{"id":6222,"date":"2015-11-16T07:45:45","date_gmt":"2015-11-16T07:45:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onepathnetwork.com\/?p=6222"},"modified":"2021-04-15T06:20:57","modified_gmt":"2021-04-15T06:20:57","slug":"gifted-with-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onepathnetwork.com\/au\/living-muslim\/gifted-with-cancer\/","title":{"rendered":"Gifted With Cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/amp-jwplayer>\n\n
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Ali Banat was diagnosed with Cancer and doctors have given him only 7 months to live. Despite his circumstances, he considers this a gift from Allah. Watch his story here.<\/div>\n<\/dd><\/dl><\/div>\n\n\nBeing diagnosed with cancer is like death sentence for many. But this is not the way Australian Muslim Ali Ali Banat sees it. For him, the sickness is unquestionably a gift from Allah.\n\n\u201cAt this point in my life, Alhamdulillah I have been gifted by Allah with cancer throughout my body and I have changed my whole life to helping people,\u201d he said.\n\nWhen asked why he called the illness a gift from the Allah, the sobbing Ali Banat said the disease was opportunity for transformation.\n\n\u201cAlhamdulillah it is a gift because Allah has given me a chance to change,\u201d he tells Mohamed Hoblos from Living Muslim, wiping tears streaming from his eyes.\u201d\n\nThe Sydney born and bred lad\u2019s life took a dramatic turn when he was diagnosed of cancer four months ago.\n\nThe most throbbing news was when the medical experts told him he had seven months to live.\n\nGiving away the wealth\n\nDespite having the dreaded disease all over his body, Ali Banat psyched himself for the day he will breathe his last.\n\nIn video that has gone viral after being posted on Facebook the once successful businessman chose to reconsider his bountiful lifestyle when he came to know about his shrinking health condition.\n\nHe got rid of his cars, a fleet that comprises of Ferrari Spider, and had to do away with his expensive watches as he was determined to shun the worldly life in preparation for the day he shall depart the earth.\n\n\u201cI got rid of my cars, I got rid of my watches, even my clothes I took them overseas and gave them to a lot of people out there.\n\n\u201cI wanted to try to leave this world without anything,\u201d said Ali Banat.\n\nA trip to his room shows the luxurious lifestyle which Ali Banat was living, from designer bracelets that cost around $60 000, expensive watches, designers sunglasses and top of the range sneakers \u2013 some of which has made way to under-priviledged communities in Africa.\n\nNo love for this world\n\nGazing at his Ferrari parked on the driveway, Ali Banat says his interest in the materialistic possessions has vanished.\n\n\u201cDriving something like this doesn\u2019t really cross my mind anymore. It\u2019s not something I want to do anymore.\n\n\u201cAfter someone tells you, or you find out that you are sick or haven\u2019t got much time in this life, wallahi this is the last thing you want to chase and this is how we should be living our life every day,\u201d said Ali Banat as he advised people chasing worldly objects.\n\n\u201cThese people are going for the wrong goals; you will realize that when you get sick when someone tells you, you haven\u2019t got long to live.\n\n\u201cYou will realize all this stuff doesn\u2019t benefit you in anyway.\u201d\n\nMessages of support from Muslims across the world have been sent to Ali Banat, who has established a charity organization that has constructed a masjid and school in Africa, which will serve as continuing charity when he passes on.\n\n\u2018Ya Allah take me\u2019\n\nHe said the idea of establishing the charity organization, Muslims Around the World Project, was borne out of realization that when he dies all his wealth will remain except for his deeds.\n\n\u201cIt all started when I went to the cemetery where a brother that had cancer had passed away. And I was at the cemetery and I was thinking to myself after you go there\u2019s nothing, there\u2019s no one there for you, no mother, no father, no brother, no sister except for your deeds,\u201d explaining that even the wealth also disappears.\n\n\u201cEven your money, is not going to be there for you so the only thing that\u2019s going to be there for you is sadaqa (charity) and that\u2019s the only thing that\u2019s going to help you gradually through your time in the grave until you get to your ultimate destination.\u201d\n\nAli Banat who has been spending most of his time visiting the cemetery in preparation for his death told Living Muslim he\u2019s ready for the angel of death to take his soul.\n\n\u201cI have been advised by one of the brothers to take a special drug, to help me with pain and stuff and subhanallah it\u2019s very strong. I took a bit too much and came into a whole different world as in not knowing where I was.\n\n\u201cIt was very hard for me, and subhanallah I actually seen things I have never seen before and my family were all there standing around me and I was pointing up and I was saying \u2018Ya Allah take me\u2019.\n\n\u201cIt was that beautiful what I was seeing, I just wanted to go, and the next day subhanallah I wake up and I was upset that Allah didn\u2019t take me,\u201d said Ali Banat with eyes filled with tears.\n\nSource:<\/strong><\/span>\n\nhttps:\/\/www.ciibroadcasting.com\/2015\/11\/19\/meet-the-aussie-muslim-cancer-patient-whos-giving-everything-away-in-readiness-to-meet-allah\/<\/strong><\/span>\n\n\n\n ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ali Banat was diagnosed with Cancer and doctors have given him only 7 months to live. Despite his circumstances, he considers this a gift from Allah. Watch his story here. Being diagnosed with cancer is like death sentence for many. But this is not the way Australian Muslim Ali Ali Banat sees it. For him, […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6224,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAow4-bBDA:productID":"","content-type":"","newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[81,82,83,71,77],"series":[],"speaker":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-6222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-living-muslim","tag-ali","tag-ali-banat","tag-banat","tag-featured","tag-latest","post_format-post-format-video","entry"],"acf":[],"apple_news_notices":[],"episode_featured_image":"https:\/\/onepathnetwork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/4338955586001_4615263107001_4615164987001-vs-e1447661790183.jpg","episode_player_image":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/onepathnetwork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Mums-on-the-RunV3.jpg?fit=2160%2C2160&ssl=1","download_link":"","player_link":"","audio_player":false,"episode_data":{"playerMode":"dark","subscribeUrls":[],"rssFeedUrl":"https:\/\/onepathnetwork.com\/au\/feed\/podcast\/mums-on-the-run","embedCode":"

Gifted With Cancer<\/a><\/blockquote>