Amir Junaid Muhadith – Exclusive Interview Former Rapper

Amir Junaid Muhadith
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The speaker, a ghostwriter, discusses their journey as a partner in their desire to become an artist, a partnership with Puff Daddy, and an Muslim lifestyle. They emphasize the importance of acceptance and learning to be part of Islam's values, rather than just their own. The host emphasizes the importance of sharing evidence and learning about one's obligation to teach, rather than just their own, and encourages viewers to support them on their Patreon page. They also mention upcoming film releases and plans to visit a former belver.

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			You see the $100,000
		
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			cars. You see a lot of diamonds. You
		
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			see, you know, for men for the sake
		
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			of men, you see a lot of females,
		
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			and they think that this is, you know,
		
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			this is a life. Because I just actually
		
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			visited him in California not too long ago.
		
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			They got all the same things I was
		
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			exposed to in my lifestyle, Lamborghinis,
		
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			jets, boats, and everything. So, you know And
		
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			then you get kidnapped in Brussels.
		
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			Tell us about that. Mhmm. So guess who
		
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			takes you harder?
		
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			Guess who takes you harder?
		
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			Guess who takes Shahada? This is actually your
		
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			first, like, exclusive interview, sit down interview Absolutely.
		
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			Here on the deed show with folks.
		
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			Assalamu Alaikum.
		
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			And this has been long overdue. You guys
		
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			been asking. You guys been sending the emails,
		
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			the requests. Where's our brother? Where's our brother,
		
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			Amir?
		
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			Where's he at? Formerly known as Loom. Well,
		
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			he's here finally with us here on the
		
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			Dean show.
		
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			How are you doing, my brother?
		
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			I mean,
		
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			you know, words can't really express,
		
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			you know, the gratitude that I feel
		
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			that Allah
		
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			chose me
		
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			to endure a trial
		
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			that only contributed to growth.
		
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			I remember the last time I was on
		
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			this show,
		
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			I was very, very new to Islam.
		
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			And what Allah had instilled in my heart
		
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			of understanding Tawhid
		
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			and understanding my purpose
		
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			of creation or my purpose of being created.
		
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			I was able to
		
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			speak
		
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			a very profound statement
		
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			that started on this very show,
		
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			but that we're paying for the disease,
		
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			but the cure is fee is free.
		
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			And that just only spoke to my
		
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			state at that time,
		
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			void of any other, you know, knowledge of
		
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			Islam
		
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			to a, you know, certain extent, but that
		
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			right there and you gave me this platform.
		
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			You know what I mean? And I reward
		
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			you to express
		
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			what was in my heart at the time
		
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			and what resonated as my state
		
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			as a Muslim at that particular moment. So.
		
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			I mean, we we've we've had some some,
		
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			sneak peeks of you here and there. You
		
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			popped up, but this is actually your first,
		
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			like, exclusive interview, sit down interview Absolutely. Here
		
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			on the Deen Show we're following.
		
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			This is this is from Allah because, you
		
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			know, everything else was,
		
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			you know, under the conditions of COVID.
		
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			You know, a lot of these interviews were
		
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			virtual. You know?
		
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			Like, when I first accepted Islam, I fled
		
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			with my religion. You know what I'm saying?
		
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			Out of fear of
		
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			the environment that I had left behind
		
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			and the people
		
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			that I had left behind.
		
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			Because what I had found was pure.
		
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			What I found was the truth.
		
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			So I removed myself from the environment
		
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			that will contradict
		
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			or combat with that truth and that purity.
		
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			And I moved to Egypt
		
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			where I had opportunity to study,
		
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			you know,
		
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			several miracles and far as the language, and
		
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			I had just signed up for that as
		
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			at Al Azar University
		
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			before I went and made Hajj.
		
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			And
		
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			my return from Hajj,
		
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			I remember coming home to Egypt,
		
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			dropping off everything that I had purchased for
		
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			my family,
		
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			and getting on the plane to go to
		
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			Belgium
		
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			to give a talk at the university.
		
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			And I'm just getting back right now from
		
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			Belgium,
		
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			pretty much. Mhmm.
		
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			Let's make a timeline. I wanna I wanna
		
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			go back a little bit for those people
		
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			who kinda bring them up to speed. You
		
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			got some people who are gonna be turned
		
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			out to this, named Lewin for the first
		
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			time Yeah. To,
		
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			Amir for the first time. Many, fans of
		
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			the show, they know you.
		
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			You've been with us, you know, years ago.
		
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			But I wanna start off with just kinda
		
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			bringing people up to speed about and then
		
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			just in a nutshell, just like we did
		
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			kinda the last time, and people can go
		
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			and watch that program
		
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			that we did. But you you started off,
		
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			a kid from Harlem,
		
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			Yep. New York? Yep. Born and raised in
		
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			Harlem, New York City. And
		
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			usually, a kid from Harlem, what's he aspire
		
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			to be? What's he wanna be? Just kids
		
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			in general growing up. They wanna live the
		
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			American dream. They wanna do what? Achieve what?
		
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			What's what's on the minds of the youth?
		
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			Children all over the world, they are inspired
		
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			by what they see. So growing up in
		
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			Harlem, I was actually exposed
		
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			to, you know,
		
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			the local drug dealers,
		
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			you know, guys that will influence you in
		
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			the streets.
		
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			There wasn't really too many outlets
		
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			that were,
		
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			you know,
		
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			attractive, so to say. They were present, but
		
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			wasn't as attractive
		
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			as either playing basketball
		
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			or, you know, indulging in activities
		
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			in the streets. So
		
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			this was common for, you know, the youth
		
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			in Harlem to be exposed to these things
		
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			and later to either be affiliated or involved
		
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			to an extent
		
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			to where you
		
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			can actually reap the consequences that come with
		
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			either your affiliation or your involvement.
		
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			So that's my origin.
		
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			And then the only escape
		
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			at the time was the music business. Mhmm.
		
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			You know what I'm saying? The music business
		
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			offered me an escape of what I thought
		
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			was an escape,
		
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			which actually became a more intensified
		
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			aspect of what I had already,
		
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			you know,
		
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			endured Mhmm. Through the streets. And then fast
		
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			forward, you hook up with,
		
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			people such as Mace, Tommy Boy,
		
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			somebody's bet
		
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			p Diddy,
		
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			Puff Daddy,
		
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			then you hit it big. Yeah.
		
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			Fast track to that. How does that all
		
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			happen? Well,
		
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			in pursuit of that escape,
		
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			escape, which was me pursuing a career in
		
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			the music business, I started off as a
		
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			ghostwriter,
		
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			which is a person who writes music
		
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			without actually being seen.
		
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			So you are actually contributing to other people's
		
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			careers.
		
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			And it was kind of a back seat
		
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			type of thing where I'm able to make
		
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			money writing songs,
		
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			collecting royalties, and publishing
		
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			from writing songs for people and not really
		
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			pursuing to be in front of the camera.
		
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			So that started in, like, 95. I was
		
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			writing for Shaquille O'Neal.
		
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			The basketball player? Basketball player. I got a
		
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			deal at Tommy Boy Records in 96.
		
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			Then from there, I did a group project
		
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			called Harlem World with Mace.
		
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			Then after that, I signed as a solo
		
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			artist to Arista Records. And then from Arista
		
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			Records, I went to Bad Boy Records, and
		
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			then my career,
		
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			you know, took off. Is Shaquille O'Neal Muslim?
		
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			And may Allah be be to you. Thank
		
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			you.
		
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			But when I speak to him, he gives
		
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			me salaams. Uh-huh. You know what I'm saying?
		
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			I return the salaams without, you know, investigating.
		
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			Amdulillah gives salaams. You know?
		
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			And, you know, I just recently seen him
		
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			pop up in the interview. So, you know,
		
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			inshallah, I'm a reach out to him.
		
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			Maybe that'd be a conversation we're having, Devens,
		
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			inshallah. And for those people that don't know,
		
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			I mean, Muslim is simply one who has
		
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			submitted his or her will to the creator
		
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			of the heavens and earth. Al Sahih. Yeah.
		
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			So, you know, these are things
		
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			that constitute a person to enter the fold
		
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			of Islam
		
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			by way of
		
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			testifying that none has the right to be
		
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			worshiped with Allah, and then Muhammad sallallahu alayhi
		
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			wasallam is the messenger
		
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			of Allah. You know? And what follows is,
		
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			you know, implementation
		
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			of that understanding.
		
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			So you went now
		
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			from being a ghostwriter behind the scenes Mhmm.
		
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			And now you get up on the mainstream.
		
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			Mhmm. You hit the big
		
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			big deal. Mhmm. Right? That's like the main,
		
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			like, the top where you can make it
		
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			mainstream singing with the, you know, the
		
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			the the mongol
		
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			mogul himself. He did how did that how'd
		
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			you break through into that?
		
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			Well,
		
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			I asked, he was ghost writing for him.
		
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			I started off
		
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			writing songs for him as well.
		
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			That means they're you're they're you're the original,
		
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			person behind the scene. Who's making up the
		
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			words that he's going to say. Absolutely. So,
		
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			you know, you have
		
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			some artists that are writers, but then you
		
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			have some artists that are
		
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			performers. And the ones that perform
		
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			may require,
		
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			you know,
		
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			songs from writers. So that was how our
		
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			relationship started. And then it actually propelled into
		
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			me having
		
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			a position to ultimately, like you said, get
		
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			into the point, or the pinnacle
		
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			of,
		
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			like you said, get into the point, or
		
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			the pinnacle of what is,
		
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			you know,
		
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			required of success in the music business is
		
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			to become, you know, artists who does a
		
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			couple hit records.
		
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			So I was able to do a couple
		
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			hit records. I was able to write numerous
		
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			hit records, and I solidified my
		
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			position in that business as an artist and
		
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			a songwriter. Mhmm.
		
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			And then from there, that that relationship with
		
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			Puff Daddy and everything, that went on for
		
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			several years for for a long time? Yeah.
		
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			I mean, actually,
		
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			there was
		
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			a moment of separation,
		
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			you know, for professional reasons.
		
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			Never personal because I just actually visited him
		
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			in California not too long ago.
		
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			And it was, you know, it was a
		
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			great reunion because
		
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			you can't overlook the fact that, you know,
		
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			we've accomplished a lot of things together, but
		
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			at the same time, only by Lawrence Secret,
		
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			had I not been
		
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			in that business or had I not been
		
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			successful or exposed to the lifestyle and everything
		
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			that came with that business, I wouldn't be
		
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			sitting on this couch right now. Now in
		
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			the and then we we met
		
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			from there
		
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			when all that happened. How many years later
		
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			until we actually met?
		
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			We actually met, I believe, in
		
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			2009
		
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			Mhmm. Because I had
		
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			I believe you,
		
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			interviewed me or Freeway first. Or How's he
		
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			doing Freeway? Freeway is doing great, actually. I
		
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			haven't spoken to him yet since I've been
		
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			home, but I spoke to him a few
		
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			times when I was incarcerated.
		
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			And, you know, may Allah, you know, preserve
		
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			him and and increase him in good. He
		
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			had a a a a actual health scare.
		
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			You know? And
		
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			I believe he had a successful, you know
		
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			what I'm saying,
		
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			treatment or surgery
		
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			that, you know, by law's permission, has, you
		
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			know, restored his health, and he's out, you
		
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			know, pretty much doing what he was doing,
		
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			you know, prior to that. So, you know,
		
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			the fact that he's still, he's Muslim,
		
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			and, you know, we look to, you know,
		
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			that which is apparent opposed to that which
		
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			is not apparent. So, you know, he's my
		
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			brother in Islam. We made Umrah together. My
		
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			first visit with Saudi was me and You
		
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			did Hajj and Umrah. Right? I did Hajj
		
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			and I did Umrah first. Yeah. And then
		
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			I made Hajj,
		
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			alhamdulillah, and, you know, Allah invited me to
		
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			his house twice. Mhmm. So, you know,
		
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			there's no way to describe the gratitude that
		
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			comes with being able to
		
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			establish that 5th pillar in Islam,
		
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			which I believe
		
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			every Muslim
		
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			aspires to do. And I pray that every
		
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			Muslim, insha'allah,
		
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			gets the opportunity
		
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			to go to, you know what I'm saying,
		
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			you know,
		
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			So then we meet in 2009,
		
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			and I remember we were talking about your
		
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			story. And then in that in some of
		
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			those questions, you were talking about the the
		
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			different perception that you were getting from meeting
		
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			Muslims,
		
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			being around Muslims, the hospitality
		
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			Absolutely. And some of these things. Absolutely. The
		
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			same hospitality you showed me just today. You
		
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			come in. You know? And I it's funny
		
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			because I tell a lot of, you know,
		
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			brothers and even you know, brothers that never
		
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			really experienced,
		
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			you know, the hospitality of the Muslims. And
		
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			I have a friend of mine that actually,
		
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			you know, I've known for 20 years. We
		
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			worked together, and I invited him with me
		
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			to go to a Yemeni brother's house. Yeah.
		
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			And I told him before we left, I
		
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			said, listen. Don't don't eat no food.
		
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			I'm telling you right now. If you go
		
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			to this place, you better go with the
		
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			appetite because the Muslims are gonna try to
		
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			put a whole lamb in your body. They're
		
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			gonna feed you over 300 dates. You're gonna
		
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			drink, like, 14 gallons of tea and Kahua
		
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			and so on and so forth. You know?
		
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			And jokingly, it's it's funny, but at the
		
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			same time, it just shows you that the
		
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			hospitality of the Muslims is something that's foreign
		
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			to people because, you know, in certain areas
		
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			of the world,
		
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			to extend yourself like that means it to
		
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			be something that's 20 years in standing, like
		
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			something I have to, you know, that comes
		
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			from a lengthy relationship.
		
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			But that's something that the Muslims just do
		
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			on first sight. So your perception before you
		
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			entered into the fold of Islam,
		
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			of Islam itself Mhmm. Was it negative? No.
		
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			It was never negative. It was just ignorant.
		
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			I I never knew. You know what I'm
		
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			saying?
		
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			And
		
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			and and I fought
		
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			some of the Muslims in my community
		
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			who didn't take the initiative.
		
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			They call some of us who they were
		
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			aware
		
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			of our struggle and our plight
		
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			in the streets and not invite us or
		
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			call us to Islam.
		
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			So, you know, it was never
		
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			hatred because in my community, we all coexisted,
		
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			and we all, you know, you know, utilized
		
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			the space that we were in. For example,
		
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			like, most of the corner stores, they were
		
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			owned by some of the Yemeni brothers, even
		
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			some Lebanese brothers and so on and so
		
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			forth. Then the taxi services before Uber and
		
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			Lyft, you know, you had
		
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			the taxi service was dominated by Western Africans,
		
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			you know what I'm saying, from Senegal, Cote
		
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			D'ivoire, places like that. And then, you know,
		
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			the pharmacies were particularly dominated by Pakistanis and
		
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			Indian or Bengali people as well. So it's
		
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			like this was the
		
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			Pakistanis and Indian or Bengali people as well.
		
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			So it's like this was the extent of
		
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			diversity that I knew
		
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			in my area in New York City.
		
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			And,
		
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			basically, you know, there was never no call.
		
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			It was just, okay. They got they thing,
		
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			and we got our thing. You know what
		
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			I'm saying?
		
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			So
		
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			I guess, you know,
		
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			become becoming Muslim
		
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			and then that brotherhood being extended based upon
		
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			that acceptance of Islam,
		
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			it just showed me that there was a
		
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			world I was missing. There was a brotherhood
		
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			I was missing. There was a lot of
		
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			things I was missing. You know? So,
		
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			you know, anyone that's
		
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			inclined to Islam
		
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			will learn these things as well, inshallah. Yeah.
		
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			Let's take
		
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			a step back in history, and we're gonna
		
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			just quickly react.
		
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			I want you to this is you and
		
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			me
		
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			doing that interview in 2009 Mhmm. And some
		
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			things now that you're gonna
		
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			hear. Do you remember some of these things
		
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			that you said? Let's,
		
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			see your reaction after we listen to some
		
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			of these words of yours. How's that? For
		
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			the most part, I think that a lot
		
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			of people, you know,
		
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			mainly, you know, preferably the youth, you know,
		
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			we all share kind of the same common
		
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			desires
		
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			and temptations.
		
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			And I think the music business kinda breathes
		
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			these things, and it gives people a What's
		
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			that video? Which video is this? I need
		
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			a girl. Of, you know, mostly the perks
		
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			in the business, so to say. And I
		
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			think that, you know, the youth,
		
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			by being so inspired all around the world,
		
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			you know what I'm saying, being so inspired
		
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			by this lifestyle, a lot of them who
		
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			have been born into certain faiths, you know,
		
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			saying, like, Islam and and things of that
		
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			nature, you know, they try to incorporate this
		
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			lifestyle into something that's
		
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			so beautiful. You know what I'm saying? Islam
		
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			is just so beautiful, and I've been seeing
		
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			over the years how,
		
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			you know, this this business and this lifestyle
		
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			has affected so many of the youth.
		
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			And myself You're talking about the lifestyle now
		
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			that you're in the world people admire. They
		
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			look up in this consistent pattern of doing
		
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			so many sinful things. You know, they come
		
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			with the business. You know, we actually,
		
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			you know, had the opportunity to make songs
		
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			that might not be so vulgar, might not
		
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			be so, you know, you know,
		
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			negative. Mhmm. But the reality of it is
		
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			there's a lifestyle that comes with it, and
		
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			that was the thing that really plagued my
		
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			life because
		
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			what you're propelled in
		
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			based on the success,
		
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			you know, is a lifestyle that just becomes
		
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			so repetitive and so consistent, and you find
		
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			yourself being removed further and further away from
		
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			a true, further and further away from peace,
		
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			further away from anything
		
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			that was pure about you before you enter
		
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			the business. So like I said, you know,
		
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			on the outside, everything looks good. You see
		
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			the $100,000
		
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			cars. You see a lot of diamonds. You
		
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			see, you know, for men for the sake
		
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			of men, you see a lot of females,
		
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			and they think that this is, you know,
		
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			this is a life. This is this is,
		
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			like, you know, paradise right here on Earth.
		
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			But the reality of it is, you know,
		
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			I couldn't purchase peace. You know, I was
		
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			probably able to buy a car, buy a
		
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			house, buy a chain.
		
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			Couldn't purchase peace.
		
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			And the reality of it is, while we're
		
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			sitting here while I'm sitting here constantly paying
		
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			for the disease,
		
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			The cure was free.
		
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			Paying for the disease. Paying for the disease.
		
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			The cure is free. The cure is free.
		
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			Right there.
		
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			So we talked about
		
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			you talked about the beauty of Islam.
		
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			Let's start from there.
		
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			So what had you was what was so
		
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			beautiful about Islam
		
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			that finally had you accept it?
		
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			The beauty to me
		
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			was, you know,
		
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			simply
		
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			Allah's guidance
		
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			because I wasn't looking for Islam.
		
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			I never had no one talk to me
		
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			really about Islam. I was never invited to
		
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			any talks, any conferences, or anything.
		
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			Just my travels,
		
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			which I was trying to salvage my career
		
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			when I left bad boy,
		
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			was my goal.
		
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			But my first stop
		
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			where I first got inspired was when I
		
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			went to Senegal.
		
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			And I visit, you know, Goree Island, the
		
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			first slave houses there.
		
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			And I learned quickly
		
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			from someone who
		
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			understood the history of that place
		
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			that this was something that was pinnacle
		
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			in removing
		
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			my previous attachment to
		
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			black nationalism
		
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			or, you know, just nationalism in general
		
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			or, you know, the things that we hold
		
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			on to as African Americans to restore or
		
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			protect our dignity, our pride, our sense of
		
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			belonging, and so on and so forth when
		
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			it was explained to me that 60,000,000
		
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			slaves had passed through there, but 6,000,000 never
		
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			left the soil because they fought and they
		
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			died.
		
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			Meaning, they fought and they died because they
		
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			would not submit to no one other than
		
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			Allah.
		
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			So they died on the very soil
		
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			than the ones who were weaker than any
		
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			man and those who were overpowered by those
		
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			who oppressed them,
		
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			they became victims of the transatlantic
		
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			slave trade. So that experience alone stripped me
		
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			of nationalism
		
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			and it gave me
		
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			a a a heightened sense of understanding
		
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			from just that space.
		
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			Then next, I visited Kazakhstan,
		
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			you know, which is Middle East and Asia,
		
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			and
		
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			that is when I experienced a different form
		
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			of diversity
		
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			as far as the Muslims. Because like I
		
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			mentioned, I only knew of 3
		
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			particular
		
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			groups
		
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			or,
		
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			you know, nationalities
		
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			or ethnicities
		
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			that shared this common, you know, saying, understanding
		
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			of Islam.
		
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			But I goes to Kazakhstan, and I learned
		
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			that this is even more widespread than I
		
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			ever imagined.
		
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			And then 3rd, because I became Muslim in
		
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			Abu Dhabi.
		
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			So visiting the UAE
		
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			at the time
		
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			where, you know, you know, may Allah make
		
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			us better. It's not a place that, you
		
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			know,
		
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			kinda like, you know
		
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			you know, oozes with Islam or, you know,
		
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			things of that nature. But
		
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			shows you that this is Allah's guidance because
		
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			at first I was going
		
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			I was gonna reject the the invitation
		
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			because of everything that I was taught in
		
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			this country about the Muslims, the misconceptions,
		
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			the propaganda, and so on and so forth.
		
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			So I was a victim of understanding
		
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			from
		
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			one particular die
		
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			dynamic that the the Muslims were these excessive
		
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			people.
		
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			But then you go to this place, it's
		
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			like, it's the exact opposite.
		
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			These people are living. You know what I'm
		
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			saying? Allah favored them with wealth. They got
		
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			all the same things I was exposed to
		
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			in my lifestyle, Lamborghinis,
		
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			jets, boats, and everything. So, you know,
		
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			this pretty much bought it home for me.
		
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			So
		
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			I believe that
		
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			that was Allah guiding me without
		
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			statement, without words, without interaction with other Muslims,
		
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			no invitation,
		
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			nothing.
		
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			Just a statement of the prophet when
		
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			he said
		
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			So whomsoever Allah chooses to guide, none can
		
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			lead them astray, and whomsoever Allah leads astray,
		
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			none can guide. So
		
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			I remember the first time I heard Khutbatah
		
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			Hajjid, and I just knew, like, this
		
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			is the very thing
		
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			that clarified
		
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			my experience,
		
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			that this was guidance. Mhmm. So, you know
		
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			So now you're you're watching yourself
		
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			in 2009 Mhmm. And then the epic statement
		
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			that you made, I'm paying for the disease
		
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			while the cure is free. What are you
		
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			what are you thinking now? Now everything you
		
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			went through,
		
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			and are you As profound as that statement
		
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			was then, it's the same now.
		
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			Because I believe that from my experiences and
		
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			my travels of talking to the youth around
		
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			the world
		
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			and seeing the commonality and the things that,
		
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			you know, they're attracted to and what takes
		
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			them away from the remembrance of Allah and
		
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			what makes them abandon
		
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			the the Islamic identity and so on and
		
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			so forth.
		
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			This is just another
		
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			means of paying for the disease,
		
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			but, ultimately, whether you're a person that knows
		
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			or don't know,
		
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			the cure still remains free.
		
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			So even for the Muslim who's born, who
		
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			Allah favored to come from the loins and
		
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			the wounds
		
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			of believers
		
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			and to be exposed to things that detour
		
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			them or, you know, take them away from
		
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			the memories of Allah,
		
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			you know, a sincere repentance
		
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			becomes the cure and it's free.
		
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			But the more we continue to indulge in
		
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			these things, we're only paying for the disease
		
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			and that which puts us on a path
		
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			for gradual destruction. Mhmm. And for the non
		
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			Muslim who's ignorant
		
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			or unaware
		
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			of
		
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			this cure, which is free,
		
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			then they too, until Allah guidance reaches them
		
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			or Allah changes the condition of their heart,
		
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			they remain upon a path where they're constantly
		
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			invested
		
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			in a disease that will only lead to
		
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			their demise, not only in this life and
		
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			the next,
		
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			but the cure
		
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			Yeah.
		
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			Is still free.
		
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			So at the time when I said that,
		
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			that was just my pure sincere emotion of
		
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			understanding my current state at that time.
		
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			But now as you grow and understand the
		
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			religion more and you study more and you
		
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			learn all of the things that conform with
		
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			the knowledge and understanding of tawhid,
		
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			then you know
		
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			that Allah has provided a cure for every
		
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			disease.
		
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			So there's nothing that we can endure in
		
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			this life that Allah hasn't provided a cure
		
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			for, and the cure is free Mhmm. No
		
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			matter what the disease is.
		
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			The cure for it is free.
		
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			What's so beautiful about your story, and this
		
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			is why people are so attracted to it,
		
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			is because on one end, you have people
		
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			who are so fascinated
		
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			with these 2 minute videos that get, like,
		
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			you know, 100 of millions of views and
		
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			people are, like, just drooling at the mouth.
		
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			You got the scantily dressed, traudy dressed women
		
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			that are being used and abused really
		
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			on these, by some of these
		
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			artists out there.
		
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			No shame of what's being said and, you
		
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			know, the language that's used.
		
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			This is the true oppression of women, I
		
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			believe. Absolutely. Yeah. But then people are just
		
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			so caught up with that, but then to
		
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			see someone get out of that
		
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			and to come out and
		
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			to really because even the Kanye West's and
		
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			many of those who are in that lifestyle,
		
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			they talk about and they sing about the
		
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			corruption in there,
		
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			all the all the evil that's in this
		
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			world,
		
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			but then they don't get out and do
		
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			what you've done, you know, to submit to
		
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			the truth, to come to the truth, you
		
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			know what I mean, and still not go
		
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			back. And may Allah protect you, me, all
		
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			of us from going back to those days
		
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			of ignorance, you know? So that's what's beautiful,
		
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			you know, and it's captivating. Yeah. Someone who
		
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			was up at the mainstream like that and
		
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			now he's a Muslim. And not just someone
		
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			who's who's because you do have Muslims,
		
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			but then they're shy to come out like
		
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			you. You're in the Breakfast Club not too
		
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			long ago
		
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			and you're asked about music and you're like,
		
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			you're breaking out why. Absolutely. You know, why
		
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			you don't listen to music. Absolutely. Because the
		
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			lifestyle that comes with it. You're saying subhanallah.
		
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			Yeah. Because the thing is You're saying that
		
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			alhamdulillah it's coming natural. You're not shy about
		
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			that. Well, I mean, this is the problem
		
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			in You get what I'm saying? Absolutely. Where
		
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			people we know they're Muslim, but now they're
		
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			very timid. They're very scared. You know? They're
		
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			kinda undercover.
		
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			Well, see, this is this is the overwhelming
		
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			presence of opposition to Islam
		
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			that resides in the west, preferably America, you
		
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			know, the UK, England,
		
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			so on and so forth,
		
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			is that and then you have media that
		
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			plays a very significant role in placing a
		
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			particular
		
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			identity
		
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			on the Muslims
		
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			that's a false narrative.
		
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			So what happens is, you know,
		
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			the more a person heart is inclined to
		
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			pleasing the law, he'll do it at the
		
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			expense of the people's anger.
		
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			You understand? You'll do it at the expense
		
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			of the people's anger, meaning that I'd rather
		
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			please the law and have you angry at
		
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			me
		
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			opposed to pleasing you
		
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			and having a lot anger at you know
		
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			what I'm saying? Angry with me.
		
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			So it becomes a a a situation of
		
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			perspective.
		
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			We say we love Allah and his messenger.
		
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			We testify that none has the right to
		
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			be worshiped with Allah and that Muhammad
		
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			is his messenger.
		
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			So with this testimony,
		
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			right, with a pure intention,
		
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			statement of the tongue,
		
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			which follows is
		
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			action of the limbs. These three things have
		
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			to be synonymous. We can't just have a
		
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			pure intention
		
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			and not speak, or we can't
		
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			just speak and not act. All of these
		
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			things have to be synonymous, and that's a
		
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			part of our ascription to the sunnah of
		
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			the prophet.
		
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			You know? And when it comes to courage,
		
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			courage is not measured just by acts of
		
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			violence
		
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			or implementing aggression
		
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			when, you know, we feel that Islam is
		
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			attacked or, you know, the the religion is
		
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			being slandered and so on and so forth.
		
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			You know?
		
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			When you come from a place of understanding,
		
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			it becomes a lot more easier to implement
		
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			wisdom.
		
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			And the wisdom is
		
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			a person that stands for something is more
		
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			respected than a person who stands for nothing.
		
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			So we're men,
		
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			and this should
		
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			be something that's incumbent upon men, not just
		
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			the Muslim, but men in general. Whatever you
		
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			stand for, stand on it. Yeah. You know
		
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			what I mean? Because that's the way I
		
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			was raised in the streets before Islam is
		
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			that whatever it is, I'm standing on I'm
		
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			standing on that. So I love Allah and
		
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			his message. I love what Allah loves. I
		
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			hate what Allah hates, and this becomes
		
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			regulation of my emotions. Yeah. So when I
		
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			love when Allah loves,
		
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			my emotions in the right place. If it's
		
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			something that Allah forbids and he hates it,
		
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			then I hate it. Mhmm. You know what
		
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			I'm saying? So why would you not defend
		
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			what you love? Yeah.
		
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			And this is what,
		
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			Kunta Kinte and
		
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			and the the roots of the African American
		
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			people. Kunta Kinte in that that movie Roots,
		
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			he's saying Allah, Allah. So this is not
		
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			some foreign god, some god of the Arabs
		
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			or something.
		
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			And
		
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			the, the injustice that was done to the
		
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			African Americans. I mean, you had the original
		
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			the original people who came here, what was
		
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			it, like, 30, 40% were Muslim. They were
		
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			print you know, they weren't savages living on
		
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			a they were, princes and and queens and
		
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			people who were, you know, having a noble
		
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			life. They were kidnapped. They were Muslim, though.
		
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			Right? Muslim. So the African American roots anytime
		
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			I speak to an African American, whether it
		
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			be in an Uber or anywhere, I try
		
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			to point them back to their roots, you
		
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			know, which is Islam. Exactly. See, the thing
		
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			is I just had this conversation before I
		
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			left here. I was at the radio station.
		
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			I was trying to explain
		
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			to, you know,
		
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			you know, my my my people. You know
		
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			what I'm saying? As far as my ethnicity
		
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			in this country
		
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			that the true unified front
		
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			when it comes to establishing
		
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			good comes from belief.
		
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			We unite upon belief.
		
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			This is the unity amongst the Muslims,
		
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			and it's the most and it's the unity
		
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			that should be established even amongst the Muslims.
		
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			So it's not just the ethnicity thing that
		
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			takes place in America. This is something that's
		
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			widespread,
		
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			and the only way we get back to
		
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			a place of unity.
		
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			For example, Allah says in the Quran, he
		
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			says,
		
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			He said, verily, the disbelievers are allies of
		
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			one another. And if you do not do
		
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			the same, they will be fitting in the
		
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			earth and major corruption.
		
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			So this is actually the state we live
		
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			in it. So Allah made it clear that
		
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			those who disbelieve, they share commonality.
		
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			The Muslims, if you do not do the
		
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			same, the result of that will be fitting
		
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			in the earth and major corruption.
		
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			So this applies
		
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			specifically
		
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			to the believers, and also the methodology
		
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			of unification
		
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			applies generally.
		
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			So when you look at people who are
		
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			oppressed and disenfranchised in this country for over
		
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			500, 400, 500 years,
		
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			getting back to the source is what's gonna
		
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			rectify the present and the future.
		
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			So if the source and your origin
		
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			come into this country is coming from Islam
		
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			because even geographic geographically, if we looked at
		
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			those countries
		
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			where predominant
		
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			slaves were extracted, they were extracted from predominant
		
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			Muslim countries. Yes. So that means that everything
		
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			that transpired,
		
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			everything that was fed to a people
		
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			that was incorrect
		
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			or was fed to demoralize,
		
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			demean,
		
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			break down,
		
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			cause discord and splitting,
		
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			there would've never been anything that would've been
		
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			allocated that would've been of good
		
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			other than what was taken,
		
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			which was Islam. Mhmm. So, you know, this
		
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			is something that
		
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			I try
		
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			to
		
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			establish,
		
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			but I do it in the means respectfully,
		
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			and I try to use wisdom
		
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			because,
		
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			you know, Allah says, There's
		
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			no compulsion in the religion, so we can't
		
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			compel people or force people to accept Islam.
		
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			We can only articulate the truth, the benefits,
		
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			and the virtues of Islam, and you accept
		
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			it. You know what I'm saying? It's between
		
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			you and your Lord.
		
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			So we took it a little back in
		
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			history, just give a condensed version
		
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			of you coming out of that lifestyle,
		
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			having it all, you know, finding peace and
		
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			purpose in Islam, submission to the creator, not
		
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			the creation, the way of Jesus, Moses, Abraham.
		
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			And just the last, if not a message
		
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			from Muhammad, peace and blessings be upon them
		
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			all. Oh, so So this is not a
		
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			new religion. It's it's the same way of
		
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			life that was from the first man Adam
		
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			to all the messengers, and we're living here
		
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			today.
		
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			And then you're out there traveling. You're trying
		
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			to get the youth off drugs. You're trying
		
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			to share the message of peace and purpose
		
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			with humanity,
		
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			and then you get kidnapped in Brussels.
		
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			Tell us about that.
		
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			Is that right? You got kidnapped.
		
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			Absolutely. I mean, but it's by law's decree.
		
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			So you're doing good Yeah. Out there and
		
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			then,
		
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			you know, something from the bring us up
		
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			to speed. How why did you get kidnapped?
		
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			Basically,
		
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			there was
		
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			a conspiracy that took place
		
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			in 2008 with a group of individuals
		
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			who I only knew one person.
		
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			And this is prior to Islam. I wasn't
		
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			a Muslim yet. So this was me at
		
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			the very,
		
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			you know, weaning stages of leaving the music
		
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			business,
		
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			my love for the underdog.
		
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			I met a guy who was, you know,
		
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			inspiring to be an artist, and I tried
		
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			to show him a way
		
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			through the means and resources that I had.
		
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			So
		
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			in my bad judgment, he inquired about something
		
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			that at the time, you know what I'm
		
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			saying, I was knowledgeable of, but I wasn't
		
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			involved in.
		
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			So I actually did
		
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			something that became detrimental later is I introduced
		
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			him to somebody
		
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			who they had a relationship,
		
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			and a and a conspiracy revolved around their
		
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			relationship and their dealings. I was free from
		
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			the matter.
		
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			So now fast forward,
		
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			I become Muslim.
		
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			And like I said, I fled with my
		
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			religion.
		
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			Everything I did was public, so it wasn't
		
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			like I was a fugitive. I was running
		
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			from anything. Every talk I gave, including your
		
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			show, everything was transparent. Everything was visible
		
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			and obtainable.
		
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			Now when I gets to Belgium, I'm told
		
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			by Interpol I got grabbed by Interpol. I
		
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			was told that I had an indictment in
		
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			the eastern district of North Carolina
		
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			in a city called Durham, which I never
		
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			visited.
		
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			So now this is already a fishy situation.
		
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			But
		
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			fighting
		
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			to make sure my extradition
		
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			was not violated or my constitutional
		
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			rights wasn't violated. I came to, you know,
		
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			stateside, and
		
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			I was sentenced to 14 years
		
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			in prison Mhmm. You know, for conspiracy
		
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			to possess with intent to distribute a kilo
		
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			of heroin. I never saw heroin a day
		
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			in my life with Laurie Arlene.
		
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			And the individuals
		
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			who put me in a conspiracy,
		
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			I didn't have any real
		
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			dealings with these guys. You know? So So
		
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			you introduced introduced a to b?
		
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			Pretty much. And
		
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			And I became c, d, e, f all
		
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			the way to z. Uh-huh. Yeah. Simple.
		
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			So
		
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			that's interesting. When you when you look at,
		
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			we know in Islam that a person
		
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			can go towards an evil deed. Mhmm. Right?
		
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			And then they might have an intention, but
		
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			even if they don't do the evil deed
		
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			They get the reward. They get the reward.
		
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			Right?
		
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			Or,
		
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			you know, they thought about doing something. They
		
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			were about to do it again. They walked
		
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			away,
		
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			but here, you didn't even do it. Yeah.
		
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			Right? You you introduced 2 people Absolutely. Whatever
		
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			they did, and then how do you end
		
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			up going You see, the one thing I've
		
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			never done through the course of my whole
		
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			incarceration
		
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			is try to figure out the wisdom behind
		
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			what Allah had to create. Yeah. You know?
		
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			And that's
		
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			something that can definitely lead to
		
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			removing yourself
		
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			Yeah. From understanding what is clear as far
		
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			as what Allah established
		
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			of accepting his divine decree, the good of
		
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			it and the bad of it. So the
		
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			tangible evidence is what people struggle with. Yeah.
		
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			But the ultimate defining factor is that this
		
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			is from Allah's decree. So I accepted it,
		
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			and for 9 years, I was able to
		
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			increase in everything I was see searching for
		
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			prior to that. Because, you know, trying to
		
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			study in Egypt and at the same time
		
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			taking invitations, going to other places, giving talks,
		
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			it was impeding my process.
		
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			I actually learned Arabic more in prison. I
		
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			actually started to obtain more understanding of the
		
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			language,
		
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			the Quran,
		
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			you know, the books of the Ulema, and
		
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			so on and so forth in prison.
		
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			I ended up access to all that? Yeah.
		
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			Absolutely. I had maybe at one time, maybe
		
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			over 92 books. You know what I'm saying?
		
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			Maybe 80, 90% of them in Arabic and
		
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			some in English.
		
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			I've met a lot of strong brothers. You
		
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			know, a young Palestinian brother named Mohammed was
		
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			the imam in one spot. He was younger
		
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			than me. I benefited being around him. Another
		
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			brother named Hassan,
		
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			who was from Bangladesh,
		
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			younger than me, benefited from him. He was
		
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			a half a half as a Quran.
		
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			You know, I've been in positions where I've
		
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			been the imam and so on and so
		
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			forth. So it's like,
		
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			what I thought I had very little of
		
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			became more of a benefit in prison. So
		
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			then you start to understand the wisdom behind
		
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			what Allah decreed. It wasn't so much about
		
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			me being this baby who just accepted Islam.
		
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			It was that whatever I was exposed to,
		
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			taught, and learned
		
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			of tawhid
		
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			and implementation
		
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			of the understanding of Tawhid, it became a
		
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			benefit
		
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			for many people in the prison system. Yeah.
		
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			So, ultimately, this becomes
		
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			the wisdom behind
		
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			why things happen.
		
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			So if I were in another course,
		
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			then my hairline would probably be back here
		
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			stressed out, lost weight, just looking weak because
		
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			that is the sign of someone
		
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			who either rejects
		
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			because if you don't accept, you reject
		
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			the decree of Allah.
		
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			And, alhamdulillah, Allah had never placed in my
		
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			heart anything that would've made me feel
		
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			like
		
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			what he decreed for me wasn't of my
		
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			benefit.
		
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			And then there's there's supposed to be relief
		
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			in that. There's supposed to be some solace.
		
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			The relief is now. Sitting here with my
		
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			brother. That. I mean, that. This but when
		
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			you're in that situation Yeah. And you go
		
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			back on that, right,
		
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			and this is supposed to help you get
		
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			through that. Absolutely. Right? That's part of it.
		
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			Right? Because acceptance is it it takes the
		
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			the the the initial Yeah. Burden off your
		
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			shoulder. Yeah. Now moving forward, you can be
		
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			clear Yeah. Of what comes your way. You
		
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			know the hadith where the prophet said, don't
		
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			say if
		
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			I did this or that or the other.
		
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			You know? Say it's the decree of Allah.
		
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			That's right. Otherwise,
		
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			you
		
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			drive
		
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			yourself crazy. Yeah. That's what I'm saying. You
		
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			know? That's the beauty of us. We live
		
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			in our hearts. You know? The the true
		
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			believer lives in his hearts because this is
		
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			the thing that Allah targets in the Quran.
		
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			Yeah. The hearts. Mhmm. Not the intellect. You
		
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			know, we have aqa, but there's a place
		
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			for that. Yeah. But as far as our
		
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			ultimate living space is our heart. Yeah. You
		
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			have to live here. You have to reside
		
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			here in order to feel, in order to
		
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			understand, to comprehend. You know what I'm saying?
		
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			And to act with
		
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			to comprehend.
		
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			You know what I'm saying? And to act
		
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			with sound purpose, it has to come from
		
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			here.
		
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			And then you were you were kind of
		
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			entrapped. You were given some options,
		
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			but those options were like, okay. It was
		
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			like if I go down that right that
		
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			route and try to fight for this justice,
		
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			I lose. I can get life in prison.
		
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			Get life in prison. You know what I'm
		
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			saying? So now this is where the akar
		
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			comes in. Now we have to use our
		
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			intellect. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? Because
		
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			what Allah says in the Quran,
		
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			Do not kill yourselves. Right? Mhmm. So that
		
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			would have been me killing myself.
		
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			You know what I'm saying? Even though, alhamdulillah,
		
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			I'm innocent,
		
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			but the same token I have you know,
		
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			my family has rights.
		
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			You know what I'm saying? There's people who
		
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			Allah placed me in authority over.
		
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			My wife, my children. You know what I'm
		
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			saying? So and so forth. People who looked
		
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			at me as the provider,
		
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			which I provide from Allah's means. Right? So
		
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			with all of these things in place, you
		
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			have to make a sound decision.
		
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			You have to weigh the benefit versus the
		
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			harm. Right? So the benefit is, okay, I
		
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			take the sentence, there's daylight.
		
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			But at the same token, I take the
		
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			sentence, I make the most of the time.
		
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			And, Alhamdulillah,
		
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			Allah, you know, allowed me to return in
		
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			9 years opposed to 14. Mhmm. You know?
		
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			Went from 14, I got the 2 point
		
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			reduction, dropped me down to 11 years. And
		
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			the feds, you do 87%
		
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			or 85.5,
		
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			however you wanna so that would have been
		
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			9 years anyway. Yeah. Then I get immediate
		
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			release.
		
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			I signed for a compassionate release. I got
		
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			immediate release.
		
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			Wallahi Adeen, today is actually the day I
		
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			was supposed to get released Mhmm.
		
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			With no relief. Like, with no compassionate release,
		
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			no filing in court, anything. Today was my
		
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			outdate. I was supposed to come home
		
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			today
		
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			to get 11 months halfway house.
		
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			Was there something Trump was mentioning in all
		
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			this? Nothing to do with Nothing with Trump
		
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			and Trump. Everything to do with me utilizing
		
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			whatever rights is given to me, whatever rights
		
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			that wasn't relinquished in the course of my
		
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			incarceration,
		
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			utilizing those rights
		
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			to file for certain motions and,
		
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			I was granted
		
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			the compassionate release, and I was released immediately
		
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			Masha'allah. Right away. Hamdulillah.
		
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			Don't wait. Can't wait. Masha'allah.
		
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			And you're here with us now, alhamdulillah. Yeah.
		
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			Masha'allah. Tell us,
		
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			Islam in the prisons. Mhmm.
		
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			How was it there when you came in?
		
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			Were there a lot of Muslims there in
		
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			the prison? Yeah. Atul Yusuf.
		
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			It's the University of Yusuf alayhis salam.
		
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			Masha'allah.
		
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			So I've met some of the most,
		
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			you know,
		
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			inspiring,
		
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			influential,
		
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			and strong
		
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			Muslims because
		
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			under these circumstances,
		
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			all we have is Islam.
		
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			All we have is our brotherhood.
		
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			So when those things become the things that
		
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			remain
		
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			from everything else that the law has removed,
		
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			then you either find refuge and soulless in
		
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			that,
		
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			or you incorporate the prison culture and be
		
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			lost. Mhmm.
		
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			So I've been to 4 different institutions in
		
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			the feds and every community I went to
		
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			I'll have some benefit. I learned from brothers.
		
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			Brothers learned from me. The brotherhood, like, we
		
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			did things together. We worked out together. We
		
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			played ball together. We had a Muslim team
		
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			for this, and we stayed together. We found
		
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			ways
		
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			to always be a part of each other's
		
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			struggle,
		
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			each other's life,
		
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			each other's benefit, each other's education, so on
		
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			and so forth. And
		
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			that's something that's actually lacking in the free
		
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			world. Yeah.
		
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			How was it described to us, paint a
		
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			picture? Okay. You walk in to the,
		
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			the prison. Is it like, okay. You go
		
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			to the left, and they have this gang,
		
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			people, folks, whatever, and then you have to
		
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			start going who you're gonna click with, neutral,
		
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			and then over here, you got the Muslims.
		
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			How paint us a picture. How does it
		
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			actually, you know, work?
		
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			Well,
		
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			the thing, the command for us to seek.
		
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			Right? Uh-huh.
		
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			You seek the Muslims
		
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			upon arrival. Yeah.
		
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			So the first person that you may engage
		
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			or the first person you catch eye contact
		
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			that look like he might know something or
		
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			you're standing at me, let's start a conversation.
		
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			And they'll you know where the Muslims at?
		
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			Does he are they allowed to wear the
		
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			kufis? Absolutely. Yeah. We're allowed to wear the
		
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			kufis.
		
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			You know, we are allowed to wear a
		
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			thaw
		
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			or, you know, in
		
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			certain spots just for your
		
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			not throughout the day, but just in. They
		
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			got lockers inside the chapel that you can
		
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			change in there and wear your thawb. You
		
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			know what I'm saying? You could wear an
		
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			imam or everything,
		
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			I mean, the Muslims have fought
		
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			to preserve
		
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			some of the right to implement Islam.
		
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			Right?
		
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			So
		
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			to know that we're in a place where
		
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			we're not taking this stuff for granted,
		
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			it becomes difficult
		
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			to see brothers who have
		
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			the opportunity and the access to this stuff
		
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			neglecting it. Mhmm. You know? And I and
		
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			I just pray that Allah makes us better,
		
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			you know, increase us in that zeal and
		
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			that strength that we have when we first
		
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			knew it was upon the truth,
		
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			you know, we have to return to that,
		
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			Inshallah. How's the dawah in the prisons? How
		
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			how is it Dowah in the inmates. Did
		
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			did you have any experiences? Were you able
		
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			to share with some of the inmates there
		
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			and people actually accepted Islam? Absolutely. You know
		
00:44:00 --> 00:44:02
			what I'm saying? By law's permission, I never
		
00:44:02 --> 00:44:04
			do any accounting. You know what I'm saying?
		
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			But it was always
		
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			you know, you got time. So when someone
		
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			shows any type of inclination to Islam, you're
		
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			more than open to teach them. What else
		
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			I got to do? Like, what else I
		
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			got to go? You know what I'm saying?
		
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			And it actually strengthens your understanding
		
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			for yourself at the same time you're teaching
		
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			and inviting someone to something that's
		
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			good. And, you know, by law's permission,
		
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			I'll say this.
		
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			I've never entered
		
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			a single institution
		
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			where someone hadn't accepted Islam.
		
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			So I mean, literally, I've never been to
		
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			an institution
		
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			where someone hasn't come to me seeking Islam
		
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			and testify
		
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			that none has the right to be worshiped
		
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			with Allah and the Muhammad
		
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			is the messenger of Allah in my presence.
		
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			You know what I'm saying?
		
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			And so on and so forth. I speak
		
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			to a brother now, my good brother. His
		
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			name is Omar Sheikh.
		
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			You know what I'm saying?
		
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			And
		
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			Pakistani brother,
		
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			He's
		
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			a beautiful brother. I speak to him all
		
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			the time.
		
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			Since I've been home, he's called me,
		
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			you know, several times
		
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			telling me about people that we are familiar
		
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			with, that we were working on. Mhmm. I
		
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			said, guess who takes Shahada?
		
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			Guess who takes Shahada?
		
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			Guess who takes Shahada? It never stops. It's
		
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			like, this guy takes Shahada. Subhanallah, the guy
		
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			that is wow. Masha'allah.
		
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			Oh, guess what? Guess who takes Shahada? So
		
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			the brothers is in there calling the people
		
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			to Islam even during COVID. Like, everyone's locked
		
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			down, isolated from one another, and everybody's calling
		
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			each other to Islam. We're calling
		
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			the, you know, the non Muslim to Islam,
		
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			and we're calling the Muslims to return to
		
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			Islam. You know what I'm saying? This dawah
		
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			doesn't just
		
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			start or stop with the non Muslims. That's
		
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			what people have to understand.
		
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			The call is to also remind the Muslims
		
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			to return to Allah. Mhmm.
		
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			And then
		
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			we call the non Muslims as well to
		
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			accept,
		
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			you know, what conforms with your natural disposition.
		
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			I wanna take a minute, and I wanna
		
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			share because I'm sure this lady here used
		
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			to listen to your songs and maybe still
		
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			does. So she's very popular. I don't know
		
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			if you've heard of this woman, Candace Owens.
		
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			Have you heard of her?
		
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			Yeah. And I wanna get your reaction. She
		
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			has a
		
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			a few things to say,
		
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			and I wanna see if we can get
		
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			a message to her. But I wanna start
		
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			from the beginning here. I wanna go back
		
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			into little girl Candice, the first time that
		
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			I ever heard about Islam,
		
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			the first time that I ever heard about,
		
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			you know, Muslims in the context of a
		
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			political ideology or religion.
		
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			And that was the first memory that I
		
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			have was in 3rd grade.
		
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			And we were reading a book, and they
		
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			were saying, in this book that Muslim
		
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			being a Muslim is just like being a
		
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			Christian.
		
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			Islam is exactly like Christianity,
		
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			is exactly like Judaism,
		
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			and, we were told that the prophet Mohammed
		
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			is exactly like Jesus Christ. I believe this
		
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			as a child. I think that a lot
		
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			of Americans that are watching this can relate
		
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			to this sort of, the religion of peace.
		
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			It's just like Christianity.
		
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			Is any of that true?
		
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			So you you haven't
		
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			she's very
		
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			involved in politics now.
		
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			She's
		
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			a person who is very outspoken,
		
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			and some of these people end up
		
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			speaking sometimes out of their lane. She didn't
		
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			have here, she's talking to a person who's
		
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			actually not an imam. He's like someone who's
		
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			put out there like a he's like
		
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			a fake imam. Help us, love us. Help
		
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			us. So,
		
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			what would you say, like, to someone like
		
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			her who's probably listened to your,
		
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			music from the past or anything, but she's
		
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			mentioning something so dear to you. Right? And
		
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			she's probably got a lot of misconceptions in
		
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			her mind. If you can talk to someone
		
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			like that, what would you say to her?
		
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			Well, I would clarify
		
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			what
		
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			has already reached the
		
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			of the connection
		
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			between
		
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			the books that Allah revealed,
		
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			the messengers, you know what I'm saying, and
		
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			prophets that Allah has consent in concession
		
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			to different nations,
		
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			and that the prophet Muhammad
		
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			being the seal of all of those prophets,
		
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			and that their call
		
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			and their religion was 1.
		
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			That's the commonality. But to say that they're
		
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			the same, you know what I'm perspective and
		
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			understanding of what Islam entails. Right
		
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			Right?
		
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			And
		
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			I've ran into people like her,
		
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			and you have to have a certain
		
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			sense of concern
		
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			because, 1, for a person to even embark
		
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			on any understanding
		
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			of religion
		
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			means that they're,
		
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			you know, partially there.
		
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			You understand?
		
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			As Muslims, all we're trying to do is
		
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			get them all the way there. Mhmm. You
		
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			know what I'm saying? Without no deception.
		
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			We're not trying to deceive nobody.
		
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			We're only here to convey what is correct
		
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			so that it doesn't become a proof against
		
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			me. Yo, Mokayama, when I had to stand
		
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			before my Lord.
		
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			So to
		
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			Candice and anyone
		
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			who's inclined to Islam,
		
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			it is our obligation
		
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			to clarify
		
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			first what is the foundation is Tawhid.
		
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			So understanding tawhid would definitely
		
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			dispel any notion
		
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			that is the same as Christianity as is
		
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			practiced today
		
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			versus
		
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			the religion of Isa alaihi salaam during the
		
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			time of his messengership, which was Islam,
		
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			which was monotheism.
		
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			Same thing with Musa alayhis salaam and so
		
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			on and so forth. So, you know, we
		
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			stick to the Ulsul.
		
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			The people who ascribe themselves to the sunnah,
		
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			we stick to
		
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			the, meaning the foundation. So the foundation always
		
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			starts with.
		
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			No conversation
		
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			should start unless it starts with.
		
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			The pure monotheism. So the the so the
		
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			the connection between Jesus, Moses, Abraham, the last
		
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			and final messenger of Muhammad is that pure
		
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			monothea.
		
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			Pure monothea. Right. Tawhid. But now what people
		
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			are practicing today of Christianity, worship worshiping Jesus,
		
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			you know, people,
		
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			who say that Jesus is God, there's no
		
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			evidence to back that up. There's no there's
		
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			nothing there that Jesus ever said, I'm God.
		
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			Worship me. But but if the people look
		
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			into the true message of Jesus
		
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			and all the messengers, then that would, you
		
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			know,
		
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			guide you to the right direction. Yeah. Well,
		
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			there's certain texts that's in the Bible that
		
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			reside
		
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			today that many scholars in the past and
		
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			in present have been able to point out
		
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			where Tohi still exists
		
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			in In the
		
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			the Bible even with all its alterations In
		
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			the Bible. Yeah. Subjections,
		
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			you know, and so on and so forth
		
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			till he still remains.
		
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			So mostly when I talk to Christians who
		
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			identify with these things and accept them,
		
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			but then they find something that contradicts it
		
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			and think that they're debating.
		
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			But you're only really debating with your own
		
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			understanding. Mhmm. Because you just affirmed
		
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			that none has the right to be worshiped
		
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			with God and God alone. Yeah. Right? It's
		
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			in your first commandment, thou shall not place
		
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			no other god before me.
		
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			So we know that linguistically the word god
		
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			means object of worship.
		
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			So now the first commandment makes sense in
		
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			the Bible. Thou shall not place no other
		
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			god before me,
		
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			which is synonymous with La ilaha illa law.
		
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			La ilaha illa law. So now you affirm
		
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			that, but then out of the sake of
		
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			debating and arguing, you wanna find another verse
		
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			in the same book that contradicts that one
		
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			so the debate becomes with yourself. Yeah. You
		
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			understand?
		
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			Understand? And as Muslims, we have to use
		
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			Hikma in these matters. It just, you know,
		
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			allow
		
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			that to pass and then remain
		
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			firm upon what they affirm. You affirm that
		
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			there's only one god. There's only one creator.
		
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			There's only one facilitator,
		
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			arranger,
		
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			sustainer,
		
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			organizer
		
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			of all the affairs of creation.
		
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			We agree.
		
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			So if this
		
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			unique ability
		
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			is only deserving of 1,
		
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			then it shouldn't it be his right and
		
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			his right alone to be worshiped?
		
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			That's simplicity. Mhmm. People don't like simplicity for
		
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			some reason. Like, like, complications,
		
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			confusing, you know what I'm saying, chaos. But
		
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			I chose Islam for simplicity
		
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			because all of the distortions and everything that
		
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			I used to think became simplified
		
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			with the Kelly Martin.
		
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			And
		
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			we followed
		
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			continuously
		
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			and consistently was attached to that statement. Yeah.
		
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			That's
		
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			it never gets old. Yeah.
		
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			So someone like her or anybody else now
		
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			in the African American community, we talked about
		
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			one, what's beautiful about your life is now
		
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			if you're seeking purpose, purpose is not in,
		
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			like you said, I can go get the
		
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			gold chain. I can get the car, the
		
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			massage, and then something comes up and happens
		
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			and ruins my whole day and then another
		
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			stress. You know, I make another That's what
		
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			society tells you. You know what I'm saying?
		
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			That's not what Allah tells you. Yeah. Society
		
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			tells you that success is based upon things
		
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			you accumulate. Mhmm. Allah says success is upon
		
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			belief. Yes. Dying upon belief. Living upon belief.
		
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			Then none has the right to be worshiped
		
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			with Allah, then Muhammad
		
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			is the message of Allah, living upon that,
		
00:53:10 --> 00:53:13
			implementing that in your life, and dying upon
		
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			that. That's success.
		
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			Still simple. Still easy. You break it down
		
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			simple. So you have that, and then you
		
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			have the roots there, and then you have
		
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			that connection with the pure monotheism.
		
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			Do you think what have you heard these
		
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			names like DJ Khaled,
		
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			what else? Somebody Khaled very well. You know
		
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			Khaled. I just haven't spoken to him since
		
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			I've been home. Very well. Who else? Some,
		
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			what's what's the name?
		
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			French Montana. I met French
		
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			them a couple weeks ago. Couple weeks ago.
		
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			We talked. And, alhamdulillah, may Allah continue to
		
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			increase him because he's
		
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			definitely
		
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			trying to implement what is correct. So for
		
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			me, like I said, with all of these
		
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			people that you named, then we probably gonna
		
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			name. You know, first and foremost, we always
		
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			ask a lot of guide them. Amin, Amin,
		
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			Amin, Amin. Amin. Us. Purifying intentions too. So
		
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			our intentions is pure going into these things.
		
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			We're not trying to keep score. We're not
		
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			trying to keep record. We're not here to
		
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			say that I'm the shahada king and all
		
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			this type of stuff stuff for the law
		
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			of adheem, but we do this solely for
		
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			the sake of Allah, and we want good
		
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			for the people. You know what I'm saying?
		
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			Because we're supposed to be the best of
		
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			the people for the people.
		
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			So that's a responsibility.
		
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			You know what I'm saying? That if we're
		
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			gonna be the best of the people for
		
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			the people, meaning by example,
		
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			you know what I'm saying, by methodology,
		
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			by implementation of that understanding and so on
		
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			and so forth, inviting to it,
		
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			then
		
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			this obligation
		
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			doesn't rest until we see the result of
		
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			Allah. Yeah. Are you able to sit and
		
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			talk? You know, many people everybody knows Muhammad
		
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			Ali. Mhmm. Right?
		
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			And not only a legend in the ring,
		
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			but mainly what he did outside the ring.
		
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			Mhmm. But, you know, my teacher knew him
		
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			very well, one of my former teachers who
		
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			used to run
		
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			a Dawah Center, was was Muhammad Ali his
		
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			his love for this dean, for sharing? He
		
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			used to give out pamphlets
		
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			and who was Jesus and what is Islam,
		
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			and he used to actually sign his name
		
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			and that's how give he would give the
		
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			autographs.
		
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			People in this,
		
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			industry,
		
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			are you able to sit with them and
		
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			do you think how much of impact would
		
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			they have if because we get excited. You
		
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			see you see not too long ago, we
		
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			see we saw,
		
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			Mike Tyson where he was praying in public.
		
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			Yeah. We're both. Yes. Yeah. And just by
		
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			praying that prayer, people were getting so excited.
		
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			Imagine, you know, how much impact someone like
		
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			Mike Tyson or some of these, if they
		
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			really started to, you know,
		
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			change their life for the better and start
		
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			to really implement
		
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			the Tawhid,
		
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			implement Islam. Well, the thing is even whatever
		
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			it is they do that inspires, they've done
		
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			a great justice for Islam.
		
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			See, the thing is, like the prophet said,
		
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			seeking knowledge is obligatory
		
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			upon every Muslim.
		
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			So when we see the things that inspire
		
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			us to wanna learn more,
		
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			we have to take those inspirations,
		
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			right,
		
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			Attach them to our heart,
		
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			and then we have to strive to increase
		
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			in that which is good. Because what happens
		
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			is for the ones who do choose to
		
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			implement seeking knowledge, we wanna put the burden
		
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			solely on their shoulders. You know, go ask
		
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			the imam. Go ask me. Ask the imam.
		
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			You know what? Go on YouTube. Pull up
		
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			such and such and such. This becomes
		
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			a a lackadaisical
		
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			effort of establishing
		
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			what you may already know.
		
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			You know, you can't demote your value because
		
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			you only know just the clues. You know
		
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			what I'm saying? You only know the the
		
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			last three surahs in the Quran. Yeah.
		
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			You know something.
		
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			You know what I'm saying? And you have
		
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			to teach that.
		
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			Even if you only know Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem.
		
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			You have to teach that. And every Muslim
		
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			need to understand this obligation
		
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			and not
		
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			assume
		
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			that the burden is just those who seek
		
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			knowledge. It's yours as well. So when you're
		
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			frequenting amongst, you know what I'm saying, Muslims
		
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			or even the non Muslims,
		
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			Every time an opportunity presents itself, you're supposed
		
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			to seize that opportunity
		
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			to teach.
		
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			Because when you do that, it becomes a
		
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			defining factor of what your presence is gonna
		
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			be around those people.
		
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			Islam would choose your friends for you.
		
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			Because if every time I speak about Islam,
		
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			I stop playing ball and go pray and
		
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			I do all these things, you know what
		
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			happens? You either gonna continue picking me to
		
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			play basketball because you respect the fact that
		
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			I stopped to do these things, or you're
		
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			gonna distance yourself from me.
		
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			So I didn't have to make the choice.
		
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			Islam made the choice for me. You understand?
		
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			Oh, I gotta go. I gotta go out
		
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			there. I gotta pray. Oh, man. I you
		
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			always gotta pray. I used to go do
		
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			this prison sometimes. Yeah. Come on. I'm gonna
		
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			stop picking you, man, because you always got
		
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			well, listen. While you're playing ball, you hear
		
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			you. Yeah. Stop. There you go. That's a
		
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			great great example. Exactly. So the point of
		
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			the matter is this obligation is not just
		
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			mine's. It's not just yours.
		
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			It's everybody's.
		
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			It's every Muslim's
		
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			obligation to teach what you know.
		
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			Because if you know Islam and the truth,
		
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			it doesn't matter about your shortcomings.
		
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			Doesn't matter about your deficiencies or your flaws.
		
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			The obligation still remains. If you know Aleph
		
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			Bat Tach, teach it. You know Bismillah rachmanur
		
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			Rahim, you teach it. All you know is
		
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			al Fatiha, you teach it. If all you
		
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			know is the touch of her, whatever it
		
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			is,
		
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			your obligation to teach it remains until you
		
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			reach until you meet your lord.
		
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			So we have to stop abandoning that obligation.
		
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			And this is for everybody. This is this
		
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			is for the names we mentioned, we didn't
		
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			mention for for everybody. This is just our
		
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			Umummmin.
		
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			Yes.
		
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			Every believer.
		
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			Yes.
		
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			We know this is this is this is
		
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			what we're here for. Yeah.
		
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			Well, let's, we'll end with that. It's beautiful
		
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			to see you, man. Beautiful to see you
		
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			too as well. May Allah bless you. Where
		
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			could people, if they wanna get in touch,
		
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			you know, look up at you got some
		
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			documentary coming out, I heard? I'm working on
		
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			a documentary so I can actually put to
		
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			the side all of the questions about all
		
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			of the transitions. I feel like if I
		
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			share that one time,
		
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			I can place those things behind me. And
		
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			then if I'm invited to speak, you know,
		
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			the questions would be relevant to which you've
		
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			already saw or which you've learned about me.
		
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			I have a book also I'm trying to,
		
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			you know, release,
		
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			and I'm just
		
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			pretty much in the same place I left.
		
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			You know? I love Islam.
		
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			I love the Muslims,
		
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			And anything that I can do to contribute
		
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			to the success of the believers
		
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			in this life,
		
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			I'm a do what I can.
		
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			You're gonna be in,
		
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			visiting Boda Jack soon?
		
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			Inshallah. I spoke to him. I wanna go
		
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			out there and visit him while they're in
		
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			the training camp because
		
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			I don't think the fights wanna have an
		
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			audience. And I wanna meet Mike again too.
		
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			I ain't seen Mike in years. You know?
		
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			Inshallah, you can lead them in prayer again
		
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			this time. Inshallah. Yeah.
		
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			And, we can get you on the he
		
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			can get you on the Mike is the
		
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			elder, so he has the nickname. He's the
		
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			elder, mate. Yeah.
		
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			And don't forget, if you see Mike, tell
		
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			him to tune in to the Deen Show.
		
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			Okay. Beautiful,
		
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			brother.
		
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			That was our brother formerly known as Loon
		
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			from Bad Boy Records. That's in the past.
		
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			He's got a new page in life
		
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			where he left
		
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			that old life that didn't bring him peace,
		
01:00:09 --> 01:00:10
			solace, and happiness.
		
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			And he had all the finer things in
		
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			life,
		
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			there's nothing wrong with enjoying some of the
		
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			finer things in life. But if it's built
		
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			on that, like he was saying, that tahid,
		
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			that pure monotheism, and that leads you to
		
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			your purpose and via be Candace Owens, via
		
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			be dj Khalid, Mike Tyson, via b whoever's
		
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			up, p ditty, Sean, John, whoever the case.
		
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			I mean,
		
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			to get to that, it starts with something
		
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			very basic and simple. It's actually on my
		
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			shirt.
		
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			Guide me, guide me, guide me. If you're
		
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			at a bus stop and you wanted to
		
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			get from point a to point b, you
		
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			didn't have a map, you'd ask
		
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			someone for guidance. How do I get here?
		
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			How do I get there? But what about
		
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			what's my objective in this life? Why am
		
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			I here in this world? What am I
		
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			living for? Is it just the dollars? Is
		
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			it just for fame? Is it just for
		
01:00:56 --> 01:00:56
			popularity?
		
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			I'm gonna be held accountable when I leave
		
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			this life. He realized that. Our brother realized
		
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			that, and he looked behind the hype, and
		
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			he found
		
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			everything based on evidence and proof in Islam.
		
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			He's living it. Islam, that complete
		
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			submission and surrender to the creator of the
		
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			heavens and the earth just like Jesus, Moses,
		
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			Abraham, and all the other messengers. They submitted
		
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			not to themselves, not to the dollar, not
		
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			to fame, not to popularity,
		
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			but they called humanity and they did it
		
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			themselves.
		
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			They submitted to the one God, the one
		
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			creator. We say Allah and the last and
		
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			final messenger of the prophet Muhammad, peace and
		
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			blessings be upon him. He brought the evidence
		
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			and everything you need to know that he
		
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			was a messenger and that Islam is the
		
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			truth, and it's all found in the Quran.
		
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			Read the Quran and do the homework.
		
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			Do the homework because this life is short.
		
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			I love talking to people like this who've
		
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			experienced all that. They've climbed up the ladder,
		
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			and every step they took up higher and
		
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			higher, it didn't really find. They didn't really
		
01:01:49 --> 01:01:49
			find
		
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			what you think you're gonna find when you
		
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			get up there. They were already up there.
		
01:01:53 --> 01:01:55
			You don't find that peace and silence
		
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			submitting to the creation, submitting to your desires.
		
01:01:58 --> 01:02:01
			You find it submitting to your creator because
		
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			truly in the remembrance of God Almighty Allah
		
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			do the hearts find rest. So
		
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			we end with that.
		
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			Guide me, guide me, guide me. That's the
		
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			homework. Do what he did. Do what we're
		
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			supposed to be doing, asking the creator of
		
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			the heavens and the earth alone, God Almighty
		
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			Allah, for guidance,
		
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			and he will, if you're earnestly seeking, facilitate
		
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			a way. Thank you for tuning in to
		
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			The Dean Show. Hope you enjoyed this interview.
		
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			Assalamu Alaikum.
		
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