Ali Dawah - April 18, 2024


SH UTHMAN WAS ABOUT TO GET SH0T!! - MEXICO


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26 minutes

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4,401

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326

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Misogyny

6

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10

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32

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Jummah Kutbah on Umar bin Khattab and his plan to kill Shaykh Uthman Farooq and how he got his revenge. The story of how they both came to Islam and how they fought each other in the battle of Hudaybiyyah.

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00:00:00.000 He was in an opposite gang, I was in the opposite gang, so he was from one cartel and I was from the other cartel.
00:00:06.720 He and him got into it at a time when he would be carrying a gun looking to kill me personally and of course we were trying to kill them.
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00:00:47.180 As-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh, brothers and sisters and dear friends.
00:00:49.960 This video was sent to me by Shaykh Uthman Farooq. May Allah bless and preserve him for his fireworks that he's doing around the world.
00:00:55.000 And the enemies of Islam who are dying in their rage, biting their fingers out of rage.
00:00:58.600 With all the shahadahs, people come to Islam with the permission of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and all praises, glory and gratitude belong to him.
00:01:03.940 In this video of brothers and sisters subhanahu wa ta'ala, somebody who was going to try to kill brother Shaykh Uthman Farooq in Jahiliyyah.
00:01:10.120 Or he was going to end up killing this brother subhanahu wa ta'ala.
00:01:12.600 And they both came to Islam.
00:01:14.300 Look at this beautiful story.
00:01:15.680 You know what it reminds me of brothers and sisters.
00:01:16.920 And wallahi it just shows you that the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, he prophesized and it is haq.
00:01:22.740 It reminds me of Suhail ibn Amr radiya Allah and Umar ibn Khattab.
00:01:27.020 Umar ibn Khattab wanted to kill Suhail ibn Amr with the stuff that he was taking as the Prophet peace be upon him.
00:01:32.340 When he locked up Abu Jandal and when he ran in the battle of trade of Hudaybiyyah and he took him back and he was torturing him subhanahu wa ta'ala.
00:01:38.380 He wanted to, he was boiling his blood.
00:01:41.860 And what did the Prophet Muhammad peace be upon him said?
00:01:44.720 And Umar ibn Khattab said, I will grab his, like take his teeth, the front of his teeth or you know it comes out.
00:01:50.500 He's literally saying that.
00:01:51.840 He's like, I wish I could do that.
00:01:53.200 Look at what the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said and look at the story between Uthman and Prophet Richard subhanallah who's come to Islam.
00:01:58.960 And look at how emotional it is and he cries.
00:02:01.240 Why?
00:02:01.580 Because the Prophet peace be upon him said what?
00:02:03.360 And this shows his prophethood. 0.68
00:02:05.580 This is why the enemies of Islam and Christians specifically, enemies of Islam of course, the hate to Islam ones. 0.98
00:02:09.900 Yeah? 0.90
00:02:10.140 Because no other Christians are the same like Allah says in the Quran, laysu, sawa'a. 0.99
00:02:12.940 Yeah?
00:02:13.520 Which is what?
00:02:14.260 But how did he know?
00:02:16.400 The Prophet peace be upon him told Umar ibn Khattab.
00:02:18.620 Oh Umar, don't say that.
00:02:21.000 For verily a day would come and he may say something that will make you happy or you're going to be pleased with.
00:02:27.920 And that was fulfilled in the wars of Riddah. 0.73
00:02:31.880 The apostasy.
00:02:32.880 Yes?
00:02:33.320 The wars and apostasy.
00:02:34.300 Yeah?
00:02:35.140 And what did Umar ibn Khattab say?
00:02:37.080 When the Quraysh, some of them they came to Islam, but after, what happened? 0.79
00:02:41.100 They were starting to apostatize.
00:02:42.320 Yes?
00:02:43.060 After some of them.
00:02:44.320 At the time of Abu Bakr radiallahu alayhi wa ta'ala, when he was ruling.
00:02:46.380 And what happened?
00:02:47.540 He said, and stood up, he said,
00:02:49.500 O Quraysh, do not be the last to accept Islam and the first to leave.
00:02:55.780 La ilaha illallah.
00:02:57.220 And this is, they say, in the seerah they say that this speech that Suhaib gave,
00:03:02.820 he was known for that, is what kept things stable, alhamdulillah, with the permission of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
00:03:07.900 And indeed Umar ibn Khattab saw the prophecy fulfilled.
00:03:11.280 So, here's the video of Shaykh Uthman Farooq and the story of Richard.
00:03:14.340 That's what I'm going to do.
00:03:14.960 I'm not going to be coming back, inshallah.
00:03:16.660 Just watch it for yourself, brothers and sisters.
