Yusha Evans – I’m so tired of this – Come find out what I mean
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The COVID-19 pandemic has caused negative experiences for many people, including mental health and privacy concerns. The success of finding one's own success and finding a friend in the Muslim culture is emphasized. The importance of avoiding criticized behavior and staying true to oneself is emphasized. The success of their YouTube channel and potential for their YouTube channel to become a "weird guy" in the future is also discussed. The speaker emphasizes the importance of staying true to one's social media presence, maintaining healthy lifestyles, and creating an open environment for guests to feel accepted and connected.
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Assalamu alaykum Warahmatullahi Wabarakatuh who welcome to the stream brothers and sisters how are you? Oh that lights a little bit lights a little bit dim let me fix that
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How is everyone welcome to the stream welcome to the stream Who am I missing in the chat here we got lipstick Santa Monica welcome to the stream bright in bright and early Masha Allah luncheon night but always happy to have you Frank Franklin halaal film Salaam Alaikum. Tessa said I want to come handle films I'm all good. We're also live on Instagram at the moment everybody is checking us out on Instagram. Salam aleikum. How are you guys doing? Hope you guys are well. I decided to pop up a quick Instagram Live as well. Because I haven't done it forever. Hakima months and I'm going to come how are you doing my brother? How's everything Oh, let me change these headphones out.
Already no good and well this these headphones are gonna die in the next 10 minutes. So let me get rid of it
I hope everyone is well. I myself and
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little bit down there's gonna be some coughing and wheezing and sneezing possibly on the stream today. Whatever. Whatever I picked up in London. I brought it straight back with me.
But I am the Rila we are here and we are well and I'm been taking a lot of a lot of supplements some black seed. Right now I'm drinking some. honey, lemon, ginger, black seed. water all day long. A bit sad. Alikum Rihanna Hassan. mahabang, bro. Well, daughter, salaam alaikum. Robison, I'm like I'm Sally shara, Salaam Alaikum
they get the pain you're looking for in the fit scenario. Mashallah. Mila bless you.
Boy,
is rough one being a little bit down. But I'm quickly going to get into it today in sha Allah. Cuz I can't guarantee you today's stream is going to be very long. We'll try to the best of our abilities might even play some Halo towards the end. But we'll see inshallah. Yeah, ice cold juice, I'm finally home.
And we'll see as a sudden remedy if I've seen one. Yeah. And we'll see.
We'll see how long the voice lasts.
Because
also, we're doing therapy sessions all day long. If you have not booked us session yet. And you have some things that you want to talk about and you have some things you want to get off your chest and you have some trauma that you you know, feel like you need to deal with. And, you know, you own some questions about where you're going in life and things aren't going the way you want them to go. And you've been through some bumps and ups and downs and hearts, hardships and heartaches and heartbreaks and you want to talk about it, then hit me up.
Then hit me up at you Chevron's [email protected] You Chevron's coaching.com and book your session. sessions have been filling up fast Subhanallah it's crazy to see the amount of people coming and you know what people are going through May Allah grant them ease. Thank you very much how to come came on a man.
You know, these sessions I haven't even promoted them very heavily yet, but we have tons of people coming in. It's in, you know, people, people just want somebody to talk to people have issues and they need help and they want someone to listen to.
So I've been doing sessions all morning this morning.
talking nonstop and then we're going to do the stream that got sessions all the way to six o'clock this evening. And then tomorrow we have sessions completely all day long, as well as Wednesday. So you know, we'll see how long the voice lasts but we'll push it for as long as we can push it that's one thing that I am is that whenever I decide to do something I'm all in you know I'm all in I'm not a person who likes to do things halfway I can't I can't wrap my head around taking time and effort and energy to do something halfway. If we do something
we go all in we go all in
so I'll go as long as my my voice last insha Allah Masha Allah Anna see but yeah, we'll go as long as the voice last. We have currently 70 People with us on IG Live, which you guys will come over to YouTube. We don't have to double team this all the time. But Masha Allah we have 30 members watching on YouTube May Allah bless you guys if you guys can become a member on YouTube and help brother out and be more be here more than I appreciate that click on that pin link
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then then may Allah bless you I see you always see your support them for FC support you've done in the past few days. Shafi Can I play Warzone to you at some point we're not talking about war zone right now but yeah, at some point you can play Warzone with me bro. Just add me just type in Activision. here here's all my things
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ship up mall right up there for you. Every other Instagram if I miss your question, just shoot it, keep keep keep putting it because I only get to see like three, four before it's gone out of the screen.
See what we get, when I don't see things doing half I can't do anything halfway. If I'm going to put my mind and an effort and energy into something, I'm going to give it 100%
I'm going to give it 100% We're sick, we keep going, we're tired, we keep going you know and you don't feel like it, you keep going. This is what we do. You got to tell yourself if you're after something and you're passionate about something, then you have to wake up in the morning. And you know, as soon as your alarm goes off, it goes off in the morning if you're tired, if you're not feeling it if you know there's so many excuses, you can always come up with an excuse to not get up and get at it. But you just have to tell yourself this is what we do now. That's it that that that is that is the model that you keep having to respond to yourself and say when you wake up in the
morning this is what we do now. This is what we do now.
We get up at this time and we and we get at it and we get at it with 110% That is that is that is the legacy I'm trying to leave for my children so they can see that work ethic in their father that when it's time to get up he gets up if he's not feeling well he gets up I mean there's we always learn to take time for ourselves if you're if you're too unwell like this whole weekend I did not get out of bed I was in you know either in the bed or in my office trying to stay stay you know stay moving around and or I was laying on the couch I laid on the couch last night and watch the bills and chiefs football game the divisional playoff game man that game that was a very good game even
though I was feeling like absolute
dog water I was feeling like absolute doo doo. I watched that game and it was a very very good game went down to the wire if and if you watch the bills chiefs game last night you'll know
but that's the legacy I want to leave is that you know I if I put my mind to something I go after and if I fail at something if I fail at something it's not because I didn't put an effort mo use if I didn't you come to Greenland last year for your ship in the UK. I didn't go to Birmingham that's why
you know, if I fail at something, I want to make sure that it's not because I didn't put the effort in
if I didn't
if I fail at something, it's because not going to be because I didn't put the effort in that's one thing that I want to make sure of myself is that if something doesn't work that I try if I have a project that doesn't work, I sure as * don't want it to be to be because I didn't put the work in. So we get up and we put the work in sha Allah to Allah
I'll answer some questions here in a moment because we don't even think we're gonna play game two there's gonna be just just just kicking it
so if you if you if you see a quote if you if if I miss your question by the time I've come around to it, then forgive me
the title of my YouTube stream today what did I make the title of it? I'm tired of this and come click the Find out why it was a bit click Beatty, but I'm dead serious.
Stupid interview. Thank you much for the badge.
So I'm gonna keep drinking this. This is a good remedy if you're not feeling well.
Water, lemon, honey, black seed ginger, put it in some water and drink it throughout the day.
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and I talked about that, yeah, I came will is the most important thing. And I talked about that. And I put that on my clip on my Instagram a couple of days ago, you know that that the war, the war that you have to worry about in your life. And that's not what I'm talking about. I'm tired of this, we'll get to that in just Just a minute. Just Just stay right there
is that the word you have to worry about winning, is the war in your brain is the war in your head, the war in your mind, that is the biggest battlefield you're ever going to face in your life is having to overcome your own doubts. Having to overcome your own worries, your own stresses, your own doubts, your own
your own hypocrisy, you know,
that's, that's where the biggest biggest struggles of your life are going to take place. And if you lose those, you lose everything you lose the will even to keep going. But if you can win that battle, if you can overcome that darkness, if you can overcome the stress, if you can overcome the anxiety, if you can overcome the self doubt, if you can overcome the grief, if you can overcome the sadness, if you can overcome that, that fear and apprehension of of going after something, or if you can overcome the laziness, if you can overcome all of that, you can win
this this this this battle of life, you can win this battle of faith, you can, you can realistically win. Because you will have the tools that will take the obstacles will be something that shuts you down, you will overcome them you will see up obstacles as opportunities, you'll see fail uses lessons, you'll see difficulty as, as a stepping stone to the next plateau, you'll see things completely different in perception is so important. So, perception is, is is is so important to every aspect of your life. I mean, you can
you can face situations and either fail them or be successful at them completely based on your perception of the situation and the way you look at it and the mentality that you have. So winning that war within your head. That is going to be your every day battle and you're going to have to do battle there, you're going to have to strap up, you're going to have to suit up, you're going to have to boot up and you're going to have to get at it. That's just the only way.
The only way you're going to get through that is you're going to have to suit up and boot up and put into work after Thank you very much for the badge you only lose the war in your head when you give up Red Robin 100% about 100% We don't do Twitch anymore Twitch is done I'm the only way you will see bro usual back on Twitch is if YouTube bans me which I'm that's why I have not deleted my twitch because you can get banned from anywhere today for any reason. That is the other strangeness of the world that we live in today.
But there's no real secret pill there's no there's no secret formula for being successful other than putting in work that you're not going to want to put in. Nobody wakes up every morning. No I mean, excuse me, nobody even successful people don't wake up in the morning and say, Wow,
amazing I get to go work mind behind to the bone today I'm going to be dead tired, I'm going to be hurting, I'm going to be struggling. But men this is amazing. People might try to make themselves say that but nobody thinks that man come on seriously. All of us would love to be able to just get up and live a life of leisure and chill and hang around and do nothing
you know and just do whatever it is that we wanted to do. But that's not the reality for 99.8% of the people on the planet Earth. So you know it's up to you what type of attitude you get up in the morning and go at your daily grind out or whatever it is you want to become a successful at Hector Cruz another one of our members on YouTube salaam aleikum, Muslim, I'm proud of number one of our members on YouTube. So I'm going to come help as well. Thank you very much Alex for buying another badge, guys, for YouTube. I have I have some amazing member stuff that I'm working on that I'm thinking about doing just for you guys on YouTube who have become members
so just be patient with your brother and I will be announcing those as soon as I get them all panned out and figured out in sha Allah I want to make sure that those of you who subscribe as a member on YouTube and pay some of your good hard earned money to support your brother You sure in what he's trying to do over here I'm going to make sure that you are acknowledged for that I'm going to make sure that you are acknowledged for that
and then also make sure that you are rewarded for it and shot at low tide and it makes you feel like you know it's worth your your your effort that you put in
so you know that was that was that was not what I was planning to talk about we just kind of went on that tangent of you know, like winning that war within your mind because yes, I feel terrible you know, I mean like I'm sick man is sick and people get sick it's part of it and traveling all that time throughout London this and that and the other and it was cold and wet then I came back to negative 35 here got something but you still get up and you still go at you know you still got to go at it you know it's
you got to push through you know you got to learn to take time for your body when you need to and take rest and take I'm a big proponent on taking breaks when you feel like you need to but I'm also you know not going to use that as an excuse every single day and and and use it to become derelict in my duties
All right. Now how is how are you guys doing? That's what I want to know like how was it How was everyone on your screen before going on the whole rant of what I'm tired of
I'm on break with COVID Hector man may Allah bless you good I'm delay everybody's good. Good. Good. Good. Good from beautiful Colorado trucker lifestyle. Yeah, Colorado is beautiful. I've been through Colorado many times. Colorado is a very beautiful city. Michelle along with Tana
Are you a fan of the Mandalorian I was a fan of the Mandalorian yes I do like the series that Sam had a chance to drink them What am I drinking the moment this is a lemon honey black seed and ginger water
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All right. Let me talk about what I want to talk about.
