Living like the Sahaba — Transcript

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1. 0:00Excuse me sir, let me go by here. Oh,
2. 0:01Warner. What are you doing in Medina?
3. 0:04Oh, salaam alaikum.
4. 0:06What brings you here?
5. 0:07>> Alhamdulillah bro, I came here for the
6. 0:08peace, for the serenity, and I came here
7. 0:10to be with my brother Sneako.
8. 0:12>> Of course man. Let's go get some reading
9. 0:14done man.
10. 0:14>> Let's do it man. Bismillah, I'm already
11. 0:16ready bro.
12. 0:18>> [music]
13. 0:23>> I love this masjid. It's beautiful.
14. 0:30What's this book here?
15. 0:31>> Stories of the prophets man. It tells
16. 0:33you the history of how the people, the
17. 0:36rejectors of the truth behave. Just like
18. 0:38when Sneako speaks the truth, and the
19. 0:40defenders of the truth, the defenders of
20. 0:42falsehood, what do they do? They
21. 0:43speaking up, they're yelling, screaming,
22. 0:46and these guys are the defenders of
23. 0:48falsehood. Always remember defenders of
24. 0:50falsehood when you see them, and always
25. 0:51see the people who are defending the
26. 0:53truth. That's the side you want to be
27. 0:54on, on the side of the truth, not the
28. 0:56side of falsehood. Allahu Akbar bro.
29. 0:58Allahu Akbar.
30. 0:59>> I was wondering too if I'm going to get
31. 1:00impatient. I've been here for 3 days,
32. 1:02and Warner just arrived. But actually
33. 1:05no, this is the first time that I I do
34. 1:07get impatient pretty quickly. I've been
35. 1:09loving my stay here. Yeah, and I I know,
36. 1:10I know.
37. 1:11I know.
38. 1:12>> [laughter]
39. 1:12>> We know, we know. But this is the first
40. 1:15trip where I'm like, man I could chill
41. 1:16here for a long time. The only thing
42. 1:17that's pulling me coming back is the
43. 1:19streaming, is the community. I want to
44. 1:21make sure that I
45. 1:22you know, keep you guys
46. 1:24active, but yeah, I'm I'm enjoying the
47. 1:26stay here. So we're going to go to the
48. 1:28library, get some reading done. Then
49. 1:30inshallah tomorrow we'll get
50. 1:32go to Mecca, complete the hidra, and go
51. 1:35for Umrah.
52. 1:36>> Yes sir, let's do it. Let's enjoy
53. 1:37Medina.
54. 2:00>> What does Allah say about birds?
55. 2:01>> Hey man, this is the peaceful and this
56. 2:03this is the peace and the serenity of
57. 2:05Medina. Even the animals feel it, bro.
58. 2:07As soon as I landed the city, I felt it.
59. 2:09Like man, I wonder why it's so peaceful
60. 2:11here. And then I read the rules. The
61. 2:13Yahud aren't allowed here. No wonder
62. 2:15it's so peaceful.
63. 2:16>> [laughter]
64. 2:28>> Actually, it's funny. The other day I
65. 2:29posted my location. I said, "Hey guys,
66. 2:31I'm going to be praying Qiyam by door 16
67. 2:34in the masjid if you guys want to come."
68. 2:36>> Okay.
69. 2:36>> And the people in love speech were
70. 2:37saying, "Yo, Sneako, be careful. Be
71. 2:38careful. Don't post your location."
72. 2:39>> [laughter]
73. 2:39>> I'm like, "I'm fine here, bro. Nothing
74. 2:41>> Bro, we're in Medina, man.
75. 2:42>> I'm like, "Nothing's going to happen. I
76. 2:43have no security. I'm by myself." Like,
77. 2:45"Oh, you need Warner for Sneako." Bro,
78. 2:46like I've just been here 3 days.
79. 2:48>> How below?
80. 2:48>> We are untouchable in this city,
81. 2:50correct?
82. 2:51>> Yes, sir. Yes, sir, man.
83. 2:52>> Nothing's going to happen.
84. 2:53>> We don't need no one, bro. Just like
85. 2:54Muhammad Ali said, bro. He He don't need
86. 2:56no bodyguard. Allah is his bodyguard,
87. 2:58bro. If we got Allah, we don't need no
88. 2:59one, bro. We got the ultimate.
89. 3:01>> Also, people forget too like if anything
90. 3:03were to happen in Medina, if I die here,
91. 3:05>> Bro, you get
92. 3:06>> I get buried here and I get the highest
93. 3:07rank, right?
94. 3:08>> buried in the graveyard of paradise,
95. 3:10bro. Right over there, bro. It's right
96. 3:11over there. The very first step.
97. 3:12>> dying in Medina. Like I have no I'm not
98. 3:14scared here.
99. 3:15>> No better place to pass away, bro.
100. 3:17People travel
101. 3:18across the world hoping that they could
102. 3:21pass away here.
103. 3:22>> Yeah.
104. 3:22>> Literally praying and wishing. People
105. 3:24like their last dying wish is to be pass
106. 3:26pass away over here.
107. 3:27>> So, after prayer, I'm going to be right
108. 3:29here at door 16. Anybody in Medina,
109. 3:30[laughter] if you got a problem with me,
110. 3:32I'm going to be right here by myself. My
111. 3:34head's going to be looking at the floor,
112. 3:36so I won't be, you know, my surroundings
113. 3:39are not checked.
114. 3:40There, you come.
115. 3:41Come.
116. 3:42>> Pull up. Pull up.
117. 3:43>> Pull up. Please.
118. 3:44>> Pull up.
119. 3:44>> Or say it again.
120. 3:45>> Pull up to Medina, habibi.
121. 3:46>> Habibi?
122. 3:47>> Habibi, welcome.
123. 3:47>> Welcome to Medina.
124. 3:48>> Medina.
125. 3:49>> [laughter]
126. 3:57>> Isn't it nice being here in non
127. 3:58Ramadan times? It's so much emptier.
128. 4:00Also, it was just Hajj a couple weeks
129. 4:02ago, so this is like the slowest tourist
130. 4:04state.
131. 4:05Usually, well, we I know you weren't
132. 4:07here for this Ramadan, but the last one,
133. 4:09it was so packed, bro.
134. 4:10>> Oh, Ramadan is insane, bro. You can't go
135. 4:12anywhere without, you know, uh being
136. 4:14stuck in a in a crowd of people. But,
137. 4:16mashallah, bro, anytime you come here,
138. 4:18bro, it's just peace and serenity, bro.
139. 4:20Uh I'm surprised I haven't been here in
140. 4:21two Ramadans, but hey, big shoutout to
141. 4:23Sneako. Pulled me out of the darkness,
142. 4:25bro, and brought me into the light, bro.
143. 4:26We out here in Medina, bro.
144. 4:27>> Warner's advice. He had told me a couple
145. 4:29years ago, "If you get too overwhelmed,
146. 4:30just come here to Medina." I think it
147. 4:31was my first trip here in, you know,
148. 4:332023 he said that. And I was getting
149. 4:35overwhelmed. I'm like, "Oh, I remember
150. 4:37that advice right here."
151. 4:38>> No, it's honestly it's a great advice. I
152. 4:40I received that myself. Anytime you
153. 4:42learn something, bro, you got to pass it
154. 4:43on. That's how the knowledge keeps
155. 4:45spreading. We don't want to end with
156. 4:47just us, with our ears. We want to end
157. 4:49with our mouth. You know what I'm
158. 4:50saying? Where we keep spreading the
159. 4:51truth.
160. 5:02All right, guys.
161. 5:04I made it. I have made it to the holy
162. 5:06city, man. And guess who I'm with? Look
163. 5:09who it is. I found Sneako, man, my
164. 5:10brother, man.
165. 5:11>> Come to Medina.
166. 5:12>> Habibi, welcome to Medina. Let's go,
167. 5:15man. We out here, bro, in the holy city,
168. 5:17man, about to do some reading, bro.
169. 5:19Let's get this, man.
170. 5:20>> Oh, bismillah.
171. 5:21>> Alhamdulillah, we out here in the
172. 5:22masjid, like the library right now.
173. 5:25Look at the book I picked up.
174. 5:26Alhamdulillah.
175. 5:28My brother, man. Yes, sir.
176. 5:30Iqra. Yes.
177. 5:34Uh on the sign of uh where it says,
178. 5:37"I am indeed the prophet, the son of Abu
179. 5:39Mutalib."
180. 5:40>> Wow.
181. 5:41>> I was I was just reading this one
182. 5:42yesterday.
183. 5:43>> Small book right here, speaking to my
184. 5:44heart right now, bro.
185. 5:44>> Take it, yeah, I it.
186. 5:45>> Hey, you know what we got to do, bro?
187. 5:47>> What?
188. 5:47>> We've got to do the holy conquest, bro.
189. 5:49>> Inshallah. Inshallah.
190. 5:51>> Inshallah. Got you.
191. 5:53>> Going to get this one, Sahih al-Bukhari.
192. 5:57Full version.
193. 5:58All right, yallah.
194. 6:00Warner said this looks like we're in
195. 6:01Harry Potter.
196. 6:03>> Look at the way he was just like running
197. 6:04through different rooms. Like I had to
198. 6:06like try to find you.
199. 6:16>> Actually, I didn't even need to weave
200. 6:17that way. I just did that just to like
201. 6:19make you think that.
202. 6:23I cut through here just to say
203. 6:30Let's go.
204. 6:45It's not as good as a horse, but I'll
205. 6:47take it.
