Ali Dawah - ALI & TRUE GEORDIE TALK PURPOSE OF LIFE

00:00:00.000 i used to struggle reading the quran daily before you instructed instructed me to download this app

00:00:07.800 i never knew that this app would have such an impact on people's lives you can go into the

00:00:12.040 description box click the link for ios and android and build your habit with the quran

00:00:16.300 one of the the things i really enjoyed talking to muhammad about uh which i also want to ask you

00:00:20.960 about is yeah uh muhammad described when he was a young man and and how he was feeling unsure about

00:00:26.620 who he was and what his purpose was yeah and that's how he he found well he already you're

00:00:31.800 already religious but obviously that was what made you uh more certain of it yeah was there a moment

00:00:36.760 for you personally that i i wasn't a muslim so this is this might be interesting to you i was i came to

00:00:41.600 islam 10 years ago wow so my dad's atheist um and he has a very strong hate a passion like he doesn't

00:00:48.380 like islam do you have conflict with him for that oh yeah for the past 10 years when i mean conflict

00:00:52.400 obviously in our religion uh that allah says in the quran that uh after you show your obedience

00:00:57.740 to god almighty you're worshiping him to be obedient to your parents so these parents can

00:01:01.300 be muslim or non-muslim so you have to be obedient towards them this is something that sadly is

00:01:05.140 forgotten in our times but there's times where like i've had the times where my dad slapped me in my

00:01:08.700 face he kicked me out the house and i know that's not you deserve that brother

00:01:11.900 i'm not gonna lie so the thing is it's it's uh when that happened obviously um i know he doesn't come

00:01:20.260 from an evil place but he has this perception of muslims and islam and so he's scared for me

00:01:25.080 so that's why he was he tried different approaches tried to use intellectual arguments okay it didn't

00:01:29.280 work okay put some pressure on didn't work oh maybe he's just going through a phase let him be

00:01:32.380 didn't work so and he was like and i was becoming more and more religious so he didn't like that so

00:01:37.780 but now he's better you know it's your religion and your parent you know you love yes i do but like

00:01:44.860 our love to our religion is greater and that might sound strange to you but uh you know our

00:01:50.020 religion to uh our love to our lord and the prophet mohammed peace be upon him is greater than our

00:01:54.420 love and it should be greater should i say i it's something that someone can say easily it's not

00:01:58.680 easy said than done but the thing is it it obviously it breaks you apart to know that you know

00:02:04.640 your dad you know he is hostile and obviously you want the best for him in this life and in the

00:02:08.540 hereafter that we believe in so you have your ups and downs but my mom's always been there to like

00:02:12.120 when i used to pray i used to pray secretly he never knew what was it that sort of drew you to

00:02:16.880 the religion was there a person okay so to me for personally my story like for example i come from

00:02:21.500 a start like before when i used to live in london i lived in london most of my life i was involved in

00:02:25.060 gangs and stuff like just fighting your typical just like fighting getting into fights and all that

00:02:28.880 kind of stuff um so then afterwards what happened is i used to get into a lot of trouble here i got

00:02:32.640 caught walking with a knuckle duster um so a undercover officer sorry and i was i was literally

00:02:37.360 playing around with it so they stopped me they arrested me uh and then my dad heard that he said look you're

00:02:41.700 coming in he had a business outside of london he said you're coming with me i lived at a place

00:02:44.920 called grimsby have you heard of grimsby yeah yes i believe it's one of the most racist towns in

00:02:48.560 london i mean in the uk but when i moved there my whole lifestyle changed it changed from fighting

00:02:52.680 gangs to partying clubbing girls all that kind of stuff oh wow so yeah i would live that last

00:02:57.460 every no girls for you bro yeah yeah but you tasted that lifestyle yes i lived that lifestyle

00:03:05.700 i guess yeah and i'm not proud of it no but the fascinating thing for me is is obviously when

00:03:13.240 i was talking to mohammed it was it was his struggle to avoid the lifestyle in the first place but once

00:03:18.680 you've tasted it yes to then turn your back on it it's almost potentially harder in some regard yes

00:03:24.060 yes so so how was there a moment where it got really bad or you know where you felt like you hit a

00:03:30.400 bit of a rock bottom to be honest when i was living that lifestyle there were certain things that

00:03:33.920 started to make sense to me like i i had like those i always thought i always believed in a

00:03:37.920 higher power i i thought religion are man-made to control the masses i thought i've got no time

00:03:41.720 for that i don't believe in that i believe there's some kind of a power it has to be that's basically

00:03:44.880 what i am just so you know yeah it's fine i was there i was there a long time ago you know there's

00:03:48.580 a guy i know who's a scientist who he works on um human blood okay and that's what made him

00:03:53.620 religious wow yes which is so strange i went yes you're a scientist you're supposed to be odds

00:03:58.220 with religion and he went when i looked at blood under a microscope i seen a design yeah and my brain

00:04:03.320 was like there's a creator yes boom that was it exactly the thing is when i had that realization

00:04:08.540 i thought there's there there is a creator but if that creator exists then why did he put me here

00:04:13.780 it's impossible for me for him to be a creator that has is purposeless creator yeah there must be a

00:04:19.340 purpose and i thought to myself okay there must be a true religion out there somewhere we give the

00:04:22.660 example if you're in a train and or a plane wherever you may and you've got everything you want on that

00:04:26.200 train but at one moment you're going to be hold on a second who put me on this plane where the hell is

00:04:30.400 this plane going it's all fun and good but where am i going and why am i here so this question made

00:04:35.840 me realize well hold on a second that's when i opened the bible um you know uh i opened the bible

00:04:39.820 i've read the bible a lot i spent three and a half years uh looking into comparative religion and was

00:04:44.700 this in your mind of i'm going to select one out of these or what okay so you did that yes i said one

00:04:50.100 of these has to be from god which one i don't know but i'm just going to start my journey but

00:04:54.400 obviously the concept of one god resonated with me because i was like multiple gods so which god did that

00:04:59.700 god create that god i was like there has to be one ultimate power it can't be two this is a

00:05:02.960 contingent thing so this thing relies on something else for its own existence right uh so we have

00:05:08.520 three kinds of existence correct me when i flop it yeah okay because i learned this by this is my

00:05:14.340 teacher in this yeah uh so basically we have impossible existence possible existence and necessary

00:05:20.340 existence impossible existence is can we have a triangle circle we can't okay so we were left with two

00:05:25.820 things possible existence and necessary existence this is a possible existence this could be any

00:05:30.120 other way this could have not existed right so therefore what we say is that within our universe

00:05:35.700 for example there are contingent things these are things that rely on something else for the existence

00:05:40.020 be our planet be the sun be the galaxies and be it our universe so what we say is exactly even us

00:05:46.720 yeah so what we say is you cannot have an infinite regress of dependent things i've been doing my

00:05:54.200 research and it was just a fascinating uh to hear you guys talking i used to live this lifestyle

00:06:00.180 it didn't bring me happiness and i believe a lot of people that live this lifestyle

00:06:03.840 you know i was talking about okay yeah clubbing pie all this kind of stuff okay so the thing is i

00:06:13.180 really wish we could have like a cut in the edit right now and just have him like glow stick

00:06:16.860 so the thing is that lifestyle i realized it does not bring me happiness and it will never bring

00:06:22.600 happiness because the way god almighty has created us is that allah says in the quran you will you

00:06:27.880 will only find happiness in his in the remembrance of god almighty okay and if you forget his remembrance

00:06:32.520 you live a depressed life meaning what you we are all we all want some kind of a purpose and then

00:06:37.820 what happens is the way we are created we have something called the fitrah our innate disposition

00:06:41.420 we are created as if like imagine somebody programmed a robot to only find not that robot can feel

00:06:48.420 anything but with a specific thing by giving i don't know argument said giving it a hat just

00:06:52.980 just that's its most happiness uh when it's most happy the thing is here is that anything that i

00:06:59.040 chased i was never happy anything i used to do bodybuilding i used to go boxing i used to do all

00:07:02.580 this kind of stuff and there was always you don't have to take my shirt off i don't want to embarrass

00:07:06.560 you so the thing is here is that i realized that it doesn't bring me happiness i've got a question

00:07:12.420 on my life based on what you're saying please so i drink a lot yeah especially in the last seven

00:07:17.080 days and i smoke weed and you know and i've certainly uh i've not um not exactly been the

00:07:23.240 most strict guy with myself yeah and and it doesn't bring me happiness necessarily although in that

00:07:28.100 moment it certainly feels all right but you know the hangover and whatever else yeah you guys have

00:07:33.100 obviously avoided that or at least you you have a long time and you have recently but you know when

00:07:40.200 life gets a bit too much and and you know you need a vice or and and sometimes our consciousness

00:07:46.440 just needs an escape yes how do you combat that what do you do we we escape the good that's what

00:07:52.620 we do we we escape the thing here is this alcohol um weed women men opposite gender nothing is going

00:08:01.140 to make you happy period except because what i'm saying is the way we are programmed look you we all eat

00:08:07.680 food okay you're not going to go and drink something that's poisonous you're not going to go and have

00:08:10.660 bad food you know why because your stomach will reject it and you will vomit it this is a physical

00:08:14.840 lord god almighty put in place that when you eat something which is not good for you and your body

00:08:18.520 the stomach automatically takes it out the soul is the same way the soul wants the remembrance of god

00:08:24.120 and i'll come to what that means when you give it girls like this is what i used to do okay

00:08:27.520 have girlfriends not happy cars not happy money not happy holidays not happy and i was thinking what does

00:08:33.200 it want the soul wants the soul soul food you know literal food which is what the remembrance of its

00:08:39.180 lord that's where it's connected that's where it's at home truly and if you look into the quran god

00:08:43.660 almighty always says that you will return back to me let me ask you a question where are you most

00:08:47.980 comfortable in your life for example um is this by the way do you live here yeah you live here okay

00:08:53.620 this is your house yeah you know like they say sweet home home sweet home yeah the house is the

00:08:58.800 place where you're most comfortable you can walk naked literally it's your place your space you

00:09:02.860 can do whatever you like i'm sat in that chair naked before thanks for telling me that

00:09:06.060 yeah so the thing you see are at home you are the most comfortable yeah now god almighty for us is our

00:09:15.280 most comfort is when we return back to him that is where comfort that's why when we come to this life

00:09:18.980 and we're like why do some things go smooth why is things not perfect because you are not home

00:09:23.120 you are not home so what we're seeing is that when you realize and i came to that realization i thought to

00:09:28.140 myself i'm chasing this lifestyle and i used to i always give this example i used to go clubbing and

00:09:31.820 i used to wear a specific jumper but i believe i looked really handsome in like i believe that you

00:09:35.360 know you know yeah so the thing is i i used to wear specific clothes work extra hours to live a certain

00:09:41.960 lifestyle i came to the realization i thought to myself before i came to islam i thought to myself

00:09:46.260 these are my masters that jumper that i hate wearing but i wear it because i look good in it just as a

00:09:51.040 woman who wears these this much heels even though she's uncomfortable and her uh her feet her heels are

00:09:55.640 bleeding she still does it why because i look good in it so i thought to myself please sorry i

00:10:00.840 interrupt you i watched one of your videos about kim kardashian and you're kind of talking about

00:10:04.320 literally about the way she presents herself and how how misguided she is well she's willing to eat

00:10:10.200 poo just to look young and i mean if that's not enslavement what i don't know what enslavement is

00:10:14.140 so the point i'm trying to say is this yeah that we are bound to be enslaved to stuff yeah and another

00:10:19.220 philosopher i forgot his name i got the reference here like google um man is born free but in shackles

00:10:24.080 everywhere is it same guy yeah i don't remember that yeah man is born free but in shackles

00:10:28.740 everywhere exactly did you choose your name did you choose your parents did you choose your sister

00:10:32.260 did you choose the a few of us i don't know did you choose the way you look no you didn't so nobody

00:10:36.260 can come and say we're free we are not we are shackled somewhere now what does allah say in the

00:10:40.280 quran he says have you seen the one who has one master and multiple masters would you rather be

00:10:46.820 enslaved to multiple things or one thing that is deserving of your worship to me i came to the

00:10:51.840 realization and said hold on a second if god almighty exists which i believe he does and i found

00:10:55.480 it through islam and islam to be the truth i would rather be enslaved to him rather than being

00:11:00.680 enslaved to my jumper to the opposite gender to the money to live in a lifestyle that is fake

00:11:05.860 and i i found my true freedom when i enslaved myself to the one who created me because i believe

00:11:11.040 he's deserving of worship and i believe he created me when i die all your friends that you have me and

00:11:16.880 back then yeah best believe how long they're going to cry for it i bet you they're not going to cry for one

00:11:20.960 they're going to forget you they're going to back by you they're going to talk ill of you

00:11:23.700 yeah and i came to the realization that i have to prove myself to nobody but god and i i swear to god

00:11:29.740 when i accepted islam it's as if a mountain went off my shoulder you know why because i didn't care

00:11:34.720 about who thinks what of me oh what car do you drive brother drive toyota prius yes not oh i'm shy

00:11:41.800 if somebody sees me oh i need to wear branded i don't care and this is where true happiness is found

00:11:47.880 this is what i believe when i talked about the soul your soul wants the remembrance of god and

00:11:52.580 what do we do we give it alcohol weed opposite gender whatever it may be and then the soul is

00:11:57.820 saying i don't want it i reject it i reject it i reject it and the moment you give it the correct

00:12:02.960 food it embraces it and that's where you find happiness that's where i realize i know why i'm

00:12:07.680 here i know where i'm going i know my purpose and i know where i want to be and if you don't have

00:12:12.200 that in your life it's it's like the wind on a windy day you're like a leaf wherever the wind takes

00:12:16.440 you you just end up there the thing is allah says in the quran we send a smaller calamity to divert a

00:12:21.240 bigger calamity the bigger calamity is that we believe there is judgment day there is hellfire

00:12:25.560 there is heaven and the god that we worship is not a god that wants to throw people but in this

00:12:29.100 sense yes that this this scenario that i'm yes through is revealing who's really loyal exactly but

00:12:34.420 is it a calamity yes it is but it might be a calamity but it's worse to stick with people who don't

00:12:39.000 have my back exactly but what does that show you it shows you again that nobody is there for you

00:12:44.580 truly except the one who created you i think you're both coming from the same place and i

00:12:48.500 really respect that which is islam but also being self-giving and uh and i think that's something

00:12:53.920 that we can all connect on because for me personally while i'm not a spiritual guy in that

00:12:58.460 sense at least yet uh mental health is my thing and that's what my uh what i want to help and leave

00:13:04.880 behind um and yeah fun i really enjoyed this guys honestly thanks for your time

Ali Dawah - November 22, 2022

ALI & TRUE GEORDIE TALK PURPOSE OF LIFE

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