In 2016 every hour the US dropped three bombs on average. Full blown.
Asalamu alaikum guys and welcome to another episode of smile2jannah.
This Ramadan I'm raising money for the orphans and the poor in Gambia.
I'm doing it with my trusted SPOT charity. Started by a friend.
It's grassroots and allows donors to go and visit. I've been twice.
And here you can see the boreholes we collected for last year,
thanks to your generous donations. Link in the description.
True Geordie. If you're from the UK, you know and you're probably familiar with this guy
because he used to commentate on these Youtuber boxing events.
Or maybe not, maybe you know him from football commentary.
Regardless, this is the sort of crowd that he has. The young crowd, the
kind of "football fanatics" as you might want to call them.
To see these guys, talking about fasting, let's be honest, having a frank conversation,
I could see it wasn't malicious and they were just bouncing off each other couched in banter.
So bearing all that in mind, there were a few blunders that our friends made.
So I thought, why not just make a short, sweet, snappy video
dealing with some of the things that maybe you guys were possibly unsure of or mistaken.
-You're an atheist for a start so -agnostic atheist but yeah sure
There's no such thing as that mate yeah, these are two diametrically opposed views.
Atheism is certain that there's no God. Agnosticism is unsure if there's a God.
I just don't think to quote Chris Rock yeah,
that on judgement day my diet's gonna come into question like.
Firstly mate, when it comes to God it doesn't matter what you and I think.
It doesn't matter how you're doing!
Secondly, that's absolutely false. Our diet comes into question every single day.
There are constant debates on what's good for us and what's not good for us.
And legally the government mandates that ingredients are displayed on food products.
This could be because of allergy reasons, ethical reasons and possibly others.
To such a degree, that even eggs here in Britain, have to have the- class A ones-
have to have a code printed on the damn egg and that tells you where the egg is from.
And also we wouldn't eat something that's stolen, that's got part of a human in there,
or even an animal that you have seen has suffered and then it's been put on your plate.
I'm sure you wouldn't eat a cat or a dog either, but there are some countries that allow that.
I think the way I treat people and and the purity of my heart, if said
heaven did exist, is what it would be judged on.
How do you measure purity of the heart? And what if somebody thinks
doing a specific action is good, but according to you it's bad.
If everybody has this mentality "I'm just gonna do
what's good". Good is subjective. You can't run a society like that.
I might think it's okay to have (eat) animals, somebody might think I'm a butcher mate.
It does seem silly but um that's not me trying to offend anyone because
I know it's something people are passionate about.
We believe life is a test and what's really silly is
that we should somehow get to decide the questions on this test.
Or expect a test and not to have any trials or tribulations.
I think this is the silly bit. To me, as someone who's
never fasted a day in his life -clearly- uh it's a bit weird.
In the 21st century, the liberal mindset of 'pleasure and pain
being our masters', has taken root.
And this notion was something that was put forward by the father of utilitarianism, Jeremy Bentham,
in his book: The principles of morals and legislation where he said:
Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure.
The Qur'an says on this "have you seen oh Prophet the one who has taken their
own desires as their God? Will you then be a keeper over them?".
"or do you think that most of them listen or understand, they are only like cattle
no more than that they are astray from the right path".
So in this very era, Islam is tutoring us
on how to control our desires and not become subservient to them.
In fact Islam is giving us true freedom and if we don't opt for this way,
then we're going to be enslaved by drugs, materialism and promiscuity.
And all three are being exploited by corporations and the capitalist society that we're living in.
I do it for uh health reasons, first of all, like I genuinely
started to feel the health benefits of fasting.
Fasting in Islam is primarily done to gain Taqwah yeah which you can loosely translate as
God consciousness or getting close to God.
Not taking this into consideration when fasting, is like playing football without the ball.
Every time I've done it um by day three you begin to feel a form of mental clarity.
Oh that's good yeah now you can understand why Pythagoras,
Socrates and Confucius- these people that are known in western circles-
why they would also fast.
Fasting for health longevity Nobel prize winning research on cell aging. Japanese cell biologist,
won the Nobel peace prize for medicine in 2016 for his research on how cells recycle
and renew their content a process called the autophagy,
Fasting activates autophagy which helps slow down the aging process
and has positive impact on cell renewal.
His work was studied uh in yeast so not in the human body but in yeast.
-So it worked on yeast yeah. So it works on me all I'm saying is -it might be a [ __ ]
This is true. He got a Nobel prize for it. But it's also a basic principle of microbiology,
because yeast and humans share hundreds of genes and because of this it's easier and cheaper to
experiment on yeast.
Your missus' family are Muslim full of full belief full-blown I nearly said full blown.
Full-blown.
Hold your horses there mate.
Before you perpetuate the linking of Muslims and violence let's go over some facts.
Christianity as a religion has the most religiously motivated violence in 2016.
Every hour the US dropped three bombs on average. Full blown.
When it comes to Britain there has not been a single year in the last 100 years,
that the UK has not been involved in a conflict.
Full-blown.
So let's not perpetuate this notion that Islam is linked with violence
because it just shows that we are victim to media and propaganda.
Hopefully these few points that I've mentioned have clarified a few things.
And if you guys want to know more, feel free to message me
and we can arrange a discussion of sorts.
Let's leave it there guys until next time, Asalaamu Alaikum.