Yasir Qadhi – The Blessing of Islam: A Message To Born Muslims

			In Alhamdulillah
		

			nahezu monastery and ohana, still fiddle whenever Rosa Villa Himanshu Rue de unforseen a woman say
Tiana Nina. Manga de la la Maddalena, Medina woman Yulin who Fela hodja wash Allah ilaha illa La La
sharika wa shadow Mohammed Abu humara sudo yeah you hola Xena Amano taco la haka Ducati Mouton in La
inla anti muslim own. Yeah Johan De Soto hora de como la de la Kakuma. nuptse wahida. wahala
caminhada. Weber thermen humare Jalan Cathy wrong manisa what taco la la de de Luna de Waal or ham
in the law her Corona la cumbre Kiba am about mario brothers and sisters in Islam. The majority of
us sitting here, the vast majority are those whom Allah subhana wa tada blessed to be born into
		

			Muslim families. Our parents were Muslims, for by and large, our mothers and fathers taught us the
faith. We went to the massaged with them as children, our parents arranged for us to learn the
Koran. Our cultures, by and large, have been Islamic, surrounded by Muslims. And I speak right now
of those who are born into Muslim families. And I know that 100 of us some amongst us have converted
to the faith, the majority of us as we know, we're born into it. Have you ever wondered
		

			if you hadn't been born into a Muslim family? Have you ever imagined if the world were a different
place, and a lot of other upon you were different than what it is? If you had not been gifted Islam
as a baby, or childbirth? Would you ever have discovered it? For most of us, brothers and sisters,
we've never thought about that question. For most of us, we take Islam for granted. We take it as a
birthright, we take it as if it is a part and parcel of existence. And so we take it for granted.
And what you take for granted by and large, you do not appreciate.
		

			For most of us, we have never wondered, What if I didn't know this faith? What if I was born into a
different religion, a different civilization? Would my intellectual curiosity been so strong? That I
would have questioned my own faith? Would my courage and bravery my conviction be so much that I
would have stood up against my own relatives? Would I have challenged the status quo? Would I have
been brave enough? curious enough, courageous enough to actually go against what my family what my
society what my culture had taught me if I knew that the truth was in other than what my society
had.
		

			And this question brothers and sisters is one that I have been thinking about for a long time. And I
want you as well to think about this because if you do not appreciate the gift of Islam, if you do
not understand how blessed and fortunate You and I are to have simply been born into this faith,
then Subhana Allah, we will take this faith for granted. And that is why brothers and sisters those
who convert to the faith, those of you in this audience who were born in other traditions, and you
are now sitting here, our Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam he said they shall get a double reward
double of anything that we have done. Because obviously, their whole lives they have had to change
		

			they have had to cut off they have had to stand courageously. Our Profit System said that person
will get digital defined double reward because the what person that he has done or she has done, the
courage that they have shown is something that we can only wonder would I have had that courage or
not. And Allah subhana wa tada reminds us in the Oran hole, the fog lilla he will be rahmati he
fabbi Danica fella Franco who Hiram in my age Maroon, tell them with a loss Favell and Rama let them
be happy. If an Abbas said the father of Allah is Islam and the Rama of Allah is the Quran will be
fought Lila he will be rahmati fabrisonic Ophelia for say, with Islam and the Quran, this is what
		

			they should be happy about. This is what they're for I should be based on. They should be happy that
Allah blesses them with Islam, that Allah gifted them the Quran for the de lica failure for
		

