting 24 hours a day the
message of the with some very good
teachers and preachers and presenters of
Islam
[Applause]
I didn't do anything Allah did it so
we'll say Allah
abbar he did it I prayed for it that's
about really all I can claim and a lot
of brothers and sisters sacrificed to
make it happen but look how much more
blessing came without me doing anything
I didn't do it they sent it to me in a
statement from the all the broadcasters
that we were picked up by two other
satellites and now we're on three
satellites and we're we not even 6
months
old that is something to be happy
about so instead of just 50
60,000 now over two
200,000 yeah 200,000 homes are watching
the channel right now while I'm sitting
here imagine
that and we didn't do anything extra
except more
Dua one of the things that we did when
we started it was we said we have to
focus on what Real Islam is in the
English language so our motto is
presenting true Islam in simple
English making sure our presenters are
able to discuss in English as simple as
they would in any other language being
sure that they had a good foundation and
well grounded in what the real basics of
Islam teach not in things that the may
have been picked up by Traditions or
cultures in other countries and so
on of course that narrowed the number of
people that you could talk to you know
what I'm saying really quick but some of
you have probably seen it we have
speakers who have been with us for a
while and some new ones that were
training at the same time but we
realized something else we realized that
if we charge money to subscribe to it
the only people are going to watch are
the ones who already believe
it make sense I mean you know why would
somebody who hates Islam scared of Islam
afraid of Islam want to even pay $15 a
month to subscribe to a channel an extra
Channel you know that they're getting on
the cable of the dish why would they
want to pay any extra
money I'll give you extra money if you
get them to
leave so
we said no we're not going to charge any
subscription okay now right away the
broadcasters the I'm talking about the
uh satellite owners are saying so uh how
are you going to pay
us what kind of commercials are you
going to be running on there and how
often how many minutes of commercials
are you going to run every 59 minutes
and 59 seconds cuz that's how they
balance it out and when I said no I
don't want any commercials
why well commercials could compromise
the message think about it somebody
comes to you and says look here uh our
company we distribute let's say meat huh
all across the United States and we
don't want you talking about uh what's
Halal and Haram in the meat
business huh just leave it
alone oops now what and any speaker you
get on there you edit out if he brings
up the subject of the beha cut this guy
out then what would you
do even if I hold an opposing view we
can't even open the
discussion because you lose a major
sponsor somebody that's advertising
maybe doing
$500,000 a month in advertising are you
going to just tell him hey take a walk
uhoh and what about some of the other
areas clothing for instance that could
be a big problem makeup we just talked
about what the Cosmetic industry has
done to the
ladies and then on top of that
consider one of the biggest subjects of
all and you guys are familiar with it
here
Finance
huh what's the subject of Finance in
Islam come on
guys
so for us when said I want other
channels by the way I want Muslim
channels All Over America I do and if
they want to take advertising
subscriptions I hope they do because
they have to have funding to keep going
but for us for us the new Muslims who've
come to Islam and realize the importance
of the pure Message of Islam has to get
to the people for us no subscriptions no
advertising so that's what we came up
with so far it's not easy because the
third option and this is an option they
sent us from the satellite company when
we started number one subscriptions
number two
advertisers number three and it was a
very sarcastic Deep
Pockets that's what it
said and I felt like well maybe we don't
have Deep Pockets but we have a lot of
pockets and we began talking to so many
of the brothers and sisters Across
America United States and Canada and do
you know what within one year from the
little 20 $30 donations one little boy
donates a dollar every month yeah but
from that we were able to get started
believe it or not and you might think I
didn't think Muslims would really follow
through neither did
I especially because I tried for six
years before that and didn't see
anything it wasn't until we went to the
Hadith of the Prophet sallallah Ali
wasallam keep in mind I told you when I
started that every single thing that you
want to find an answer to Is in Islam
the problem is we don't look enough
that's the problem but there's a
Hadith wasam the meaning of it to
English when he
said that Allah almighty God the Creator
and sustainer of the universe he
loves the thing so much charity and Good
Deeds he loves the thing which is done
regularly
even if it's
small more than the thing which is big
but it's only done
once and I said let me try that I've
tried everything
else and so we started talking about
this Hadith and pushing it and asking
the brothers whatever you do just be
sure you do it regularly cuz Allah will
bless us and they did and Allah did and
we got the
channel so my message really for you
today is if you want to solve this
problem of the chaos that we see around
us every day go back to your lord go
back to the one that created you in the
first place and start like I did 20
years ago when I put my head on the
ground and said those magic
words guide
me and we say it every day in our salot
don't
we guide us guide us guide guide us and
by the way that's why we named it guide
us
TV some people said we called it guide
us
[Applause]
TV me again all right she Yousef
he's kind of cute isn't
he but you're
[Laughter]
cuter so I'll getting back to the um
format there's three
mics one from the right center left now
it's requ are we going to do question
and
answers huh yes okay can they just like
give me the answers and I'll guess what
the question was no they do it on
Jeopardy you win trips and stuff like
that no okay was it
worth please uh brother and sisters
respected guest turn off your cell
phones I think we mentioned that just
can I leave mine on in case I want to do
like a shout out or something hello Mom
yeah like that definitely you're the
boss I was also wondering something else
too if you guys don't mind because this
is going to be on television come Sunday
how many of you that this is going to be
on
TV so uh if you don't mind please make
the questions real
easy and if I look like I'm getting
stuck you know just kind of like help me
along all right yeah so turn off your
cell phones basic keep questions on
topic no hard questions easy questions
well while you guys are getting your
ideas together can I tell you what one
of the most common questions
is most people will ask
me how did you get to
Islam and some will be even more pointed
than that when I come up against a real
hard shell Bible thumping Christian
he'll say why did you turn your back on
Jesus you know well to put your mind at
ease folks number one I don't think I
turn my back on anything thing I tried
to look even more forward the review
that I did of my Bible encouraged me
more and more and more to look at this
subject of what Islam was teaching
because I wanted to disprove Islam and
certainly I felt like I'd be able to
find is more mistakes in the Quran than
I ever found in my Bible but actually
the opposite was
true what I found in the
Bible that matched up perfectly with
what is being taught in the
Quran that Jesus never claimed to be a
God in fact what I saw a clear claim
that he said he was a servant of God the
word servant is in my translation of the
Bible that he is God's
servant or in Arabic
ab
ab well I could ask the Muslims here how
many Muslims here number one you believe
in the god of Adam and Abraham raise
your hand
okay that looks pretty much like all of
us if we carry it a little bit further
and also believe in the god of Moses and
the Ten Commandments or all the
Commandments that came with Moses again
there we
go hope this guy's catching all that up
there on
this what do you call that the crane
right they call this the
crane we don't have one I just take a
real long tripod and swing it around in
my hand make it look like it yeah anyway
um how about if I said how many here
actually believe in the miracle
birth that Miriam Mary had and when she
had a baby she's not having any husband
and no man touches her Miracle birth of
Jesus and believe that Jesus is the
colum the word of Allah he's the Messi
or Messiah and that he's going to be
back in the last days raise your
hand wow okay and that's what most
Christians don't
know they don't know that now all you
need to do but don't forget nobody's
going to hear you but me so you need to
go to the microphone if you have have
brother has a question go ahead
brother my name isano I am converted 4
years ago to Islam may Allah accept from
you I me alhamd
my my question is is about the chaos
today because the chaos chaos chaos
chaos chaotic chaotic word yeah is a we
know in the apocalypse and the Bible and
the Quran have many many topics talking
about the end of the world and
everything so is we we feel honestly we
feel it
started it started it's already
happening
so it's natural it's normal what is
happening now in a world is normal it's
something like was uh we are waiting for
this so we know something will really
bad will happen CL so everything what's
happening what's happening in Pakistan
and everywhere is no is normal it's
something natural that's my question is
if it's it's something completely
natural you need to just accept
de es
clero it's clear yeah
AAS okay see thank you so
much um I was just saying in Spanish
it's clear what his question is I want
to ask you how many of you knew that the
prophet Muhammad peace be upon him was
questioned in a similar manner when the
angel jabriel or Gabriel came to him one
of the questions he asked when is the
hour translating to the commment English
Today when's the last day when's it all
going to be over with when is the
hour how many of you heard about that
question heard about it yeah and what
was the answer did he say it's going to
be on the 21st of May
2000 no that was somebody else wasn't it
no actually he said the one being
asked doesn't know any more than the one
asking meaning you don't know and I
don't know
but the signs and this is one of the
most famous of all of the Hadith or
sayings of the Prophet Muhammad peace be
upon him it's called the Hadith of jbril
and here is something amazing these two
signs the first sign is talking about
when a woman is giving birth to her own
Master now when in the world could you
imagine it could
happen that children are treating their
own parents like
slaves yet I was just in New York a few
weeks ago at our new Studios there and I
was
amazed at the way the youth treat their
parents and then it hit me that
describes
exactly today even when a child is in
elementary the primary school they're
already talking back to their parents
telling them things like shut up to
their
parents what are you going to do about
it you can't make me this attitude and
then as they get older as teens get out
of my
face and disappear don't come back for a
couple days and when they do come
back bad attitude and then when they're
maybe at the age of college or something
like that and I heard one say I'm 18
years old now I've had it with you I've
put up with you all my
life this is a child talking to the
mother I've had it with
you who carried the child inside of her
who the one that gave birth in pain
after pain after pain who's the one that
nursed that child from her own breast
who is the one that taught the child to
walk and talk to have what even what we
call the mother tongue coming from the
mother teaching the child how to speak
and let's don't even get into the change
in the diapers and stay up all night
long by the way that's women's work
right not according to Islam
not look at this and then when the
parents get
old who says oh and I've seen it happen
in our own family who is the one that
says oh I want the parents to come stay
with me I want the reward oh I want the
reward from the Lord I want that no no
no no no no the question becomes who's
going to help divvy up the payment so we
can put them in the old folks home you
got to pay your share No I don't want to
I put up with them all those years I
don't need
them and then when they die the
immediate thing actually just before
they die when the doctor comes to I
heard the doctor say this to some
people that you're father has now
reached a level of his quality of life
is just not there he doesn't know where
he is he doesn't know what he's
doing so if he should need life support
do you want us to give it to him or just
let it
go and if they said yeah just let it go
we don't want to waste the money you
know what is
that and then when he
dies are they Rush in in to take care of
the body and be sure it's buried
properly or they can't wait to read the
will and immediately contest it cuz they
didn't feel like they got
enough yeah I saw
it to a very sweet old lady so sweet she
used to cook for them even when she was
old by living as a Widow by herself they
would go over to her house on Sunday let
her do all the cooking and washing and
cleaning and then
disregard her until Mother's Day and
then they would bring some roses some
chocolate candy and that was
it that sounds like slavery to me what
do you
think but this is the one that really
got me the second sign that the prophet
sallam talked
about when he said when the poor Arab
living in the desert you know they call
them
bedin when they are competing with each
other to build all buildings in the
desert and I heard that that's happening
somewhere I don't have solid evidence
but I've heard
it
amazing he predicted
it when I was in Saudi a couple years
ago
I was standing right by a building had
the name of one family on
it and they were telling me you know
it's everything's for lease it's empty
it was a real tall building and there
was another building going across the
street they were constructing it with
all the cranes and everything going had
the name of another family on it and it
happened this one was related to the
family or something and I and I said uh
this building is empty yeah I can't find
anybody to put in it so why are you
building this one it said so it'll be
taller that's it
yeah so you'll have a taller empty
building than they
have and these are signs of the less
days and we're sitting here
laughing what's really interesting is
some of the other Hadith
Shake McCarthy with us right now he
probably knows a lot more about it than
I do but for sure some of the other had
that I read about the last days and the
signs are even as amazing like when you
will be talking to trying to communicate
with the animals of the sea and you
watch him talking to the Dolphins have
you seen those programs and they're
hooking up with
the what did he say oh talk to the
dolphin these are the same people that
won't talk to their mother on Mother's
Day
talk to a
fish and in the same Hadith it
mentions that your
extremities would talk to you you're
like you hold something in your hand
you're talking to hold on let me take
this call and I'll be right back what
did you
say and then it says and your side will
inform you of what's happening in your
house even though you're away
you know those pages that tell you
what's going on don't forget to bring
home a loaf of bread or
yeah this is400 years ago before they
even had
electricity
huh so many predictions and we're not
talking about looking for it in the
future we're talking about in the past
tense how many years ago did those come
so how close is this last day that was
an excellent question but the one being
asked doesn't know any more than the one
who was
asking do we have another question we'll
take a question from the middle from the
sisters right now oh there's sisters up
here okay yes umam
Alum they got a lot of lights in my eyes
I can't see them there just before you
start sister sorry I've I've just got a
quick question about the um this the
