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She is here to DESTROY Islam form the Inside (Pink Cherry Islam)

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The video transcript presents a critical analysis of an influencer known as Aya from the channel "Pink Cherry Islam," whom the speaker argues is creating a distorted version of Islam that contradicts traditional teachings. The host, Bobby, introduces Aya as someone who initially promoted Islamic values before allegedly shifting to reject Hadith and promote what he terms "Pink Cherry Islam." He contends that this movement involves promoting Western feminist ideologies under the guise of religious reform, leading women to adopt behaviors such as excessive makeup, visible tattoos, and revealing clothing while wearing a headscarf. Bobby asserts that true Islamic modesty encompasses the entire demeanor and aura of a person, not just physical covering, and cites the example of Mary, the mother of Jesus, to illustrate the standard of loose-fitting, modest attire that Aya fails to meet. He argues that her reliance on filters, heavy makeup, and tight dresses is an attempt to appear youthful and feminine in a way that defies Islamic principles of hijab, which he believes should conceal the woman's beauty rather than highlight it through cosmetic enhancements. A significant portion of the critique focuses on Aya's personal narrative as a single mother raising her daughter alone, which Bobby interprets not as a spiritual lesson but as evidence of societal failure and misguidance. He challenges her claim that she is fighting against shame culture by pointing out that her lifestyle choices—such as being unmarried at 28 and engaging in public displays of sexuality or emotional vulnerability—are actually products of ego-driven desires rather than true freedom. The speaker uses the concept of separating the ego from the true self, drawing parallels to Sufi spirituality, to explain that feeling small or uncomfortable when resisting one's base instincts is a sign of spiritual growth, not oppression. He argues that Aya conflates her ego's demands with her true self, leading her to justify actions like excessive makeup and provocative behavior as acts of authenticity, whereas he views these as compromises driven by Western cultural influences and a lack of self-discipline. Furthermore, he criticizes her for ignoring the severe consequences of domestic violence and moral decay within some communities while selectively highlighting double standards regarding men's behavior, suggesting that she is more interested in generating engagement through controversy than addressing genuine issues with accountability and repentance. The speaker concludes by dismantling Aya's arguments about radical self-acceptance and body positivity, labeling them as regurgitated liberal talking points that undermine the Islamic call to strive for perfection and higher goals. He uses the analogy of a bodybuilder who must deny immediate desires for burgers and ice cream in favor of discipline and health to illustrate how believers should deny worldly vices to align with divine will. According to Bobby, accepting one's flaws does not mean abandoning the effort to improve or worshiping one's weaknesses; rather, it means acknowledging imperfection while continuing to strive toward Allah's standards. He accuses Aya of hypocrisy for claiming comfort with her flaws while simultaneously performing heavily made-up appearances and seeking validation through social media metrics. Ultimately, he warns that her approach leads to mediocrity and the erosion of religious identity, urging viewers to reject such innovations and return to the clear, unchanging teachings of Islam as revealed in the Quran and Sunnah, emphasizing that true faith requires constant effort to overcome the ego and live a life of righteousness rather than indulging in unchecked personal desires.
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When I post online, >> none of this is new, man. What the hell? >> I'm not trying to be seen as a perfect human being. >> Okay, if you're not trying to be seen as perfect, why do you need so much makeup? >> That being a flawed, imperfect human being is not a barrier between you and Allah. And you do not have to be afraid of being seen if you are not perfect. You do not have to perform. >> Uh, shut up. Honestly, just shut up. Just pray is the only app out there that tracks every single of your prayers. And it stops every other app when it's time to pray. That means no more checking messages, no more doom scrolling when it's time to pray. I didn't partner with any other app for one simple reason. They're not habit forming. I would download an app, use it for 2 minutes. After that, I would get bombarded by ads, close it, and never open it again. Just prays in a completely different league. It notifies you before your prayer, manages the time window, tracks your delays, and documents your spiritual journey. On top of that, they have an amazing gamified interface where every prayer grows your garden. You