Abbasi, Feroz Ali - short clip - BeyondtheVeil
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- | Islamically, there's a tradition | 0:00 |
of the Prophet Muhammad in Islam | 0:03 | |
and he says, | 0:04 | |
Paradise... | 0:06 | |
Paradise that's... | 0:07 | |
I think Christians call it heaven | 0:09 | |
but we make a distinction between heavens as in skies, | 0:10 | |
and so forth. | 0:12 | |
Where heaven is paradise, is surrounded by hardship | 0:13 | |
and hell fire is surrounded by ease. | 0:17 | |
So you know... | 0:21 | |
Islam tries to instill in you that | 0:23 | |
if you're going through hardship | 0:25 | |
you're actually going through that veil to paradise, | 0:26 | |
that in order to get to paradise, | 0:29 | |
you have to go through hardship. | 0:31 | |
So, Guantanamo, if you said to me, | 0:33 | |
do you want to go to Guantanamo? | 0:37 | |
(speaker mumbling) | 0:38 | |
You have a choice, | 0:39 | |
I would say no. I would say no. | 0:40 | |
I'd say that now. | 0:41 | |
I would never want to go to Guantanamo. | 0:43 | |
As human beings, that's how we are. | 0:47 | |
But sometimes God doesn't give us the choice. | 0:49 | |
And the positive thing that comes out of Guantanamo | 0:52 | |
I guess is that. | 0:55 | |
You go through hardship | 0:58 | |
and then you realize... | 0:59 | |
For me, it's been... | 1:01 | |
Right now, I look at the world in a different way. | 1:05 | |
I really... | 1:07 | |
It's like the veil has been lifted off the world. | 1:08 | |
And what I see, what the world is... | 1:12 | |
It is about... | 1:16 | |
It is pain. | 1:17 | |
It is suffering. | 1:18 | |
Guantanamo is the real face of the world and life. | 1:19 | |
That's how I see it. | 1:22 | |
Coming back that veil has been placed back | 1:25 | |
and I'm expected to accept society as though | 1:29 | |
things like Guantanamo Bay aren't happening, or even worse. | 1:33 | |
But I can't do that because I've seen beyond the veil. | 1:38 |
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