Loon - A Wake Up Call - From Rap Sensation To Islam - Formerly of Bad Boy Records - Amir Muhadith

my brothers and sisters in islam first and foremost i want to thank the brothers that invited me here because when we don't thank the people we don't thank allah and inshallah to allah i want to thank all the brothers and sisters who made it today you know by the cut of allah we are here together as brothers and sisters in islam and inshallah to allah when we walk out of here hopefully we can be a benefit to each other the reason why specifically i chose the topic the wake up call is because many of you can identify or transcend in my life being born and raised a christian born and raised in a christian household and living out my life thinking that you know very very minimal about the hereafter the lifestyle that i used to live being born and raised in new york city i was surrounded by drugs i was surrounded by violence i was surrounded by crime this was a lifestyle that i endured by default wasn't my choice by default and today some of the brothers and sisters today try to incorporate this lifestyle into an understanding that is so pure and that purity and simplicity is islam and like i said i spent a huge percentage of my life in darkness doing for many years what i thought was right but to become a muslim and find out that i was spending 24 hours of my day consistently every day involving myself and indulging in all the major sins that are prohibited for the movement 24 hours a day and living in this lifestyle you know and living in new york city i was always familiar with the muslim you know alhamdulillah i come from a community i come from a city that is very diverse like if you never had a passport you lived in new york i'm pretty sure you will meet every ethnicity around the world without ever having to leave the country so i was very familiar with the diversity of the human being and living in my community i looked at all the muslims as my brothers in a struggle because living in an inner city environment we all endured a very common you know understanding and that was surviving so the yemenis brothers who own most of the local grocery stores i was very familiar with them i'm just a lot of pakistani brothers they own most of the pharmacies you know the west african brothers martial arts but they had all the taxi and delivery services so this is the way we perceive it a lot you had the asian brothers they had the chinese restaurants and the laundromats so this was my john hill way of thinking that everyone played just a significant role in the community didn't matter where they came from what was their ethnicity with their background what were they coaching i know in harlem we all had a significant role to play in our communities and being that i was always exposed to the muslim and male our guide men and these brothers because they never exposed none of us to islam we spent most of our hours standing on the very corners in front of some of these grocery stores where the muslim exists we spent a lot of our time riding in the taxis that were driven by muslims we spent a lot of time getting sick and going to the pharmacy asking for medicine and never was called to islam and it took for me to leave america by way of the success that came from the music business and traveling the world to see the diversity of people and to see for the first time in my life the many places that the muslim realm subhanallah you can walk down one street in america and see 17 churches within a miles radius when i left america i've seen the same number of masjids or massages i've seen things i've never seen before i've seen buses pull over on highways and some countries and everyone get off the bus that makes a lot i've seen people pass straight to los angeles island and places that i probably never even put my hands let alone my head and for the first time when i heard the event it made me melt because i never heard anything that demanded a person's attention like the event well i spent hours and hours in the studio trying to conjure up methods to make people dance and make fools of themselves but when i heard the event and the power and the attention that it demanded i've never heard anything like it in my life and basically traveling in the world with no doubt no one spoke to me about islam no one called me to islam no one introduced me to islam i was around muslims but i never was able to see that sound right there i'm not even mad at you for your phone going over sure yeah it's fine and every time i reflect on these things it just reminds me you know it wakes me up as a reminder to myself when i think about the bounties of velocity at the island when i think about the mercy of allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala and the gratitude that increases every day every day i participate before a lost pound of dialogue i'm constantly reminded of what i was saved from constantly reminded of what could have actually happened to me if i would have died in that state believe me i thought that death would be easy if i was high if i was intoxicated that would be easy i used to get intoxicated before i got on every plane thinking if the plane go down i'll be straight you know i probably won't even feel it stuff with allah me and this john hill way of thinking i was saved i was spared only by lord's mercy and sometimes i look at other individuals in my family who may not have accepted islam yet insha'allah allah got on islam but i look at certain individuals in my family that i always identify with to be good people and i used to question why i lost my dad didn't choose them like why did he choose me why was i so fortunate i wasn't looking for the muslim i wasn't looking for islam i didn't have too many muslim friends and if i did they never acknowledged they were muslim and now that i became a muslim i understand why and that's why i chose this topic as the wake-up call because what's happening now that i've been able to benefit and learn the basic fundamentals of my religion and the pride that comes with being a servant of allah subhanahu wa the allah i look at my brothers and sisters in islam today and i question why better yet how how could you compromise your islam how could you compromise your islam is it to make those who may not understand islam feel comfortable is it because you know you struggle with your iman because of living in western civilization these questions go through my mind every day and i know myself i'm proud to be a muslim subhanallah i go to the airport i would come east i will i will uh jalavir and i'm proud you know i might just get to the airport a little bit earlier you know i know the routine you know but i'm not ready to compromise myself i'm a muslim i'm a muslim and the good mannerisms and characteristics of the muslim is what intrigued me about islam i was able to see a different aspect of the muslim i was able to see different behavior patterns and customs of the muslim that drew me closer to islam unlike the examples i grew up around allah may allah guide these brothers but the reality of it is that was the dawah that was the dawah so while many young brothers and sisters was watching me on tv parading around glorifying this lifestyle i was watching you while you was watching me believe it or not i was watching you and what i saw only by the father of allah only by the decree of allah what i saw was good it's almost like allah put a veil over all the shortcomings and deficiencies of the muslim it just showed me the good and once i was able to develop an understanding of the religion allah removed that veil and what i see now is that we need to wake up we need to wake up we need to embrace our religion we need to embrace the fact that allah subhanahu ta'ala chose us only by his mercy and gave us the opportunity to worship him and him alone and not associate any partners with him only for the hope that one day when that day come we may enter his gender and endure pleasure upon pleasure i like to say the party that don't stop you know i've been to a lot of parties trust me it was times me and puff we would get off a plane i mean twice in one day in two different countries partying but i will always wake up the next day with a hangover and regret but knowing that i lost the pound to allah his promise is true his promise is true who are we to doubt allah's promise that if we worship him and him alone that we fulfill our obligations and the rights that allah have over us that we would enter his jinnah just like allah's promise was true when