Ali Dawah - February 04, 2024


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Episode Stats

Length

10 minutes

Words per Minute

231.20668

Word Count

2,480

Sentence Count

267

Misogynist Sentences

1

Hate Speech Sentences

25


Summary

Brother Muhammad Ali speaks about taking a shahadah with an Israeli soldier and how it changed his perspective on the situation in Gaza. He also talks about his experiences in the Israeli army and how he dealt with the situation.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 I live with post-traumatic stress syndrome.
00:00:03.160 I take medication.
00:00:04.520 I've been in Gaza with military and my brothers in arms.
00:00:09.180 And we took out families in the middle of the night.
00:00:14.700 Just imagine the people back in the day
00:00:16.600 when they would have to travel certain distances for months or even years.
00:00:20.260 What is one thing that they would carry with them?
00:00:22.800 The Quran.
00:00:23.880 Why?
00:00:24.240 Because they did not have it on their mobile devices or their gadgets.
00:00:27.620 Brothers and sisters, imagine you have an app, the Qur'ani app,
00:00:31.140 which not only shows you how much rewards you get,
00:00:34.120 but reminds you to read the Quran, gives you reminders.
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00:00:41.620 that you read it wherever you was.
00:00:44.100 Assalamualaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh, brothers and sisters and dear friends.
00:00:46.620 You guys may have seen the video from brother Muhammad Ali from Muslim Lantern
00:00:50.140 who does an amazing, amazing videos.
00:00:52.760 Alhamdulillah, may Allah bless him.
00:00:53.640 He is a great gem in the dawah.
00:00:55.400 May Allah preserve him, inshaAllah.
00:00:56.400 His dawah table in Leicester Square and himself.
00:00:58.340 So he done a video with an IDF soldier randomly who came on his post
00:01:01.560 and he ended up taking a shahadah.
00:01:03.540 Here is some clips.
00:01:04.400 Let's just see some of these clips, inshaAllah,
00:01:05.840 where we can react to it, inshaAllah.
00:01:07.200 But also a very important message to all of us, subhanAllah,
00:01:10.080 that when he came on it, myself as well,
00:01:11.940 I was very angry to the stuff that he said, etc.
00:01:13.620 None of us expected him to take his shahadah.
00:01:16.040 And Quran says this is very important for us not to judge people,
00:01:18.400 no matter how bad they are.
00:01:20.000 And it shows the difference between our judgment
00:01:21.820 and Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala's judgment, inshaAllah.
00:01:23.820 Let's watch some of these videos.
00:01:24.660 My friend, my friend, I live with post-traumatic stress syndrome.
00:01:29.140 I take medication.
00:01:30.440 I take Xanax and I take Olazapine and Cetraline.
00:01:34.280 So trust me, I've seen many bad things.
00:01:36.660 I'm not here to be an enemy to you.
00:01:40.120 I actually really like your channel.
00:01:43.020 But yeah, I'm not going to lie.
00:01:44.660 I'm a Zionist.
00:01:45.540 I want...
00:01:45.980 They're not going to have safety.
00:01:46.620 How are you going to have safety in the countries around them?
00:01:47.980 I've been in Gaza with military and my brothers in arms.
00:01:52.360 And we took out families in the middle of the night.
00:01:55.940 And we took pictures of the kids and the parents.
00:02:00.140 And so I don't lie.
00:02:02.020 And I started to question myself about Zionism.
00:02:06.140 It's a national thing.
00:02:07.260 It's got nothing to do with Judaism.
00:02:10.780 Do you have a Jewish family?
00:02:12.600 Do you have people there?
00:02:13.960 Is that what you're saying?
00:02:14.540 Half-half?
00:02:15.000 Half-half, yeah.
00:02:16.140 Okay.
00:02:16.940 So look, this is the thing.
00:02:17.940 I think a lot of Jewish people would call themselves Zionists
00:02:21.420 just because other people call themselves Zionists.
00:02:23.600 They don't do their own research.
00:02:25.640 And check actually what's going on.
00:02:26.620 See the massacres that are taking place.
00:02:27.880 You said yourself, you went to Gaza and you saw.
00:02:29.360 That's why it changed you.
00:02:30.120 Made you question actually what you believe.
00:02:31.260 What you've been told by the Israeli media.
00:02:32.920 Brother, trust me.
00:02:33.760 I cried many times because I saw the children.
00:02:36.540 They were scared.
00:02:37.940 And we're coming in with heavy weapons into their home.
00:02:41.020 Were you in the army?
00:02:41.640 Were you in the Israeli army?
00:02:42.800 Yes, I was in the Israeli army.
00:02:44.900 And we took pictures.
00:02:46.840 And we searched for weapons.
00:02:49.260 And sometimes we took in dogs to the house.
00:02:51.620 And the children get scared, you know.
00:02:53.320 I didn't feel good for that.
00:02:55.760 And I hope God will forgive me.
00:02:57.180 But it was my job.
00:02:58.660 I served five years.
00:02:59.860 I did one year training.
00:03:01.480 Then I served for the idea.
00:03:03.100 Well, this is the thing.
00:03:04.440 And the thing I don't understand, Orthodox Jews and you guys,
00:03:08.520 you are really close.
00:03:10.060 And still there is war.
00:03:11.880 So I don't blame the Orthodox Jews.
00:03:13.400 I blame the other people, Europeans.
00:03:15.620 And I'm not going to lie to you.
00:03:17.880 Before, for like five, six years ago, I hated Arabs.
00:03:21.360 I hated not only Arabs.
00:03:23.060 Immigrants.
00:03:23.640 I was like a fascist.
00:03:25.380 Well, I'll tell you one thing.
00:03:26.120 I'll tell you one thing.
00:03:26.780 I'll tell you two things, actually.
00:03:27.860 First, where did you serve?
00:03:29.040 Like which part?
00:03:29.560 In Gaza?
00:03:29.900 Did you go to Gaza at that time?
00:03:31.100 Or was it in this conflict or before?
00:03:32.760 No, no.
00:03:33.260 Before.
00:03:33.720 Like three years ago.
00:03:34.760 Three years ago.
00:03:35.240 Okay.
00:03:35.600 You see, this is because a lot of people think this all started October the 7th.
00:03:38.300 They don't know all of these things have been happening for years and years and years.
00:03:40.400 No, it's been 75 years.
00:03:42.260 So look, I'll tell you this.
00:03:43.800 Look, a lot of people, they might have hatred towards you.
00:03:46.260 And they're talking like they don't like, because what you said you did or go, what
00:03:49.220 do you see happening to the children and all of that.
00:03:50.420 But this is the difference between us as humans acting emotionally and Allah.
00:03:53.160 Allah Azza wa Jal is a forgiving God.
00:03:54.380 He is a forgiving and merciful creator.
00:03:56.120 And the Prophet, A.S., he told us of a story of a man who killed 99 souls.
00:04:00.300 Then he went to a monk and he asked him, is there any forgiveness?
00:04:03.280 So the monk said no.
00:04:03.900 So he killed the monk.
00:04:04.420 Then he went to the person of knowledge and he said to him, is there any forgiveness?
00:04:07.000 So the person of knowledge told him, who can close the door of repentance for you?
00:04:09.700 No one can stop the forgiveness of God from coming to you.
00:04:11.560 No one can stop God from forgiving.
00:04:12.700 That's actually what's drawing me to Islam.
00:04:15.200 Because in the Bible, we kill children, women, animals, everything.
00:04:19.240 I know, I know.
00:04:19.740 I've read the Bible.
00:04:20.400 I've read like 1 Samuel chapter 15, verse 3, for example.
00:04:22.860 Or what Jeremiah was doing, going around, killing the children, taking over the land from
00:04:26.200 the Canaanites.
00:04:26.700 I know.
00:04:27.040 I understand.
00:04:27.580 And they told you these things and they teach you these things and they tell you this is
00:04:30.000 the right thing to do.
00:04:30.560 This God, which God chosen people, you're doing the right thing.
00:04:32.720 But you deep down, because you have a conscious, as a human being, you start feeling,
00:04:35.340 you know, this is not the right thing to do.
00:04:36.520 When you look at a child, you're still a human being.
00:04:37.960 You're fine.
00:04:38.520 You're a lot better than if someone wants to become Muslim in like Tel Aviv or something
00:04:42.800 like that.
00:04:43.060 If he wants to become Muslim there, he's got a lot of things to worry about.
00:04:45.860 You, on the other hand, you are in a country where you shouldn't have a problem by doing
00:04:50.120 that, by accepting Islam.
00:04:51.120 If it was the friends, no one can have a better friend or a better protector than Allah,
00:04:56.060 Azza wa Jalla.
00:04:57.000 Yeah, but I've just been scared.
00:04:58.840 I don't want to lie.
00:05:00.060 If I go and visit a mosque and take the Shahada, I want to be honest to them.
00:05:05.200 And tell them his story.
00:05:08.400 You don't have to do the Shahada in a mosque.
00:05:09.680 You can do it right now.
00:05:10.380 There is no need for you to go to a mosque.
00:05:11.860 Would you do it right now?
00:05:13.000 We can do it if you're ready.
00:05:13.900 If you want to do it, I can do it.
00:05:14.640 Let's do it, bro.
00:05:15.480 Are you sure?
00:05:16.040 Yeah, let's do it.
00:05:16.880 I'm going to change it.
00:05:17.200 Let's do it, inshallah.
00:05:17.840 We'll do it in English first and then we'll do it in Arabic, inshallah.
00:05:19.920 Okay.
00:05:20.440 So say after me, I testify.
00:05:21.900 I testify.
00:05:22.880 There's nothing worthy of worship.
00:05:24.140 There's nothing worthy of worship.
00:05:25.860 Except Allah.
00:05:26.780 Except Allah.
00:05:27.580 And I testify.
00:05:28.380 And I testify.
00:05:29.440 That Prophet Muhammad.
00:05:30.320 That Prophet Muhammad.
00:05:31.180 Is his messenger.
00:05:32.240 Is his messenger.
00:05:33.460 And servant.
00:05:34.140 And servant.
00:05:34.900 We'll say the same thing now, but in Arabic, inshallah.
00:05:36.460 Say, ashahadu.
00:05:37.860 Ashahadu.
00:05:38.540 An.
00:05:39.260 An.
00:05:39.900 La.
00:05:40.640 La.
00:05:41.560 Ilaha.
00:05:42.620 Ilaha.
00:05:43.500 Illa Allah.
00:05:44.700 Illa Allah.
00:05:45.780 Wa ashahadu.
00:05:46.860 Wa ashahadu.
00:05:47.600 Anna.
00:05:48.340 Anna.
00:05:49.240 Muhammada.
00:05:50.180 Muhammada.
00:05:50.880 Rasul.
00:05:51.920 Rasul.
00:05:52.480 Allah.
00:05:53.140 Allah.
00:05:53.720 That's it, brother.
00:05:54.420 It's like, you don't need to go to a mosque.
00:05:55.760 You don't need to go to anyone.
00:05:56.560 You go to the creator.
00:05:57.380 You go to the creator who sees you testify because you're testifying for God.
00:05:59.960 If you say you worship, you believe in Allah, he's the one worthy of worship.
00:06:02.240 You believe Prophet Muhammad, a.s.
00:06:03.220 Is his messenger.
00:06:04.080 You believe the Quran is from God.
00:06:05.400 You believe in the prophets of God.
00:06:06.340 You believe you need to do good in your life.
00:06:07.800 You want to seek repentance.
00:06:08.740 You need to seek forgiveness from Allah, a.s.
00:06:09.980 That's what matters.
00:06:10.700 So guys, you saw that for yourself, subhanAllah.
00:06:12.200 He is talking about that.
00:06:13.060 He takes tablets.
00:06:13.980 He's going through post-traumatic disorder or something like that.
00:06:16.500 And he is not in a good place.
00:06:18.160 So I have a cure for him, inshallah.
00:06:20.240 Yes.
00:06:20.580 A cure from Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala, and his messenger.
00:06:22.920 Yes.
00:06:23.120 But before we come to that, we need to understand something, guys.
00:06:25.340 Khalid bin Walid, Umar bin Khattab, Wahshi, who killed Hamza, r.a.
00:06:29.460 Many of these people were not Muslims before.
00:06:31.700 Many of them were great enemies of Islam.
00:06:34.040 And Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala, chooses whom he guides.
00:06:36.320 And Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala, chooses whom he misguides.
00:06:37.920 So you can see in this very instance, brothers and sisters, that he himself and many sahaba
00:06:42.120 like him, Khalid bin Walid, yes, who fought against the Muslims, yes.
00:06:45.660 And many people were killed at his hands.
00:06:47.420 But like Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala, says in the Quran,
00:06:49.000 And whoever kills a believer intentionally, their reward will be hell, where they will
00:06:53.580 stay forever.
00:06:54.320 Allah will be displeased with them, and condemn them, and prepare for them a tremendous punishment.
00:06:58.400 Now, in this instance, obviously, there's other verses, subhanahu wa ta'ala, that abrogate
00:07:01.340 this, and there's many other commentary on this matter.
00:07:03.300 But the matter is clear.
00:07:04.240 Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala, will forgive any sin, except sin.
00:07:06.680 Like the Prophet Muhammad, the people from him, told us in Hadith Qudsi, that Allah, subhanahu
00:07:09.760 wa ta'ala, said that if my servant's sins were to reach the mountains and the skies,
00:07:14.320 Allah will forgive every single one of them, except shirk.
00:07:16.460 So we ask Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala, to accept this IDF, ex-IDF soldier's repentance,
00:07:21.160 yes, and it's a clean slate for him, and that Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala, is the most
00:07:24.940 merciful brothers and sisters.
00:07:26.000 And if it was to us, would we forgive him?
00:07:28.040 Would we forgive him?
00:07:28.880 Of course it is hard.
00:07:29.860 We wouldn't.
00:07:30.400 But Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala, and this is the beauty of Islam, him accepting Islam
00:07:33.780 tells us that we have forgiven him.
00:07:35.540 The matter is done and dusted.
00:07:36.940 Which other religion has this?
00:07:38.460 Which other religion has this kind of mercy from Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala, and the believers
00:07:42.340 are reminded that if somebody like this, who's done such atrocities, who is living
00:07:46.440 in, as you can see, depression and all this kind of stuff, Wallahi, my dear brother, if
00:07:49.960 you're watching this, you accepted Islam, and I'm sure brother Muhammad Ali is going
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00:08:38.500 I just want you to know that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala's doors are always open and it's a
00:08:42.420 clean slate for you.
00:08:43.180 We as your brothers, you are our brother in humanity now.
00:08:45.640 Whatever you did in the past, Alhamdulillah, it is then.
00:08:48.240 And that's what Allah says in the Quran.
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00:10:01.860 you've committed, shirk, associating partners to Allah is the biggest crime.
00:10:04.580 Allah even forgives that.
00:10:06.000 And subhanAllah, and I just wanted to give this reminder from myself to you guys, alhamdulillah,
00:10:11.340 that anyone that comes from that background, whatever it is, even if it's an idea soldier,
00:10:14.980 limited to something, our deen teaches us even that scum Netanyahu, even if he comes
00:10:19.380 to Islam, his repentance is accepted, is accepted.
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00:10:41.680 As-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh.