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[music] There is
no god but
Allah Allah there is
no
god Peace be upon me and peace how are
you alla given
again i
was introducing
the trying to introduce the
topic but it went came came very unique because you
came to Islam and you mention something
about which craft i didn't know how to i
've had guests come over from
christianity from this ism that ism but is
this actually was this a religion you
can say some of a religion because it's
actually called religion of wi and when
you don't have guidance you really have
no guidance and i res down to try to find
something to clinch on to and
rocks pe people people
us worship idols these
things can actually give me something
and let's talk about your past now let's
get right into the topic this is very
interesting for for me and for a lot of
our viewers because we never covered
something like this and i'm sure there
is this a
big what was religion there's aot of
people practicing
this strange
albums and think that these things will
actually good things and
unfortunately you see some of this
crossover to people who are ququ
religious superstition all this stuff is
all nonsense by the way and when i came
to islam i i didn't i was enlightened and
truth but things nothing can do nothing for
you back it up tell us how you did now where obviously
um you usually know
as we're taught that everyone is born in
a pure state in a pure state that if you
left that child to grow up alone that he
would grow up not worshiping the sun the
moon or you know witches or what not
but usually this is nurtured and he gets
kind of influenced by the
surroundings that are around him what
were your surroundings while you were growing up
there were witches around you
or people called what were you were you
born in into that was predom what my
family was predominant secular uh so
they really didn't practice any kind of
religion whatever yeah and uh this is
why they said basically you can do
whatever you want to do as long as you
get good grades yeah so that's like just
a typical yeah you know what you want to worship
rocks go ahead worship rocks as
long as you get your that's all we
care about yeah and
unfortunately they don't realize that
these things are even more important
than my education education is very
important but at the same time the way
your behavior attitude not just life
more the hereafter no one thinks about
the here think about this dun success is
in this dunya but the real success is in
here after that doesn't mean you ignore
the success in this life but
unfortunately many parents who are
secular they don't think
about giving you the guidance for the
next life yeah so now you're growing up
and now te around what age did you get
into freaky stuff i think the age like
18 uh about 18 years old and i'm like
just looking for something just bor
looking for something cu i had no
religion nothing yeah i just knew there was
some there was a god but i didn't
know what the answer what the truth was
just like many people who are looking
for the truth out there that's how it
usually is right yeah so and there the
first thing i found so i clinched on to
it and tell us go on this so uh i start taking
these rocks and putting them
around my neck think these rocks are
going to benefit me and eventually came
to a point that i realized that these
rocks the
creation and either you have a
choice of wor either the creation or the creator
these rocks can't even save
themselves how they are going to help me and
i put Those rocks down i need to start
looking for the truth so and that's i
started my quest of looking for the
truth tell us some other ways of life
that you came upon that you were and what were
the things that you were
looking for so that person who's also sincere
and he's wanting to know the truth
he can be powerful kind of take a shortcut
inad taking that long way around to learn
some of your mistakes
first okay the unlit all per
relig be perf so let me look all
different people who say religion is
truth you speak to religion truth we
sent by God and bl bl bl give everyone
the benef let me try everything out let
me see out there every time
iud religion i mist ior
man i
put i mean how can that be religion from
god if has mistakes in it also i
realized that okay if if god like for
example they say god can die or god is a statue
if i can break your god then that
can't be god yeah so i sa okay every
time i find a mistake i put it to the
side eventually i came
across the last religion which was left
which was islam it's interesting how got
to that point because at the time where
it came for me to look into islam my
father got on
his heart attack and he was in the hospital
and the doctor said he's going to need
triple biass surgery m and that
surgery was unsuccessful so they told us
he was going to die so i'm sitting at
usia hospital and sitting at my
basically my father's death bed and i
was supposed to go to a winter camp to
learn islam and my mother said don't go here stay
because this is more important
