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The Deen Show – Father LOSES IT after son accepts Islam
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The first 19 years of the Deen Show discuss the first 19 years of the Deen's journey, including a guest named Al Qaeda who spoke in union with God and the confusion surrounding the name of a Christian preacher named JD Blake. The importance of practicing Islam and not losing their point is emphasized, along with the importance of understanding the context of Islam and the use of the Holy Spirit. The transcript is not a conversation or discussion of historical events or people, and it is a collection of sentences and sentences that cannot be summarized.
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Out hamdulillah Salaam Alaikum greetings of peace. Welcome to the show. I'm your host subscribe if you haven't already, so you don't miss exciting episodes and stories like this one with my next guest. For the first 19 years of his life. He was a Christian. Things started to change for him when he was seven years old when he entered the church for the first time and witnessed people speaking in tongues, running down the aisles and rolling on the floor. It scared him as a child. And then now at the age of 14 years old, he was going to the church three days a week, Wednesdays Bible study Friday youth night and Sunday's church. But one night at Bible study everything took a turn when he
found certain contradictions in the Bible. And when he asked his teacher about these contradictions he was told just to believe and have faith without getting the answers to his questions. He continued from that point on being a Christian from the outside, but his belief on the inside was gone. He goes by the name of Maliki click and he's here to let us know more about his journey and what happened next.
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why did he come salaam with Abdullah Eddie big fan Nice to meet you. Nice to meet you too, brother. How you been? Alhamdulillah everything's good. Hamdulillah. So let's get right into your journey. So for the first 19 years a Christian and then talk to us about this experience. Now as a child, seven years old. You walk in and what happens when you go I walked in, walked into the church and it was just like, you know, as a seven year old child, you know, you pictured church as this quiet place. And you know, you sing a couple of hymns and whatnot. But I go in as a seven year old child, and I see people just crying and running up and down the aisles and rolling up, you know, around on the
floor and speaking a language that I've never heard before. And it just it really scared the * out of me. So I actually I was holding my dad's hand I actually ripped away and try to run out of the church at that moment.
But it got me back, you know, he held my hand and said no, no, no, this is this is church but I mean, honestly, the whole thing was extremely intimidating. And I was just lost. I didn't know what was going on as a cut as a kid. For our audience that has no idea what do you mean by the speaking a ton? Let's go ahead and show some footage so they can get a better feel and understanding to when you save. talking in tongues. What do we actually
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what's happening some similar because you have different things happen in different churches, but we saw people speaking what some claim to be gibberish. And then people fall in rolling on the floor. And
is this what you were saying? Well, those clips were actually a little bit tame to what I was in, you know, that was that was teen. Yeah, that was like the diet version. Like, when I when it was, I mean, imagine, you know, those clips, even though like a seven year old experiencing that for the first time. But yeah, that was that was like, That was only like, 60% of what I experienced in the church. Later was it made clear to you what that was, did you later figure that out? I was told because I asked my Dad, what's wrong with these people? You know, why the, you know, crying and shouting and, you know, even people would stand up as if they were messengers of God. And you know,
I say unto you, people, I have a message from the Lord. And I'm just looking at the person like, like, what, what does this person talking about? Oh, this is crazy. But yeah, I was told that it was a spiritual language. It's a it's a holy language from God, that nobody understood except God. And I'm thinking to myself, you know, later on, you know, when I was like, 14 years old, well, if it's a language, how come y'all can't understand each other? You know, if this person speaks Spanish to another Spanish speaking person, they're gonna understand, but this is just gibberish. 110% gibberish. Not 100% 110%. So you think you think a think
do
you think, Jay, what's his name? This is JD. This is a famous Christian preacher. You know who this is? Right? Yeah, yeah. What's his name? I know who he is. I know. I know his face. But I don't know his name. Yeah. JD Blake's, or something. Anyways, do you think he's conscious? Like of what he's doing? Do you think he's just making up things as he, as he goes along? He knows that this is gibberish. Because there's Christians who will call this out also many who will say like this is this is they'll say it Christians will say this is gibberish.
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Fire in the name of Jesus, I don't understand a single thing. I think you were saying and because this is not the biblical interpretation. I keep a silence in church. Ah,
they don't even know what it is. It's so obviously not what it was in the Scripture. I mean, look, this is what it is. It's gibberish. They don't know what they're saying. They're just trying to bring a spiritual aura to the church. But at the end of the day, I know, you know, a lot of other Christians know that Christianity. Well, the church is just a huge cash cow. It's all about entertainment. It's all about, you know,
charging people's Eman, if you want to call it for Sunday, so they'll give more. It's just a big production, nothing more.
And then you went on from there. So you had this experience? It's kind of traumatizing. Would you say? And then what did you mean actually, when your father when he gave himself You said he gave himself to Christ as you define it, what would it actually mean? Well, I think what he means is he turned his life around for Christ. He started to have a moral compass in his life, per the Bible. So that's, that's what I think. That's what I think he means. Because we believe in Christ I mean, the Messiah translated right from the Greeks. This is the name given to Jesus the Messiah. We believe you believe that now as a Muslim, don't you? Of course. 110% Yeah. And you love Jesus. I mean,
without a doubt, you can't be a Muslim unless you love and revere Jesus not as a god or little son of God, but as a messenger of God. So
So we follow the way of Jesus, which was calling people to worship the Creator, not the creation. So
whereas this was a Muslim,
what do people say when you say that Jesus was a Muslim? Do you get a lot of pushback? People are like, What are you talking about? And how do you how do you explain that? Because some people will say, right away, well, Islam came later.
He was a Christian, what are you talking about? How would you can you go ahead and unpackage that for us? I get pushed back all the time. I have a YouTube, I have a YouTube and Tiktok channel. And a lot of people even say, I mean, here's the thing. Christians don't know anything about Islam, yet. They say that it's wrong. Right? So I've even had like, I showcase really dumb comments that I get my tick tock, and people are saying, oh,
Allah came, they even say, hola, hola came 570 years after Christianity, that means that it can do and I'm just thinking, wow, buddy, like you, you really, really think that, you know, we know as Muslims. And I know, both sides of the coin, being a Christian for the first 19 years of my life, and I'm Muslim for 31 years. Now, I know both sides of the coin. And so they don't know both sides of the coin. And so when you say that Jesus was a Muslim, and that you say that all the Anbiya or all the prophets were Muslim, they just don't get it. They just don't get it because they believe that they're the third Najia. You know, they're the same sect, and nobody, you know, can can attain
salvation except for Jesus. And what we're saying is Muslims, is,
how come the message of Jesus is so unique to all of the prophets, and of Jesus was sent to die? You know, his whole message was was true. How come all the other prophets that came before him, and the one that came after him, don't affirm that? How come their message is here you Surah eel, the Lord your God is one. You know, Jesus said that, here you Israel, the LORD your God is one because, you know, the scribe came to him, and so said, Oh, Master, tell us the most important of the of the laws, because Jesus was speaking in the temple, and everybody, all eyes are on him. And people were impressed with him. And he said,
here he Israel, the LORD your God is one. Now, if he was God, if he was a son of God, if salvation was attained through him only.
This would be his perfect opportunity to say, here he Israel, the LORD your God is Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, and the only way that you can attain salvation is through me. But that's the point. He didn't say that he Israel, the LORD your God is One La ilaha illAllah.
So by saying that he was a Muslim, you're saying he was a submitter to God to one God? So people say, Yes, they'll agree with that. But Muslim just defines that term, submitted a God, one who submitted to the will of God, it defines it exactly. That's what it is. Yeah, that is really profound and deep. I mean, if people really reflect and think about it, and you are actually someone who is going to what, three times a week, so you're going to Bible study, you're going to the church, and you're also going to the youth groups. Correct. deserve it, sir. And you were doing that for quite some time for years. Yeah, I mean, that's the way I was brought up. It was just, you know,
go to the to the church three days a week, and that was my life. Talk to us about that. What were some of the things that you were learning there was it?
Was it something that you're you were cementing your belief? Did you always have doubts did it had come all of a sudden,
please, elaborate on that, I always believed in God. As a young man, I always knew that there was a higher power. And
but the thing with me in the church, and then the youth group, is I never really latched on to Jesus being God. As a child, I always saw him as a father figure of men, a mentor, somebody to be like,
when you need inspiration, or you know, what should I do with my life? You know, the thought is, what would Jesus do? And so,
I never really professed that He was God.
100% of my heart, you know, when we are Muslims, we our hearts, you know, have Yaqeen and we say, La ilaha illa Allah we negate all of the things of worship except Allah Spinetta Allah and we affirm it Allah Allah except Allah
Waspinator Allah. So, yeah, I mean, I was, I was just jumping through the hoops.
Because here's the thing with a lot of Americans and myself.
There's nothing else. There's nothing else. You know, I was, I was raised like most of the urban Oh, Mayor, you know very well off my whole family is and petroleum, you know, my father and my uncle, my brothers, everybody. And so I didn't want for anything. So I grew up in this white bubble of Christianity. And so that was what you were supposed to be if you're a white American, you are supposed to be Christian, you cannot be this, you cannot be that. No, this is what you're supposed to be. And so we accept it. And a lot of American citizens accept it, because that's what they think that's that's all there is. So there's nowhere else to go. I can't go to those. The brown religion
over here, the Islamic people, I can't do that. Because I'm, you know, I'm white. But you know, where was Christianity from? Detroit, Michigan? No, it's It's from the Middle East. So.
But that's not something that's uncommon. You had certain polls that were done that a great number of Christians actually don't believe Jesus is God. They're going in line with their fitrah their innate nature that he was a human being. They would be in line when you talk to him. Sure. You talk to people, if they're sincere, they open minded like, like you were at that time. And you line them up with all the other messengers, Moses, Abraham, no, that goes in line that makes sense that he was a messenger, not an actual, literal goddess, or a son of God, not a god or literal Son of God. So there's a lot of Christians that favor that. And they don't believe that he's actually God, the the
use you hear about this poll this, this poll that was done. No, I did. Yeah. We'll get it up here. But yeah, there was a poll that was done. So then, so what happens the whole time, you're not really believing you're not cemented that Jesus is God, but you're praying. So you're praying to God to God that Jesus prayed to you're not actually praying to Jesus, like we see in Jesus's name?
father's ghost, I'm praying, and I'm just the, you know, Eddie, the
How can I say this? I was constantly looking. I'm like, I'm waiting. And I'm looking for something to really enter my heart. And so I just went to, you know, Wednesday Bible study to strengthen my, you know, my, my Bible skills, and you know, learn more about God and the prophets and stuff like that. And I'm just, it's like I was, it's hard to explain, but I'm just like, waiting for something to happen, where I can just like, have the aha moment or something, or, you know, have that Eman, burst, or whatever you want to call it being a Christian.
But I never got it. You know, quite the opposite, especially when I was 14 years old at the Bible study.
So I can guarantee I'm sure there's a lot of Christians right now. And again, we're never trying to disrespect people or their faith or anything, just trying to bring certain things to light that they can ponder and probably reflect upon and probably relate to, and they're probably a lot relating to what you just said, What about the crucifixion?
What about the crucifixion? What was your stance on that? Did you believe now that when you create what you would do sins, you were just like, Well, Jesus paid for them? And you would you would
feel that now, his blood was a redemption for your sins. We had the crucifixion, the way I looked at the crucifixion, especially in my younger years, you know, from seven to 14 is, I always wondered, why does, why does somebody have to die? Why? Why when you know, we take the communion, why are we drinking the blood of Jesus? Why are we eating the body of Christ? What what's happening here? You know what? And that's, I think that's the thing that, you know, I was trying to explain, I didn't get that relationship with with God, I was always told that we got to go through Jesus and I always thought as a little boy,
but why? Why can't I just go to God? And the Trinity? Forget it. That didn't make any any sense at all. But yeah, the crucifixion I never really believed in it. I never really latched on to it. And you know, the biggest thing is, why did somebody have to die for what?
So you got all these things going on in your mind your heart, but finally something happened? These two contradictions are more something about contradictions happen. You went and you asked your Teacher What about them? He didn't even know they were in the Bible. And then you talk about how just from the outside, you're Christian, but the inside it was gone. Talk about this.
I went to a Bible study one night on Wednesday, and we usually get to read
15 minutes before we get into the lesson of the Bible preacher, or the Bible leader, Bible Study leader. And so I'm reading and I'm just, you know, thumbing through thumbing through doing this just randomly, and I come across, come across a verse that says, No man can see God, and live thereafter. So, in my mind, my fitrah, as a 14 year old boy, I'm thinking, sounds right, that sounds right, because you know, the majesty and the glory of Allah Spinetta Allah, or God in that time.
And then
I come to the story of Jacob.
And here, not only is Jacob seeing God, but he has a hold of the thigh of God, having a wrestling match with God, and I'm just thinking,
What, wait a minute over here that said, that no man can see God and live after that. And now Jacob is having a wrestling match with God. Not only that, Jacob defeats God. And I'm just thinking,
I raise my hand immediately. And I say, to the Bible Study leader,
look at this verse over here, it says, aha, yes, yes. And then I said, Look, we'll look at this verse over here, Jacob was having. And he said, Oh, and I've heard the story of this. But yeah, that I didn't really know that that was in there. You know, and I was just thinking, how can you not know? How can you not know a huge contradiction like that? You can't see God, or you can see God, you can see God over here and have a wrestling match and beat God. But over here, you can't see him and live. And so 14 year old me was like,
No, I have a serious problem with this, and I'm not gonna let this go. I need to rectify my heart, right now. Because I'm about to lose faith. And he said, You know, I don't know what to tell you, young man, except that you just gotta have faith.
And at that moment, I was just like,
I don't want to have faith. I'm tired of just having faith in things that don't make sense. I'm tired of having faith. And in the concept of someone needs to die for me to be forgiven.
I'm fed up. So I was told you gotta have faith, you got you just. And he just told me, I don't know what to tell you. I don't know how to rectify your belief. I don't know how to call him your heart, except to tell you that you have to have faith. And I just know, now. So at 14 years old, right then and there. At the Bible study, I checked out of Christianity. And, you know, I still live with my father. My father is a very strict Christian. I couldn't listen to music. I couldn't have girlfriends, you know, three days church. And
what can I say? I jumped through the hoops of Christianity. I continue to go to church. I continue to go to the youth night, and I continue to go to the Bible study. But nothing was here. I had completely checked out.
How did Islam jump into the equation? Did you look into other religions? And then how did you get exposed to Islam? I never even heard about Islam. And the first contact that I had of Islam. Well, kind of a kind of a story to that. I got around, you know, some some rough people got around some wrong people. And I actually went to maximum security prison.
So I entered the prison system. And
I wasn't really looking for anything at the time before I went to prison. And even while I was in prison, I had absolutely no moral compass. I mean, I was an animal, I was wild. I was a savage. I didn't care about your life. I didn't care about my life. I was just wild. And so I really wasn't looking for anything, except to just do my time and get out. So
I would say about three or four months into my sentence, I met a man who just randomly approached me on the yard called Omar and he was Turkish. And he approached me out of the blue, I'm just walking the track by myself, lone wolf minute. And he says, Amen. I just want to ask you something. I just want to ask you a question. What do you know about Islam
as
said, I don't even know what that is. Because again, I grew up in my white bubble. And
you just don't talk about those things, those things don't exist. Because in the Christian mind, those things are below. And so everything is below and we teach the world, we are the standard of what is right and wrong. That's what they say. So
we walked the track, and I'm a person of nature. I love the outdoors. I'm an outdoorsman.
And so he began to tell me, you know, isn't it strange, you know, that Allah subhanaw taala, has put the sun 93 million miles away from the Earth, and perfection, you know. And even though the sun is 93 million miles away, and the moon is roughly 220,000 miles away, look, they meet, and they cause you know, eclipses and stuff like that. And look at the creation, the trees and the ocean that Allah subhanaw taala has created everything for you. And I told him about sort of the Ironman.
And I just, I was just like, okay, okay, this is different, this is different. And so he used to just
him and I used to meet out in the yard, and walk and talk. And he would make his that one. And then somehow I got into this, this combat mode where, wait a minute, so this guy is telling me everything that I had learned as a child is wrong.
Okay, so I went to my Bible, and I tried to defend my Bible, I tried to defend Christianity. I tried to defend my belief, right? Because this was totally something new, and totally something foreign to me.
But I couldn't.
Everything that I had, every question that I had, he would smile and say, mashallah, it's a very good question. Here's the answer. And I just kept on like,
this guy has an answer for everything. Not only does he have an answer, it's good. Not only does he has an answer, it's backed up by his book, not only does he have an answer, it's backed up by scientific proof as well.
This might be what I've been looking for my whole life. So I don't know. Do you want me to finish the story? Yes, please go into. Okay, so him and I just always used to meet outside in the yard.
And, you know, he gave me one day he showed up, he said,
I want to give you something from me to you.
But you have to make sure
that you wrap it up in a towel. You take it back to your cell, and you keep it in a clean place. I said,
Yeah, sure, man, what is
this? I'm only I'm gonna give you our holy book, I'm gonna give me the Holy Quran.
I said, Oh, wow. Thank you. Yes, I would love to I've never read the Quran before I would love to.
And so I took the Quran back to myself.
And the first thing that I did is I turned to the index. I mean, I got this book in front of me.
I'm thinking that it's going to be some 1001, Arabian Nights type of stuff, you know, I don't know.
And I open up the index, and I start looking for names.
Abraham, Moses, Jesus, Mary, Jacob, Ishmael, Isaac, Adam sheath, all the stories were there, and I just thought, Oh,
is it just like this book that I rejected? When I was 14 years old? Oh my god. It's just like the Bible.
But then I read it. And the first the first I think Surah that I read was A to Katha Aloha Kamata katha, the things of this world. Our dive, I are diverting you from the truth. And I just thought,
That's me. I'm being diverted since I was raised. So well, didn't want for anything. That's that's me. And so I kept on reading. I kept on reading Long story short, I used to read it every day. So much so that my cellmate
told me, he like gave me a nudge one day he said, Amen, it's dinnertime and you can't you're coming out.
And I said, Oh, yeah, like I snapped out of it. They said, Mike, you've been reading that book since breakfast. And I said, Am I because I was just so engrossed by
it's hard to put into words brother but
that
Humanity, the truth, the realness
the answers. It's like, I felt like it was getting the real story that I wanted to find in the Bible. Now I found it, and I found it. And it was put in a way where my heart agreed with it. And it understood
what it was saying. When I would read the Bible, it was just like, roe. What, how can this? I don't understand how could this be? So my fitrah will as I read the Quran was just like,
Ah, yes, yes, yes, yes.
So, in my mind, in the back of my mind, I considered what life would be like, as a Muslim.
The shaytaan entered the cell of the maximum security state prison that I was at. You can't be a Muslim. What are you talking about? The Aryan Brotherhood is going to do this and they're going to look at you weird. And doing time alone is really because everything Muslims might not understand in the prison system. It just goes by race. You don't have to agree with it. You don't have to like it or dislike it. That's what happens. So I was worried about all of these things. You know, what is your family going to think? People are going to look at you like you're you're like a wannabe like you're pretending to be someone else. All these whispering
it's soon as I imagined being a Muslim. As soon as my heart was like, I love this book. God finally a book that I can understand. Finally, a book.
Were you part of this? Aryan Brotherhood? Was this sub? No, they were just know it. Now, when you get into the prisons, prison system is just like, Okay, you seem to be white. Okay? They take your cotton, everything, your your your mattress, and they you know, they give you things and they instruct you. Okay, look, this is how we roll. You know, we're up at five o'clock in the morning, and we exercise and you got to do it. Okay, if something jumps off. We all jump in. If somebody jumps we all jump. We we clear on that? Yeah. So, so go back to what you were saying you shouldn't lose your point. So you're saying the Quran then what happened? Yeah, so months passed. And we
always Omar and I always used to meet in the yard. And
my arguments became less and less, until they were silent until I was defeated, until
I just listened. And I soaked up whatever he said. So when we came out, I would listen. And he would speak about what Islam is.
And I just,
I was I was in a position of, Okay, God, I would go back to myself, and I would just say, Okay, God, as I was waiting for something to happen, as a Christian, I'm waiting for something to happen. Now.
I have always been true to myself, to embrace a truth, wherever it came from. So if this is the truth, let it happen, let something happen, let something change.
And so Omar came up to me one day, and he said,
Hey,
I was thinking about inviting you to Joomla.
And I said, What's Joomla? He said, you know, Sunday church. Yep. Sunday church, for Muslims. We go on Friday. And so I actually had to fill out a permission slip to go to Juma
and the CEO, the the the, the officer called me in his office, and he just looked, he just looked at me and he said,
Is this your name? Is this your, your, your form right here asking permission to go to Joomla? And I said, Yes, sir. And he said, Do you know what Joomla is? I said, not really. I'm just going to find out. And they said, Do you know who goes to Joomla?
And I said, Sir, and he said, you know, black people go to Joomla. And you know that you're gonna be in the multipurpose room with them. I said, Yeah, I know that. He said,
What are you doing? And I said, I just look, it's my right as an American citizen. I just want to see what they're talking about. No, I'm not a Muslim. I've been invited to a service, and I just want to check it out. And he just looked at me like, like with disgust and it was just like,
okay, whatever. Here. I'll sign it. Take your slip, go.
And so
A Friday came. And I was I didn't know what to expect. I've never been to Germany before. I didn't know what they were going to do.
And so I get there, and the Christians meet at the same time, but they go to another room. So the Christians were there, and the Muslims that were there at the at the guard, or the guard post, and
the people that were going to Joomla all got stripped, searched, and I mean, completely naked. And when the Christians came through for their Bible study, oh, go ahead, go through. And I just thought, Okay, what's that all about? And so
we went into the multipurpose room.
And the first thing that I experienced of Islam
was the other.
So the brother was just like, Allah Akbar, Allah Akbar.
And I just, oh, oh, my God, what? And he, the brother was calling the Adan. And I asked Omar, I said, What is the beautiful song that this man is singing? And he said, Yeah, it's not a song. He's He's calling people to, to prayer. That's what we do. And I just said, wow, they call people to prayer.
They don't call Christians to prayer. You know, they, all they want is they call you to pay your tithes.
They don't call you to prayer. So we said, Okay, let me take you inside and teach you how to make wudu.
And I made will do from my first time, I met Juma as a non Muslim, as a mushrik. And so I heard they're done. And we're making wudu. Now, and I'm thinking
these people
are performing a ritual purification for none other than God. None other than the respect of God. And I just thought,
wow, yes, yes. This is what I want. This is what this is what Christianity is supposed to be. I've been going to the church, there's no concept of the hosel or will do you, you just show up. And I just thought, wow, that's okay. Another thing that's that I'm impressed with. So it started with the dawn, you were fascinated with the DA and now we get into the period. The evolution we do and just keeps getting better, huh? just keeps on getting better. And so we went to the main prayer hall and that multipurpose room.
And he said, let me just it was before jamais, just let me break it down for you. What's going to happen is basically it's like Sunday church, except we're going to sit on the floor, and the Imam or the pastor is going to speak a little bit about Islam. He's got like a little message or a sermon. And then we're all going to stand up. And he is going to we're going to pray. We're going to read from the Quran. And I said,
Okay,
so you guys stand up, or does he read the Quran to you when he prays? Or what? He said, No, no, no, we all line up in one direction. And by the way, this man he doesn't
read from the Quran. He actually has the entire Quran memorized
as an Omar. Now, that book that you gave me that that book that you gave me that said myself, this book, he memorize the whole, the whole chapter, that I mean, the whole book.
It said,
It's not strange. Millions of Muslims have the Quran memorized, and millions and millions and hundreds of millions all the way from the time of the Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, there will always be people that memorize the Quran. And that right there was just like,
okay, these people are no jokes, they are not a joke. they memorize the Quran, the whole book, it means that they care about the book, that means that the translation can't be lost. It means people can't say anything about the Quran, like they say in the Bible.
In the Quran is the Quran. And that's it. So I was that was like it like, like you say, it just kept on getting better, like, well, I'm in the right place. Something's about to happen. I know it.
And so long story short, we sat there and we listened to the football. And it came to the time for us to get up and pray for them to get up and pray because remember, I'm still not a Muslim. And I didn't even go there with a purpose of becoming a muslim. I just
Want to see?
So, Omar told me Look, could you like, sit over there by the side? We're going to all line up in rows, and we're going to pray. So just watch us, and then we'll talk to you later.
I said fine.
So
these big, big muscular, you know, killers thugs, gangster X gangsters X killers x, this x that Imam said Allah hu Akbar.
And I saw a change in all of the Muslims face. And their demeanor, they just
they all became humble in front of Allah subhanaw taala.
And I was just like,
Oh, you're observing. You're sitting on the side observing. You're not actually taking part in the prayer yet? No, I'm not. I'm not in the prayer. I'm just sitting on the side. Yeah, close to the close to the second row, just like
okay. And I'm listening to the the man recite the Quran. And I was just like,
whoa, whoa, whoa, okay. It's something's like it's taken off. It's getting better and better.
And I decided, you know, he told me to sit there. But no, I was there for answers.
I was looking for God. I wanted to find God, I was looking for God my whole life. And, you know, the Quran? The will do the truth of the Quran? No.
I'm here for answers. So I got I got up.
And I went to the side of the front row.
And I did one of these. I was like,
I looked at their face in the front row, I didn't care. I was there for answers. I just wanted to see them.
And they were just, they were lost, that they weren't lost. They were lost in the love and the adoration of Allah subhanaw taala. And I just thought,
oh, but if anybody wants to ask me,
Ali, what did it for you? What made you become a Muslim? How did Allah subhanaw taala open your heart to Islam?
It was none other than the moment when these prisoners
these Muslims made sujood
that was it. The prospect ice
prostration watching them pray like Jesus prayed. Right? When I saw this, it's almost like, you know, when you get into cold water, you say?
Like, it was overwhelming. They called each other to the worship of Allah subhanaw taala. They had washed their hands and their feet and their face and their arms. They had recited the holy book, they are humbled in front of their Lord. And now they put their faces on the ground.
It was at that point where Islam became completely irresistible, completely irresistible. And I had to have it.
And I decided right there, I'm going to become a Muslim. You made the decision up until then, did you? Did you know about the six articles of faith the five pillars the pure monotheism, the worship of one and only one God, Prophet Muhammad being a final messenger and a line of messengers. Was this all clear to you? Absolutely, Crystal, but I didn't make the commitment. I didn't go to Juma to become a Muslim. I just wanted to see what they did. So after the Juma Omar came up to me, I had sat back down and Omar said, so what do you think?
And I said, Omar, I said something out of ignorance. And this is the ignorance of a lot of white Americans. I said something foolish.
out of ignorance, I said,
I don't know. I don't see any white people in Islam.
But but you have to make an exception for me. I'm going to become a Muslim today. And I'm not leaving until I you teach me or you accept me or show me the way how to be a Muslim. You're gonna make it this you're gonna make a consideration for me. And all of the all of the Muslim brothers would like Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar. And Omar said, Now, you can become a Muslim right now. And I just, you know, I lit up like, I can, I can and we all sat in the inner circle.
Oh, and 9091 and October, and I said I should do it La ilaha illallah wa de hula shiddhi Kala, what a shadow under Mohammed Abdullah? Who was?
That was it you took your shahada, your testimony of faith? Yeah Kenya was submitter, one who submits his will to the credit heavens in the earth, a Muslim Alhamdulillah Alhamdulillah I did hamdulillah and you've been making videos and I want to get into one of those videos because this is something that is crystal clear that it goes with the human nature that God is one and alone worthy of worship. Human beings go ahead and take creation is worshipped the messengers called people to call people back to creation to worship the Creator of creation, God Almighty, the Creator Allah in Aramaic, Allah Ha, this is the same God. And we even have so much evidence and proof. You know, a
lot of times you'll see these ads come up sometimes and someone will talk about how they came towards Jesus, they saw a dream and emotional experience.
But you have so much evidence, you know, and you have so much proof and one of those proof you discuss or your you're commenting on and I want you to react to this here. In this video about Prophet Mohammed even being in the Bible calls in the Bible. Before I dive into Bible hub, I need to show you this thing that Muslims believe Muslims believe that the Prophet was in a cave of Hira and the angel came to him and asked him to read the Prophet replied, I don't know how to read. Now, if you go to Isaiah 2912, here's what it says. It says and I can't be making this up. It says then the book will be given to the one who is illiterate saying please read this. And he will say I cannot
read. Now it gets crazier. Now look at this. Now keep in mind, that's what the current version of the Bible says. I wonder what the most authentic version of the Bible would say about this first, like maybe there's more context we don't know. So if you go to the oldest version of the Bible, okay, here's the website. Alright, let's go. Let's let's go to Isaiah. Alright, so here it is. I'm just gonna zoom in this literally doesn't get any more authentic than this literally. Okay, watch this. Now the most authentic version says something different. I want you guys to pay attention to this. Look at how it's all uppercase. Very nicely organized, but then it looks like someone
scribbled in an E there and someone scribbled in a C there it doesn't look like that was meant to be there it looks like it was supposed to be xi P A because look at how squished the E is here. But not here like all the other letters are perfectly spaced out but what this one looks like someone just put in an E and let's see. I think it was supposed to be x IPA let's let's look at Hebrew what x IPA means? Okay, let's let's look what happens. And there it is. Look, I'm gonna click play Listen very carefully listen to sounds like he their heater, heater heater. Oh my goodness. Guys, the first miracles that in the Bible, it literally says the book will be given to the one who is illiterate.
And please read this and you'll say I cannot read. This is this literally what Muslims believe? Like the Bible is telling you that the forthcoming Prophet Muhammad, peace and blessings be upon him. When you give it more context, you literally can literally see that it's being squished and someone put an E and A C. It's not a big look. Look at all the other letters. Look at our all spaced out. And look this is looking at this E looks like why does it not look like that? Look at this. He looks like why does it not look like that looks like someone forced it. So when you put x EIPA how it's supposed to look like? Guess what? Guess what it says the context of this is that it's in the cave
of Hira? The same thing that Muslims believe the Prophet was in the cave of Hira, revealing this revelation.
So you verified this? You shared this? I mean, this was a talk going on package that what were you thinking? And what what was the? What was the strong message that's coming from this? Look, the message is this to the Christians.
I don't know exactly how to unpack it. All I know to say is to the Christian, our brothers in humanity that are watching this.
Islam is much older than what you think.
The message of the prophets are not different. There is not different types of religions, except dietary laws. Like you know, the Jews had the kosher we have halal, and and that's about it, but the message of Jesus is the same. All of the Anbiya all of the prophets are brothers, all of them are telling you throughout you know the 124,000 prophets that Allah Subhan Allah, Allah sent
the same thing all throughout creation. God is one. God is one come to prayer. give sadaqa treat your fellow man. Right. And this is just a proof. I have many other videos that talk about this. And my message is this to the Christians.
You just don't know. I have been a Muslim. I was your brother. I was your son. I was your colleague for 19 years of my life. I know Christianity. left right and center. I know it inside and out.
I was one of you. And now I'm a Muslim. I am a person that knows both sides of the coin. You do not know both sides of the coin. When somebody wants to learn about Christianity, who do they go to? They go to a priest it go to a pastor, when somebody wants to know about Judaism, where do they go naturally to a rabbi, but I find it
sad that when the world wants to know about Islam, unfortunately, they go to well known Islamophobes. They search about why is Islam untrue? I don't want to know if it is true. I don't want to know anything about it. It can't be true, right? It can't because that's a religion of violence, right? Islam can't be true.
And so
unfortunately, the Christians get this thing in their mind that Islam is this. And that's all I need to know. Oh, thank God that Islam is not true. Well, hold that thought for a minute.
Don't say Thank God so easily, because Islam is the fastest growing religion in the world. And there is a reason for that. There is a reason why probably one of your sons, maybe even in Nice, maybe even your husband has left Christianity and become a Muslim. There is a reason why 20,000 Christians in America alone, we're just talking about America become Muslim, every single year. And it's not because of violence. It's not because of oppression. It's because it's true. It's because the Quran has been preserved and it proves itself time and time again. That is why so my message to the Christian listeners out there you really need to humble yourself and stop learning Islam from the
people that are combating Islam and ask us watch the deen show go to you know
you know any any Islamic, you know, reputable Islamic site and learn Islam. I promise you when you're exposed to the real Islam, the authentic Islam. It's hard for me to say that you would turn it away. Because when I experienced Islam, it was irresistible. I cannot imagine myself not being a Muslim. yarmulke Lavon Kolb Saba Colby Allah Denecke, may Allah Subhana Allah Allah keep my heart to the religion of Allah subhanaw taala. I cannot imagine living in any other way. So Christians, please. All I'm asking. Give Islam a chance and learn it from an authentic source. I'm begging you. Great advice. Couple more questions before we conclude. Yeah, this is amazing this video because
there's so much proof signs upon signs evidence upon evidence. And just in here, this, this mountain that's mentioned the cave hit a it's there and it seemed like they were doing something with the text. There is the I don't know what he was saying with the wood. They changed. They tried to change it or something or they snuck in. They snuck in a letter to change the sound of Hira. So that's that's the whole point. They snuck. That's the point, okay, they tried to put in something to change it. But when you go ahead, and you listen to it, this is the cave that the revelation came to Prophet Muhammad. And then there's others signs there. There's just too many, it's not coincident.
It's if somebody's sincere, and they're humble. They're open minded. And then if they observed the message, the message makes sense. worship one God, one God alone. The confirmation that Jesus was a messenger the clarifying who he was, who he wasn't, and how to run your life, how to run your family, how to run a country, everything is there, laid out in Islam, it just too much too much. For one man to go ahead and come up on his own. It's not possible, it's impossible. And you have this Quran is a living miracle. And it's there and you've beautifully stated how you know both sides of the coin. So this is great advice. Look at the other side. And don't go to the professional
Islamophobes who get paid for bashing Islam. Come to the qualified sources to go ahead, learn how to make your decision from there like you did. I mean, Islam one more point. I mean, Islam is so clear, like you were saying it's so easy to understand, easy. We Muslims out of the three Abrahamic faiths, that is Islam, Judaism and Christianity. You know, the Muslims c'est la ilaha illAllah. The Jews say, Here you Israel, the LORD your God is one. And so the Jews and the Muslims, we agree with each other
As far as you know, God,
but when the Christians say, oh, wait a minute, we we believe in one God to, and show us in the Bible where God said, or Jesus said that he's God. Well, this one verse, I am, that I am. And, you know, that's what turns me away from Christianity. Islam is so clear, Judaism is so clear about God, why can't Christianity be so clear? And why does it just full of riddles? I am, that I am. No, we want to see we want to read I, Jesus M God, but it does not exist in the Bible. And the problem is the Christians have taken it upon themselves, to appoint themselves as much to Hadyn as Mufasa in people that have had this self anointed self appointed power to pick apart and translate the
meanings of the Bible, when they have no right to do so. I mean, in Christianity reading the Bible, first of all, they'll tell you, if you don't read the book, if you don't understand the Bible, that means that you don't have the Holy Spirit. And so I made a video called The Father, the Son, and the Holy segue, because they always use the Holy Spirit as a segue, Oh, you don't understand? Well, you didn't know Jesus that way. That's why you don't understand the Bible. And this is you think it's a contradiction. You're not reading it with the Holy Spirit. And I'm thinking, this is not a religion. And I did another video about, you know, the Council of Nicaea, how they decided what Christianity
was and what it wasn't. And you know, what, my question is? Why isn't Christianity so clear why when Judaism is, and Islam is the ultimate clarity of what we should be doing? And how we should be believing?
Tell me how did your father take to it is, Is he someone who is is he still part of your life? Did he when he found out is? How did he take to it? What was his reaction? I
wrote a letter to my my two half brothers and my one half sister
telling them how I became a Muslim and why
I wrote a letter to my, my, my father as well.
And
so they got the letter, and I just called my father.
I called my father.
And instead of saying, Hello, he said, You sign up. Don't you ever, ever tell, you know, your brothers and your sister about this Islam? Nonsense? Of course, he didn't say nonsense. I'm just, you know, a bunch of explicit hymns. And, and, and you're no son of mine, and blah, blah, blah. And so it kind of settled down. And
I said, but he actually threatened me. And he said, Listen.
It's either Islam or it's us. And remember, I've told you that I've been raised like, what's it been? Oh, Mayor, very, very well off. And he said, you know, your inheritance? I said, Yes. He said, you know, that the house, you know, the House and the land and everything. I said, Yes, sir.
He said, You know,
if you persist,
and this Islam nonsense, I will go to my lawyer tomorrow.
And I will write you out of my will, and you will have absolutely nothing. Wow. So he's threatened you with inheritance. Now, that's it, all the money is going to be gone no more. Well, I'm not I'm not saying that. I'm not gonna say the the number. But it was it was six figures. And it was a huge house, and it was land on that house.
And he said, you know, he gave me an ultimatum.
And I said, immediately, I choose Islam.
You said,
Oh,
by the time he finished his sentence, I said, I choose Islam.
And he said,
Okay, so before you become dead to me, and penniless. I want to know why. I gotta have some closure as to why.
And I said, Dad, look,
you're my father. Whether you're pleased, or you're not pleased with me, I'm your son.
Whether you're pleased or you're not pleased with me, whether I'm a Muslim, whether I'm a Jew or a Christian, I can obey you on every single aspect of my life and I have
But when it comes to matters of akhira, or the hereafter, when it comes to the Day of Judgment, which, by the way, is a day, which that I can't say anything for you, and you can't say anything for me, I will answer and I will be in front of, of God, the Almighty, just like you will. And I won't be swayed by all the money in the world. I can't. This is something that I've been looking for my whole life. And I finally found it. And God is the one that provides for me anyway, God is the one that created me. And so I rely on God 100%. So you respectfully do what you got to do, you will find that I will be a Muslim, and I have become a Muslim, and I will stay a Muslim and I will die a
Muslim. And he did just that. He went to his lawyer the next day,
said, sent me a copy that I was completely out of his will. And I said, I looked at the letter and I said, Alhamdulillah
Alhamdulillah, that Allah subhanaw taala out of my whole lineage, which comes from Norway, and of my whole lineage.
I am the only one that Allah subhanaw taala has chosen to give a Daya.
And so I have everything.
If I don't have Islam, and I have a million dollars, what do I have? I have nothing. But I have if I have Allah subhanaw taala you know, I have everything I have salvation to live on this earth for another week or two, or a couple of years or 30 years, whatever Allah subhanaw taala decides, for me, at least, yeah, that I could die in sha Allah with La ilaha illAllah Muhammad Rasool Allah on my lips, and returned to my lord with him being pleased with me. Isn't that everything? Isn't that the ultimate victory of my life? Becoming a Muslim, and having Allah pleased with me and dying upon Islam? total victory, the ultimate victory. So alhamdulillah I'm, I'm,
I'm very content with my life with what's happened to me. And the greatest thing that's ever happened to my life, is that I became a slave of Allah subhanaw taala. That's it.
So your family originally from Norway?
Well, my grandfather immigrated from Norway. Yeah. See? So the last couple of Viking Viking lineage, Viking lineage so you got Viking lineage. So I heard a lot of Vikings also in some of the coins I've seen. You see some writing from some Arabic calligraphy there. Have you seen some of these? They say some some of the Vikings might have come over to Islam. Yeah, the the rings as well. They were buried with the rings. And there's some tapestry that Vic Vikings were, you know, actually, Ibn fadlan he you know, I don't know if you've ever seen that movie 13th warrior. That's actually a real book that it was based off of, and the Vikings and the Muslims, they did meet on the Volga River.
And they actually clashed with the I believe that it was the homemade Abbas it I can't remember what they actually clashed at adalah Al Andalus. With with the Vikings, and they, the Muslims actually lost on the first encounter. But the second encounter, they were the only ones that actually defeated the Vikings. And so the Khalifa at that time.
He said, it's an opportunity
isn't here. Here's some people that are like, warriors. I can use them. So he actually came to one of the chieftains of the Vikings and said
you guys want a job?
And the Vikings were like, Yeah, what's up is our golden hit. Yeah. So basically, the job was patrol. But you know, come under our authority. You don't have to become Muslims. But patrol our coastline from Portugal all the way down to the Moroccan coast, all the way to Sicily and back and just protect our coastline. And the Viking said, okay, but not only that, a lot of them became there's two two towns in, I believe Portugal or southern Spain that are are known are Viking a lot of Vikings settled there, and he became Muslim. So Wow. That's amazing. So when you were studying the Bible and Bible study, did you know that Matthew didn't write Matthew that you had allotted
Anonymous anonymous books. Did you know any of that? None of it. We were never told that this is this is the book of God. And don't question the Book of God. I never knew any of this stuff. They never teach you that. No. And now I'm pretty sure I want to just show one of the the miracles in how the Quran is preserved. And you've been a Muslim now for how many years at 3031 years, this October will be 32 years. And every Muslim is aspiring to memorize the Quran, bits of it, chunks of it, the whole of it. And if I asked you now to recite any part of the Quran, one that identifies who, God Almighty Sudha floss, for example, called who Allahu Ahad? You, you go ahead and if you can recite
that for us, because this defines who it's shows how the Quran is preserved, someone who's not a native Arabic speaking person, not an Arab. You're an American, formally a Christian, Muslim. And it's just like somebody's asking you to recite something original that Jesus might have had in Aramaic, but we don't have anything original, or the sister language to Aramaic is Arabic. So would you? Would you go ahead and
put you sorry, put you on the spot. But can you recite this for us? And this actually defines who God is in this very short chapter of the Quran? Absolutely. And this is to the Krishna viewers, this is another proof that if I recite this wrong, automatically Eddie will say Oh, wasn't it Wait a minute, you've made a mistake on this one word? That is a miracle in itself. If I were to read the Bible, and I said a different wording or a different meaning. No Christian would stop me they would think I'm okay. But what the Quran? I am not a native Arabic speaker. I'm Norwegian, I'm an American.
But if when I recite the Quran, when I recite Surah the class people will either say yes, you have recited it correctly word for word, letter for letter or they will say no brother you have made a mistake. And with that, I will the bIllahi min ash shaytani R rajim
Bismillah R Rahman r Rahim Allah Who Allahu Ahad Allahu Samad, Lamia, Lido. Allah mu Walla Walla, Nicola neocolor, who call for 100 Now Eddie, have I recited the sort of Eclass correctly Yes, Mashallah. Beautiful. Alhamdulillah So in here, what does that actually mean? What did you say? What's the meaning here? One Kulu Allah who had say that Allah is one that unique, Allah has semihard Allah the eternal lemon yet it was a new that he was never it was never born, nor does he give birth. What a miracle love who call for one ahead and there is none like him or comparable to him. As Allah Spinetta Allah says in the Quran, lay sacramental he che well who was a meal was here,
there is nothing comparable to Allah Spinetta Allah. Although he sees and he hears sadaqa Lola the mashallah, thank you very much. And we'll conclude with that. Thank you for being with us here sharing your wonderful story. If you want to get in touch with you. They want to see some of your videos, how can they connect with you? I have tick tock Maliki click same name on this video. And I have YouTube Maliki click as well. And I don't know if you allow me to plug my Patreon shot Allah can I do that or share God? Okay, so you can if you want to help the Dawa out, you can you can help me out that with a monthly subscription on Patreon, backslash Maliki click, I sure would appreciate
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