Ali Dawah - February 01, 2022


I VISIT OLIS HOUSE & THIS HAPPENS - HEART TO HEART TALK


Episode Stats

Length

28 minutes

Words per Minute

248.21214

Word Count

7,173

Sentence Count

1

Misogynist Sentences

1

Hate Speech Sentences

15


Summary

In this episode of the podcast, I am joined by my good friend Ali Dawood, who converted to Islam 9 years ago. We talk about his journey to Islam, his halal food reviews and how he became a convert to Islam.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 yeah oh my god guys that's the secret that Ali has just revealed to you guys
00:00:03.420 get the laundry detergent out
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00:00:23.280 Asalaamu Alaikum Warahmatullahi Wabarakatuh brothers and sisters in DFN
00:00:26.580 some of you guys are well inshallah so as you guys know I have done two videos
00:00:30.180 with Oli Oli how are you doing I'm really good thank you so nice to be here it's a
00:00:33.720 little bit cold but it's very sunny yes so as you guys you guys are surprised
00:00:38.040 probably oh my gosh what's Ali Dawood doing with Oli now you guys remember I
00:00:41.280 done a reaction video for about Oli and his plastic surgery that he done etc and
00:00:45.600 then I came across him in Leicester Square it was a surprise wasn't it it was a
00:00:50.340 bit surprising because I was watching because he was doing a little music
00:00:53.220 Christmas in Korea video yeah exactly so obviously you as we could
00:00:56.280 sport you from your outfit I did look very dramatic that day yeah yeah yeah
00:00:59.880 so when I saw you I was like I looked at my friend I was like yeah it is
00:01:04.620 obviously he was busy we didn't want to like interrupt etc but I think he came to
00:01:08.520 you and he said to you you know would you like to have a discussion etc he was
00:01:11.120 busy that day we had a little discussion we talked about Islam but then Oli got in
00:01:14.780 contact with me through Instagram and he said look I would like to know more about
00:01:18.740 Islam and obviously we don't want to make this video just about that I would like to
00:01:21.940 know more about you as well you know so yeah so firstly how did you come across
00:01:26.980 the video that one I did so I when I met you you know obviously you filmed it and
00:01:31.940 stuff so then I checked out your channel and then when it was when it came up I
00:01:35.780 got like a notification so I watched and I thought you know this was really great
00:01:38.360 but I just felt bad because I didn't have much time that day I was filming and we
00:01:41.320 only chatted for like you know 10 minutes so I thought you know let's have a
00:01:44.180 more in-depth discussion I found it very interesting what you're saying I love
00:01:47.040 learning about the world I'd love to learn more about Islam and stuff and also
00:01:51.040 to learn more about you because I know you do so many different YouTubes on you do
00:01:54.540 your halal food reviews you do um which we're gonna we're gonna have them it's
00:01:58.220 called dining to jannah jannah means paradise okay so in the hereafter okay
00:02:02.360 dining we're dining to paradise okay that's what the theme is but we might
00:02:05.540 have Oli come in there we might maybe go to a Korean if it's Korean Korean halal
00:02:09.400 guys I'm up for that we're definitely gonna find a Korean place uh inshallah and he's
00:02:13.740 gonna take us and we'll probably review food together yeah we both love eating
00:02:16.620 yeah I haven't tried Korean food before you've never tried it I've never tried
00:02:19.680 it oh my god you're missing out I certainly am you know definitely so um yeah so
00:02:25.340 when it comes to like is there any specific question you would like to ask
00:02:27.840 um I just want to learn more so obviously last time we were reading some
00:02:32.400 passages from the Quran you were telling me about Islam and you know I know I
00:02:35.500 studied history so I know a lot about um the history of Islam and stuff which I
00:02:39.140 find um interesting but um I would like to know yeah more about you so you
00:02:43.340 um converted to Islam nine years ago right and yeah how did that come about
00:02:48.720 like how did you yeah I think by answering that question I think it would
00:02:51.440 also answer what Islam is about yes yeah with me I used to live a lifestyle of
00:02:57.420 when I was in the in London I used to be involved with gangs so I were fighting
00:03:01.060 yeah I never went down the route of drugs and stuff like that I never smoked I
00:03:05.040 never drank that was for health reasons why I used to train good yeah so when I was
00:03:08.840 young I used to get into trouble here I never used to obey my parents so my dad
00:03:12.660 he used to live out uh up the north near Doncaster okay so he took me there so I can
00:03:18.060 calm down a bit so I did transition from one kind of almost kind of another in the
00:03:23.700 context I wouldn't really well it depends what you define as drama because I went from
00:03:27.080 that to more like clubbing right etc parties yeah cool you know weekend having fun all
00:03:33.180 that kind of stuff so yeah to me it was I always acknowledged that there's a higher
00:03:38.280 power I always acknowledged and realized that there is a creator but to me it was like okay
00:03:43.380 but why would that creator create me without a purpose so I was in this dilemma where I was like
00:03:47.680 okay there's a higher power there I'm not really concerned above it about it but I started to ask
00:03:53.040 myself a question sorry Ali baby come here Holly Holly what's all that's all right trying to be a big
00:03:59.980 dog sorry sorry about that guys baby what's all that barking stay in there darling yeah baby
00:04:06.220 I don't know if she's better with me or not baby stop barking what's all that barking it's all that
00:04:11.920 barking it's always the little dogs they bark the loudest yeah right stay in there
00:04:15.760 sorry about that guys yeah so I was I was just asking myself a question and I can I can remember
00:04:23.040 one moment I was kind of pondering upon my socks now you might think why socks are there socks that's very
00:04:28.780 random yeah it was quite random man I was not I was looking at it and I was thinking wow it has
00:04:33.460 design yeah some form of a design it's meant for my feet it has a purpose right she has design
00:04:39.880 it should have a designer so I was thinking like you know the main thing it was was that it has a
00:04:44.740 purpose my socks that are quite smelly can be at times yeah oh my god guys that's the secret that
00:04:50.820 Ali has just revealed to you guys get the laundry detergent out so the thing is here it had a purpose
00:04:57.980 so I said to myself hold on a second man it has a purpose a mere socks has a purpose and I was like
00:05:03.320 what's my purpose like how could socks have a purpose and I don't have a purpose right so it
00:05:07.020 was something where it just made me think where I was like well what is my purpose because I'm
00:05:10.820 I'm designed and fashioned in a way more complex than a mere socks you know so I said what is my
00:05:16.460 purpose that is where I embarked on my journey to find out why am I here where am I going because
00:05:22.120 you know only if he was on a train if he was both on a train and we just woke up on this train
00:05:25.980 and this train had everything we could ever want yeah yeah and let's say this train is heading to
00:05:30.280 Korea it's got to be to Korea yeah I'll be on that I'll be first on that train Ali driving the train
00:05:35.300 so the thing is here the first question we'll ask ourselves is this okay good everything's we've got
00:05:38.940 the best food everything's on the train but at one moment of time you're going to say to yourself
00:05:44.080 firstly who put me on this train and where the hell is this train going yeah if you didn't know it's
00:05:48.600 going to Korea right yeah so the thing is here that we have to come to that realization ask
00:05:53.880 ourselves I didn't choose to look like this you didn't choose to look the way you did right
00:05:57.200 you didn't choose your name or your siblings or your father you've been put in this earth and you
00:06:01.540 have to ask yourself that question and it begs the question why am I here so to me I was just pondering
00:06:05.440 and I thought to myself there has to be a greater purpose than this that's when I acknowledged and
00:06:08.620 said this creator that created me cannot be a creator that gives no purpose you know because if he
00:06:13.740 has created all this he must be magnificent you know if he has if he's created me my eye my
00:06:18.200 fingerprint doesn't matter fingerprint he must be magnificent so what does he want from me and how do I
00:06:22.480 get to know him because I want to build what can you give back exactly so that's when I embarked on
00:06:26.540 that journey I looked at Christianity I was reading the Bible at one point I looked at to the Old
00:06:30.120 Testament Judaism Sikhism a bit of Sikhism Hinduism that's nice Islam I watched a lot of debates and
00:06:34.820 discussions and personally I had a criteria and the criteria was if any if I'm going to follow any
00:06:39.640 religion or any text that text should be from God but he has to have evidence that it's from God yeah
00:06:45.400 because I can't just put my life on some change your lifestyle completely yeah because it's actually a whole way
00:06:49.760 of life that you're changing on something that I'm not certain about and I'm someone that has to be
00:06:52.880 certain when I do something you know so I spent about three years and I read the Quran etc and
00:06:58.480 one condition I had was if any scripture that claims to be from God it should have no corruptions
00:07:02.940 yeah it should not be changed by man the only one that I found that was the Quran because the
00:07:07.220 Christians today they do admit that there has been some you know changes by men mankind like you know
00:07:12.740 that have written it to their selves expect they claim that they were inspired but there's also many
00:07:16.800 areas and contradictions and that to me was like I can't believe in something that if God has sent
00:07:21.420 it for it to have areas in it but the Quran was the only one that I found that with and with the
00:07:26.120 Quran it gave me a purpose in life in the context where I used to go clubbing I used to you know be
00:07:31.900 involved in relationships etc but one thing stood out for me was that I used to have this and I
00:07:36.500 mentioned this a lot I used to have this specific jumper that I have in my cupboard to this day
00:07:39.160 and it's a specific material that makes you a bit itchy it's a bit uncomfortable oh I don't really like
00:07:43.060 those jumpers yeah yeah I really hate them yeah and some of them are really nice I want to buy
00:07:46.540 them yeah they look nice but they make you itch yeah so that jumper I can remember I used to wear
00:07:52.400 that a lot because I believe I looked really good in it yeah um I don't know but you didn't feel
00:07:56.420 good in it you were like itching the whole time and scratching it and you think why am I why am I
00:08:00.220 wearing this if it makes me feel like this yeah that was where things were making I was like hold on
00:08:04.400 a second I'm actually a slave to this jumper this this this this jumper is my master right and then I
00:08:10.860 will do a lot of things for the opposite gender so go to the gym earn a certain living to have a
00:08:16.100 certain lifestyle etc just so I can please opposite gender right now what I realized to myself at that
00:08:20.820 moment was I have a lot of masters and I'm serving these I'm like a slave to them like oh what can I
00:08:24.320 do to please them I had to break those shackles so that's why there was a famous uh philosopher
00:08:29.680 I always forget his name uh-huh but he said man is born don't worry I understand
00:08:34.480 so I I said to myself and this is what I'm what the philosopher said he said man is born free
00:08:42.900 but in shackles everywhere that's true so so that's where I said to myself I have to break these shackles
00:08:47.560 and free myself I don't want to live for others yes it's good to look after yourself I don't get
00:08:52.040 twisted you know I still go gym and train till this day yeah but I'm doing it for myself not for other
00:08:58.000 people for other people and more so for the one who created me because now I've I believe I have a
00:09:02.920 relationship yeah I brought those shackles and that's what islam did to me and that's what the
00:09:07.060 core message of islam is which answers your question is that it's here to free you from the shackles
00:09:11.880 of society and peer pressure and what others want from you to being obedient to the one who's created
00:09:19.160 you and building that relationship with him because he has promised us a eternal life of paradise yeah
00:09:24.900 this is the way of life you know yeah no I agree with what you're saying because we're all born into
00:09:28.980 this world where you're right we have so many shackles we're all a slave to something whether
00:09:32.900 that's entertainment whether that's fashion we all have these restrictions that we put on our
00:09:36.640 lives and we're all always trying to please other people but you're right we don't emphasize on
00:09:41.180 ourselves you know on improving ourselves on just accepting that we should be grateful to be in this
00:09:46.080 world and you know like you said just having a pair of socks is like yeah that's been made you know
00:09:51.420 it's you you think more deeply about things and I that's what I want to do I want to think more
00:09:55.040 deeply about things and I want to get away from that lifestyle you know it's the materials and stuff it's
00:10:00.000 you know it's nice but it doesn't mean anything you know it's all about how you feel inside whether
00:10:05.420 there's a higher power you know how you connect with that and how you appreciate and every day
00:10:10.300 you wake up you're grateful for being born being able to breathe being able to walk you know these
00:10:15.360 are these are things that we take for granted you're right this world does have so many like
00:10:19.400 shackles like we're all trying to I mean you know I can't really talk I'm trying to be someone that
00:10:24.500 I'm not but like we all have that pressure societal pressure to be someone else and it's like we
00:10:29.360 it's that's why I think Islam is great we can you know really embrace our soul and who we are and
00:10:35.640 actually focus on uh you know gratitude and appreciating things yeah exactly no definitely
00:10:40.980 you know at the end of the day you know there is like there's we believe in like two kind of
00:10:44.400 realities there's the physical reality and there's the metaphysical reality so like for example we know
00:10:49.620 gravity exists like if I do this yeah that's that shows us that gravity exists yeah I say physical
00:10:54.980 law I know that you know if I try to unless you're Harry Potter try to go through a wall
00:10:59.660 you're gonna bang your head yeah have you ever tried that King's Cross nine platform nine three
00:11:03.960 quarters try to run I usually like to get my friends to try it first yeah let them be foolish yeah
00:11:08.860 my mum said let your friends try it first if nothing happens then you can go yeah
00:11:11.760 so the thing is here it's these are physical laws but we also as Muslims believe in a metaphysical law
00:11:17.680 so we believe God has created us with his physical nature yeah his physical laws which we know our
00:11:23.140 boundaries we know when we cross the road we just look left and right because we might get hit by a
00:11:25.840 car but there's also a metaphysical reality yeah now that metaphysical reality is what is something
00:11:30.500 that connects to our soul because I look at some people when I go to the gym and I see them
00:11:35.440 training and they have a very strict regime where it's like for example eating uh you know the not
00:11:40.640 the yolk but like the egg whites right for protein to build up muscle yeah sleeping certain amount of
00:11:45.320 hours drinking protein shake training this muscle or group of muscle in this way and I'm like the
00:11:50.320 attention that you give to your body which is a right by the way as Muslims we believe your body
00:11:54.240 has a right over you yeah and it will testify on the day of judgment for or against you how you looked
00:11:58.960 after it but the thing is here is that if that person can give that effort to his body which is
00:12:03.980 the right and I totally accept that what about the soul and that's the reason why I believe we have a
00:12:09.460 pandemic of young people with mental illness because we are too busy feeding the soul which
00:12:14.900 is nutrition which needs food we need sleep and other elements to survive but when you neglect the
00:12:20.140 soul that is where people hit an empty place and that's why in the Quran God Almighty says that
00:12:25.840 indeed with my remembrance do hearts find peace and if you forget my remembrance you will have a
00:12:30.760 depressed life yeah so it's as if God is saying I've programmed you in a way that you will only find
00:12:35.060 happiness if you have a connection with me right remember me right in a nutshell Islam is that it
00:12:39.580 just tells you to free yourself from mankind and servitude to them to servitude to God so instead of
00:12:45.220 trying to prove your like like with myself to prove myself to others right I'm like you know what why
00:12:51.120 don't I prove myself to the one who created me right he's more deserving because he's the one who
00:12:54.520 sustains me he looks after me yeah so I know these people I'm trying to impress are they going to
00:12:59.320 come to me my grave when I die are they going to talk bad of me are they even going to give a damn
00:13:02.900 about me they might even talk bad of me so the thing is here I want to occupy myself and focus
00:13:07.680 myself to the creator because I believe in this life in the hereafter and in paradise that he is
00:13:14.680 the one that will look after me so to me that was what really like you know changed me you know yeah
00:13:18.980 I you know I think I need to do more of that you know focusing on the soul and connecting to above
00:13:23.680 because I do always feel like I'm always trying to please other people like I used to get bullied
00:13:27.780 when I was younger and stuff and I know you know and we all go for it you know I'm sure you've you've
00:13:32.560 had it as well we'll go for it yeah yeah and you know maybe even now you still get bullied on
00:13:37.540 YouTube and stuff you know we'll get that as creators but um yeah I feel like I should I need
00:13:42.300 to focus less on that and focus more on what's inside and focus on you know uh giving back to
00:13:47.520 you know the universe or the higher power and uh you know removing these restrictions because they
00:13:52.180 like you said they're about people that go to the gym they're so regimented they eat their egg whites
00:13:56.020 they set a time every day it's like that's not a life to live you know we are so blessed to be in
00:14:00.720 this world we're so blessed to to have a life you know we're all individual like you said we all have
00:14:05.140 individual fingerprints all individual looks you know I think it's I need to focus less on that and
00:14:10.680 I want to focus more on uh satisfying my soul and you know appreciating uh the world more exactly and
00:14:17.180 I think if you do that because like I said before these people would never be pleased with you you know
00:14:21.660 there was there was a scholar he he was basically he used to have friends a group of friends and this
00:14:27.800 group of friends always used to say to him you know why you always he used to visit the graveyards
00:14:32.420 a lot so they used to say to why you always at the graveyards why don't you come and sit with us
00:14:36.120 and he said to and he said to them look when I'm with you guys you know you all you do is just remind
00:14:41.480 me of this life and when I leave you you probably backbite me you talk bad of me when I go to the
00:14:47.260 graves they remind me of the hereafter and at least they don't talk ill of me right and also he's
00:14:53.000 showing respect to the dead and like you said when we die it's like it's kind of sad because all these
00:14:57.520 people we're trying to please they're not going to turn up to see us people forget about us and
00:15:01.760 that's kind of the sad thing so obviously what you're saying about islam is that kind of afterlife
00:15:06.600 there as you said jana the paradise that is you know something to to focus on and and find a purpose
00:15:13.220 in this life and on to the next one yeah because then when it does it gives you a greater purpose you
00:15:17.400 know this life is like they say it's like um a shadow like when you're walking down the beach
00:15:22.840 when you like if you turn your back against your shadow it has no choice but to follow you right
00:15:30.000 so this life is like that you know yeah once you run off through the shadow it's like this life
00:15:33.660 you're never going to achieve it yeah when you turn your back against it it has no choice but to
00:15:37.820 follow you right so the one that sacrifices this life and when we sacrifice it doesn't mean like
00:15:42.260 you don't have like people think i'm like a boring guy like i'm religious you're fun you're really fun
00:15:46.240 man i i i like to like i just like i'm quite funny you know you are you're entertaining yeah
00:15:50.780 you know there's i'm just because i pray i say the same to my dad i'm like dad i'm still
00:15:55.040 saying me you know you're a human being it's like people shouldn't judge you based on your religion
00:15:59.600 or whatever you do in your life you're a human being and you know you are fun you're entertaining
00:16:03.360 and you know we all have characteristics we all have a personality you know and people should
00:16:07.300 appreciate that more and you know uh it's sad because the world is so judgmental like you probably get it
00:16:12.200 um being muslim you probably get judgments you know i get judgment online for
00:16:15.980 whatever my life choices and stuff so it's like we all have this one chance in life you know we
00:16:20.840 have to give back to the world give back to others help others and i know that's important with islam
00:16:25.320 is to to help others you know help your neighbors yeah oh yeah definitely i don't i just want to maybe
00:16:30.020 if there's any question you want to ask please feel free to yeah but just from my point that the one
00:16:33.880 thing that i could also leave that with you as well is that what i said before is you will truly find
00:16:39.600 contentment like i i sometimes like there's a lot of things god has given me like a lot of blessings i'll be
00:16:44.220 honest with you this thing youtube thing that i do i i don't do it for like i don't do it for the fame
00:16:50.120 etc i don't even want to be you do it to help others you know to spread that message well yeah
00:16:53.940 yeah and the thing is when you have that connection with god almighty there is nothing on this earth
00:16:59.060 that can replace that like i'm just getting the glimpse of it i'm just feeling it and to me it's
00:17:03.840 like if god almighty took everything from me like my car my house etc once you know your purpose
00:17:08.780 and you're not there to please others you have this inner completion it's it's you feel whole
00:17:13.860 and that is something that you cannot buy and people like i said before wasting that energy
00:17:18.760 on people that's what i learned to pleasing them it just didn't work and i knew it's it's these people
00:17:24.100 they talk bad about me behind my back right they're never going to have that's why when you focus
00:17:27.660 towards the creator and you're like okay he's deserving of worship he's created me he's created this
00:17:32.640 universe there are more sand there's more stars than there are sand particles in our universe yeah yeah how
00:17:38.060 magnificent he must be and how merciful he must be that he wants an eternal paradise because if god
00:17:44.100 exists and he has created all these flavors and pleasures like you know when you have intimacy
00:17:48.320 with your partner it's a pleasure when you go and eat a certain food you taste it it's delicious
00:17:52.080 especially korean food when you try that kimchi it's very pleasurable but it's spicy guys i don't
00:17:57.060 know if ali can handle the spice hopefully yeah oh god so what i'm saying is all these pleasures
00:18:02.640 god has given us when we sleep it's sweet you know so it's not we're so blessed you know to have
00:18:07.520 these uh experiences it's not hard for god some people say oh when i die i'm going to come back
00:18:11.340 if you think about it we were dead before like before we came to life what was we we was dead
00:18:15.620 whatever yeah so we came back to we was what to life it's not hard for god almighty created heavens
00:18:21.240 and the earth to bring us back to life and enter us to paradise so that's the only thing that i would
00:18:24.720 leave on i don't want to like drag it too much but if there's anything you would like to ask me
00:18:27.860 specifically feel free to yeah if not i just i just think yeah i definitely will take on board what you
00:18:34.240 said and i want to start connecting with um something else because you know i'm not happy
00:18:38.880 with my life you know is i'm i'm a very positive happy person but you know with the abuse i get
00:18:43.000 online you know i keep changing my face and i just can't help it i'm kind of like addicted to doing that
00:18:46.700 and addicted to trying to make myself happy by looking in the mirror and stuff and i know that's
00:18:51.480 not the key to happiness and that's not the key to finding yourself so i just want to start focusing
00:18:55.580 on you know finding the real me inside and also connecting with um you know that higher power and
00:19:01.920 being a better person and realizing you know this life is we have a chance in this life to do
00:19:06.240 something great you know to give back to help others and like you do with your youtube you spread
00:19:10.940 a message of something that you're very passionate about and you know you're educating people on that
00:19:16.300 and you know that's that's a very great thing you're doing and uh yeah and don't forget like
00:19:20.000 allah says in the quran tell like the servant that calls upon me i will respond to him so god doesn't
00:19:26.340 say muslim he says anyone that calls upon me i will respond to him yeah so i want you to know
00:19:30.920 your relationship with god almighty this was very unique and beautiful about islam is that with
00:19:35.160 other religions you have an intermediary like you need someone to go through with islam it tells you
00:19:41.380 worship god alone you do not go have to go for prophet muhammad or jesus you have a direct
00:19:46.760 relationship with god yeah all you have to you don't need to have a statue in front of you or
00:19:50.660 something else all these kind of rituals it's a direct relation with god where you can ask and say
00:19:54.160 look god if you're there guide me i'm looking for truth yeah i'm i'm not happy or i'm trying to be
00:19:59.020 happy i'm trying to find my purpose guide me when you ask god it's upon god to guide you you know
00:20:04.580 so anytime you feel down that one connection that personal connection yeah yeah so i don't need to
00:20:09.960 go through bts and say bts am i connecting with you right now i need to go yes the band the k-pop
00:20:16.680 band that jimin's and yeah yeah you know at the end of the day this is very fundamental you have a
00:20:21.380 direct relationship with god almighty and you use that he's there you've got nothing to lose
00:20:25.980 nothing exactly exactly go home have a moment and just say god if you are there i feel lost i would
00:20:32.640 like you to guide me guide me to whatever is the truth whatever you deem give me inner happiness allow
00:20:36.920 me to be happy with myself and ask him for help like i have a lot of struggles when i first came to
00:20:41.180 islam there was bad habits that i had i couldn't but it's by prayer and asking god and asking him
00:20:46.040 because i know i can't do it but i know he can make me do it yeah he can help me do it like you
00:20:50.660 said you had such a different lifestyle back then and you know like you said partying and stuff and
00:20:54.900 i don't go to parties and stuff but my lifestyle now is kind of extreme you know putting my body
00:20:59.560 through these surgeries you know all this stuff that happens online and stuff so it's like i want
00:21:04.160 to get away from that and just focus on you know the soul that's the most important thing and that
00:21:07.840 connection with you know you know and i can relate with you just to finish on this note i can relate
00:21:11.780 with you like for example like my nose if you see it's got like a little bit of a hump yeah it looks
00:21:15.640 fine it looks great yeah okay when i was young i used to get bullied a bit like i wouldn't because
00:21:20.800 of the shape of your nose i wouldn't say bullied what i would say is i wasn't happy with my uh the
00:21:25.240 shape of my nose right so i obviously you had friends who had a lot of girls etc you know so
00:21:31.080 you was this little young 16 year old kid and i didn't feel happy within myself you didn't have
00:21:34.880 confidence yeah societal pressures that were putting a pressure on me to look at certain ways yeah and i
00:21:39.860 can remember thinking okay i think i should get my nose done yeah so i can i know to please other
00:21:44.600 people's when they look at you exactly i came to realization i said why would i do something that
00:21:51.360 they're not going to be happy and maybe i might not be happy with the shape it is do you get what i'm
00:21:54.280 trying to say so i wish i could be like that ali i've had six nose jobs now but still it's not too
00:21:59.200 late just because you've done it of course it's no problem it's yeah there's it is never too late
00:22:03.600 in islam god almighty says if your sins were to reach the heavens and the earth i will forgive every
00:22:09.020 single one of them as long as you don't associate partners with me which is what in islam which is
00:22:13.460 fundamental that god asks you to worship him alone so you don't go to anyone else yeah not creation
00:22:18.780 not statues so i can't go to jimin i can't go to bts yes no more praying to jimin yeah you can
00:22:23.440 admire them of course there can be someone that you look up to right but the connection don't forget
00:22:27.980 they if you think about it what like if i saw muhammad ali today i'll be a bit gassed and excited
00:22:33.560 yeah but what does muhammad like let's suppose what is he paying for my bills no he's a human being
00:22:37.500 though it's like just like you exactly yeah i can be excited because yeah yeah now imagine if i'm
00:22:43.600 excited to see muhammad ali or you see him for i mean imagine me saying jimin i think i would be
00:22:47.160 more than excited okay i think i'd probably okay yeah what we need to do is we need to redirect that
00:22:52.040 love and energy yeah to the right source yeah that one that deserves it yeah you have no there's no
00:22:56.140 problem admiring figures and etc there's no problem i'm not saying that but for example to go to the
00:23:01.520 level of as if you're worshipping them is where islam says look who's more deserving of worship
00:23:06.580 jimin or the one that created him so if you want if you're admiring him yeah you should admire the
00:23:11.440 creator more that created him yeah you know think about if you admire him and you're like i like his
00:23:15.240 looks whatever it may be and you want to be like him what about the creator that created him exactly
00:23:19.160 you should love him much more because he made jimin exactly yeah exactly yeah and on the last last
00:23:23.800 last um yeah because the cameraman he's a bit ill and uh so the thing is here if i was to come here
00:23:31.300 and say to you i will give you one million oh you know what money means maybe nothing exactly it's
00:23:36.100 you know i'm gonna say to you you're gonna have a i'm gonna bring jimin you're gonna spend every
00:23:40.300 weekend with jimin oh ali if you could grant that wish okay yeah what is if i was to do that because
00:23:45.900 i know that's your dream if i was to do that and i said i don't want nothing from you what would
00:23:50.880 you do like is there anything that you would do like for example let's suppose i just went about my
00:23:54.040 life yeah would you consider calling me checking up on me absolutely yeah would you think like you
00:23:59.840 know what let me check up on ali every now and then you'd be my new best friend if you brought
00:24:02.700 me jimin anyone that brought me jimin would be my new best friend but you know i'm a very
00:24:06.040 appreciative person so if anyone does something for me i believe in the power of the universe if
00:24:09.920 you give something good you it's always good to give it back exactly you know and that's like you
00:24:13.920 said doing something that's going to make someone smile doing something that's going to make someone
00:24:16.720 happy and yeah that's not the universe but it's got to do it back yeah so it's just shifting the focus
00:24:21.800 so what i was saying is you would appreciate what i've done right of course what we're seeing is
00:24:25.600 yeah god has given us this life if he's given us all of this the least we can do is acknowledge him
00:24:31.780 and build that connection with him that's analogy like that's the thing that i was trying to give
00:24:35.260 yeah yeah yeah yeah i mean oh that's it from me is there anything else you like no i i find that
00:24:40.340 very interesting and like i said when i met you last time i wanted to learn more about it because
00:24:44.180 i didn't a purpose in my life you know i do feel a bit lost i go a bit crazy with the surgeries and my
00:24:49.360 k-pop obsession so like i want to actually you know be more real and you know you should you should you
00:24:55.060 know what once you find that right prices wear this oh you got it you got it afro yeah oh you
00:25:03.000 don't want to mess it up yeah yeah so i think once you find that that is priceless man yeah once you
00:25:09.840 understand your focus why you're here where you're going building inner confidence and inner happiness
00:25:14.520 i mean look how happy you are ali like you are so grateful with your life you're so you're always
00:25:18.120 i met you last time but you're so happy you're youtube you're always happy and it's because you have
00:25:22.320 this connection with the higher power and you're you know i i need to find something like that yeah
00:25:27.520 like i said before prayer is powerful ollie pray man you've got nothing to lose bro yeah no of
00:25:33.880 course nothing just simple just god i want to find inner happiness help and jimin help yeah jimin
00:25:39.580 jimin no yeah inner happiness yeah he's not gonna hear you look if we okay yeah jimin jimin he's all
00:25:45.600 the way in korea i don't know if he can hear me from korea but yeah yeah yeah so go to the one
00:25:49.420 that's all hearing right all knowing and ask him ask him yeah if you want to meet jimin ask him
00:25:54.220 say god i want to see jimin i actually should do that actually when you see jimin have you ever
00:25:57.480 seen him okay you know what maybe one day when you see him you might be like you know what
00:26:01.080 maybe it wasn't all that maybe maybe maybe i'm saying maybe you might be like actually
00:26:05.640 okay i mean it was good it was okay no it's never gonna be like that i promise you
00:26:10.560 so in a nutshell i'll just say look i'm here if you have any questions thank you i'm at your
00:26:18.800 service so thank you like ali you know what um i heard this about islam or i would like some
00:26:23.260 clarification yeah i i appreciate that you know i'm i love it and do this video with me you will
00:26:27.220 get some of my haters coming to you by the way uh they would want to come and oh he said this he
00:26:31.440 said that yeah i never listen to hate you know i'm just i'm just you know yeah because they see this
00:26:35.940 relationship right they do not like that a non-muslim of course a muslim can come to a table
00:26:40.300 yeah have tea you know got nice yeah but you know it's about we're all human beings at the end of
00:26:46.120 the day we all have to love and embrace one another and you know appreciate other cultures other
00:26:50.360 religions and you know i'm all about that you're all about that and it's about understanding other
00:26:54.380 people and you know accepting people for who they are people might be different religions but you
00:26:58.380 know we love them equally and you know of course of course yeah exactly exactly we're all on
00:27:03.820 like you said we're all in this world for a purpose and we have a purpose to you know serve
00:27:08.180 the one who created right and also yeah uh find our soul and um give back to society give back to
00:27:13.420 people and also not feel that pressure from society like you have to look a certain way you have to
00:27:17.540 dress a certain way like that's a big pressure for you know all young people these days they all
00:27:22.340 concerned about their looks and you know yeah it was a real pleasure i know it's a bit cold today
00:27:27.520 even though it looks no but you know we're gonna carry on this is not the end we're gonna carry on
00:27:30.340 we're gonna have gonna go to korean dining to jenna coming soon inshallah ollie and we'll see more
00:27:34.080 videos as well fix your affair with god and god will fix your affairs with the people yeah and i'll
00:27:39.000 find yeah i'll find that inner happiness yeah um no i just want to say thank you ali for this i
00:27:44.120 really appreciate it and um no i know but it's a very nice location you know since since we met uh
00:27:49.220 the christmas in korea day i was like i you're such a lovely guy and you're so interesting and you're
00:27:53.820 so well educated and i i really respect that and uh that was that was fascinating so i need i need to
00:27:59.420 focus on what you said what i'll do is if you have time i will drop some books for you like
00:28:03.140 they're just different books that have been written by a few of my friends yeah just just
00:28:06.080 like thought pondering you know yeah sure it's just if you have anything like that yeah bring
00:28:10.480 them along when we go to the cream restaurant yeah exactly yeah we can we can talk about that
00:28:13.940 but i'm definitely looking forward to that definitely guys uh it's a pleasure i was invited
00:28:17.780 by ollie we came met some of his friends i met some five dogs here as well you know nice dogs here
00:28:22.940 so yeah it was it was really they liked you as well they really liked you yeah i can see that little one
00:28:27.320 you know keep looking at me yeah so guys hope you enjoyed it inshallah if you would like a part
00:28:31.340 two we'll definitely do it but definitely we're going to be having him on dining to jannah korean
00:28:34.980 restaurant it's going to be hot it's going to be spicy so very very spicy guys yeah who do you
00:28:39.380 think is going to be able to handle the spice more ali or ollie i'm not the best with spice i can i'm
00:28:44.380 used to korean food but i can't handle super spicy but we should maybe challenge ourselves have
00:28:47.920 like the spiciest dish and if i die please same guys for me yeah