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gardi how you doing she Salam alaykum
alhamdulillah it's nice to be here
alhamdulillah
all right so we're doing something a
little bit different actually you were
one of the original actually the
original guests on The Dean show you
remember that I remember it's been at
least I think eight years so what we
made it alhamdulillah to another month
that now you know Islam based on the
Five Pillars one accepting that no one's
worthy of worship except the creator of
the heavens and earth establishing that
prayer five times a day and then the
fast we've made it what advice do you
have for the millions of people are out
there now who are blessed to reach this
month in Ramadan uh so inshallah the the
advice that I give myself and all of
them is to appreciate the blessings of
Allah in this beautiful month of Ramadan
we take for granted our food our drink
our water we take for granted the easy
lifestyle that we have Ramadan forces us
to appreciate those blessings forces us
to appreciate how much Allah has given
and how much we take for granted Ramadan
is the month of the Quran it's the month
of it's the month of Dua it's the month
of prayer it's the month of community
building it's the month of going to the
Masjid it's the month of Charity and
zaka every single ritual of the religion
of Islam is revived in the month of
Ramadan even and because our Prophet
said whoever does in the month of
Ramadan it is as if he's done a ha with
me so even the rewards of a Hajj are
possible outside of the days of Hajj in
the month of Ramadan so Ramadan is the
month of worship take advantage of each
and every moment during this blessed
month tell us Shake hot in the news now
you had
this this famous athlete that actually
now is really a trending topic Snoop
Doggy Dog actually comment on it
commented on it but uh he was talking
about Aon these are some of the popular
names and we you know you know we we
kind we got to be in tune with what's
going on in the world so uh he had
mentioned how Aon was actually out there
you know promoting uh in South Africa I
believe or somewhere out in those lines
solar energy and other people who were
doing a lot of good now he might not
have gone it about in the best way but
he had made a a comment that caught some
controversy but how could we not I mean
you see that the dean shows about
promoting purpose out there really
trying to Enlighten the people but what
does Islam have to say about this
because you do have people who will ask
you like maybe you know that they want
to accept Islam maybe they come they've
uh went through this they're going
through it or what does Islam stance on
this
basically well from a a perspective even
even before I get to the perspective I
think from a spiritual perspective I
think one of the things that we can all
benefit from is that people really need
to have a higher purpose or goal in life
and if they don't have that higher need
or purpose then they're trying to
fulfill it in ways that uh Subhan Allah
are just whatever they want to satisfy
every sensual desire or craving uh they
try to numb out the senses and the fact
of the matter is when we look around us
in the world today when you don't have a
spiritual purpose when you don't have a
higher goal you just want to stuff
yourself with any other type of goal or
you want to follow every single whim or
desire and we as Muslims are told
there's the highest goal and the highest
desire and that is the worship of Allah
subhana wa ta'ala and I I I just want to
say and I'm not speaking about a
specific person because I don't know the
the the person involved I don't know but
I'm saying generally speaking generally
speaking when a person does have that
connection with Allah then so many of
his or her needs are satisfied and life
makes a lot of sense when you don't have
that connection with Allah then you're
lost you're wandering aimlessly and you
don't know what to do and you're just
experimenting in all types of bizarre or
weird or or fetish or this or that or
just satisfying in every single Manner
and unfortunately that's what's going to
happen when you really don't have that
strong connection with your creator now
having said that islamically from a
perspective there are definitely those
types of of phenomenon where children
are born and their genders are a little
bit obscure they might have you know XX
YX y y they might have a little bit of
chromosomes that are uh not mainstream
or not the normal chromosomes that are
clearly male or female our classical
books of have discussed this from from
you know from the very beginnings of
times and in such cases to have a
surgery to try to rectify or to try to
you know prefer one gender over the
other in such cases that is completely
Halal and in fact our books of have
discussed this from the beginnings of
times however mainstream uh Sunni law
would not allow a person who is a normal
male or a normal female by that I mean
biologic Al to undergo an actual
operation to change that this is the
mainstream position uh because this
would be deemed be deemed to be like
challenging uh the creation of Allah
subhana wa tal having said that this is
our law our ethics our morals people of
other Fates and civilizations is their
business what they do and it's not ours
to judge them and Allah will be their
judge in the Hereafter you know we
obviously as Muslims we really want the
best for all of mankind we have love for
all of mankind and when you see someone
going down an Avenue like I believe that
uh many people they play the lotto
you'll see I was at the fruit market the
other day or the supermarket and I saw
people standing in line waiting to get
now they actually have vending machines
where you can get the mega mega ball
Lotto so I so I see people they're
they're scratching the lotto ticket
hoping that they're going to win it big
so do we see a lot of people turning
toward all sorts of experimentation
trying all sorts of different things
because now their heart now is not
connected to the maker of the heart
exactly exactly when you don't don't
have a higher purpose you try to fill
your life with millions of smaller
purposes and those purposes are never
going to give you that internal
satisfaction there's one of my favorite
quotes
of says there's an emptiness in the
heart that is never going to be filled
except with the remembrance of Allah and
there's a yearning and desire that's
never going to be satisfied except with
connecting with Allah subhana wa tala
that's what we see around us that people
are thirsting for a reason to live for a
higher goal in purpose they don't have
that and when they don't have it then
anything and everything becomes legit in
the purpose of trying to find that
happiness but guess what they're not
going to find it unless unless and until
they reconnect with their creator let me
ask you a a quiz question do you know
what the number one
Capital uh suicide site in the world is
uh is it San Francisco the Golden Gate
Bridge that's right really okay that was
just a complete guess I mean go go going
off what uh what you were saying about
people now experimenting how would you I
mean You' perceive because from the
outside things look good like for
instance when we think about Victoria
Secret right the husband or the wife
they go to Victoria Secret other people
uh you know they know you know about
Victoria Secret basically uh I'm I'm not
that innocent so uh unfortunately or for
actually you know what there's nothing
wrong with Victoria Secrets per se we
want couples to have a healthy marriage
and whatever allows them to do that
alhamdulillah that's good the problems
would come the the objectifying of the
woman's body so publicly otherwise
otherwise there's no problem at all you
know with the leres and with stuff
that's being sold if it's done between
the couples but my point what I wanted
to make was you know the founder you
would think Roy I believe Roy Raymond
was his name if I'm not mistaken you
know that obviously this person was a
multi
multi-millionaire he had made it to the
upper an shalant and you know he ended
up jumping off this bridge that I did
not know wow okay interesting so what I
and then we had recently Robin Williams
because uh many people you were see from
the outside that things just look great
things are going great you look at Robin
Williams always smiling laughing making
people laugh but at the end of the day
people end up committing suicide over
every I believe every 40 seconds someone
in the world is committing suicide so
obviously going back to the heart not
being connected with it maker rubbing
the lotto ticket trying everything else
in the world but you you just is it is
it true in truly in the remembrance of
God then do hearts find rest otherwise
you just become Restless exactly and
what I what I've always advised
especially those people people who are
wondering how do I know there's a God
how do I know Islam is true my my
sincere advice to them is is just get
down on your knees raise your hands up
and say oh you who created me oh you who
is the creator of the heavens and earth
guide me to the way that is best guide
me to the truth don't even say a name
because you're doubting his name you're
doubting even his existence okay well
then you don't lose anything by reaching
out to him because once he's provided
for you this much he's created you he's
given you all that you need he's not
going to let you go he's not going to
let you go lost we in Islam We Believe
actually a very interesting thing and
that is that anyone who wants guidance
will get guidance Allah does not
misguide the sincere if you truly want
to know the truth then guess what that
sincerity will automatically guide you
to the truth that's a promise that's a
guarantee 100% guarantee that you're not
going to be misguided if and that's the
big if if you want guidance now now tell
me you'll say some some things that
quite Quant controversial at times but a
lot of them it just makes sense because
we're used to just doing things
following blind tradition but one thing
I want to ask you about if you don't
mind is like uh do and and you back it
up with evidence actually the statements
that you make that's that's really um um
amazing but uh the th what what do you
have something against the th Shake uh
do I have something against the
th yeah um no I don't have anything
against the th but my point is that
wearing the th in and of itself is not
what the prophet wasam told us to do so
it's not Sunnah in the sense it's not
something that we are required to do
rather the prophet wore the th because
the people of his culture and time wore
a thob I mean you guys got to understand
this that you know what at the time of
the Prophet even Abu jahal was wearing a
thob and he wasn't following the Sunnah
was he no he wasn't he just Abu Jah
wearing what he's wearing so has a very
profound statement
says the real Sunnah in terms of dress
is to follow the culture of your people
because that is the Sunnah of the
prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam he
followed the culture of his people he
didn't invent a new fashion he didn't
design a New Dress he didn't come with a
new dress code he followed the culture
of his people so as long as the culture
of your people is in accordance with the
general rules of Islam so your a is
covered and it's loose and and and so
the general rules of Islam as long as
they're followed then you follow the
code of your people and that is why by
the way wherever Islam has gone the
people have had different customs of
dress code the Islam of the Muslims of
Zimbabwe don't dress like the Muslims of
turkey the Muslims of turkey don't dress
like the Muslims of India the Muslim of
Afghanistan don't dress like the Muslims
of Saudi Arabia there's nothing wrong
with that so therefore the Muslims of
America should dress like the people of
America so when you come in when you
come into to Islam because a lot of
times you you'll see a brother who just
is in University and be like oh he just
accepted Islam and now he's wearing a
big turban on his head the brothers got
him in a
th no no no I I I I think this is I mean
we appreciate the zealousness we
appreciate the enthusiasm but uh this is
not uh something that needs to be done
your Islam is not a measure of what
cloth you're wearing your Islam really
comes about your love of Allah and
you're following what Allah wants you to
follow and in this case the prophet
wasam did not command us to wear a
specific dress code beautiful beautiful
I'm glad you clear that clear that up
that makes a lot of sense recently in
Texas did you know I know you traveled
to Texas quite often is that true well
I'm from Texas and since I was born
there I was been I'm a houstonian these
days I'm living in Tennessee but I'm
from Texas reminder I mean it's very sad
in our prayers and du I go out to the
families there was uh couple uh young
lady who had just finished University
she put her head down to go to sleep and
she ended up passing away and also
someone else recently another Muslim who
was also um unexpectedly death had
reached them and this is just a reminder
because many of the youth are out there
and many of us we we think that this is
something far away but it's something in
reality did you hear about these these
incidents that just happened recently uh
yes this is the reality that Subhan
Allah you never know when death will
come and uh it is Allah's and decree
Allah says in the Quran that no one dies
unless and until uh Allah's has taken
into effect and no one can delay their
time of death in fact in my own extended
family as well there was a recently a
very tragedy case that somebody had just
finished his PhD from America and he
went back home you know to Pakistan and
he was celebrating and everybody was
happy and he goes he's got a headache
and he's like 28 29 years old and he
went to go to sleep and that's it he
never woke up and this shows you I mean
Subhan Allah the prime of his life he
came back to try to get married starting
a new life you know just finished a PhD
in engineering I mean this is like
amazing right so happy everybody but
then Subhan Allah trip home and that's
it so what that shows us is that every
one of us needs to be prepared for that
day before it comes because we don't
know when it's going to come it's not
something that we're we're preparing for
it's not something we're thinking about
but it's going to happen unexpectedly
and when it happens we had better be
prepared for it we're going to go ahead
and take a break we're here doing
something new with the with SH yasak
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below back on the dean show I hope
everybody's having a wonderful Ramadan
we got to stay consistent alhamdulillah
we're going in 2016 almost reaching 500
episodes we got one of the original
guests you know we were putting on the
hijab and we did those uh exciting q&as
that was with our shik right here yasi
shik Yas Dr shik yasak kardi uh tell us
we always try to now clear up the many
misconceptions and we start to get one
step forward and then some crazy lunatic
something gets associated misrepresented
in the media or the media keeps showing
this this group Isis as if they
represent Islam what is your take on
this you've done a lot of talks on this
topic yeah so um my point is that Isis
is not coming uh from the tradition of
Islam the emergence of Isis actually has
to do with the failure of American
foreign policy that the entire d
stabilization of the country having
invaded Iraq having put sanctions on it
for 13 years having destroyed the entire
infrastructure the Civil Society of the
country is completely demolished and on
top of that a civil war almost began
between the Shiites and the sunnis you
know throughout the 2006 7 8 9 all of
this led to the complete chaos the the
the the destabilization of the region
and from that chaos emerged a group that
tried to bring its own version of
stability if you were to remove all of
that destabilization all that chaos and
all that failed Wars and whatnot you
would not have had Isis so what I tell
um you know the people here in America
is that Isis is not coming from the
Quran Isis is coming from a failure of
political you know foreign policies in
the region and that's why Isis is such a
unique phenomenon that in the history of
Islam we've never seen people like this
going and beheading people you know
putting them on vide tape I mean this is
so backward burning a person alive I
mean and and killing Shiites left right
and Center I mean you know I'm a Sunni I
don't agree with Shi theology right I'm
not going to promote sh theology but at
the same time you're going to just go
kill and Massacre them is that what
Islam teaches you I mean you want to
have a dialogue have a dialogue you want
to debate have a debate but just going
and killing somebody just because
they're Shiite which Khalifa in our um
has ever done this the UMAS the Abbas
the Ottomans who has ever just gone and
killed killed killed so the fact of the
matter is that this is something that we
have uh clear evidences from the Quran
and Sunnah to demonstrate that these
people have crossed the red line too
many times and we have we and we're
refuting them left right and center but
the fact of the matter is as I said we
need to understand and contextualize
where they're coming from they're not
coming from the Quran they're coming
from a complete failure of the political
infrastructure of the region primarily
the cause of that failure is in fact our
own country that is America and its own
gross incompetencies in that region what
about what are your thoughts on when you
see the media constantly focusing on
this fridge and element that represents
maybe
0.19% of Muslims uh Muslims being 1.67
billion in the world but when you see
for instance individuals planting they
it was on the news not too long ago and
wanting to set up Muslims by planting
what was called they called a quan bomb
and then recently this Christian
minister this CH Christian minister who
was plotting
basically to go ahead and Massacre a
whole town of Muslims did you hear about
this sh yeah I saw this that there was
this Christian guy wanting to actually
you know plant some bombs and he
actually had bombs in his car and uh his
news was hardly ever heard on the
mainstream we just didn't even hear a
bleep And yet when a Muslim does
something obviously we know the double
standards is so sad uh that a Muslim
does something whether it's successful
unsuccessful it becomes front you know
Page News uh recently was it today or
yesterday somebody in Dallas uh attacked
the police station and wanted to kill
them and whatnot we don't even know his
religion to this day his religion didn't
even come into it where is he coming
from what's his you know he's just a
white Caucasian guy who wanted to kill
some policemen he went and attacked the
police station and not nothing is known
about which church he would go to his
church isn't being brought into it you
know so it's definitely something we
need to just be cognizant of the reality
is unfortunately there does seem to be
some type of double standard in this
regard and our job is to continue to
point those double standards out for the
not yet Muslims who are tuning in
watching in the dean show Shake tell us
in brief someone really likes
to they like the clean simple Message of
Islam the pure monotheism connecting
with the Creator doing good living a
good life they hear all these this
misinformation out there uh you
mentioned earlier to really get get out
get down to call upon God Alone what
what advice do you do you give for that
person we talked about def we touched
upon that can come at any time uh we
touched about Isis you know what what
would you leave him with this blessed
month of Ramadan for the people out
there we actually I even know somebody
who's been watching a Dean show and that
person's actually wants to learn how to
he he's going to fast this month
actually but um he's still not ready to
accept Islam people like this who are
out there they're just seeking searching
the heart is empty they're scratching a
lotto tickets you know they're wanting
to try this and that but to save them a
loss of time going in the wrong
direction what advice do you give for uh
my ad my advice for them is that first
and foremost most raise your hands up
and ask the one who created you you have
to have that desire from within secondly
don't believe the media and the hype go
and speak to a Muslim go and visit a
Masjid go and see for yourself really
what what Islam is about uh and then the
final point of advice is realize that uh
the the the ultimate question that you
need to ask yourself is who created me
and why did he do that that's the
ultimate question who is my Creator and
what am I doing here and I would say
that no other religion or philosophy or
system has the simplest and the most
logical and the most rational answer and
that is that the one perfect being
created me and we are here in order that
we can venerate and praise him and
venerating and praising him and
worshiping him entails many things of
them is to be good and kind and and and
loving to other human beings and of them
is to worship Him and praise him and
that means some rituals some prayers and
that's like the fast of Ramadan that
these are all aspects these are all
elements of worshiping the one true God
so the three points number one pray to
him number two visit your own local
mosque or your own local community visit
Muslims and number three think think
think think about the purpose of life
and what you're doing here and if you
have those three inshallah God willing
you will find the answer last question
here with Shake Dr yasak cardi for those
who have consciously they made a
decision that Islam is the truth based
on proof and evidence they really want
to get to Jenna they have an opportunity
during this month of Ramadan what advice
do you have for them it can be really
challenging and tough out there
everything is calling you dun is opening
up to you but now they made it to
another Ramadan what advice do you have
before we conclude don't delay because
you don't know how many other Ramadan
you have left do not delay if you know
it's the truth if you know made up your
decision you made up your mind then put
your trust in the one who created youah
say in the name of Allah and that's it
go for it shake thank you very much did
you enjoy this nice little car ride with
us I enjoyed it immensely it was a very
unique uh unique idea and I hope
inshallah we can do it again
thank you very
much thank you all thank you all for
tuning in to the dean show once again
consistency that's really important we
try to say consistence going on almost
10 years since 2006 almost reaching 500
episodes here with one of the original
guests enjoy your Ramadan have a blessed
Ramadan and make it a way of life so we
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