Before we talk about the Muslim hero who
helped save all those children in San
Diego, we need to look at the root cause
of what caused this tragedy and the
people behind it, listen carefully to
this evil, irresponsible hate rhetoric.
>> How can you, you know, tell me there are
good Muslims?
>> Many Muslims to leave this country.
>> Wake up America. The enemy is inside the
gates.
>> This is not a religion. It is a violent,
barbaric and ruthless ideology and form
of government. Islamic extre extremism
is infiltrating the US and refusing to
assimilate.
>> Where Somalia, their country is no good
for a reason. We're going to go the
wrong way if we keep taking in garbage
into our country. Let them go back to
where they came from and fix it.
>> Islam is largely alien to American
history. It certainly didn't come into
the United States on the Mayflower.
>> Hate speech was scrolled on one of the
suspects weapons. A firearm contained
writings about racial.
>> How can you tell me there are good
Muslims? What are they saying? Muslims
need to leave this country. You hear,
"Wake up America. The Muslim enemies at
the gates. Muslims don't belong here.
Dogs over Muslims." I mean, this type of
language is extremely dangerous.
and the root behind what just happened
in San Diego at the mosque and all these
politicians, influencers, commentators,
professional fearmongers, they're
constantly spreading this irresponsible
anti-Muslim, anti-Islam rhetoric, and
they got innocent blood on their hands.
You know, every single one of them
played a role in what just happened,
creating this climate of hatred,
dehumanization,
and and that's what almost led to the
unaliving of all those innocent children
at the uh Islamic center in San Diego
where if you if you listen to the imam,
the imam from there, they're trying to
attack this masid now. these people
coming up with all these conspiracies.
You know, everyone is welcome. According
to the Imam, everyone is welcome. Let's
hear what he has to say.
>> It's a house of worship. It's not a
battlefield.
Come on. People come to the mosque to
pray, to socialize, to celebrate,
to enjoy their time together.
Muslims and non-Muslims alike, everyone
have been always welcomed. Our doors are
always welcomed. We never ask people
when they show up at the door of the
Islamic center. We never ask them
whether you are a Muslim or not, who are
you? Because everyone is welcome.
So let's do our best to spread this
culture of love and tolerance and
sympathy
for the sake of this nation, for the
sake of the future generation. And in
the middle of all that chaos stood a
Muslim hero Amin Abdullah means servant
of God. This is a security guard.
>> Security guard made a best sacrifice big
one. Whenever he saw the people he said
there is somebody strange close the
doors. Then they closed the door.
Otherwise if he was going we don't know
what will happen with this
innocent kids. They were kindergarten to
third grade grade.
But I miss all of them. I wish I was one
of them to be murdered because this is
so great in front of the creator.
He defend because of the innocent people
both of them all three of them.
>> A man whose quick actions
say helped save all those children you
know protected the innocent innocent
lives of those little kids. But notice
the double standards. It's very
interesting. Always whenever a criminal
you know you see always this pattern
happens whenever a criminal some pe
person can be mental he can be mentally
unstable ill somehow if they can connect
him to a Muslim.
I say he passed by a Muslim had lunch at
a at a at a restaurant with a Muslim.
Somehow they connect him to Islam. the
media will immediately start bringing up
religion, Islam non-stop. Muslim
terrorists, Islamic extremist, radical
Islam. I mean, just the the the list
goes on. But when a Muslim now, like in
this case, saves all these kids, you
don't see them talking about Muslim next
to his name, it's or Islam being part of
his life. So, this is very ironic
because uh suddenly the religion
disappears from the conversation. So,
let's go ahead and say his name clearly.
This is a Muslim American hero, Amin
Abdullah. This means servant of God. And
before he died, he left behind words
that people need to to hear. Let me read
one of his posts that's going viral. Our
brother Amin Abdullah said, may Allah
grant him ja, what is success? He raises
a question. What is success? In his
post, many people to many people success
is financial stability,
good reputation, beauty, etc. As for me,
he says that means he's swearing by God.
It is returning back to Allah our
creator with the same pure soul he loan
me at birth having the angels of Allah
the creator saying don't fear and don't
grieve but receive the glad tidings of
Jenna paradise which you were promised
by the most forgiving the most merciful.
