Do you want to know what
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Alhamdulillah. That's that greeting,
that wonderful greeting of
peace. We're wishing it upon you. Now,
pay attention. We're going to paint a
picture here and we really want you to
reflect and then we're going to go into
our topic. You just came home. It's late
at night and you're looking at yourself
in the mirror and what took you hours to
put on, it's coming off. All that makeup
and that tear is coming down your
eye. And now all your friends are gone.
It's just
you. You're starting to reflect and
think because you feel the effects. You
feel the effects because you feel you
stained your heart again. you put
another dot on it, another black spot,
and those are for the
sins. You're out there and you're
fearful about the people in the society
worrying about what they might say, and
you're forgetting
about your creator, the one who gave you
life, who give you death, who you're
going to have to return to. So, you
don't want to put the hijab on. You
don't want to make the salat. You don't
want to prostrate to the one who gave
you everything, but you want to worry
about Joe and Mo and Suzy and Fancy and
Nancy and these people that
tomorrow aren't going to be there when
you're in your grave. So, you have to
choose this life, which is temporary, or
the next life, which is forever. So, we
want to give you some advice, some
enthusiasm to race for something that's
permanent and not to race for something
that's temporary with my next guest Dr.
Mandu here on the Dean Show. We'll be
right
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back.
Allah, there's only one word and is his
messenger.
Allah
Allah there's only one God and Jesus was
his messenger Allah
I don't know why I did that maybe it's
just to break the
iceum peace be to you thank you for
coming with coming back to the show
thank you people can learn more about
you at the deanshow.com You have your
own section there, advisor, academic
advisor for the American Open
University, and the list goes on. So
much to talk about about you, but they
can go and read your biography, but we
want to get straight to the topic. I try
to paint a V picture. She might have
just came from the nightclub. He might
have just came and all that makeup, it's
coming off. It's smearing over the face.
She might have been getting used and
abused. And now it's all in the interest
of fitting in, worrying about what my
friends and the culture around me might
say if I just cover it up a little bit.
If I just do something that, you know
what, I don't want to drink. I don't
want to go to the casino bins. I don't
want to go to the nightclubs. Why?
Because I'm one who has submitted
myself. I want peace from the one who's
the owner of peace, the creator. So how
can we get people to focus more on
something that is permanent paradise?
Yeah. And the pleasure of the creator
instead of this temporary and transit
life. Talk to us please.
Let me begin with
uh asking people do they have vision in
life? Do they have mission in life? You
know that the most
advanced and complicated technologies
and companies and corporates nowadays
cannot live without that. Cannot live
without a vision and a mission. And the
vision is usually decide tells us that a
person would think of or would plan for
something for the future. He looks into
the future. He doesn't look just beneath
his feet. And we need to ask ourselves,
do we have a vision? Where is our
vision? Where is our focus? Where is our
goal? Where does it
end? And Islam gives us a lot of answers
for this in different ways. It's only
one answer. We Muslims are asked by
almighty Allah subhana wa ta'ala to have
our vision on later life not in this as
he said temporary life because temporary
life will end sooner or later. We've
never seen a person living on the earth
forever. Nobody did that. So that means
any one of us can learn from this lesson
whether he's a Muslim or not a Muslim
everybody there would be a time that
this life would end. The question is is
there another
life or that's it for those people who
think that this is the end of life. It
would mean that the existence on this
planet is
useless. Why did they exist on this
earth? Why did Allah create us? I would
ask why did Allah create
us? What is your papers in life? I would
say very very simply answered and stated
in the Quran that Allah subhana wa
ta'ala created us to worship
him with the full meaning, the
comprehensive meaning of worshiping him.
In other words, to obey what he created
us for and to avoid the things that he
didn't want us to follow. This is the
simple uh analysis of worshiping
almighty Allah. So I would ask that if I
know that this life it's impossible that
we die and that's it and people are
dying every day. People are dying every
second. Every second people they're
going somewhere that tsunami everywhere
the fire somewhere they but but people
just can't fathom. They can't they know
it. They see it in the movies. They see
it from you know their their neighbors
or the actors or this but they can't
imagine it's going to happen to me.
simply because they don't reflect
reflection. They don't have time for
themselves. But all the people in their
lifetime they are either watching movies
or playing music or dancing or busy
working or doing things. So they are all
the time busy preoccupied by things. So
they don't have time free time for
themselves to reflect to think who am I
where am I going? Am I going am I going
to die like others? The answers is is I
just last week lost my uncle. It happens
everywhere. Take some time and listen.
But people don't give them themselves
time. And that's why the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wasallam said that you
should give the rights to everyone.
Some of the rights is that you have
right upon yourself that you have to
relax. You have to to think and this is
the essence of the ibada the Muslim when
he makes the five daily prayers he's
always connected with Allah he always
links that he does this prayer because
this is the thing that keeps him away
from doing bad things is is it a good
thing to to to think about death is it a
good thing to this is a wonderful
question I was about to to jump into
this Allahh says in the Quran
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Right. Each
soul will taste death. No exception. So
I mean Bill Gates, everybody. He's got a
lot of money. Everybody, whether he has
money or no money, Obama is the
president. Everyone. No exception. So it
doesn't matter
what's servants, rich people. How about
if you're up in in in an ivy tow, you
know, in the tower, whatever. Wherever
it's still going to come. Everybody is
going to die barricaded somewhere in a
bunker coming somewhere somewhere in the
in the bottom of the earth it's going to
reach you it's coming and people of
wisdom they see that their old people
die some people young children die out
of cancer and in an accident we see it
every second so is that the deception is
that the plan of the satanic forces shan
that deceiving you with all the
entertainment not to reflect like you're
telling us absolutely to keep you busy
to keep you busy to keep you away from
the straight path this is one of the
tasks of the shaitan and Allahh said
this is something wonderful wonderful in
the Quran that at the end of the Quran
there are two words right
is that these two people these two types
they are the ones who cause problems in
many cases the the
gins and human beings so like the unseen
world we ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
to protect us
from from the acts of the Satan or the
devil and from the acts of bad people
that take many forms that take form in
press in friendship in the media
whatever people some people are bad so
you don't know really whether this
person is bad or good but you ask Allahh
to protect you from their evil from the
evil jin and from the evil evil human
beings and we're going to cut out there
and we'll be right back here on the dean
show
All of the prophets would have been
labeled Muslims because this essential
message was the same message, submission
to the will of
God. This is God talking to you
directly. How could I stand behind the
pulpit on Sunday morning and preach a
sermon that I knew was at variance with
the actual taproot of Christianity?
Welcome back to the Dean Show here with
Dr. Mandu
Salamikum. So we were talking about we
finished off with the jin this is the
unseen worldly spirits and the human
evil humans evil the evil people who are
basically bad company people who will
like they say birds of a feather flock
together. So there's that one hadith if
you can elaborate on where the prophet
peace be upon him said that hanging
around with somebody who is like a
perfume seller you're going to end up
can you talk yes the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wasallam said many hadith about
this issue many statements and again
when we say that prophet sallall alaihi
wasallam said that we we believe that it
is inspiration that Allahh revealed
these meanings to him and he is the one
who said it by his language. The prophet
sallallahu alaihi wasallam said that
the person is follows the way of his
friend
that which which goes back further flock
together. So that that's those if you
have devilish friends meaning they're
robbing stealing or even they're going
to the nightclub they're fornicating
doing all sorts of evils smoking the
blunts doing the drugs you're going to
end up probably doing the same thing.
Those are the satanic force. You should
Yes. This effect of Yeah. Bad company.
That's what you're talking about. Bad
company. Exactly. So stay away from
this. Now going back to reflecting upon
the moment that your soul will be
extracted from your body, the moment
you're going to leave this world. Let's
keep continuing to talk about as I said
that there many verses in the Quran that
one of them is that every soul, every
human being is going to taste death.
It's a reminder. So now what is the
solution? That's why the prophet
sallallahu alaihi
wasallam gave us some tips that would
help
us to really connect with later life.
For example, the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wasallam said that talk as much
as you can about death. It's encouraged
now. Encouraged now. He's encouraging us
and he didn't call it this by the way.
He called it the separator of lovers.
Separator of lovers. Yes. map because we
love each other because I love you and
you love me. We love each other. We have
good relationship but death comes and
cuts this relationship. So should we be
pessimistic, sad about this now? No, of
course. We should know that it's going
to happen. Yeah. It's nothing. It's it's
beyond our hands. But you're deceiving
yourself by not thinking about it.
Absolutely. But not thinking. A lot of
people say, "Okay, let me not think of
it now. I want to live my moment."
