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The importance of pursuing a step of Islam, including the Shahada, is emphasized in pursuing a step of praying for the creator. The concept of Islam is a submission of God, not a worship, and polytheism is the combination of actions and actions. Prayer is the most important manifestation of this relationship, and it is crucial to not losing faith during prayer. Visitation is key to achieving happiness and happiness by quantity, and sharing one's religion is crucial to avoiding confusion and feeling anxiety.

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			One can never be too cautious.
		
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			Hey, man, I'm really sorry. Can I get you another drink? Hey, man, you just got it over my pants in
my shoes, man. Man, I'm real sorry. Let me get you another cup, man. I don't want to cook.
		
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			Man, I'm sorry, I don't want any problems. I'm gonna get out of here. Okay.
		
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			We're gonna go, man, please get your hands off me. What you're gonna do about this Villa de la
Assalamualaikum. What does that mean? Peace be unto you, you will not find a group of people who are
more inclined towards peace, peace with their greater peace with themselves, peace with their
surroundings, than those who follow that way. That way of all the messages of God, that way of
submitting and surrendering yourself to the creator and not his creation. Now we're going to be
talking about a very important topic like we always do.
		
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			When somebody takes that first step, and they acknowledge that there is a Supreme Lord, a sovereign
God that is ruling this universe, the creator, and now they want to serve Him, they want to
prostrate to him, they want to worship Him alone. They take that necessary step, which is the
Shahada, that first step. Many of us have come into this way of life consciously. But now what
happens from here? What do you do from here? My next guest is going to help us tackle this topic.
When we come back, my good friend shake yasir cardi here on the D show, we'll be right back.
		
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			Messenger.
		
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			Jesus was his messenger.
		
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			know why I did that. Maybe, maybe it's just to break the ice. I said, I'll let go logical was said I
want it was a lie. What? What do we just say? We just said May peace be unto you. We have a lot of
non Muslims who are watching the show. Every Wednesday here in Chicago, if you're in Chicago, they
catch us at 12 midnight, and those who aren't staying up that late and following day 2pm Mashallah.
They get to learn about what we just said, these little greetings. And the most important thing is
the way of life that we're trying to present to all of mankind, which is that way of all the
messengers, Islam.
		
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			People who are coming to this beautiful way of life, the fastest growing way of life in the world
today. But now they need some encouragement. What is the first step defining when somebody enters
Islam they declare they make the declaration that there's no deity worthy of worship, except the
Creator of the heavens, enter and Muhammad peace be upon him is the last in front of messenger
accepting Jesus, Moses, Abraham, and all the other messages that preceded him? What do they do from
here? Let's spend a minute talking about what this word what this phrase means. And then let's go on
to the most important thing after that, the prayer, the establishment, the prayer, okay. Well,
		
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			one of the beautiful things about our religion of Islam is the emphasis on direct ritual and prayer
to God directly. There is no intermediary, there are no superstitious rituals, no strange
incantations, it's very simple and very clear. If a person wants to accept Islam, they don't need to
go to a church or a mosque or a synagogue, they can do so in the privacy of their houses, even
though of course, it's encouraged to publicize the conversion. But the actual conversion is a
declaration before you and God is a declaration. For from the one basically, in front of the one who
created you, you simply testify and you acknowledge that this creator is the only being an entity
		
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			that is worthy of worship and veneration. It's that simple. And of course, that testimony in Arabic
is called the Shahada, which basically translates as testimony the very Shahada means it's a
testimony, I am testifying, I am bearing witness, I am certain that there is no god that is worthy
of my worship other than the one true God. And in Arabic, we call that God, Allah, the Allah only
means the true God. That's the meaning of Allah is the God that is worthy of worship. So this
testimony, basically singles out that one entity for worship. And then we also testify that God has
sent prophets and messengers, and that final prophet and messenger is our Prophet Mohammed, may
		
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			God's peace and blessings be upon all the prophets. So after this testimony of faith, a person is a
Muslim, whether he did so in front of a million people, 10 people or no person if he disowned the
privacy of his house, if he testified, I bear witness that there is no god other than that one true
God Allah, and that God has sent prophets and messengers in the final prophet and messenger is the
Prophet Mohammed may God's peace and blessings be upon all of them. That is what makes them Muslim
and Muslim. Now is Islam a new religion?
		
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			brought by Muhammad. Islam is the primordial religion it is the original religion, and the meaning
of Islam is submission. So it might have been manifested in slightly different ways in terms of
practice, in terms of prohibitions in terms of what you can or can't eat, or how you dress or what
you are. But the basic teachings and what we call theology, ie the belief in God, that does not
change. So all the prophets came with the very same message. And that message was quite simple
worship God, don't take any partners along with him. That is the gist of Islam. And that just has
remained constant, it is eternal, even before God created man, the same concepts were there. And
		
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			that is that only he is worthy of worship. And even after there are no men on Earth, those concepts
will remain. So in that sense, Islam has been permanent, however, every prophet comes. And those
prophets bring slightly different laws, the theology is the same, but laws can change from profit to
profit. And this is God takes circumstances and conditions and time and place into account. And so
we do believe that profits have come with slight variations in law, but not in theology. And so in
that sense, Islam is slightly different from profit to profit, but that's only in legal sense, not
in the theoretical or in the theological sense. Okay, before we go on to that next pillar, is the
		
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			establishment of the prayer. We want to just talk about this a little bit more was prevalent in the
world today is that people, they say, Okay, yeah, I believe in God, I believe in the crater. But
then you mentioned something about a partner. What do you mean, that you don't want to put that is
probably the most, that's the unforgivable sin that if you die, if you put a partner next to God,
like what we see people praying through Jesus, for instance, what do we got to say about this? Well,
from the Muslims perspective, there is only one God, and there are no partners, no entities that are
worthy of any type of veneration or worship other than that true God. So Jesus Christ is a messenger
		
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			of God. All of the prophets are messengers, that God has sent. And these prophets, they might be the
best human beings, but they don't in personify God Himself. There is no element of divinity within
them. So we believe that the greatest sin, any human being can do is to deny this fact that only God
is worthy of worship. And in fact, this is biblical teachings as well. The very first commandment
is, you shall take no God other than the true God. This is the first biblical commandment as well,
that you cannot worship any other God. And it is the same in our religion as well. The greatest sin,
which is a greater sin than any sin, you can do it to a human being is to transgress against God
		
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			Himself, and to say to God, basically inaction if not in speech, that you're not worthy of worship,
this dead person is worthy of worship, or this idol is worthy of worship, I'm going to dedicate the
most precious thing that I have, and that is my my humility, my humbleness, my sacrifice my prayer,
I'm going to dedicate that to an entity that doesn't deserve it. And I'm going to worship a being
that you have created. This is an insult and an affront to God. And that is why God has said he will
not forgive the sin. Anybody who does so knowing that there's one true God, and he dedicates his
life to another god, even if he believes in the true God, but his worship is dedicated to another
		
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			God, then this is what we call an in Arabic ship, which means associating partners with God. And
that's the type of polytheism now, problem comes, when you say the word polytheism. In the English
language, the only thing that comes to mind is idol worship. Yeah, that's the only thing that comes
to mind. But it's, it's deeper than that. You don't have to have an idol to commit polytheism you
can of course, you know, have an island and be a polytheistic. But you can be polytheistic without
an island as well. If you pray to a saint, if you pray to a dead person, if you prostrate out of
respect and humility and worship, to another created object, if you sacrifice trying to please like
		
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			these pagan sacrifices, ritual sacrifices, now we don't have human sacrifices in our religion, but
we do sacrifice animals right we we kill animals. Now when we kill an animal, we're allowed to kill
an animal because God has told us so when we kill an animal, we ritually sacrifice a cow or a sheep
to eat it, we have to mention the name of the Creator who created that animal because that's the
creator that give us that right to take that animal's life. Now, if a person mentioned another god
person mentioned another entity, that is dedicating a ritual to other than God and that is
polytheism. So let me define polytheism polytheism is to give the rights of a lot to other than a
		
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			lot to give the rights of God to other than God, anything that is due to God if you give it to other
than God, you are being polytheistic gotcha. Now you mentioned blood and you mentioned sacrifice
just to emphasize this point now that blood God doesn't it because some people feel that okay, God
sent His Son to die for the sins that were that blood sacrifice that animal is for now what for the
poor. Yeah, this is a very, very different concept from Islam compared to other religions. Yeah.
		
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			many religions have this concept that you do need to sacrifice blood in order to appease God. The
Quran very clearly says the verse in the Quran that clearly says, the blood and the meat does not
reach God. God doesn't need this blood and the meat rather what reaches God is your piety. Yeah, is
your dedication. Now one of the ways to show dedication, especially more in the past, is to show
that this animal, you will sacrifice it for the sake of God, meaning what does it mean in our
religion, it means you dedicate that meat to the poor to the poor, that's what it means. Now you've
got no hunger you don't eat.
		
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			What you've done is you've shown that you're willing to spend money to take something very precious,
whether it's a cow, or a sheep, or a goat, and to use that money for people who need it. And that's
the poor. That's what God likes. God doesn't need the blood and the meat, God wants to see your
piety, that piety is shown by mentioning his name, and thanking Him, and then distributing that meat
to the poor. And that is what we do every year, on the day of sacrifices called, you would have had
the great the grandest festival of the Muslims is on that day of sacrifice. And we're supposed to
sacrifice an animal mentioned in God's name. And we're supposed to give at least a portion of the
		
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			meat that we were allowed to eat a little bit, but it gives supposed to give a portion of the meat
to those who need it. That is what sacrifice entails in our religion, what you just said, I'm sure
the truth seeker, the one who's really using his mind and the good old common sense that God has
given all of us, I just, it just makes sense. You don't have to jump through hoops through a bunch
of mental gymnastics to make it fit. So anybody who believes this, and he testifies to it, with his
lips, and then his actions, that's what we want to go to now the action, the prayer, you have many
people who have submitted to this first step. But now, how do we encourage them because I've seen
		
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			some people martial law, all thanks to the created that they've come along quickly. Some people,
it's been a few years, they still have not established the five daily prayers, talk to us. You know,
that is definitely a major problem that we are facing in our times, and that is Muslims believe in
Islam. But unfortunately, many of them don't really follow its injunctions fully. And one of the
most, in fact, the fact of the matter, the most important injunction after the testimony of faith,
is the prayer. And the reason is very simple. And that is because the prayer is what shows you're
constantly thinking and worshiping and thanking God. And that is why the prayer is a daily routine,
		
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			it's at specified intervals are five specific intervals, that we're supposed to just stop
everything. And the beauty of it, it's not an exact time at 1202, we have to stop no is always
arrange between, let's say 1230 to 230, depending on the time of the year, where there's different
timings. But there's 234 or five hours arrange. Within those hours, we're expected to stop what
we're doing, go into a corner into a room into a mosque, it doesn't matter anywhere the whole world
you can pray, you can pray in the park, and you just spent 234 minutes dedicated to a love to God.
And that basically shows you're consistently thinking about God, you're consistently remembering
		
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			that I am a Muslim, and need to pray. And the prayer is there's no doubt it is the most important
principle of our religion after this testimony of faith. And that is what occurs in the very first
verse in the Quran. That those who established the prayer the very first chapter of the Quran
praises those who established the person with a bucket I mean, after introduction and our Prophet
peace be upon him the very last phrases that he said before he died, is I caution you about
abandoning the prayer, make sure you guarded the prayer. Those were the last words before he died,
that he wanted us to remember. So really, the prayer is a sign of your faith. Now you see this is a
		
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			key point here. Yeah, the word faith. When you say it in English, primarily, the first thing that
comes to mind is what you believe theory. Yeah, it's intellectual. In Islam, it's not just
intellectual. Faith is followed up by actions, yes, because the actions prove the faith exists. And
that's we know this in real life. When you love a person, you will give what you want what that
person wants, you will sacrifice to please that person, you will give up your time, your effort. You
know, we're all married men here. We love our wives. We love our kids. you dedicate most of your day
to taking care of their needs. Yeah, you sacrifice most of your paycheck for their needs. That's
		
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			what you call love. Now, if you didn't, if there's a person who, you know, God forbid, was a bad
person, and he didn't take care of his wife, he didn't take care of his kids. Doesn't matter what he
says he does not love them. It's that simple, right? actions speak louder than words. We all know
that. So in Islam, there is no concept of faith being something that's hidden and theoretical. In
Islam. Faith is manifested in actions. There's no doubt that there's a theoretical element. I
believe in God, I believe I have to pray. But if I don't follow it up, and actually
		
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			Then there's a problem, isn't there? Yeah. So that action proves the true faith. And that is why the
primary manifestation of faith in the life of the Muslim, the primary, not even this is the primary
manifestation is the fact that he prayed he's praying five times a day. How can a person get to
because when you see, and you talk to individuals, and I've had the experience, from talking to
certain individuals, they're having issues problems, the first question I asked usually is, are you
establishing the prayer, and if a person isn't,
		
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			I usually see that there's a problem here. Because if you're not establishing the prayer, you're not
connected with the creator from above so but on the other end, you'll see the same individual
reading tons of books on how to be a successful businessman, all worldly things, but they can't
fathom they can't imagine the idea that okay, me praying five times a day is going to bring me this,
you know, peace and serenity. And how do we deal with this? How do we tackle this?
		
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			In fact, when a person establishes a relationship with God, when a person is constantly thinking
about God, two things happen. Firstly, there's the issue of God Himself, blessing that person,
there's an undeniable fact, if you are a good person, God will give you blessings generally, by and
large, those who are righteous and good people, they live better lives in terms of quality, not
necessarily quantity, yeah, you know, but in terms of enjoying their lives, right. And the second
issue is, regardless of material, what you have what you know, what you don't have, internally, you
feel a sense of peace, you feel a sense of, of comfort, knowing that there's a God who cares about
		
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			you, and who loves you, and who will bless you, if none of this wasn't the hereafter. So there's two
elements, there's an external element, and there's an internal element, and prayer and relationship
with God, overall, even broader than prayer is the relationship with God. Prayer is, of course, the
most important manifestation of that relationship. You can't have a relationship with God and not
pray. It's that simple, right? Yeah, you can claim it as much as you want. If you don't pray as a
Muslim, you don't have a relationship with God. So having a relationship with God, and in
particular, the prayer, what it does is it brings you a coolness of the heart, the comfort of the
		
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			heart, makes you feel peace, at peace, because you are doing what you're supposed to do, which is
worship of God. And along with that, it brings about God's blessings as well. God will send upon you
and shower upon you, His mercy and His blessings, which is far more important than money or other
material possessions. And you will start enjoying the quality of life, even if you don't have the
quantity that other people have. And that's one of the biggest problems is that we judge happiness
by quantity. No, it's by quality. And that is why our beloved Prophet, so the law has said mpsp,
Barnum, he said, the Truly Rich person is not the one who has lots of goods. It's the one who's
		
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			content in what he has, means he enjoys what God has given him, and he loves the quality of life.
He's content with what he has, and he enjoys it. So if you have 1000 10,000 a million, and you enjoy
that amount, and you have that, that that quality, that is what will make you happy. Otherwise, if
you're always greedy for more, the millionaire wants to become the billionaire, the billionaire
wants to become the multi billionaire, always greedy for more and more and more, that's not going to
bring happiness, quality versus quantity. relationship with God will give you the quality, not as
that come and fall back on what we said that first pillar that now Okay, I'm not worshiping Jesus,
		
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			I'm not worshiping saints are going through saints, okay, I'm not doing any of that. But the call
for prayer comes, and I can't get away from the TV, or the music or this or that something worldly,
and this is becomes an annoyance. Now, we're gonna say about this. That's definitely a problem.
That's definitely a problem. There's a verse in the Quran that clearly describes the believers as
those who their houses, their families, their, their, their livelihood, their businesses, do not
prevent them from worshipping God and establishing the prayer. They don't prevent them. Because if
they do prevent, then there's another verse in the Quran, whoever false sway to the desires of this
		
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			world, at the expense of the Hereafter, that's the real loser. Because you've lost this world when
you die and you've lost the hereafter after you're dead. The real loser according to the Quran,
you've lost this world and the next one, you dedicate it to this world, because when you die, what's
going to happen? All of the goods that you have are out of your hand doesn't matter how much you've
amassed, you can't. You can't take it with the big all the billions, millions 1000s your own the
people who bury you, they're going to be the ones fighting over it. The ones who supposedly love you
the most, within the day that you die, they're going to be almost fist physicals and fight over your
		
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			millions and billions. That's the reality of life that we see around us. Now. Someone also okay,
they come and they've been speaking the English language, all their life and now they got to learn
all this Arabic and they feel like okay, this is overbearing, how am I going to memorize all these
new terms and terminologies to establish the prayer? They find it difficult? Yeah, that's a very
good point. That's a very good point.
		
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			A number of things can be said here, first and foremost, the immediate convert the person who
converts to Islam. You know, suppose somebody converts today. So there's no doubt that you cannot
memorize so much in five seconds or five minutes. Next time the prayer comes along maybe two hours
from now, you're not expected to have all of this memorized, you're allowed for an interim until you
memorize, you're allowed to make do with translation, make do with holding a paper and reading from
it make do with saying, you know, Praise be to God and just doing what you can for that particular
day or two, until you memorize the first chapter, which is so that if I had to have you memorize the
		
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			key phrases, and these should not take more than a day or two, just to memorize the key phrases,
right? So go to any Muslim friend, any mosque, and they'll teach you these key phrases. So within a
few days, you should have enough to basically have the prayer done. And slowly but surely, you'll
memorize more and more. So that's the first point, take it easy, and realize you don't have to start
memorizing the entire Quran. You know today to start your prayer, it'll take a day or two. In that
Meantime, start learning how to pray start learning the moves, start learning various phrases. The
second point I want to say the power of the Quran is really really unimaginable because the Quran is
		
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			the actual speech of God. So do not underestimate your capacity to memorize the Quran. You will see
for yourself that after you read it a few times, it's gonna stick in your head, because it's got I
don't wanna use the word magical qualities and I say divine qualities. Yes, because it's divine. It
is divine, that the Koran is the actual speech that God spoke Yeah, therefore, and you will notice
this when you hear the Quran I challenge you right now when you're if you're watching this online,
you know, go to a website, YouTube type in Quran recitation, and listen to the Quran in proper
Arabic, you won't understand a word, but it will have an impact on you that you have never
		
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			experienced in your life ticket take the challenge right now. And that is a proof that this is
something that is divine. So do not underestimate your own capacity to memorize this foreign strange
language in Arabic. It will be easy for you because this is the speech Oh my God and your God. So
they don't have to have a whole chapter memorized right away they can do like you said the phrases
start the movement. Yeah, the first day or two of course, they're not expected to memorize suit of
the fact that how would they convert You know? So as a fighter how's the first sutra and it is an
essential requirement of the prayer? Yeah, it's only seven lines that's it seven lines at one
		
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			paragraph. That's it. So you know the first time a person becomes a Muslim suppose he converted at
10am Yeah, then boy is gonna come to the first prayer in three four hours. He's not expected to
memorize that so either he just says you know, Praise be to God or you know, All Glory be to God or
he memorizes the English you know, for that time, or he holds up the Arabic transliteration Yeah,
holds it up in there. So the point being, there is no difficulty in the religion. It's easy for you
until you memorize and when you memorize then slowly but surely keep on adding a few more chapters
as you go along and things will be easy after that. So take it one step at a take one step at a time
		
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			just like you took all them steps to finish it got a PhD? Exactly. Whatever GED you took some
whatever happened you add to it. You have to start from somewhere. Didn't you have the famous saying
of Confucius of a journey of 1000 miles begins with one's desktop. That's the way you have to do it.
Yeah. Now Okay, a few more points before we come to a close with my special friend yasir. Qadhi,
tell us now, knowledge is key. You need knowledge back to what action? Again, you can read a ton of
books on one side when it comes down here to learn about your Creator. How do we get people more
focused on the other side balancing it out, you don't have to obviously leave off this other good
		
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			knowledge on how to become the best whatever, scientist, doctor, lawyer, Lloyd, etc. But we want
people to be more enthusiastic about seeking knowledge and the rewards of it. Yeah, this is a very
important point and knowledge has always been associated with our religion of Islam. From day one,
the very first revelation that came down was to recite and to read. And this recitation came down
upon a group of people who were absolutely illiterate. The Arabs did not even have a sophisticated
writing system that a very rudimentary system and the first revelation that comes upon an unlettered
illiterate community, even our Prophet Mohammed Salah Sam could not read or write. And the first
		
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			commandment is to recite and to read and to basically get some knowledge. That's the first
commandment. And it was because of that, that our, the people of our religion, the Muslims, they
took this commandment, and they reached pinnacles that no other civilization ever reached before
them in every single science because they were curious, whether it's Religious Science or secular
science. Unfortunately, that spirit is very much destroyed in our times. And people just don't have
that enthusiasm that they do, even though it is a part of our religion to have that enthusiasm. And
all I can say is, being ignorant is something nobody likes. Nobody likes to be ignorant It is, it is
		
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			an insult to be called ignorant. Why would you want to have this adjective describing you and the
religion? Don't be ignorant of your religion is the most important science in the world. Why?
		
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			Will you created? Why are you here? What are you doing with your life? What are you going to do
after you die? What's going to happen after you're dead? These are fundamental questions that every
human being has to think about and has to rationalize it and come to a conclusion. And these days,
it's so easy to find out what our religion to other religions say, These days, you just find out on
the internet, go to the local library and get it straight from, from the people like with a horse's
mouth, get it from the people who believe get it from the proper sources, and simply read some
articles, listen, some lectures, do some some research. And within the span of a few hours, you will
		
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			educate yourself about the basic belief of Muslims that basically call of God to hear after the Day
of Judgment, it is essential, even just as a as an as an rational human being, that you understand
what other people say and what other people believe in. And that's the first step to familiarize and
to, to reach out into, you know, form neighborly connections to basically like you start off with
the peace on earth. That's how we're gonna have peace on earth is to understand and to, to
sympathize and empathize with what we all believe. Thank you very much for being with us again.
Pleasure. Good friend. Shake. Yes. accardi and we hope to see you back again on the deen show is God
		
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			Almighty Allah reward you for all your efforts and work. And thank you for coming back every week to
see us here on the dean show. You don't know if you're going to live till tomorrow.
		
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			You have to find that urgency to do the right thing right now. Get connected with your Lord, get
connected with the one who gives you the air to breathe, do the good that he's told you to do. And
there's nothing less than paradise. That is what we're trying to achieve. And we'll see you back
here next week. Every Wednesday Midnight's Thursdays 2pm. If you're here in Chicago, if you're not
you can catch us at the deen show comm where we have all of our shows there for free. We'll see you
next time. In Sharla. Salt Lake and peace be unto you.
		
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			One can never be too cautious.
		
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			Hey, man, I'm really sorry. I get you another drink. Hey, man, you just got it all over my pants in
my shoes, man. Man. I'm real sorry, man. Let me get you another cup. Man. I don't want to cook a
watch with you walking.
		
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			Man. I'm sorry. I don't want any problems. I'm gonna get out of here. Okay.
		
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			We're gonna go, man. Please get your hands off me.
		
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			One can never be too cautious.
		
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			Hey, man, Where'd you learn that? I just said the Gracie Baja. You got time I'll show you Come on.
		
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			Remember these techniques is only for life threatening situations. Self Defense. Okay, come on.
		
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			Let's see what everyone's talking about.
		
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			You find one contradiction, it can't be from God.
		
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			But the rational idea, the rational explanation is you do your best to give up for spring guidance.
I will never give up spreading this message.
		
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			The reality of life usually doesn't sink in. Until tragedy comes.
		
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			You get a few bad people. The media grabs ahold of them and spins up the way they want to
		
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			believe in Jesus, you have stepped outside of Islam, you cannot be a Muslim is attended our phase
two.
		
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			Guys, let's look at the technique that we applied earlier. We call it a shoulder lock. It's gonna be
where the aggressor is going to place his arm onto my shoulder. Okay, there's two variations of this
self defense technique. One is if just like so the guy grabbed you by the shoulder, but you notice
the elbows bent or loose. The second variation is going to be aware that he has my shoulder but his
arm is stiff. Okay, this is going to be another variation. We will not cover today the one that
we're going over his shoulder grab bent arm. Okay, so how does he's going to place his hand on my
shoulder. Now, I'm going to use the same side that he's controlling. I'm going to use that arm to
		
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			come up and above his elbow.
		
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			I come up and as soon as I get to this point, now I'm using his grip against him. Okay, his grip,
his wrist is secured tightly under my armpit. I'm going to go palm to palm and now making sure that
his wrist is secure under my armpit. I'm going to start to raise his elbow up applying the pressure
onto his shoulder. Okay.
		
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			Let's take a look at that one more time. Same study the taxman comes up and over the shoulder. At
this point, I have to really focus on making his grip tight under my armpit. If the grip is
		
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			He's just going to pull his arm out. Okay, which gets rid of the grip that can be another way of
just disengaging, but we're going to try and take advantage of the situation, okay? It comes up,
		
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			come under the elbow and go palm to palm, I secure his grip, and now I start to raise elevate the
elbow up, as I raised the elbow up, elbow up tracking his wrist. That's where he starts to feel the
pressure on the ligaments of his shoulder. Okay. And we saw one example of how to defuse the
situation with jujitsu. The beautiful thing about jujitsu is that you don't need to hurt, okay,
punish the guy to defuse the situation. If I decided earlier to punch or to kick, the aggressor, I'm
not defusing the situation. I'm just increasing the chances of that becoming an extreme situation a
big headache. Okay, one more time.
		
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			Over and now I have the option. Maybe he's not in the best situation to now be an aggressor. I have
him at my mercy at the moment. I can talk to him I can defuse the situation. God forbid if I need to
really defend my life. There is the possibility of putting the pressure on the shoulder to do some
real damage but it should not come to that. Okay. We can talk the fuse and I feel that I'm the
situation is diffused I can let it go and situations done without harming the aggressor. That's it
for today's episode of the self defense workshop. Until next time, guys, be safe.
		
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			eats comb, eat lay. Everybody sleep
		
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			and enjoy ask a lot of thinking may own law you see, oh law you know, all the sins I do. A turn to
you to forgive my sins and ma
		
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			yo
		
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			runs away. Ola guide me