Ali Dawah - DADAS DINER ep1 ｜｜ SALAM DINING

00:00:00.000 Assalamualaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh to brothers and sisters and dear friends

00:00:11.340 welcome to our first episode of Salaam Dining we're gonna be heading to Dara's Diner in Acton

00:00:16.840 in between Acton and Shepherd's Bush we've got a special guest waiting for us we're gonna review

00:00:20.900 this place and tell you guys how good it tastes and how halal it is follow me okay brothers and

00:00:28.100 sisters so we are inside Dara's Diner we're here we've got our menus they've given us three

00:00:32.500 one for you one for me and one for the guy behind the camera but you cannot see him oh by the way

00:00:36.580 we've got our guests but undisputed his style is impregnable his defense is impecable was it

00:00:42.860 impeccable impeccable so we've got brother I was gonna say brother Salaam I've got brother Mahmood

00:00:51.000 one of the G's in the hood halal of course G so when you come in brothers and sisters 0.97

00:00:57.860 inside it's closed as well but this is the outside garden bit here's more I don't know

00:01:01.940 you feel it more I don't know like peaceful if that makes sense you feel more relaxed with

00:01:05.300 the water noise in the background okay what would you like I'm gonna I'm gonna go with

00:01:09.140 my same regular buffalo chicken burger and can I have sweet potato chips with that instead of chips

00:01:16.100 can I get the starter I'm sorry it's better not the special yeah stir fry and what was it

00:01:21.460 egg noodles yeah no problem yeah get the mango thingy you have all the one the banana yeah we

00:01:31.380 didn't order any stars because usually what we do is we review how long it takes between the starter

00:01:35.300 and the main meal to come because usually when the starter comes and the main meal comes like 20 minutes

00:01:41.140 or late when you've eaten a bit you start getting full and that affects you know then you can't eat the

00:01:46.180 main meal do you get it so we're a bit critical in that matter I see I see so anyways putting

00:01:50.260 everything to the side it's going on here we have to this is very serious this is salam dining please

00:01:54.100 let's talk about that you went hunting all right yeah you went hunting I saw a picture of him

00:01:58.100 looking very crazy with a what was it a cow deer it was a deer he had the deer what was it was

00:02:04.660 he carrying it on your shoulder or something yeah it's called a murder buck a what it's called a

00:02:08.820 murder buck the deer is called a murder buck no you know if there's vegetarian vegan watching

00:02:12.420 it was actually the first time i've been hunting and uh up in scotland not far where

00:02:16.740 no in norway no no way went before but we didn't do hunting there okay um but yeah so you got you

00:02:22.900 went scotland yeah and scotland's legal so you told me yeah i've been norway before a few times yeah

00:02:30.020 and we've done expeditions there okay but this expedition was in scotland okay and we were able to go

00:02:36.420 hunting with someone who's got the accreditation okay so real gun real gun rifle

00:02:42.100 real rifle yeah dangerous and my five is going to be on your case so it was so how did it happen

00:02:48.500 like how what distance did you hit the animal um as far as i remember it was something like 125 meters

00:02:56.420 yeah um but it was a long long long day i mean we went up three in the morning yeah and

00:03:06.820 we went to all these that we walked yeah do like they call it stalking yeah walking really quiet then you

00:03:11.780 go to these places they've got high chairs yeah kind of a lot or high seats where they are and you

00:03:17.140 basically go and sit in them and uh and you can observe everything around and you just sit there

00:03:21.620 and wait wait wait until a deer or they call robots yeah um appears now they've got these policies

00:03:29.140 different times of years you can shoot male and different times of years you can use female 0.93

00:03:32.100 yeah yeah so we weren't allowed to shoot any females in this time okay yeah that's when feminists will 1.00

00:03:39.620 be happy yeah yeah and so we were going for the the male the male deers and um the guy with us his name

00:03:46.500 was michael yeah pretty decent guy man really good he does all the time um we had to wait a few hours

00:03:53.620 yeah so i was literally nodding off falling asleep he said to me just rest just go to sleep i'll wake you up

00:03:59.460 when i see one so all right i'll do that yeah i mean we we did about four hours yeah we didn't see

00:04:04.260 nothing we did see one or two but they were so far away and uh once we saw something but we couldn't

00:04:09.860 catch it after that we couldn't see it i think so literally my time is about to finish and he had to

00:04:14.420 pay him for this time no serious yeah regardless if you shoot a day or not you gotta pay him yeah yeah

00:04:20.180 and um it's not a little money it's it's it's a decent amount of money and um so he was basically

00:04:24.580 using that he wasn't sleeping he was making it work now yeah i was kind of sad two thousand years

00:04:31.220 later four and a half five hours almost gone literally i'm it's to walk back to the car yeah

00:04:37.300 yeah so we're not going to get anything yeah but god we came to one just edge of a forest and i'm

00:04:44.180 walking walking and quietly quietly and then it all goes stop right there yeah and then he gets his

00:04:50.980 little mono little telescope thing you look so you get this the scope out and you're aiming yeah

