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			Bismillah Alhamdulillah wa Salaam Alaikum. Peace be with you. Thank you. Thank you for tuning in to
another episode of the deen show. And ladies and gentlemen, here on the deen show. He is making his
appearance. Muhammad Sharif here on the deen show. We'll be right back.
		

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			Salam Alaikum Alaikum wa rahmatullah wa barakato. Please be with you. Peace be with you, too. Now,
the million dollar question is What is going on? We've had everyone on the program we had shake
Walid, the Sunni we had yesterday majaz yalsa does that everyone from because you're the CEO of Real
Madrid, and we've had our eye on you where you've been? The audience wants to know, not just me, you
know, it's interesting, actually, you know, I'm gonna shout out to my father in law. Every time we
do immigrants to class, he doesn't show up. And all he does is watch the deen show. Show. So I said
hunger law. You know, I'm gonna come on the deen show, just so my father in law can benefit. Thank
		

			you very much. No problem made this evening. Thank you, thank you, may this be a benefit to the
whole world as watch it, because you got some knowledge, and you can't be stingy with it. So we're
going to pick your brain so we can all learn and I can learn and then the whole world can learn
who's watching, it'd be my pleasure. Thank you. Muslim identity Muslim is one who has chosen to
consciously submit to the One God alone without any partners equals nothing like that. And just
identity in general, people are looking for someone something to identify with. And when you're not
identifying with the right people the right thing you're identifying with the wrong thing. So let's
		

			talk about this. Sure. ship. Okay. So human beings, I think, in order for human beings to like
cultivate life on Earth, they have this sheep, they call it sheep mentality, and people kind of make
it into a negative. But it actually it brings unity amongst people, it's like you can find common
people you get together with them. Now this hurting that happens with human beings, what we're
talking about identity, if somebody doesn't consciously come along and guide them in the right
direction, then you know, the word I would say is like shavon, or the devil, the evil one basically
becomes you know, the herder of, of these people and their and their thoughts in their minds. So
		

			leaders need to come along, guided people who pull people in the right direction. For a moment, tell
us now you said shake down the devil. Is this real? Is this something from hollywood, bollywood,
there's really satanic forces that are working, talk about this briefly before we move forward?
		

			Is there satanic force, I think, you know, there's, obviously when you have good, you just take it
to the other spectrum you have you have bad, right, you have heat, take it away, you have cold for
those people just want to understand that concept, that it might be like you have extreme good, and
then you that the good starts getting pulled away, pulled away until it becomes bad. So I mean, that
obviously we know in Islam, about shavon. And it's in the history of all the scriptures. So our
agenda here
		

			she is to help people to understand the true purpose of life, why they're here, who their Creator
is, and we're inviting them to what's good. Okay. And now, before we can even get to that a lot of
times there's confusion out there, because people are confused, like, Who am I? So again, they're
mimicking mocking the rappers the hip hop stars, the actors and actresses. So how can we get them
away from mocking people who will only lead them to destruction? And considering mocking the best of
people, which were the prophets and the last and final messengers? The best example, please talk to
us. Okay, sure. So if you look at, say, a school that has a dress code, yes. And I remember once
		

			reading a cartoon, or an in this cartoon, it was a bunch of kids from another school that didn't
have a dress code. And they were saying, haha, look at those foolish kids there. They have, you
know, a specific uniform. But the cartoon was making fun of the kids that were saying this because
they all had their hats on backwards. They all had their jeans even backwards in their shirt.
		

			And all of that stuff, in other words, that everybody is basically copying, right. And that's human
nature that we're gonna copy. Now, when you say, who becomes our role model, basically, the role
model is defined by the television, it's by the camera. So the people they get that stage are the
actors and actresses, they're the musicians, and so on and so forth. So you look at our children,
and in our generation, it's like a whole nation of people are being raised up that this is the role
model. Now, back in the olden days, if you take out television out of the picture, then who are the
role models, those are people who are actively involved in the community, people who are, you know,
		

			doing good things in the community, that's the person that they see everywhere, because you don't
see actors and actresses everywhere. You see the the leaders in the community hand, say when I was
growing up, somebody was a role model for me were like the older youth, the older boys in the
community who were doing activities in the local Masjid. And I was able to, you know, absorb from
that. But if I was to go to a Muslim kid today, and say, who's your role model?
		

			You know, it's going to be Wolverine is going to be Spider Man. It's going to be something like
that. Yeah. No, no, tell us. Why is it? Do you feel again, that when we mentioned, like, let's say,
Moses, okay, peace be upon him, Abraham, peace be upon Jesus Christ, peace, be upon peace be upon
him, the Prophet Muhammad peace be upon him. And we see we we have so much utterance and respect for
them. But now it's not cool. Like to bring them up. This is weird. But to talk about, you know, Brad
Pitt, Keanu Reeves, J. Lo, we can have a conversation. Sure, if you talk about these great men and
the legacy they left behind, I got time for that. What do you think this is? Well, I guess that's
		

			coming from, from a culture that is trying to pull away from those things, right? So obviously, here
comes these religions. They come along and in everybody's saying, you know, I'm the one following
the truth. Someone says, No, not them. Follow me, follow me. So that the names that are being thrown
out are the names that you've mentioned that people are just like throwing them out. But so the
person who's listening to that, they just don't want to hear it anymore. And so their solution is to
like, shut down. So what I would say is that, no, that's not the solution, the solution not to put
your head in the sand and shut everything out. The solution is to will search out what is the truth?
		

			There's a lot of chatter out there. There's a lot of hissing noise, but somebody needs to basically
say, Well, what was the unifying message of these prophets? And really, you know, go to a higher
ground and look at that, and you will see that they're all unified that there's no God, but Allah,
how can we get people to, to because obviously, if you're, you're hungry, you're going to eat okay?
But now, if you're not hungry, your bellies full, no matter how great that gourmet dishes dessert
is, you're not really interested. Right? Okay. So how can we get people to really, to consider this,
this proposition proposal to take this matter seriously, because the lights will go on the party
		

			will end? Sure. And you can only acquire so much wealth? How do we get them because Sharing is
caring, right? We love our brothers in humanity. And we want them to be our brothers. And you know
what, what's interesting about your question is like this person, their stomach is full, even if
it's a gourmet food, as soon as you said that, I'm thinking to myself that I actually, I disagree
that their stomach is full talk to their stomach is empty, empty, and if anything, it's the heart
that's empty, right. So a lot put something in the heart of everybody, it's like a GPS. So even the
person who wants to deny God will not deny God, they'll say, I believe in a higher being, because
		

			they can shut off their brain, they can shut off their heart, Allah is you know, like, it's, he's
beckoning them to come to him. So this person is actually starving. But they're saying that they're
full. So they go into drugs, they go into, you know, into fornication, they go into all these
different areas, but they're still empty on the inside. So when we want to come along, and this is
even for Muslims trying to pass on the message, rather than coming to this person, you know, head on
and say, Hey, follow the prophets. I say we address the problem from an angle of, you know, what's
the purpose of your life? Let's shut off this pain. And let's test something out. So for example,
		

			somebody who there is a rapper, like really intense rapper, and he became Muslim later, and he was
doing alcohol and drugs and you know, and the whole deal. And then there was a Muslim who invited
him to pray. Yeah. And he said, once his head went on the ground, the sweetness of his forehead
touching that carpet, and he's like, you know, I'm hooked. And that's what I'm talking about.
They're starving, and they're actually trying to feel themselves but it's not getting the job done.
It's like eating cotton candy. Cotton candy. Let's take a break. We'll be right back with more here
on the deen show.
		

			No Matter of fact, you get testimonies from Christians in Eastern Europe.
		

			Or thanking God for the rule of Muslims when the Ottoman Empire came unoccupied, because now we can
have tolerance and religious freedom.
		

			I declare from today, there is nothing to be worship except Allah alone. The one God, the One God
		

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			force you to convert to the religion. That is the last messenger of Allah. That's the same in
Aramaic. Jesus said, Aloha. So it's the same guy, the same guy.
		

			Back here on the dean show, talking about serious issues. You've mentioned the purpose of life, many
people, they know the purpose of their job. They know the purpose of many other things. But now the
purpose of life, the crucial question people aren't reflecting are asking this question, why do you
think this is? Okay, you know, obviously, they're not asking the question, they might be asking the
question, but they might be shutting it off, as you know. So it's like the purpose of life? I don't
know. So let me just move on. Right. But when it comes to the topic of the purpose of life, I think
everybody like, we're here for a reason. And actually, you know what? I was watching Iron Man
		

			recently. And Iron Man he gets out of, he gets out of the caves. And he said, If I'm still alive,
then there must be a reason. Yeah. And I said that that's an interesting point. And even you know,
it was it was emotional for me. I'm watching Iron Man, I'm emotional. Because if I'm still alive
here, then there's a reason for me to be here. Right? And anybody who's watching for you, for
anybody, it's like, when did you think that you had no purpose? Right? And who convinced you of
that, and who led you in that direction. So you have a purpose. And if you can accept that they're
even a pen. As simple as a pen. If it has no purpose, once the ink dries up, you throw it away, it's
		

			worthless. Now are you worthless?
		

			And you'd say no, I'm not worthless. I'm a human being. So then the the value comes from purpose.
Right? So what is the purpose? What Why are you here on earth? And handler like questions like that
where other people get confused? In Islam, we don't get confused. We actually know exactly what our
purpose is. And then that's where the peace comes from, is knowing what our purpose is now for our
not yet Muslim audience. You said to Arabic words? Sure. So they don't think we're saying some cold
words here. You said Oh, hummed a lot. You said Islam. Okay. Please define those, please. Okay, so
Islam is the religion of Islam. literally mean it comes from a root called selama, which means
		

			peace. And Islam is like a way of life a way of like peaceful life, that's Islam, to worship Allah
alone and a law meaning God alone, and to follow the message of Prophet Muhammad peace be upon him.
And the second word was 100. Allah, which is thankfulness. Right? So Alhamdulillah literally means
Thank you, God, I was actually reading a bumper sticker. It's an it's a habit that Muslims do in the
afternoon in the mornings to thank God, very specifically, I was reading a bumper bumper sticker as
I was doing this Muslim habit of thanking God saying at Hamdulillah, the bumper sticker said, Have
you thanked God today? I'm like, I'm doing it right now. We're doing it all the time.
		

			Okay, we mentioned purpose of light. Now, where does someone who's confused, they see all these
religions? Okay. And they say, you know what, it's all the same. I'm just gonna do my own thing. How
do we get them to think outside the box? And how do we get them to think serious? And how do they
differentiate was the true way of life, the way of life? God wants that person to live from all the
different manmade religions? Okay, sure. So people are confused with the different religions. And
we've all gone through this stage. Even when I was younger, I said, You know what, it's not about
Islam. It's not about this, I'm going to find the religion of truth, and actually came to the
		

			conclusion that I found it. Yeah, right. So this is what this would be my recommendation in the
middle and in the in the quicksand and mud of everybody disagreeing and yapping, and so on, I'd
recommend the person to step above that. Okay, now you've got higher principles that unify multiple
people. Now, usually people who have reached the higher principle stage, they kind of like reject
religion at that point, they're like, I'm just going to take the higher principles, but I'm saying
take the higher principles. And you'll find that those higher principles are found in Islam, right?
So for example, if people are saying, oh, worship, this idol worship, you know, this, worship that
		

			and you'd say, Well, I just want to worship God, boom, you came to a higher level, instead of
rejecting the religions. That's what the message of Islam is, worship one God alone, one God, one
God, that's it and not and that's the basis of everything in Islam. The other thing is realize that
		

			God created you. So inside of you, I was saying earlier about a GPS, your body can sense when some,
you know, there's some, you know, funny stuff going on, and the body doesn't, you know, it doesn't
accept that. So when you actually go to the Islamic laws,
		

			Your body is naturally inclined to that. So very often you'll hear Islam and then you're like, that
makes sense. You hear something else about us? None of that makes sense that makes a new year, like
the whole religions like that. Is there anything just to assuage any fears in Islam? Do you have,
like, rolling around with rats, you know, beat yourself over the head with a knife or whip? And, you
know, because people, you know, they might think these things. That's just weird. It is to us. But
what do we got to say about that? Is there anything like that in Islam? I mean, obviously, the the
the actually, the cool thing about Islam is that there's this set criteria of how to check whether
		

			something like that is authentic or not falsifications A falsification test in Islam. And a lot of
times, you know, when you have with other religions, you know, some person of authority tells you
something, and just kind of like, Okay, I got accepted, because he's a person of authority in Islam.
You don't really have that authority figure, you've got authority tests, okay? So if somebody says
something to me, he's like, Hey, man, I had a dream last night that, you know, this is the way to go
to Paradise, I'd be like, whatever, right? I'm like, let's put it through the filters. Yeah. And I
actually studied that in detail automatically. As soon as somebody starts talking, I'm like, boom,
		

			boom, here are the filters. Where did you get this from? So if you're gonna make something up, like
you made it up, then you're going to need to have proof. Right? And if you're going to,
		

			if you're going to quote somebody else, you're going to say so and so said this, right? Then you're
going to need to bring up the citation. Where did that come from? So with those two rules, what's
your proof? Or Where's your citation? Then you've got like, that's one of the basic filters right
there. So in Islam, we have the truth and is backed up with proof, of course, and we're not doing is
not blind faith. For sure. There's there's no such thing as blind faith in Islam. So how, before we
submit ourselves, did we actually, you know, even on the point of the blind faith, I would say that
even the scholars of the past, they would say that it's not even permissible for somebody to accept
		

			my opinion, unless they know the proof. Right? So the whole concept of the blind faith or even
protecting the future followers saying that, like, you have to know the proof. So here's the proof.
And a lot. Sometimes people they just drop the proof of that, like, well just take whatever you say,
but they're saying like, No, you have to know the proof. Because the authority is coming from the
proof. It's not coming from the person. So it's not where you start digging in Islam, things start
getting confused. And they're just it's a mystery man. Just Just believe, is that that's not how it
isn't absolutely not. That's amazing seriousness of taking this topic, serious death. Can we just,
		

			that is what helped me get my act together. Okay, was reflecting about death. Is this a serious
matter?
		

			You know, ultimately, you know, on the topic of death, and a lot of people try to avoid it, and so
on. You want to live your life.
		

			Purpose prepared to die. Yeah. Right. So in other words, you know, recently in my city, there was an
earthquake, when an earthquake strikes, that's not the time to start thinking about death. You know,
like, every day you wake up in the morning, you want to say to yourself, Am I prepared to die today?
Am I prepared to die today? And that's got to be like, in your mind, all that's like your life
mission is preparing to die, so that when the time of death does come along, it's like, you've been
preparing for this your whole life. Alright. And that's what life is all about. It's not about, oh,
let's live in the moment. It's like, Let's live in the moment with our hearts in the Hereafter, so
		

			that we make the right decisions in the moment. Now living life according to God's will not your
desires. Paradise is that guaranteed for an individual then, if you do all the good, that God wants
you to do, and you die in a good righteous state worshipping only the one God following his last and
final messenger, which obviously precedes all the other messengers. the glad tidings, is this, what
we're seeking paradise it is it is, but I would also add something to what you said is that human
beings, they make mistakes. Yes. Right. So we're not saying what other people of other religions
have said that you know what, as long as you accept this and that you're going to go to Paradise. We
		

			know as human beings, Islam is a natural way and a person will make mistakes. Yeah, so it's not just
a utopia or ideal or perfect person. So in Islam, the prophet peace be upon him said, a prophet
Muhammad peace be upon him said that every son of Adam, every human being makes mistakes, right? So
when I make a mistake, as I've made, you know, today, like hundreds of mistakes, just in this day,
I'm thinking myself, I'm a human being, I'm not an angel. And that's what Islam teaches me. I
actually tell you this, the story, I was at a Tony Robbins convention, yes. Right. And I was sitting
beside a Jewish man. And, and I was listening to what Tony Robbins was saying, I was getting
		

			excited. That's the big tall guy, the big tall guy. He's kind of tall like you.
		

			And, and then I was so happy. I'm like I can I can implement what this guy is saying. And my Jewish
friend was saying to me that you know what, he was feeling sad. I said, Why are you sad? He said,
because what Tony's saying is, he's like, I know that one week from now. I'm not going to be able to
keep up with that. And I said, You know what, that's the beauty of Islam because I'm not worried
about keeping up with it. Because I know
		

			As a human being, I'm going to dip and when the dip happens I just turn it back around. Right so in
Islam when a person makes a mistake to ask Allah for forgiveness, and Allah one of God's one of his
names is the off forgiving, and he loves to hear forgiveness. So I'm like, I'm a human being I made
a mistake today. Oh, love, please forgive me for this. And I know that by me asking forgiveness. I'm
actually coming closer to God. God Almighty is the most loving, the Most Merciful, the Forgiving.
We'll leave on that note for a second. We'll be right back from more on the deen show. He is born
not 60 years ago in forming Slavia today's bosnia after the Second World War. And imagine today you
		

			have one child killed too much. It's important that we realize that Islam is a gift. So we believe
that in the teachings of Jesus, what is left there is truth. And
		

			he is the result the truth has been mixed up with paganism and with nature worship. And so Islam has
given you a pure straightforward way of approaching monotheism.
		

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			my brother, your brother's Shaykh, Muhammad, Sharif, Sharif. And we're really, I'm thankful that you
are here with us and your mindset for being here. Thank you, and inshallah we can have you back
again some time. So now we're talking about we started off talking about identity. Okay, so we
define somewhat just gave people somewhat of a taste of what Islam is about. Okay. So if you push
towards identifying more with Islam,
		

			the creator way of life that he's given to us to live by? What are more of the positive outcomes
that you'll have, as opposed to identify again, with the TV stars with the rap stars, etc, etc.
Okay, perfect. Okay, so a lot of God has, he created human beings, he knows, like the master plan of
where we're all going and what brings what will bring us prosperity and what will not. So for
example, something like alcohol, as a Muslim, I don't drink alcohol. So the people that are caught
up in they're addicted in and it's causing all the harms, I'm already protected from that, because a
lot protected when it comes to, you know, the mortgage crisis in the US. As a Muslim, I'm not
		

			involved in taking or receiving interest. So because of that, I don't have a house, I didn't get
involved. So when the market collapses, I'm already saved from it, because I was never there in the
first place. Right. And so the only one who's saving me from all of this is alarm it is because I've
taken those promises, God's message, and implemented in my life. And I've been saved from these
harms. Maybe in the short term, if somebody was to say, hey, just have a glass of wine, it seems
like oh, I'm missing out or so on and so forth. But look at the long, long term effects of those
things. And you realize that Islam has protected the believers. And sometimes I'm like, with my
		

			wife, and I'll say, you know what, we really need to be thankful for this religion of Islam, because
of how many vices we've been protected from, because of Islam. Big time, big time. And we think the
Creator of the heavens and earth, for guiding us to the truth and protecting us. And tell us now for
the Muslim, that is a little nervous about his identity. So you'll say, and you'll be happy to see
the person and you want to give him the salami salaam aleikum, say How you doing? Or you say, you
know, Mohammed is that you know, is that exactly mo? What advice do you have for them? Okay, so,
when a person did have this, this criteria, I tell a person that, you know, if you're going to a
		

			park to pray, and you feel nervous, whose permission do you need? If they gave you permission? You
would feel comfortable praying something like what is it? Is it the government that you want to give
you permission to pray? Is it you know, like, a non Muslim walking by you want them to give you
permission to pray, who if they gave you permission, you would be fine. And then when they if you
identify who that person is, because even in the example that you gave, they've got a co worker,
that they've actually made like their slave master, right? And they become a slave to them. It's
like, well, I can't tell you what my real name is because slave masters so and so. And that person
		

			doesn't even know they were made this late. It's like arbitrary. They've put people in their lives
above, you know, themselves. And I would say, so when I'm going to pray and I start to feel nervous.
I say to myself, I don't need anybody's permission to pray. And nobody's my slave master. I'm a free
man, right Land of the Free home of the brave. And that's what it is Muslims need to be. You don't
need anybody's permission to pray to Allah on a duck. Now we want to talk to our sisters who we love
so much. And they also have an identity, the Muslim identity, but some of the Muslim sisters.
They're a little more scared of the environment, the people
		

			might say, so they live far away from wearing the proper identity to hijab. What advice do you have
for them? Okay, it's the same concept as well, it's,
		

			uh, we were saying earlier about kind of like the sheep mentality, we want to identify with a group
of people, when you're living in an area, in a community that's not worshipping Allah, you actually
have to go against the, that sheep reaction. And you've got to say, you know what, I'm a leader, I'm
not a sheep here. So what this sister You know, that's this, you know, the pull of the sheep the
pull of the crowd, or is she gonna pull away and identify herself, so she really does have a big
test. But here's the beautiful thing for Muslim sisters is that because at an early age, they're
like, dressing differently, they have to become stronger at such an early age. So their identity. In
		

			fact, if you take a Muslim man and a Muslim woman, a Muslim woman who's like wearing hijab, she's
usually much stronger than the man, because her identity has been, you know, brought up all these
years. And that, interestingly, is that protection, they always speak about hijab as a protection. A
lot of people don't realize that your identity is being protected, and your character and your
strength is being protected, because you're not becoming a sheep when you were that closing comments
and suggestions for those who are having identity crisis. If you have an identity crisis, I say
invoke the sheep, okay. And by that I mean that you will have a sheep meant a sheep reaction. So get
		

			with good companionship, go to your local Masjid find some good people, and and say basically, like
I want, I want you to be my shepherd, right? And I want to be in this companionship. So if you with
the group of three, four people that don't swear, and you say a swear word, they're kind of shy away
from that you'll feel bad and you'll start changing your vocabulary with a group like that. And that
would be my suggestion, getting some good companionship in the last 30 seconds. Talk to us. Talk to
them about your institute, that you're the CEO of Margaret, and how people can get involved taking
some classes to get more knowledge about Islam. Okay, sure. So a mushroom Institute, we do two
		

			weekend seminars. Right now. It's one of the biggest projects Islamic projects in North America and
in the UK, you can get more information at a democracy.org that's a lmaghrib.org. And we do cities
in about we do classes in about 30 cities across the western world. So there shouldn't be a city a
class happening near to you. We started with peace we end with peace. salaam aleikum. Wa alaykum, wa
salam, a God Almighty Allah reward you. Thank you. Thank you very much. And that was my brother and
your brother, Sheikh Mohammed Al Sharif, here on the deen show, giving us some great advice.
establish your identity, and the Creator of the heavens and earth has told you what your identity
		

			needs to be. You need to be a Muslim one who has chosen consciously, not by coercion, but has made a
rational decision that I want to do God's will. I want to do all the good that the Creator of the
heavens and earth has told me to do. And then the reward is paradise. Jenna. So do this good.
beseech him, ask him pray to Him repent to Him alone without any partners co equals no one nothing
is like God and pray to that one God, and the going gets tough. or whenever you're in distress, he
is the only one that can answer that. Call your prayers. And we'll see you next time continue to
tune in every week to the deen show. Until then, peace be unto you.
		

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			that's my point. You see I'm saying and I don't like that. I don't like us sitting here. What are
you waiting for? What are you waiting for right now? What are you waiting for all these people?
		

			With the company, what are you waiting for? What are we waiting for right now? When they're gonna
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