00:00:30.920Wa alaykum as-salam wa rahmatullah wa barakatuhu. How are you, man?
00:00:33.940I'm doing good. I'm back in the land of shaytan, back in Miami. I haven't spoken to you since Ramadan. How are you?
00:00:39.460Alhamdulillah, I'm great. What is the recent controversy that you're in, you know?
00:00:45.340I'm used to being in controversy, isn't it?
00:00:47.960Uh, see, when you say what controversy I'm in, I don't know which one you're talking about. I'm always in something. There's always something going on. So there's like three or four things you can speak about right now.
00:00:56.700Yeah, subhanAllah, this is the thing. Sometimes I'm just scrolling at Twitter and I see some people attacking you randomly or something like that. People always talking about you for some reason.
00:01:04.860I think it's the fact that your name is viral, maybe. That's why they're using you as a means, you know?
00:01:09.480I think a lot of these people are envious. And it is really sad sometimes where you have a streamer at least is doing something or trying to do something good in a way.
00:01:17.420You know, you spend the whole month of Ramadan. It doesn't matter what kind of view they have against you.
00:01:21.840Like no one can come and say, you know, someone spending a whole month collecting money for charity for Palestine is not doing good, you know?
00:01:29.080And these streamers who are, or these people who generally criticize you, like what kind of good have we seen them doing?
00:01:34.480What kind of charity, kind of collections that they have been doing in the last, how many years, you know?
00:01:39.380These people have millions, like thousands, tens of thousands of dollars.
00:01:42.480So it's really surprising sometimes when I see people attacking you for, oh, you're doing this, you're doing that.
00:01:48.520Yeah. I mean, I don't really see it too important to compare.
00:01:52.080I'm trying to think about the audience.
00:01:53.460So I see people get really upset when I talk about my refusal to take a gambling deal because they see it as a reflection of their own actions.
00:02:00.100But I'm not, when I talk about that, it's not trying to be a personal attack on these people.
00:02:04.880I'm just trying to, I want the audience to know that you don't need to go sell out your morals.
00:02:09.000And, you know, what's better for the world is that you make the right decision.
00:02:12.500And maybe I could do that in a more gracious way.
00:02:15.120I'm trying to approach this content thing more stoically, with more stoicism.
00:02:24.200But what's your overall perception on how I've been handling things?
00:02:28.320And how do you think I could do better and make it more Islamic?
00:02:32.860But, you know, we kind of had like a brief kind of talk about that last time, you know, in a way, right?
00:02:37.240It's like it's impossible to live in the world you're living in and make it Islamic, right?
00:02:41.480It's like the best you could do is to do as best as you can, which is what I can see you trying to do, essentially, right?
00:02:47.360Like, as much as possible, you're trying to avoid to bring like these women that is, you know, doing all of this, you know, prostitute kind of activities online or this or that.
00:02:57.480You're trying to avoid doing that, for example.
00:02:59.220You're trying to bring people who are more educating the people on an intellectual level.
00:03:03.040Because, you know, something which is really funny is like you do not need to be, number one, a clown, number two, using women's bodies in order for you to get views.
00:03:13.140And I think the fact that the whole Western world, in a way, the whole streaming world, I think you have to either do one of these two things in order for you to get views is pathetic.
00:03:24.080It's honestly the most pathetic thing I've ever seen.
00:03:26.520It is an admit of defeat in every level, you know?
00:03:30.000It's an admit that these people have got nothing intellectual to offer, have got no real benefit to the world that they can put forward.
00:03:36.100That's why they have to rely on using women or have to rely on acting in the most ridiculous, crazy type of, you know, childish manner, because this is what gets the clicks.
00:03:45.920Like, and, you know, I don't like using myself as an example, but it's not even just me or anyone in general.
00:03:52.120You see people, brothers, doing dawah, and you'll see them on live streaming, and you'll see them with an average of 7, 8K people watching.
00:04:02.500There is no, you know, jumping like a clown, making monkey noises, acting like you're homosexual, and, you know, like getting all of these, you know, physical objects out of the screen to show someone's butt.
00:04:15.740Yeah, all of this is like crazy stuff that you're about to do right now.
00:06:04.300And then they don't talk about it for a month straight.
00:06:05.840And then for people to still insinuate, like I'm in Mecca, I'm literally streaming in Medina, like in a hacham, all the way over there with half the viewers that I have in America.
00:06:15.240Because it's, you know, it's my religion and people still call me a fake Muslim.
00:06:20.100But I don't really, it doesn't really affect me anymore.
00:06:22.720I'm at the point where I'm just trying to add something good to this conversation because I know how the entertainment is, people want to see that.
00:06:31.880You know, you're going to have to, ultimately, you do have to compromise halal completely to be able to garner a good audience, right?
00:06:38.480Like, for example, think about like the ads that show up.
00:06:48.260If you do debates and stuff like that, you're going to speak at the kafir, or there's going to be women, like there's some semblance of free mixing.
00:06:55.420In order to be a good entertainer, you do have to compromise to some extent.
00:08:38.960Look, I'm speaking again from an Islamic point of view, and I told you before last time that you're kind of coming from a completely different world.
00:08:44.560You are within a completely different world.
00:08:45.820You live in a completely different state.
00:08:47.740So you will have to kind of, you're in the end.
00:08:51.120If you want to continue what you're doing, there has to be a mixture.
00:08:53.680But you're decreasing it as much as you can, which is a very respectful and an honorable thing.
00:08:57.940And I hope in the end, you're able to kind of make it the best way possible, you know, when you're able to.
00:34:45.460And I think the reason he asked you this question is he's feeling himself that he's not being 100% able in the current state that he's in.
00:34:53.700So I think he needs a bit of direction to know that, to take things easy now and, you know, relax a little bit and to feel that he's, like, there's a lot of emotions, like, hectic.
00:37:30.620Okay, but why do you think that you stopped there at this word?
00:37:33.740It's because being on Twitter, I'm not saying that you have a contract for it, but being on this website so long with people that run it that also don't believe in God, they always...
00:38:20.740It's a very important point that you should bring up.
00:38:22.840Because if I say yesterday I believed that stealing was wrong and today I believe stealing is right, that means that stealing in itself is not right or wrong.
00:38:31.620It just depends on the society and community.
00:38:33.800His community just told him today that you could have completely annihilated him with the statement that he made.
00:38:49.160And when he makes the statement and says that this is the case, for example, you could say to him that you go back before the 1960s, what was the position towards homosexuals?
00:38:58.080They were stoning them and actually killing them publicly.
00:39:01.120And then later on it changes because of the society.
00:39:03.040So essentially he's saying if the society says something is right, it's right.
00:39:06.320And if it says something is wrong, it's wrong.
00:39:08.060So if society says it's okay to get married at the age of 10, it becomes okay.
00:39:11.640If society says it's okay to do whatever it is, incest, then it becomes okay.
00:39:15.200And you've got in the U.S. now in certain courts, people pushing cases of them wanting to do incest or to get married to their cousins.
00:39:22.820Not cousins because cousins we don't consider incest, but let's say to their sisters or to their mothers or whatever it is.
00:43:18.080I mean, if you take only your morality from some book that was written a long time ago, I mean, you're bound to be maybe outdated on some of it, no?
00:52:07.380We're saying in general, when do you determine that someone is able to make his decisions?
00:52:10.840And if you just say that consent is agreeing to something, then this can happen for anyone at any age when they're able to communicate, essentially.
00:52:18.800So this definition itself is problematic.
01:00:17.740Then how do you determine right or wrong?
01:00:18.840If it's just your opinion of what is right or wrong, then you just tell me, what's the problem in telling people to go do things against the law?
01:00:25.760Obviously, we're not encouraging anything against the law.
01:00:27.860But we're saying, what is the wrong then in telling people the most extreme things?
01:00:31.980If it's just your opinion and my opinion, then I can say whatever I want to my viewers and anyone can say whatever they want.
01:00:39.340But this whole discussion is just pretending that you're using that word is a whole big problem.
01:00:43.100But it's okay to, you know, encourage people to gamble and do all of these different things.
01:00:46.720But to say a word for a specific group of people now has become the end of the planet.
01:00:50.920And that's why, you know, if you remember, I was mentioning this in our setting, that in the West, the smallest thing becomes the biggest things and the biggest things become like it's okay.