– As Salyamu Aliekum Wa Rahmatullah.
AlhamduliLlah, I'm here with my very good friend Ali Banat.
After that video that went viral yesterday of you laying there on the floor,
blood all over the place, I think everyone was very scared,
so we've come to see him in person, to see how he is and to catch up with him.
It's been 8 months since we recorded that first video.
Ali, As Salyamu Aleikum.
– Wa Aleikuma As Salyam Wa RahmatuLlah.
– How are you doing? – Brother, AlhamduliLlah.
Compared to yesterday a lot a lot better, AlhamduliLlah.
– What happened to you yesterday, man?
– As you all know, I have a tumor my mouth SubhanAllah.
The doctors have told me that slowly the tumors gonna start to corrode
and all my vessels inside my mouth will start to erupt
and caused a lot of bleeding to the point
where one day somehow it'll cause that much bleeding
that they won't be able to stop it and it could kill me.
So yesterday was the first episode, AlhamduliLlah.
– AlhamduliLlah. But you look good,
you really don't look like someone that is suffering,
I ask Allah Subhana Wa Ta'la that He gives you the strength to keep going.
How have things been over the last 8 months
and from that first video until now, what's been happening, where have you been?
– Well, I've been up and down in the last 8 months,
as you all know I've been to China, I have been to different countries,
a couple of countries to find different types of natural treatment,
but SubhanAllah, found out myself that no matter where you go,
there's always someone that's trying to make money,
trying to any take advantage of you and the situation,
so I've come to terms to realize that the Only One that's there for me
and always be there for me and has every solution
is Allah Subhana Wa Ta'la.
– You'd be faced with a lot of rumors and a lot of scams.
Has that affected you much at all?
Or you being able to develop tough skin and move on with it?
– To be honest with you,
all the people that doubt me, all the people that doubt my sickness,
I say thank you very much to all these people,
because on the Day of Judgment
I'll be waking up with a mountain of rewards from you backbiting.
So I urge all the brothers and sisters
if they want to make their own stories up to fear Allah Subhana Wa Ta'la
and stop giving me your rewards.
– Cause they love you.
How is your project?
How are things going in Africa?
– AlhamduliLlah, the project is doing very very good,
I'll be leaving on Saturday to go and fulfill everyone's dreams that donated towards MATW
even though I'm sick and the doctors have told me
that it's not very good for me to travel at the moment,
because the pressure of the plane and stuff like that can cause me to bleed some more,
but SubhanAllah when I first started with MATW
I made a promise with Allah Subhana Wa Ta'la and myself.
No matter what happens to me, no matter how hard the struggle is,
I'm gonna keep striving until I finish these projects
and finish my promise to everyone that's donated.
– May Allah Subhana Wa Ta'la keep you strong. – Ameen.
– And your life over the last year..
comparison to the rest of your life..
if you could go back..
cause Mashallah, I've been in touch with you,
so over the last year you've done some phenomenal things,
so when you look back at the life that you leave in comparison to that one year,
if you could go back, what would you change?
– Well it to be honest with you, at the moment from when I got sick until now,
as I said at the first video that I've been gifted with with cancer and it's actually a gift that I'll never return.
It's changed me that much,
it's brought me a lot closer to Allah Subhana Wa Ta'la.
I don't even know how the things I'm doing, I don't even know how I get them done.
A lot of people message me, they told me we want to thank you and your team,
but little do they know there is no MATW,
I'm MATW.
I managed to reply to all the Facebook,
I managed to reply to all the people on Instagram
and it's just it's pretty much a one-man army.
Allah Subhana Wa Ta'la, I don't know where all this strength is coming from.
A lot of people see me, they feel that I'm not even sick,
that's why a lot of accusations have been made that I'm not sick, but the struggles I go through every day
it's between me and Allah Subhana Wa Ta'la.
He gives me so much strength,
I wake up every day just wanting to do more and more for the Deen.
– I remember while back, I went to the hospital to visit you,
you weren't there at the time,
so I went and I visited Mohammed Nagi, may Allah give him Shifa.
I wanted to ask what's the dark side of being sick,
what are some of the challenges that people don't get to see,
because when I went to visit him and I've gone to visit others,
there's really a suffering that I think people tend to overlook
and it's a very real suffering.
Do you face that yourself?
What are some of the challenges that you're going through?
– SubhanaLlah. Everything is a challenge
when Allah gives you a sickness or takes away your eyesight
or whatever it is that happens.
There's always something from your life that has to change either for the better
to come closer to Allah Subhana Wa Ta'la
or for the better for yourself.
But sometimes, for example food,
there's not much food that I can eat at the moment,
for example when I get pain, there's not much people that I want to talk about my pain,
because I don't want to put my mom
or my family through what I'm going through.
So I just keep quiet and keep it to myself.
– Does that hurt though the fact that you can't share?
I mean you sometimes want to scream it out, but you can't.
– A lot of times you want to scream it out,
but you just have to have patience and have Tawakkul in Allah.
I think that's the biggest thing that we lacked in our community is Tawakkul in Allah Subhana Wa Ta'la.
A lot of people believe that they have Tawakkul in Allah Subhana Wa Ta'la,
but in reality as soon as someone gets sick,
we straightaway handle our life and soul to the doctors and we have to come to realize
that before anything we should ask Allah Subhana Wa Ta'la,
pray Istikhara, should we do chemo, should we do..
whatever it is that you want to do in life,
just take five minutes, pray 2 rakaat Istikhara
and ask Allah Subhana Wa Ta'la if it's the right decision,
because a lot of us had jumping into things..
How many brothers have have died from the schema
that the so-called Western medicine are giving us, the doctors.
Allah Subhana Wa Ta'la had written all the cures for us in the Quran.
Black seed oil, honey, dates, Zam Zam water.
If we really believed from our heart
that Allah Subhana Wa Ta'la is telling us the truth,
this in itself is sufficient for us to be cured.
– I guess there's no harm in taking other medicines
but this has to our core and we have to have firm belief. – Yeah, of course.
Lastly I want to say that yesterday when I seen that video of yourself,
I must admit that there was an element of shock
and like I jerked with you of the phone,
I was like, "Man, you can't die now,
we still got to do more things".
But I remember when I was watching it,
I did say to myself, "Why are you shocked?
I can die before you".
But still we think because you got a sickness, so you're definitely gonna die before me.
So I guess my question to you is
what message do you have for the brothers and sisters,
that rightfully are concerned for you
and worried about you and obviously don't want you to die anytime soon,
but what message do you have for the brothers and sisters?
– SubhanaLlah, like brother Hobloss is saying,
anyone can die before me,
even the people that were watching over me the day
when I was on the floor bleeding could have died in that second before me.
So we have to live each day as if it's our last
or like each second as if it's our last.
And message to the brothers and sisters, my Allah reward you for all your support and concern.
A lot of people need to not feel sorry for me because I'm happy with what Allah Subhana Wa Ta'la gifted me with.
They need to worry and reflect from what they see
and ponder and think about them being in the same position,
not even in the same position, anyone can die at any time.
The truth is as much as you feel sorry for me,
you should be feeling sorry for yourself before me.
Because AlhamduliLlah Allah Subhana Wa Ta'la has given me a project,
I have something to work for in my life at this time
and I have a project I'm working towards to build my Ahira,
a lot of people neglect that, they want to build their houses,
they're families before they built Ahira, you know what I mean.
So just sit down, reflect and make most of it
and think of you being in a position before feeling sorry for anyone.
– Ali, lastly.
Where can people go to get authentic news about yourself and your condition?
– Daily Telegraph.
– Cause a lot of people do share you stuff
and I guess where the most preferred place
people can go to make sure that what they're seeing is definitely authentic?
– Well the most most preferred place is the Facebook page and the Instagram page, MATW project.
So if you haven't seen anything posted on there that I have passed away
or I'm in hospital or whatever it is, it's not true.
Unless it's posted on our page, believe it InshaaLlah.
– I ask Allah Subhana Wa Ta'la to keep you strong
and give you Shifa and to use you to empower this Ummah.