Ali Dawah - How to Purify your intentions ｜｜ Ali Dawah

00:00:00.000 Assalamualaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh brothers and sisters and dear friends

00:00:28.860 and family should I say we are one big family so today's video is going to be about me and my

00:00:34.100 intentions the intentions problems that I had for example when I started the dawah the youtube

00:00:38.460 for example when I'm on public platforms when I'm giving for example talks how I battled with

00:00:44.740 my intentions and how I fought it and tried to better myself in the best ways possible so I

00:00:49.580 thought I'll share it with you guys because a lot of people go through these intention problems

00:00:52.080 and sometimes we don't understand the matter of intentions really don't understand it you know

00:00:57.120 because which I will inshallah touch upon so basically brothers and sisters when I got

00:01:01.920 into the dawah scene the youtube or whatever it is this that to be honest I wasn't really I didn't

00:01:06.100 have it planned out I'm going to do videos I didn't me and cameras were not made for each other but

00:01:09.720 as you can see they are my first love from now on so basically I got into it etc and one of the

00:01:15.660 biggest problems that I had when I got into the matter of youtube and videos is for example one

00:01:21.620 of the first things was for example obviously why am I doing what I'm doing you know am I doing it

00:01:27.800 for the sake of Allah am I doing it for fame am I doing it for this or that yeah this is certain

00:01:31.700 things that I had to question myself and I'm just being I want to be honest with you guys so you guys

00:01:35.360 can understand and see how I battled it because I don't know I'm human being and obviously I've seen

00:01:40.040 this kind of stuff so I'm going to share with you guys so the first thing was basically when I got

00:01:43.340 there I needed to know why I'm doing what I'm doing so I questioned myself and I said look the youth have

00:01:48.420 issues out there there the zina is a problem alcohol gambling drugs gang etc etc these are

00:01:54.960 problems and these are problems that I want to help the youth in do you get it because I've come from

00:01:58.840 a jahiliya and and I've seen these kind of stuff you get I'm trying to say even though alhamdulillah

00:02:03.380 I've stayed away from alcohol drugs and certain things but nightlife clubbing and I don't mean it

00:02:07.360 to exposing myself but I've seen it I've seen the damages that it brings so seeing that I want to

00:02:13.040 convey it to my brothers and my sisters and friends in humanity to basically abstain from

00:02:19.020 this stuff so I knew why I wanted to do what I wanted to do when it came to dawah dawah is something

00:02:24.020 that I loved because at the end of the day I was lost Allah guided me and obviously we know the

00:02:28.520 prophet said indeed none of you truly believe in until you love for yourself we love for your brother

00:02:33.920 so because we have Islam we believe Islam is something really amazing for all of us so we want 0.82

00:02:38.500 to share it so that's why I knew why I was doing so I questioned myself and I understood and I said

00:02:42.920 okay alhamdulillah my intentions are good now what just because the intentions are good at the beginning

00:02:47.540 doesn't mean it's going to carry on like that to the end because along the way you get bombs this

00:02:51.480 that shaitan's on your case because if he sees you doing something beneficial inshallah Allah accepts 0.92

00:02:55.740 it from us he will be on our cases so with me one of the things that I struggle with is for example

00:03:01.680 releasing videos at the beginning alhamdulillah when we have videos that are reaching five ten thousand views

00:03:06.240 we are happy that those amount of people are benefiting but as time went by shaitan will

00:03:11.160 start to get to me and be like okay I would have moments where I will check a certain video and the

00:03:15.880 shaitan will make me feel like oh only five thousand views or ten thousand views so what was happening

00:03:21.840 was I was starting to realize why am I concentrating more on the views you get it so what it is is it's

00:03:28.100 about reflecting upon it you know you can't say okay oh my gosh I'm a bad person for thinking

00:03:32.480 I know you're human being you're going to think of certain stuff with intentions wise you get

00:03:36.220 it so I understood that problem and I said okay what can I do to stop that so once I realized that

00:03:43.680 and I said okay um because what happens is again that makes you when you look at the views in my

00:03:49.360 head I was thinking okay need to do this video better or this and I was gonna hold on a second

00:03:52.720 hold on a second why am I trying to do this or that to make a video better or reach further no no no

00:03:58.080 so I realized the problem and I said how can I deal with this so I had my way of saying you know

00:04:03.480 what from now on I don't care there's a lot of youtubers go through this as well you know like

00:04:08.120 specifically from as muslims this is wrong we should not have this mentality we do our videos

00:04:12.360 so people can benefit so basically I understood and I said you know what I don't care if I put it

00:04:17.840 I set myself and my brain and I made a dua to Allah for him to help me and purify my intentions

00:04:21.980 I said I'm doing this video because it needs to be done it's got it's got to be done I don't care if

00:04:26.820 it if 500 people watch it a thousand people that's it from that moment on I understood the problem

00:04:32.040 and I found a solution I said look I don't care if it's ten thousand uh five thousand three thousand

00:04:37.000 views I don't care anymore I'm doing a video that needs to be done I put it out there I leave it

00:04:40.980 I don't care so uh alhamdulillah I battled that within uh those uh techniques and tactics that I

00:04:46.940 used and alhamdulillah um I've come over that uh and all praises and glory belong to Allah

00:04:51.220 the second thing that I um the second thing that I had an issue was with for example um my video you

00:04:59.740 know the black israelites the the um the black jews down to black jews which you can see in this 0.67

00:05:03.700 corner when I was doing this video and this is something that I want to share with you guys

00:05:07.420 is that day I wanted to get a haircut like like you know haircut um you know look nice but then I came

00:05:13.960 to a realization of why um why do I want to get a haircut and why like for what am I doing the video

00:05:19.960 because the video needs to be done and they need dawah and so people can watch the video and be

00:05:23.440 benefited or am I doing the video just to look good for what so and this doesn't mean just because

00:05:31.620 oh you want to look good means your intentions are wrong no but at that specific moment of time

00:05:36.080 I thought to myself no for me to I knew my intentions were like not to look good this that

00:05:42.300 but for me to have that doubt and think okay why did I why am I doing that I the way I battled it

00:05:48.420 is this is me this is personal I said I'm not gonna get a haircut that day I'm gonna go looking

00:05:52.920 ragu like like whatever I don't care so I went that day specific day and I just did the video

00:05:57.800 as it is I didn't get my haircut see this is a way of battling your intention do you get what I'm

00:06:01.760 trying to say because you're understanding the problem and just to prove a point to yourself and

00:06:06.120 to other sponsors that look it's not about how I look or this stuff do you get what I'm trying to say

00:06:10.280 so what I did was I went there I didn't get a haircut I didn't go and just wear like this clothes

00:06:13.760 and once again I repeated this doesn't mean that on my videos I do try to look good in a way

00:06:19.080 to be presentable not in a way of oh let the people did you get what I'm trying to say none

00:06:24.720 of that so alhamdulillah that was the second problem that I had and this is how I dealt with

00:06:28.940 it and this is what you can use as well which I will come to inshallah now the third thing is when

00:06:34.360 I'm out in public people approach me alhamdulillah they like the stuff that we do me Imran brother

00:06:40.000 Oyan brother Musa they like the stuff that we do so they just can't want to take a picture 1.00

00:06:43.260 this is one of the things that is really hard because when people come to you shaitan is on

00:06:48.260 your case when people come and approach me and say can I take a picture this that shaitan will 0.64

00:06:53.480 come and make you feel like you're something special one of the ways that I found a way of

00:06:58.140 combating this and this relates to exactly when I'm giving a talk is before I start my talk and

00:07:03.540 I've realized wherever I am on tv camera whatever it is I like to start my talk by saying all praises

00:07:08.800 glory and gratitude belong to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala everything that we do we do it with

00:07:13.560 his permission so this helped me to reassure myself and the person opposite me so when

00:07:18.060 somebody comes and says to me I watch your videos I say may Allah bless you make dua for 0.99

00:07:21.520 me all praises and glory belong to Allah do you get what I'm trying to say so this was a way of

00:07:26.700 me to convey it to him and say look all praises and glory belong to Allah because if it's not

00:07:30.920 with his permission Ali Dawah Dawah man Oyan man or Musa man we are nothing we are nobody do you get

00:07:37.040 it so this was alhamdulillah a really good way now I know a lot of brothers out there they say

00:07:41.520 okay I have intentions wrong this that so I want to stop doing videos and stop doing Dawah no

00:07:45.520 Aki because at the end of the day this is my advice to you if you're in the Dawah scene yeah 1.00

00:07:49.160 there's shaitan is going to be on your case all the time if shaitan sees you doing something

00:07:53.040 beneficial it's going to try to stop you from doing that now at the same time that can be a test from

00:07:57.320 Allah to you so you just can't say okay I'll give up hey I'm not stop no no no no no you battle it

00:08:02.340 you fight it just the way I gave you a few examples of how I do it you have to battle it

00:08:06.720 and try to you know try to you know figure out ways of overcoming that instead of saying oh I

00:08:13.720 give up a white flag no no no you have to battle it inshaAllah you know and one of the things that

00:08:18.700 really I remind myself of is as you know the first three people are going to enter the hellfire is the

00:08:23.340 one who read the Quran the one who gave in charity and the one who fought in the way of Allah 0.85

00:08:27.480 these are the first three that's going to enter the hellfire listen to me carefully this is a

00:08:32.100 hadith that really makes me think and reflect and purifies my intention I remind myself of that

00:08:35.900 every time the first one is when Allah calls him and says what have you done for me come here

00:08:39.720 oh Allah I read the Quran for you yeah he's going to say you are lying you read the Quran so people 1.00

00:08:44.780 can say you know the deen you're knowledgeable person go to the hellfire number two the one he's

00:08:50.660 going to say come here what did you do for me oh Allah I gave charity in your wealth in

00:08:54.740 abundance and all my wealth Allah is going to say you're lying you did it so people can say

00:08:58.720 you're a generous man so you didn't do it for my sake you did it so people can say ah you're this

00:09:02.540 or that so Allah said take him to the hellfire the third man is the one who fought in the way of

00:09:07.480 Allah Allah is going to say what have you done I've done this and that he's going to say you're lying

00:09:11.420 you did it so they can say you are a brave man so these are the first three people that's going to

00:09:16.320 enter the hellfire brothers and sisters so this really makes me try to purify my intentions as much

00:09:21.360 as possible and deal with it so these were the main three problems that I had and another problem

00:09:25.600 was basically um you know uh having special effects or these kind of stuff on my videos me

00:09:31.740 personally I found that to be affecting my intentions so due to that uh you know like you know making the

00:09:38.500 videos due to that I try my best to not have no special effects or these it's personal to me it's

00:09:45.060 just something for I'll share with you guys now I hope you guys have benefited from what I'm saying to

00:09:49.620 you and I don't want to finish there is we really need to understand our intentions because we have

00:09:54.240 a narration from the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam uh from umar ibn qattab where he says that

00:09:59.420 every intention is based uh sorry every uh action that you do is based on his intentions if I'm migrating

00:10:05.280 from here to Scotland and if it's for the sake of Allah I will get rewarded accordingly to that

00:10:10.300 but if I am leaving here to go to Scotland because there's a marriage proposal and I want to get married

00:10:14.160 then my uh intentions are for something else even though you can make your intentions for that

00:10:20.840 to be for the sake of Allah you can say oh Allah I'm going to Scotland to get married to complete 0.82

00:10:24.660 half my deen and keep away from fitna alhamdulillah you can do that so do you get what I'm trying to

00:10:29.300 say and this is really important and there is a saying which I am not 100% sure that uh one of the

00:10:34.660 scholars uh back in the time said that the greatest thing that I have dealt with is my intentions

00:10:40.700 fighting my intentions constantly is the biggest battle that I have had um so basically brothers

00:10:45.140 and sisters when you are wearing the hijab right obviously not brothers sisters and brothers when 0.98

00:10:50.460 you're growing your beard or whatever it may be if your intentions are for the wrong reason let me

00:10:55.200 grow my beard so I can look nice let me wear my hijab because I want to look nice you need to 0.99

00:11:00.360 understand that you are you will not be getting rewarded for that under their judgment if you come to

00:11:04.840 Allah and say oh Allah I grew my beard or for example my hijab for you Allah will say no you did it 0.99

00:11:09.960 because you wanted to look good you wanted to look nice you know you did it because of a fashion

00:11:13.920 accessory you grew you grew beard so you can look nice to the opposite gender so what's going to 1.00

00:11:19.120 happen is you're getting no rewards so you really need to understand and purify intentions why am I

00:11:26.260 wearing my hijab why am I growing my beard why am I giving dawah why am I nice to people why

00:11:31.000 obviously you should be nice to people you're hurt anyways but I'm saying for the sake of Allah

00:11:34.860 so your intentions should be on point otherwise your deeds your actions nullified they don't mean

00:11:42.060 nothing you know they don't mean nothing at all so brothers and sisters this is about it from me

00:11:46.860 hope you guys have benefited inshallah and like I said once again that's the way I battled my

00:11:51.940 intentions inshallah you guys have benefited me Allah grant every single one of you guys jannah

00:11:55.900 and all praises glory and gratitude belong to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala I am nothing I am nobody

00:12:01.740 and I don't mean in a way to be humble we are nobody we do what we do for the sake of Allah as

00:12:06.180 much as we can your intentions are never ever going to be hundred percent never try to battle

00:12:11.260 them battle them inshallah that's about it from me have a beautiful day inshallah I'm going to have

00:12:16.840 a couple of videos at the end if you're in a haram relationship and you want to leave your

00:12:20.040 boyfriend or your girlfriend watch the videos at the end inshallah that's about it

Ali Dawah - July 16, 2015

How to Purify your intentions ｜｜ Ali Dawah

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