DAWAH CHANNELS FEAR ALLAH SWT - NOT CLICK BAIT!!
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Summary
In this video, I talk about the dangers of being in the Dawah scene and how we end up in the fire. I also talk about how we do not want to be a candle that gives light to everyone and burns herself off.
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Guys, before the video starts, I'm trying to raise 300,000 meals for 1,000 families in Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia, Bangladesh, brothers and sisters, inshaAllah.
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Help us feed them this Ramadan to open and break their fast.
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And you're charging 10,000, 20,000, and then you're there talking about the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said,
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the one who gives to orphan and finn will be like this in Jannah.
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SubhanAllah, you're there talking about this Jannah orphan, you really care about orphans?
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But if you're doing it just for the money, if you're doing it just for the fame, just for the views,
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Free people on the day of judgment, Muslims, are going to enter the fire.
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The one who recited Quran, the one who gave in sadaqah.
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I wouldn't say I've been meaning to do this video for a long time, but I think it's an important reminder.
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This reminder is something that is close home to me.
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So this reminder goes to me first before anyone else.
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I don't want this to be felt by anyone that's watching this that I'm targeting you.
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But I've been targeting myself and I carry on targeting myself and I should carry on doing that, brothers and sisters, subhanAllah.
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And subhanAllah, one of the greatest scholars, I forgot his name, said,
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I have not fought with anything as hard as is my intentions.
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For one day it is against me and the next day it is for me.
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Brothers and sisters, I can really, really, really relate to this statement.
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In the Dawah scene, brothers and sisters, you are hit with a lot of stuff.
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You are hit with attention from, as men, you are hit with attention from females.
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You've been stopped every now and then, taking pictures, etc.
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You've got the fitna of even money coming into it.
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And this is the reason why I'm doing this video, brothers and sisters,
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Wallahi, I genuinely, everything I'm seeing, I'm not here to have the high horse like, you know, I'm,
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the reason it's coming from me, I don't see much people speaking about it and we have to be real.
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Because brothers and sisters, this is a massive problem and if we don't touch upon it, it's going to destroy us.
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Especially with brothers and sisters in the Dawah scene.
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We do not want to be a candle that gives light to everyone and burns herself off.
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And I'm not talking about burning herself off by being tired.
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No, what I'm talking about is we end up in the fire.
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So we have to really fear Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
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And the reason I'm doing this video is because there's certain things I've observed,
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there's certain things that I've seen within myself and my surroundings and the brothers that I work with,
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And we really, really need to understand, brothers and sisters, the Dawah channels that we have,
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If we do not do this for the sake of Allah, and I know it's damn hard, I know.
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Wallahi, sometimes I came to a point where I was going to, and my teachers testified to this,
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I was like, am I doing this for the right reasons?
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Because I don't want to stand in front of Allah.
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And Allah says, everything you've done, you did it for the fame.
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So much so, I didn't want to get paid by YouTube for five years.
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And alhamdulillah, that was the biggest blessing.
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Because at least I can look back and say, you know, because recently, like about two years ago,
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Because alhamdulillah, YouTube allowed us to block certain ads.
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And they were putting ads on our videos anyways.
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So alhamdulillah, we spoke to people of knowledge, etc.
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Shaykh Haytham, spoke to our teacher, Shaykh Abu Safiyah, Shaykh Muhammad, you know.
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And subhanallah, we came to the decision that we can monetize.
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And even then, sometimes things come up, which is out of our control.
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But subhanallah, we've consulted with our teachers.
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Even then, I'm thinking, man, if I started monetizing my channel from the get-go,
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But knowing that I did it five years, at least it gives me a bit of peace of mind that,
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And so much so, brothers and sisters, sometimes, alhamdulillah, I'm involved, like, alhamdulillah,
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a little money, I try to invest in certain places, alhamdulillah.
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In the context where, alhamdulillah, I've got other options, et cetera, I'm working,
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I've got to do different stuff, different jobs, et cetera, brothers and sisters.
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I'm trying to start, like, a little business for myself.
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The thing is, this, brothers and sisters, even then, I'm thinking, I need to go back to Uber
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And it keeps me, like, you know, at least, like, it's just another source income.
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Like, genuinely, because certainly we work for certain organizations.
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Sometimes I do live, it feels like Iman channel, alhamdulillah, and different places.
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So, you do get, like, you can make, like, alhamdulillah, some kind of a living.
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But the point is, this, brothers and sisters, and that's normal.
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There's nothing wrong with that, you know, alhamdulillah.
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But the point is, this, brothers and sisters, yeah?
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Us in the dawah, we have to be, our standards have to be high, yeah?
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If we do something wrong, or if we are perceived as someone who's just money motivated,
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or fame motivated, or other things, brothers and sisters, it's going to damage the dawah.
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People are going to perceive us in a different way.
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And one of the examples I can give in the speaker's corner,
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I see, brothers, and I'm being honest, it's the same with me, yeah?
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Brothers and sisters, this goes to me, and I try my best to battle it.
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Brothers, please, please, and sisters who are in the dawah, ask yourself a question.
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If you have rivalry, rivalry, not a healthy competition like Abu Bakr and Umar ibn Khattab,
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if you have rivalry where you want to get a specific content before because of views,
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If you have started, because shaitan is going to come and creep in you slowly and slowly and slowly.
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And when you have these dawah channels, a lot of things are open to you.
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I get a lot of people coming and saying, brother, can you share this, etc., I'll give you money, I'll give you money.
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Listen, if I was to say yes, I would be bullying.
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When I be bullying, like, I'm trying to say, once again, I'm not trying to have the high horse here.
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May Allah forgive me if I'm trying to become this humble guy who's trying to come to you guys.
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Genuinely, guys, I have this opportunity when I'm looking, brother, if I get some money from there, there, there, there, bro, that's a lot of money.
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But sometimes I have to fight the nefts and say, no, Aki, no problem, you don't need to pay me.
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Because as long as I'm making enough, my thing is this, as long as I'm making enough to pay my rent, my shopping, yeah, my wife's, you know, if my wife needs finances, whatever it may be, or whatever, my kids, etc.
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And whatever, if I can little save, as long as I've got that, it's fine.
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But if I am just like, no, money, money, money, I need to make money.
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The Prophet says, wallahi, this is going to destroy your heart.
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If you're in the dawah and all your occupied money, subhanAllah, we hear people who want to give khutbah.
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No, if you want me to, I heard of a story, somebody, the imam didn't come and they asked the famous sheikh, can you give khutbah?
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Oh, if you give me 11,000, 12,000, something, I'm thinking, what?
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Even if they give us the option, yeah, even if they give us the option, we need to say, no, thank you, yeah.
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If they come and say, brother, we'll give you first class plane ticket.
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No, I don't need first class plane ticket, brother.
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We can't just be like, oh, yeah, take it from here.
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We can't have this attitude where everything is money, money, money.
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But if you're doing it just for the money, if you're doing it just for the faith, just for the views.
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Brothers, free people on the day of judgment, Muslims, are going to enter the fire.
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The one who recited the Quran, the one who gave him sadaqah, the one who fought for the sake of Allah.
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The one who recited the Quran, Allah asked him, what did you do for my sake?
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Yeah, you did it so people can say, he's a knowledgeable person.
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Oh, I need to make sure that I gave an Arabic right before the video.
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If you make a mistake, what, your reputation is going to be on the line?
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Number two, the one who gave in sadaqah, in zakah.
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Allah's going to ask him, what did you do for my sake?
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And the one who fought for his sake, Allah's going to say, what you do for me?
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You did it so people can say, what a brave man.
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Because if you're earning, your money is haram.
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Even if your Wallahi, even if your money that you're making goes half.
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Brothers and sisters, this is just a reminder to our channels.
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We need to make sure that we do not give this perception to people.
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I don't want people to think because it's the deen of Allah.
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Brother, I'm going to charge you for this sponsor.
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But those who I work with, they know very clearly.
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So, brothers and sisters, what I'm trying to say is this.
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To earn a living and an income in the dawah is fine.
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But the point is, if you're doing it just for the money.
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I've had moments where I've seen certain individuals.
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And wallahi, brothers close to me have controlled me.
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But I've said, look, I'm going to refute this channel in public.
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But guys, in a nutshell, we need to fear Allah in the Dawah scene.
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We've got presenters who are charging thousands of pounds to present.
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There has to be something where we say, hold on a second.
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We have people, subhanAllah, like, imagine raising funds for the poor or the miskin, the orphans.
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And then you're there talking about the Prophet, sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, said,
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the one who gives to orphan and thing will be like this in Jannah.
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Why don't you cap yourself and say, you know what, okay, I deserve, let's say, whatever
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it may be, I have the following of a famous person, two grand, whatever it may be.
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And then you come and say, brothers and sisters, Allah and his mission said, Allah said that
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the Prophet, sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, said, the one who helps the orphan.
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And once again, this is a reminder to myself first.
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I don't even think I can stand in front of Allah and say, Allah, I've done dawah for
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Only thing that I can know and that's keeping me sane and keeping me in the dawah is that
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I focus on my private deeds as much as I can, whatever I can do.
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So at least I can say, Allah, that was for you.
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If he doesn't, I'm not even coming there with that.
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If Allah says, what you've done to me, oh Allah, private deeds.
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To think, Wallahi, can you imagine standing in front of Allah?
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Can you imagine standing in front of Allah and Allah says to you, what you've done for me?
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As-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh.