Yousef Bakeer – Christianity to Atheism to Islam

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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