Ali Dawah - July 25, 2022


MUSLIM GIRLS REACT TO PINK SIGN - EXPERIMENT


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Length

7 minutes

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228.48021

Word count

1,789

Sentence count

121

Harmful content

Misogyny

2

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Hate speech

14

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Brother Ali and his wife are doing a social experiment to encourage our sisters who are wearing the hijab in the scorching hot weather. They are giving out sweets and cards to those who are modest in the heat. Do you think it's important for brothers and Muslim men to encourage their fellow sisters?

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00:00:00.000 I've come together with Qamar Charity to help those people in Afghanistan who are poor
00:00:03.540 on top of that they've been hit by an earthquake.
00:00:05.540 Please go to the link and donate whatever you can for the sake of Allah.
00:00:11.180 Yes, you're thinking, Brother Ali, once again, look at you, free mixing. 0.97
00:00:14.880 Calm down, relax yourself. I'm here with my wife.
00:00:16.520 My wife called some of the sisters and we're doing a social experiment.
00:00:18.960 Now, if you guys remember, I came to Stratford four years ago.
00:00:21.400 It was scorching heat and I thought to myself,
00:00:24.080 all these sisters who are in niqab, hijab,
00:00:25.800 even those who are wearing turban or even those who don't wear the hijab
00:00:28.140 but they are taking little steps to wear the hijab,
00:00:29.840 they need some encouragement, especially from us brothers.
00:00:32.300 So I did the experiment where I showed them my phone
00:00:33.960 and it had this message on.
00:00:35.080 Today, I'm here with our sisters. May Allah bless them, inshaAllah.
00:00:37.680 I'll be holding the placard this time
00:00:38.980 and they will be giving out these sweets and these cards, inshaAllah,
00:00:41.460 to encourage our sisters who are wearing the hijab in this hot weather.
00:00:44.140 Let's see how they react. We'll see you guys soon.
00:00:53.500 And seeing like other Muslim girls wearing hijab and abaya 1.00
00:00:56.460 just encourages us to do the same.
00:00:58.040 Yeah. How do you think about receiving this gift?
00:01:00.620 It's very encouraging and yeah, I'm pleased.
00:01:04.160 I feel amazing, honestly.
00:01:06.040 It feels good.
00:01:06.920 It feels rewarding at the end of the day
00:01:08.580 because you're going through all this struggle.
00:01:10.020 But it's going to be worth it at the end.
00:01:12.080 We're proud of you at the end of the day, you know.
00:01:13.720 You know, sometimes at your age, sometimes you get influenced by social pressure, beauty,
00:01:18.940 even sometimes, you know, hijabi tutorials to take their hijabs off.
00:01:22.560 Does that put pressure on you?
00:01:23.720 Like, and if it does, these kind of things, like seeing this today,
00:01:26.320 did it make you feel like, you know what, at least we have, you know,
00:01:28.880 co-sisters or brothers in Islam encouraging us?
00:01:32.480 Does it give you that bit of encouragement?
00:01:34.640 Yeah, I mean, like, sometimes, like, I do kind of, like, feel pressured, like,
00:01:38.720 seeing, like, others, like, taking their hijab off
00:01:41.400 and they look really pretty without it.
00:01:43.420 But then, like, some others influence you into, like, wearing it
00:01:46.680 and they compliment you and they, like, it suits you more
00:01:49.000 and then, like, they let you know that, oh, you're not doing it for others,
00:01:52.220 you're doing it for, like, Allah and that, so.
00:01:54.400 Okay, guys, so subhanAllah, I just saw my wife approaching the sister
00:01:57.320 and gave her a sweet and they hugged each other
00:01:58.900 and I thought, oh, it's probably one of my wife's friends.
00:02:00.140 What made you hug her?
00:02:01.380 So, you know, when she gave me this little gift, she said, like,
00:02:03.940 she was telling me, thank you for being modest in this heat
00:02:06.160 and it's like, I'm doing it for the sake of my religion.
00:02:08.640 It wasn't, like, something I was doing, like, you know,
00:02:10.640 it is kind of out of choice, but I just felt grateful for being appreciated, you know?
00:02:14.360 Do you think that it's important for brothers and Muslim men 1.00
00:02:17.100 to encourage their fellow, like, be it their daughters, be it their sisters?
