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Wow
Are we already at episode number ten?

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Ten goes by fast huh?

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130.000 views, emails from around the worlds

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and the number one question that I got asked is what?

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How do you convert to Islam?

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Well, it's a long story
And I'll give you the short version of it

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Here we goes

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Before Islam, I used to hang around with people

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Who were into really bad stuffs
I mean really bad stuffs

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When I come think of it
I didn't have the best choice of friends

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Man..
These guys were bunch of characters

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Here are some of the characters I remember

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The Con Artist

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Hey, Ali
How is it going baby, how is it going.

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I would ask you a question

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That book you have in your hand.
How much did you buy that for?

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25 Dollars

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Not bad, not bad
I can sell it for $30

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Yes.. $30

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And I'll give you $15, huh.
We got a deal?

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Come on!

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Okay okay, I'll give you $20

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The Crazy Guy

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What!

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The Trash Talker

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I tell you, they come up to me like
Dude, what r u talking about man, what r u talkin bout

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If you got something to say
Say it in ma face

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And he was like..
he just looked at me like I was crazy

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?????And told me ?????
You know what??????

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What?

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Is he behind me?

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Is he behind?....

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Oh.. Okay
Anyway I told him..mmm

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What did I tell him?

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The Weird Guy

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So what are you doing today?

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I dont' know
I guess

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I'm sorry, did you want some?

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... You sure?

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... Okay

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The Thief

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What's going on man?
Everything cool? You cool?

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Once I got those credit card numbers,
I'll be in business

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Bam! I'll be in business
You know what I'm saying? Wohooo

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so one day

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one of my best friend
which is also one the worst friend

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Ask me to come play basketball
with him at a muslim basketball tournament

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in muslim basketball tournament

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So I asked him
Cool.. who do we know is muslim?

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He tells me he's muslim

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You're muslim?

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Mr. Illegal?

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Mr. I just get arrested

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Mr. Let me teach you
how to cheat at school?

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Mr. Hey look at that girl over there?

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You're muslim?

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(big laugh)

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What..

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u serious?

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Okay..I'm sorry bout it, I'm sorry.. just errr..

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(big laugh)

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You're not muslim
Who r u kidding man...?

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I'm getting outta here...

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I couldn't believe it
So then when I go to his house

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Our teammates are meeting up there

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They're wearing hats that say
the word Allah and the word Islam on it

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Oh my.... What?

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How can this be?

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I sees these guys at the school
all the time

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I have no idea these guys are muslim

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Zero

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With all the stuff I see these people do.

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I didnt think they have any association
with any religion

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So we went to the tournament

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And when it came to the time for prayer

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My team walked out

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Yes,
They said "Let's go chill outside"

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Oh my, Chill?
Don't you guys go pray like, five times a day?

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No man, it's cool
We can go chill outside

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Judging by their action
I thought Islam was some type of cultural thing

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So of course after seeing the way these people  were muslim
I had no interest into looking into  Islam

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Did I become muslim after seeing these guys?

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No

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As time went on,
I know it's more and more of my friends
were getting me into trouble

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I gues this is what happened
when you have bad friends around you

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Sometimes you dont look for trouble
but trouble seems to find you

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One guy get arrested,
the other one is in trial

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And Bam!

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I got shot out

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Twice!

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And what religion am I practising?

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Nothing

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I was worshipping idols

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wearing superstitious rock around my neck

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thinkin that this rock could benefit me somehow

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but they didnt

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I was lost in the world of jahiliyya

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a world of ignorant

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Islam was never given to me
So I have no Idea what it was

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Eventually I realised that these idols
doesnt benefit me

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So one day I decide to search for the truth

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I told myself if I find it
I would change my life

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So I start looking into different religions
and different ways of life

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One by One

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I found errors in different religion

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Each time I found error in each religion
I would throw it out

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I mean
If the religion is from the creator of all thing

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The One who make everything

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From God the almighty

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How come it have error in it?

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or how can I accept messages that
has been changed by man?

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Or how God can get killed or die?

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I didn't buy it

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Or blind following some clergy guy?

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Someone who claims  he is closer
to God than the rest of us?

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I dont think so

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Pretty soon I start losing hope

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It looks like all religion were eliminated

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Then one day someone gave me
a flyer to an Islamic camp

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So I thought it will be a great time
to check outthe religion of Islam

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Unfortunately it was bad timing

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You see my father was in the hospital
And the doctor told us he has few days to live

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So my mother told me we should stay here
Because it is the last time we probably see our father

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So at first I decided to stay

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and then, suddenly I dont know
what happened I changed my mind

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I figured that there's only one religion left

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I had to check out what this Islam is

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So against my family will,
I decide to go

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So I took my purple haired girlfriend
and we went to the islamic camp

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purple haired girlfriend?

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Dude
I told you I was lost

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Anyway as we get to the camp
I was causing a lot of problems

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Let's say I was just a big troublemaker
And they want to kick me out

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Yeah
I was pretty bad

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And then after I got so tired of causing trouble
I took a break and I sat down

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I actually start listening to the lecture

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It sounded very interesting

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the speaker was talking about things
that i never heard before

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I start evaluating, analyzing, questioning

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and for the 1st time in my life
I started thinking

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It was amazing
It all makes sense

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I told myself If I ever found
the truth. I will go after it

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and less than 24 hrs
I became muslim

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I told my long time girlfriend
it's over

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she was in shock

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when I came home I told my parents
I became muslim

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they were in shock

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and when I told my friend I am muslim

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I think they probably thought
I went crazy

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Crazy!

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I think the reason the camp being such a different

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is it isolated me from all the distractions
you get in this life

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you see at normal life
we are distracted to so many different things

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but it takes all this distraction away
and you get a chance to actually think

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and Islam is presented to you
it makes perfect sense

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Do you ever wonder why
so many prisoners become muslim?

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all the distraction are gone

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they have nothing to do except to think
solely think

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So I come back and everyone thinks
I'm crazy

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How come they didnt think
I was crazy when I was worshipping rocks?

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you see
I dont get that

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Alhamdulillah I've been muslim eversince
Alhamdulillah

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Now look at the differents of the
two types of muslim i've met

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The one I went to highschool with?
were nothing but a bunch of characters

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The one I met at the camp?
Were practising muslims

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You see
both type of muslim had an effect on me

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But only one had a positive effect

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the other, had a negative effect

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You see
when Islam is presented correctly to me

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I became muslim the next day

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So if you call yourself muslim
and you imitate the misguided people around you

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why would anyone want to be like you

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I mean if you go have a beer with your friend
and then you're try talkin about how great Islam is

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They'll think that you're hypocrite

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You see there are people
out there that are just like me

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they're sincere, they want the truth

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but they just needed someone
to present it to them

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Subhanallah
Allah SWT gives you Islam

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It's the greatest gift
you can get in your life

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and to leave all that away
so you can imitate the misguided people?

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How does that makes sense?

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I mention two types of muslim

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it is up to you to decide which one you wanna be

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yeah
one path is gonna be tougher than the other

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but the end result is worthed

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as you know that there are
no compulsion in Islam

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so the way we carry ourselves
is the way we carry Islam to the people

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Subhanallah
Those who had Islam

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and decide to be bad examples around me
and never gave me Islam

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what are they gonna say to Allah SWT
on the day of judgement

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instead of giving me Islam
they're giving me nothing

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you see if you slack off up in your religion
it doesnt just affect you

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but it also affect everyone who interacts with you

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do you know what I'm saying?

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No seriously!
Do you know what I'm saying?

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I hope you do Insya Allah

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This is Ali reminding you just in case you forgot

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What, that's it

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That's the last episode

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10 episodes
we finish them alhamdulillah

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(the reminders,  season 01 eps 10)
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