Tom Facchine – Minute with a Muslim #268 – You Have To Submit

			You will have to find a slum even if you're a born Muslim. I completely agree with that. That is
true. And this is why I don't make a big deal out of the language. Some people prefer convert, some
people prefer revert, personally I lean more towards using the word convert because
		

			you there's a difference between the fitrah and the Islam that you come to as an adult. Right?
Nobody is really born a Muslim, and a certain understanding of what the word Muslim means. You can
be born into a Muslim household, you can be born upon the fitrah you can have this milieu around
you, that is going to set you up for success and really, almost ensure with the, you know, the will
of Allah that you're going to continue to become a Muslim. But there comes a point in every person's
life where they have to affirm it for themselves. Isn't the whole point of our religion, intention?
And Nia, do you have an intention? When you're a baby when you're two years old? No, you don't. When
		

			it comes to accepting these sorts of sets of propositions or feeling experiencing the world through
the reality that is the Islamic worldview, experiencing life with Allah, you know, as the creator,
as the provider, as the Most Merciful as the All Knowing. So every single person has to this is the
difference between there comes a point where everyone has to cross over from that fitrah to that
Azzam or that fitrah to that Islam, where, you know, we call it submission, right? You have to
submit at a certain point, no matter what you are set up to believe you have a choice, you know, you
become a teenager, you start to question things and, you know, you either start to drift away or you
		

			keep it going, but at some point, at some point, you make a decision. You make a commitment. You
submit that's a sign