Asalaamu Alaikum guys and welcome to another episode of Smile2jannah
Chunkz is a typical YouTuber with a massive following;
Now I know he sounds like something you'd find in a cookbook or on a label of a Ben & Jerry's
So Chunkz... has done loads of videos with some heavy weights of YouTube like
KSI, he's also done videos with footballers and of course that guy from
'Manz not hot' yeah. And he's got a massive house or a mansion that he lives
in with his mates. But that's not the subject of our
discussion, the subject of our discussion is when he was asked to rank health,
wealth and happiness in order; and here's what he said:
Why have you put money at the end?
Money bro I'll be honest man I've only come run into money recently
-fam and I was happy before that so -and now that you have the money you're
-making you don't feel like you live a happier life honestly -no no definitely
-not definitely not bro -why why are you so happy every day?
-What are you happier over then bruv? -ohh what they didn't put up in, was religion
God. That's another reason. That's that's the most important in my opinion. That's more
-important than all three -than all three agreed
Now that is a very mature and honest
answer for somebody that's in his field yeah. And considering that all these kids
look up to youtubers like him because when he's making videos he seems happy,
he's got loads of money, he's got loads of subscribers... I mean you name it yeah.
So for him to say what he said is a big deal mate. Now my question is: Can you
really blame the youth for aspiring to get loads of money? And where does our
longing for money come from?
Number one it's our parents yeah. They
literally sell us education with the motivation that we will get a good job
when we grow up so we can survive- and good job is anything that's high paying.
Education is something which helps us rationalize and understand and make
sense of the world and even survive in the world that we are going to be
traversing in. However, education has become something
that we just do to pass exams (yeah) so we can get into good schools and a good job
and that's it. No wonder people in these big stations or big occupations
are ruddy useless when it comes to morals and ethics and actual real life,
it's all about maximizing profit because it starts from this early stage.
Parents don't ask "okay what did you learn? How you gonna apply this when you
grow older? How are you gonna use it to help people?"
It's "Have you revised? Have you done your homework? Exam!" It's always the exam mate.
Why? Because if we pass exams, we came to a good school, if we get into a good school we a
good job and then we make "mo money mo money mo money"
Number two it links on
to number one yeah, when we do get into these jobs-
let's just say you're gonna clock out, but your boss with the incentive of a
few extra money he'll keep you there, neglecting your family, neglecting your
friends, neglecting your dreams and aspirations... na mate, for an extra few
Bob you would rather stay at that job just so you can pay the bills. Fear.
Fear is something that pushes us into doing jobs that we don't like, into becoming
miserable and eventually this misery eats away at us and I'd say that's one of
the primary causes of depression. And money has turned people into dogs.
When it comes to Jenna that is literally the case. Now because of a large
following and the six figures that she gets per month, she is literally
pretending to be a dog for a living mate.
Normally women take offense to the b-word yeah,
but if you say the B word to Jenna, I think she'll take it as a
compliment and probably even roll over for you as well.
So you can see people even sell their morality for money as well
I'm rich!
YouTube is replete with gold-digger pranks, and that's why the famous drug
dealer Pablo Escobar used to say "everyone has their price" but people that
cannot be bought or sold are a force to be reckoned with
It's not about the money, it's about sending a message.
And it reminds me of an incident where a companion of the Prophet peace be upon him was called to
one of the opulent leaders and he wanted to lure and entice Rabi ibn Amir.
Rabi ibn Amir: one of the lowest of the Companions, when he went there... boy he
showed absolutely no regard for his opulence and his money. And he made such
an impression on Rustam, that Rustam went "are you one of their leaders?"
and Rabi ibn Ami goes "No, I'm one of the lowest from amongst, but Islam
gave me honour" and that's what we see today. Before Muslims may not have
been rich but today they are rich but look because they have squandered their
religion for a meagre worldly gain, that's why we're not honoured.
And then we move on to number three magazines and TV shows
that constantly smash celebrities in our
face and their lifestyle and the celebrities tell us also
chase your dreams, yeah that's right. We made it and it was very difficult. We came from the bottom, you can do it too.
Nonsense. Obviously that's clearly not the case.
The government wants us to work
obviously yeah so we can carry on paying our taxes, pay their wages, pay for their
Wars- UK's got one going on in Yemen- and paying for really stupid stuff that they
don't even tell us yeah until 2015 in this country we were still giving
compensation to slave owners... slave owners!
And next we got businesses yeah.
They love to see us spending yes that's right and considering our society has
become more godless, God has now been discarded and replaced with
Materialism and Capitalism and money. That's what we use to fill in that void
The things your own, end up owning you.
Think about it, the next time you buy a £40 sweater, realize that it took you half a day's
worth of what yeah, half a day you spent getting that £40
so when you're buying something you're literally buying it with your time.
-There's a bit of you that you are selling to get that. -Dang
So the next time you go shopping spend wisely yeah because you are literally selling your time.
And the next point is: Our Society; and in particular our holiday and celebration culture.
Our anniversary is not an anniversary till we buy a gift, till we
give flowers, till we give chocolates yeah, till we go out. Look at the
celebrations yeah- we may or may not celebrate them- you got Halloween, you got
Valentine's Day, you got Christmas, all of these holidays rely on purchasing stuff,
these businesses are geniuses because they've literally commercialized-
I mean even the Christian holiday of Christmas has been commercialized
Dance puppets, dance!
"Diamond is a girl's best friend" and "dogs are a man's best friend..." sorry
and "Jenna is man's best friend"
Now of course money is important, don't get me wrong yeah we need money to
survive and have peace of mind. Money obviously contributes let's
not let's not cap you know what I mean. Seeing my mom and dad like smiling because I'm
paying off bills and things that I couldn't do before...
And even the Prophet peace be upon him used to encourage the importance of 'peace of mind' and if you
don't have 'peace of mind' then it resorts to hunger, it resorts to poverty and that can
affect your faith it can affect your health and spirituality and loads of
things, so of course you need to have money mate. I guess knowing the balance
is like if you were a ship and money was the water. It's absolutely fine as long
as you're riding on it, as long as the water is outside the ship, I mean it will
facilitate your journey. But as soon as the water starts coming
inside the ship that's when your ship is in problem and it starts to sink.
So that's why don't allow money to come inside you yeah, in your heart, don't let
it affect you as a person. Now remember this quote:
"Money is a means to wealth not the wealth itself"
So money can help you purchase the bus ticket,
but money is not the destination that you're going to.
And I think it will do us well to know
that money can buy us a house but not home. It can buy us medicine but it can't buy us health.
It can't buy us books, it can't buy us knowledge. It can't talk to you
when you get in over a heartbreak, it won't visit you in hospital when you go
through an accident and it doesn't make people miss you when you die and of
course it will not benefit you in the grave. I mean the Pharaohs used to
try that, they used to be buried with all their golden ornaments but where are
those ornaments now? They've been dug up thousands of years later and they're in our museums
So guys life is to be lived yeah, it is not to be purchased.
My life here might not seem like much to you but it's the life I choose.
You don't choose a life dad, you live one.
And Allah has given us this life as a gift,
and regardless of who we are,
he's given it free of charge and the least that we can do is thank him for it,
in a way that he's asked us to; through Salah- through
prayer, which is only a few minutes a day. Let's leave it there guys until next time
Asalaamu Alaikum