Amir Junaid Muhadith – Former Rapper loon shares life lessons as a Revert Muslim

Amir Junaid Muhadith
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The speaker discusses their past struggles with drugs and violence, their desire to visit the UK to explore Islam, and their commonality with Muslims. They emphasize the importance of avoiding practices considered fraudulent and finding ways to express oneself and not let the world put them in the wrong situation. They also criticize Muslims who have failed to practice Islam and encourage people to find their true enemies and learn from their past. The importance of learning from past experiences and finding one's true enemies is emphasized, as well as the importance of peer pressure and giving people the opportunity to choose their own leaders.
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I was formerly a artist on Bad Boy

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Records.

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My ex partner

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went by the name of p Diddy, Sean

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Combs.

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Right about now, they're making a lot of

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movies and series about these type of guys.

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How many of y'all such as myself grew

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up with no parents?

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I watched people die. I genuinely love the

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Muslims.

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When I said lay lay hello, Mohammed and

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Rasool Allah, that was the last day I

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smoked. I learned a lot about how powerful

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the Muslims are literally went to go make

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Hajj when I got in the courtroom

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and realize that I was being implicated in

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a conspiracy that had nothing to do with

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me. The 9 years I spent in prison

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and I just got back get the woman

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bro. So now my name go like a

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slam after a week like like snap. He

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don't know nothing about Sheikh Google. It been

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Twitter, l, Instagram me. That ain't his Sheikh.

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He don't know that guy. That's your Sheikh.

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No.

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My dear brothers in Islam,

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as the brother mentioned,

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alhamdulillah,

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I go by the name of Amir

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Junay Mohadith,

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formerly known

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to many of y'all, some of y'all, maybe

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none of y'all.

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As Loon, I was formerly an artist on

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Bad Boy Records.

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And some of y'all

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many of y'all, maybe none of y'all are

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aware

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of my ex partner

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who went by the name of P. Diddy,

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Sean Combs,

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and a host of other names he possessed.

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As the brother mentioned,

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my intention and my purpose

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for visiting the UK and other parts of

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Europe

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because this tour ends,

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insha Allah, somewhere around

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9th or 10th March.

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And I took

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the effort

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only because

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I'm

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I'm I'm right now, I'm I'm extremely invested

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in the youth.

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I like for that to be known. Understood.

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I'm invested

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in the youth and the future of the

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youth

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because I know what it's like.

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You

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know, growing up in the streets in New

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York,

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I grew up in the era

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where drugs, violence,

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and everything plagued my town, plagued my community.

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And we didn't have Islam

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as a defense.

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All we had was what we had

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and enduring this lifestyle was not by choice.

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In most cases, it was by circumstance.

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So when you have situations that are circumstantial,

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it really doesn't leave you too many options.

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But unfortunately,

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in this day and time, many of the

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Muslims are falling into this lifestyle.

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And if you look at the environment surrounding

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the Muslims,

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a lot of these situations come from choice,

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not circumstance.

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Meaning that

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if I took a toll right now or

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poll

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by show of hands, how many of you

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brothers here born Muslim?

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How many are such as myself was guided

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to this blessed dean of Islam?

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So regardless how we got here, we here.

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Right?

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Don't really matter how we got here. We

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here.

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But the benefit is some of you who

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were born in this blessed deed of Islam,

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you were nurtured and cultivated upon till he.

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You came from the womb of a believer.

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You were conceived by believers.

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You were raised and cultivated

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upon this blessed deen of Islam. So that

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means by the fuddle and the mercy of

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Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala,

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you were born under the security of Allah

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Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.

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And we all know that there's no security

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that can exceed the security of Allah Subhanahu

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Wa Ta'ala.

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Therefore my brothers who were guided to this

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blessed Deen of Islam,

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we were guided to this security.

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The only security we knew was the security

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that we provided for ourselves.

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We didn't understand the security of Allah subhanahu

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wa dollar.

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We understood security being

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have an ability to fight,

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have an ability to shoot,

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have an ability to stab

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or flick any type of pain or injury

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on an individual

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solely for the purpose of securing our own

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person

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and the things we love.

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So the reality is

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when a person who was born under this

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mercy,

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chooses to abandon the security of Allah

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to choose a lifestyle

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that is in complete opposition

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of the life you know

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and the security that you've grown accustomed to.

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And when you look at it this way,

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hopefully you reflect

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that the abandonment of this security

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and the consequences that come with it

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is self inflicted.

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And when a judgment of Allah supan with

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the eye of the lens upon you,

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now for us who are guided to Islam

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and by Allah's mercy, we learn what this

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security is

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and we learn to embrace

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and adhere to the security that's being provided

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by us,

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by Allah, if

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we abandon the security then we have no

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excuse at all. We have no excuse as

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well. Right?

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So as I mentioned, no matter how we

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got here, we here

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understand,

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because I want to dispel the notion that

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there's some difference between those who are born

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Muslim and those who are guided to Islam.

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Because a lot of times we we we

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play ourselves with this type of civil strife

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thinking that someone born, a Muslim is better

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than someone who's guided to the Islam.

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Or there's some difference. And

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in this and what obligations were given in

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this blessed deen whether you were born understanding

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these things or you were guided to understand

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these things. The reality of it is we

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have no excuse for the law, subhanahu, with

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the Allah if we abandon the security.

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If we abandon this religion,

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if we abandon the fuddle of Allah

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Now

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the one thing we have in common

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regardless of how we arrived

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that we have a common enemy.

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And that enemy is the Shaytan,

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iyadabila

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and the dunya.

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This is the commonality we share regardless of

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what country you came from,

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where your parents may have left and landed,

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where you may establish your first understanding of

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this blessed dean of Islam.

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We have a commonality that we share.

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We have enemies that are known

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and we have some that are unknown.

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But the ones that are known, we know

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together.

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Regardless of how we got here we know

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that the shaytan,

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why I had to be that is a

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clear enemy of the son of Adam

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and we also understand that this dunya,

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this dunya, this dunya don't want you, you

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want the dunya.

