Ali Dawah - October 11, 2021TOM REALISES HIS PURPOSE & OPENS QURAN
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Summary
In this episode, we speak to a young man who came from a religious background but found his purpose in life in Islam. He shares his story of how he came to believe in God and how he has dealt with the challenges he has faced in his life.
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Islamnet is raising funds to establish a masjid and community center in Norway.
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Every person who prays there, every kid that learns about Islam, every youngster that
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memorizes the Quran, all of this and so much more can be on your scale of good deeds.
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Brothers and sisters and dear friends, we are here at the Salam corner and we are here at Tottenham con Road.
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And I came across this gentleman and I said to him, you look atheist.
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Sorry, you don't have any look to you that's atheist.
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You look like you're like a happy-go-lucky guy.
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So, yeah, coming down here, the Scots are very close-minded.
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But, yeah, so all my friends were worried about me coming down here.
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Because of the fact that the Scots hate the English.
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We were like, the English must hate the Scots, bro.
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Even without people from our background, et cetera.
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I'd like to just have an open mind about everything.
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I don't like, not maybe getting a yes or a no, but I like making a decision.
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Are you someone where when you're certain about something, you go full out?
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I came to Islam about eight and a half years ago, and I spent about three years looking into
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Have you ever had a moment where you thought, you know, hold on a second.
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So my mum, my mum's a strong Catholic, they're Irish.
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And like, we've had conversations about, you know, why are we here?
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You know, when our time runs out, what happens post that?
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No one really, I mean, people have, in my opinion, people have different solutions.
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So would you accept that there is some kind of higher power?
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Every human being is created with that desire to want God.
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I can't remember exactly the name of the thing.
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So the study that was done was they got a group of people, kids, at a certain age.
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And what they did is they realized that all of them, if you don't tell them about Islam,
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Christianity or Judaism or any of that, that they all believed in a higher being.
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So it showed you that human beings by nature, we're not told about God.
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Because we realize logically, I'm not going to pray to my mom because I know my mom's not
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So now what I would say, Tom, is that look, this is how I do it.
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Now the best way I can explain this is the following, yeah?
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Can Google operate without the internet being...
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And electric depends on obviously, us human beings and other factors, yeah?
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So what that showed is that these dependent things ultimately require a necessary being
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It's like a chain of like events that like leads...
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So we can't have an infinite amount of dependent things.
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That is not dependent on anything for all, for everything to make sense.
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And we, all of us dependent things rely on Him.
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That's why Allah says in the Quran, in Surah Ikhlas,
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So now the Christians and the Catholics, what they believe is God came down as a man.
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So that's the reason why we say that God Almighty says in the Quran,
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if there was more than one God, they would have fight each other for power.
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So that's why we believe there has to be ultimately one God that's independent
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So you're saying independent is, what was the other one? Self-sufficient?
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So anything within our universe is composed of some sort of parts.
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Well, the thing is because if He was not independent...
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The moment we say He's a creator and He depends on something that renders His...
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That's the reason why we say to the Christians...
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Or we say to the Hindus, Hare Krishna is not God.
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And only that, that is actually in gratitude to God Almighty.
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Because He's the one who sustains you and gives you life.
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And you go to a tree or a statue and say thank you.
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For me, it's hard to believe in something unless you can see it.
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I know that's such a, like, rash, bold statement to make.
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If I generally had some kind of sign one day and I was like, this must be something.
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Like, okay, there's a lot of things that we believe in that we don't see.
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But we believe it exists even though we don't see it.
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They can't get their mind around how we have a conscious mind.
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So what we're seeing is, in a nutshell, that there are things that we believe exist that
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Is that what he would say was stopping you, like seeing God?
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I've just never done enough research to fully grasp it.
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And then I was kind of just like sitting on the fence of the whole thing.
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So I wasn't either completely against or completely for it.
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I was kind of just like, I would hope there is.
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I've never, but I've got a few friends who are interested.
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But even if there's no wisdom, we do it because God told us to.
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Now, if you have someone who's created heavens and the earth.
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So it's like your mom and dad, if he tells you something.
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Yes, he listens to them because of who they are.
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But because of who God is and how magnificent he is.
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He does that because in this life, it's a test.
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And we fast for his sake and Allah says to us, the prophet said, that my fasting slave,
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And God has given us the faculties and the signs are everywhere to find him.
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You know, why did you not turn to me, you know, worship me, etc.
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But why don't you open the Quran and let's see maybe there might be a message in there for you.
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Do you want to open one verse now and maybe just to point at it?
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Do you not see that Allah has sent down rain from the sky and the earth becomes green?
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To him belongs what is in the heavens and what is on the earth.
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And indeed, Allah is free of need, the praiseworthy.
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So here God is saying, to him belongs what is in the heavens and the earth.
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And indeed, Allah is free of need, the praiseworthy.
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Subjected to you whatever is on the earth and the ships which run through the sea by his command.
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And he restrains the sky from falling upon the earth, unless by his permission.
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Indeed, Allah to all people is kind and merciful.
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And lastly, and he's the one who gave you life and he causes you to die and then will again
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Because we can't, we enjoy all the blessings of life, etc.
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And if you do believe in him, and I'm sure you do, do one thing.
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Pray and say, God, if you're there, guide me to the truth.
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And maybe we'll see you in about a couple of weeks as a Muslim.
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This video might be there on my channel on YouTube.