Hosai Mojaddidi – The Arabic Language Sparked My Interest in Islam (Janeen’s Shahadah)
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I was made out of matter human and the lowest Salatu was Salam ala
shrivel MBI even more serene se than our Modena, what have you
been? Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam while he was Savio,
Siddhanta Sleeman. Kathira Assalamu alaykum Warahmatullahi
Wabarakatuh and Hamdulillah. Brothers and sisters today we are
blessed to have sister Janine Bravo from Livermore, which is a
city very close to us here at the MCC reached out to us and say that
she wants to take her shahada with us. So alhamdulillah again,
another incredible honor for our community. Sister Janine, welcome
to MCC. It's a pleasure. Pleasure to have you pleasure to meet you.
I know. I'm curious. And I'm sure many people who will be watching
this are going to be curious to know what brought you to this
point in your journey. What What brought you to the point where you
believe that Islam is the faith for you? Well, I was raised a
Christian and I started understanding the language a
little bit, and especially through music. And I started to speak in
it. And I was pretty excited to tell my son Isaiah, you know, I'm
learning how to speak Muslim Arabic. I'm learning you know, and
he's like, Okay, I told him in Target, he was just like,
amazed, you can embarrass but anyway. And so
I shoot it because I never understood any of the language. So
I knew it was truth. Wow. So just to be clear, you're born and
raised a Christian? Yes. But then you suddenly came upon the Arabic
language? Yes. Through music, and you took to studying Arabic. Yes.
And through the study of the Arabic language you discovered
Islam? Yes. And the faith Wow, Allahu Akbar. Amazing. So when you
heard Arabic for the first time, I'm just curious, did it sound
like familiar to you did right? And then start I started like,
listening more and more and then in the prayers, that's when I
started, you know, understanding a lot. Wow, that's when I knew
because I don't even know how to speak Spanish that well. That's
amazing. So it also just curious where you also did you get access
to? Like the you mentioned prayers, like the words of the
Quran, I was doing everything on my own.
So just independent search, Masha, Allah, Allah, we say, Allah
guides, whomever he wills, and the true seekers. I mean, I've heard
that I'm sure everyone here has heard many different stories, but
I think this is one of the most remarkable that it was the
language that initially, you know, interested or made you interested
in the fate. That's incredible, mashallah, well, we are so again
honored to have you here. The, the process for shahada, which we
covered briefly is very simple. And Hamdulillah, as I mentioned,
before, we believe definitively that the fact that you're here,
you're already a Muslim, or you're you have the faith, this is just
the ceremony. So we're gonna make it pretty brief, I will repeat a
phrase, which is the declaration of faith and we are invite
everyone in participating to also repeat, we always want to renew
our, our own shahada as well when we're in these beautiful
environments. So I will say the Arabic phrase for you and then
translate the English for you. And that's it. And then at that point,
we believe that I mean, it's it's the shadow experiences is complete
and, and your shahada at that point, mashallah you are will be
welcomed people will come to you and, and embrace you into the
faith and community alright Bismillah Alright, so, Bismillah
We begin in the name of God, the first part is ash had to do an N
Let e la ha la la la, la, la e la ilaha. Il Allah illallah wa, wa
ash hadoo as I do, and na n Muhammadan Muhammad Rasul, Rasul
Allah, Allah. Okay, we'll do it two more times here. Ash hadoo s
shall do an N lair. La ilaha illa. Il Allah in Allah, wa wa ash How
do I shall do Anna anna muhammadan Muhammad Rasul Allah rasool Allah
one more time, Ash hadoo a shadow i en la ilaha La ilaha IL Allah in
Allah, what I shall do what I shall do, Anna anna muhammadan
Muhammad Rasul Allah, Su. Allah Allah, very good, Mashallah. That
could be
the law. So that is the shahada in Arabic and the the
the translation is I testify
There is no God with a small g but the one and only God. And I
testify that Muhammad is the last and final messenger of God. So how
did law Welcome to the faith? This is Janine. Again, we're very
honored to have you here and hamdulillah and now inshallah
sister Shazia, who inshallah will be a future
board member as we said, president may be of MCC one day what is
presenting you with this beautiful gift. It's called the being
Muslim, said it's got a lot of great resources for you and
inshallah we'll connect you with people who lead the Convert care
program here. So you will always have support insha Allah and we
really hope to see more of you in this community. Thank you so much.
Thank you
so much.