 All right guys, welcome back to the channel. If you're new, my name is Bobby guys eat muhbada as a new river to Islam This is my very first eat. We'll add her and to be completely honest with you guys for the past years I read the Quran. I read the hadiths. However, when it comes down to holidays, I still know very very little So therefore today we're gonna react to the video What is it will add her and why do Muslims sacrifice by the channel one Islam? Productions, I'm going to use this video to learn something but more over I'm going to use it as well So we can celebrate digitally together because as a new revert Nobody in my family is a Muslim and therefore the holiday season is always the loneliest for reverse I'm gonna celebrate Alone so guys do me the favor before we start the video if you enjoy the content leave me a thumbs up subscribe to the channel if you Haven't already and check out our merch in the description box with no further ado. Let's have a look May the peace and blessings of the Almighty be upon you all my beloved brothers and sisters in humanity and in faith as well Muslims generally have two major occasions of happiness and joy the days known as the days of Eid They always come after Dedicated worship after a huge sacrifice after having done something major for the Almighty For example the first Eid known as Eid al-Fitr is at the end of the ninth month of The lunar calendar that the Muslims actually follow and that is the month of Ramadan We're in which we fast to me this feels absolutely like yesterday I reverted to Islam and two days later Ramadan started it was the first Ramadan for me and the first Ramadan as a Muslim What better way to revert to Islam than starting right away with Ramadan? I absolutely loved the fasting period we stay away from things that are otherwise permissible normal water and Normal general food that we would eat on any day and even relations with our spouses So we stay away from that during the daylight hours only For an entire month the idea is to achieve closeness to the Almighty to discipline yourself Islam is all about discipline. You need to be able to Obey instructions and listen to that which is beneficial to you And this is one of the reasons why I accepted Islam of course first and foremost Allah guides who he wills Therefore it is up to Allah to decide who will become a Muslim But nevertheless discipline was such a huge part because when I was 12 years old I was a chubby little kid. This is the day I started to diet with 12 years old I started intermittent fasting after 8 p.m. I wouldn't eat anymore and like this. I lost a lot of weight with 16 then I decided to become a bodybuilder. I followed a strict regimen in training in nutrition I never had a cheat meal. I was eating only rice, chicken, oatmeal and protein powder for three years straight No matter what the occasion was family celebrations, holidays I would take my Tupperbox and eat my food. Discipline transformed my body from a 60 kilo light teenager I became a hundred and fifty kilogram bodybuilder. So very early in my life I realized that without discipline we are completely lost without guidance without a plan We don't know where we are going It is like the example of the ship that sails into the ocean but without a plan Where are you going wherever the wind takes you? This is not a productive life and won't lead to the desired outcome. Only discipline self-imposed discipline will lead to Success anything that is worthwhile in this life needs discipline. You need discipline for a business You need discipline for sport as I said you need discipline for a relationship man when you're young It's all easy all fun and games. You meet somebody and everything is peachy However, when you enter marriage, you need discipline You need a structure for your marriage to keep it successful. And of course the same applies even more so to Spiritual matters. We are absolutely lost without a plan coming from the divine without a plan from God That we follow because if we do not follow God's plan, we are following our own Desires that is the whole essence of the dilemma that we have as human beings and this is where you see Society crumbling most religions don't have that discipline They're not applying any rigid structure and when they're looking at Islam they even blaming Islam Oh, Islam is so rigid. You have to pray five times per day. Yeah, boo. Who I had to train five times per week as well Only discipline will lead you to success after dedicating your month to acts of worship and Benefiting yourself as well through Perhaps improving your health through the fasting Disciplining yourself for the Almighty. Yes, and enjoying the beautiful month of Ramadan The Almighty gives us a day known as the day of Eid al-Fitr depicting the end of the fasting season and that is a beautiful day Deserved well deserved after a month of goodness Now in a similar way for me personally the last day of Ramadan was actually a bit sad because I enjoyed the fasting so much It was a spiritual journey the heroes journey here in Thailand and it was so extremely hot We are totally dehydrated just driving with our scooters to the mosque, but I love that suffering I love that discipline as I said, I come from a bodybuilding background. I was so fascinated with the month of Ramadan I appreciated the discipline and then when it came to an end I was actually sad the lunar calendar, which is known as the month of Dhul-Hijjah, that's the 12th month of the lunar calendar In that month from the beginning of the month right up to the 9th the 10th days We are trained to actually engage in extra acts of worship the Prophet Muhammad may peace be upon him has said That there are no days where in which the Almighty loves acts of worship more than the first 10 days of Dhul-Hijjah, which is the 12th month of the lunar calendar Now I heard this was all about what about the Hajj The Hajj is all about the Prophet Abraham and his sacrifice So he sacrificed his son according to the Muslim scriptures that son was Ismail According to the Jewish and the Christian scriptures that son was Ishaq or Isaac may peace be upon them all Nonetheless, this son who was sacrificed What was the reason behind that sacrifice? The Prophet Abraham may peace be upon him was very close to the Almighty He was the father of all the prophets who came after him according to Islamic belief and I have to interrupt it again because you have to ask yourself the question Which other religion that proclaims to be an Abrahamic faith actually has a holiday dedicated to Abraham? He was respected, he was Khalilullah, meaning a friend of the Almighty And he had built what we know as the Kaaba in Makkah A