206. 7:03Okay, we just scooted all the way down
207. 7:04this path. Warner had a good point. He
208. 7:06said What did you say?
209. 7:08>> I said that imagine we lived here. How
210. 7:10would our How would our life be like?
211. 7:11It's like almost too peaceful. Like
212. 7:13imagine having a family here. It's like
213. 7:15almost like too perfect. Like What are
214. 7:16you going to do in perfection like this?
215. 7:18It's almost like you need the chaos in
216. 7:20order to thrive in this life.
217. 7:21>> You don't need the chaos. It's just
218. 7:22we're supposed to because we need to
219. 7:23We're not monks. That's why Buddhist
220. 7:25monks are wrong. They get a close, but
221. 7:26they just retreat on a mountain and hide
222. 7:28and have the their peace and connect
223. 7:31without telling people. People say that
224. 7:32to me. They're like, "Oh, you would
225. 7:34never live in Medina. Are you kidding
226. 7:35me?" Like
227. 7:36>> It's like life is too easy here.
228. 7:38>> That's why they I want you pointed that
229. 7:39out. It's like absolutely I would I
230. 7:41would live here, but I can't leave my
231. 7:44countrymen like that. I can't know the
232. 7:46truth and not share it with people.
233. 7:48So, yeah, obviously here is way more
234. 7:49peaceful and I would prefer living here,
235. 7:52but I choose to stay home where I was
236. 7:53born because
237. 7:54I mean, that's where the most dollar
238. 7:56that's where
239. 7:56>> Yeah, the truth is already here. Like we
240. 7:58need to do where the work needs to
241. 7:59happen. We need to be at where the work
242. 8:01needs needs needs us the most.
243. 8:03>> Right.
244. 8:04Feels too easy to be here.
245. 8:05>> Yeah, it feels too easy, yeah.
246. 8:06>> Not yet, too young,
247. 8:08too
248. 8:09>> We need more gray hairs before we come
249. 8:10out here.
250. 8:11>> More gray hairs?
251. 8:12>> More gray hairs, yeah.
252. 8:13>> [laughter]
253. 8:15>> Wait, what's the drama? What would
254. 8:16happen here?
255. 8:17>> living here. Like the the most drama you
256. 8:18will be dealing with is having multiple
257. 8:20wives and like kind of managing the
258. 8:22chaos of multiple wives and multiple
259. 8:25families. I think that's like the only
260. 8:26problem you'll have here. Like what what
261. 8:28other problem are you going to have
262. 8:28here, bro?
263. 8:29>> The problem I have in America is the
264. 8:30richest man in the world calling for my
265. 8:32deportation. So, that's the
266. 8:33misconception. People are like, "Oh, you
267. 8:34wouldn't want to live here because it's
268. 8:36third world." No, I wouldn't live here
269. 8:38because it's too easy, too soon, and I'd
270. 8:40feel
271. 8:42like I'm leaving work that I should fix.
272. 8:45>> Yeah, there's a lot of work to be done,
273. 8:46bro.
274. 8:47>> Yeah.
275. 8:47>> A lot of work to be done.
276. 8:48>> Yeah, that's the that's the
277. 8:48misconception. Oh, no, you wouldn't live
278. 8:50there cuz it's a third world dump.
279. 8:51Absolutely not, you don't get it.
280. 8:52>> We're not ready for retirement, man.
281. 8:54>> Yeah.
282. 8:54>> We're there's a lot of work to do.
283. 8:55>> Exactly.
284. 8:56>> of work to do.
285. 9:00>> This man is in Masjid Quba.
286. 9:08This is Masjid Quba.
287. 9:11This is the first masjid that was built
288. 9:13in Medina.
289. 9:14And it's said that two rak'ahs here is
290. 9:16equivalent to one Umrah.
291. 9:21One is busy making wudu right now.
292. 9:27I love this masjid. It's very beautiful.
293. 9:33Yeah, that's all.
294. 9:51>> I recommend you guys come here. You
295. 9:52don't need to take a cab. We just took a
296. 9:54scooter from Masjid Nabawi from the
297. 9:55Haram to Masjid Quba.
298. 9:58Good thing to do after Fajr when you
299. 10:00have some time to kill before Dhuhr.
300. 10:02You know, it's light out and you don't
301. 10:03know.
302. 10:05Highly recommend you come check out this
303. 10:06place.
304. 10:26Time to go pray, bro. You sleeping?
305. 10:28>> What do you mean, bro?
306. 10:28>> You sleeping?
307. 10:29>> I'm getting ready, bro. I'm getting
308. 10:30ready, dog.
309. 10:31>> It's Dhuhr time, bro.
310. 10:32>> I just got here, man. I just got here.
311. 10:33>> Yeah, you're in the dark, dog.
312. 10:35>> I'm ready, dog. I'm ready, bro.
313. 10:37>> I was going to take a nap, but you know
314. 10:38what? Once I heard the Adhan, bro, I had
315. 10:40to get up. You feel me?
316. 10:41>> Why you got three beds in here?
317. 10:42>> Hey, bro. You just in case I change my
318. 10:44mind. YOU FEEL ME?
319. 10:45>> [laughter]
320. 10:51>> ALL RIGHT. I'LL WAIT OUT HERE, BRO.
321. 10:53ALL RIGHT.
322. 10:55I DIDN'T GET TO SLEEP. Just was uh you
323. 10:57know, on my phone working or whatever.
324. 10:59But, did you get to sleep at all?
325. 11:01>> Nah, no sleep, man. Sleep for the week,
326. 11:03bro. We got to pray. You feel me? Let's
327. 11:04go.
328. 11:04>> I don't know. Let's go. Nice. So, did
329. 11:06you sleep or are you just trying to be
330. 11:07cool?
331. 11:08Okay.
332. 11:11Let's go.
333. 11:12>> Yo, this way.
334. 11:13>> All right. No, it's this way. It's the
335. 11:14same thing.
336. 11:16All right.
337. 11:19I just checked the weather. It's 110°
338. 11:21right now.
339. 11:23It's 110. Subhanallah. But, this is
340. 11:25good. The Keffiyeh is good because at
341. 11:26the the time of the Sahabas and the
342. 11:28companions or the early Palestinians,
343. 11:30they would wear this Keffiyeh because it
344. 11:33I think the black absorbs the sun and
345. 11:34the white equally reflects it. So
346. 11:37That one's good. You got some oil with
347. 11:38that one. I ain't going to lie.
348. 11:39>> Hey man, I'm going to love it. It's It's
349. 11:41like you're walking in a sauna, bro.
350. 11:42Literally. It's like you're walking,
351. 11:44breathing in a sauna, bro. It's no joke.
352. 11:46>> If the companions could do it, then we
353. 11:47could do it, bro.
354. 12:09Been locked in here for the past couple
355. 12:12days.
356. 12:13Want to lock in now and read about
357. 12:16the What's this called? The The
358. 12:17warriors, the commanders of war.
359. 12:20>> Getting ready, man.
360. 12:21>> Uh
361. 12:22so I got
362. 12:23Went to the bookstore today. Let me show
363. 12:25you.
364. 12:26Right now I'm reading about the end of
365. 12:28the world.
366. 12:29Major signs of the end of the world.
367. 12:32This is good cuz this
368. 12:34prop it up.
369. 12:35Just got Sayyid Qutb, summarized
370. 12:37version.
371. 12:39And I found this one in the store
372. 12:41earlier.
373. 12:43Ahmad Deedat. This is the mentor of
374. 12:45Zakir Naik who I got to meet with in
375. 12:47Malaysia with the Warner.
376. 12:50This was a comparative theology about
377. 12:52Islam and Christianity.
378. 12:55Ahmad Deedat is a wordsmith. He had a
379. 12:57good bar. He said
380. 12:59the Jesus crucifixion was a fiction.
381. 13:01It's in the name. Cruci- fiction.
382. 13:04Bar.
383. 13:06And Warner doesn't like to take notes,
384. 13:07but I like to take notes
385. 13:10about things.
386. 13:12Memorize it all? Yeah, I mean I do, too,
387. 13:14but it's good to write it down.
388. 13:16I like note cards so I can go back
389. 13:20ready to go.
390. 13:22But it's from a lot of different books.
391. 13:24It's pretty scattered, but
392. 13:26just things that I like to highlight
393. 13:28that
394. 13:29stuck with me.
395. 13:33Basically,
396. 13:34I'm not trying to waste my time on
397. 13:36stream. If I'm doing dissections for 8
398. 13:38hours a day, although some people don't
399. 13:40read and they brag about it, they think
400. 13:42that they just can make up stuff from
401. 13:43what they see on the internet.
402. 13:45This is how I can honestly be
403. 13:47comfortable.
404. 13:49I'm getting yelled at. Let me go back.
405. 14:07Time for Asr prayer.
406. 14:10Both getting a little tired, but
407. 14:13maybe a little nap after Asr.
408. 14:16Look how This is just so beautiful, bro.
409. 14:19Please come.
410. 14:21I saw people say, "Man,
411. 14:22you're so lucky to be able to go to
412. 14:24Medina when you want." It's really not
413. 14:26that expensive. You get a flight. The
414. 14:28hotels are not that expensive. I feel
415. 14:30like people are coping because
416. 14:32either they haven't been invited here
417. 14:33yet
418. 14:35or they're just making
419. 14:37an excuse.
420. 14:39But those doubts, that's not really you.
421. 14:40That's Shaitan speaking to you.
422. 14:44If you want to make the trip here, you
423. 14:45should.