Yasir Qadhi – Man Accepts Islam after Getting a Ride to the Airport Br. Jessiah w Shahada

			As salam o aleikum wa rahmatullah wa barakato Alhamdulillah wa salatu salam ala Rasulillah, who are
the early he will be one word on my bad spot. Allah is just an interesting Allah's Kadena was coming
to record my lecture. And on the way in we we find the brother desire is waiting outside the
messenger, the close Messenger, and listening to his story Subhanallah what an amazing, amazing
story. And it really shows you. So I thought, I'm gonna make a quick video about this, it really
shows you the smallest of good deeds that go the longest ways. Our brother Josiah, he had a roommate
from the middle, he had a colleague from the Middle East who was studying with him in the same
		

			university, and they exchanged numbers and our Muslim brothers said that you know, if you need
anything, give me a call. Three months later, brothers, I was in a bit of a, you know, small crisis
needed to get to the airport, he calls up this brother. And he immediately says, Oh, of course, and
he takes him to the airport. And thus begins a strong friendship that just increased over time. And
our brother Josiah was just very impressed with the the demeanor and the generosity of
		

			his name is Brother Ahmed. I haven't met the brother who went back home to the Middle East and
brothers, I continue to ask him more about his faith. And you know, it's been a year since brother
Ahmed returned to the Middle East for brother Josiah has continued to ask around and research and
Subhanallah here he is today, he drove all the way to Epic, not even knowing if anybody would be
here or not. Because he wanted to embrace Islam. And it was Allah's other that you know, the staff
is here, and I'm here because we're recording, you know, my lectures that we're doing, recording
them. And so as Allah is there, otherwise it would have been an empty, you know, Masjid, but Allah
		

			works, you know, in ways that we never understand. And here we use and hamdulillah so I asked his
permission, I said, you know, it's such a beautiful, small story, it really cheers us up. And it
shows us that the smallest of good deeds, giving somebody a right and just just doing something
good, that's it, these small things that are planted, you know, in the seeds of other people, they
just open up doors and avenues and are ready to die has been studying the Quran, he has been reading
on his own and asking lots of questions. And he's now decided that Al Hamdulillah he wants to
embrace Islam, brother desire, welcome to Epic. Thank you. Alhamdulillah. So 100, I've already asked
		

			you that you are aware of Islam, you're aware of the five pillars, and you're embracing Islam of
your own free will, but I'm just making sure because we always make sure that people are you know,
willingly embracing there's no pressure, there's no coercion, you want to embrace of your own free
will. Is that correct? Yes, sir. I'm embracing enzyme and my own freewill. Okay, that's great. Well,
the way to proceed to convert is very easy. You just repeat the kalam or the shahada after me, so
I'm gonna see the Arabic And you repeat and I'm gonna say the English and you repeat and that's
really all there is to it. It's it's very straightforward. So Bismillah Ashe, hadoo, shallow, Allah,
		

			Allah ilaha illa Illa Allah illallah wa I shall do what are shallow Anna anna muhammadan ma
Muhammara Rasulullah Rasul Allah I testify I testify that there is no God except Allah, that there
is no God except Allah and that Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah, and that Muhammad is the
Messenger of Allah Alhamdulillah Alhamdulillah Welcome to Islam brother Josiah, welcome to Islam.
This is all this is going to be the best day of your life because today is the day where you begin
with a clean slate. All of your issues and sins have been forgiven, you are pure and you are and you
are cleaner than any one of us is. So today is the day that you're beginning with the new slate you
		

			are now we are jealous of the purity that you're upon because none of us is as pure as you are right
now you are coming with a blank slate in front of our Lord and our Creator. And Hamdulillah we thank
Allah subhanho wa Taala that he has guided you to Islam we thank Allah that You have come to our
community and we are here for you we it is a covert crisis it's not the way it's supposed to be we
wish that you know we could do more for you where you would see every day hundreds of people coming
but because of the COVID lockdown you know it's things are a little bit different but still Epic is
still doing a Friday prayer so please come and and see the congregation we can introduce you there
		

			as well. And anything you that you need. We are all your your brethren in Islam and Alhamdulillah as
you know, in our faith tradition, you know, all the believers are one family. We are one large
family, as Allah says in the Quran, all of the believers in number Muna, equal all the believers
they are like brethren unto one another. So we thank Allah that He has guided you, we welcome you to
our community. And if there's any words you want to say, go ahead. What would you like to tell us
your brothers? I would just like to say home to Allah. Allah definitely willed this to happen for me
today. As you said, if it was any other day, I could have shown up to empty mosque. So I definitely
		

			think that this day was meant to be for sure. Let me just ask you one question for the show. What is
the thing about Islam that attracted you the most just this
		

			Since sincerely sincerely already of the Brothers and Sisters in Islam, I'm a big advocate for
helping and helping others and treating others as you would want to be treated. And also, I do
believe that Allah was Allah is the One and Only got perfect perfect view you can't really get
better than that Subhanallah what you're attracting you to Islam is basically the belief in one God
and then the purity of helping other people out really that's all that Islam is all about. Really
these two things summarize the entire faith is sincere to your Lord and then help out people as you
would want to be helped out that's basically what our profit so they sort of taught us also
		

			Hamdulillah we thank you for coming to Epic we ask that you join us in our prayers whatever whenever
you able to and we're here for you so hamdulillah Welcome to our community thank you okay so now
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