Ali Dawah - December 06, 2019NEARLY GOING MAD AT HER THEN I REALISED - SPEAKERS CORNER
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Summary
Jummah Kutbahaykah on Dawah in the speaker's corner. Is it a good or bad thing? What are the pros and cons of having a speaker in the corner? What is the role of a speaker and what does it mean to be a good one?
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And about benefits and the pros and cons, if you like, of the Dawah in Speaker's Corner.
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Now, obviously, this is somewhat of a subjective discussion, right?
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Some people say that it's more negative, some say that it's more positive.
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Generally, would you acknowledge, bro, that there is an issue underlying there,
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which is that Muslims, generally speaking, are not adopting what you're saying,
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which is good characteristics and good mannerisms in conveying the message there?
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Look, the thing is, what happens is, look, there's pros and cons.
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I believe generally that the pros outweigh it because it's globally watched.
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And a lot of the times, people, yes, they hear the arguments, et cetera.
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They use these arguments and apply it in their Dawah as well.
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But what we forget is that, yes, you're empowering the Muslims, et cetera.
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But is that going to come at the cost of, okay, you're preserving, yeah?
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But it's important that, for example, while you're doing that, you're preserving the Muslims,
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When you go into the speaker's corner, you see, it's like Transformers.
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The thing is, is that what I've realized as As-Salaam, our organization, the reason why
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we call it sharing affection, love, and mercy is that because we want to change that, man.
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So, we, our, you know, our philosophy, you can say, is let people see Islam.
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And this is one of the biggest things that is lacking.
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And a lot of brothers in the park, because they come across people that are arrogant or
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have an ego, whatever it may be, what they do is they transform into, they're catering
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Now, Allah says in the Quran, repel evil with good.
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Sometimes, okay, you need to repel evil with evil sometimes, yeah?
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Obviously, but the best is Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala tells us.
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But like, for example, like a person like David Wood, he needs somebody like Hijab.
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Well, here's the thing, on that point, but I think it's just to, just, sorry about cutting
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you, because I think what you're saying is important.
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So, there may be a certain time where you have to adopt a certain approach in speaking
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See, that's why when Hijab was having that discussion, before the debate, for example,
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We said to him, and he knows himself, that he even said it when he was having a debate.
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Because this person is somebody that mocks the deen, lies about the prophet, insults
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So, I believe anybody coming and saying to Hijab, he was arrogant, I totally disagree.
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There's Christians that look at the, what's his name?
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Because it's unfortunate that here's an individual that's supposedly following the Christian
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tradition, yet comes across in such a nasty and derogatory way towards human beings.
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There's Christians out there that recognize this and actually.
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But I think another point to clarify here is, bro.
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The issue that happens is, someone maybe saw Hijab, and it's good that he clarified
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Someone may see a debate like that, or another debate in Speaker's Corner, where the Muslim
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There should be no excuse for having bad manners and bad traits.
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Obviously, at times, you can come across more assertive and more forceful, but still
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Now, but unfortunately, that doesn't happen in some cases.
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But what ends up happening sometimes is, someone, some young Muslim brother or sister
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is watching this debate online, and they think, okay, they take the points, but they also
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take the characteristics, and they apply it to John down the road, right?
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You know, that's why when I said, for example, when you're dealing with a specific person
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that's arrogant, and you're talking to him in that manner, what Speaker's Corner does
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Because you see, I've been watching some videos on the subconscious mind, yeah?
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Because subconsciously, what you're doing is you're programming yourself.
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Every Sunday, you're going there, and you're talking to this person.
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What's happening now is that you're carrying that.
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Not only, forget Dawah, you're taking that home.
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You're with the wife, and you're starting dropping some arguments.
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So that's the reason why you have to, like, have a detox.
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Sometimes I'll see a genuine person, and I'll look at the prophet, and the prophet says,
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I'm like, look, man, you're not speaking to David Wood.
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I'm like, you're actually ruining what you're doing.
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Sometimes we need to understand this causes damage.
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This arrogant behavior, you know, look, the Dawah is bigger than your ego.
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If you feel like, oh, they offended me, and I need to put them in their place,
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you have some problems in your head, you know, and sometimes I'll fall for that.
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But the thing is, spot the weaknesses and try to work on it.
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I try my best to, sometimes I was having a discussion with one lady, yes, and I was
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Before that, her friend came who was insulting the prophet, literally insulting the prophet.
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And I didn't drop to a level, I just turned my back to her, yeah?
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I'm sorry because she was insulting the prophet, yeah?
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Now, what I did is, I thought, okay, they're together.
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And then through it, I couldn't even show you the video.
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And then I stopped and I said, madam, can you give me a second?
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I had to detox in the moment because I had to just, okay, this is not her.
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I had to, you know, take, you know, transform myself.
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Because what happens is you can get caught up easily.
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You know, subconscious mind can say to you, no, no, no, no.
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This was a person and it was sad because she said that her dad abused her.
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You know, and I thought to myself, subhanAllah, imagine if I came down like, no, no, no, no,