Ali Dawah - April 23, 2021


DAWAH CHANNELS FEAR ALLAH SWT - NOT CLICK BAIT!!


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Length

14 minutes

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Word count

2,950

Sentence count

271

Harmful content

Misogyny

3

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Toxicity

18

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Hate speech

36

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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.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 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.
00:00:07.200 Help us feed them this Ramadan to open and break their fast. 0.99
00:00:10.040 And you're charging 10,000, 20,000, and then you're there talking about the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said,
00:00:14.740 the one who gives to orphan and finn will be like this in Jannah.
00:00:18.960 SubhanAllah, you're there talking about this Jannah orphan, you really care about orphans?
00:00:23.080 But if you're doing it just for the money, if you're doing it just for the fame, just for the views,
00:00:30.000 brothers and sisters, this is dangerous.
00:00:32.020 Free people on the day of judgment, Muslims, are going to enter the fire. 1.00
00:00:36.500 The one who recited Quran, the one who gave in sadaqah. 0.99
00:00:43.120 I wouldn't say I've been meaning to do this video for a long time, but I think it's an important reminder.
00:00:48.080 This reminder is something that is close home to me.
00:00:50.720 So this reminder goes to me first before anyone else.
00:00:53.800 I don't want this to be felt by anyone that's watching this that I'm targeting you.
00:00:57.520 But I've been targeting myself and I carry on targeting myself and I should carry on doing that, brothers and sisters, subhanAllah.
00:01:03.980 And subhanAllah, one of the greatest scholars, I forgot his name, said,
00:01:09.440 I have not fought with anything as hard as is my intentions.
00:01:13.860 For one day it is against me and the next day it is for me.
00:01:17.280 Brothers and sisters, I can really, really, really relate to this statement.
00:01:23.620 In the Dawah scene, brothers and sisters, you are hit with a lot of stuff.
00:01:27.460 You are hit with attention from, as men, you are hit with attention from females.
00:01:32.360 Yeah? Attention. Yeah?
00:01:33.960 Let's be real here.
00:01:35.180 You'll get the attention of fame.
00:01:36.540 You've been stopped every now and then, taking pictures, etc.
00:01:39.100 You've got the fitna of even money coming into it.
00:01:42.300 And this is the reason why I'm doing this video, brothers and sisters,
00:01:44.200 because this is a reminder to myself first.
00:01:46.040 Wallahi, I genuinely, everything I'm seeing, I'm not here to have the high horse like, you know, I'm,
00:01:52.680 the reason it's coming from me, I don't see much people speaking about it and we have to be real.
00:01:56.780 Because brothers and sisters, this is a massive problem and if we don't touch upon it, it's going to destroy us.
00:02:02.060 How is it?
00:02:02.420 Especially with brothers and sisters in the Dawah scene. 0.98
00:02:05.220 We do not want to be a candle that gives light to everyone and burns herself off.
00:02:08.720 And I'm not talking about burning herself off by being tired.
00:02:10.880 No, what I'm talking about is we end up in the fire.
00:02:13.980 Why do we end up in the fire?
00:02:15.060 Because we did our Dawah for what reason? 0.83
00:02:17.540 We did it for the money.
00:02:18.740 We did it for the fame.
00:02:19.800 We did it for the attention for the females. 1.00
00:02:22.180 We did it for whatever reason it may be.
00:02:25.000 Fame, money and all that kind of stuff.
00:02:27.900 So we have to really fear Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. 0.99
00:02:30.980 And the reason I'm doing this video is because there's certain things I've observed,
00:02:34.240 there's certain things that I've seen within myself and my surroundings and the brothers that I work with,
00:02:39.020 whoever it may be.
00:02:39.600 It's no one specific, it's just in general.
00:02:42.160 And we really, really need to understand, brothers and sisters, the Dawah channels that we have, 0.94
00:02:48.140 the Dawah personalities.
00:02:49.980 If we do not do this for the sake of Allah, and I know it's damn hard, I know.
00:02:54.720 Wallahi, sometimes I came to a point where I was going to, and my teachers testified to this,
00:03:00.200 I really wanted to leave the Dawah. 1.00
00:03:01.800 Because I couldn't reconcile.
00:03:03.620 I was like, am I doing this for the right reasons?
00:03:05.420 Am I doing this for the right reasons?
00:03:06.300 Am I doing this for the right reasons?
00:03:06.920 I was losing my mind over it.
00:03:08.540 Wallahi, I was getting depressed.
00:03:09.980 Because I don't want to stand in front of Allah. 0.99
00:03:11.960 And Allah says, everything you've done, you did it for the fame.
00:03:15.700 You did it for the attention of the females. 0.99
00:03:17.520 You did it for the money.
00:03:19.660 Or this, that.
00:03:20.540 So much so, I didn't want to get paid by YouTube for five years.
00:03:23.960 I just, straight to stay away from it.
00:03:25.960 And alhamdulillah, that was the biggest blessing.
00:03:27.440 Because at least I can look back and say, you know, because recently, like about two years ago,
00:03:31.660 I started monetizing.
00:03:33.100 Because alhamdulillah, YouTube allowed us to block certain ads. 0.77
00:03:35.400 And they were putting ads on our videos anyways.
00:03:37.520 So alhamdulillah, we spoke to people of knowledge, etc.
00:03:39.580 Shaykh Haytham, spoke to our teacher, Shaykh Abu Safiyah, Shaykh Muhammad, you know.
00:03:43.600 And subhanallah, we came to the decision that we can monetize.
00:03:47.180 But we blocked certain ads, alhamdulillah.
00:03:48.980 And even then, sometimes things come up, which is out of our control.
00:03:51.920 But subhanallah, we've consulted with our teachers.
00:03:53.740 The point is this, brothers and sisters, yeah.
00:03:55.620 Even then, I'm thinking, man, if I started monetizing my channel from the get-go,
00:03:59.960 I would genuinely question myself.
00:04:02.280 Why am I doing this?
00:04:03.160 But knowing that I did it five years, at least it gives me a bit of peace of mind that,
00:04:07.380 okay, I wasn't doing it for the money.
00:04:09.200 And so much so, brothers and sisters, sometimes, alhamdulillah, I'm involved, like, alhamdulillah,
00:04:13.240 a little money, I try to invest in certain places, alhamdulillah.
00:04:16.160 Look, I don't even need to do Uber anymore.
00:04:18.680 In the context where, alhamdulillah, I've got other options, et cetera, I'm working, 0.72
00:04:22.020 I've got to do different stuff, different jobs, et cetera, brothers and sisters.
00:04:24.780 I'm trying to start, like, a little business for myself.
00:04:27.040 The thing is, this, brothers and sisters, even then, I'm thinking, I need to go back to Uber
00:04:30.280 because it keeps me in check.
00:04:32.600 Do you get what I'm trying to say?
00:04:33.960 And it keeps me, like, you know, at least, like, it's just another source income.
00:04:36.820 I don't even want to be paid by the dawah. 0.73
00:04:38.960 Like, genuinely, because certainly we work for certain organizations.
00:04:41.740 Sometimes I do live, it feels like Iman channel, alhamdulillah, and different places.
00:04:44.700 So, you do get, like, you can make, like, alhamdulillah, some kind of a living.
00:04:49.060 But the point is, this, brothers and sisters, and that's normal.
00:04:50.680 There's nothing wrong with that, you know, alhamdulillah.
00:04:51.960 I'm not saying presenters.
00:04:53.620 I'm not talking about that, yeah?
00:04:55.100 But the point is, this, brothers and sisters, yeah?
00:04:57.040 Us in the dawah, we have to be, our standards have to be high, yeah?
00:05:02.700 Because this is the deen of Allah. 0.91
00:05:04.700 If we do something wrong, or if we are perceived as someone who's just money motivated,
00:05:09.380 or fame motivated, or other things, brothers and sisters, it's going to damage the dawah.
00:05:13.360 People are going to perceive us in a different way.
