Shadee Elmasry – Purification and Prayer Class #9 2of2
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that's usually what we'll have like out in the open space. And
this is, it's yeah, it's very, it's very closed in here. So.
Okay, sorry about that.
Um, yeah. So whenever you're talking to somebody who's not
Muslim, and they have any questions, and they bring up
anything related to you, if they're asking you a question, you
should be honest, obviously, shouldn't lie. But if it's
somebody who's thinking about Islam, or maybe it's thinking
about converting to Islam, and they're the, they're kind of like,
you guys pray so much that you have to wear hijab.
The the best response? And this is not just my opinion, this is from
real Oliver,
is to tell them forget about that stuff is not important right now.
What's important is what do you believe? It doesn't matter what
you do, or should do or can't do or might not feel like you can do.
If you wait until you can do everything that a good Muslim
supposed to do, you'll never convert.
Also, if you believe in Allah, and you believe that the Prophet
salallahu Alaihe Salam is the prophet of Allah, then you can't
not convert. Because this is actually what you believe. So you
can't just go well, I believe everything, but I'm just not going
to do it because of certain obligations that I don't feel
comfortable with. Skip the obligations. Honestly, it's better
for you to say Lila and aloha Rasulullah, and not pray or not
wear hijab or not fast than to know that in your heart and not
say it and not accept it openly, because you don't want to do those
things. You're not gonna be doing them either way. It's better that
you're not doing them but you've already accepted Allah and His
messenger. So and also, if you you know, talking to someone who's
doesn't know a lot about him, but the curious focus on telehealth,
the Oneness of Allah, that Allah is One, he has no partners, he has
no sons, that Allah now and other gods, that Allah is One, this is
the primary message this is this was the message for the first 13
years. And in Makkah, it was almost 100% Oh, here, no rules, no
obligations, no this that very small, some prayer, some of this,
but 100%, almost 100% of the focus and in the revelation of the
sutras that were revealed in Mecca. It's all Allah in the
afterlife. This is the main thing, and it took 13 years of that data,
before they had the group of Muslims together to move to India.
And then when they were in Medina, and they were established, that's
when most of the rules almost all the rules of inheritance,
marriage, all that came down in Medina, but prior to that, Allah
was just revealing, that that we're about the Oneness of Allah
belief in Allah angels, the next life, prior prophets, stuff like
that, right? The core, the core of our belief, so focus on belief,
not on law,
especially in this country, this is a Christian country, for the
most part, with Christian traditions. And Christianity is
not a legal religion. It's a religion of spirituality. As you
know, the focus in Christianity is more on your relationship with God
and love. And it's not it's not like Judaism, which is a very
legalistic religion. So talking to people whose tradition whose
background and whose greater culture is not about legal about
religious law, about religious law, it's going to it's off
pointing sometimes.
Again, that's Don't be dishonest and don't lie about anything. If
people ask me honestly about it, when also you know mentioned to
them that that stuff is not what's most important what's most
important is that you believe in Allah and that you know that you
have a God and that you know that there's an afterlife and that you
know that you have a soul and that that soul will come back will be
resurrected and you'll be questioned about your actions and
your beliefs in this life. So get right
so
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