BASHMENT STARS SHAHADA GOES WRONG - REACTION VIDEO
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Summary
Dancehall artist, Sister Lisa Mercedes, tries to cover up more after reverting to Islam. She's new to the religion, what are you expecting? You don't expect her to instantly become a Muslim, you're living in ignorance!
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So recently there was a news from Metro, Dancehall star, Sister Lisa, Mercedes, however you want to pronounce that, trying to cover up more after reverting to Islam.
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She's new to the religion. What are you expecting? She's new. You're not going to expect immediate changes.
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As-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh. Brothers and sisters and dear friends. Hope you guys are well inshaAllah.
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So, getting ready for iftar. But I thought I have to do this video because it's very important.
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And sadly, sadly, once again, the ignorance of our young Muslim brothers and sisters, young or old, is leading other people to take, some of them to leave Islam.
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Now, the dancehall artist, or you call it reggae bashment, whatever you want to call it, yeah?
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So recently there was a news from Metro, Dancehall star, Sister Lisa, Mercedes, however you want to pronounce that, trying to cover up more after reverting to Islam.
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Good. Right? That's good. So, what do we have? We have a sister who's a dancehall artist.
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And we know in the dancehall, it can be quite crazy, be it the drugs, be it the music, be it the way you dress up, to the way you dance.
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You know, it can be quite peak, from what I know from my days of ignorance before I came to Islam.
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Now, what the sister decided to do, was that she wanted to declare that, you need to understand she's from Jamaica, she comes from a dancehall background, you do not expect new reverts to come and instantly turn righteous, yeah?
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And if anybody's expecting for them to do that, you're living in ignorance.
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Sheikh Albani, may Allah have mercy on him, he used to live in Syria, and he used to drive an automatic, a manual car, right?
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And what happened is, when he moved to Saudi Arabia to teach, they gave him an automatic car.
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Now, when you go from manual to automatic, you keep looking for the clutch, right?
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So, what Sheikh Albani would do, is he would keep looking for the clutch, and he would keep pressing the brake, because it's automatic, right?
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Sorry guys, noise in the background, yep, wife's cooking.
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May Allah bless you, inshaAllah, and all our wives and mothers cooking at home and sisters.
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So, he would keep pressing the brake button, thinking it's a clutch, you need a clutch.
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He said, subhanAllah, how long is it taking me to adjust to this car?
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And when we give advice to people, we ask for immediate changes.
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Now, this sister, and like I said before, she did a track called, um, Shahada, I can't remember, yeah?
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And obviously, you need to understand, she does dress a bit, you know, tie clothing, whatever it may be.
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Now, on the authority of Abu Waqaid Al-Layfi, radiallahu anhu, who said,
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We went out to Allah's Messenger, sallallahu alayhi wasallam, in the Battle of Hunayn.
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Allah mentioned in the Battle of Tabuk, in the Quran.
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And we had only recently left unbelief and became Muslim.
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The polytheists, the polytheists had a lot tree, where they would offer devotion, and they would hand their weapons, hang, hand, hang their weapons upon it.
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So, they would go and hang their weapons for, you know, blessing, yeah, we're going to win in war, etc.
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So, we passed by a lot tree and said, O Messenger of Allah, make for us a that and what.
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So, Allah's Messenger, sallallahu alayhi wasallam, said the following.
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So, they're saying, the Mushrikeen have this tree of, you know, this lark or whatever.
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O Prophet, sallallahu alayhi wasallam, make dua that we have one.
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So, the Prophet, sallallahu alayhi wasallam, look at his reaction.
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That is the ways of the people who came before you.
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You have said, just as the children of Israel said to Musa, sallallahu alayhi wasallam, make for us a god just like their gods.
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So, Musa said, indeed, you are people who are ignorant.
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You should certainly follow the ways of those who came before you.
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Bear in mind, in the narration, it says that they were new Muslims.
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Now, the Prophet, sallallahu alayhi wasallam, he was harsh to a point.
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Let alone a sister who's come to Islam from a dancehall background, profession.
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And she may still be doing that, which she may eventually leave.
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So, if the sister's watching this, this is my message to you, please.
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And if there's any sisters watching this, please, if you know the dancehall, please don't go to her Instagram.
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There might be some inappropriate pictures of our sister.
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Sisters, I'm entrusting this with you guys, yeah?
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And the Prophet, sallallahu alayhi wasallam, said, if you declare someone to be a disbeliever,
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either they are really a disbeliever, if they are not, it can bounce back to you.
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You are, subhanAllah, you are, this is slander.
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You will get whipped in public in an Islamic country under the Sharif.
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You will get whipped, slashed in public, if she doesn't forgive you for calling her a name,
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that she's somebody that sleeps around, awdu billah.
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May you die a slow painful death, along with your family.
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And look at this, filthy, disgusting, from the picture, he looks like an Asian guy.
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You disgusting, vile, subhanAllah, I'm fasting.
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You don't know the story of when Bilal was called,
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you son of a black woman or something along those lines.
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And how the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, his face changed.
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How dare you calling somebody else because they're a black monkey.
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Audhu Billahi, Audhu Billahi, Audhu Billahi, Astaghfirullah.
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And we've got other people in the comment section.
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Like we discussed this sister, Quran of the Sunnah Haq,
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in Mufti Menk, calling Mufti Menk a Dajjal and Iblis.
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So, this is a statement from the sister, by the way.
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Firstly, I want to express my sincerest apologies to anyone I've offended.
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When I made the video for Shahada, it was done with the best intentions.
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It was intended to be a message to my fans about my journey and my newfound faith.
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While it has created some positive conversations with people that want to know about the religion,
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there are some people that equally are offended by it.
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This was never meant to cause any offense to anyone.
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Out of the utmost respect, I have decided to remove the video.
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If she was out for clout, she'd just let it be.
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And sister, if you're watching this, we ask Allah SWT to bless you and to guide myself and guide you.
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We want to say may Allah bless you, inshaAllah.
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If you would like to get in contact, I can get my wife in contact with yourself, inshaAllah.
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If you message me, she can tell you more about the deen if there's anything that you want to know.
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And if there's other sisters watching this, send your message of support to her.
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Because obviously the sisters are dancehall artists and there might be some pictures that brothers should not see.
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We want to welcome you to the religion, inshaAllah, sister.
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Please ignore these ignorant people giving you hate.
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Believe me, this is far from what Islam teaches.
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When a new Muslim comes to Islam, we do not treat them like that.
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Some people say you don't need to pray straight away.
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When I first came to Islam, I struggled with fajr.
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Because of people like you, people run away from Islam.
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And I'm going to finish with this hadith of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
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The Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him, sent us in a raiding party.
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And I talked about it to the Prophet, peace be upon him.
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And we know the punishment for killing a believer is azim.
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The Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam has said.
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That the believer's soul, life is more dearer than the Kaaba.
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So he told the Prophet, peace be upon him, about this.
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And the Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him, said.
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And I said to the Messenger of Allah, he had a profession out of fear of the weapon.
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So he claimed, la ilaha illallah, because he was scared of the weapon.
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Did you tear his heart open in order to find out whether it has professed it or not?
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So for those who are calling her not a Muslim, did you open up her heart and see if it was true or not?
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At the time of the Prophet, peace be upon him, there was munafikun, munafiks.
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And the Prophet treated them as Muslims, even though he knew there weren't munafiks.
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Munafik is someone who utters it on the tongue but on the heart.
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Because of something, a mistake she's done, tell her, oh, you're a Kaaba, you're not a Muslim.
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So, brothers and sisters, we can see from this that you cannot judge and take people out of the fold of Islam based on, they can be committing the worstest crimes.
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But that doesn't take them out of the fold of Islam.
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So, guys, that was in a nutshell a message that I want to send to the sister.
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And for the ignorant people who are messaging her, insulting her, shame on you.
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Especially that one who was calling her a black monkey.
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What you did is more greater, a bigger sin, a bigger sin than what the sister did by mistake.
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A lot of people still have this racism to this day.
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May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala allow us to purify ourselves in this blessed month.
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And inshallah, share this message with our sister.
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Check my video with this righteous sister who insulted Mufti Mank.
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And also Sumat al-Jannah, he's done a little video on this as well,
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which is very profound about good akhlaq and good adam.