SNEAKO - March 16, 2024SNEAKO X MOHAMMED HIJAB X AKHI AYMAN X MUSLIM LANTERN
Episode Stats
Length
4 hours and 25 minutes
Words per Minute
201.8703
Hate Speech Sentences
466
Summary
In this episode, we talk about our first day in the UK, our experience in London, and some of the things we've been up to so far. We also talk about what it's like to be a Muslim in a Western country, and how it compares to the rest of the world.
Transcript
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It was always the water, especially living in, you know, if you are in Egypt or here or there.
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Some of my life in Morocco, some of my life in Egypt, some of my life in Austria.
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You don't want to expose private information here, you know?
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You know, you're a Muslim now, so you can make these jokes, you know?
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Well, I did before I was Muslim, and it was very bad.
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Only Muslims can make these kind of jokes, or else you will get jumped, you know?
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Okay, so the prayer room, it could fit about three people at a time.
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So, the tamalee, it's going to be a little tough to have, like, the whole...
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Look, he's the main guy, but he's always humble.
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But this time, you guys are visiting us, you know?
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We're visitors in the restaurant, and you're visitors in the UK, you know?
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People keep asking us, but we've only been here like six hours.
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It's like the United States of America is comparable with Western Europe.
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It's not comparable with any one country in Western Europe.
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It's comparable with the whole of Western Europe.
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Like we're talking about in terms of population size, in terms of geography, which the United
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States of America would be comparable to like Germany, France, Belgium, United Kingdom,
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Like you'd have to look at city by city and state by state.
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I was telling him before on the stream, something like this is like it's from countries in one
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Because they have different laws when it comes to even gun laws or different marriage laws.
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Even though it's one country, but they have all of these different laws.
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It depends on which part you went to, isn't it?
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No, I've been to, I've been to like, I don't know, maybe 10 states altogether.
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Yeah, do we get some more waters as well, please?
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The one thing I definitely realized Ramadan so far, so day five or something like that,
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day six, is that little pleasures like coffee are so much more enjoyable now.
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I've never been able to appreciate it like that.
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I was used to, throughout the day, drinking coffees or maybe having a cigarette, chewing
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Now, not being able to do any of that at all, even we had chocolates in the hotel room
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and I was looking at it like it was, like it was treasure.
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I've realized that, I was just telling the brothers that I, in general, I just do this
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Not because it's one meal a day or a diet or something like that, but this is what I generally
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And I've realized that always food tastes much better.
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I've realized that food tastes a lot better, wallahi.
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If you eat one time a day, the food tastes different.
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You can eat the same thing, literally, the same meal, the same food from the same place,
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You don't eat for a long period of time and you eat just one time a day.
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And compare that if you eat three times a day, breakfast, dinner, this and that, food
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So this is like definitely an effect that you have in Ramadan, you know, subhanAllah.
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But this is another important thing to keep in mind.
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And it's something, you know, unfortunately, when Muslims will look at it in a different way.
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We're looking at the month as a month of eating.
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It's a month of fasting, you know, a month of coming close to Allah Azawajal.
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And you see people break the fast and then eat these large amounts of food and then you're
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You're not able to wake up later on, next morning.
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So you don't have the energy to do things during the day.
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So it would affect your, especially the different types of food that people eat, you know, all
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this oily different types of foods that will not be good for you.
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Can you explain what you were telling me about the dopamine?
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I mean, I keep forgetting what the word is for the book, but...
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And she was basically, what you're saying there is exactly what she was saying as well.
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Like, she's basically explaining how that works in scientific terms.
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How, like, you know, effectively, she's got a very interesting way of putting it that
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in order to, as a remedy for pain, that you need to embrace pain.
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So feeling the hunger, feeling the thirst, for example, in our context in Ramadan, is
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a good way because the problem that we face in our times is a problem of overconsumption.
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There's too much, you know, going on in terms of social media.
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There's a very interesting quote in that book, which was, it's like a cacti in the rainforest.
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I found a very powerful quote because a cactus is meant to, obviously, it's resourceful in
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That's why if you cut it open, it's got water inside of it.
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The human being loses his ability to be resourceful when you give him all the water he needs in this
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So because we have everything, we don't have to work as hard for the things that we need
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So things become actually not pleasurable for us.
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So she says it's like you're being hedonistic, but what is actually being produced is anhedonia,
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So you're doing everything to get more pleasure and then you end up with getting more pleasure.
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What I was saying about that one meal, this is a perfect example.
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And that's because your dopamine receptors are alert.
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They're not being overly, they're not being used too much because the more you use them,
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You know, and subhanAllah, you know, teaches us that we have so much capacity as human beings.
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It's difficult for you to wake up to every day.
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So, but suhoor, suhoor, you'd wake up so easily, right?
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And I'm waking up automatically at 5 a.m. every single day right now.
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But when it comes to outside Ramadan, you're not doing it.
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Haram things that they would be doing in normal days.
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When Ramadan hits, you leave all of these things for one month.
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You know, there's a lot of like people who are, they would say addicted.
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Let's use their own terminology to things like pornography and these type of things.
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In Ramadan, they will be able to actually last a whole month without doing that specific thing.
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Is that what you're supposed to realize during Ramadan too?
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Like how much you don't need those little necessities too?
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That I'm realizing more, that I have more mental capacity and that I should have more resistance.
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Like fasting from water and food is making me like, I'm scrolling on my phone less.
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Generally, people would not be doing this voluntary prayer during the night.
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And it's highly recommendable from an Islamic point of view.
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You know, one of the sahabas, the Prophet ﷺ praised, right?
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Then he said, Ni'ma Rajul, if he prayed in the nighttime, he will even be better, right?
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And this is one of the companions, like one of the best people to walk the earth, right?
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But still, he said he would be better if he were to do that night prayer.
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We as Muslims, if we speak generally to the Muslims, okay, pray in the night prayer.
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You'll see just the average Muslim going to the masjid, praying in taraweeh and doing that.
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So it does show us that we've got so much capacity and we've got so much potential.
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But what is different in Ramadan and outside Ramadan is that you're understanding that this is a blessed time, etc.
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Other than that, you do have the capacity to quit these things that you're claiming you're addicted to,
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to pray during the night, to recite the Quran, to finish the Quran in the month.
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Multiple times people are doing this in Ramadan.
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Outside Ramadan, you're not touching the Quran.
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Okay, what is the difference between, this is a question, okay.
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Do you become a different human being in Ramadan?
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Or are you the same human being that existed in the month before and the month after, right?
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So that's why you see people sometimes using terms like Ramadan Muslim.
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Somebody that only is on their deen for this month and then during Eid they start drinking?
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You can even use that term for many things, like hajj Muslims as well.
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Some Muslims will do everything and say, I go to hajj, I've been purified now.
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So, you know, I'm going to go back to doing what I'm doing.
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But the thing is, we want the people to be good in Ramadan.
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Even if they're only good in Ramadan, isn't that better than them not being good at all?
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Why is it only in Ramadan are we able to do these things?
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So you're asking, is that what you should realize in Ramadan, that you have capacity?
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Well, in Ramadan, so many things that you benefit.
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There's so many things that, like innumerable things, right?
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Kutiba alaykum usiyamu kama kutiba ala aladhiya man qablikum, la'alakum tattaqun.
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Fasting has been prescribed or written upon you, just like it was on the nations that preceded you.
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Yeah, I want you to keep moving, too, if you can.
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Because like, your weight, I shouldn't even be doing that.
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The fact that you're not engaging with other...
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So, I have to develop this God consciousness, you know.
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So, I think this is the most beneficial thing that you develop during Ramadan.
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But yeah, there's so many things, subhanAllah, that you benefit from Ramadan.
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I've noticed that the Haram police specifically,
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Like, even playing music at the beginning of my stream,
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the sins are also more gracious in Ramadan as well.
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So, it's not just that the rewards are multiplied.
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And it's times of worship, times of being close to Allah,
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so committing a sin at Ramadan is not equal to committing a sin outside Ramadan as well.
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So, that's why maybe you'll see them like a little bit more observant with you,
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you know, on the things that you do and the things you don't do.
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But yeah, subhanAllah, the rewards are multiplied.
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You know, you should never think about the deeds that you do
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as like, you know, you're a video game and you're counting the score.
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No, I know a lot of Muslims think about it like that.
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Like, oh, you go to Mecca, you get to multiply by 12,000.
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And then Allah Azza wa Jawa will also keep count of what you're doing.
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And trust me, if Allah keeps count of every single thing you're doing,
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you're not going to be in a good position, you know.
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Today, I've recited like, let's say, you know what, 10 pages.
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Allah doesn't tell you the reward that you get anyways.
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So, okay, Allah says that you're rewarded for the prayer.
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If you want to do the counting, XP counting, you know, the gaming XP counting.
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You cannot count because you do not know the exact reward that you get.
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Allah says that He increases or multiplies for the servants.
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There are specific things for certain acts of worship.
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It says it's equal to the reward of 100,000 prayer.
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But why is there a reward of one so you can times 100,000?
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It just gives you, like, the motivation to do it.
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But you still don't know the reward that you will get for months so you can X 100,000.
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It's not something that you count, okay, Allah today and that.
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And therefore, you know, I'm ready now to do this.
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Because it's not 10 XP a month more or something.
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But we know for a fact that the deeds are multiplied.
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And we know that Allah Azza wa Jal is generous in giving his rewards.
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I was asking Muhammad Aja before in the car over here about your credibility.
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And he was saying that you're very respected because...
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No, because I'm curious, not to try to judge if you're...
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Because we had a conversation before and you're very knowledgeable.
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And he basically said that the reason that you're respected is that people know how much reading you've done.
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You have a lot of credibility in terms of Islamic knowledge specifically.
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I think he's read more than me, if you want to talk about it.
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I was saying to him that the difference is like in...
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You have to differentiate between someone who comes through a formal Islamic program.
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I don't know if you've made that public or not, but...
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Not that location is not important, but I've done it.
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I was saying to him, because if you're starting to take knowledge and stuff like that,
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Islamic knowledge, in a way, it's like medical knowledge.
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And he's not actually known to be like a medical doctor.
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And then if he injures somebody, then he's responsible for that.
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So it's important for someone to know, okay, this guy has gone through a whole process.
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He's been examined by teachers and scholars and so on.
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Rather than, okay, this person is just a person on the internet who hasn't done that.
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So there is a distinction, I would say that someone who's gone through that process deserves the credit for that.
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Because otherwise, what's the point of doing all these years of studying?
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And in the same time, like, you know, people use this term, like, which is a Western term in the end, the idea of academia, right?
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I think what's important is that you do go through a process, right?
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What's important is that you go through a process.
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It does not have to be in a specific institute.
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Because these institutes that I've, for example, the one I've been to, I spoke to you maybe before about, like, some of the problems there, right?
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So just like as there is good things in these institutes, there are also bad things in these institutes.
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And that was not my, like, the only way I received knowledge.
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I went and actually sat down with people of knowledge, scholars, et cetera, students of knowledge.
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They give you the fundamental principles, this and that.
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Because even, you know, generally when you go to university for anything and you spend four years, it's not enough for you to be an expert at that thing.
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Whatever it is that you're going to study, you're going to come out, you're not going to come out an expert of every aspect of that thing that you've studied.
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The whole point of existence of these things is that there is more studies that you could pursue.
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There is more knowledge that you can acquire and attain that you do not do when you go to the four years, right?
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So long as you've gone through any kind of process.
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And that's with anything, like even if you're a martial arts or, I don't know, even if you're a content creator, like, I don't know, you have to go through a process to show your competence or something, I think.
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So I was explaining to him that, mashallah, the reason why you probably come with a higher level in terms of quality in terms of your dawah is because you've actually gone through a process like that.
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So it's going to be difficult for, I mean, I feel sorry for, I saw one particular video of someone trying to challenge you on Islamic, and he was an uneducated disbeliever.
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And it's true, he was an uneducated disbeliever.
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And he was coming out of blunders, but you didn't even need to work hard to point out his errors.
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And that is because he doesn't realize what he's going up against.
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It's not just when it comes to Islamic knowledge, but when it comes to people in general and the amount of research and the amount of investigations that they do, you know.
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I was just doing a live yesterday with a Christian.
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And then he didn't know the development of the Trinity, the history of the church.
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They don't know these specific things, for example, right?
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And they're too lazy to do research on these issues.
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So what happened is I said to him, OK, the Trinity was developed.
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You had, you know, the Arius arguing against Athanasius, etc., all of these things.
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Then he didn't know how to spell the name of Athanasius.
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And he said, no, no, no, the Trinity is not founded at that time.
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And he couldn't spell the name of the church father, one of the main church fathers, the one who decided on the 27 books of the New Testament.
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So it was, in a way, a Muslim being a teacher to a Christian on his own history, on his own tradition, on his own things.
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That's why you would find the difference between someone who's done, like, an education.
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Like many brothers, alhamdulillah, they have, and they're better than me.
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They've done, let's say, an education, a form of other in an institute or outside.
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But they've done a form of education and learning.
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You can always differentiate easily between them and someone who's just, like, you know, opening books himself or just listening here or there or doing some things.
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Because the difference is obvious, I would say.
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I'm curious, like, how people who grew up with Islam, like Muhammad Ujab and yourself, how did you get into Dawah?
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Because my masjid specifically is like a black masjid where you have, like, the Nation of Islam type of people.
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Like, we were slaves for 400 years, like that type of environment.
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And you can tell that they were all former Christians who are kind of upset, like, and they think that Christianity is like a white religion, which is not true.
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But, you know, some of the ideas and the depictions of Jesus that you could argue that.
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But the reason that they are, they're so, they believe in Islam so much is a lot of it is because of the animosity they have towards Christianity and fighting back towards that.
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And also some of the falsehoods and inconsistencies that they saw there.
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So they're really passionate about Islam, which is, you know, I wish that I just had a masjid where, you know, you just, it's all about Islamic knowledge.
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But how do people that were born with Islam get the same sort of passion to spread the truth?
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You know, you're asking me a lot of questions and he's there as well.
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These brothers, you know, they can always, you know, chime in.
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So, you know, when it comes to the nation, they call themselves the nation of Islam.
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So, how would you say they're Malcolm X people when they actually are the ones who killed
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The thing is this, is that they are, have nothing to, they really have nothing to do with Islam.
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Because they have a different prophet that they believe in, called Elijah Muhammad, and
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they have different teachings, and they believe.
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And if you believe in any prophet after prophet Muhammad, this is an action of disbelief,
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I think his listeners, like, they're infamous, but they wouldn't say that Elijah Muhammad is
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It's just a lot of the imams and the people that go there are like elderly black men that
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Some of these anti-Islam people, like, some of them, especially in the black community,
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And then sometimes, I believe some of these stats say that, look, a lot of Muslims are in
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prison, while in reality, these individuals have accepted Islam during their stay in prison,
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So, they can have also some teaching, some learning some things from there, like to do
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And then you've got the Hebrew Israelites, which have a closer ideology to the same.
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We've had racism happening for this amount of years, so now we're going to do, you know,
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But you were talking about growing up, like, in an Islamic environment, right?
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Yeah, subhanAllah, look, if you grow up in... or you live in a Muslim country for an amount
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of time, or you stay in a Muslim country, yeah, the environment is completely different.
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Like, how people, even if they're not knowledgeable, they always have this inner respect for Allah,
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inner respect for the Prophet, inner respect for their own religion.
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Like, if you remind someone, okay, Allah says this, or the Prophet says this, or he's doing
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something wrong in public, they would stop the action that they were doing.
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Because their determination of right and wrong is their desire.
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You cannot say a Muslim is the God of his own self because he's not the one making the decision.
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But if I don't follow any religion, am I not the God of my own self?
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That's why Allah, he mentions that in the Quran.
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Have you seen the person who took his desire as his own God?
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Have you seen the one who took his desire as his own God?
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Because he determines for himself what is morally right, what is morally wrong.
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And look, you've got all of these ridiculous laws in the West that if you think about for a few minutes, you realize how ridiculous they are.
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And certain things, like for example, certain things for them, it's a huge problem.
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And things which are much bigger, they don't care about.
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Like for example, okay, your daughter going in the street barely wearing any clothes.
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Go ahead, I don't want to lose your train of thought.
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Hey, big shout out to our boy right here, by the way.
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Yeah, so I was saying there are certain things...
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Yeah, I was saying there are certain things in the West that it's more gracious, it's more problematic to do.
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They don't look at it as big of a problem as other things, right?
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So, for example, it's okay for you to, like, for your daughter to go outside barely wearing any clothes, you know, in the streets, hanging around with the wrong type of men, you know, developing habits from them.
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It's her choice, you know, and she's old enough to do all of these things.
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But then you have, you know, you have certain things, like, for example, and let's not talk about this too much, but, for example, you have the idea of the N-word, for example.
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Yeah, yeah, it's like, it's a major sin in Islam, right?
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For them, this is equivalent to what we call a major sin in Islam.
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For a person to say this about another person, this is like, you've done...
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No, no, I'm saying this is how the West looks at it.
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But if these words do cause harm to a specific group of people or a specific individual,
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then it would be recommended from an Islamic point of view not to say it to these specific...
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So if this specific thing is considered a sin, and it would hurt a specific group of people,
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then Islam would not allow you to be saying these things, like just here and there whenever
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I know you just want to say it for some reason, but look.
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Yeah, let's say you are sitting with your friend.
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There is nothing in the Quran or Sunnah or Hadith tradition will say to you, okay, now
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you have a sin because you mentioned this word.
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In the West, how big of a problem would they look at it if you were to say a word like
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The brothers, they can say, you know, they can give us...
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So, the point, the main point is this, is how they would look at it in the West, right?
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They look at this as like, as he said, cancelling someone, you know, totally, you know, deleting
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someone off social media because he mentioned a word.
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If he did it in a racist way, we agree that's wrong.
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But we're talking about the comparison now of what the West places as a priority of
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what do and do not do in comparison to things which are not on the same level, but they
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would make a whole big problem out of it, right?
00:30:30.380
So that's what I'm saying in the West, when you think about these things, it becomes very
00:30:40.800
Does it harm you directly by losing an arm, a leg or something like that?
00:30:44.780
But letting your daughter being used as a toy or used and abused, you know, in the
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streets as a toy and barely wearing any clothes and then coming to you with a baby that she
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doesn't know who the father is and he ends up in the roads becoming a criminal, you know?
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So, just like look at the West and look at what are the biggest problems that you could
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If you could sit down there, it would be better for the angle.
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Yeah, you're asking about growing up in an Islamic environment.
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I was talking about the difference between the Islamic environment and the Western environment.
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And these are some of the examples of the difference that are growing in an Islamic environment.
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The things which are important, people are careful of doing.
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People would listen to your advice if you give them advice.
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This is literally the difference between the West and these Muslim countries.
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You know there's consequences to the actions that you make.
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It's not as simple as, you know, I'm doing whatever I want.
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And the West has become a mockery of the things that they would say.
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Like, you know, let's bring another controversial example.
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I know his fan base, they like controversial things, you know, which I mentioned to you before probably.
