In this episode, we talk about the history of Islam and what it means to be a Muslim. We also talk about how Islam came to be and why it is different from other religions in the world. Also, we discuss the difference between slavery and freedom.
00:00:00.000California. Okay, nice to meet you. My name is Ali. Hi, Bri. Nice to meet you.
00:00:05.000What's in? Victoria. Victoria and? Bri, like the cheese. Bri? Yes, B-R-I-E. Okay, all right, yeah.
00:00:11.000Okay, so what's, from, do you hear a lot about Islam, you hear in the media? Yes. But besides that, do you know anything about Islam?
00:00:18.000A little bit. I lived next to an Islamic center for a while, and yeah, so, but honestly, not too much. I would love to be educated, though.
00:00:26.000Okay, all right. So, any specific questions you have, or do you want me to just ask? Just go. Just go.
00:00:30.000Okay, yeah, so basically, the main fundamental thing that we have in Islam is worship God Almighty, yeah?
00:00:36.000So we don't believe that God is like its creation, you know, or God is like a man to come down, or do you get what I say?
00:00:44.000We say he's free from that, yeah? Yeah. We say there's nothing like him, yeah? He does not beget nor is he begotten.
00:00:49.000There's nothing like him. And I'll actually, what I'll do is, I'll read it for you specifically, so then...
00:00:55.000So it's not like a, so it's not so like tied down to specifics, it's not like this came from this and then that, that.
00:01:01.000So between creation and the createdism, they don't intermix, yeah? Okay.
00:01:06.000Because if you look at Christians, Christians believe, for example, and this is what makes Islam, like, one of the things that makes it really unique, this is Surah Ikhlas, yeah?
00:01:16.000It says, in the name of Allah, say, the truth is that Allah is one. Allah is besought of all needing. So Allah does not need anything. Yeah? He's free from any need, yeah?
00:01:26.000He does not beget nor is he begotten, yeah? He does, you know, he does not have a child or neither does he have a mother or father.
00:01:33.000Right. And equal to him is none. So now, when you look at major religions in the world, like for example, the Hindus, they believe in millions of gods, millions of gods.
00:01:44.000When you look into Christianity, they believe that God came down, incarnated itself to Jesus, and Jesus was God and he died on the cross, yeah?
00:01:54.000So if you look to any other religions as well, they go around the same kind of thing. What makes Islam different is because we say there is nothing like God, yeah?
00:02:03.000Okay, the reason why Islam came is to free ourselves from slavery. Now what do I mean by that, yeah? Because a lot of people come and say, for example,
00:02:12.000I am free, yeah? I'm free, I can do whatever I like. I'm like, not really. Because you do not choose your name.
00:02:17.000Neither do you choose to look how you look. Same goes with me. You do not choose your mother and father. You do not choose your brother or sister, your height.
00:02:29.000So now, every single one of us are a slave to something, yeah? Now, but we choose what we're going to be a slave to. Do you get what I'm trying to say?
00:02:37.000Islam came to free man from the slavery of human beings, yeah? Any human beings, anything. And to worship God alone. Because we believe you find true freedom in being a slave.
00:02:48.000I know the word slave has a connotation to it. Yes.
00:02:50.000But I'm not talking about, you know, you're getting whipped and, you know, someone's beating you up and you need to cook for them, yeah?
00:04:51.000They go on to stuff like that because they're like, you know, I want to try something new.
00:04:54.000It's the human nature, you always want more.
00:04:55.000So I would look, I would look at this guy and I'm thinking, rah, look, I want to be like this guy and this guy's going to throw crying, yeah?
00:07:49.000I'm thinking, what on earth have you got to do with chocolate?
00:07:52.000What have you got to do with a car that they're getting these females like half naked on top of a car?
00:07:58.000Well, that's the media and that's like propaganda, like reinforcing itself and like pushing their kind of beliefs on you to sell a product.