Ali Dawah - October 29, 2021JADA SMITH FORCED INTO HIJAB
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Summary
In this episode, we talk about the fear of losing your hair and the fear that comes with it. Is it something we choose or is it something that is forced upon us by the higher power? Is this something we willingly or unwillingly?
Transcript
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As-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh, brothers and sisters and dear friends.
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Before I start, I want to praise Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala the most merciful,
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the most just, or praise his glory and gratitude belong to him.
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Will Smith's wife, she's forced to wear the hijab, but why?
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Now brothers and sisters, as you can see I'm in Turkey, I'm living in Lodz,
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you know as you can see Louis Vuitton, no I think it's Burberry, Burberry as you can see guys,
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but it's a fake, original fake, usually I go and ask them, is this fake brother?
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They say no, it's not fake, this is original fake.
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So anyways, I needed a scarf, bought this for 30 pounds, it's quite nice, nice material as well.
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Anyways, it's not the topic here, just made that clear, just in case you guys think I'm living a lavish life,
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Brothers and sisters, now Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala,
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when he talks about in the Qur'an, when he commanded the sky and the heavens,
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he said, come together willingly or unwillingly?
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Now the question that we need to ask here and the main topic is, willingly, unwillingly?
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Brothers and sisters, there are certain things Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala asks us to do willingly,
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because we are human beings and we have the free will to do, to choose or not to choose.
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The animals are not like that, neither are the angels.
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The angels do as they're told, the animals act based on instinct.
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So the question here is this, willingly or unwillingly?
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There are certain things Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will tell us not to do.
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No drink alcohol, don't commit zinnah, don't commit murder, don't gamble.
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Now we would either do this willingly or one day be forced to do it unwillingly.
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And in that very instance, maybe we won't even get the rewards because we were forced into it.
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Will Smith's wife has come and we saw this about a year ago,
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where Simata Jannah covered the video as well of her wearing a hijab.
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Now we came to know from this video, which we're going to watch right now and come back
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and we're going to discuss this a little further.
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I'm getting a lot of questions about why I've been wearing this turban.
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And I'm going to tell you, it was terrifying when it first started.
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You know, I was in the shower one day and then just handfuls of hair just in my hands.
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And I was just like, oh my God, am I going bald?
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It was one of those times in my life where I was literally shaking with fear.
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Even in my terror and even in my fear and in the moment of just going, oh my God,
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I'd like, why are you so terrified that you might lose your hair?
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I really had to put it in a spiritual perspective of like,
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People are out here who have cancer, people who have sick children.
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I watch the higher power take things every day.
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And by golly, if the higher power wants to take your hair,
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So in that video you saw, guys, she's talking about losing hair.
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And she's saying that her daughter is actually in tears because as a woman,
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they know how terrifying that is for her because a woman loves attention.
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You know, she likes to beautify herself, et cetera.
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You know, and this is the fitness that our sisters face, sadly.
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She's there and she's saying that she would get bundles of hair falling out.
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But there's something she says, which I admired because in that very instance,
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she said that when she thought about, because the Prophet said to us,
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don't look at the people that on top of you have things that you don't have
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Look at those that don't have what you have and be grateful to him.
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I feel as if she applied the hadith in that moment where she said,
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God Almighty could have, she was talking about God Almighty, the high power,
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could have taken a lot of things like, you know, give cancer, et cetera, your health.
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If it's going to be my hair, I submit my will, like, let it be the hair.
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Like Allah says to the bedrooms in the Quran, that they say, we've come to believe.
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They said, don't say we've come to believe, but say we have submitted.
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I'm not saying these are the same things with Will Smith's wife.
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Now she has to wear the hijab in that context, or a turban, or some sort of a thing, you know.
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And maybe, inshallah, this would be a reason for her to come to Islam, maybe.
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The point is the following, and I'm going to wrap up, inshallah,
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My dear sisters, and this goes for brothers as well,
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but we're speaking about a female here, is this.
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You can either cover up willingly or unwillingly.
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So don't let the day that you die be the day that you're shrouded and covered, finally, you know.
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And the point here is this, brothers and sisters, and especially sisters as well,
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is that in this very instance, like there was a man who migrated for the sake of a woman.
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And the Prophet said, we know the Hadith, I think it's Bukhari Muslim,
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that the one who migrates or does something for the sake of Allah, we're rewarded for that.
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And the one who migrates for a woman or whatever it may be,
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then there is no reward in the context where, because you're traveling just for that.
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However, you can have double intention with the scholars I've talked about,
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You know, I'm traveling for the sake of Allah, to not commit zina, to get married,
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to get married to a woman, it can be both as well.
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My point is this, she is now unwillingly having to cover her hair.
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Not in a religious sense, but my dear sisters, the point that I'm trying to make is,
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that don't let it be that day, because we even have sisters who wear the hijab,
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but they're not doing it for the sake of Allah.
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You will, I'll repeat again, you will not be getting rewarded
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if you are wearing the hijab for a fashion sense or to look good.
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No you didn't, you didn't wear the hijab for my sake.
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You wore it because of fashion reasons, or fashion or whatever it may be.
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So my point is, let's just renew our intentions.
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And for those sisters who are wearing the hijab for fashion reasons,
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I'm going to try to do this for your sake as well.
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That's the message I wanted to share inshallah.
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And we're here, hopefully, learn a lesson from Will Smith's wife,
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And this goes for both brothers and sisters in a nutshell.