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So, the idea of engaging in intercourse with someone from a specific age, right?
00:33:07.180
The age, you know, he already knows there's differences, right?
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These different states, they have different ages.
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That they would literally label one another to be...
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You want to use pedophile, all of these terminology.
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The West would label other countries to be pedophiles that they have.
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So, the girl can have intercourse at the age of 14.
00:33:49.400
Where is the rationality behind these teachings that you see, right?
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And what they look at as the biggest problematic things versus, like, very small things that
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And if you're growing in a Muslim community, it would be like this.
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Like, in an Islamic community, a very good example.
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Imagine you're living in a Muslim country, and you're on the bus, and a man kisses a woman
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I'm going to ask one of you brothers, you know.
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If they do this in the bus, people will look at them.
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There's an element of culture shaming, you can say.
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Even some non-Muslim countries, but very few like Japan.
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You find they have a lot of similar teachings to that.
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You know, there's public decency when you are outside, you know, raising your voice, throwing things in the road.
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But in comparison, if you look at those, it's like it's a complete.
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Kissing is like a very small thing, if you want to say.
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What they would be doing in public places, you know.
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The worst thing I've seen in this country is when I was.
00:35:49.140
And I'm saying this with no, I'm not even joking.
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I felt that the earth would open and swallow the people.
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Because, you know, I'm speaking seriously of the amount of how the people are dressed.
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Like the guy is making two horns and barely wearing any clothes.
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The cow has less metal things than what this person has on himself.
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And the guy's a full, he was wearing something which is barely covering his, you know, his body part.
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Some of the sites I've seen is, I'm never going to forget them, basically.
00:36:45.100
Are you also one of those people like the West is falling, the West is crumbling, it's satanic?
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In a moral sense, the West has always been quite decadent, in my opinion.
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I don't think it's ever been, I mean, obviously there was a time where the Christian tradition
00:37:05.540
Like, if you look demographically, the turning point really was the 19th.
00:37:16.620
The rise of feminism and the sexual revolution.
00:37:19.980
Most sociologists, and I've done a small piece on this for the sake of this, on the, I tried to track the time where people became less religious.
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And I tried to find out what the reason was, and what do sociologists say about this.
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And the 1916 seemed to be the main point in the whole of the West, Western Europe and America, for two main reasons.
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Number one, liberalism effectively substituted Christianity as the dominant ethic, the dominant morality.
00:37:51.100
So sociologically, parents wouldn't teach their children this is right and this is wrong.
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But what they would now teach their children is, you go and decide whatever you think is right and wrong.
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And as a result, this laissez-faire attitude to morality would become the new morality.
00:38:06.720
So, like, people would be like, oh, we don't need to know, let anyone can do whatever they want.
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Morality became reshaped after, I think, the 60s and 70s in the West, generally speaking.
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And in that sense, I mean, there's a very powerful quotation by Arthur Schopenhauer, who's a pessimist.
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And he said that humanity oscillates between extreme fear and extreme boredom.
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Fear, I'm guessing, I'm thinking, that he means by fear, because you're either in a state of war or a state of peace.
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When you're in a state of war, you're scared because you're scared for your life.
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And when you're in that state of fear, you don't have time to be bored.
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If you're in a state of fear and survival, you don't have time to be bored.
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But if you're no longer in that state of fear, then what happens is you start to become bored.
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You become depressed, but then you also have a thousand genders now.
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And so I think what we're seeing now is a result of the substitution of morality from Christianity to liberalism.
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New parenting methods, which basically gave the child rather than for the parent to take control of the child.
00:39:48.020
So they're inventing new ideologies, new genders, new this, new that.
00:39:52.540
And that's what is causing the West to decline at a more rapid rate.
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I mean, it's declining in every single way now.
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Economically, it is declining militarily, comparative to its competitors.
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Because the West, what they're doing now is they're doing it to themselves.
00:40:12.220
If you don't have the warrior instinct, if you don't have a will to be strong, a will to be right and to be wrong,
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and these kinds of very solid things, you're going to be overtaken by people that do want to have these things.
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Is that why Muslims are conquering London right now?
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I mean, a couple of years ago when it was COVID lockdown, it was all a bunch of like the genderless people walking around.
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But you can look around here and now it looks like Afghanistan.
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I'm seeing so many Thobes and Izhabis walking around.
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You know, it's probably about 20%, let's say 18, 19%.
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So we've got maybe about 1.5 million Muslims here in London.
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But in Birmingham, it's probably one in three now.
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The reason I ask that is because I hear that rhetoric a lot from Muslims.
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You know, and there's a growing Muslim population.
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Yeah, but I'm not planning on remaining here long term, nor have I been here long term.
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There's a second, third generation Muslims that are staying here, right?
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And for me, I just came here not too long ago, by the way.
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Yeah, but I'm not going to say that publicly, right?
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I do not feel serenity, tranquility, and peace if I'm here in comparison to any Muslim country in Dawa.
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Just comparing just the feeling, the state of tranquility that I feel as a Muslim,
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when I'm going to do Umrah or Hajj or any Muslim country.
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Of course, Mecca and Medina have a special feeling, right?
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But just any Muslim country in general, hearing the call of prayer, the things that I'm telling you,
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wherever you look, there are things that you're still not supposed to look at, you know?
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If I'm at a Muslim country, whichever that Muslim country is,
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let's see, Morocco or Egypt or Tunisia or whichever country,
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It's much easier for you not to have these effects because, okay,
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we look at it, okay, I'm just looking at someone.
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It's not as simple as just me looking at someone.
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Indeed, you know, their hearts have been covered
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because of the sins, because of the evil deeds that we do.
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the more you become accustomed to these things,
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So if you are in a place where you don't have that as much,
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you feel the difference when you start facing these type of things.
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So if you're not always around like women dressed inappropriately
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you are in an environment where you don't have that.
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You have women dressed in a very modest, proper manner.
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But for me here, I'm doing something here, right?
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These are countries where people are majority Muslim.
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of course you would be in a place in which people are not Muslim.
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And yes, I'm not planning on staying here long term.
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many of them are going living in Muslim countries,
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And they've mentioned that multiple different times.
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Going to Dubai or going to this or that, right?
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We don't say these are the best places from an Islamic point of view.
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But they still have a sense of a Muslim environment.
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Sharqa, it's a very conservative community and society.
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If you go to Qatar, if you go to these countries,
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they're well developed from, if you want to say,
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And they have this Islamic sense of morality still there.
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and what you see on social media as the predominant thing,
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I don't think they're always correlating, to be honest.
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But here's what I would respond to that a little bit.
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Because I would say, look, if it's about Islam, right?
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Dubai's got maybe about 2 million population or something.
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either like the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam
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it's good to warn people and be honest about that
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is the majority of Muslims don't know how to speak to non-Muslims
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there's only specific people that know how to deal with non-Muslims
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so you shouldn't allow those people to deal with them
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then why are you trying to deal with non-Muslims
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both of our points is about sharing the truth right
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it's not being apologetic when you're sharing the truth
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is that we will talk about these things unapologetically
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look at what happened to you in a positive manner first
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this is the first thing I thought about when you said it
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the people who came up to him about the tattoos and this and that
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this is a positive side that I heard first when he was describing it
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we're talking about Muslims doing specific things
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What are you doing with your phone with your life?
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And then from Lewin, I went all the way to Sutton.
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And no imam, no father, no uncle, no certain community leaders trying to give that to them.
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So I'm glad me as a layman, I'd like to come in, Ayman the Layman.
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A shout out to the Maalis that gave me that name.
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A shout out to the Maalis that gave me that name.
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A shout out to the Maalis that gave me that name.
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A shout out to the Maalis that gave me that name.
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Because we're live here, I'm going to hold my mouth.
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But there's a lot of ideas still that you haven't seen yet.
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You want to appreciate all of these tickets now.
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Look, yesterday we, without trying to tone it down a bit, yesterday, subhanAllah, we had
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a brother that straight after Salatul Jum'a, he was on his way home, and a car clipped
02:15:41.580
him on the tail, and then he spun out of control and just, he lost his life, bro.
02:15:46.680
The guy's in his early twenties, by, on the 8, 4, 6, so it's just like, it's life is
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early twenties, and on Yuma Jum'a as well, on the day of Friday, it's a blessing, bro.
02:16:00.400
But we just ask Allah that he didn't suffer as he went, Allahumma Ameen, but what can I
02:16:06.900
So, we resonate with the youth, and the youth want to be heard, but no one's giving them
02:16:11.920
that platform and that opportunity, then, call your local who.
02:16:17.060
What do you think that the youth wants, what do you think that they want to get out there
02:16:22.940
It's their voices that are being respected and heard inside the household and the community,
02:16:28.300
so therefore they find it in the nearest person that could be like a father figure, but
02:16:35.420
it's not a father figure, so the man on the block, the trap guy, so it's a form of grooming
02:16:40.580
them, so I'll give you a prime example, I can give you $100 today, and then I'll come
02:16:45.780
back the next week, and I'll give you another $100, and then the week after that, I'll take
02:16:49.420
you shopping and say, yo, you want some Jordans, or, so now, now that I've done all of these
02:16:54.120
things to you, I'll be like, yo, I want something in return.
02:16:58.060
Don't tell them about my strategy with my wife, please, yeah?
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Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, I am free from this.
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I don't even think I'm not even a lad in the country.
02:17:40.000
No, no, you're not banned, but it's just, now they've made it harder for you to get in.
02:17:55.020
The London youth is very clearly different than the American youth.
02:18:04.280
We're more on social media, it seems like, than these people here.
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UK, they've been smoking a different type of joint, bro.
02:18:45.640
That man is doing the mannequin challenge for me.
02:18:53.660
And, look, if we had guns the way you men have guns...
02:19:13.500
If you look at the U.S., there's different gun rules in it.
02:19:19.500
All right, so there's different gun rules, yeah?
02:19:23.200
You know what a concealed carry and an open carry and different ones, yeah?
02:19:27.020
If it was true that the more access you have to guns
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and the more accessibility and opportunity you have with them,
02:19:46.720
and there's a 14-year-old with a big Rambo knife,
02:20:08.540
But if he knows that this guy probably has a Glock in his pocket
02:20:15.760
if you're in Texas and you know that the old woman
02:20:26.440
why we have an issue with knife crime in the UK, London,
02:20:33.960
you're not allowed to carry more than two, three-inch knives.
02:20:35.840
If everyone was allowed to carry 10-inch knives,
02:20:38.540
you're not allowed to carry more than two, three-inch knives.
02:20:48.220
No, no, I'm not allowed to carry more than two.
02:20:52.020
What I'm saying is that if you're allowed to carry that,
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it could even be argued that the crime will go down.
02:21:37.440
when you have asymmetry and access to weaponry.
02:21:42.500
why is crime happening with these certain groups?
02:21:46.400
It's happening because it's a high-risk, high-reward situation.
02:21:50.980
Like you said, this guy might be getting money from it.
02:21:56.560
He's not going to make it into university in his mind.
02:21:59.460
He might as well shot rocks in the blocks to get rocks.
02:22:09.760
They're thinking, okay, I can make 60 grand a year
02:22:12.540
or 80 grand or 100 grand selling a certain thing,
02:22:14.940
but I need to be armed because I have to be armed.
02:22:18.440
So in that situation, it becomes rational for them.
02:22:22.200
If the state said everyone can have 10-inch knives,
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maybe it could argue, I'm not saying this for sure,
02:22:42.960
and if everyone knew that everyone else was carrying a knife,
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Bro, do you know if we got this in this country
02:23:37.620
and now you're going to come back and say no more.
02:28:28.060
You say, oh, we're so brave, and then you say, I'm a waste man.
02:28:33.060
Basically, you're putting yourself a coward again.
02:28:50.060
Someone that doesn't benefit anyone and anything around him.
02:28:55.060
So, when I say I'm a waste man, it's not to humble myself, but in a sense where like,
02:29:13.060
You've seen, you've probably seen some of my talk.
02:29:40.060
He was doing a reaction to a video of mine talking about the roads.
02:29:47.060
Like, look at the recent what happened with the guy in the Lamborghini in the post office.
02:29:52.060
And then Sneaker was like, I like the way they talk in London.
02:30:03.060
Alhamdulillah, Allah guides you before I go to you still.
02:30:16.060
From someone that's on social media yourself, what do you feel like is missing from just
02:30:22.060
your comment section and from people approaching you face to face and speaking to you?
02:30:35.060
I think what you and what Warner are doing, I think that that's good.
02:30:43.060
Because a lot of sheikhs, they come off with this idea that you're not supposed to confess
02:30:50.060
A lot of them are afraid to like smoke shisha on camera or blood off camera.
02:30:54.060
I haven't seen that, but that's an example of what I'm talking about.
02:30:57.060
People that talk like them, that act like them.
02:31:00.060
I think the reason that someone like Sheikh Usman is really effective is because he talks
02:31:04.060
He talks about how he stayed away from the deen and his history with gang violence and
02:31:09.060
how he came back to them and how it changed his life.
02:31:19.060
But you see every single person that actually resonates with the youth all have the same
02:31:24.060
And the gift is you have to show them that you're vulnerable just like them.
02:32:18.060
What do you think that Muslim influencers could improve on?
02:32:28.060
I guess just, you know, Muslims that talk in front of the camera all day long because
02:32:34.060
You know, in that world, it's just you're signing up to be in the world of shaitan.
02:32:40.060
So, how could we do a better job and how do you think we misrepresent Islam?
02:32:43.060
What do you think that we could do better going forward?
02:32:45.060
You see, someone that's around me that's very, very close to me said this to me, yeah?
02:32:50.060
The more you are in the public eye, the more you need to do in secret between you and Allah.
02:32:58.060
If the things that you're doing in the public eye wouldn't mean nothing, Paul.
02:33:02.060
If your relationship with Allah is at a minimum.
02:33:06.060
There's, there's, there's, you wanna, you wanna work on the, you wanna work on your relationship
02:33:12.060
So, that itself kind of exposes your intentions.
02:33:15.060
As Umar and Khattab would say, we could judge by what is apparent.
02:33:18.060
And from what was apparent, actually, everyone is a cloud chaser.
02:33:23.060
And, even in the Muslims, everyone was good for you until you become better than them.
02:33:31.060
Ah, boy, they will support you, they do that, they, yeah, yeah.
02:33:33.060
The moment they see you surpassed them, nah, boy, that's when this slander and the backbiting
02:33:38.060
Ask every single one of us here, but everyone can tell you this.
02:33:43.060
Look, I mean, the thing is, it's like, it's, you're dealing with, uh, resentment and, uh,
02:33:49.060
And we don't know, like, a lot of people would desire fame in it.
02:33:53.060
So, they'll see people that got it, and a lot of us in this room.
02:33:57.060
And they'll say, like, okay, well, they'll start attacking you.
02:33:59.060
And the reason why they're doing it, the motivation they're doing it, is because they
02:34:11.060
How do you, how do you, I want to ask all of you that, how do you deal with that?
02:34:14.060
Because desiring and chasing fame is a form of shirk, I think, in a way, because you
02:34:19.060
want to be worshipped like, like a God, like God is worshipped.
02:34:24.060
Like, sometimes, you know, that's happened before I've seen it.
02:34:27.060
Like, they'll literally perform Suju like in front of you, like you're an idol.
02:34:33.060
Because it's a very fine line, and it's not something that Muslims had to deal with for
02:34:40.060
Well, do you know, it's a very difficult question because, you know, like, you, I think people
02:34:48.060
And this is in the, usually in the self-help books and stuff.
02:34:50.060
They say, think win-win, which is the following.
02:34:54.060
You always ask yourself the question, if you make more money in life, or you get more fame,
02:34:59.060
or you have more power, those three things in particular.
02:35:03.060
If you're a strategist about how you kind of distribute those resources, and you want
02:35:09.060
people to be on your side, whether they're on your team or not, like Muslims and stuff,
02:35:13.060
you have to share it, and you have to be of benefit to them.
02:35:19.060
If you're making more money, you have to start sharing this money.
02:35:27.060
So, for example, like, let's say you're making 30,000 pounds a year or whatever, and
02:35:32.060
Now, people start realizing that you're making more money.
02:35:35.060
It's just a natural thing for them to be jealous about that.
02:35:50.060
They might want to even remove what you have, whatever it may be.
02:35:57.060
So, for example, if they're a close person to you, if they're your cousin, if they're your
02:36:01.060
brother, if they're your friend, you bring them in.
02:36:04.060
You say, listen, this is what's happening, and we're all going to succeed together.
02:36:14.060
So, they're less likely to feel jealous and resentful.
02:36:16.060
Now, that's easy to do with your inner circle, because you can easily just bring them in to financial things.
02:36:24.060
You have to provide benefit to the wider community.
02:36:27.060
So, that if you actually provide real benefit to the wider community, they may say, we don't
02:36:38.060
No, with the exception of maybe yourself, because you're less controversial, but everybody
02:36:47.060
We don't like his mannerisms, whatever, blah, blah, blah.
02:36:49.060
But, if there's a redeeming quality, which is that, however, he's procuring this benefit
02:36:57.060
So, all of the negatives end up being a positive.
02:36:59.060
Because he's bringing people to Islam, or because he's relating to the youth.
02:37:07.060
If you don't have a redeeming quality, they won't tolerate you.
02:37:14.060
If you're becoming more successful, don't just think, oh, well, these guys have to work
02:37:21.060
But you're not going to quash the issue of that.
02:37:25.060
How do I give them benefit, so that they don't act in such a jealous manner towards
02:37:35.060
Whether it's with fame, use your fame for a benefit that everyone can accept.
02:37:42.060
Because everyone accepts that, if you're using your fame to raise funds for charity,
02:37:47.060
for example, that okay, this guy's using it and he's at least doing this redeeming
02:37:54.060
I want to ask all of you about this, but that just reminded me.
02:37:56.060
You guys can go to projectiftar.org slash Nico right now for every $2.
02:38:23.060
But we had a long conversation about that, about how to deal with fame.
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It doesn't seem like you deal with as many of those issues as maybe we do.
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So, the truth is like, for me, I think it depends on the person.
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But look, there are harmful effects of fame that I'm going to mention now, which I would
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struggle with, that everyone would struggle with.
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But the side of wanting the people to recognize me when I walk into the room, that's the opposite
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of what I want because I'm a very private person.
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That's why I don't, people don't know my background, don't know what I said.
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But he comes up to you, he already knows you, you don't know them.
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But he's approaching you in a way that he already knows you, right?
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Of course, you have to be humbly humble yourself because you know why they recognize you,
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If you could press a button that will delete all your social media,
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and that it can transfer, like AI can be generated,
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your voice changes, your face changes on all of your videos,
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you can still have the same benefit, but it's a different person.
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like if you know some of the brothers who go to the corner,
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There's like two speakers on each side of you right now.
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So this is because when I say I'm a private person, I mean it.
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Mohammed you have something about speaker's corner
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I don't want to mention his name for camera reasons
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And we were refuting some of what he has as positions
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Especially when it comes to certain aspects of the religion
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There's more knowledgeable people in the room with me