he said you know when you sacrifice for the sake of allah allah will return it with better i believe that and i walked away from everything and it was the fairest trade because everything in life everything in this dunya has the expiration date everything you could take a bite out of apple right now sitting on the table go make we'll do and come back that app will be brown it won't be crunchy white anymore everything has an expiration date so the reality of it is we trying to get to a place where nothing expires how do we get there how are we preparing ourselves to get there because compromising our religion is not going to get us there removing ourselves from the circles of individuals who fear allah is not going to get us there this brotherhood that allah has established he's made y'all my brothers and sisters in islam i said that shadow allah just like that i have 1.5 billion brothers and sisters and every time i give a talk people ask me about the friends i left behind subhanallah i can count my friends but i can't count as many brothers and sisters in islam i have if you ask me is a fair trade what's a couple of friends 1.5 billion brothers and sisters it's upon allah we have to start doing the math i think sometimes we're negligent to that especially with y'all being students math should be nothing to you do the math this uma is big it's almost growing we have no market and no promotional vehicle people come to islam only by allah's guidance and alhamdulillah most of y'all by showing hands how many here are born and raised muslim don't be shy born and raised muslim i ain't seen born under the natural inclination of monotheism i'm talking about born and raised muslim i'm the lie one more time by showing hands we go i ain't like a roller coaster ride that's what's up how many brothers and sisters here such as myself for reverse reverted to the religion islam now how many here are my brothers and sisters from adam meaning my number some brothers and sisters y'all my brothers and sisters from adam inshallah one day you'll be my brother and my sister is from islam but the reality of it is is that islam is a protection islam is a protection and i spent many years of my life running around naked when i thought i had protection whether it was a bodyguard a gun a knife whatever i thought i had was going to protect me i was actually naked the whole time but for the movement some of you who just raised your hands born and raised muslims only by allah's mercy you came from the womb of a muslim so you've been protected before you even knew how to speak allah placed you in a safe place before you knew anything you came from the womb of a muslim it's upon allah your parents probably came from the womb of a muslim and so on and so on but when you think about the brothers and sisters like myself who was in darkness completely lost no idea no clue of islam and the lord guides us into the fold of islam and the appreciation that we we establish the appreciation that we endure for being saved from that darkness and i look at my brothers and sisters in islam who were born and raised muslims and i say to myself sometimes how how could you compromise the safety that's been bestowed upon you since birth to put yourself in a position where we just left put yourself in a position that i just left every night i did a show i put myself in danger y'all read some of these things fights break out in the club someone gets stabbed 16 year old girl don't even belong in fake id someone slips her date rape drug and she gets molested or raped was something that i was exposed to after every show and you know what i never wanted to be responsible for because i felt like my songs was commercial i wasn't out there talking you know about killing everybody on the song i never made derogatory songs the derogatory statements towards women i thought that i took the most commercial approach to dealing with the music business but it never allowed me to escape from the hills that came with the game you can't have one without the other you could sit there and smooth it out as much as you want but i still had to watch people get dragged out of clubs from being stabbed i still watch people in parking lots get shot i still watch young girls making up their face to be older than they are and finding themselves in situations where they may have never ever encountered any type of physical relationship with no man and the first time it happened next time they find out that hiv positive this is where islam has protected you from this is what islam has protected you from so who are you to remove this shield from yourself to place yourself in harm's way to dive in the arms of the shaytan it's upon allah and the understanding simplicity that comes with this blessing is another thing that intrigued me because i lived a very spontaneous life i didn't know if i was going i was coming the phone call decided my day the phone call decided what i was going to do for the day sometimes i would go to chinese restaurants and stuff and open up a fortune cookie and really blindly base my faith on whatever was in that fortune cookie fortune cookie would say you know you're going to have a great day and i used to have a great day like sophomore cookie was right now every week i'm eating chinese food you know if you sit down like you want something to drink now just bring the cookies out i need to find out what's going on in my life first i don't want to drink nothing superstitious too if i drink something it might mess up my fortune let me just get the cookie first sometimes i couldn't perform unless i had you know like my favorite chain or my favorite watch panicking in the dressing room where's my wife so you gotta get on stage i ain't getting on over without my watch all of this i had no idea i grew up in the house so we would fight for the sunday paper my grandfather he wanted the news section i wanted the harvest code i needed to see my horoscope set not even knowing that this same newspaper is printed all over new york city so whoever else is born on my day got the same horoscope as me so it wasn't nothing exclusive it wasn't nothing significant to what was going on in my life but that just shows you how a part of me was searching for something i didn't know what it was though but i was searching for something and the lord guided me that slime but dig this she was born this way he was born in a household well you probably was praying at seven years old you know i'd be smacking the back of the headphone but after a while you start doing it on your own right that was like training wheels to me i knew about training with take the training wheels off you ride the bike by yourself you know you learn how to write recite quran you pray like your dad you recite like get that you know look around the room some of y'all might even look like your dad and this is the beautiful thing being born upon the truth now me you know growing up you know as a christian i had certain suspicions when i was young because i used to spend six days a week in the church my grandmother she sung for the united neighborhood college fund choir she's daddy's real late rehearsals i'll be sitting there sliding down the church man just tired gotta sit here and watch these people sing all day you know and i remember i used to go to bible studies and i remember just repetitively keep hearing about jesus praying so i remember asking my pastor i say you know um pastor i didn't ask you a question it was problem son i said well you know um if if jesus is god and he's praying oh he's praying to and he just shut me down well you don't believe in jesus christ your lord and savior i said oh calm down like he's about to just beat me down i'm a little kid i'm like eight nine years old but it was a legitimate question and you got me a bible study so eventually i'm gonna come across this anybody that's there for the right reasons you know not just there because grandma's singing or just could deal because i have to be there i was learning things myself and i started to see certain things that just didn't make sense and he just kind of shut me down from that point well i never went to church again i said to myself i'm just going to believe in god because whoever jesus is praying to that's the man that's the man because i tried to pray to jesus and i can't say that response time was always on time but i know when i used to scream oh my god you know it seemed like something was working and i knew there was only one creator and this line made all of this clear to me but once again