Ali Dawah - February 03, 2020BREAKDANCER HEARS THE QURANIC MESSAGE - CALIFORNIA
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In this episode, we discuss the concept of goodness and what it means to be a good man, and how it can be practiced in every area of our lives. We also discuss the importance of being a good human being.
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is in the description link below like all my homies are mixed bro yeah yeah that's the one
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of the most mixed yeah i can tell i can see that yeah everyone everyone yeah it's different bro
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that's cool i don't see the thing is i don't see none of that shit i don't see color bro all i see
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is the people inside the goodness in their heart bro you know what i mean and in the end that's
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all that matters bro that's all that matters everything that's outside is just artificial
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bro yeah go on i just ask one thing because you're touching up on the point of goodness
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we believe the quran teaches us the methods of how to be good good yeah to the creator and one
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one thing i don't want to leave you before you go is because the definition of true goodness is
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imagine if you was i'm sure you love your mom yeah but would you be a good person if you abused your
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mom but was good to everybody else no of course not exactly it's like even if you abuse animals
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that shows that you're not a good man you know what i mean you can't even do that because there's
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a certain way even when you eat an animal dog you can't just kill it you know you gotta bless it
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and then you know for example when an animal is slaughtered and we take it to wear them
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so other animals don't see it yeah because it stresses them out yeah so we also make sure that
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the knife is sharpened because it saves them from uh more uh pain because you can get it over and
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down with quickly you know but just come to the main point uh about your you said your mom if you're
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bad to your mom if i'm bad to my mom and i'm good to everybody else everybody says ali my name's ali
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by the way ali's an amazing person because you're talking about goodness and i think it's very
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important uh is that this so what they say is that i know the analogy that i gave you between the
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mother and the general public is that i believe true goodness is is that i could be good to
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everybody but if i don't show gratitude to the one i believe in the creator if i don't show gratitude
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to him and what he's given to me it doesn't matter what he doesn't matter what you do it doesn't
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matter what nobody thinks if everyone says i'm a good person but i'm abusing the one who's giving me
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my mother my health the food that i eat the drink and everything that i have around me if i don't
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appreciate and value him and don't spare you're fooling yourself you're fooling yourself it's people
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trick themselves to believe in their good and read ali look i'm gonna tell you right now dog
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i was born in a country that has been in war the whole time yeah we eat animals we don't bless them
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we don't do we just slaughter them bro yeah and we eat that shit people are aggressive out here bro
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i'll be the first one to tell you bro i grew up in la all my life this is the city i grew up in
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and all i've ever known is violence bro that's all i've ever known is violence bro all my life you
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know i've seen gunshots my friends getting killed people in jail murders all kinds of shit i'm
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desensitized to this shit bro like it's i'm i'm i'm on a different level of how i see things now
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because i've already been through this shit dog like it's i'm tired of it i want peace in my life
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you know what i'll say i'll say you're you're a good man yeah i don't want to say no no no from
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what we can see because we can sometimes you can observe things you're a good man you see you
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have a clean heart and you said you reached some kind of a pinnacle you said it's beyond religion yeah
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i mean i've had my mistakes bro i'm not gonna sit here look honesty is the key to life dog and i'm
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not gonna tell you hey i'm a good man i've done fucked up shit too but you know they're the same
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but it's realizing it it's realizing you you did bad things and what are you gonna do to make it
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better what see this is the thing like you know i read i listen bro i listen i listen to what people
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say yeah you know and really you got to tell yourself this what have you done in your life that's
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made your life better or made you better you know as a better person a good person what have
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you done in your life i've done a lot of fucked up shit in my life and i gotta live with it
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you know and in the end now like i'm not saying i'm the worst person in the world you know but in
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the end yeah even though i was a dancer i grew up in the hood dog you know i i i fucking grew up
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around crazy motherfuckers all my life dog people shooting each other i know some crazy killer people
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dog and and it's and and that's just the way the life is out here bro if you grow up in the hood
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that's what you see man so yeah what i was saying is like you're 100 right you know you're i mean
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you're a good person yeah but to understand the true understanding of goodness like we have a
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concept in this time called loving someone for the sake of god what that means that's unconditional i
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don't love you because if i give you a gift i'm not giving you a gift with expectation in return
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that you give me a gift that's not love that's you're expecting something we have this
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unconditional love exactly so we have that a lot exactly so we love someone for the sake of god
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what that means is i love you not because what you're going to do for me i just love you as a
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human being do you get what i'm trying to say and i think to understand another concept of goodness is
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to read the quran like brother muhammad said is because then you'll understand another paradigm of
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goodness because that's that connection between you and your lord and you're building that connection
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with him do you get what i'm trying to say so reading the quran teaches that because god tells us
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in the quran how to worship him yeah and have that relationship with him and like i said before man
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you know if you read the quran give it a chance you've got nothing to lose and you said that
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you've done mistakes in your past if i'm not mistaken the prophet peace be upon him said all the children
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of adam sin and the best of those sinners are those who repent you know that's all it says we have
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made mistakes he's made mistakes we all make mistakes but in god's eyes repentance what that
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means is like we also have a hadith from the prophet peace be upon him he said that the god almighty said
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that if human beings were not to sin i will destroy them and bring forth another nation that sin and repent
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but the thing is hold on a second why does god it's like it's god encouraging us to sin no
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what he's trying to say is you're going to sin you're bound to sin yeah but what you need to
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acknowledge is this you have a lord that's all forgiven and you turn to him and if i leave that
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with you i know you're busy no it's the same it's you know it's the same message i've heard through
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most people who who are usually religious like and and and and i it's the same message you know
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islam is a way of life yeah no no no yeah well yeah for me you know i'm just saying from people i've heard it
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from usually are from other religions and they're usually extreme religious people you know what i
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mean so i'm not extreme like that yeah i was grace catholic but it's not not by choice yeah i didn't
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get you are you are extreme you're extremely kind you know you guys are good too man you guys are
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great people i really appreciate for your time man
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peace man that's my crew um this uh they call me mark the spot my name is marcos though um born and
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raised in l.a man and just you know you want to show us something for the camera yeah yeah that's a good
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what was that okay yeah oh no oh no that's it that's it what's up man
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dedication and passion you know it was a pleasure man everything i learned dog has been through dance
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yeah majority of things i come to understand have been to dance exactly you know everything i've look
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man most people have talked to me yes but everything that has come to me yeah i don't know
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where it came from bro the thoughts just come to me and i know it's the universe speaking to me
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you know so i listen now because every time i ignored it i made bad choices bro i mean this is it
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bro yeah of course yeah this is the universe speaking to you directly yeah yeah and i know i know it is
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that's why i'm paying attention bro that's why i let the energy come to me because i don't i don't
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reject things you know no more bro i'm i don't i don't also take everything in but i don't allow
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myself to not learn something new because i know it's only going to make me better yeah you know so
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when you say universe speaking to do you mean like these signs that you see everything bro even you
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guys but what we say is this yeah like i said you know when we take it to another level yeah
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we believe there's a creator and that creator's made this creation and he will send you signs
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within the creation so you should you could take your to another level you can take to another
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level find that connection with god read the quran if you can and you've got nothing to lose and then
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you'll realize that it wasn't the creation but it was the creator that was using the creation to send
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you the message yeah thank you man i'm gonna let you go man thank you guys i really appreciate you
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you know what what you said there was actually something in the quran is a verse really yeah it goes
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that will certainly show them the science will show will certainly show them the signs in the
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universe and within themselves until they know it's the truth yeah bro because i listen now i made too
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many mistakes already not to listen you know what i mean like so i i follow my what i feel is best for
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me because my look my half of my family was in the military the other half was in gangs bro
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i ended up being a dancer bro yeah you know so i broke that cycle from my family you know i'm
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breaking a cycle now bro we're we're coming out of that because i didn't decide to do what they
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you saw the negativity i turned it positive because i was too i look man i have a lot of anger
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i know this it's something i struggle with every day bro but it has a lot to do with the way i grew
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up yeah i grew up in a very traumatic life you know i seen a lot of violence my parents were drug
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addicts bro i fucking you know i told you guys i seen this shit dog like but in the end i don't let
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that determine who i am you know what i mean in the end this is who i am this is what i do people
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like you are in evidence for those who say oh i was brought from this life yeah and and their product
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of their environment that's bullshit bro that's bullshit because you have a choice my parents were drug
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addicts bro my fucking family were half in gangs and the other half weren't in the military
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so there's no excuse dog in the end it's your choice it's your choice but for me fortunately
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i had people around me that led me to that path maybe that was the universe you know you know
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guiding me or the one who created the universe yeah the creator you know that was him yeah you know and
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and and he just guided me and and and i was subconsciously just not but now i'm consciously
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doing it now i'm really listening now i'm like oh i'm looking for the signs yeah i look for
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everything and because we're we're a creation as well yeah we're sending you sign thank you man
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appreciate we ask we ask allah to guide you god almighty to guide you and give you the best in
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this stuff in the hereafter man likewise brother take care