Ali Dawah - KHABIB LEAVES RUSSIAN PODCASTER AMAZED

00:00:00.000 And when I say religion, the first thing I mean is

00:00:02.900 This man is so in tune. 0.78

00:00:05.620 And this is why when you look at his character, you can see Islam. 1.00

00:00:30.000 Khabib just done a banging episode with a Russian podcaster and he just blew my mind

00:00:36.440 How connected and finely tuned his relationship with Allah is just impeccable

00:00:42.320 Let's watch it for ourselves guys

00:00:43.800 And I want you guys to please absorb and slowly listen to every second

00:00:48.660 Because I was blown away

00:00:50.180 For you, your Muslim faith and God is obviously central to your life and to who you are

00:00:57.260 Can you explain what role God plays in your life?

00:01:00.000 well first of all i was born raised and brought up in a muslim family in a muslim community since

00:01:06.160 childhood religion has always been the most important thing for me and when i say religion

00:01:10.640 the first thing i mean is salah namaz look guys look guys la ilaha illallah is acknowledging

00:01:16.880 there is nothing worthy of worship except allah subhanahu wa ta'ala good salah is the embodiment

00:01:22.800 and the application and the sacrifice and the tawakul and um you name it to show allah that

00:01:31.600 you are deserving of worship and everything revolves around you now listen to this guy

00:01:39.280 look what he said and when i mean my religion i mean look how it connected islam to salah

00:01:45.440 because salah is we single out allah in his lordship in worship

00:01:52.240 the rest was scheduled around it even today when i was choosing time for this podcast i knew we'd

00:01:58.480 be talking for a couple of hours so i deliberately picked a time right after the midday prayer

00:02:03.760 did you guys just hear that he is jannah driven brothers brothers brothers this man worships

00:02:09.360 allah forget just one jannah because of look look guys we don't worship allah because of the things

00:02:15.120 he gives us the blessing people talk about this talk allah's favors put that to a side we worship

00:02:20.160 allah listen carefully because of who he is how mighty and majestic he is because of that

00:02:30.160 he is revolving khabib is saying i revolved the podcast when you told me a time i said no no no

00:02:37.360 this time because it goes in between my salah i'm not missing my salah because i know how long the

00:02:41.200 podcast is going to go he is pre-planning salah this is why salah pro we here at our charity

00:02:48.320 teaching thousands of people across the world thanks to your amazing donations and believing

00:02:51.680 in this project subhanallah let's carry on that's how my life's been and still is and that's how it

00:02:56.960 will continue to be i hope i've always tried to organize my life around worship because first and

00:03:03.200 foremost my purpose in this life is to worship the one god everything that happens after that

00:03:08.960 is it's secondary exactly that one true god not three in one not god is a man no he's a holy

00:03:13.920 spirit no he's a co-equal no he's a partner he's generating all this that listen christianity in

00:03:18.960 itself is self-destructing tawhid worshipping allah and faith in god and learning more and

00:03:26.000 just striving to get closer to god that continues throughout our entire lives in that regard i'm

00:03:29.760 very grateful to the almighty for opening this door of understanding and reflection for me

00:03:33.440 for helping me realize that we are all servants of god and that our purpose in life is to serve

00:03:37.280 one god and as you were explaining um that helped you in your career in the sense that you know

00:03:41.280 psychologically, by keeping you from letting success go to your head. That helped me with

00:03:43.840 everything. I've always placed my only hope in the Almighty. Whatever situation I might face,

00:03:48.380 I've always believed that only the Almighty can truly make it easier for me. And when it comes

00:03:52.320 to not letting success go to your head, not becoming proud, not becoming full of yourself,

00:03:56.260 religion and my faith in Allah have helped me with that too. I truly believe that only faith

00:03:59.780 can help a person get through life's hardest trials. And sometimes I think about people who

00:04:03.680 are, who suffer the loss of a loved one, someone very close to them. For example, when I lost my

00:04:08.740 father i remember thinking to myself if i didn't believe in the almighty if i didn't have faith in

00:04:12.200 god and understand that it was predestined that we all come into this world and then leave it

00:04:16.340 that no one stays here forever that no one belongs to anyone and we all belong to the almighty and

00:04:20.180 that we will all return to him i don't know how i would have coped with it i'm a very emotional

00:04:23.220 person i think it would have been extremely difficult for me to go through all of that

00:04:26.160 without faith in that sense i feel fortunate to have this understanding so faith really helped

00:04:29.940 you see this is very important guys for a lot of people who have the spiritual sickness and

00:04:33.560 disease and starvation of the soul this is what we talk about you are giving the soul physical food 0.74

00:04:40.120 and it doesn't work like that the soul doesn't want the dunya the money the girls the cars the

00:04:45.340 this whatever whatever it wants the remembrance of his lord like allah says in the remembrance

00:04:49.300 of allah do hearts find peace if you've regained remembrance you'll have a depressed life he's

00:04:53.160 talking about tawakul if i didn't have allah knowing why i'm here where i'm going the purpose

00:04:58.660 of life nothing will make sense then you will question why is this happening to me when you

00:05:03.520 question why it's happening to me ask why did it happen to the prophet if allah's love is based on

00:05:08.020 what he gives you then did allah love firaun no he didn't allah subhanahu wa ta'ala test those who

00:05:14.180 loves yes it might sound cliche it is a reality when you decipher understand how allah's love

00:05:20.120 works you will know how he implements that love giving everything loving your child is not giving

00:05:26.780 them everything that is destroying that that's a lack of lack of wisdom that just shows oh if i

00:05:32.280 give them whatever they want no for indeed with hardship comes ease hardship there's goodness in

00:05:38.420 hardship it makes you who you are today and he's saying he would not be where he is if he didn't

00:05:42.720 have that tawakul and trust and this quran what allah sent is for you to survive through this

00:05:47.960 jungle of this life so you can be success in the here of time let's carry on when you lost your

00:05:52.300 father. This was the only thing that helped, nothing else worked. I know a couple of people

00:05:58.780 who have lost someone very close to them and they struggle to accept it. They would ask,

00:06:07.960 why, why, why? So many questions. I told them, to answer that question, you need to go deeper

00:06:14.760 into religion and try to understand. Why were you even born in the first place? And why do these

00:06:21.320 thoughts even come into your head? And what if you didn't have any thoughts at all? What if you

00:06:26.060 couldn't think, couldn't understand anything? These thoughts, this awareness, your mind, your

00:06:31.980 abilities, none of that was there before. Then it appeared. Why? That's the question.

00:06:38.780 It's interesting. It's basically saying in a nutshell, philosophers have said this,

00:06:41.220 why is there something rather than nothing? None of us existed. Then we were born, we were little,

00:06:44.880 we weren't aware of anything, we didn't remember anything. Then little by little, we grew up and

00:06:47.620 became adults. We became successful. We became somebody. We became who we are. So why did all

00:06:51.480 of this come specifically to you? There are so many questions like that. And so these questions

00:06:54.560 are, let's say, a kind of guide through life. And for me, that's what religion is. It guides me and

00:06:58.760 helps me. You often say, Alhamdulillah, I'll praise to God. That's very powerful. That sense

00:07:02.420 of gratitude. Can you tell us, can you explain why you say it so often? You know the saying,

00:07:05.740 the tongue speaks what the heart is full of. The way you speak shows what's in your heart.

00:07:08.700 If you have something dark in your heart, your words will show it, no doubt. We all have some

00:07:11.640 dark parts in our hearts. Every single person has them. Sometimes they come out in what we say,

00:07:14.920 how we express ourselves what we share with people and so on everyone has that but if your heart is

00:07:18.280 mostly good and pure then that will also be reflected in your speech and uh and i just like

00:07:22.200 praising the almighty and giving all the credit for my success back to him because everything we

00:07:26.040 have is given to us by the almighty okay listen to this very carefully guys this very very this

00:07:30.200 is very key because a lot of people do this even i do sometimes throughout the history there have

00:07:34.520 been many people who made big mistakes after becoming successful powerful and wealthy and

00:07:40.920 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.

00:07:54.400 That's why all of this came my way.

00:07:56.100 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.

00:08:06.800 He chose you and gave it to you.

00:08:08.460 and you just have to give the credit back to him you shouldn't take the credit for yourself

00:08:13.420 that's what i believe and it's something i've come to through studying my religion i understand that

00:08:19.120 everything the almighty has given to me is not because of who i am it's simply something god

00:08:24.880 has given me as a test to test me and in the end see which of my deeds outweigh the others

00:08:31.020 the good or the bad exactly you see the blessings that he's got in his life he does not see it as

00:08:36.180 blessing but rather a test so when you get allah gives you like riches don't think allah loves you

00:08:41.780 i'm generous and don't even think that allah hates you either the key is is it's a test okay i have

00:08:46.900 this wealth what am i going to do with this wealth for allah's pleasure not allah's given this yeah

00:08:53.300 he loves me let me use it to bowl show off this whatever and you know what's important sometimes

00:08:57.300 we go and praise people like the one the person who invented electricity or this that hold on a

00:09:02.420 second why what good now give okay praise him okay who gave him that brain to find that invention

00:09:09.620 Allah it's ultimately every idea genius idea this that flying to Mars and this that

00:09:16.340 is a praise to Allah not only has Allah given the brains for him to think that that belongs to Allah

00:09:22.260 subhanahu wa ta'ala has given him that idea and even to build those tools are given by who by Allah

00:09:27.300 the ultimate credit goes to Allah because as believer I believe that there will be judgment

00:09:31.060 and everything we have, everything we do, every action we take, we will be held accountable for

00:09:34.160 it. There will be a day of judgment. There will be scales and everything will be weighed. What

00:09:37.080 advice would you give young people about life and their careers? Millions of people are watching you

00:09:40.680 and deeply respect you. What would you say about how to live your life and how do you find your

00:09:43.540 path and stay on it? Well, I wouldn't want to speak just from my own perspective. I'd rather

00:09:46.460 bring people back to the scripture, to what the Almighty said. Read. That's the first word revealed

00:09:50.000 in the Holy Quran. The first command is read or ikram. So to everyone listening to or watching

00:09:54.240 this podcast, I would want to bring them back to that. Read. Meaning what? Educate yourself,

00:09:57.280 observe learn improve but don't stay in one place and anything a person is truly looking for if they

00:10:02.480 genuinely want to find it not just find an answer but find the truth they can reach it but they can

00:10:06.320 never reach it without reading they need to read when a person reads what they read enters them

00:10:09.680 into their body their heart their mind and it triggers a search a search for knowledge begins

00:10:12.960 inside them but if you don't read you won't find anything just listening to someone is one thing

00:10:15.760 but reading is something different so my advice would be read and find within yourself the strength

00:10:18.880 to come closer to one god and seek to understand why we were sent here in the first place today

00:10:22.720 you and me we're almost the same age so let's just think about this this is where it gets really deep

00:10:26.640 guys this word gets really really deep wallahi look if you just put on the look look at what

00:10:30.480 he's saying he's talking about allah salah tawakul tauheed a grandfather on my mother's side passed

00:10:37.280 away in 2003 now it's 2026 he's been lying in the grave for 23 years and then there was his

00:10:40.640 grandfather or let's say his great-grandfather who also died and has been in the grave for over

00:10:43.520 100 years roughly speaking but what about people who died 2000 years ago they've been in the grave

00:10:46.800 for 2000 years what's next it's a good question isn't it they've just been in the grave all this

00:10:49.840 time and that's it so what was the purpose of their life a person has been in the grave for

00:10:52.480 2000 years but maybe live for 70 years roughly speaking let's say 100 they live for 100 years

00:10:56.560 and have been in the grave for 2000 so what matters more those 100 years exactly look what

00:11:00.300 matters more if that person lived 100 years and is in the grave in 2000 years where should he put

00:11:05.720 the the the focus on in that 2000 years yes because that's that is ever living he's going 0.97

00:11:11.240 to be living in that grave for 2000 years because we know it's going to be the barzak life and then

00:11:15.340 there's going to be a judgment now check this out or these 2000 years and what happens after those 0.93

00:11:20.240 two thousand years and people believe different things whether there is a day of judgment or not

00:11:26.080 that's where the difference lies between a believer and a non-believer after everyone is

00:11:31.020 resurrected there will be the day of judgment there will be judgment and after that people

00:11:36.120 will enter eternity eternity compared to eternity what are two thousand years they're nothing

00:11:42.520 literally imagine divide two thousand by eternity well you can't by two thousand it's nothing you

00:11:48.320 cannot it's possible yes and imagine because how your life's going to be in the barzakh is going

00:11:54.040 to be a reflection on your maqiyama yes is it worth it is it worth 100 years 20 years some

00:12:00.300 people die up to 37 years an eternity of paradise or hardship hellfire live for let's say 70 years

00:12:09.180 and many people choose those 70 years over eternal life and if a person understands that these 70

00:12:12.840 years they have here roughly speaking 70 or 80 years are meant to be used to prepare for what

00:12:15.960 comes after. So that when the day of judgment arrives and after the judgment, they can live

00:12:18.400 forever, not in hell, but in heaven. If that becomes their ultimate goal, then they will

00:12:21.100 strive to do good deeds because they will fear the day of judgment. And that's really what life

00:12:24.120 is about. Preparing yourself for the day of judgment. That's true. To truly understand life

00:12:26.800 and its deeper meaning, you have to think about eternity. Only then can you really understand

00:12:29.320 your role. Actually, it can keep a person away from evil, from evil and it can stop them from

00:12:32.820 treating other people badly. It can hold a person back. But if you don't have that understanding,

00:12:35.100 if a person lives completely convinced that there's nothing after death, what's there to

00:12:37.300 stop him from doing evil? Just like that. What do you think? And on top of that, an even more

00:12:39.760 dangerous combination. You become powerful, wealthy, and you become famous. What now?

00:12:42.680 suddenly every door is open to you. Just imagine a person like that. And on top of all that,

00:12:45.980 he doesn't believe in the day of judgment. He doesn't believe he'll be held accountable for

00:12:48.740 his actions. That's, you know, it's like a nuclear bomb. He can end up causing harm to

00:12:51.400 people everywhere. But if you know that for everything you have here, you'll eventually

00:12:53.860 have to answer that there will be a day of judgment and that you'll be called to account. 0.97

00:12:56.760 And if you fail that test, we'll burn in hell forever. That'll make you rein yourself in a

00:12:59.880 little. You'll have to take that into consideration. You'll have to tighten things up a little.

00:13:02.740 You'll begin to understand that you're not nearly as important as the image you've created of

00:13:05.640 yourself in your own mind. You start becoming more. As Americans say down to earth, yes, you,

00:13:09.980 you become more grounded. You're not flying. You're walking on the ground.

00:13:12.340 he once put it beautifully amazing this man is so in tune and this is why when you look at his

00:13:19.640 character you can see islam you can see this is islam and this things that he's saying it's very 0.91

00:13:25.240 deep guys because that's what keeps him grounded he's in check my money my fame this time i can 0.96

00:13:30.220 misuse this but i'm gonna be questioned and that's what keeps him in check subhanallah you can allow

00:13:35.660 money and fame to stay in your hand but not in your heart yes you've still got many years ahead

00:13:40.480 of you, but you're already an example of someone who's become famous, made money, and remain the

00:13:45.780 same person. If money stays in your hands and not in your heart, that's a good thing. But the moment

00:13:50.660 it gets into a person's heart, it corrupts them. Once it's there, it's very difficult to pull it

00:13:55.920 out of your heart. If you have wealth in your hands and use it properly for good causes, for

00:14:00.740 the right purposes, for people in need, for your family, relatives, friends, people from your

00:14:06.440 hometown that's a good thing but as soon as that wealth gets into your heart it becomes very

00:14:11.260 difficult to share it with others and this is this is a very dangerous um very dangerous place for a

00:14:19.120 person to end up and i'm sorry but as a believer i believe that most people in hell will be wealthy

00:14:25.460 i don't know if there's anything that suggests in our traditions that rich people will be the main

00:14:31.300 the majority of people in the hellfire but what we do know is that first said the poor

00:14:36.100 uh the opposite side the opposite of what he's saying is uh they will enter paradise 50 000 years

00:14:40.020 before the rich um that's what we know and obviously there's bad and good rich people by

00:14:45.060 the way there's poor people who commit shirk knowingly and there's a rich as well i was

00:14:49.860 really blown away by this guys i really want to share this with you guys because the importance

00:14:52.660 of salah really blew my way him revolving everything around salah and salah is literally

00:14:58.660 worship allah it's tawheed i find amazing i find amazing guys inshallah and you know what look we

00:15:03.380 we talk about the importance i talk about the importance of salah salah problem sisters you

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00:15:24.900 stations that's going to be sent to these places and all the other stuff that we're doing here in

00:15:28.260 the studio brahman sisters may allah bless and preserve you guys from believing in the project

00:15:31.700 khabib you are an amazing person but i genuinely this whole salah thing really really

00:15:37.220 touch me and hopefully this benefits as much as and as benefiting me such as you did inshallah

00:15:42.660 very powerful words from a powerful man may also want to keep him sincere and serve the deen

Ali Dawah - August 14, 2026

KHABIB LEAVES RUSSIAN PODCASTER AMAZED

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