May Allah the Almighty
grant us good. Those are the words of uh
of the uh Muslim American hero. Very
powerful. And now what makes this even
more disturbing
reports indicate that this terror these
terrorists
had anti-Islam propaganda
on them. And we have the independent
journalist CJ Wheelerman, columnist for
the Line Times, reporting that NBC
confirms that San Diego moss gunmen were
inspired by Australian faright
terrorists Brenton Tret who mass unalied
52 Muslims in Christ Church. This was in
New Zealand 2019.
This is according to uh CJ Wheeler,
independent journalist. So he says that
they were inspired by this Breton
Terret. Now who's he? This is a white
supremacist Christian terrorist who u
massacred and I say Christian because I
mean he's Christian but I think these
are fake Christians. These are people
people who hide behind the religion and
we don't blame Christianity because of
these uh lunatics, these evil people. So
he was the one who unal alive Muslims in
a mosque was uh in New Zealand 50
innocent human beings in the house of
worship. this um Brett Tret himself him
himself he was also praying playing
these I reported on this before these uh
nationalistic
songs by Radan Karovich these chatt
um orthodox Christians who did what they
did to um to Muslims on aliveing them in
this the greatest genocides
after World War II which happened in
Bosnia
And he was inspired, this Brenton was
inspired by Andrew Brevik. He had alived
over 70 people. This was in Norway.
And this this is that ideology that just
keeps on resurfacing. It's just
reproducing itself. Different faces,
different countries. That's the same
hatred. And many of these extremists,
these radicals, they behind by this
twisted form of Christian nationalism.
this while spreading this anti-Muslim
propaganda day and night. This is the
same type of rhetoric as pushed by
figures like aka Cokehead Tommy Robinson
and others who are constantly constantly
demonizing Muslims as invaders, enemies
and threat to uh America and society.
And just like this video clip right now
that you saw with all these these are
the the same faces
and eventually unstable people absorb
they absorb all this poison. This is
poison.
It's like these uh people did they
absorb all this poison and then one day
innocent people get un alive
and children almost die like just what
happened right now. you know, families
are destroyed, communities are
traumatized, and afterwards, the same
people, you know, who helped spread this
hatred pretend they had nothing to do
with it. And they start spreading these,
they start blaming the moss. They start
twisting the stories to poison the well.
But no, words matter. Hate propaganda
matters. Dehumanization matters. You
know, history has shown over and over
where this road leads to. Human beings,
good human beings, you know, anyone with
a conscience needs to speak up against
this hatred before more innocent human
beings are unalived.
You know, because this is no longer just
politics, policies. This is
radicalization. This is what happens
when people are taught to fear and hate
their neighbors every single day. And I
I want to end with this video letting
you hear more from our brother Amin
Abdullah, the Muslim American hero.
Hopefully his words inspire those of us
who are still alive and many even those
who have this hatred who've been misled,
lied to, filled with hate, who've been
radicalized with this fake news
propaganda. You know, open your hearts,
listen to him, this this hero, listen to
his words carefully, and may God
Almighty guide you before this hatred
hatred destroys more innocent lives.
Let's have a look.
>> My name is Brother Amin. Um
I I'm a revert to Islam. I was born and
raised as a Christian uh throughout my
childhood. And uh
I I really didn't understand the concept
of the Trinity. But I hid that within my
heart. But I was afraid if I asked the
the pastors or whatever, they would say,
"How [snorts] you dare you your question
is that?" So I hid it. And Allah the
creator of the heavens and the earth is
the one who knows the hearts. So he knew
I had that secret all those years. And
so after graduating 1992 I got my first
job. I met a Muslim guy who was new to
Islam. But again he was just learning
about Islam. So he wasn't completely all
um authentic and far what Islam entails.
But nevertheless we became friends and
he uh started talking about Islam. So
the concept of Islam believing that
there's only one God, one being
responsible for everything. I was like,
"Wow, this means so much. I don't have
to hide anymore." You know, it makes so
much sense. A person only has one boss,
one CEO, so and so forth. So the human
beings only have one creator. And that
is what, you know, I was happy intrigued
me to learn more about Islam.
As far as the reaction of my family when
I took the shahada and became a Muslim,
well, I really at that point in my life,
I really wasn't hanging out as much. Um,
again, graduate from high school. So,
but I was kind of lazy, so to speak, you
know, this and that. My mom wasn't on my
case because and rightfully so. So,
after I took the shahada, became a
Muslim, my mother saw a change in me.
Okay, I'm starting to help around the
house, being more respectful, so on and
so forth. I got a job. I I bought a TV
for her. So, our relationship you
improved. So, that was a good thing. Um,
however, you know,
being a new Muslim, not knowing how to
be able to portray Islam without
uh disrespecting or offending uh my
non-Muslim family members. We had a
little bit of clash here and there, but
nevertheless, we worked through it. So,
bottom line is half of my family is not
Muslim, half are not, and that's their
choice. We still respect each other. and
so on and so forth. Um I find my mother
again we got closer and
one night she had a dream and I told her
I said you know mom
you should come to Islam
you know this dream what it's showing is
it's a warning from Allah your creator
that he only he should be worshiped you
should come to Islam and again I wasn't
forcing her just a suggestion and she
said you know what I'm ready to take
shahada so I gave her shahada at that
moment [snorts] and since she'd been
Muslim until now she' been praying her
five times salah on She you know she she
give da'ah. So alhamdulillah Allah
guides from here wells.
Um my journey to Islam had some little
curves here and there. [snorts] One of
the things was again that friend that
Muslim guy that I met we were dialoguing
and we became friends again working at
the the restaurant. [snorts] Uh and what
happened was in my heart again I knew
Islam was the truth. and just that I
never really got over that hurdle of
becoming taking the shahada, the
declaration of faith. Again, I believed
in my heart Islam was true and the
prohibitions of Allah the creator, I was
supposed to stay away from them. But
this situation, one time, I was the only
cook in the kitchen. And so, you know,
the devil, he going to whisper to you
and he whispered in my ear, why don't
you go ahead and uh make that that uh
sausage sandwich. Again, pork is
forbidden in Islam also in the Old
Testament. Leviticus 11 7 and 8 it says
do not eat the swine do not even touch
its carcass and that again we as Muslim
we believe in the Torah the in the
original text so that is in confirmation
what Islam says so that knowing that I
made a little burger bunny and I like
you know what nobody sees me I'm the
only one in the kitchen let me go into
the walk-in freezer where we keep all
the the frozen items eat it real quick
out of sight you know so basically the
one crime was I was stealing and the two
was I was eating forbidden food. So, I
figured no one sees me. But again, in my
heart, I knew Islam was a troop. I
didn't take the shahada. So, I figured,
okay, I can play games. But here's the
thing. I went into the walk-in freezer
and I took a bite of the sandwich. Keep
in mind, the environment is frozen.
Everything is frozen. I took a bite and
for some miraculous reason, it started
to get hotter in my mouth. And I'm like,
what's going on here? Should be cold.
So, I said, well, you know what? Let me
just swallow it. I tried to swallow it
and it became so hot I was forced to
spit it out. And here's the a thing. The
strange thing was I knew what the all
was about. Allah was saying, "Stop
playing. You believe in me. I know your
heart. You believe come to Islam." And
shortly thereafter, I went to a Muslim
store to get more Islamic literature to
pursue my knowledge of Islam. And when I
went there, one brother was working
there. He said, "Well, what do you know
about Islam?" I said, "Well, I believe
Islam is the truth. There's only one
creator, one being responsible for
everything. He has no partners, no no
rivals, all this." He said, "Okay, well,
why don't you become Muslim?" And my
sisters, two sister were sitting there.
They gave me a ride there and they're
watching me. And when he asked me, "Why
don't you become Muslim?" Not forcible,
but as a suggestion. [snorts] And I shan
the devil came and said, "Oh, you can't
pray five times a day. You can't give up
your pork. You can't give up drinking
drugs. You can't man you can't do it.
Stop playing. But I said, you know what?
Stop playing. I I said the test
testimony of faith, the shahada and by
the Lord of the heavens and the earth
and all the lies in between. The feeling
I got, you cannot put into words. From
the top of my head to my feet, I had a
feeling which no drug, no beer can ever
match. And this was called in Arabic you
say, you know, sakina, which like
tranquility, a heavenly peace over your
soul. And again, so after experiencing
that, alhamdulillah, I said, "Wow, I'm
finally Muslim now." And they the
brothers who gave him shahad, he said,
"Listen, don't go argue with the family.
Just change your life. Be a better
person. Help your mother take out the
trash to be just show them that you
changed." And again, that was which led
to my mother um seeing a difference in
me and her accepting Islam. So then I
became a Muslim. My my two sisters
became Muslim and my mother. So that's
where it is right now today. Half are
Muslim, half are not. But may Allah
guide the rest of them.
[snorts] You know, some people ask,
"Well, how valuable is to you?" Well,
put it like this. If I were to be
offered the sun in my right hand and the
moon in my left hand, I will give you
the if you leave Islam, I would said
never. By the permission of Allah, never
will I give it up. Because you can have
whatever worldly title you have. Be it
president, king, you name it. I have
everything.
Eventually, you're still going to have
to die as we all will die. So then the
question arises, well, what happen when
you die? How is that going to benefit
you when you go into that dark rectangle
in the ground called the grave? What's
in there? What do you expect? What
happens in there? So no, to give up
Islam, absolutely not. Because there's a
saying they say yolo, you only live
once. Well, in Islam we say yodo, you
only die once. You once you have
enjoyment in in this world, your
enjoyment. When you die, you're going to
be recompenseed for whatever you did or
did not do in this world. So the ten
commandments, we as Muslims, we believe
in that. We follow it. If you're a
Christian, you know you're supposed to
follow that as well. And the first
commandment is thou shalt have no other
gods besides me. This is the almighty
God Allah speaking. So in Islam we say
to the oneness of Allah he's one has no
partners, no rivals, no children. He
does not resemble his creation in any
way. So stick to that. Inshallah you'll
find yourself happy in this life.
Happiness in you may not be rich but the
heart will be happy. Once one uh Khalif
Omar he said if the kings of the world
knew the peace we have within our heart
by submitting to the one creator of the
heavens and the earth they would fight
us just to get that peace out of our
heart. So if you die with that peace
you've succeeded in this world and you
have nothing but good to look forward to
in the grave which is another life on
its own and then on dead judgment for
eternity.
Obviously, every single human being,
we're not perfect. We make mistakes.
Whether you're a Muslim, born Muslim, a
Muslim who converted to Islam, reverted,
I should say, like I did. We all go
through phases. Our our iman goes up and
it goes down. So, that has to be
recharged. Same [snorts] way as you
recharge your cell phone, what other
device you plug it in to get it re
rejuvenated. Likewise, for the youth,
understand this. Sometimes you want to
fit in. You want to kick in with the
homies. You want to have a rep and so on
and so forth, but that is not [snorts]
going to benefit you anything. The real
rep should be what does my Lord think of
me? The one who's going to call my soul
back to him. What does he think of me?
What does the angels think of me on the
day of judgment? Do I want to be with
those who were admitted into paradise
for eternity, never to come out, eternal
retirement, so to speak, the real 401k,
so to speak, that doesn't end? Or do you
want to be amongst those who tried
[snorts] to, you know, make a rep for
yourself in this world by drinking and
all these hanging out? It's not at the
end of the day, you still got to die. So
it doesn't matter what you've done.
Allah says, "Oh my servant, oh son of
Adam, [snorts] even if your sins were to
pile up to the sky, to the heavens, and
if you were to ask me to forgive you for
what you did," he said, "I will forgive
you and I wouldn't care what you did."
So that is a reminder for myself and all
of those who have ears to hear. No
matter what you've done,
come back to your creator before it's
too late. It's never too late until it's
too late. Well, what is too late? It's
too late is when you see the angels to
take your soul. If you haven't been
obeying the creator of the heavens and
earth at that time, then there's a
problem. If you fail the SAT, so to
speak, you can always come back next
year. You can do over. You failed an
examination for a promotion, you can
always do again. But to fail the test of
life, there's no doovers. You get what
you get. So make that turn. Come back to
your creator. Say, "Oh Allah, I
apologize. I did not harm you in any
way. I only harm myself by disobeying
you, but I know you are the one who love
to forgive. You won't benefit by
forgiving me. Neither will you benefit
by punishing me. But you want me to
succeed. Forgive me and put me into that
paradise." Every single one of us have
that option. Every day we wake up
another day to change, to make amends
for what we did. Apologize to your
creator. Come back to him. To those who
are non-Muslim, you owe it to yourself
to ask what is Islam? What's my purpose?
Why was I created for? Don't let the
media tell you what Islam is. No, you're
smarter than that. Investigate.
See, what were you created for? What
does your creator want from you? And go
from there. Many people are coming to
Islam because they understand now you
know what I've tried the world. I've
tried to fulfill my desires and you're
never going to be happy. If you got a
mountain of gold as the prophet Jesus
peace be upon him said if a man has a
mountain of gold he want another one. If
you had another he want another one. So
we're never going to fulfill our desires
in this world. We we were not created
for this world. We were only created to
be in the hereafter paradise where all
of the desires will be fulfilled there.