sign that you mentioned and I've seen it
in the Quran um in the translation sorry
the um the extra bit um what I saw was
in the English um translation so I'm not
sure the exact words that the prophet
used Salli wasallam um so what what I
read was the the shepher Shepherds of
the um red red camels who will compete
against um
Building the tallest buildings to that
effect so um I was having this
conversation the same one somebody chose
different words to say the same thing
okay so the conversation that I had with
someone was um basically said um it
didn't say Arabs what do they mean by
Shepherds of red camels it doesn't say
the word Arabs and the the claim was
that we twist the words to suit our
needs um it didn't say Arabs but we'll
we'll make it sound like it said
something that's applicable today I'd
like to hear your comments on that yeah
it' be a good idea to do do you know the
Arabic language sister no I don't okay
first thing you want to do I got to I
have a website for all of you would like
to know the Arabic language it's called
Arabic in english.com it you can go
there and and check it out and see how
we begin right from the very beginning
showing you how to use the English
language to learn the Arabic you don't
have to know Arabic to learn Arabic you
can just start out right away that's
number one the second thing is that you
are right in what you said that people
will interpret something and the word
bedan it very clearly defines the people
of the desert this is not used anywhere
else and when the word Arab is used it's
clear that you mean Arab so all you have
to do is just take the Hadith and just
read it in Arabic and you'll hear the
words for yourself I think that's the
best way to answer your question thank
you okay thank you sister take a
question from the left side brother
please alikum YF my name is FAL I'm from
Malaysia uh first of all I would like to
send the greetings and regards from my
children they're a big fan of yours
Unfortunately they cannot come today uh
but anyway um the uh we always uh watch
your programs on YouTube and on internet
for quite frequently and uh the uh
question that my children or my wife
keep on asking me I mean why uh what
make you choose Islam I mean what
attracts you to Islam to begin with I
mean it's probably long time ago
yeah thank you we appreciate that very
much and tell everybody back in Malaysia
big Salam from us and
uh I was in Malaysia only once and while
I was there I had some of the best
treatment you could ever ever even
imagine it was really great and my
daughter was with me over there too we
had just we had a great time we we did
alhamdulillah I like the way too that
the again this is a Muslim country
that's not so closed-minded you know to
shut down everything just give everybody
a chance cuz while we were there we
found that the Muslims and Christians
living beside each other in a very nice
way that was that was appreciated and uh
even some commercial things that we we
found from back home while we were in
Malaysia I got to eat at Bubba Gump
Shrimp and more yeah you know
alhamdulillah but uh the question about
me coming to Islam really isn't the
topic today so if I could I'd just like
to refer to it briefly and tell you
where you can get the whole story if
that's okay
because it takes approximately 47
minutes if I leave out some of the best
[Laughter]
jokes I think that if I had to narrow it
down to one thing what was the most
influential
thing to
me would be proof because the question
comes like this to
me what do you have in your religion
that I don't have because if your
religion is better than mine I will
leave mine and go to yours that's what I
was told by the Muslim I was trying to
convert I was trying to convert a Muslim
to go to
Christianity now when he said that I
said got him this guy's on the hook reel
him in because number one you don't have
to pray five times a day to be a
Christian number two you don't have to
fast the whole month in fact you don't
have to fast at all three you don't have
to pay zaka what's that and you don't
have to make a pilgrim AG anywhere to be
a Christian it's just what you believe
that's it that's
it and then he finished the sentence he
said I'll go to your religion if it's
better than my religion but you need
proof I'm like uh proof no no religion
is about faith brother it's not about
proof
Faith he said in Islam we have faith but
we have proof
without thinking of what I was saying I
looked at me right now and I said you
mean to sit there and tell me as a
Muslim you can prove there's
God he said do you mean to sit there and
tell me as a preacher for Christianity
that you
can't now there are Christian scientists
that offer very good evidences I just
wasn't one of them so don't get the idea
that there's no proof in monotheism cuz
there it definitely is but it was
something that really woke me
up the proofs that you find in the Old
Testament New Testament that God
exists are very much supported by and
augmented by the Quran and what's been
revealed with it as well in fact in the
many years that I studied the two books
side by side almost two and a half years
I can honestly say that there's nothing
in the Bible that contradicts the
teachings of the
Quran except where the Bible contradicts
itself and from that from that I was
able to realize that now all I got to do
is prove some mistakes in the Quran and
I got it made so I started reading it
and I went through it I kept seeing more
and more things that I liked but I kept
pushing to find out something in here
that's going to be contradictory it has
to be there has to be this is a man-made
book that was my mind anyway at the time
so there is going to be a
mistake couldn't find it went all the
way through back to about the 20 I'm
going to guess it was about the 26 27th
juice of the Quran and when I got back
there I realized hey this is not going
like I thought it would and then I came
across the verse that
said
abadon and then it hit me I said what
then what else in the world would you
say about the monotheistic faith if it
isn't that statement and Allah said the
meaning in English that he did not
create the gin and Mankind except for
worship the worship of one God without
any Partners no images no stat
no uh vain glorious statements just
believe in God and obey his
Commandments what was the biggest
problem that I
faced was
myself I never wanted to admit I was
wrong there was a problem that I had
when I was in business I didn't like to
admit that it was a problem I had in my
family life I didn't like to admit when
I was wrong
that's a hard thing for some people to
say I was wrong I made a
mistake but that was a real turning
point in my life because if I didn't do
it I realize then I'm going to continue
in this same mess so that was the
hardest thing but once I put my head on
the
ground in the same direction I'd been
watching this Muslim pray for three
months and I really opened my mind and
my heart and I just said it like this
God guide
me when I raised up my
head I knew it there really is God and
it's not about
outside effects it's about the inside
and it might even answer our question
for today about the
chaos because we look around us and oh
look at that problem over there this
problem over there when's the end of the
world oh who's burning the Quran
somebody did this over there why but we
don't want to look inside and see where
we're wrong we don't want to really
admit to our mistakes we don't really
want to deal with the
fact I'm
wrong because when a person says the
Shahar they are
negating any other form of
worship devote
otion commitment of the heart cuz you're
giving it all to the Lord
above because when somebody says that
with sincerity this is the big thing
this is the really big thing maybe you
don't see it move mountains and shake
the Earth and cause tidal waves and
tsunamis but that's really what's
happening
Ash illah I bear witness here and now
right here in Dubai that there is
nothing worthy of My
Worship except one
God without any
partners and that
Muhammad is his last and his final
servant slave and
messenger
allahar we'll take a question from the
sister side but just before you
start just just like to know how many
non-muslim guests do we have if you
could just please put your hands
up scared don't be scared sh doesn't
bite okay I would encourage our guests
to you know come forward and ask some
questions if you feel comfortable if we
have any of our guests with us today and
first of all we welcome you very much
and we appreciate your courage to come
out here with all these terrorists they
Muslims that bomb class is tomorrow
tomorrow night
right you know what they say you can
only see it
once but seriously uh we would really
like to have your questions because this
gives us an opportunity to see where
you're coming from and it gives you a
chance to explore and find out what some
of the answers are to the
concerns usually the questions that I
get most from the universities where I
visit I deal with the subject of the
treatment of people what is the
treatment of non-muslims what's the
treatment of women what is the treatment
uh of subjects like in war and things
like that so if you don't mind I'd like
to answer the question you didn't ask
but I'll throw it out there for you and
that is what does Islam say about the
way we treat others well first of all
God Almighty makes it very very clear
with a word in the Arabia it's
Allah says he never does God never
does and he forbids us to do it and
that's uh usually translated to English
as aggressive or
transgressive
oppression and certainly terrorism is
one of those that fits under that
category so we are commanded in the
Quran to fight against any form of
moonar and moonar is again a large
umbrella underneath which you will also
find acts of aggression and
terrorism we find in the Quran clearly
an order for the Muslims to aggressively
go out and fight against acts that you
would describe as terrorism which under
another General uh term are used in
Arabic
fitna and fight against fitna until
Allah's
Dean can I think would translated as um
can be openly displayed it's very
clear and if you understand that you can
see that the only time that Muslims are
allowed to engage in active
combat is in the support of what Islam
teaches and to prevent that teaching
from being destroyed but never as the
aggressor to go in and take away other
people's rights because that would be an
exact contradiction to the
meaning you cannot violate people's
rights human rights in Islam is one of
the big attractions that I have found
after I got into Islam and it still
interests me very much 20 years later to
see so many of the things that we have
today that we're so proud of in the west
but Islam came with that long ago long
before the Geneva
Convention actually long before there
was a place called
Geneva Islam is coming with some very
beautiful
teachings for instance how do you treat
your
enemies now in a sense we find that in
the New Testament that you should be you
know even kind to your enemies but not
in the sense that it's clearly spells it
out when you've captured people that
were trying to kill
you you captured them you got them right
now you cannot abuse
them you can't chop off their body parts
can't kill
them can't stand them up on a box with a
hood over their head and two wires
hooked to their fingers and I didn't
mean anything by
that or did
I okay
so the things that we see being violated
today by some countries against the
Geneva
Convention long ago were forbidden for
Muslims to
do look at this in general leave the
enemy subject alone for a minute just
talk about in general your
neighbor our Prophet peace be upon him
said he's not a believer
who fills his stomach up and goes to
sleep at night well his neighbor's
stomach remains
empty that's kind of scary when you
consider how much food we eat every
day that's kind of scary when you
consider that how many neighbors we have
so the
Companions and followers of Muhammad
they asking well who is my
neighbor he said 40
in any
direction for sure that's one of the
sunnas or the ways of Muhammad that most
of us have left off we really
have we don't really concern oursel
about our neighbors like we used to and
I hope that we'll come back to that I
mean another thing about the treatment
of people in
Islam is the respon responsibility that
we have to share this message with
them not to
prize no not to
convert no but to share the information
in a way they can understand it and make
it easy for them to know understand and
if they like to accept this message of
believing in one God and doing what he
wants you to do
and of course that's the area that I try
to work in every day but again this is
something that we've forgotten about we
say okay hey I'm a Muslim and you're a
Hindu or you're a
whatever and that wasn't how that was
intended at
all that verse that says to you your way
and me my way was when people are coming
to make fun of you to attack you to
basically hurt your feelings okay you
deliver a
message and if they don't like it okay
then then it's when you tell them you
worship what you worship I worship what
I worship you know and if you you don't
want what we got okay we don't want that
either so have a nice day go worship
your toys or whatever you want to
do the treatment now in I want to get
more specific the treatment of your
relatives
how important is it for a man to treat
his wife in a good way and again if you
saidwell I know Muslims don't treat
their wives very good well for sure he's
going to get he's going to be charged
for that on the day of judgment without
a
doubt but the lady in Islam is clearly
giving some very big rights that they
never had before the Quran was
revealed because the verse starts out
with the word reel reel is male
males this is in chapter 4:34 of the
Quran on and here's where Allah said the
males have the responsibility over the
females and he said it like this because
Allah he gave the one power that he
didn't give to the other one so you got
the power you got the musle get out
there get it to
work and bring it
home and how many of us forget this in
Islam the man is responsible for the
house who makes the house house payments
if you renting a house or who has to buy
the house who the
man
utilities food
clothing medical education who's
responsible to take care of the lady and
make sure she has all these things this
is in the Quran who
males so how much suppose the lady has
some wealth maybe she and inherited
it maybe she has a career whatever what
percentage should she pay and this was
asked to me by a dear friend of mine one
time what percentage should my wife be
paying out of her
salary for our place where we
live when I said
zero he looked at me like
huh you know she quit her job just right
after that
true
story but that's the beautiful thing
that a lot of women they don't realize
Islam is given her the things she'd
always wanted you
know what's mine is mine and what yours
is mine
too and what about the treatment of the
parents we spoke about that a minute ago
about children enslaving their parents
look at this one now keep in mind at the
time this came in the Arab desert a
woman was like the lowest scum that
there was to these men they treated them
terrible there was no limit on how many
wives a guy could have there was no
limit on the way that he could treat her
either he could beat them up they can
kick them around nobody said anything
and the worst of all many of them would
take a newborn daughter to the desert
and bury her alive in the burning
sand and consider that Macho
one of the very first things that Islam
was dealing with after the correct
belief was to stop this practice of
mistreating
women and when we talk about rights I
want to wrap this answer up with this
statement from the prophet peace be upon
him when we talk about rights a man came
to the prophet Muhammad peace be upon
him and said after Allah's rights on me
you know Allah has the right to be
worshiped alone without partners
and the prophet has the right to be
followed as opposed to following Obama
or somebody else follow your
Prophet so after Allah and his messenger
who has the first rights on me the most
rights on
me what did he say
ladies I knew the ladies knew this
one nice and Loud remember you don't
have microphones you're on TV let's see
it again after a l and his messenger who
has the most rights on me my your mother
and then who my mother your mother and
then who mother your mother and then
father maybe your father no he says
father so this was something really
strange this saying coming from him is
like huh what women have rights my
mother my mother my mother why is this
emphasis coming like this and sure
enough the women were finally freed from
a very oppressive regime I want to use
that word in a sentence tonight nothing
to do with recent events in Egypt or
something like
that so I think that that's a very good
question and certainly something that I
encourage all non-muslims you don't know
a lot about Islam look for what is human
rights in Islam and if you start reading
where people are chopping off hands and
fingers and heads and necks and all the
rest of it
check another website maybe just maybe
there's a little something a skew on
that
answer thank you for the
question on the sister's side we have
AUM
sorry go ahead sister we have a sister
over here would like to take her
shahada
Mas now we're
[Applause]
cing for that I'm going to get up
we have uh you said we have a lady
that's ready to accept Islam yes yes yes
can say yes yes okay what's your name my
name is Vanessa
Vanessa okay is anybody explain to you
that the most important thing in Islam
is we believe there's only one God and
he has no Partners did you understand
that yeah many people uh many sisters
told me about that okay and we believe
that Muhammad is the last messenger but
we also believe in all the other
Messengers as well did they explain that
yeah they did Adam Abraham Moses David
and for sure Jesus Christ peace be upon
him they explained all of that they are
just m i mean
um um
prophets as prophets right yeah this is
this is very important and we believe in
them as prophets not gods or sons of
gods okay so and you're ready now to
begin to live the life of a Muslim
trying your best to obey what Almighty
Allah wants you to do yes I'm totally
ready totally ready okay all right then
uh you want to do it in English first
and then inshallah God willing we'll do
it in the Arabic language we're Texas
Arabic but it'll be close
okay okay okay just repeat after
me I swear I
swear there is no God to worship there's
no God to worship except one God except
one God Allah Allah and I swear and I
swear Muhammad is his messenger Muhammad
is his
messenger and now inshallah we'll do the
Arabic I'll go slow and just repeat what
you hear
ASU
Ashu
Allah ill
U
ASU
muhamed
muhamad mahb
[Applause]
now thank you brother you did a good job
on that and we're real proud of you I
think I should mention to you and I'm
sure they'll tell you but for the record
When anybody enters into Islam in
sincerity on that point and at that time
in that place Allah removes every single
sin that they ever committed so this
means you're just like when you came
forth out of your mother it means you
have no sins at all you're like newborn
and this was the expression used in the
past by other prophets explaining to
people when you accept this you'll be
like newborn so you're newborn in Islam
this mean you didn't convert actually
you reverted because this is the natural
state of a child when they're born as
well innocent without sin and certainly
inshallah God willing still lots of good
deeds that you have because Allah took
away only the bad ones and purified all
your other Deeds your actions and now
you have all of that working for you
there's another bonus that goes with
this and that is that you now have
direct
connect Direct Connect and you're not
going to have to worry about running out
of minutes or the battery going dead
because Allah is always ready to take
your Dua your petition to him your
prayers to him all you have to do is ask
him in in your heart heart and he's
going to accept that and on top of that
you have another thing that really helps
charge your batteries up he wants you to
do this five times a day and it's called
in Arabic Salah and Salah related to
another word in Arabic which means
connection so this is inshah your
connection with God you want to keep
that up every day they they'll help you
with that sisters will explain it to you
but there's another area that I need to
warn you about because you just said I
believe Allah tells in chap 29: 2 and 3
of the Quran Surah
anab do the people think they're going
to be left alone just cuz they said I
believe and they're not going to be put
into a big Calamity or
fitner just as I put the people before
them he this is a lot talking he's
saying just as the people before them
were put into this big calamities and so
this is to show who are the real
truthful and who are the liars so even
though you're going to be tested even
though you're going to experience some
difficulty I want you to remember this
is just from Allah LA and you need to be
patient and remember
this verily after difficulty comes the
ease for sure for sure for sure after
any difficulty Allah will bring ease so
be patient with the test that Allah
gives you and finally this one little
piece of advice and kind of a
notification really the biggest fitner
or difficulty that most new Muslims
receive is other Muslims so we're sorry
about that in advance but that's the
reality that's what you're up against
while we're on this subject of people
accepting Islam is there anybody else
that feels like this is a good time for
them to say shahada if we have somebody
else that feels you want to do that okay
if you'd like to go over to the
microphone go ahead
if anybody else would like to join him
do we have uh some others some sisters
here Brothers over here anybody
else how about this some of us uh we
claim we're Muslim because we got the
name Muhammad Abdullah but maybe uh you
know what I'm saying maybe the salot
been a little bit weak for the past 20
years
and some things are kind of missing and
you'd feel kind of good about uh making
your shahad I want you to think about
that real serious while we help our
brother here now tell us your name
brother um my name is Angel Angel yes
sir Angel uh from
Philippines I like that
actually you don't have any Wings do you
okay that's cool
did anybody explain to you about our
belief as Muslim we believe there's
really only one God yes of Adam yes the
god of Abraham Moses David sulon Jesus
Christ peace be upon and also Muhammad
peace be upon him yes sir and also that
we have and I didn't mention that for
the sister but I'll mention it to you we
have six areas of things that we believe
in first of all we believe in
Allah and we believe in the
angels and we believe in the books all
the books came from Allah we believe
that although we don't accept if they're
translated okay so the original books
that came from Allah and we believe in
all these prophets who came as real
prophets of God and then we believe in
the day of Resurrection that all people
will be brought back on the day of
judgment along with that we also believe
in the cutter or predestination that
everything is under Allah's control he
never loses control
it's always there he's got this control
over everything so have they explain
that to you yes sir and you're ready to
accept that yes I accept it already
before okay now is the gentleman right
behind you there is he ready to accept
tell us your name he my brother huh my
brother your brother what's his name
B
pass b y p pass B b a s yes
b b a s we Arabs can't say that letter b
a
s Beast be upon
you peace peace and
Angel your parents had something in mind
for you from the beginning guys you're
in good shape peace and Angel mashallah
okay are we ready yes we're ready
English first I swear both of you at the
same time I swear I swear I swear
there's no God to worship there's no God
to worship except one God except one God
Allah Allah Allah and I swear and I
swear Muhammad is his messenger Muhammad
is
Hiser ill
muham
muhamad
abbar
abbar by the way when this is all over
with you guys keep your eye on these
fellas here cuz you're going to want to
do a lot of hugging you know what I'm
saying but no brothers not the
girls come on who you get these guys
mashallah
do I have anybody else who is accepting
this notion that we just were talking
about that there really is one God and
we need to do what he wants us to do on
his terms according to the way we
learned it from Muhammad anybody else
like to do that
now you remember what I said the hardest
thing for me to do was to admit I was
wrong don't let that be the thing that
stops you from getting to Paradise if
you feel like you need to do your
shahada don't let this intim imate you
do it nobody knows if they'll even wake
up in the
morning so that's that's really a
important
consideration keep that in mind okay do
we have any other questions do we have
one sister question yeah there is
another question from the sister side
I'm just um telling it on behalf of the
sister um she's uh she's a French lady
she's our sister in humanity and she
would like to ask how do I believe in
God uh she was a Christian before but um
she has been raised uh by her parents as
a Christian but she's not a Christian
since the last 5 years according to her
and uh she would like to know how can
she again believe in
God I want to tell you what happened to
me and see if this makes sense to you
even though I was exploring two
religions at the same time the one I
grew up with with
Christianity and
Islam there were also other things
running through my mind that I had
encountered
books people that I met ideas and
Concepts from professors down the
line and all of that was going through
my mind pretty much at the same
time and I was sharing this with the
Muslim who I was trying to
convert I had just witnessed what you
just witnessed tonight I had just
witnessed a Catholic priest accepting
Islam and was shocked how could this man
who devoted his whole life his career
everything he knows everything he is all
about he just gave it
up to go to Islam
and I had just had a dialogue with my
wife about that subject and discovered
she also was interested to be a Muslim
and I still had trouble saying it I had
trouble to the extent that while I was
telling her she said I want to get a
divorce I said
what she said yeah a Muslim can't be
married to a Christian I said who I
didn't say I want to be one of them
Muslim guys don't worry about it besides
he told us that a Muslim
lady couldn't be married to a Christian
man she said that's what I'm talking
about I want to be a
muslim okay all right all right hold
on okay I'll be a Muslim too she said I
don't believe
you why but you're lying you're just
saying it
because a minute ago you said you
wouldn't be one now you say you will
either way you a liar then or now either
way
uhuh then she told me get
out I was halfway down the stairs when I
realized you know I just got kicked out
of my own father's
house it hit me hard and I went and woke
up the Muslim he stayed with us you
know and I said I got to talk to you so
we were talking and your subject that
you asking about came
up after all of the rest of what we talk
about how do I
know and look what he told me he said
this is not an
issue really about you and the priest or
you and your wife you and your father or
you and me this is the issue between you
and your lord the one you need to be
talking to is him and he walked off and
left me standing there
and that's when I decided you know
what I'm going to do something really
big here I'm going to face myself in the
same direction he did put my head on the
ground the way I saw him do it and
then figure out what to do next and with
my head on the ground and I guess by now
you figured out I don't have trouble
articulating add infinitum I have no
problem talking okay but on that
occasion I couldn't say
anything
nothing cuz I was looking in my heart
for what do I really want to say what do
I really really want to say and the only
words that came out of my mouth were oh
God guide
me and if you'll do
that then from there on you'll be all
right because if you're sincere and if
there's a God
who else is going to guide you and
that's what Islam teaches us it's as
simple as that you know for a fact that
you exist how did you get here you know
for a fact there's a universe out there
and you know that it didn't come about
all by itself how did it all happen and
if you haven't had a chance yet to study
this book in any language it's now in
franchise as far as I know you can take
a chance to look through the
translations
of the
Quran I think you'll
find if you're serious about it I think
you'll find the guidance there because
there's a
condition actually a couple of
conditions when you read it it starts
out with a seven verse prayer but right
after that the biggest chapter of the
Quran comes and it says these words like
this
Al
this is the key the is right there
because in the verses before the seven
verses I mentioned to you it contains
the statement that I
said guide us guide us to the straight
path anybody in this room right now I
challenge you I challenge you to say
that in your heart don't don't even move
your lips but in your heart if you have
any doubt about who there being a God or
who God is just say this in your heart
oh God guide us guide us adenus rotham
was the
king and then it's up to him isn't
it all up to
him the meaning of the verse that I read
to
you it's an answer to your prayer you
just ask to be guided it said this
actually it says that doic that
that is the book wherein there is no
doubt a guidance for those who have a
Taqua and they believe in Al the
Unseen they establish regular worship
and they give out of the provision that
Allah gives them in charity to help the
poor the
impoverished and they believe they
believe in
Allah they believe in what's been sent
down to you meaning Muhammad sallam and
they believe in what was sent down
before and they believe in the day of
judgment the
A and these are the
people these are the
people who are really the successful
these are the people who are on the true
guidance of almighty
God so if you want to be guided and you
you just ask to be guided this is the
way the
way number
one and I left this in Arabic language
for you you better have Taqua or else it
won't work what is Taqua the
translations usually say righteousness
piousness good guy you know stuff like
that but the reality is that this word
means a partition a hijab a barrier a
shield why would I need a shield what's
that for it's a shield between you and
something from Allah and if you said
wait a minute how could I protect myself
against my Creator well you can't but
you can protect yourself from one of the
things that's going to happen and that's
the evidence of
his anger on the day of judgment and
that Shield will protect you and what is
that Shield a Taqua to have this God
consciousness
in all that you do try your best to live
a good life according to what God says
it is not according to what you think it
is or somebody else thinks but what he
is telling you try your best that's your
shield and that's how to get guided
simple as that so I'll pray for you and
ask a to guide you and hope that you'll
find what you're looking for I mean
anybody else yes
she YF it's uh first of all I'd like to
say how how much of a pleasure it is to
have you here in
Dubai um and I'll try to keep my
questions uh short and and easy for you
uh I'd like to pass on a couple of
questions that I constantly get from uh
my non-muslim friends uh let's say first
of all uh why should women cover
up as as you know as short and plain and
simple as that why is it what's the
purpose um what good comes to the
society from women covering up so this
is the first one the second one is um I
get some of my non-muslims friends
saying that they think it's demeaning
for women to be have to be a
responsibility of a male in her life
throughout her life first of all she's
responsible she's the responsibility of
of her father then the responsibility of
her her husband if she has no husband
she's the responsibility of her brother
her son perhaps later on in life and
some people say that they think it's
demeaning for women so what are your
comments on that just one second she
before you start it's your proog if you
take questions please keep the questions
on topic again and just one question at
a time please okay sh if you want to
answer es
Mar my name is
The Gardens of the religion uh actually
is synonymous with n Oh Oh I thought he
said no no
no light of the de like
Norah where you from a uh Egypt an mes
yeah we figured that
antoi that's okay that's okay no problem
it's no it's you know it's not uh it's
not an insult but I'm not I don't look
even s
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first there were two questions that our
brother asked us about related to our
sisters the first question is I think
probably one of the most obvious in the
whole
world but came to me the first time that
somebody hit me with it was a lady she
was a professor in the University where
I was given a
talk and she didn't hear any of what I
said she just had walked in the door at
a particular moment during The Question
Answer period and with no microphone or
anything just walked in the middle of
the
room and pointed at the ladies pointed
at our sisters and she
said why are they dressed like that
that couldn't believe she did that you
know I said excuse me why are they
dressed like
that and then I realized I'm on my own
you know cuz I don't have anything that
really that I'd ever studied that said
how to answer a question that way so I
trust Allah and I said toal to Allah
Allah give me the answer what came in my
mind and this is what I do all the time
anyway I just take what comes in my mind
and hopefully Allah will accept that CU
when we start we say bis we hope it's
going to be from Allah right
so said excuse me
ma'am but what's wrong with the way
they're
dressed I want to know why they're
dressed like I so what's the matter with
that is it something you don't like yes
I said it doesn't fit your logic that's
right it's not
logical good so then my question is easy
now
for you why are you dressed at
all what said why are you dressed at all
I beg your
pardon it's not nice to beg
but I'm asking you why are you wearing
any
clothes because according to
logic you were born without any clothes
right you didn't have any clothes on
when you came into the world you were
naked in the buff nude right so why are
you wearing any clothes at all she lost
it right there and really high pitched
scream
modesty now ask the ladies with the
covering on why they're dressed like
that they'll give you the exact same
answer there's no difference they will
say the word you said modesty the
difference is you decided what modesty
was when you put your clothes on this
morning and by the way she was covered
all the way to her wrist and all the way
to her ankles she was strangely enough I
said you decided what was modesty when
you got
dressed these ladies let their lord and
Creator tell them what modesty was
that's the difference next
question
Boom the next question we have now and
our brother's asking us about is the
role of the woman
and the way the question's presented
even should give it away before we come
to the idea of this demeaning word that
he kept throwing in
there this is an
offer it's a commandment on the men to
take care of the
women but if for whatever reason she
doesn't want it well
duh can a woman file for divorce yes yes
or no yes okay I what's your next
question if she didn't want to be
married to somebody then
what if she doesn't
want someone to care for her love her
make her the queen of the house if she
doesn't want to have an easy way to go
when it comes to a lot of the things
that many women in the street would love
to have from a Muslim man then it's h
choice there's nothing in Islam forcing
women to enjoy the
benefits next
question right sisters in the
middle sisters in the middle yeah oh yes
we have a sister Salam Alum sister Salam
alikum it's an honor to be talking to
you right now sir
my name is syas and I'm currently a
student and uh I study with lots of
non-muslims and uh I'm faced many times
with the question if there's a God why
are there bad things in this world I
love that
question I love that question you know
why I love that question because I used
to have the same
question and anything and everything I
looked at never answered that question
until I came to Islam
that for me is one of the clearest
proofs if you really want to use your
brain and think about what's going on
around you and think about religion and
a belief pattern or
system really you need to look at Islam
you really need to look at it because
it's the only one that gives you the
answer because Islam never demands from
you blind faith never the only thing we
are told in Islam the only rest friction
don't try to imagine what Allah is like
don't imagine what Allah looks like
don't get into that area because you
can't you'll just you'll destroy your
own brain other than that
ask and on our website watch out here
comes a commercial on our website Islam
newsom.com we have that article featured
more times maybe than almost anything
else if there's a
God that again why all of this chaos in
the world and that's our subject today
isn't it all this chaos in the world
tornadoes earthquakes we have a
earthquake page on that same website all
about earthquakes it updates every few
minutes you can see where the
earthquakes are right now and they have
increased in intensity just like Prophet
Muhammad sallam said they would
tremendous number of earthquakes today
several hundred earthquakes have
happened since I've been giving you this
speech right
now go there and check it
out along with that
pestilence
violence
Wars
occupations and I'm not talking about
Jobs and Family abuse serious problems
we even talked about a few of them
didn't we serious stuff so if there's a
gun why is all that stuff
happening it means the person asking the
question doesn't even have the basic
understanding of what Islam taught Islam
never taught us that this was the Jenna
what you thought you were in
Paradise is that what you thought look
what prophet Muhammad peace be upon him
said he summed it up with one of the
simplest most beautiful little teachings
you could ever
imagine when it comes to why the bad
things happen to good people that's how
I titled
the the lecture about this originally
years
ago Prophet sallallah Al wasallam he
said
aun signal
movement what genital
C this material existence that we're in
called Haun life of this
world is a prison to a True Believer but
it's the only Paradise to a
disbeliever he narrowed it down to two
things Believers and
disbelievers we know as Believers that
this is the hardest thing we're going to
go through because when this is over
that's it it's
done it's done
you're not going to be put in any more
tests but you start seeing the results
of the tests you know how that
goes but for the disbeliever this is
their paradise and that's why they want
so desperately to build the big things
here and the fancy cars the Beautiful
Homes the best of clothes you know what
I'm saying you know strut your stuff
baby okay this is what they're looking
for
but our prophet sallallahu alaihi
wasallam he told us and this is another
Hadith to clarify it even
more because some of the companions were
concerned about the same thing that
you're concerned about with your
question he said two people will be
brought on the day of
judgment one of them he had everything
he asked for in this
life even to the extent when he was
dying he wanted a feast set before him
and he got
it the other
person he didn't get anything he asked
for even to the extent when he was about
to die all he asked for was just a drink
of water and he didn't even get
that now on the day of judgment the one
who had everything he would be pushed
into the
Hellfire like you put a needle in
something and pull it out just in that
instant and then it's not in the
Hadith that well is not there don't look
for
that he would be
asked in your whole life remember he had
everything in your whole life did you
ever see any good he say well in my
whole life I never saw anything good it
wiped it all
out the other man that had
nothing suffered in this life would be
put into
Paradise like you put a pin in something
and pull it out and then he would be
asked in your whole life did you ever
see anything
bad he would say well why in my whole
life I never saw anything bad no
hardships so the companions still not
quite satisfied with that one they said
yeah but okay so why this guy who had
everything has to go to hell and one of
the other guy goes to
paradise and Prophet made it real
clear nobody's perfect well yeah know
I'm one of those not perfect guys he
said that nobody is perfectly good and
nobody's perfectly
bad the
man who had everything in this life
actually he was a very bad person Allah
hated him
so we don't have that concept by the way
God is love and he loves everything and
everybody no matter how bad they are no
no no no we know that God is the loving
alad
dude and ready to love anything and
everything that's good but he's also
capable
of dealing it out heavy duty and you
don't want to know about that so this
man who Allah
hated who had done so many monstrously
bad things to people people yet he did
some good
deeds so Allah paid him in this life for
his Good Deeds so he would not even
smell the
paradise that he could be thrown
directly right straight into
hell the other
man this gentleman actually was very
good and Allah loved him but he did some
bad things he made some mistakes
but because Allah doesn't want him to
even smell the Hellfire not even for a
nanc so Allah let him have his
punishment here in this dun so that he
could go straight into the
paradise stop and think about it doesn't
that make sense doesn't there really
need to be a j a day of judgment because
otherwise how could any of us look at
the things that are going on around us
again and again and again and see how
the
tyrants and the aggressors and the
oppressors throughout history again and
again and again not only do they win
these battles and Wars but they go away
with all the spoils of Wars well the
really good people the honest kind
giving generous charity giving people
are
suffering literally starving to
death but that's because this is a
Duna how many of you know what the word
dun really means raise your hand you
really know where it comes from what's
the
source ah something really low really
low in a base something so disgusting
right somebody' go oh man got dun on my
shoe low and that's what this universe
is to Allah how low and again we don't
say for Allah so loved the world we
don't have that that's not our concept
why do these people get these big this
and big that and oh you see people of
the West doing so and so and so Muslims
out here just you know for food trying
their best
right but look at this Prophet sallam
said it to his companions so they'd
understand
if the universe and everything in it
ha everything in this
universe was even worth
a wing a wing of a mosquito to
aw then he would never give those bad
people a sip of water to
drink
hamdulillah now we understand this is
not our
Paradise this is our chance to earn
Paradise work for paradise and get the
mercy of Allah so we can go to paradise
well this is not our Paradise
so when you see the bad things happening
to the people here just remember the
ones who are suffering the most here
have the best chance to go to
paradise and those who have everything
here they have the least chance say it's
impossible but it sure ruins your
opportunities so this is why Muslims are
constantly encouraging each other to
whatever you do do it with a good
intention for the sake of others now
some people will say oh wow look the
look way they spent their money last
night we were down in Abu Dhabi have you
seen the big mhed down there that's an
amazing place and people could say oh
wow look they wasted their money how do
you say
that why would you say
that how many people go there even
tourists go there and want to know about
it they learn about
Islam and it's a big place to worship
how many of you been
there were you impressed yes or
no you're impressed or something big
it's amazing
by the way it must be pretty impressive
I didn't even say the name of it you
know which one I meant didn't
you huh so see when Muslims do something
at least they put a good intention with
it something hopefully that Allah will
accept and we know we make mistakes
along the way but at least inshallah God
can forgive us because we never made
partners with him in our
worship and what did Allah say about
that you didn't ask this question but
I'd like to throw it out there what did
Allah say about this in the Quran
chapter 4:48 this chapter called women
Ona here's what Allah said he doesn't
forgive people setting up partners with
him in worship but anything else he can
forgive it so the idea of making
partners with Allah La in worship this
is the worst thing in this test that
we're in have you said well this is a
good person he's good to
you is nice guy nice to
you but he's not being very nice to
Allah he's not being good to Allah if he
made partners with him in worship or
denied Allah's eyes his proofs so that's
the way I would answer that question I
think if there was any good in that it
was from Allah any mistakes of course
are from myself thank you very much for
that on my right side alhamdulillah to
much H so you you sat down too early
somebody else wants to do Shar yes on
the right
I'm
back there you
go what's your name brother Leonardo Le
Leonardo it's nice to have you with us
today you're wearing a shirt that says
peace
of the
world that's similar to some other
countries I've heard that they said they
wanted their piece of the
world oh oh it's spelled different
that's right okay anyhow
it's nice to have you with us
today
thanks so are you ready to accept
Islam
No have they have they explained to you
we believe there's only one God yes yes
and Muhammad's his messenger yes yes
okay so you repeat after me okay I
swear I swear I swear I swear there's
only one God one God only one God yeah
only one one guy yeah Allah lot a lot
and and and Muhammad muhamad his
messenger is the messenger perfect okay
now
Allah
Allahu mammad Muhammad Muhammad
Muhammad very good very good
masah
alhamdulillah who who is with our
brother you with him he understands in
his language yes you sure okay I want to
be sure of this take good care of him
now that's on you now
man well as long as we're up anybody
else who
here I got to stop doing that who here
guys listen to me
gals if you have never done this before
publicly and you're saying to yourself
you know I wish I could do that but
everybody else is going to look at me
funny do you really care what other
people think about you do you really
care isn't it more important what you
think about yourself on the day of
judgment and to make it real easy for
you all of us who believe in the law
already we're going to get up get up
don't make me come down
there if you already believe in the law
get
up all right now see how much easier
it's going to be for you nobody's going
to hardly notice it and this is going to
work good for all of the Muslims who
never made their shahada
yet so all we're going to do now is just
tell you if you really believe there's
one God and you really want to worship
him on his terms that's your first step
what you do after that that's up to you
but if you don't believe this then
please sit back down because this is not
a game as much as I joke around this is
not a
joke and whoever says this with
sincerity in their heart our prayers are
with with them that Allah will always
guide them guide them to the very very
best so if you're ready stand up now and
just repeat this with me I'm going to
have to do English first and then
attempt some Arabic you can go along
with me but remember it's what's in your
heart that counts more than what's
coming out of your mouth so keep it
clean and pure for Allah in your
heart I swear I swear there is no God to
worship there is no God to worship
except one God except one God Allah
Allah and I swear and I swear Muhammad
is his messenger mam is his
messenger we had a great time with all
of you tonight and we ask Allah to
accept from all of us and all of you
please if this is your first time make
Shahar like this you want to get some
help as you leave out of here they have
some gifts for you as a matter of fact
they're right outside this door I'm
going to be out there checking about
that right now come out and give us
salams before you go and until we can be
together again my prayers with you hope
you pray for us for this guidance
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