Shadee Elmasry – The Rise of Islam on TikTok Maliki Clique
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The importance of Islam in society, particularly in the United States, is discussed. The shift in media attention towards Islam has affected people, including Hispanic women and non- Islam individuals. Visitors are encouraged to be a Christian to avoid physical altercations and see the difference between Islam and reality. Visitors are warned to be mindful of their actions to avoid confusion and mistakes. A man named Shahada claims to be a beast and powerful person.
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what's happened in the world of Dawa on Tiktok shahada Has he
left, right center.
Unbelievable. All kinds of I had to this month
people are just really interested in Islam after this Palestinian,
because people have really fallen for the narrative for generations,
you know, and, you know, the generation of their parents
telling them, you know, a Palestinian is bad. You know,
these are people that are violent people. And now that they see, you
know, there's the reaction on social media, it's changing public
opinion. So everybody's like, okay, but I was told this by my
mom or my dad that these people are the bad guys, but it seems
like
they're the other guys are the bad guys. And the Muslims are the good
guys. So yeah, a lot of people are becoming Muslim. You know, I even
did a live stream on last month.
At the beginning of last month, and I was on the road, I was just
doing a live stream and I always have my, my camera pointed outward
so they can see the road and then on the beautiful, beautiful
creation of Allah subhanaw taala. And this one, Native American
woman was like, Look, I'm very interested in Islam, and I've
decided that I want to be a Muslim right now. And I was like, I put
on the headset, I'm driving a big rig and I was like, okay, repeat
after me. And she became a Muslim somehow. Somehow. We've seen this
these videos of people who are just talking about getting the
Quran and the reaction to buying the Quran.
We've only seen like, a small video one minute of different
compilations is this thing, something taken off on tick tock
this getting the Quran and reacting to it? Because it is, I
think that Americans I think the West is is like trend based or
inspire, you know, if if something's going on on social
media, and that's why Tik Tok and social media is so important. They
jump on it, they're like, why not? And you and I discussed this
before, with with Western people. It's like, okay, this Hispanic guy
over here, he's reading the Quran, and I'm Hispanic. I'm gonna do it
too. Why not? Yeah. And especially the white people. They're just
like, Okay, we have white women over here. We have, you know, guys
in cowboy hats, you know, wanting to read the Quran and you would
think it's like a right, right winger, extremist. They're all
interested in the Quran? No. Why can I be you know, and that's why
I don't mean to, you know, draw importance to myself. But that's
why people like me that are American born and raised in this
country. You know, Caucasian
are really important in the Dow, especially on tick tock, because
people have to see that. Yeah, I've been Muslim for 32 years, you
know, I have seven children that are Muslim and my wife, you know,
so you can be Muslim. And you don't have to look like you know,
what we just got discussed last time. You don't have to lose your
identity or dress up like Lawrence of Arabia,
bald cap, cowboy hat, cowboy boots, whatever you want. It's all
about the belief that's in your heart. That's important. That's
the only thing that will change. Be yourself. You don't have to do
some initiation or whatever. Believe me, I get DMS every single
day from white Christian people from atheists from, you know,
what? Are you really a Muslim? Like, come on, man, between you
and me? Are you doing something like, monetarily or Yeah, like,
funded by Saudi Arabia or something? I mean, come on, tell
us what's going on, really. And I'm like, I am a Muslim. There's
no money in it. When I became Muslim. My father wrote me out of
a $600,000 inheritance. So hi, I saw you, I assure you that I'm not
in this for the money. It's because I really believe in Islam,
and you should look into it too. And they're like, Okay, where do I
start? I'm like, Well, you go to art view.org. Or, over here.
I always send new shahada to you Subhanallah now check to check
this out. The companion and the 34th men have not Fenn was known
in his Khilafah to do things that were not the Sunnah, the opposite
of the Sunnah. And people would ask him, for example, the where
how he would wear his shawl, how he would wear his ring, the kind
of sandals in other words, visible things, visible things, the length
of sutras to recite, things the whole community can see.
And
people would ask him, oh, Khalifa, auth man, we attended the life of
Amara, we attended the Khilafah of Abu Bakr, and they imitated the
Prophet peace be upon him, you are doing the opposite of those
things. Why is that? What how can you explain it, for example, that
again, did off men lose his piety that he doesn't follow the Prophet
anymore? No, he said that. He said, to show you what is an
obligation
And what is merely a recommendation? In other words,
what is something the Prophet did, and what is actually part of the
religion. So it's not he downgrading what the Prophet did
or the imitation of that, but he is upgrading the knowledge of the
difference between the two. And it's so important to know that
there are a lot of things in Islam, some of them are
obligations. Some of them are recommendations, and some of them
are light virtues, light recommendations, and some of them
are habits. Habits of the Prophet peace be upon him, right, such as
what foods he ate, versus what he didn't eat, what he liked versus
what he didn't like,
versus something he encouraged you to do. Right? That will be a
sunnah. Something that with its threatened punishment, if you
don't do it, that's an obligation. So it's so important to know the
difference between these things. And that's why it's critical for
someone like yourself to come really with the lowest common
denominator, like what is the least physical change I have to do
to my body in my life, to be a Muslim? Because people need to
know that. They need to know what is the least because a lot of
times people will, they're going to ask themselves, I want to do
this, but give me what did they call it in business? Least viable?
Minimal, minimum viable products, the MVP, the minimum viable, I
want to do it, give me the least when I had my training as a
trainee as a runner, training as a runner,
I told him, Listen, I'm very busy, give me the minimum that I have to
do. And he gave me the minimum, right. So that's why it's so
important to be doing what you're doing, the way you're doing it is
to have that minimum viable product of what it takes to be
most make the barrier of entry very easy. Okay? People have crazy
objections, people have crazy assumptions. Like you said, when,
when they contact me, they're like, you know, I'm really
interested in Islam, but you know, I still drink, I still have a
girlfriend, I still do this. And I'm like, that's a sin that you're
doing that don't let that keep you from from becoming a muslim, you
know, so there's a lot of people out there. I mean, there's even
Muslims that have misconceptions about what is haram and Hassan And
you know, everything else. non Muslims are really lost in the
sauce. I mean, they, they asked me, Why do you hate Jesus and what
you know, they have some clue about Islam. It's
a brother came, and he said, listen to it here. I want to
become Muslim, but I don't know if I'm worth it.
I'm worthy of it. I don't know if I'm worthy of it. I said to him.
It has nothing to do with you being worthy. This is a debt you
owe to God. He was shocked. He was like, that makes it really easy.
It's a debt you owe to God to admit with your mouth that he
exists, he's a loan worthy worship, and that his final
prophet Muhammad was a true prophet that is worthy of being
followed. And he's like, that makes my decisions so easy. It
took shahada right there on the spot. So that his conception was
that this is an elite club of pious people.
Right? Where it's not, this is the debt you owe to God. Simple as
that. You remember, you remember that guy, Rob, you remember that
guy? Rob give Shahada. Yep. And I sent him to you, and he's making
you he's doing the classes with you. Or he was doing the
same thing with him. He said, I had known about Islam, all the
time, been known about Islam for years, and I considered it but
a certain group of people were habia that always kept me away
from Islam. Right. So I didn't, I knew that. I didn't want to be a
part of that. Because that sounds like you know, he called the
Wahhabis, like the Pharisees and Christian
Pharisees to me, so I don't really think I want to, but long story
short, is, he said, but, you know, when I watched your videos, he
said, I've been watching you for three months, even. You don't know
me, but I'm on live stream right now. My Jeep dream, and I've been
watching you. That's the first thing those first words out of his
mouth. He says, Hey, man, you know, I've been watching you for a
while now. And, and, you know, ABC 123. And I was just wondering, can
you lead me through the Shahada? I'm reading some Patil. And he
explained to me him, and this was a guy who was on Tik Tok as well.
He's got since he's been Muslim since June 27. He's got like 10
people that converted to Islam by his now. So pa 10. So the guy that
I converted, he can go to 10 people and he's just like, he's a
monster. He's a beast. Subhanallah that's amazing.