The Deen Show – PERFECT Question Posed to Christians about Jesus

			When it comes to Christianity, when I speak to Christians, I asked them what is their faith
Christianity? And I asked them what does that mean to be Christ like and I said, Okay, what was the
faith of Jesus? Simple as that? What was the faith of Jesus? If you're a Christian, what was he? You
can't say he was a Christian because that means to be Christ like, so what was his faith? As a
Muslim, I prefer to follow the faith of Jesus Christ, peace be upon him which was to submit myself
to the will of God
		

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			and His final messengers, Muhammad, peace be upon him? This is our religion, Islam, Islam, this is
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			faith of Islam show Welcome to the deen show. The Deen show.
		

			Well, in reality, nobody gave me Dawa. That's why I do what I do today. I had to, for fear of my
life. If anybody knows my story about how the Bible led me to Islam, actually went into the mosque
for the first time, like with fear of my life, I had no idea what went on in this building. And my
first impression was these Muslims are probably going to sacrifice me after Juma. That was, that was
what I
		

			because the man was screaming in Arabic in pounding on the thing, and he's pointing in my direction.
		

			But after he translated in English, I was so intrigued that I asked for proof of the religion.
Because you know, every religion says it has the truth, right? But my grandfather taught me the
truth comes with proof. So if somebody says they're telling the truth, ask for proof. So I asked him
for proof, and he gave me a copy of the Quran. And I took it home. And I read it from cover to cover
that weekend. And the following Monday, I took my Shahada. So the reason why I got involved in data
well, when I when I heard about it, when I realized that there was a thing called Data witness them.
And this was, you know, introduced to me by an OG and the data were way, way back in the early
		

			2000s. I decided that I was going to be involved in this because I didn't want anyone else to be in
the position I was in Lost looking for the truth, and not having readily available access to it.
Because in Greenville, South Carolina, there was nobody doing that our if you didn't go to the
masjid and ask about it, you didn't know about it, there was nothing to search online, there was you
know, this was way before any of that. I mean, think there was so foot like the first cell phones
that were like big bricks back in 1997 1990. So I actually had to get on my two feet and walk to the
masjid and find out about Islam. So I made it my dedication that no one else would have to do that
		

			again. And that's when I first started my online data was on MySpace. That's what we were talking
about. And that's how you found me. I don't even think in it. Most of these people in the room are
too young to remember MySpace. But that's that's how it all began way back when, what 1617 years
ago. And that's, that reminds me of the Hadith where the prophet says, I'm paraphrasing, he's
talking. This is a, this is a prophecy that this deen is going to spread without without us. Yeah.
And it's being fulfilled. And we got people like you, I mean, we've I've had so many different
pastors and former Christian people of other faiths or no faith, you know, but they get to a point
		

			where they're searching, what's the purpose of life? Why am I here? And then they get out there and
it's the power of Islam and it goes with the findra. You know, when people look into it, the pure
monotheism, and all the other tenants of Islam, the moral code, it all makes sense. And now all we
have to do is go ahead share, we don't even have to go ahead and try to twist someone's arm, you
know, coalhurst trick No, but no, no share the message. That's it. That is one of the biggest
caveats of data that I think is most misunderstood, is that people becoming Muslim is not our job.
That's not our job is not nor is it our responsibility. Our job is to deliver the message. Whether a
		

			person accepts that message or not, is up to Allah, that he is led. He is the one who guides the
heart to Islam. Our job is to deliver the package. That's it and that's something that that is
simple to do. simple to do. People come and ask me how do I give dower and tell somebody else about
Islam? What do I tell them? Whatever, you know, that's it if all you know about Islam is that there
is only one God. That's it. That's what the Prophet sallallahu Sallam did, who La ilaha illallah to
floon. If you say there's no deity but Allah, you'll be successful. I said, if you do something as
simple as that, you are fulfilling your obligation. But we have to introduce the people to the real
		

			version of Islam, because the media has done their job very well in fact, have
		

			putting out a very twisted form of Islam, to keep people away from the truth. Our job is just simply
to pull back that curtain because it's very easy to do so because it's very ignorant, pull back the
curtain and say, Look, this is the reality of Islam. If you accept it that's beneficial for you. And
if you don't, it harms no one else but you. That's the fact that we have to understand as Muslims is
that Allah doesn't need any of us. Our guidance is his decision. And if we worship Him is to our own
benefit. If we don't, it's our own detriment. Absolutely. It reminds me another statement, authentic
statement from the problem. Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam where he said, Those who love my
		

			sunnah Love Me. Those who love me and my sunnah will be with me and Jana, you know, people think of
you know, there's so many different aspects of the Sunnah. And then a lot of people you know, how
great of a mission was this that this was his way his way of calling, calling people tonight Ilaha
illa Allah to the true purpose of life to the pure monotheism. Yeah, well, Allah so we talk about
the Sunnah of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam so much and it is in you know, to follow his
son is obligatory is mandatory. Ahmed told us in the Quran to Allah Almighty Rasool obey Allah and
obey His messenger. But the son of the Prophet Salah Salem is not just restricted to you know, using
		

			swag eating with your right hand think the greatest son and Allah told him in the Quran Kula hottie.
He said, Ed, say this is my way. I do Allah, Allah sera I call to Allah with Shiva knowledge. This
was his son, his greatest legacy.
		

			The greatest legacy of the Prophet salallahu Alaihe Salam is us. We are his legacy. We are the
legacy of the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam that he did such amazing work. And then the
Companions who came after him did such amazing work that a young man like me, in a small town in
South Carolina, we hear about Islam in 1990, that just to think of how much had to happen for that
to take place in precursor of the internet, you know, back then Windows 95. And the internet was
like, What are you searching on there? But that is the Sunnah of the Prophet alayhi salatu salam, we
are the legacy of the Prophet peace be upon him. And we have to realize that in order for that
		

			legacy to continue, we have to do our job to continue to strengthen the chain going forward. Are we
talking Are we are we all of us all, everybody, every single Muslim?
		

			We're were the legacy, the legacy like if people asked me how do you know your Prophet sallallahu
wasallam existed and was really was truth and I said to you looking at it, you are looking at it the
fact that I am a Muslim, in all of the circumstances of my life is proof of whom our Prophet alayhi
salatu salam was and is to the world. This is why we say Muhammad Rasool Allah, he is the messenger
of Allah, because as long as we continue to do our job, he continues, this is one of the greatest we
always ask, you know, we in every Salah we asked for Allah subhanho wa Taala to breast the Prophet
best the family of the Prophet like he blessed the family, Ibrahim, etc. One of the greatest honors
		

			that you can give to the Beloved Prophet Muhammad Ali Salatu Salam is to continue to convey this
message, because every person you convey this message to not only do you get rewarded for that, but
he sallallahu alayhi wa sallam the originator of this message for us in the president, he gets a
reward for that. So this is a way of honoring the Sunnah of the Prophet alayhi salatu salam honoring
his life, and also continuing to elevate his rank in the next we were talking about earlier today.
And you had me thinking, look how simple and easy to sit as conversation starters, getting people to
think. And you said something, it was really nice. You said that when you were talking now to
		

			people, you were saying you follow the faith of Jesus, but what was his faith? Yeah. Well, you know,
the top 10 reasons was was, these were in my younger years, when you know, you got to do a little
bit hardcore. When we're young, we want to just, you know, we want to win a draw straight line in
the sand. Now, as you get older, you start, you know, realizing a little bit more of how to get into
the psychology of people. When it comes to Christianity. When I speak to Christians, I asked them,
what is their faith Christianity? And I asked them, What does that mean, to be Christ like? And I
said, Okay, what was the faith of Jesus? Simple as that? What was the faith of Jesus? If you're a
		

			Christian, what was he you can't say he was a Christian, because that means to be Christ like, so
what was his faith? As a Muslim, I prefer to follow the faith of Jesus Christ, peace be upon him,
which was to submit myself to the will of God. So that gets the kind of the ball rolling, that you
say, you're a Christian, you follow Christ for what was his faith? And they really in that becomes
like, they're like, Oh, what am I gonna say? Because Because you worship Jesus, what was his faith?
Did he worship himself, like what was his faith? So if you want to be Christ, like you need to go
figure out what his faith was, what he practiced, what he what he worshipped, whom he worshipped.
		

			And you follow that that's what it means to be Christ like, because what you're doing in reality, as
a Christian is following what Paul taught that Jesus peace be upon him was that's how the whole
Christian theology came about, but I would rather follow
		

			The faith of Jesus Christ Himself. And that's what we as Muslims do. What's kept you having his
longevity all these years now from when we met up until now continue to share, you know the purpose
of life continuing to Dawa, and we're still here today Alhamdulillah
		

			two things, one of them. One of them is a little bit, what is the word I'm looking for? One of them
is a little bit selfish. And that's permissible. And the other one is for the care of concern of
other people. The selfish reason is I want to go to paradise. And I know that one of the most
surefire ways to earn yourself good deeds very quickly, is the hour, because the Prophet sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam authentically narrated, that anyone who calls someone else to guidance will receive
the reward of the guided one without the reward of the guided one being lost. That means if you
guys, you help someone come to Islam, not only do they get rewarded for every good deed they do, you
		

			get rewarded for every good deed they do. You can be asleep in your bed at night and this person is
praying and Allah is counting on your scale as you prayed when they give charity Allah counted as
you gave charity when they fast, Allah counts as you fast. So it's a surefire way to help me go to
Paradise and shout Allahu taala, because like you said about the top 10 We recorded that, like,
what, 16 years ago, I might be dead, my grave, and someone might watch that video and come to Islam,
and it'll, it'll give me good credit. So that's number one. And the second reason is, because one of
the characteristics of the Prophet alayhi salaatu wa salaam was caring concern that he actually
		

			cared and concerned about other human beings and their souls and where it would be in the next life.
So I actually do care about other people. And I want to see other people have a good life and have a
good position. Because one of the key characteristics of a Muslim, the Prophet sallallahu wasallam,
said, that you wish for your brother, what you wish for yourself. And that means not just your
Muslim brother, but your brother or sister in humanity, you wish for other people, what you wish for
yourself, and I don't want nothing more for me than to go to paradise. So I would like that for
other people as well. Sometimes, because we don't get out of our box or sometimes because we don't
		

			interact with our neighbors colleagues, and we don't open up these conversations. And we let others
talk for us, you know, the below Riley's who's not no longer there anymore, but the others and Sean
Hannity and the other Fox News and they've kind of, you know, toned it down a little bit, but at any
time, you know, a lot of times the media is out there, you know, just like they had recently at the
World Cup, you know, the Muslims are throwing up the pure monotheism, La ilaha illa. Allah Yeah,
they're trying to they're trying to ostracize them and make them you know, connect Moroccan players,
like there's some kind of with some extreme element, you know, what I mean, as the Muslims are
		

			rising, but then we explain that today in the film show that we film this is a pure monotheism, this
the way of Jesus and Moses and Abraham. And then, you know, the belief that Jesus his mother is one
of those blessed woman, there's a chapter named after in the Quran. So these points there are so you
know, simple, basic things of Islam. We went to the streets not too long ago, and we were asking the
average American, you know, 300 million Americans, we get to all of them, but we got to, you know, a
small group, and we're asking people, Do you know anything about Islam? And the majority are like,
No, we've been told that they're out to kill us all. Salaam Alaikum. Brothers and sisters, we went
		

			to the streets to ask Americans about Islam. Here's what they said. Do you know anything about
Islam? No. Do you know anything about Islam? No, sadly, do you know anything about Islam? Not
really. Do you know anything about Islam?
		

			No, sorry. You know what Islam means? Islam? No, we've been told that they're out to kill us all.
That's what you been told that Muslims are out to kill you all.
		

			Well, that's it to say on TV. Anything. I know it's in the Middle East. Whether you're gonna have
four wives, brothers and sisters, as you can see, there are so many Americans who don't know about
Islam. We need your help to change that help us to build the deen center the first Mega data center
in America click the donate right now may God Almighty Allah reward all of you
		

			know what they didn't know. It was something just went out there. Yep. So how is it now that you and
your experience now, you know, have you seen over the years, you know, some of these basic things
that you know, some of the basic tenets of our faith, the love of Jesus, the love of his mother, the
pure monotheism? You know, if we just get out there and share these things, how much of a great
impact that would make? Yeah, that's the thing is that
		

			we have to realize a lot of times we become very lazy because we feel like the world has such access
to information like oh, you know, people should be able to find a button to slim very simply. But
what we have come to learn is that with the greater amount of access to information, the more dumb
people are becoming. That's a very weird phenomenon that we're seeing you know, that the more
readily available information is, people are actually becoming more stupid.
		

			that's just it's just a causation that is very weird. So we should not assume that just because
anyone could really do if anyone went and searched the Internet properly, they would find out about
a slam that they have done. So no, that means that we need to be doing even more to get out there.
And let people know what Islam and Muslims are really about. Because we are going to be questioned,
we have to understand that that on the Day of Judgment is all about accountability. That is entitled
in the whole reason for the day of judgment to exist is for accountability, accountability. And one
of the things that we will be accountable for, besides our own personal deeds, is, especially for
		

			Muslims living in the West or Muslim minorities, we will be accountable for the people around us
because those people will now if we if we haven't, let's say we have a neighbor or a co worker that
knew us for 1015 years, and we never told them about Islam. Do you think that person is not going to
try to use us as a bargaining chip that my Lord, there was this Muslim, the he knew he lived next to
me for 15 years? And it might not free him, but it might bind us? You know, I mean, it might
actually become a proof against us on the Day of Judgment that you live next to this person you knew
where they were going to work that was going to happen to them, and you did nothing. So we have to
		

			hold ourselves accountable. Not only that, but it's a command from Allah, who who elicited Rebekah
hikma. We must call them to the way of Islam. I remember. So we don't get to direct on but I'll tell
you something very, that really changed kind of my outlook on data. Because there was a point in I
would say the the late 2000s That I was ready to quit, not quitting because I didn't want to give
Dawa. But I wanted to move to Medina. And just study because I felt like I needed to know a lot more
about the religion because the more you get to know about Islam, the more you realize you don't know
about Islam. So I actually went to Medina and spent my summers there through the mid 2000s. And I
		

			went to the house of Sheikh Abdullah and PT one evening, and I was actually invited without knowing
to the meeting of all the scholars of Mauritania at the time, they had the meeting and showed up to
his house. And I walked in and he was for some scholars that I had no business sitting in the same
room with. And I was wondering why why did he invite me here? He you know why he invited me there.
He invited me there to tell them my story about how I came to Islam. And I tried to refuse I was
like, Are you kidding me? I do not even have the right to open my mouth. In this room. There was
some there was some great scholars issue. I thought it was there. I mean, it was I was like, I don't
		

			need to do this. You know how he convinced me? He said, These scholars are like engineers who've
never built a building. They're like heart surgeons who've never seen a patient because they live in
this super religious bubble. Were in they they love that I was so much because they know it's the
core of the deen they know what's one of the greatest son of the Messenger of Allah alayhi salatu
salam, but they very rarely come into contact with non muslims so they don't get to do it. So when
they see people who have become Muslim or people who are involved in doing that, or were they it
becomes something of a of a love for them that they love to see. And that changed my out output
		

			dramatically Subhanallah and that's where the D center comes in. A Salam aleikum wa rahmatullah wa
barakato. This is so gorgeous. I've known brother Eddie and the deen show for many, many years. And
as a matter of fact, I was one of the original people who showed up on this show Al Hamdulillah has
been doing a great job but hamdulillah and spreading the deen of Allah Subhana Allah to his show was
activities and Dawa right now their work and handle on a great project. The Deen center which has
now taken this Dawa from such a small show to become life Charlotta and mega program getting the
general public at the dinner of Allah subhanho wa Taala larger audience and they need your support
		

			and I give them my support inshallah to Allah for the deen center. Hopefully inshallah you can look
into it and put some running charity and work for yourself inshallah This project brings you
continuous charity for the rest of your life until the day of support the dissenter, As Salam
aleikum wa rahmatullah would again
		

			try to reach out Inshallah, to these 300 million Americans not just here all over the world know
nothing about Islam, what was your impression? You had a chance now to visit the property? And you
know about the projects? What are your impressions and I went to see it Yeah, Mashallah. What I saw
was amazing, potential, amazing potential, to be able to establish something that can be a hub of
data because that's something that we you know, we don't do is we're organized about everything
else. As Muslims, we're working we have our our religion is supposed to be organized. We're
organizing the way we pray, we're organizing the way we give charity, we're organizing Hajj, well, I
		

			don't take that with a grain of salt for anybody who has been to Hajj how organized it is or not,
but one of the things we are so disorganized in is that we are so disorganized in the way that we do
it. And it needs to be done in a very systematic way in order to produce results. You know, it's
just like a business. If you're a martial arts business, if you just decided to wing it every single
day, how successful would it be?
		

			You would not be very successful, there's a systematic way to establish a successful business. The
same in Dallas, we need to be doing it in a very systematic way. And I've been preaching this for as
long as I've been giving Darrell, which is going on 20 years now. And this is an opportunity to do
so along with people like yourself who have a track record, you know, like, we've been at this for a
long time, we've gone great gray in this thing. So I think that the potential is there. And the
organization is there, the experience is there. But what is missing? What's always missing the
support the funding that is though, I will tell you, Eddie, and you know, this is well as I do, and
		

			you probably learned it the very hard way. Now, finding support for Dawa is the hardest thing to do,
because people will support everything, but they think that Dawa should be, you know, something that
should, you know, be free to do, but to do it properly, systematically in a way that's going to
produce results. needs funding. And that's the problem which is Xhaka Hayden, thank you so much. My
pleasure being with us again. Thank you brothers and sisters just Sukla hot tub, like butter, beer
		

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			takes me inside give a tour of the D center just transforming this from people worshipping the
creation to worshiping the Creator. Bless your efforts Eddie
		

			are You doing
		

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