Shadee Elmasry – The Rise of Islam on TikTok Maliki Clique

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.