Ali Dawah - November 14, 2018MUSLIM TALKS TO JOKER IN NEW YORK!!
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Summary
In this episode, we talk about our relationship with God and how important it is to have a spiritual relationship with Him. We believe that God is all-knowing, all-powerful, and all-loving.
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One thing I'll leave you with is give the Quran a chance
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Try to read it, you know, ask God for guidance. If you ask God for guidance, he will guide you
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Okay, this is not a good idea because we were talking about the religion
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What are you, are you religious? You know, sometimes
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Especially, it looks like you've been through a lot of torture, so you must, you must be very spiritual
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No, when you believe in the chaos, sometimes you believe in something
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You gotta believe every single day in something
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If you don't believe in yourself, for example, you're not gonna get anything in your life
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Tell me, give me like a little description of God
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So you believe in God, but you believe his energy
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Okay, yes, he is more powerful, but when you say energy, what do you mean?
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This is, this is, this is, we're Muslims, yeah?
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So you believe, you don't believe this is a coincidence, yeah?
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So you believe that God is all-knowing, all-powerful
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Always, every single day, you are, you know, on the way and you're, step by step, you, you have to take a look and you don't know exactly where you're gonna go
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So, do you think, as human beings, if there is a higher intelligence, we should be grateful to him? Maybe we should worship him?
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Are you, like, do you, do you have a connection with God?
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Every single day I pray, I may, I may have meditation
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Okay, do you, do you do meditation for, like, for religious reasons, or it's just, you know, to get your mind and body straight?
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So, when you meditate, what kind of communication do you have with God Almighty?
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Oh, it's, ah, sometimes you say, ah, you got a step, right? The first step, say, thanks, ah, to be thankful
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Second thing is, ah, ah, say I'm sorry for my mistakes because we are human
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Are you sure you're not a Muslim? That's, that's, that's the trace of a Muslim
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And the third one is, ah, you need something? Please, God, I'm not, I am not nothing without you
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Exactly, this is one of the things, ah, Jesus, peace be upon him, said in the Quran
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When God Almighty asked him, he said, did you ask you and your
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You know, some Christians believe Jesus as God and his mother
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He said, did you tell them that, um, you and your mother are deities beside me?
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He said, God, oh God, oh Allah, you know what's inside me, I don't know what's inside you
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So, you've got a lot of traits about, like, Islam
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So, for example, when we communicate with God Almighty, we pray five times a day, yeah?
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Can you look into the camera and just scare these
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That's scary, I'm trying to talk to him, but I'm being honest, my concentration is a bit like
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Yeah, so, sorry, I forgot to ask for your name though, by the way
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Yeah, I forgot to ask your name, my name's Ali, by the way
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Yeah, so basically, when we pray, we say, like,
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That means we seek refuge from the Satan, from the devil
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And we seek refuge in Allah from the cursed Satan, yeah?
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Yeah, we say عَوْضُ بِاللَّهِ مِنَ الشَّيْطَانِ الرَّجِيمِ
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Allah, the most merciful, the very merciful, yeah?
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All praises belong to the Lord of the whole world, yeah?
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So we believe he's the owner of the Day of Judgment
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That one day we're going to be questioned by God?
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Exactly, somewhere, someday you're going to, you know, you're going to go to the next life
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He's going to ask you what you did, he's not going to ask you, he's going to tell you what you did for the humans
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The other you did, you know, for being a better person, better father, better...
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So remember when you said you were doing meditation
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As-sirat al-lazina an-amta alayhim ghayri al-maktoubi alayhim wala al-daaleen
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The path of those you've bestowed your blessing on
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So we ask God Almighty to make us among those who worship Him and Him alone
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, you need to charge them, this is not free
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Have you, have you, have you, so you believe in God Almighty?
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Do you believe, you don't believe God is like a man, yeah?
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It's something bigger than the, you know, all the galaxies
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And I guess those are different points of views
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I'm not saying mine is correct, yours is correct
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It's, I guess the only common sense that every single religion has to get is
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Be good with yourself and be good with the world
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And do the best that you can do for you and for the, for around all the, all the people that is around you
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Okay, so what's your take on Mary, the mother of Jesus? That you see her as a divine being? That you worship to her?
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Right, so I believe in that because my Catholic religion is, they teach you that and I believe in that
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Maybe it's grown, maybe the history, they change it, but that's what I think, that's what I, you know
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I respect that, but logically, do you think it makes sense that God has a mother?
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Like, do you, like, I respect, obviously you can be a Catholic, I'm just trying to question
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Every, like I told you, every single religion is similar, different, a big difference
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For example, the Christians, they don't believe in Maria, right?
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Okay, so, why don't you give the Quran a chance, like, why don't you read it one day, you know?
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Because at the end of the day, you know, you're here for, you got one life
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Eventually, God's going to ask you, there is a lot of religions, okay, but one must be the truth
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And as Muslims, we believe in Jesus, we believe in His miraculous birth
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There's a whole chapter in the Quran called Surah Maryam
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Yeah, so the issue is, what we're just saying is, is that you should look into it because God's going to question you and say, look, this was the right path, whatever it may be, and you should look into it
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So I would personally say to you, obviously, I know you're working, I don't want to hold you too much
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I don't like this, but, you know, at the end, I guess, at the end, I guess, he don't got a religion
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He got just, like, he don't say which one is the correct one, because everyone is going to say this is the correct one
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The judge, the Catholics, everyone says this is the correct way
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Yes, but, everyone can say that, but there must be one that must be the truth
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Like with me, I looked into Christianity, I looked into Judaism, I became a Muslim, five, six years ago, yeah?
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One thing I'll leave you with is, give the Quran a chance
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If you ask God for guidance, He will guide you, you know?
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Can you do me a favour and just do what you did with that knife?
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This is not a good idea, because we're talking about a religion
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And now, you're asking me to put this on your face!