Ali Dawah - DEATH OF BROTHER ESSA - SPEAKERS CORNER

00:00:00.580 As-salamu alaykum brothers and sisters, hope you guys are well inshallah.

00:00:03.020 Before the video starts, I just want to make one thing very clear so people know where to give what.

00:00:07.740 The top for burial funds, launchgood.com, 15 burials, is for the organisation who took care of ESA's body when we had nowhere to go.

00:00:16.960 So if you guys want to give it to us, you can. ESA's burial is fully covered.

00:00:23.040 That's just to help further reverts or other people who do not have family members.

00:00:27.280 So donate to that generously.

00:00:28.560 The one in the middle for ESA's family is for his daughter and his wife.

00:00:33.620 And we're raising funds for their family.

00:00:36.480 The one at the bottom is for a project in Ghana, which I spoke with ESA specifically.

00:00:42.940 And you can see that in the video inshallah as you watch it.

00:00:45.980 So I want to make that very, very clear inshallah so you guys know where to give.

00:00:50.060 Please watch the video. May Allah bless you guys.

00:00:52.200 And please keep ESA in your du'as.

00:00:55.020 As-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh to brothers and sisters and dear friends.

00:00:57.760 Hope you guys are well inshallah.

00:00:59.720 For those of you know, most people would know.

00:01:02.500 And for those who do not know, brother ESA has passed away.

00:01:08.120 May Allah have mercy on him.

00:01:09.180 I'm just going to tell you guys how it all unfolded.

00:01:15.480 This video was done for a reason.

00:01:17.520 We're going to raise funds for a variety of things.

00:01:20.440 Which you guys, I'm sure, are more than willing to do that inshallah.

00:01:23.040 We're going to explain everything.

00:01:25.760 How he passed away.

00:01:27.680 What I've been told.

00:01:28.780 How it unfolded.

00:01:29.640 Where I was.

00:01:31.080 Who contacted me.

00:01:32.280 All of that I'm going to go through.

00:01:33.220 But before I do that, brothers and sisters.

00:01:35.360 I want you guys to know that inshallah.

00:01:37.000 Our Muslim Eden Care and Muslim Burial Fund have made our lives so much, so easy.

00:01:46.580 When this all unfolded.

00:01:47.840 Which you're going to hear very soon.

00:01:49.480 And how this happened.

00:01:50.440 And his father-in-law and myself and his wife.

00:01:53.760 We just didn't know what to do.

00:01:55.880 You're going to find out why.

00:01:58.180 But please, the first thing that I want to mention is please give in Sadaqah to this organization.

00:02:03.740 They help bury Muslims, especially reverts who do not have any family. 1.00

00:02:07.740 Any family members at all.

00:02:11.160 And subhanAllah, they have helped us immediately.

00:02:13.580 So please, please, please, I ask you.

00:02:15.140 The first thing to give is inshallah, whatever little you want to.

00:02:17.480 I know you're going to give Sadaqah Jarih for Isa and his family and his daughter.

00:02:20.660 Which we're going to come to later, inshallah.

00:02:22.240 But please, they have done an amazing job which you're going to find out soon.

00:02:25.880 The link is here.

00:02:26.980 Make sure you give to that.

00:02:29.040 And yeah, so I'm going to get straight into inshallah, Baruch and sister.

00:02:31.380 Before I start, I want to praise Allah subhanAllah, the most merciful, the most just.

00:02:34.600 Or praise his glory and gratitude belong to him.

00:02:37.000 Last night, I was at Iman Channel.

00:02:38.860 I've been doing live appeals for them in Ramadan throughout.

00:02:42.340 And subhanAllah, a week before, Eden Care, who deal with his burials, got in contact with me.

00:02:47.880 And I did a live appeal for them.

00:02:49.280 And I just, you know, done a live appeal.

00:02:51.740 And alhamdulillah, raised some funds to help bury Muslims who are dying from the virus.

00:02:55.880 And so yeah, so that's how I knew of them.

00:02:59.640 Anyways, it was my Qadr of Allah subhanAllah subhanAllah.

00:03:02.960 They were the first people I turned to.

00:03:04.480 So yesterday, I was doing a live appeal with Ilm Charity, doing works in Africa, in Malawi, raising for orphans.

00:03:10.900 And you guys know my live appeals if you watch it, you know, I try to make jokes, keep the hype alive, joking around, messing around, making jokes, you know, all that kind of stuff.

00:03:20.240 And usually, I shouldn't be checking my phone on a live appeal, but I check it every now and then, you know, to see if, you know, my wife has messaged or something like that.

00:03:28.620 And these guys, as you guys can see on the screen, I got a call from Issa.

00:03:33.060 So I've saved them as Issa SC, Speaker's Corner.

00:03:35.020 And I thought, okay, I'm a live appeal, obviously I can't answer.

00:03:39.960 And he was giving me a call.

00:03:41.260 I was thinking like, why would he call?

00:03:42.940 Like, at this time, you know, why would he call?

00:03:46.640 Signs of men of understanding.

00:03:48.600 And that's exactly what this is doing, brother.

00:03:50.700 Brothers, brothers, I've got very something serious.

00:03:52.320 Wallahi, I just checked my phone.

00:03:53.980 Brother, I know I just passed away.

00:03:55.300 So I'm...

00:03:56.140 I'm going to go.

00:03:57.880 SubhanAllah, subhanAllah. 0.92

00:03:58.960 Brothers and sisters, make dua for those subhanAllah of subhanAllah who have passed away. 0.89

00:04:03.960 May Allah, subhanAllah, have mercy upon all our dead, ya rabbal alameen. 1.00

00:04:09.220 I found it a bit strange.

00:04:10.240 But I thought, anyway, so I went to my Snapchat.

00:04:12.320 I mean, I went to my WhatsApp.

00:04:13.680 And on my WhatsApp, I saw the message that you guys can see on the screen, brothers and sisters.

00:04:19.420 And wallahi, I couldn't believe what I read.

00:04:24.320 And it said, salaamu alaykum Ali, could you contact me, please?

00:04:28.140 And I'm thinking it's brother Issa, maybe.

00:04:30.340 It's concerning brother Issa.

00:04:31.740 So when I read that first thing, I thought, maybe, yeah, maybe accident.

00:04:36.640 Maybe something happened.

00:04:40.400 And the following message was, I'm his father-in-law and he has passed away.

00:04:45.520 And wallahi, I was in shock.

00:04:50.320 I couldn't believe it.

00:04:52.160 Wallahi, I could not believe it.

00:04:53.540 I couldn't believe it.

00:04:57.020 Wallahi, I was like, no.

00:04:59.420 How?

00:05:01.920 And I thought, is this a joke?

00:05:03.340 Like, what is this?

00:05:04.240 I left a live appeal, which you guys can see, if I can get the footage, you'll probably see it.

00:05:09.760 I left it.

00:05:11.600 I was in absolute shock.

00:05:13.220 I went and I sat down.

00:05:15.560 And I rang.

00:05:16.660 I didn't know what to do.

00:05:18.180 I was in shock.

00:05:19.820 I rang Dawood. 0.63

00:05:21.780 Explained it to him.

00:05:22.800 And, you know, he started crying.

00:05:24.100 We started crying together.

00:05:25.720 And he was telling me, bro, two hours ago, three hours ago, he was on Facebook, Instagram.

00:05:30.140 He was liking my post.

00:05:31.140 How?

00:05:31.760 How did he?

00:05:32.400 What do you mean he died?

00:05:33.340 I said, I can't.

00:05:33.880 I don't know.

00:05:35.020 If he likes your post two hours ago, it must be a sudden death.

00:05:39.840 So, obviously, we both were like very, like, subhanAllah, was crying on the phone together with him.

00:05:44.200 Because he was distraught.

00:05:45.260 You know, wallahi.

00:05:45.740 I know when Dawood is distraught.

00:05:47.820 And he's a brother because with brother Isa, wallahi, when I used to go to Speaker's Corner.

00:05:53.400 Wallahi, one of the things that I used to look for,

00:05:55.000 to, you know, like, just eating with him, just chilling with him.

00:05:58.800 Wallahi, I just loved.

00:06:00.340 Every time we go to Speaker's Corner, sometimes all the brothers will go to a specific restaurant.

00:06:04.540 And sometimes I'll just say, look, bro, let's just do our own thing.

00:06:07.400 You know, let's go to Heron towards, like, this restaurant we loved.

00:06:09.860 Alhamdulillah, we loved to eat.

00:06:11.040 You know, that's something we had together.

00:06:12.620 We just loved to eat different restaurants.

00:06:14.120 Wallahi, before this lockdown happened, before this lockdown happened, subhanAllah.

00:06:19.160 Wallahi, I can play it for you guys.

00:06:22.140 Before the lockdown happened, we met.

00:06:23.420 And I said to him, because me and him, we would travel to the other side of the city

00:06:27.720 just to go eat new restaurants.

00:06:29.560 Whenever I discovered a new dish, I was like, yo, bro, this is so banging.

00:06:32.380 Wallahi, and I would love for you and Dawood, come, bro, let's try it.

00:06:35.020 This was like little missions that we'd go on.

00:06:37.120 He would come all day from South London, me from North London.

00:06:39.520 We'd go all the way to East, to an Afghani restaurant, eat together.

00:06:43.880 And, like, Alhamdulillah, just come in on the food.

00:06:45.500 This is amazing, bro.

00:06:46.740 You know, he would come.

00:06:47.480 We'll do missions just to go eat.

00:06:48.760 Wallahi, I love this company so much.

00:06:50.620 Wallahi, I cannot describe to you guys how beautiful this brother was.

00:06:55.340 His smile will light up the place you're in.

00:06:58.280 His adab, his character.

00:06:59.920 Wallahi, his hot speech with everyone.

00:07:02.800 How beautiful he was.

00:07:04.280 Wallahi.

00:07:05.960 I couldn't.

00:07:06.760 I was going through some video footages a couple of days ago.

00:07:09.140 And, and I was, I was thinking, wow.

00:07:13.120 And it was of me, him and Dawood.

00:07:15.020 And I was like, bro, like, I was thinking to myself, I missed that so much.

00:07:18.040 I can't wait for this virus to be over.

00:07:19.480 Two days ago.

00:07:20.740 I was looking at that footage, brothers and sisters.

00:07:22.760 Two days ago.

00:07:23.640 And, subhanAllah.

00:07:28.640 Anyways, so I went back up.

00:07:30.100 I spoke to his father-in-law.

00:07:31.180 His father-in-law said, he went out shopping.

00:07:34.400 He went out shopping to get some stuff for his daughter.

00:07:37.100 He had a daughter, two years old.

00:07:38.960 Two or three years old for his wife.

00:07:41.100 He went out to get shopping.

00:07:42.860 And he wasn't feeling well.

00:07:44.660 You know, his house was on the third floor.

00:07:46.800 So, he told his wife that, you know, I think he could, he wasn't able to go up, upstairs for some reason.

00:07:52.080 Some say it might be the virus.

00:07:53.740 They're saying it might be, I don't know.

00:07:54.960 I don't know.

00:07:55.360 They're saying it might be the virus.

00:07:56.480 His feet were swelling.

00:07:57.540 He had some issues breathing.

00:07:58.880 More than usual, that he usually has.

00:08:01.080 And his wife had to come downstairs and help him up. 0.99

00:08:03.520 And she took him inside.

00:08:04.920 And he collapsed.

00:08:07.140 And she, he died in her arms.

00:08:11.020 And, subhanAllah.

00:08:15.240 SubhanAllah.

00:08:15.560 And it's an odd night.

00:08:17.800 Last ten nights.

00:08:18.440 Yesterday was the last ten nights.

00:08:20.440 His father-in-law called him.

00:08:21.500 And he said the ambulance has come.

00:08:24.560 And they've left the body there.

00:08:26.060 And I was thinking, what do you mean they've just left the body there?

00:08:28.300 He goes, yeah, the body's here.

00:08:29.920 They've put it in bags.

00:08:31.060 And they've just left it there.

00:08:32.020 It's in the house.

00:08:32.480 He goes, I'm right in front of it.

00:08:34.440 I was like, how?

00:08:35.600 How?

00:08:36.320 How are they just leaving the body there?

00:08:38.900 Is it Brother Ali?

00:08:39.720 I don't know.

00:08:41.040 So, the first thing that came to my mind was to read.

00:08:43.540 To call Eden Care.

00:08:45.300 Because that's the only one I know.

00:08:46.760 Eden Care, Muslim Burial Foundation.

00:08:50.600 I think that's what they're called.

00:08:52.480 And, wallahi, I called them. 0.99

00:08:53.960 And I was going to go there myself.

00:08:55.300 I was going to head there myself.

00:08:57.040 And they said, look, if it's a virus, you shouldn't go there.

00:08:59.340 You shouldn't go there.

00:09:00.080 And I said, okay.

00:09:01.340 And they said, we're going to get someone.

00:09:02.640 Wallahi, immediately, within one hour, after Fajr, the brothers prayed, they came to pick up the body.

00:09:07.020 Can you imagine?

00:09:08.920 The person who's passed away, and they're just there.

00:09:12.160 Nobody's taken.

00:09:12.840 The ambulance just left it there.

00:09:14.640 Saying that it may have been a heart failure.

00:09:16.200 His heart couldn't cope with it.

00:09:18.160 There was a clot in his lungs.

00:09:19.440 We don't know.

00:09:20.100 We don't know.

00:09:20.540 So, what I do know, brothers and sisters, that, subhanAllah, what a beautiful soul you may have.

00:09:27.600 It was, Isa, wallahi, with everyone, you know, whenever we went to eat, your adab, your character, what an amazing, wallahi, I'm going to miss so much.

00:09:36.740 The fact that, wallahi, it's just going to be this void in my life, you know, like you as a brother, you know, stuff like, you know, Naseer, you would give me, you would hear me out.

00:09:46.320 But, you know, even when, he was such a beautiful brother, that, subhanAllah, even when certain controversies happen with certain issues, when I was raising funds for brother Kadet, may Allah have mercy on him, you know, he would come and say to me, Aki, you know, when you go to Ghana, et cetera, you know, you take pictures, you know, with these kids, you know, is there a specific reason you have to have them on there?

00:10:03.520 And, wallahi, he never had negative assumptions.

00:10:05.960 He never said, oh, why are you doing this, that?

00:10:07.720 He would come and say, Aki, you know, what's the reason?

00:10:09.700 I would say, bro, this is the reason we do it.

00:10:11.200 And, wallahi, I was speaking to Dawud. 0.58

00:10:12.420 But, he mentioned this two days ago to another brother, that they were having a discussion about this very matter, and he said, oh, Ali Dawud explained why they have to use the kids, et cetera, because otherwise people don't give.

00:10:21.880 And, sadly, that's the case, bro and sisters.

00:10:23.560 If we don't show you the reality and what's going on, they don't give.

00:10:26.800 And, I can remember when this whole situation was going, he said to me, bro, when I explained to him how it works, the charity, et cetera, sector, you know, how things work and how we fundraise.

00:10:35.140 He said to me, can I come with you to Ghana, because he was Ghanaian himself, which comes to our Sadaqah Jari that we're going to do, bro and sisters.

00:10:41.660 And, I'm going to play some audio recordings of him, and a video I'm going to play, inshallah.

00:10:47.360 But, I had a discussion, we had a beautiful discussion, and subhanAllah, look what he says in this video.

00:10:50.460 We're going to come to that.

00:10:51.160 But, in the video, sorry, when I had a discussion with him about the Ghanaian, he said, I want to come with you.

00:10:59.900 And, I was arranging for him to come with me to Ghana to see the project for himself and get on board, because he wanted to.

00:11:05.440 And, that's his home country, Ghana.

00:11:07.180 Yeah, he's Ghanaian.

00:11:08.640 And, wallahi, because he said that, we have a project that we've been working on, and we're halfway raising the funds already, £25,000.

00:11:15.220 It's a project called the Life Village.

00:11:17.160 This is somewhere where me and Mohamed Hijab went.

00:11:18.700 You can see from the video footages, and our aim was there, to surround the village, is to build a masjid, a school, a playground, and also a mechanical ball, a water well.

00:11:32.280 I forgot the name, I forgot the name.

00:11:34.240 And, the whole project cost £55,000, bro and sisters.

00:11:36.720 We spoke with the family.

00:11:38.020 I spoke with his wife.

00:11:39.100 I spoke with his father-in-law.

00:11:40.440 They gave us the go-ahead, Sadaqah Jari, on his behalf, inshallah.

00:11:45.820 And, that's exactly what we need to do, bro and sisters.

00:11:47.960 We're raising for two things.

00:11:49.960 Number one, funds for his wife and his daughter.

00:11:53.120 Number two, Sadaqah Jariya in Ghana, where he personally told me himself that he would want to get involved, inshallah, bro and sisters.

00:12:02.120 That's what we're going to do, inshallah.

00:12:03.180 I'm going to play a video.

00:12:05.100 Last time I met with him, when we met to go to a Somali restaurant in Tottenham.

00:12:10.660 And, subhanAllah, he travelled all the way. 0.95

00:12:13.380 And, you'll see it here.

00:12:14.960 Look, so basically, so this is where, this was 19th of March.

00:12:18.100 Yeah, this was 19th of March, about two months ago.

00:12:20.460 So, I said to him, let me confirm, yeah, because I've got boxing at eight.

00:12:23.180 I said, okay, bro, let me know what you're saying, Shaykh.

00:12:25.300 We're going to hit the sport after boxing, or is that long?

00:12:27.820 And, we're supposed to go to this Afghani restaurant.

00:12:29.620 He said, I'm finished work now, so you'll let me know.

00:12:32.540 I said, actually, maybe tomorrow.

00:12:34.720 I'm in some traffic down Mitchum.

00:12:37.020 And, it was at Matin, cool, tomorrow, inshallah, then.

00:12:39.560 So, it would always meet up to go eat.

00:12:41.300 SubhanAllah.

00:12:42.980 I said, okay, let me know.

00:12:43.820 He said, I wish, I finished work at five, so I'll holler at you then.

00:12:46.440 Should I tell Dawood?

00:12:47.200 I said, okay, then, yes, we can.

00:12:48.600 But, he's got, you know, he's not well.

00:12:50.780 So, I said, I fear for him.

00:12:51.900 I'm calling him, because Dawood's not well.

00:12:53.200 He's going through some health problems.

00:12:56.940 Because the virus thing was starting off, I didn't want to put him at risk.

00:12:59.420 He said, cool, let me know, inshallah.

00:13:01.020 I'll leave him out, but I suggest he choose at home.

00:13:03.340 Okay, I said, holler if you want to come.

00:13:04.960 He said, yeah, definitely, we can come.

00:13:06.020 Where are you at now?

00:13:06.940 I finished work in an hour.

00:13:08.720 What time should we link up and where?

00:13:10.200 Should I go directly there?

00:13:11.640 I said, I'm in North Aki.

00:13:12.620 Call Dawood or call Rasbeck before I invite Rasbeck as well. 0.57

00:13:16.580 He said, I messaged both.

00:13:17.740 And, this is his voice recording.

00:13:20.480 As-salamu alaykum.

00:13:21.400 Aki, it's going to take me about an hour to get to you.

00:13:23.800 What I'm going to do, I'm going to wait until Malam comes in, 1.00

00:13:26.020 because I think it's coming in the next 20 minutes or so.

00:13:29.500 I'm going to play Maghrib, and then I'm going to head to you. 1.00

00:13:32.280 So, I would say to you, I'll probably be with you around about quarter past seven,

00:13:38.520 seven thirty, if that's okay, inshallah.

00:13:40.080 Subhanallah.

00:13:50.980 Subhanallah.

00:13:51.380 To know your friend has died, and, you know, to hear his voice, wallahi, it's so unreal.

00:13:59.000 For those know, they know.

00:14:02.200 And you're speaking to him like he's alive.

00:14:03.760 He's not here anymore.

00:14:05.280 He's not here anymore.

00:14:06.220 Wallahi, how beloved he was.

00:14:07.540 He must have been to Allah for Allah to take him on an odd night.

00:14:10.000 Twenty-first night yesterday, in Ramadan, the last ten nights.

00:14:15.940 So, we carried on speaking, and I was telling him, you know, send me your location.

00:14:20.320 Subhanallah.

00:14:20.560 I was even just, like, showing him how, you know.

00:14:24.620 So, I said to him, okay.

00:14:25.560 And then he sent me his location to see where he's at.

00:14:28.960 I was going to go to a Somali restaurant, brother's restaurant.

00:14:36.320 And then this is what I sent him when we got there.

00:14:39.600 Assalamualaikum, bro.

00:14:41.200 I'm, like, six, seven minutes away.

00:14:44.820 Are you in the restaurant?

00:14:47.300 I hope they have some fresh lamb, you know.

00:14:52.060 Assalamualaikum.

00:14:52.340 Assalamualaikum.

00:14:52.740 Assalamualaikum.

00:14:53.060 Assalamualaikum.

00:14:53.300 And, um, I ran down to flipping Asda to, um, so I could get some, some money and some, some last-minute bits.

00:15:03.680 Like, everything is on shutdown, akhi.

00:15:05.360 There's people getting crazy, man.

00:15:10.720 So, that was the last day.

00:15:12.260 Me and him, we went to a Somali restaurant together.

00:15:16.060 And we ate, wallahi.

00:15:17.340 We went all the way there because, you know, I know how much, like, both together, we love food, you know.

00:15:21.640 I was like, bro, you need to try this spot.

00:15:23.680 SubhanAllah.

00:15:24.120 And he came with me.

00:15:25.640 We ate together.

00:15:26.440 And I can remember that restaurant.

00:15:27.700 SubhanAllah was talking about the virus, how it's a sign from Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala.

00:15:31.960 And, SubhanAllah.

00:15:33.600 And we were just eating together.

00:15:34.780 Alhamdulillah.

00:15:35.120 He did a few last bit shopping for his family.

00:15:36.960 And, yeah.

00:15:39.460 SubhanAllah.

00:15:40.140 And now he's not here.

00:15:42.220 And this is a video.

00:15:43.160 I want to play this video for you guys, brothers and sisters.

00:15:45.040 And this is a video of him.

00:15:46.720 And look at what he says.

00:15:47.520 This was last year, November.

00:15:50.560 Look what he says.

00:15:51.820 He had an accident.

00:15:52.580 He was talking about an accident because I had an accident as well.

00:15:54.740 And he had an accident where he hit a car on his bike.

00:15:58.300 Look what he says, guys.

00:15:59.140 Let's listen to this, inshallah.

00:15:59.980 The thing that hit me the most is the regret.

00:16:04.640 You know, when you think...

00:16:05.640 In my head, I thought to myself, I didn't do this.

00:16:09.480 I didn't do that.

00:16:10.480 I didn't do that.

00:16:11.260 And it's all...

00:16:11.880 You've got some cuddle problems out there, yeah?

00:16:13.240 Isn't it?

00:16:15.060 Yeah, nah.

00:16:16.280 Yeah, nah.

00:16:17.000 It's not cuddle problems.

00:16:18.180 Obviously, it's...

00:16:19.320 Nobody's safe for you.

00:16:21.200 I know I can exert more effort.

00:16:23.800 And you know that if the angel of death...

00:16:26.340 If someone says to you, your term is appointed tomorrow at 3pm, you're going.

00:16:30.980 You're going to exert every effort.

00:16:32.800 Oh, so let me get this right.

00:16:33.940 Are you saying that you could have done more in righteousness?

00:16:35.880 In terms of righteousness.

00:16:36.440 Oh, after you've seen that, oh, if I didn't do that turn...

00:16:38.420 No, nah, nah, nah.

00:16:39.840 That's not, no.

00:16:40.220 I was going to see the best.

00:16:40.820 So, nah, I'm talking about in terms of preparing myself for the akhira. 0.75

00:16:44.260 Oh, subhanAllah, okay. 0.97

00:16:45.100 Right.

00:16:45.820 So, instantaneously, that regret at that moment of impact hit me. 0.99

00:16:51.920 I was like, oh, damn. 0.98

00:16:53.580 Salah, tahajjud, all of these sakat, everything comes to mind at that point. 0.99

00:16:58.580 But then it's like, khalas, that point is too late. 1.00

00:17:02.780 Alhamdulillah, it wasn't too late for me now.

00:17:04.740 You know, I'm here, I'm able-bodied.

00:17:07.060 I'm a bit sore.

00:17:08.720 But, yeah, alhamdulillah, man.

00:17:10.980 And I was just, one of the things that was, that also stood out to me was the helpful nature of human beings as well.

00:17:21.040 Like, just in general, we have our different ideologies and stuff, right?

00:17:23.860 But it was very heartwarming that even though it was just a, really, a bruised backside that I had, lots of people stopped.

00:17:32.140 Nurses, doctors.

00:17:32.920 Your back broken?

00:17:33.840 No, no, it wasn't broken.

00:17:35.180 I, I, I, I, I, I, my back is broken.

00:17:38.320 I felt myself, I was like, yeah, okay, everything's connected, no breakages.

00:17:42.920 Alhamdulillah.

00:17:43.460 It was, it was literally just the bruised side that's swollen still at the moment.

00:17:47.840 Um, yeah.

00:17:50.000 But, like I said, lots of people helped.

00:17:53.400 Allah, you know what really gets to me?

00:17:56.940 The fact that I'm never going to have a sit-down with him again.

00:18:00.780 I'm never going to have a heart-to-heart with him again.

00:18:04.280 Inshallah.

00:18:04.780 Well, obviously, Inshallah, if Allah unites us in Jannah, definitely. 0.98

00:18:07.680 He's one person I would love to spend hours just sitting and listening to him.

00:18:13.080 His Quran, yani, his explanations, yani, he's, he was knowledgeable, mashaAllah.

00:18:18.180 He was very knowledgeable.

00:18:19.840 And he would explain things in detail, because we don't, I don't know the Arabic language, you know.

00:18:23.400 He would go in detail, this tafsir, we would have a little back and forth, agreements, disagreements.

00:18:28.220 As brothers, wallahi, there was never a point in time where you're just like, we had some kind of ill feeling.

00:18:33.380 Never.

00:18:34.180 We had discussions, even some brothers came from Birmingham, we were sitting down with them,

00:18:38.120 having discussions, back and forth, having tea.

00:18:41.740 The fact that I'm going to have to wait till the day I die.

00:18:45.800 And, Inshallah, if Allah accepts us to his Jannah, to see you again, wallahi, that's going to be so painful. 0.99

00:18:54.020 Wallahi, that's going to be so painful.

00:18:55.220 Every time after Speaker's Corner, me, you, Dawud, Brother Ibrahim, the rest, just going out and eating.

00:19:01.140 Even Brother Umar, who recently met him, called me today, he goes, I can't believe it, I came.

00:19:05.960 He goes, that brother, you just met him for hours.

00:19:08.900 And I know when people die, everybody says, he was such an amazing person to everyone.

00:19:12.180 And I'm sure they were.

00:19:13.600 But Brother Isa was different.

00:19:15.460 Wallahi, Brother Isa, you cannot replace Brother Isa.

00:19:21.020 You cannot replace Brother Isa.

00:19:23.000 His smile.

00:19:26.340 Wallahi, you cannot replace him.

00:19:28.280 He was someone that, wallahi, I just looked forward to. 0.90

00:19:31.740 I need, just go to the park, eat.

00:19:34.980 He would wait for me.

00:19:35.940 We'll go together.

00:19:36.820 Jump in the car.

00:19:38.260 Eat together.

00:19:39.080 What would you want?

00:19:39.720 Where should we go today?

00:19:40.560 What are you feeling?

00:19:41.520 Chinese, Japanese.

00:19:42.660 Tell me, let's go there today.

00:19:44.320 Oh, there's this food.

00:19:45.400 Let's try this.

00:19:46.900 Wallahi, it was Brotherhood.

00:19:48.420 It was something that I thought, you know, when I looked at him, I was like,

00:19:51.580 Wallahi, if anyone was to remind me of the Salaf, it would be this guy. 0.98

00:19:55.260 If there was anybody, anyone, to remind me of good Adab, good Akhlaq, the one who carries Islam within himself,

00:20:05.200 his character, not just the words he's uttering and references that he gives, was this guy.

00:20:10.060 Wallahi, I will testify to Allah on Yawmul Qiyamah. 0.95

00:20:13.360 You, Wallahi, have come across a lot of bad experiences.

00:20:17.860 But Wallahi, when you have souls like Isa that come and represent the deen in such a way with beauty,

00:20:24.480 with kindness, with softness, that even non-Muslim people that had issues were calm with him.

00:20:30.880 Wallahi, you know this brother was special.

00:20:33.560 He was such a special brother.

00:20:36.000 Wallahi, it's such a loss.

00:20:38.320 We miss him so much.

00:20:39.400 Wallahi, I miss him so much.

00:20:41.860 I miss him so much.

00:20:42.920 Wallahi, I cannot describe to you guys how much I miss this brother.

00:20:46.560 Brother, sister, I'm not going to carry on.

00:20:48.360 I'm so sorry.

00:20:50.860 The main focus of this video, brothers and sisters, is a tribute to him.

00:20:55.480 At the same time, it's a reminder to us from the words he spoke.

00:21:00.040 Brothers and sisters, the virus is, Wallahi, it's a sign from Allah. 1.00

00:21:03.400 Our Isa brother dying is a sign from Allah. 0.99

00:21:06.240 He is in a good place.

00:21:07.880 He is with his Lord.

00:21:08.760 He is in a good place.

00:21:10.400 But brothers and sisters, Wallahi, I'm telling you guys, what are you waiting for? 0.90

00:21:14.740 Are you waiting till you die?

00:21:16.340 Are you waiting till then to make changes?

00:21:19.880 Please, guys, we need two things.

00:21:23.380 We need two things.

00:21:25.120 There's a fundraising page for his daughter.

00:21:28.160 She is like our daughter.

00:21:30.040 And Wallahi, if anybody wants to come on board, we are going to take care of his daughter like she's our daughter.

00:21:36.540 Like she's our daughter till she reaches at age 16, 17, 18.

00:21:40.820 We, if anybody wants to come on board and get in contact with me, we're going to make sure that his daughter and his wife is taken care of in every single way possible.

00:21:48.660 So we've got a fundraising page for his daughter and his wife.

00:21:52.640 And we've got a fundraising page for Sadaqa Jari, for a life village that we're building.

00:21:56.680 The masjid will be named under him, after him, the school, the playground and the water.

00:22:03.180 Well, inshaAllah, brothers and sisters, if you can give for that, that's all we want, inshaAllah.

00:22:06.580 Wallahi, what a beautiful soul.

00:22:08.700 What a beautiful soul.

00:22:10.860 What a beautiful soul.

00:22:12.200 That's all I'm going to say.

00:22:13.280 That's all I'm going to say, guys.

00:22:14.980 That's all I'm going to say.

00:22:16.360 May Allah have mercy on him.

00:22:17.520 May Allah have mercy on him.

00:22:18.420 I'll testify he was a beautiful brother.

00:22:20.700 May Allah have mercy on him, guys.

00:22:21.740 That's all I'm going to say, inshaAllah.

00:22:22.640 We're going to keep this video long.

00:22:25.680 Make du'a for him and his family and his daughter.

00:22:29.220 I'm sorry if I went on for a little bit of tantrum, but may Allah have mercy on him.

00:22:34.140 As-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh.

00:22:35.940 Take care.

00:22:36.260 I'm sorry if I went on for a little bit of anímite.

00:22:45.820 Thank you.

Ali Dawah - May 14, 2020

DEATH OF BROTHER ESSA - SPEAKERS CORNER

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