00:02:20.680 Do you think it plays a role and strengths the sisters?
00:02:23.800 If it was my dad and my brother, you know, encouraging me about my team
00:02:26.420 and saying, like, oh, I'm proud of you, I know it's hot.
00:02:28.400 Like, sometimes when I get in the car, my dad's like,
00:02:30.320 should I turn the AC on?
00:02:31.220 I know you're warm.
00:02:32.080 And it makes you feel, you know, like, it makes you happy
00:02:34.100 and, yeah, it makes you feel appreciated.
00:02:36.140 May Allah bless you.
00:02:37.160 You know what encourages this Surah Asr? 1.00
00:02:38.740 You know, Allah says in the Quran,
00:02:39.820 Call them to truth and call them to patient.
00:02:48.700 So the reason we're doing this social experiment
00:02:50.560 is to call you guys to patient.
00:02:52.040 How does it make you feel, like, you know,
00:03:04.860 the sister's giving this reminder? 0.80
00:03:06.480 Because it's been really hot for the past couple of days.
00:03:08.740 No, I think it's really good, alhamdulillah.
00:03:10.500 To see you in a place like this, it's really, really good.
00:03:13.180 Because obviously there's so much people,
00:03:14.720 you've got all the cultures here,
00:03:15.960 you've got people from everywhere.
00:03:17.280 To see you doing something like this, it's just really good.
00:03:19.300 So it's more important, like, for example,
00:03:20.780 that brothers encourage sisters.
00:03:22.960 Definitely. Yeah, definitely. Yeah, yeah.
00:03:25.240 Do you feel, when you came past, you looked at the sign?
00:03:28.600 I saw the message from this tear.
00:03:30.140 Yes, I was very excited.
00:03:31.540 I said, mashallah, you know.
00:03:32.900 What do you like about it?
00:03:34.120 What does it make you feel, like, inside,
00:03:36.060 when you come down and you see the brothers and sisters?
00:03:38.920 Happiness. Happiness, mashallah, that, you know,
00:03:40.960 you're doing a great job, you're spreading the dawah, 0.98
00:03:43.780 mashallah, encouraging the sisters, alhamdulillah.
00:03:46.680 Um, I'm going to start wearing my hijab once I'm in year seven,
00:03:50.320 like, very soon.
00:03:51.520 How did you feel, my darling?
00:03:53.340 Good.
00:03:53.920 Salam alaykum. 0.82
00:03:54.640 Salam alaykum. 0.82
00:03:55.780 Ah, salam alaykum.
00:03:57.060 You take care and enjoy your sweets.
00:03:59.360 So a sister stopped you and said you answered her dawah.
00:04:02.680 Literally. It was like, subhanallah, like, I went up to her,
00:04:05.340 she said, what's this?
00:04:06.120 And I said, just something here to say, you know,
00:04:08.600 alhamdulillah, encouragement for your, you know, hijab in this heat,
00:04:11.540 you know.
00:04:11.860 And then she said, subhanallah, this is a dawah that's been answered.
00:04:15.240 You are the answer to my dawah.
00:04:17.200 Allah, look at that.
00:04:17.980 Amazing.
00:04:18.440 I feel like, because of social media, you see, like,
00:04:20.480 so many people taking off their hijab, and then, like,
00:04:22.460 it kind of influences you.
00:04:23.500 But then, like, by seeing things like this,
00:04:25.280 like, you're reminded that, like, you're not living for this dunya. 0.97
00:04:28.340 Like, it's all about the afterlife and what's going to happen.
00:04:31.080 Don't ever forget that you're actually wearing the eye of the Quran on your head. 0.99
00:04:34.480 Literally, yeah.
00:04:35.220 So may Allah preserve you guys, keep you patient, it gets hot.
00:04:37.460 But never, ever think that your efforts are going to go to waste.
00:04:40.160 Never think that on the day of judgment, when you're putting this effort in,
00:04:42.960 and somebody who's not, is going to be on the same level.
00:04:45.580 It's not.
00:04:45.940 So I just wanted to give that, inshallah, with the sisters, inshallah.
00:04:48.280 May Allah bless you guys.
00:04:48.800 Any last words?
00:04:49.480 Yeah, jazakallah.
00:04:50.320 May Allah bless you guys.
00:04:51.340 Allah says, remind, for indeed, remind benefits of believer.
00:04:54.020 This is how important and profound it is for us to give these little reminders,
00:04:57.540 because they have such huge impacts.
00:04:58.760 How old are you?
00:04:59.980 I'm 10.
00:05:00.800 10?
00:05:01.480 When did you start wearing the hijab?
00:05:03.320 In year 3.
00:05:04.360 In year 3?
00:05:05.140 Mashallah.
00:05:05.500 How was it?
