Ali Dawah - August 14, 2026


KHABIB LEAVES RUSSIAN PODCASTER AMAZED

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00:00:00 And when I say religion, the first thing I mean is
00:00:02 This man is so in tune. 0.78
00:00:05 And this is why when you look at his character, you can see Islam. 1.00
00:00:30 Khabib just done a banging episode with a Russian podcaster and he just blew my mind
00:00:36 How connected and finely tuned his relationship with Allah is just impeccable
00:00:42 Let's watch it for ourselves guys
00:00:43 And I want you guys to please absorb and slowly listen to every second
00:00:48 Because I was blown away
00:00:50 For you, your Muslim faith and God is obviously central to your life and to who you are
00:00:57 Can you explain what role God plays in your life?
00:01:00 well first of all i was born raised and brought up in a muslim family in a muslim community since
00:01:06 childhood religion has always been the most important thing for me and when i say religion
00:01:10 the first thing i mean is salah namaz look guys look guys la ilaha illallah is acknowledging
00:01:16 there is nothing worthy of worship except allah subhanahu wa ta'ala good salah is the embodiment
00:01:22 and the application and the sacrifice and the tawakul and um you name it to show allah that
00:01:31 you are deserving of worship and everything revolves around you now listen to this guy
00:01:39 look what he said and when i mean my religion i mean look how it connected islam to salah
00:01:45 because salah is we single out allah in his lordship in worship
00:01:52 the rest was scheduled around it even today when i was choosing time for this podcast i knew we'd
00:01:58 be talking for a couple of hours so i deliberately picked a time right after the midday prayer
00:02:03 did you guys just hear that he is jannah driven brothers brothers brothers this man worships
00:02:09 allah forget just one jannah because of look look guys we don't worship allah because of the things
00:02:15 he gives us the blessing people talk about this talk allah's favors put that to a side we worship
00:02:20 allah listen carefully because of who he is how mighty and majestic he is because of that
00:02:30 he is revolving khabib is saying i revolved the podcast when you told me a time i said no no no
00:02:37 this time because it goes in between my salah i'm not missing my salah because i know how long the
00:02:41 podcast is going to go he is pre-planning salah this is why salah pro we here at our charity
00:02:48 teaching thousands of people across the world thanks to your amazing donations and believing
00:02:51 in 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 will continue to be i hope i've always tried to organize my life around worship because first and
00:03:03 foremost my purpose in this life is to worship the one god everything that happens after that
00:03:08 is 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 spirit no he's a co-equal no he's a partner he's generating all this that listen christianity in
00:03:18 itself is self-destructing tawhid worshipping allah and faith in god and learning more and
00:03:26 just striving to get closer to god that continues throughout our entire lives in that regard i'm
00:03:29 very grateful to the almighty for opening this door of understanding and reflection for me
00:03:33 for helping me realize that we are all servants of god and that our purpose in life is to serve
00:03:37 one god and as you were explaining um that helped you in your career in the sense that you know
00:03:41 psychologically, by keeping you from letting success go to your head. That helped me with
00:03:43 everything. I've always placed my only hope in the Almighty. Whatever situation I might face,
00:03:48 I've always believed that only the Almighty can truly make it easier for me. And when it comes
00:03:52 to not letting success go to your head, not becoming proud, not becoming full of yourself,
00:03:56 religion and my faith in Allah have helped me with that too. I truly believe that only faith
00:03:59 can help a person get through life's hardest trials. And sometimes I think about people who
00:04:03 are, who suffer the loss of a loved one, someone very close to them. For example, when I lost my
00:04:08 father i remember thinking to myself if i didn't believe in the almighty if i didn't have faith in
00:04:12 god and understand that it was predestined that we all come into this world and then leave it
00:04:16 that no one stays here forever that no one belongs to anyone and we all belong to the almighty and
00:04:20 that 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 person i think it would have been extremely difficult for me to go through all of that
00:04:26 without faith in that sense i feel fortunate to have this understanding so faith really helped
00:04:29 you see this is very important guys for a lot of people who have the spiritual sickness and
00:04:33 disease and starvation of the soul this is what we talk about you are giving the soul physical food 0.74
00:04:40 and it doesn't work like that the soul doesn't want the dunya the money the girls the cars the
00:04:45 this whatever whatever it wants the remembrance of his lord like allah says in the remembrance
00:04:49 of allah do hearts find peace if you've regained remembrance you'll have a depressed life he's
00:04:53 talking about tawakul if i didn't have allah knowing why i'm here where i'm going the purpose
00:04:58 of life nothing will make sense then you will question why is this happening to me when you
00:05:03 question why it's happening to me ask why did it happen to the prophet if allah's love is based on
00:05:08 what he gives you then did allah love firaun no he didn't allah subhanahu wa ta'ala test those who
00:05:14 loves yes it might sound cliche it is a reality when you decipher understand how allah's love
00:05:20 works you will know how he implements that love giving everything loving your child is not giving
00:05:26 them everything that is destroying that that's a lack of lack of wisdom that just shows oh if i
00:05:32 give them whatever they want no for indeed with hardship comes ease hardship there's goodness in
00:05:38 hardship 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 have that tawakul and trust and this quran what allah sent is for you to survive through this
00:05:47 jungle of this life so you can be success in the here of time let's carry on when you lost your
00:05:52 father. This was the only thing that helped, nothing else worked. I know a couple of people
00:05:58 who have lost someone very close to them and they struggle to accept it. They would ask,
00:06:07 why, why, why? So many questions. I told them, to answer that question, you need to go deeper
00:06:14 into religion and try to understand. Why were you even born in the first place? And why do these
00:06:21 thoughts even come into your head? And what if you didn't have any thoughts at all? What if you
00:06:26 couldn't think, couldn't understand anything? These thoughts, this awareness, your mind, your
00:06:31 abilities, none of that was there before. Then it appeared. Why? That's the question.
00:06:38 It's interesting. It's basically saying in a nutshell, philosophers have said this,
00:06:41 why is there something rather than nothing? None of us existed. Then we were born, we were little,
00:06:44 we weren't aware of anything, we didn't remember anything. Then little by little, we grew up and
00:06:47 became adults. We became successful. We became somebody. We became who we are. So why did all
00:06:51 of this come specifically to you? There are so many questions like that. And so these questions
00:06:54 are, let's say, a kind of guide through life. And for me, that's what religion is. It guides me and
00:06:58 helps me. You often say, Alhamdulillah, I'll praise to God. That's very powerful. That sense
00:07:02 of gratitude. Can you tell us, can you explain why you say it so often? You know the saying,
00:07:05 the tongue speaks what the heart is full of. The way you speak shows what's in your heart.
00:07:08 If you have something dark in your heart, your words will show it, no doubt. We all have some
00:07:11 dark parts in our hearts. Every single person has them. Sometimes they come out in what we say,
00:07:14 how we express ourselves what we share with people and so on everyone has that but if your heart is
00:07:18 mostly good and pure then that will also be reflected in your speech and uh and i just like
00:07:22 praising the almighty and giving all the credit for my success back to him because everything we
00:07:26 have is given to us by the almighty okay listen to this very carefully guys this very very this
00:07:30 is very key because a lot of people do this even i do sometimes throughout the history there have
00:07:34 been many people who made big mistakes after becoming successful powerful and wealthy and
00:07:40 And 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.
00:07:54 That's why all of this came my way.
00:07:56 But 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.
00:08:06 He chose you and gave it to you.
00:08:08 and you just have to give the credit back to him you shouldn't take the credit for yourself
00:08:13 that's what i believe and it's something i've come to through studying my religion i understand that
00:08:19 everything the almighty has given to me is not because of who i am it's simply something god
00:08:24 has given me as a test to test me and in the end see which of my deeds outweigh the others
00:08:31 the good or the bad exactly you see the blessings that he's got in his life he does not see it as
00:08:36 blessing but rather a test so when you get allah gives you like riches don't think allah loves you
00:08:41 i'm generous and don't even think that allah hates you either the key is is it's a test okay i have
00:08:46 this wealth what am i going to do with this wealth for allah's pleasure not allah's given this yeah
00:08:53 he loves me let me use it to bowl show off this whatever and you know what's important sometimes
00:08:57 we go and praise people like the one the person who invented electricity or this that hold on a
00:09:02 second why what good now give okay praise him okay who gave him that brain to find that invention
00:09:09 Allah it's ultimately every idea genius idea this that flying to Mars and this that
00:09:16 is a praise to Allah not only has Allah given the brains for him to think that that belongs to Allah
00:09:22 subhanahu wa ta'ala has given him that idea and even to build those tools are given by who by Allah
00:09:27 the ultimate credit goes to Allah because as believer I believe that there will be judgment
00:09:31 and everything we have, everything we do, every action we take, we will be held accountable for
00:09:34 it. There will be a day of judgment. There will be scales and everything will be weighed. What
00:09:37 advice would you give young people about life and their careers? Millions of people are watching you
00:09:40 and deeply respect you. What would you say about how to live your life and how do you find your
00:09:43 path and stay on it? Well, I wouldn't want to speak just from my own perspective. I'd rather
00:09:46 bring people back to the scripture, to what the Almighty said. Read. That's the first word revealed
00:09:50 in the Holy Quran. The first command is read or ikram. So to everyone listening to or watching
00:09:54 this podcast, I would want to bring them back to that. Read. Meaning what? Educate yourself,
00:09:57 observe learn improve but don't stay in one place and anything a person is truly looking for if they
00:10:02 genuinely want to find it not just find an answer but find the truth they can reach it but they can
00:10:06 never reach it without reading they need to read when a person reads what they read enters them
00:10:09 into their body their heart their mind and it triggers a search a search for knowledge begins
00:10:12 inside them but if you don't read you won't find anything just listening to someone is one thing
00:10:15 but reading is something different so my advice would be read and find within yourself the strength
00:10:18 to come closer to one god and seek to understand why we were sent here in the first place today
00:10:22 you and me we're almost the same age so let's just think about this this is where it gets really deep
00:10:26 guys this word gets really really deep wallahi look if you just put on the look look at what
00:10:30 he's saying he's talking about allah salah tawakul tauheed a grandfather on my mother's side passed
00:10:37 away in 2003 now it's 2026 he's been lying in the grave for 23 years and then there was his
00:10:40 grandfather or let's say his great-grandfather who also died and has been in the grave for over
00:10:43 100 years roughly speaking but what about people who died 2000 years ago they've been in the grave
00:10:46 for 2000 years what's next it's a good question isn't it they've just been in the grave all this
00:10:49 time and that's it so what was the purpose of their life a person has been in the grave for
00:10:52 2000 years but maybe live for 70 years roughly speaking let's say 100 they live for 100 years
00:10:56 and have been in the grave for 2000 so what matters more those 100 years exactly look what
00:11:00 matters more if that person lived 100 years and is in the grave in 2000 years where should he put
00:11:05 the the the focus on in that 2000 years yes because that's that is ever living he's going 0.97
00:11:11 to be living in that grave for 2000 years because we know it's going to be the barzak life and then
00:11:15 there's going to be a judgment now check this out or these 2000 years and what happens after those 0.93
00:11:20 two thousand years and people believe different things whether there is a day of judgment or not
00:11:26 that's where the difference lies between a believer and a non-believer after everyone is
00:11:31 resurrected there will be the day of judgment there will be judgment and after that people
00:11:36 will enter eternity eternity compared to eternity what are two thousand years they're nothing
00:11:42 literally imagine divide two thousand by eternity well you can't by two thousand it's nothing you
00:11:48 cannot it's possible yes and imagine because how your life's going to be in the barzakh is going
00:11:54 to be a reflection on your maqiyama yes is it worth it is it worth 100 years 20 years some
00:12:00 people die up to 37 years an eternity of paradise or hardship hellfire live for let's say 70 years
00:12:09 and many people choose those 70 years over eternal life and if a person understands that these 70
00:12:12 years they have here roughly speaking 70 or 80 years are meant to be used to prepare for what
00:12:15 comes after. So that when the day of judgment arrives and after the judgment, they can live
00:12:18 forever, not in hell, but in heaven. If that becomes their ultimate goal, then they will
00:12:21 strive to do good deeds because they will fear the day of judgment. And that's really what life
00:12:24 is about. Preparing yourself for the day of judgment. That's true. To truly understand life
00:12:26 and its deeper meaning, you have to think about eternity. Only then can you really understand
00:12:29 your role. Actually, it can keep a person away from evil, from evil and it can stop them from
00:12:32 treating other people badly. It can hold a person back. But if you don't have that understanding,
00:12:35 if a person lives completely convinced that there's nothing after death, what's there to
00:12:37 stop him from doing evil? Just like that. What do you think? And on top of that, an even more
00:12:39 dangerous combination. You become powerful, wealthy, and you become famous. What now?
00:12:42 suddenly every door is open to you. Just imagine a person like that. And on top of all that,
00:12:45 he doesn't believe in the day of judgment. He doesn't believe he'll be held accountable for
00:12:48 his actions. That's, you know, it's like a nuclear bomb. He can end up causing harm to
00:12:51 people everywhere. But if you know that for everything you have here, you'll eventually
00:12:53 have to answer that there will be a day of judgment and that you'll be called to account. 0.97
00:12:56 And if you fail that test, we'll burn in hell forever. That'll make you rein yourself in a
00:12:59 little. You'll have to take that into consideration. You'll have to tighten things up a little.
00:13:02 You'll begin to understand that you're not nearly as important as the image you've created of
00:13:05 yourself in your own mind. You start becoming more. As Americans say down to earth, yes, you,
00:13:09 you become more grounded. You're not flying. You're walking on the ground.
00:13:12 he once put it beautifully amazing this man is so in tune and this is why when you look at his
00:13:19 character you can see islam you can see this is islam and this things that he's saying it's very 0.91
00:13:25 deep guys because that's what keeps him grounded he's in check my money my fame this time i can 0.96
00:13:30 misuse this but i'm gonna be questioned and that's what keeps him in check subhanallah you can allow
00:13:35 money and fame to stay in your hand but not in your heart yes you've still got many years ahead
00:13:40 of you, but you're already an example of someone who's become famous, made money, and remain the
00:13:45 same person. If money stays in your hands and not in your heart, that's a good thing. But the moment
00:13:50 it gets into a person's heart, it corrupts them. Once it's there, it's very difficult to pull it
00:13:55 out of your heart. If you have wealth in your hands and use it properly for good causes, for
00:14:00 the right purposes, for people in need, for your family, relatives, friends, people from your
00:14:06 hometown that's a good thing but as soon as that wealth gets into your heart it becomes very
00:14:11 difficult to share it with others and this is this is a very dangerous um very dangerous place for a
00:14:19 person to end up and i'm sorry but as a believer i believe that most people in hell will be wealthy
00:14:25 i don't know if there's anything that suggests in our traditions that rich people will be the main
00:14:31 the majority of people in the hellfire but what we do know is that first said the poor
00:14:36 uh the opposite side the opposite of what he's saying is uh they will enter paradise 50 000 years
00:14:40 before the rich um that's what we know and obviously there's bad and good rich people by
00:14:45 the way there's poor people who commit shirk knowingly and there's a rich as well i was
00:14:49 really blown away by this guys i really want to share this with you guys because the importance
00:14:52 of salah really blew my way him revolving everything around salah and salah is literally
00:14:58 worship allah it's tawheed i find amazing i find amazing guys inshallah and you know what look we
00:15:03 we talk about the importance i talk about the importance of salah salah problem sisters you
00:15:06 know we support i mean we are teaching thousands of people around the world thanks to your donation
00:15:10 i just want to say thank you with our one-to-one salah instructors guided salah mats we've been
00:15:14 nearly 200 000 100 000 on this way it's going to be here next week uh the salah pro app we've got
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00:15:24 stations that's going to be sent to these places and all the other stuff that we're doing here in
00:15:28 the studio brahman sisters may allah bless and preserve you guys from believing in the project
00:15:31 khabib you are an amazing person but i genuinely this whole salah thing really really
00:15:37 touch me and hopefully this benefits as much as and as benefiting me such as you did inshallah
00:15:42 very powerful words from a powerful man may also want to keep him sincere and serve the deen