00:05:15.920 And one of the examples I can give in the speaker's corner,
00:05:18.580 I see, brothers, and I'm being honest, it's the same with me, yeah?
00:05:21.960 Running for content.
00:05:23.620 Running, oh, I need to upload it before, etc.
00:05:25.300 The question we need to ask is, why?
00:05:28.380 Why are you in competition?
00:05:30.180 Oh, I need to get, and this goes to me.
00:05:32.460 Brothers and sisters, this goes to me, and I try my best to battle it.
00:05:36.300 Why are you running?
00:05:37.620 Brothers, please, please, and sisters who are in the dawah, ask yourself a question.
00:05:41.320 If you have rivalry, rivalry, not a healthy competition like Abu Bakr and Umar ibn Khattab,
00:05:48.580 if you have rivalry where you want to get a specific content before because of views,
00:05:55.300 ask yourself a question.
00:05:57.320 Why do I feel like that?
00:05:59.040 If money is involved, ask yourself a question.
00:06:03.820 If you have started, because shaitan is going to come and creep in you slowly and slowly and slowly. 1.00
00:06:07.580 And when you have these dawah channels, a lot of things are open to you.
00:06:10.840 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.
00:06:14.560 The options are open.
00:06:16.620 Listen, if I was to say yes, I would be bullying.
00:06:19.760 When I be bullying, like, I'm trying to say, once again, I'm not trying to have the high horse here.
00:06:23.060 Wallahi, wallahi, Allah is my witness.
00:06:24.900 May Allah forgive me if I'm trying to become this humble guy who's trying to come to you guys.
00:06:28.500 Wallahi, I struggle with this myself.
00:06:30.620 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.
00:06:36.700 But sometimes I have to fight the nefts and say, no, Aki, no problem, you don't need to pay me.
00:06:41.720 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.
00:06:53.080 And whatever, if I can little save, as long as I've got that, it's fine.
00:06:56.220 But if I am just like, no, money, money, money, I need to make money.
00:06:59.480 The Prophet says, wallahi, this is going to destroy your heart. 1.00
00:07:01.740 If you're in the dawah and all your occupied money, subhanAllah, we hear people who want to give khutbah.
00:07:06.440 For grand, thousands, now what, 5,000 pounds.
00:07:08.960 Why, what?
00:07:10.260 The people refuse into the khutbah. 0.93
00:07:12.140 Why?
00:07:12.480 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?
00:07:18.780 Oh, if you give me 11,000, 12,000, something, I'm thinking, what?
00:07:23.600 Oh, give me first class tickets.
00:07:25.740 Brothers and sisters, we need to combat this.
00:07:27.940 Even if they give us the option, yeah, even if they give us the option, we need to say, no, thank you, yeah.
00:07:34.060 If they come and say, brother, we'll give you first class plane ticket.
00:07:36.960 No, I don't need first class plane ticket, brother.
00:07:39.360 Yeah, I don't need first class plane ticket.
00:07:42.060 We have to fight our nerves.
00:07:43.820 But if we say, oh, no, you know, I deserve it.
00:07:45.780 No.
00:07:45.960 We need to fight that.
00:07:47.440 We can't just be like, oh, yeah, take it from here.
00:07:49.200 He's giving it down there.
00:07:50.180 You have to keep yourself in check.
00:07:52.660 Brothers, you need to keep yourself in check.
00:07:54.840 We can't have this attitude where everything is money, money, money.
00:07:59.020 If you need to make a living, understandable.
00:08:00.680 There's certain things you can do.
00:08:01.580 That's totally understandable.
00:08:03.460 But if you're doing it just for the money, if you're doing it just for the faith, just for the views.
00:08:10.720 Brothers and sisters, this is dangerous.
00:08:11.840 Brothers, free people on the day of judgment, Muslims, are going to enter the fire. 1.00
00:08:16.700 The one who recited the Quran, the one who gave him sadaqah, the one who fought for the sake of Allah.
00:08:20.920 How could these people end up in the fire?
00:08:22.780 I'm asking you, how?
00:08:23.700 How?
00:08:24.700 How?
00:08:25.080 It's scary.
00:08:26.700 How are these people?
00:08:27.400 Allah, it's scary.