Wow. Islam tells you live your moment
but live it according to the rules of
Allah subhana wa ta'ala the creator of
the heavens the creator of the heavens
the one who created you wants you to
spend this time in that way and that's
why there is a beautiful verse in the
Quran that
says meaning that in everything that you
do in their life
seek paradise is seek later life. Gear
it towards later life. Use it as an
access that help you to reach later life
to sh to reach paradise safely. However,
don't forget the portion of enjoyment
that Allah subhana t created you for in
this life. Some people start thinking,
okay man, you start saying paradise,
they think of Hollywood, Bollywood. I
mean, they think that this guy's off,
you know, the wagon. What's going on?
How do you get them to really know that
this is the mirage? This is something
that is not really reality. Next life is
forever. That's reality. Absolutely. How
do you get them? It just by knowing by
by having some knowledge about and I
wish that every human being would take
couple of courses about the description
of paradise. Once you know what is
there, you will leave what is here. So
people because they don't know what is
here. One time I had a lecture. I think
it was in Ohio and it was in a very
luxurious place and I said try to
imagine that this place that we are in
with all these pillars changing into
instead of bricks into gold and silver
and wow saffron and and and and all
these beautiful things. So there was a
soldier there listening to us. He said
that is this possible? I said yes.
That's what Allah subhana t promised us
that we we will see this in paradise.
Yeah. And we're not talking about a
house as as as big as this. We're
talking about a house that you would
never ever have seen a house similar to
it in this life. Nothing that can
compare. Nothing similar to it. But
people don't people do this when they're
in this world. They plan on retirement
and they have some vision in their head
from what's in this world. They paint a
picture and they strive for it. Yeah.
Should we paint something? Absolutely.
Absolutely. A Muslim should plan for
that. Mhm. We have the guarantee from
Almighty Allah. If you do good and if
you do follow this and this and this, I
guarantee you a palace in paradise with
these descriptions with perils and goals
and and everything that you that you
love in this dunia. Even the the
shortcut description of it, it has
paradise has things that you've never
seen by your eye, you've never heard
about, and you never thought of. That
means all the beautiful things that you
see in this life and this world they are
very trivial in comparison what you will
see in paradise. No comparing tell us
because these programs so little time so
much to cover the person that I
described in the beginning a black spot
in the heart so much sin this is
something that is actually isn't this a
mercy to have a person reflect because
the more you do these wrong things the
more you disobey your creator aren't you
going to keep staining your heart and
you're going to feel the effects of the
sin this is exactly what the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wasallam said every
time this heart which is blank heart
when we do a sin when we do something
bad. It has a spot, a black spot. That's
why she shed the tears. Spot and that's
it. Yeah. Until there is a time that all
of it is wrapped by spots that he no
longer or she no longer can see and can
distinguish. But her cries, I think, is
a good sign because that means that
still she still has some goodness in her
heart. Of course, there is life. It's
still vibrant. It's still that she she
knows that what he she's doing is bad
and she wants to stop it. But the effect
of the society and community on her is
tremendous. She cannot resist it. And
we'll talk about some ways how to resist
this. We're going to take a break and
we'll be right back. God willing on it
comes to you the truth and the attribute
of the one who created you that he's one
and alone running this universe. That he
doesn't become born. He doesn't die. He
doesn't eat and then go to the bathroom.
This is not God. You got problems here.
This it doesn't make sense. Who was
Jesus worshiping? And because it's
recorded in the Gospels, despite all of
the other issues about the Gospels, we
put those aside. We just say it's
mentioned there that Jesus worshiped
God.
I am not afraid to stand alone.
I am not afraid to stand alone if Allah
is my side. I am not afraid to stand
alone. I am not afraid to stand alone.
If Allah is by my side, I am not afraid
to stand
alone. I am not afraid to stand alone.
If Allah is by my side, I am not afraid
to stand alone.
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Welcome back to the Dean Show. Dr.
Mdu, how does someone now because it's
difficult, we have some empathy. I mean,
someone might have not gotten the
direction, the guidance, and now it's
coming to him. And I think this also has
a greater impact because now you know
the truth. You know that all right, I
need to be making these prayers. I need
to just be directing worship to God.
There are many things he wants me to do.
and the society, the phone calls on the
weekends, let's go, girl, get ready.
Let's go and hang out with the boys. You
shouldn't be doing this. Your your
friend told you, look, this is not
acceptable. You should be dressing
modestly. But now the culture, the
environment, and the balance of I know
that I have to answer for this. I'm
going to die tomorrow. So, we're caught
in between. Give us some advice. Yeah.
uh first of all I'd like to remind each
one that there's a difference between a
leader and a follower. Leaders are the
people who lead others to achieve
something. Followers are just following
others. So if you think in terms of
being a follower all the time, you are
affected by the people around you, by
the peer group, by the media, by your pe
you are a secondhand person. You're not
in the first priority. You are not a
leader. You need to be a leader to be
independent. I take my decision. I'm not
going to be affected by what I see on
the mis. I'm not going to be affected by
what my friends do. I'm going to follow
the one who created all of us. Simple as
that. The one who created me, he knows
what is good for me, what is bad for me.
This created thing or this created thing
does not know how to fix itself. If it
goes bad, it cannot fix itself. It needs
someone who manufactured it to fix it. I
when I go wrong, when I do something
bad, right? When I need someone to fix
me, I cannot fix myself. The one who
fixes me is almighty Allah subhana wa
ta'ala. And he sent me a manual that if
I follow, I can fix this and I can fix
this and I can fix this. People need to
think of this once they have that they
believe that there is God the almighty
God and he's all knowing and he's all
wise and he's the most yeah wise and
with all his qualities and the more they
know about him the more they would trust
him and once they trust them they trust
him they submit themselves to him oh God
do what you want to do with me I got the
manual I'm going to follow your
instruction and that's why you find some
people very pleased with Almighty to
Allah. Whatever happens to them, as long
as they
follow the guidelines that he sent us
from the Quran, they are very pleased no
matter what happens to them. And there's
a Can you tell us there's a lot of logic
behind this, isn't it? Because for
instance, give some examples like where
he says that a person shouldn't drink
for instance. Yeah. Or a person
shouldn't fornicate, have relations
outside of marriage. We can see the side
effects of someone let's say who's
starts off moderately drinking and then
he starts binge drinking gambling just a
few of these wisdoms that we see if we
abstain from it it's just going to make
our life better. Absolutely. Now for
example yesterday I was driving and
there was a sign a post from time to
time it comes here and it says that
report drunk drivers. Mhm. I just asked
myself and Hassan, brother Hassan was
with me and I asked them why is this?
Definitely this means that they realized
that drunk drivers, drunken ones, they
cause problems and many accident happens
not only to themselves but they kill
innocent people. This is the effect of
wine. That's why the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wasallam said an amazing
statement about wine. He said that this
is the mother of all evil. Mhm. Because
when somebody is drunk, he can kill, he
can fornicate, he can do any other
thing. Doesn't matter because he loses
his brain. His innovations and because
people became so addictive to it, it
became difficult. And that's why you
find some countries in their legislation
they say that okay you're allowed to
drink this amount of which they think
that it does not affect yeah your your
state of thinking or your state of your
brain and again this may not affect that
person but it may affect that person
because no measure that tells us all
human beings are equal in this. These
are just some examples we want to give
so people can see like wow that does
make sense my creator he's the wisest so
that's his attribute he should know best
of course he knows best right he should
know best and you see the difference
I'll give you two situations and you can
compare that one situation is took place
at the time of the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wasallam the way the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wasallam handled
dealing with addiction of
alcoholism and what happened for example
in the USA in uh this prohibition period
they call it in the
1930s something like yes in the
beginning of the 1930s and you see the
two approaches the the approach of the
prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam he
would never ask people to stop drinking
wine until they became good believers so
meaning that when they were fully
convinced that there is almighty Allah
and there is a day of judgment and they
will be asked about everything they do
in their life and they are sure that
there are two angels registering
everything that that happens. When this
belief was implanted in their hearts,
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam
started teaching them to change their
addiction to it alcohol. Oh, I see the
key. So the first the faith will start
to build up the picture would be vivid
in their head. Vivid in their head.
Paradise is there great rewards and
there is also the punishment hellfire
and knowing that can you cuz some people
think that okay you know if I get locked
up my friends go with me we'll just have
a good time there when you go into grave
you know we're going to just make some
fun we'll be in there together you're by
yourself aren't you so this is what he
will be by himself yeah friends aren't
there and the people who talk
theoretically they don't know the effect
of hellfire I ask any brave person he
would just put his hand in fire just for
30 seconds just to see the effect of it.
How about but fire is around him from
everywhere. What if someone says you
know what it's just going to burn me a
little bit that I won't feel it again.
