SHNEAKO - April 20, 2026SNEAKO Interviews Hussain Yee： Wisdom from a Chinese Muslim
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Summary
In this episode of the podcast, we have a guest who is not yet a muslim, but has been a part of the Muslim community for a long time. He shares his story of how he became a Muslim, and how he was able to make the transition from being a non-muslim to a Muslim.
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Most of the people that I meet, the not yet muslim, I don't call them non-muslim.
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You see, why I purposely use this term, not yet muslim, then they, why you call me not yet muslim?
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I see, yeah, I hope one day you become muslim, no, no, no, no, no, no, don't worry, I'll pray for you.
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People in the political world that say that the Uyghurs aren't actually facing a genocide,
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that it's all propaganda from CCP and CIA or whatever.
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Are the Uyghurs actually being oppressed in China?
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So Chinese Muslims exist peacefully in China?
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Our enemy, number one enemy, of course, shaitan.
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The second is not communist, it's not socialism, it's not capitalism.
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great to meet you good how are you how are you you okay my grandson oh
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how's your journey or so far from uh zaki night's place here easy it was yeah i mean it was a little
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bumping on the road a little not too bad traffic was okay it was okay alhamdulillah no traffic at
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all yeah we came here quickly we have good conversations on the way here yeah good good
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i wanted to meet uh asian muslims and they told me they were good reverts here
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Being around Muslims is just, it's refreshing.
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You know, I spent all my time around the Khafer
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and it's really a lot of propaganda, hatred right now.
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how quickly society is devolving in the West, really quickly.
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So you've been around, like, you were there in New York
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and his story is a perfect example of how someone like that elevated and grew out of that from being
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a street pen no but then like what happened from 10 years old to like four years ago i think it was
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uh it was something i put off like when i was very young i i mean it was longer than 10 years
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like 18 years ago now you know almost 28 i think i didn't put it off for any specific reason i'm
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not around muslims i didn't i didn't really know what what i didn't want to learn more about what
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it was i realized it's submission to god i grew up catholic i'm like oh okay that's what i am
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it was really that simple you know i didn't pray to saints i didn't pray to mary i didn't pray to
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jesus pray to god and even if you read catholic doctrine they have a document called nostre tape
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where catholic leaders acknowledge that muslims worship the father we don't worship you know
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know idols or son or any of this stuff that they say oh muslims worship the father so even though
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if you read no sure you're like wait shouldn't they just become muslim yeah why are you worshiping
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others than god so what was the shift oh when i realized that it was like okay well god is real
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i'm not an atheist and i don't believe that there's three i don't worship a man
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okay and then i looked into the life of uh prophet muhammad sallallahu sallam and
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everything made sense yeah just this is it was the truth so it's just undeniable truth
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no more feed the warner this is the first thing allah said he will ask us in the day of judgment
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before he asked other things about your connection with me about your salah salah is a daily
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obligation we cannot fail we cannot say i don't know i don't know this i make mistake you can't
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because it's a daily obligation it's like every day you eat and drink you cannot get wrong
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But a lot of Muslims, naif, maybe they just hear say, follow the norm, follow the tradition,
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The Prophet said, when you want to pray, you worship Allah, perform your prayer,
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But all his movement, he has made it very detailed from the beginning to the end of the prayer.
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Perform your heart. You've seen me perform my prayer.
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He doesn't say recite what I recite, then all of us have big problem.
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He recite long, long surah. We can recite any surah. This is convenient.
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He just said the movement you cannot just do your way my way he was sent appointed by Allah to show us the way
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like Moses was sent to Banik Israel and at his time you must follow time Abraham Abraham's way time Jesus
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Jesus' way. The time of Prophet Muhammad until the end of the world. Follow his way. That's why Allah said,
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Quli in kuntum tuhibbunullah mafattari uni yuhdikunullah. You say you love Allah, Allah put one condition, follow my
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wrong you cannot say i love allah i follow my way no no no the way allah has ordained command us to
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do come come bismillah let us have ordained to the camera look at this bro masha'allah
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definitely not sure a little more sure yeah right shake it if i can ask you one question before uh
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you start eating food before food because i just don't what is the relationship that asian culture
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has with islam because i'm wondering if it's similar to white culture in america when white
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people revert to islam they get a lot of backlash they say submit to rome instead you know you're
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betraying your people you're a race traitor is there any of that pushback from here really the
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asian it depends if you are in malaysia when you become a muslim they are worried our chinese i'm
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talking about the chinese my people will be very worried that you become a malik
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you see they want do not want you here you are chinese so be a chinese so they are very confused
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they do not know how to differentiate between race and religion right so this is the confusion
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now what caused them to have this fear because even one muslim have problem one muslim majority
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are malay they thought that this religion belong to them so that's why the chinese i'm talking on
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behalf of the chinese they're worried you become so and then one beautiful part in the teaching of
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islam as also our asian culture is we have a very strong family values
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the only thing that the problem is because they don't understand i don't know i think the west
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are more active in dakwa propagating islam but here sometimes born muslim are very passive
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i know because i've been with my muslim friend from the 60s 50
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i'm surrounded by muslims but sadly to say no one talked to me about islam
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nobody it's my own interest to know about the spiritual world then i engage in buddhism
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christianity that became muslim but you were a buddhist before i was born a buddhist yes
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And it also seems like there's a lot of similarities in Buddhism.
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I see the way that the Buddhist monks worship in Thailand and in Japan.
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I don't know if all monks do this, but they put their head to the floor and they even go sujood in the direction of Buddha.
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But it seems similar, even the way that they act.
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And look at the way they shave their heads the way we do when we make umrah.
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But I think the major difference, because when I was, what's the word, Jahlil days?
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I would wonder about Buddhism, because Buddhism seems like it has a lot of good values.
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It doesn't seem like there's any racial superiority, which was a big turnoff with other faiths.
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the one thing i don't like about buddhism not to be divisive but it's the idea that a monk will
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retreat into the mountains and it was appealing back then that a monk goes there and just spends
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all his day meditating and isolated and you could just be away from the peace and a lot of atheists
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and westerners would be like oh i wish i was like them i just want to escape from it all or i want
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to go on a rocket ship with elon musk and be in space and just escape the world but in islam we
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believe we're supposed to be with the people like we're supposed to spread the word we're supposed
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for god he himself was confused because he was a prince stay in the palace the king informed
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everyone any old people should not walk in front my son any sick people should not walk in front
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my son. What my son has to see is happiness, young, healthy, no suffering, no pain, just happiness.
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So the son just followed and enjoyed his life until he managed to went out with the king,
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the father yeah we hope you enjoy your food it's delicious yeah yeah i'm listening i don't want to
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interrupt it until the son managed to run out for a trip outside the palace and order was given
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old people sick people cannot stand in front they must be hidden so that my son would not
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see they will not suffer because pain or age is suffering
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suddenly been young while you're walking you just run away
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yeah all is people suffering hunger now this trigger him
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please start to trigger the sun that i must know the truth
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and he met a lot of different people so-called priests meditation in the jungle with long hair
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long nail everything long you say you cannot cut anything that god gives
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so he cannot get any answer then she meditated under the wood tree that is the beginning of
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meditation meditation to guatama buddha is like how musus went to the cave got to the prophet went to
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hira a lot of people who want to look for something spiritual they have to isolate themselves
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and find their inner peace so they just want to be by themselves and that's where he was
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He was meditating under the bootry. They called Qalwa. In Islam, they called Qalwa.
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I just isolate himself. That is when he got the enlightenment.
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That's why when he had the awareness in Sanskrit, the word awareness is called Buddha.
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When he was enlightened, the Enlightenment gave him the title, Buddha.
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I have a lot more I want to ask you, but I want to let you get the chance to eat.
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Where does this rank in terms of food of your state here in Malaysia?
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I see you already eating like a Malaysian with your hands and stuff.
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There's a whole chat talking about you eating, bro, I couldn't.
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What's the truth about, this is a long question,
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And a lot of times they get called the Chinese Muslims.
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But it's hard to find information about the Uyghur people.
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I don't know if Malaysians know that much, but I have people in the political world that say that the Uyghurs aren't actually facing a genocide, that it's all propaganda from CCP and CIA or whatever.
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Are the Uyghurs actually being oppressed in China?
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the Huay. There are two groups, the Huay and the Han, the Han economists.
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When you say Huay, all the Chinese in China know they are Muslim.
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They're not interested in seeking anything outside of themselves
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no money no god don't talk about god first talk about money so that's why they they work they're
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just interested to do business work until they get what they want then you want to talk about
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the spiritual set you can talk so money first spirituality yeah and you see in china in history
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most of the Chinese to get strong and together
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When food is concerned, something is very important.
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The second thing that happened, because Muslims are not productive.
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The Muslims in Asia in general, they don't do that.
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you talk about islam among themself among themselves they have a lot of activities in the mall
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our my time in the six in the fifties and early sixties
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they will consider we who are not a Muslim or Malay, you are a disbeliever, Qalas, you are gone, gone to
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nobody come and tell, do you know anything about Islam? do you want to know about Islam? nobody
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you. It's nafsi-nafsi. You know? They look at you, Chinese,
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So, basically, to recap, you're saying that they, their main priority is money,
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and then when they see the Muslim from their experience, the Muslim is not as productive,
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Actually, you don't even have this term atheism, communism, atheism, you don't have it.
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They don't say communism either? They don't have communism in China?
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They have, but the term is misused by a lot of people.
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If you go back to what Allah said, what happened from the time of Adam, nobody denied God.
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the only thing he he he he was cursed by all he refused to prostrate to Adam
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other is okay he's okay but I don't know now I'm better than him very proud
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do you think the people around us don't believe they do believe but they are confused which God
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should i believe that's why prophet was sent from time to time to remind the people come back to
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allah so some accept some refuse because of tradition so in in asia do they also believe
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that islam is an arab religion some of them one majority of muslims are asian i know
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do they know that right now they know because it started from there
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oh so they think that oh you're trying to become part of yeah that's why you see some of the
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malaysian now majority like to wear abaya jumba
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that's why we say why must you wear jumba like in arab you're not in arab
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this is what happened in china lately when they come to know about islam
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you want to know more because you're very confused the west always
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say anything to do islam terrorists extremists fundamentalists we have all the lists there
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islamists they start saying that's a new term islamist
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anything happened bad around the world first they attacked muslim even
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you have also group of this luga group who has been who's been outside
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Some people have a new friend of mine, they call him Professor Jang.
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So he believes in God, but doesn't believe in specific religion.
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sometimes they call it the monad the god before god or consciousness from within
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it's a term people are very confused people play with them today
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this god is the true god everybody say god christians say jesus is god
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what are my Buddha never called anybody to worship him
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but the followers after that this idol worshipper never start from that it starts from the blind
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who want to claim to be the other gurus, the other monks, so they cannot say I am better than Guatama, so they put a statue, they start to say I have direct communication issues.
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That is the beginning of human who is building their own cult to confuse the public and to claim that they are God.
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Many things even look in Islam. Islam is a very clear-cut religion here to guide us with a straight forward guiding.
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we believe in prophet we believe in but we don't worship any of them
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we believe in Jesus we don't worship him we believe Muhammad we don't worship
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we worship Allah that is the difference you make it very clear
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He was a prophet, then he called his wife, and wife accept, he called his good friend, invite him to Islam, Abu Bakar accept, he called his cousin Ali, and they accept, just, you can count by your finger, the beginning, 13 years he was in Mecca, calling his people, showing them good example, then he left to Medina for 10 years,
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His mission complete in 23 years. Can you imagine the whole Muqqa become Muslim?
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Medina Muslim. Paif Muslim. Why? Because everyone in the time of Prophet
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see in a short while the muslim population spread to persia to rome
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this is how fast but what happened to us later on when we all majority who are born muslim
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the enemy of islam trying to create fear into people to islam the more they create this
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fitna people want to know more about islam you see is it how allah's plan yeah it's amazing
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like for instance in america 9 11 was an operation to you know in their eyes destroy islam and
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destroy the image of the song yeah but that actually was the catalyst of what made islam
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worldwide yeah because they're like hey we hear about you know this isn't that let me read the
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ground and they read the ground they realize the news is has been feeding them yes all propaganda
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that's why people start to get look for islam it's because of the bad propaganda with bad
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intention open the mind the heart that i want to know more about this what this terrible religion is
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what kind of people are they you know then you start to read that's why there was a attempt
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quran is not enough in america people are asking that's why you make some people you see in the
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In the world, you don't have any Muslim burn the Buddhist Dharma, Hindu scripture, or Bible.
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We now do all the Torah. All the Torah. We don't do that.
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But you see people burn the Quran. Why? Because it's true.
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The majority of them are lying, lying to the whole world, people are confused, they don't want people to know, I don't know because I engage in a lot of interfaith dialogue in the West.
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At the end of the discussion, the only thing they fear is because of the truth.
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Allah said, the truth from Allah, don't have doubt, don't fear, just convey the truth, but the truth is bitter.
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That's why the Prophet said, speak out the truth even it's bitter.
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Because again, it goes against your desires, you like this, you like that, but the truth is different.
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God never followed us, we have to follow him. Islam didn't belong to us, it belonged to Allah.
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But today, the way the Muslim behaved like Islam belonged to them.
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that is the confusion started because of that then you have another problem the Asian Muslim
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want Islam follow Asian value culture the West want them to follow the Arab want Islam to follow
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whose speech, whose word is most than the people who da'a illallah, call others to Allah.
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Wa'amila saliha and the caller must set good example.
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That's why the Prophet, because of his extra personality, in 23 years,
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Can you imagine 300 of our idols around the Ka'bah disappeared except Ka'bah
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Not we go and pull it down, everybody who come to Islam say enough
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Masha Allah, it's unbelievable but actions speak louder than words
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they prove to them this is what is now honesty trustworthy all the good things the prophet
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demonstrate in front respect their elders love the young respect honor your neighbors
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honor the woman woman right was championed by islam before that women have no rights
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now in the west they say women's right, women's right
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women's right has been championed by our promise
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They thought that woman is like a dress, a garment.
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You buy them, you own them, you control them.
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In Hinduism, they say a woman must be a slave to the husband.
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If they got sick, if anything happened bad to the man, they said you are the cause.
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if you corrupt the women, you can corrupt the children, right?
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why they want to corrupt the women is because
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in reality, they want to get to the children.
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target for the shaitan yes so the fitna is greater the challenge is great
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and then what happened again we can talk about women
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why did the prophet also warn us about the woman if you are not careful
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When you have knowledge, but again, knowledge can corrupt.
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When I am saying about knowledge, I am focusing on pure knowledge.
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Uncorrupted knowledge is what Allah said in his book of Quran.
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And what the Prophet said in his sunnah, pure knowledge is power.
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You can say anything, you, the Christian, communist, socialist, any ism-ism, you can come, but because I have knowledge, I will not just follow anything blindly, because I have the knowledge to guide me, and what God said cannot be wrong, what I say can be right, can be wrong, what any one of us said can be right,
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This is a place we open for everybody. Come and learn. It's free. Knowledge is for everybody.
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So when anybody learn and they want to be a Muslim, then we will remind them.
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Do you have family? Do you have parents? If you have, please inform your parents.
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You are big enough to decide what is good for you.
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But I want you to be honest, transparent to your parents.
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The minute you go home, you're going to stay with them.
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going to prepare the same food what are you going to tell them what are you going to tell them
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oh i'm not hungry today you know i just have dinner outside
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how about tomorrow are you going to tell the parents oh i so you create more problem to yourself
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When you are out front with them, honest, Papa, Mama, I found God, I believe in Allah.
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Of course, they got shocked, they are not happy.
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At least you are honest and transparent with them.
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You overcome that fear, you finish. Fear Allah more.
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Because of that, we have happened in our center here.
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She got mother, brother, she agreed to bring them.
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We have a incident. One sister want to be a Muslim.
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And if your family is around, I will ask them any question, A, B, C, any question, is
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Islam is very transparent and open for everybody.
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If she felt that or feel that she has been forced, we stop her.
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We prove to them that there is no compulsion in religion.
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At the end of the day, the one who opened the heart of everyone is Allah, not us.
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in the west they like to criticize as a prophet of allah is that the same thing that happens in the
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east sometimes but not that yeah i'm they did not do that open here i said the city because
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it's muslim majority they're worried they will have problem they're worried about consequences
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yeah if they speak like yeah but you have some of them one two of them may try to be funny
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Yeah, Allah knows everything and he is talking to us. If anything happened in the day of Jashrut, you don't blame anyone except yourself.
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Even shaitan said to us, he will try to whisper and mislead us. When we follow, you know what he said?
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He said, I have nothing to do with this. I wash my hands. I fear Allah.
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I fear Allah, and then he said, I only whispered to you, this, this, that, you go and follow
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me for what? The minute you follow him, you know what he said, I'll hate you for that.
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God have warned you about me. You still follow me. You still the dialogue, what Allah
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in the Quran is very interesting. And in the Day of Judgment, you know what Allah
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وَقَوْلَذِينَ قَفَرْ رَبَّنَا عَرِنَا اللَّذِينَ أَدْدَوْلَانَ مِنَجِينَ وَالْإِلْسِ
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نَجَعَلْهُمَ تَقْتَعَقْدَامِنَا لِيَقُونَ مِنَ الْأَسْلِينَ
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We are so sad. God is going to punish and put us in hell. Because we disbelieve and we
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then we are not happy. God, O Allah, please send the shaitan who have turned us as string when we are in the dunia because of him we disbelieve in you, we don't obey you.
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Why? Because we want to step on them. We want to hit them hard.
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Then shaitan, Allah command, come. Immediately shaitan said, who call you to follow me?
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If you don't, stop saying Allah, I'm going to choke you to death.
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You don't want to drink alcohol. You drink a bit. You don't get drunk. No problem.
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So we are at the end of the day, we become a loser here and there, we thought that we were, Allah will be just to us, then shaitan will come, and shaitan don't blame me, but it's good, that's why I said, our enemy is our own jahiliya, our stupidism, ignorant, cause us to be a victim for
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do you think society was different before like do you think there was a time where society was
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more knowledgeable and now wouldn't become ignorant or society has always been ignorant
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yeah i think that's why that society before we call jahiliya jahiliya is not that they are ignorant
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about survival about business they have doing business but they are ignorant about the truth
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the whole truth but the truth are not they believe in god you don't have atheists
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communists in the beginning this is a new term jahiliya people who worship idols
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that's why you call them the jahiliya musyrikin why you call musyrikin because they worship
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something beside allah they got idols all these are idols that's why you have 360 idols around
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we have the tall one short one fat one thin one sleeping one we have so many different idols
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God don't look like any one of us now Allah make it so clear it seems like people in society don't
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really change because if you look at the stories of the prophets they all say the same thing
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correct they repeat the same thing over every generation of human beings they always say oh
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you know are you trying to steer us away from the tradition of our forefathers correct
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and the same thing like when you talk about the asian culture it's the same
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people from the beginning of time to know it's like it's like it's just new term
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So there's almost a bit of war between culture and religion?
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The ongoing struggle is about the truth and falsehood, haqq and baqq, that's all.
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You see, Islam is not here to demolish culture.
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Every race, every tribe have their own culture.
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said everything clear but any culture conflict with islam you have to abandon the culture in the
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jahiliya is what one of the culture very popular culture in jahiliya before islam is what you
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remember is when you have a newborn baby girl is more honorable to bury them alive that is the culture
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woman again baby girl you better bury them alive because they will bring shame to the family
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that is jahiliya that's the type of ignorance ignorance those are the arabs doing this yes the
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culture that is their so when you become muslim you cannot follow that culture because killing
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innocent life is forbidden i just have a thought right now like subhanallah like allah turned the
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alabs from people that would when they would have female children bury them alive to now they're the
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most honored in the house all because the deen of all they did because the truth completely switched
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them from yes as soon as the daughter was born they think the daughter is going to bring shame
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to their family let's bury them and then now when islam comes no they're the most honored yeah
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so the truth is very powerful now the culture when you accept islam you cannot follow that culture
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you can't some drink please serve them you cannot follow your culture it's like a chinese
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what is our culture we honor respect our elders who have passed away
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but do you still have the belief that their spirit is coming home every year
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to visit the family that culture we cannot believe anymore again the islamic teaching
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Because when a person died, you are gone. Your spirit cannot come back anymore. It's gone.
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The one that you feel is the Satan, the Jean is playing with this. But not your father come back again,
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your mother come back again. So you want to go back to celebrate Chinese New Year. Chinese New Year
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is a Chinese calculation of their calendar of what their Chinese calendar yeah they follow the moon
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like how we follow the moon so they have lunar calendar yeah they have lunar calendar you see so
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according to the calculation that day is the day of the new year so they declare a new no religious
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value just based on their culture their calculation like how we muslim in malaysia not in the west
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first of muharram awal muharram here we declare public holiday because that is our calendar
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not by prophet muhammad by omar who decide that it's time for the muslim to have their own
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calendar calculation so we also have our but that is not a religious requirement just based on our
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tradition okay so any tradition do not contradict Islam you can still have a family gathering
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be together there's nothing but one is against that you go to the temple you cannot go
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So what is the, like, are we as Muslims, are we allowed to walk into that temple or no?
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Because anybody to go is like you are also promoting.
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You see, so many come that you are also promoting that place.
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yeah i become a christian before i became a muslim then a jew too no
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I said, now, I want you to be like me, if possible, open.
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i said i have to share with you what god said about mary and what god said about jesus
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not my word it's god's word so anything you do if you know how to make use of that
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to do that one go and so uh how long have you been muslim for now since 1968 okay
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and then when you were a christian would you preach christianity i don't really preach i was
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going towards that 1968 yeah how old are you i didn't even think about it i didn't digest what
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yes so you got to be older than 60 obviously so he's probably 30 when he converted so are
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Are you, no, you're not nine, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
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when I want to start to do that word to the, my friend who are Muslim,
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So when I start to talk a bit, I get some, they are talking, they are asking, you know, me about, do you believe in Trinity?
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The Holy Father is one, the Holy Son, another one, and the Holy Spirit, another one.
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I thought Chinese people were good at math.
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When I want to talk to my friend, they are born Muslim.
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Now, if I'm saying that, no, actually God is the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.
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I am worried that I cannot penetrate through that.
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And the Christians sometimes use the Holy Ghost
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Because the Christians used that approach.
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And how do Allah guide me? Not because of the Muslim. Not because of the Quran, I was not given an opportunity to read the Quran.
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Because before the culture here, you are not Muslim, you cannot touch the Quran.
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Because you are Najis, you are unclean. Only Muslim who want to touch the Quran also have to take ablution.
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They honor the Quran. So how can I read? I didn't ask for the Arabic. I can't read Arabic.
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I just asked. Also cannot. So I read the history of Sayyidina Omar. How he became a Muslim.
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That is the opening. That is the hidayah that Allah gave me through. The history of Omar.
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Indonesia also is another country that is good to explore.
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The only thing in Indonesia, they are Pancasila.
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Islam is not the official religion of that country.
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Still, it's funny that in America, they always say it's an Arab religion, it's a brown religion.
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And we find out demographically, Islam is an Asian religion.
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Majority of here, the Asian, Alhamdulillah, was Allah gives them hidayah, they become Muslim.
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Even like China, population is huge, the Muslim.
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Buddhist population, very minimum, sometimes, they are still having some problems with the
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I said to them, the non-Muslim or minority, this is the best time to do dakwah.
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Be close to them. That's how the Prophet do his dialogue.
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He is not here to judge you. You go to hell, you shaitan.
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What do you see? How the Prophet talked to the people? Ayuhannas.
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I would like to share with all of you this saying very important.
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when the prophet was performing his Hajj, the first and the last, his last word to the Ummah
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in Arafah, what did he say? He never said, all Arabs, all believers, all who judge,
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Those who come for Hajj are Yohannas, old people, old mankind.
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All of us are the children of Adam, and Adam is from the earth.
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Neither white is better than the black, except taqwa.
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That's why I called most of the people that I met.
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The not yet Muslim. I don't call them non-Muslim.
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Not yet Muslim. Why do you call me not yet Muslim?
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I said, yeah, I hope one day you become Muslim. No, no, no, no, no.
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Don't worry, I'll pray for you. Don't pray for me.
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okay free free i don't charge any money please don't pray for me i just want them to think why i use
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this word because allah said in surah taubah this group of people who are not a believer
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they believe in other god but not allah it's because they don't nobody talk to them
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That's why I said, you are not yet a Muslim. You are my brother.
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So sometimes when I was in the UK before, I called the not yet Muslim brother.
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How can you call the non-Muslim your brother?
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But I'm saying that we are brother because we came from the same father, Adam, brother
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And then we made you into tribes and nation who choose to be different.
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That's why I said, I don't choose to be a Chinese.
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Did I choose this? You choose to be a Malik?
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But He made us different not to belittle one another.
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Because they know you don't know what you're talking.
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So, anyhow, you're going to Indonesia, you'll be exposed more about other cities, the different scenario back there, have more freedom compared with us.
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Muslim over there also, very complicated. You can have Prophet there, you have Allah there, human can be God, everything you can find in Indonesia
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because it's a Pancasila constitution. It's different. Here you dare not say that.
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You say that the authority comes after you. Over there it's up to you.
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You can just say anything you want. So it's like the wild, wild east.
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That is very complicated. The good is very good.
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And then you have the extreme people who also call themselves Muslim.
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I have been there for more than 30 over years, traveling, doing da'wah.
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Very interesting. May Allah make it easy for your journey.
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How long you will be there? Three days, inshallah.
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Okay. And then to the motherland, then Philippines after.
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How long is your journey in Southeast Asia at this time?
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Here, Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, Tonga, Western Samoa, Malaysia, and then Taiwan.
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And then we go for Japan, Korea, and then also in Philippines.
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1950 you were born that's what they looked up your wikipedia
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in reality people asked you about age I said don't worry
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engaged with all these critical thinking people.
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But we learned to understand where they come from.
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Then, inshallah, with the will of love, we can share with them.
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Make them start to think because, to be very frank, brother,
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after I learned about Islam and studied through my life experience,
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I found that Islam, the teaching of Quran and the Prophet, number one, relevant at all time.
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No, no, no, no, seriously, we'll get it, we'll get it.
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all right thank you so much nice to meet you thanks bro peace man thanks for coming
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oh yeah you talk like him i do yeah yeah remind me of him he was ready to stream
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really thanks tazel oh yeah oh finally met me funny thing you were running around me for the
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last two days apparently and i show up you leave you show up i leave this is crazy crazy coincidence
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i was down the hotel and you were at that jalan market or something yesterday yeah i think yeah
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we had dinner there and then i went to get shawama and guess what happened this guy came up to me
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when i was streaming and he said another streamer was right here huh random coincidence yeah what's
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your name shake aka explorer on kick shake yeah okay yeah they were telling me in the chat that
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you were pulled out yeah there's some guys and i hate it they do all that no they weren't hating
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they said that you're outside oh that's surprising because usually when i try to meet up with some
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streamer they always say something awful and try to that oh i hope i'm not i have to take it you
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I always use this as the beginner of the foundation of the team.
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So, this is basically whatever activities that we have here.
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this is just like a summary of it what we do what we do only for this year july
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alhamdulillah we have you need almost every weekend we have people coming to islam
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my small book club is this one i use this as my to make people understand the foundation of the
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oh this is nice i like simple being easy to read easy to understand i'm the same way yeah i like
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that all the big book you know sometimes you cannot carry this one half an hour finish
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then you can remember better what is islam yeah it's very important this is for you
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there's another book inside there it's called the fortress of the muslims
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So this fortress of the Muslims is basically for all Muslims about the doa.
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There is like a prayer, all the short prayer that taught us, daily prayer.
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We are traveling, we want to resign, we want to arrive at the destination, what to do.
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We have good intention, but the people that we are going to meet,
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so we seek allah's maximum protection and may allah protect us that's very important stay connected
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alhamdulillah this is our signature yes one god to heed yes one family one umma
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it's their way of propagating Christianity
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They are not like other Christians, they are still very lucky
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let's take one right here yeah come what yeah yeah
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cool how can we get that can you get the photos from him check check the photos okay we have an
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early flight yeah yeah thanks so much for hosting us i really appreciate it it was a beautiful
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prayer beautiful feud this is our our center your compound learning compound the whole day
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Philippines, who is regarding you all to Philippines?
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Yeah, I want to do as much as I can in the Philippines.