Ali Dawah - June 09, 2019


DAVIDS FAVOURITE BOOK - TOUCHING STORY


Episode Stats


Length

2 minutes

Words per minute

184.38

Word count

403

Sentence count

44

Harmful content

Hate speech

1

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Summary

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In this episode, David talks about his favourite book and how he got introduced to the Quran. He also talks about how he keeps it under his pillow and why he reads it to people with dementia. David also explains why he thinks the Quran is a map for life.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 David, morning. Morning sir. Can you just tell us about your favourite book that you've been reading?
00:00:05.400 My favourite book? Well, it goes back five years and it's a great book and everybody should have one on their bookshelf.
00:00:12.160 What is it? No, it's not that one, it's the Quran. How I got introduced to the Quran was I was on the plane coming back from New York.
00:00:21.120 Yeah, that's over that way. Oh, no, it's over that way. And the thing is, believe it or not, really, this guy was reading a book.
00:00:27.400 He left it on the seat when he got off the plane like me. And you know what? I chased after this guy and said to him,
00:00:33.980 Hey, mister, you left your book. He said, No, you keep it. I said, Well, OK. So I kept it.
00:00:41.240 And then I was waiting in the airport lounge and he fell. And what happened? I started to cry when I read the Quran.
00:00:48.160 So I put the book down. I was happy. I was still the same. And then I picked up again. I started to cry.
00:00:55.200 And then I got a taxi to my brothers in London. And then what happened? I told him about the Quran, that I'm going to cry. 0.65
00:01:05.500 And you know what? Just a moment. And then what happened was really, he said, Don't speak of nonsense things. Don't speak of things.
00:01:14.620 I said, Well, the thing is really, why am I crying? And then he said, Go next door. So I went next door. And who was there? The man that was on the plane.
00:01:24.340 And the thing is, name a number. Any number. The thing is, I'm not selling that Quran for £20 million or £20.000.
00:01:35.040 I read it twice a day. And not only that, I keep it under my pillow.
00:01:40.140 And you also read it to people as well.
00:01:42.460 I do. And I'm just going to go with that.
00:01:44.900 And not only that, as an activity coordinator, working with people with dementia, I read it to them.
00:01:51.420 And the thing is, they ask me questions. I don't know all the answers.
00:01:55.880 But I know there's one thing in the Quran.
00:01:58.560 What is it? Truth.
00:02:01.600 And if you was lost in a desert, or you was lost somewhere in town, you'd ask somebody away.
00:02:08.080 What's the Quran?
00:02:09.640 It's a map for life.