Ali Dawah - May 24, 2022


REMINDER TO LIVERPOOL’S HIJABI MODEL

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Ali Dawah
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Halima Aydin Armani Wallahi Louis Vuitton Idris Elba Versace Billah Vogue
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Length

9 minutes

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228.25

Word count

2,080

Sentence count

143

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Misogyny

5

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Toxicity

6

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Hate speech

8

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In this episode, I talk about the recent photo shoot of a Somali model, Halima Aydin, who has been in the industry for a few years now, and the mistakes she has made along the way. I also give some advice to other Somali sisters in the fashion industry.

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00:00:47.640 you guys are well inshaAllah.
00:00:48.540 If you guys remember about one or two years ago I'd done a video about Halima Aydan who
00:00:53.580 was a Somali model, you know, who'd done many shoots for many different fashion magazines,
00:01:00.120 whatever it may be.
00:01:01.480 And she talked about her compromising, how she was made to compromise her hijab and made 0.98
00:01:06.020 it feel like absolute crap basically. 0.94
00:01:07.020 And she regretted that. 0.88
00:01:08.560 Now, this video is basically about a sister.
00:01:11.560 I think it's a Yemeni sister, may Allah bless her inshaAllah, that basically she's done 1.00
00:01:17.440 a photo shoot for, I think it's Liverpool, if I'm not mistaken, if it's Liverpool Football
00:01:21.100 Club or something along those lines, I'm not really sure.
00:01:23.020 And basically, the reason I'm doing this video, I just want to make some clarification.
00:01:26.980 I'm not here to have a go at her.
00:01:28.060 I'm just trying to give advice to any sister who's in the industry of modelling because I
00:01:32.820 do know, from what I hear, that sisters, girls, they're into this whole modelling thing. 0.99
00:01:38.140 I don't know what it is.
00:01:39.620 I don't know.
00:01:40.120 They even maybe brag to each other, like, you know, I'm doing modelling, etc.
00:01:43.080 I don't know why.
00:01:44.040 I don't know why that's seen as a yardstick of success.
00:01:47.620 But I'm just doing this video just to give an advice, just from the mistakes sister
00:01:50.540 Halima Aydin done as well, so for my dear sister as well here, because I just saw this
00:01:56.040 randomly on Instagram, and this was one of the comments that I saw, which is basically
00:01:59.720 one of her friends, you know, congratulating it.
00:02:02.040 She was like, okay, good morning to those on the other side of the globe, and good afternoon
00:02:05.920 to us, and good evening, night, if you are on the other side of the globe.
00:02:10.540 So this morning, I woke up to the most beautiful thing to see on social media, and that is,
00:02:15.180 sister, making huge moves.
00:02:17.540 To all my Yemenis, Yemeniat, can we all please share her video and post it everywhere, and
00:02:22.760 be gassed that it's one of our own doing this, and it's my sister's name, I am rooting for
00:02:28.280 you and cannot wait to see you go further and absolutely smash it.
00:02:31.100 Okay, there's a few things I just want to touch upon, because it's very important, because
00:02:34.640 from this note, I understand, and in the photo shoot, she wasn't doing anything, I would
00:02:40.560 say impermissible per se, yeah, there might be some kind of free mixing, etc.
00:02:44.360 But from what I say, like, obviously, we assume the best, and it wasn't that she was addressed
00:02:48.260 inappropriately, or there was nothing there.
00:02:50.940 I'm just trying to make this as a bigger picture.
00:02:53.000 I'm not here to necessarily have a go at her for that.
00:02:55.800 I'm just generally saying, let's look at the bigger picture, guys, yeah?
00:02:57.940 Here is that, and we see this a lot, it's not just with the Yemenis, it's like Somalis, 0.99
00:03:01.320 be it the Kurds, be it the Turks, be it the Arabs. 0.53
00:03:04.040 There's, like, this thing of, you know, when we see someone, like, for example, I think
00:03:07.900 it was Idris Elba, I think it was Elba, I don't know what his name is, he was married
00:03:10.760 to a Somali, and it's like, and the Somali community was celebrating this, and it's like,
00:03:15.100 that's a kufar, if I'm not mistaken, if I'm not mistaken, what is there to celebrate?
00:03:18.500 I don't understand.
00:03:19.480 Like, and the same we would do in our community, if there's somebody who's doing something,
00:03:23.780 and we praise it based on worldly affairs, and I'm thinking, what is there to be gassed
00:03:27.860 about?
00:03:28.040 Why do we feel so inferior, that we have to feel as if, if Nike came to me, and I was
00:03:33.440 like, oh my gosh, Nike, oh my gosh, who cares?
00:03:35.900 Who cares?
00:03:36.760 Like, this goes for brothers as well, who do things where they're modelling with girls,
00:03:40.520 and whatever, et cetera, it may be.
00:03:42.420 Why?
00:03:42.840 Because it's Nike, or it's Armani.
00:03:44.240 Why do we get so fixated, and so hyped, and gassed about these brands?
00:03:49.080 Who cares?
00:03:49.720 Do you think in the sight of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, Nike, Armani, Versace, Louis Vuitton, 1.00
00:03:54.600 mean anything?
00:03:56.020 Why are we doing this?
00:03:57.000 We need to ask ourselves these questions, okay?
00:03:59.120 Are we doing it so we can gasp, brag, oh, look, you see me on Louis Vuitton, oh, you
00:04:02.400 see me on Vogue magazine, oh, you see, what the hell is this?
00:04:05.940 A'udhu Billah.
00:04:06.960 Once again, I am not having a go at the sister.
00:04:09.420 I'm looking at a bigger picture.
00:04:10.280 Please, I want to make this very clear.
00:04:11.720 I'm just saying, when we look at sister Halima Aydin's story, look, we can read it
00:04:15.520 for ourself, yeah?
00:04:16.740 My mum asked me to quit modelling a long time ago.
00:04:19.360 I wish I wasn't so defensive.
00:04:21.700 Sis was literally the only person who had the purest intention for me. 0.88
00:04:25.820 The advice she gave me was deen over dunya, and her stance has never, ever changed, okay?
00:04:30.780 This is somebody who was a model.
00:04:32.400 He was a model.
00:04:33.500 He was giving this advice.
00:04:34.320 So I'm giving advice to my dear sister who are watching this.
00:04:36.500 Wallahi, you guys have so much more to offer the world rather than just your beauty, yeah?
00:04:40.520 You have so much more to offer.
00:04:41.820 And not only that, when you go to these industries, shaytan has a plan.
00:04:45.600 And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says, do not follow the footsteps of shaytan. 0.98
00:04:48.400 Because what happens is, is that it's going to be, is that it's going to come with a simple,
00:04:52.700 mere, just photo shoot for Liverpool, or whatever it may be.
00:04:55.140 And then from there, what happens is, you're going to go down the spiral route, what sister Aydin went through.
00:05:00.220 Okay, look at this picture with her jeans on her head. 1.00
00:05:01.780 She's saying, find your style.
00:05:03.340 And she goes, but this wasn't even my style.
00:05:05.000 I never was.
00:05:05.480 Why did I allow them to put jeans on my head, when at the time I had only worn skirt and long dresses?
00:05:11.280 She's saying, jeans is not something I used to wear, like, on my, as trousers.
00:05:16.140 Let alone putting it on my hair, yeah?
00:05:18.220 And this one, she goes, look, I went back to my hotel room and just sobbed after this shot.
00:05:23.140 Because deep down, I knew this wasn't, this wasn't it.
00:05:26.180 But I was too scared to speak up.
00:05:27.880 Also, a very common struggle when you are the first to do something.
00:05:30.880 Like, what was that hideous green grass thing on my head, yeah?
00:05:34.380 And this one, again, I had to delete this off my page because, honestly, this wasn't representation.
00:05:40.140 This was mockery.
00:05:41.100 And I am so sorry, I was too young and naive to see it back then.
00:05:45.300 But at the same time, I justified it because, look, it's Vogue Arabia.
00:05:49.180 But wrong is wrong, no matter how hard you can try to convince it.
00:05:52.000 This is from your elder sister.
00:05:53.700 Sister, from this sister, Halima Aydin, to my dear sisters, whoever's watching it, who's in the modeling, yeah?
00:06:00.220 Do not make these mistakes, my dear sisters.
00:06:02.240 Don't go down this route.
00:06:03.340 But wallahi, you will regret it.
00:06:05.220 And like I said, again, this sister didn't necessarily do something really bad, you know,
00:06:09.440 except that it's free mixing, etc.
00:06:10.920 But other than that, the point I'm trying to make is, this is a sister who's in the industry,
00:06:14.460 and she's telling you, this industry do not give a damn about you.
00:06:17.780 They are there to take and take and take.
00:06:19.980 That's all they want from you.
00:06:20.900 And if they're going to compromise your religion, if you feel yourself going to these photo shoots,
00:06:24.940 be you a brother or sister, and you start noticing for yourself that you are compromising in your deen,
00:06:30.500 in the context of salah time comes, you're even missing salah.
00:06:33.480 Why?
00:06:33.700 Because Nike manager said, I'm sorry, yeah, you got a lot of photo shoots.
00:06:36.460 Can you do this prayer after?
00:06:38.420 Wallahi, that is the most dangerous thing ever.
00:06:40.540 Can you imagine you are missing your salah?
00:06:42.340 Why?
00:06:42.840 Because you deem Nike to be like, oh my gosh, Armani, how can I say to Armani, the manager of Armani,
00:06:48.460 you know, I need to pray.
00:06:49.620 I know.
00:06:50.100 So, if you feel this inside your heart, wallahi, there should be big alarm bells.
00:06:55.000 If you say no to these big names, and not at the cost of your religion,
00:06:59.580 and once again, I'm not seeing the sister compromise a religion.
00:07:02.840 Just trying to make a point here.
00:07:05.060 Wallahi, turn your back.
00:07:07.340 Turn your back.
00:07:07.960 Uqsun billah.
00:07:08.700 If the biggest brand came to me and told me, I want to do this, etc.
00:07:12.740 Like, if it was something permissible, I would say, okay, no problem.
00:07:15.380 It's fine.
00:07:15.960 But if I realize it's something which goes against my religion,
00:07:18.640 and all that, I'll say, you know what?
00:07:20.580 Bye-bye.
00:07:20.960 I don't care if they gave me a million pound check.
00:07:23.580 Our religion, our deen, our Allah.
00:07:25.400 Us proving we should be hyped and gassed.
00:07:27.880 The way this sister is being promoted, like saying, oh, for all the emanations we're presenting,
00:07:31.960 no, we should be proud of this sister for observing the hijab.
00:07:36.080 You know, I've said it once, and I'll say it again here,
00:07:39.660 don't change yourself, change the game.
00:07:42.180 If anything, I want the girls to know Halima took one for the team. 0.74
00:07:45.600 You know, I sacrificed my career so that they could feel comfortable to speak up in any setting.
00:07:51.640 I should be like, you know what?
00:07:52.940 This is our Yemeni sister who is wearing the hijab for the sake of Allah.
00:07:56.360 That's where we should bigger up.
00:07:57.480 And we should bigger up further to saying that her journey with the hijab or whatever,
00:08:00.680 getting close to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala,
00:08:02.180 should be the focus point that I hope she gets better at that. 0.79
00:08:05.220 Instead of saying, you know what?
00:08:06.320 I hope she, you know, like, you know, I'm rooting for you
00:08:09.420 and cannot wait to see you go further and absolutely smash it.
00:08:11.640 And this person who wrote that, I understand where she's coming from.
00:08:14.360 I'm not going to go at them.
00:08:15.300 Yeah, I would say, you know what? 0.94
00:08:16.660 I hope she smashes it with her deen. 1.00
00:08:18.240 I hope she smashes it when it comes to their connection with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. 0.98
00:08:21.240 And I'm not seeing she's not doing it anyways.
00:08:22.960 What I'm seeing is, why don't we use that when it comes to Islam? 1.00
00:08:25.740 Why is it, why do we not look for recognition with Allah?
00:08:28.540 That's all I'm seeing, brothers and sisters.
00:08:29.960 And I'll just end with a verse in the Quran where Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says,
00:08:33.620 The worldly life is nothing but an illusionary enjoyment.
00:08:37.080 Brothers and sisters, do not be deluded with this life.
00:08:39.260 May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala keep us firm and focus
00:08:41.280 and allow us to smash it with our Lord and the hereafter, inshallah.
00:08:45.800 May Allah bless this sister once again.
00:08:47.620 I have really, really, I'm not here to have a go at her.
00:08:49.880 And I'm not just saying this because of, you know, whatever reason.
00:08:52.740 I'm saying it because I didn't necessarily see you doing anything particularly wrong.
00:08:56.080 But yeah, please, my dear sisters, genuinely to find your true value
00:08:59.680 with your identity of Islam as a Muslim woman.
00:09:02.680 And the same goes for the brothers as well.
00:09:04.160 Till next time, assalamualaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh.