Ali Dawah - August 21, 2024


MESSAGE TO DAN BIZERIAN - REACTION VIDEO

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genocide Palestinians
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Ali Dawah
Mentioned
Dan Bozerian Dan Mazarian Creator Sabah Hajari Hugh Hefner James Bond Inshallah Saliko Eddie Waqf
WILL LUCY'S FEARS STOP HER EMBRACING ISLAM？ M4SKED MAN & SKIN HEAD VS MUSLIM - P0L!CE ARRIVES

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In this episode of the podcast, we talk about what it means to be a Muslim in the modern world, and how it compares to the rest of the world. We also talk about the fact that Muslims are not terrorists, and that they are actually good people.

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00:00:00.000 With a certain Dan Bazarian.
00:00:02.000 He lied to us about weapons of mass destruction. 0.98
00:00:03.000 We fought all these ****ers. 1.00
00:00:04.000 My friends have died over there, like, you know, 0.87
00:00:05.000 and I just looked at what they provided us with, 0.69
00:00:07.000 and it's ****.
00:00:08.000 It's not nothing, it's like a negative.
00:00:09.000 The Western value and all this kind of...
00:00:10.000 Because you were a party guy before.
00:00:11.000 Yeah, yeah, and so was you, Eddie.
00:00:13.000 Don't try to...
00:00:14.000 But I met a lot of Muslims and they're, you know,
00:00:16.000 pretty morally sound for the most part.
00:00:18.000 So you would consider being a Muslim.
00:00:19.000 I don't know enough about their religion.
00:00:20.000 I think I'm gonna probably read the Quran.
00:00:24.000 Brothers and sisters, just imagine for a second
00:00:25.000 that you give £10 in donation
00:00:27.000 and that £10 is used to buy food
00:00:29.000 or breaks or whatever to help the people in Gaza.
00:00:31.000 But then just imagine this amazing thing
00:00:33.000 that you want to do,
00:00:34.000 but we turn it into a money making machine.
00:00:37.000 How?
00:00:38.000 The Waqf is exactly that. 0.92
00:00:39.000 They take your money
00:00:40.000 and the money that we are going to put in
00:00:42.000 in this Waqf, this building,
00:00:44.000 and every single time the money generated
00:00:47.000 from that Waqf, that building,
00:00:48.000 is going to go to our Palestinian brothers and sisters 1.00
00:00:51.000 for the next 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 100, 150 years.
00:00:56.000 And this will be a form of true Sabah Hajari. 0.93
00:00:59.000 Click the link below and donate.
00:01:01.000 On a video that just came out,
00:01:04.000 it was an interview.
00:01:05.000 Do you think the Middle East and the world
00:01:06.000 would be a better place if Israel didn't exist? 0.99
00:01:07.000 Yes, okay.
00:01:08.000 Israel's committed, you know, so many terrorist attacks.
00:01:09.000 They're stealing land right now. 0.74
00:01:10.000 They're operating apartheid. 0.61
00:01:11.000 They're currently committing a genocide on Palestinians.
00:01:13.000 Like, do you believe in the genocide they're committing?
00:01:15.000 I think...
00:01:16.000 With a certain Dan Bazarian.
00:01:17.000 He's like the new Hugh Hefner of our age.
00:01:38.000 But the good news is, he's seeing what already we know
00:01:41.000 is that this life of hedonism is a dark hole.
00:01:44.000 So there's a Muslim that's in touch with him
00:01:46.000 that I know personally, and he's been talking with him.
00:01:48.000 And he hasn't really posted the hedonist stuff
00:01:51.000 for over like a year,
00:01:52.000 and he wants to do things that are more fulfilling.
