bah alhamdulillah Alum peace be unto you
we have an exciting show for you today
you see the tie what's the tie what's he
doing with the tie never had a tie we're
going to be talking about the tie and
we're going to be talking about Islam
submission to who to your neps to your
desires to a man to a woman to a monkey
no to the one who created you but some
people have come to that state they've
acknowledged that there is a Creator
there is a purpose why I'm here in this
life but now they want to try to form an
agreement with the one who created them
and say you know I'll submit to you but
you're going to let me still drink I'll
submit to you and you're going to still
let me have my girlfriend no it doesn't
work like that and to cover this very I
mean this is a very important topic
because you want to be successful in
life in this life and the life to come
you know there's going to be a day of
judgment you're going to be judged and
then there's two places to go the
Delights of paradise or the Hellfire we
want to stay away from that so let's
bring out my next guest to cover this
topic my brother and your brother
Camal come on out my
brother Alum have a seat you're here on
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I don't know why I did that maybe maybe
it's just to break the
ice peace be unto you peace be unto you
thank you for being on the dean show
it's my pleasure to be on the dean show
this is exciting to have you here thank
you very much now I heard something or
you heard me say something from back
there I mentioned something my T I've
never worn a time to show now there's
some might be somebody who's like man
Eddie sold out what's happening man he's
imitating the so and so so can you tell
us clear this up is there is because we
want to talk about uh uh something
that's so important to us and this is
very important also so let's just clear
this up is is this is this permissible
Islam to wear time okay yes first of all
yes it is permissible yeah okay so I
don't want to get in trouble with
anybody well hopefully I want to do this
the right way we want to do this show
and we want to do everything dress right
look right and we want to talk right and
and you look great if I may sayah
excellent well you know there's nothing
wrong with the tie yeah and um initially
or historically the tie had another
piece to it that made it look like a
cross so basically your shirt had two
extra buttons here and then you had the
material similar to that of your ties
same design same pattern and you would
basically button this other piece across
and then when you put the tie on it
looked like you were wearing across so
because of that's some kind of hatred
and and and issues developed in the
hearts of of Muslims specifically for
for the for the tie but obviously it's
no longer that and uh and so as Scholars
say that there is nothing wrong with
wearing the tie because it's become a
common uh you know piece of clothing
it's not anything that would single you
specifically to be belonging to a
specific like a Creed or religion
because everybody wears the tie you know
so U so there's nothing wrong with it as
long as you you're not doing it for the
sake of of imitation may just wearing a
normal garment and it's not made of pure
natural silk so there's nothing wrong
with it but what about imitation now now
where some people say you're imitating a
certain people what do you what you got
to say about this well the the scholars
have spoken about that and they said
that you know imitating uh where it's
per not permissible it's where you wear
something that signifies you belong to
specific belief system or a specific
Creed so wearing the yamaka for example
would make you would make most people
think that you're a Jewish person or
wear that that color with I don't know
what they call it but that color the
Priestly color with the with the white
part in there would make you look like
you're a priest or you know something
like that but or wearing a cross would
make you specifically look like you
belong to a certain belief or Creed but
wearing the suit and tie if you wear if
you see someone in a suit and tie even
in the Muslim man you don't think is
this man Muslim or not Muslim it doesn't
it doesn't necessarily represent any
belief system or religion yeah and for
that reason the scholars say it's
permissible you'd have to take off just
the the whole suit then I mean that just
yeah because you sometimes you were and
and I
also wear a lot of suits and ties and I
love wearing the suit and tie and a lot
of times people will meet me and they'll
say take off the tie because then you're
resembling non-muslims well what about
the rest of the outfit you know the
shirt the pants the the jacket and the
vest and everything else so you just
have to remove everything but because it
doesn't specifically mean you belong to
any certain beliefs or anything like
that there's no issue with it insh this
is what the scholars have said okay so
now you guys can continue Eddie zedi and
he hasn't sold out to Freddy and
everything's all good and steady so
excellent all right so let's go on to
the topic we need to submit and we need
to do it how the Creator wants us to do
it but there's some people that now they
want to submit which is something
natural to submit to the one who created
you and do the beautiful things that
he's called you to do and then get that
beautiful thing that money can't buy
peace yes but now some people want to
barter now they want to start playing
games talk to us see well first of all
you look at Islam and Islam comes from
the root is Islam which means to submit
and it's funny that you you want to
enter the religion of submitting but you
don't want to submit 100% that's why
people laugh at at the oximoron or of
saying I'm a non-practicing Muslim
because the Muslim is the one who
submits to his creator so if you're a
non-practicing Muslim that means you're
a nons submitting submitter which really
doesn't make much sense because we're
supposed to submit 100% we're supposed
to submit to Allah and when Allah says
go right you go right he says go left
you go left because that's the attrib of
someone who is submitted to the Creator
you know just like if you have a student
who doesn't listen to a single word the
teacher says teacher can't describe him
as being a submissive student or or or a
child you know if you if you have a
child who doesn't listen to you you
can't say well he's very submissive so
when you submit to Allah you do what he
tells you to do because he is the
Creator and you are the servant or you
are the slave if you want to be more
specific even you see so uh a lot of
times you'll find people they and and we
meet sometimes non-muslims in the street
and they want to become Muslim but they
have stipulations so they'll say
something like and I'll become Muslim
but I don't want to stop drinking
alcohol or I'll become Muslim but I love
my pork chop so I'll be a Muslim but
I'll still eat pork or they'll tell you
things like you know I want to keep
doing whatever it is that they want to
keep doing because their heart is
attached to it sometimes there's one
person who made so many stipulations and
then he said I'll become Muslim I had
just had to ask him look you're
forgetting that Islam is about
submission you've had a lot of these uh
practical situations happen absolutely
and we're going to get to the the
Muslims as well because some Muslims
have submission issues as well but uh
some non-muslims would say you know they
would have so many stipulations and then
say I'll submit if I can do all these
things and you tell them look this is
the religion of submitting to Allah but
you have conditions and you want to
submit only if this happens or only if
that happens and and that's not really
coming into Islam not really submitting
because I always ask people who is the
Lord and who's the servant you know
you're trying to put set down the rules
of your own religion now and yet claim
that you're submitting to Allah you
would I mean just interesting if I can
eject I mean if you had a boss at work
you know a big corporate company and now
you're not going to go and sit there and
you know give them ultimatums and say
I'm going to you know uh change the
rules and I I'll work for your company
but you know uh you know I have to be
able to leave at this time and I can do
that and I take this any time off that I
want to just going to say you know what
go we'll get someone else or the police
pull you over and say you know what I'll
drive on this road if you can make it 60
instead of 40 or and you don't have that
choice you know with many things in life
but people are okay with submitting
there I'll tell you I actually met this
guy one time and and he claimed to have
an issue with submitting so You' think
that he is probably a very stubborn guy
who doesn't submit to any Authority or
anything on Earth so he started telling
me I don't I have a problem with
submitting to anything or anyone so I
immediately told him but you do submit
you submit every single day to so many
things and he immediately realized that
that he submits to the traffic laws he
stops at the traffic light he does this
he drives at the speed limit you know he
doesn't what's illegal he has to do you
know certain things to stay out of
trouble so then he is that's submitting
he so I told him but you do submit and
he immediately realized he said yes you
are you're right because maybe the word
people aren't used to hearing this word
submit that's true and because you know
this exaggerated thing of Freedom you're
free to do as you please as long as you
don't step on the toes of the majority
which isn't really true because when you
look at Society you'll find so many dos
and don'ts in it that you're not really
free and that's why you know a lot of
Muslim Scholars and Phil philosophers
they argue that there is no such thing
as absolute freedom let's stop right
there so there's no such thing as
absolute freedom and we're going to take
a break and be right back on a Dean Show
excellent no speech is better than to do
that to call people to Allah and to do
no speech is better no nothing is better
than that is it true that if one person
on the Allah giving you the ability to
guide someone with Allah's permission
the Creator's permission that is better
than everything in this world better
than the whole world and everything
that's in it in in another narration
it's better than the best of wealth but
if we really felt that Eddie Would we
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you're really not free you think you're
free talk to us that's where we left off
yeah you can't find anyone on Earth who
is 100% free and has no restrictions no
no limitations doesn't have to follow
any law or anything I mean there's no
such thing as absolute freedom is what
people tell you there's no such thing
and so everything you know it comes with
its price and even if you want to
imagine some guy out there in the
wilderness who has no laws and nothing
he's still bound and he's still a slave
it might be that he's a slave to his own
desires and some people are slaves to
their own desires they follow their
desire so much that they can't break
away from that they're just pulled in so
they're even not free when they pursue
their desires to the max they're still
not free hold on hold on free there's
some song back from J free to do what I
want free what there there's so many of
these songs and so many every
commercials talking about how we love
freedom and that's why you have you know
you get free minutes so what are you
talking about now they're like what are
you talking about we got songs about
Freedom what this that I'll tell you
something interesting all right so I I
grew up around the world right and
before coming to the states immediately
before coming to the states I was in
Africa and it's funny that when when I
came from Africa to the states people
would always tell me but you definitely
enjoy your freedom more here right like
what are you talking about all right no
one assigned any number to me when I was
in Africa nobody took anything from my
paycheck nobody told me where I could
park no one told me how fast I could
drive nobody told me how to do anything
it's it's a mess there so if you want to
argue even though it is a mess if you
want to argue though I was more free
there than here mhm but of course I mean
I'm not saying let's not have a
structured Society what I'm saying is
that you know people if you're told that
you're free enough times as many as many
like of your Liberties as they take away
as long as you're being reminded that
you're free you may not notice that
you're not as free as you think you are
you know so uh so any the idea is that
nobody is totally free absolutely 100%
free everybody submits to one thing or
another whether it be their desires
whether it be man-made laws whether it
be a government or any kind of entity m
so we always argue with people that if
that's the case then you might as well
submit to your creator if you're
submitting anyways submit in the right
place put in the right place and you get
some reward out of that and you get to
Paradise as a result of that because
you're eventually going to die and yeah
and you're going to submit to the wrong
place anyways you just change that
submission switch it over direct it to
the right place because everybody
submits to one thing or another so now
we're talking about that submission to
the like you said the right place to
your creator but people realizing
acknowledging because Islam is rational
it's practical all the proofs and
evidences are there it's not Blind Faith
absolutely it backs up everything that
you need with clear authentic evidence
but even people they realize this but
again back to what you were saying they
want to continue doing things their way
right and and actually in the Quran in
in the second chapter of the Quran Allah
says
or you who believe enter into totality
meaning enter 100% into Islam not 90%
not 95% not 98% but enter 100% into
Islam but like we were saying you know
people they have issues with submitting
it could be that their desire you know
is pulling them in a different direction
so they don't want to submit to Allah
whatever it is something that they love
of of this worldly life too much and the
example as I always say even with
Muslims you find Muslims will have
submission problems like I said that
someone who uh who smokes when he's told
that it's prohibited in Islam is not
allowed to smoke they try to argue
against that they say no it's just
disliked it's not it's not you know
prohibited to smoke because what he's
attached to you know he's attached to
his nicotine to his cigarettes so he
wants to argue there because there's the
attachment somebody else you tell him
you know it's not permissible for you to
to use usury or get a mortgage through a
certain system that's not permissible
but they B want a home so they start to
argue with you and someone else or a
woman for example or sister doesn't wear
hijab she has no problem submitting when
she hears that smoking is Haram or
prohibited but then when she hears about
hijab then she starts going into you
know excuses but well we live in this
country and if I wear hijab I might be
assaulted in the street so therefore
it's probably better for me to not wear
hijab these are all submission problems
and Allah says submit 100% no excuses so
what do we do now what do we I mean is
this a dangerous thing now is this
something that can be fixed how do we
fix it well uh yes it it is dangerous
and it can be fixed of course and this
is and I like what you said earlier
because Islam is rational and it's
reasonable and Allah will never command
you to do something that's an
impossibility that's why one of the
definitions of of the Halal that I like
is what Allah permits but also agrees
with you you know it goes with your
nature yeah it goes with your nature so
Allah is not going to command you to do
something that just totally goes against
human nature and you find it you know
it's not like something like a weight
that you can't lift like someone say
Lift 500 lb and you can't do it it's
something that the weight that you can
lift and and very few people can lift
500 lounds just me and a few other guys
you know so so the thing is that you
know we're in the day and age where a
lot of people they want they they don't
want to submit 100% And we have
something that the Muslims do they do
fatwa shopping you know when you know
they they find out that this is not
permissible in Islam they keep looking
all over the place physically drive to
other IMS and mosqu until they find
someone who tells them it's okay or they
go online and they do fatwa shopping
online and then they just add the fwa to
the basket now we're playing I mean this
is serious now I mean this is uh you're
playing games with the with uh the dean
I'll tell you Ed it's gotten to the
point where some people
pray which is how do you translate into
English this is like the prayer of
guidance yeah I how about I invent the
term decisional prayer does that soundis
prayer does that sound fancy enough yeah
all right so you pray to for Allah to
guide you should I do this or should I
not do this some people actually
pray and to see if they can do something
that's Haram you know like they want to
buy a house through prohibited ways and
they'll pray to see should I sign the
morgage or not that's like basically
putting some alcohol on the table and
then praying two ra and saying okay well
Allah help me if drinking this alcohol
is good for me then make it possible and
it's right there you know you don't you
don't make that prayer about something
that you know is clearly har you know
but it's it's that that's what's
happening now people are so pulled and
drawn they don't want to submit 100% And
so they have all these colorful excuses
for not following and submitting to what
Allah commands us to do in the Quran
tell us how do we balance it out because
it is I mean we know that if this Dean
would have came upon a
mountain that mountain would have
crumbled is this correct excellent but
now you know for the new Muslims who are
coming into it we're going to and and
even Muslims who are starting to turn
their life around and now they look at
this as just a lot of rules and
sometimes it can be just overbearing how
do we balance it out where they know
that this is out of Allah's love that he
loves us he wants what's best for us so
how do we balance it out where we don't
play the games and we strive to submit
to everything that the Creator nice
wants us to do and and let me work off
of of answering that question from the
verse that you just mentioned where
Allah
says
so Allah is saying that we we offered
this like this responsibility or this
trust uh to the the heavens the
mountains the Earth and they refused it
and then human beings they took this
responsibility of themselves this test
of life being tested in this life then
Allah
says the human being accepted it and his
nature that he is that he is unjust and
Je that he is ignorant and the scholars
say that every problem on Earth can be
traced back to these two sources
ignorance and following your
desires either you're ignorant or you're
unjust because you follow your desire
you know that this is justice but you
want to do something that's unjust
because you get some kind of benefit for
it you follow your desire so every
problem and if you contemplate every
problem on the planet it goes back to
ignorance or it goes back to just
someone being oppressive because they're
following their desires look at Wars
look at things that are happening around
us you find this oppression or total
ignorance Define to us so someone might
know if they don't already when we say
following your desires what does that
mean it means basically that you you
follow whatever you're you would like to
do for example uh you know that uh let's
just make a simple example that doing a
specific deed is not permissible you
know but you have the desire to do it
you know that Allah said don't do it but
you have that desire to do it and so now
you follow your desire in doing it even
if it means let's say for example
someone might uh you know take the money
of the orphan or take the money from you
know a business partner and and Rob him
and be oppressive in that sense why
because he's following his desire his
lust his love for money so uh so in that
sense all problems can be traced to uh
one of those two things now it's one of
the ways to to kind of understand
submission as far as it comes it's
related to the commands of Allah is that
you know you find that when Allah
commands us to do something you when you
examine it you'll either find that it's
100% good or
100% bad if he tells us to stay away
from it or a mixture of the two so just
very quickly when you look at for
example worshiping Allah alone and not
attributing any partner to him right
this is 100% good there's not 1% of evil
in that so when Allah calls us to what
we call wor worshiping him alone we look
at it we see that it's 100% good then
Allah will warn us of worshiping things
along with Allah which is known as sh in
Islam so you don't worship anything with
Allah you don't not worship anything
besides Allah that's like worshiping the
Sun the moon a man a prophet a saint an
angel it could be a prophet an angel it
could be someone really a saint a good
person still not worthy of worship yeah
so now when you look at worshiping
things besides Allah you see that it's
100% evil and that's why it's so clear
to us when we should stay away from it
but then there are things in life that
have a mixture of good and bad in them
yeah and these things when you look at
them and you see which one outweighs the
other you can understand why Allah made
it Halal or Haram permissible or lawful
for example alcohol you know we Allah
says in about wine in the Quran that
there's good and bad in it but the bad
outweighs the good and that's why we can
clearly understand why Allah told us to
stay away from consuming alcohol because
all the problems it causes in society
from accidents from destroying homes
from destroying people's wealth from
getting people to do all other kinds of
sins so we can see clearly why Allah
told us to stay away from from alcohol
or from you know wine or whatever
intoxicant specifically yeah so then it
makes sense to us and it's not that hard
for us to submit but now there are
sometimes issues where you cannot find
the exact reason not the exact reason
sorry the exact wisdom as to why Allah
forbade it I'll give you one example you
know when people go and make ta around
the ca when they circum ulate the the
sacred house in Mecca they make ta
counterclockwise so why not clockwise MH
I mean obviously the reason we do it is
that that's how it was taught to us by
the prophet that's the reason but what's
the wisdom for going counterclockwise
around the the Kaa and not clockwise
around it and you ask this question to
people most people don't know how to
answer it because really there isn't a
clear answer some people have said that
well the heart is actually on the left
side actually the heart is is not on the
left side it's in the middle the loudest
part is thumping on the it can be heard
on the left so but suppose the heart was
on my right shoulder can I make a left
turn what does that have to do with it
so suppose the heart is on the left is
that why we make circum ulate
counterclockwise all right some other
people said well the Earth is spinning
counterclockwise that's why we make the
off counterclockwise well that could be
a wisdom somehow but suppose the Earth
spun clockwise I can't make a
counterclockwise turn so you see with
this issue we don't know exact L all the
wisdoms why we go that way but we submit
you have to know when to put your
reasoning Logic on hold well no or put
it in its place and actually I'm coming
to that because a lot of people think
that there's a conflict between your
intellect or there could be a conflict
between your intellect and what Islam
teaches and they could never be because
your intellect you know your good
intellect will always agree with what
Allah commands but opinion can disagree
with what Allah Comm commands that's why
you find some people they put their
opinion in front of the commands of
Allah and they ir and they make mistakes
and guess who is the first person to do
that the the devil the first one to do
that was because he was told he was
given the command and he put his opinion
in front of what Allah commanded him to
do he started to say I'm better than him
you know he's created from clay I'm
created from smoke fire exactly that's
what we see prevalent today exactly and
and and so your intellect will always
agree with the Quran sound intellect
will agree with Islam but your opinion
can disagree because you follow your
desire let's take a break and we'll be
right back I from a science major when
you look at the Bible it says the the
Earth has four
corners that's
wrong if any Christian can point out a
single unequal statement a single
unambiguous statement where Jesus Christ
peace be upon himself say that I am God
always say worship me I'm ready to
accept
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Christianity welcome back to the dean
show okay my brother so continuing on
now the thing is we we want to use our
reasoning our Logic the tools that the
creator has given us to find out what
the truth is right but at what point do
we say okay now we have discovered we've
been blessed that okay Islam is the way
of life from the Creator at what point
do you now put the Revelation before
your reasoning and balance things out
you understand what I'm saying okay well
uh first I would like to U assuage any
fears that any non-muslim might have
that you have to blindly do things in
Islam and this is the great thing about
Islam is that everything you the the
wisdoms are explained as to why you do
or don't do something there's a logic
there's nothing that's just irrational
that you have to do out of the blue or
that you're told you know to roll around
in the dirt because there's some kind of
blessing you'll get from there it's
nothing like that and and also will take
this opportunity to explain that you
know in some religions when they use the
word faith it's totally different than
how Muslims use the word faith faith it
just means this kind of blind belief
just like closing your eyes and just
jumping in that people will tell you you
have to have faith in God I don't have
proof I don't know anything but I just
have something called Faith which is
basically almost like this blind belief
in Islam Allah asks calls us to
contemplate his creation to contemplate
his book The Quran itself to to Really
contemplate it and look at it that if it
was from other than Allah it would have
you know flaws discrepancies
contradictions in it so uh this is
something that me personally I love that
Allah tells us to think to look to
contemplate we were never taught oh shut
off your your intelligence and just
that's why one time one of my professors
my biology Professor we're talking about
religion and she said that I have to I
have like there two me like there's one
me the scientific me and then there's
the religious me and of course this this
is a very this is a very bad thing to
admit to so I immediately came in with
well in Islam you don't have to separate
your religious self from your scientific
self because we don't have that conflict
in Islam you know you're never you're
never told to do something and it goes
against logic and it goes against
studies and it goes against you know
rationale or rational thought and that's
why you know that's this is a great
comfort for Muslims that you don't have
to have the scientific you and then the
religious you and so I shut it off then
and then now okay now science has gone
my my years of study you'll see that
with lot the typal lot of the people
that practice some some some religions
yeah and it's a it's problematic for
them you know because if if I understand
science and logic and I'm smart then I
have to shut it off just so I could
believe in my religion that means that
religion requires no no logic no
thinking no rationale that's not a good
thing as Muslims we don't have to do
that we never have that problem this is
the great thing but I actually wanted to
to to go over real quickly how we we can
convince someone when it comes to simp
issues and like I said we encounter this
a lot when someone will say you know
I'll I'll become a Muslim but I want to
keep drinking you know or I love my my
beer or actually some people would tell
us things like I I want to become Muslim
but I love pork chops too much you know
and sometimes we we make them realize
what they're saying because really what
they're saying it's something very
shameful you know so we actually make
them aware of what they're saying and
this is something we actually do we'll
tell someone tell us we'll tell them
this look so someone will say look I
really love my pork chops that's the
only reason I can't become Muslim so you
believe that there's one God one Creator
yes the prophet S wasallam is his his
prophet and his messenger yes you're
okay with the five pillars and
everything else yeah absolutely the only
thing stopping you is that you love pork
chops too much yes so actually guilt
them out of it because it's very
shameful we tell listen so Allah is the
one who gives you everything that you
have your health your intelligence your
your the provision the work the job that
you have your family your loved ones
think things that you cannot put a price
on your eyes eyesight you know your
hearing your all these things and every
minute and every day he is keeping you
in good health how many days you could
have woken up sick how many potential
accidents could you have had and none of
that happens to you and then he gives
you of so many kinds of juice that you
can drink so many kinds of meat you know
you can eat all kinds of things from the
sea seafood all kinds of fish all kinds
of birds and you've got cows and sheep
and goat and you've got all these things
and he's given you so many different
kinds of blessings and fruits and
vegetables and the human being can go
without drinking for 3 days and without
eating for 30 to 41 days and you you can
go through so much and survive so much
you know physically and you're telling
me that this great Creator who's provid
so much for me I won't enter his
religion I won't submit to him because I
love
pork and you know when we do that they
but but at this point they're looking at
the ground they're like of course of
course I can leave Fork there's so many
other things okay let's do this let's
become Muslim so it works very well for
us alhamdulillah we're going to have to
cut out so little time we have so much
to cover we're going to have to
inshallah have you back again some
closing comments and advice for those
who are going through some of these
things that we just tackled in this show
well uh you're not alone and every
problem and every obstacle that you
encounter someone else went through it
and a lot of times when someone would
say I can't leave pork I would bring
them my brother-in-law and say look he
said his problem was he couldn't become
Muslim because of pork then we ask him
right in front of the person he went
through the same issue is pork an issue
now like I never think about pork every
problem you you're going through someone
went through it before and they overcame
it because Allah will never ask for you
to cross to jump over a mountain or an
ins surmountable like obstacle so
everything that you were going through
someone went through it and they they
made it over that obstacle and you will
yourself inshallah thank you very much
Allah the creator of the heavens Earth
reward you for being with us
I hope you got the benefit I surely did
and all those who are sincerely humbly
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Salam
Al 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 it variance with the actual
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Christianity alhamdulillah Alum peace be
unto you welcome back to the dean show
we're going to be discussing something
that now you've come to realize that
there's a purpose in life and I need to
fulfill my purpose the way my Creator
wants me to live my purpose that's to
serve him to worship him to do the most
beautiful things as he's told me to do
and then Paradise that's the reward but
now as we discussed in the last show
this is part two to submission what does
it mean and who am I submitting to after
I agree to submit to the crater now
there's other things getting in the way
so when I come back we're going to be
talking about this continuing talking
about it with brother Sheik Kamal Maki
and you can sing along with this show
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you thank you very much for being with
us again we just had to continue talking
about submission the good stuff right
the good stuff okay now let's just go a
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this is a part two was about submission
right and just kind of recap what we
what we discussed in the last show
before we continue on okay so first of
all in uh in the last show we spoke
about first that Islam means to submit
to Allah which is who is your creator so
whatever he tells you to do you should
do it if he tells you go right you go
right go left to go left but at the same
time he's not going to ask you to do
things that are beyond your means he's
not going to ask you to do things that
don't agree with human nature or things
that are impossibilities things of that
sort so it's very rational very logical
what Allah asked you to do and a lot of
times out of his his mercy and his
wisdom he lets us see the wisdoms behind
why he prohibited something or the
wisdom behind why he made something
permissible or commanded us to do
something but like we were saying a lot
of people has submission issues some
people want to become Muslim but they
love you know their alcohol or love this
certain meal or love a certain act
that's prohibited by in Islam so they'll
tell you I'll become Muslim but then
they'll give you the stipulation the
stipulation there likewise same thing
for Muslims you know they they're Muslim
they pray they submit where it's
comfortable and easy convenient now and
convenient that's the magic word right
there so it's it's convenient for them
to submit they'll do it but then when it
disagrees that's when they either try to
find an excuse go f shopping find
somebody who says that it's Halal it
doesn't matter who the person is whether
they're knowledgeable or not just
someone somewhere tell me that this is
okay so I can do it and that's not right
not right at all you know and and just
to throw it in there when when you let's
say someone gives you an answer to a
question and suppose for some reason you
didn't feel comfortable with that answer
and you don't have enough knowledge to
either investigate it yourself in this
case you go to someone that you trust
that you trust them to be you know Pious
and to be knowledgeable and then you ask
them and you get the answer so what what
that means you don't go looking for the
person who will tell you what you want
to hear you know you'll just go to
someone that you trust or knowledge and
you believe will tell you the truth this
is in the case where you don't have the
knowledge yourself to weigh the
evidences right whatever way you look at
it you don't just pick based on your
desire you know I want to find someone
who says this is Hal now just not to
divert too much but interestingly there
have been historically Scholars who have
said kind outrageous kinds of things but
they didn't have the evidence for it so
it's all about the evidence not about
who said what because you'll find in
historically this has happened Scholars
who said dog meat is Hal right we don't
want to we don't want to try that do we
dog meat is Hal others have said that
your mother has to wear hijab in front
of you these are opinions but they
didn't have the valid or or the strong
evidence is behind them right so the
same thing is like we don't just look
around for someone who will say what I
want to hear we look for someone that we
believe will tell you the truth and has
the evidence to support it which is all
under the of submitting to Allah you
know it's a lot of people now when they
when they hear a command of Allah or his
Prophet the first thing they try to do
is find a way around it no the first
thing try to do it as much as you can
and if not then there could be a fatwa
and an excuse for you so a person has to
be sincere really wanting to know what
the Creator God Almighty Allah wants
them to do yes what he told the
messenger just like at that time of
Jesus Moses Abraham at their time they
were the teachers they were teaching the
people now we have the prophet Muhammad
peace be upon him who we have to follow
not and his teachings pray through him
or go through him but just follow his
instructions exactly yes so now being
sincere and wanting to know the truth
because as you said If you're trying to
look for some different opinion from
this person that person you're going
find it something to match your desires
and you might trick the people but you
can't trick the one who knows the hearts
exactly exactly so you just try to find
an allowance then you're not really
being very sincere here so don't don't
play games don't play games you'll get
caught you'll get caught and the
Beautiful Thing is evidence Islam is all
based there's a basis behind everything
we do and there's evidence we have what
what are the criterias now that we're
looking for basically and and this is
what um Allah also tells us that in the
Quran that if you disagree about an
issue you you return it to what Allah
and his Prophet wasallam have said about
the
issue
if you believe in Allah and you believe
in the last day then you return it to
Allah and to the prophet you see what
they say about the issue you know
because if you want to follow like some
someone somewhere said this is
permissible you're going to actually you
can gather a lot of very very strange
things just like I gave the example with
dog meat being Hal you know and woman
wearing hijab in front of her own son
others have said some really outrageous
things but they didn't have the evidence
to support it so when someone is sincere
they look for the truth when someone is
not they just want some way out of it so
your first effort is to try to apply
what Allah commands us to do or what the
prophet wasam commands us to do and then
if you can't they might find you some
kind of excuse but your first effort is
to try it today there some people the
minute they hear a command from Allah
the first thing they want to do is find
some way around it before even
attempting to do it that's the that's
not submission that's not no let's uh
take a break sure and we'll be right
back on the dean show I from a science
major when you look at the Bible and it
says the the Earth has four
corners that's
wrong if any Christian can point out a
single unequal statement a single
unambiguous statement where Jesus Christ
peace be upon himself says that I am God
always say worship me I'm ready to
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Christianity back here on the dean show
with my brother and your brother Shake
talk to us now we are talking about what
is is to be a submitter to the one who
created you something beautiful this is
how one gets peace and we know that
people in this way of life the way of
life of all the messengers God sent
Messengers and they revealed the same
way of life surrender and submit to the
will of the Creator and now God Almighty
we look at people nowadays are slaves
they won't say they are but they're are
slaves to the fashion they are slave to
consumerism to materialism to
nationalism all these different isms and
now when you try to bring up this word
about being a slave to the one who
created you there's like they feel like
there some stigma attached to this but
on the contrary they're already slaves
to something else let's talk about this
what does it mean when we say that being
a slave to the one who created you
excellent and the word for that in
Arabic would be ab and ab has two
meanings one meaning AB is a worshiper
of Allah
and at the same time AB is actually a
slave and that's how the word was used
also by the companions they would you
know AB was referred to as a slave like
if someone had a servant or something
and that's why the prophet prohibited
them from saying this is my because only
Allah owns truly owns people so he
taught them to say this is my boy or my
girl so the thing is that uh and like
you were saying and I've actually seen
um some fairly knowledgeable people when
you say the word slave they cringe a
little like it's a bad thing or like
we're we're not owned by Allah but the
truth is Allah owns us we are slaves of
Allah we we're owned by Allah subhana
tala and so therefore he tells us what
we can and can't do even if it's with
our own bodies that's why when you look
at the Shar or Islamic law it goes into
great details of what we can and can't
do with our own bodies that's why
there's restrictions for men or what
kind of hair they can remove what kind
of hair they can't remove for women
they're not allowed to shave their head
bald they're not allot to you know pluck
their eyebrows why because Allah tells
us what we can and can't do with these
bodies of you say tattoos for men
tattoos forbidden just like you know if
you were to rent a car suppose you know
Eddie you wanted to for once drive a
really really nice sports car right so
you go and you rent a Hyundai Accent
right and it's black in color so but you
wanted to drive a yellow car for those
two days you know and um I don't know if
you know Hyundai Accents they're not
really sports cars that was a joke but
maybe it wasn't a very good one the
point is can you change the color of
that car for those two days that you've
rented the vehicle maybe make it green
or yellow like you said could you
doesn't happen you couldn't because you
don't own the car same thing with the
tattoos you know you don't own your body
and so you can't color it and disfigure
it that's why you're not allowed to
change your face I mean unless obviously
there's a horrible accident or something
but so what we see a lot of the
celebrities with you know the Botox and
you know the the the face stretched out
here from about a 100 different uh
plastic surgeries this is things that
you you cannot do not a lot plus they
look horrible anyway yeah you're
destroying yourself mutilating yourself
and that's why you're not allowed to to
commit suicide to kill yourself because
it would make in Islam absolutely your
it's not you if you owned yourself you
could probably kill yourself but you
don't own yourself this is a good fact
we weren't discussing terrorism and all
these things but it's a lot of times is
is you know there's a stigma stereotype
attached to uh Islam and and they think
you know Muslims you know killing
themselves blowing themselves up you're
telling me right now this is prohibited
and what we're talking about is is like
someone like the going gets stuff they
can't handle it anymore and then they
just you know they poison themselves
shoot themselves jump out of a window
you know like uh or but uh that or or
someone going into a pizzeria and
killing a thousand innocent people right
exactly this is not permissible in Islam
yeah and and then and well they say
there's a joke they say the guy was
about to jump off a roof so they called
the priest the priest came to him he
said on your
mark all right
anyways so the point is let's stick with
our topic so we're saying that you know
when you're a slave of Allah Allah owns
you so you do what Allah subh tells you
to do you know if if he says go right
you go right go left you go left don't
do it you don't do it because he owns
you and that's why it is it's shameful
that Allah subh not only he owns you but
he also gives you all the blessings and
everything that you have that's good and
at the same time the only way you
respond to Allah is by disobeying him
that's actually very shameful and very
sad and there's no one on the planet
that would give you suppose that there's
some billionaire and he just basically
just bought you a house then he gives
you a lot of cash to put in the bank and
give you you know pocket money and
spending money then he gives you a car
and what have you and then you use that
money to put an ad in the paper to to
badmouth him and to badmouth his
business and to say nasty things about
him then he gives you more money then
you put you create a whole website just
to insult him and make and do do you
think he'll keep giving you he probably
stop giving you no doubt no human being
would keep giving you and which means we
do not liken Allah to his creation but
look how Allah keeps giving you every
day and every moment and then you use
the blessings he gives you to disobey
him but he keeps giving you for for our
non-muslims you said Allah just so they
know if somebody's never heard this word
Allah basically uh Allah is just the
name of God in Arabic a lot of times
people when they hear Allah they think
this might be a different God or
something like that but it's actually
the the same God the god of Moses as
they say and go God of Abraham and the
god of Jesus or ASA
am so when you say Allah basically
you're just talking about God it's the
name of God in Arabic it's not a
different God or anything of that sort
and I always like to add that if you go
to an Arab country and you go to a
church there you'll find that they say
Allah in their service and the Arabic
Bible says Allah as well so Allah keeps
giving and giving and giving even though
people are turning away from him they
are doing the most mischievous things
against him they and whenever they sin
against Allah they're using a blessing
given to them by Allah to disobey Allah
you know people who use their money in
ways that are prohibited the money is a
blessing given to them by Allah and
they're using it to anger Allah you know
some people use their eyesight to anger
Allah their their hearing to listen to
things that they shouldn't or they use
their tongue in a way that they
shouldn't all these are blessings from
Allah but Allah is so merciful and he's
so generous he's so giving he keeps
giving them even if they keep disobeying
him which is really something that
absolutely fantastic you know but when
you recognize and you link every good
thing that you have in this life to
Allah then you start to naturally want
to submit to Allah kind of like when uh
the boss at work you know you link your
relationship with this boss to that
paycheck that comes at the end of every
two weeks so when he says do this you do
it even if you don't agree with it you
might complain about it with the
co-workers you know at the at the water
cooler and what have you but you do what
he says even if it's a ridiculous idea
he says we have to do it you're going to
do it you know because you link you know
something good comes to you from this
relationship with your boss that is the
paycheck yeah which means we don't liken
Allah to his creation but Allah you know
he he keeps giving you every good that
you have things you can't put a price on
but then when he tells you go right you
don't go right it's very shameful you
know and and it puts a lot of people to
shame when they recognize that that's
why when I'm saying when you tell
someone how many things Allah gave you
to replace this one thing that you
refuse to give up they start to feel
ashamed if when they start to try to
count the blessings of Allah you know
tell tell us how how do we balance out
where it's between okay again we we
talked about being rational logical uh
something that is not just blind faith
that we follow Islam uh the submission
of yourself to the one who created you
has all the evidence that one needs to
realize this is the truth but now
someone who is agreeing with that that I
only worship the one God but now all the
other things come into play establishing
the prayer five times day we see a lot
of non-muslims that they come to Islam
and they do this most important thing
but then a year two years later they're
still not praying right and they might
see this as now burden now I got to do
this five times a day how do we
distinguish where and help them to
understand this is a blessing that all
these things of staying away uh from the
let's say consumption of alcohol eating
of pork gambling some of basic things
that these are blessing these are things
that are going to only better our lives
right talk to us about this you know uh
the if you look at the religious people
worldwide they don't they don't drive by
a nightclub and say I wish I was
misguided so I could just be in there
jumping up and down like a crazy animal
you know they they they feel that they
what they have is greater they're they
have Bliss because what they have is
greater and when you feel the sweetness
of IM which is the term when you SW the
the the sweetness of believing in Allah
everything else pales in comparison you
know you don't look at people with
piercings and purple hair and say oh man
I wish I could do that and and people
who are doing all kinds of things that
are illegal and selling drugs oh that's
so exciting I wish I could live that
lifestyle they never feel that kind of
remorse they feel that Allah replaced
them with something better why because
they tasted the sweetness of Faith but
when you don't know the sweetness of
Faith it's just B burdensome to you
prayer is burdensome to you but as the
prophet used to say he he would say
Comfort us with the prayer so he's
saying announce the to prayer so it can
be comfortable some people they become
discomforted because they didn't focus
in in the Salah they don't know what
they're saying in prayer so they don't
feel the sweetness in that sense it will
always be a burden as one of the
scholars said he said the Salah is
really amazing when you try to do it
quickly and get it out of the way it
takes so long and it becomes so
difficult but when you do it slowly and
you focus and you love it it becomes so
easy and I think everybody I think you
know you everyone in the studio and the
people listening at home they've
probably experienced this in Ramadan
when they go to the long prayers when
they're focused and it's a Surah that
they're familiar with they're like today
the prayer was so short especially when
they don't eat too much right you eat
too much you don't know what the IM is
saying and you're like man when is this
going to be over it's the same length of
prayer every single day some days it was
so light some days it was so heavy
because you were into it or not into it
you know and so if you if you don't want
to be into you know the the prayer if
you don't if you want to do everything
you know with half-heartedly if there's
such a word then it's going to become
burdensome to you when you only taste
the sweetness of faith when you start to
enjoy these acts of worship which is a
possibility of course it's not
impossible so we're going to take a
break and we'll be right back on the
de 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
can I stand behind the pulpit on Sunday
morning and preach a sermon that I knew
was at variance with the actual Tap Root
of
Christianity back here on the dean show
Salam alikum all right now we're talking
about submission so either you're going
to submit willingly and a lot of things
you're you're having to submit already I
mean you you have to take the call of
nature you have to go to sleep so would
you call these forms of submission in a
sense you you you you have to follow
some kind of law either laws of nature
laws of gravity gravity you know so
nobody's just totally free is the law of
the land yeah absolutely yes what's
wrong with saying you know what people
feel so comforted sometimes and and and
and very excited to say I'm a law
abiding citizen what's wrong with saying
or feeling like you know what I'm a I'm
a a a person who abides by the law of
God that's the the law that's the best
absolutely isn't it that's the way to go
you know but there's a problem here now
you know we talked about you're happy
and you're voluntarily submitting to the
latest fash you don't want to wear hijab
but you'll put on you know the clothes
of the the latest celebrity what's on
the front cover of the magazine you'll
do that and you'll submit to what
they're leaning you to submit to pulling
you to right they're like hypnotizing
you and over here you're having a hard
time submitting to what told you put the
hijab for instance or you're having a
hard time fasting but now for that
tournament or for that other uh let's
say uh modeling career you're fasting to
lose weight you see absolutely yes so
you're doing other things five times a
day but you're having a hard time doing
a prayer five times a day I'm just
giving these examples but so here you're
submitting in one way but to something
that's going to give you ultimate
success and parad you're not why is this
well uh let me let me start with a quick
started um many decades ago when I was a
young man there was uh I got pulled over
by a police officer and I didn't have
the appropriate sticker on my windshield
I didn't know which you know which color
and all that stuff but it it struck me
that this officer was really really
upset I mean it's not your job to be
upset I mean your job is just to say you
don't have this the right color sticker
and give me the ticket and say okay make
sure you put the right one on but he was
so angry that I didn't have the right
sticker on there and I was thinking look
at how immersed he is into this law how
much he believes in it to the fact that
he's offended that I don't have this
pink sticker or the green sticker I mean
take it easy but people can get so
caught up in these things but at the
same time perhaps I'm not saying for
sure but perhaps that same man would
Overlook so many of the rules and laws
of Allah but he gets so angry about this
little sticker and it goes back to what
we're saying that if you if you don't
submit to Allah or to the law of Allah
you're you're submitting to something at
some point or another it could be as
ridiculous as you know the green sticker
versus the Pink sticker and you get
upset about that so the truth is you're
going to have to submit and you're going
to you're going to submit to something
or if you don't like it's funny that in
in the end you're going to be brought
back to what you were running away from
like in this the scholars would say like
that if you not if you don't walk to the
Masjid when you hear the the the call
for prayer if you don't walk to the
Masid you'll be carried to the Masid it
doesn't mean anyone's going to force you
and carry you to the m it means you're
going to die what are they going to do
they're going to wash you and bring you
to the Masid and they're going to pray
over you so if you don't come and pray
they're going to pray over you and when
they carry you and bring you into that M
so you're going to come in there anyways
it's inevitable how about the woman now
that doesn't want to yeah I mean like
you you'll find one time this actually
this woman told me that you know be
before I put on hijab I I was saying
Over My Dead Body that I that I put this
hijab on which hijab basically is the
veil which is a piece of cloth and I
told that's the truth I mean
it would be over your de body you would
die and then they'll cover you with a
piece of clo then they'll bring you PR
over you and put you in a hole in the
ground this is the reality of the
situation you know I mean in the end
it's linked to you know Paradise or the
Hellfire Allah forbid which is not
something simple so your obedience it
also has something to push you to
motivate you to obey Allah that's the
thing next question how do you get
motivated how there's something within
is it something some people is a
deficiency in the law now which there's
no way way that can be or is it
something within the person that a
person has to adjust their way of
thinking they have to go ahead and and
fix what's in themselves so they can get
to submitting well it could be uh it
could be 101 different things and that's
why when you look at the way Allah will
uh like get us to do something well
Allah will motivate us into action he
will do it many different ways in the
Quran sometimes he'll tell us the
benefit of doing something sometimes
he'll tell us the harm of leaving it
sometimes he'll tell us the harm of
doing it
sometimes he'll tell us the the benefit
of leaving something sometimes he'll
tell us the reward in the in the next
life sometimes he'll tell us the reward
in this life and everyone a different
one A different one of these things
might strike the right cord as they say
with that person you know so it's not
like there's a specific formula you say
well this is how you you know you you
you stay away from your desires this is
how you it's not always that scaring
people with the hare is what will work
sometimes you tell them about paradise
and that will motivate them into action
so everyone gets something something
different and is motivated by something
different we just have they're signaling
that we're almost out of time if you can
give some advice to those people the
sincere people who are having some
issues with this state of being a true
worshipper a true slave to the one who
created them okay I I also want to leave
with the thought that you were to submit
to Allah the one who created you and the
one that he commanded you to to obey as
well which is the prophet s alaihi
wasallam over 60 times in Quran Allah
will command the Believers to obey the
prophet sallallah alaihi wasallam and
sometimes he'll even equate obeying the
prophet to obeying Allah so he will
say whoever obeys the prophet he has
obeyed Allah so he made them almost
equal in this sense so everyone has the
desires everyone has what will pull you
in this direction or that direction but
we recognize that we're slaves of Allah
that he owns us he tells us what to do
what we can't do he is the one who gives
us everything that we have so when he
tells us to do something we try to fight
against our desire fight against
whatever is pulling us and of of
material love of this world and obbey
our creator because there is a greater
reward coming far greater than this Dy
and that's something that we should keep
in mind inshallah may we all be there in
the lights a me of paradise a mean thank
you very much my pleasure that's what we
should be striving for Paradise this
life is short what will you live 10 20
30 years from
now you can die at any minute and at the
end you were a slave to everything
except who you should have been a slave
to the one who created you he's asked
you to do something simple to worship
him alone to serve him alone and to be
good to be the best human being that you
can be to be in a constant state of
development to be the best human being
that you can be and that's not going to
be achieved by following your desires
it's going to be achieved by following
your creat and the last and final
messenger sent to mankind the prophet
Muhammad peace and blessings be upon him
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one God I from a science major when you
look at the Bible it says the the Earth
has four
corners that's
wrong if any Christian can point out a
single unequal statement a single
unambiguous statement where Jesus Christ
peace be upon himself say that I am God
always say worship me I'm ready to
accept
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Christianity
it's cold it's
lame everybody
sleeping I
arise and ask a lot to forgive
me oh Allah you
see oh Allah you
know all the sins I
do I turn to you to forgive my in my
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heart I'm your sinful
slave you're my Ling
Lord I'm the one who runs
away oh Allah guide me