			Who are hired on Mim jejomar on the happiness of Islam, the happiness of the Koran is a greater
happiness than any other happiness that they can gather any money, any experience any joy, who a
hiatal mimma, Elijah Maroon, and brothers and sisters, these emotions of happiness, of sadness, of
joy of anxiety, they bring out the reality of our inner thought. And I was somewhat amused two weeks
ago, if you remember, we had this storm this winter storm, you know, the the the schools were shut
down for a week, as you know. So panela as you know, for six, seven days, our children did not go to
school. By and large. I know my children were very happy. And I'm sure yours were as well, very
		

			happy. They don't have to go to school. And I met one of our brothers who owns a business. He was
very sad, because he's losing business for those six days. And I thought so panela the same thing,
the same issue. It brings out what is the reality? What is actually this children don't want to go
to school. They're just so happy under the law. We don't have to go to school and the other
Brotherhood is is dependent on people coming to his office to shop and because everything is closed,
there is notice for those days, and so his sadness comes out. And this also made me reflect to
panela Do we really have that happiness for Islam? Do we really have that that joy that we should
		

			have? And Allah subhana wa tada reminds us in the Quran, while Ola fotball La Liga Morocco, Mazda
come in come in I had in Alberta, when I can no law how yuzaki Manisha it is a laws blessings on
you. It is Allah as folden Allah is gift to you, Allah generosity. I didn't earn Islam. You did not
deserve Islam. What? Oh la, La Jolla, la Kumara two who were it not for a law's father and allows
mercy, no one amongst you would ever have been purified and forgiven. Well, I can no law he was that
keman Yeshua but it is Allah subhanho wa Taala who chooses whom he wants to purify and to forgive?
We need to understand and appreciate these blessings these gifts that Allah subhana wa tada has
		

			given us because it is a last choice that he has guided us manually the law whoever Allah subhana wa
Taala once when you did the law who and yeah do who whoever Allah wants to guide Yeshua sutra who
lit Islam He is the one who opens his heart to Islam woman you did and you Linda who and whomever
Allah wants to misguide then Allah azza wa jal will take them to another path. It is a loss other
that I was born into a Muslim family, it is Allah other that my neighbor was not born into the same
type of family. Yes, it is true that this is a gift that Allah has given me, the least that I can do
is to appreciate that gift. Because when someone has gifted you something you do not appreciate it.
		

			Then you are showing a type of Cofer a type of rejection of the generosity of the one who gives you
a gift. How about the gift of Islam? And how about the generosity of the creator of this world?
Allah subhanho wa Taala reminds us in the Koran that a group of people think that they're doing us a
favor by embracing Islam, no mo noon, alake and Islam. This is the group of the hypocrites. The
group of them will not feel alone. They embraced Islam, and they boasted to the Prophet system. They
walked into the masjid puffed up with pride. And they said yes, we have accepted Islam, your
religion we follow it, and they were trying to show that this is a favor they're doing to the
		

			prophet to Islam, Yama, Noona, la can assalamu they think they are doing you a favor by accepting
Islam? No. Bonilla, huya mundo la con and her dark money in quantum soldering? No, that is not the
case. That is not the case. Rather, Allah is the one who is doing you a favor. Allah is the one who
is showing you mercy that he has guided you to Islam, if only you are truthful and sincere, it is
not any favor that I have done to anybody. It is not something that I have managed to do La hawla
wala quwata illa Billah It is Allah subhana wa tada who has gifted and blessed us in the Battle of
the trench, the Battle of Isaiah, the Sahaba. They're conscious of who they are. They're conscious
		

			who their enemies are. They were digging the trench and they began to sing poetry and the Prophet
salallahu alaihe salam went into the trench and he's singing that poetry with them. He's singing
that chant with them. And what was that poetry? Well, la Hello Lola who Medina Walla Walla, Walla,
Selena will law he were it not for a law, we would never have been guided. And we would never have
been found this Islam, were it not for Allah we would never give charity and we would never
		

			ever prayed? Look at the Sahaba they appreciate the blessing this this this this poem is not in the
Quran. Allah didn't tell them. It's coming. They're the ones they're thinking about Islam. They're
thinking about guidance. They're thinking about a Daya and as they are surrounded by 10,000 men the
Battle of the trench, as they're going to be cut off for one month. their spirits are happy because
at least they have Islam. While la de la la la Houma Dana what else what else Elena what else Elena
was a duck novella Selena, were it not for Allah we would not have been guided we would not to
prayed we would not have given charity. And our Prophet Sall Allahu Allah He was setting himself as
		

			reminded that even he does not have the power to guide whom he wants. It is Allah who chooses whom
to guide. Our Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam is told in the Quran in Galatia de man bapta
better. You do not guide those whom you love. When I can Allah hi yah de Manisha. But it is Allah
subhanho wa Taala who guides the one whom he wants? Have you ever thought brothers and sisters, that
the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam so much wanted about olives hedaya and yet I thought it was
not blessed with hidayah. And here we are blessed with that, that we never had that strong desire
before our existence. It wasn't something we will. Have you ever wondered Ibrahim alayhis salam, how
		

			much he made to Allah to Allah for his father's Daya how much he begged Allah, Ibrahim Allium, so
much so until Allah tells him this one thing, don't do it, your father is gone. Now you cannot make
dua for him. You cannot pray for him now. But he kept on praying, praying, praying, because he
wanted he die for his father. And here we are. And Allah xojo chose that he died for us, he gifted
us that he died. So the least that we can do brothers and sisters is to thank Allah and appreciate
that blessing upon us. Brothers and sisters, many of you might know I have returned from a trip from
from Philistine. And I went to Masjid a lot. And I want to share with you some of the most amazing
		

			stories that I have come across in my life, when it comes to converts. And we all as Muslims born
into Islam, one of the reasons we love when people convert, one of the reasons it's so exciting we
all become happy is because it reaffirms our own faith in our tradition, it makes us feel at
hamdulillah. That's something we might not have appreciated, but this person has appreciated. And we
feel and we should rightfully feel we feel a sense of pride that had handed it to somebody has vowed
what we have taken for granted. And there's no problem in in being that happy and whatnot. But you
should be happy at your own Islam, by the way, right? You should be even happy that Allah has guided
		

			you to Islam. And there's it's good to reaffirm our faith through the stories of Congress. And
that's why our convert brothers and sisters they know every time they're in a Muslim gathering the
first question after they find out they're Muslim, oh, how did you convert that convergence story.
It is really powerful for us born Muslims, we love to hear it because it reaffirms our faith, it
makes us feel so good. It makes us feel a sense of pride. And I want to share with you stories that
I myself have interviewed and witnessed because for me, and allies origin has blessed me to see many
and interact with many Converse. But this group for me, was the most bizarre and the most moving for
		

			me. And this is one of the reasons why this question even though I've been thinking about for a long
time, it really became very powerful. In my mind. For the last few weeks, I'm going to tell you
three stories, I met a group of Congress, all of these converts are Israeli Jewish converts to
Islam, all of them. And it was truly the most
		

			strange stories of Congress that I have ever met. The first of them, I'm going to quickly summarize
the three stories because each of them is very powerful that it really moved me The first of them. I
actually got an email many months ago last year. And I unfortunately don't have time to answer to
all of my email, but sometimes Isaiah just blitzes and I'm able to an email came to my public
account and it was a lady from Israel and she literally starts off that I was born into a Jewish
family. I'm from a western country I cannot give too many details by the will understand why. And I
migrated to Israel for religious reasons. It's called the Aliyah hedgerow I made hedgerow to Israel
		

			as a young girl I abandoned the western, she's in the this part of the world I abandon and I move
there. And over the last few years, I grew agnostic now I'm looking for the truth. And I read the
Quran and I'm you know, and I came across your lectures online, and I'm interested etcetera,
etcetera. So, obviously, is a very interesting course, it's a bit strange as well, I mean, very rare
to find that type of person. So began a series of emails and whatnot. Then I said, you know what it
was I then emailed her in like, late November. So you know, I'm coming in January. Why don't we meet
up in August?
		

			Saw, we meet up, she had never been to Oxford because she's not allowed to go. Because she's
obviously from another background, she had never meant too much to the opposite. So we agreed to
meet up and Subhanallah to make a long story short, she was not exposed to Islam via data tables,
via pamphlets that doesn't happen in that land. It does not happen. Rather, she felt a sense of
emptiness. And she did not find that peace in her own faith of her tradition. She didn't find it in
Christianity, she looked at Buddhism, other religions, and in the end out of desperation she picked
up on she didn't think she'd find anything in it. And she said, this is the book I have been taught
		

			is full of hatred. This is what you told me my whole life I had been taught, this book teaches to
kill other people hatred of other people. And she goes, I read it and read it and read it. And I
found nothing but peace. I found nothing but peace. And so she went online looking for lecture, she
found my lectures, listen to some of them. And so parallel my lecture about Khadija was the one that
really moved her a lot about how the jolly Santa she said, I want it to be like Khadija. I want it
to be like Khadija and Subhanallah brothers and sisters, she gave her Shahada in masjidul, Oxford
with our group and gathering there. I gave her the Shahada, she said the Kadima and she accepted
		

			Islam in masjidul Oxo. And we were not able to record because she said she cannot be public about
this, she cannot tell other people or else is going to cause issues for her and her family. That
obviously she has to keep it under the you know, keep it under the cover. And I gave her Islamic
name of Asia. So we call her now our Asia and our sisters that were in the group are in touch with
her. And SubhanAllah. She's now active online that our Believe it or not, but anonymously. She's
giving our anonymously online. Now, when I was in Oxford, I met a brother there, who knew me from
online. So look, I need to introduce you to a group. But you cannot take any pictures, you have to
		

			be on the low don't come with anybody, just yourself, it must be the opposite. And I said Who are
these they said, he said, we are giving Dawa, to some of the hood. But we're doing it not publicly.
Because if you do it publicly, there's going to be a huge trouble. So I said there are actually
converts here in this land. And he told me this brother, we estimate at least 1000 people have
converted, we know around three 400. And from those three 400, we know that there are others, the
majority of them are not saying anything to anybody. They come and learn what they need to and then
go back to their daily lives. A few of them, a few of them are public. And a few of them have had to
		

			flee from their families and homes and come and find shelter in Muslim lands. And they have heard
about you they want to meet you and they will want to sit with it. Of course, my pleasure, my honor
to meet with them. So, after selected veggie, we created a national Oxo, we went to one of the
offices inside the complex. And we met like five or six of Israeli Jews who had converted to Islam.
None of them had converted by one on one Dawa. None of them because that doesn't really happen. You
know, in America, we have this, this freedom. You go in a booth and you give Dawa, you get
pamphlets, you know, you'll get a knock on your neighbor's house whatnot. There as you know, there's
		

			a lot of religious segregation. There's no public preaching, per se, even though theoretically, it's
legal, but you know, what's going to happen if they actually do this? Right. So each one of them,
they had been guided to Islam on their own, like just research and internet and, and buying
pamphlets or, or doing this and that, and then they're contacting, you know, Muslim families. And to
finally there is a small group of brothers that they're giving that are in Hebrew, in Hebrew. And so
eventually, they're all connected to to this group. And I just want to mention two more stories that
really moved me. One of them was a sister. She's now 19 years old, when she was 16. When she was 16,
		

			she wrote an email to this group of brothers who have a page on Facebook, which is in Hebrew that
went to Islam. She was 16 years old. And she says, I have decided to convert to Islam.
		

			And the group emailed back look, we can't do anything. We cannot do anything. You are a minor, and
we cannot get into any trouble. Best of luck and goodbye. She kept on emailing Phil, p questions are
key, the questions and they have to answer just simple questions, right. She began to pray in her
own house in her closet at the age of 16. And she began to get material online from them. And I was
with the brother who eventually there was a family and elderly man and woman. They're living outside
of Jerusalem. And they found the group that is the group they found a family that had great risk to
them would be willing to take in this this young girl. This young girl the night she turned 18
		

			because they said we can't do anything legally. We don't want any trauma.
		