house of worship where in which people would gather and worship the Almighty alone their maker and no one else So when that happened at a certain point he saw a dream And in that dream he was instructed by the Almighty to sacrifice his son Perhaps according to Muslim scriptures in order to serve as a lesson for all of us That the Almighty actually should come before everything and anything else Obedience to the Almighty always first So when you get too attached to something it becomes unhealthy If you're too attached to your son or your daughter or your spouse or anything material There is a point beyond which it becomes unhealthy because if you were to lose them to the Almighty's destiny Through death or something bad were to happen. You would not be able to survive the loss So we're not allowed to yeah more over you wouldn't only not be able to survive the loss But you would lose faith in God. This is what we see with all so many atheists. They always tell you Oh god is so evil if there is a god why does he kill children? That is the definition of worshiping the creator not the creation We are just creation. Yes as harsh as that sounds our children our family our wives We are all just creation and every single time we put the emphasis onto creation We lose track of god. We lose sight of what is really important If you look at prophet Muhammad's life may peace be upon him You see as well that oh so many children of his died during his lifetime. Was he being punished by god? Of course not. There is a greater wisdom and it forces us to redirect our focus away from the creation onto the creator To harm anyone obviously that instruction was something divine for a purpose And even the fulfillment of it was not exactly as it was instructed It was a test I'll explain in a moment how it happened Going back to the lesson that we learned from it When you get too attached to something material for example say your car or your phone or something in your house Your clothing the day the clothing is burned to the iron the day the car is damaged the day your product is broken You may become so angry and vexed that you might lose control. You might harm people. You might do something silly You might harm yourself depending on what exactly you've lost. So the Almighty is telling us listen I come before everything else Destiny is chosen by me Prescribed by me. Yes, you have a role to play and I've given you a choice And the only thing you're going to be questioned about on the day of judgment is how you utilize the choice that I actually gave you If I did not give you a choice About something I'll never ask you about it because it's not fair So the prophet Abraham was instructed to sacrifice his son He told his son According to the Quranic scripture, obviously I'm speaking about the muslim narrative Of course. He told his son. Oh my son I've been instructed through a dream to actually Sacrifice you what to do imagine that not as you told Because the Almighty will never let us down and so he then was Known it's known that he took his son and he was about to enact what the Almighty had instructed him when the Almighty replaced that son with a ram from heaven Right and that depicted the ultimate submission to the Almighty Exactly right, which means you've understood that everything comes from the I don't want to pull at jordan peterson here But yes metaphorically speaking this displays the pure submission to god the pure submission to Allah because yet again It shows you that you're not worshiping anything in creation over the creator You would even give your firstborn son There is literally nothing more important to a man than his firstborn son If you can sacrifice him kill your own son for god what displays more submission Almighty everything belongs to the Almighty Everything so attached. Obviously, we're all naturally attached But there is a level beyond which it becomes toxic and it even becomes dangerous for us So the Almighty is the owner. He gave it to you in the first place and he is going to take it back at some point Now that sacrifice When it was replaced with a ram the Almighty loved it so much that he asked us all To re-enact that More for the lesson than anything else So the Almighty says look the meat or the blood is not going to get to the Almighty That's where love is long in the arabic language It is the piety and the god consciousness that is of essence Not the meat and the blood etc. Again, this is really why I love islam so much because it's practical It's rational. It's logical. It is true. Yes This is not about sacrificing blood and giving it to the gods like the mayans or the ed stacks did back in the day Or even the jews back in the day. No, it is metaphorically speaking. It is about the lesson It is about the piety. It is not about the material flesh ascending to the heavens of the makes perfect sense Or the sacrificial animal perfect sense so In the first 10 days of dul hijjah The prophet peace be upon him Muhammad peace be upon him said there are no days where in which Acts of worship are more loved by the Almighty than the first 10 days of dul hijjah When it came to ramadan the knights were more sacred indeed And we were taught that the knights of ramadan are so loved by Allah when you worship the Almighty in those days or in those nights, sorry And during the day you're actually fasting So when it comes to dul hijjah, it's the day that's of essence and the night Yes, you spend in the worship of the Almighty as well Muslims pray five times a day two of those prayers are at night. One of them is just after sunset One is slightly later and one is before the sun rises So actually three of them are after sunset two of them are at night and two of them are during the day That makes five Those are short prayers that don't last more than a few minutes But it's just to be able to turn to the Almighty remind yourself I came from there I'm going to go back there The one who made me is going to have mercy on me and he is the only one I worship And I call him Allah which means the worshipped one Eloha or Elohim in the Hebrew language Now the prophet Abraham and his sacrifice His life is celebrated by the Muslims in a great way His son Ismail his son Isaac or Ishaq may peace be upon them all his wives And everything that he did the dedication is studied by the Muslims just like it's studied by others But we reenact this we worship the Almighty for these Nine whole days and on the 10th day we're given an Eid known as Eid al-Adha Eid al-Adha actually lasts for three days so That Eid where we're in which we're meant to reach out to the poor again With meat with food stuff with something to eat with something to celebrate with Vegans hate this holiday reaching out to the poor and that's why the Almighty says divide your sacrifice into three A third you can eat from a third give your family and friends and the third dedicated to the poor That's an amazing Islamic teaching even your wealth. It would be brilliant if you could divide it into three It's not compulsory regarding your general wealth Because there is a bare minimum that you have to give known as the charity the zakat So charity in the English language has the understanding that it's totally voluntary No other religion has this yet again people will claim that Islam is also evil or so bad No other religion has compulsory charity comes to the zakat that the Muslims give it's not voluntary But it's a type of charity. That's actually Compulsory you must nice two and a half percent amazing So when it comes to the sacrificial animal we give And we reach out to the poor The idea is to be able to become a better person with all of these teachings The idea is to improve on two things Every time Islam has taught us something The idea is to improve on two things one is your relationship with the one who made you Is your relationship with everything else that he has made As simple as that now you have people from Different understandings at times a minority who misinterpret things and they they are cruel towards those who perhaps belong to other faiths Maybe other races. Maybe other nationalities. This is not only within the Muslims But a lot of people have this misunderstanding We are actually brothers and sisters because we come from Adam and Eve And even though we may not share the same faith notice at the beginning The older I get the more I realize that it's all about good and evil. You have good and evil people Everywhere that being said of course as a muslim I believe that Islam is the absolute truth But nevertheless that doesn't put me in a position to hate on other people and this is what you see Unfortunately in every faith be it christianity be it judeism But even within the muslims you have people that are filled with hatred And they cannot wait to use any pretense to let that hatred out And then they're going to use and abuse the religion just to vomit their hatred and frustration onto the world And sisters In humanity at least it's a battle between good and evil after all some of you might be my brothers and sisters in faith too But if you're not no big deal, you're still my brothers and sisters in humanity the minimum I thought you is the respect of a human being of an extended family of mine Even if I disagree with you and that's something that we're taught as muslims And this is where when the sacrifice comes in we as muslims We do have a little bit of difference of opinion regarding certain details, you know, how old should the animal be Exactly what time should it happen and so on is there a leeway? Is there no leeway? But that does not remove us from being connected in the same way When you don't belong to my faith It doesn't remove us from being connected through humanity and we should discuss our faith I mean today. I'm speaking to you tomorrow. You can speak to me. Tell me what you believe what you think We should be free to do this in a very respectful way No attacking people No Abusing them no swearing them. Just present your opinion You may want to express why you feel someone else is wrong But in a beautiful way just to get them to understand and then to make their minds up As to what exactly they want to do Now this is something that is lacking in today's world Or should I say it needs to be encouraged more And I pray that this Beautiful occasion of the Eid al-Adha the Eid of the sacrifice Is actually going to be a time of reflection a time of sacrifice dedication A time of worship a time of reaching out to the poor and a time of building the bond with both the Departments that we're supposed to be building the bonds with number one My relationship with my maker number two my relationship with the rest of the creatures of the same maker Thank you so much for giving me this opportunity. I think we've benefited Jazakum Allah khayr mele almighty recompense you with Beautiful goodness Amen All right, this is it for today's video. I personally as a new muslim learned a lot here I know for born muslims. This probably was boring. They already know this Nevertheless, I believe that this was very very beautifully said and I am aware that some people do not appreciate this Compassionate way of speaking again. I want to make one thing very very clear here I believe that islam is the true religion of god Therefore I accepted it But nevertheless, he's absolutely right here the base respect we have to give each other as humans as brothers and sisters In humanity there is absolutely no point in pointing the finger and screaming kaffir over and over again No, we are brothers and sisters in humanity I couldn't agree more and this is why I personally Truly see the world split in right and wrong good and evil and you have good people everywhere Even here in Thailand. I'm living amongst buddhists. You have no idea how many beautiful buddhists I met I had muslim brothers with me here in thailand and they said themselves man, we can learn something of those buddhists They're so nice. They're so friendly. We as muslims have to step up to that level and I absolutely agree We can never trade falsehood for truth. Absolutely not. We should always convey the true message of islam Obviously, but we have to do it in a beautiful way as he said otherwise people are just shutting down And for me personally when people ask me, why don't you give daawa guys? I call this a low-key undercover daawa if you will I do not speak directly to people and try to convince them because nobody did that to me either Ultimately, I opened up the Quran because I wanted to debunk islam and look where that brought me If you have an open mind, you can understand the information that is being presented to you But it cannot be forced upon you. There is no compulsion in religion That's what it states in the Quran and this is what I always have in the back of my mind when talking to people I simply say yes, I'm a muslim and if they have questions, I talk about it But ultimately Allah guides who he wills. All right guys And this is it for today's video yet again eat mubadak Everybody celebrate with your families for me a little bit If you like the video leave it a thumbs up if you haven't subscribed already guys Please do so and if you want to support this channel via merch for example, all the links are in the description box below Thank you so much for your ongoing support guys and as always may god bless you all much love and peace