Yousef Bakeer – Christianity to Atheism to Islam
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The segment discusses the story of a Christian brother who was born as a Christian and eventually became an Optimist, but had issues with his parents' religion. He eventually left room and became an Optimist, but had issues with his brother's parents' religion. The segment also touches on the use of Prophet Con commodity's approach to religion during the time of the Prophet's time, and the potential for conflict if the two speakers cannot understand each other.
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la masala wa sallim wa barik
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Allah Illa yo Medina.
Amma bad Salam Alaikum brothers and sisters I
wanted to share with you today this blessed night
lay a little drama that's close Panatela to make us among Alma 14
And this night in sha Allah a
story of someone who is very dear to me.
And he is a convent.
But his story is very unique.
This brother is from Colombia, his name is Santos now his name
mashallah is Omar.
Omar was a Christian, he was born and raised as a Christian. And he
was following the religion of his father and his mother used to go
to church. Now there's some point.
Christianity didn't make sense to him at some point, the whole thing
with Trinity, and all of this theological issues did not make
sense them.
And in addition to this, he was not happy.
Because he's always in this internal conflict, always, you
know, questioning his faith.
And that caused him at some point to actually leave Christianity and
he became an atheist.
And he was hoping
that once he, you know, becomes an atheist that he will get content
and happier.
And, in fact, he got more depressed.
And this internal conflict conflict increases even more.
And then an incident happened.
When one of the celebrities, some of us might know him, he's a chef.
And he used to have a beautiful show, I used to follow his show.
He travels all over the world. He tastes different food, get to know
different culture, mashallah, is he's a, he's a handsome man. He's
healthy, has two beautiful daughters as beautiful family. And
he's definitely very wealthy.
So, technically speaking, he actually has everything. But he
was missing one thing. He was actually an atheist. And he used
to defend atheism, atheism until his death.
He used to be very aggressive against religions in general. And
then,
about maybe two years ago, he committed suicide in his hotel
room in Italy.
And this brother when he was watching him, and then he figured
that and learned that he actually ended, he got so terrified. He
said, Oh, my God, now I left Christianity. I became an atheist.
And I'm getting more depressed. And then I don't want to follow
the path of this guy. I want to save myself.
And this brother Omar is very intelligent, extremely
intelligent, very smart. So he decided to learn about religions
from scratch all over again.
He said, I started reading three hours every day, for almost 15
months, about Christianity, about Judaism and about Islam.
And then I said, I need to figure it out. I need to know which
religion is the true religion. Because now I believe that there
is a higher power. Now I gotta know which religion should I
follow?
Anyway,
almost said, just to me to to make it you know, to summarize all of
his journey of becoming Muslim. He said, When I started reading the
Quran, I started reading the entire Quran. I felt that Allah is
speaking to my heart, and to my mind both.
He said, Well, Allah here he felt it.
And then he said, there are three
aspects in the Quran that hit me hard. Hit my heart, heart and hit
my mind.
Minecart.
He said the first thing that hit my mind heart is that an iron And
subhanAllah this iron, most of us we don't really pay attention to
the miracle of this as Subhan Allah. He said I was reading the
story of Prophet Musa.
And then I figured that Allah subhanaw taala is naming the ruler
of Egypt from Pharaoh.
But the only time that Allah did not call the ruler of Egypt frown
was at the time of Prophet used to.
He called him Melek. We'll call him Melaka. to Libya, so choose.
So it didn't make sense to him as like why this is almost the same
time. Why here the Quran is naming
the ruler of Egypt as Melek while he's nailing it in the profit in
the story of Prophet Musa frown, and why the other traditions are
calling the ruler of Egypt at the time of Prophet Yusuf crown,
something is not adding up here.
Then he said, I started researching about it. And then I
figured Subhanallah the history and say that the only time
the Egyptians used to call the ruler medic, was at the time of of
Prophet Yusuf alayhi salam, and that goes, aligned with the
narration of the Quran Subhanallah I want you to pay attention
because there are two philosophical points that gotten
closer to Islam and then one heart, you know, comfort that he
find in the Quran, so I want you to pay attention. So number one,
he found is that the historians proved that Prophet Yusuf alayhi
salam, at his time, the ruler of Egypt used to be called Melek not
found. You got the first king, that the first you got the first
point, the second point, and I want your attention. I want your
attention. I usually don't give this philosophical approach in my
heartless, but please pay attention.
Allah subhanaw taala says in the Quran, this is so beautiful here
and get from him. He said I was reading and then Allah said in
Allah, reindeer who were ill Musa, were united zero life. Why Allah
mamatha aha, this was Allah says in the Quran. I told him, Okay, so
what's unique about this area? He said, Allah said that he holds the
knowledge of the Day of Judgment, meaning that he owns this
knowledge, meaning that no one is sharing this knowledge with Allah.
He's the only one. I told him okay. Then he said, and then Allah
said, what unit zero and Allah sin downgrade to them fine.
What is the point? He said, Read after this. So um, yes, why Allah
mimetic, or Han? He told me, Allah saying here, and he also knows
about the knowledge of the womb, the baby, the development of the
baby inside the sack of the woman.
And he told me, Allah was very precise, because he said, I'm not
the only one who knows this knowledge. Because now with the
technology and ultrasound, and blood tests, we can actually know
the gender of the baby. So if Allah were to say that I'm the
only one who hold this knowledge, it will be a contradiction. But
Allah was very precise when it comes to the day of judgment. He
said, I'm the only one who has knowledge about it. And then when
it comes to the knowledge of the womb, He said, I also know that
knowledge, so Allah was very precise. So that is the second
point. I told him what about the heart? He said, in every religion,
I wanted to know what God wants from me. So I searched about
Allah, you read Allah once in the entire Quran to see what Allah
wants from us. For those who are who fall
99%.
From the words of the Quran, when Allah when Allah says Allah wants
is always something beautiful comes after it. So Allah says in
the Quran, you read Allah who became with us, while you read to
become a loss. Allah wants ease for you, and doesn't want you to
struggle and he was struggling. So he's looking at this Allah wants
ease for me, okay? What about the second time Wallah who you really
do? And your toolbar like, Allah wants to forgive you? Allah who
wants to forgive you? And then what's the third eye? Allah who
you read, do.
You read Allah Who and you have fifth uncle, Allah, you have fifth
That's a beautiful Arabic verb. You what it means when you when
you when you carry something so heavy and someone just gets it
from you to make it light on you.
This is what Allah saying here, Allah we do and you have Ivanka
and he said, I was struggling with a lot. And I just feel that Allah
was speaking to me directly. He's telling me I want to have fun. I
want to take this home this this this heavy way on your shoulder, I
wanted to take it away. So he said Wallahi I did not find this
connection. In a other book, bought the Quran. May Allah
subhanaw taala make us on those who understand and comprehend and
contemplate in the words of his Zakon located on the Salaam
Alaikum Warahmatullahi Wabarakatuh