Ali Dawah - November 25, 2013


Dawah to Batman


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Length

8 minutes

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218.00385

Word count

1,893

Sentence count

186

Harmful content

Misogyny

1

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Hate speech

5

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Summary

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In this episode, we talk about our religion and how we believe in God. We also talk about how we live our lives according to the teachings of the Quran and the revelation of the Holy Qur and Ayn al-Qadhi.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 Hi guys.
00:00:01.000 Alright, say hi.
00:00:02.000 Basically, what we do is, so you're celebrating Halloween, yeah?
00:00:04.000 I am celebrating Halloween, but also celebrating superheroes.
00:00:08.000 Superheroes.
00:00:09.000 Okay, alright, that's good.
00:00:10.000 So that's your friend there, yeah?
00:00:11.000 This is Robin.
00:00:12.000 Oh, Robin.
00:00:13.000 How you doing, Robin?
00:00:14.000 Robin, this is my assistant.
00:00:15.000 Without Robin, you know, everybody needs a Robin.
00:00:18.000 Yes.
00:00:19.000 When you're driving the car, yeah?
00:00:20.000 Exactly.
00:00:21.000 Everybody needs a little bit of help.
00:00:22.000 Alright, that's good.
00:00:23.000 That's great to hear.
00:00:24.000 Do you believe in God?
00:00:25.000 Do you believe in God?
00:00:26.000 Shall I call you Batman?
00:00:27.000 Yeah, call me Batman.
00:00:28.000 Okay, Batman.
00:00:29.000 Hi, Ali.
00:00:30.000 Yeah, hi, Ali.
00:00:31.000 Nice to meet you.
00:00:32.000 I believe in one supreme power.
00:00:33.000 Wow.
00:00:34.000 An omnipotent power.
00:00:35.000 That's amazing.
00:00:36.000 Okay, alright.
00:00:37.000 So we're in the same chapter then?
00:00:38.000 Yes.
00:00:39.000 Okay, so you do not believe, like for example, any man is God, or a statue is God, or a tree
00:00:44.000 is God.
00:00:45.000 You just believe God is powerful, he does not belong to his creation.
00:00:48.000 Is that...
00:00:49.000 Yeah, I believe that, yeah.
00:00:51.000 God is omnipotent, but no statue or symbol can be...
00:00:54.000 Wow, that's amazing.
00:00:55.000 Basically, first we're Muslims.
00:00:57.000 Yes.
00:00:58.000 Yeah, we believe in one creator as well.
00:00:59.000 Yeah.
00:01:00.000 So we'll just come here and we'll just talk about our religion, because you know our religion
00:01:02.000 is like, you know, a lot of people have got misconceptions about it.
00:01:05.000 Yeah, yeah, a lot of it is misinterpreted as well.
00:01:06.000 Yeah, yeah.
00:01:07.000 Okay, so you do believe in God, so you've done that job for me, I don't need to go around.
00:01:10.000 We believe in the Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, and we believe in all the messengers
00:01:14.000 that came before him as well.
00:01:16.000 Do you believe in scriptures, revelations, or do you say, look, I don't kind of go into
00:01:21.000 that.
00:01:22.000 I would rather go for the people that have come in the past and left a message.
00:01:29.000 Okay.
00:01:30.000 Rather than scriptures.
00:01:31.000 Okay, so you do.
00:01:32.000 Because the Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, he came like 1400 years ago. 1.00
00:01:36.000 Yeah.
00:01:37.000 And he brought the Quran, right?
00:01:39.000 And so to be honest, to the people that kind of say, you know what, look, it can't be from
00:01:44.000 God, there's proofs inside the Quran.
00:01:46.000 Like for example, the Quran challenges the people that, for example, if you read it, I'm
00:01:50.000 not sure what verse it is, but it says, if you think the Quran is saying, like from God,
00:01:54.000 if you think this is not from your creator, bring a verse like it.
00:01:58.000 So it's doing an open challenge to people that are saying, look, this is not from God.
00:02:01.000 It's clearly telling you, look, if you think this is not from your creator, bring a verse like it.
00:02:05.000 Not only that, it's got many scientific miracles.
00:02:08.000 I don't know if you've heard of it.
00:02:09.000 The Quran talks about embryology, the expansion of the universe, the two seas meet, but they 0.73
00:02:14.000 do not transgress.
00:02:15.000 So there's many things that a man, because Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, he didn't 0.99
00:02:21.000 know how to read or write.
00:02:22.000 Do you get what I'm trying to say?
00:02:23.000 Yeah, yeah.
00:02:24.000 So we need to ask ourselves, how could a man 1400 years ago, where there's no technology,
00:02:27.000 he comes along with this kind of message, right?
00:02:29.000 How does he do it?
