Shaun King – One beautiful way my heart has changed as a Muslim

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The speaker describes a recent incident that has caused people to express their views on the actions of the prophet Muhammad. They describe how people have been lying about the events and causing harm to their friend's life. The speaker encourages people to keep talking and lying until the end of the day until everyone can convince them that peace be upon their partner.
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As-salamu alaykum.
You know, I had something I just wanted
to say to you all very quickly.
Something has changed in my heart.
You know, my whole life I've seen, I
mean, going back to when I was a
teenager, I've seen people say the most ridiculous
things about me.
And this has just been a theme in
my life.
No matter what good I'm doing in the
world, someone says, he's not doing that for
good.
He's doing it for evil.
He's not really raising money for those people.
He's stealing it.
He's keeping it.
He's, he's getting a little bit of it.
All of those things are illegal and ridiculous
and completely untrue.
But now when I see people say things,
and this week, and I'm pushing so hard
to raise money, you know, we thought there
were 20,000 orphans in Gaza.
The number is now over 40,000 orphans
in Gaza.
And I'm pushing as hard as I can
to get them the support they need.
And sure enough, you know, I don't know
if it's Zionist behind it, or if it's
just ignorance, really, because I see some people
that are all, people from all across the
spectrum saying, he's stealing that money from the
orphans.
And it's like, what?
And I'm even getting people writing me saying,
how dare you steal money from Palestinian orphans?
Listen, nevermind.
The money never goes through me.
It goes directly to the charity.
And I don't get a percentage.
I don't get any of that.
It never comes through me.
I don't even have the username and password
to the fundraiser.
I don't even have access to it, or
to the bank accounts or anything else.
But now, when I see people speak ill
of me and lie about me, now as
a Muslim, I say, Alhamdulillah, Alhamdulillah.
And let me tell you why.
For the first time in my life, you
know, as a Christian, listen, we knew they
talked bad about Jesus.
But I find myself wanting to be like
our prophet, peace be upon him, so much
that when people talk bad about me and
lie about me, I just think to myself,
they did this to our prophet, peace be
upon him.
This is okay.
Alhamdulillah.
If they did it to him, I want
them to do it to me.
Alhamdulillah.
And I kid you not, listen, I don't
want to be insincere.
I don't love it.
But if I get to experience something that
the prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, experienced,
then part of me does love it.
So keep talking, keep lying.
I'm going to keep helping orphans.
And let me tell you why.
Because our prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him,
he said, and Jenna, for those of you
who don't know, that's heaven.
And Jenna, those who help orphans, he held
up the Hadith, says he held up his
index finger and his middle finger.
And he said, those who help orphans will
be like this with me and Jenna.
So listen, talk about me, but I'm trying
to be like this with our prophet, peace
be upon him, and Jenna.
Alhamdulillah.
As-salamu alaykum.