			The night she turned 18 she packed her bags, went to a phone booth called the brother and said, I'm
standing here you told me when I'm 18 it would be illegal. I'm 18 come pick me up. I cannot be with
my family anymore. The brother became very worried what is this a trap? what not, because obviously
it's very dangerous, right? And he went with a group of families, sisters, what not, they found out
everything seems legit, whatnot, she says I need a place I cannot be at home. I'm not allowed to
pray. They're forcing me to do this and that I need to get out to worship Allah subhanho wa Taala.
They made a few phone calls a family agreed with great risk to them to take this young lady in. And
		

			she is now learning Arabic memorizing Koran. Now listen, in that country when you're 18. Do you know
what you have to do? You have to go to the military and army. Okay. And her papers came. And the
family said, Look, we're not going to do anything. This is between you and the government cuz again,
they understand you cannot risk your life, right. So you know what they did? She said, Fine, give me
my paperwork. And I'm gonna go wearing my hijab and telling them I'm a Muslim.
		

			She went to the IDF. She went to the the military. And she and the brother told me the brothers
saying, Yes, he will love it. And it's not actually an error. Because I swear, I left a mile
outside, I didn't want to go close to the post. I just dropped her. I said, Call me when you're done
because they're scared for their own lives. Right? So the elderly couple, they left him outside
outside, she walked to the post wearing a job. She handed the papers of the you know, conscription.
And she goes, by the way, I'm a Muslim. So you should know that before you do anything else. And for
three months, her case went back and forth. What did they do, until finally they gave her a letter
		

			that for reasons for whatever, we don't need you to work in the army. But the courage She must have
had to walk in, and to be who she is. And now she's memorizing the Quran and learning Arabic, her
Arabic was better than her English when she's talking to me. And Subhanallah just mind boggling for
me to meet somebody like this. And the third story and time is short. But this third story will lie.
It was very emotional for me. And I had to really control my tears because it was very, very
difficult for me to maintain composure, there was one of the people there there was some brothers
and four or five sisters, as usual. There are more sisters who convert even in that society. And
		

			there was one sister was very quiet. She didn't say a single word, not a single word. While we were
there other than set up, and we're going around the table, what is your story? What is your story?
Tell me your story. And when it came to her, she couldn't speak English. She's like third
generation. Now. You know, living in that land. She speaks fluent Hebrew. But she doesn't speak
English. So it was being translated in Hebrew to me, by the middle man, the brother there. And her
story was so traumatic for me that it really it shook me and I almost had to just break down I had
to literally compose myself. This lady in her 30s she was the wife of a rabbi.
		

			And she decided to convert to Islam after reading it on her own studying and, and whatnot. Her
husband, when he found out, of course, divorced her, threatened her, and then took them to court,
that my wife is mentally insane. And she has to be deprived of her children. She had three children.
		

			And the brother, the middle man told me and this literally caused me almost to break down. She said,
he said that this mother has not seen her children for three years.
		

			For three years, she has not seen her children. Because the husband has said that she's dangerous to
the kids because now she hasn't embraced Islam for three years. And she said to me, this lady, that
will law he, I swear if they threw me in jail, I will not give up Islam. If they throw me into a
cave and abandon me, I would not give up Islam. And I almost broke down that this was a lady. She
She voluntarily gave up her three children. She did not lie for Allah subhanho wa Taala. She did not
say an untruth. She just said I'm a Muslim. And because of that, they took her children away from
her. And it really made me feel. So
		

			here we are, we cannot even give up our sins, brothers and sisters, you know, we cannot give up
anything for Islam. But here is a lady. And she did not even grow up in a Muslim household. And she
told me, if they throw me in jail, or they throw me into a cave and abandoned me, I will not give up
Islam. And you know, you hear these stories from below. They've been robbed from food and I'm not
comparing a stock photo this to that. But you know, we've kind of sort of lost that level of demand
in our Muslim societies. When's the last time you met somebody with that level of a man? We've kind
of lost that persecution a man but to meet these people in the very land that we know is the land of
		

