Ali Dawah - August 20, 2024


WILL LUCY'S FEARS STOP HER EMBRACING ISLAM？


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In this episode, we talk about the difference between the creation of the world and creation of Islam and Christianity. We also talk about what it means to be a Christian and a Hindu and why God created them the way he did.

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00:00:00.400 I have two questions. Sure.
00:00:04.000 There might be a stupid question. No question is stupid sister. Every question is valid. 1.00
00:00:08.800 This is something all Muslims like to talk about. I want to talk about Jinn. 1.00
00:00:12.560 Yeah. I want to ask so what Shaitan? Yeah. Is he Jinn? He's from the Jinn kind. So we have 1.00
00:00:21.680 different three types of creation. Us human beings we are which are created of clay or earth.
00:00:25.920 Second creation is the angels which are created of light. And you need to take a shahada sister. 1.00
00:00:32.080 What's her name? Lucy. Lucy is taking a shahada. She knows more about Islam than I do. 1.00
00:00:37.200 The Jinn are created from smokeless fire. She already knows. I'm just reading her lips. 1.00
00:00:41.760 And she knows that smokeless fire. What's stopping you sister Lucy from accepting Islam? 0.99
00:00:50.480 Just imagine the people back in the day when they would have to travel
00:00:53.200 certain distances for months or even years. What is one thing that they would carry with them?
00:00:58.160 The Qur'an. Why? Because they did not have it on their mobile devices or their gadgets.
00:01:02.960 Brothers and sisters, imagine you have an app, the Qur'ani app, which not only shows you how much
00:01:08.560 rewards you get, but reminds you to read the Qur'an, gives you reminders. Download the Qur'ani app now and
00:01:14.720 let it testify for you on your Muqiyama that you read it wherever you was.
00:01:19.760 You're a Muslim. Okay. And Lucy is a... You was a... I was a Protestant priest, but not like practicing. 0.96
00:01:26.160 Not practicing. Just on the fence. On the fence. Now you're a... Do you still believe in God or...
00:01:30.880 I do believe in God. Good. So you're a priest? Yeah.
00:01:33.200 Okay, good. So you was like me. I was where you was about 14 years ago. So I always believed in God,
00:01:38.880 but I didn't have any religion. But I came to a point in my life where I was like,
00:01:42.480 it doesn't make sense for me to believe in a higher power that's purposeless.
00:01:45.680 Yeah. Because what's my purpose? You know, my glasses, your shades have a purpose, your shades have a purpose,
00:01:50.640 your dress, your clothes, your socks, this watch, this microphone, the camera, everything has a purpose.
00:01:54.960 And I thought to myself, what's my purpose, you know? So that's when I started my journey.
00:01:58.720 I spent about three years when I had that realization, looking at different religions.
00:02:02.080 I started reading the Bible, Qur'an, Hinduism, Sikhism. And I came to the conclusion that Islam is the truth. 0.76
00:02:08.240 So yeah, to us, we as Muslims, just to touch upon that, we don't believe that God wants us to be perfect.
00:02:15.520 There's no concept that you have to be because of Christianity. I'm sure you were a Christian before.
00:02:20.400 Yeah.
00:02:21.120 You said that, for example, they have this, the wages of sin is death.
00:02:24.480 So it's very like, you're not perfect and you cannot stand in the presence of God.
00:02:29.680 And da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da.
00:02:31.120 When you are born a sinner. 0.94
00:02:32.480 Exactly.
00:02:32.960 And that's the concept that never, because having an all-loving heart agree,
00:02:35.920 something with sin, you are not worthy of worshipping him if you are a sinner.
00:02:39.680 Exactly.
00:02:40.000 And it's actually very interesting because what they do is, they obviously say that God commanded Adam,
00:02:46.960 this is a biblical perspective, not as Muslims, that told him not to eat from the tree.
00:02:50.880 So, he was, he was, his wife Eve was, they kind of blamed her to tricking Adam.
00:03:02.720 Yeah.
00:03:03.120 And we don't have that concept in Islam.
00:03:04.720 Yeah.
00:03:05.120 We don't.
00:03:05.920 Because the reason being is because that's one thing.
00:03:07.680 Another thing is because we believe that God is the most just.
00:03:10.240 How can we injust, that's injustice in the sense where, because, yeah, no more please guys,
00:03:15.280 yeah, because it looks like I've gone to war and I'm winning medals.
00:03:17.440 Yes.
00:03:17.840 And these are all the medals I've won in war, yeah.
00:03:19.840 Yes, my t-shirt is going to fall off.
00:03:22.080 Yeah.
00:03:22.640 And so, this concept also that in Christianity, that when a woman is giving birth and she,
00:03:29.840 the pain she gets is because of her causing Adam to eat from the tree.
00:03:32.640 So, we say this is nonsense because what's a woman, forget any woman, 1.00
00:03:37.440 all of these billions of children of women that lived after Eve, what's their fault? 0.96
00:03:41.600 Let alone Eve's.