00:01:54.000 So he was recently, I don't know if you've seen the interview,
00:01:57.000 some bits of it going around,
00:01:58.000 that he's talking about Muslims are good people. 1.00
00:02:01.000 They're f***ing quarter of the globe. 0.87
00:02:02.000 Like, a quarter of the globe is Muslim, 1.00
00:02:03.000 and all the f***ing bad guys are all terrorists. 0.99
00:02:04.000 They're actually like a pretty peaceful religion. 0.99
00:02:06.000 He's seeing past all the programming, 0.99
00:02:08.000 that Muslims are terrorists. 1.00
00:02:09.000 The idea that all Muslims are terrorists is f***ing bullshit. 1.00
00:02:11.000 But that's what Hollywood keeps f***ing pumping out there. 1.00
00:02:12.000 It's like, every f***ing bad guy in these movies 1.00
00:02:14.000 are always these f***ing shihadi terrorists. 0.99
00:02:15.000 You know, like they're always the f***ing bad guy. 1.00
00:02:16.000 All the other nonsense that's out there, 0.94
00:02:18.000 there was, and we'll show some clips of that,
00:02:20.000 but there was one part of the interview,
00:02:22.000 I want to get your guys' perspective,
00:02:23.000 because a lot of people have this misconception
00:02:26.000 revolving around what you're going to see in this video clip.
00:02:29.000 Going to the church and worshiping and doing all that stuff.
00:02:31.000 To me, the idea of a God that's up there
00:02:32.000 that is requiring everyone to worship him
00:02:33.000 seems a little strange. 0.99
00:02:34.000 I'm not saying it's not shit on people's religion, 1.00
00:02:36.000 but to me, the more successful people are, 0.99
00:02:38.000 the better a fighter he is,
00:02:39.000 the less he needs everybody to tell him how great he is.
00:02:40.000 And I feel like if you were God,
00:02:41.000 would you really need everybody to worship you all the time
00:02:42.000 and tell you how great you were?
00:02:43.000 It doesn't seem to correlate with the experience that I've had.
00:02:45.000 I feel like everybody knows what the right thing is to do, 0.95
00:02:46.000 and just do the f***ing thing. 0.98
00:02:47.000 That's my religion, the f***ing thing. 0.99
00:02:48.000 You know what it is. 0.97
00:02:49.000 I mean, everybody's kind of got their confidence.
00:02:50.000 I'm a sociopath or something like that.
00:02:51.000 Just do the right thing and, you know,
00:02:53.000 treat others as you want to be treated.
00:02:54.000 You know, I think there's a lot of knowledge in the Bible.
00:02:55.000 There's a lot of good quotes in there.
00:02:56.000 But as far as like traditional, mainstream religion,
00:02:58.000 I'm not, you know, if I were to be anything, maybe Christian.
00:03:00.000 You know, I like the Muslims. 0.81
00:03:01.000 I mean, I think they have a pretty peaceful religion.
00:03:02.000 They get a really bad rap in the media.
00:03:03.000 But I've met a lot of Muslims and they're, you know,
00:03:05.000 pretty morally sound for the most part.
00:03:06.000 So you would consider being a Muslim.
00:03:07.000 I don't know enough about their religion.
00:03:08.000 I think I'm gonna probably read the Quran.
00:03:10.000 So.
00:03:11.000 Lots on package there.
00:03:12.000 So, I mean, if we want to start from reverse or forward
00:03:15.000 to help Dan along the way.
00:03:17.000 Let's start from the beginning where he was saying that
00:03:20.000 he has this difficult time understanding
00:03:22.000 why a God would need us to worship Him.
00:03:25.000 So the first thing to understand is Allah,
00:03:27.000 the Creator, the God, the only one worthy of worship,
00:03:30.000 has no need of us.
00:03:32.000 But we are in need of worshiping Him.
00:03:36.000 See, when we pray five times a day,
00:03:38.000 it's not that Allah needs it.
00:03:40.000 It doesn't sustain Allah. 0.90
00:03:41.000 It doesn't make Allah more powerful.
00:03:43.000 But it reminds us who is our Creator,
00:03:46.000 who is the greatest,
00:03:47.000 who are the one we're going to return to.
00:03:49.000 If we don't keep that mental check on us,
00:03:52.000 I mean, imagine even with the prayers
00:03:55.000 and even with the Quran, 0.91
00:03:56.000 how much of an ego we have.
00:03:58.000 How much pride do we have as human beings?
00:04:00.000 Even knowing that God is the greatest,
00:04:03.000 we have this misconception of thinking
00:04:06.000 we can do everything, right?
00:04:08.000 But as a Muslim,
00:04:10.000 when I put my forehead on the ground,
00:04:12.000 Allah doesn't need that. 0.99
00:04:13.000 But I need that humbleness to show myself
00:04:16.000 that, look, this life is temporary.
00:04:18.000 There is a Creator that created me
00:04:20.000 that I have to go back to,
00:04:21.000 that I have to submit to,
00:04:23.000 because that Creator's laws are how I should live.
00:04:26.000 I don't know best.
00:04:28.000 My Creator knows best.
00:04:30.000 I need that, right?
00:04:32.000 So that's the first thing to clear up
00:04:33.000 from that misconception.
00:04:34.000 And I'm sure Ali is going to break into that. 0.99
00:04:37.000 Secondly, this idea of just do the right thing.
00:04:41.000 Everybody knows what the...
00:04:43.000 Well, that's the thing.
00:04:44.000 People don't.
00:04:45.000 What do you mean do the right thing?
00:04:47.000 Is abortion the right thing or the wrong thing?
00:04:49.000 Now, you can talk to different segments of our country
00:04:52.000 and the country that we're in right now,
00:04:54.000 and there will be segments that will feel very morally compelled
00:04:57.000 to say abortion is the right thing. 0.99
00:04:59.000 It's a woman's right. 1.00
00:05:00.000 It's her body. 0.98
00:05:01.000 It's her choice.
00:05:02.000 It's wrong for you to tell a woman what she can do with her body
00:05:05.000 and her pregnancy, and it's her.
00:05:07.000 Right?
00:05:08.000 They will morally make that argument.
00:05:10.000 On the other hand,
00:05:11.000 other segments of our countries,
00:05:13.000 Christian and otherwise,
00:05:14.000 will very morally say that abortion is murder.
00:05:17.000 It's horrible.
00:05:18.000 It's the wrong thing.
00:05:19.000 The right thing is to condemn it and not allow it, right?
00:05:23.000 So you see, both sides are using the moral judgment very differently.
00:05:27.000 Not everybody.
00:05:28.000 If you think about euthanasia,
00:05:30.000 like people who are older,
00:05:31.000 whether they can kill themselves,
00:05:32.000 people that are in pain, 0.89
00:05:33.000 the death penalty,
00:05:35.000 you will find two very morally compelled different arguments.
00:05:39.000 Two opposite sides of the spectrum.
00:05:40.000 Right.
00:05:41.000 And each one of them will consider their point to be morally correct.
00:05:44.000 And the last thing I'll say,
00:05:47.000 inshallah and benefit from our brother,
00:05:49.000 is he's on the right track.
00:05:52.000 He said, I want to read the Quran.
00:05:54.000 Great.
00:05:55.000 Read the Quran.
00:05:56.000 Our advice to him is go and read the Quran.
00:05:59.000 And if you have questions, reach out to us.
00:06:01.000 We're here to help you answer questions.
00:06:04.000 I mean, to say that, I guess if I was going to choose,
00:06:07.000 I'd choose Christianity just because you're from a Christian background.
00:06:09.000 It doesn't make sense.
00:06:10.000 In the end, you have to choose what's right.
00:06:12.000 You have to choose what's most just, what's most morally correct, what's best preserved.
00:06:17.000 That's the true message.
00:06:19.000 I mean, you yourself were not raised in an Islamic environment.
00:06:25.000 But you chose Islam. 0.99
00:06:27.000 Many people may not realize Ali Da'wah.
00:06:29.000 Ali, your brother, chose Islam.
00:06:31.000 You know, myself.
00:06:32.000 I was raised going to church, but I chose Islam.
00:06:35.000 Why?
00:06:36.000 When I read the Quran, when I read the Islamic belief, it made so much sense.
00:06:40.000 It was so clear.
00:06:41.000 It was so correct.
00:06:42.000 It was such a divine truth that it showed me that all the corruption the church put in and synagogues and temples and all that could not stand to the truth of Islam. 1.00
00:06:52.000 So we hope he will continue that path and actually read the Quran and ask questions.
00:06:57.000 And just like when we saw and rotate first coming towards Islam, it may be a process, but inshallah he will be Muslim.
00:07:04.000 Just like when we saw Saliko first coming to Islam, it took months, but alhamdulillah he's a Muslim today.
00:07:09.000 We hope, I don't know the brother.
00:07:10.000 Dan Mazarian.
00:07:11.000 Dan Mazarian.
00:07:12.000 Inshallah someday he will be a Muslim as well. 0.99
00:07:14.000 I have no idea who he is, by the way.
00:07:15.000 This is the first time I've heard of him.
00:07:17.000 I know him, I don't know his name.
00:07:19.000 Yeah.
00:07:20.000 So go ahead.
00:07:21.000 What's your take on that?
00:07:22.000 What's your insight on some of those things?
00:07:23.000 Just touch upon the thing of him saying, you know, does God need us to worship him?
00:07:28.000 I believe this is one of the issues even, not just for himself, even a lot of Muslims face.
00:07:32.000 There's one aspect of Tawheed we don't really understand, which is that we, there is a narration about a group of angels that were created.
00:07:40.000 And their sole purpose is to be in Sajdah from the moment they are created to, yawm al Qiyamah. 0.96
00:07:47.000 Until Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala tells them to lift their heads up. 0.99
00:07:49.000 And when they lift their heads up, they say something very interesting.
00:07:51.000 They say, oh, our Lord, like, we did not worship you the way you deserve to be worshipped.
00:07:57.000 Now, this is very interesting because we're talking about, you know, some of us, you know, we pray and we think we're a mu'min.
00:08:02.000 You know, we're praying on sunnahs, etc.
00:08:04.000 We're talking about a group of angels who are in Sajdah for millions or billions or God knows how many years.
00:08:09.000 The moment they are told to lift their head up, they say to Allah, we did not worship you the way you deserve to be worshipped.
00:08:14.000 One aspect we don't understand about Tawheed is the following.
00:08:16.000 We worship Allah not because of what he does for us, but because of who he is.
00:08:20.000 Like, for example, when I speak to people in like non-Muslims and I tell them, when you see a famous person, let's say James Bond or whoever it is at their time. 1.00
00:08:27.000 Like, these famous actors, you get excited.
00:08:30.000 Oh my gosh.
00:08:31.000 Oh my gosh, isn't that, isn't that?
00:08:33.000 And then you go, when you go next to me, your palms are sweating.
00:08:35.000 The respect you have.
00:08:36.000 Is it okay if I can take a picture?
00:08:37.000 The respect you give him and ask a question.
00:08:39.000 Did this guy pay your debt?
00:08:40.000 Did he back you up in a fight?
00:08:42.000 What did he do so much that you have this level of respect that you're around him?
00:08:45.000 Is it okay if I take a picture?
00:08:47.000 Why are you?
00:08:48.000 Who is he?
00:08:49.000 What has he done for you?
00:08:50.000 Because of he's an actor who he is.
00:08:52.000 Now, if that's the respect you give to a human being that is an actor that you watch and you're excited.
00:08:56.000 What about the one who's created the heavens and the earth?
00:08:58.000 So it's not that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala needs us.
00:09:01.000 Allah doesn't need if every single human being stops praying.
00:09:03.000 Allah doesn't need us. 1.00
00:09:05.000 That's why if we understand who Allah is and understand Allah's attributes and understand who he really is,
00:09:10.000 we will then grasp that he deserves worship even if he didn't command us in the Quran to pray,
00:09:15.000 we would pray.
00:09:16.000 We will bow down because we believe he deserves that.
00:09:18.000 And then just touching on the morality thing.
00:09:20.000 Again, I can remember I was having a little debate with one of these murtads. 0.64
00:09:24.000 And they were mocking Islam.
00:09:26.000 They were like, look at the Quran. 0.98
00:09:27.000 The Quran says, you cannot marry your mom or your son.
00:09:31.000 And that was very interesting.
00:09:32.000 You know why?
00:09:33.000 Because he was the same person, talking about morality, because he has no objective morality.
00:09:37.000 He was the same one who said, actually, morally, I cannot say it is wrong for me to have intimacy with my own doota.
00:09:43.000 And I thought, subhanAllah, you are mocking the Quran.
00:09:45.000 But the Quran is a solution because you are telling me there is nothing wrong with me doing A with my own doota objectively. 1.00
00:09:51.000 So to me, that's the only thing I can say.
00:09:53.000 I mean, this is profound now.
00:09:55.000 To have someone like Dan Bazarian now.
00:09:58.000 Now we have people, specialists who are in the field of communicating the message.
00:10:02.000 And then, God willing, you guys can help get this message to him to help facilitate an easy way for him to.