Ibn Ali Miller - Deen over Dunya

About this lecture

In this heartfelt and wide-ranging lecture, Ibn Ali Miller shares his personal journey from the streets of Atlantic City — growing up without a father, surrounded by incarceration and violence — to finding his deen through the mentorship of a man named Salim, who taught him the meaning of hard work, sincerity, and what it truly means to be a man in Islam. Drawing on his own story, he addresses youth, mentors, and parents with practical wisdom on three core principles: never lie, never give up, and lead by example — all grounded in the essential Islamic concept of sincerity (*ikhlas*) and the ever-present reality of death.