here
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the natural way
are you
we're humbly trying all of us
that's what allah wants to see the
creator won't see that we're making
those
steps even if they're small ones right
start with the jimmy and from there
start praying one time two three four
all the way to five times a day allah
don't need it
we need it it's like you need food to
eat the soul my friends the soul it
needs that nourishment
when we connect it to the creator
everything is laid out
so we're going to be stopping
everything we're doing
to do the football right now i need to
uh do the jumar right now and we'll
check in with you again later here from
for the danger
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me
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what advice do you have for people like
that young people young people who think
islam is something for you know when i
get 50 60 70. are they sure they will
get 50 60 70. do you hear that are you
sure they will get told they won't die
tomorrow next month
what motivated you at what age did you
start practicing
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was there a point in your life that you
were seeking purpose you wanted to know
like why you were created what you're
doing can you explain that to us i
started asking some questions
for myself
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long story short yeah
is
youngsters here and
he didn't fulfill me
so i started asking myself questions is
this all
is this why i'm here
is this the purpose of my life so
there were some questions like man there
are muslims around and you are not like
you are not you are not like them
why you call yourself a muslim
so i started start thinking discovering
i was watching some movie or tv and
it was a lie
like commercials are like medias
i started seeing lies everywhere
propaganda
how did islam stand there's so many
religions people think okay i'll just
choose why i gotta be muslim maybe i'll
be some other religion christianity
hinduism buddhism how can people know
that islam is the truth what stuck out
from islam
from the rest
our lord is the
perfect it wouldn't be
he wouldn't be perfect
if he wouldn't give a perfect religion
so
if there is a
any possibility of any or any doubt or
any and logical thing
in this deen
it wouldn't be perfect so
uh only islam is perfect 100
other religions have
some things that
are not
there's contradictions there's
discrepancies but that's a great point
and we'll end it on that that if you
worship a perfect creator you have to
send a perfect way of life and you have
perfection
to the
and in islam you have perfection to the
max in islam you have a perfect god you
have a perfect way of life
and this is all just the game
how come we are playing this game and we
don't ask ourselves to program it who
created it who designed it
that's my story
it's a longer one but this is a summary
and we just met this brother
thank you made the creator that happens
earth continues
so we just came out of the jummah and
for our guests people are wondering what
i explained to you why we go to gym we
stop work and play we go to thank the
creator we go to hear
a a short sermon about 20
30 minutes tops and then we go ahead and
pray and then pretty much when people
like what are they talking what are they
learning in the mosque go visit hamas go
i mean come on i mean you gotta like if
you're inquisitive you wanna know go
knock out a muslim uh masjid a mosque
and say can i sit in can i listen and i
can just bring to you know i'm not gonna
sit here and uh go over you know 30
minutes we'll talk but in essence
what was being talked about today was
was about good character right
being a better human being
right
uh and a higher level of morality you
know being kind and merciful to all of
god's creation you follow me and there
is one hadith
that
stood out that he had mentioned the
person
who was speaking
he talks about a man
who
during the time of prophet muhammad he
came into a room and then prophet
muhammad said to his companions this is
a man of gender the next man that comes
through this let's do this
and then
second day same thing
third day same thing there's going to be
a man who comes in and the prophet
muhammad is narrating this and he said
this is a man of paradise
so then now look look look
one of the companions of the prophet
muhammad very intelligent he wanted to
go collect some data figure out like man
how could if he's guaranteed paradise
how can i
do what he's doing you know the guy's
praying he's fasting getting up in the
night and praying extra prayers so he
asked the man he says hey can i you know
spend spend a few days with you
and the man said okay uh sure so
he goes and make a long you know story
short he basically observes what this
man is doing and he doesn't see him
doing any extra
deeds than what he does he actually
feels like he does more so at the end
he's like hey um can you like fill me in
the prophet muhammad peace be upon him
he said that you're a man of gender
etcetera etcetera and uh what is this
that you're doing that's so special
and he was thinking thinking he goes you
know the only thing that he could think
of besides the obligatory acts that he
was doing was that i go to bed and i
don't have hatred towards anyone malice
envy that jealousy when someone got
something that you don't have that that
creates this envy in some people he
didn't have any of that he very he
forgives
all people who did them wrong before he
goes to bed and that's what we were
learning so how could people who learn
such
teachings be people who are people who
terrorize people people who are are not
the kindest of people people who are
forgiving who are taught these teachings
and that's all
built on the foundation of pure
monotheism on pure monopolism that's
what distinguishes islam from all other
ways of life is that that worship of the
creator not the creation and the
teachings
of good manners character and all these
things the few that i had just mentioned
here that's what we were in a nutshell
learning today on the hood so now we can
go back to work go back to play and i'll
play and enjoy our day here in bosnia
you know last week's show we had uh ned
iman hafiz nedim you guys haven't
watched it make sure you tune in and
we're going to have the extended version
coming up soon we just had the preview
of it real short but he was telling me
now the gentleman behind us right over
here
he's the person from uh
yes who actually gave you dawah he
helped you know to
islam yes and what were you saying about
him
he has a
very interesting life story
yeah
he is married to a swedish woman
linda who converted to islam and he has
three children with her three sons
adam jakub and yusuf yeah
and he
his life his entire life is devoted
basically to islam and he has
when they married
she took kamehameha
her
dowry was
to that he
her husband teaches her islam and till
the rest of her life for the rest of her
life
she didn't want money she didn't want to
have
where were some people from they want a
hundred thousand dollars 500 000 yes she
was like teach me dean teach me for the
rest of my life for the rest of my life
and he says woman we could take a great
example from that huh yes you get a
righteous husband a great character with
good deen so you can teach your dean so
you can connect you with your creator
and he says
it says every day i give my wife a small
portion of her man
every day i read
i write about islam i learn something
new and i tell that to my wife
and i wonder for example he lives in my
hometown
and he is the guy who
when i when i came back to the mosque he
was the first guy to come up to me he
brought me to his house
he
i learned
first my first
contact contacted arabic
and books was from
mirzad
he
he gave me he brought me to the islamic
faculty in bihac
and he he was like a second father
to me because i was i was i grew up with
tony by mother yeah and
he was the guy who who helped me a lot
in my in my life
and he has a great great really great
story
and
one another one the thing what is which
is interesting about this
is that he his father was a basically
had a problem with alcohol he was very
had he was so far from dean from from
religion
and mirzad gave gave dava to his father
and he the father was very arrogant very
rude
he didn't want anything to hear from
from mirzad yeah
and allah changed the heart of the
father
and the father
came back to the dean
also they are together now
and you know a small town like bosnian
kaduna which is located in the
republic of cebska
you know there are there is a
minority of muslims around 500 muslims
and 20 and more thousand serbs
and very few people go to mosque but
mirzad and his father basil
every day and every bucket they go to
masjid and they pray in masjid
even if it's snow if it's rainy if it's
minus 30 or plus 30
they are in the mosque every single day
that's that's the most stranger
thing uh i remember about mirza and his
father
his father now has over 80 years but
every day he reads quran every day he
he reads books
he he came back to islam
when he when he was 60 or more years
basically in his pension when he got
invented the invention he
he he was brought to dean
and every single day an old man rides
his bike and he goes to the mosque and
he prays
and such a
wonderful example but mirzad is so uh
he's a modest guy he won't he is very
shy yeah but uh that's the important
thing
that's the importance of
of sharing if you care you share he
shared the information with you right we
can't change the hearts we plant the
seeds the crater is the one who makes
them grow so he planted the seeds he
encouraged you he motivates you and you
ended up memorizing a crime you're
living in you're praying five times a
day you have a connection with your lord
and your living yes the way you're
created to live yes yes all because
someone actually cared and they shared
yes basically this is the guy who who
cared but not about not also not only
about me but a lot of people
he brought the light of islam to many
people
here's an example
an example for me and basically everyone
else we have opportunities we have
knowledge we have something that
many people don't have
and we shall
we must use that to gain good deeds
and to gain rewards in this life and the
india
and
we have to use what we have and be the
best example of islam when i saw him
when i saw mirzad and his family and his
wife and his children you know what i
thought to myself i thought to myself i
want to live the life like this guy
lives i want that kind of life i want
that kind of family i want that kind of
well
i remember
i used to go to him to his house just to
watch how he lives
just towards how he lives and when he
was after sabah you know he prays
at masjid at mosque he comes back home
and immediately he opens the books and
he makes tea makes coffee warm coffee
and he
reads quran
reads books and until he goes to job he
he
reads he memorizes
he thinks about islam he remembers allah
that was so
when i saw that that was
subhanallah that was so beautiful
that i thought to myself
i want this
i want
to have a life like this i want to have
a family like this and
this is this is
this is the example how muslins should
live when other people see us they they
have to think to themselves i want to
live like this guy lives i want to live
a life
like this i want to have family like
this and
to be happy like this basically when you
see a guy
who is happy like this
why i want happiness also and that's all
based off
the example of the last final measure
prophet muhammad peace be used to be
upon him who said the best of you are
those who have the best manners
and character and we'll end on this this
ayah from the quran reminds me
of
that came to this earth you
you order but that's what is good and
you prohibit that it's what is bad
and uh you believe it and you believe in
allah so it comes to responsibility you
invite people to goodness yes you try
your best to advise them against all
that evil but it's a responsibility as
soon as we stop doing that we lose what
that status that the creator gave us
thank you again and we look forward it's
coming soon the extended show with hafiz
hadim here salaam alaikum
bye