All right guys before we begin I've got a swollen gum problem here, that's why I
was out of action for a good couple of days, and you know alhamdulillah it's on
the mend but I still can't speak properly... so excuse me for spitting on
the mic and on the camera yeah.
Before we get into this really interesting topic guys, as you
know this Ramadan I am raising money for a girls school in Gambia.
The SPOT charity is a charity that's dedicated to Gambia, they've already made
a Masjid for orphans and a school/a boarding school for orphans and mashaAllah
I've gone there twice, had a look around and mashaAllah the money is
well-spent, the brother's transparent, you guys can visit,
go there and mashaAllah; amazing charity. And to be honest guys it is such
an amazing investment, that not only are you saving that particular individual,
you're saving an entire generation. So please, please donate to SPOT charity.
Let's get into it guys. French Montana; a couple of years ago
footage emerged of French Montana encouraging P Diddy to fast.
I did my first day of Ramadan, I know i'm three days late.
Got my big bro practicing Ramadan, in great spirit getting closer to God
And also I'm pretty sure it was Vin Diesel in there as well.
I'm proud that my brother here is be doing Ramadan, I might be in for it.
Yeah I'm trying to get my brother to do Ramadan with me man, ramadan mubarak man.
The concept of it is so powerful,
and probably be good for anybody in life.
Last year i saw an interview with Sway.
You look- you know it's funny they say when you make
-money you start looking like money. -start glowing?
-you glowing family -it's that right after Ramadan flow
that's the after ramadan flow. I cleaned up nice
And this year as well. The guy was in an interview and he had a chain of Allah
and you know here's what he said.
Young Thug. Where you guys at, you and Thug right now?
Ramadan, you know it's Ramadan right?
-Yes sir peace. -yeah Ramadan so....
I got about what? 20 more days. It's all positive energy.
What i really love about this story is the fact that French,
is with the biggest of celebrities. Whether you got Drake, you got
P Diddy, i mean you name em yeah, the guys with then. When it comes to jewellery,
when it comes to women, when it comes to fame... the guys got it all you know what i'm saying?
If the guys got everything that we aspire to, why is he still starving
himself and why is he still searching for something else in the religion of Islam?
And this is why i find so fascinating and so remarkable about this
story, is the guy has it, but it's just not enough. And when you listen to
these celebrities: Conan O'Brien says something very similar.
I've seen so many people in my profession. American performers/actors/comedians who I
wouldn't want to be in a million years, they're just unhappy people. We're
only seeing this very flattened out image of them laughing and driving a
sports car and we think; if I had that all my problems would be solved.
When it comes to stuff that happens on the outside of our body, we've got
creams and all sorts of things yeah. But when
something similar happens on the inside of the body, you can't now start applying
that cream or lotion on the inside of your body yeah. What works on the outside
doesn't necessarily work on the inside, and most of us intelligent folks know that.
Right and then I see the disinfectant, it knocks it out in a
minute, one minute and is there way we can do something like that by injection
inside or...? It's called inner peace because it has to come from the inside, yeah you
can't get from the outside. And you know what guys? Some people just love jumping and
criticizing. If there's not constructive criticism what's the point mate? It's
destructive criticism; it's useless mate. Like somebody just
started cooking something, you don't start jumping in saying 'yep the veg
isn't cooked properly, yep the meat is still like this and that's still cold'
of course coz I just started cooking mate now give me a break yeah. Give him a
chance, if you really do want to advise him do it with the utmost of manners,
like Allah asked Musa (aly-hisalaam) to do with Pharaoh. It's like somebody's maybe
driving yeah. And their slowly- the steering wheel is a bit off. If you
correct that steering wheel harshly the car is gonna veer off the road and he's
gonna hurt himself and you're gonna hurt yourself as well. Some people on the
other side always going around 'don't judge me don't judge me' saying that they
can do ever they want and no one's allowed to advise them. That's absolutely
wrong, like you're doing something wrong someone does need to come up to you
and tell you you're doing something wrong. Of course it's gotta be done
properly though yeah. Bear in mind where somebody is. Now with French you guys
have to understand, the guy surrounded with desire, with the wrong company yeah.
So people say 'oh he was like this, then he was in the mosque and he was doing whatever,
and now suddenly he's doing this' that's life
yeah that's life. You do something wrong, you do something right, you do something...
but the thing is when you do something wrong ask Allah for forgiveness and make
sure it's sincere forgiveness and try your best
not to do that thing again. If you do it again, do the same thing, ask
Allah for forgiveness (you know I'm saying?) if you ask Allah for forgiveness
genuinely, Allah erases that sin such that it doesn't even exist. And some of
us are going around critiquing people for sins that Allah is pretty much wiped
out but we don't know. This was a really nice story about French obviously do I
wish he wouldn't drink: of course. Do I wish he wouldn't do what he's doing:
yes of course. But I don't know, tomorrow French might be on a better
path than me wallahi (by Allah) I don't know yeah- and I pray Allah keeps me sincere
but you know how his guys like, they've got these things that even- like we
are raised on mainstream media and advertising, we even look at that stuff
and go 'wow'', so when these people look towards a deen, I think is
really powerful and it definitely should be celebrated, rather than people going
'yeah but that's haraam though' shut up
That's not how you give dawah.
Please guys don't forget to donate and inshallah I'll see you in the next video
Asalaamu Alaikum