00:02:30.000 Because there's so many stuff in there.
00:02:32.000 It's impossible for him to know such things, right?
00:02:36.000 So what I would say is, for example, you know when everything we buy, we have a product,
00:02:41.000 right?
00:02:42.000 When we buy a product, everything comes with a manual, right?
00:02:45.000 It tells us how to use the product, right?
00:02:47.000 Otherwise, you wouldn't know.
00:02:48.000 For example, if somebody just invented a television new, and you went and bought a telly,
00:02:52.000 but you didn't know how to use it, you can never make it work, right?
00:02:55.000 Because it comes with a guidebook.
00:02:56.000 So what we say is, if God made us, he should have sent a revelation to tell us how to live
00:03:01.000 our lives.
00:03:02.000 Because he made us, he knows what's good for us and what's bad for us.
00:03:05.000 Right?
00:03:06.000 So we would say that, you know, okay, as every product has a product, as a manual, we humans
00:03:11.000 have the revelation to tell us how to live our lives.
00:03:14.000 Do you get what I'm trying to say?
00:03:15.000 Do you get what I'm trying to say?
00:03:16.000 No, I understand.
00:03:17.000 And the one thing I think there, is if you wish to live your life by that manual, then
00:03:21.000 you should adhere to the manual, and not only use the manual when you want, and then do
00:03:25.000 something separately.
00:03:26.000 Exactly.
00:03:27.000 You know what?
00:03:28.000 Exactly.
00:03:29.000 You're 100% right on that.
00:03:30.000 You're right.
00:03:31.000 There's a lot of people out there that, you know, even Christians, they say we're Christians,
00:03:32.000 but they don't practice their religion properly.
00:03:34.000 There's a lot of Muslims out there that say they're Muslims, they don't practice their
00:03:37.000 religion properly.
00:03:38.000 But you're right.
00:03:39.000 You're 100% right.
00:03:40.000 Is there any kind of misconception that you want to know about Islam?
00:03:43.000 Because you know how the media portrays us.
00:03:45.000 Is there anything that I can clarify?
00:03:47.000 Yeah.
00:03:48.000 One thing I have tried to clarify, and that's the word of jihad, which is a personal battle
00:03:56.000 against the darkness in yourself that I understand, and not against other worldly human beings
00:04:01.000 as a misinterpretation.
00:04:02.000 So that's the clarification.
00:04:04.000 Yes.
00:04:05.000 You know what?
00:04:06.000 I was really happy because the things that, I don't even want to explain it.
00:04:08.000 Just like you said, the word jihad, there's two meanings for it, right?
00:04:11.000 So, jihad is, for example, striving, right? 0.87
00:04:14.000 For example, I can strive, for example, let's say I was an alcoholic before, right?
00:04:18.000 I said, you know what, I'm going to stop drinking alcohol.
00:04:20.000 So what it is, it's jihad within yourself to stop doing that.
00:04:23.000 Do you get what I'm trying to say?
00:04:24.000 You're fighting within yourself to stop doing that.
00:04:26.000 Another way of jihad is fighting, but how is it fighting?
00:04:29.000 If the enemy comes to attack you, which is called self-defense, right?
00:04:32.000 So it's protecting yourself.
00:04:33.000 Do you get what I'm trying to say?
00:04:35.000 Do you get what I'm trying to say?
00:04:36.000 Oh, your friend's here.
00:04:37.000 I'm like, Joker, finally, I've been looking for you all night long.
00:04:41.000 Oh my God!
00:04:43.000 Ah!
00:04:44.000 Jihad! 0.98
00:04:45.000 Yes, he came to attack you.
00:04:48.000 So this is, yeah.
00:04:50.000 Like I said, would there be any...
00:04:52.000 No, no, it's alright, it's fine.
00:04:53.000 Would there be any reason of you saying, you know what, I can't believe that the Qur'an is from God?
00:05:00.000 Is there anything that's in your head that you can say, you know what, I've got doubts of this or that?
00:05:05.000 No, I wouldn't challenge the Qur'an.
00:05:07.000 The Qur'an is a system of belief that many people live by and I know is very good in its true state.
00:05:12.000 Okay.
00:05:13.000 So I wouldn't, same as I wouldn't challenge the Bible or the Torah.
00:05:18.000 No, no, of course.
00:05:19.000 Would you believe that the God Almighty will send down messengers?
00:05:23.000 Yeah, I think we're all messengers of God.
00:05:25.000 We're all messengers of God.
00:05:26.000 We're all sons of God.
00:05:28.000 We are all messengers of God.
00:05:29.000 Okay, yeah, okay.
00:05:30.000 And some people have put their message forward a lot louder and clearer.
00:05:35.000 No, of course.
00:05:36.000 Because maybe they make more sense.
00:05:37.000 Yeah, of course.
00:05:38.000 Like for example, I'm conveying a message to you, you're right in that manner.
