Muhammad Ali - The Universality of Religion (1977)
Muhammad Ali (born Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr.; January 17, 1942 - June 3, 2016) was an American professional boxer and activist. Nicknamed "the Greatest", he is regarded as one of the most significant sports figures of the 20th century and is often regarded as the greatest heavyweight boxer of all time. He held the Ring magazine heavyweight title from 1964 to 1970. He was the undisputed champion from 1974 to 1978 and the WBA and Ring heavyweight champion from 1978 to 1979. In 1999, he was named Sportsman of the Century by Sports Illustrated and the Sports Personality of the Century by the BBC.
The audio in the video is from an interview with Muhammad Ali in New Castle on July 16th, 1977.
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My favourite thing about Ali was that he only did what he had to and not anything more, he'd pull punches if you were going down, he'd ask the ref to stop the fight if you were injured, he was a safety first kind of guy
Look at mike tyson and ray mercer those guys wanted to kill you
Man...he was a jerk. He was a fantastic boxer, great man and inspiration...a GOAT. But still a jerk.
@@ouroboros_on_the_orangeIt's true he was terrible to his opponente outside the ring especially liston and frazier, but inside the ring he wasn't so mean
Unless you call him Cassius Clay
He treated ernie terrell badly & if my memory serves me well he was nasty to floyd patterson..
Many paths - One Truth. All rivers lead to the Great Ocean.
No slaver abolitioner Cassius Clay and Seller of non blierver are not same .boxer change name Cassius Clay father of abolition of slavery to biggest forced owner and seller of non bliever of arabia ❤
@@SaiyyadInnayaYassir Surely your just selling yourself into slavery of him.
There is something in the bible about idolatry, Which is almost as good a book as any Harry potter.
I spent the last 20 years living in Louisville, KY. When hometown hero Muhammad Ali passed away, the outpouring of love for him was INCREDIBLE. People of all backgrounds and beliefs went out onto the streets to celebrate his greatness. He may not have been welcomed in all places in his younger years, but by the time of his death, his inspirational life was cherished by almost everyone 💗
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My grandfather owned an appliance store in Downtown Louisville in the 50's and 60's. Cashius Clay (Muhammad Ali) and his father were hired by my Papaw to paint his appliance store. I don't know all the details, Papaw has been gone for 25 years, but that was his story he loved to tell people, that he got to interact with the legend before he was a legend
The Greatest just went up another level!! Where are the Muhammad Ali's of today, we could really use one right now. He was a marvelous man!!! And his legacy lives on...
Simply put: Religion shouldn’t be followed for the sake of certain belief systems, or it will be a tool for authoritarianism. Religion should be followed for the unbelievable experience of Unity, which will be a tool for freedom. Amen 🙏🏼
3:50 so true! I hope this is heard all over the world. Excellent message and video!
After Skool you gave me one of the biggest synchronicity spikes in my life. I just binge watched alis interviews last night and was crying i was so goddamn inspired, and laughing, and thinking how cool this mofo was, directly challenging the status quo, thinking man i Loooooove bruce lee and his philosophy, how come i never heard ali until tonight??? and WHAM!! YALL DROP DIS VID
I appreciate you!
Problem is many people take their religion very seriously literal and justifies behaviour that no sane person would do on their own.
And some religions justify violence and slavery. But he never read the book, he just liked the company.
One spiteful individual can divide and bring the weak to the dark side or down to their level one bad apple Peace
@@celsus7979 if you're talking about slavery in Islam, then you have read very little that you didn't even know Islam helped a lot to end slavery.
@@mohammedeldawody...6165 Islam didn't help end slavery, that's very misleading. It regulated it.
@@mohammedeldawody...6165yes quran is all about terrorists and killing innocent people in the name of sullah
Sounds about right on .. homie was given the power and didnt hold back or shut up
Thank you again for putting another good video out and attempting to help uplift and put more positivity in this world of pure negativity, selfishness, apathy and closed mindedness, as we can see through the comment section alone. Although i may not agree with everything i hear or see on your channel, at least i can ignore the trees and see the forest of the messages of positivity, empathy, openess and progress you are trying to convey to us. Thank you for being a part of the solution of building unity and not the problem of division and dichotomy which so many of us are addicted to. Keep it up! Love and blessings to all.
God is great, God is brilliant, God is fantastic. To God I belong and to God I will return. I seek refuge and protection in God from Satan and bad things. I seek truth and the straight path ❤
Thank you After Skool! That was new to me
This one is short & sweet, another great one and this time with The Greatest! Peace & much love to ya
I was too young to know what Cassius/ Mohammed Ali was saying at the time; but this speaks to me today! ❤ Thank you
I would've been 5 when this was live, I don't know if I saw it or not. But I do know that it's kinda been my belief about religion since I was maybe 9 or 10, and I had a comic book where he fought Superman.
I saw the post mentioning that this was one of the videos least watched... That baffles me. This is very powerful.
I used to always justify being an atheist with the rationality "how can all the different religions of the world all be correct when they are all different? ...therefore it makes no sense to choose any one of them". But recently I had what was for me a profound experience while meditating stoned and I saw that they are actually all the same. They are all reflections of the human brain.
Not every human mind is the same. Some 'prophets' were hateful narrow-minded people.
@@celsus7979 agreed. But all human brains have the same major structures/functions and I think that is what facilitates the potential for spirituality. This through the lense of different cultures and minds results in variations in religions and how they are expressed and in some cases, like you said, warped
Very beautiful lesson from the greatest!!!
A true perspective from the greatest! Wise words with an open heart.
I was half expecting a clip of Muhammed Ali endorsing After Skool at the end of this video. 😅
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You should listen to surah mulk from the Quran
@@alexcollis6939nah we don't preachin child r pist
@@AKASAYA9876 u wot bruv ?
@@alexcollis6939prophet Muhammad was a child m olester
Awesome video and help me understand other ethnicities perspectives of the world around us all. 🤔🙂 Damn I really got to learn more about this dude Muhammad Ali 🤯
The essence of religion is that a fundamental truth connects all of us together. We are bigger than ourselves
No we are only ever ourselves
No
But if. Ourselves is bigger than we then. What's ourselves...? Lol.... Also I don't think there's any essence to religion other than it's a way that people keep themselves mentally stunted and held back...we gotta start searching for our own answers through our own experiences. And we need to evolve our language in order to articulate those experiences to each other.
The problem is that your statement is men made. Men made this idea of democracy about religion. But the spiritual realm is not what people want it to be, but what God reveals. And Jesus said we can only enter the kingdom of heaven if we become like a child. Thats because Solomon prayed to God asking for wisdom and saying "im like a child, I dont have wisdom, please God, give me wisdom". So we must humble ourselves before God, get rid of our pretentious human thoughts, say we dont have wisdom and we need His wisdom snd we need Him to teach us whats the truth concerning religion.
@@stonethemason12 completely agree
(2:02) You reminded me of the famous quote of Saint Augustine, "Never judge a philosophy by its abuse".
Wow after skool is also after those 2 billions Hope its short term and after gaining enough followers you will start posting intelligent stuff again
You dont need super natural gods or prophets to follow the 'golden rule'. I was born a 'Human Being'. God is the Universe.
Thank you
Although I resonate with his sentiment, ultimately, as Terrence McKenna rightly pointed out (as heard on this channel), No One has the faintest idea about the ultimate truth
Not even the apostle Paul, “for now we see through a glass darkly but then we’ll see face to face.”
All have some words of value, but the truth is ancient and almost forgotten. Shamanism, Animism, Naturalism, Taoism without the Chinese mythology elements. This is the truth necessary for humans to live on Earth.
The truth is ancient and almost forgotten, for sure. Gotama, Ptolemy, Plato, plotinus, etc., taught true metaphysics and in their works lie all the answers, yet people can no longer think clearly about these things, it seems.
I wonder if i heard this when i was five. I've believed it as long as I've had to think about it, I'm just not a joiner. We'll all find out some day, why try to anticipate it?
I love this man, truly ❤️
Mohammed Ali was an exemplary orator and community leader. The original GOAT 🙌🏼
I'm stunned at his lecture.
Y’all should watch David woods video on how Ali got his name
In the far future there will be no divide
David Wood is a liar
It's always interesting to see the other side of any story kzhead.info/sun/ptyIfZh_qaN7n68/bejne.html
Watch David wood vs Muhammad hijab or him vs Shaykh uthman ibn-Farooq 😂 the man David is a fat joke to his own religion !!
@@conspiracybar7747there will always be a divide. Always.
Wise words. Thank you for another beautiful work of art. ❤
"Small fish swim in schools; the Great Black/White Shark swims alone." cc. 👀 🐠 🌊 2003
Unfortunately Ali didn't understand that the notion of black being negative comes from the "night" as opposed to the day. We as human beings fear the dark because we become vulnerable.
Whether he understood it that way or not, what he described is how it's been used culturally to oppress people who look like him. He could understand it and still reject it as a practice.
Why unfortunate? All Ali was saying was that growing up in a predominately white culture/country the common terminology left him feeling negative. It's just the way things are or were. Whether Ali understood the notion of why the use of black being negative or not is not really relevant. Understanding would probably not make things any less annoying or alienating for him. The bigger point is that he personally felt more comfortable within Islam but that he did not begrudge, indeed he respected, other folk their own religions. It's a shame more people these days could not follow his example.
Unfortunately that maybe right but as jesus was from Africa he would have been black but when do you ever see a picture of a black jesus. White mans Christianity was spread with violence and fear taken out of context of loving one another and disconnecting people from the god within us all.
I feel you are missing the bigger picture.
@@nmtumbleweed5320 Please take the time to share what you mean by the big picture.
Float like a butterfly sting like a bee.
Wonderful speech.
This is a vast improvement on the last video. Although the last video was highly entertaining for all the wrong reasons lol.
Thank you, thank you, thank you- for this! Powerful speech; wonderful man. ("There are hundreds of paths up the mountain...") ~Hindu Proverb
As a black man with very much love for Muhammad Ali, I have to say he never learned a thing about the Islamic Slavetrade and seeing everything from the American lens, he’s erroneously sanctifying a not so sanctimonious crowd albeit saying many other undeniable truths about other thing. ❤
One truth - Many labels / paths. Trying to describe the indescribable.
Is it necessary to preach a man married 6 year old girl for that(islam)
We should all thank god that he degreed Muhammed Ali should walk this earth 🙏🏻 the greatest ❤️
R.I.P.
Please add subtitles next time ❤ Congrats 👍 great video
KZhead automatic subtitles are very accurate in this video though.
I just found another reason to love Muhammad Ali, true words from a legend
A great video. Ali was a great man. Yes, he had his faults like all people. But on religion he is PERFECT.
That’s amazing. There is a lot of pantheism in this one, I wouldn’t have expected to find that in Ali.
Amen, a man. To infinity and beyond. Propper brother.
what a treasure. Thank You
Very sad how this man that could not find religious love in his own country. Very happy that someone opened their arms to a warrior striving for love in an unfamiliar place.
“And mankind was not but one community [united in religion], but [then] they differed. And if not for a word that preceded from your Lord, it would have been judged between them [immediately] concerning that over which they differ.” [Surah Yunus, Verse 19]
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the priest of my village was playing afro balck american jazz on piano for us teaching Errol Garner to the kids secretly. Most adults thoughts he was a weirdo. He was also writing book on board game strategies et the cosmos. Before he died he et me 30 years later and suddenly: you ve always like music. come this city with me they got cool jazz from the world. I didn't go. Mum said he was weird. After He died an article on his life mentioned that everything is true. One day I met another priest and asked him about my priest. He straight stopped his activities and looked at me with curiosity. he told me that he was "different" and he could spend night praying then crying worshiping UNICITY of everything. RIP Mohammed :)
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there are multiple paths you can take , but they all lead to the same destination
Cassius Clay was one cool fella.
"All those who do evil in the name of good shall preach to the Devil". If God is love, then why is there hate and destruction spread in the name of religion? Because that isn't God, evil can take many forms (it is live spelled backwards - Scot M Peck) if it ultimately apposes life and it's meaning it's not God but evil manifesting. One thing I realized recently, evil strikes you (the fall, or first death) then it seduces you with addictions and shortterm relieve to make you feel better (the temptation or deceit), and then comes the climb out of hell (the rebirth). God doesn't punish us, we punish are selves by straying away from "the path God has laid out for us", even if were struck by evil or tragedy it's our responsibility to take and follow the path towards heaven. No matter how difficult, your only alternative is hell, and you will end-up in hell because you don't follow the path. That's how evil takes you and drags you down, you must work your entire life (as was said to Adam and Eve) to stay away from hell. And now you might ask, why? Why does God allow this to happen, doesn't God protect us? Yes, but God is all powerful in what is Good, to that stands an equal opposite of Evil (Chaos and Order), evil is nothing but the opposite of life, you can't blame darkness for not being light as it's part of it's own existence. Major religions have become a proxy for power to make us fear the devil, and take control over our lives, anything you do that is an act against life will serve darkness (or evil) which you care around like a shadow (Carl Jung's one to be exact) then once you ascent the heavens anything that is not pure will be burned of (the soul burn) to reveal what you truly are, if you didn't serve life your light didn't grow and are more deadwood then live. Question everything, for the truth will not perish but only become stronger, but lies will cease to exist.
4:44 bro in the green all caked up💀
The Greatest.
The truth shall set you free.
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00:26 🌊 Religions, like rivers, lakes, and streams, may have different names but all contain the essence of God, expressed in various ways. 01:23 🌟 All prophets, including Jesus, Moses, Buddha, and Muhammad, convey divine messages, and followers of any faith who live by their teachings can find connection with God. 02:41 🕌 Muhammad Ali found solace and community in Islam, appreciating the unity, love, and acceptance he experienced among Muslims worldwide. 03:29 🛤 Ali reflects on how Islam connected him with diverse cultures and leaders worldwide, fostering acceptance and respect across racial and national boundaries. 04:48 🌎 Embracing Islam was a personal choice for Ali, aligning with his identity and values, but he emphasizes that individuals can find spiritual fulfillment in any religion that resonates with them. 05:14 💬 Ali's faith in God and dedication to spreading messages of love and unity across religions shaped his identity and contributed to his greatness as an athlete and public figure.
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It ends the same for all of us…
An ancient one works for me and its simple: Good Thoughts Good Words Good deeds I try !
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"Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful." ~Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Context - Lucius Seneca was an elitist in Rome. Born into a wealthy equestrian family. All upperclass rich snobs (especially from a global superpower) consider themselves to be wise, especially writers & philosophers - just like today. There’s a fundamental reason why high intelligence is associated with Lucifer (the light bringer). Evil is the force that believes its knowledge is complete.
wize dont see it false
@@SourcealityYep they do
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Amen
Your last two videos are ..strange
This channel is an absolute blessing. I feel very lucky and grateful to have it available.
Many paths but only one truth...💯💯💯
“I don’t like Christianity because the followers don’t look like me, but I follow Islam because they do look like me”… Literally just as bad as the evil people who claims he against. Such a surface level mindset
“As a christian in america I couldn’t go to the white churches” try rewatching at 3:00 u must’ve muted it or something
Failed the faith test
@@aquariusbabyy3710there’s no such thing as “white church” or “black church”. There is just church. He chose to define his understanding of Christianity based on how modern racists labeling themselves Christian acted on a surface level. That’s some surface level understanding no matter how you look at it.
@@jobengals86 Yea but in this case he was forced to gather into a different religion due to his skin color. Which I assume is why he doesn't "like" Christianity. So does he really have the bad surface level mindset because of how he was treated/looked at by the Christians? A racist is a racist surface level or not. Is he not wrong though about the color black being viewed as bad/negative? I agree with you that there should be just "church" and remove the divides between them all.
@@Ammut6no brother that’s a victim mindset. I came from a victim mentality. I won’t deny American south was quite openly racist for some time, but anyone daring to label themselves Christian should know Christ doesn’t give a flying frick what your ethnicity is, your melanin content, your education, your life of SIN. I would argue Ali was swayed & convinced by surface level racial culture & politics more than any individual religious message, he even explains this in the video. He was also swayed by his own victim mentality - a very, very dangerous mentality to maintain, regardless of how unfairly the world has treated you. And that is also essentially Christ’s message: Life is SUFFERING - acknowledge it, rise above it, & work hard to bring light & love into the world REGARDLESS of your personal hardships (bc I guarantee you every single one of us has suffered or will suffer in our own individual way). It’s about making the best of a bad situation - acting and striving to live in a Godly manner… in a fallen and very broken world. God bless ✌️❤️🔥☦️
All I hear him saying is: There's this one outlook that preaches love that discriminated against me. So I'ma go to this other outlook that preaches love that discriminates against people with other outlooks, but not against me.
That, my friend, would be projection. I didn't hear that at all, I heard him saying that all religions come from the same source, but you need to find what resonates with you.
@@Jhawk_2kexactly, completely agree
Watch what he said again but this time more closely
He asserted that all religions are good without explanation or example. He did give examples for discrimination though.
The truth is, much like every boxer (Tyson) Ali wasn't exactly a history buff, or he NEVER would have changed his name from Casius Clay.(also referencing Tysons, Mao tattoo lol)
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"A religion invented by white people portrayed everything as white, so i followed a religion that had more black people." He only changed religion to receive favoritism, then his new religion used him for populism as a poster child. At least he discovered that religion exists for the feeling of community and setting societal rules for good behaviour.
At some point Humanity realizes, there actually is just one Religion, where it all came from, the strongest, allmightiest source of them all, *_Love!_* not a single Religion cant exist without it! _If there is one Religion without Love, it vanished just now reading this line_
Why extract the only negative from a 6 min video that had so many positive things to ponder? 🤔
I think if one is not familiar with Islam, it may come across as such. The reason he says he identifies more with Muslims are because Islam does not discriminate based on color of your skin, your kinship, status and etc. “Indeed, the most noble of you in the sight of Allah is the most righteous of you 49:13” In a mosque a beggar and elite/king, President .. stand shoulder to shoulder for prayer. While he is upset about the discrimination he faced in his own country he defends all religions explaining that inherently they are all good and it’s some of the followers that do bad things in the name of religion.
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Alhamdulillah for creating humankind
رحمه الله
Wonderful as always ❤
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Love is god. Nothing more. So many things make us unable to love honestly and open. Love no matter what and be the example for all else.
God is the creator of the heavens and earth
@@alexcollis6939 our love for living is god. What we love we project to create reality.
@@AlltheMayhem disagreed worship of god is the reason worth living in this life and this life is a test from god. Without god there’d be no earth or mankind. Alhamdulillah
may Allah have mercy on Muhammad Ali, Religion was and still one, to every nation religion is one and it leads to the same truth, unfortunately by time that truth was changed and obsecured for many reasons through history to give us different shapes of religions with corrupted core, and thats why we need to go back to the ancient teachins that was sent to every nation on earth before it was changed, that common truth that leads to God and simply what the word Islam in Arabic refers to all that
All hail child r pist Muhammad
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For those who want to see non white christian pictures, like angels for example, check the Ethiopian church, one of the oldest christian church in the world.
The truth was a mirror in the hand of God, it fell and broke into piece. all religions had just a piece of it thinking they have the truth.
Irony: Cassius Clay was a Kentucky abolitionist. Mohammed was a slave owner.
he's right! when it comes to existence, any guess is equally ignorant.
Always.