00:03:18.320 The full video is on Shaykh Uthman Farooq's channel.
00:03:21.060 Brothers and sisters, that's all I'm going to say.
00:03:22.740 Subhanallah, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala guides.
00:03:24.440 Look at these two hostile gang members wanting to kill each other.
00:03:28.180 And look how the story takes a twist, subhanallah, and how they come back to do da'wah.
00:03:33.620 They both set out to kill each other.
00:03:36.040 Now they are both set out for the sake of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. 0.96
00:03:38.100 What a beautiful story of Shaykh Uthman Farooq and Richard.
00:03:40.360 Let's watch it for ourselves, inshallah.
00:03:41.540 May Allah bless and preserve you guys.
00:03:42.680 Assalamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh.
00:03:44.680 We're also live on TikTok, so check the TikTok link.
00:03:49.580 And inshallah, we're going to have live on YouTube as well.
00:03:52.120 We're here in Tijuana, Mexico.
00:03:54.100 Richard, my hermano, is here.
00:03:55.520 Sa'ud is here.
00:03:56.800 Shaykh Uthman Karar, the king of El Cajon, is here.
00:04:00.160 Yusuf is here with me.
00:04:01.380 We've got some other brothers, mashallah.
00:04:03.100 For those watching live, we've got a real treat because me and my hermano here, we have a lot of history.
00:04:09.560 We're going to talk about it a little bit.
00:04:11.080 We're going to talk about his history a little bit more than mine because you already know who I am, right?
00:04:16.160 But this is something that, it still till today amazes me how Allah guides people and how people end up where...
00:04:26.220 Poor dogs.
00:04:29.220 So, me and Richard go way back because when I was raised in the U.S. or San Diego, as many of you know,
00:04:40.840 was in the not the best neighborhoods and not the best environment.
00:04:45.260 So, we got caught up in some gangs ourselves.
00:04:48.620 And subhanallah, Richard was from my enemy gang.
00:04:52.780 So, we were from the east side and east clan or east San Diego.
00:04:57.400 They were from southeast.
00:04:58.640 So, southeast kings or southeast clan.
00:05:02.060 And used to write listo, right?
00:05:04.080 Lento.
00:05:04.720 Lento.
00:05:05.360 Yeah, Lento.
00:05:05.960 So, I used to write Loke or Shooter from east side, Loke from A.E.K.
00:05:10.820 So, we were from enemy gangs.
00:05:12.220 And there were times, subhanallah, that, I mean, us and them got into it.
00:05:17.520 And me and him got into it at a time when he would be carrying a gun, looking to kill me personally. 0.93
00:05:23.940 And, of course, we were trying to kill them.
00:05:26.380 And many people did die in the middle of that.
00:05:28.760 People from our side, people from their side got shot, that got killed, that got stabbed, that got jumped.
00:05:35.000 I know I was jumped by them before.
00:05:36.920 And, you know, some of, was it Choke, one of your guys?
00:05:40.720 Me and him got into it once at a rave.
00:05:43.760 And, you know, as a score, we kidnapped him one time.
00:05:48.400 And, I know, yeah.
00:05:51.220 And, of course, we had a lot of our guys that got killed, you know, Hench and others that are.
00:05:57.180 But, that's such a crazy thing that from a time where we were on enemy sides trying to kill each other.
00:06:04.460 So, today, there were brothers in Islam, alhamdulillah, here.
00:06:08.140 So, tell us about your life a little bit before Islam. 0.95
00:06:11.060 I mean, how were you raised?
00:06:12.360 Were you raised around the barrio, cartels?
00:06:15.260 Or were you raised in nice white neighborhoods playing soccer?
00:06:18.540 Yeah, bro.
00:06:19.560 Moved to San Diego.
00:06:22.040 Grew up in Logan Heights.
00:06:23.880 Right there, Logan Heights, 30 Red Steps.
00:06:27.180 And, um, got involved at a really, really, really early age with, um, with the cartel life.
00:06:41.340 Like, you know, everybody else that gets involved.
00:06:43.680 You get involved in human trafficking, drug trafficking, gun trafficking, murder, kidnapping, extortion.
00:06:51.060 And, for me and for my family, that was, that was normal, like normal business, you know.
00:06:59.340 So, um, my mom got tired of all that.
00:07:03.380 She, you know, decided to be a Christian.
00:07:06.920 And, um, me and my mom used to give dawah.
00:07:12.520 But the Christian dawah. 0.97
00:07:14.060 I don't know if you remember that one brother at the Four Corners with the picture of Jesus upside down.
00:07:18.480 Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:07:18.640 Muhammad Abdullah.
00:07:19.760 Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:07:20.140 My mom and that brother would always go at it. 0.99
00:07:23.500 That was the first time ever in my life I was, um...
00:07:26.680 No K-word, no M-word.
00:07:28.860 Yeah, I was, I was, I was introduced to, to Islam.
00:07:32.800 Because my mom would always go out there and debate with that brother. 0.97
00:07:36.620 We're gonna go this way.
00:07:37.640 So, um, grew, always grew up in a, in a Catholic, um, born Catholic.
00:07:45.680 How's the audio?
00:07:46.520 Raised Christians through my mom.
00:07:50.140 Um, you know, like I said, me and my mom, we used to go to Logan Heights and give dawah.
00:07:58.520 But even, like, giving the dawah, you know, like, it never made sense, you know, about,
00:08:07.640 you know, Jesus being the begotten Son of God or being God Himself, you know, because,
00:08:13.980 you know, even going to church, you know, you, I listened, you know, so what, what they
00:08:19.360 were preaching wasn't the same as what I was reading in the Bible, especially not the
00:08:25.120 same as the Ten Commandments.
00:08:27.540 So, um, pretty much my mom told me, you know, either you accept Jesus or you leave.
00:08:34.580 So, um, so at the time, I think I was probably like 13, 14, and that's when I went full on
00:08:40.140 with the gangs, the cartels, um, started off as a graffiti artist, and right there, it came
00:08:49.220 down to a point where, where you had to click up, you had to click up with a gang, and every
00:08:54.600 gang was associated with a cartel.
00:08:56.340 So, um, he was in an opposite gang, I was in the opposite gang, so he was from one cartel,
00:09:02.900 and I was from the other cartel.
00:09:05.440 And, um, so pretty much, because I didn't accept Jesus as my Lord and Savior, I was pretty
00:09:11.660 much, my mom kicked me out, so I was just roaming the streets.
00:09:14.080 Um, at a really early age, I started, you know, trafficking, making a lot of money, getting
00:09:21.220 into a lot of trouble.
00:09:23.860 Um, oh, man.
00:09:29.060 I get emotional every time I speak about...
00:09:32.480 That's good, man, it's gonna, this is the kind of stuff that people hear, they can change
00:09:35.900 their lives.
00:09:36.760 We got a brother here tonight, we're gonna meet, who was involved in the same stuff,
00:09:40.620 just from watching my video about my life, he became Muslim.
00:09:43.500 Oh, man.
00:09:44.000 So, I mean, there, there's a lot that I wanna say now, but I think we'll probably save it
00:09:47.900 for, so once we get to the massacre, so we don't get cut off.
00:09:51.920 But, yeah, like I said, I was probably like 14 when I left my house, my mom kicked me out
00:09:56.500 because I didn't wanna follow Jesus, so I decided to, you know, live on my own.
00:10:01.180 I was homeless in the streets for a while, doing graffiti, gang-banging, robbing people,
00:10:07.720 human trafficking, you know.
00:10:12.340 And in that course, you know, like, you know, like Brother Usman said, we're from, from rival
00:10:18.020 gangs, you know.
00:10:20.600 Um, so my story with Brother Usman goes way, way back.
00:10:31.040 I don't think I even told him this one, you know.
00:10:34.620 I didn't know for a long time who he even was.
00:10:36.660 We were Muslim, giving da'wah, and I didn't even know that he was the same guy that, you
00:10:42.900 know, we were on the opposite ends with.
00:10:45.340 I used to live on, right there on 44th and Landis, which was on East Side.
00:10:49.960 Being from Southeast.
00:10:51.040 What were you doing in our hood, man?
00:10:52.120 I lived in East Side because my mom lived in East Side, and I was just, you know, roaming
00:10:56.260 around, mainly spent my time in Southeast.
00:10:58.380 My apologies.
00:11:00.500 You know.
00:11:01.440 And, uh, my first time that I ran into the Brother was, um, actually on, on 44th and Landis.
00:11:09.880 Um, this one Chola lady from East Side Locos decided to go stab my wife in the back with 1.00
00:11:17.840 a pencil because at that time we were, um, doing a hustle and my wife, she was like my, 0.88
00:11:22.580 my secretary.
00:11:23.400 So, she comes out, wife gets stabbed in the back, I come back, beat the hell out of the 0.78
00:11:30.720 lady, mopped the street with her, and her two sons came. 0.55
00:11:35.260 One was from East Side Locos, the other was from A.E.K.
00:11:38.660 Same thing, mopped the street with the bottle, you know.
00:11:42.280 And I was signing, you know, days later, whatever, same, you know, because of the problem.
00:11:47.340 I remember, uh, one of the homeboys that we used to know back in the day, we used to do
00:11:51.280 business when, um, he shows up on this lowrider.
00:11:55.340 And, uh, all of a sudden I remember this little, because I always, when I was looking for him,
00:12:01.240 I always spoke about him as like that Somali, Mexican looking guy, you know, because he doesn't 1.00
00:12:08.040 really look Somali, not Mexican, I didn't know he was, you know, from where he was from.
00:12:13.380 So, that same day, the brother gets off the car, saying about, wow, wow, wow.
00:12:21.280 What's up, low KK, this and that.
00:12:25.420 And, like he said, you know, he always had that 357, you know.
00:12:30.560 And I had my .45.
00:12:33.140 So, and he doesn't even know this.
00:12:36.000 If it wasn't for my mom that stopped me, we actually would have got into a shootout.
00:12:40.660 Yeah.
00:12:41.160 Right there on 44th and Landis.
00:12:43.840 SubhanAllah, can you imagine how Allah arrived to Qadr, you know. 0.77
00:12:47.200 That day he had a gun, I had a gun.
00:12:50.380 Maybe one of us or both of us.
00:12:52.120 Take it.
00:12:52.580 Oh, be at it, Inshallah.
00:12:54.740 Okay.
00:12:56.520 Yeah, but it was like, you know, like I was saying, you know, that it was that, that one day,
00:13:01.200 you know, that my mother stopped me, said, like, Richie, Richie.
00:13:04.280 No, I was like, Mom, they just stabbed my wife, you know.
00:13:08.220 It's like, and that was the last time, alhamdulillah, was the last time I ever saw Brother Usman.
00:13:15.280 Alhamdulillah.
00:13:16.000 You know, then after that, you know, a lot of things happened in my life.
00:13:20.040 I was always in some kind of a spiritual journey.
00:13:25.600 Okay.
00:13:26.100 I was always on, always.
00:13:27.540 The music's not from us, all right?
00:13:28.780 You know, playing in the neighborhood.
00:13:29.960 We don't own the rights to that music either.
00:13:39.540 So, like I said, you know, alhamdulillah, that me and my brother, our paths didn't cross.
00:13:46.060 Because Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala had a better plan for us. 0.99
00:13:50.040 And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is the best of planters, you know.
00:13:56.920 Until today, you know, I love each and every one of you for the sake of Allah.
00:14:02.240 Everybody, all of my brothers and sisters in Islam.
00:14:05.660 But there's a special place for my brother with me, you know.
00:14:12.620 Even when, before my mother passed away, you know, before she even accepted Islam.
00:14:20.040 I told her about my brother.
00:14:24.120 And she told me,
00:14:27.560 Mijo, stick with your brother.
00:14:31.700 Because God brought you guys back together.
00:14:34.420 Because he has a greater plan for you and him.
00:14:41.300 I'm sorry, brother.
00:14:42.420 Every time I talk about this, even when I'm by myself, when I'm reminded.
00:14:47.140 You know, it just fills my heart with so much love for Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala,
00:14:54.480 for all of you, for my brothers, for Islam.
00:14:58.100 You know, to me, it still amazes me, you know, that,
00:15:01.360 that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala 1.00
00:15:06.240 sent him and his journey, sent me on my journey,
00:15:12.740 and brought us back together at this time.
00:15:15.520 Why?
00:15:16.080 Only Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala knows.
00:15:17.920 But whatever it is, it's to benefit the,
00:15:20.260 the Ummah, to bring the Ummah back together. 0.95
00:15:23.960 You know, to, to prove that,
00:15:26.620 that you could be mortal enemies.
00:15:28.800 You know?
00:15:30.120 And, you know, it was through Islam.
00:15:32.440 You know, that now we're brothers, we're together,
00:15:34.720 and we're on the same mission, on the same purpose.
00:15:37.620 You know, which is to bring da'wah, 1.00
00:15:40.060 to bring Islam to these people right here.
00:15:41.980 There's a lot of people here that are in great need.
00:15:45.180 You know?
00:15:45.660 And just having Islam, being a Muslim, 1.00
00:15:50.100 it's like finding something that's so beneficial,
00:15:53.820 or be so selfish of us,
00:15:56.060 to keep it to us self and not share it with the community.
00:15:59.580 You know, it's like, it's something that's given to you,
00:16:03.440 so you can share and spread.
00:16:05.420 You know?
00:16:06.360 So that's, that's, that's one of the things
00:16:08.120 I'm so grateful to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala,
00:16:10.480 that, um, that he brought us back together.
00:16:15.320 Even though, before I took my shahada,
00:16:17.960 we had probably two run-ins.
00:16:21.460 The second time was at, uh,
00:16:25.760 the master, remember, the one that used to be a movie theater?
00:16:28.440 Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:16:29.640 That was the second time,
00:16:32.460 I think that was like around the second time
00:16:33.840 that I spoke to the brother.
00:16:36.440 I'm 99.9% sure that it was him.
00:16:41.300 You know?
00:16:41.980 And it was because, uh,
00:16:43.380 my younger brother had a Muslim friend,
00:16:48.140 and he, they were building a, um, a jewelry shop.
00:16:53.060 It was right, right in front of, uh,
00:16:54.280 where the master was.
00:16:56.300 So my little brother,
00:16:58.780 his friend,
00:16:59.900 was his homeboy.
00:17:02.480 You know?
00:17:03.440 And, uh, he, he drove a crown pick,
00:17:05.440 black on black.
00:17:06.080 Yeah, I remember that. 0.81
00:17:06.820 You know, and, uh,
00:17:08.120 so my brother told me,
00:17:10.360 hey, you know,
00:17:11.560 I know there's one brother,
00:17:13.680 and he's a Muslim,
00:17:15.720 and his friend used to be from AK.
00:17:18.540 I was like, what?
00:17:19.240 He's like, yeah.
00:17:20.300 Like, come on,
00:17:20.860 you want to go help me out?
00:17:21.920 He's like, yeah, yeah, let's go.
00:17:22.900 I'll help you out.
00:17:24.820 We'll go this side too, though.
00:17:26.760 Yeah.
00:17:28.200 So, um,
00:17:33.600 so my little brother tells me,
00:17:35.260 hey, bro,
00:17:35.540 I'm gonna go do some work
00:17:36.580 for some Muslim people over there.
00:17:38.480 I was like, for real?
00:17:39.560 It's like, let's go, let's go,
00:17:40.640 let's go, I'll go.
00:17:42.180 So I go over there,
00:17:43.960 and, um,
00:17:45.040 my little brother's doing his thing,
00:17:46.440 he's working,
00:17:47.800 and I'm doing the electrical.
00:17:50.400 And then, uh,
00:17:51.120 I was talking to some brothers right there.
00:17:54.260 You know, just,
00:17:54.860 they were giving me dawa,
00:17:55.860 we were talking,
00:17:56.580 and, you know,
00:17:57.620 I remember this mufti guy 1.00
00:18:00.160 coming this way with the little,
00:18:01.560 with the thing suited and booted,
00:18:03.300 you know?
00:18:04.240 He comes over,
00:18:05.200 we have a chat,
00:18:06.360 you know?
00:18:08.680 We didn't agree on many things,
00:18:11.200 you know?
00:18:12.760 That's the crazy part, though,
00:18:14.180 is that
00:18:14.500 I didn't actually put those
00:18:16.740 two and two together,
00:18:18.040 that you were the same guy
00:18:19.460 from SEK that,
00:18:21.060 I remember one time
00:18:22.000 we got into it,
00:18:23.140 I think Spore was there
00:18:24.280 and somebody else,
00:18:25.640 uh,
00:18:26.600 and I think you were there,
00:18:27.840 and
00:18:28.560 somebody got their head cracked
00:18:30.600 from there
00:18:31.120 and
00:18:32.060 that day
00:18:33.140 you had a gun,
00:18:33.960 I had a gun,
00:18:34.820 and
00:18:34.900 I mean,
00:18:35.780 subhanAllah,
00:18:36.400 I mean,
00:18:36.700 that close to being
00:18:38.260 dead.
00:18:39.680 But then like,
00:18:40.860 it was like 15,
00:18:41.600 20 years later
00:18:42.260 when I ran into you,
00:18:43.040 right?
00:18:43.180 Yeah,
00:18:43.500 15, 20 years later.
00:18:44.600 Then I saw you at the park
00:18:46.140 and I didn't know
00:18:47.800 that this was the same guy,
00:18:49.280 right?
00:18:50.080 So,
00:18:50.560 the videos are online,
00:18:51.540 you can see,
00:18:52.180 it was during the COVID time,
00:18:53.960 he's masked up
00:18:54.860 and he comes
00:18:55.480 and he asks a question,
00:18:56.560 we have this good conversation
00:18:57.800 and then,
00:18:59.260 alhamdulillah,
00:18:59.780 we speak again
00:19:00.560 and ends up,
00:19:02.840 subhanAllah,
00:19:03.420 he becomes Muslim,
00:19:04.500 you know?
00:19:04.760 and that's something amazing,
00:19:06.620 you know,
00:19:06.920 Allah,
00:19:07.420 subhanAllah,
00:19:07.880 guided him through all of that.
00:19:09.960 Now,
00:19:10.140 what's crazy
00:19:10.780 is that
00:19:12.140 his pasture,
00:19:14.480 you gotta tell that story.
00:19:16.800 Pastor Pepe.
00:19:17.880 Yeah,
00:19:18.240 Pepe,
00:19:18.580 what was his last name?
00:19:21.140 Gutierrez.
00:19:21.920 Gutierrez,
00:19:22.580 Pastor Gutierrez.
00:19:24.840 So,
00:19:25.080 Richard's not in church anymore.
00:19:27.120 So,
00:19:27.420 they ask,
00:19:27.840 where's Richard?
00:19:28.580 They're like,
00:19:28.960 oh,
00:19:29.140 he met this guy
00:19:29.900 at a park,
00:19:30.420 this Muslim guy
00:19:31.080 becomes Muslim.
00:19:32.680 So,
00:19:33.060 this pasture guy,
00:19:34.120 and again,
00:19:34.960 his mom was a very,
00:19:35.940 very practicing Christian
00:19:37.120 at the time.
00:19:39.080 You know,
00:19:39.680 so he's her pastor,
00:19:40.800 the family pastor.
00:19:42.040 He decides,
00:19:43.120 he's gonna come to
00:19:43.840 Balboa Park
00:19:44.560 and debate me,
00:19:45.840 you know?
00:19:46.580 And,
00:19:47.460 he made all kinds of,
00:19:48.300 you know,
00:19:48.480 he was like,
00:19:48.980 I can tear up 0.99
00:19:50.140 any Muslim in a debate. 0.99
00:19:51.620 I live in Saudi Arabia
00:19:52.820 and all this crazy stuff,
00:19:54.340 right?
00:19:55.100 So,
00:19:55.400 he comes out
00:19:56.060 and the videos are there
00:19:57.520 on the One Message Foundation channel.
00:19:59.840 Richard come in,
00:20:00.980 I think there's three videos
00:20:02.000 that came before the Shahada.
00:20:03.120 Those are online.
00:20:05.040 But then his old pastor
00:20:06.720 coming to debate,
00:20:08.800 those videos are online as well.
00:20:11.340 How's the town in the town?
00:20:12.960 Good?
00:20:14.340 I don't got a lot of dogs
00:20:15.280 barking in the background.
00:20:17.880 Yeah,
00:20:18.480 he was pretty mad.
00:20:21.120 I remember,
00:20:22.460 because I was,
00:20:23.820 I was in charge.
00:20:25.400 Moderator,
00:20:25.860 mute some people.
00:20:26.560 I was actually in charge
00:20:36.200 of distributing the food
00:20:37.720 and doing events
00:20:39.360 for the youth,
00:20:40.160 yeah,
00:20:40.440 in church.
00:20:42.060 You know,
00:20:42.480 and all of a sudden,
00:20:43.660 I just stopped going.
00:20:45.200 You know,
00:20:45.600 I went over there
00:20:46.400 and I had a conversation
00:20:48.000 with him.
00:20:48.460 I told him,
00:20:48.840 hey,
00:20:49.340 how come you're not coming?
00:20:50.560 And he's like,
00:20:51.000 no,
00:20:51.220 I'm Muslim now.
00:20:53.700 So we went back at it,
00:20:55.060 back and forth,
00:20:55.760 you know.
00:20:57.320 And he even spoke
00:20:59.380 to my mom.
00:21:01.120 And he told my mom
00:21:02.360 that,
00:21:02.840 I guess they thought
00:21:03.820 I was like Sufi
00:21:04.540 or something,
00:21:05.060 they said,
00:21:05.360 no,
00:21:05.600 no,
00:21:05.780 no,
00:21:05.900 no.
00:21:06.660 Because my mom
00:21:07.240 told me,
00:21:07.640 yeah,
00:21:07.900 you go like this
00:21:08.960 and you spin around
00:21:09.840 and you pray to Ali
00:21:10.880 and all these others
00:21:11.700 like,
00:21:11.980 no,
00:21:12.080 no,
00:21:12.220 no,
00:21:12.520 no,
00:21:12.680 no,
00:21:12.780 no.
00:21:15.840 Alhamdulillah.
00:21:16.920 Yeah,
00:21:17.160 so that's what
00:21:17.860 pretty ticked them off.
00:21:19.020 And I remember
00:21:19.620 he told me,
00:21:20.260 he said,
00:21:20.380 oh,
00:21:20.480 I go over there
00:21:21.300 and I debate 0.94
00:21:22.000 those Muslims 0.90
00:21:22.680 all the time.
00:21:24.400 I was like,
00:21:24.760 yeah,
00:21:25.020 for real,
00:21:25.460 oh,
00:21:25.760 yeah,
00:21:25.920 I'm going to be there
00:21:26.540 if you want to go
00:21:27.120 over there
00:21:27.300 and show up,
00:21:27.880 you know.
00:21:29.340 And yeah,
00:21:29.920 Alhamdulillah,
00:21:30.560 you know.
00:21:30.880 He showed up too,
00:21:31.580 he came
00:21:32.040 and videos online,
00:21:34.640 he got,
00:21:35.480 he got put on his face,
00:21:37.580 Alhamdulillah.
00:21:38.860 Don't fall apart,
00:21:39.900 very quickly.
00:21:41.720 Yeah,
00:21:42.160 and my mom,
00:21:43.100 she just stopped 1.00
00:21:43.580 going to that church.
00:21:44.440 I told him,
00:21:44.860 you know,
00:21:45.060 that pastor is,
00:21:46.540 he's no good.
00:21:47.500 from him coming
00:21:48.100 and debating,
00:21:49.780 it's not only
00:21:50.580 did Richard stay in Islam,
00:21:51.860 but his family
00:21:52.560 stopped going to that church.
00:21:53.640 His mother stopped
00:21:54.260 going to that church.
00:21:55.060 I have,
00:21:56.160 one of the most
00:21:56.720 beautiful things ever
00:21:57.820 was when Richard
00:21:59.780 came to the park
00:22:00.540 one day
00:22:00.860 to give da'wah with us. 0.75
00:22:02.540 And this is after
00:22:03.340 the pastor got defeated.
00:22:04.860 Watch that video.
00:22:08.280 Yeah.
00:22:09.900 On the TikTok
00:22:12.140 or on the YouTube?
00:22:13.120 On the YouTube.
00:22:13.540 I think YouTube
00:22:14.160 makes it happen.
00:22:17.660 You know what I mean?
00:22:18.560 Switch this up.
00:22:19.280 TikTok's fine.
00:22:20.520 TikTok's fine?
00:22:21.520 TikTok's fine.
00:22:24.560 So,
00:22:25.280 how's YouTube now?
00:22:26.840 Good?
00:22:28.440 Chat?
00:22:29.260 Post if the
00:22:30.220 sound is good or not.
00:22:32.120 So,
00:22:32.580 his mother
00:22:34.040 was a hardcore Christian
00:22:36.440 her whole life,
00:22:37.220 right?
00:22:37.380 like he said.
00:22:38.580 The pastor
00:22:39.120 came and debated
00:22:39.940 and subhanAllah
00:22:41.160 from his loss
00:22:42.180 and from
00:22:43.420 what he was doing,
00:22:44.520 his family
00:22:44.960 stopped going to that church.
00:22:45.940 His mother
00:22:46.240 got away from the church.
00:22:47.580 He gave da'wah 1.00
00:22:48.200 to his mother
00:22:48.760 subhanAllah.
00:22:50.500 Before her death,
00:22:51.640 she accepted Islam.
00:22:53.240 And the day
00:22:54.100 she passed,
00:22:56.040 he was coming
00:22:56.640 to the park
00:22:57.160 to give da'wah 1.00
00:22:57.820 and she told him,
00:22:59.040 Mijo,
00:22:59.800 go,
00:23:00.600 do your thing.
00:23:01.900 You know?
00:23:02.260 And he came out
00:23:03.120 and he was giving da'wah
00:23:04.220 at the park
00:23:05.580 when she passed away.
00:23:07.780 SubhanAllah.
00:23:08.900 May Allah
00:23:09.220 subhanAllah
00:23:09.700 give her
00:23:10.220 Jannat al-Firdaus al-Ala.
00:23:11.560 May Allah
00:23:11.900 forgive her
00:23:12.920 as somebody
00:23:13.380 who became Muslim
00:23:14.100 at the end of her life
00:23:15.160 and,
00:23:16.000 you know,
00:23:16.240 this is the biggest success.
00:23:18.340 You know?
00:23:19.360 Alhamdulillah.
00:23:20.840 Then we,
00:23:21.980 after all of this stuff,
00:23:24.440 me and him
00:23:24.800 were here in Tijuana
00:23:25.700 one time
00:23:26.200 to give da'wah. 0.98
00:23:27.220 We were sitting right there
00:23:28.280 and Richard's like,
00:23:29.600 you remember me, right?
00:23:30.960 And I'm like,
00:23:31.380 of course,
00:23:31.780 I met you at the park.
00:23:32.480 He goes,
00:23:32.780 no, no, no.
00:23:33.320 From before that.
00:23:34.920 You know?
00:23:35.140 And I was like,
00:23:36.740 I didn't know you before that.
00:23:38.220 And he's like,
00:23:38.580 yeah, dude.
00:23:39.460 You did.
00:23:40.640 You know?
00:23:40.920 I was lentil from S.E.K.
00:23:42.780 And I was like,
00:23:43.520 whoa.
00:23:45.360 It blew my mind.
00:23:46.900 You know?
00:23:47.120 How Allah
00:23:47.840 took us
00:23:49.000 from being mortal enemies
00:23:50.360 to being
00:23:50.900 brothers in Islam.
00:23:52.260 How that journey went.
00:23:54.000 Where it ended up.
00:23:55.740 And subhanAllah 0.77
00:23:56.300 we're here again
00:23:57.100 in Tijuana, Mexico
00:23:58.180 as brothers in Islam
00:23:59.860 giving da'wah. 0.98
00:24:00.800 bringing the Musahif 1.00
00:24:02.840 helping the community.
00:24:04.760 Inshallah
00:24:05.020 we're going to
00:24:05.660 go into the masjid 0.93
00:24:06.800 and sit.
00:24:07.940 But there's a very
00:24:08.900 important story here.
00:24:10.800 Any one of us
00:24:11.580 could have given up.
00:24:12.680 I could have given up
00:24:13.800 and just given in
00:24:14.540 to the lifestyle
00:24:15.300 and where would that
00:24:16.860 end me up today?
00:24:18.240 You know?
00:24:18.880 He could have given up
00:24:19.880 and given in
00:24:21.660 to the cartels
00:24:22.500 and the mafia
00:24:23.140 lifestyle
00:24:24.000 but where would that
00:24:25.280 end today?
00:24:26.720 I can tell you
00:24:27.960 I have
00:24:29.080 more than the fingers
00:24:31.800 on my hands
00:24:32.540 I have dead homies. 1.00
00:24:33.840 People I grew up with.
00:24:35.220 People that
00:24:35.700 I knew since
00:24:36.740 I was eight years old.
00:24:38.560 People that
00:24:39.140 I considered brothers.
00:24:40.980 That I buried.
00:24:42.220 Right?
00:24:42.880 And even after
00:24:44.440 I left the gang world
00:24:45.420 many of them
00:24:46.440 got killed
00:24:46.900 even after that.
00:24:47.840 People I don't even
00:24:48.520 know that
00:24:49.540 had gotten killed
00:24:50.160 until recently
00:24:50.680 I heard about it.
00:24:51.540 So where did that
00:24:53.080 mafia gangster life 0.62
00:24:54.520 get them?
00:24:54.940 Nothing.
00:24:55.760 People that say
00:24:56.380 no I was in too deep
00:24:57.220 I can't get out.
00:24:58.020 Trust me
00:24:58.460 we were in deep
00:24:59.560 and we're out
00:25:00.340 and we're Muslim
00:25:01.220 and we're living it.
00:25:02.200 Alhamdulillah.
00:25:03.220 So take that lesson
00:25:04.180 and don't ever
00:25:05.420 despair.
00:25:06.440 I mean I would have
00:25:06.960 never imagined
00:25:07.620 somebody from SEC
00:25:08.560 from Southeast
00:25:09.360 Logan Trent
00:25:09.940 that would be Muslim 0.94
00:25:10.680 and my brother
00:25:11.260 but he is.
00:25:12.700 Alhamdulillah.
00:25:13.660 And a very special
00:25:14.480 brother to me
00:25:15.060 and a very
00:25:15.520 special place in my heart
00:25:17.820 I tell you.
00:25:19.020 So never give up
00:25:20.480 on giving da'wah 0.92
00:25:21.520 to somebody either
00:25:22.180 don't give up
00:25:22.680 on yourself
00:25:23.160 if you want
00:25:24.120 to change
00:25:24.540 this is Ramadan
00:25:25.140 you can do it
00:25:26.000 and if there's
00:25:27.980 somebody you want
00:25:28.540 to give da'wah to 1.00
00:25:29.320 don't give up
00:25:30.400 on them
00:25:30.740 and don't think
00:25:31.500 oh that guy
00:25:32.180 he could never 0.85
00:25:32.940 become Muslim
00:25:33.640 no he could 0.85
00:25:34.680 you know.
00:25:36.160 Islamnet is
00:25:36.680 establishing a masjid
00:25:37.700 and a community
00:25:38.420 center
00:25:38.780 if you donate
00:25:39.760 to build this masjid 0.69
00:25:40.660 Allah will inshallah 0.99
00:25:41.560 build a house
00:25:42.080 for you
00:25:42.420 in Jannah
00:25:43.160 with bricks
00:25:43.980 of gold
00:25:44.540 and silver.
00:25:45.360 Every person
00:25:45.960 who prays
00:25:46.380 in this masjid
00:25:46.980 every child
00:25:48.120 that memorizes
00:25:48.760 the Quran
00:25:49.140 you will inshallah
00:25:50.340 share in that reward.
00:25:51.520 Donate now guys
00:25:52.420 and do not delay.
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