Ali Dawah - The Power of Dua

00:00:00.000 Salaamu Alaikum brothers and sisters

00:00:02.000 Today we're in Hyde Park with John

00:00:04.000 You know the Reva brother that I was talking about on my page

00:00:06.000 He's lost his voice

00:00:08.000 Basically I've lost my voice because I've been doing a lot of Dawah and shouting 1.00

00:00:10.000 So something really amazing happened yesterday

00:00:12.000 It was really amazing for me

00:00:14.000 You might watch this video and think okay

00:00:16.000 There's nothing much about it but really really

00:00:18.000 Me and Jonathan because John was there

00:00:20.000 And he kind of witnessed it

00:00:22.000 So we're just going to go through how it happened

00:00:24.000 How it all happened and our way there

00:00:26.000 How it just all happened to be honest

00:00:28.000 So basically we got on the train

00:00:30.000 Yeah

00:00:32.000 From Waterloo

00:00:34.000 To Stratford

00:00:36.000 Yeah

00:00:38.000 I mean I'm from Manchester so I've come down

00:00:40.000 For a few days to work on some Dawah projects

00:00:42.000 And I met

00:00:44.000 Brother Ali for the first time

00:00:46.000 So we're on our way to Stratford to do some Dawah 0.99

00:00:48.000 And

00:00:50.000 Ali was telling me

00:00:52.000 That he's been doing Dawah 1.00

00:00:54.000 He's been Muslim for how long now?

00:00:56.000 About 11 months and he's been doing Dawah for how long?

00:00:58.000 About 5

00:01:00.000 About 5 months

00:01:02.000 And he said that he's not seen a Shahada yet 0.96

00:01:04.000 He's not actually witnessed a Shahada

00:01:06.000 And he was asking me like

00:01:08.000 He's been working very hard

00:01:10.000 Giving Dawah

00:01:12.000 And he's getting a bit down wasn't he?

00:01:14.000 Because he's not seeing any Shahadas 1.00

00:01:16.000 And basically I asked him what you're doing

00:01:18.000 And

00:01:20.000 He concentrates mostly on debating Christians 0.84

00:01:22.000 And you know

00:01:24.000 Working with Christians

00:01:26.000 Like I never could have related to the Shahada bit 1.00

00:01:28.000 And I just advised him to concentrate on his intention

00:01:32.000 And also make Dawah 0.93

00:01:34.000 This is the best advice

00:01:36.000 And when you focus on your intention and do it solely for the sake of Allah 0.69

00:01:38.000 Then

00:01:40.000 Ask Allah

00:01:42.000 So basically on the train

00:01:44.000 I advised him

00:01:46.000 I said look

00:01:48.000 I advised him

00:01:50.000 Make intention

00:01:52.000 That is for the sake of Allah

00:01:54.000 Ask Allah

00:01:55.000 And so

00:01:56.000 We made Dawah 0.89

00:01:57.000 And I said

00:01:58.000 Oh Allah

00:01:59.000 If you want to guide anyone today

00:02:00.000 Because only Allah can guide

00:02:02.000 We can't do anything

00:02:03.000 If you want to guide anyone

00:02:05.000 Bring them to brother Ali today

00:02:07.000 And then

00:02:08.000 I told Ali

00:02:09.000 Make your Dawah specific 0.99

00:02:10.000 Right?

00:02:11.000 So it's 3 o'clock in the afternoon

00:02:13.000 And then I said

00:02:14.000 Oh Allah

00:02:15.000 If you want to guide anyone

00:02:17.000 Please bring them to Ali 1.00

00:02:18.000 Use Ali in the Dawah 1.00

00:02:20.000 And bring them to Ali before 4 o'clock 0.99

00:02:22.000 Okay

00:02:23.000 So we got one hour

00:02:24.000 Okay

00:02:25.000 So the second we got off

00:02:26.000 And Ali was just like 0.89

00:02:28.000 Yeah

00:02:29.000 I just want to say

00:02:30.000 Yeah

00:02:31.000 So like

00:02:32.000 When he was telling me

00:02:33.000 You know like the power of Dawah 1.00

00:02:34.000 I'm being honest

00:02:35.000 My mind was a bit low

00:02:36.000 And I was like

00:02:37.000 Okay man

00:02:38.000 You know I did it

00:02:39.000 I put my hands up and I prayed

00:02:40.000 And he was like

00:02:41.000 Make it specific and say you know

00:02:42.000 Before 4 o'clock

00:02:43.000 And when he said before 4 o'clock

00:02:44.000 I was thinking to myself

00:02:45.000 It's like

00:02:46.000 3

00:02:47.000 It was like

00:02:48.000 When we got there

00:02:49.000 Yeah

00:02:51.000 Yeah something like that

00:02:52.000 So I was thinking

00:02:53.000 There's no way

00:02:54.000 Because I'm going to go with it

00:02:55.000 I'm going to play Asr 1.00

00:02:56.000 And I was like okay alright

00:02:57.000 Yeah I didn't really take it seriously

00:02:58.000 But then we got to Stratford

00:02:59.000 Yeah

00:03:00.000 As soon as I got off the train

00:03:01.000 The first conversation I had was with a Chinese girl

00:03:04.000 And alhamdulillah she accepted Islam

00:03:06.000 Yeah

00:03:07.000 She just accepted Islam

00:03:08.000 She was originally

00:03:10.000 She'd been

00:03:12.000 She'd converted to Christianity

00:03:14.000 But then when they explained the concept of Allah

00:03:17.000 In Islam

00:03:18.000 Then she said that

00:03:19.000 This concept of God

00:03:21.000 Makes more sense

00:03:22.000 And she also 0.95

00:03:23.000 She's been doing some research

00:03:24.000 Into Prophet Muhammad 0.99

00:03:25.000 Alhamdulillah she accepted Islam

00:03:26.000 Yeah

00:03:27.000 So Ali was amazed

00:03:28.000 He's like

00:03:29.000 SubhanAllah

00:03:30.000 Like we made the Dua

00:03:31.000 And we've seen the Shahada 0.82

00:03:32.000 And then

00:03:33.000 So then what happened

00:03:34.000 SubhanAllah

00:03:35.000 I mean the point why

00:03:36.000 I was explaining the importance of making Dua

00:03:38.000 I was setting up a Dua table in Manchester at a college

00:03:42.000 And I was teaching his brother how to make intention

00:03:46.000 How to do Dua

00:03:47.000 So I said to the brother

00:03:48.000 Make intention

00:03:49.000 Okay

00:03:50.000 To do it for the sake of Allah

00:03:51.000 So we made intention

00:03:53.000 We're going to go there

00:03:54.000 Do it for the sake of Allah

00:03:55.000 And if Allah wants to guide him

00:03:56.000 We want to bring them to us

00:03:57.000 Inshallah use us

00:03:58.000 And the part where we made intention

00:04:00.000 Is like a five minute walk

00:04:01.000 From the college

00:04:02.000 Okay

00:04:03.000 So we went there

00:04:04.000 We made Dua

00:04:05.000 Sorry Dawa 1.00

00:04:06.000 And then

00:04:07.000 When we're coming back to the masjid 1.00

00:04:08.000 The exact point

00:04:10.000 In the street

00:04:11.000 Where we made intention

00:04:12.000 This guy approaches me

00:04:13.000 And he says

00:04:14.000 Can I have a Quran

00:04:15.000 So I said

00:04:16.000 Are you Muslim?

00:04:17.000 And he said no but I want to be

00:04:18.000 And he just

00:04:19.000 He just accepted Islam

00:04:20.000 You know

00:04:21.000 This is just proving that

00:04:22.000 Guidance is from Allah alone 0.99

00:04:23.000 And when you understand this

00:04:25.000 And you put yourself out there

00:04:26.000 And you understand that your job

00:04:27.000 Is simply to give a good message

00:04:30.000 Give the message of Islam 0.95

00:04:31.000 And to invite people to Tawhid 0.96

00:04:34.000 Invite people to Islam 1.00

00:04:35.000 Then Allah will use you 1.00

00:04:36.000 And if he wants to guide them

00:04:37.000 We will bring them to you

00:04:38.000 Yeah

00:04:39.000 So when we got to Stratford

00:04:40.000 As I say

00:04:41.000 We had the first Shahada 0.82

00:04:42.000 And then

00:04:43.000 What happened bro?

00:04:44.000 Basically what happened was

00:04:45.000 He told me this story

00:04:46.000 The way he took the Dawa

00:04:48.000 With making intention

00:04:49.000 Making the Dua

00:04:50.000 And I kind of listened

00:04:51.000 And I was like

00:04:52.000 Okay alright

00:04:53.000 It's possible

00:04:54.000 So I learnt a lesson

00:04:55.000 With what happened

00:04:56.000 What I'm about to tell you now

00:04:57.000 He did his Shahada 0.50

00:04:58.000 But the thing is

00:04:59.000 I've never done a Shahada

00:05:00.000 I've been doing Dawa for about 5 months

00:05:01.000 It's not a long time

00:05:02.000 But I've never attempted

00:05:03.000 To do the Shahada bit

00:05:04.000 So I prayed my Asr

00:05:05.000 I came back

00:05:06.000 And we were just handing out leaflets

00:05:08.000 And this brother came

00:05:10.000 With his wife

00:05:11.000 And basically you see his picture

00:05:13.000 Popping up on the screen

00:05:14.000 And he just came up

00:05:15.000 And he works for the United Nations

00:05:17.000 And he lives in Italy

00:05:18.000 And all I did was

00:05:19.000 Give him a leaf

00:05:20.000 And said brother

00:05:21.000 Do you have 2 minutes?

00:05:22.000 And he said yeah sure I have

00:05:23.000 And the next thing I said to him

00:05:24.000 Like do you believe in God?

00:05:25.000 Like do you have a belief?

00:05:26.000 And he said yeah I believe in God

00:05:27.000 But my faith is a bit up and down

00:05:29.000 Because you know the Bible has kind of

00:05:32.000 Unfortunately been changed

00:05:33.000 So he was honest with me

00:05:35.000 And he said you know

00:05:36.000 This is the problem I had

00:05:37.000 So I told him a bit about

00:05:38.000 What Jesus really taught in the Bible

00:05:40.000 You know Jesus never claimed to be divine

00:05:42.000 He never said I am God or worship me

00:05:44.000 I gave him all that

00:05:45.000 We did a bit of Dawa

00:05:46.000 Talked about it

00:05:47.000 And then I kind of hesitated

00:05:48.000 But I said you know what?

00:05:49.000 Let me try

00:05:50.000 And by the time

00:05:51.000 I don't know what time it is now

00:05:52.000 I'm just talking to him

00:05:53.000 And I said bro

00:05:54.000 Like he agreed with a lot of stuff

00:05:56.000 And I said bro you're a Muslim

00:05:57.000 All you have to do is

00:05:58.000 You're just a Shahada away 1.00

00:05:59.000 And he said oh what's a Shahada?

00:06:00.000 I said Shahada is just like

00:06:01.000 Claiming that there is nothing

00:06:02.000 Claiming that there is nothing worthy of worship

00:06:04.000 But Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala 0.92

00:06:05.000 And Prophet Muhammad peace be upon him 0.99

00:06:07.000 Is his messenger

00:06:08.000 And he just went

00:06:09.000 Yeah that's fine

00:06:10.000 It's just like he came there to accept that

00:06:12.000 Not only that

00:06:13.000 What happened like

00:06:14.000 The actual Dawa we made on the train was 0.97

00:06:16.000 Allah if you want to guide them 0.51

00:06:18.000 Bring them to us

00:06:19.000 Yes sincere

00:06:20.000 If you know any sincere people

00:06:22.000 Bring them to us

00:06:23.000 And allow us to be the means

00:06:24.000 In them accepting Islam 0.69

00:06:25.000 And subhanAllah this guy came to Ali 0.98

00:06:27.000 Yes

00:06:28.000 And then you shouted me over

00:06:29.000 Like John come here come here

00:06:30.000 Yeah basically what happened was

00:06:31.000 And he said I'll accept the Shahada 1.00

00:06:32.000 We had a few

00:06:33.000 Christian guys came over

00:06:34.000 Trying to stop him

00:06:35.000 You know saying you know don't

00:06:36.000 Don't accept it

00:06:37.000 How many was there?

00:06:38.000 How many was there?

00:06:39.000 Anything that possibly could have gone wrong

00:06:41.000 Yeah

00:06:42.000 To stop this guy taking a Shahada

00:06:43.000 Yes

00:06:44.000 Loads of barn again Christians around us 1.00

00:06:45.000 Yes

00:06:46.000 Shouting don't say it

00:06:47.000 Don't say it

00:06:48.000 Yes you know you're going to go to hell

00:06:49.000 Don't leave Jesus

00:06:50.000 Yeah things like this

00:06:51.000 Yeah and this guy said

00:06:52.000 He just went

00:06:53.000 He said no I'm ready to accept the truth

00:06:55.000 Yeah I'm ready to accept Islam 0.94

00:06:56.000 Yeah

00:06:57.000 And subhanAllah this

00:06:58.000 I've never seen someone

00:06:59.000 Someone it's rare that you see someone

00:07:00.000 So convinced and ready

00:07:02.000 Exactly

00:07:03.000 To accept Islam 0.94

00:07:04.000 Yeah so what happened was then

00:07:05.000 When he said I'll accept Shahada 1.00

00:07:06.000 Because I was a bit baffled

00:07:07.000 And I called John

00:07:09.000 John was behind me

00:07:10.000 I said John just come here

00:07:12.000 And tell them what we talked about on the train

00:07:14.000 I didn't even look at you

00:07:15.000 I didn't want to come and call you

00:07:16.000 Just in case they'll think I'll whisper something to you

00:07:17.000 I just said John come here

00:07:18.000 I looked away

00:07:19.000 And you just told them

00:07:20.000 Yeah I mean I explained to him

00:07:22.000 You know that we made dua and stuff like this

00:07:24.000 And he was surprised by it

00:07:27.000 And we confirmed that his belief in Allah

00:07:30.000 And then the messenger

00:07:31.000 You know he's also doing his own research

00:07:33.000 And then after you know he asked subhanAllah

00:07:36.000 SubhanAllah he accepted Islam 0.62

00:07:38.000 So afterwards I just happened to say to Ali

00:07:41.000 What time is it?

00:07:42.000 Yeah just random like

00:07:43.000 I was there and he just went

00:07:44.000 What time is it?

00:07:45.000 And I was like what's he talking about?

00:07:46.000 Does he have to be late somewhere?

00:07:47.000 I was like what time is it?

00:07:48.000 And subhanAllah it was 3.51

00:07:50.000 3.51

00:07:51.000 Nine minutes before 4 o'clock

00:07:53.000 And subhanAllah 0.77

00:07:54.000 I was baffled

00:07:55.000 Because I was like no way

00:07:57.000 But that's a lesson for me

00:07:58.000 Because the power of dua

00:07:59.000 I didn't take that seriously

00:08:01.000 And he taught me a lesson

00:08:02.000 Allah subhanAllah is telling me 1.00

00:08:03.000 If I will something it will happen

00:08:05.000 And 3.51

00:08:07.000 SubhanAllah

00:08:08.000 We looked at the time

00:08:09.000 3.51

00:08:10.000 The guy took shahadah 0.64

00:08:11.000 My first shahadah

00:08:12.000 It's just very important

00:08:14.000 That we understand that

00:08:15.000 We need to make dua

00:08:16.000 And we need to believe

00:08:17.000 That these duas are going to be answered

00:08:19.000 You know we need to be expecting them to be answered

00:08:21.000 And I like to be specific in my dua

00:08:24.000 Yeah I like to

00:08:26.000 You know like I said 4 o'clock

00:08:27.000 We had one hour

00:08:28.000 And subhanAllah 0.77

00:08:29.000 Because that way

00:08:30.000 You know that specifically that dua was answered

00:08:32.000 Yeah

00:08:33.000 And subhanAllah is amazing

00:08:34.000 Yeah

00:08:35.000 And you totally forgot

00:08:36.000 The thing is this is another important thing

00:08:37.000 Sometimes we make dua for things

00:08:39.000 And we forget that we made dua for them

00:08:41.000 Yes

00:08:42.000 And then down the line

00:08:43.000 We're given this blessing

00:08:44.000 Or we're given this

00:08:46.000 Our dua is answered

00:08:48.000 And we don't

00:08:49.000 We've not even acknowledged that our dua has been answered

00:08:50.000 Yeah

00:08:51.000 But subhanAllah you totally forgot about the time thing

00:08:53.000 I forgot

00:08:54.000 Because when he went

00:08:55.000 What time is it

00:08:56.000 I was like

00:08:57.000 Why does it matter what time it is

00:08:58.000 And when he said it's 3.51

00:09:00.000 As soon as he said 3.51

00:09:01.000 Yeah

00:09:02.000 Ali just

00:09:03.000 It was crying

00:09:04.000 It just began to shake

00:09:05.000 I was

00:09:06.000 I was so shocked

00:09:07.000 Your imam was

00:09:08.000 Yeah we just yeah

00:09:09.000 Like I said brothers and sisters

00:09:10.000 We just wanted to share this with you

00:09:11.000 Wallahi billahi

00:09:12.000 We did not exaggerate one bit

00:09:14.000 Or anything like that

00:09:15.000 It happened exactly how it did

00:09:16.000 And this is

00:09:17.000 This is a message from brother John and me

00:09:19.000 Dua

00:09:20.000 Take it seriously

00:09:21.000 You know

00:09:22.000 This is a big point

00:09:23.000 Which you just want to make clear

00:09:24.000 In Islam

00:09:25.000 That Ali 0.86

00:09:27.000 Was focusing on

00:09:28.000 Debating

00:09:29.000 You know

00:09:30.000 And Allah tells us in the Quran

00:09:31.000 That we're not accountable for the disbelievers at all 1.00

00:09:33.000 We are only accountable for the reminder

00:09:35.000 And the reminder is about Tauheed

00:09:37.000 It's about Islam 0.99

00:09:38.000 So we need to invite

00:09:39.000 And we need to remind about Islam

00:09:41.000 You know

00:09:42.000 We don't need to get focused on other scriptures

00:09:43.000 Or other religions 0.78

00:09:44.000 Let's invite people to our religion

00:09:46.000 And you know

00:09:47.000 That the sincere people

00:09:48.000 Will acknowledge this religion

00:09:50.000 And accept the religion

00:09:51.000 And we just ask Allah

00:09:53.000 To send sincere people to us

00:09:55.000 And keep the sincere people away from us

00:09:58.000 Inshallah

00:09:59.000 So thank you very much for watching brothers and sisters

00:10:00.000 Before we go

00:10:01.000 Don't judge

00:10:02.000 And the main lesson

00:10:03.000 Which I was trying to show Ali

00:10:04.000 Is don't judge

00:10:05.000 The success of your dawah

00:10:08.000 By shahadas

00:10:09.000 Judge the success of your dawah

00:10:11.000 By how many people

00:10:12.000 You convey the message to

00:10:14.000 And this is the main thing

00:10:15.000 That's the reason

00:10:16.000 Know your job

00:10:17.000 Understand your job

00:10:18.000 If you want the reward for your job

00:10:20.000 You have to do the job

00:10:21.000 Okay?

00:10:22.000 You can't be hired to stock shelves

00:10:25.000 Or stack shelves

00:10:26.000 And then go and work on the till

00:10:28.000 You know you're not going to get paid

00:10:29.000 You know you have to do your job

00:10:30.000 And your job is to convey the message of Islam

00:10:33.000 To invite to Islam 0.83

00:10:35.000 And don't forget the invitation

00:10:36.000 You know literally say

00:10:37.000 Would you like to be a Muslim?

00:10:39.000 Would you like to accept Islam?

00:10:40.000 And subhanAllah 0.77

00:10:41.000 You'd be surprised

00:10:42.000 How many people

00:10:43.000 Actually say yes

00:10:44.000 Yeah so yeah

00:10:45.000 Like I said again

00:10:46.000 Thank you very much for watching

00:10:47.000 And

00:10:48.000 The power of dawah 0.89

00:10:49.000 That's how

00:10:50.000 That's how

00:10:51.000 I've learned a lesson myself

00:10:52.000 And inshallah

00:10:53.000 You guys will benefit from it

00:10:54.000 Thank you very much for watching

00:10:55.000 Please support our pages

00:10:56.000 And do dawah for us

00:10:58.000 Powerful dawah inshallah

00:10:59.000 Thank you very much

Ali Dawah - November 11, 2013

The Power of Dua

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