Ali Dawah - January 10, 2022


GANGSTER RETURNS FOR ALI DAWAH - KICKS OFF WITH MERCY


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In this episode, we speak to Ali about his experience of being approached by Mike the previous week and how he dealt with it. We also discuss the impact this had on him and the impact it had on the community.

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00:00:11.160 So, we're here with, brother, what's your name?
00:00:13.940 I'm Mike, for the first time I introduced this.
00:00:15.960 Ali, yeah?
00:00:17.720 Now, brothers and sisters, we just want to clarify a few things, okay?
00:00:21.680 I spoke to Mike.
00:00:22.480 Actually, I wanted to speak to Mike the following week, yeah?
00:00:26.100 Because I truly wanted to understand, because I felt as if Mike had some sort of frustration, yeah?
00:00:31.680 There was something that he was triggered by, and I wanted to know that.
00:00:34.620 Now, it's easy for me to jump to assumptions.
00:00:36.640 I could come and say, you know what?
00:00:37.800 On that day, he behaved like this, or I may have behaved a certain way towards him as well,
00:00:41.960 and I'm just going to judge him on that, and I'm going to close the chapter.
00:00:44.920 No, I thought, let me understand.
00:00:47.240 And that's why, if you remember, Mike, the following week when I came, 0.98
00:00:50.020 he was trying to have a go at Hato and for her rubbish as well.
00:00:53.160 But I said to you, can I speak to you, yeah? 0.82
00:00:55.340 So, obviously, you were still a bit maybe upset from the previous week,
00:00:58.460 but tell us from your point of view what happened that day,
00:01:02.060 and maybe some things that you may want to share to why he was a little bit hostile.
00:01:08.160 Right, so, I don't know.
00:01:09.700 Can you hear me all right?
00:01:10.640 Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:01:11.920 So, first of all, I want to thank this brother here, right?
00:01:15.720 And I call him a brother, because at the end of the day, we're brothers,
00:01:18.460 for being a big man, for being a humble guy, just for being himself and approaching me last week.
00:01:30.740 As he says, last week, I had a different mission.
00:01:34.880 And really, that mission was actually influenced by the previous week.
00:01:42.180 Because the previous week, what happened, people basically said,
00:01:47.160 oh, this guy is anti-Muslim, he's anti-Islamic.
00:01:50.400 And I said, wait, have you not seen me debating with the Christians before?
00:01:54.400 So, I thought, okay, if you haven't seen that, I'll come and show you.
00:01:57.180 So, that's why I then did, I came out specifically for Hatun,
00:02:00.960 who I actually, I'm just a person that don't like bullies.
00:02:05.940 And I've seen her do certain things, and I thought, no, I'm not going to endorse this.
00:02:11.740 And as I say, silence is violence.
00:02:13.540 So, I thought, I'm going to just go, and I'm going to speak even louder than I did when I was with you.
00:02:20.360 So, basically, now, he approached me last week, so I was on a different mission.
00:02:26.580 And I still had lingering, lingering feelings from our previous interaction.
00:02:33.820 Not because of him, because I'm not going to hold anger against him.
00:02:37.120 And at the end of our discussion, I shook his hand, put my hand on him like that.
00:02:40.980 And for me, it was done.
00:02:42.420 But when I was getting certain feedback from, obviously, people supporting him,
00:02:48.740 if you want to put it like that, who were coming at me with negativity.
00:02:52.160 Someone said that they would slap you, which I didn't hear.
00:02:54.360 No, but I will explain.
00:02:55.140 So, people were coming at me with negativity after that.
00:02:58.700 That made me in a position where, although I spoke with Ali last week, the second week,
00:03:03.320 I didn't really want to engage.
00:03:05.500 So, I give you credit, obviously, for approaching me.
00:03:08.260 And I'll also agree with you and be honest that I didn't want to engage at that time.
00:03:11.740 I just put my hands up on that.
00:03:13.880 Now, in terms of what happened on the day, I will explain.
00:03:18.400 Number one, there was something that happened on the day, literally minutes before the video with Ali started that was not included in that video.
00:03:27.580 And there were also things from my personal life and my experience that made me resentful, suspicious,
00:03:37.400 and, let's say, have a low patience of, I wouldn't even say Muslims, more like situations where I see maybe Arabs are picking on someone from my race.
00:03:53.540 So, automatically, I was in a position where I wanted to fight.
00:03:59.020 Do you know what I mean?
00:03:59.540 And then that came and involved itself with Ali, which had nothing to do with Ali, really.
00:04:04.100 But Ali was just coming in.
00:04:05.500 He didn't see what happened.
00:04:06.560 And that's the way it was.
00:04:09.320 So, you can ask me what happened, because I've been speaking for a whole long time.
00:04:11.700 No, no, no.
00:04:12.120 You know what it is, Mike, yeah?
00:04:13.700 What you say I can relate to, because you know why?
00:04:16.240 Let me just take my grass off so we can have eye-to-eye contact.
00:04:19.040 Me, personally, Mike, since I came to Islam, there is no one that has...
00:04:24.820 So, you weren't born a Muslim?
00:04:25.340 No, I wasn't born a Muslim.
00:04:26.420 In the religion, we believe it.
00:04:27.620 All right, yeah.
00:04:28.120 But my dad's agnostic.
00:04:29.760 My mum, she believes she's an alibi. 0.90
00:04:32.820 They're a little sick.
00:04:33.380 Yeah, yeah.
00:04:33.800 I know about that.
00:04:34.100 I always believed in a higher power.
00:04:35.280 I always believed in God.
00:04:37.000 But since I came to Islam, there is no one that has made me suffer as much as the Muslims. 1.00
00:04:43.140 Now, you might be thinking, what do you mean by that?
00:04:45.480 Look, we know we have certain enemies.
00:04:48.400 The far-right, some extreme Shias, not all, Ahmadis, Zionists, you name it.
00:04:58.180 We have a lot of enemies.
00:04:59.240 And I expect from them, because it's your enemy.
00:05:01.200 You know what to expect from your enemy.
00:05:03.040 But when you get hit from the back, it hurts more.
00:05:05.560 Because you're expecting it from the front.
00:05:07.460 When somebody comes and hits you from the back, it hurts more.
00:05:09.840 So to me, when it came to marriage, I suffered racism.
00:05:12.660 I was rejected based on not being a specific culture.
00:05:15.820 And these are Muslims.
00:05:17.220 These are Muslims that are saying no to me. 1.00
00:05:19.660 And I'm saying to them, look, I'm a Muslim as well.
00:05:21.500 No, but you're not from our background.
00:05:22.560 So I've been beaten in that way, not literally, many times.
00:05:28.080 Even in this very park, I've been oppressed by certain Muslims. 1.00
00:05:31.520 Yeah?
00:05:31.840 You come here, name call, do a variety of other stuff.
00:05:36.080 So I have seen it.
00:05:37.020 So I know where you're coming from to a point where if I, if there was any reason, if I was
00:05:41.740 to leave Islam, it would never be because of the Quran or a hadith.
00:05:45.480 It would be because of Muslims. 1.00
00:05:46.800 I'll make that very clear.
00:05:48.080 It's not a reason to, but we are human beings.
00:05:50.900 We're emotional.
00:05:51.600 Yeah, we're human beings.
00:05:52.020 If you continuously, I'll be honest with you.
00:05:53.880 If I continuously get bullied by the Mexicans, I'm going to have, be apprehensive towards 1.00
00:06:00.100 Mexicans. 0.95
00:06:00.840 I'm not going to have tolerance towards Mexicans. 1.00
00:06:02.900 I have to be real. 0.99
00:06:03.860 I don't give a damn.
00:06:04.660 Allah says in the Quran, speak the truth, even if it's against yourself or your kin.
00:06:09.440 You know what that means?
00:06:10.360 That means if I know my friend came and my friend is my Muslim brother, let's say, and
00:06:16.380 I've spent, I know him for 20 years.
00:06:18.080 If I know he's wronged you, I would tell him, brother, you're wrong.
00:06:20.560 I don't care if I know you, I don't care if you're my Muslim brother, I don't care 1.00
00:06:23.420 if my mom and my family know you, you are wrong.
00:06:27.220 Because this is justice and we need to uphold justice.
00:06:29.680 So when you came to me and when I saw that, obviously I didn't know the full picture and
00:06:33.440 I have to blame myself because I came shouting as well.
00:06:36.260 If you remember, I came shouting, if you remember, do you get it?
00:06:39.680 What happened is this, let me just speak quickly.
00:06:42.520 And there is a video of the entire incident.
00:06:45.080 Yes.
00:06:45.560 So what happened was Lamin, who I'm going to apologize to as well because I
00:06:50.200 disrespected him.
00:06:51.200 Yeah.
00:06:51.380 I called him names.
00:06:52.340 Yeah.
00:06:53.560 Lamin was debating another man who's like Jamaican.
00:07:00.140 Yeah.
00:07:01.300 He was not the most, he was not the, he doesn't speak like you, for example.
00:07:06.560 Maybe he doesn't even speak like me.
00:07:08.020 Yeah.
00:07:08.260 He was struggling to actually speak words, let alone to speak his opinion.
00:07:13.120 Yes.
00:07:13.300 Um, he had a bit of a stutter.
00:07:15.580 Yeah.
00:07:16.460 And what I saw from standing and watching him, it was never my plan to get involved.
00:07:21.020 Yeah.
00:07:21.260 I didn't come there to, oh, I'm.
00:07:22.880 Yeah. 0.95
00:07:23.160 You saw Muslims bullying him. 1.00
00:07:24.940 Yeah. 0.93
00:07:25.180 I came.
00:07:25.660 Yes.
00:07:25.840 And there was two black people.
00:07:27.840 Yeah.
00:07:28.240 Surrounded by a number of people.
00:07:30.940 A group of Muslims.
00:07:31.760 And a lot of them were Arab people.
00:07:33.740 Yeah.
00:07:33.880 I'm just guessing.
00:07:34.780 Yes.
00:07:34.920 Because they look like Arabs. 1.00
00:07:35.980 Yeah.
00:07:36.140 And what I saw was from me standing in the crowd.
00:07:40.200 Yeah.
00:07:40.460 And people not knowing.
00:07:41.940 Yeah.
00:07:42.320 That I was in an Arab.
00:07:43.520 People thinking that I was one of them.
00:07:45.360 Yeah.
00:07:45.800 We're all one and the same.
00:07:46.720 Don't get me wrong.
00:07:47.340 Yeah.
00:07:47.720 But people, I heard people mocking him.
00:07:50.460 Yeah.
00:07:50.960 So while he's trying to, Lamin asked him a question.
00:07:53.580 He's trying to speak.
00:07:55.100 They're shouting him down.
00:07:56.240 They're not letting him speak.
00:07:57.340 That was number one.
00:07:58.160 Yeah.
00:07:58.780 Number two, when he started speaking, he was stuttering.
00:08:02.260 Okay.
00:08:02.500 And people started mocking.
00:08:05.080 Yeah.
00:08:05.440 Like, and I'm thinking, what is this?
00:08:08.060 Like, do you understand?
00:08:09.700 And then number three, they started mocking his accent.
00:08:14.180 So those three things together.
00:08:15.920 Yeah.
00:08:16.020 Triggered you.
00:08:16.800 You could see the video.
00:08:17.960 I'm like this.
00:08:19.000 Yeah.
00:08:21.100 Like, because I'm not going to lie.
00:08:23.760 Yeah.
00:08:25.060 I've defended people from all backgrounds.
00:08:27.460 You told me about incident in.
00:08:29.160 I don't want to tell you where it was.
00:08:30.080 Okay.
00:08:30.140 Okay.
00:08:30.260 Okay.
00:08:30.520 But I've, listen, I don't need to.
00:08:32.420 People know me.
00:08:33.340 A lot of Muslims know me.
00:08:34.580 Yeah.
00:08:34.700 A lot of, a lot of Muslims in London know me.
00:08:37.320 Yeah.
00:08:37.480 I have Muslim family, Muslim friends.
00:08:40.080 Yeah.
00:08:40.340 When I was on the street, I got a lot, they call me gangster.
00:08:42.440 I got a lot of Muslim people that know me.
00:08:44.540 Yeah.
00:08:44.900 And they know what I'm like.
00:08:46.200 I defend.
00:08:47.060 That's just who I am.
00:08:48.020 Yeah.
00:08:48.200 But, same way you would, you would defend a Muslim if they were being bullied, same way
00:08:53.180 you would defend anybody, but especially a Muslim, if they were being bullied by other
00:08:57.580 people.
00:08:58.080 Yeah.
00:08:58.460 It's the same way.
00:08:59.340 Unfortunately, I cannot change my skin.
00:09:01.640 Yeah.
00:09:01.960 Yeah.
00:09:02.040 I am what I am.
00:09:03.180 Yeah.
00:09:03.460 Even if I said, oh, I am whatever, I'm still going to be what I am.
00:09:07.580 Yeah.
00:09:07.640 Yeah.
00:09:08.040 Yeah.
00:09:08.100 Yeah.
00:09:08.200 Yeah.
00:09:08.300 So when I'm there and I'm watching a black man being bullied.
00:09:11.040 Yeah.
00:09:11.260 And he cannot defend himself.
00:09:12.820 Yeah.
00:09:13.240 Yeah.
00:09:13.300 Yeah.
00:09:13.820 At some point, I'm like this.
00:09:15.400 And then the next minute, I didn't even plan it.
00:09:17.340 I don't know what happened.
00:09:18.440 Yeah.
00:09:18.600 Yeah.
00:09:18.720 I just stepped in.
00:09:19.900 Yeah.
00:09:20.540 And I straight away, I said, listen, bro, stop.
00:09:22.940 You don't need to keep talking.
00:09:24.160 Yeah.
00:09:24.740 Because basically, people are bullying you.
00:09:26.840 You don't need to keep trying to justify yourself.
00:09:28.960 Yeah.
00:09:29.140 Let the man who is grilling you justify himself.
00:09:32.900 Yeah. 0.85
00:09:33.260 Because right now, as far as I'm concerned, what I said, he's a black man performing for
00:09:39.360 an audience of Arabs.
00:09:40.780 Yeah. 0.97
00:09:41.040 And he's bullying another black man. 0.97
00:09:42.820 Those are my words. 0.97
00:09:43.740 Yeah.
00:09:44.080 That's how you say it.
00:09:44.360 So what you then came in, at that point, there was a commotion.
00:09:47.320 Yes.
00:09:47.560 And then you came in not knowing what had happened.
00:09:50.640 Which is my fault.
00:09:51.040 And you invited me to come over.
00:09:52.440 No, that's definitely your fault because you could have asked me what's going on.
00:09:56.300 I apologize for that.
00:09:57.060 So from there, me and you went into.
00:09:59.680 Another discussion.
00:10:00.400 We went into another discussion.
00:10:01.640 But that discussion, we moved from one location.
00:10:04.340 Yeah.
00:10:04.880 We moved to another location.
00:10:06.300 Yeah.
00:10:06.880 By the time your camera, people set up the camera.
00:10:09.980 Yeah.
00:10:10.240 By the time they put the mic on me.
00:10:11.920 Yeah.
00:10:12.140 They had no context.
00:10:12.600 Five minutes had gone.
00:10:14.480 Yeah.
00:10:14.980 So five minutes physically, I'm not like, ah, anymore.
00:10:18.420 Yeah.
00:10:18.960 But inside of me, I'm still steaming.
00:10:21.020 Yeah.
00:10:21.180 Yeah.
00:10:21.360 Yeah.
00:10:21.540 Yeah.
00:10:21.660 I'm still steaming.
