Ali Dawah - September 30, 20242 GIRLS LEAVE STR!P CLUB TO FIND TRUE PURPOSE
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Summary
Jummah Kutbahayyah (Mother of God) is a Muslim convert from the United States to the UK. In this episode, she shares her story of how she became a Muslim and how she came to believe that God has a purpose in her life.
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And that is where you have this existential crisis, you know, and then is there more to life than these?
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You can have a husband, and I mean, Islamically, if you marry a husband, inshallah, he can maybe do that for you at home.
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There's a halal option there, you know, there's nothing wrong with that.
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Yeah, we believe the same, we believe it's a sin, but we don't judge, like, we don't come...
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It's a sin, but we don't condemn them, we don't condemn them to hell, we don't say...
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Like, we believe a person can be a Muslim and have gay inclinations.
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What I would say is, maybe there's a misunderstanding.
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No sin takes you out the fold of being a Muslim.
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You probably had it matching with something, your dress, or maybe your shoes.
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So you woke up today and thought, you know what, I'm going to dress up.
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And I'm going to make sure my earrings are matching.
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Your earrings are a mere object, and they have a purpose.
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You are a human being, you have eyes, you can hear, you've got a heart, you've got lungs,
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Like, the question we need to ask is, why are we here?
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Do you ever think to yourself, why am I here and where am I going?
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I became a Muslim, even though I know I look Muslim, 11 years ago.
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So I looked in, 13 years ago, I used to go clubbing, partying in this trip every weekend.
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Yes, but the point came in my life where I was like, this is just boring.
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Like, every time, like, obviously I didn't drink.
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I was not into alcohol because of health reasons.
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But clubbing, partying, all this kind of stuff, it came to a point where I was like,
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And that is where you have this existential crisis.
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You know, and then is there more to life than these?
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I mean, Islamically, if you marry a husband, inshallah, he can maybe do that for you at home.
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But, yeah, there's a halal option there, you know, there's nothing wrong with that.
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So, yeah, so I came to the point where I was like, hold on a second, there must be a greater purpose.
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Because it's impossible that a creator exists, but he's a purposeless God.
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Because everything that, everyone that's created something or designed something,
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your jacket, your bag, your shoes, your trainers, this mic to that camera,
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They found the need for it, they made a purpose, and they designed it.
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Your eyesight, your eye, vision, your eyes, far complex than any camera on this earth.
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So, it points to a higher being that wants goodness for you.
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We believe that there's a hereafter, that there's hell and heaven, and you'll be judged.
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And God just wants you to have a relationship with him.
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Do you believe there's a lot of Jesus and a God?
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So, Allah in the Quran tells us, we have a whole chapter called Mary.
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Because we believe she's one of the most holiest women that was sent to earth.
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He was sent by God Almighty to tell the people to worship God alone.
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But you will accept, like, let me put it like this.
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This is what we call in Islam called the fitrah.
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What that means is, we as Muslims believe every person is born a Muslim.
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Meaning, you have the inclination by when I asked you and said, do you believe God is a man?
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Your program and the way God has programmed you, you can distinguish what is God and who God is not.
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And Muslims are the ones that submit their will to God.
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So, when you submit your will to God, I'm like, you're a Muslim.
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Obviously, you have to believe in Allah and the Quran and the Prophet.
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But for you to accept that God is one, he has no partners, he's not a male or female, and there is nothing like him,
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is a good step towards being a Muslim in that sense.
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We believe it's a sin, but we don't judge that.
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We don't say, like, we believe a person can be a Muslim and have gay inclinations.
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To not become a Muslim, it means you don't believe or reject God or associate part in a sin.
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Look, for example, there could be a man who's an adulterer.
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But does that mean he cannot be a Christian or a Muslim?
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You are still a Muslim, but you need to stop the sin.
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So, same as a gay person, homosexual, we believe that's a major sin.
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Unless you say, being homosexual, God said it's okay.
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But I feel like if you were to say this about five years ago, then it would be completely...
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No, I believe it is a wrong, it is a major sin.
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It's just that we just say that they can still be a Muslim, but they should repent from
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But it feels like you're going back on your own religion to suit other people.
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So, what I would say is, maybe there's a misunderstanding.
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No sin takes you out the fold of being a Muslim.
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But no sin takes you out the fold of Islam unless you associate partners to God.
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But also, if you want to watch my videos, this will be out on my YouTube channel.
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You know what's one pattern that I'm seeing quite interestingly is there's people who have
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good intentions and when they want goodness, but their friends are pulling them away.
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Okay, so guys, yeah, one thing that I've noticed, even happened yesterday, guys, where
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the guy is interested in knowing about Islam, knowing about God, but their friends are dragging
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Like, even if you saw with this lady, the sister, she's interested, she wants to know about
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She's like, no, let's go sinning and we did this, etc.
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This is why it's so important to have good friends.
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Very important to have good friends, inshallah.
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So, alhamdulillah, that's what we're doing, guys.