00:04:58.740 and like this is my first ever shot yeah i mean even when through target practice i was taking my

00:05:03.700 time you know you need to control your breathing and everything so you move your breathing goes up

00:05:08.180 and down yeah you stop your heartbeat well i don't know if you can stop your heartbeat yeah but you

00:05:12.500 meant to shoot with your heartbeat so you're kind of timing it yeah so i did that took my time the

00:05:18.100 day before but now it's pressure you've got the deer standing there too much quality you've got to 0.66

00:05:21.780 basically yeah exactly so i'm put i put down the gun i'm looking and then he moved behind me to take

00:05:27.060 a shot when he moved the deer noticed no so decently goes and looks towards us here and then he goes to

00:05:34.260 me you better shoot now yeah it's gonna go it's gonna go okay and i was told you to shoot mainly um near the

00:05:41.060 neck area oh sorry not neck the front shoulder yeah yeah shoot it there and then basically it'll 0.98

00:05:47.540 it'll drop yeah and uh that's the easiest way of doing it obviously as muslims we say bismillah 0.87

00:05:52.180 allahuala faal and then shoot yeah but i thought if i aim for that little target there i might miss

00:05:57.700 allahuala faal and shoot animal animal deer yeah deer so i can eat it afterwards and it's also we're not

00:06:03.380 shooting for fun how is that permissible though you're because what if the animal dies when you shoot it

00:06:07.700 because the whole point is to like slaughter it no yeah so that's i found out about that i mean

00:06:12.980 obviously normal slaughtering is by uh halal is to slit the throat and say bismillah yeah but when 0.90

00:06:18.500 you're hunting if you're with bow and arrow with a rifle and so forth as long as you make the intention

00:06:22.740 and say bismillah when you shoot then it's fine in fact even some scholars say that if you kind of

00:06:28.020 forget in the moment say bismillah as long as you had the intention when you went out for hunting then

00:06:31.300 you're going it for collecting food okay and you say bismillah before starting your journey then that should

00:06:36.340 be sufficient as well let's try this out man what time is it yeah try it at home it's been 11 minutes

00:06:47.380 what is banana milk and chai tea is it okay the chai tea doesn't taste anything

00:06:54.820 it's nice you know what in this place they were doing this drink watermelon lime strawberry and ice

00:07:06.500 especially when it's hot in summer yeah amazing it's good it looks good okay so what time what time is

00:07:14.820 it uh it is 3 52 so it took 19 minutes 19 minutes to come yeah okay we'll talk about that when we are

00:07:22.500 in our conclusion didn't actually sort of stir fry what i didn't ask him it's beef yeah so beef oh is it beef here yeah

00:07:29.460 beef so fine that's nice i'm gonna try some oh tabasco this is like a love-hate relationship this doesn't

00:07:40.500 look like sweet potato pie yes um i think they made a boo boo i think they forgot

00:07:50.180 we'll we'll excuse them no problem okay so basically the buffalo chicken i ordered

00:07:56.020 usually comes in a bun yeah but it's messy to eat that and you can eat this like that as well but i

00:08:00.100 prefer it like this for some reason i feel like they put more chicken in it when i asked for a wrap

00:08:04.660 yeah so anyways let me try yours first

00:08:10.820 it's not bad it's got got that tabasco sauce already in it

00:08:13.540 two people two people had this shared this enough

00:08:19.700 it's funny actually i was listening to a lecture the other day yeah

00:08:24.580 and the chef reminded you mentioned that you were talking about the concept of baraka yeah

00:08:29.220 he says it's a concept that

00:08:32.500 generally non-muslims don't understand or it's very hard to explain because in

00:08:36.580 in the dunya in general to get more you have to do more yeah that's when you want to work hard

00:08:49.140 to get what you want to get yeah but the concept of baraka is to do less and you get more yeah so

00:08:55.220 it doesn't make sense to them but rasul allah mentioned mentions in all in a hadith for example

00:09:00.980 he mentioned um that um paraphrased that when you when you when you share food

00:09:10.100 whatever's available for one is enough for two yes what's the three

00:09:14.420 two is for three but that's for three it's for four yeah

00:09:18.900 and um and the shaykh also mentioned a little side story to that anecdote

00:09:22.980 because the sahaba used to come and um and there's a hadith that one who feeds a guest

00:09:29.220 allah forgives him of his sins or some of his sins yeah why do you know that so some of the

00:09:33.620 sahaba used to come to rasul allah and he used to complain and he used to say is allah stopping us

00:09:41.780 from getting forgiveness because i haven't had guests come to my house in the last three days two three

00:09:46.100 days that's how regular they were in getting guests coming to the house instead not just coming

00:09:52.180 and sitting down the house but feeding them and so he said that it's not that a guest comes along

00:09:59.300 you think oh no i have to make more food no if you have to understand the concept of baraka

00:10:04.820 no what you cook for your family already is enough a few more people that come along

00:10:09.300 the food will be sufficient always brothers sisters we finished eating alhamdulillah it was nice

00:10:17.380 all we're going to do now is we're going to go through our 10 point salamis

00:10:22.820 so what we're doing so okay we'll do this we have five things that we check that's more with the

00:10:27.860 quantity and then we have five the halamis yeah so we'll see how halal it was

00:10:33.300 how's the time keeping in mind that they were not moving so usually in restaurants i would say

00:10:38.980 half an hour that is calm it's like waiting half an hour it's okay yeah it's 15 minutes it

00:10:46.260 wouldn't start us either so yeah it kind of made it a little bit longer as well so i would say

00:10:52.100 personally i don't know what do you think like it was 19 minutes in it it was 19 minutes yeah

00:10:57.380 19 minutes so i would personally say what would you say five out of five i'd say three out of five

00:11:03.620 yeah it could have been faster that would be like yeah i would say yeah definitely but it wasn't

00:11:08.180 unreasonable time yeah it was calm they had a few customers yeah i would say calm maybe it should

00:11:14.100 work a little bit i would say freestyle it definitely that's fair that was unfortunate

00:11:18.020 it was big okay but now we need to keep something in mind usually when it comes to portions if it's

00:11:23.220 too much we usually take stars off oh really yeah so if the portion is too much we don't give it

00:11:28.980 edge to start because it's like okay do you get what i'm saying so with the portion would you say

00:11:33.620 that seemed to me i don't know how you said it was too much for you i i don't know that seemed a bit

00:11:37.540 normal to me like not normal i would say just but did you find it a bit over the top um

00:11:42.820 um i think less would be a bit better so but as you said if it's it wasn't so small if you hang

00:11:52.020 on i've paid a lot of money i'm getting a couple of handfuls i mean i'm easily put i mean if you

00:11:58.020 would share between two people i think that would be perfect yeah yeah it would be perfect enough two

00:12:04.420 people with a drink and a little star that kind of thing okay if you want to start that would be

00:12:10.580 problematic yeah okay but we didn't what would you give a lot tell me how good i'm going to give

00:12:14.980 money i get three out of five yeah i would i would give it four personally because my approach was

00:12:21.220 perfect it was just perfect it was it was more right yeah so should we meet in three and a half

00:12:25.860 yeah yeah so three and a half star proportion uh price how's the price i think i think it's

00:12:33.140 special what's the special special special was 650 i think yeah and my one buffalo chicken burger was

00:12:38.580 690. that's calm i mean i think mine was a better value than yours yeah yeah 100 and knowing that they

00:12:46.420 have that baby sandwiches here it's like 350 like a full baguette chicken like i think definitely i'll

00:12:52.900 definitely give them four star for uh price yeah definitely 100 100 plus first in the two how would

00:13:00.660 the two like mine bro like this this specific food here yeah yeah and i've tried a few other stuff as

00:13:07.300 well yeah i like this place i'll definitely give it i'll definitely give it yeah four man i'm sorry i could

00:13:14.420 do it before yeah it's really nice it's a nice fat of chili in it i mean i like chili maybe people who

00:13:20.740 don't actually yeah but you can tell them you better tell them in advance yeah you don't put chili

00:13:24.340 yeah but the buffalo chicken bone like it's it's actually very nice all-star 100 okay that wasn't

00:13:30.020 chewy yeah right okay so now that was our quality but obviously guys as you know what makes us unique and

00:13:38.260 different is that we'll review how halal it is now as far as i know the menu is fully halal yeah so it's

00:13:46.340 fully halal yeah that's one star yeah do they pay music um no there is inside they do okay they don't

00:14:00.020 it's not a matter of giving half stars to be honest it's because if it's packed here then you're

00:14:03.220 going to have to sit in tight so they pay music so it's okay no stuff like that do this with alcohol

00:14:08.740 no probably so it's not items no no alcohol so they'll be here they get a start for that yeah so

00:14:16.180 what do we do we do we do halalness music alcohol do they have a prayer room it's not big enough 0.98

00:14:21.860 probably they do no they don't have no even using something to get places where they have a little

00:14:25.140 clothes but they don't have a prayer room here um and i don't know the nearest nationally either so no

00:14:31.380 stop for that and also do they have privacy for sisters you have like private brother you want 1.00

00:14:36.100 to hold his wife or sis wanted to come they don't they haven't got private boots i mean they don't

00:14:42.180 they have got little restrictions for a husband and wife to sit down but not that kind of thing if

00:14:46.820 the sister wears wants to remove a hijab or whatever and then you know boris is going to get upset as 0.98

00:14:52.260 well and he's got his hair cut out of me to be honest that's it man like you know problem

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00:15:48.100 from me and mahoos anything else you want to say mahoos it's too big to hook sorry it's too big

00:15:53.700 to hook no of course we're going to pay for it oh okay yeah what uh i don't have to pay for it

00:15:58.980 what what paper you can pay you can pay you can pay it's going to pay someone's going to pay

00:16:07.140 yeah that's what promises more episodes come in very soon now

Ali Dawah - October 29, 2018

DADAS DINER ep1 ｜｜ SALAM DINING

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