Ali Dawah - November 22, 2022


ALI & TRUE GEORDIE TALK PURPOSE OF LIFE


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13 minutes

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In this episode of the podcast, I speak to a young man who shares his story of how he came to Islam and how he was introduced to the religion by his father. He shares his experience of growing up in a strict Muslim family and how the religion changed his life.

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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 0.96
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 1.00
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 1.00
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 0.53
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 1.00
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 1.00
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 0.99
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 1.00
00:11:00.680 enslaved to my jumper to the opposite gender to the money to live in a lifestyle that is fake 0.70
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 1.00
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 0.99
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 1.00
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