			my shot and the land
		

			The Urban Mubarak to meet the people. And they said to me, their families don't just view them as
converts. Their families viewed them as traitors. They have left the society and they have nowhere
to go. They're being taken care of by poor Muslims here and there, and they're giving up their
society, their luxury their life, and in this case their children, for the sake of Allah subhanho wa
Taala. If that is not going to cause us to appreciate the blessings of Islam, then what will
brothers and sisters let us always remember that Allah subhana wa Taala gifted us this faith without
us having to lift a finger, the majority of us were born into it, and even those who converted Yes,
		

			your struggles are more than ours ours, but look at the struggles of those brothers and sisters in
that land. Remember, in the Quran, we learned that when the people have agenda enter agenda, what
will they say What will they think of? They will say as the Quran says, we'll call you Alhamdulillah
Hey lady, hi, Donna Lee had a woman, Lena, dia Lola and her Donna law. This is a Quranic dua from
the people of Jenna. Even when they get to Jenna, what are they thinking a lot for Alhamdulillah who
has guided us to this hedaya and we would never have been guided to this a dire unless Allah subhana
wa Taala had guided us to it Alhamdulillah for the blessing of Islam Alhamdulillah for the blessing
		

			of the Koran Alhamdulillah for the blessing of being of the oma of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam bought a colonial for an Albanian wanna find it where you're gonna see him it was declared
Hakeem otomatis Maroon was tough for a lot of the money What? What is a Muslim It included the
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			Alhamdulillah Alhamdulillah Allah, Allah had a Samad allele limited when amulet wollombi akula
Hakuna had about two brothers and sisters, even our Prophet Muhammad Sallallahu idea he was setting
them and he is who he is, is reminded by Allah or Buddha is one of the blessings of Islam upon him.
So how about me and you? Even the nebby and the Mustafa and Allah Sol Sol Allahu Allah He was
setting them is reminded by Allah that Allah blessed him with Islam. Ma contentedly melki tabula Li
man, you did not know your pseudo law what was the book nor what was a man but Allah azza wa jal has
given it to you as you did not know what it was. What were Jericho ball and for hada we found you
		

			not on guidance. We are the ones who gave you guidance. Even the Navy is reminded of the blessings
of Islam. How about me and you brothers and sisters, let us never become complacent with this
blessing of Islam. Because understand that with that blessing comes responsibility. Allah subhana wa
tada explicitly says in the Quran, we're into one low established The Omen hiera come from Allah
yaku lucam. If you don't appreciate the gift, if you turn away from the gift, Allah will gift it to
somebody else, he will replace you with another group, and they will not be like you. The purpose of
this gift is to bless to be blessed by it, to appreciate it to level love for it to worship Allah to
		

			act upon it, brothers and sisters, and one of the ways that we can thank Allah is to embody the
teachings of Islam and to want others to be guided as well. So each and every one of us should
become a role model for our colleagues, our neighbors, our co workers, brothers and sisters, I
conclude with a beautiful Hadith of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam narrated in the Mr.
COVID haccombe that our Prophet system would make this dua to Allah let us memorize this. And let us
appreciate the blessings of Islam through this door. The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam would
make dua to Allah. Allah homophobe enable Islamic called Eman what following Islam in our Eden,
		

			white father Nabeel Islam iraq Eden, this is the door I want you to memorize it. A lot of my father
nibble, Islami, or even a lot my father nibble Islami or Eden aloha my father nibble Islami or
Arkadin Oh Allah protect me with Islam as I am standing protect me with Islam as I am sitting
protect me with Islam as I am lying down. This was a prophetic he always remembered I am a Muslim
because Allah blessed me with this them so Oh Allah protect me with Islam guide me through Islam,
whether I'm standing sitting or lying down, always have me covered by Islam. We should also make
this draw and never take Islam for granted for ourselves and especially for our children and
		

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