00:08:28.700 The one who recited the Quran, Allah asked him, what did you do for my sake?
00:08:32.260 Oh Allah, I recited the Quran and I spread it. 0.99
00:08:35.040 You're a liar, Allah's going to say. 0.99
00:08:36.960 You're a kathab. 1.00
00:08:38.040 Yeah, you did it so people can say, he's a knowledgeable person.
00:08:42.820 Ah, students of knowledge.
00:08:44.300 Ah, you're trying to be knowledgeable.
00:08:45.460 Ah, I don't people see that.
00:08:46.800 Oh, I need to make sure that I gave an Arabic right before the video.
00:08:49.360 Oh, is it really?
00:08:50.020 Why, brother?
00:08:50.400 Why?
00:08:51.080 Why?
00:08:51.700 If you make a mistake, what, your reputation is going to be on the line?
00:08:54.700 Number two, the one who gave in sadaqah, in zakah. 0.88
00:08:58.180 Allah's going to ask him, what did you do for my sake?
00:09:00.060 Oh Allah, I gave in sadaqah. 1.00
00:09:01.780 You're a liar, kathab. 1.00
00:09:03.340 You did it? 1.00
00:09:04.300 So people can say, what a generous man.
00:09:06.120 He's such a generous man.
00:09:07.300 And the one who fought for his sake, Allah's going to say, what you do for me?
00:09:10.980 I'll fall for your sake.
00:09:12.360 You're a kathab. 0.99
00:09:13.220 La, Allah's going to say. 0.81
00:09:14.640 You did it so people can say, what a brave man.
00:09:16.720 What a warrior.
00:09:18.220 Yeah?
00:09:19.380 Okay.
00:09:20.280 Brothers and sisters, please.
00:09:22.920 This is a reminder to everyone.
00:09:24.140 And people have YouTube ads.
00:09:25.600 They've monetized on their channels.
00:09:27.200 Quran is being played.
00:09:28.220 Next video is of alcohol.
00:09:29.960 Next video is of next level stuff. 0.57
00:09:32.300 Half naked girls coming out. 1.00
00:09:34.620 These are for YouTube channels. 0.50
00:09:35.840 Because if you're earning, your money is haram.
00:09:37.880 Haram, alcohol, riba.
00:09:40.660 All these kind of stuff.
00:09:43.960 Filter your ads.
00:09:46.060 Filter your ads.
00:09:48.100 Even if your Wallahi, even if your money that you're making goes half.
00:09:51.520 Wallahi, it's better for you.
00:09:53.400 It's better for you.
00:09:54.540 Brothers and sisters, this is just a reminder to our channels.
00:10:00.700 And this goes to me.
00:10:01.600 We need to feel Allah.
00:10:03.360 We need to make sure that we do not give this perception to people.
00:10:06.760 Subhanallah.
00:10:07.520 That it's all about money.
00:10:08.740 I don't want people to think because it's the deen of Allah.
00:10:10.740 It's not about me.
00:10:11.780 If I go and say yes.
00:10:13.000 Brother, I'm going to charge you for this sponsor.
00:10:15.140 This, that.
00:10:15.440 I've had sponsorships.
00:10:16.660 Yeah?
00:10:16.980 I have an agreement.
00:10:17.700 I have sponsorship.
00:10:18.320 Yes.
00:10:19.020 I myself do.
00:10:20.240 But those who I work with, they know very clearly.
00:10:22.460 Alhamdulillah.
00:10:22.880 Yeah?
00:10:23.340 Okay.
00:10:23.920 If they can't afford it, I'll do it for free.
00:10:26.300 So, brothers and sisters, what I'm trying to say is this.
00:10:28.120 Yeah?
00:10:28.660 To earn a living and an income in the dawah is fine. 0.63
00:10:30.960 To be even paid by dawah is okay. 0.90
00:10:33.420 It's okay.
00:10:34.380 But the point is, if you're doing it just for the money.
00:10:37.760 And it's become an enterprise.
00:10:39.760 It's become a franchise.
00:10:42.200 Yeah?
00:10:42.520 Where my channel, my channel, my channel, etc.
00:10:45.360 Fear Allah.
00:10:46.860 Uqsub billah. 0.91
00:10:47.620 Fear Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. 0.97
00:10:49.100 You know?
00:10:49.580 I've had moments where I've seen certain individuals.
00:10:53.700 Yeah?
00:10:54.080 Certain channels.
00:10:55.260 And wallahi, brothers close to me have controlled me.
00:10:58.340 But I've said, look, I'm going to refute this channel in public.
00:11:00.560 Or this person in public.
00:11:03.100 Why?
00:11:03.660 Because of A, B, C, D.
00:11:05.720 A, B, C, D.
00:11:07.780 We're human beings.
00:11:09.080 We assume the best. 1.00
00:11:10.140 But when we see something, we're idiots. 1.00
00:11:11.860 We become idiots. 1.00
00:11:12.860 Hold on a second, brother. 1.00
00:11:13.600 This is it once, twice.
00:11:15.160 Oh, views, this, that.
00:11:17.300 Caring about.
00:11:17.720 Oh, just channel, channel, channel.
00:11:20.340 Brothers and sisters, please.
00:11:21.720 I'm just going to end on this.
00:11:22.360 I'm not sorry.
00:11:22.580 I'm going to have a tantrum.
00:11:23.520 I'm so sorry.
00:11:24.300 But guys, in a nutshell, we need to fear Allah in the Dawah scene. 0.97
00:11:27.300 And we cannot make this.
00:11:28.380 We've got presenters who are charging thousands of pounds to present.
00:11:31.520 We need to have a cap.
00:11:32.760 There has to be something where we say, hold on a second.
00:11:34.160 We don't cross the line here.
00:11:35.420 We can.
00:11:37.000 I'm not going to say it's sinful.
00:11:38.080 We can.
00:11:38.520 We have people, subhanAllah, like, imagine raising funds for the poor or the miskin, the orphans. 0.96
00:11:45.580 And you're charging 10,000, 20,000.
00:11:48.260 And then you're there talking about the Prophet, sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, said,
00:11:50.580 the one who gives to orphan and thing will be like this in Jannah.
00:11:54.840 SubhanAllah.
00:11:55.920 You're there talking about this Jannah orphan.
00:11:57.760 You really care about orphans?
00:11:59.320 You really care about orphans?
00:12:00.860 Yeah?
00:12:01.520 Let's see.
00:12:01.920 Why are you charging 10 grand, 20 grand? 0.89
00:12:04.220 Ridiculous amount. 0.64
00:12:05.280 Huh? 0.99
00:12:05.400 Why don't you cap yourself and say, you know what, okay, I deserve, let's say, whatever
00:12:08.640 it may be, I have the following of a famous person, two grand, whatever it may be.
00:12:12.480 Yeah?
00:12:13.260 10 grand, 20 grand.
00:12:14.440 And then you come and say, brothers and sisters, Allah and his mission said, Allah said that
00:12:17.360 the Prophet, sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, said, the one who helps the orphan.
00:12:20.420 You're taking from the orphan's money.
00:12:22.000 What are you talking about?
00:12:26.000 Anyways, that's it, brothers and sisters.
00:12:27.480 That was my tantrum.
00:12:28.340 I'm so sorry.
00:12:28.780 I had to get it off my chest.
00:12:30.060 Really annoying me.
00:12:31.320 And once again, this is a reminder to myself first.
00:12:33.580 Wallahi, I'll be honest with you.
00:12:35.940 I don't even think I can stand in front of Allah and say, Allah, I've done dawah for
00:12:38.720 your sake.
00:12:39.500 I don't know.
00:12:41.580 Only thing that I can know and that's keeping me sane and keeping me in the dawah is that
00:12:45.340 I focus on my private deeds as much as I can, whatever I can do.
00:12:49.800 So at least I can say, Allah, that was for you. 0.99
00:12:51.940 There was no one there to see.
00:12:53.080 That was between me and you.
00:12:54.340 I can't stand in front of Allah on my dawah. 0.99
00:12:56.080 If Allah accepts it, alhamdulillah. 0.99
00:12:58.360 If he doesn't, I'm not even coming there with that.
00:13:00.400 If Allah says, what you've done to me, oh Allah, private deeds.
00:13:03.400 Dawah, I don't know.
00:13:04.480 Dawah, I don't know.
00:13:07.080 May Allah purify your intentions.
00:13:08.200 This is Ramadan.
00:13:09.000 We're fasting.
00:13:09.500 Wallahi, may Allah purify your intentions.
00:13:11.000 May Allah protect us.
00:13:12.460 There is nothing more scary than to a dawah. 1.00
00:13:16.460 And this should be with every one of us.
00:13:18.820 To think, Wallahi, can you imagine standing in front of Allah? 1.00
00:13:22.320 Yeah?
00:13:22.720 Can you imagine standing in front of Allah and Allah says to you, what you've done for me?
00:13:26.100 And you say, Wallahi, don't dawah of you. 0.96
00:13:28.640 And he says, you're a kandhaab. 1.00
00:13:31.260 You're a liar. 1.00
00:13:32.900 Brothers and sisters. 1.00
00:13:34.160 Wallahi, may Allah protect us.
00:13:35.680 Wallahi, wallahi.
00:13:37.000 There is nothing that is more scary than that.
00:13:39.380 As-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh.
00:13:41.240 Thank you.