can literally see your progress. Additional to that, it has the function of the prayer circles where you can pray together with friends and family. You can stay accountable and see who prayed or not. All right, guys. Welcome back to the channel. If you're new, my name is Bobby. Guys, [laughter] lookie, what do we got here? Pink Cherry Islam. Very, very interesting. The channel is called Ya or the influencers called Aya. She has a Tik Tok channel. Quite prominent. I found out about her lately because there was a drama between her and Ali Dawa supposedly, but now she is creating her own religion. This quite amazing to see. Often times you see people promoting Islam at first and then all of a sudden they tell you what is wrong with Islam, right? [laughter] 400 years of scholarship. All of those men have been wrong, of course. And they start rejecting hadith. Maybe first a couple of hadith and then all of it together. They're going to come to the conclusion that all of those hadith are just man-made. Just the Quran is true. However, then they're going to come up with their own interpretation of the Quran as well. And next thing you know, they're on social media promoting pink cherry Islam. Guys, before we jump into the video, as always, if you enjoy my content, leave me a thumbs up. Subscribe to the channel if you haven't already. Check out the links in the description box below to further support my work. And now with no further ado, let's have a look. >> Okay, music off. First and foremost, haram. Secondly, copyright strikes. In Pink Cherry Islam, we know that Allah will be punishing oppressors, abusers, and PDFs in the hereafter and not burning the girly pops for their nails, eyebrows, and tattoos. Well, in Islam, we know as well that the oppressors will be punished. Duh. But at the same time, we do know that makeup, tattoos, etc. is haram. You are defying what the hijab truly is. The hijab is not only the headscarf. For many people in the west, myself included, as a revert. At first, you might just think that the hijab is a headscarf and that's where it starts and that's where it ends. But of course, not it is about whole modesty, about covering the aura of the woman and of the men. Of course, as well, men have hijab as well, so to speak. Anyways, she's using the headscarf here, but is she really concealing herself? Not at all. If anything, she's using the hijab to favor her facial expressions because this aspect here of the headscarf appears like a hairline, like a lowered hairline. Gives a youthful look. And here, she's even making her face smaller, more feminine looking. She's still wearing the earrings visible here. And of course, tons and tons and tons of makeup, filters, a very tight dress here where you can see the breasts. And listen, I wasn't born in a vacuum. I've been around, right? I traveled around the world. I live in Thailand. I see half- naked women on a daily basis here. But what I'm saying simply is that this is not Islamic. The Islamic dress is about modesty. And even as a Christian, I want you to understand if you look at mother Mary for example, the mother of Jesus, that modest look of the whole covering with loose fitting. This is not it. Did the mother of Jesus look like this? Of course not. She's using simply an oriental style to appear pretty. That's it. Here we have her ayah 175,000 followers on Tik Tok. She is a self-proclaimed scholar of pink cherry Islam and she is an unpunishable woman. So now you just need one brain cell, not even really deep knowledge on Islam to understand that this is a scam. Of course, think about it. Proclaiming that you are unpunishable, especially an unpunishable woman. This just leads to division. Of course, she wants to steer the gender division that is already here through feminism, through Western culture, and now she's capitalizing off that. But as believers, we of course know that we are all punishable. It doesn't matter if you're a man or a woman. We are all able to be punished. Of course, another thing here, scholar of pink cherry Islam, the thing is Islam has been perfected. This is what we know from our prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam. There will be no change in Islam. Of course, there will be sects. People will come up with new things. But Islam is for mankind, meaning men and women. We already know exactly what men have to do. We already know what women have to do. But it's all crystal clear. We don't need any additions. Thank you very much, woman. Anyways, let's check this out. >> Everyone is dying to know who is this shameless hadith rejecting Tabarush Queen. Well, I've just hit 150,000 followers and I realized I've never actually introduced myself to you guys. So, grab a cuper while I answer some of your most asked questions, tell you a bit about myself, and of course, share my step-by-step makeup routine. So, my name is Aya, of course. I am 28 years old, >> half Libyan, half Scottish, and I have lived in London >> pretty much all my life. I am a single mom to an almost 5-year-old daughter. >> Go figure. >> And I have been raising her on my own >> since she was a newborn. >> You don't say. love being a single mom and I love being a girl mom. >> I'm always torn between sharing more of that side of my life >> or just keeping my page rage baiting the angry mobs. You know, >> I just can't decide. >> The purpose of my page is genuinely not to rage bait. The intention behind my page is literally just to show Muslim women that you did not have to shrink yourself down to these misogynistic ideas of what a Muslim woman is supposed to be in order to fit in here and that just happens to enrage a lot of people. I am absolutely not here for everyone. My page is actually very very niched. I am not here to appeal to all Muslim women. I am here for those Muslim women. >> How much color does she need in order to feel adequate? It is really pathetic to see. So, it really means that she hates herself and this is why she needs so much makeup in order to appear somewhat acceptable to herself. Yet again, nobody forces her to do that. She needs it for herself in order to feel pretty. Anyways, that being said, why are you a single mom? Why are you raising the daughter from the get-go alone? What happened there? Where is the husband? The thing is, you're not rage baiting anybody. You're spreading false information about the dean. And so now for believers, you must know that yourself. If you truly are a believer, there is nothing holier for us than Islam in this world. There is nothing higher than Allah for us and his dean. And therefore, if you want to privately reject hadith, nobody gives a Do what you want. If you want to become a kafir, nobody gives a either. Just do what you want. But the moment that you want to drag other women into your misery, this is when we have a problem. The matter of fact is that you are already the product of your own delusion, of your own confusion, of your own misguidance. you are a single mom. Instead of going into and explaining what had happened there, why your man left you, how this child came about in the first place, you're just going to say, "I love being a girl mom. Who cares?" The question is why your marriage has failed. She's going to hit the wall soon anyways. She's already 28 years old, so the 30, the big 30 is approaching. The point of the story is, man, it isn't about men and women. I'm not going to sit here now and get actually rage baited into this and tell you, "Oh, well those women are such and such and we men are such and such." That's just total nonsense. Allah created both genders and we compliment each other. A unity between men and women is beautiful. There is no reason for you to run around alone and now drag your daughter into your own misery as well as you try to do with your followers on social media. If I would sit here as a man and I would open up a social media and I would call it let's say strong biceps Islam. This is the Islam where we reject Hadith. And matter of fact, Islam has another pillar. And in this Islam, the strong biceps Islam, the most important thing is to wake up in the morning and to go to the gym and to eat chicken and rice six times per day. And if you don't do that, then you're not adhering to the strong biceps Islam. Blah blah blah blah blah. Do you understand my point here? You're not telling Muslim women what they can and cannot do within Islam. No, you're creating a new religion. I said it many times on this channel before. We're all sinners. I myself sin. Absolutely. But I'm never going to make my sins part of Islam. I talked about this. Check out my Instagram. Sometimes you see me smoke shisha or whatnot. But I'm never going to sit here and tell you that this is part of Islam. Therefore, I'm going to say that in that regard, I am sinning and I'm wrong here and I'm open to correction. But women and accountability is like cats and water. You simply cannot combine them. who struggle to fit into the religion because of these ideas that are pushed upon us of what a woman is supposed to be. This idea that we are supposed to be quiet and small and agreeable and obedient, that we're not supposed to be [laughter] loud and opinionated. We're not supposed to think. >> Yeah, it doesn't matter, man. This has nothing to do with Islam. The reality is that you simply want to express yourself liberally in your way. This comes from your western upbringing in London, in London town. The reality is it doesn't matter if you're a Christian, if you're a Jew, if you're a Muslim. Nobody, literally nobody likes a loud woman that is not agreeable. Nobody likes her. And this is why you're a single momselves and go against the grain. If you are one of those Muslim women who do fit into that idea of what we're supposed to be and you feel comfortable in that box, then good for you. >> Very good. This was a fraudian slip. What we are supposed to be. So she actually agrees that this is what you're supposed to be. You're supposed to be loving, nurturing, agreeable, quiet. Those are all beautiful feminine attributes just as a man should be strong, should have leadership qualities. Of course, you can be a weak man as well. Can happen, but this isn't the Quranic standard that we aspiring to be. >> My page is not for you. My page is for the women who don't fit into that box, who don't feel comfortable in that box and are tired of shrinking themselves down to fit into that box. I am here to show you that you do not have to change who you are in order to be worthy of a relationship with Allah. You do not. >> That is absolute nonsense. Matter of fact, yes, we all have to change who we are. And matter of fact, yes, we have to go against our desires. I always like to cite the same surah from the Quran where it says, "Have you seen he who has taken his own desires as a god?" Listen, it doesn't matter if you're a man or woman or anything in between nowadays. We all have our desires. And of course, we all have to fit into something when we follow the dean. Duh. As I said, I wasn't born in a vacuum. I've seen a lot in my life and I had to change so much in order to become a better Muslim. I'm far from perfect. But obviously I cannot follow my own ego, my own desires and still please God. You're saying we're all worthy of love of God. This is a Christian perspective ultimately. Maybe you should look into that. God is the most loving and God is the most merciful and the most gracious and the most forgiving. Yes, all of that is true. But at the same time, Allah tells you what he wants from you. So we are trying to align ourself with the highest. Yes. With Allah. If we don't do that, then we align ourselves with our ego. This is literally Adam and Eve all over again. Yeah. Allah and his messenger declare that you should be modest, that you shouldn't put on makeup, that you shouldn't put on tattoos. And again, I have sins here. Tattoos from the past. I get it. But you're going to say, "Well, I'm worthy of Allah's love anyways." Yeah, exactly. Hey, Eve, don't eat the fruit from the tree. Why not >> have to shrink yourself down? Yes, we all have to shrink our ego down. >> There is, >> okay, I have to interrupt it right away. I see something here. The thing is this, women in general have a harder time even to separate the ego from the true self. This is now a little bit of spiritual talk, a bit of Sufi talk here. In Sufism, they call this fara where you completely let go of your ego and you immerse yourself into unity with Allah. Your ego essentially evaporates in the light of Allah. This is fa in sufism. Nirvana and Buddhism etc. The point of the story is that you don't identify your true self with your ego. You separate those two. And now the moment that you feel small, it's not actually you feeling that. It's your ego. For example, I'm going to give a manly example as a counterpoint here. I go out and somebody is rude to me. Now, my ego kicks in and tells me, "Beat that guy. Punch him in the face." Right? But I'm going to bite my tongue. I'm going to make a fist, put it in my pocket, and just wish him a nice day and keep on walking. Right? As long as the situation doesn't escalate, for example. That means I put my ego aside. And now in that moment, I might even feel small. I might feel weak. Why didn't I stand up to this guy? Why didn't I fight him? But in reality, I took the higher path. Here I stayed friendly. I stayed cordial. I deescalated the situation verbally. And I am about my day. But my ego hates this. My ego wants to fight the guy or even worse, but I'm not listening to my ego. I know that those two, the true self and the ego are separate. She, like many, many women out there, cannot separate the two. She thinks that if she plasters her face, that is her. It's not you. That is just the body that Allah has given you. This here is not me. Nothing of this belongs to me. It's not my true self. It's my body given by Allah. Nothing of it belongs to me. None of this will persist the test of time. It will die. It will become dust. But they don't understand this. They're all in their feelings, all in their emotions, all in their ego. And they believe that if they do something that doesn't feel good to them, then they're making themselves small. This is ego talking. >> Room for everyone in this religion. In order for me to live as freely as I do, I have to combat a lot of shame culture. And that is really another main theme you will see throughout my page. I just love love to challenge shame culture. I love highlighting the double standards in the Muslim community. These double standards were a >> This is nothing new at all. It's really amazing for me how low IQ this truly is. I'm not really saying this as an offense. I'm saying it more as a warning for the viewers. She's really low IQ. She really doesn't understand where she finds herself in at all. What she's talking about now are feminist talking points. If you look into feminism, for example, they will tell you there's a double standard when it comes down to the nipple. Men can run around, show their nipples, but women cannot. And therefore, you have the movement free the nipple. Free the nipple because there is a double standard. Don't you see in our community there is a double standard because men can show their nipple and we cannot. Therefore, feminists, especially in France, they love doing this. They're going to parade their breasts outside and tell you we're all equal, etc., etc. Now, you are doing the exact same thing. You say there's a double standard in your niche in the Muslim community and now you're going to call them out. Who are you to call it out? They don't understand. They're not self-reflective whatsoever. When I have specific talking points, I do understand what influences them. I do understand how neonism has influenced me. I do understand how conservatism has influenced me. I do understand how Christianity has influenced me. I do understand how Islam has influenced me. And therefore, when I make a point, I question myself as well. Where does this point come from? She's absolutely lacking this. Of course, she doesn't understand that she is a feminist in a hijab. Now, it is the same spirit. She's pushing the boundaries within the Muslim community. She's trying to liberalize yet again. But the Muslim community, to use those terms, is of course much more conservative than the Western community. And therefore, in the Western community, what she is doing is perceived as conservative. Nobody sees her as something extravagant. But in the Muslim community, putting on makeup and dressing up sexy, etc., even with a headscarf, is still considered pushing the boundaries. And this is what she likes to do. She's all in her ego, and she likes the attention, and she likes to push further. Muslim women will be publicly called out and humiliated for making a shameless joke. But when the topic of domestic violence or [snorts] essay is brought up, crickets, crickets from the Muslim community, they don't care as Muslim women. >> Complete nonsense. Anyways, shame culture. They are very interesting. Of course, shame culture is very important because if you let go, you always have to extrapolate the idea and bring it to its logical conclusion to its extreme. If you don't have shame in the culture, what is happening? Bonnie blue. That is what is happening. I talked about this in my previous video. You see Bonnie Blue who is a woman in her 20s still, I believe, who is competing for having the most sex with the most men in 24 hours. I think her record is over a thousand men in 24 hours. Moreover, she got urinated on whilst being pregnant, etc., etc., all kinds of vile stuff and she's not being shamed, not even by her own parents. This is what you're advocating for. When you're challenging shame culture, you have to bring the idea to its logical conclusion. You're advocating for only fans one way or another. We have really spent all our lives being hyper policed, hyper criticized, under constant surveillance, taught to fear being judged by people. Taught to fear being spoken about for what? For how we dress, for how we speak, for the selfies we post online, [laughter] >> for connecting. >> Yeah, exactly right. Because if you wouldn't have been shamed, then now you wouldn't even wear the hijab. That's the whole point. And matter of fact, I already see this coming. If this continues like this, you're going to get rid of the hijab as well. As long as it doesn't fit your stick anymore, you will get rid of it. You're not calling for empowerment. You're simply calling for maximum freedom. Maximum freedom will never be free of consequences. Of course, we see this in our society as well. But that aside, if you really think about people that are totally free, they do whatever they want. Are they truly happy? That's just not how the mind works. The mind doesn't make you feel magically good all the time if you always just do whatever you want. There are many different systems in our mind. Be the reward system, the shame system, all of that is integrated in our being. And you're trying to break those biological realities through your juvenile pursuit of happiness >> to God in a way that's different to how we're told to. While at the same time, Muslim men are constantly excused. >> So much makeup >> for actual crimes, for doing rugs, for lying to their wives and having secret families, for domestic violence, for essay, for grooming, like constantly overlooked, excused, ignored for these actual crimes they are committing. While we're >> you don't destroy an evil by committing another evil. Well, that doesn't make sense. If there really is an issue with the Muslim men population, call it out. That is all right. Don't make it a man thing only, but address it as an issue within the ummah. But why are you then not the perfect example of what a woman in Islam is? Why don't you take the wives of the prophet as a perfect example and act just as them, be absolutely righteous, be a role model, and then lead women to proper Islam and other men to better behavior. Why don't you do that? No. Now you're simply a hojabby putting on makeup in front of everybody to see and you're a single mom. What kind of role model are you? What are you calling the people to >> taught to fear posting online? >> I believe in having a very radical approach to combating a culture. I believe Muslim women need to be completely and utterly shameless in who they are, in how they express themselves, in the decisions that they make in order to be truly free from these systems that control us. I love showing >> Yeah, exactly right. So that's what I'm saying. There's nothing new. It's extremely boring to watch this. Please read about feminism, first wave, second wave, thirdwave feminism, and understand what actually went into those movements. Please understand what the talking points were, and then you will recognize that you're doing the same in a less sophisticated way, but you're still doing exactly the same. What does it even mean? They can't even tell you. What does it even mean to be truly yourself? So, listen. When I wake up here in the morning, I come down. Those letters there and I take all of my clothes off and I shower naked and I brush my teeth. Maybe I burp in the mirror. That's me being alone. So, should I behave just like that outside? No, because that is my true self. You understand? There's nobody watching. I'm just waking up by myself. Why not just be like that? Otherwise, I'm oppressed. You understand? If I don't walk outside naked, maybe burp and fart and just brush my teeth on the subway, I'm just not myself. You see, I feel very oppressed. What are you talking about? >> Muslim women how to live in a state of complete radical self-acceptance. And living in a place of radical self-acceptance does not mean that you think how much makeup do you put on. It means accepting the fact that you are not. It means being comfortable with the fact that you are a flawed [clears throat] human being. It means being accepting of the things you're proud of and the things that you're not proud of. >> It means accepting your light as well as your darkness. Living in a state of radical self. >> Okay, those are Nian talking points. Anyways, hey, hello. Hello, woman. None of this is new. Accept yourself with your flaws and accept yourself that you're not perfect and be yourself and oh my god, man. We get it. We're all flawed. We all have our ups and downs. And this is why we have Islam in order to strive for better. I can't believe that she's regurgitating all of those liberal talking points. Next thing she's going to tell you, a body positivity. It doesn't matter that you're fat or whatever, plus-sized, just accept yourself the way that you are. Oh my god, man. We're striving for a higher goal. This is what Islam is about. I always come with bodybuilding examples because I used to be a bodybuilder back in the day. I personally want to eat burgers and ice cream on the couch, but bodybuilding dictates that I cannot. I should wake up in the morning, eat rice and chicken and work out. I don't want to work out. I want to chill. I want to watch the sunset. But no, I'm in the gym working out. I'm striving for a higher goal. And this is only dunya goal. Right now, we're talking about Islam. We're talking about the We want to accomplish the highest goal. Be the best believers. But you're calling them to mediocracy. You're calling them to not striving anymore. Letting go of that higher ideal. Worshiping their vices. Acceptance means you don't have to perform perfection. You're not trying to be seen as perfect because >> you're accepting of the fact that you're not. When I post online, >> none of this new. What the hell? >> I'm not trying to be seen as a perfect human being. >> Okay. If you're not trying to be seen as perfect, why do you need so much makeup? Oh my god, man. Then just come out with your natural flaws. What are you doing? You're walking hypocrisy. because I know I'm not. None of us are. >> Okay, fantastic. >> The difference between me and a lot of people is that >> Yeah, you're so special. >> I'm comfortable with the fact that I'm not perfect. >> You are super uncomfortable. You're proving it to everybody. Look at your appearance, man. I'm pretty comfortable, I would say. Look at this. I just have an old t-shirt on and nothing else. I didn't even wash my face, man. I'm sitting here recording a video. You're not comfortable by any means. And that is female nature. >> And that's why I'm not afraid to show my imperfect side to you guys. I'm not afraid. I can't listen to this anymore. >> My silly side, to be unserious, to joke, to [clears throat] stupidity is over 9,000. >> I'm actually really comfortable and accepting of that side of me. [clears throat] I like showing you girls that being a flawed, imperfect human being is not a barrier between you and Allah. And you do not have to be afraid of being seen if you are not perfect. You do not have to perform. >> Uh shut up. Honestly, just shut up. No, not being perfect is obviously not a barrier between you and Allah, but not striving in the way of Allah. Not wanting to reach for that perfection that is between you and Allah because you don't listen to Allah. You listen to yourself. All right, guys. Anyways, I'm going to cut it off here because the video is long enough as it is. 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