i just finished watching all the episodes after reading the sister's thread.
i can't help but be honest - i was laughing through most of it,
but when i saw them making foolish dances with the woman etc, it made my eyebrows go up and the grin went - that part is not funny,
i also remember seeing one of my cousin's daughter watching it on my laptop when she visited my house a few months back - it was the iphone 4 episode, gotta say, there are some morals in it (especially for the 15 year old girl who doesn't come back home some nights!)
it's like a muslim ali g - but with less lewdness and a few good morals - but some stupid parts that aren't acceptable.
we are on this forum among many practising brothers and sisters masha-Allah, but we must also bear in mind that there are a whole lot of youth who are lost in that culture and are watching things much worse.
personally - now that i've seen it - if i saw one of my nephews watching borat or something filled with filth and neocon propaganda, i'd probably switch this on for them,
i remember hearing a hadith once where the Prophet (pbuh) is reported to have said something in the spirit of - satan tries to make people go astray in different ways, and he employs different methods depending on the person's faith, and down the list with every unsuccessful attempt:
◕◕◕ 6 Tactics of Iblees ◕◕◕
◕1) KUFR AND SHIRK (disbelief and associating partners with Almighty God)
◕2) BID'AH (Innovation in the way of life revealed to the Prophet (pbuh)
◕3) MAJOR SINS
◕4) MINOR SINS
◕5) Occupying too much in PERMISSIBLE THINGS
◕6) Wasting too much time in DEEDS OF LESSER REWARD
and i think a 7th (upon total failure) was vilification, character assassination and oppression.
so, i would think this guys videos fall somewhere near the bottom (between the middle and the bottom),
but if someone is at a lower stage and won't even hear anything good anyone has to say, chills with idiots and tries to act like ali g, can it be useful to reverse that list above to drag him back up? sure he'd laugh and be entertained and learn something. (some kids are already like that with none of the good parts), or are you guilty of that point???
btw, i did notice that when he was saying silly things to the brother with the beard, he was playing the fool, while the brother was portrayed as respectable and always shown in a positive thoughtful light.
but then i saw IN HIS OWN VIDEO where he says: if you're given the choice between two evils, choose none, and if two good, choose both....
which got me thinking..............
i'm sure that video would get a lot of asian youths who are from Muslim backgrounds to think,
especially seeing that some of the paths satan leads them down is horrendously worse.................
and it was good of him to add the few morals he did in his comedy unlike some of the other comedies out there.
but then the stupid jokes with his mum dancing with the boys is bad taste.
still gotta say - he was otherwise funny and if i chose between ali g and him - i'd go with him if i didn't follow his advice to choose none.
there are decent videos out there that are captivating:
[video=facebook;10150099862654156]http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=10150099862654156[/video]
but would they even watch them? (is that satan whispering to me - or am i just using my common sense???????????????)
tricky question after seeing the videos.