So use your time wisely. This life is
short. Average person's lifespan 60 to
70 years on average. Very few people go
beyond that. But use your time to find
out what your purpose is to make sure
that when you leave this world, you're
in a place that you'll be happy. Your
soul will be at rest. And you [snorts]
will see the one that passed away that
you never had a chance to say goodbye to
for so or so on and so forth. You can
join them in a paradise that never ends.
We ask Allah subhanaa tala to bless us
to be amongst those who are intelligent
enough to submit. Let our egos go find
out what our purpose is and to submit to
accept it whatever it is. Even if our
friends are saying don't do that you be
smart enough. You're the one that's
going to be responsible to your creator.
Use your your intellect.
Many times we go through situations
where we figure no one is there. We
can't relate to anyone. No one's
listening. No one can help us. I will
tell you
I went through some things where I'm
alone and I needed guidance. I needed to
help. I need to communicate. So what did
I do? I opened the Quran
which has the English translation in it.
Also the Quran was the Arabic part but
it also has the English translation. And
the problem that I was facing at that
time,
I was inspired to just open the Quran
randomly, you know, just I just open it
where and the miracle thing is when I
opened it randomly, it answered a
question that was in my heart. Again, I
was wondering I made so many mistakes.
What's my situ situation going to be
with Allah? So I randomly opened the
Quran and the verse was close meaning
verily it is Allah the one who accept
the repentance of his servants. I had to
cry. It led me to cry in my car because
who else was around? Who else would know
what I was feeling in my heart? The
Quran is a living miracle. In the time
of Moses peace be upon him the miracle
was one of the miracles was he opened
the sea by the by the permission of
Allah. So those who were there, they saw
that miracle. But the Quran is a living
miracle till till the day of judgment.
So when I open just opened the Quran and
it answered a question which I didn't
speak with my mouth but in my heart,
Allah answered it. It showed that Allah
knew at that day at that time I would be
going through that situation and he
inspired me to open randomly. So I think
but it wasn't random. It was by his plan
and it answered the question and I had
to submit. I I repented to Allah and
I've been trying to do better all this
time. So again, whatever you done in the
past, open the Quran.
Be sincere. Don't let the people tell
you what what the what the Quran is, be
smart. Open it for yourself. And I want
to add on that to backtrack once before
I actually took the shahada, my journey
to Islam, I want to to mention this
again. I wasn't a practicing Christian,
but after I graduated, I said, "You know
what, God?
I want to dedicate this night to you." I
have my bed all prepared, get ready to
go to bed. I would always get on my
knees and say my prayers before I went
to sleep. I was to that extent I was
religious. I wasn't religious, but at
least I say my prayer before I go to
sleep. So, I said, you know, God, I'm
going to dedicate this night to you. I'm
not going to sleep. And I didn't. My bed
was prepared. So I opened the the Bible
and I started reading and I came across
where Jesus peace be upon him said who
will be my helpers in becoming the
fishers of men. What does that mean?
Those who are going to call the people
to help him in his mission to call
towards the creator of the heavens. And
I felt in my heart, well that's cool. I
wish I could do something like that. And
so Allah again, he knew that feeling in
my heart and he blessed me to come to
Islam and that's what I'm trying to do.
you know, whatever it may be. And a good
way to invite people to Islam to come
back to their creator and to make sure
that they don't leave this world except
as knowing that they have submitted to
the one who created them because indeed
he will call us all back and he will
hold accountable for what we did or what
we didn't do.
So I want to first and foremost say
brother may I award you for taking this
opportunity out your busy schedule to
have concern to make this video to put
it out there to reach whomever Allah
allows it to reach to understand hey
this is what we should be doing. Do
something beneficial for the next
person. Let this be your legacy. When
you pass away, perhaps this video will
may reach someone and they repent, come
back to their creator and then they
become a better person. That will
benefit you even when you're in the
grave. We ask Allah subhana wa ta'ala,
the Lord of the heavens and the earth
and all the lives in between to accept
this and to whoever comes across this
video to inspire them to ask themselves
why were they created? What's their
purpose of life? We ask Allah subh to
make us amongst those who are sincere in
our efforts to make us leave this world
in a way in which he be pleased with us
and we ask him to make our legacy that
when we leave this world people will
recognize us remember us through the
good that we've did and if the prophet
something close to meaning you know we
are witnesses amongst each other on the
earth so we ask Allah to bless us accept
this and we ask Allah to bless all the
humanity at large and guide us all to
the truth
Amen.
In the name of Allah, the entirely
merciful, the especially merciful.