00:05:41.000 But, chosen messengers, like from God saying, you know what, this is, you're the chosen one, these are the revelations you, I sent down through, do you believe in them?
00:05:48.000 Okay, let me explain.
00:05:49.000 I do a thing called Sahaja Yoga Meditation.
00:05:52.000 And Sahaja Yoga Meditation believes that each chakra that you have is related to a different prophet.
00:06:00.000 Okay, so here at the big center, that's Muhammad's chakra, the big green one in the center of your body.
00:06:06.000 Okay.
00:06:07.000 In your throat is Krishna's chakra, and in your head is Christ's chakra.
00:06:11.000 Okay.
00:06:12.000 Yes.
00:06:13.000 And I like that way of explaining how everyone is related.
00:06:18.000 Okay, okay.
00:06:19.000 So, when you said like the stomach bit, so how do you refer that to the prophet Muhammad?
00:06:23.000 How does it work?
00:06:24.000 Well, because it's a large, huge expanse.
00:06:28.000 They color it green in the diagrams, and that's the way they like to explain it.
00:06:34.000 This is related to Muhammad, this chakra is related to Krishna, and this chakra is related to Christ.
00:06:40.000 Okay, so is that their belief?
00:06:42.000 That's their interpretation.
00:06:43.000 That's their interpretation.
00:06:44.000 Or the Sahaja Yoga Meditation.
00:06:45.000 Sahaja.
00:06:46.000 Okay, that's the first time I'm hearing that.
00:06:48.000 It is interesting.
00:06:49.000 Sahaja Yoga Meditation.
00:06:50.000 Okay.
00:06:51.000 Now, if we say, okay, if we say the revelation was sent by God, right?
00:06:56.000 No.
00:06:57.000 If I could prove that to you, wouldn't you say, you know what, let me take my time out and
00:07:00.000 read the Qur'an maybe, like, have you read the Qur'an before?
00:07:02.000 I have read a bit of it.
00:07:03.000 Oh, have you read a bit of it?
00:07:04.000 Okay, alright.
00:07:05.000 So, is there any reason that you can doubt that, like, messengers, not just as we as,
00:07:09.000 you know, I'm coming in a message, like you said, everyone coming in a message.
00:07:11.000 No.
00:07:12.000 But as a messenger.
00:07:13.000 There's no way that I can doubt.
00:07:14.000 You can't doubt it?
00:07:15.000 No.
00:07:16.000 So, you would say that you do accept.
00:07:17.000 Well, again, when we talk about realisation, self-realisation, as you say, you mentioned
00:07:22.000 the word realisation.
00:07:23.000 Yeah.
00:07:24.000 That's when you get the messages.
00:07:26.000 That's when you, when you become a realised soul in yourself.
00:07:30.000 Yeah.
00:07:31.000 Through spiritual practice.
00:07:32.000 Okay.
00:07:33.000 Through good work.
00:07:34.000 Yeah.
00:07:35.000 Through controlling yourself.
00:07:36.000 Then, you will find that enlightenment in yourself.
00:07:38.000 Okay.
00:07:39.000 And your message might be listened to.
00:07:40.000 Oh, okay.
00:07:41.000 Alright, okay.
00:07:42.000 Yeah, alright, yeah.
00:07:43.000 Yeah, that's true.
00:07:44.000 But, I'm going to leave it to you because you're working.
00:07:45.000 Okay.
00:07:46.000 You have read the Quran a bit.
00:07:47.000 I have read the Quran.
00:07:48.000 I would advise you to give it a chance by, you know, read it all.
00:07:52.000 Yeah.
00:07:53.000 Read it all because at the end of the day, we are all going to die.
00:07:55.000 Yeah.
00:07:56.000 And when we all die, believe me, my own mother who loves me so much is not going to come in
00:07:58.000 the grave with me.
00:07:59.000 So, I respect your views and a lot of things we agree on and stuff like that.
00:08:02.000 Yeah.
00:08:03.000 I really like that because you believe in one God.
00:08:04.000 Because we say, look, God cannot be human because some Christians believe that Jesus
00:08:07.000 is God himself.
00:08:08.000 Yeah.
00:08:09.000 So, you know, it's a bit wrong because nowhere in the Bible Jesus claimed divinity.
00:08:12.000 He never said, I am God or worship me.
00:08:14.000 And it's really great, your belief.
00:08:16.000 But, what I would say is, I don't want to hold you much.
00:08:18.000 Yeah.
00:08:19.000 Give the Quran a chance.
00:08:20.000 I will.
00:08:21.000 Read it.
00:08:22.000 And, inshallah, it was really nice talking to you, man.
00:08:23.000 Lovely talking to you.
00:08:24.000 Yeah, man.
00:08:25.000 Have a nice day.
00:08:26.000 Robin.
00:08:27.000 Yeah.
00:08:28.000 Is he your dad?
00:08:29.000 Ah, this is my brother.
00:08:30.000 He's your brother, yeah?
00:08:31.000 Okay.
00:08:32.000 Take care, sir.
00:08:33.000 Have a nice day, yeah?
00:08:34.000 See you later, guys.
00:08:35.000 Can I hold?
00:08:36.000 Thank you.
00:08:37.000 Yes, sir.
00:08:38.000 Okay.
00:08:39.000 You want to sit there?
00:08:40.000 Honey! 0.98