Abbasi, Feroz Ali - short clip - BeyondtheVeil
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| - | Islamically, you know, there's a, there's a | 0:03 |
| the traditional of prophet's most honest enemy says, | 0:05 | |
| paradise paradise, that's, you know | 0:08 | |
| like I think Christians going to heaven, but we | 0:11 | |
| make a distinction between heavens in skies and so forth. | 0:13 | |
| We're having paradise | 0:16 | |
| it's surrounded by hardship | 0:18 | |
| and hellfire is surrounded by ease. | 0:20 | |
| So you, you, you know, you know, Islam | 0:23 | |
| Tries to instill in you, they feel going through | 0:26 | |
| hardship, you're actually going through that | 0:28 | |
| Veil to paradise that in order to get to paradise | 0:30 | |
| you have to go through hardship. | 0:33 | |
| So, you know, Guantanamo, | 0:35 | |
| if you said to me, you know, you know what | 0:38 | |
| you know, do you want to go to Guantanamo? | 0:39 | |
| It isn't any of the central, you don't have a choice. | 0:41 | |
| I would say, no, I would say no, I'd say that I don't know. | 0:42 | |
| I, you know, I would never want to go to Guantanamo | 0:45 | |
| you know, as human beings, that's how we are. | 0:49 | |
| But sometimes God doesn't give us the choice. | 0:51 | |
| And, you know, the, the positive thing that comes out | 0:55 | |
| of Guantanamo I guess, is, is that, you know, you go | 0:57 | |
| through hardship and then you realize for me, it's been | 1:01 | |
| Right now, I look at | 1:08 | |
| I look at the world in a different way. | 1:09 | |
| I really | 1:10 | |
| It's like, it's like the veil has been lifted off the world. | 1:11 | |
| And what I see, you know | 1:14 | |
| what the world is, it is about, it is pain. | 1:18 | |
| It is suffering. | 1:21 | |
| Guantanamo is the real face of, of, of, of | 1:21 | |
| the world and life. | 1:24 | |
| That's, that's how I see it. | 1:25 | |
| Coming back that veil has been placed back | 1:28 | |
| and I'm expected to like accept society as though, you know | 1:32 | |
| things like Guantanamo Bay aren't happening or | 1:36 | |
| you know, even worse. | 1:39 | |
| But I can't do that because I've seen beyond the veil. | 1:41 |
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