Absolutely. This is a logic uh people a
lot of people say that that's why Allah
subhana wa ta'ala in the Quran responds
to this. Wow. Allahhana ta said that
every time their skin is burnt they will
be given new skin. Wow. In order to
taste the torture of hellfire. That's a
scientific miracle right there. A
scientific miracle. Nobody, nobody can
deceive Allah. We can deceive each
other. You can deceive me. I can deceive
you. He can deceive me. Yeah, people can
deceive each other, but nobody can
deceive almighty Allah subhana wa ta'ala
because he is the all knowing and he is
the almighty. Someone says, you know
what? Okay, this thing is give us the
reasoning behind this because if this is
supposed to be a loving and merciful
God, why would he punish me? Absolutely.
This loving God has been nourishing you
in this life and has been teaching you.
Don't do that. Don't do that. Don't do
that. And don't do that. In many places,
do this instead. Do this because this
leads to do this. I'll give you some
examples. See this example. See what
happened to this nation. See what
happened with the followers of this
prophet. See, and he gives you hundreds
of stories one after another to keep
reminding you that this is the the
outcome. This is the result of a person
who does this and this. And you can see
it by your own logic. In any country and
the the regulation of traffic would not
allow you one or two or three or four
times to
violate giving you chance after chance
even though Allahh is giving you chance
after chance after chance hundreds
sometimes thousands of chances and still
you are you don't want to obey
rebellious what would happen in any law
in the world just after one time they
perhaps will forgive you but the second
time they will put you in jail and the
third time they may kill you. Yeah.
Because otherwise there would be
corruption on the earth. And this is
exactly what is happening. When people
don't follow the rules of almighty
Allah, there is a lot of corruption in
the world. Yeah. You see can see how
many accidents in the world that can be
avoided just by keeping away from wine.
Tell us we're almost out of time. So we
really want to because they come this
far. they're listening and it's that
effect of when you hear this it's
logical it's rational. So, some advice
for that person
who is really stuck in between this.
They want to submit. When they listen,
they get watery eyed and there's
something in the heart that's pulling
them. But after they shut this off, they
might turn something else on a reality
TV show and now they're totally gone.
Okay? Again, now the first step that you
do immediately take this and I want you
to open the Quran anywhere, anywhere in
the Quran, just read one
page and read the translation of it very
well. And if you have a Muslim friend,
call him or call her and try to
understand the meaning of this and try
to see does it make sense to you or not.
And then keep yourself busy doing that
until day after day you will find
yourself are learning from and at the
same time the one of the best things
that you do nowadays. Keep away from bad
company for some time and see your
behavior after that. And you will find
that one common comments from all the
parents when their children became
Muslims, I'm talking about adults
becoming Muslims. They say that the
first thing that we noticed that beca
they became better people. They started
respecting us more. They started serving
us more. They started serving the
community more. All this is a result of
becoming a Muslim and knowing the truth.
Because you know exactly when you become
a Muslim, Allahhana wa ta'ala gives you
the way step by step, step by step and
it takes you until you reach safely
inshallah to later life and with full
enjoyment forever. And I ask Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala to make me and those
who listen and my host and all the
people all the people on the earth with
no exception I ask Allah subhana wa
ta'ala to guide them to the truth so
that they will be saved from the torture
in the second lay. Amen. Thank you very
much. May God almighty Allah reward you.
And we got to learn some more. Isn't it
wonderful discussing these beautiful
topics things that are meaningful not
meaningless. So if you really reflect,
take some time out with yourself and
think about the moment when you'll leave
this world, you will depart from it no
more. It's done over. What have you
accomplished? So what you do in this
life will reflect your status in the
next life. And we're doing this to
remind you so you can be those who are
in the delights of paradise. And that's
what we all should be striving for. Not
for something that is temporary. Be the
best doctor. Be the best in society. But
don't forget about your responsibilities
to the one who created you. Cuz he loves
you the best. He loves you the most. So
yearn to love him and show that you love
him by being obedient by being one who
is in a state of compliance with what he
wants you to do. And it will only bring
you peace.
So acquire peace by submitting your will
to the will of the creator. We'll see
you next time here on the Dean Show.
Until then, peace be unto
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you. He created the
universe. To him belong the heavens and
the earth.
the ever living. He is the
first. He's the owner of
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mercy. He sent his
messengers to warn his
creatures of the grave
dangers of
worshiping Allah than
Allah. There is none greater
than the
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creator.
Allahbar. Allah abar.