Amir Junaid Muhaddith aka Loon at Int Islamic Uni Malaysia

Oh and alhamdulillah not what the woman Esther you know who when a stock feel when I would be like hey Misha Dorian fousey now women say ye RT Melina me yeah the eleven feel a modal Ella I mean usually the for that hard yellow eyeshadow and la ilaha illa more whack the hula Sheila color eyeshadow and the muhammadan abduhu wa rasuluhu sallallahu aleyhi while he was said no my brothers and sisters in Islam and also my brothers and sisters from Adam Elise enough I always like to start my speaking engagements by thanking the people who invited me because when we don't think the people we don't think I lost a friend of Madonna so thank you for brothers and sisters who organizes talk about lost Commission made it possible for me to be here today I also would like to start with a statement from the rest of creation after the Prophet Elias Salim Abu Bakr al Siddiq radiallahu anhu said I am no better than any of you and if I were to do that which is good then aid me and if I were to do that which is incorrect then rectify me this humbleness is something that many Muslims brothers and sisters we struggle to implement but this characteristic and mannerism is we're guiding me to Islam I lost permission many of you know my story my journey to Islam many you may not so what I'll do is brief pages go through an explanation how a lots of penner one thought on the guiding me to this beautiful religion Islam I was born and raised in the streets of Harlem New York City a large percentage of my life I was exposed to drugs and violence and crime and this was by default this was not by my own hands growing up in an environment that breeds violence drugs and crime this was my first teacher these were the things I was exposed to this is not something I went searching for it's not something I was looking for it was by default and growing up in this environment if it wasn't for the moral structure that was established in my household I would have completely been consumed by this impression that was made by my community and I would not have had no sense of what is right so I say that to say that the moral structure that starts when many of us starts their home company law was taught good manners I was taught to respect my elders I was taught to respect those who respect me first and foremost respect myself but being in this environment I always needed something that went to help me event or help me express some of the sadness as they came were living in this harsh reality and that's when I discovered that I had the ability to write you know went to school just like everybody else wasn't the best student but I knew how to count money you know it's a mathematician I'm did luck but when I discovered that I had this ability to write I use this as a means of like as a therapeutic means of you know coming to grips with my reality so instead of keeping all these things bottled in I'll used to write these things down in the form of a diary everyday to help me suppress the frustration that came with living in this harsh reality surrounded by drugs crime and violence and bylaws permission this town that propelled me into success in the music business while I was able to write over 52 top-ten hits are sold over 7 million records worldwide I traveled the world I've seen a lot of things and I learned a lot from these experiences and one thing that I learned was that everything has an expiration date everything has an expiration date some of us are inspired by some of the things we see on TV mainly in the entertainment business this glorification of this lifestyle many people think to be quote unquote success and sister says something beautiful house success is measured by material things depending on how much materialistic things you accumulate determines your level of success and then the lifestyle I were living in the business I was in this was very true but brother's assistant Islam you know Islam does not teach us this their true wealth and success comes from seeking nearness to Allah so Penn North Island and following the Sunnah of the message of the loss of the law I said no so do this success that I obtained in the music business like I said I was exposed to a more magnified aspect of the reality that I was living prior to the music business meaning the streets was the epitome of drugs crime and violence but the music business was a reflection of the same drugs crime and violence so as another sense I jumped out of the pot into the fire for many a year only CDs three minute and forty two second clips of this glorified life's value I think that every rapper just bigs and campaign drives cars the price of your house with jury to the point you doesn't need a light at night a lot of y'all take these as symbols of success but like I said everything has an expiration date if I took a bite out of an apple and sat it right here went to the bath when we came back that Apple would turn brown that fast it won't be crunchy white anymore so everything expires even the things you think have the most value they quickly disappear so like I said having the success I was exposed to a lot of things was only a mere reflection of everything I was already exposed to so I remember at one point in my career I did a song with this Lebanese artist by the name of Masada and by doing this song with my sari which I never really thought any success would come out of it you know because at the time I was dying I was ignorant saying what's going to come out of doing this song with this Arab que like I don't even know how herbs knew anything about music I you know kawaii being in New York City had a very one dimensional perception of Islam in most cases that be honest I had no perception in Islam because I came in the community I grew up in the community it was multicultural you know very diverse many different ethnicities many different cultures but being in an inner city we all share something in common and I was learning how to struggle and survive and the inner city so whether you were Asian person who had a laundromat or Chinese restaurant you was no different than me senegalese brothers that had all the taxi services it's upon a lot of Pakistanis had all the pharmacies you know and the Yemenis brother they owned most of the local grocery stores so this was my perception of the Muslim not Islam just Muslims so I was always aware of the Muslim but I never understood the religion because it was something that for some strange reason it wasn't really exposed meaning maybe these brothers