you already knew this you already knew this i mean when i was 10 years old about it had a nightmare ran around the house in my underwear screaming top of my lungs wake everybody up you 10 years old what you doing oh you knew how to protect yourself a nightmare was a nightmare for everybody in my house y'all gonna feel this you know but you knew how to protect yourself you're gonna have to wake the house up you just ask allah you seek refuge in the law from the curse wow can you understand i'm looking like how could you neglect that how that's a protection everything is a wisdom behind islam marriage is a protection it protects you from fornication you know i understand sometimes young brothers i've seen their faces like oh boy when i have fifty thousand dollars and i've been trying you know but you know it's a protection it's a protection sisters as well when the lord commanded you to guard your modesty this is a protection you don't have to worry about a guy intoxicated running up hugging you like yeah i guarantee you we're next to nothing the man can't control himself it ain't his fault he looking like you know it starts from a genuine hug and a squeeze and he might try to swing his hands past real quick or something crazy stuff from love this is a protection it's wisdom behind this religion and we don't need to be trying to you know figure it out no other way allah gave you the test and the answers you have the quran you have the sunnah that's it if islam was an airline all you need what two carry-on bags quran sunna i've been in that airport and i've seen some very miss game family subhan allah 18 boxes the house lamp they got a bird cage you know where you going with all this stuff and you wonder why you're sitting in the airport for three days but this flight is going agenda only thing required two carry-on bags that's it the bird cage and the mother boxes waiting for you and your destination bigger boxes bigger cats you can walk around with lion you don't need kittens this is gender and then like this has to soften your heart every day to know that first and foremost of los sapanahuata isla has promised is true his promise is true you may have good intentions you know okay you may have great intentions but you're deficient i say meet me and say if you get there seven was i wrong for believing in you no all your intentions were sincere but was there any guarantee laugh but if allah subhanahu wa at the island say be somewhere six i know allah is already there his promise is true and this is where we have to wake up we have to look at ourselves because your companions are a reflection of your religion your companions the company you keep it's a reflection of your religion and we mustn't compromise with distinguishes us from other people like i said earlier i'm proud to be a muslim i come to the airport i know they say be their hour muslims be the hour and a half there's no good not a problem cold red cold orange cold gray don't matter i just get there early i don't have much to search got on the the place okay hey what's the search don't have a belt don't need to put that in the tray you know understand i'm not going to tie my beard in the ponytail and tie to my neck or something don't want some skinny jeans just to make it through the metal detector but once again i'm paying for the flight right so if i'm gonna pay a thousand dollars to fly i'm gonna fly the way i want to fly you understand i have that right you have that right and i say that it's not to say that you have to you know implement these things you do it to the best of your ability do it to the best of your ability but what's wrong with being able to distinguish with my brother in islam i give you a scenario if i was on the highway doing 70 miles per hour which i'll call it kilometers 120 it'd be like right for american speed right well you know 60 70 miles per hour i see a brother he's falling along on the side of the highway having car trouble but he got on the adidas soup no beard nothing i just can't see at 60 miles per hour what's in his heart right i can't i'm not judging him i'm not critiquing them but at 60 miles per hour well i cannot see what's in that man's heart so naturally and instinctively i'll probably just keep driving but if i saw a brother that was on the side of the road and i'm doing 60 miles per hour and there's some type of clear indication that he is a believer it would be instinctive for me as a believer to pull over and stop and aid my brother in islam not saying that i would never aid and i'm muslim don't get me wrong this is just to clarify the distinction between knowing you know a muslim when you see a muslim but it would be instinctive for me to pull over and aid the brother in islam allah is brother like you got caught in trouble let me pull over and help same thing with assistance you already know i mean muslim brothers we're shy so we see a woman on the side of the road she doesn't have she's not guarding her chastity right now cars are going by here flying over the air this is not i can't know if i can do this but if i see my sister in islam over there hijab cobb something that indicates that this is a system islam she's in trouble it's instinctive for me to pull over her same thing with one of you brothers i'm walking down the street you're getting beat up all i see are your shoes in there you screaming get off me get off me then i see you at joomla look like a raccoon both your eyes black it's a problem about what happened here i was on such and such a street that was young yo i keep wanting to say a lot like something you know i would have came and helped you out you know i'm in shape i got beat up with you you know you've both been in june while looking like raccoons you know these are just analogies to just you know to remind you that arcade this is important this is important you know i'm saying look at the mirror the miracles of a lost penalty you could look in the sky and see a star right billion light years away clear but you can't see 100 feet in front of you that's a miracle in the same way i should be able to identify with a star i should be able to identify what a muslim what's wrong with that what's wrong with that so when i say you know we need to wake up is there so many aspects i could be here all day talking about how many ways we need to make up wake up but the reality of it is this is the icebreaker this is the first talk i don't want to come through just like sounding like um passing judgment anything on my brothers and sisters and islam but i love holi for the sake of allah and it's just a reminder for myself first and foremost and reminded to you just to know that listen i've done that stuff for you trust me i've epitomized all of those sins whether you want to believe it or not you know my oldest daughter is on her second year in college i've been a father since i was 16. i left my house at 15. last grade i completed with the 8th you understand i have a criminal history that i don't only get reminded of when i'm coming through customs i'm so ameer now i forgot about him it takes me coming through some type of like border patrol or something like what happened in 2004 what happened in the 1990s like wow forgot about that guy i just been on the mirror right now i even know that that guy still exists but the thing is i've been a product of that environment i've been a product of that environment i spent 24 hours a day in my life for years living that way and i wasn't at peace i wasn't at peace doesn't matter how many hundreds of thousands of dollars i spent on cars and jewelry and things of this nature it never made me happy inside i used to have to live vicariously through people who didn't have you understand me was a chain it took somebody to say oh what kind of diamonds is those now i feel like oh yeah are these right here is canary these ones right here now i feel like i have something on my neck and i like many rich people would like this many of them worth 50 million dollars hundred million dollars you go to their house they got a boat sitting there with seaweed all kinds of stuff on the side of it boat ain't moved to three years but sooner one of us come in a layman they ain't getting no money we see and be like oh you got a boat you never seen the ball oh sabana like you listen get your friends we don't go out there we're going to take the boat out we go fishing we'll go now he wants to live all over again but the boat was just sitting there for three years he's unhappy both sitting there look just as unhappy in him pool looking unhappy leaves all he's just unhappy this is a gloomy place until someone comes in and then he wants to extract the benefit from it now he wants to call the pool cleaner now he wants to get someone to scrub the boat now he wants to invite all your friends and all y'all can dive off the side of the boat i don't care if you ever come back up for air or whatever i just want to live vicariously through you this is what rich people do this is their lives but when you see the glorification of it on tv you say to yourself i want a piece of that i need that i gotta try that that car looks fast there's too many stop signs in brisbane ain't nobody really open up no ferrari and you're lucky you get the second gift but you want these things but like i said everything has an expiration date some of y'all been on roller coasters you know how it is first time you're holding on tight gritting your teeth on second time you might loosen up a little bit third time throw your hands in the air fourth fifth time you're on the phone yeah i'm a little but the first time what you stood on the line for two hours in the grueling heat waiting to get on the roller coaster straight up you haven't even ate your stomach growling probably didn't miss this a lot waiting to get on the roller coaster but after a while you realize it wasn't worth missing so long it wasn't worth putting off a meal it wasn't worth those things you understand what i'm getting and that's how it affected me that's how it started to affect me i started to realize listen this is just a car probably the guy in the fiat he's going to get to his destination before me you know the chain people only talking to the chain they don't even talk to me i had people used to run up on me like yo i heard they just grabbed your arm like yo i heard you you may even ask me how i'm doing and i was sick last week you know that right it's not a concern in yours you're more interested in how i'm upgrading and this so-called value of you know but you don't even care about me and that's when i started to have my detachment with people and that's why i told you it's a fair trade to let that go to have brothers to have sisters it's better for me my brothers and sisters in islam they want good for me i want good for them you understand i see my brother as son doing something wrong i'm going to advise him i'm going to pull him to the side i'm going to advise him i'm not going to make a spectacle out of him i'm going to pull him to the side i'm going to advise him i can't you could be another find your good deeds what you're doing right now you're destroying your good deeds i don't want to do that we don't want to stand before a lot together all of our good deeds being destroyed even though our intentions are sincere nah i don't want to do that you're right brother man and i would hope my brother do the same for me aid me knows the statement by abu bakr allah the best of creation after the prophet sallallahu is telling me said i am no better than any of you if i was to do that which is correct then aid me and if i was to do that which is an error rectify me this is the humbleness so the humbleness of the sahaba and that's why it's incumbent upon all of us to follow their way follow the prophet saw himself follow the sahaba these are men of virtue these are my heroes these are the people that i look up to i could care less about what jay-z doing people keep asking me is jay-z and them like they sonic is they like you know well they like you know masons who cares when the lord promised you victory why are you worrying about what they putting together put yourself together get prepared with allah god for you inshallah i'm not into all the propaganda i'm not into that stuff i don't watch the media i don't watch the news i don't listen to the radio i abstain from these things and i try every day to detach myself from the dunya and you know it's sahaba i'm following musa maya for those of you not familiar with him he was the pride of mecca they used to call him the flower of mecca for lack of better words some of y'all from the street he was the flyest kid in mecca flyers kid in mecca subhanallah he had it all and he gave everything up even his life for the sake of allah and when it came time to bury this brother all they found was a cloth when they tried to wrap him from his head to his feet his feet would stick out they tried to wrap him from his feet to his head his head would stick out so when people tried to praise me about what i sacrifice for las vegas this is what keeps me grounded first thing clicking my mind was solving a man you know what i ain't give up nothing i ain't did nothing fine yes i have a rookie car who's yours to have keep yes i have a rookie card on you because these were the best of the people these were the people that abstain from the life of the dunya for the sake of allah subhanahu wa the island sacrificed and that's what we need to do in order to truly wake up like they say smell the coffee we need to sacrifice we need to be more grateful gratitude goes a long way we show our appreciation for things that have no value we show our appreciation for things that mean nothing to allah we spend our time which we will be questioned about on normal not in the memories of allah i know many of you you don't have to expose your sins spend hours on facebook hours in front of the computer probably in three years you'll be wearing glasses the size of whiskey bottles just thick glasses just sitting and damage your eyes but when it comes time it's a lot your weight to almost the next a lot is it then you go pop straight and pecking like a chicken real quick i gotta hurry up and get up on me and you probably have some babies i suppose that might be your last a lot you know something i know i want to be able to benefit from y'all because today to me this was just a way of breaking the ice hopefully inshallah to allah saying brothers and sisters will attend the other talks that i will be having while i'm staying here sha allah this is the opportunity for us to united brothers and sisters in islam aid one another and waking up and holding on tight to the rope of veloci allah and following the sunnah of the messenger of allah one of the things that i benefited more than i mean other things in this talk was about having your sahabi your companion of the prophet who is your inspiration as the brother mentioned as lord mentioned brother amir mentioned in his there was a sahabi in medina called musa subhanallah what an inspiration he would have been because as you know musabi bin um he was very wealthy he had a lot of the pleasures of the dunya and then came the wake-up call and then he became a muslim although he may have left the dunya and many things of the dunya but he had so much happiness that he found in islam and we hope insha'allah and pray that is what allah is giving to brother amir in this life and eternally in the hereafter as well and now inshaallah we'll have the question and answer time as we just heard before before we for question and answers uh it would be good um brother amir would prefer if you could write the questions down um especially the sisters if you could write the questions down into the brothers can you talk to the brothers so just overwhelm the sisters um so the sisters could write the questions and pass them down and the brothers you should put your hand up or if you didn't want to you could write whatever you like these are some of the other talks that are coming up um this is the this is the talk that's there today as you can see the wake-up call tomorrow night at the greek club in south brisbane um it's mashallah a very nice venue and over there will be the second talk which is pursuit of happiness that will be tomorrow night and again in gold coast on wednesday the same talk will be repeated on wednesday inshaallah so if you do have any questions actually um please do write them one of the questions you might want to ask is how many records that were sold until now now you would be amazed really not 10 not 15 not 100 not thousand really do asking how many records were sold and insha allah a lot more rewarding paradise each other not because of the records so inshallah if you've got any questions please write the questions down and pass them forward the sisters and the brothers you could put their hands up as loon requested and for um just for the record bismillah muhammadin for the muslim brothers and sisters if you know any questions you want to ask in private if you don't want to ask them you know from everybody i truly understand you know i have developed an acute you know case of shyness myself since i've been a muslim for um inshallah if you want to ask any questions feel free whether you do it in this forum or in private i'll take the time or the initiative to talk to you as my brothers in islam my sisters and i mean from adam and stuff all right so inshallah okay okay the first of the questions that we've got is how do you first how did you first know about islam are you planning to attract more more u.s rappers to islam so how did you first know about islam and are you planning to attract other rap singers to islam yes um like i mentioned earlier i um i i discovered islam by the guidance of allah like i said i wasn't looking for islam i wasn't looking for the muslim i wasn't hanging with the muslim i had no clue or idea about anything that had anything to do with islam i was jai hill at the time stuff for the law i used to think that a a muslim was like an arab dude on a camel with a hook knife and a gold tooth like smoking a cigarette or something so i was completely removed from any understanding or you know i used to watch woody woodpecker and stuff like that remember i mean cartoons just showed like some weird images of the muslims so i was jihil i didn't know anything about the muslim but when i discovered islam you know is this is the changing of the heart that i believe most reverbs can't explain we can tell you which where we were standing which way the wind was blowing you know which way the sun was facing we can give you all the details surrounding what takes place but to actually explain the changing of the heart there's really no words that can explain it because sometimes if you want to you know take this analogy to try to fathom in your mind the understanding it's like when you have something on the tip of your tongue or you have something that you just know is burning inside of you and you need to suffice it that's the closest i can get to explaining the understanding because what took place with me is i was in abu dhabi after i went from synagogue to morocco i mean i've been to kazakhstan china i've been to many countries and i was just shocked that they were all muslims i hung out with the president of kazakhstan well they they looked chinese and they were tall and they asked them how do you say hello in your language he says i'm looking at him like nah you're kidding man that's the dudes in new york they're selling bean pies they'd be saying salaam alaikum to each other i thought that was he's like nah it's not like them so i started to see the diversity of islam just by traveling so when i got to abu dhabi something took place in my hotel room with my heart changed and i ran to the lobby the hotel and the first muslim i found i just said you know i told him straight up i want to be a muslim and the brother looked at me like i was crazy what do you mean you want to be a muslim i want to be a muslim man you know like normally we see you know we try to advise people about islam but we try to call people islam i'm running up on this guy extorting him for my islam like i need islam you know so he said you're serious i'm serious man because i had something that i knew only the muslim can explain because these things didn't start to happen to me and start until i started to be exposed to certain characteristics and mannerisms of the muslims and things that go in accordance with islam so he told me simply and she had the one day allah muhammad rasool so i'm standing there looking at them and i thought i'm repeating and i'm like that's it you know not colossal i said nah i go shopping now right i get one of the outfits more than that you know the arabian sea right there don't you dip me in the water like something else and he was looking at me like no no kalash you muslim so i said soprano allah i've never seen that kind of simplicity just that alone you know just that alone just took me for a ride i said i've never seen anything that simple money never came that that simple business deal nothing really just came that simple you know so that's just a brief you know example what took place when the hearts change even some of your brothers that make omar hodge you can't explain it you know you've been aiming your body towards acaba for years you finally get there standing in front of the very place that you've been directing us a lot if you can't explain that then i'll probably be questionable to me i'll be like you can actually explain that in detail subhanallah i couldn't it took for me to be shaving my head and i just started balling because i was just in a state of suspense the whole time i made um so that clipper went across my head and shaved my hair and watching my hair roll down and i'm like i really did it you know so hamdi la that's how i found islam 100 muslims now instead of just golden teeth we all wear braces just like everybody still metal okay what's your secret to firmly walking away from all the dunya you've had there's really no secret it's called obedience you know i spent most my life not wanting to listen to nobody i hated police i hated listening i was hardheaded i only listened to nobody and that's why i found myself incarcerated found myself hurt hurting people things of that nature because i never wanted to listen so to know that i have an opportunity at this age to now be obedient and receive the reward for being obedient this is how you know i stay firm and plus i keep myself around people that feel low keep myself around people that love allah because y'all all do this around test time all beyond university y'all go get the square kid and hang out with him when it's time to do tests you don't say nothing to him through the whole school year sisters you too you don't say nothing to her through the whole school year as soon as this test time she get to come to your house and have tea and meet your family and the brother to her come to my house you know hey father have shot his my dad that's uh huh so yo you were studying science right like you know you try to gain more you're cheating too and he and him what what grade he you already know supplying a lot but yeah this is you know this is how you stay firm like i said you know it's incumbent upon us to aid one another and your company and your companions is a reflection of your deen so when you're around people who are firm you're not going to speak certain ways when you're around people that are shy you're not going to do certain things because you know they're going to salaam you and they're going to skate off on you because they shot it it's not like i just can't do this type of stuff you're doing you know understand and two things won't even happen it's even gonna rub off for you or you're not gonna hang with them anymore so just try to surround yourself by people who have tackled people who feel love people that love allah people that know allah is listening and watching some of us really think that you know it's like some blind spots out there that you could just stand and like the camera don't see you or something you know there's no blind spots allah sees everything allah hears everything so any individual that you hang with that's that knows that this will be a suitable companion for you and allah knows best the next question says do you ever miss your old lifestyle to be honest with you only because i know what comes with it no you know if i didn't accomplish as much as i did in that lifestyle i think that you know the human aspect of myself would struggle with it but being that i know what comes with it i don't miss it because you can't have like they say your cake can eat it too you can't have a piece of it without taking the whole thing so by me knowing in totality you know what this entails with this lifestyle and tell this is not for me this is not for me you know i'm saying and once you find a cure you know you don't return to the place that made you sick it's just not logical it just doesn't make any sense you were sitting there coughing your lungs out you know every time you cough there's blood in your hand you go see a doctor he gives you something that's very limited it's not a lot of this going around but you take this medicine and you cure yourself do you go out there and take the risk of getting sick again and knowing that this medicine may not be available the next time no doesn't make any sense so no i don't miss a lifestyle because i know what it comes with it but the only thing i do you know to reflect on those those things is i make dua for these brothers because i know what they're going through they smile when the camera on but when that camera is off these people are dying inside i understand they're dying inside because it's like once again that roller coaster once you buckle up and that joint is going up that long steep hill you can't get off you have to ride it out and that's the mentality of these individuals they know they have to ride it out i can't jump off right now you know but by allah's mercy i was able to get off as soon as they loosen up the buckles and i'll never my last permission inshallah to allah may allah keep us all firm i'll never return to that inshallah okay this question says what's the ultimate thing that made you accept islam what's the ultimate thing what's the real the main thing that made you accept islam and and what can you say to non-muslims to invite them to islam the ultimate thing is once again simplicity as children like the brother hear his son hamdulillah handsome brother you know if something happens to you as a child you fall bump your hand your head is bleeding you'll run past seven people that can help you just to get to your mom remember those days head bleeding one guy got gauze the other guy got peroxide you run straight past him because all you want is homie i didn't want my homie anything i could help you get off me i just want my homie but as a dose we need that one source that we could run to we need the one source that we could run to and this is a logical job and monotheism is the foundation of his religion monotheism monotheism was the religion of moses monotheism was the religion of jesus monotheism was a religion of noah they worshiped one god and one god alone and this is the wisdom behind allah's religion it's because he's perfect in it this would never change due to a man this would never change you know no due to anything only a law's decree and if he decreed us to worship him and him alone this does not change because of anyone any individual you understand so i guess my advice to the non-muslims is to search because even in christianity i'll give you some points you know monotheism is established it's established in the bible this is what made me rejected when i tell you when i was in my bible studies first commandment thou shall not place no other god before me first pillar islam lay in the hall of law that's tahit there's also a verse in isaiah this sounds very similar to sort of e-class in isaiah which is before jesus came is in the torah he says you may know me and know that i am he before me no god was formed nor shall there be any after me for i am the lord and besides me there is no savior subhanallah a muslim here knows say he is allah he is the one right he's the self-sufficient he wasn't begotten nor did you know he nor did he begotten any you know and there's nothing co-comparative no nothing comparable there's nothing comparable to him so to he is established in all religions in all religions allah created his religion to be monotheist and the quran is only an affirmation of this the quran speaks about the torah that came with moses musa but islam is the only religion that is accepted by allah because this nation today we were sent to warner we would send the messenger during the time of isa lay salaam he was the warner for that nation during the time of muslim he was the warner for that nation so we've been sent a warning for this nation today and it's the prophet muhammad ibn abdullah sallallahu alaihi so what's more ultimate than that the next question says what do you feel when you watch your old videos can you still move like that he threw some he threw some grease on that now i mean when i look at these videos like i said it increases me in gratitude you know it reminds me of how lost i was and it reminds me of how merciful allah subhanahu wa the island is when i look at this stuff well i hear it tickles me now you know it really tickles me because it's like man you almost went out like that man you almost went out like that could you imagine could you imagine the shuttle that would have took place upon allah if the moon would have died like that it probably would have buried me with a jumpsuit on and the cross on my neck and had a bunch of people you know stuff a lot of me like he watching shroud me man and you know come on a lot but when i look at this stuff like i said it only makes me reflect on the mercy that's been bestowed upon me and anytime any of us come you know into in the grips with any reminder that reminds you of the bounties of the lost upon the allah do not ignore it reflect on it ponder on it and remind yourself for the mercy of allah because when i look at this stuff that's all it does for me like that guy was gone he was out of here it's upon the law when i look at some of the stuff i actually know that i might have been intoxicated at the time light you know so hopefully that beneficial young muslims who acknowledge their identity as muslims in light of the negative image of islam at the moment in the media how can young muslims stand up and be proud of their identity the identity of the muslim is the identity of the prophet muhammad the identity of the muslim the muslim is the identity of the mother of the believers this is your identity all you have to do is implement what they came with that's how you stand up there's no physical rebellious act that needs to take place you understand for us as muslims to dominate so much of the world's population and when you start breaking the ratio down from 1.5 billion to how many practice maybe a hundred million to how many on the sunday how many if you break it down you'll see what the problem is it's self-inflicted like the prophet saws said the muslim will continue to be humiliated until we return to our religion so that's how you stand up return to your religion some of y'all y'all seen the movie rocky when he got a big fight what do you do he go back to punching meat in the freezer chasing chickens he don't get an old high-tech gym you know what i'm saying it counts your cardio and all that and counts your heart rate and all this like plugs up stuff like he goes back to the basics so subhanallah even if you know a italian boxer knows to go back to the basics who are we you know to neglect the fact that we have to go back to the source we have to go back to the quran and sunnah we have to go back to the example of the sahaba and there's nothing wrong with it at all it's nothing wrong you know as far as the media is upon a lot turn the tv off straight up just turning two people leave it alone because as the african-american in america i totally understand what media propaganda and all that entails you understand i understand exactly what it entails and it's only a fear tactic it only makes you fear being what you are you're muslim now all of a sudden as long as muslims been here we the topic of bad media bad slander because two or three idiots chose to go out there and do something stupid now all of us are back come on this is not hard to put together in your minds you know yourself you know your obligation to allah you know you haven't contributed to anything that brings brings forth this kind of slamming so stick to you know hold on to the rubble of allah stay firm upon your religion practice your religion read the kitab of allah study your son of the prophet saw itself use your time because you won't be questioned about it and this this is a repetitive thing we're going to always end up going back here sad to say i'm going to try to give you the best answers from experiences but eventually the conclusion of the answer is always going to go back to what the quran is something you got the test and you got the answers how could you fail it's fine okay um the minute i heard that loon is coming down to australia this was a question i was afraid of all along it says are you married that's it if so if so do you have any children and something related to family who of your family members became muslim and was your daughter part of those who embrace islam see normally this is the paper that ends up on the side of the panel this is the one that i act like i didn't see you know i've been married for 15 years you know i'm really live you know me and my wife been together for 15 years she's been through every struggle with me from moon began in the street because i was known since i was 13. that name ain't come with the record like i was alone i was lonely imaginable for some of y'all you know i wasn't rap right i didn't have an intimidating voice or intimidating presence so i had to go the extra mile to get people's attention if you know what i mean but she stuck through a lot of things with me and when i accepted islam she accepted islam maybe two months after me and yes i do have children you know i've had two children prior to my relationship with my wife one is be 19 next month she's in a second year college i have another daughter that'd be 17 at the top of the year she's in high school and my son he's 14. i have a seven-year-old daughter and i just had a newborn daughter my first born muslim her name is nasiha and now as far as family members that's my grandfather he's 88 years old he accepted islam you know my son he accepted islam my wife accepted islam i have many friends who are not televised who accepted islam and by allah's decree many of these talks that i've given many of you know non-muslims have approached me with curiosity about islam and you know by you know allah's permission they've accepted islam so many to be honest with you i never give these talks with the intention of you know getting shahadas you understand because there's muslims we know this and i never shared this with the non-muslims as well we don't make muslims you understand allah makes muslims we're not evangelists you understand we're not people we're not missionaries we don't do these type of things all we do to avoid it being a hajj against us or yomokiyama is to be standing in the presence of a non-muslim it is obligatory for us to call you to islam it's obligatory for us to introduce you to islam but like i told you before my neighborhood with all the muslims that was there that name one of them you know according to islam there's been times you know you'll be short on pamper money you go to the you know the yemeni store you would think right there i'm vulnerable i need to you know i need to you know let me go for at least a dollar two on each pan because this would be a moment for you right now but you know no one ever sees these moments no one ever called us to islam and may allah forgive those brothers but you know every time someone accepts islam i tell you a lot i have to go sometimes and just go gather myself because it's just a reminder to me that whatever's taking place in that person's heart i know what it feels like i know what it feels like when a person gets over you know the curiosity and the suspicions or the whispers from the shade on but sometimes when you're standing there watching this person debating you're hearing you know you're seeing a lot of guiding and you're seeing in shaytan it's almost like a bidding war going on right in their minds and their heart is changing right in front of you and only by allah's permission that war is one and that person turns around and accepts this line and all you can do at that point is know that this is the best person in the room right now because the person that accepted islam allah forgives you for all of your past deeds and turn all of those bad deeds into good deeds so can you imagine my grandfather 88 years old i ain't going to get into this stuff so he's a good man you know he served the army for 30 years he was the first black captain and he did a lot of things you know he's a war hero but none of it was for the sake of allah so at 88 do you understand the type of slate that the largest claim for this man i had to i had to walk out the room and get myself together to come back to continue like you know giving them doubt so you know this is a beautiful thing when anybody accepts islam i don't really target the pub daddies and the 50 cents and all these people you know inshallah i make dua for them because the muslim has more rights over me than them so i'll be more concerned about y'all you know what's going on in your head what's going on in your life man can i hate my brother are you okay you need anything i'm living and i would hope that you would do the same for me so this is the beauty of our religion inshallah and may allah all of our loved ones for the reverbs out there that's not muslim and they god guide all of our family into the fall of islam this question says have the actions of muslims example terrorism in the media have they made you question your religion not at all because terrorism is not from islam terrorism is not permissible terrorism is not practiced in islam terrorism comes from weak individuals who have no patience for the lord commands us to be patient if you think about the time of the prophesied son of man's companions before they were commanded the war how patient they were times when the prophet saws were being subdued and people you know people from the quraish were though you know camel you know subhanallah with those feces and stuff on his head while he's posturing to allah's plan at the island when you think of these things many of us would just jump up throwing punches some of us just run to the car pop the trunk we would go crazy you don't doodle with me while i'm praying to my lord but the patience the virtue of the prophesied son of companions it just reminds you of how we need to be the same way we need to be patient we need to practice our religion because i haven't been to a secular country or a non-muslim country yet that says you can't pray i've never been to a country yet that says this is one of the laws the constitutional law that you can't pray here no one says that in australia there's no war there's nothing legislators say you can't pray you can't be a muslim here so no one is you know being oppressed if no one is stopping you from worshiping allah then why are we busy ourselves worrying about you know acting out of emotion and not acting out you know looking for the pleasure of allah many of you know the hadith when he was on the battlefield and the man you know he struck a man and he fell and ali was standing over him ready to butcher him alive and the man spit in his face and what did ali do he spared his life why because at that very moment he wasn't gonna kill him for the sake of allah by him spitting it in his face it changed his whole intention he was going to do it out of anger he was going to do it out of frustration but he stopped himself because at that time when that war was a commandment for the sahaba to carry out he couldn't carry out that particular moment because it wasn't for the sake of allah so we have to be patient first and foremost with ourselves then we have to be patient with others and we and we definitely don't need to busy ourselves with these individuals who cannot control their selves and allow their emotions to steal the car you understand so may allah free us from this and make us from those you know who he is pleased with inshallah this one is about social life it says how do you balance social life keeping in mind the teachings of islam so maybe they're talking about i guess the social life that other people are used to how would you manage your social life keeping the teachings in islam okay this question is really based on how you determine social life because i don't know if you look at social life as in comparison to how the non-muslims socialize and this is where we kind of go astray this is where i kind of see things you know where we're removing ourselves from the teachings of islam you may see individuals have a certain type of social gathering or social platform for socializing so now we need to have an islamic one you know what they have ufc why don't we have mfc muslim federation corporate that you don't understand what i'm trying to say is like this is where the discord comes from the obedience of the muslim and stands steadfast upon our deen is when we start to try to duplicate the social lives of those who are not muslims and may allah guide them because these social things if you ever looked at these mtv shows busted you know you look at these mtv shows right real world and all this type of stuff they put five strangers in the room five strangers in the room and it's balanced out between you know men and women you have the one girl she's so hot so diddy i don't do all that i don't do all that i don't do all that by the end of the show everyone and have physical relations with each other is just ridiculous this is what social environments do they breed fitna they breed sin what is the social environment for the muslim sitting in a circle together with your brothers and sisters reading the quran sitting in a circle reflecting on you know saying the time that the prophet started selling and the companions this is a healthy social environment who says we can't do it over how i play the fool there's nothing wrong with that who say that we can't be in the parks and we are somewhere where you know we have open space to just let our hair down for lack of better words this is healthy for us but stuff with a lot of them when cast is at the i mean i live in egypt you know after a certain hour i mean everybody i mean gets crazy you can go eat in a day when you know mostly practicing muslim is out restaurants to have tv they'll play soccer on certain things subhanallah after manga but i can't have just the arab singing girl up there she's like the arabian beyonce and breaking out you know the shisha pots and these casters just looking like jamaicans i'm like what's wrong with them as they say everybody's smoking they just puffing i'm like yo what is that you understand this is not a healthy social environment and it saddens me sometimes when i see the modest sister sitting amongst these people and it's like man give it a week man next thing will come out of the hair and next thing is going to pull back like a hoodie and next thing you know it's just going to be off and she's just going to be sitting there with them too same thing with the brothers you could tell he's shy he's trying to hit waving coughing he at the same time next thing you know it's like you did that so you know just stay firm upon you know what's correct and stay out of environments that's affinity what i'm saying the law knows best okay we'll just take two more questions inshaallah there's this question there's a very beautiful question i'll leave it for the last one um and this question says what advice can you give to the brothers who are new to islam and we have had some people very recently becoming muslims my advice to the brothers that's new in islam and homila i want to thank all y'all for being patient because i don't have nowhere to go so i can run my mouth till they kick me out i have no place else to go and ain't like i could just leave they got me but my advice to the new brothers or sisters as well who accepted islam is to learn the religion the way it was established learn the religion the way it was established tahit was the call of all the prophets to single out allah or acts of worship learn to heed because in order to truly learn or love allah subhanahu wa the islam is to understand tohit so learn the religion the way it was conveyed before revelations that everything came down before the quran was compiled the prophet saw someone called the people to lay their head allah layla had allah we did this for many years many many years the prophet noah a lady salaam we did this for 950 years laylah so understanding the oneness of allah subhanahu wa the allah is the perfect foundation to understanding your religion because i know sometimes you know you go to all the heart softening books but you miss the real juices the real juices is understanding tahiti these two books should never ever collect dust in your house if the quran nikki tabletoy this is something you can always reflect on and tolato three fundamental principles of islam understanding the seven conditions of la ilaha allah is deeper than just shadow layer allah and your center brother only way understand the seven conditions of allah you know and this will build your foundation because you understand when you build the house you don't build it from the roof you build it from the ground so build your deen from the beginning build your deen from the floor and insha allah allah increases us especially when you do this sincerely so my advice to the new brothers and sisters in islam learn the deen the way it was conveyed learn towards verbs then study the book of allah you'll understand it's upon a lot of difference when you read the quran and understand tori even when you know tahini you gotta identify with shirk from like a thousand miles away you understand so my advice to you humbly learning religion in me is conveyed you can go deep into the books and miss the jews that's really important not to forget that of allah a real relationship with allah there's a last question a beautiful question there are a lot of other questions here many other questions here and some of them are very very important questions actually they all are but some of them are related to the talk tonight tomorrow night which is pursuit of happiness so i'll leave them we'll keep these questions and go through them tomorrow after the talk tomorrow night which you can see up on the screen now just for the last question how was and this lot of people speak about it that it was such a special moment for them it says how was your first sujud how was your first time you prostrated to allah and your first fast how did it feel wow that is a good question wow may allah rewards you whoever asks us questions somebody that's going to be adopted by this handwriting right here now muhammad i remember the first time i prayed and it's funny because i was very shy about getting it wrong so when i was advised that whatever i knew was sufficient so i remember the first time all i knew was bismillah alhamdulillah to believe me allah that was it so when i finished the prayer i remember walking from the room i used to pray in my house and walk into my my bedroom and i remember grabbing a remote control and turning the tv on then i just started crying refusely i couldn't i didn't even like it was one of those i didn't even see it coming i didn't feel no tears coming i didn't even feel just like something just overwhelmed me and that's when i knew at that moment that you know i actually you know spoke to allah i actually pray like for real you know not that oh my god help me when you're shot you know not the oh my god you know i'll never drink again if you just get me through this one i did these things this was a real salah this was a real plan and i felt the connection with allah even when i couldn't identify with it right away but i cried and ever since then i took this a lot extremely serious so i guess leaving on this note i want to leave this as a message to all my brothers and sisters in islam this a lot is serious it is serious this is purification and there's no rush take your time and pray you understand take your time and pray when i see people rushing through this a lot it's upon allah it bothers me because it's like what if this is your last a lot what if it's just the last one sometimes people go into real cords like did you even recite so that fight like what did this what did you just say take your time and pray make sure in every you know position that you allow your body to rest in that position before you go into the next position from the top of there take your time stay the drive before you start the plan when you're going to record straighten out your back take your time when you come out and look for it back into the top field take your time and you know when you went to when you went to jew this is the closest you get to allah it's when we postulate our heads to the floor we're at the closest point you're closer to allah take your time so you know pray your prayers and praying like that your last and the good way to keep your cool sure is think about death think about death when you're praying that would definitely keep you and and and you know keep your strong when you know that death is right around the corner think about that this could be my last prayer my last salah and y'all have seen some of the youtubes i know y'all have y'all seen the man in medina who died as a jew subhanallah wow his last salah took place in the prophet saw was mastered and he died as a jew it's another one on youtube where man is praying alone y'all seen that one too brothers was walking in and out the master they even checked the brother he was into jew return to allah so on this note as far as waking up please take this a lot serious please wake up for five you pray your father on time pray or your surrounding time because if you don't have a legitimate excuse for prolonging your salah this is not acceptable they have a saying and pray before you prayed on many of us we might think standing in front of 30 000 people to 50 000 people and then loving you that might be the ultimate happiness having a fanfare and everything but then from there to islam the pursuit of happiness the life as a rap star and now life is a muslim that pursuit of happiness that's the topic of that talk tomorrow night and we hope you will join us tomorrow and we'll do the rest of the questions tomorrow as well you

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Published: Tue Nov 30 2010