Abdullah Oduro – Husain Abdullah’S Sajdah That Broke The NFL
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The speakers discuss the history of the Prophet's peace and blessings during the time of the Texan War, including the man who traveled from Mecca to employers and the man who was killed by a group of black people. They emphasize the importance of courage, growth, and standing for one's values in sport. The speakers also stress the need for training for young men on fear and comfort, and the importance of not losing respect and bravery in Islam.
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It happened on a guy intercepting the path, running the bat and praising a lot sizes in endzone. That was
when I broke on the ball and intercepted. The immediate thought was a lie did his part man you gotta do your part. My DB coach, me Thomas Hall of Famer. He says 3980 Call 39
Whenever you pray, I want you to use my arrow said I need that. Too much temptation everywhere. It's too much temptation everywhere, man. So it comes out to you and we gotta go looking forward. If
you act in spite of fear, good things happen. Exactly, man. It's one of those. Those are those moments again that build you as a man
I Salam aleikum wa rahmatullah but account to How's everyone doing? I'm Abdullah or Joe and welcome to The Man Cave where we discuss issues of male excellence while being grounded in faith. You know, the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa salam, peace and blessings be upon him. All of us know of the encounter that he had when he traveled from Mecca to Medina. And traveling is a light word. I mean, he immigrated from Mecca to Medina, he went there because of religious persecution because he was someone that believed in Allah subhana wa, the Creator of the heavens and the earth and for that reason, he went to Medina, and it was as we know as the Hindu law, which marks the beginning of the
Islamic calendar. But there was one moment as all of us may know when he was in the que with Abu Bakr Radi Allahu Anhu. May Allah be pleased with him and the Metcons the polytheists were looking to looking for him to kill him, and they almost encountered him. Well Abu Bakr and Mohamed salah, and there were some of them are on the other hand who they were below them and Allah subhanho wa Taala revealed to the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam saying let as an end Allah manner, because the Buddha was nervous, he was scared. He asked the Prophet saw something What if they see us the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam responded that axon in Allah man, which is what Allah subhanaw
taala revealed to him. But what we want to talk about today is a characteristic that the Prophet Muhammad peace and blessings be upon him possessed, that Abu Bakr Radi Allahu Anhu possessed when he was the one that stood up for his the cat after the death of the Prophet salallahu salam for people to pay their yearly arms or charity, if they were the people that were eligible, and that is courage. It is important for a man a young man to have this characteristic to have this characteristic of being brave courage standing up at times where no one may stand, but standing up for what's right. Today I have mashallah our co host, brother Moraga, masha Allah to Vedic Allah
mashallah, speaking of courage, he's been in the Eman MMA for what is it? 215 years mashallah been a fighter fighting knocking people out, you know, Mr. electromedical, may Allah bless them. And mashallah, we've had him here before a beautiful beautiful brother beautiful guests beautiful insights. And we have someone that has walked the walk being the hijra, we're going to talk about him walking the walk in two different ways. And we're going to find out shortly we have brother who's saying, Abdullah, mashallah, may Allah bless you welcome. Well think HANDLER handler. So let's get right into it.
This issue of courage, I mean, I'm just gonna be totally honest. I mean, you know, they probably said it about us when we were younger. You know, back in my day, our father say, y'all don't have this, I don't have that. Now, I see, you know, a lot of the use of May Allah bless them, protect them, the issue of not being risk averse, not, you know, being bold, and, you know, having that element of courage, that characteristic to go forward, and not being afraid to fail. You know, well, all while all of the odds are against you, you know, subhanAllah, what have you seen in regards to, you know, courage with Muslims and how that's important for a young man or a man in general, to have
this characteristic? If I were to say that a man is synonymous to a word
throughout the Sierra, the meaning of Eman throughout the set of the messenger slice, and so it'd be courage, because there isn't a single companion
that Islam was founded with, you mean the first 13 years of, of the whole Meccan period. Every single person who came to Islam needed this one characteristic, like there wasn't a non courageous Muslim for the 13 years. Right? If we think about it, there wasn't anyone. Every single one of them had to have courage in order to become a believer, and this is what we're really striking on when you said and you started with the hedge on on the prophets. I said, that was the utmost demonstration. manifestation of that courage, Brian because, you know, he traveled from Mecca to Medina, on his feet while being wanted a
alive or dead right with barely any weapons if he had any right I don't know if the same had I don't know I know you did it
you know the walk that's the first one so yeah tell us about the one that was saying Abdullah outside of him being an ex NFL player mashallah safety and I don't know if it's prime to go this corner corner yeah
seems the corner is the corner a place and safety corner.
Easy to go yeah, yes it's not it's not close it's not even close. I saw your run back if you take the time of her saying Allah Hu s ai n mashallah Abdullah known for prostrating in the endzone we're going to talk about that hamdulillah and his run backs mashallah epic my shots about Nicola but the first walk that he walked recently mashallah to vertical la he walked from Mecca to Medina reenactment of the Hijra. How was that man like, what? Firstly, what went through your mind? How was it proposed to you? Yep. You know, and then what went through your mind to make you just say, You know what, I'm going to do this. Yeah, so Hamdulillah. You know, I've been blessed to go for Umbra
multiple times. So typically, I go during Ramadan, because it's the it's the best right? Imam who you're seeing called me like in October, and he said, Hey, I'm bored for Omona in December, I was like, Okay, I'm doing good, my likes.
And he said, but I'm going to, I'm going to walk the hedges, and I want you to do with me. And like, I had tears in my eyes. As I'm driving. I said, I'm in. So I don't know what I have to move around. But I'm in because to engage with, with the theater, to engage with the crime, to learn to have a deeper, deeper appreciation and love for the prophesies.
That's what I want. I wanted to go and transform. Because one of the things about manhood is being able to look at yourself in the mirror and say, I'm not there yet. You have to recognize where you're inadequate, and then get to work to fill it. Right. The best of all, mankind is the process. So I wanted to I wanted to go get closer to that. I wanted to go chase that I want to go understand that he didn't travel from Mecca to Medina. He was hunted near from Mecca, Timothy. Yeah, big difference. Big difference, man. Big difference. I like how you said, you know, when looking in the mirror, because
it takes courage to be honest to yourself, about yourself. Because sometimes even when you're alone, you it's that fine line between confidence and arrogance and being delusional. You know what I mean? So, I mean, from from you walk in while you're walking in the desert?
Yeah, yeah, it was, um, you know, the terrain is interesting, because the terrain is
it is unforgiving. There's desert, they're saying there's
rocks just all over the place as far off as Mecca. It's not a stroll in the park. And when you realize that, you know, the Prophet SAW Salem and Abu Bakr Siddiq, read it on, they were being hunted and even thinking about that, like, I will walk into you guys to be able to explain it better than me. When the prophesy Salam came to say,
I got the message, we can go, we can leave Medina. Abu Bakr was, like, crying with joy, that I'm going to be traveling with the prophets of something, even though he's a marked man, right? 100 camels on his head, right? So he's about to be hunted, but I get to join the messenger of off my son, I get to roll with. And so the courage to even risk everything, his reputation, his family, his business is everything. His life, for the sake of allowing for the sake of guarding and protecting the process on he was ready to risk it all. That takes courage. Yeah, that takes courage and that's deep. Yeah, it's very deep. Well, I know what I was thinking of the verse that you recite in the
beginning, a Lord revealed it when he was in the cave, right? 20th Nene is almost a lot easier according to Sahibi letters. But he didn't say latter half.
That doesn't means don't be sad. But he didn't say don't be scared because Abubaker wasn't scared.
And that's I think it's it's kind of one of the myeni that deep mind behind this Abubaker which is sad that his people are are sitting are trying to kill the best person in the Kabila and in the world, you know, the profits and the losses. So he was very sad, right, that his people are doing this. These are his cousins, these are his uncles. These are, you know, his his relatives that are going
hoping to do this. So he was said because of that, but he wasn't scared at all. Subhan Allah not just shows us how Allah is trying to allude to the fact that, you know, courage was never absent,
even in the most crucial moments, and
what's what's an interesting point is I mean, even with that
there's no fault. And I know, I know you didn't, you weren't mean in this. There's no fault because Musa himself in the California, Florida, Elena Oh, and yet the law when he mentioned about Fidel, and really I fear that, that they will transgress the bounds of your transcript just to bounce or be oppressive, or that to offer any medical marijuana, as I told him inherent Aaron, hold on, don't have any fear. For verily, I hear, and I see, you know, but Subhanallah, that Musa was even scared, but the issue is here, that if that fear is there, you don't allow it. You don't allow it to stop, you know, and doing the right thing. You know, what I'm saying? I think that's important that you
know, as a man, you're going to have fear your there's going to be times where you're going to be scared, but you don't allow it to make you stop, and not to progress. You know, learn how to yet learn how to act in spite of fear act, that's exactly. It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. It can be as simple as raising your hand in class. You might be you might be afraid it might be auditorium style classroom. I mean, what if I get it wrong? Just do it. Even if you get it wrong. So what you are courageous enough to act in spite of fear in any places where where we are nervous, or we are afraid, man column on Allah, put your trust in Allah, and then lean into it lean? Because on the
other side, is your growth as a man, it's not about whether you get it right or wrong. The other side is your growth as a man so that acting in spite of fear, that's courage.
How long was it treatment? How long was the war, so the trip was spawn llamenos 11 day so the prophesy Sonam it took him 16 days. So three days and grotto Thor, nine days in between thought and Cuba, he stopped in Cuba for four days and then proceeded into Medina. And so we couldn't really camp, I got off the water. So we only did one day, when we climbed it. And then, you know, in Cuba, we didn't do for the one. So 11 in total. So you didn't know that. So I always, you know, it's definitely a life altering experience and
just searching for different moments to fill those holes of inadequacy, right? Because, again, I want it self transformation. I'm, I'm 38 years old, I'm coming into 4040s men who no more, no more, no more games can keep lying to yourself, right. And typically, the first lie that we tell is to ourselves, right? Like a sense of being able to look at yourself in the mirror and say, Hey, I'm not so good at x night, I need to improve, right? I can't keep trying to lower the bar so that I can get over. This is the standard, this is what it means to be a Muslim man. I need to get up. And so whatever that may be, man, you got to challenge yourself and you have to lean into those fears.
Because that's where growth that's where growth is that that's the first walk. Why there was there was a second one. There's a second one. That's any walk the walk oh, twice. Oh, he walked right. I mean, there's many walks of life that I'm almost sure you went through that all of us went through, but there's two I want to capitalize on here. The second of them being which was in your previous previous life, I guess we could say there was earlier in your life, right? Yeah. of playing in the NFL. You can call it a previous life. We're learning we're in we're in you know, life is all about transitions, okay. And the ultimate transition is from life to death. And so you as long as you
understand that there is going to be a hereafter you work for. So you can call the previous life uncle. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Take us take us, man. Take us back to
when you ran the ball back. And then your decision to prostrate? Yeah.
Yeah. Okay. So it's very, very interesting. So that year, just internally personally, extremely difficult. You go back 2014 I was ranked like one of the top safeties in the league, my best year in my NFL career, but internally, just struggling with a lot lot going on family life, this that. And it was difficult. And so for me, it was like, it was difficult to a place where I was pushed into a place where the just only like me and Allah as I just I just gotta hold on, I just gotta put my trust in Allah and everything that I do unpack that the reason I'm asking you to unpack that. I think it's important because as you I mean being in the MMA as well. Muslim athletes, men. There's a
lot of pressure. There, maybe the only one on the team. There in the locker room boys will be
Boys, you know, we know what it is he will know what there's too much temptation everywhere there's too much temptation everywhere man so it comes at you, you've got to go looking for it. It's
protect us all. So that environment is rough. So that Muslim athletes out there they come to me to you know, they ask for advice and some of them say shake this shake is so rough man. It's so hard to hold on. Can you unpack that please? Yeah, so if so this is this is after hard so I went for Hodge earlier in my career stop. I gotta focus and make sure I lost first. So I stopped playing ball after four years I'm in the soda. I went for Hajj in 2012 Okay, so and then save for Allah blesses me to go back to the league I will if not, so be it. I'm putting my trust in Allah. Then he came back still had the fire so and then 2013 Asana Casey some now back in the league. So 2013 KC 2014 I'm
back in the starting role. I'm ballin, I'm playing well. But again, like, the the environment is, here comes again, right? Everything just whether it's, you know, family stuff, things going on in the world, the expectation of a Muslim athlete because you got to understand that when you're a person of influence, we live in this era where everybody wants to be an influencer. You got to understand you can't influence people towards evil. Because if you do, that's your sense.
So you got to be really really mindful how you carry yourself and when you're the only representative that people see as a Muslim you're held to a completely different standard and so you got to own it and so like in that I mean where do you get a recharge when I when I can't when I don't know Sheikh Abdullah door when I don't know this person or that person, so it really forced me inward and so it really wasn't just
it was it was me and a lot and I remember that week two of my teammates Eric Berry and Justin Houston inshallah both of them Hall of Famers inshallah Allah guys, both of them. I mean, good people, man, I believe really beautiful people. I remember I was saying something locker room. And then they said, You got to speak it into existence. You got to speak it into existence. And so I remember going I lost my witness. I remember going back to my apartment, and I said, Oh, are you blessed me to score this week? I'm making Cessna.
And in my apartment, I kid you now I'm trying to figure out how am I going to go down and pray? Am I going to stand up beat on my chest, then go to a size? Am I gonna go around and do the size? Whatever it's going to be? So you know, Monday Night Football comes around. We needed the game. sellout crowd arrowhead, we set the noise record. Still the world record Guinness World Record today. Louder stadium in the outdoor stadium. Casey, Casey Casey. And it happened on a guy intercepting the path, running it back and praising the last Thursday in endzone that was your
SUV Hi.
Still in Guinness. Guinness, unforgettable.
The loudest roar recorded in world history. It's people cheering on a muscle, praising Allah Bohling Wow. That's beautiful. That's why and it's one of the it's one of those things where you just gotta be courageous man, you just have to do it. And Hamdulillah you know, a lot of people talk about the flag. How many light didn't get fun. I remember when my agent called me and told me about that. But the beautiful thing was, I'm glad that there was a fight, because it brought more attention to it. So then you had the world on every talk show sports, this, people are debating as such the the whole world is debating Assange. You can just explain the flags, it's probably they don't know what they
mean by a Flag. Flag. When I scored the touchdown. I go I actually again, like, I'm just following at this point. So I just slid in the endzone. And, you know, I did decide to sort of sort of rough, he does a fly. So apparently, there is a penalty. So apparently there's a rule or was a rule now you can do whatever you want. Apparently, there was a rule that you can't go down and celebration on two knees. Right. And so they throw the flag we get the penalty hamdulillah it didn't affect the game. It was working the Patriots that that that game and we won really good game. Afterwards came the backlash. Oh, no, I'm talking about the OMA showed up on Twitter and Instagram is not even it wasn't
close to what it is now. But when I say people from France, Indonesia, Africa, everybody going out in the field that was wrong yada yada yada. You shouldn't be doing this. He better not get fined all kinds of stuff. Day by like 6am they issued a statement. Oh, this is this like I'm waking up to the news is reported
My what is going on check my phone is going crazy. And so it was beautiful because it captivated the world, in terms of people should be able to pray to God pushing to worship. And so something that, you know, I hold very personal in terms of my relationship with the last one either. And that was just a private moment that was displayed in public. Right. But that level of courage, willingness to do something in an environment that it's foreign, that people aren't aware of the ref, you know, Hamdulillah I don't know what was in his heart. So I just say, he didn't seem something he's not used to. So he finds it. Right. Right, right. But look at the way look at the way it spreads and
look at the data that comes from that, right. Sometimes you never know, just getting over your own individual fee or acting in spite of fear. It can lead to the most beautiful moment, right. I mean, I don't know how much I said that brought to the OMA though, you know, yeah, like a lot of people never seen an Islamic Jonnie gesture, you know, in the end, like
that was never it was never happened. So it was the first time like all that courage that it took to do it.
Just a story that you said, Yeah, Allah, if if I score then and Allah allowed you to score Subhan Allah You know, that's, that's tough, right that you did and second thing that not only did Allah make it stop there, but as a reward for the courage, the roar from the crowd, possibly the angels roaring?
Yeah, you never know what was what was happening there. And then after that, and the whole OMA stood up for each show you like how we come together? As an omen people are discussing it. The prophets listen to something I thought of when you said that. The prophets like Selim settlements in the field, Islamic sunnah to Hassan fella who urged Rajaram anomala, BLM or whoever starts a good sunnah. Right in the omad, then they get the reward, the reward for it and the reward of everyone that does it after. So now, every one in any sport that was inspired by this action, you get the reward of that subject and the impact that it has on them. So that's, yeah, so courage is the reward
of courage at the end, it is probably sacrifice. And this is what we get. No. And that's so deep. I mean, and you know, when we talk about masculinity, you know, it was our first episode, which really is, everything is couched in this concept of purpose. It just kind of to reiterate, reiterate, that is, you know, you know, you find if you're a Muslim man and a man that believes in a deity higher than higher than yourself, Allah, if he's your ultimate purpose, everything you do in life is to please Him. We know that part. But sometimes we, we forget, or it's in our subconscious mind,
that the results of the struggle or the results of embodying that masculinity is up to Allah. So the results of that was well beyond I'm almost sure what you would fathom, you know that there would be a penalty firstly, and then the Muslims would stand like what's going on now? Mashallah, you know, the Muslims coming online, the solidarity is creating a whole different wave, bringing a whole different perspective, making a lot of people think and that's because someone wanted to embody that masculine trait of courage. And particularly when it comes to the man in leadership, there has to be some time of courage and sometimes that courage you may lose your life in that regard, but man
Coachella Valley for who she was also some said, whoever is the one that that dies and protecting his money is honored than he is a murderer. I can right now I'm literally thinking like what it looks because you know, playing football, you run it in the helmet, you see that video? I say can you see that ends up coming across your car and you're like, it's happening? Well, it's certain. Like when you when you caught it, you were running where you like, absolutely sure you're gonna make it you know, as soon as soon as soon as you say that, because there there are moments where you have conversations with yourself, right? When I when I broke on the ball, and, and I intercepted it. The
immediate thought was a lot did his part. Now you gotta do your part. I gotta get there. I gotta go. I gotta aim. Like, you know, like I said, it's this total it was the loudest you know, recorded sound. I don't hear nothing. I'm just focused. I got I gotta get there. I gotta get there. I gotta get so it's just it's just it's just me right now it's just me. I have to I have to uphold my part. My part of the problem is because I did his part. He got me to boy, I gotta go score. I gotta go to a session. Right? So yeah, so it was just again like it was just a moment but you know, one of the beautiful things is people know me for being Muslim.
Not for anything. I really did. Just that that got the most of you to you. You talk to the senior Ron. He's a muscle. The greatest thing that we can be known for is being awesome.
And like you talk about courage, man, one of my one of my favorite
stories in the Quran is in surah de essing, a man ran from across town.
And he stands in front of that angry mob stands up on his soapbox. So going off on everybody. That's correct. But it for the sake of alarm, because when you're when you're a believer, when you believe in law, you truly believe, and you trust in Allah, and you rely on Allah, you can not lose. And so when you understand, hey, look, I am going to be victorious in this life, or I'm going to be victorious in the next slide. So therefore, it allows you to act in spite of the fear because courage kicks in because I'm connected. Right? If it's just me to myself, well, maybe maybe I am nervous, I am scared. But when I know that I have a lot backing me and the angels back to me. And
I'm connected to the Divine legendary tradition, right, that has dominated the world since the Quran was revealed. Oh, yeah. Now I got strength now. And now I'm courageous. Right. So it's really, it's like, I think you said earlier, it's a matter of a belief of the man, that that breeds Kurt, as beautiful man, it ties into Tawakkol Jonnie, trusting and Allah subhanho wa taala. I mean, that's, that's phenomenal. We seen that with Muhammad Ali, or him, Allah, this that trust, it's like, I believe in God, God, you know, only God can judge me, you're not worried about what people think. You know, and when people see that that's powerful, especially with someone that is exhibit, you
know, embodying strength, because really, courage is a sign of strength. Right? Like you said, in spite of fear, like you see someone do something immaculate. And then you ask them after they do that immaculate thing, and then they tell you, they were scared, and they begin, you know, that's the day. But I still went through with it. That's courage. And that's an honorable position, a lofty, honorable position, you know, for a man for a man to have SubhanAllah. And that's the base of confidence to show. Exactly I was reading this book, he said, confidence has nothing, nothing to do with high self esteem. Right? A high self esteem isn't virtuous in its nature. Like, it's just
believing you're, you're good and you're competent. You could be not competent and not so good. But confidence is courage, and humility.
So courage and humility, okay. And that's where confidence comes from. Right? And we need to be confident, to be to be to be strong Muslims, right. Without courage. There's no we talked about humility a lot, right? And especially when we talk about arrogance, and of sin, and so on, and release and satanic sins and whatnot. But courage is the second main component. Right? You know, without it can have confidence. Maybe we need to train our, our young men how to deal with fear. Yeah. So just like you said, right now, so a person can have a doubt or fear. Or it's like, Man, this is tough, but, but the ability to connect to Allah in that moment,
and know that the power only comes from him and then continue on. That's correct. Right. That's the courage that a Muslim has, right? It's not because courage, courage can be in a Muslim and non Muslim, but the courage of a Muslim doesn't come from the ego, it comes from Allah. No. And that's deep. I mean, because when we're talking about like, Muslim Muslim athletes, and a lot of them, you know, whether they're in the locker room and you know, prayer time has come in, and they don't want to pray for the gods or they don't want to say after pray, or the there's other types of fitna that come around them, and standing up in representing who they are, you know, subhanAllah is huge. You
know, it's funny, you say that, like, time to pray, like, I went to the whole dance floor to pray how to do this.
And so it got to a point like, when I was like, Okay, I'm gonna pray, you know, after when I get home and all this kind of stuff. And then like, when I came back from hij, I was like, No,
Slack comes in. I'm praying salon. And so I went to, I asked my assistant DB coach Nola, a dino cage office, it's time for prayer. He was like,
Hey, go ahead. Sorry, phrases. Oh, like Nina had a little small spot. So I'm praying in there and then like, three, four days later, my DB coach, me Thomas Hall of Famer. He,
he says, he says, 39 ETK 39.
Whenever you pray, I want you to use my arrow said I need that. As
Nice, nice. So So again, you act in spite of fear, good things happen. Exactly. It's one of those but those are those moments again, that build you as a man, you have to lean into it. Not it's beautiful, because, you know, a lot of times we don't want to face those awkward moments. Yep, I gotta pray and then you see that and it's a it's only this facial expression like, Oh, we don't want to face that, but I tell them
myself and I told my sons and I tell a lot of young guys look, that awkward moment is only a couple of minutes. Right? And they're just gonna they're gonna feel weirdness. Okay, yeah, you can use my and they may have their opinion after that. But when they feel the energy that you are not really concerned with how they feel about you fulfilling something much greater, that indirectly brings a form of respect. Respected. Yeah, they respect if you waver on your belief, they don't punky they just what it is. So you cannot waver you, as a Muslim man is a man of principle. Exactly. And so when you're a man of principle, whatever that principle calls you to do in that moment, you have to
do exactly and so when you stand in it, when people joke around they say this, they say that, but when you send it in, because, hey, that was Muslim prayer. On Friday, on Friday and Casey, the second we broke it up. Everybody just opened up lane, because they knew I'm spreading out the report is no don't actually say nothing. Everybody knew I'm sprinting out because I have to hurry up, take a shower and try to race to make it to Joomla. everybody already knew my show. They respect it, and then they help you and they try to honor you. When Minnesota found out I was fast. And the first two years I like to keep it to myself. I don't know if I'm gonna get cut. They when they realize it was
going on, they're like, this guy fat, he don't care. Okay, okay, we can help you out. We're gonna bring it nutritionists, we're gonna do this, we're gonna do that. A lot. When you when you when you stand on that notice stand on business. That's everybody said now or 10 toes, whatever. But when you stand up for what you believe in, Allah makes boy. Yeah, yeah. And it's that fine line of having the courage to do it. And then facing the awkward moments, because I understand. And I think that's a lot, you know, with our young men, may Allah protect them, you know, especially with our young sisters as well. I mean, when we're talking about masculinity, and the young man is going through
that. And when people see that you did it in spite of what they think, like you said, that brings a huge level of respect and honor for you. And it's a huge masculine trait, because that's also ties in with bravery. It will it also ties in with bravery. And seeing that with all the companions of the Prophet sallallahu sallam, or you mentioned Abu Bakr, Radi Allahu anhu, he did that in spite of, you know, the process on being wanted, which would eventually make him wanted, you know, just because of that. And it is, that's what's so beautiful about having, you know, being someone that is tied to Allah subhanho wa taala. Because when people since, like you mentioned, you've probably seen
in the gym as well, during the MMA, you know, you see that when people see you being holy, it kind of makes them think, Okay, what am I doing?
Yeah, what am I doing? Or at least let me help you. And then they get in kind of a mood and they start to think about themselves, man, what am I? What am I doing for God? And sometimes it shows up as they start picking money, they start making fun of you, they started laughing and doing all kinds of different things. But in the end, when you don't waver when you realize the angle punked me on this, then they point of sale say Hey, so what is Christ? Yes. Then all of this is the most curious person. Yes, sorry. Again, all you got to do is just stand for what you believe in. Be courageous deal with the awkward moment, that awkward moment like you say it last a moment. But if you waver if
you cower, because cower is on the other side of courage, if you cower, you gotta live with that for the rest of your life. No dice. It has never hurts more, it hurts more in the same way. Courage has its reward. Lack of it has its punishment. That's beautiful, man. Because
when people see that you have confidence in yourself to have confidence in you. Yeah, I was reading this book. I think it's called the boy crisis by Warren Farrell. He's talking about his book The boy crisis, right? That's, I think, where I got the quote from really great book, man. Yeah, it's pretty good book. So he is talking about how men make fun of each other. And one of the reasons that they do that, and this is the fifth row, you know, men make fun of each other because he specially is mentioned in like the army in the military, because they want to see if you have thick skin. If you can't take a joke. I can't trust you on the battlefield. Absolutely. Wow. You can't take a job. One
of the tests. Yeah, yeah. Because if you can't take a joke, you're emotional. Yeah. So if we're on that battlefield, and things got to get done, I can't trust you. You don't know how to control yourself. Right. So that's why it's so deep to you know, with as you mentioned, confidence, courage and humility. When people see that you're confident they see that you have the courage to be who you are, but you're still humble at the same time. And I think that's beautiful man so you know with with this aspect of courage me last month, Allah bless you for for coming in and chilling in the man cave on your lodge. Thank you for having me. I appreciate you know, and I noticed myself every time
I every time someone comes before the cameras cut on it's just that vibe we're just men sitting together my saw the brothers in the back and we just talking he's just feel that energy. And I think that's something that you know, your viewers if you get an opportunity to just get with the brothers at times and just talk it's a beautiful thing and it indirectly, it sometimes directly increases your Amen
To me last month Allah bless all of y'all for tuning in to where we're here at The Man Cave discussing issues of male excellence while being grounded in faith as Salaam Alaikum Warahmatullahi Wabarakatuh