father can pass can to your in the
future yeah and i told my parents okay
i'll stay and as i sat there next to my
father watching him on his ququ deathbed
i realized that this can be me when you
go to a graveyard they don't die when they old
they die in all types of ages they have infants they have toddlers they have teenagers they have people my
age they have people who are old all
these no one knows when death is going to come
so i told myself i
can be dead
tru because i can die before gu passes
so i told my mom i'm changing my mind
and i'm going to go she was completely
against it and i went and when i went
there i was just zero idea what islam is about zero
took my girlfriend to isam camp
with me but before that you had
investigated all the different
was out there yes and just from the
face of it just fit i came from a
science major yeah when you look at the
bible says the earth has four corners
bas the whole argument between the earth
is flat and the earth is round
wrong not flat i mean the scienti
fighting it and the church was thr
people into prison it's and
mayl we years ag fl and when i found
the scientific miracles of the Quran
that was amazing to me i mean if you any science
person there always science
versus christianity and this is always a
debate trying to discover child always
debating it even when i was in jor high
school they're debating christianity or what they
call creation creationism
versus science but islam and science
they don't conflict mm i mean some
people yes you come up with but
that's not fact but fact it doesn't
conflict with islam yeah and that to me
was amazing and the miracles with
scientific miracles were amazing to me so
one of the first things i cau my attention
when i looking into islam in that winter
camp now before we go on and we talk
about how finally you were overtaken or
you found that this was indeed the truth
let's talk about quickly some of these
other ways because now if somebody came to
you and was talking to you about god
being a man for instance like some
people today take you know one of the
greatest messengers of god a man yes did
you ever come and have a dialogue
with someone about this to talk to them
and say why this didn't make sense to you
yes there was actually a person knocked
on my door and they know knock
my door trying to preach the message
and at that time i was still searching
and i hadn't really sted the quran too
much but i just starting to get into it
and the guy knocked at my door and said um
i'm here to spread the good message
and jesus is coming and blah blah blah
so i said okay and he's op up his book
do you have any proof for this because
i'm actually looking for the truth and
he says yes let me read you
think so he looked in the back it shows some of
them they know some don't know some
marig
language no was latin transl
english english second language i know
that when you transl fromage meaning
and i said first all the
book is not you're 100% sure who wrote
it two it's been translated and the book has been changed
yes it's been changed
as well you're asking very good
questions guys are thinking you know what these are
very good things you're
talking about these guys kn my door say what do
you think i said you know i do
n't know i'm looking for the truth too
so what you come across when truth seing i
said the last book i'm to get into is the quran what
is that about so we
having this dialogue with each other and i
tell that so far the quran was looking
so far before look at the tt there one
version of it even though different
people different ideas there is only one
version of the quran in arabic and
that's it and the book has not been
changed and the book has the same style
all the way from the beginning to end and w
this is very unique yeah so by the time
the gu look into the
qur to you and have you come over look qu was it ed
i guess i'm look into it
too and we just ended up and it was a
very nice conversation w this is amazing
how about the idea that now somebody
and i heard you talk about this before i
forgot exactly how you explained it but
the idea that someone is coming to die
for your sins yes you made an analogy
about this can you talk about this idea
you know if you take situation like let
's say i have one of my coworkers i with he says you know
going to be
accountable for their deeds someone el be
taking care of everything for you ch you
know i kill somebody but okay jesus forg me you know i did that jes forg you know what i did that jes forg you know what i did that jes forg you know what i did that jes forg you know what i did that temptation to cheat on somebody orat him in business orat on a woman orat on this but you know what jesus will take care of it he died sinful he take care people ment how much ex you beable everyone will be held accountable if you do good you get good
if you do bad you get bad this is what
we in the society teach you don't go to
the court and say you know what i kill people
but guess what i know the judge take
care of it imagine how that would be
so to us like when you go to cour
what did you do did you do this yes did you
be acc accountable for it if you did good you get good if
you did bad you
get punished for it and that's what
teaches us make
tell us now this camp you said yes okay tell
us what happened now so i go to the camp
and it's interesting because what
happens is my girlfriends On one side
I'm on the other side and men and women are
separated we never saw men and women separated
before and i've never
seen this before this is all new to me
and and we see i sit surrounded at a table for
lunch and dinner and my table
with all these people with different
color faces when you go to high school
you go to college you see everyone the
hispanic people hang out together black people hang out
together white people
hang out together the guys with the in
punk music they hang out together the
guys who they basketball hang out
together by default just play like animals we
segregate based on our color or find
some type of simple bond to connect with
we we know what we're all from persia
we're all from here and when i went to
the camp i realized wow these people are
all different and they all hang out
with each other so i you guys must know
each like years now right no we just
yesterday i was w something unique about
these people i want to know more what
bonds you guys together and he tells me
islam and i quickly learned that we don't have a
choice what skin color we
're born in your skin is white i'm
darker i'm more barbecued and there's
people who are black people green yellow we
no one asked us what color skin you be
born in where do you want to be born
in what langage you want to speak so
that's a very very weak bond for us connect
ourselves with but we do have a
choice of the ideas we want carry and
when you bond two people together with ideas carry
that makes a strong bond and that
is what i saw and seeing islam
implemented by action and not just by a
bunch of words orlet that's what amazed
me and made me want to learn more about
it you asked
very came theof there
cou things there one linguistic
things with it i was amed
on the simplicity of it what
islam be good to your parents you know
some of the religion yes they do teach
some simar things don't be bad do good
blah blah blah but some things just it
was amazing how clicked things made you
know recently we had a was a
very deal america wow we choose a
with dark skin talk intelligence which
is more intelligent the last president
they don't choose about talk this just a
very fact that his skin pigment
skin is a little bit darker than our skin
this should be a very big deal look
how far we come go back to Islam and
what Islam tau it got rid of racism by
the time of the second kh which is the
second president here and by that time the
person who was a slave in egypt was a
governor in egypt and this was a black
man it wasn't aig deal didn't make the
newspapers make all the history books
islam came to teach us and enlighten us to go away
from these animals instincts
of animal desires and animal mentality
to come us to enlighten us to raise
us to make us better than
everything el to not follow desires but
to follow our creator, God willing and that
's what amazed me okay so what
happens now now you're amazed you're
convinced i mean did you have to go get dipped
in pool what happ big big
ceremony you have to jump some r i told
myself if i ever find the truth i'll
follow it and this means if you have to
sacrifice things that you desire and i
liked my girlfriend very
much but this thing was much more than
just a girlfriend i mean this thing was
more important than this is if i found the truth
if i convinced this is the truth i
will follow it i was convin and i
said my girlfriend look i be girlf boyf i
things look you take
responsibility go girl with girl with girl
you want a girl you can have a girl
but you have accept responsibility
taking care of her providing for her
feeding her you know and if he has a child
you take care of that you take care
again accountability is
here no more you know what who cares
just think about me me me me now i have to
think of my creator and make
and take my wife et i i can't have girlfriend boyfri relationship
any was
easy for her so i told this is over the
relationship is over unless we get
married the relationship is over from
there my friends some my friends i came
with they came to just check out about learning what i'm
and look i used to be
persian but i'm not persian
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anymore that
means can take from bn but that culture
of the culture to practice will conflict
with practice anymore the mentality are
better than women you know and we have
this pride of my country is better than
because our persian ancestors all stu is
out the window now you know now people
are people this is like a clean slate it cleared
up my mind it's like you put these glasses on that you can actually see now i've been blinded for all this time and that's it just enlightened my thinking.
come to the end close
that for you living the typical life as a
you get involved of things that are
out there you know you st you to and
think about tru
people they don't do
that thinking about not thinking about
the hef what advice would you give
someone very young and at that age you
younger when you accepted the truth for
somebody who is at that age you were to give
them some encouragement advice to
really think and stop and know it's not
all about the night it's not all about ching
get the rs on the car not all
about ching the women and the good times
what advice you give to some like top
thing you know the thing that we there
so much stuff that we're not sure about
in this life i can go study all as much
as i want and i may not even get my
degree i may my life may be taken before
that i'm sure many of us know people who didn't know the death was coming to
them you have situations where you
struggle for so much you think is so
important so so important for you and
you get it and that's it now something
else bec so and you get that it
parad and forever i i'm not sure a lot
of things going in this world but one
thing i am sure about and no what religion you
are no ae whatever one
thing guaranteed every
soul everyone die you know happ die are
you 100 you happ
think blindly look allion look syem
life you beed me very c not very compc very c
hopefully God enlighten God
means one god arabic way arabic
word for one
god very c the word
islam submission to one god religion mus
prac which muss are the subit
to that's
people think you know this whole you
got someone who is religious you follow
this g conscious lifestyle that you have to
be some weird person that you have to
be someone locked in the room most
people mean you hang out with me i go
play basketball i this have noral life
but do everything with boundaries islam
and that means have fun i do i alc drugs l
to parents
asli i have list it have des but you do
hope that you reception
all the place you people isam i think a
lot of people unfortunately because of
you know the media like fox news and all
the stuff you see on telis they have
this they put people on tv that
unfortunately very very small fraction
of what out there and
they they get this
people loud speakers and they give the
voice and give the misconception what Islam
is really about the best way to find
out what Islam is really about is
to find a practicing Muslim and go ask
and that will clear everything up don't listen
to the media don't listen to the
movies that's all the stuff is for entertainment
and to get people into fear
and all that kind of stuff real is
to see just like you do in real life if
i want to go see what a vegetarian does i
'll go hang out and ask a vegetarian why
you guys eat veggies you
guys do how you do that ask who it
because a practicing mus not
some gu whose name is you know ali
just because the name is ali doesn't mean he
many of us are born to the religion but not
necessarily convinced of it yeah now tell
us we got a couple minutes left
some of this wonderful work you're doing
you travel a lot you're all over the
place practices tell us some of your projects that
you got going on well i I have a few
different projects I do do one video
called um films um m a h f i mcom and
where i put up videos try to misconceptions
we
muslims are God denounced Islam
before he showed me mus re
for mus
really one the main reas people have
misconceptions isut
tt Islam teaches rather he muslim i see
gu doing strange i wonder islam teaches like marriages
some muslims practice
whole marag and nothing to do force
actually Islam forbids it and if you
look at the islamic tex a woman can doesn't get
married her marriage is not
valid unless she approves of the person
she married getting married to so and
that's one pro i have board games babes.com
and i'm inventing bo games both muslims
and non muslims play and i have a
project called half which the logo i'm
wearing and i try to help people find
each other for marriage God thank you
very much for being with us here on the
de show jaak God Thank you very much
for inviting me, it was great time thank
you and thank you for tuning into another
episode of the dean show i hope you got to benefit we're here
every week trying to
help you understand islam and muslims and
we look forward god willing to have
you back again
peace be
upon you I seek refuge in Allah from the
accursed devil in the name of Allah the Most Gracious the Most
Merciful And a sign for them is the dead earth We have
given it life
and brought forth from it
grain and brought forth from it grain from which
they eat and placed therein
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gardens of palm trees and
grapevines and caused
springs to gush forth therein that they may eat of its fruit and what their hands have made so will they not then be grateful? Glory be to
Him who created in pairs all things from what the earth
grows and from what the
earth grows and from
themselves
and from what they do not
know And a sign for them is the night We strip from it the day and at once they are in
darkness and the sun runs to its resting place.
That is the determination of the
Almighty, the Knowing And the moon - We have determined for it phases until it returns [like] the old dried
stalk. The sun
cannot
overtake the moon, nor does the night outstrip the day, and each, in an orbit, floats. [music] [music] [music] And a sign for them is the night - We have determined for it phases until it returns [like] the old dried stalk. The sun cannot overtake the moon, nor does the night outstrip the day.
Each, in an orbit, floats.
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[music] And a sign for them is the night - we do
not know.
If you say that you do not believe in Jesus you
have outside of you canot be a musim l everyone
sleep i ar
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you
know all the sins I do I
turn to you to forgive my sins my
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heart sin
slave you're my
lord I'm the one r