00:10:22.740 Yeah.
00:10:23.200 So physically, I'm not angry no more.
00:10:25.500 Yeah.
00:10:25.640 But psychologically, I'm still heated.
00:10:27.800 Yeah.
00:10:28.000 So as soon as we started, I just carried on from where I left off.
00:10:32.780 Yes.
00:10:33.180 But you did not.
00:10:34.100 This is the disconnect.
00:10:34.980 You did not carry on from there.
00:10:36.480 Yeah.
00:10:36.500 Yeah.
00:10:36.800 Yeah.
00:10:36.880 You were on a complete different wavelength.
00:10:38.520 Yeah.
00:10:38.620 Yeah.
00:10:38.700 Yeah.
00:10:38.820 Yeah.
00:10:38.920 Yeah.
00:10:38.980 So I had a lot of hostility.
00:10:40.920 I'm not going to lie, hostility in that moment.
00:10:43.000 Yeah.
00:10:43.120 Yeah.
00:10:43.140 Because I was burning because of what had happened.
00:10:45.580 Yeah.
00:10:45.740 Now, why was that burning because of what had happened?
00:10:47.800 Exactly like you said.
00:10:48.660 And I'm not going to go into details, but I've had my experiences of deep racism.
00:10:54.580 Yeah.
00:10:54.760 With people, I would say, from a specific region.
00:11:00.680 Yeah.
00:11:00.700 And you're probably right.
00:11:01.320 Region.
00:11:01.800 And that made me have that hostility.
00:11:03.780 And that's what made me, in that moment, react the way I did.
00:11:06.560 No, no, man.
00:11:06.960 So I want to apologize to you.
00:11:08.400 No, I'm sorry.
00:11:08.840 I already apologized to you off camera.
00:11:10.640 But I want to apologize as well.
00:11:11.520 So I want to apologize to Ali in front of everyone for, number one, coming at him with
00:11:16.240 hostility that had nothing to do with him.
00:11:18.020 Yeah.
00:11:18.280 Because this guy didn't do nothing to me.
00:11:20.580 He was, the only mistake he made, he didn't ask what was going on.
00:11:23.440 So I want to apologize sincerely to Ali.
00:11:24.700 But I did also come and shout as well, which we have left a bad taste in your mouth about
00:11:28.720 me.
00:11:29.000 No, no, no.
00:11:29.380 I ain't even going to lie.
00:11:30.340 Yeah.
00:11:30.600 I just, if I have to be honest, I just thought you was their captain.
00:11:34.380 Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:11:34.960 I made an assumption.
00:11:36.280 Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:11:36.380 I made a stereotype.
00:11:37.600 Yeah.
00:11:37.700 I thought you was, it's not even bad.
00:11:39.140 It don't matter where you come from.
00:11:40.240 Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:11:40.900 That's not the point.
00:11:41.000 What I'm saying, I just thought these people that were doing that, we're doing that because
00:11:45.080 you're encouraging that.
00:11:46.400 I made a lot of stereotypes.
00:11:47.320 I'm totally against that.
00:11:47.900 I made a lot of stereotypes.
00:11:49.040 Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:11:49.120 I'm totally against that.
00:11:49.640 So in that moment when we was actually debating, whatever, we were having a conversation, I
00:11:53.380 didn't even really want to debate it because I was just like, more like, I was just continuing
00:11:57.580 the argument.
00:11:58.240 Yeah, yeah.
00:11:58.920 So when, at some point, someone, you gave me an example as to why Christianity and Judaism
00:12:07.480 did not come before Islam.
00:12:08.840 Yes, yes, yes. 1.00
00:12:09.640 And then I reacted by saying, are you dumb? 1.00
00:12:11.900 Yeah. 1.00
00:12:12.140 I said that.
00:12:13.300 Straight away, someone is like, why are you talking? 0.99
00:12:15.040 Just slap him. 0.92
00:12:16.000 Yeah, I didn't hear that, by the way. 0.97
00:12:17.060 I didn't hear that.
00:12:17.460 If you see the video, you can see how it went.
00:12:19.280 I didn't.
00:12:19.680 I know you.
00:12:19.940 You didn't hear it.
00:12:20.600 Yeah, yeah.
00:12:20.840 But you can see it.
00:12:21.440 Otherwise, I would have corrected it.
00:12:22.200 Yeah.
00:12:22.220 I just want to correct certain things.
00:12:23.800 Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:12:24.080 So because...
00:12:24.600 And I think that's when you said, touch me.
00:12:26.140 Yeah, and then I was like, I was like, then I said the wrong word.
00:12:28.620 And I was like, don't tell me that, S-hit. 1.00
00:12:30.580 Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:12:30.860 I said that straight away.
00:12:32.080 Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:12:32.300 And then I was like, I wish someone would touch me.
00:12:33.860 Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:12:34.300 Because at that point, from when that was said to me, it became a different thing.
00:12:37.340 Ali, I'm sorry.
00:12:47.060 Obviously, listen, I'll tell the camera, I don't know Jack.
00:12:49.740 I don't know nothing in this city.
00:12:51.060 Yeah.
00:12:51.300 So this ain't my city in that sense.
00:12:52.760 All I mean is, if someone's going to hit me in this city...
00:12:55.460 Yeah, of course, there's consequences.
00:12:56.300 I'm not going to walk away from it.
00:12:57.580 That's all I mean.
00:12:58.240 So without longing it out, I just want to apologize again to Ali. 0.57
00:13:02.640 No, it's okay.
00:13:03.120 I want to apologize to everybody.
00:13:04.940 Yeah.
00:13:05.280 I want to apologize to all the Muslims for coming across in that way. 1.00
00:13:08.120 Yeah.
00:13:08.500 Because that was not my intention.
00:13:09.880 Yeah.
00:13:10.240 And as I say, I've got Muslims in my family that have spoken to me and they said,
00:13:13.960 look, this behavior is not what we raised you like.
00:13:18.120 It's not what we expect of you.
00:13:19.700 Yeah.
00:13:20.040 Yeah.
00:13:20.180 Right?
00:13:20.780 I explained to them why it happened.
00:13:22.700 Yeah.
00:13:22.860 And they said, look, we know you and the truth is this happened because of a resentment
00:13:27.720 you develop of what has happened to you in the past.
00:13:30.560 That's sad though.
00:13:31.160 Right?
00:13:31.900 And it's true. 0.56
00:13:33.000 So I just want to apologize to Ali.
00:13:34.520 No, no, 100%.
00:13:34.840 I want to apologize to everybody.
00:13:36.560 And, you know, that's all I can say at the moment.
00:13:38.880 Thank you, Mike.
00:13:39.120 I apologize as well because at the end of the day, you know, sometimes we do come to the
00:13:42.480 park and we have this, like, because it's chaos here, you know, stuff happened.
00:13:46.480 We have pre-assumptions as well where we're thinking, okay, that person's shouting, he
00:13:49.920 must hate Islam. 0.99
00:13:50.800 And it's not always the case.
00:13:51.900 So I did come shouting back at you when you was having your first argument, which I do
00:13:55.580 believe left a bad taste in your mouth.
00:13:57.120 You thought I was the leader, et cetera.
00:13:58.860 I'm against that kind of attitude of taking the mic out of someone because they're stuttering.
00:14:02.300 But anyways, look, I really appreciate your humbleness that you've come and apologized.
00:14:05.200 And I apologize as well if we've wronged you.
00:14:06.840 But I do really relate with the stuff that you shared with me off camera.
00:14:10.540 Can I just mention something quickly before you go ahead?
00:14:12.180 Sorry, bro.
00:14:12.740 Sorry, sir.
00:14:13.320 Now, on the subject of shouting, and I explained, because last week there was another brother,
00:14:17.280 Muslim guy, that wanted to fight me because he said I was shouting.
00:14:21.500 And by me shouting, I'm being disrespectful to the Muslims. 1.00
00:14:25.680 And the way I always go away is I do something or I'm involved in something.
00:14:30.640 And then later on when I calm down, I start to break it down.
00:14:34.440 Like, why did that guy say that?
00:14:35.840 It's not because in the moment when he said that, I said, come on then, let's go for it.
00:14:39.100 And I was all, but later on, it was bugging me.
00:14:42.320 I said, why did he actually say that sentence?
00:14:44.140 And I realized, look, I speak loud.
00:14:47.600 It's how I speak.
00:14:49.200 It's because of my background.
00:14:50.480 I'm Nigerian.
00:14:51.540 Right?
00:14:52.060 I'm raised in Nigeria.
00:14:53.060 And this is how we communicate.
00:14:54.620 Especially if we're having a debate.
00:14:56.100 It's not because we hate you.
00:14:58.080 It's not because we're aggressive.
00:14:59.340 Yeah, it's neither.
00:14:59.840 It's just that we want to show you that we really believe what we're saying.
00:15:04.120 So, as I'm speaking, like the brother said, why are you?
00:15:06.200 Passion.
00:15:07.020 The guy said, well, why are you shouting so much?
00:15:08.540 You're being disrespectful.
00:15:09.420 I'm not being disrespectful.
00:15:10.620 There's no bone in me that is disrespectful or hates anybody.
00:15:14.120 As soon as I left you, it went out the window in terms of, like, deep anger.
00:15:19.640 Obviously, when I started getting threats or in person, online, then that keeps in me
00:15:25.740 a certain energy that I am in fighting mode.
00:15:28.540 Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:15:29.340 But, unfortunately, it's just something.
00:15:31.200 I want us to be an example to everybody.
00:15:32.940 100%.
00:15:33.380 To show that, you know, we lead with love.
00:15:37.300 No, no, exactly.
00:15:37.940 We lead with love.
00:15:38.580 You know, I just, I will end on this.
00:15:39.880 You know, the Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, he said, I only came to perfect good character. 0.94
00:15:44.060 And this is why I tell you, one of the biggest enemies to Islam are Muslims. 1.00
00:15:48.280 Muslims, I always say this, and I'll say it again, because our attitude and how we deal 0.95
00:15:51.760 with people, sadly, it causes people to have resentment.
00:15:55.080 I'm not saying all the time, but sadly, as Muslims, the way we conduct ourselves can be
00:15:59.280 arrogant, can be dismissive, can be, like, in a certain way where it leaves the base
00:16:04.360 bad taste. 0.87
00:16:05.140 If I was not a Muslim and I went through what I went through, bro, I'll be honest with you, 0.93
00:16:08.440 man, I would have a bad resentment towards Muslims. 1.00
00:16:11.040 This is not correct, but it just shows us that how individual, all of us, have a responsibility.
00:16:17.100 And I'll just end on that, no, brothers and sisters, inshallah, everybody, subhanallah,
00:16:21.600 look, if somebody owns up to their mistake, that is a big thing to me, do you get what
00:16:24.780 I'm trying to say?
00:16:25.400 And we should all learn from that.
00:16:26.900 And with all this defraud and this nonsense, whatever it may be, we should stop this kind
00:16:30.720 of attitude and learn from one another and take this video, inshallah, as a reminder
00:16:34.200 for us to fix up because we have emotional impact on individuals, how we treat them.
00:16:39.260 So, inshallah, that's it, Mike.
00:16:40.300 Thank you, man.
00:16:40.620 It was a pleasure.
00:16:41.460 We're always going to have a relationship.
00:16:42.880 I always do.
00:16:43.760 Look after yourself.
00:16:44.500 It was a pleasure, man, I really, really appreciate it.
00:16:47.520 And brothers and sisters, hope you enjoyed this video.
00:16:48.880 Please share it because I didn't know so people can now understand the context, what exactly
00:16:53.120 happened, why it happened, and we can learn from that, inshallah.
00:16:55.920 And we'll probably see more of Mike on Salaam Corner.
00:16:58.580 Until next time, assalamualaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh.