Ali Dawah - October 28, 2020


DAVE CHAPPELLE STORY TO ISLAM


Episode Stats

Length

10 minutes

Words per Minute

183.49916

Word Count

1,998

Sentence Count

1

Hate Speech Sentences

11


Summary

In this episode of the podcast, we are celebrating the return of one of my favorite comedians, Ustad Jamal Ustaz Shafilem, who opened up about how he became a muslim, how he came to Islam, and what we can learn from his story.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 when i was 17 i was living in washington and there was a pizza shop across from my house
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00:00:27.300 fans welcome back dave shafel somebody i used to watch before i came to islam and sometimes during
00:00:32.940 my time of islam a halal joth of course he's somebody who's um uh been in movies uh funny ones so he's
00:00:41.120 known as a comedian uh one of the most funniest comedians of our time um but not many of us know
00:00:48.180 much things about him so he has a little interview and in this interview he opens up um about being a
00:00:54.020 which i myself knew but it seemed like to a lot of people it was a surprise i guess people didn't
00:00:58.640 know um we're gonna watch that and also we're going to elaborate on inshallah what caused him
00:01:04.380 to come to islam when he came to islam and him as a person what can we learn from this inshallah
00:01:10.520 let's get straight into it and watch you're you're a muslim i am when did you become muslim i was 17
00:01:18.220 what were the circumstances i don't know it was like believing in god and stuff
00:01:21.880 i'm not like you know i mean i should preface this by saying it's not like i'm good at it
00:01:29.380 when i was 17 i was living in washington and there was a pizza shop across from my house
00:01:37.060 and it was like all these muslim dudes that worked in there and i used to go in there crack jokes
00:01:42.140 and i also i was a naturally curious guy and i would ask him questions about his religion it was in the
00:01:47.880 guy was so passionate about it it was very compelling i like the perspective of it and i
00:01:53.100 think these things informed my decision that i wanted to have a meaningful life a spiritual life
00:01:59.520 okay that's interesting so what we're going to do guys is we're going to go to a verse in the
00:02:05.140 because it's very very important for us to put this into context a lot of bigots um those be the far
00:02:12.380 right and islamophobes in general think that in the por'an the physical jihad is the biggest form
00:02:19.440 of jihad like you know that's the only form of jihad that you can do against you know like one
00:02:24.260 defender let's have to be offensive or defensive yeah um but that's not actually the case and there
00:02:28.940 is a verse that actually supports this and this verse was shown to me by ustad jamal um and i want to
00:02:33.700 show that to you guys inshallah and see what allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says about what is one of the
00:02:38.020 greatest forms of jihad allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says for example sahih international says so do not
00:02:52.020 obey the disbelievers and strive against them with a great striving what is a great striving yeah
00:02:57.320 because allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says at the end of the verse kabira yeah jihadan kabira
00:03:02.180 the quran this is talking about the quran so it shows to us brothers and sisters that the most
00:03:08.940 powerful thing that you have is not the sword is not nuclear bombs as muslims not weapons of mass
00:03:15.780 destruction yeah no it's the quran the quran is the biggest weapon that we have and that is the reason
00:03:24.360 why today you have france to islamophobes in speaker's corner to around the world and their only fear
00:03:32.080 is what they pretend it's jihad the one that they the false jihad that they talk about of these
00:03:37.380 um isis um supporters who go and commit atrocities um and they think this is a threat and they know
00:03:45.200 very well it's the quran that they fear the most because hundreds thousands millions of people come
00:03:50.540 to islam and this is exactly their biggest fear with dave chapelle for him was what going to a pizza
00:03:58.660 shop to crack a few jokes being a little curious look at the people who come to islam being myself
00:04:04.580 and many other people what is it it was the kitab of Allah the quran it was the dawah that was given
00:04:10.360 to us that changed us that made us who we are like umar abhi khattab said with this book allah has raised
00:04:16.800 us and if we turn our back against this book allah will humiliate us and that's exactly what is
00:04:21.440 happening barman sisters quran is the biggest weapon a believer has and the dua is after that of course
00:04:28.900 the dua as well so you can see barman sisters him going to a pizza shop and listen to somebody where
00:04:34.580 he himself says was so passionate was probably talking about islam the quran etc and that moved
00:04:40.980 him that thing there just going to a pizza shop and somebody doing dawah like i mentioned in my
00:04:46.980 previous video about khabib uh you can watch that as well where i talk about dawah is not just having
00:04:51.640 youtube channels and you're such a knowledgeable person no for people to just see you practicing or
00:04:57.320 being passionate and talking about it it keeps them curious so it's very important for us to
00:05:02.560 accomplish this let's carry on uh watching inshallah reading about you being muslim and they referenced
00:05:08.740 something that i was fascinated by the well of zam zam there's a well called zam zam it's in saudi arabia and
00:05:16.340 the myth goes that a family walking through this desert dying of thirst and this endless well presents
00:05:24.940 itself you and i could go see it right so i could go see it you probably have to make some phone calls
00:05:29.380 have you have you been there i have it's only welcome to muslims it's not a tourist location
00:05:40.620 no nor should it be the man is the prophet abraham and his wife the word zam zam that you guys speak
00:05:47.740 here literally means stop stop because when it was commanded that this well would appear the water
00:05:54.000 gushed forth so much that the wife screamed stop stop is because it was so overwhelming and they say
00:06:00.840 that it's an inexhaustible well the thing that comforts me about it is the idea that all of this is from a
00:06:07.700 singular source that this source is ultimately kind and even though we may not understand the
00:06:13.060 intentions of this source they were all connected and bounded by you know like it's not as it's been
00:06:17.940 presented in the public space is such a narrow and and dismissive view of of a religious belief it's a
00:06:25.300 it's a beautiful religion like a beautiful religion amazing amazing boss i just want to touch up on a few
00:06:32.020 things here which he mentioned which is very important subhanallah um and you can see he's
00:06:36.580 very firm with his beliefs because he even said the place it's not a tourist place and it should not
00:06:40.500 be a tourist place so it's quite blunt you know a lot of us muslims today would be that oh yeah no
00:06:44.980 it's make the hundred exclusive yeah it's not a tourist place and it shouldn't be it's for muslims
00:06:48.580 simple as that look what he says he mentioned the few attributes of allah subhanahu wa ta'ala let's listen to
00:06:53.540 it the idea that all of this is from a singular soul all of this is from a singular singular source
00:06:59.620 what is that say he allah is one from a singular source not the trinity not a million gods not
00:07:08.900 this not that from a singular source ahad he is one that this source is ultimately kind
00:07:15.860 allah subhanahu wa ta'ala the most merciful the very merciful talking about allah subhanahu wa ta'ala's mercy
00:07:23.380 for those who have sinned for those who have progressed never despair the mercy of your lord
00:07:27.780 for you to think that allah will not forgive your sins is a greater sin than any action you do in
00:07:34.260 this life you know why because the moment you say that is what you are saying my sin is greater than
00:07:40.580 allah's mercy allah is saying in every single chapter of the quran except one and you
00:07:48.660 think allah gave this an attribute to himself of being the most merciful over hadith and quran and
00:07:52.580 hundreds of verses and you're going to come here and think your sin is greater than allah's mercy
00:07:57.220 never never it is greater than allah's mercy and there is a hadith of the prophet sallallahu
00:08:02.820 ah wasallam where two people where allah will tell both of them to enter the hellfire because of what
00:08:08.020 they've done one would run and the other would walk in a sloppy way you know like
00:08:15.220 walking with disappointment and allah he knows and he's just asking though he knows
00:08:22.820 he asks the first one why are you running to the hellfire why is it when i said you go to hellfire
00:08:27.460 you rush to it and he says oh allah on earth i did not obey you i thought that for once you have
00:08:36.500 commanded me to do something i thought let me run and at least obey allah for one thing he's done
00:08:41.940 one thing at least i listen to one thing he's told me to do allah says enter paradise look at this into
00:08:48.180 paradise he says to the second one why are you walking and keep looking back he said oh allah i knew you to
00:08:56.100 be the most merciful and i was looking for that mercy allah says enter my paradise allah is looking
00:09:04.420 for any reason to enter you to paradise so let's move on so the source of ultimate ultimately kind
00:09:10.500 even though we may not understand the intentions of this source they were all connected and bounded by it
00:09:16.020 so here you might be talking about allah yeah yeah he is the most wise sometimes we do not know
00:09:23.780 thing we do not understand things things don't make sense to us why is this happening to me
00:09:28.180 why brothers and sisters to have to walk on and have trust in allah that you know that he's got
00:09:36.100 something good for you and he's never going to leave in despair is a sign of iman i think that's it i will
00:09:42.980 islam is not as it's been presented in the and then she got ends with talking about islamophobia and
00:09:52.580 how they have tried to distort islam and they will try and while like it does nothing but bring more
00:09:58.340 people to islam be it these attacks against the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam's character
00:10:02.500 whatever it may be these things are going to bring more people to islam because you plan on allah
00:10:08.820 plans and he's the best of plans the ifshipaul is a muslim and he subhanallah had a 50 million pound
00:10:15.540 contract with comedy central which he turned his back against and he went to africa to you know
00:10:22.340 getting back in connection with spirituality and it shows that brothers sisters he's not someone that
00:10:27.300 cares about money because if he did he would not reject that people were calling him crazy
00:10:30.980 uh so that's it brothers sisters uh if you didn't know yeah ifshipaul is a muslim
00:10:34.580 may allah keep him firm and his brothers are muslim apparently as well um so alhamdulillah uh people
00:10:39.140 come to islam from all walks of life with us allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to forgive us enter us into
00:10:43.860 jannah till next time assalamu alaikum wa alaikum wa barakatuh and smile to jannah will be releasing a video
00:10:49.300 about this too as well go check that as well