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You never read a narration with a dunya

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once you.

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You always read

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about a person's whims and desires leading him

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to crave

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and yearn for the dunya.

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And the sad thing about Igit Ekuan

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is becoming widespread amongst the Muslims.

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Many of this Shabab, I come from America.

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I'm pretty sure y'all peep into the media

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and things that's going on in our country.

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I pay attention to all the affairs of

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the Muslims. It doesn't matter what country it

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is

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because I love the Muslims.

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But I'm not too far from a state

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called Philadelphia

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Philadelphia is one of the most

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sought after

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Predominary Muslim

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States in the United States of America

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and right now Philly is like the murder

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capital of the United States of America

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And the majority of the crimes that being

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committed are being committed by Muslims

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and the victims of these crimes are Muslims.

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I visited Minnesota not too long ago, but

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dominoes Somali community, Muslims,

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Muslims,

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businesses on every corner,

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abaya shops,

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film shops, restaurants. I mean, the presence is

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there. The identity is clear.

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Muslims are here.

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But now these communities are being divided by

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gangs,

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Muslim gangs.

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Explain to me, my dear brothers, how can

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a person have an allegiance to Allah and

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his Messenger and then have an allegiance to

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something else that is in complete opposition

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of Allah and his Messenger?

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It's impossible.

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How could one have an allegiance to Allah

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and his messenger in the same breath you

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claim a set, you claim a street, you

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claim a color of a rag.

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Somewhere down the line, you're gonna have conflict.

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Somewhere down the line, you're gonna have a

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discrepancy between one of these two allegiances.

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And when that time come, you're gonna have

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to pick a side.

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You're gonna have to pick a side.

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You can either fall victim to the peer

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pressure of that gang or that crew

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at the expense of Allah's anger.

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At the expense of Allah's anger, you could

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choose an allegiance to something that's in complete

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opposition of Allah subhanahu what the island is

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messenger salaiah al salam.

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At the expense of earning the anger and

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the punishment of Allah, subhanahu, with the island.

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You can choose this allegiance and die upon

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that

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that I'm investing in

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because I see, like I said, many of

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you falling into these affairs and it's not

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circumstantial.

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It's by choice.

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You are choosing to throw away your Islam

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for this dunya.

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You are choosing to throw away your Islam

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from a lifestyle that you've never been exposed

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to. It's never been taught in your homes.

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It's not something that you witness your father,

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your uncles, or no one have to endure

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unless they endured it by choice as well.

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I know what it's like to live in

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an environment

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where there's no choices.

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My father was never there.

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My mother fell victim to drugs. My grandparents

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raised me.

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I watched people die funeral after funeral to

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the point I got numb.

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Funerals when I was growing up became fashion

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shows. We only went there to see what

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each other was wearing.

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The person in the box didn't even matter

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anymore.

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We were trying to get at his girlfriend

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because he's no longer with her. He's gone.

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When the when this stuff becomes normal,

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any sane person will realize that this is

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not real. This is not life.

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And when I see Muslims falling into this

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situation,

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it breaks my heart

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because I know what the law guided me

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to.

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When the law guided me to this religion

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in December 2008,

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when I said,

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that was the last day I smoked, that

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was the last day I drank, I haven't

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listened to the radio since.

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And I don't say that to boast or

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to brag.

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I say it out of gratitude

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because I'm grateful for what you had your

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whole life.

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I'm grateful to have what you had your

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whole life.

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How many of y'all, by show of hands,

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grew up with both your parents in the

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house?

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It's upon the law. Y'all like superheroes where

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I come from.

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Y'all like superhero. Y'all abnormal

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where I come from.

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You grew up with both your parents?

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You might have a kid in my neighborhood

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kill you just for that out of jealousy

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because you got both of your parents.

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How many of y'all grew up in single

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homes, single parent homes?

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It's crazy. I can't even see y'all hands.

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That's amazing.

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And my grandparents raised me.

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May Allah have mercy on them both. My

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grandfather, he passed at 96 years old. He

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took a shahada before he died.

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I came home from prison. My grandmother was

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fighting 4 stage cancer.

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Died at 91 upon Islam. She took a

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shahada before she died.

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When I watched the rest of my family

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grieving, they couldn't understand

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why I didn't have any grievances.

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One, because I was fortunate to have these

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people in my life my entire life.

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And then on top of that, I may

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have a opportunity to meet them again in

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general.

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Well, my family is falling apart.

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They would think that a Muslim is crazy

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to be overwhelmed with joy

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on account of death.

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You see how this Islam work?

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This Islam is serious.

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People falling apart.

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Hair falling out, teeth falling out, just losing

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weight,

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and we rejoicing.

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I mean, we have our moment of grievance,

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but when it's all said and done, we

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get to make du'a for this person.

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We get to ask the law, subhanahu, with

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the Allah, to make this person grave, spacious.

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We ask the law to enter this person,

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into this paradise that he created solely for

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the believers.

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When I look at my family, I got

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one supplication for them.

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May Allah guide you.

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Many of you born Muslim don't understand that.

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May I have family gatherings

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even if you got the cousin that barely

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pray

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or the uncle who may drink hamad?

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Inshallah,

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9 times out of 10, you'll meet them

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in Jindah.

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When I see my family gatherings,

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I'm trying to find ways to avoid

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many of the practices

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that they've been practicing traditionally

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for generations.

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I'm the oddball now. I used to be

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the life of the party.

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Now when my family have gatherings, I'm the

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oddball.

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This is why I love the Muslims

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I trade in a whole bunch of multimillionaire

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fake fraudulent people

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to sit amongst you Muslims

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and call you my brother.

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There was a time it would have been

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extremely hard to even get in proximity of

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me

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in my previous career.

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You might have caught a elbow, got punched

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in your mouth, draw down, pissed through you.

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You're not too close, man. You're too close.

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Now I travel all over the world by

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myself

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only with the security of Allah, subhanahu, with

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the eyelet to see thousands of brothers.

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And I think that we all need to

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start doing this kind of math. You need

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to start looking at things exactly for what

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they are

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and not let this dunya trick you.

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Not let this worldly life trick you.

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You are the best of the people for

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the people

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for some of us that sounds like an

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impossible task to live up to

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but Allah made it easy for you to

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be the best of the people for the

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people Meaning your example is the best example

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for the people. You know why? Because we

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follow the best example of mankind.

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So to be the best of the people

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for the people means

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all of these different alternative

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things that the Muslims are falling into,

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you're abandoning your post,

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you're abandoning your obligation,

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you're abandoning the opportunity

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to contribute

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to this blessed religion of Allah

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because Islam don't need you.

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You need Islam.

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Allah doesn't need you.

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You need a law.

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The sunnah doesn't need you.

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You need to follow the sunnah Muhammad Sallallahu

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Alaihi Wasallam.

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So these reminders

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start with myself

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and I extend

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it as your brother so that you understand

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what you already know.

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You've heard these things repetitively to all your

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lives

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sometimes coming from a different mouth

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or different perspective

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may benefit the believer insha'Allah

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But the reality of it is,

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without sacrifices, the brother mentioned

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wasn't really much of a sacrifice.

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Traveling across the Atlantic Ocean is not a

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big deal.

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I heard stories of knife violence. I heard

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stories of gangs. I heard stories of Muslims

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assaulting other Muslims, murdering other Muslims.

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Disrespect of the parents.

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Allah

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put dutifulness to the parents right after his

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right to be worshiped.

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Right after his right to be worshiped alone,

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he put dutifulness to the parents. I can't

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even imagine

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someone who nurtured and cultivated you upon Tawhid,

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nurtured and cultivated you upon Islam that you

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have the audacity

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to raise your voice, raise your hand, or

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anything disrespectful.

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I know non Muslim parents that'll break your

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back in half for disrespecting them.

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When I heard these stories this is what

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became a difficulty for me.

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I used to live here.

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I moved here before.

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I lived in Brixton.

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When I first came to Brixton in 2005

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as a rapper, I was bumping into guys.

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It was a couple of guys. It was

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a part of this little crew called SMS.

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So these guys,

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the British tough guys, Marsha Allah. Right?

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But then I come back in 2009,

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majority of these guys was Muslim.

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And I was amazed.

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And in this particular part of London, East

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London, it's like driving through a Muslim country.

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I brought my wife and my daughter here.

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It's their first time in London. I'm looking

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at them at the window. The whole drive

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here, as soon as we got into East

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London,

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But wallahi, I love the Muslims.

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You

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know, I love the Muslims. I love what

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a lot of love.

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That's what puts your emotions in check.

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When you find yourself taking something personal that

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has nothing to do personally with Allah, then

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your emotions is in the wrong place.

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The emotions in the wrong place. You pull

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the love with Allah love,

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hate with Allah hate. Now your affairs is

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in order.

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Now you ain't got to be running around

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here

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imitating some belligerent individual

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who doesn't understand how to gauge his emotions.

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And

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you definitely don't wanna fall into a situation

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where you lack the control of your emotions.

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May Allah make us all better.

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But as a man, if you find yourself

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losing control of your emotions and don't know

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where to put them,

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Remember to love what Allah love and hate

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what Allah hate,

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and I guarantee your emotions would be in

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the right place.

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My dear brothers,

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I wanna take this time out insha'Allah

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to engage you in the conversation

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that's gonna require you to talk back to

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me.

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I'm not up here just to run my

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mouth. I wanna hear your voice as well

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because it's important to me.

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I benefit from this. I learned from brothers.

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I learned about the plights of the Muslims,

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and I supplicate to Allah and ask them

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for guidance

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and ask them for the means

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to contribute to the rectification of the affairs

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of the Muslim

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because we all have a part.

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Many of y'all just love to break the

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iman back or just break the Sheikh back.

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Take everything. Oh, that's the shit. Ask the

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Sheikh. Don't ask me. Ask the Sheikh. The

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Sheikh is overwhelmed.

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Well, y'all gonna lift some of the burden

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off the Sheikh.

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You understand this religion?

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It's upon Allah.

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Y'all send someone way across town to a

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Dawah table instead of just giving the person

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Dawah right there. Right?

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Now quickly send somebody to YouTube.

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This segment right here is about accountability.

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Right?

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The prophet said we are all shepherds. Right?

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And every shepherd will be held accountable for

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his flock.

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And accountability,

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responsibility,

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all of these characteristics

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and traits of men. Because we're on man

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time right now.

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Yeah. We're on man time.

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How many of you brothers

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can explain to me what is a man

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of virtue?

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What is a man of virtue?

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We all man time. There you go.

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Hold up. You're too young to be getting

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up that slow, man.

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I'm gonna love. I thought he'd call, sir.

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Shafaq Allah Yaki, f one.

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Forgive me, man.

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No.

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There's a statement that imam Abu Khadi said,

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knowledge to speak perceive speech and actions.

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Right? So it's not permissible for a Muslim

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to speak

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or act without knowledge.

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That was that was amazing.

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He he

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actually took the answer from about 5 of

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y'all. I would have went around just got

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one from him, the other 4 from somebody

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else.

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That's what I mean by lifting the burden

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from your brother.

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But we ain't over.

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This ain't over.

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He explains some of the virtues

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of a man of virtue.

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Can he by

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describing me

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an actual man of virtue?

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Do any of y'all actually know

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a man of virtue?

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There you go.

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Muhammad

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ibn Abdullah

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Alayhi

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Salaam.

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The most virtuous man that ever walked this

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planet.

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SubhanAllah.

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And the sad thing about many of the

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Shabab,

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they've taken on role models

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who possess no virtue,

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Only the accolades

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that come with this dunya.

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And some of them raised them to a

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status

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that doesn't even come close to true men

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of virtue.

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True men of virtue of the prophet

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his

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companions

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and those that follow them and those that

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follow them.

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The prophet

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said

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the best generation is my generation and those

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that follow them and those that follow them.

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It's amazing

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when you have

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such a beautiful example

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and I'm saying this to y'all

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who've been born Muslim

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because growing up in the environments I grew

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up in,

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the men that I deemed to be virtuous,

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they possess some of the characteristics that the

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brother mentioned.

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They were men of their word. They stood

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on their word,

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you know.

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They tried to implement

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some level of, you know, consistency

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in the characteristics,

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a speech and a actions.

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But it was all bottle.

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It was all revolved around

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something that man created.

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A lifestyle

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that no human being can fully live up

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to.

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Because even those guys,

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when the situation got tight,

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they folded just like a beach chair.

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And he had a bunch of us believing

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that they were

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immortal.

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We thought they was them dudes.

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They had everything. They had cars. They had

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jewelry. They had respect. They had fear. They

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had all these things.

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But when the walls came crashing down,

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they got on that same stand

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that they claimed they would never get on

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and point across the whole courtroom and say

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he did it.

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How disappointing it was to grow up looking

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at these guys

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like they meant something.

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May Allah guide them.

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But when you look at the prophet, sallallahu

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alaihi wa sallam,

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you look at his companions.

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These are men of virtue, Yaquan.

00:31:04 --> 00:31:06

These are men you wanna be like.

00:31:06 --> 00:31:07

Trust me.

00:31:11 --> 00:31:13

I've been all I've been in 6 different

00:31:13 --> 00:31:15

continents. I've been everywhere except Antarctica

00:31:17 --> 00:31:18

and I rub shoulders

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with organizations

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that right about now, they're making a lot

00:31:24 --> 00:31:27

of movies and series about these type of

00:31:27 --> 00:31:27

guys.

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Yeah. I even got to show gangs of

00:31:30 --> 00:31:30

London.

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It's kinda law,

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You know?

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But true virtue, I've only seen

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through the example of the prophet,

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and his companions.

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May Allah be pleased with them all.

00:31:51 --> 00:31:54

For the youth, don't be led astray by

00:31:54 --> 00:31:55

these individuals

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who created

00:32:01 --> 00:32:01

this lifestyle.

00:32:03 --> 00:32:05

It looks real shiny,

00:32:06 --> 00:32:07

looks real appealing.

00:32:11 --> 00:32:12

Don't fall into these traps.

00:32:13 --> 00:32:15

Yeah. I know your brother and me just

00:32:15 --> 00:32:17

spent 9 years in federal prison.

00:32:18 --> 00:32:19

9 years.

00:32:21 --> 00:32:22

I put that lifestyle

00:32:22 --> 00:32:25

so far behind me. I was living in

00:32:25 --> 00:32:26

Egypt at the time.

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Studying at a couple of maracas. I just

00:32:30 --> 00:32:32

signed up for the Rasulhas in,

00:32:33 --> 00:32:34

a jammy atelazar.

00:32:38 --> 00:32:40

Literally went to go make Hajj,

00:32:42 --> 00:32:44

Came back to Egypt, dropped off the gifts

00:32:44 --> 00:32:46

that I got for my family,

00:32:47 --> 00:32:49

and immediately turned around back to the airport

00:32:49 --> 00:32:51

to go to Belgium to give a talk.

00:32:52 --> 00:32:54

And I just got back,

00:32:54 --> 00:32:56

like, two and a half years ago.

00:33:01 --> 00:33:03

When I got in the courtroom

00:33:04 --> 00:33:05

and realized

00:33:05 --> 00:33:08

that I was being implicated in a conspiracy

00:33:08 --> 00:33:10

that had nothing to do with me,

00:33:12 --> 00:33:14

But during my rule 11 hearing,

00:33:15 --> 00:33:16

I listened to this prosecutor

00:33:17 --> 00:33:18

try to paint a picture

00:33:21 --> 00:33:23

that was not even remotely close to the

00:33:23 --> 00:33:23

truth.

00:33:24 --> 00:33:27

This woman said that I was traveling around

00:33:27 --> 00:33:29

the world glorifying my past

00:33:32 --> 00:33:35

glorifying my past and influencing children

00:33:37 --> 00:33:38

it was just ridiculous

00:33:45 --> 00:33:47

And now I look at this brother, may

00:33:47 --> 00:33:48

Allah protect them.

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I was actually in the process of having

00:33:52 --> 00:33:53

a conversation

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coordinated with another brother that we know mutually.

00:33:56 --> 00:33:59

And I hear how, you know, once he

00:33:59 --> 00:34:00

took Isha Adam,

00:34:01 --> 00:34:02

that same trick bag.

00:34:03 --> 00:34:05

This man is sitting in prison right now

00:34:05 --> 00:34:06

with no charges.

00:34:08 --> 00:34:10

So if you learn anything from this,

00:34:11 --> 00:34:12

that tells you

00:34:13 --> 00:34:15

that this Islam is powerful,

00:34:16 --> 00:34:18

that Allah's Deen is powerful,

00:34:19 --> 00:34:22

and those that possess knowledge and understanding

00:34:23 --> 00:34:24

and implementation

00:34:24 --> 00:34:25

of this religion,

00:34:25 --> 00:34:26

you are powerful.

00:34:30 --> 00:34:32

So trying to imitate anything other than

00:34:33 --> 00:34:34

the prophet

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and his companions

00:34:38 --> 00:34:40

you are fighting a losing battle

00:34:42 --> 00:34:44

and you are actually doing the work of

00:34:44 --> 00:34:45

the shaytan

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because the shaytan don't care

00:34:50 --> 00:34:51

about the individuals

00:34:53 --> 00:34:54

who go astray

00:34:56 --> 00:34:57

he's pleased with you

00:34:58 --> 00:35:01

shaytan loves the individual who delays

00:35:02 --> 00:35:03

or rejects the salah

00:35:07 --> 00:35:09

he loves the one who drinks or smoke

00:35:09 --> 00:35:10

intoxicants

00:35:11 --> 00:35:13

he loves the ones that commit xena

00:35:14 --> 00:35:17

he loves the one who pledge allegiance to

00:35:17 --> 00:35:18

other than the law and his messenger

00:35:20 --> 00:35:21

he loves the one that spills the blood

00:35:21 --> 00:35:24

of the believer, dishonest the you know, dishonor

00:35:24 --> 00:35:25

the believer

00:35:27 --> 00:35:28

He loves these things.

00:35:30 --> 00:35:32

But the moment you start to become the

00:35:32 --> 00:35:34

best of the people for the people,

00:35:37 --> 00:35:38

now you're cooking.

00:35:41 --> 00:35:43

Now you're on the right path

00:35:45 --> 00:35:47

and only then you will learn who your

00:35:47 --> 00:35:49

true enemies are, the ones that were unknown

00:35:49 --> 00:35:51

before they will become known.

00:35:56 --> 00:35:57

And you will accumulate

00:35:59 --> 00:36:00

this enmity

00:36:02 --> 00:36:04

based upon you obeying your Lord,

00:36:06 --> 00:36:06

simply

00:36:07 --> 00:36:09

just obeying your Lord and obeying the messenger

00:36:09 --> 00:36:10

that he sent

00:36:12 --> 00:36:14

you will become a hot topic

00:36:16 --> 00:36:17

you will become

00:36:18 --> 00:36:18

a detriment

00:36:20 --> 00:36:22

to the establishment of the shaytan

00:36:29 --> 00:36:31

The 9 years I spent in prison,

00:36:33 --> 00:36:35

I learned a lot about myself. I learned

00:36:35 --> 00:36:36

a lot about Islam.

00:36:38 --> 00:36:40

I learned I learned a lot about how

00:36:40 --> 00:36:41

powerful the Muslims are.

00:36:45 --> 00:36:46

When I was in prison, the Muslims were

00:36:46 --> 00:36:48

the most loved, the most feared, and the

00:36:48 --> 00:36:49

most respected.

00:36:52 --> 00:36:53

We governed ourselves.

00:36:54 --> 00:36:56

We didn't have a lot of outside visitors.

00:36:56 --> 00:36:58

Imams coming in,

00:36:58 --> 00:37:00

you know, Qurays being,

00:37:00 --> 00:37:01

you know,

00:37:03 --> 00:37:06

given to us and charity. None of that.

00:37:06 --> 00:37:08

And if it was taking place, they never

00:37:08 --> 00:37:09

let us see it.

00:37:10 --> 00:37:12

They tried everything to discourage us,

00:37:15 --> 00:37:17

but we remain firm.

00:37:18 --> 00:37:20

The brotherhood that we established,

00:37:20 --> 00:37:22

that was all the family we needed.

00:37:22 --> 00:37:24

For some of the brothers that never got

00:37:24 --> 00:37:26

visits, never got letters, never got phone calls,

00:37:26 --> 00:37:27

none of those things.

00:37:28 --> 00:37:29

They were pleased.

00:37:31 --> 00:37:33

Because when they looked around, they had brothers,

00:37:34 --> 00:37:35

and that was sufficient

00:37:38 --> 00:37:40

every year ramadan those people tried

00:37:42 --> 00:37:45

to discourage us they were even late with

00:37:45 --> 00:37:45

Suhoor,

00:37:46 --> 00:37:47

late with Iftar.

00:37:48 --> 00:37:49

There was always some complication,

00:37:51 --> 00:37:53

but they never got a peep out of

00:37:53 --> 00:37:54

us, never got a complaint.

00:37:55 --> 00:37:56

Because all we would do is just go

00:37:56 --> 00:37:57

in our locker

00:37:58 --> 00:38:00

and allocate whatever food we had

00:38:01 --> 00:38:02

and we enjoyed our Ramadan.

00:38:06 --> 00:38:07

And they continue to try.

00:38:09 --> 00:38:11

I remember one time, me and the brothers,

00:38:11 --> 00:38:13

we were going to, jumwa.

00:38:13 --> 00:38:14

We will use the,

00:38:15 --> 00:38:16

the chaplain, you know.

00:38:17 --> 00:38:19

It's a multipurpose room they use for

00:38:20 --> 00:38:21

every religion

00:38:22 --> 00:38:23

other than the laws.

00:38:25 --> 00:38:27

And for some reason, they decided that we

00:38:27 --> 00:38:28

wasn't gonna have Jumuah.

00:38:29 --> 00:38:31

It's about 90 of us out there.

00:38:33 --> 00:38:34

When they realized

00:38:35 --> 00:38:36

after all of the authoritative

00:38:37 --> 00:38:40

commands they were hurling around and nobody was

00:38:40 --> 00:38:40

moving,

00:38:44 --> 00:38:45

They changed their minds

00:38:45 --> 00:38:47

without us saying anything.

00:38:48 --> 00:38:50

They just sort of look in our eyes

00:38:51 --> 00:38:53

and the desire that we had to worship

00:38:53 --> 00:38:54

Allah

00:38:55 --> 00:38:57

and somebody came and open that door.

00:39:00 --> 00:39:01

This is how it was.

00:39:03 --> 00:39:05

So when you come home from that

00:39:05 --> 00:39:07

and you see the things that you see

00:39:07 --> 00:39:08

going on with the Muslims,

00:39:09 --> 00:39:10

like I said earlier, it's heartbreaking

00:39:12 --> 00:39:13

because we didn't have

00:39:14 --> 00:39:14

the

00:39:15 --> 00:39:16

ensemble

00:39:16 --> 00:39:17

of means

00:39:18 --> 00:39:19

to produce

00:39:20 --> 00:39:20

the strength

00:39:22 --> 00:39:24

that we were able to establish in the

00:39:24 --> 00:39:25

environment

00:39:25 --> 00:39:28

that was in complete opposition of the Muslims.

00:39:31 --> 00:39:32

This is why a lot of brothers will

00:39:32 --> 00:39:34

lie. I'm a tell you the truth. This

00:39:34 --> 00:39:35

is why a lot of brothers end up

00:39:35 --> 00:39:36

going back to prison.

00:39:37 --> 00:39:40

I've seen brothers return because of the lack

00:39:40 --> 00:39:41

of brotherhood,

00:39:42 --> 00:39:44

the lack of being received when they come

00:39:44 --> 00:39:44

home.

00:39:46 --> 00:39:48

Because we had a structure.

00:39:49 --> 00:39:50

Just to give you an idea,

00:39:52 --> 00:39:52

you know,

00:39:55 --> 00:39:58

I was entrusted with the position of the

00:39:58 --> 00:39:58

imam.

00:39:59 --> 00:39:59

1,

00:40:01 --> 00:40:03

compound. I was the head of the security.

00:40:04 --> 00:40:06

We had structure. We had a emir

00:40:06 --> 00:40:08

that will speak to the establishment

00:40:10 --> 00:40:13

and that that shielded the imam from having

00:40:13 --> 00:40:14

to have any words with the administration.

00:40:15 --> 00:40:16

All he had to do, he was entrusted

00:40:16 --> 00:40:18

with the affairs of the religious affairs of

00:40:18 --> 00:40:21

the Muslims. That's it. He led the salat,

00:40:21 --> 00:40:23

you know, he gave the khutba, so on

00:40:23 --> 00:40:25

and so forth. The emir will go talk

00:40:25 --> 00:40:26

to administration.

00:40:26 --> 00:40:28

The Sharif, he was head of security. Anytime

00:40:28 --> 00:40:30

the Muslims have problems, we went to him.

00:40:30 --> 00:40:32

He went with his little team. They went

00:40:32 --> 00:40:34

straighten things out, and that was it.

00:40:35 --> 00:40:37

We had a Waqil in each block. We

00:40:37 --> 00:40:39

had a Beitou mile in each block. So

00:40:39 --> 00:40:40

if a brother get off the bus, he

00:40:40 --> 00:40:42

didn't have nothing. All he had to do

00:40:42 --> 00:40:43

was go in his dorm, find the Muslims,

00:40:43 --> 00:40:45

and Muslims to pull a bag out this

00:40:45 --> 00:40:46

big.

00:40:46 --> 00:40:47

Sweatsuits, food, everything.

00:40:50 --> 00:40:53

It was a certain type of brotherhood.

00:40:54 --> 00:40:55

Their brother's

00:40:56 --> 00:40:57

witness and in prison.

00:41:00 --> 00:41:02

And I've heard stories of these same brothers.

00:41:02 --> 00:41:04

They come home. They come to the masjid.

00:41:04 --> 00:41:05

They get the warm and

00:41:07 --> 00:41:09

after a week, like, why you snap?

00:41:09 --> 00:41:11

They're not used to that.

00:41:12 --> 00:41:14

Brothers asking for jobs, asking for help.

00:41:15 --> 00:41:17

Sitting in the master that just raised maybe

00:41:17 --> 00:41:17

a $100,000

00:41:18 --> 00:41:19

last night, and I asked y'all brothers a

00:41:19 --> 00:41:20

week ago

00:41:21 --> 00:41:22

just to give me a job.

00:41:24 --> 00:41:26

It's a lot of discouragement that comes with,

00:41:26 --> 00:41:28

you know, what's going on

00:41:29 --> 00:41:31

in these 2 different worlds on the same

00:41:31 --> 00:41:31

planet.

00:41:35 --> 00:41:36

Some of the brothers, they're a little aggressive.

00:41:36 --> 00:41:38

You know, I think, you know, I've seen

00:41:38 --> 00:41:40

the sister, man. Who's who's a waleel? I

00:41:40 --> 00:41:41

think you can't run up when nobody has

00:41:41 --> 00:41:43

no brothers. That's why, you know. The brothers

00:41:43 --> 00:41:45

are crazy because they they they wanna get

00:41:45 --> 00:41:46

married.

00:41:47 --> 00:41:47

You know?

00:41:48 --> 00:41:50

You may have a whole different approach though.

00:41:51 --> 00:41:52

You know? Coming out of testosterone

00:41:53 --> 00:41:54

driven environment.

00:41:55 --> 00:41:57

But the reality of it is, it was

00:41:57 --> 00:41:58

like, there's a certain level of brotherhood

00:41:59 --> 00:42:01

that was established in a place where it

00:42:01 --> 00:42:02

was needed.

00:42:02 --> 00:42:04

But then I asked myself, where is it

00:42:04 --> 00:42:05

needed the most?

00:42:05 --> 00:42:06

Right.

00:42:07 --> 00:42:08

Where is it needed the most?

00:42:10 --> 00:42:11

Cut to the law, they end up in

00:42:11 --> 00:42:13

prison and they find this thing, but we

00:42:13 --> 00:42:15

got brotherhood out here.

00:42:16 --> 00:42:18

But a lot of us are losing our

00:42:18 --> 00:42:18

youth.

00:42:21 --> 00:42:23

So in closing, I wanna be mindful. I

00:42:23 --> 00:42:25

want you guys to be mindful.

00:42:26 --> 00:42:27

The elders

00:42:27 --> 00:42:28

and the youth,

00:42:30 --> 00:42:32

That brotherhood that I'm talking about, it wasn't

00:42:32 --> 00:42:33

no age thing.

00:42:34 --> 00:42:37

We have older brothers that were serving life

00:42:37 --> 00:42:39

sentences, 30 years old. We respected them because

00:42:39 --> 00:42:41

they was our elders.

00:42:42 --> 00:42:45

We respected them because they were our eldest

00:42:46 --> 00:42:49

and we treated them better than our own

00:42:49 --> 00:42:52

fathers because many of us didn't have Muslim

00:42:52 --> 00:42:52

fathers.

00:42:53 --> 00:42:55

So this older brother that was Muslim, we

00:42:55 --> 00:42:58

treated him better than we treated our fathers.

00:42:59 --> 00:43:00

It was a certain level of respect, and

00:43:00 --> 00:43:03

the elders never talked down to the youth.

00:43:04 --> 00:43:06

They gave the same respect in return.

00:43:07 --> 00:43:09

You almost felt like you could be a

00:43:09 --> 00:43:11

peer with a 70 year old man, with

00:43:11 --> 00:43:13

a 60 year old man that you can

00:43:13 --> 00:43:14

talk to him like one of your peers.

00:43:16 --> 00:43:19

Now we have this generational gap.

00:43:21 --> 00:43:23

How many of y'all, by show of hands,

00:43:23 --> 00:43:25

was born in a Muslim country?

00:43:29 --> 00:43:31

So a lot of y'all second generation. How

00:43:31 --> 00:43:33

they are born in, in the UK?

00:43:36 --> 00:43:37

See?

00:43:37 --> 00:43:39

That's where the gap come in.

00:43:40 --> 00:43:41

Because now you experiencing

00:43:41 --> 00:43:42

things

00:43:43 --> 00:43:46

that your dad, you think he old school

00:43:46 --> 00:43:48

because he didn't came from the Muslim land

00:43:48 --> 00:43:50

with all these Muslim traditions and everything like

00:43:50 --> 00:43:52

that. You out here and it's doing you

00:43:53 --> 00:43:54

acquiring

00:43:55 --> 00:43:57

an education from a second set of parents.

00:43:57 --> 00:43:59

You know, the second set of parents is

00:43:59 --> 00:44:00

the doing you.

00:44:06 --> 00:44:08

And you feel like your parents is they

00:44:08 --> 00:44:09

like they don't know nothing

00:44:12 --> 00:44:13

so you don't consult them

00:44:14 --> 00:44:16

but who do you go consult?

00:44:19 --> 00:44:19

Your peers

00:44:21 --> 00:44:22

right

00:44:23 --> 00:44:25

just as dumb as you

00:44:26 --> 00:44:27

just be real

00:44:31 --> 00:44:32

that's what peer pressure is that's where the

00:44:32 --> 00:44:34

pressure comes from

00:44:34 --> 00:44:37

Peer is understandable, but the pressure come in

00:44:37 --> 00:44:40

where you asking somebody who's exactly the same

00:44:40 --> 00:44:42

age as you, got the same experience as

00:44:42 --> 00:44:44

you is, asking him for something

00:44:45 --> 00:44:47

or to advise you of something that neither

00:44:47 --> 00:44:48

one of you even experienced.

00:44:50 --> 00:44:50

Right?

00:44:52 --> 00:44:53

And there's always one that step up to

00:44:53 --> 00:44:55

the plate like he actually knew something too.

00:44:55 --> 00:44:56

Like, yeah. You know what I mean?

00:44:57 --> 00:45:00

If you take a left, go straight. 1st

00:45:00 --> 00:45:02

roundabout, now you wanna give you directions.

00:45:03 --> 00:45:05

Have you in a dead end?

00:45:06 --> 00:45:08

No way to turn, no way to go.

00:45:08 --> 00:45:09

Right?

00:45:10 --> 00:45:11

That's why they call it the blind leading

00:45:11 --> 00:45:12

the blind.

00:45:12 --> 00:45:13

Right?

00:45:13 --> 00:45:15

Dumb leading the dumb.

00:45:17 --> 00:45:19

Could you imagine asking your peer

00:45:20 --> 00:45:23

or telling your peer before you tell your

00:45:23 --> 00:45:23

dad

00:45:24 --> 00:45:26

that you just reached puberty? Like, we're supposed

00:45:26 --> 00:45:27

to tell you.

00:45:28 --> 00:45:30

What kind of sit down discussion y'all supposed

00:45:30 --> 00:45:31

to have?

00:45:31 --> 00:45:32

Yeah?

00:45:35 --> 00:45:37

And truth be told, whenever you run into

00:45:37 --> 00:45:37

a situation

00:45:38 --> 00:45:39

while you're running around with your peers, the

00:45:39 --> 00:45:41

first one you call when you jammed up

00:45:41 --> 00:45:42

is who?

00:45:43 --> 00:45:44

The person that you leave in the blind,

00:45:44 --> 00:45:47

your dad. He don't know nothing about shake

00:45:47 --> 00:45:47

Google.

00:45:48 --> 00:45:50

It been Twitter, l, Instagram me. That ain't

00:45:50 --> 00:45:52

his shake. He don't know that guy. That's

00:45:52 --> 00:45:53

your shake.

00:45:58 --> 00:46:02

That purposely leave them oblivious to social media.

00:46:06 --> 00:46:07

You don't invite them to learn

00:46:08 --> 00:46:11

or understand some of the things that you're

00:46:11 --> 00:46:11

experiencing.

00:46:12 --> 00:46:13

So what happens?

00:46:15 --> 00:46:16

They came here to work to give you

00:46:16 --> 00:46:17

a better life.

00:46:19 --> 00:46:22

You probably see each other, maybe 88 hours

00:46:22 --> 00:46:23

out the month,

00:46:24 --> 00:46:24

right?

00:46:25 --> 00:46:26

Come in the house.

00:46:27 --> 00:46:29

How's school? How's the Quran class?

00:46:30 --> 00:46:31

That's it.

00:46:34 --> 00:46:36

Working. They tired.

00:46:38 --> 00:46:40

Y'all be ready for them answers too now

00:46:40 --> 00:46:42

jay I'm delighted it's good

00:46:42 --> 00:46:43

good

00:46:46 --> 00:46:47

I never volunteered

00:46:48 --> 00:46:50

to talk to your fathers

00:46:51 --> 00:46:52

They be trying to reach out. They be

00:46:52 --> 00:46:54

trying to figure y'all out.

00:46:54 --> 00:46:56

Y'all leaving them blind.

00:47:00 --> 00:47:02

Man. May Allah make us better, man.

00:47:02 --> 00:47:04

May Allah increase us in that which is

00:47:04 --> 00:47:05

pleasing to him.

00:47:05 --> 00:47:08

May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala continue to place

00:47:08 --> 00:47:10

his fuddle and his bounty upon his blessed

00:47:10 --> 00:47:13

Ummah Muhammad salallahu alayhi wasalam.

00:47:13 --> 00:47:15

May Allah rectify the affairs of the Muslims

00:47:16 --> 00:47:17

in every land.

00:47:17 --> 00:47:19

May Allah, subhanahu, wa ta'ala.

00:47:21 --> 00:47:23

Bless our brothers and sisters in Turkey and

00:47:23 --> 00:47:24

Syria.

00:47:24 --> 00:47:26

Bless our brothers in Philistines.

00:47:27 --> 00:47:29

Bless our brothers in all the Muslim lands

00:47:29 --> 00:47:31

and the non Muslim lands. May Allah subhanahu

00:47:31 --> 00:47:34

wa ta'ala keep us firm upon his best

00:47:34 --> 00:47:36

son of his messenger Muhammad.

00:47:37 --> 00:47:39

May Allah unite our hearts upon good

00:47:39 --> 00:47:42

upon good. May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala make

00:47:42 --> 00:47:43

this brotherhood

00:47:44 --> 00:47:46

this brotherhood that comes with Islam.

00:47:46 --> 00:47:48

May he fortify it

00:47:49 --> 00:47:50

and make it a resemblance

00:47:51 --> 00:47:53

of the brotherhood of the prophet, salam, and

00:47:53 --> 00:47:54

his companions.

00:47:55 --> 00:47:57

May Allah, Subhanahu, with the Allah, make us

00:47:57 --> 00:47:59

the best of the people for the people.

00:48:13 --> 00:48:14

Inshallah

00:48:15 --> 00:48:18

I'm your brother Amir and Alay's a share.

00:48:18 --> 00:48:19

Alay's a taller man.

00:48:20 --> 00:48:22

I'm just your brother Amir who flew across

00:48:22 --> 00:48:24

the Atlantic Ocean and sit with our brothers

00:48:24 --> 00:48:27

because I love the muslims. I genuinely love

00:48:27 --> 00:48:27

the muslims.

00:48:28 --> 00:48:31

I don't see no biasness, no

00:48:31 --> 00:48:32

disconnect

00:48:32 --> 00:48:33

by way of ethnicity,

00:48:34 --> 00:48:35

race, any of that.

00:48:35 --> 00:48:37

I don't care if you was born Muslim,

00:48:37 --> 00:48:40

guided to Islam. You're Muslim. You're my brother.

00:48:41 --> 00:48:41

You understand?

00:48:42 --> 00:48:45

And I believe that if we all implement

00:48:45 --> 00:48:45

this understanding,

00:48:46 --> 00:48:48

you'll see the same things that I see.

00:48:51 --> 00:48:51

Insha'Allah,

00:48:53 --> 00:48:55

Allah will give us victory because it's promised.

00:48:56 --> 00:48:58

And we know that the speech of Allah

00:48:58 --> 00:48:59

is true.

00:48:59 --> 00:49:01

But we gotta ask ourselves,

00:49:01 --> 00:49:04

what part are we gonna play in all

00:49:04 --> 00:49:06

of this? Are we gonna stand on the

00:49:06 --> 00:49:08

sidelines and wait till the Muslims is winning

00:49:08 --> 00:49:10

and then jump and join in?

00:49:10 --> 00:49:11

Or we gonna create

00:49:12 --> 00:49:15

that victory for the generation that's coming?

00:49:16 --> 00:49:18

Because it's really on y'all.

00:49:20 --> 00:49:21

The fate of this generation

00:49:23 --> 00:49:25

is the fate of the generation that follows.

00:49:27 --> 00:49:31

And wherever the elders or people like myself

00:49:31 --> 00:49:32

have failed,

00:49:33 --> 00:49:34

you have the opportunity

00:49:35 --> 00:49:35

to correct

00:49:37 --> 00:49:40

and pass down nothing but benefit to the

00:49:40 --> 00:49:41

generation that's coming.

00:49:43 --> 00:49:45

Real quick, the youth is 2 kind of

00:49:45 --> 00:49:48

leaders in this world. Can anybody tell me

00:49:48 --> 00:49:50

real quick? And I'm a leave you all

00:49:50 --> 00:49:51

alone.

00:49:52 --> 00:49:53

It's 2 kind of leaders.

00:49:54 --> 00:49:54

Anybody

00:49:55 --> 00:49:56

can tell me.

00:50:09 --> 00:50:11

He said one that takes initiative and one

00:50:11 --> 00:50:13

that's chosen to lead.

00:50:14 --> 00:50:15

That's close.

00:50:16 --> 00:50:17

The truth is

00:50:28 --> 00:50:29

I'm a give you the answer

00:50:30 --> 00:50:32

Yeah. So, like,

00:50:47 --> 00:50:49

He real hot.

00:50:49 --> 00:50:52

He close. The truth is there's those that

00:50:52 --> 00:50:54

lead and those that mislead. They both are

00:50:54 --> 00:50:55

leaders.

00:50:57 --> 00:50:59

Those that lead and those that mislead.

00:51:01 --> 00:51:02

You still a leader.

00:51:03 --> 00:51:05

It's just that the reward for the one

00:51:05 --> 00:51:08

that leads, like the brother said, upon that

00:51:08 --> 00:51:09

which is correct,

00:51:10 --> 00:51:12

then this is the praiseworthy leader

00:51:13 --> 00:51:16

he leads upon the understanding of the Quran

00:51:16 --> 00:51:19

and the Sunnah with the family of the

00:51:19 --> 00:51:20

the companions of the prophecy

00:51:23 --> 00:51:24

and the one that misleads

00:51:25 --> 00:51:26

leads people astray

00:51:27 --> 00:51:30

in the opposite direction of the path

00:51:30 --> 00:51:32

that the law and his messenger prescribed for

00:51:32 --> 00:51:33

the believers

00:51:35 --> 00:51:37

but he received no reward

00:51:39 --> 00:51:41

he received the punishment and anger of Allah

00:51:41 --> 00:51:43

Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala

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and he encouraged the punishment

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of all those that he misled.

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So those that lead and those that mislead,

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you have to choose which one you wanna

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be.

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You wanna be one that lead upon good

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or you wanna lead

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in a direction

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that is contrary

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to the leadership

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of the best of all mankind

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the prophet Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam

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JazakAllah

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here

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