Bay Area California dedicated painter Masha Allah Who Some may Allah bless you must have been proud studying, studying and studying. Gotta study a lot of projects, a lot of isolation a lot of cold aka
Yeah, that's it's unfortunate, a lot of projects a lot of cold.
Any plans to come to Belgium, I don't know. I don't know. Belgium has been one of those places. I've always
been interested to do a little bit more exploring around Belgium but who knows,
you know,
going forward you know I'm going to be having some trips I'm going to take here and there I'm done with the international travel for a while until until they removed the testing requirement to come back to the States because it's just all over the testing requirements in in totality not going to be moving going anywhere may go and then states but I'm also looking forward to being able to travel some later on.
And later on in life I just want to be able to do some traveling on my own you know I mean with the missus or whatever just traveling and seeing certain things that I places that I wanted to see that I've gone maybe even gone to before and gone to on a speaking on a speaking event and never really got a chance to see much of the place where I visited you know there's some certain places I would want to visit want to go and explore on my own. So we'll see hopefully, hopefully later on the life I'll get to the point where I'm able to do that in sha Allah
from Sweden Sam and
mashallah Sweden, in Pakistan, Bosnia, yeah, there's lots of places the borders are beautiful,
beautiful, beautiful place
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Alright.
One thing that I'm tired of, I've been tired of this for a long time, but it's just becoming more and more prevalent in the in the,
in the Muslim scene, you know, the Muslim scene.
And one of the things I've come very tired of is our
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A lot of them, I'm tired of our condescension towards one another,
and our unrealistic ideal
that everyone has to be exactly the same. There it is, in our unrealistic ideal, that everyone has to be exactly the same. And this judgmental attitude that it's either this way, or it's no way whatsoever.
For instance,
we have this ideal, especially in the online space, and in the online sphere,
that in order to be a part of the quote, unquote, Muslim scene, and Muslim community, quote, unquote,
that you must and the funny thing is, this is these this is usually coming from people or groups of people that are not like this themselves. They're not like this themselves. But
I digress. I digress. But this
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That's what I'm tired of this condescension that we find amongst the Ummah in the way that we deal with one another this, this this idea of it's either like this or it's nothing at all. Either you're like this, or we extro Kate you extricate was, I mean, yeah. Is that the word extricate you from from from this sphere in the community and this cliquish mentality that we have?
You know, this is there's this idea that floats around, and I see it. And even though I'm a person who has been on social media since day one, I see the value that it can have, if used correctly.
In the double edged sword it can be but you know, in online spaces, so I'm watching and I'm seeing the trends that I'm seeing what happens and how we do just because the nature of what I do. And it's this idea that
you must be like a shining example of the companions, which I agree we ascribe to that they are leaders we try and we put our efforts and and ideals into trying to be like the best generation we try to be like, the Prophet Muhammad Sallallahu wasallam, in following sunnah in be like, you know the companion to the best of us. But it's as if, okay, if you are not like that.
And we find some flaws and faults in you that are not like that, then you're no longer invited to the club. You're no longer in vited to the club.
It's like this level of perfection that we put upon others that we don't put upon ourselves. That drives me absolutely insane.
And the fact that we feel like we are charged with the duty
and we've been pinned like a sheriff you know, like the local if you ever watch a while a Western, you know, like the wild west they got to share for the town like we've we've become self appointed sheriff of everything we come across on the internet that we're so ready to offer unsolicited advice, unsolicited advice in the form of Naseeha unsolicited advice in the form of Naseeha.
To everyone that we come across, and
then we think that nobody is good enough to be in that little elitist group called the Muslim scene, or even worse, so in the Dow was seen this cookie cutter mentality, that you must be exactly like this. If you are a brother, you must look exactly like this. You must talk exactly like this. You must quote exactly like this. You must behave exactly like this. Or you're not part of this.
Group.
For sisters, you must same thing, look, act to walk tall, do all of these things in a certain cookie cutter fashion, or you can't be part of this whole elite group, you're not one of the beavers, you're not one of the believers.
Those people must have all collectively lost their damn minds.
And I have no qualms about saying that. If you think that is the way you're going to bring about change in our in our Oma.
If that's the way you think that you are going to cause people to become closer to the One who created them, and a more integral part of the Muslim community,
then you've lost your mind.
You've lost your mind. That's not how the world works.
People are unique, people are different. People are
not always what they seem to be, we'd love to be able to say this now. Now this is something
that irks me to my core is that we will use the excuse, I'm going to get into a few things. We're going to break some of these down section by section we're renting today when I don't feel good I rent.
Now you will see people say that use the words that we drive, you know, we we judge based on what's apparent, right. But then you have also people will tell you, everything is not how it seems to be like when they're trying to tear a another brother or another sister down.
They will say, Oh, you know, maybe they look like this online or like this. But everything is not what it seems to be
trying to trying to allude that this person might not be as good as they look like on on social media and on the internet.
Which is true. That's stupid to anybody who thinks that people are exactly who they seem to be on the internet, then then you are you are not a sane individual. Let me tell you, you, you need to really put unplug for a little while and come join the real world and touch on some grass and rocks and other things out there.
But then, on the flip side, if there is someone who does not seem to be as pious or seem to be, as you know, connected to their Creator, as other people might be, they won't use the same excuse. Well,
things are not always as they seem to be.
Do you get what I'm saying? That there might be people out there whom you would not look at and think are good people, you might not look at them and think this is somebody who gives a lot of charity, or somebody who might be connected to their Lord. And frankly, I'm a label or you know, someone who might be
doing things that are good behind closed doors or outside of the eyes of average people.
But you look at them from their outward appearance and automatically claimed they are not one of the believers.
It's just stupid. This is really stupid. You know,
this whole cliquish mentality that we have created in the Muslim community is going to be our undoing. At some point, if we don't learn to wake up a little bit, is
we are responsible, let me tell you who you're responsible for. And then we'll talk about how it's disguised as as Naseeha.
Do you know who you're responsible for in this life, you're responsible for you? You, you're responsible for you. That's the person that you're responsible for. The person that was created with you, the person who will die is you and go into the ground by yourself and be judged. So you're responsible for you.
Other people, other people are responsible for themselves. It's the self accounting and self awareness that we need to become way more in tune with and realizing that nobody's perfect. Everybody has the things to dealing with everybody has their flaws. Everybody has their sins. Everybody has their, you know, their, their their little bits of hypocrisy here in there that they have going on that they're struggling with. Everybody's got something. Everybody's got something I do not care who you are. I don't care who you are, you've got something.
And we need to deal with each other based on on on that understanding. You know, this, this whole judgmental sphere and attitude and this holier than thou in this sitting on a high horse and labeling people with this cookie cutter mentality that I get to choose whether you're a believer, or not a de vivre. It's a whole bunch of bananas nonsense. It's bananas nonsense.
The thing that is going to save you in this world is telehealth.
belief in Allah you know what makes you a believer.
What makes you a believer is not your soul but you're a buyer. I
mean to say some things that boy, hopefully I don't get to cancel today
but you're sober by I don't make up for I'm sorry to tell you, your beard or your hijab don't make you IBD ever. You understand me, your ability to quote with firsthand don't make you a believer. Your ability, you know, to to walk a certain way and and carry yourself in a certain manner does not make you a believer does not make you a believer. What makes you I believe are is to heathen Allah subhanho wa Taala
A believer is someone who believes a man in the Oneness of Allah Jalla wa Ala, someone who says let the halal Allah, Muhammad Allah rasool Allah, that's a believer, that is a believer.
Everything else after that is a different story. But that makes that person a believer.
And they are a body of the community of believers, whether you want to invite them into the club or not, because there's not no damn body on this earth that made you the judge, jury and executioner and the doorman and the one holding the list deciding who gets to be in the club of believers or not.
That's not you, anyone who believes in the creator with no partner with no partner.
That person is a believer and ALLAH SubhanA Hutan and the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said that anyone who has faith
in Allah Alone, even if that faith is so small, that it's the size of a mustard seed, the smallest of all seeds, that person will be a person of paradise. That person will be a person of paradise.
Flat out that's it. That's it. Now, just like people, let's take religion out of the picture for a moment. I'm hopefully I'm going to make some sense about this. Or I might just ramble and confuse everybody, including myself. Because trust me, I've been thinking about this. And I've mentioned it in little ways here and there and things I've tried to say and do but you know,
I'm trying to trying to get it out the best way that I can.
Just like people,
everywhere one is different. No two people are exactly the same. And that is a beautiful thing. This is a beautiful thing. Allah subhana wa Tada says, I created you in nations and tribes and races and colors and languages and all of those differences, so that you could know one another not so that you could despise one another. So take religion out of it for a moment just look at human beings, how different we are, how uniquely different we are. Allah created us that way.
Every single one of us uniquely different.
Now, you tell me
as a Muslim, and I learned this as a revert to this is something that becomes starkly clear to revert are people who converted to the religion of Islam converts.
You tell me now that I incorporate Islam and Islam into my life, I must now be exactly like every other Muslim.
Please explain this to me.
Please explain this to me.
That Allah created us all unique, in order that we become all exactly the same.
It makes zero sense.
You can still be who you are, as a human being, as as, as an American, as a, as a an Arab, as someone from the subcontinent who might be they see as, as a Nordic as a Native American, as a Hispanic, as an African and all of the differences that are combined within that and still be a believer following the Sunnah of the Prophet Alayhi Salatu was Salam.
I have no doubt about this fact. I have no doubt about this fact. And that is a beautiful thing about the deen of Allah.
And unfortunately, we've turned it into a cookie cookie cutter, cookie, cookie cutter factory. There we go. Man, the tongue twisters we turned into a cookie cutter factory where if you're a Muslim, and you want to be accepted into the the, the elite lounge of believers
You must look exactly like this, you must walk exactly like this. You must talk exactly. You gotta look like just about every other brother who just took a shot and he's out of the masjid, or out of the masjid white thought beard goofy, this is not in the other in sister black Obi and Javi you know, the whole nine yards and that's it. When you open your mouth if it's not about the vicar of Allah subhanho wa taala. And if it's not about the Hadith of the Prophet sallallahu sallam, you're a hypocrite. And you've fallen off the religion
grow up, grow up, this is not a reality that is sustainable by any very few human beings on the face of this planet, where people do
are human beings to Yes, we are muslims first.
We are Muslims first 100% We give our our our our a badger to Allah subhanho wa Taala pray five times a day, fast the month of Ramadan. You know, we tried to do good deeds, we try to avoid bad deeds and give charity that's, that's almost every single Muslim out there who practices their faith. We all this is what we do. We all do this. But then we all also are individualistic human beings, with our own hobbies, our own likes our own opinions on certain matters our own, you know,
you know our own way that we see things, our own nuances, our own take on situations, and that's fine. And that's fine. As long as you're not violating the principles of trade that are
dispensing gratitude.
As long as you all these firm principles of trade,
be who you are, be who you are. And don't let anyone tell you whether or not you get to be in the league of the Elite League of believers. If you believe in Allah Subhana Allah and His Messenger you're a believer. But the soup is become to blend. The soup is become too bland. That's it our our Islamic soup got no flavor. It's got no seasoning. With the exact we're supposed to be the exactly the same. A big old soup with no flavor. No man the deen of Allah subhana wa Tada has flavor, the seasoning to it. There's seasoning to this ummah. And that's a beautiful thing. I love that. That is one of my most favorite thing about the deen of Allah. Is that I know brothers from America. I know
brothers, you know,
from Africa. I know brothers from from Australia. I know brothers from the Arab world. I know brothers from the Nordic north. I know brothers from I know brothers from South America. I know Mexican Muslims. You know, I mean, men, go have some halau tamales,
go have some halal, you know, fishing grits, shrimp and grits that go and have some, the beautiful thing man is having that flavor of Boto and so Zanya Yeah, stop trying to tell Muslims, they gotta be cookie cutters, man. And just because they don't fit your ideal. You don't get the right to tell people who's a believer and who's not a believer.
is just stupid. It's dry. It drives me absolutely insane. And I and I, and I try I trust me, I try successfully at hamdulillah to bite my tongue when I see these things being talked about or discoursed or
it drives me nuts and we all do it with with the term Naseeha men, that word has become a trigger word for me. I'm not gonna lie to you but sisters, that word is a beautiful word, a beautiful word. The Prophet sallallahu wasallam said at the new Naseeha this religion is Naseeha this religion is sincere advice. They said advice to advice from Allah his Messenger into the believers in general is advice and seek advice.
But Naseeha is a trigger word for me in this day and age because normally when anything is prefaced with the word Naseeha it is actually become it is actually what you mean is you mean admonishment.
It means admonishments. I am here to give you an A c hat, none of them. I am here to admonish you. Why? Because I feel like I'm sitting on a platform above you. And I'm looking down at you a little peasant. And I'm going to tell you why you're wrong. And that's going to make me feel better about myself. That's what Naseeha has become, in far too many circumstances. In this day and age.
That's exactly what it's become. And that is a tragedy. It is a tragedy.
and it is a travesty. And if that is what you do,
then then then you're going to find that same negativity they're looking for Naseeha is sincere advice is sincere advice and sincere advice. Let me tell you what now see how is Naseeha or sincere advice
is something that comes from the heart Naseeha is given out of love.
It is given out of love.
When you offer someone to see hmm, it should be because you love them. Like I come to a brother who I see doing something, you know, wrong, like he's out there doing something that is not good for him. And I see that and I recognize that and I feel some pain for my brother because I love him or he habibi. I love you for the sake of Allah subhanahu ATOD. Therefore, I'm going to advise you against this thing that you're doing out of that love for you.
And I want you to do better.
That is Naseeha it comes from a place of love. It does not come from a place of arrogance. It does not come from a place of harshness, it does not come a place come from a place of feeling of superiority.
That's not Naseeha that's admonishment. If you want to approach me and say you want to admonish me, then just be real about it from the beginning and tell me what you're going to do. So I can check you and tell you that unless your house and your affairs are in order, then your admonishment over here is unwarranted.
It is unwarranted because you don't really care about me, you just want to make yourself feel better. And I'm sorry, I'm not going to be your platform to do that.
But if you come to me as a brother,
as a brother, like a real one, and that's something else I learned during this pandemic, and I learned during some situations that happened to me in my life. One of the being the stalker tape so we're going to talk about at some point is I learned to recognize real I learned who was real in my life. And I learned who was not real in my life.
If you want to come to me as your brother,
or sister you know if a sister comes to another sister, and you want to advise me to something because of your love and concern and care for me, I'm all ears. I'm all ears and I thank you for and I love you for the sake of Allah subhana wa Tada further 100% I love you keep it real with me, please. I love people who keep it real with me. I'm a I'm a frank and blunt person. And in most of my life, Frank and blunt, I just feel like being straightforward and blunt is is a way to cut around a lot of nonsense in in the way we deal with each other in the world today. But if you want to bring that to me that are hamdulillah I'm 100% 100% that.
But we really need to fix up on how we treat one another. The next video, I'm going to be dropping
power possibly today. We'll see I have a very long day today. And I don't know how I'm gonna feel at the end of it. But if not today, tomorrow, it's called a you must love one another. It's called you must love one another. And I'll be talking about a lot of this stuff and somewhat in detail. You know, but let me know what you guys think you know, am I onto something here? Or is I'm or am I the only one who sees this? Am I the only one that sees that? We've created this cookie cutter mentality that every Muslim must be exactly the same. You know, and when you reach you know this certain level you can be invited into the elite club and then beyond that, you know there's not really much else
for you. Am I please tell me if I'm not the only one who sees this
I don't know if he's doing it what he didn't call himself that I'm example in a while. Not needs to be heard.
When you call yourself there's I think there's difference when you call yourself a shear. I guess for people who call themselves shifts maybe so I'm not I don't I don't I'm not one of those
but you know these things Yeah, it's getting worse Muslim in product that's that's, that's the reason why I'm addressing it and that's the reason why I'm gonna continue to dress it is I see it getting much worse. Like, like, I'm gonna be straight up with you guys. Like for instance,
what I started when I created MGM
when I created mgL, um, you know, and started this whole streaming thing
I received a decent amount of flack. Big simply because, you know, I'm doing something abnormal, something that's not known or not even forget about the whole halal and haram issue with you. If you think gaming is haram, then just don't play it. But you know, I started talking about the cars.
You know, I started talking about the gaming, we started doing some gaming streams, but
people were like, oh, you know, brother, you show why
you're a data guy, why are you doing something else? Other than the doubt dispensing gratitude? You know, dispense? Brother, you should? You're a data guy. Why? When did I ever come out and say, that's all there was to me? When have I ever come out and said that I have no, I have no other interest, or I have no other for, you know, you know, interest in anything other than than the dean. You know, it's, it's, it's the craziest thing that
I've seen in a very long time. It's like, I am a person. Like these streams on YouTube. Yes, we do reminders. We do reminders, and that's because that's the core of who I am. I love sharing the message of Islam. So we're always going to do reminders. But then also, if, if the thing Yes, I know, it has many it has many, Dow has many forms. But that's not all that we're trying to do. Like, that was not all that I'm doing. 24/7 365 Like, that's just, that's I that that is illogical to think that that's all a person is most of the time for most people I'm, I'm a normal person. So we are also going to be doing normal things like just chatting and chillin. If I you know, if I come
in, turn on my YouTube stream and decide to talk about nothing but maybe technology or, you know,
something other than then then dean, there should be no issue in that. This should be no issue in that but unfortunately, this is what we've created in this whole, you know, weird Muslim circles that we have and the hardest things to wrap your head around it. The hard thing is when Cecilia Jasmine clearly regimented and
I guess people can do things that create a fault you know, like people who
look religious and who do bad things.
But at the end of the day, we all do bad things. We all make mistakes we all do things we try to advise each other from a good place. We all always try to
advise one another with love from a good place and in leaving that
ice cold juice I bet you get called out for no for not going to Speaker's Corner not a lot of people want to come on the Speaker's Corner that's not my
that's not my it's not my cup of tea speakers corner is not my cup of tea at all whatsoever, man.
There's just too much nonsense going on there. Islam little by little turning into Hindu culture. Let's hope not in sha Allah. Yes, thank you for saying this getting real boring. The online Muslim circles, we are getting kind of boring doing the same thing over and over and over and over and over again.
It will always have Excuse me, what does it say?
It will always be like that criticism always is but it would be nice if criticism came with luck and wisdom. Yes, of luck. And wisdom is extremely important when you're trying to advise but if you're not, if you're not advising somebody from a place of love, if you're not advising somebody from a place of love, within what are you doing from a place of care and concern? What are you doing? What like what are you doing? Seriously? What are you doing?
You don't have anything in your own life to worry about, like what are you doing?
Help each other with the positive and and help each other. Stay away from the negative and then leave it at that.
In one of your posts I underestimated for mental health is one of the suffer just suffers from best examples for each other. I take my words and Apollo's mela
got us all.
No problem. No worries. May Allah subhanho wa Taala bless you. May Allah bless you.
It's great to have knowledge. We're missing some of this on YouTube. It's great to have knowledge.
But mannerism and relaying the knowledge is more Yep. If you don't have not knowledge or mannerism is 100% 100% mannerisms is so important. Absolutely. It's just the Speaker's Corner is so toxic
Speaker's Corner is just too too. I'm trying to stay away from toxic environments in my life in 2022 I'm really really trying to stay away from toxic environments it's not good for you so
it's not good for your soul at all. Um
people need to get the whole the social media my opinion. Yeah, social media is all making us a little bit
unstable and insane. Social media is making us all a little bit unstable.
and insane
I have so many good things able to May Allah bless you zimmet Sankar sunkara I think I said that right May Allah bless you. My health is good now I'm just I just have a cold I just have a flu or something of that nature. Can you share your pin on antidepressants or milk? I can't talk about I can't share my opinion on on medications. I can't share my I don't have qualifications for that. I don't have qualifications for something like that
I feel like people are teaching books and spreading knowledge through YouTube I'm only two years practicing that has helped a lot mashallah unfortunately the internet is toxic Heaven is inevitable 100% 100 Buzz sent Would you ever join the Hamza on the arena stream I think I've been on there before I think I think I've been on there before
you know I'm really inspired by videos we're going to continue we're not going to give up we're not going to give up for sure we're going to keep keep it going and Chairman but I had to get my little rant out there because I'm just tired I'm tired of everybody thinking that you know Muslims have to be cookie cutters and exactly the same all the time and that you know, I'm also I also get a Nicole Thank you very much for being a badger supporting the stream you always do realize oh Santa Monica you doing bro you know I'm I also got very tired of thinking of people trying to pin me into a box and that there's nothing else other than the media and Islam and if my if I come on and don't do a
video about Assam I don't talk about Islam for 30 minutes 45 minutes that I must have lost my mind and gone off the rails. Bro get a life get a life and get the * away from me please because I don't need weird people like that in my life. Like you know we I'm going to be here talking about some stuff in 2022 we were putting things full on on the online sphere. So I'm going to have to be variety to new I am you know, I am going to talk about my Deen I am going to give reminders. We are going to talk about video games. We're all going to talk about modern issues where we might just talk about absolute nonsense as some point and sometimes some who knows
you know we might talk about tech we don't talk about whatever the heck we want to talk about that's the whole point being here
yes, no no problem. I don't remember because that's one thing is I don't I don't really I don't really focus too much on the negative but you know I accept the apology May Allah bless you and forgive me if I came off in any way offensive it's got to learn to be nice to each other a little bit more be nicer cookie cutter mean means that we got to be all exactly the same like we're coming off a factory assembly line of Muslims that's it like everybody looks exactly the same talks exactly the same you know, it's it's like it gets a bit boring gets a bit mundane
and I wanted to make it very clear and to be known that the people who believe in light light Allah Muhammad Rasul Allah, those are the believers. Those are the believers not who you get to say is the believer or if you fit into this little thing being held by super chats it you keep it up half so thank you most for the five pound Super Chat May Allah bless you tonics Sony Santa Monica How you doing bro? Welcome to the chat Welcome back to the chat
you catching this towards the end because
I got the flu I think that's what it is. It's bad whatever it is it had me knocked out for two two days on the couch on Saturday and Sunday and and today I'm struggling therapy sessions all day and then we do this live and you can hear my voice and drinking some old good old stuff here but we keep going we keep going. We keep going.
Who's your favorite scholar?
Our favorite scholars the prophet Mohamed Salah Selim that is that is the scholar of this community.
But again, the ones that I look to today if you want to find out people that I like to listen to email me because another thing is if I tell you guys who are like listening to this somebody is going to go and take that and says he listens to this person that person that person so he must be this he's either he's he's this person he said if he looked at the one he Sufis
is just so stupid. This is ridiculous. Seriously, the way we've created things online the whole line Muslim spaces become a large joke in large part today and I hate to say that but we're losing our losing our voice we're losing the audience we're losing our ability to even have the functional conversation because of the way we we treat each other and the way we behave.
And they almost look the same.
Yeah, we got some garlic, ginger, honey, black seed all of all of this in this water right here.
Do you have any advice on stop listening to music and just stop? You got to just stop you just got to cut it out. You just got to bring it.
You have to bring yourself to just like if you want to quit any other habit you want to quit candy or you want to quit smoking or anything like that. You just got to stop you
You have to cut it. You have to cut it and then just say look fight it off for a week or a month and stuff like that, that you're not going to go back to it like just fight it off like nope, nope, nope, nope. Initially it'll kick initial kick in there's no magic pill. I wish there was a magic pill to giving up a lot of these things like this
she's got to cut it off.
Pharmacy so much of myself and you by the way, my name is pants. Zipper it zipper it. I don't know if I don't know if I pronounced that right. Zip it was the secret of maintaining health taking care of yourself. Eat good sleep. Good exercise. That's it, get some sunlight. Get some vitamin D.
Legit. Yeah, you caught the last one here. We caught the last one here.
Everyone has their strings, blessed the brothers at SC dalla. But it's nice to have someone that can just chill and talk like, how are they? Yeah, that's it. That's it, you know that this is supposed to be way more laid back. If you have not clicked on yet. My streams are laid back. There will be times where we do have hard felt reminders. And that, you know, I'm not going to have that every single day. Nobody feels like that every single day. You know, these talks that you see going around where clips of some of these stream clips are actually taken and putting on tick tock or put on YouTube or put on Instagram reels or whatever. And you know, when brother uses hitting it, um, I
even watched those backs and I make myself feel like my Eman gets raised. And I'm like, Whoo, that was a good one. But I don't feel like that every single day. I don't feel like I don't have that in me every single day. Are you kidding me? Are you thinking that I'm gonna that I'm gonna have that type energy to give you those types of bangers every single day? Is No way
99% of my life I'm chills. It's that 1% While I'm really feeling it, and I have something to say and I'm passionate about it and I want to get it out that way. We're gonna keep doing that. We're gonna keep doing that. But I am I am literally a laid back person. Anybody who knows me in real life anybody who knows me outside of
this whole facade of social media
you know you you you know that I'm I'm laid back I'm chill. I don't know if there's anybody in the stream has met me in person. I don't think he has and is still here. But if you guys are still here, or if sobs was here or you know some of the a couple other people that used to come in that have met me in person will tell you man I'm just chills man. I'm just chills
you need to gain weight bro get chunky man for wintertime. You got to get on you got to catch on that that winter weight you got to put on those winter pounds you got to put on those winter pounds. But yeah, I'm laid back in person and that's that's what we're trying to create here is create this environment that you know where people can can can can just be laid back you know and and open and there's going to be times where we're you know, we're we hit it very hard in the reminders about Allah Subhana Allah and in the deen etc but also wants you guys to feel comfortable to come here and just hang out and just and just you know talk about things and feel open to talk about things have
ever come to Minnesota. I live in Minnesota
you know so I'm no scholar I'm no shake you you asked me how long the Haram questions once you can't answered you know I'm going to answer the things that I can answer an answer not things answer and sometimes I'm not gonna answer Jack. Sometimes we just chillin man. We're hanging out taking it easy. Easy breezy. Let me let a man be himself for a little bit
so that's it. I would love to answer your questions but man
I still have to I wish there was a voice chat so I could talk to you tonic just reach out to me on Discord bro tonic I'd love to have a chat with you man. Just reach out to me on Discord discord GG slash mg. Oh, look at it.
So Lambert Yasha was that you're talking messaged him and it was very inspiring. Masha Allah may Allah bless you may Allah bless you. I enjoyed that talk at Masjid Hemera I enjoyed that talk out there. My struggle man was beautiful, beautiful.
If we had many people like you around we are growing up a lot of guys would not be in the streets, but rather build cars and play games with the guys. Yeah, you know, I just want to, you know, be able to offer an open environment especially for our youth. And for you know, those of you who are regular people, just like the rest of us, like I said, my streams are for the regular Muslim. My strings are for the broken Muslim. My streams are for the you know, the oppressor, the oppressed Muslims, my streams are for the struggling Muslims, like my streams are just for your average, everyday money.
Who's trying to make it day to day and live their life? That's who my streams are for. And if you're one of those people, you know, then then then feel free to join us and go along with us on this ride. So what am I foodzie I just saw your messages now. Yeah, hamdulillah it's cold, it's cold as ice, cold as ice.
But for today, we're going to cause a little bit short, I actually only thought I was gonna go like, 3045 minutes, we're an hour in, and my throat is starting to cue me. We were going to play Halo today how to that is the goal is to play Halo today. For the last hour, I just don't have it in me. I don't have it in me. And that's, that's where you got to know
your limits as well. Like, I like gaming as a hobby. But if I don't feel good, I'm not gonna go force myself to play a video game for not feeling good. It's just that that's not a hobby anymore.
That's a bit of an addiction. So we will be doing another Halo stream on Monday. We'll be doing another Halo stream on Monday in sha Allah Who to iron on Monday. And not Monday, today's Monday on Wednesday, on Wednesday, next Monday, sorry, you see, can't even think straight.
Next Monday, we'll be doing our normal Halo stream. And then on Wednesday, we'll be doing our chatting chill and Rocket League stream. And then on Friday, on Friday, we'll be back to the hot drop Friday. On Friday, we'll be back the hot drop Fridays. Hopefully I'll be come around this, this flu, whatever it is.
Hopefully I'll be around to the other side of it by then beating the night on.
Alright, we're gonna wrap it up. I love all you guys for the sake of Allah subhana Wattana
I love every single one of you for the sake of Allah. This is what we're creating with the whole mgL fam mgL fam. Or bro use your fam, whatever you want to want to call it.
You know,
is create a loving environment, create a positive environment, create an environment where people can be 100% Muslim and 100% human at the same time. Because that's what we are.
And I love all of you for your time that you give here. Every little bit of time you give me your precious commodity I value it tremendously. And make dua for your boy to get a little bit better because this
this cold has been kicking has been kicking my behind whatever this is. I don't know if it's the cold, the flu Rhona who knows what, but
make dua that your boy comes on the other side of it and shot along to Anna.
And we'll see you on Wednesday, we will probably do an insert we might do an Instagram Live Wednesday, as well.
We appreciate it. Fred Sanford, I appreciate you too. I appreciate you too.
appreciate every single one of you and all of you in sha Allah. So just make dua for me and make dua for you guys, and I get on the other side of this inshallah people still do get regular sick and I. So we'll see you guys on the next one. On Wednesday, the goal for Wednesday, if I'm feeling well, and if we're all back to health and night, which I hopefully shouldn't be in a couple more days.
Then we'll be to take q&a time, q&a time on Wednesday, where we're just chatting and chillin and chopping it up and have a little q&a. And then we will be playing some Rocket League with the bros be playing Rocket League with the brothers. Because Rocket League is a fun game. And until then, I hope you all well.
May Allah grant you peace in your hearts peace in your minds peace in your bodies, peace in your souls peace in your homes. And I'll see you in the next one. Remember yesterday's gone, yesterday is gone. It's gone. You might not ever see tomorrow might not ever happen. But today you're alive and well you got today. So take advantage of today. Make the most out of today. Do the best you can today and sleep tonight with a clean heart repentant to Allah subhanho with Anna and I'll see you guys in the next one. I said I'm ready come Warahmatullahi Wabarakatuh