Hosai Mojaddidi – The Prohibition of Drinking Alcohol Led Me To Islam Brendas Shahadah (Declaration of Faith)

Hosai Mojaddidi
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A Mexican American named Brenda talks about how she had doubts about her religion during the pandemic and how she found Islam through her research. She talks about how she had to learn about Islam during the pandemic and how she found guidance from Allah through her study of the Quran. She also talks about how she met Facebook's representative and how she was given guidance to pursue her spiritual journey.
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Hello, my name is Brenda.

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I am a Mexican American.

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My previous religion was capitalism.

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There were so many doubts that I had with my previous religion that

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just didn't really add up.

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I was born and led to not asking questions. And it was a, it was a

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sign for them for like disrespect. And I obviously did not want them

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to disrespect my elders.

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As far as finding Islam, I had very great friends that led me to

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Islam. And

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asking questions was not a bad thing.

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The more I asked questions of my doubt that I had,

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everything seemed like everything was clearing up. It made sense to

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me.

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There's one specific thing that I definitely knew that it was just

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like, this is the right really definitely.

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One of them is growing up at a Mexican household where alcohol

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was

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and capitalism

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allow it to be allowed.

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That being said, in that to have broken families.

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And I just knew that if a religion allows it, it was just not the

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right one.

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And so Islam, I smoked as much I started

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doing my research for over three years,

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I was able to find out that all the things that I believe was

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wrong and was

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not leading me to do to be a better person.

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Islam was doing the opposite it was leading to to being a better

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person.

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P definitely so much peace within me, like so many. And

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I'm looking forward to many more everyday nationalists as I go

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down. And we spoke briefly earlier. And Brenda, you were

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talking about how during this past year in COVID, you were reading

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from the Quran, right? And you had mentioned that certain things were

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being revealed to you,

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as well. Yes, definitely.

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So previously, I would say, around three years ago,

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I was attending Sonoma State I'm studying at Sonoma State. Last

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year.

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Before going back to LA,

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I was going through a rough time with family and had to go back

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home

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to take care of my family.

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And it was a very hard time for me.

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I was given a run, as again, during those difficult times. And

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every time that I was going through a difficult time, I would

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just open it open, I would pray. And I will talk to God. And I will

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open the Quran. And when I opened up

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whatever page I opened into

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that page, I would read and automatically I just got a message

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from Allah.

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It was it was crazy, because it was whatever I was feeling

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whatever I was going through that page that landed on, it was

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exactly what I needed to hear that.

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And that there was just like, I have to come to

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render for sharing your these words are so inspiring for all of

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us. And they're reminders for all of us that it's a two way

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conversation, right? As you said, you were in a need. And you asked

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Allah some kind of data for guidance. And just by opening his

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book, you found that in the Quran is absolutely a book that all of

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us getting guidance from, and we should be reading it every single

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day. So it's a really powerful reminder to never close that door

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right to the I was communicating with us through His words, and

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that we have to take that first step right. The first step is to

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ask for guidance, which is what you did. And that's why you're

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here. And we want to think of other machines here in the

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background as well because much of it was his efforts that led you

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right to this discovery that he was with you to providing you

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resources, answering your questions, as you said, commercial

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it was the sincerity in your heart, that after three years of

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pursuing God that you're standing here before us and we're also

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honored that you chose this community center and we hope that

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you will be a part of this community. You are a part of this

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community, as far as I'm concerned already. I just met you a few

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minutes ago but mashallah, the hearts are connected

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it and honestly this is this is ceremonial but your faith was

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confirmed in the moment you accepted Allah in your heart and

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the prophesy centum in your heart that was that's that was when your

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firm was listening to me Your face was uniform in your heart. This is

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more of just because this is what we do. But once you make the

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testimony of faith, now it's a public display, but you're already

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a Muslim, right? So what we're going to do, what we're going to

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do now is we're going to I'm going to read the Arabic testimony of

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faith in Arabic line word by word, and you just repeat after me,

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we'll do it three times. And then I'll explain meaning in English

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and

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and then you welcome to the stage in a formal way here.

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Alright, this will not apply to him. So first we say ash, Ash had

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you had

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the latter letter

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IL, Allah, Allah

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rasool

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Allah

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that's why

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ash, Ash

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ilaha

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IL, Allah, Allah, what ash ash

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Anna anna Muhammadan

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rasul Allah, Allah, Allah my

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ash ash

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and I left La Ilaha ilaha IL Allah, Allah wa wa ash ash had you

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had to Anna anna Muhammadan

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rasul

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Allah.

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So, what did we just say? I testified, I testified that there

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is no god that there's no god but God. And I've testified I testify

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that Muhammad is the Messenger of God as the messenger of God.

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Sister Brenda, we're so honored again to have you on

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