Abdullah Oduro – The Prayer That Set a Guinness World Record – IMAN Cave Clips
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I remember going back to, my apartment,
and I said, Ola, you blessed me to
score this week.
I'm making such now.
And in my apartment, I kid you now.
I'm trying to figure out
how am I gonna go down and pray?
Am I gonna stand up, beat on my
chest, then go do a side. Am I
gonna go around and do a side?
Whatever it's gonna be. And so,
you know, Monday night football comes around. We
needed the game,
sell out crowd, Arrowhead. We set the noise
record, still the world record, Guinness World Record
today. Lauda Stadium in the outdoor stadium. Casey?
Casey.
Okay. And it happened
on a guy
intercepting the pass,
running it back,
and
praising Allah, and it's
on. That was your
Suhan
Omar. Wow. And it's still in Guinness World.
It's still in Guinness World. Unforgettable.
The loudest roar recorded in world history is
people cheering on a Muslim,
praising Allah.
Wow. That's beautiful. That's beautiful. Wow. And it's
one of the and 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. Hamdulillah didn't get fined. I remember
when my agent called me and told me
about that. But the beautiful thing was I'm
glad that there was a flag because it
brought more attention to it. So then you
had the world on every talk show, sports,
this people are debating
a such the
the whole world is just debating a size
of what it would be about. Can just
explain the flags. I don't know what they
mean by a flag. You gotta flag. So
when I scored the touchdown, I go,
actually, again, like, I'm I'm just throwing at
this point. So I just slid in the
end zone and and, you know, I did
decide to sort of sort of rough, heat
of the flag. So apparently, there was a
yes, a penalty. So apparently, there's a rule
or was a rule. Now you can do
whatever you want. Apparently, there's a rule that
you can't go down in celebration
on 2 knees.
Right? And so, they throw the flag. We
get the penalty. Hamdullah didn't affect the game.
He was working the Patriots that that, that
game and we won, really good game. Afterwards
came the backlash.
Oh. And I'm talking about
the Uma showed up.
I'm getting my like, Twitter and Instagram is
not even it would wasn't close to what
it is now. But when I say people
from
France, Indonesia,
Africa,
everybody
going at the NFL. That was wrong. Yada
yada yada. You shouldn't be doing this. He
better not get fined all kinds of they
buy, like, 6 AM. They issued a statement.
Oh, this is this. Like, I'm waking up
to the news. There's reporters that are like,
what is going on? Check my phone. It's
going crazy.
And so it was beautiful because it captivated
the world
in terms of people should be able to
pray to God.
People should be able to worship.
And so something that, you know, I hold
a very personal in terms of,
my relationship with the lost one of the
island. 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, hamdullah, I don't know
what was in his heart. So I just
say he didn't see something he's not used
to, so he finds it. Right? But look
at the way, look at the way it
spreads and look at the dower that comes
from that. Right? Sometimes you never know just
getting over your own
individual fear or acting in spite of fear.
It can lead to the most beautiful moment.
Right? I mean, SubhanAllah.
How much has that brought to the Ummah
though? You know? Yeah. Like a lot of
people
never seen
an Islamic
gesture Yeah. You know, in in the end
of, like, the Yeah. I think that was
never it was it never happened. Yep. So
it was the first time.
Like all that courage that it took to
do it,
just the story that you said, you Allah,
if
if I score, then and Allah allowed you
to score, SubhanAllah. You know what I mean?
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
with us. Yeah, Allah. I love it. You
never know what was what was happening there.
And then after that, the whole Ummah stood
up for it to show you, like,
how we come together. Yeah. I mean, as
an Ummah, and people are are discussing it.
The prophet, salallahu alaihi wa sallam,
this is something I thought of when he
said that. The
The prophet
said,
Whoever starts a good sunnah,
right, in the ummah, then they get the
reward the reward for it and the reward
of everyone that does it after. So now
everyone in any sport that was inspired by
this action,
you get the reward of that subject and
the impact that it has.
Anomah. So that's
yeah. So courage, this is the reward of
courage at the end. Yeah. And he's 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.
Mhmm. It's 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 you
higher than yourself, Allah. If he's your ultimate
purpose, everything you do in life is to
please him. We 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. Uh-huh. 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,
masha'Allah? Yeah. You know, the Muslims coming online,
the solidarity
Yep. 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 Yeah. Yep. In that regard.
If also some said, whoever is the one
that that dies in protecting his money
is honored, then he is a murder. I
could right now, I'm literally thinking, like, what
it looks, because, you know, playing football and
you're running in the helmet, you see that
vision, it's like, it's shaking, you see the
ends up coming close. You're coming close. You're
like, it's happening. When you're, like, certain
like, when when you when you caught it,
you were running. Were you, like, absolutely sure
you're gonna make it? You know, it's it's
interesting as you say that because there,
there are moments where you have conversations with
yourself. Right? Mhmm. When I when I broke
on the ball and,
and I and I intercepted it, the immediate
thought was Allah did his part. Now you
gotta do your part. Mhmm. So that I
gotta get there. I gotta go. I gotta
And, like,
you know, like I said, it's this the
it was the loudest,
you know,
recorded sound. I didn't hear nothing. I'm I'm
I'm just focused. I got I gotta get
there. I gotta get there. I gotta get
there. I love that. So it's just it's
just it's just me. Right now, it's just
it's just me. I have to I have
to uphold my my part of the promise
because I did his part. He got me
the ball. I gotta go score. I gotta
go do a session. Right? So yeah. So
it was just, again, like it was just
a 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 guy's a Muslim.
If you to you, you, you talk to
a singer around, he's a Muslim. Yeah. The
greatest thing that we can be known for
is being Muslim.