Amir Junaid Muhadith – Bad Boy 2 Conscious Muslim
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When that red light used to go off,
because you know, the record light.
That light.
When that light used to go off,
that was the reality
of not just myself, but every other individual
that was in that game.
I've seen sometimes that light go off and
the first thing flies they phone.
I'm just thinking, oh,
and you'd be like, so, finally, this
guy just had, like, the the the ultimate
Colgate smile about about 5 minutes ago.
As soon as that light went off,
the real person emerged,
a person who was unhappy,
a person who was depressed,
a person that used to
enjoy
the fruits of his labor.
Now
they're like nothing to him.
A person that used to love and appreciate
all his
screaming,
loving fans,
now he ain't got time to give him
autographs, and now they're like flies in his
face. Like, once I get out of here,
I
don't know what the grass.
You've been here a few times already there?
Yeah. This this has been more of a
learning experience this time because, you know No.
Things wasn't really as hot as it was
supposed to be.
And it started to happen so repetitively
that I realized
I'm not gonna be able to do this
forever.
I'm not gonna be able to stand in
front of crowds and do songs, and this
is tiring
because I'm intoxicating
myself. I'm smoking.
I'm drinking.
Audible. I'm fornicating.
I'm doing everything
haram under the sun
without knowledge of Islam.
And once I learned about Islam
and this is just me,
this is not for everybody,
but I abruptly
abstain from every single major sin I've ever
committed.
I haven't heard the radio in 2 years.
I haven't shaved my beard
since I read the hadith.
Leave the beard, trim the mustache, class, say
no more.
I couldn't wait to be obedient because I
lost my opportunity to obey my parents.
I lost my opportunity to obey my grandparents.
I lost those opportunities
because being neglectful and being rejected
when they wanted good for me, I blew
those opportunities. Now I'm a man. It's too
late. Can't listen to you. Can't finish school
like you asked me to do. But by
Allah's permission, I've been given the opportunity
to be obedient
again.
This time, the reward
is beyond
human understanding.
Who don't want that?
Brothers and sisters in Islam, first and foremost,
I always like to thank the people that
invited me
because when we don't thank the people, we
don't thank Allah.
And this is one implementation
of the Muslim
mannerisms and characteristics
is that we always show thankfulness, we always
show gratitude
for the blessings and the favors of Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
And by Allah's permission, I was able to
arrive safely in Oslo,
salhamdulillah,
you know, for having a safe journey.
And, inshallah,
may Allah return me safely to my family.
Inshallah.
Now a lot of you may have heard
my story of how I reverted to Islam,
and maybe
some of you haven't.
So I guess briefly for those who haven't
heard my story, I'll just briefly run through
some of the strong points
of how I became,
you know, Amir Junaid Muhandef, formerly known as
Loon from Bad Boy Records.
Now, I was born and raised in New
York City,
which a lot of you may know. This
is the home of hip hop. This is
the home of the music, you know, the
music business.
And, you know, just growing up in New
York, I became a product of a lot
of things.
1st and foremost,
the crime epidemic in New York. This was
the first influence in my life
It was the involvement in, you know, selling
drugs,
involved in all types of criminal activities.
This was the first influence before music
became this wave of, you know,
influence on all the youth around the world.
So I went through many stages in my
life of being misguided.
And like I said, one was the streets,
and then coming into the music business, I
looked at it as an outlet,
an avenue
or a means to establishing a more positive
side of myself.
And this is why I chose to do
songs like I Need a Girl
and things of this nature to show a
more respectful side of myself
because a lot of you guys can only
identify with Loong from the music business. Y'all
don't know Loong from the streets.
But the beautiful thing about it is that
New York City is a very diverse place.
You're exposed by many cultures, many different ethnic
backgrounds, nationalities.
So basically, you know, to live in New
York is to live around the world.
You know, I've been exposed to a lot
of the Yemenis brothers in my community,
a lot of West African brothers in the
community, East African brothers in the community,
and, alhamdulillah, you know, a lot of the
Pakistani brothers.
You know? Yeah. They own most of the
pharmacies. Yeah.
But being in such a diverse place, I
was always exposed to the Muslim but never
was exposed to Islam.
So I always was aware of the Muslim
presence
but never really seen, you know,
any of the Muslims in my community practice
Islam.
So I never really understood what Islam was.
I just knew
that having Muslims in the community,
that they shared the same, you know, stress
and strife that came with living in the
inner city, living in the ghettos.
We all had to use certain means of
defending ourselves and securing,
you know,
what we were searching for, which was stability,
a means to take care of our families,
a means to, you know, survive.
So this was the one thing we all
had in common, and this is how we
were able to, you know, coexist
without having so much, you know, friction.
So long story short, being in this environment,
I was a very sheltered person. I was
very bottled up. I never really expressed myself.
So I discovered I had the ability to
write.
And once I learned I had the ability
to write, I used this method of writing
as a means of escaping this harsh reality
that I lived in.
So without even having a passport, I would
be able to write songs that would place
me in China.
I could write a song and be in
Japan in 2 minutes.
It was a it was a it was
a, you know, a means of me expressing
my imagination
and expressing a means to escape mentally,
but the reality
always came afterwards that physically I was still
trapped in the ghetto.
So long story short, I obtained a certain
level of quote unquote success in the music
business
and enabled me to travel the world.
And by traveling the world,
at first it was a blast, you know,
at first it was something that I was
longing for. I was longing for an opportunity
to, you know,
be the man
or be someone who was, you know,
successful, so to say.
But after a period of time,
I never really could measure
the range of influence
that the music was having
Because coming from,
you know, New York City, we only targeted,
like, secular countries,
you know. We're thinking about being hot in
France, you know, we're thinking about being hot
in Europe,
you know, countries that indulge in this type
of activity.
But I never knew
that this influence
was inspiring the Muslims and Muslim countries.
And this came to me by way of
doing a song with a Lebanese artist by
the name of Masadi,
who some of you may know, some of
you may not know. But when I did
this song with Masadi
and I started getting calls to do shows
in places like Moscato Mine,
Abu Dhabi,
Dubai, pretty much the Emirates,
I never expected these calls to come. I
never even thought that I would be invited
to places like this because I know these
were places that were dominated by Muslims.
So in my heart, I knew, like, this
must be a setup. Somebody was trying to
kill me.
You know, they're inviting me to a country,
they're going to hide me,
you know.
But alhamdulillah, when I got there, I noticed
that this influence
wasn't something that, you know, that people weren't
accustomed to.
They kind of fit right in.
I hit the club, and I've seen Muslims
dancing, drinking, smoking, doing everything that I was
doing,
you know,
visiting secular countries.
And I guess
seeing this started to kind of, like, penetrate
this shell that most rappers y'all know how
to rap, everybody wants to be
tough guys.
You know, you come to find out later,
you know, he used to be in a
ballet class or something,
but, you know, after 4 or 5 records
of killing everybody, you
know, come to find out, you know, he
took knitting in high school or something.
But for me, coming from that
and knowing that my intention initially was to
escape all that by the best means possible
was showing the respect that I have for
women. I was raised by my grandmother.
I was raised by women, my family is
dominated by women, most of the fights I
had was over the women in my family.
And I was cool,
you know, it was about messing with one
of my cousins or messing with my sisters
or messing with any of the females in
the family was the reason why we would
come outside and, you know, and have to,
you know, get down.
So
the only way that I had
to express a softer side of myself was
to show the respect that I have for
women.
So this this escape route was being
gradually tarnished by this whole perception that I'm
seeing of a country that should be, you
know, based on a religion that's 1431
years old, like, what are they doing drinking
and smoking and doing the stuff that we're
doing?
This doesn't look right, this doesn't feel right.
Like, it gotta be some place where this
this disease is not spreading,
you know.
So, traveling in the Emirates, you know, Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala changed my heart.
And I know a lot of times we
hear reverse stories.
And as reverse, we can tell you the
details of, like, where we were standing, which
way the sun was facing, which way the
wind was blowing, but you can't quite, in
detail, explain
what actually takes place in the changing of
the heart.
This is where the story becomes unique,
with every revert, not just myself.
So I was just explaining to the brothers
on the way here, it's like I've noticed
some shahadas that brought me to tears,
that had me holding myself together until I
left and then, you know, break down.
Because you can't explain the changing of the
heart.
And like the brother mentioned it and myself,
you know, in.
Whomsoever Allah chooses to guide, no one can
lead them astray.
And whomsoever Allah chooses to lead astray, no
one can guide.
This is the simplicity
of Islam.
This is why this is the fastest growing
religion in the world,
with no marketing, no promotions.
It's not needed.
You don't need a big marketing scheme,
marketing promotions,
posters on the side of the bus.
You don't need this. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
has increased its religion by its own leave,
by its own will.
So therefore, you know, we have to be
mindful of these things.
So basically my intention today was to be
a reminder to myself first and foremost and
to all of you
about gratitude.
Gratitude is very important
for all of us,
especially the Muslim.
You know, the pursuit of happiness,
my sheikh al Islam Muhammad ibn Abdul Wahab,
he had 4 he had 3 principles.
4, but 3 of these 4 principles I
hold closely to my heart.
And one is, if you are grateful,
I mean if you are if you are
giving, you are grateful.
If you are giving, you are grateful.
So as muslims we can reflect on so
many things we've been given first and foremost
Islam.
First and foremost we've been given Islam. We've
been given the means to worship the only
god worthy of worship.
Every day,
some of us even struggle to get out
of bed when it's time to pray salatul
fajr.
We'll sit there and find excuses within ourselves
of why we should get up.
When the reason should be gratefulness,
that Allah put air in your lungs, life
in your body to wake up once again
with the opportunity
to be better than you were yesterday,
to worship him better than you did yesterday.
And this is gratitude.
A lot of us, you know, we neglect
to have
gratitude for all the favors that we've bestowed
upon us.
2nd is when you're tested,
you're patient.
How many of us are tested
and we have no patience?
No patience,
when we've been given the greatest incentive.
After every hardship comes ease.
Right?
After every hardship comes ease.
But if someone told you, you know,
open up a shop,
if you stand here and sell these kulfis
and these kimars
for 5 hours, we'll give you $5,000,000.
Right?
Or if you stand here on this corner
and sell oranges,
it's a 100 and something degrees in the
middle of the desert,
Just sell these oranges for 3 hours, I'll
give you $3,000,000.
You'll be abutangerine,
right?
You have a whole new cunha, you'll be
out there slinging oranges in the desert,
wiping the sweat, not even caring because your
incentive is you're going to receive $3,000,000.
But with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala,
he's offering us something more for being patient,
and that's ease after the hardship.
The last one is when you are sinful,
seek forgiveness.
How many times do we neglect to seek
forgiveness?
When we are sinful, we all are sinful.
Speaking for myself, 1st and foremost,
I'm far from a saint. I am in
dire need of Allah's mercy every day.
SubhanAllah.
And I pray that Allah makes me better
than the way y'all see me.
I pray that Allah increases us all.
Because my biggest fear sometimes is people or
individuals raising me beyond
my status.
I'm just like you, I'm just a Muslim,
you know.
Loon doesn't exist in this room today.
Loon is who I was, you know. I'm
your brother, Amir. A couple of years ago,
you probably would have had to get past
a couple of bodyguards in a velvet rope,
probably got pushed down, smacked in the face,
so, you know, he's not taking no autographs
today.
You know, some of the security guards was
merciless. Upon Allah, some of your sisters would
have just got thrown on the floor.
You know?
They told me to talk a little louder.
I'm sorry. I got the same voice from
the records, I'm sorry.
I wasn't DMX, I was long.
But hamdulillah, these are some of the things
that I reflect on every day is that,
you know,
I could have died
in a state of disbelief
because my life before Islam was surrounded by
lies,
surrounded by lies.
I shared one of the one one of
the worst ones with you with Santa Claus.
SubhanAllah.
You know how many years went by before
I figured out I didn't even have a
chimney? I lived in the projects.
So where is this fat guy coming from?
Then it dawned on me, maybe he's coming
from the incinerator room but the incinerator chute
was this big.
And just like everything else, you get over
it,
you know,
you realize that, okay, this doesn't make any
sense.
Another one was the Easter bunny. I didn't
know the rabbits laid eggs.
We're running around looking for a rabbit that
lays eggs when a rabbit is a mammal,
right? Y'all in school, right?
I dropped out. I mean, the rabbit is
a mammal, right?
So when you come to realization
that a rabbit doesn't lay eggs,
Then that one escaped me.
Then the worst one was the tooth fairy.
I actually was looking forward for my teeth
to fall out my mouth so I can
get paid.
But something told me to be a little
bit clever. I hovered my whole body over
the pillow and slept.
And, well, I hear the next day my
tooth was still there.
Next night, same sleeping position, my tooth was
still there, I realized somebody is moving my
pillow,
taking the tooth and putting the money there.
And these were some of the same things
that I had struggled with as a kid
when it came down to, you know,
being born and raised as a Christian.
You know, I used to spend 6 days
a week in a church.
My grandmother was in the United * College
from Choir. She sung for over 30 something
years.
I remember sitting in church, just sliding down
on wooden benches. She'd be in rehearsal till,
like, 11 o'clock at night, and I'd just
be tired.
And I don't know if you know, old
people can talk. Some of y'all, you know,
y'all mothers,
grandmother, they can talk,
you know,
and hanging with her in church. I miss
every last one of my favorite shows because
I would get home by 11, 12 o'clock
at night.
So I remember one day asking the pastor,
I say, you know,
like, if if Jesus is praying, like, who
is he praying to?
He just turned on me, snap. Boy, you
don't believe in Jesus Christ, your Lord and
savior? Oh, calm.
Like, calm down, I didn't say that.
I just asked you a question, if he
prays,
who is he praying to?
Because it seems to be working for him
so I want to pray to who he's
praying to. I don't want to pray to
him.
You know, I'm a little jivel, I'm thinking,
you know, it doesn't always pan out the
way I want when I pray to him.
Who is he praying to? Because it's in
the works
when he prays.
And he came to me again with another,
you know, just
rendition, I don't know what it was. I
just say, alright, Coloss, you know what, I'm
just gonna believe in God.
So, you know,
due to my fitra, I just accepted monotheism
on my own to say, you know, I'm
just gonna believe in God because this other
thing is just a little too complicated and
I ask questions from those who are supposed
to be knowledgeable about it and I'm not
getting the answers, so I'm just gonna worship
God.
So I was always mindful that there was
a God.
We created this way,
to know that there is a God.
So you know,
coming to Islam
from living in this lifestyle that a lot
of you are familiar with, you all see
some of your brothers in Islam, you all
see some of your sisters in Islam,
struggling sometimes
with their identity,
or sometimes
struggling with
trying to balance the dunya with the deen.
And by me being engulfed in this lifestyle
and finding a way out,
I lost permission, I have no desire to
return to the same place that made me
sick.
You understand?
If you go someplace and it makes you
sick,
you find a cure,
and you go back to the place that
made you sick,
it's safe to say that you, you know,
something's wrong with you, right?
It's safe to say that my my my
compassion
and the mercy that I might have for
you may deplete
even though we know Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
Ar Rahman.
But I'm human.
My mercy might deplete because I'm looking at
you like, ah, you you just a little
off.
I seen you when you came back, you
had bumps everywhere, you looked crazy.
But you're gonna go back there?
So
the gratitude that I have
is something that many of you have had
from birth.
I show a hands. How many of you
are born and raised Muslim?
Hamdulillah.
How many of y'all such as myself reverted
to this beautiful religion al Islam?
Oh, get them up. Yeah, we're out there
somewhere.
So I think that everyone would be able
to relate to what I'm gonna say next.
By the mercy of Allah,
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala,
you were placed in the womb of a
Muslim.
What's better than that? You were placed in
the womb of a Muslim, you came from
the womb of a Muslim.
So that means that this mercy was bestowed
upon you before you even knew what mercy
was.
Before you can even identify with what mercy
was, it was given to you.
As for myself, and I'm pretty sure some
of the other brothers that reverted, we have
stories that we probably have in common, maybe
not everything, I grew up in Harlem.
I'm pretty sure there are a few things
that we had in common
prior to coming to Islam.
And when we found Islam,
grateful as we may be, insha Allah,
but it's not a moment that goes by
where we don't reflect on
what could have been,
you know,
or if this was given to me sooner,
How many mistakes I would have missed?
How many things I would have abstained from
if Allah chose to guide me sooner?
Even though, alhamdulillah, I'm grateful
that he chose the time he chose
because I definitely was spiraling while all of
y'all were watching TV
and seeing me smiling,
100 of 1,000 of dollars worth of diamonds,
cars,
helicopters,
Audibila coming out the pool half naked.
Audibila
women all around the poolside
more naked.
Y'all thought this brother was having a time
in his life, right?
Stuff for the lobbying.
I was sick.
I was dying.
When that red light used to go off
because, you know, the record light,
that light.
When that light used to go off,
that was the reality
of not just myself, but every other individual
that was in that game.
I've seen it sometimes, that light go off
and the first thing flies, they phone.
And you'd be like, Saphanullah,
this guy just had, like, the the the
ultimate Colgate smile about about 5 minutes ago.
As soon as that light went off,
the real person emerged.
A person who was unhappy,
a person who was depressed,
a person that used to
enjoy
the fruits of his labor,
now
they're like nothing to him.
A person that used to love and appreciate
all his
screaming,
loving fans,
now he ain't got time to give them
autographs, and now they're like flies in his
face, like, why don't you get out of
here, like,
no autographs.
Yo big man, come on, something. He just
come in to beat everybody up and the
man said no more.
We used to use those guys to act
out some of our frustration because we know
if we hit you, you're gonna get sued.
I mean we get sued rather. We lose
a lot of money. Well, you ain't gonna
try to sue him, he ain't got no
money. So listen man, just call me.
Yeah, throw him.
You know,
but now look how accessible I am, I'm
your brother in Islam. You don't have to
go through no velvet rope, you don't have
to pay no admission.
This is the beauty of Islam.
This is the beauty of Islam.
And not to get away from the subject,
I'm not going to let y'all go. You
born Muslims, alhamdulillah.
Allah has blessed y'all.
Allah has blessed y'all.
In this short period of time that I've
been a Muslim, I've been invited many, many
places.
And what I've seen
has increased me in iman,
and also what I've seen
has affected me in ways that saddens me.
Because when I look at all the events
of my life prior to Islam,
and I look at the majority of you
who raised your hands and said you were
born and raised Muslims,
how you neglect
this security and this shelter that Allah has
given you
from
birth, to try to have just a taste
which turns into a bite,
which turns into a meal, and next thing
you know,
Islam don't even taste good to you no
more.
It starts with one taste,
then you take a bite,
next thing you know you're setting up silverware,
and the main course is dunya.
Dunya for breakfast,
dunya for lunch,
dunya for dinner,
Islam for midnight snack.
S'upaneullah.
What kind of nutrition are you going to
get from a diet like that?
That diet right there can do nothing but
destroy you.
I repeat for some of y'all who are
on this diet,
you don't have to expose yourselves.
May Allah make it easy for all of
us, umie.
But dunya for breakfast,
dunya for lunch,
dunya for dinner,
Islam
for a midnight snack.
This was the same diet I was on
without Islam.
I actually had dunya for midnight snack as
well.
How many y'all by showing hands is a
university
studying
to be doctors,
lawyers, whatever, inshallah.
Are you kidding?
So everybody is going to like Islamic universities
or something in this nature or everybody graduated
already?
How many graduated from university? I show a
hands. How many are making the attention to
obtain some form of education, whether it's Islamic
or
alhamdulillah. There we go.
Alright. Word of advice for those who are
pursuing
secular education.
While you're striving
to give your professor
an A plus,
do not make the mistake of giving a
law a C.
Because I know this is a lot in
universities.
You break your neck to get a professor
an a plus, lose sleep, don't eat,
face sucked in, you just look downright
crazy trying to please your professor.
When it comes to Allah,
you graduate
from university,
but like a juice and a half, been
Muslim your whole life,
Don't completely understand how he
can name 29 sheet artists, can't tell me
files to Habah.
This is a sickness.
And I guess as a reminder, what I'm
getting to is that we must increase
in knowledge and understanding
of the religion
that Allah
guided us all to.
Because this is not like this is not
a thing that you I got that. It's
not that
what you got is okay. You know how
to get dressed. You got that.
You know,
You know how to put olive oil on
your lihyah, yeah, you got that. You sisters,
you know how to put on your khimar,
you got that.
But this religion is something you just don't
you don't get that. You know, this this
takes however long Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala places
life in your body and you'll still be
learning.
You're gonna die
not completely learned about Islam.
And we're going to be questioned about what
we did with our time.
And I know a lot of you all
can sit in front of the internet for
3 hours,
probably going to be wearing glasses in 5
years.
As much as a lot of you all
sit in front of, you know,
you all know fit in the book,
Twitter,
alhamdulillah,
speaking for myself as well, I have my
share.
I try to post hadith. I try to
be as strong about the situation as possible,
you know.
But a lot of times I find myself
having regret for certain decisions I made,
you know,
accepting a friend that's just, you know, posting
outright crazy stuff on my page, and I'm
trying to keep my joint as religiously sound
as possible,
you know.
I understand these things, trust me, I'm still
your peer,
and this is the beauty of why, you
know, you know, by law's permission I'm able
to have an effect
and vice versa, you have an effect on
me. I'm learning my religion
from you as well.
And while some of y'all may have been
striving to be like me or be like
the individuals
who, you know, shared the stage with me
or shared this business with me,
I was trying to be like you.
Sort of like the same scenario, rich kids,
y'all want to hang in the ghetto.
For what?
When in the ghetto we would love for
my mother to live in your house.
You got heat,
AC in the summer,
water to waste,
refrigerator full.
And you want to be like me? You
want to be like us?
I never understood that.
I never understood a person who has money
to buy clothes that fit. You want them
to hang off your butt.
Do you know the origin
for some of your brothers with sagging your
pants came from? I'm gonna help you out
real quick if you really want to know.
And I could tell you now,
and I've done this before and I've seen
a lot of guys walk up out of
here with high waters after this statement, I'm
going to tell you.
Sagging your pants
originally
came from prison.
How I know? I've been incarcerated.
And you know how you go to a
store and a sign says,
'Open?'
Or when someone posts on their page they
are
single?
This was the indication
of the man in prison walking around with
his goods hanging out. You're saying you're available.
Because any real man
in the correctional facility with his pants on
his waist
sleeps on his back, not his stomach.
So when you're walking around the yard,
you know what the yard is,
prison.
With your pants hanging down?
It's a fun a lot. You know what
you're saying here? You know what you're saying
to the brothers?
That might have
life?
That's my next girl right there.
Yeah.
Oh, you see that. Right? You see that.
Right?
Look at Shorty.
Wouldn't that make you uncomfortable?
Brothers, 200 something pounds, walking around, looking at
you like, fool?
And you're open for business. 2nd
2nd origin of pants sagging was
hand me downs.
Uncle have a nice pair of pants, when
he gets done with them, I want to
wear them. But guess what? I got to
buy a belt and poke 3 more holes
in it so it can actually fit me.
So this was tough for some of the
poor kids,
wearing pants that belong to a relative of
yours that don't really fit.
They got snapped on, they got, you know,
people made cruel jokes,
killed their self esteem,
destroyed them morally,
but you got money to buy pants that
fit.
I never understood this.
Even my time in the streets,
I wore my pants up because I might
have to run from the police.
How far am I going to get
if my pants is on my knees?
Where am I going to carry my gun
if my pants is down here? And this
is just elaborating off of some of my
Jahil days.
And I'd really be wanting to make like
a public announcement to all the brothers like,
SubhanAllah, hey, come on man,
This is this is not fly. You look
like you come from a good home, good
parents, come on man, buy some clothes that
fit.
And don't buy clothes that's too tight neither,
you know. It's it's like a medium between,
like, you know,
loose,
you know,
and too tight.
It's called just right.
You know?
And I think I beat my brothers up
enough and say, you know, the sisters,
alhamdulillah,
love y'all too. I ain't gonna stare too
much, but I love y'all too alhamdulillah for
the sake of Allah.
What I've seen
since I've been a Muslim
is
for the most part, alhamdulillah,
a lot of the sisters are very much
active
in, you know,
the Dawah circuit.
And this is this is this is this
is alhamdulillah,
this is this is beautiful.
Because you have a place here as well.
You have the right to come to these
type of talks and benefit just as anybody
else.
Because us brothers, we will fail to convey
what took place coming homes, like,
what you do all day? Nothing. I was
out with, you know, Abdulrahman and I'm like,
no, no, what happened at the talk?
Oh no, I was cool. My brother was
talking about prophecy and selling me. It was
nice.
But you do have the right to come
and benefit as well if it can be
a benefit insha Allah.
But
the thing that saddens me the most is
that,
first and foremost Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala already
created you
beautiful.
Alhamdulillah.
Allah created you beautiful.
And based on his love for his creation,
first he commanded the men
to lower their gazes.
Then he commanded the women
to guard their chastity.
And I know this is something that, you
know, some of you sisters,
may Allah make it easy for you, may
struggle with.
And maybe it comes from living in some
of these non muslim countries that you feel
threatened,
or it's uncomfortable everyone staring at you,
or you go places and people don't treat
you the same.
This is good.
Glad Tidings,
for the strangers.
You want to get treated like a stranger,
this means that you're doing something good.
You know.
Let me give you a scenario.
Let's say I'm on a highway,
doing
60 miles per hour.
I see a brother
on the side of the highway, he's having
car trouble.
He has on an Adidas suit,
but he's Muslim.
But at 60 miles per hour I cannot
see what's in his heart.
So eventually I'm just going to fly past
him.
Same scenario, I'm on a highway, I'm doing
60 miles an hour, I see a brother
on the side of the road, he has
car trouble,
alhamdulillah,
he has on a jalabeer,
Khamis,
he has on a kufi, he has some
indication that this is a Muslim brother
who may be in need.
Instinctively,
by having love for Allah and
his messengers
and love for my brothers in Islam,
I'm going to mash the brakes.
I might even cause another accident
because I see that my brother is in
need.
60 miles per hour,
I see a sister.
She's Muslim,
alhamdulillah.
But at 60 miles per hour, I cannot
see what's in her heart.
So for that brief moment,
I might neglect
to aid her sister in Islam,
not because
there's no indication that she's not a Muslim,
It's just at 60 miles per hour, I
can't see
what's in her heart.
But at 60 miles per hour, sister with
hijab, akima,
and niqab,
not only am I going to pump the
brakes to aid my sister in Islam,
I'm also going to slam the brakes for
fear
of what the state troopers or what the
police might do to her
standing on the side of the highway by
herself.
So my point is to say,
there's something beautiful about being different.
There's nothing wrong with it.
I come to the airport like this all
the time, I just get there a little
bit more early,
that's it.
You see, I got here
only maybe a half an hour to prepare.
That wouldn't have been enough time to whip
out a thobe, eyeing it.
I got a Kuwaiti joint, crease the joint
in the middle and I wouldn't have had
time to do all that.
So I'm going to always come prepared
to give the salah, I'm always going to
come prepared,
you know, to distinguish myself from others who
may not understand Islam.
Not saying that you, not being a Muslim,
you are an enemy of Islam, you just
may not understand Islam.
So this is Dawah,
Because no one spoke to me about Islam
through all my travels. No one spoke to
me. I had to see the characteristics
and mannerisms of the Muslim in order to
be intrigued.
Before
one word was spoken to me, I saw
something beautiful that I did not see in
New York. I saw the Muslim practicing their
religion
openly
in a country where there was an oppressed
to do it,
similar to some of the countries that we
may live in.
No one is stopping you from praying, no
one is stopping you from practicing, no one
is kicking you while you're a siejou,
no one is pouring feces on your back.
These are not the things that you're going
through.
So why must we feel the urge to
compromise
over a few little dirty stares?
Just because you serve 3 tables that just
came in and I've been sitting here for
half an hour, well eventually I'm going to
eat.
And if anybody knows I had
the biggest,
fashion fetish that you can imagine.
My jeans used to be no less than
$500
and I walked on the back of them.
I never had a set of jewelry that
was under a $150,000,
minimal. We're talking about without stones in them.
Just stuff that they said is worth it,
so I'll take one.
It was a time I never drove a
car
that wasn't European.
I never owned an American car,
unless it was a classic,
a Grand National,
you know,
79 Camaro, a 68 Buick GS, I had
classic American cars.
But the point is
none of that means anything to me.
Because by Allah's permission, I have been offered
a chance
to go to the party that don't stop.
Not the parties I used to go to,
they used to end in 2 hours, I
would have a hangover
and a bunch of regret.
I would wake up sometimes like, why did
I even talk to her?
Like them dudes that were standing around me
like, where's my money?
I think one of them pickpocket me.
It was fun though before all this happened,
but I will wake up the next day
and notice that, I mean, you know, things
wasn't really as hot as it was supposed
to be.
And it started to happen so repetitively
that I realized
I'm not going to be able to do
this forever.
I'm not going to be able to stand
in front of crowds and do songs, and
this is tiring
because I'm intoxicating
myself, I'm smoking,
I'm drinking,
I'm fornicating,
I'm doing everything
haram under the sun
without knowledge of Islam.
And once I learned about Islam,
and this is just me, this is not
for everybody,
but I abruptly
abstain from every single major sin I've ever
committed.
I haven't heard the radio in 2 years.
I haven't shaved my beard
since I read the hadith.
Leave the beard, trim the mustache, class, say
no more.
I couldn't wait to be obedient because I
lost my opportunity to obey my parents.
I lost my opportunity to obey my grandparents.
I lost those opportunities
because being
neglectful
and being rejected,
when they wanted good for me, I blew
those opportunities. Now I'm a man, it's too
late. I can't listen to you. I can't
finish school like you asked me to do.
But by Allah's permission, I've been given an
opportunity
to be obedient
again.
This time, the reward
is beyond
human understanding.
Who don't want
that? Because everything else that's tangible
has an expiration date.
You buy the apple and sit it there
for like 5 minutes, it's gonna turn brown.
You can't even go to the the, you
can't even go to the bathroom and come
back and apple is still crunchy white.
Everything has an expiration date, right now while
we think we're living, we're dying.
You're dying right now.
Allah says every soul will taste death, so
that means the inevitable is near.
So you're dying.
So what are you going to do with
the life that you're given?
What are you going to do with the
time you are given?
What are you going to do with your
health?
These are things we're all going to be
questioned about.
And quite frankly I don't feel the urge
to compromise
any chances of me
standing before my lord, on Yom Kiyama,
and falling short
when I didn't have to because no one
was stopping me, no one was oppressing me,
no one was detouring me from doing what
I needed to do.
I've been on my own since I was
15.
I had my first child with 16. She's
in her 2nd year of college. May Allah
guide it, inshallah.
By default, I was forced to be responsible,
I was forced to be a man. Why?
And you all understand this, when you neglect
homework,
time to do a test now, you got
homework to do.
When homework piles up,
some of us end up in summer school,
right? Some of us end up having to
take extra classes because we neglected the work
that we had
at the time.
It was sufficient for us to do it
and we and we and we neglected it.
So now this build up, we're stuck with
access work.
So this is why we have to utilize
the time that we have
and learn as much as our religion is
possible, because this is the only shield that
you have.
This is the only protection that you have.
This is the only thing that's going to
secure you
for all the trials and tribulations that we
face in this dunya.
Treat the dunya like you treat the hotel.
I just got to stand in 1.
I don't make the bed
when I leave the hotel.
I don't wash the sink.
I brush my teeth, I spit anywhere.
Probably on a glass just because I can't,
just watch it run down while my face
is.
This is not my place.
Don't bring Xbox with me to a hotel
to plug up and try to have my
life
in the hotel.
I'm visiting.
I'm just a visitor.
Quite frankly, I don't belong here.
It's about Allah's permission, I want to end
up wherever he wants me to be. But
if he gives me the opportunity to strive
for good, that's what I'm gonna do.
So I pray to Allah, you know, guides
us all
and keep us firm upon this religion.
I pray the lost upon what the Allah
grants us death upon tawheed,
upon singling out Allahu to Allah alone in
all acts of worship,
never associated any partners. This is monotheism.
This is our religion.
Stop letting the media propaganda,
stop letting all these other things,
you know,
create this doubt
because you don't wanna die upon doubt.
You don't wanna die doubting your religion, doubting
it because you've been doing it most of
your life.
Maybe what these people are saying is right
because I've been doing this my whole life.
Most of you are, born Muslims, been doing
this your whole life.
So you see everybody else doing something different,
maybe that's what I should be doing because
I've been doing this my whole life.
But there's another side to that coin.
That stuff you're intrigued by, I've been doing
this my whole life. I'm the same way,
I've been doing it my whole life.
I shot, stabbed, shot at, I did it
all my whole life.
So to find peace,
which I couldn't pay for,
and to be able to have this many
brothers and sisters, my mother only had 4
kids.
And that's it, I'm Dila.
There ain't no more coming out of
there. But look at all the brothers and
sisters I got now.
Allahu Akbar.
These are the things I could never neglect.
These are the things I could never ever
deny.
And I just ask that, you know, all
of you
started with myself.
Be mindful
that
this religion is everything to us.
This religion is everything, period.
And if we don't take the time out
to invest
some of this time that we waste in
learning our religion so that we can protect
ourselves,
So that we can safeguard
our deen.
So when Allah calls us back and returns,
insha'Allah,
to Allah,
we can enter his paradise by his mercy.
Don't think that just because
is supposed to just save you.
Some people can't talk with a gun in
their face.
I know.
Words get jumbled,
what money I owed you?
But you tell me when 2 unseen creations
you've never seen in your life
approach you in your grave and sit you
up, you're gonna be on point, you
right here.
You're gonna be like that when you can't
even talk.
Some of y'all in near accidents say the
stupidest stuff when the braces
That ain't make no sense.
You came close to hitting the truck and
you just ramble something out your mouth that
made absolutely
no sense out of fear.
But when these 2 angels approach you in
your grave,
most of us are gonna be lost for
worse.
Unless we practice and implement what we practice,
then it will become
more fluent.
Just as much as we talk about, oh,
he just had a Waleema,
oh, the Waleema talk,
brothers y'all talking about whatever y'all talking about.
These angels is not gonna ask you
with song number 10
on Lil Wayne's second album.
These angels are not going to ask you
that.
Sisters, they're not going to ask you
about none of the Mac products and all
that stuff. They're not going to ask you
about that. Did you use peach Mac?
Milk? Oh, they got this lip gloss that,
no, it's not gonna ask you these questions.
So how do we prepare ourselves
for the inevitable?
Because there's a grave out there for every
last one of us,
For every last one of us.
This will help your kushu when you're praying
too.
This will help your kushu in this a
lot. Think about death,
you won't hear nothing else.
Prayer like it's your last, I see people
just like speed through prayer.
Like, did he even say that to you?
It's upon Allah, he's already here, said you.
I'm saying that they're taking my time, but
this might be my last al fat here.
Take these things serious. There's nothing more important.
It's nothing more important.
These are the things that are obligatory upon
us.
So take them serious.
A lot of those best may Allah guide
us all may Allah keep us firm upon
tawhid
may Allah protect us from all things evil
that he ordained.
May
Allah guide us to obtain and beneficial knowledge
of our religion
and may Allah
increase us all in that which is pleasing
to him.
Assalamu alaikum.
I'll just read up the questions inshallah and
brother Amir Junaid will answer them inshallah.
To the best of my ability
inshallah.
Okay. Yeah. I mean, it's cool.
1st question.
What can you say about Illuminati and devil
worshiping
and were you a part of that?
Well,
I know a lot of y'all,
you know, and we ain't gonna expose your
sins, but y'all been looking at this whole
Jay z and
Kanye
thing and
busy yourselves
worrying about
the plots
of those who are,
you know, in opposition to Islam.
The last of pentawat the Allah
establishes that we would be the victorious.
There's nothing more to it.
Why busy yourself
with anything that's in opposition
to what Allah subhanahuat Allah said.
Allah doesn't mention anything in his book about
the Illuminati.
Allah subhanahuat Allah establishes the punishment for those
who worship other than Allah.
And that basically just breaks down the whole
propaganda
revolved around this whole Illuminati thing.
So I guess my advice is to not
busy yourself
worrying about because this is a trick for
Nishaitan,
because when it first came to your attention,
you spent 5 seconds on it, 5 minutes
on it.
Then all the connection
videos on YouTube, now, you added like 15,
20 more minutes of your curiosity.
Next thing you know, you spent the whole
hour
trying to find out who else is down
with Illuminati.
Maybe almost to the point where you might
actually have
the intention,
I would be left,
of involving yourself in this plot.
So my advice to all those
don't busy yourself worrying about
this Illuminati thing
and know I wasn't a part of it.
Alhamdulillah.
And you know, Allah
establishes that we will be victorious.
So may Allah make, you know, subhanahu wa
ta'ala make us of those who are victorious.
Ameen.
Next question bro.
Did you talk to P. Diddy after converting?
How can you encourage other artists to become
Muslim?
First of all, for my Somali brothers and
sisters, p Diddy is not Somali.
Although,
you
know
Yeah, I I I was I was spoken
to puff,
you know,
and
Alhamdulillah,
you know, one thing I can say and
all y'all should make dua for the brother
Inshallah. Because
one thing I can say about him
is he's always attributed his success to God.
Always. We would perform on tours.
He would always pray before we go on
stage.
You know, he would pray before he get
on the plane.
For a guy that flies as much as
he fly, you would think he would be
over the fear of flying.
You know, so he does attribute his success
to God,
you know, but inshallah to Allah Allah guide
him
to the fold of Islam so where he
can identify
with the one true God and attribute his
success
and basically just his whole existence in his
life
to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
But when I spoken to him
and, you know, I I, you know, I
text him every so now and then
just to check his pulse, see how he's
doing,
because I know that, you know, having that
magnitude of success
and this is for a lot of those
guys,
they all go through a small period of
depression.
Regardless if the bank account still says 50,000,000,
they all slip into this depression.
And at that moment, a part of them
is searching.
You know, part of them is searching.
And by Allah's permission,
they might actually encounter someone
such as myself
who may try to remind them of who
is the creator of the heavens and the
earth and everything in it.
But after this conversation, of course, you know,
the Shaytan slips in,
and the Shaytan knows our weakness.
He knew our weakness from
the creation of Adam Malay Salam.
So the shaytan has always known the weakness
of man.
And after that brief admonishment,
these brothers fall back into the coma of
sinning because the shaytan reminds them.
You know, you got that date with that
Victoria's Secret model. You know, y'all supposed to
go to San Jo Paix. Oh, yes, right.
Totally forgot about, you know,
the reminder who Allah is,
you know,
and like I said, a lot of these
brothers, they they fall into this depression
because a part of them is just not
happy.
A part of them don't feel so successful
Because unless there is some type of level
of growth
in their, you know, in their striving to
be successful,
and they become at these standstills,
then everything becomes repetitive,
You know, if you go on a roller
coaster a couple of times, the first couple
of times, you might not put your hands
up, you might hold on.
After the 5th time, it's like,
6th time, it's like,
woah. So this is what happens living that
lifestyle
because there there is a limit to it
because after you achieve
every aspect of sin, the only thing is
left is the whole contest about who has
the most money at the end of the
year. You wasn't in Forbes,
I was.
That's all that's left.
But as far as the actual sins that's
condone,
the guy with $5,000,000
is doing the same thing the guy with
a 100,000,000 is doing.
The guy with 500,000
actually used to date
the guy
who has $50,000,000
just married.
You understand?
This is how small this circle is. As
big as it may look on TV, it's
very small.
You know, so, you know,
let's just be grateful that Allah
guides anyone to Islam.
Doesn't matter if they are an entertainer,
an athlete,
This is a mercy,
you know, to enter the fold of Islam.
I'm happy for anyone,
anyone.
Of course, part of me wants to see
if he's in a Muslim,
part of me wants to see, you know,
Jay z just,
you know, by Allah's permission, just throw that
whole, you know, conspiracy in the trash and
accept Islam.
That would be beautiful, alhamdulillah.
But once again, like I said earlier, we
had to be grateful. Look at the brother
Napoleon.
Couple years ago, we wouldn't have been able
to share the same space,
you know.
We'd have came in an area like this
with a crowd of people and we'd have
left,
somebody would have been stabbed,
young girl would have accidentally been shot,
you know, all kinds of things would have
took place because we were rivals.
He was down with pop,
I was down with bad boy,
it was just like, you know, blood in
our eyes on sight.
And by the miracle of Allah, subhanahu wa
ta'ala,
bringing our hearts together,
joining us as brothers in Islam. I remember
the first time
I met with, Napoleon. It was it was
as if I'd known him for a 100
years. I remember the anticipation and like, I'm
gonna meet him. We're gonna sit down, we're
gonna talk, you know, it's my brother now.
You know, and ever since then, we've been,
you know, super tight. And he's actually the
one that inspired me to give talks
because I was exercising that permissible form of
selfishness. I was going to save myself and
save my family. I wasn't thinking about
talking to nobody.
You know,
I'm the Eli, Charlie. What's your next? Alright.
Next question. How did your former friends and
family react to your new lifestyle?
Well, most of the people that knew me
in the music business and my family as
well know I never been a follower. I've
never been a follower.
Family as well know I've never been a
follower. I've never been a follower. You understand,
I've been inspired and influenced by many things
in my
community and I've always did it to the
magnitude of my own understanding.
I always did it to, you know, a
level that I can handle,
you know. So most of these individuals starting
with the people in the music business, they
know I never been a follower. You know,
I was a songwriter first.
I wrote, you know, 52 top 10 hits.
I was a partner. Me and Puff was
partners. I wasn't like, you know,
the slave hand or anything like that. This
was my partner. I contribute just as much
to his success as he contribute to mine.
That was the understanding we had. So for
me to go away from that,
it demanded the same respect
that I had when I was with him.
And same thing with my family.
They know I wasn't out getting caught up
in getting locked up or getting in jams
for following somebody.
I had their mothers to worry about
coming to the precincts
to talking about I got they son locked
up following me.
So always having this certain level of leadership
quality,
you know,
enabled me to have a certain level of
respect with my previous peers.
And instead of them looking down at what
I do, they actually became very much more
curious
because they know
if he did it, it had to be
for something other than, you know, what I
would assume.
Of course, first ignorant thing is he must
gonna be getting money. I don't know, there
gotta be some money involved with this Muslim
thing.
But then when he realized he gave up
everything, it's like okay it ain't about the
money so what is it about?
You know. So alhamdulillah, you know,
everybody actually treated me much better. Me and
my family have became even more tighter
and you know,
the conversations that we have now are way
more positive
than the stuff that we used to talk
about. So alhamdulillah.
We have a really beautiful question here from
a sister.
I think I suppose the sister.
I think many will find themselves in this
question. She says, I've been doing a lot
of wrong things lately and got misguided by
people that call themselves my friends.
Then when I found myself sinking,
nobody was there for me.
I lost faith in everything, but mostly myself.
How do I regain my strength again and
rebuild it from a lost sister?
I'm a say,
for the sister
and any brother as well or any other
sister that may be going through this,
the key
and Allah knows best
to regaining or restoring your iman
is by being
in the circle
of those who feel Allah.
You is as good as your companions.
You know, the companions you keep
are either going to increase you or decrease
you.
So if you're around
brothers
that feel
love, 2 things gonna happen
is either gonna rub off on you
and you will increase any man in Taqwa
or you're gonna reject it and try to
find those who cater to your desire.
Same thing with the sisters.
Don't be afraid to hang with the sister,
you know, that, you know,
chooses to be obedient to Allah,
cover herself,
mingle among sisters who also feel law.
Don't engage in idle talks,
don't engage in the slander in the backbiting
and all the the gossip.
So they gossip
in front of you, they gossip behind your
back too.
I know this from the street. Anybody that
talk about somebody all the time, they talk
about you too.
This is the truth.
So stay away from the circles of people
who don't fear and love Allah.
Because when you're around people that fear Allah,
your speech will change.
You won't use profane language because you know
the brother is gonna say,
so I'm like, I just can't I can't
do this. It hurt my ears. You always
like, come on, you
know, you can't tell a brother to feel
like, yo, you seen that sister? You must
stop for love. He wish you may see
her, man. A matter of fact, man, that's
a cycle.
You know, you don't wanna be around your
sister and say, oh, Abdul Rahman looking,
like, what?
Stuff a lot.
You know, so free yourself from being around
those who take the religion for a joke.
And one thing I want to say to
the sister before I, you know, wrap this
quest this question up is you're never alone.
You're never alone. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
is all seeing or hearing. He sees all
and he hears all.
All you have to do is direct
your concerns and your affairs.
They're the only one
who could rectify
it. That's Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. May Allah
make it easy for you sis. Ameen. Ameen.
Next question.
Is music haram? If so, do we have
any advice to a person who is doubting
Islam?
Okay,
this is a whole talk but I'm just
going to get down to the nitty gritty.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says in the Quran
that music is haram.
Surah Luke man.
For those of you who have read the
surah or read the ayaat,
Allah explains about engaging
in idle talks or anything
that removes a person from the remembrance of
Allah.
People deny this ayah to say, I have
control over this. It's not really removing me
from Allah because the actual song is saying
about Allah. So how am I removed from
the remembrance of Allah?
But the reality of it is,
you know,
music
y'all tell y'all see y'all confuse
the lyrics in a dialogue with music.
When you hear a beat,
the first 15 seconds of the beat
has its own identity,
no words have ever even been spoken yet.
Just the beat alone has put you in
a trance.
First 15 minutes, that's a that's like a
Lil Wayne joint.
Lil Wayne ain't said nothing on the record
yet, but just the first 15 seconds already
got you like, oh.
That moment
you're not thinking about Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
So this is why music is Haram.
And some of y'all
don't know who exactly Allah knows best,
but you indulge in this so much.
You don't even know the Quran.
You don't even know the Quran.
You understand?
What speech is better than the speech of
Allah?
How do we get so engulfed in singing
nasheed and all this type of stuff and
we don't even know the book of Allah?
How could you truly say in your heart
that you love Allah when you invest more
time and listening to someone who may mention
Allah or the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam's
name
once out of 3 verses.
You understand?
And all 4 Imams,
Imam Malik, Imam Shafi,
Imam Hanifa,
Imam Ahmed,
all refuted music.
So you can't hide behind your meth tab
on this one either.
They all refuted music.
So between Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
and how people try to generalize the hadith
of the girl singing and playing the dove
drum,
All of this is just justification to cater
to your desire to want to listen to
music. Just be honest with yourself. Don't try
to tarnish,
you know, saying the book of Allah, the
son of the prophet sallallahu alaihi salam, the
statements of the of 4 great imams.
Don't take all this proof and try to
use it as a means to justify why
you want to cater to your desire. Music
is so dumb.
I haven't listened to the radio in 2
years.
I don't know anything about music.
I'm so green and I love it.
You know,
so
that's a whole another talk. I mean, I
would break out all the proofs but we'll
be here all day InshaAllah Ta'ala. But, you
know, search it for yourself, you know, and
be honest with yourself when you find the
truth. Because that's one thing about people who,
you know, you seek the truth is because
you want it. But most people reject the
truth because they know they're gonna have to
accept it.
You know you're gonna have to accept it
once the truth is established. You have to
accept it. You can't deny the truth.
Allah knows best.
Next question. This one is written in Norwegian,
so you won't understand. Oh, I definitely need
you for this one.
Well, it says
there are many non muslims asking about the
existence of God.
Could you provide some proof for the existence
of God inshallah?
Man,
this just happened in front of us about
10 minutes ago.
Now Muslim brother came upstairs to talk to
us every time he mentioned, oh, God,
oh, God,
he looked up.
He didn't look on the floor. He didn't
look in the refrigerator. He didn't look. He
looked one place
and it's instinctive. You created this way. You're
born under the natural inclination that there's only
one God.
If someone puts a gun in your face,
the first thing you're gonna scream is, oh
my God, don't shoot me.
You don't have time to mention nobody else's
name.
Maybe after the gun don't work is,
thank you, Jesus.
You know,
and the last upon what the Allah says
where he is in the Koran, he said
he created the heavens and the earth for
6 days and made us do what he
rose above his throne.
So why do instinctively we instinctively we look
where he say he's gonna be.
He created you with that.
No, Hamdulillah.
This one is really good. Why? Yes. In
English.
Why did you pick Islam and not Judaism,
for instance? Why Islam?
Good question.
I do live in New York.
Because Islam is the only religion accepted by
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
You know,
the Jews are a tribe.
It's not a religion.
The religion of Moses was Islam.
You know, I just mentioned this earlier, in
order to be a Christian, you have to
follow Christ. But who did he pray to?
That's the religion I wanna be upon.
Because Moses wasn't a christian,
you know. Noah wasn't a Jew
or Judaism, he didn't follow Judaism, they were
all muslims and the muslim is one who
submits to the will of Allah.
And Islam is the religion of monotheism.
So
like most of us growing up as kids,
if you fall scrape your knee,
instinctively we want mommy. You remember them times?
I want my mommy.
You'll run past 7 people that can help
you. I got a band aid, peroxide. Every
guy, this other guy got, you know, gauze.
You run past all of them with your
head bust. No, I just want my mommy
here. Let me help you out. Get off
me. I want my mommy.
As we get older, we realize that mommy
has deficiencies, we can't run to mommy all
the time, we can't run to daddy all
the time. So who do we run to
once we have this knowledge of,
you know, us having needs?
We run
to one source, we want the same concept
of one source just like we had when
we didn't know better.
We thought mommy was gonna fix everything.
So once we learned that Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala
fixes everything,
I don't need nothing else.
I'm running to the one source, the one
true source that's gonna aid me and assist
me and rectify any and every affair.
That's better than American Express Health Insurance. You
could just go down the list
because it's still gonna be middlemen, buffers, all
kinds of stuff, but it goes straight to
Allah, depending on what the outlook,
You know, this is why, you know, I
chose Islam
because through the lifestyle I was living, I
was scattered,
you know,
sometimes I believed in my horoscope,
I read it, oh, you're gonna meet somebody
nice today.
Wow.
You might be the important businessman, but, man,
my horoscope was on point today.
Kind of find out he's trying to rob
me. Well, whatever the case may be. You
know what I'm saying? But to know that
it was always
one source to run to. And when I
found out where that source was,
I submitted.
And this is what a Muslim does.
I submitted.
I didn't go on one knee.
I went past that. I went on both
knees,
forehead and nose on the floor. I submitted.
I fold.
I quit.
That's it. Colas, the truth has been established.
I can't deny it. I'm a grown man.
I'm not a little kid.
You understand?
Next question. When you live in a society
like Norway, meaning a non Muslim society It's
my first time here.
It's important
to adjust, but how do you adjust in
a way that doesn't
compromise with Islam?
Well, it depends on how you look at
the word adjust,
because we are commanded to obey the laws
of the land.
So we obey the laws of the land.
But obeying the laws of the land doesn't
mean compromise your religion
Cause the laws of the land doesn't say
you can't be muslim here in Norway.
You can't build a mosque in Norway. You
can't pray in Norway. You can't fast in
Norway.
You can't marry
in Norway.
If these laws were established, then you would
have every means
to make hijra,
not here, sit here and take the abuse
of compromising religion in the place, you know,
in a place that doesn't allow you to
practice your religion.
So until laws are established that you cannot
be a Muslim in Norway,
then there's no adjusting really to make.
It's just obey the laws of the land.
You stop at a red light, that's adjusting.
Some of y'all come from countries don't have
lights. I live in Egypt, they don't have
no lights, they drive like maniacs.
Some of y'all park any kind of way
in your country, just any way. Cars just
look all kinds of way. But if it's
a law in Norway that says you park
a certain way, you obey the laws of
the land.
That's simple.
That's adjusting.
Now compromising maybe something you feel you need
to do.
But like I said, until the law is
established that you can't be a Muslim, that
you can't pray, you can't fast, you can't
give zakat, all the things that are obligatory
upon each and every one of us as
Muslim until a law is established that says
that, then you have no adjusting to do
in regards of your religion, and Allah knows
best.
Next question. Is it haram to be in
a relationship
and what limits is it,
and how do you get to know someone
before you get married?
Uh-oh. Somebody just up a can of worms
in this spot,
Daters stand up. No, stop.
I mean the reality of is this, first
of all, how do you wanna know a
person?
How do you wanna know a person?
Do you wanna know them in regards of
seeking nearness to Allah?
This is evidence that's not hard to come
upon.
If you're seeking
a relationship with someone who's gonna increase you
in a man,
how hard is it to find out if
a brother's religious?
How hard is it to find out if
a sister's religious?
If this is, you know, your purpose for
wanting companionship
for the sake of Allah,
for the sake of seeking nearness to Allah,
You can take the advice of those who
are pious and righteous amongst you and they
will tell you
for fear of Allah. They will tell you
the truth.
Oh yeah, that's that's just it. She's on
it. A key to panel law. Last I
heard, she was Hafiz and Koran.
She memorized about 2,000 hadith.
Her pops man used to be the imam.
Okay.
What else more do I need to know?
At that point, I'm stepping into a situation
that can only increase me and that can
only benefit me in seeking nearness to Allah.
Oh, yeah. Now that brother,
he's always in the masjid. I mean, he
prays all 5 of his salah in the
masjid. I don't think he's ever prayed in
the house.
Masha'allah.
You know,
his mom's is religious, his
father's religious, his sisters, his brothers, they all,
SubhanAllah, they on it.
What more do I need to know? I'm
entering
a circle, a family that's going to be
mine as well. Once we marry, I'm marrying
into a family as well.
This is going to increase me in seeking
nearness to Allah.
But if I'm
wanting to know someone based on my desire,
then I have a lot to worry about
if I make a decision based on that.
And, of course,
look at the non Muslim. It doesn't work.
It doesn't work,
you know,
Because once everything
sacred is established,
I have the choice at this point to
say I'm cool now. I had enough. I
got everything I wanted.
Why should I marry you now?
You gave me a chastity,
I've kissed you I don't know how many
times. We've done everything. I don't I don't
need to go further, I'm cool.
I'm alright.
Now you're destroyed.
It's hard to recover from for some of
you sisters, just playing this dating game.
And brothers as well, you know.
You can't
use manipulative methods to persuade a religious sister
to indulge in Zina.
Then after the fact,
just leave her destroyed like that.
Especially if you know she comes from a
religious background, you know that she's religious person
and she has a weakness just like you,
deficiency just like you.
It's not a covenant upon you to take
advantage of this. This is a blessing from
Allah.
It may even better you as a man.
Who's to say a woman can't help you
become a better man?
Some of you sisters, you know.
A man can help you become a better
woman.
But your obligation
is the same whether you are together or
not, you have to feel law.
You have to feel law.
And even when you think no one is
looking, Allah sees
you. So what is holding hands and and
and for real, so upon Allah, I understand
some of the situations because this is a
lengthy kind of thing.
Sometimes you have parents that is an opposition
to marriage. They make it very, very difficult.
Someone will come with these ridiculous dowries. Some
of your brothers barely got a job students
and stuff like that. How am I gonna
get married? Where am I getting $50,000
from?
What am I gonna do?
I have a physical
right
that I want to implement and I can't
because it's gonna cost me $50,000.
And no, you cannot marry her. You
you you are not Yemeni.
You you are not Pakistani. You are not
Somali. No.
No. No. No.
She's already intended her cousin's marrying us.
And this is not from Islam but it's
not your faults, you know, but you can't
fall victim of it as well.
You know, you have to remain firm
and understanding
that, you know,
only Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala could rectify this
for you.
Don't fall into error
based on your desire
to accomplish something that is your right,
you know. Continue
to ask Allah to make it easy for
you.
And some of your brothers, you know,
if you ain't got the wealth fast, man,
this is better for you.
And I know it's rough. It's only because
you're living in these secular countries. You're looking
at the kufa, you're one of the Muslim,
like I was panalized. She keep walking right
there. I gotta get married.
You know what I'm saying? It's hard for
y'all, but don't think it's hard for the
sisters too. Y'all walking around y'all muscle shirts
on and stuff. They got feelings too.
You know?
So, you know, inshallah to Allah, you know,
those who are
seeking companionship for the sake of seeking nearness
to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. May Allah make
it easy for all of you. I mean
Now you're gonna love this one.
Can you do some halal rap for us?
I'm a tell you all something
that could burst your bubble at the same
time increase
you. Read the poetry of the Sahaba
and you'll learn that there's no such thing
as halal rap.
If you read the poetry of Sahaba and
you've never read the Quran, you would think
that that was the Quran.
That's how neck and neck poetry was.
It was so
in sync
with the Kitab of Allah.
It wasn't these fancy punch lines.
I hope I make it to Tamara.
I've been struggling since my Shahadah.
This is garbage.
This is garbage to me.
So
it's just garbage.
Because it's just like the rap game.
Bentley with banana seeds. Oh, he said banana
seeds. Oh, so you heard that?
You ain't hit a line before it. All
you heard was Bentley
with the banana flavor seeds.
You didn't hear the line before all you
heard was, you know, Muhammad sallallahu alaihi salaam.
Oh, he said Muhammad, you allah, that was
dope.
This is garbage.
You know, because Allah beautifully establishes his speech
in the Quran.
You understand?
And this is better than rap. Stop trying
to live, SubhanAllah.
Stop trying to find alternatives, man, SubhanAllah.
You've fallen into kufa, you've fallen into disbelief,
in some cases you've fallen into shuddak and
don't even realize it
because you're trying to find an alternative for
something that is perfect.
Why you think
the prophet saw his settlement and his companions?
They hated innovation
because to innovate you're saying that Allah is
not perfect.
To innovate you're saying what the prophet saw
him came with was not enough.
That's what you're
saying. There's so many words, you're saying it
wasn't enough.
You're saying Allah is not perfect?
When he says in the Quran he perfected
this Deen, for this day I perfected your
religion. He didn't say I'm almost done.
I have a few more blocks to build.
Like, no. He said, from this day, I
have perfected
your religion.
This is from your lord saying that your
religion is perfect.
It's perfect.
Prophet
commanded us to follow his Sunnah,
the sunnah of the right right 4 rightly
guided Khalifa,
the Tabi'in,
and the Tabi Tabi'in.
Simple.
So when you have something that is established,
that is perfect, is nothing is no alternative.
So stop trying to find alternatives.
Why do we have to have the Islamic
Baseball Association like they already have a baseball
team? If you're a Muslim, you play basketball
or baseball, go play baseball.
We don't have to alienate
and keep trying to find ways to compete,
you know.
Because I'm trying to tell you, when you
imitate the people you become them.
So imitate the Muslim.
Be him, be that, be the Muslim, alhamdulillah.
InshaAllah.
Next question.
Is it allowed for boys to wear earrings?
Next, you'll be shaving your beard and you
look like
Uqti.
Assalamu alaikum Habib
T. Mashallah, who is your wale?
You already know this man, this is this
is textbook Islam.
I'm glad that people are asking these questions
so that we can, you know, remind ourselves,
myself first and foremost of things we already
know, it's it's definitely clear.
This, you know, I mean
upon a walkie, I mean, this is a
clear indication of masculinity is to have,
you know, hair on your face,
hair on your chest,
you know,
a small stench of funk after a hard
working day.
You are man.
Subhanallah,
be a man.
You know?
Now, I mean, if it's the only way
you're paying your bills and your job requires
you,
you know, to get a triple o against
the grain on your face, then you do
that.
I wouldn't advise you to, I would ask
the lost $100 to give me something better,
that's just me.
Well, you know, you run into this and
sometimes an excuse when you got 7 other
jobs waiting, but you just want to work
there.
You know,
co worker name is Cindy, you're gonna be
spending a lot of time in the office
with her.
You don't want her to be uncomfortable, so
I'm just gonna, you know, put my Fabio
look together,
gel me up real quick, you know,
SubhanAllah.
Sisters too. Come on.
Y'all women.
Come on.
You don't ever wanna look like a man,
you know.
Alhamdulillah.
Is doctor Dre Muslim?
Who? Doctor Dre?
But if he isn't,
may Allah guide him, you know. Because Dre
is a good dude, you know, alhamdulillah I
had the pleasure meeting him, he's a really
good dude,
you know.
But the one thing about a lot of
the,
rap artists that are Muslim, you know, we
have to consistently make dua for them.
You know, I did a, talk not too
long ago with, Freeway.
I know a lot of y'all seen Freeway
and her brother Jack Frost, you know, we
all accompany one another,
you know, on a pilgrimage to make umrah.
And when we got there, you know, I
was inspired to sit with some of the
masheikh
and get sound advice
on how to go about, you know, seeking
knowledge,
seeking nearness to Allah,
doing what is obligatory
with the hopes of earning Allah's mercy to
enter his Jannah Insha'Allah.
For some of your brothers, they struggle just
like many of us
And maybe the pressure is even more harder
for them being that they're public figures. No
one sees you slipping, you know what I'm
saying? And not to say or discourage you
or say that you're not existence or something.
Please don't take it the wrong way and
forgive me if I offended anyone, but the
reality of it is these people are public
figures.
These people mingle amongst the same circles of
people who encourage them to continue doing this
and the small amount of time that they
spend around the believers
is an admonishment for them, it softens their
heart but then they end up right back
in the black hole,
you know, so you don't make dua for
these brothers,
you know,
and some of them don't even really know
Islam. They accepted it because they know it's
the truth. They know that there's only one
God,
but a lot of them don't understand Tawhid,
you know,
and this is the one other book besides
the Quran that should never collect dust in
your house.
The Quran should never collect dust in your
house. The Kitabatore
he should never collect dust in your house.
These two books, you know what I'm saying,
1st and foremost the Quran.
But in order to understand Allah,
know Allah and love Allah, you have to
understand Tawhid.
Because some of us fall into a minor
shirt just by saying, yo man, if you
would have came at 6 o'clock, man, I
would have made it to my meeting at
7, that's Shirk.
Little did you know,
if you know Tawhid, you would know that
Shirk.
Because you're in disagreement with the God of
Allah.
Was it meant for you to make it
to your meeting at 7 o'clock?
Was
it meant for you to make it?
But when you constantly place blame, if you
have all terrain tires, you know the snow
in Oslo is crazy, why you ain't get
4 by 4?
You would have made it.
Nah, Kaldevallar, you didn't make it. Kaldevallar didn't
make it here yesterday. I was stuck in
Istanbul.
I never had intention of ever going to
Turkey no time soon,
but I was there.
And I can't disagree with the
I accept it, just like I accepted Islam.
Alhamdulillah.
Will you sign my CD of you? Le.
Are some of your family Muslim?
Nah.
Insha'Allah soon. Nah. Insha'Allah all of them, you
know. Hamdulillah. My wife is Muslim. My son
is Muslim. My grandfather is 88. He accepted
Islam.
You know,
I'm constantly pecking away at the other members
of my family, inshallah. This is why I
chose,
you know, alhamdulillah.
This is one of the reasons why I
chose to move to Egypt as well. It's
kind of like neutral ground, you
know, invite the family out to Egypt,
let them see things they can identify with
the pyramids and you know, the red sea,
you know, stuff that they read
in their bible.
But overall, they're going to see that the
country is dominated by Muslims. Why is that?
You know, it's daw in itself.
So, you know,
Insha Allah, may Allah guide all my family
because Alhamdulillah,
most of you don't have this problem.
On your mukayama, may Allah unite all of
you and your family.
But, you know, I might not be that
fortunate. And some of the other brothers that
raised their hand earlier that reverted to Islam,
they might not be that fortunate. Some of
the people that we love the most,
you know, when the sunrise is set from
the opposite direction and the gates of repentance
is closed,
we may lose many of our loved ones.
I know how did somebody get down? We
used to do the same thing. We barbecued
3,000 of us be out there
without ribs and, you know,
sucking off things out there, you know.
Those are days I remember being united with
my family, but now Allah has given me
a new family.
And I pray that some of those family
members that I had before become a part
of this family.
But who am I to deny the family
that Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala gave me?
Ibrahim denounced both his parents
for the sake of Allah.
What choice do I have?
Just to make dua.
Insha'Allah.
Is it allowed to be celebrities in Islam?
Allah forgive me. I don't want anybody to
feel like their question doesn't have value. First
of all, every question has a significant value
and sometimes these questions
are something that somebody else wanted to ask
but just didn't have the, you know,
you
know, the
the the the courage to ask it.
But I mean,
being a celebrity to me in Islam
is the Uleman,
the scholars of Islam.
They are the rock stars of Islam, but
you don't even appreciate them like that.
It's upon Allah
to have walking
living
Muhadis
Like Sheikh Musa Nada Bad. It's a muhaddis
for my time.
To have someone
who finished the Quran at 6 years old
memorize off the top of their head maybe
50,000 to a 100000 hadith.
Could answer every single one of these questions
you asking me
via Quran and Sundar.
I'm giving you from my experiences,
you know,
in some, you know,
sprinkles of Quran and Sunnah to the best
of my ability, but the scholars will only
advise you based on what's in the Quran
and based on what is, you know,
authentic and the sun of the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wasallam. This is their speech, call Allah,
call Rasulullah,
no in betweens.
They're the rock stars.
They are the doctors.
I'm not even a nurse.
If Islam was a hospital,
I'm not even the janitor.
If I'm lucky, I can fix the potato
chip machine. It breaks in the, you know,
reception area or something.
I'm so far removed
from the blessing that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
has bestowed upon the scholars of Islam.
They are the preservers of the sun that
the prophet and they are closest, you know
what I'm saying, outlet
to getting close to revelations and may Allah
preserve them all.
I mean Next question. Have you ever used
drugs and what is your advice to assist
her trying to quit taking drugs?
First of all, let's look at it from
this perspective.
Inshallah Intoxication
nullifies
the acceptance
of our salah.
Being intoxicated,
our salah
is rejected.
So
by
intoxicating
yourself,
even if you still pray 5 times a
day,
it's being rejected.
So right then and near,
my experience of dealing with drugs
would not benefit you.
The only thing that would benefit you in
this case is knowing that you are cutting
yourself off
from a loss of pen or dialer.
And what was obligatory
upon you with reward
is still obligatory upon you even though it's
getting rejected.
So how could we sever
our connection with our Lord
knowing that we are always
in need of his mercy even when things
are going good. How could we cut off
our connection with our Lord
knowing that we are always in dire need
of his mercy?
You know, and and the sister that's struggling
with that, you know,
may Allah
make it easy for you and, you know,
try and to,
you know, seek refuge in Allah
first and foremost,
and remove yourself from the circles of individuals
who may be also indulging in drug abuse.
Because there's no way
that you can morally
abstain from this if you are continuously
in the circle of those
who are suffering from this. Allah knows best.
Next question is about salah, the prayer. How
important is the prayer
and what
advice can you give to the brothers and
sisters struggling
for the prayer? Salah is everything.
The salah is incumbent upon you.
Salah
is
the first obligation
after the shahadah.
After La ilaha illallah Muhammadun Rasoolallah,
next is the salah.
La ilaha illallah Muhammadun Rasulullah.
Next
is the salah
and basically
the salah
was one of the most beloved things to
the prophet salah
besides
women
and oil
fragrances.
The salah was the most beloved thing
and knowing that
majority of the individuals in here,
you've had the opportunity
by Allah's mercy to pray
longer than the prophet salai salaam.
When they were commanded to make the salah
after the night journey, you count from that
day to the day he died. That is
as many years he was granted to pray.
You being born Muslim, you probably been praying
since you were 7.
Some of y'all may be in your twenties.
I mean, you've been given the opportunity to
pray more years than Rasulullah
sallallahu alaihi salam and this was one of
the most beloved things to him.
And the salah
cleanses you of sin.
And you want to pray every salah like
is your last
Don't speed through it. They go do something
that is Haram. Don't go speed through it.
There's something that is not pleasing to Allah.
Take your time
because take your time because actually the salah
could be actually saving you from, you know,
being in the situation that may go bad.
And know that the salah is the only
indication
of the Muslim on Yomukiyama.
The traces of wudu
is all inclusive of what's going to separate
and this is what separates us from, you
know, the kuffar
is this a lot
And think about what we ask for
every day in Surah Al Fatihah.
We asked a lot of guidance on a
straight path
So we can't
ask this of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala if
we don't pray. We have to pray.
This is pleasing to Allah.
And if you're in the business like I
am a pleasing Allah, you're gonna pray
5 salah.
Think of it this way, let's just do
the math. 5 salah.
Average 5 minutes per salah
5 times 5 25. We have 23 hours
and 35 minutes
to stay in memories of Allah.
And after all the mercy that Allah has
bestowed upon many of you already
and the mercy that we intend to obtain
on the day of judgment,
this is not a lot being asked of
you.
This is not a lot being asked of
you.
There are many
ways of obtaining
Baraka,
which is not, you know, which is voluntary,
What was being asked of you
by your obligation to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
is not much.
Like I said before, some of y'all could
spend an hour in front of the computer,
but you can't spend
5 minutes postrating before your Lord
with a class,
with sincerity, with humility,
knowing that this may be my last.
Whatever you're doing out there,
Allah knows best,
but you can walk into a situation
where Allah calls you back.
And you're gonna wish you took that a
lot before that event serious because it was
your last time and your deeds are cut
off.
And that one slot could have been the
deal maker
versus being a deal breaker.
And Allah knows best.
For a beautiful answer.
The next question is from a sister. She
says, assalamu alaikum brother. I'm a young Muslim
sister that has been blessed with a beautiful
faith of Islam.
I would love to wear hijab, but I
do not have
the approval from my family. It is actually
very serious. The hijab wearing may cause me
to be thrown out of my family's house.
Do you have any good advice?
I a lot of us
confuse
dutifulness to our parents with obedience to Allah.
This is something that a lot of people
confuse.
In many cases,
many cases.
Now, if we go back to the example
of Ibrahim, alaihis salaam,
who denounced
both his parents, he didn't wait for them
to denounce him. He denounced his parents
for commanding him to do something that is
disobedient to Allah and I was worshiping idols.
Worshiping idols.
And this is that this is your trial.
Allah is testing you.
Allah is testing you to see
if you have the iman
and the taqwa,
to stay steadfast in obedience to Allah
and be in complete opposition of your parents
commanding you to do the opposite.
The reward is with Allah and not with
your parents.
And though you have knowledge
of the obligation
of veiling yourself,
this will be a hudger against you and
not your parents. This will be a hood
against you on your mukayama. You will be
questioned about the knowledge you had
availing yourself, or you chose not to do
it
based on your desire to please your parents
who have commanded you to do something that
is in opposition
and complete disobedience to Allah.
And yes, your question is very serious.
And yes, your situation is very serious and
the trial is very serious.
But Alhamdulillah, the reward is even more serious.
So you must choose obedience to Allah
over your parents.
Doesn't mean disobey everything else they say.
But on this one right here,
I can't accept you commanded me to do
something that a disobedient to Allah.
A lot of your sisters are aware this
in many cases. Sometimes when it comes down
to marriage, your mom's become the wally. Where
is that? How did where did they do
that?
What did she say so?
And show me where it's legislated?
Because some of y'all would just, you know,
just forget it. The whole situation,
the brother on his dean and everything. My
mom is crying. Talk about no.
But she's not the Waleed.
And I don't even think she could be
a witness at the nika.
So where does she get the authority
to command me to disobey
Allah
and moving forward and doing something that is
my right.
Same thing with this sister.
You want to cover, you want to wear
hijab, then where he jabbed
and just pray to Allah softens their heart,
pray to Allah, you know, saying uses you
as a means,
you know,
to show them
as a means that Dawah,
Because by this question, I can assume and
Allah knows best, maybe the mom don't cover.
Because ain't no mother that covers, won't tell
her daughter not to cover, so obviously the
mom might not cover.
Auntie everybody walking around their head out,
but you want to.
So don't fail this trial. This is a
test from Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
to see if you would disobey him
for your desire to please your parents and
Allah knows best.
The next question is from
another sister and she's asking about
actually it's quite different from the first one.
Very.
She's saying
how do we handle lust?
Fasting,
abstaining from lust. Yeah, I missed that word.
You know what? Lust is desire.
Lust is desire.
Lust is a form of desire.
Lust is something that a lot of us
are exposed to living in secular countries, living
in Muslim countries.
It's upon Allah. You can look at,
I haven't looked too much of downtown
Oslo,
but I'm pretty sure they got posters of
somebody just selling deodorant naked. Of somebody just
selling deodorant naked.
What does naked got to do with deodorant?
You know,
why is her lipstick fire engine red
on a coke bottle? I know how to
drink a soda.
I don't need her with those lips and
all that lip gloss and stuff showing me
how to drink a soda.
And this induces lust.
This is what influences us
to lean towards the desire to fulfill our
physical needs.
Because regardless of whatever, you know, surroundings
or, you know, background you come from, you're
all going to come to a point in
your life where you're going to, you know,
acquire
this desire
to fulfill these physical rights.
And InshaAllah to Allah, I hope that everyone
chooses to take the necessary steps
to achieving this and a halal
fashion,
because this is something that is inevitable,
is inevitable.
But dealing with the lust
is abstaining from things that triggered this.
You know,
all of us ain't strong enough
to be dealing with some of these chat
lines because you see how it starts. Assalamu
alaikum Waikum Salam. Okay, Faaalikum,
dulillah.
How are you? Aunty.
Yeah.
I'm going to the sisters with Lima,
you know.
SubhanAllah, I know her sisters, SubhanAllah, like, every
time
she emails me about certain, you know, advice
sometimes. Shaula to Allah, you know, I try
to abstain from this type of communication.
And alhamdulillah for the most part, it's all
been kind of, you know,
straight straight, you know, cut and dry.
But Wallahi, every time she's always going to
Waleem, I'm like, what is this, like a
halal party? Like, how yeah. It's like,
this is the only time you get to
wear your hair out and
next month you'll be getting married,
You know, you looking at, you know,
Abdul Hakim, man.
He was looking good at the last for
Lima,
you know, become like a halal club, you
know, And this is where lust comes from
because you go into a place without the
intention
of receiving the reward for attending a Waleema,
a Janaza
visiting the sick.
We go to these places for the sake
of obtaining the reward from Allah
This is not the place to go to
to be sightseeing and seeing what kind of
shoes she got on, what kind of bag
she got.
I heard, you know what I'm saying?
Mahmoud was working
out. Like, come on. This is not why
we doing this.
If I had his beard got longer since
the last time I see
stuff with a lot of them, but you
know, this is you just abstain from these
things, stay away from this type of stuff
because this is all trials and we only
getting closer and closer to more fitness, it's
not gonna get better. So anybody that's searching
for this utopia piece, you only gonna find
it in Jindah and Allah knows best.
Best. Next question is from another sister, and
she says she wants to be a practicing
Muslim
and his and her family is also practicing
Muslim,
but she just want to live her life
first and do all the
partying and stuff like that. And after that,
she would like to repent and come back
to the dean. What's your advice to her?
Yo.
Hold up. Hold up. Hold up.
Listen, for real. Remember what I said, you
know, everybody question has very significant value to
me. You understand?
To me because I'm I'm a traveler, I'm
a visitor,
you know.
Inshallah, I'll, you know, see a lot of
you
in general Inshallah,
you know, but we had to look at
these situations
seriously because it's real.
Some people don't feel fully accomplished in sin
yet. They feel like they have to be
fully accomplished in sin in order to start
doing what's right. And this is a problem
with a lot of the non muslims that
I talked to.
There are certain things that they feel they
haven't done yet.
You understand?
But if your true intention,
which was the first statement, is to practice.
That was the first statement, that's what I
gathered from the question. You want to practice,
you want to do what's right.
So you can't mix oil and water.
It doesn't mix.
So if your intention is to practice,
then practice.
Because the more you practice, the more these
other desires will, you know, deplete.
But if you're gonna play 1 foot in
1 foot out,
eventually,
both feet gonna end up on one side.
And unless your intention to practice is sincere,
you're going to sincerely fall into error, both
feet in.
And only by Allah's mercy will you ever
be able to return to what was correct.
This is not your choice and you're not
even promised that much time.
Who said you got this much time?
When have you started making schedules with Allah's
decree?
We are not promised tomorrow, everybody is not
promised to walk out of this auditorium today
and have a tomorrow.
So you can't make an intention to do
something
that's going to increase you in good
encounter that by saying
I still want to do haram,
but
I want to come back
and do
halal. This is the oxymoron.
This this doesn't work,
you know.
So for the sister to ask that question,
I will urge you to go with your
issue,
meaning your first intention,
to practice your religion. And that goes for
me too. I'm with you on that, whoever
the sister is, I'm with you on that.
I'm practicing my religion, that's what I'm trying
to do every day,
you know.
Practice with me, maybe not in the same
place but practice with me, practice, I'm practicing.
We have something in common, practice.
We all have something in common, practice your
religion, practice Islam.
Because remember, we're trying to get to the
party that don't stop,
where you won't belch,
you know what I'm saying, you
won't have to use the bathroom,
you won't feel fatigue,
You'll be able to drink
wine without being intoxicated.
Anything and everything you want, pleasure upon pleasure.
You all got to understand what's at stake,
brothers and sisters in Islam.
Pleasure upon pleasure, Allah's promise is true.
It's true.
Because if it wasn't, you wouldn't be here
today as a Muslim.
Allah's
promise is true.
Pleasure upon pleasure.
This is what you want. You wanna return
to the height of Adam with the beauty
of Yusuf. You wanna return back to the
height of Eve with the beauty of Eve,
our mother.
So in order to do that, you have
to stick with your initial intention and not
to practice the religion of Islam
and die upon this practice.
Live and die upon this practice.
Insha'Allah.
Next question is, what do you have to
say about * for both? Stop.
Get married.
You know?
And if it's that bad and you can't,
you know, if it's that bad
and you can't get the sister you want,
just marry a believer.
You know, the prophet saw your surname
married a woman,
his first wife,
Khadijah Radialahu Anha.
15 years his senior.
He married
Sauda,
you know,
different narrations
or proofs on her age but she was
about 30, 40 years his senior.
Suffice your desire in the halal way. If
you can't get the sister you want, it
doesn't make any sense to keep causing harm
to yourself that way. That has to be
harmful brothers.
It's upon Allah.
You're hurting yourself.
Go get married.
You know,
marry a believing woman.
There's plenty women out there believing women. So
what she has a 7 year old daughter?
She has experiences that may benefit you.
On top of that, she's
well established and understanding what you desiring.
She's been there. She can help you
more than you can help yourself.
You know,
and inshallah, if a man is strong enough
that you might be able to double back
and get the girl you want later.
But she gonna have to share.
You gotta share anyway. Allah created women agenda
for us, you gotta share anyway, whether it's
in a dunya or gender, insha'Allah.
Don't be one that, you know, rejects the,
ayat of Allah.
You know, this is a concession for the
men,
you know, that's
a whole touchy situation that we'll get into.
But, hamdulillah, I mean, is this sunnah
just like performing will do. Don't start measuring
which sunnah is which sunnah is sunnah. Everybody
is not gonna be strong enough to implement
this sunnah, but don't reject it.
That's the one thing. Don't reject it.
If you don't have the amen, that's cool,
but don't reject it. Don't be one that
rejected.
A lot of those best. But brothers, please,
man, I would hate to
see you in the hospital explaining that like
what you did to yourself.
Allah knows best.
What advice can you give to the non
muslims here present now?
I would say
if any non muslim showed up today,
may Allah guide you to Islam and may
this talk be a benefit to you. I
hope this talk is a benefit to you
because it shows you that,
you know, whatever perception of false perception that
you may have in Islam,
I'm pretty sure you're seeing today that, you
know,
we are alright people,
We can laugh, we can joke. We have
humor, we have personalities.
Only thing that separates us from you is
that we worship Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala alone,
and we don't associate any partners. We don't
Allah
alone and we don't associate any partners, we
don't attribute no acts of worship other than
solely for Allah.
That's it.
That's the difference.
You know, you woke up today,
washed yourself, so did I.
You put on some smell good.
So did I.
You know,
you ate. I ate.
We only have one thing that's not in
common.
So
why should one thing if we can agree
on so many other things, why should one
thing separate us
when you believe in God, just as we
believe in God, we just worship God. We
practice worshiping him.
That's it. And we take time out of
our little busy schedules as well. We have
a lot of stuff that we do as
well. Some people work, some people go to
university,
some people hang out. Hopefully they're hanging in
the right places. But people do these things.
We have shortcomings, we have deficiencies.
Everyone is not, you know, as strong as
they should be. It may Allah increase us
all. But the reality of it is we
have a lot in common
and the same things that the Muslim brothers
and sisters are influenced by. So are you.
There's a Muslim in here that likes little
Wayne. So do you.
There's a Muslim in here that likes Jay
z. So do you. But guess what? We
love Allah subhanahu wa ta more.
We love Allah to Allah more than jay
z.
We love Allah more than we love ourselves.
We look in the mirror, we fascinated with
some of the blessings Allah gave us. But
you know what? We know who to attribute
that beauty to or that handsomeness to.
We got this from Allah and we look
in the mirror and say man Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala, please make me better than the
way I see myself.
Please don't get too caught up in the
mirror without making that du'a for real.
Please make me better than what I see
in myself.
You
know, and accepting Islam is simple.
You just testify.
No, no God has the right to be
worshipped with Allah
and that Mohammed
ibn Abdullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam is the slave
and messenger of Allah.
Kalas, you don't have to make an appointment.
You don't have to get your white outfit,
dip you in the water. You have to
do none of that. Your testimony is being
heard by whoever witnessed it in this in
this in this
No
matter
what
your
shortcomings
are,
no
matter
what
your
deficiencies
are,
No matter what your shortcomings are, no matter
what your deficiencies
are, even no matter what lack of knowledge
you may have or what you just testified
to long as you sincerely know in your
heart that there's only one God and his
name is Allah,
And he goes by many other names, which
he establishes in his Quran.
And then he sent the message of Allah,
the Prophet Muhammad Sallallahu, sell him as a
mercy to all mankind,
to all mankind.
You know,
because even in the Bible it says, Esa
said, I only came for the lost sheep,
the Children of Israel.
So he claimed the nation,
not all mankind.
Prophet Isaiah said he came as a mercy
to all mankind,
and he's the seal of the prophets. There
are no more prophets coming.
So we must follow his sunnah. We must
follow his tradition. We must follow his way
because his way
is the way to Allah
and to Allah we will return
and when we return to him, inshaAllah to
Allah, we enter his jinnah.
May Allah make us all from these people
who enter his paradise for eternity.
Ameen.
I think we'll do the last question now
before we wrap up the program, Insha'Allah.
It's from a non Muslim who's considering to
become a Muslim.
So
he's just, doesn't ready
he's just not ready to take the steps.
And what's your advice for that brother?
I would say if the brother
wants, inshallah, I have nowhere else to go.
I'm stuck in Oslo.
If you want to talk, Inshallah, privately, because
I know that's a big step. It's a
big move. And maybe I'd be something you
ready to broadcast
in front of all these Muslims.
But Inshallah to Allah, I would love to,
you know, converse with you,
you know, briefly if if it's okay.
I'll have the brothers, you know, make arrangements
so you can identify yourself secretly to one
of the brothers here. We're talking InshaAllah and
if it's something
that you understand
and you see to be the truth,
by all means, I would encourage you to
accept it and strive to be good at
it,
just like everything else in life.
But the reward for striving
to be a good Muslim
is something that we're all struggling with.
And may Allah make us better
and increase us
in doing what is pleasing to him and
him alone.