00:05:06.480 It was really fun, and I started wearing it more, and now I'm just wearing it every day.
00:05:11.540 Don't you think brothers like me, and many brothers, we should be encouraging sisters more?
00:05:15.620 Yes.
00:05:16.080 Yeah?
00:05:16.420 The message is, alhamdulillah, it's what we should do for each other,
00:05:19.620 is what we owe each other as Muslims.
00:05:21.020 I was 8 when I started to wear the hijab.
00:05:22.840 My parents were born and raised in the north, which is predominantly Muslim,
00:05:26.240 but my father was the main reason why we started to wear the hijab.
00:05:29.740 He loved it.
00:05:30.820 He spoke about it in so many ways.
00:05:33.440 Have you struggled with the heat and everything over the last couple of days?
00:05:36.880 To be honest, yeah, the heat has been his struggle,
00:05:39.920 but it's all about intention.
00:05:41.280 You know it's for Allah. 0.78
00:05:42.640 So guys, we did the experiment, and subhanAllah, it was amazing.
00:05:46.300 There was very good feedback.
00:05:47.780 People were reading it, encouraged.
00:05:49.380 Even people came, some sisters came and said,
00:05:51.140 you know, you guys actually answered my dua.
00:05:52.460 I want to thank my wife, may Allah bless her, for making this happen as well.
00:05:55.940 Sister Aisha, for spending endless, the whole night, making the streets and putting it together.
00:06:00.740 Sister Naima, for coming and encouraging people, subhanAllah, giving the cards. 0.79
00:06:04.160 And Sister Naila, who'd done the camera work and was giving out the cards.
00:06:07.560 May Allah bless every single one of you guys for doing this, inshallah.
00:06:09.960 How did you guys find it, in a nutshell?
00:06:11.980 It was, you know what, it was really, like, fulfilling for my heart
00:06:14.880 that we were able to touch so many sisters.
00:06:17.820 I actually met a sister on the train on the way up,
00:06:20.220 and she had been struggling with hijab.
00:06:21.900 She was wearing a turban, and she said, subhanAllah,
00:06:24.020 today I came out in the full hijab,
00:06:26.200 and this card, I gave her some sweets as well.
00:06:28.260 She said, it's really encouraged me.
00:06:30.000 It's like Allah sent you to me.
00:06:31.340 But it's just been such an amazing opportunity.
00:06:34.000 Thank you, jazakallah khairan, to Ali and his wife,
00:06:36.560 for bringing us involved in this,
00:06:37.900 because it increases our iman as well,
00:06:40.240 and it increases our love for the hijab as well,
00:06:42.660 that, you know, we're doing this for the sake of Allah, subhanAllah ta'ala.
00:06:45.180 We've had so many reminders from sisters today as well.
00:06:47.740 It's been amazing, alhamdulillah.
00:06:50.340 I'm really happy.
00:06:51.040 Sister Daima?
00:06:52.040 I think the sister who said that we've been an answer to her dua
00:06:55.760 was really, like, subhanAllah,
00:06:57.140 I think the most humbling thing for me, you know.
00:06:59.060 And when some of the young sisters, they're 14, 15, 16,
00:07:02.100 and I said to them, subhanAllah, 0.99
00:07:03.160 Allah subhanAllah ta'ala tells us that the believers remind,
00:07:06.300 the reminder benefits the believers, you know, subhanAllah. 0.70
00:07:08.640 So we're here to just remind you and to encourage,
00:07:10.820 encourage each other in goodness, in taqwa,
00:07:13.980 but inshallah, the reward will be worth it, you know, alhamdulillah.
00:07:16.800 Inshallah, and like Allah says in Surah Asr, 1.00
00:07:18.840 وَتَصَوْبِ حَقِّ وَتَوَصَوْبِ الصَّبْرِ
00:07:21.340 That call them to truth and call them to patience.
00:07:24.080 And that's exactly what we did today,
00:07:25.060 calling them to truth and calling them to be patient, inshallah.
00:07:27.400 You don't need to speak, maybe you can give two thumbs up.
00:07:29.260 How do you feel?
00:07:30.020 She's happy.
00:07:30.600 Okay, we're all happy.
00:07:31.320 As a brother, all I would say is,
00:07:32.620 if you have a daughter, brothers, fathers, uncles, siblings,
00:07:36.960 encourage them.
00:07:37.840 Allah, it's so important that they see that at the home, inshallah.
00:07:41.020 Till next time, brothers and sisters,
00:07:42.120 may Allah bless you guys, inshallah.
00:07:43.080 And brother, SQ, maybe you can do the same experiment in New York.
00:07:45.820 We'll see you guys later.
00:07:46.600 May Allah bless every single one of you guys.
00:07:48.040 As-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh.