00:00:50.180For you, your Muslim faith and God is obviously central to your life and to who you are
00:00:57.260Can you explain what role God plays in your life?
00:01:00.000well first of all i was born raised and brought up in a muslim family in a muslim community since
00:01:06.160childhood religion has always been the most important thing for me and when i say religion
00:01:10.640the first thing i mean is salah namaz look guys look guys la ilaha illallah is acknowledging
00:01:16.880there is nothing worthy of worship except allah subhanahu wa ta'ala good salah is the embodiment
00:01:22.800and the application and the sacrifice and the tawakul and um you name it to show allah that
00:01:31.600you are deserving of worship and everything revolves around you now listen to this guy
00:01:39.280look what he said and when i mean my religion i mean look how it connected islam to salah
00:01:45.440because salah is we single out allah in his lordship in worship
00:01:52.240the rest was scheduled around it even today when i was choosing time for this podcast i knew we'd
00:01:58.480be talking for a couple of hours so i deliberately picked a time right after the midday prayer
00:02:03.760did you guys just hear that he is jannah driven brothers brothers brothers this man worships
00:02:09.360allah forget just one jannah because of look look guys we don't worship allah because of the things
00:02:15.120he gives us the blessing people talk about this talk allah's favors put that to a side we worship
00:02:20.160allah listen carefully because of who he is how mighty and majestic he is because of that
00:02:30.160he is revolving khabib is saying i revolved the podcast when you told me a time i said no no no
00:02:37.360this time because it goes in between my salah i'm not missing my salah because i know how long the
00:02:41.200podcast is going to go he is pre-planning salah this is why salah pro we here at our charity
00:02:48.320teaching thousands of people across the world thanks to your amazing donations and believing
00:02:51.680in this project subhanallah let's carry on that's how my life's been and still is and that's how it
00:02:56.960will continue to be i hope i've always tried to organize my life around worship because first and
00:03:03.200foremost my purpose in this life is to worship the one god everything that happens after that
00:03:08.960is it's secondary exactly that one true god not three in one not god is a man no he's a holy
00:03:13.920spirit no he's a co-equal no he's a partner he's generating all this that listen christianity in
00:03:18.960itself is self-destructing tawhid worshipping allah and faith in god and learning more and
00:03:26.000just striving to get closer to god that continues throughout our entire lives in that regard i'm
00:03:29.760very grateful to the almighty for opening this door of understanding and reflection for me
00:03:33.440for helping me realize that we are all servants of god and that our purpose in life is to serve
00:03:37.280one god and as you were explaining um that helped you in your career in the sense that you know
00:03:41.280psychologically, by keeping you from letting success go to your head. That helped me with
00:03:43.840everything. I've always placed my only hope in the Almighty. Whatever situation I might face,
00:03:48.380I've always believed that only the Almighty can truly make it easier for me. And when it comes
00:03:52.320to not letting success go to your head, not becoming proud, not becoming full of yourself,
00:03:56.260religion and my faith in Allah have helped me with that too. I truly believe that only faith
00:03:59.780can help a person get through life's hardest trials. And sometimes I think about people who
00:04:03.680are, who suffer the loss of a loved one, someone very close to them. For example, when I lost my
00:04:08.740father i remember thinking to myself if i didn't believe in the almighty if i didn't have faith in
00:04:12.200god and understand that it was predestined that we all come into this world and then leave it
00:04:16.340that no one stays here forever that no one belongs to anyone and we all belong to the almighty and
00:04:20.180that we will all return to him i don't know how i would have coped with it i'm a very emotional
00:04:23.220person i think it would have been extremely difficult for me to go through all of that
00:04:26.160without faith in that sense i feel fortunate to have this understanding so faith really helped
00:04:29.940you see this is very important guys for a lot of people who have the spiritual sickness and
00:04:33.560disease and starvation of the soul this is what we talk about you are giving the soul physical food0.74
00:04:40.120and it doesn't work like that the soul doesn't want the dunya the money the girls the cars the
00:04:45.340this whatever whatever it wants the remembrance of his lord like allah says in the remembrance
00:04:49.300of allah do hearts find peace if you've regained remembrance you'll have a depressed life he's
00:04:53.160talking about tawakul if i didn't have allah knowing why i'm here where i'm going the purpose
00:04:58.660of life nothing will make sense then you will question why is this happening to me when you
00:05:03.520question why it's happening to me ask why did it happen to the prophet if allah's love is based on
00:05:08.020what he gives you then did allah love firaun no he didn't allah subhanahu wa ta'ala test those who
00:05:14.180loves yes it might sound cliche it is a reality when you decipher understand how allah's love
00:05:20.120works you will know how he implements that love giving everything loving your child is not giving
00:05:26.780them everything that is destroying that that's a lack of lack of wisdom that just shows oh if i
00:05:32.280give them whatever they want no for indeed with hardship comes ease hardship there's goodness in
00:05:38.420hardship it makes you who you are today and he's saying he would not be where he is if he didn't
00:05:42.720have that tawakul and trust and this quran what allah sent is for you to survive through this
00:05:47.960jungle of this life so you can be success in the here of time let's carry on when you lost your
00:05:52.300father. This was the only thing that helped, nothing else worked. I know a couple of people
00:05:58.780who have lost someone very close to them and they struggle to accept it. They would ask,
00:06:07.960why, why, why? So many questions. I told them, to answer that question, you need to go deeper
00:06:14.760into religion and try to understand. Why were you even born in the first place? And why do these
00:06:21.320thoughts even come into your head? And what if you didn't have any thoughts at all? What if you
00:06:26.060couldn't think, couldn't understand anything? These thoughts, this awareness, your mind, your
00:06:31.980abilities, none of that was there before. Then it appeared. Why? That's the question.
00:06:38.780It's interesting. It's basically saying in a nutshell, philosophers have said this,
00:06:41.220why is there something rather than nothing? None of us existed. Then we were born, we were little,
00:06:44.880we weren't aware of anything, we didn't remember anything. Then little by little, we grew up and
00:06:47.620became adults. We became successful. We became somebody. We became who we are. So why did all
00:06:51.480of this come specifically to you? There are so many questions like that. And so these questions
00:06:54.560are, let's say, a kind of guide through life. And for me, that's what religion is. It guides me and
00:06:58.760helps me. You often say, Alhamdulillah, I'll praise to God. That's very powerful. That sense
00:07:02.420of gratitude. Can you tell us, can you explain why you say it so often? You know the saying,
00:07:05.740the tongue speaks what the heart is full of. The way you speak shows what's in your heart.
00:07:08.700If you have something dark in your heart, your words will show it, no doubt. We all have some
00:07:11.640dark parts in our hearts. Every single person has them. Sometimes they come out in what we say,
00:07:14.920how we express ourselves what we share with people and so on everyone has that but if your heart is
00:07:18.280mostly good and pure then that will also be reflected in your speech and uh and i just like
00:07:22.200praising the almighty and giving all the credit for my success back to him because everything we
00:07:26.040have is given to us by the almighty okay listen to this very carefully guys this very very this
00:07:30.200is very key because a lot of people do this even i do sometimes throughout the history there have
00:07:34.520been many people who made big mistakes after becoming successful powerful and wealthy and
00:07:40.920And they started saying, no, no, this happened to me because I'm so great, because I'm so intelligent, because I had vision, because I've got the brains, because I'm extremely capable.
00:07:56.100But at the same time, there were many others who worked just as hard, who weren't any less intelligent, and the Almighty just didn't give it to them.