00:03:42.480 We don't believe that it was both of them that fell into sin.
00:03:45.280 And Allah in the Quran actually directly questions Adam.
00:03:49.600 Yes.
00:03:49.920 And Adam says, look, I'm sorry, I sinned.
00:03:52.480 Now, it's very important.
00:03:53.440 Islam shows us repentance. 0.51
00:03:54.960 Repentance will send to the world, not sin.
00:03:58.240 The main thing that we have is that we should have repentance.
00:04:01.440 So, we don't believe in this concept.
00:04:02.720 That's why if you look at Christianity and many other religions, they have this,
00:04:05.920 these semi-gods, always there's this person in the middle that you have to go through to God.
00:04:11.200 That's another thing that never is.
00:04:12.880 What was it that?
00:04:13.600 So, my point is, I never felt comfortable calling Jesus the Son of God or Jesus being God as part of the Trinity.
00:04:20.800 Why?
00:04:21.120 Why?
00:04:21.280 Just curious.
00:04:22.480 If God is a omnipotent, omniscient, omnibenevolent being, then why?
00:04:27.120 Surely the fact that he has a son and we pray through him, it makes him not God by the definition of God.
00:04:33.280 Thank you.
00:04:33.680 I mean, you're speaking like a Muslim. 0.97
00:04:34.720 I mean, it's like I'm hearing a Muslim preaching here. 0.94
00:04:36.960 It just never made sense to me.
00:04:39.760 You know what we call that in Islam?
00:04:41.360 We call that the fitrah. 0.99
00:04:42.400 Have you heard of it?
00:04:42.960 Yeah.
00:04:43.360 The fitrah means the innate disposition that he was born with.
00:04:47.760 Because you know when you have a phone and you change all the settings?
00:04:49.840 Yeah.
00:04:50.080 And sometimes you're like, you know what, erase it and go back to the factory settings.
00:04:52.640 What you said that is a factory setting is basically going back to your original
00:04:56.640 being when he was created as well.
00:04:58.560 That I don't need to come and tell you, can God have a son or is God a man?
00:05:02.960 You reject it from the get-go.
00:05:04.160 You're like, that does not make sense because of who God is.
00:05:06.800 Exactly.
00:05:07.520 That's why we believe every person is born a Muslim.
00:05:10.400 That's why we as Muslims say every person is born a Muslim.
00:05:12.880 You know why?
00:05:13.280 Exactly.
00:05:14.720 Why?
00:05:15.200 Because the thing is, you already have that internally.
00:05:17.600 You didn't, nobody had to tell you that.
00:05:19.040 You had to be taught that God has a son and God is Jesus.
00:05:22.960 But nobody has to tell you because there was a study done in Oxford University by Justin Barrett.
00:05:26.720 They looked like kids and left them like, without any outside influence of religion,
00:05:31.200 they all were brought up believing in a higher power.
00:05:35.280 Yeah.
00:05:35.600 None of them came and said, oh, the son of God, none of that.
00:05:37.600 So this is what we're talking about, which is the fitrah that you have. 0.98
00:05:40.560 So in Islam, we say that we don't have this thing of, oh, I'm dirty.
00:05:44.480 I'm a sinner.
00:05:45.040 I can't stand in the presence of God.
00:05:46.240 God says, I accept you.
00:05:47.840 When you speak to the Christians, they're like, no, no. 1.00
00:05:49.200 I'm like, you don't understand.
00:05:50.000 God accepts you the way you are.
00:05:52.000 The only thing God wants is the following.
00:05:53.760 Do not associate partners to him.
00:05:55.440 Like you, you rejected.
00:05:56.640 You said, no, I believe God doesn't have a son.
00:05:58.480 And that's what the Quran says.
00:05:59.440 And I don't know if you like in the 112 chapter of the Quran, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says,
00:06:10.800 Say he is one.
00:06:12.080 Yes.
00:06:13.440 Self-sufficient.
00:06:14.560 He does not beget nor is he begotten and there is nothing like him.
00:06:17.760 This is who God is to us.
00:06:19.200 He doesn't have a father.
00:06:20.000 He doesn't have a mother.
00:06:20.640 He doesn't have a daughter.
00:06:21.280 He doesn't have a son.
00:06:22.000 Even certain pagan Arabs in Arabian Peninsula 0.81
00:06:24.880 would associate daughters as angels.
00:06:27.520 They will say, oh, that's God's, you know, daughters.
00:06:30.320 Yes.
00:06:30.800 Now, why?
00:06:31.360 Because they look down on females. 0.76
00:06:33.200 So they were actually insulting God.
00:06:34.480 They would ascribe sons to themselves and they would ascribe daughters to God. 0.61
00:06:38.080 Yeah.
00:06:38.400 As an insult.
00:06:39.040 Not that there's anything wrong with, but they despised females. 1.00
00:06:42.880 So they would ascribe that to them.
00:06:44.480 And we say God doesn't have a daughter or a son.
00:06:46.480 So to us, we say that all of us can stand in the presence of God.
00:06:49.760 When I sin, I repent to God.
00:06:51.280 I don't say, oh, I need to go for Prophet Muhammad 1.00
00:06:53.600 and then stop at Jesus and maybe visit.
00:06:55.360 The saints.
00:06:56.240 Exactly.
00:06:56.640 Or any of the...
00:06:57.920 In Catholicism, this is what happens.
00:06:59.760 They, Mary, for example, is, they don't say she's God.
00:07:04.000 They act like her.
00:07:05.680 They say she's the mother of God.
00:07:07.360 Yes.
00:07:07.680 Which is the mother of God.
00:07:09.760 So the thing is, when you go to certain Catholic churches,
00:07:12.320 you'll have the statue of Mary.
00:07:14.480 So the point is that you are indirectly associating partners.
00:07:18.480 Because if you are seeing that she has an attribute, argument's sake,
00:07:22.320 to hear you, to forgive your sin.
00:07:25.600 Please, guys, no more.
00:07:26.880 Where am I going to put this?
00:07:29.680 Should I put it on my watch or what should I do?
00:07:31.520 Can I give you guys some?
00:07:32.880 I can't carry anymore.
00:07:34.080 I'm feeling the weight.
00:07:35.440 I'm feeling the weight.
00:07:37.200 Okay.
00:07:37.600 I'm going to hold it in my hand.
00:07:38.560 Because I love you.
00:07:39.360 For the sake of Allah.
00:07:40.960 So the point is this.
00:07:42.160 Is that we say that anyone can stand in the presence of God.
00:07:45.360 God doesn't want you to be perfect.
00:07:46.640 He knows you're going to be sinners.
00:07:47.840 And we have evidence from the Prophet Muhammad.
00:07:50.560 He told us that if mankind was not to sin.
00:07:53.600 So if mankind all decided one day not to sin. 0.86
00:07:55.840 Allah would destroy all of them. 1.00
00:07:57.760 Bring forth another nation that sins but repents. 0.88
00:08:00.400 So obviously this is an example to us.
00:08:02.080 Which is what?
00:08:02.800 God is telling us, I don't want you to be sinless.
00:08:05.040 You are going to sin.
00:08:06.720 Good.
00:08:07.200 I just want you to turn back to me in repentance.
00:08:08.960 That's what you do with your sin.
00:08:10.080 That is it.
00:08:11.120 And not only that.
00:08:12.560 Not only does your sins get forgiven.
00:08:14.640 Allah turns them into good deeds.
00:08:16.480 That's what we believe.
00:08:17.440 Because if it's a fresh start.
00:08:18.640 If you've repented and said God I've changed my ways.
00:08:21.120 God Almighty says all of those sins that you've done arguments.
00:08:23.360 Like robbing people.
00:08:24.880 Somebody was robbing people for God how many years.
00:08:27.200 Obviously there's another principle that needs to apply.
00:08:30.320 Which is to give the rights of the people that you stole from.
00:08:32.400 Repenting is not just enough.
00:08:33.520 Because if you know who you stole from.
00:08:35.200 It's your friend.
00:08:36.320 Islam is very careful to how you deal with other people.
00:08:39.200 There's God's rights and human beings rights.
00:08:41.360 God's rights of course come first.
00:08:42.560 But there's a heavy emphasis on human beings rights.
00:08:45.360 Which means that if I stole from my friend.
00:08:49.040 And I repented.
00:08:50.320 I have to return that money.
00:08:51.760 But if I go to him and tell him that I stole from him.
00:08:53.680 It's going to cause problems.
00:08:55.280 So Islam will tell us that. 0.98
00:08:57.200 Do it in a way where it's like you know what bro.
00:08:58.960 Here's a gift of 400 pounds.
00:09:00.400 I just want you to have it.
00:09:01.680 So you do it in subtle ways.
00:09:03.280 That your relationship is not ruined.
00:09:05.360 You get it even if you spoke ill of someone.
00:09:07.440 You don't go to them and say oh you know I spoke ill of you.
00:09:09.680 I mean if that person is ready to accept and say he's forgiven.
00:09:12.160 But if it's someone a grudge holder like me.
00:09:13.920 You know my wife always says you're a grudge holder.
00:09:15.440 If she's watching this.
00:09:16.400 Yes.
00:09:16.800 Yeah she's the forgiving one.
00:09:17.680 I'm the grudge holder.
00:09:18.160 I'm like no I'm not.
00:09:19.040 Yeah.
00:09:19.600 A grudge holder like me.
00:09:20.720 He'll be like you know what.
00:09:21.920 It's better that you go and give.
00:09:24.080 Speak good of where you spoke ill of him.
00:09:26.720 And maybe give it charity.
00:09:28.000 Then it's just ways of dealing with that.
00:09:29.680 Yeah.
00:09:30.240 But I don't I don't give a sermon.
00:09:31.520 If any questions that you have about Islam.
00:09:33.040 Anything.
00:09:33.520 Like what's stopping you from accepting Islam.
00:09:34.720 We've got someone.
00:09:35.520 I've got sisters already in Muslim Alhamdulillah.
00:09:37.120 Do you guys have any questions?
00:09:38.560 I have two questions.
00:09:40.080 Sure.
00:09:42.160 There might be a sweet question. 1.00
00:09:43.920 No question is stupid sister. 1.00
00:09:44.960 Okay. 1.00
00:09:45.280 Every question is valid.
00:09:46.080 I have.
00:09:46.960 This is something all Muslims I think talk about.
00:09:49.440 I want to talk about jinn.
00:09:50.480 Yeah.
00:09:51.360 I want to ask.
00:09:52.160 So what she thought.
00:09:54.800 Yeah.
00:09:56.720 Is he jinn?
00:09:58.400 He's from the jinn kind. 0.94
00:09:59.360 So we have different three types of creation.
00:10:01.520 Us human beings we are which are created of clay or earth.
00:10:04.640 Second creation is the angels which are created of light.
00:10:07.280 And you already.
00:10:08.880 You need to take a shahada sister. 1.00
00:10:10.240 What's her name?
00:10:10.960 Lucy.
00:10:11.360 Lucy.
00:10:11.760 Lucy.
00:10:12.000 Lucy is taking a shahada.
00:10:13.040 She knows more about Islam than I do. 0.62
00:10:15.360 The jinns are created by from smokeless fire.
00:10:17.680 I'm like she already knows.
00:10:18.720 I'm just reading her lips.
00:10:19.920 And she knows that smokeless fire.
00:10:22.080 So she's on point Alhamdulillah.
00:10:23.840 So smokeless fire.
00:10:24.560 Yeah.
00:10:24.720 So those are the three types of creation that we know.
00:10:26.880 Okay.
00:10:27.200 Yeah.
00:10:27.600 So how did like what happened to the shaitan that he became?
00:10:31.840 Because he was a very righteous person.
00:10:34.800 Yeah.
00:10:35.200 And then Adam happened and then he wouldn't bow down.
00:10:39.520 So what happened is with jealousy.
00:10:40.960 So jealousy is one of the root words.
00:10:42.160 But it's actually jealousy is not the cause of it.
00:10:44.080 So we don't believe that there is difference of opinion on this part.
00:10:47.600 We don't believe that Satan fell into disbelief just by not bowing.
00:10:51.600 Okay.
00:10:52.960 Now Satan had jealousy.
00:10:54.160 So he was the one when Allah tells in the Quran that he told the angels to bow down.
00:10:58.960 All of them bow down except him.
00:11:00.400 It comes across as if Iblis is an angel.
00:11:03.200 Yeah.
00:11:03.520 That's.
00:11:03.920 That's.
00:11:04.480 It comes across like that.
00:11:05.760 No.
00:11:06.160 We say he was at the ranks of the angels.
00:11:09.120 Because the angels kind of do as they are told.
00:11:12.080 Even though we believe angels have some sort of a free will.
00:11:15.200 Some sort of a free will.
00:11:16.240 Yeah.
00:11:16.800 But the angels do as they are told.
00:11:18.560 Yeah.
00:11:18.800 They can ask questions like they did in the Quran when they asked Allah.
00:11:21.920 Oh Allah, why are you creating the humankind? 0.99
00:11:24.240 They're going to cause bloodshed on earth.
00:11:25.760 Now Allah says, I know what you don't know. 0.91
00:11:27.440 So they can question, but they cannot disobey.
00:11:29.200 And so when Adam was created, Iblis was obviously curious.
00:11:35.360 Because before the soul was breathed into Adam, Iblis was observing him.
00:11:40.240 Like because Allah, we believe Allah created Adam with his own hands.
00:11:44.400 Now in hands, we say the way of his majesty, not like this.
00:11:47.600 Yeah.
00:11:48.080 So we say God Almighty created with his own hands.
00:11:50.080 So Adam, obviously Iblis was at the ranks of the angels. 0.93
00:11:53.760 Now, if you have genuinely reached that rank for the services of God, you will not have a problem if your boss or whoever decides otherwise.
00:12:01.600 So when Adam was then breathed his soul into him.
00:12:04.800 Yes.
00:12:05.120 And then we believe he sneezed.
00:12:06.400 When he sneezed, he said, Alhamdulillah, all praise belong to God.
00:12:09.840 And then when Adam, when all the angels, including Iblis, was told to bow down to how magnificent God Almighty has created Adam, he refused. 0.67
00:12:18.800 Now, a few things happened here.
00:12:20.320 Number one, jealousy. 0.82
00:12:22.240 That he is better.
00:12:23.040 Because what did he say?
00:12:23.840 And it's actually quite profound here.
00:12:25.520 He said, I am better than him.
00:12:28.560 So the first statement is, number one, the fact that you're rejecting a commandment from God is serious in itself.
00:12:33.840 Now, the second category is him saying, I am better than him.
00:12:38.000 Now, it's very interesting because the moment he said that, he proved what?
00:12:41.440 That he's not better than him.
00:12:42.880 Because if he was better than, he would have, exactly, if he would have obeyed what God said, if you are better than him or equal, God said it, I'll do it.
00:12:51.920 The fact that you didn't, you just proved that you are not better than him by saying you are better than him.
00:12:56.160 So that was number one.
00:12:57.040 Number two, he ascribed a mistake to Allah.
00:13:00.560 He's basically saying to God Almighty, he's saying to Allah that you, because you misguided me, he's basically saying, no, it's your fault.
00:13:08.080 That's what he's saying in the Quran. In the Quran, he's saying, and because you misguided me, watch what I'm going to do with them. 0.51
00:13:14.560 I'm going to, I'm going to misguide, I'm going to do this and that.
00:13:17.920 So the point is what?
00:13:19.360 When you come and negate an attribute of God Almighty, or, or claim, or claim, uh, is it for them?
00:13:26.240 Yes. Do you have one?
00:13:27.680 She's already got one. She's equipped, brother.
00:13:29.280 She's, she's already, she's already armed. 0.99
00:13:30.800 Alhamdulillah, may Allah bless you for your faith.
00:13:32.640 So, yeah. So the thing is this, is that when you ascribe a mistake to God Almighty, this is a sin.
00:13:38.000 If I come and say, oh, um, God, um, should have not created me like this.
00:13:43.680 What were you trying to, what were you trying to say?
00:13:45.520 Did you get it?
00:13:46.160 So this is where Iblis fell into disbelief.
00:13:48.560 Now, what's interesting is how comes Adam fell into the same, well, not same sin.
00:13:54.320 God told him, don't eat from the tree.
00:13:56.480 He ate from the tree.
00:13:57.520 Iblis was told, bow down.
00:13:59.280 He didn't.
00:14:00.080 What's the difference?
00:14:01.280 The difference is the following.
00:14:02.640 Is that one, when he committed the sin, Adam, he said, it's my fault, I repent.
00:14:07.520 Adam said, it's your fault.
00:14:09.600 Do you see the attitude?
00:14:10.960 One commits a sin against God and says, it's my fault.
00:14:13.120 Please forgive me.
00:14:13.920 I don't want to be among the wrongdoers.
00:14:15.680 Humbling yourself.
00:14:16.560 Repentance.
00:14:17.760 What does Iblis do? 1.00
00:14:18.640 He says, no, you misguided me and watch what I'm going to do.
00:14:21.920 That is the attitude.
00:14:23.280 I hope that answers your question.
00:14:24.640 Yeah.
00:14:25.040 Yes.
00:14:25.760 So do you have any questions?
00:14:27.360 For now, I think that's...
00:14:28.240 No problem.
00:14:29.040 I want to go back to, so a lot of, because you said if someone says, God created me wrong,
00:14:36.400 or it's like, it's not okay.
00:14:39.200 Yeah.
00:14:40.720 People with low self-esteem and depression and mental illnesses seem to have this thing
00:14:47.200 where they think God hates them, or God not loved them, or God created them wrong.
00:14:54.560 Yeah.
00:14:54.960 How can I talk to people about that and tell them that God loves everyone, God not made
00:15:02.320 you wrong?
00:15:02.880 How can I give them that belief, or that mindset?
00:15:05.840 Yeah, I think the statement that I made about somebody questioning God, or like not being...
00:15:10.160 Look, somebody might not be happy with the way their hair looks, or their nose, or whatever
00:15:14.320 it is for that matter, these are things that we're human beings, and these are all influenced
00:15:19.680 by our society.
00:15:21.680 These are the things that make women feel more ugly, and you need to look at this, and 1.00
00:15:25.360 do Botox, and get this done, and get that done. 0.87
00:15:27.920 Society has put this pressure on women, sadly. 1.00
00:15:29.920 Otherwise, we as human beings, if we didn't have these pressures, everyone would be happy
00:15:32.640 with the way they look.
00:15:33.360 But there's standards that have been set, that's not even real, it's actually rigged.
00:15:35.760 If you look at these models who are on these magazines, they don't even look the way they 0.64
00:15:40.480 are in real life, because it's all photoshopped.
00:15:43.360 She can come and say, you know, can you make my stomach look this, and make my this look 0.97
00:15:46.560 big, whatever.
00:15:47.280 So the thing is that stands, so what we say is, we're talking about people who's genuinely
00:15:51.280 ascribing a mistake in the sense where like, Allah is wrong, or this, that.
00:15:55.120 And again, look, they can repent.
00:15:56.400 If it's coming from a place of, you know, upset, we all say things that we don't mean.
00:16:00.960 So I'm talking about someone who's outright arrogant, like Iblis. 1.00
00:16:04.320 I don't think these people fall into it.
00:16:05.280 And again, it goes back to them knowing who Allah is.
00:16:08.080 You know, if they know who Allah is, and again, connecting themselves to the Quran, Islam,
00:16:12.080 I believe Islam is a solution to many things.
00:16:14.160 Once they fully immerse themselves in Islam, it will get rid of all of this stuff. 1.00
00:16:17.920 That's what it did to me when I came to Islam 11 years ago.
00:16:20.080 I went from society to chains I was enslaved in, and I had multiple masters, not literal,
00:16:26.320 you know, like, you know, trying to please the opposite gender, trying to live a certain 1.00
00:16:30.080 lifestyle, working overtime, having money, all these were my slaves.
00:16:34.080 They were masters.
00:16:35.040 I was serving them.
00:16:36.320 That's what Allah tells us in the Quran.
00:16:38.000 Have you seen the one who has, I think there's three masters, compared to the one who has one master.
00:16:42.640 The parable is what?
00:16:44.000 When you have one master, which is Allah, God Almighty, when he tells you how, what to wear,
00:16:49.120 how to live, you get a direct commandment.
00:16:51.680 Now imagine if there's three masters you guys have, and I say to you, I want you to jump.
00:16:55.520 The other one says, no, I want you to sit.
00:16:56.800 The other one says, what do you want me to do?
00:16:58.960 Do all three.
00:16:59.760 How exactly?
00:17:00.960 That's why Allah gives a parable, and that's how it was with me when I was living as a non-Muslim,
00:17:06.000 and doing all this stuff.
00:17:06.880 I realized it doesn't bring me happiness because I'm living for others.
00:17:10.960 Me going, like doing, getting a university degree, so my family can be happy.
00:17:14.880 Going and doing this, working overtime, money, this, that way, so I can go.
00:17:18.240 It was, I was just in this perpetual cycle of unhappiness.
00:17:21.040 That's why I had to wake up and say to myself, there has to be a greater purpose, you know?
00:17:25.040 And I always say, when I enslaved myself to Allah, is when I became free. 0.77
00:17:29.920 That's when I became free.
00:17:30.800 That's when I realized my true freedom.
00:17:32.400 You know why?
00:17:33.040 Because I only care about what Allah thinks of me. 1.00
00:17:35.440 I don't care what people think car I drive.
00:17:37.520 I don't care what they think what I wear.
00:17:39.120 Before I would be like, oh no, I need to look this way and that way.
00:17:41.840 Or what would they say?
00:17:42.720 I don't care about you, man.
00:17:43.680 When I die, you're not even going to come to my grave. 0.71
00:17:45.200 You're probably going to speak ill of me.
00:17:46.480 Why should I waste the majority of my life being upset?
00:17:50.320 Because when I go to my friends and say, oh, you know, oh, I don't know.
00:17:53.680 I don't know what girls say, but you know, oh, your makeup looks like this. 0.90
00:17:55.760 Or you go to your friends and oh, you know, you look, I don't care, man.
00:17:59.040 I don't live for you.
00:18:00.000 When you have that, then you realize what freedom is about.
00:18:03.280 Because you free yourself from the shackle of societal pressures.
00:18:07.120 And that's why I recommend a book called Beauty Sick. 0.85
00:18:10.080 If you guys buy it, it's from a normal samoa, very good.
00:18:12.640 Especially for females because I believe the biggest pandemic we have is this whole, 0.99
00:18:15.360 you know, makeup industry, the beauty sickness, because the standards are given.
00:18:18.720 I mean, there was a study done that when the COVID happened,
00:18:21.280 there was so many more women that were carrying on wearing the masks. 1.00
00:18:24.720 And they asked them why they said, well, you know what?
00:18:27.040 I don't have to do makeup in the morning and I don't need to be judged by it.
00:18:30.000 They were not for COVID.
00:18:31.760 They were not scared of COVID.
00:18:32.560 They were like, you know, I'm afraid of being judged.
00:18:34.480 You know, you have women who are being specific dress sense, 1.00
00:18:37.360 wearing five inch heels to work and their ankles are bleeding.
00:18:42.240 Why are these standards there?
00:18:43.840 I mean, you go clubbing and it's like minus, it's like three degrees.
00:18:47.760 And you've got girls in miniskirt. 1.00
00:18:49.360 The point is not a woman in this country can dress up how she likes. 1.00
00:18:52.480 The point is, if you go to these girls and tell them,
00:18:55.520 do you choose to wake up and take two hours to do makeup?
00:18:58.480 And then your hair.
00:18:59.280 And then do you choose to wear a skirt that's going to, it's freezing outside.
00:19:03.680 Yeah.
00:19:04.400 And then you're wearing heels that make your feet bleed,
00:19:06.400 that you take them off and walk in bloody pavement.
00:19:08.240 You know how cold pavement is.
00:19:09.040 If you ask them, they would think, you know, actually, I don't choose to do this.
00:19:13.520 I am pressured subconsciously.
00:19:16.720 And I think it's, oh, I love it.
00:19:18.240 No, you don't.
00:19:18.880 You know, so the same applies to men as well.
00:19:21.360 So these things are there.
00:19:22.320 And I believe once you accept Islam, you find your true freedom.
00:19:26.000 Yeah.
00:19:27.120 What's what's stopping you, Sister Lucy, from accepting Islam?
00:19:29.440 Uh, honestly, other people's perspective.
00:19:33.520 Okay.
00:19:34.640 Would you mean like family members or friends or?
00:19:36.640 My family would be inherently against it.
00:19:38.320 They just think it's so, it's foreign.
00:19:41.280 It is.
00:19:42.480 They don't know, they, it would be, everyone else can look but not my daughter.
00:19:48.720 That's interesting.
00:19:49.200 Because my dad, like my dad is, my dad is heavily, like, it's not just a,
00:19:53.360 I know with English people, they're a bit more, if it makes you happy. 1.00
00:19:57.040 They have this principle, it's like, if it makes you happy.
00:19:59.040 With my dad, I don't care if it makes you happy.
00:20:00.880 So with my dad, my dad was very like, my dad said,
00:20:02.880 the thing that I hate the most has been born into my family.
00:20:06.160 I was kicked out of my house.
00:20:08.160 And I'm not saying my dad's evil.
00:20:09.520 My dad sees it as foreign.
00:20:10.880 And also he's had some bad experience with Muslims back in our country.
00:20:14.720 So I would say the following, sister.
00:20:16.480 Look, at the end of the day, I understand your family members can, you know, be upset.
00:20:20.160 That's totally normal.
00:20:21.280 And I think, I think you're more lucky than me.
00:20:22.880 You know, I'm sure your family would be a thing.
00:20:24.480 But again, I'm just trying to understand, is there any questions that are stopping you?
00:20:28.640 Or is this the only thing?
00:20:30.480 I don't think there's any questions.
00:20:32.800 So then you do.
00:20:33.520 Okay.
00:20:33.680 So let me ask you a simple question.
00:20:34.640 Do you believe God is one?
00:20:35.840 Yeah.
00:20:36.320 Okay.
00:20:36.880 Do you believe that the Quran is from God Almighty?
00:20:40.800 Direct word of God.
00:20:41.760 Yeah.
00:20:42.480 Okay.
00:20:42.720 Do you believe the Prophet Muhammad is the final messenger?
00:20:44.640 From what I understand it.
00:20:46.160 Okay.
00:20:46.400 Let me put it like this. 0.88
00:20:46.960 You are a Muslim. 0.93
00:20:48.560 Let me give you an example.
00:20:49.360 I'll give you an example.
00:20:50.320 What's your favorite food?
00:20:55.600 What is it?
00:20:56.160 I'll tell you mine.
00:20:56.560 Mine is chicken and black bean sauce, halal from Heron Tours.
00:21:00.320 They did not sponsor this video.
00:21:02.560 Spicy noodles.
00:21:03.280 Spicy noodles.
00:21:04.240 Perfect.
00:21:04.560 Okay.
00:21:04.800 I want you to repeat after me.
00:21:06.160 I love spicy noodles.
00:21:08.400 Spicy noodles.
00:21:09.200 Okay.
00:21:09.440 Now the Shahada is obviously far more greater than this, but internally, you already know you love
00:21:13.440 spicy noodles.
00:21:14.400 You've just told me you love spicy noodles.
00:21:15.920 He's stating what you already believe.
00:21:18.240 That's why we say the one who utters, he says, I'm a Muslim on his tongue, but doesn't believe
00:21:22.560 in his heart is a monafic. 0.97
00:21:23.680 It's somebody who has hypocrisy, somebody who believes it in his heart, but doesn't utter 0.67
00:21:29.280 it is a disbeliever.
00:21:30.720 And that's, I'm talking about those who know deep down, you're not those type.
00:21:35.120 You are the one that you believe in your heart and you want to utter, but obviously there's
00:21:39.440 things where you're a little bit concerned about, which is family, et cetera.
00:21:42.320 Um, again, look, there is a support network that we do have.
00:21:46.240 I would say, don't let that stop you.
00:21:48.640 I can't look in the Quran, in the Surah Baqarah, verse two, five, six, it says there's no compulsion
00:21:53.040 in religion.
00:21:54.000 Truth is clear from falsehood.
00:21:55.440 So I believe my dear sister, you are a Muslim.
00:21:57.360 I believe you're sincere.
00:21:58.560 From what I have observed, you seem like a genuine person.
00:22:00.960 You seem like a nice person.
00:22:02.000 That's why you have nice friends like this.
00:22:03.120 You guys, you know, alhamdulillah.
00:22:04.320 So I would say, sister, look, it's totally up to you, but take your Shahada.
00:22:07.760 You feel enough delude.
00:22:08.320 You don't need to do on camera.
00:22:09.040 You're not doing nothing for me.
00:22:10.080 We can do off camera.
00:22:11.040 We can go, like, even if I say to you, go on your way back, on your way here, I'll
00:22:15.520 give you a statement, read it.
00:22:16.720 It's not about that.
00:22:17.440 But I would personally say to you, take a Shahada. 0.98
00:22:20.240 You've got nothing to lose.
00:22:21.200 It's just a key that you open the door.
00:22:23.680 Your journey starts, you know?
00:22:24.960 And we have our ups and downs.
00:22:25.760 I have my ups and downs.
00:22:26.400 I came to Islam 11 years ago and I had to come to that realization.
00:22:30.160 Am I going to follow my forefathers knowing that they're in the wrong?
00:22:32.560 Allah says that in the Quran.
00:22:33.520 Are you going to follow your fathers knowing that they were in falsehood?
00:22:36.320 I couldn't do that.
00:22:36.880 I couldn't live with myself knowing that because my family members hate
00:22:40.720 Islam, they're hostile towards Islam, that just so they're going to be upset. 1.00
00:22:44.000 Of course, I don't want to upset them.
00:22:45.200 But let me tell you something, sister, yeah?
00:22:46.560 Allah sometimes chooses people like you and me to be ambassadors to Islam.
00:22:50.640 Because I know many people who come to Islam, they come from hostile backgrounds. 1.00
00:22:53.600 The sister comes to Islam.
00:22:54.640 The mother comes to Islam. 0.90
00:22:55.760 I know one person.
00:22:56.400 Have you heard of Abdul Rahim Green?
00:22:58.160 Okay, so he's been a Muslim for about 30 plus years.
00:23:01.120 His father, same, staunch, didn't like it.
00:23:03.600 He came from a really, his dad was a banker.
00:23:06.320 Really wealthy family.
00:23:07.520 Family was against it.
00:23:08.640 He's stuck by his guns, yeah?
00:23:10.240 And then his father on his deathbed accepted Islam.
00:23:13.280 He's got a video.
00:23:13.920 I'll send you the video.
00:23:14.720 His father on his deathbed said the Shahada.
00:23:17.360 And we have a hadith about this.
00:23:18.480 The hadith said that on the day of judgment, a person will come in front of God Almighty.
00:23:23.520 And it's so powerful, SubhanAllah.
00:23:25.680 They will come to God Almighty and God Almighty will present all of the sins they've done.
00:23:29.680 And they will look mountains like that.
00:23:31.440 And he's like, I'm going hell.
00:23:34.080 It's done.
00:23:34.960 And then they will put onto the Mizan. 1.00
00:23:36.720 The Mizan is the scale. 0.99
00:23:38.400 He would think it's going hellfire.
00:23:39.920 God Almighty will bring a statement and place it that will unbalance everything.
00:23:45.040 And that statement is La ilaha illallah.
00:23:47.680 That Shahada, so, and that applies to a person because when he died,
00:23:52.320 he was not Muslim.
00:23:53.280 He had all of those sins accumulated.
00:23:54.960 The only thing he has on the day of judgment is what?
00:23:56.800 La ilaha illallah is the only thing he has before he died.
00:23:59.840 So I would say sister, it's totally up to you.
00:24:01.840 You can take a Shahada with me.
00:24:03.280 You can take a Shahada by yourself.
00:24:04.720 But I would recommend you to take it.
00:24:07.360 Which one would you like?
00:24:08.080 Not on camera.
00:24:09.040 Perfect.
00:24:09.520 No problem.
00:24:10.160 It doesn't need to be.
00:24:11.120 Inshallah, what we'll do is there's a sister there I want to connect you to.
00:24:14.160 But Inshallah, guys, make du'a for sister Lucy.
00:24:16.400 And Juud.
00:24:17.680 And Juud, Inshallah.
00:24:19.120 What does that mean?
00:24:20.880 Generosity.
00:24:21.760 Ah, okay.
00:24:22.800 Interesting.
00:24:23.360 You've got a good friend here.
00:24:24.160 I'm your best friend, yeah?
00:24:25.600 Yeah.
00:24:26.000 Go ahead, Inshallah.
00:24:26.400 Now you guys can pray together.
00:24:27.440 Inshallah.
00:24:28.080 Inshallah.
00:24:28.400 Well, you've got to pray for us too.
00:24:29.360 Of course.
00:24:29.760 You can't be forgetting us and the cameraman.
00:24:31.440 You know, all these people here.
00:24:32.400 And I'm carrying all these mics with me. 1.00
00:24:34.160 I'm joking.
00:24:34.720 My dear brothers and sisters, if you're watching this, make du'a for our sister Lucy.
00:24:37.840 And our sister Juuddi.
00:24:39.840 Juud.
00:24:40.480 I'm bad with names.
00:24:41.120 I'm bad with names.
00:24:41.840 Sometimes I forget my own name.
00:24:43.200 Okay.
00:24:43.520 May Allah bless you guys.
00:24:44.160 Assalamualaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh.