Ali Dawah - GAZA MADE HER LEAVE ISLAM - POWERFUL REMINDER

00:00:00.000 it starts with the basic truth those we have buried are not actually dead

00:00:05.160 they've entered the barzakh a parallel existence where there are people right

00:00:10.200 now that are just as alive as you I was doing that once in speaker's corner and

00:00:15.280 one girl came to me she said I left Islam I was curious I said like what's the

00:00:21.560 reason and she specifically mentioned Gaza this was a couple of years ago it's

00:00:25.680 not even what's going on now so she was like I left Islam and I was like okay 0.99

00:00:30.860 so it really amazed me like a thought came to my mind I was like wow and I

00:00:35.040 expressed it to her I said I said sister don't you think it's amazing that you

00:00:38.680 just imagine the people back in the day when they would have to travel certain

00:00:45.000 distances for months or even years what is one thing that they would carry with

00:00:48.840 them the Quran why because they did not have it on their mobile devices or their

00:00:53.640 gadgets brothers and sisters imagine you have a app the Qurany app which not

00:00:58.620 only shows you how much rewards you get but reminds you to read the Quran gives

00:01:03.880 you reminders download the Qurany app now and let it testify for you on your

00:01:07.880 time of the Quran that you read it wherever you was

00:01:10.680 Asalaamu Alaikum wa rahmatu wa barakatu brothers and sisters and dear friends

00:01:13.860 call it you guys inshaAllah Asalaamu Alaikum Ustah Al-Mahayyam

00:01:16.280 Asalaamu Alaikum-Hailaikum How are you?

00:01:17.380 Alhamdulillah good Alhamdulillah so I came inshaAllah to see Ustah Al-Omar in a specific location

00:01:22.360 we're not going into detail of course it's classified but Alhamdulillah I got a chance to sit with

00:01:26.380 him speak with him got to know him better Alhamdulillah and yeah Alhamdulillah got nothing but good to say

00:01:31.700 And Alhamdulillah, Yaqeen Institute has really helped me in my da'wah as well when it comes to prophecies

00:01:36.420 I believe it's prophecies be a great role, like me when it comes to convincing people of Islam

00:01:40.000 So yeah, may Allah bless and preserve you, inshaAllah

00:01:42.300 So you've got this series that is coming out, it's called The Other Side

00:01:48.900 So we're going to watch it, we're going to react to it because there's a lot of lessons to be learned from it

00:01:53.820 Because I found it really powerful, so are you ready to watch yourself?

00:01:56.900 See you on the other side

00:01:58.060 I'll probably put my head down, inshaAllah

00:01:59.140 Are you sure?

00:02:01.700 Where are you going?

00:02:03.660 And how do I know I'll make it there?

00:02:05.940 What's it like over there?

00:02:07.880 Is there a way you can tell me about it?

00:02:10.280 Am I viewed amongst the righteous or the wicked?

00:02:13.540 What's real about what's around me right now?

00:02:17.220 There's this world you're in and another world that simultaneously exists that you can't see

00:02:21.980 But it sees you

00:02:23.380 Allah, the angels and other elements of the unseen are watching you

00:02:28.340 And you're only one step away from it

00:02:31.060 It starts with a basic truth

00:02:34.020 Those we have buried are not actually dead

00:02:37.320 They've entered the barzakh

00:02:39.520 A parallel existence where there are people right now that are just as alive as you

00:02:44.580 Some of them are watching green birds that were once in bodies of martyrs soar above them

00:02:50.120 Others are drowning in rivers of blood

00:02:52.600 Some are dwelling in beautiful homes among family members that have been dead for decades

00:02:58.020 Others are busy being devoured by beasts with many heads

00:03:01.660 So what is this realm?

00:03:03.700 And what do we know about the people who reside in it?

00:03:06.680 And what would knowing about that world do for us today to make sense of the world we live in right now?

00:03:12.740 And what does it mean for us in our own individual journeys?

00:03:17.040 Trying to find our way back to Allah 0.98

00:03:18.840 To the quil amounts within the Fields

00:03:24.980 To the birds in sea

00:03:27.540 To the bird animals

00:03:30.420 To the birds in sea

00:03:31.860 To the birds in sea

00:03:34.360 To the birds in a sea

00:03:35.800 An almostços of the sky

00:03:37.760 And we instantchos来了

00:03:38.780 To the birds in sea

00:03:40.320 By the internet

00:03:41.160 To the birds in sea

00:03:42.700 To the birds of water

00:03:44.140 Also to know how about the birds below

00:03:45.100 And where to see things

00:03:46.260 So, Subhanallah, that was very powerful from the production to, you know, explanation.

00:04:11.360 What comes to my mind is, you know, when we're looking at Gaza, I spoke to you about this yesterday as well.

00:04:19.300 I was doing that once in the speaker's corner, and one girl came to me, and she said, I left Islam.

00:04:26.080 I was curious, I said, like, what's the reason?

00:04:29.020 And she specifically mentioned Gaza.

00:04:30.660 This was a couple of years ago.

00:04:32.100 It's not even what's going on now.

00:04:34.320 So, she was like, I left Islam, and I was like, okay. 1.00

00:04:38.040 So, it really amazed me, like, a thought came to my mind, and I was like, wow.

00:04:40.540 I said, and I expressed it to her.

00:04:42.200 I said, I said, sister, don't you think it's amazing that you are living in the West?

00:04:47.020 You're living in some sort of comfort.

00:04:48.760 You don't have to worry about, you know, your life being in danger, bonds dropping, et cetera.

00:04:53.620 And yet, you have doubted Islam because of what you see.

00:04:57.020 We call this the problem of evil.

00:04:58.240 It's the shubha had. 0.97

00:04:59.500 However, I said, the very people that you're looking at, their suffering, has led you to live Islam, 1.00

00:05:05.400 is doing the opposite effect on them.

00:05:07.720 They are the ones that are actually suffering.

00:05:09.560 They're the ones, if there's anyone that we can say, could, Ghani, should be saying what you're saying to them,

00:05:15.840 but they're doing the opposite.

00:05:17.140 Right.

00:05:18.860 What would you, like, say to that?

00:05:20.460 Because a lot of people are, like, we, it's in our dawah table.

00:05:23.300 People are just amazed of the people in Gaza.

00:05:26.220 This doesn't make sense to them.

00:05:27.520 It's like, like, how does this woman come and pick up the body parts of his daughter, son,

00:05:31.660 and say, yeah, this is Adam's leg, and says, alhamdulillah, like, I look at that as a Muslim.

00:05:36.860 Forget a disbeliever. 0.95

00:05:37.500 I look at that as a Muslim and go, can I say those words if that was my kids?

00:05:43.400 And I have a big question about myself.

00:05:44.700 I say, I don't know if I can say that.

00:05:46.660 What makes these people so unique?

00:05:50.280 And please tell us this series, what's inspiring you to talk about the outside?

00:05:54.060 Firstly, when Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala describes the descent of the Qur'an

00:06:04.540 as being a means by which he divides the believers from the hypocrites,

00:06:08.980 that it sends some people on a journey back to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala,

00:06:12.040 and it sends others on a journey down a very dark path,

00:06:15.960 that it's a furqan, that it's a criterion.

00:06:18.620 The people of Qur'an also, and there are no people that can rightfully be called

00:06:23.560 the people of Qur'an in the collective sense, like the people of Gaza today.

00:06:28.040 The people of the Qur'an also become a means by which you can distinguish truth and falsehood,

00:06:32.900 and people are sent into different directions.

00:06:35.440 That's not to say that some very sincere believers have not experienced deep pain

00:06:41.840 that they've had to come to terms with over the last year and a half,

00:06:44.420 and have found themselves in a place of hardship and deep sorrow,

00:06:50.100 to where there was a waswasa, there was a whisper from the shaytan inside of them.

00:06:54.420 I'm not talking about those people.

00:06:56.480 But what I'm talking about is the fact that because of Gaza, 0.97

00:07:00.280 you have people that have embraced Islam at a rate like we have never seen before,

00:07:05.780 and you have some people who still would find their way away from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala

00:07:11.280 as a result of this.

00:07:12.180 One of the things, subhanAllah, that you mentioned, which is very important here,

00:07:17.460 the people of Gaza are not questioning their faith.

00:07:19.840 So who are you to question faith on their behalf?

00:07:22.320 The people that are the core subject of this, that are experiencing this,

00:07:26.500 are not questioning their faith.

00:07:28.040 In fact, they are having extreme connection to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala,

00:07:33.460 premonitions, dreams about the hereafter.

00:07:35.920 They are renewed in their faith, their resilience.

00:07:40.260 That doesn't mean they are not sad.

00:07:41.960 That doesn't mean they are not devastated at times.

00:07:44.580 Yes, they cry over their loved ones.

00:07:47.020 They cry over the circumstances that have befallen them.

00:07:51.320 But at no point are they questioning

00:07:53.080 that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is putting them through an unnecessary trial 0.99

00:07:57.860 with no reward at the end.

00:07:59.340 They understand that they are here for a purpose.

00:08:01.300 If you're born and raised in Gaza, you know from the very beginning

00:08:05.860 that you're here for a very reason

00:08:08.860 and that you occupy a very special purpose in this world.

00:08:13.200 And here's the thing, subhanAllah, 0.91

00:08:14.540 these people are not limited by what's called the open-air prison of Gaza

00:08:19.960 because they're already connected to a jannah

00:08:23.240 that is broader than the heavens and the earth.

00:08:25.540 They are not intimidated by their human oppressor

00:08:29.160 because they're already connected to the lord of the oppressor and the oppressed.

00:08:34.140 They already are connected to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala

00:08:36.640 in all of his glory.

00:08:38.880 And so you can't restrict them.

00:08:40.520 And so when Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says,

00:08:42.100 وَمَنْ أَعْرَضَ عَن ذِكْرِ فَإِنَّ لَهُ مَعِشَةً ضَنْكَ

00:08:45.040 That whoever turns away from my remembrance will have a constricting life.

00:08:49.700 We can see that, that people have suffocation

00:08:52.200 despite their great circumstances.

00:08:55.820 Forget about people leaving Islam 1.00

00:08:57.580 because they can't come to terms with devastation

00:09:00.820 of the people of Gaza or the refugees of the world.

00:09:03.920 People that leave Islam because they didn't marry the person they wanted to marry 0.99

00:09:07.020 or they didn't get the job that they wanted

00:09:08.340 or they didn't get into medical school.

00:09:09.740 In their full delight, in their full comfort,

00:09:13.260 they still find a way away from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. 0.85

00:09:15.740 It's a constricting lifestyle.

00:09:17.360 People that can't find happiness because they don't have purpose.

00:09:21.180 The opposite of that is true.

00:09:22.620 And this is a principle in our deen

00:09:23.900 that things are known by their opposites as well.

00:09:26.140 That the more you remember Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, 0.91

00:09:28.380 the more shiraah there is, the more expanse there is.

00:09:31.920 And so these are people of Dhikr. 0.78

00:09:33.700 These are people of Qur'an

00:09:34.700 and they are connected to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.

00:09:36.560 So they feel expanse even though they're in this tight circumstance.

00:09:39.240 And that's why you watch a person,

00:09:42.620 let's not just talk about the people and the genocide.

00:09:45.060 You watch the prisoners, or you know what,

00:09:46.900 let's not call them prisoners, a topic for another day.

00:09:49.640 You watch the hostages, the Palestinian hostages

00:09:52.240 that come out after having been in captivity for 30 years

00:09:55.920 and have missed the death of their parents,

00:09:58.700 the birth of their children.

00:10:00.340 And they still say, alhamdulillah, as soon as they come out

00:10:02.600 and they say, despite everything we've been subjected to,

00:10:04.680 they never forgot alhamdulillah.

00:10:06.340 They never forgot Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. 0.98

00:10:07.940 So faith is not something that can be explained easily

00:10:13.460 to someone who's never touched it or been touched by it.

00:10:16.740 And so the people of Ghazza are a phenomenon 1.00

00:10:18.800 to a people that don't have faith

00:10:21.160 because they don't understand how these people still have purpose.

00:10:23.560 And on top of that, and this is what you mentioned about us,

00:10:28.340 faith is also something that we pray that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala

00:10:31.840 consider us amongst His devout servants and believers

00:10:35.900 and grant us a high state of iman and certainty and yaqeen

00:10:38.580 so we can be like the people of Ghazza in this regard.

00:10:40.480 We have read about the stories of the Sahaba.

00:10:44.020 We've read about these stories and episodes from the Seerah.

00:10:47.780 We've read about the people of the Qur'an.

00:10:50.160 But to see it exemplified so clearly in the people of Ghazza

00:10:54.460 has made the story of Hamza radiallahu anhu so much more real.

00:10:58.400 It has made the story of Mus'ab radiallahu anhu so real. 0.76

00:11:00.920 Sumayya radiallahu anhu.

00:11:01.800 How many Sumayyas are there?

00:11:03.380 How many Hamzas are there? 1.00

00:11:04.700 How many Mus'abs are there? 1.00

00:11:06.280 Wa ala dahduh, may Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala bless him.

00:11:08.460 This man who lost every single person,

00:11:10.880 or not every single person, but I mean subhanAllah,

00:11:13.560 his wife, his children, his mother.

00:11:17.400 I mean he's lost so much in this genocide.

00:11:19.460 You go and you sit with this man.

00:11:21.280 And he says, alhamdulillahi rabbil alameen.

00:11:23.140 He says, my family went to Jannah and I went to Doha.

00:11:27.800 That's how he explains the way that subhanAllah that this happens. 0.92

00:11:31.800 They went one place and I went another place.

00:11:34.580 And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has destined victory for the people of Ghazza

00:11:37.580 and Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has destined paradise for all of us.

00:11:41.080 So that's what this is all about.

00:11:43.000 And the other side was not meant in any way to serve as a sedative,

00:11:48.160 as a means of making us complacent with the situation of Ghazza 1.00

00:11:50.980 and saying, oh, it's okay, Allah has taken care of them in the hereafter.

00:11:53.840 But it's so that we could renew our spirit.

00:11:58.040 And this is something subhanahu wa ta'ala I talked about in the series,

00:12:00.120 that when the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam talked about the shuhada of Uhud,

00:12:04.900 when Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala raised them to him 0.91

00:12:08.560 and gave them what he gave them after their shahadah,

00:12:11.820 they asked to come back and speak to their families

00:12:15.000 or to send a message to their families.

00:12:17.120 Not that don't cry, I'm okay.

00:12:19.400 But they did not want the believers to lose heart.

00:12:22.100 They wanted them to keep at it, to say, we're okay, so keep at it.

00:12:25.360 We're okay, so keep at it.

00:12:27.040 You have to keep at this.

00:12:28.440 That you're on a continuum.

00:12:30.120 That we didn't die for nothing.

00:12:32.060 That we didn't live for nothing.

00:12:33.340 That we had a purpose of living.

00:12:35.060 And our death has a purpose.

00:12:36.300 And you have to keep it going.

00:12:37.640 You have to live with purpose and die with purpose as well.

00:12:40.680 And so the other side,

00:12:42.000 I started writing this series actually in 2023.

00:12:47.440 I filmed it October 2024.

00:12:50.780 And you can just go back.

00:12:52.320 Subhanallah, October 2024 was a very difficult month.

00:12:55.200 And October 2023, obviously, everything in between.

00:12:59.040 So I literally was filming this a year of genocide.

00:13:02.880 With the year of genocide.

00:13:04.020 And I was writing it from the genocide onwards.

00:13:06.080 And the idea was,

00:13:08.680 what makes the barzakh so profound,

00:13:10.920 is that we think about divine justice as a future concept.

00:13:14.420 Like maybe it will happen in the future.

00:13:16.600 But divine justice is already happening.

00:13:19.160 Because the people that have been martyred

00:13:21.480 are already receiving their reward from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.

00:13:23.940 And every tyrant that goes into that realm

00:13:26.920 is already receiving their punishment.

00:13:29.300 So it's not even about the future.

00:13:31.480 It's about the fact that this exists right now.

00:13:33.360 And then lastly,

00:13:35.240 we have to also think about the fact

00:13:36.840 that we too will go to that place.

00:13:38.860 And the barzakh is right in front of us.

00:13:41.500 The grave is right there.

00:13:43.300 It is.

00:13:43.720 And the thing that the Prophet ﷺ said,

00:13:45.200 you know,

00:13:45.960 he pointed out a boy who died.

00:13:48.180 And he said his day of judgment has started.

00:13:50.340 Yes.

00:13:50.640 Because the moment you die,

00:13:52.080 we see it as far away, etc.

00:13:55.340 There's two things we haven't been told.

00:13:57.040 It's our death and the day of judgment.

00:13:58.780 Because if we know these things,

00:14:00.460 we'll be behaving very differently.

00:14:02.260 Absolutely.

00:14:02.440 Because that's the reason why Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala 1.00

00:14:03.400 has told us when we're going to die

00:14:05.160 and when Yom al-Qiyamah is.

00:14:06.440 And because we need to live

00:14:07.440 like it could happen tomorrow.

00:14:08.760 Absolutely.

00:14:09.000 You know,

00:14:09.140 we should live like we're going to die tomorrow.

00:14:10.680 You know,

00:14:10.880 different people take that in a different way.

00:14:12.180 YOLO.

00:14:13.160 We take that as well.

00:14:14.080 Yes,

00:14:14.260 the only lived ones.

00:14:14.940 Meaning I have to do the best of my ability

00:14:16.780 to do as much righteous deeds

00:14:18.480 and talk about the situation in Gaza

00:14:19.620 that it's the oppressed.

00:14:20.980 So yeah,

00:14:21.480 it's subhanahu wa ta'ala.

00:14:22.220 It's very,

00:14:22.700 very profound.

00:14:23.200 And I think every day in Ramadan,

00:14:24.840 it's coming out.

00:14:25.700 Yeah,

00:14:26.000 insha'Allah.

00:14:26.440 So it's going to be like

00:14:32.440 that's outside of the barzakh

00:14:33.780 and trying to understand

00:14:35.060 through visiting the grave,

00:14:37.300 through dreams,

00:14:38.100 through seeing genocide,

00:14:39.400 through trying to reckon with the barzakh.

00:14:41.660 And then actually the last 20 days

00:14:43.760 are you yourself going into the barzakh.

00:14:46.400 And so when you're experiencing

00:14:48.260 the punishment of the grave

00:14:49.240 or the reward of the grave,

00:14:50.340 when you're experiencing

00:14:50.980 meeting people once again

00:14:52.120 and stuff like that.

00:14:53.020 So usually when I do a Ramadan series,

00:14:55.100 I start with like the,

00:14:56.780 you know,

00:14:57.620 the fast pace

00:14:58.380 and then I go into

00:14:59.180 sort of calming into the subject.

00:15:01.000 This is actually the opposite.

00:15:01.980 So it's going to start with

00:15:03.500 more of like,

00:15:04.660 just think of a person

00:15:05.460 that's in a box of dunya

00:15:06.640 trying to feel

00:15:08.000 what's outside of it.

00:15:09.020 And that's sort of the way

00:15:10.600 that the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam

00:15:11.360 described this dunya

00:15:12.400 or the insan.

00:15:13.960 He drew this rectangular shape

00:15:15.740 Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam

00:15:16.860 and he said,

00:15:18.280 this is man.

00:15:19.000 And then he drew a line through it.

00:15:21.020 And he said that

00:15:23.140 this is his ajal.

00:15:24.860 This is his,

00:15:26.160 so this is his lifespan

00:15:27.640 and these are his hopes

00:15:29.740 in this world.

00:15:30.300 And so he showed

00:15:32.220 Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam

00:15:32.980 that the hopes of the world

00:15:34.360 extend outside of

00:15:35.880 the actual lifespan

00:15:37.440 that you have.

00:15:38.420 And then he drew little lines

00:15:39.900 Alayhi Sallatu Wasallam

00:15:41.060 around that line

00:15:42.660 to show that

00:15:43.360 these are the tests

00:15:44.140 that you will face.

00:15:45.680 And so you're literally

00:15:46.760 in a box of dunya.

00:15:48.360 And until you can

00:15:49.480 see outside of it

00:15:50.920 or feel outside of it,

00:15:52.600 then you're going to feel

00:15:54.580 exactly as it's drawn,

00:15:56.260 which is like

00:15:56.760 you're boxed in

00:15:57.500 and suffocating.

00:15:58.200 And so it'll be

00:16:00.300 something that

00:16:01.020 hopefully,

00:16:02.480 you know,

00:16:02.760 shadow ban will

00:16:03.400 probably try to attempt

00:16:05.340 because it has

00:16:05.780 a lot of ghazza in it.

00:16:06.900 But hopefully

00:16:07.480 it'll allow people

00:16:08.500 inshallah,

00:16:09.580 a way for people

00:16:10.740 to grow

00:16:11.500 and connect.

00:16:12.880 Inshallah,

00:16:13.820 Barakouf,

00:16:14.240 you guys can watch

00:16:16.520 that on Yaqeen Institute

00:16:17.300 channel,

00:16:17.700 inshallah,

00:16:17.940 Barakouf,

00:16:18.100 sisters,

00:16:18.780 make the most of it.

00:16:20.140 I am inshallah

00:16:21.100 planning on doing that

00:16:22.120 as well,

00:16:22.420 inshallah.

00:16:23.040 Until next time,

00:16:23.540 As-salamu alaykum

00:16:24.080 wa rahmatou'la.

00:16:24.960 Assalamu alaykum.

00:16:25.540 We'll have the cuts.

Ali Dawah - February 21, 2025

GAZA MADE HER LEAVE ISLAM - POWERFUL REMINDER

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