prayed at home maybe these brothers you know concealed their faith a lot allowed but when I did this song of masada it propelled me into a region of the world who was well that was also inspired by this lifestyle and as music and all these things that I never thought you know Muslims paid attention to because being a music being in the music business we only have this short range perception of mostly secular places that appreciate what we do so we think of like France you know Europe things of that nature we don't think that Saudi Arabia is you know the Emiratis we don't think these people who even think about music but that quickly came to you know they came to a very abrupt phone and by doing these songs I was invited to many Muslim countries now before I get into how my journey took off I want everybody to know that me prior to accepting Islam I never received any dollar no one sat down and talked to me about Islam no one passed me a pamphlet no one sat down read me a book I wasn't fortunate to have a Muslim friend bring me to a speaking engagement such as this one I'm pretty sure some non Muslim brothers here you know by way of his Muslim friend dragging them out the house today good luck but I wasn't fortunate to have this brought to me this was solely from Allah is guidance I was at the pinnacle of my career was nothing wrong with my career was nothing wrong with the bounties that I was receiving from my success it was nothing wrong nothing was broken nothing was broke everything was moving at the pace that I had strived for so nothing was off but then when I started to visit these Muslim countries gradually I started to learn about Islam I remember first on the West Africa with the synagogue I went and visit Goree island which was one of the first slave houses now mind you many African Americans in America we all in some way shape or form are seeking understanding of our lineage because our lineage just looks our lineage was lost through slavery so we don't know our uh so we don't know where we come from you go far as our great-grandfather that's it and his birthplace is America so hard the same will be from so it is this burning desire to understand where we come from and this was the first step to laws guidance he took me to West Africa I was able to visit Gurion it and I remember the tour the tour the tour that they had was kind of like a structured tour but then I've seen is this this African brothers is leaning on the side I say he must know something that everybody else don't know so I approached him he gave me my own private tour and he explained to me how a 60 million slaves passed through this island he said six million never left the soil so Wow why is that he said cuz they were Muslims and he refused to submit to anything other than their Creator so they died fighting right on the soil Oh Lord that's crazy I never thought that because be being ignorant I was taking or they had like gangsters back in like you must be gangsta see they didn't want to know they wasn't going for it he had the little steaks and stuff like maybe going on with something any cases but when he told me that they were Bushmills and it takes a certain in Division two in doctor this understanding of worshiping the one that created you and died in a plane net so this encouraged me always kind of Lawson there are no little bit about myself a price till they go five our great-great great-grandfather enough for you know like a try ancestry.com and all this stuff but the end of the day that was enough information for me and it showed me the integrity of these men didn't come from the own will it came from them being servants of the Most High so hungry did not then I want liver going to Kazakhstan this is Middle Eastern Asian so far a lot of opportunity to hang out with the president did like nine days he was very young guy he had a lot of youthfulness with him and I remember ass and I said how you say what's up like I say what's up to each other right now you say what's up like was popping I would up he looked at me and said I said I'm on a go like home I mean this guy he looks like y'all meaning something like you don't say so now I let go no way I'm going to you I've been in Chinatown they don't say so though I and I'm just taking you through this journey in my ignorant state I'm not here to be sarcastic anything I'm just really taking you through this English state of thinking some Santa myself hardness Asian guys stand in front of me and tell me that salam-o-alaikum is the way he says hi so that right here was the first lesson in the diversity of Islam outside of what I was seeing in New York then I remember being invited to the UAE hum didn't luck I'm put the Muscat Oman on with Abu Dhabi I went to Dubai and I remember you know going to do Bob and I remember it being no different from like when I was already exposed to Kalani let me cut I used to go to they always had this guy who I like to call the Welcome Wagon he always had the Haram waiting for me oh you happy to see you all I got this I got the cars the girls everything knowing how you doing nice to meet you got the cars the girls and everything no they got anything for you so this Welcome Wagon guy was everywhere every country I went to either just no distance haram was waiting for me there so when I went to Dubai I remember doing the show got off the plane went to this hotel Grand Hyatt I remember drop my bags off went to this club I'm looking at like Arabs aniclato ling-ling Wow and this is only for my tainted perception of what I thought was you know cool and not cool because remember I'm saying to myself I know these people that have like this this this immense faith in something but what are they doing here but then after that brothers took me to Abu Dhabi and I remember leaving the club and Dubai very late like maybe three four in the morning so by time I got to the Emirates Palace this is like the only seven star hotel in the world this is pretty cool unknown salary not Amir but when I got there I remember the Sun rising and I remember being on the balcony watching the Sun Rise and no more tears in my eyes because for a very long time I had neglected the beauty of creation you understand I was in the business where day was day and night was night and it didn't really have no significance what I doing it they are doing the day what I do at night I do it night that's so cool I never looked up to see if it was half a moon or 1/4 of a moon for me I did pay attention to these things but seeing the Sun Rise and overlooking the Arabian Sea urge flying up slice of Parma something just changed my heart and you know how it is where you have something eating at you you don't want to let it go you don't want to let it pass so to suffice this this feeling that I had I just ran down to the lobby of the hotel in the first most of my scene I ran up when I'm going to ask them how do I become a host and this man looked at me like I was crazy because normally as Muslims we'd like to initiate conversations where we can give the hour of trying to you know open up the forum to speak about this beautiful religion but this is the flip side I'm running up one as a guy trying to extort him for understanding how I want become hoods he said what do we want to be massaged so I want to get Muslim not listen I said I want to be a Muslim you want to be and I can tell by the reveling of his words he's really like off guard you know this is now he didn't get to start off with tea he didn't get to do his little presentation so he's kind of like all like but he said no it's simple he said I shadow and I and I handle our Muhammad on so long so I mentioned what he said and I said it and not studying and I was just like that's it if I cook a lot so once he gave me the confirmation that that was it that resolved that I felt in my heart was real it was real and it was genuine and all that was was a simple testimony because I'm looking at the guy all along I'm talking to Mike that's it like we'll have to dip me in the ocean I'll go get you know one other about fish you got like why we do it for me I don't know a lot she was almost song Hanuman like swab in this same simplicity that came with taking the Shahada is the same simplicity that we struggle to practice every day in Islam so I say this to say in a nutshell but I do want to leave some time for questions and things of that nature is brothers and sisters in Islam you have to be very very mindful or how you conduct yourself have to be very very mindful but while many of you who may have had your you know your state of bigness your jellia and maybe some of y'all have been paying attention to my videos and other artists as well while you were wasting your time watching us look at looking at I was watching you while you was so concerned with maybe how I thought about you or how you thought about me man turned out the car felt about you because the first time of my life I seen it's love being practice out openly and that's what inspired me seeing brothers in all white Googlers smiling reading each other hugging each other and I said Wow you can't even hug somebody like that in New York that close you try to hug the doing I think I'll roll should you know you got issues like your eyes you so close though aren't you so close shows a know that this brotherly love this Brotherhood sisterhood as well there's something that is implemented in a day to day basis this is a practice this is not something that you know is forged this is a practice that goes into corners where our faith so I say this to say be very mindful why you conduct it so because you have no idea who is paying attention to you and then I paying attention to the you know because I know a lot of brothers and sisters that I can look around briefly and paying yeah you have a lot of stylish quality but you don't Guardium modesty and things of that nature brothers as well but these are not the things that people are paying attention to it's not the beautiful keep on you might have one right now brothers is not you know saying this old custom-made Saudi cut though you might have on right now laser cut you know II know this is not what it is it's the characteristics and the man and reasons they come from the Muslim because I remember the brothers taking me to a brother house now totally story minutes hug because this was one of the David aspire me was the humbleness and the hospitality down receive from the Muslim and a Muslim who didn't have much soon as I came to his house I was like up I left at the brother leg with his and samosa says it I said weird today so I'm looking that's the best year in the Hollister but he wants me to send the best year and believe me I had a lot entertainment of you know area in my home and I took much here very serious I was like screaming my son what you doing my chick how much hit me like it was my cheer this man let me sit in his best them they have T have dates have this have that he's just giving me all this stuff and I'm sitting here with books in my hand I dates T I'm juggling all this stuff and it coming for where I'm coming from I'm thinking there's a aim it got to be something I don't want this man with tickets to the concert I don't know what he's working it but it just seems like he's being a little too nice and then some accumulating his gift so starting to look around his house and his house is just disappearing because he's giving me all this stuff now mind you I'm around multi-million dollar people who wouldn't even give you advice and that's free they won't even give you advice on how to be better in the business how you know me tell you a little secret how you can sell some more right god you can't get advice these people were multi million years you go to your house if you have you go to any house if you have any manners you'll just be standing in they'll never say have a seat just be standing in like I am NOT man and that waiting for you to say you have to see you know so by seeing that it showed me so many different aspects of this character then many of us are struggling if striving to implement it it doesn't matter who's riving the harness or who's driving or less but we do know that the best of the people in the eyes of allah subhanho wa taala this characteristic this humility this passion for loving the creator this is something that we all try very hard to be a part and may Allah make us from these people so like I said be very very mind for how you conduct so because a lot of the things that I had and I thought had value they quickly became nothing platinum diamonds became metal and rock Ferrari just became hard these things started to deplete as far as value sometimes I used to be offended because people with speaking my watch first the guard you talked to knew but you need to say haha first in you reaching for my home oh you are is that like why you want it like come on I'm standing here sometimes I used to even test the water let me just go out with a white t-shirt on and just see how many people speak to me oh how many people just want you know and you'll quickly realize how many people respect you for who you are versus what they feel you have to offer and that's why I was easy for me to trade all my friends for 1.5 billion brothers and sisters it was easy that was the fairest trade it was the easiest choice I laid once the brothers found that I stopped drinking and smoking the party like 3,000 people stopped calling me I told people I started drinking another 3,000 style : pretty soon like I was at peace my phone wasn't ringing like it used to ring and it was just like okay now I knew what my true value was with these people I knew now that my friendship with I'm not saying all of them look at me wrong some of these brothers are good people may Allah guide them but the reality of it is the majority of them was only there and he had this statement in the music only as good as your last record Subhan Allah that's your life expectancy rate you're only as good as your last record so that means if you put out a wack song tomorrow you might lose everything so you can imagine the desperation they come with some of these people trying to maintain visibility while you sit and appear fascinated by what they're doing they're dying inside they're dying inside I've learned that most of these people who have quote-unquote success or some of the most miserable people in the world miserable and they only find joy in living vicariously through you so we become vampires it takes you to come and see how light can be fascinated with my Mercedes for me to like the Mercedes I'm even care which is sitting in but you're coming in wow you have a missing oh yeah you know I was heading for I'm gonna have my man clean it up and everything i'ma dust off the seats we'll go take a ride but before I woulda just sat there i didn't care but i have to live vicariously through you you come you see a boat boat sitting is seaweed dust dirt all on the boat ain't even move but you say oh I got a boat oh you've never been in the boat so it becomes this fascination with your fascination so in actuality we become vampires sucking the joy from you so we can feel like we doing something oh the beloved when I see so many young brothers and sisters that's inspired by this stuff it really just hurts me because first of all if I wanted to I can implement this permissible form of selfishness which has saved myself and saved my family I don't really have to put myself in a position where I'm standing before the people sharing this type of you know talk with you guys but a part of me feels like I contribute to some of this even though a lot sponsor Allah has forgiven me for these things I should be sowing saving myself but a part of me still feel responsible because I contribute to some of these things and the result of that was some of the things that change me and put me on the course of searching for better because a lot of y'all don't know the story behind the story yeah I don't know about the young girl that comes to the club with the fake ID and some guys slip a date rape drug drug on her drink and now she gets dragged off and gets harmed raped or something that you don't hear that story that story no reach her ears you don't hear about the guy that gets shot in the club you don't hear about the guy that gets stabbed in the club you don't hear about the guy who been swindled and tricked out of all of his wealth because he didn't sign a contract where he had anybody to educate him on the business aspect this is some of the things that happen repetitively in this business but the business is only designed to show you what you want to see and therefore you being misguided but for the Muslim brothers and sisters that are appointed clear guidance which in show law to Allah bismillah with all aplomb clear guidance clear understanding of who our Lord is and who was the message that was sent and what is our religion these things you must safeguard hold on tight to it and do not allow was propagated or what's the opposition of this understanding it the best of you the least I had the saying that jolly and curiosity killed the cat don't let your curiosity kill you because my appreciation for Islam comes from coming from a harsh reality but it's kind of like this perpetual door meaning you are born and raised Muslim by show of hands how many of worn and raised Muslim hum did he learn how many young such as myself had reverted to this beautiful religion out of slap from day love how many my brothers and sisters from Adam alayhi Salam meaning Manama some brothers and sisters how many are present I know he is okay we were neither but the beauty is you've been born upon this truly you've been born upon this understanding of what is correct but the sad part about it is once you start to develop a curiosity of the opposite you put yourself in more danger than I've ever been being born and raised in this environment because being born in any environment just like animals if an animal was born and snow like a polar bear physically it adapts to the weather it feeds it hunts or based on its environment so I was bred in an environment where it became natural for me to learn how to survive you being curious and looking to rally out all that like I have very good parents come from very good homes very good upbringing trying your very best to destroy yourself putting more energy and trying to destroy yourself then using this energy to increase yourself in that which you already know with that which you already know to be true so my appreciation came from spending most of my life chasing what was wrong and finding what was true and it made it easy for me to abstain from these things and embrace what you already had you had this already and then when I was a kid if I had a nightmare I'll be running around a house had that extreme in the Harlem way and everybody else the single monster but look at you even a young brother he probably said all did you let him initiate going on a gene right back to sleep why does he know how to protect themselves and me I had to wake the whole house up so you know that this is a protection for you so don't remove yourself from protection to put yourself at home so I'll show our Tyler that you know me a lot increased as all of that which is pleasing to him me long pieces and beneficial knowledge of my religion Camila keep us away from any knowledge that is not beneficial may Allah make us of those who he is pleased with may Allah make us from the people of gender this is our more high

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Length: 33min 32sec (2012 seconds)

Published: Tue Mar 22 2011