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one with my next guest for the first 19
years of his life he was a Christian
things started to change for him when he
was 7 years old when he entered the
church for the first time and witnessed
people speaking in tongues running down
the aisles and rolling on the floor it
scared him as a child and then now at
the age of 14 years old he was going to
the church three days a week Wednesday's
Bible study Friday youth night and
Sunday's church but one night at Bible
study everything took a turn when he
found certain contradictions in the
Bible and when he asked his teacher
about these contradictions he was told
just to believe and have faith without
getting the answers to his questions he
could continued from that point on being
a Christian from the outside but his
belief on the inside was gone he goes by
the name of Meli click and he's here to
let us know more about his journey and
what happened
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next let me in you to my
face we have from God his name Allah
Allah and his final Messengers muhamad
peace be upon him this is our religion
Islam Islam this is the de show I love
you you're doing when I was ready to
talk about it I would only talk to I was
explaining how much respect I have for
the Fai of
Islam welcome to
the the
Alum
Ali Eddie big fan nice to meet you nice
to meet you too brother how you been
alhamdulillah everything's good
alhamdulillah so let's get right into
your journey so for the first 19 years a
Christian and then talk to us about this
experience now as a child s years old
you walk in and what happens when you go
I walked into yeah I walked into the
church it was just like you know as a
seven-year-old child you know you
pictured church as this quiet place and
you know you sing a couple of hymns and
whatnot but I go in as a seven-year-old
child and I see people just crying and
running up and down the aisles and
rolling on you know around on the floor
and speaking a language that I've never
heard before and it just it really
scared the hell out of me so I actually
I was holding my dad's hand I actually
ripped away and tried to run out of the
church at that
moment but he got me back you know he he
held my hand and said no no no this is
this is church but I mean honestly the
whole thing was extremely intimidating
and I was just lost I didn't know what
was going on as a cat as a kid uh for
our audience that has no idea what do
you mean by this speaking in Tong let's
go ahead and and show some footage so
they can get a better uh feel and
understanding to uh when you say talking
in tongues what do we actually
mean oh God
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what's happening something similar
because you have different things happen
in different churches but we saw people
um speaking what some claim to be
gibberish and then people falling
rolling on the floor and is this what
you were seeing well well those clips
were actually a little bit tame to what
I was in you
know that was tame yeah that was like
the diet version like when I went it was
I mean imagine you know those clips even
though like a seven-year-old
experiencing that for the first time uh
but yeah that was that was like that was
only like 60% of what I
um experience in the
church later was it um made clear to you
what that was did you later figure that
out I was told because I asked my Dad
what's wrong with these people you know
why are they you know crying and
shouting and you know even people would
stand up as if they were messengers of
God and you know I I say unto you people
I have a message from the Lord and I'm
just looking at the person like like
what what what is this person talking
about this is crazy but yeah I was told
that it was a spiritual language it's
it's a it's a holy language from God
that nobody understood except God and
I'm thinking to myself you know later on
you know when I was like 14 years old
well if it's a language how come y'all
can't understand each other you know if
if a if a person speaks Spanish to
another Spanish speaking person they're
going to understand but this is just
gibberish 110% gibberish
not 100% 110% so you think uh you think
you
think you think uh J what's his name
this is
JD this is a famous uh Christian
preacher you know who this is right yeah
yeah what's his name I I don't I I know
who he is I know I know his face but I
don't know his name yeah JD Blakes or
something anyways um do you think he's
conscious like of what he's doing do you
think he's just making up things as he
as he goes along he knows that this is
gibberish because there's Christians who
call this out also many who will say
like this is this is uh they'll say it
Christians will say this is
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gibberish fire in the name of Jesus I
don't understand a single thing I think
you were saying cuz this is not the
biblical interpretation keep a silence
in the church
they don't even know what it is it's so
obviously not what it was in the
scripture I mean look this is what it is
it's gibberish they don't know what
they're saying um they're just trying to
bring a spiritual Aura to the church but
at the end of the day I know you know a
lot of other Christians know that
Christianity well the church is just a
huge Cash Cow it's all about
entertainment it's all about you know um
uh charging people people's Ean if you
want to call it for Sunday so they'll
give more it's just a big production
nothing
more and then uh you went on from there
so you had this experience it's kind of
traumatizing would you say and then uh
what did you mean actually when your
father when he gave himself you said he
gave himself to Christ as you define it
what did it actually mean well I I think
what he means is he turned his life
around for Christ he started to have a
moral compass in his life per the Bible
so that that's that's what I think
that's what I I think he means because
we believe in Christ I mean the Messiah
translated um right from the Greeks this
is the name given to Jesus the Messiah
we believe you believe that now as a
Muslim don't you of course 110% yeah
yeah and you love Jesus I mean without a
doubt you can't be a Muslim unless you
love and rever Jesus not as a God or
little son of God but as a messenger of
God
so um we follow the way of Jesus which
was uh calling people to worship the
Creator not the creation so um Jesus was
a Muslim period wow uh what what do
people say when you say that Jesus was a
Muslim do you get a lot of push back
people are like what are you talking
about and how do you how do you uh
explain that because some people will
say right away well Islam came later um
he was a Christian what are you talking
about how how would you can you go ahead
and I'm package that for us I I get
pushed back all the time I have a
YouTube I have a YouTube and a Tik Tok
Channel and a lot of people even say I
mean here's the thing Christians don't
know anything about Islam yet they say
that it's wrong right so I've even had
like I showcase really dumb comments
that I get on my Tik Tok and people are
saying oh um Allah came they even say
Allah Allah came 570 years after
Christian it that means that it and I'm
just thinking wow buddy like you do you
really really think that you know we
know as Muslims and I know both sides of
the coin being a Christian for the first
19 years of my life and a Muslim for 31
years now I know both sides of the coin
and so they don't know both sides of the
coin and so when you say that Jesus was
a Muslim and that you say that all the
anbia or all the prophets were Muslim
they just don't get it they just don't
get it because they believe that they're
the you know they're the they're the sav
sect and nobody uh you know can can
attain salvation except through Jesus
and what we're saying as Muslims is um
how come the message of Jesus is so
unique to all of the prophets and if
Jesus was sent to die you know his whole
message was was true how come all of the
other prophets that came before him and
the one that came after him
don't affirm that how come their message
is here ye is the Lord your God is one
you know Jesus said that here ye Israel
the Lord your God is one because you
know the Scribe came to him and so said
oh Master tell us the most important of
the of the laws because Jesus was
speaking in the temple and everybody all
eyes were on him and people were
impressed with him and he
said he ye Israel the Lord your God is
one now
if he was God if he was a Son of God if
salvation was attained through him
only this would be his perfect
opportunity to say hear ye Israel the
Lord your God is Father Son and Holy
Spirit and the only way that you can
attain salvation is through me but
that's the point he didn't say that here
ye Israel the Lord your God is
oneill MHM so so by saying that he was a
Muslim you're saying he was a submitter
to God to one God so people say yes
they'll agree with that but Muslim just
defines that term submitter to God one
who submits to the will of God it
defines it exactly that's what it is
yeah that is really profound and deep I
mean if people really reflect and think
about it and you are actually someone
who was going to what three times a week
so you're going to a Bible study you're
going to uh the church and you're also
going to the youth groups correct yes
sir yes sir and you were doing that for
quite some time for years huh yeah I
mean that's what the way I was brought
up you know it was just you know go to
the to the church three days a week and
that was my life talk to us about that
what were some of the things that you
were learning there was it um was it
something that you're you were cementing
your belief did you always have doubts
did it come all of a
sudden please uh elaborate on that I
always believed in God as a young man I
always knew that there was um a higher
power
and but the thing with me in in the
church and in the youth group is I I I
never really latched on to Jesus being
God as a child I always saw him as a
father figure a me a mentor somebody to
be like
um when you need inspiration or you know
what should I do with my life you know
the thought is what would Jesus do and
so um I I I never really professed that
he was
God 100% in my heart you know when when
we are Muslims we our hearts you know
have y and we
say we negate all other things of
worship except allaha and we affirm
except allaha so yeah I I mean I was I
was just jumping through the Hoops
um because here's the thing with a lot
of Americans and
myself there's nothing else there's
nothing else um you know I I was I was
raised
like you know very well off my whole
family is in petroleum you know my
father my uncle my brothers everybody
and so I didn't want for anything so I
grew up in this white bubble of
Christianity and so that was what you
were supposed to be if you a white
American you were supposed to be
Christian you cannot be this you cannot
be that no this is what you're supposed
to be and so we accept it and a lot of
American citizens accept it because
that's what they think that's that's all
there is so there's nowhere else to go I
can't go to those to the brown religion
over here the the Islamic people I can't
do that because I'm you know I'm I'm
white but you know
where was Christianity from Detroit
Michigan no it's it's from the Middle
East
so but that's not something that's um
uncommon you had certain polls that were
done that a great number of Christians
actually don't believe Jesus Is God
they're going align with their fitra
their innate nature that he was a human
being they would be in line when you
talk to I'm sure you talk to people if
they're sincere they're open-minded like
like you were at that time and you line
them up with all the other Messengers
Moses Abraham Noah that goes in line
that makes sense that he was a messenger
not an actual literal God or or Son of
God not a God or literal Son of God so
there's a a lot of Christians that favor
that and they don't believe that he's
actually God the did you did you hear
about this poll this uh this poll that
was done no I didn't yeah we'll get it
up here um but yeah there was a poll
that was done so then so what happens
the whole time you're not really
believing you're not cemented that Jesus
is God but you're praying so you're
praying to God the god that Jesus prayed
to you're not actually praying to Jesus
like we see in Jesus's
name father son Holy Ghost I'm I'm
praying and I'm just that you know Eddie
the how can I say this I was constantly
looking I'm like I'm I'm waiting and I'm
looking for something to really enter my
heart and so I I just went to you know
Wednesday Bible study to strengthen my
you know my my my Bible skills and you
know learn more about God and the
prophets and stuff like that and uh I'm
just it's like I was it's hard to
explain but I'm just like waiting for
something to happen where I can just
like have the aha moment or something or
you know uh have that Ean burst or
whatever you want to call it being a
Christian but I never got it you know
quite the opposite especially when I was
14 years old at the Bible study
so I I can guarantee you I'm I'm sure
there's a lot of uh Christians right now
and again we're we're never trying to
disrespect people or their faith or
anything just trying to uh bring certain
things to light that they can ponder and
probably reflect upon and probably
relate to and they're probably a lot
relating to what you just said what
about the
crucifixion what what about the
crucifixion what was your stance on that
did you believe now that when you create
when you would do sins you were just
like well Jesus paid for them and um you
would um feel that now his blood was a
Redemption for your sins via the
crucifixion the way I looked at the
crucifixion especially in my younger
years you know from 7 to 14 is I always
wondered why does why does somebody have
to die why why when you know we take the
communion why are we drinking the blood
of Jesus why are we eating the body of
Christ what what what's Happening Here
you what and I and that's I think that's
the thing that you know I was trying to
explain I didn't get that relationship
with with God I was always told well you
got to go through Jesus and I always
thought as a little
boy but why why can't I just go to God
and the Trinity forget it uh that that
that didn't make any any any sense at
all but uh yeah uh the crucifixion I I
never really believed in it I never
really latched on to it and you know the
biggest thing is why does somebody have
to Die For What
MH so you got all these things going on
in your mind your heart but finally
something happened these two
contradictions or more something about
contradictions happened you went and you
asked your teacher what about him he
didn't he didn't even know they were in
the Bible and then you talk about how
just from the outside you're Christian
but the inside it was gone talk about
this um I went to a Bible study one
night on Wednesday and we usually get to
um read 15 minutes before we get into
the lesson of the Bible preacher or the
the Bible leader Bible study leader and
so I'm reading and I'm just you know
thumbing through thumbing through doing
this just randomly and I come AC I come
across a verse that says no man can see
God and live thereafter so in my mind my
fitra as a 14-year-old boy I'm thinking
sounds right
that sounds right because you know the
majesty and the glory of Allah or God in
that time and
then I come to the story of
Jacob and here not only is Jacob seeing
God but he has a hold of the thigh of
God having a wrestling match with God
and I'm just
thinking what wait a minute over here it
said that no man can see
God uh and and live after that and now
Jacob is having a wrestling match with
God not only that Jacob defeats God and
I'm just
thinking I rais my hand immediately and
I say uh to the Bible study
leader look at this verse over here it
says uhhuh yes yes and then I said look
at this verse over here Jacob is having
and he said oh you know i' I I've heard
these stories but uh yeah that I didn't
really know that that was in there you
know and I'm just thinking how can you
not know how can you not know a huge
contradiction like that you can't see
God or you can see God you can see God
over here and have a wrestling match and
beat God but over here you can't see him
and
live and so 14-year-old me was
like no I a serious problem with this
and I'm not going to let this go I need
to rectify my heart right now because
I'm about to lose faith and he said you
know I don't know what to tell you young
man except that you just got to have
faith and at that moment I was just
like I don't want to have faith I'm
tired of just having faith in things
that don't make sense I'm I'm tired of
having faith in in the concept of
someone needs to die for me to be
forgiven I'm I'm I'm fed up and so you I
was told you got to have faith you got
you just and he just told me I don't
know what to tell you I don't know how
to rectify your belief I don't know how
to calm your heart except to tell you
that you have to have faith and I just
no no so at 14 years old right then
there at the Bible study I checked out
of
Christianity and you know I still live
with my father my father's a very strict
Christian I couldn't listen to music I
couldn't have girlfriends you know three
days
church and
um what can I say I jump through the
Hoops of Christianity I contined to go
to church I continue to go to the youth
KN and I continued to go to the Bible
study but nothing was here I had
completely checked out
how did Islam jump into the equation did
you look into other religions and then
how did you get exposed to
Islam I never even heard about Islam and
the first Contact that I had of Islam
well kind of a kind of a story to that I
uh got
around you know some uh some rough
people got around some wrong people and
I actually went to maximum security
prison um So I entered the prison
system
and I wasn't really looking for anything
and at the time before I went to prison
and even uh while I was in prison uh I
had absolutely no moral compass I mean I
was an animal I was wild I was a Savage
I didn't care about your life I didn't
care about my life I was just wild and
so I really wasn't looking for anything
except to just do my time and get out
so I would say about three or four
months into my
sentence I I I met a man who just
randomly approached me on the yard
called Omar and he was
Turkish and he approached me out of the
blue I'm just walking the track by
myself lone wolfing it and he says hey
man I just want to ask you something I
just want to ask you a question what do
you know about Islam
and I said I don't even know what that
is because again I grew up in my white
bubble you know uh you just don't talk
about those things those things don't
exist because in the Christian mind
those things are below and so everything
is below and we teach the world we are
the standard of what is right and wrong
that's what they say so
um we walk the track and I'm a person of
nature I I love the outdoors I'm an
Outdoorsman
um and so he began to tell me you know
isn't it strange you know that that
Allah subhana tala has put the sun 93
Million Miles Away uh from the earth in
Perfection you know uh and even though
the sun is 93 million miles away and the
Moon is roughly 220,000 miles away look
they meet and they cause you know
eclipses and stuff like that and look at
the creation the trees and the o that
Allah has created everything for you and
he told me
about and I just I was just
like okay okay this is different this is
different and so he used to just um him
and I used to meet out in the yard and
walk and
talk and know he would make his dawa and
then somehow I'm I got into this this
combat mode where wait a minute so this
guy is telling
me everything that I had
learned as a child is wrong
H okay so I went to my Bible and I tried
to defend my Bible I tried to defend
Christianity I tried to uh defend my
belief right because this was totally
something new and totally something
foreign to
me but I
couldn't everything that I had every
question that I had he would smile and
say mashallah it's a very good question
here's the answer and I just kept on
like this guy has an answer for
everything not only does he have an
answer it's good not only does he has an
answer it's backed up by his book not
only does he have an answer it's backed
up by scientific proof as
well this might be what I've been
looking for my whole life so I don't
know do you want me to finish the story
yes please go go it okay so him and I
just always used to meet outside in the
yard and you know he gave me one day he
showed up he said uh I want to give you
something from me to you but you have to
make
sure that you wrap it up in a towel you
take it back to your cell and you keep
it in a clean place and I
said yeah sure man what is it said I'm
not I'm going to give you our holy book
I'm going to give you the Holy
Quran I said oh wow thank you yes I I
would love I've never read the Quran
before I would love
to and so I took the
Quran back to my
cell and the first thing that I did is I
turned to the
index I mean I got this book in front of
me I'm thinking that it's going to be
some a thousand And1 Arabian Knights
type of stuff you know I I don't
know and I open up the index and I start
looking for
names Abraham Moses Jesus Mary
Jacob Ishmael Isaac Adam sheath all the
stories were there and I just thought
oh is it just like this book that I
rejected when I was 14 years old oh my
God it's just like the Bible
oh but then I read it and the first the
first um I think Surah that I read
was the things of this world are I are
diverting you from the truth and I just
thought that's me I'm being diverted
since I was raised so well didn't want
for
anything that's that's me and so I I
kept on reading I kept on reading long
story short I used to read it every day
so much so that my cellmate um told me
he like gave me a nudge one day he said
hey man it's dinner time man you come
you coming
out and I said oh yeah like I snapped
out of it he said man you've been
reading that book since
breakfast and I said have I because I
was just so
engrossed
by it's it's hard to put into words
brother
but the
humanity the
truth the
realness the
answers it's like I felt like I was
getting the real story that I wanted to
find in the Bible now I found it and I
found it and it was put in a way where
my heart agreed with it and it
understood what it was saying when I
would read the Bible it was just like
bro what how can this I don't understand
how could this be so my f as I read the
Quran was just
like yes yes yes
yes so in my mind in the back of my mind
I considered what life would be like as
a
Muslim and the Shan entered the cell of
the maximum security State Prison that I
was at you can't a Muslim what are you
talking about the Aryan Brotherhood is
going to do this and they're going to
look at you weird and doing time alone
is really because everything Muslims
might not understand in the prison
system it just goes by race you don't
have to agree with it you don't have to
like it or dislike it that's what
happens so I was worried about all of
these things you know what does your
family going to think uh people are
going to look at you like you're like a
wannabe like you're pretending to be
someone else
all these Whispers started to
come as soon as I imagine being a Muslim
as soon as my heart was like I love this
book God finally a book that I can
understand finally a
book were you part of this uh Aryan
Brotherhood was this something no they
were just
no when you get into the prison prison
system it's just like okay you seem to
be white okay
they take your cot and everything your
your your mattress and then you know
they give you things and they instruct
you okay look this is how we roll you
know we're up at 5 o'clock in the
morning and we exercise and you got to
do it okay if something jumps off we all
jump you know if if somebody jumps we
all jump we clear on that yeah so so go
back to what you were saying you lose
your point so you're saying the Quran
then what happened yeah so months passed
and we always Omar and I always used to
meet in the yard
and my arguments became less and less
until they were silent until I Was
Defeated
until I just listened and I soaked up
whatever he said so when we came out I
would listen and he would speak about
what Islam
is and I just uh I was I was in a
position of
okay God I would go back to my cell and
I would just say Okay God as I was
waiting for something to happen as a
Christian I'm waiting for something to
happen
now I have always been true to myself to
embrace a truth wherever it came from so
if this is the truth let it happen let
something happen let something
change and so Omar came up to me one day
and he
said hey um I was thinking about
inviting you to
Juma and uh I said what's Juma he saidou
know Sunday church yep Sunday church for
Muslims we go on Friday and so I
actually had to uh fill out a permission
slip uh to go to Juma MH and the
co uh the the the the uh the officer
called me in his his office and he just
looked he just looked at me and he
said um is this your name is this your
your uh your form right here asking
permission to go to Juma and I said yeah
yes sir and he said do you know what
Juma is I said not really I'm just going
to find out and they said do you know
who goes to
Juma and I said sir and he said uh you
know black people go to Juma and you
know that you're going to be in the
multi-purpose room with them I said said
yeah I know that he
said what are you doing and I said I
just look it's my right as an American
citizen I just want to see what they're
talking about you know I I'm not a
Muslim I've been invited to a service
and I just want to check it out and he
just looked at me like like with disgust
and it was just like okay whatever here
I'll sign it take your slip go
and so Friday came and I was just I
didn't know what to expect I've never
been to JY before I didn't know what
they were going to
do and so I get there and the Christians
meet at the same time but they go to
another room so the Christians were
there and the Muslims were there at the
at the guard at the guard post
and the people that were going to Juma
all got strip searched and I mean
completely naked and when the Christians
came through for their Bible study oh go
ahead go through and I just
thought okay what's that all about and
so we went into the multi-purpose
room and the first thing that I
experienced of
Islam was the Adan MH so the brother was
just like
Allah and I just
oh oh my God what and and he the brother
was calling the Adon and I asked Omar I
said what is the Beautiful song that
this man is singing and he said yeah
it's not a song um he's he's calling
people to to prayer that's what we do
and I just said wow they call people to
prayer they don't call Christians to
prayer you know they uh all they want is
they they call you to pay pay your
tithes but they don't they don't call
you to prayer so he said okay let let me
take you inside and uh teach you how to
make
woodo and I made woodoo for my first
time I met Juma as a non-muslim as a
mush and so I heard the Adan and we're
making woodoo now and I'm
thinking these
people are performing a ritual
purification for none other than God
none other than the respect of God and I
just
thought wow yes yes this is what I want
this is what this is what Christianity
is supposed to be I mean going to the
church there's no concept of or you you
just show up and I just thought wow
that's okay another thing that's that
I'm impressed with so it's started with
the you were fascinated with the now we
get into the uh purif the evolution Wu
and just keeps getting better huh just
keeps on getting better and so we went
to the main prayer Hall in the
multi-purpose room and he said let me
just it was before J he said just just
let me like break it down for you what's
going to happen he said basically it's
like Sunday church except we're going to
sit on the floor and the Imam or the
pastor is going to um speak a little bit
about Islam he's got like a little
message or a sermon and uh then we're
all going to stand up and he is going to
we're going to pray we're going to read
from the Quran and I said um okay um so
you guys stand up or does he read the
Quran to you when he prays or what he
said no no no we all line up in One
Direction and by the way um this Imam he
doesn't um read from the Quran
he actually has the entire Quran
memorized I said Omar no that book that
you gave me that that book that you gave
me that's in myself this book he
memorized the whole the whole chapter I
mean the whole book he said um it's not
strange millions of Muslims have the
Quran memorized uh and and and millions
and millions and hundreds of millions
all the way from the time of the Prophet
Muhammad sallallahu alaih wasallam there
will always be people that memorize the
Quran and that right there was just
like okay these people are no jokes they
are not a joke they
memorize the Quran the whole book it
means that they care about the book that
means that the translation can't be lost
it means people can't say anything about
the Quran like they say in the Bible
it it the Quran is the Quran and that's
it so I was that was like it like like
you say it just kept on getting better
like whoa I'm in the right place
something's about to happen I know it
and so long story short we sat there and
we listened to
the and it came to the time for us to
get up and pray or for them to get up
and pray because remember I'm still not
a Muslim and I didn't even go there with
the purpose of becoming a Muslim I just
wanted to
see so Omar told me look could you like
sit over there by the side we're going
to all line up in Rose and we're going
to pray so just watch us and then we'll
talk to you later I said
fine
so these big big muscular you know
Killers thugs gangster ex gangsters EX
Killers X this x that Imam said
allahar and I saw a change in all of the
muslim's face and their demeanor they
just they all became humble in front of
Allah
tala and I was just
like oh you're observing you're sitting
from the side observing you're not
actually taking part in the prayer yet
just I'm not I'm not in the prayer I'm
just sitting on the side yeah close to
the close to the second row just
like okay and I'm listening to the the
Iman recite the Quran and I was just
like whoa whoa whoa okay it's
something's like it's taking off it's
getting better and
better and I decided you know he told me
to sit there but no I was there for
answers I was looking for God I wanted
to find God I was looking for God my
whole
life and you know the Quran the wo the
the truth of the Quran no I I'm here for
answers so I got I got
up and I went to the side of the front
row and I did one of these I was
like I I I looked at their face in the
front row I I didn't care I was there
for answer I just wanted to see
them and they were just they were lost
they they weren't lost they were lost in
the love and the
Adoration of Allah subhana wa ta'ala and
I just
thought but if anybody wants to ask
me Ali what did it for you what made you
become a Muslim how did Allah subhana wa
ta'ala
open your heart to
Islam it was none other than the moment
when these
prisoners these
Muslims made
sujud that was it the
prostration prostration watching them
pray like Jesus prayed right when I saw
this it's it's almost like you know when
you get into cold water you say
mhm like it was
overwhelming they called each other to
the worship of Allah tala they had
washed their hands and their feet and
their face and their arms they had
recited the holy book they are humbled
in front of their lord and now they put
their faces on the
ground it was at that point where Islam
became
completely irresistible
completely irresistible and I had to
have
it and I decided right there I'm going
to become a Muslim you made that
decision up until then did you did you
know about the six articles of Faith the
Five Pillars the pure monotheism the
worship of one and only one God Prophet
Muhammad being a the final messenger and
a line of Messengers was this all clear
to you absolutely crystal but I didn't
make the commitment I I didn't go to
Juma to become a Muslim I just wanted to
see what they did so after the Juma Omar
came up to me I had sat back down and
Omar said so what do you
think and I said Omar I said something
out of ignorance and this is the
ignorance of a lot of white Americans I
said something
foolish out of ignorance I
said I don't know I don't see any white
people in
Islam but but you have to make an
exception for me I'm going to become a
Muslim today and I'm not leaving until I
you teach me or you accept me or show me
the way how to be a Muslim you're going
to make a you're going to make a
consideration for me and all of the all
of the Muslim brothers were like Allah
abbar Allah abbar and uh Omar said no
you can become a Muslim right now MH and
I just you know I lit up like I can't
can I can and we all sat in a in a
circle in 1991 in October and I
said that was it you took your shahada
your testimony of faith and you became a
submitter one who submits his will to
the creator of heavens and earth a
Muslim alhamdulillah alhamdulillah I did
alhamdulillah and you've been making
videos and I want to get into one of
those videos because this is something
that is crystal clear that it goes with
the human nature that God is one and
alone worthy of worship human beings go
ahead and take creation as worship The
Messengers called people to call people
back to Creation to worship the creator
of creation God Almighty the Creator
Allah in aric allaha this is the same
God and we even have uh so much evidence
and proof you know a lot of times you'll
see these uh ads come up sometimes and
someone will talk about how they came
toward Wards Jesus they saw a dream an
emotional experience uh uh but you have
so much evidence you know and you have
so much proof and one of those proof you
discuss or you're you're commenting on
and I want you to react to this here in
this video about Prophet Muhammad even
being in the Bible in the Bible before I
dive into Bible Hub I need to show you
this thing that Muslims believe Muslims
believe that the prophet was in a cave
of Hera and the angel came to him and
asked him to read the prophet replied I
don't know how to to read now if you go
to Isaiah 29:12 here's what it says it
says and I I can't be making this up it
says then the book will be given to the
one who is illiterate saying please read
this and he will say I cannot read now
it gets crazier now look at this now
keep in mind that's what the current
version of the Bible says I wonder what
the most authentic version of the Bible
would say about this verse like maybe
there's more context we don't know so if
you go to the oldest version of the
Bible okay here's the website all right
let's Go's let's go to Isaiah all right
so here it is I'm just going to zoom in
literally doesn't get any more authentic
than this literally okay watch this now
the most authentic version says
something different I want you guys to
pay attention to this look at how it's
all uppercase very nicely organized but
then it looks like someone scribbled in
an e there and someone scribbled in a c
there it doesn't look like that was
meant to be there it looks like it was
supposed to be x i p a cuz look at how
squished the E is here but not here like
all the other letters are perfectly
spaced out but with this one looks like
someone just put in an E and A C I think
it was supposed to be x i p a let's
let's look at Hebrew what x PA means
okay let's look at what happens and
there it is look I'm going to click play
listen very carefully listen to how it
sounds
like oh my goodness guys the first
Miracles that in the Bible it literally
says the book will be given to the one
who is illiterate saying please read
this and you'll say I cannot read this
is this is literally what Muslims
believe like the Bible is telling you
that the the the forcoming of prophet
Muhammad peace and blessings be upon him
when you give up more context you
literally can literally see okay that
it's being squished in someone put an e
and n e it's not a big look look at all
the other letters look at how all spaced
out it is look this is look at how this
e looks like why doesn't that E look
like that look at how this e looks like
why doesn't that E look like that looks
like someone forced it so when you put x
i PA a how it's supposed to look like
guess what it guess what it says the
context of this is that it's in the cave
of H the same thing that Muslims believe
that the prophet was in the cave of H
revealing this
Revelation uh so you verified this uh
you you shared this I mean this was a
talk uh go ahead and unpackage that what
were you thinking and what what was the
what was the strong message that's
coming from this look the message is
this to the Christians um
I I don't know exactly how to unpack it
all I know to say is to the Christian
our brothers and Humanity that are
watching this
um Islam is much older than what you
think the message of the prophets are
not different there is not different
types of religions except dietary laws
like you know the Jews have the kosher
we have Halal and and and that's about
it but the message of
Jesus is the same all of the Ania all of
the prophets are brothers all of them
are telling you throughout you know the
124,000 prophets that Allah sent the
same thing all throughout creation God
is one God is one come to prayer give
sodaka treat your fellow men right and
this is just a proof I have many other
uh videos that talk about this and my my
message is this to the
Christians you just don't know I have
been a Muslim I I was your brother I was
your son I was your colleague for 19
years of my life I know Christianity
left right and Center I know it inside
and out I was one of you and now I'm a
Muslim I a person that knows both sides
of the coin you do not know both sides
of the coin when somebody wants to learn
about Christianity who do they go to
they go to a priest they go to a pastor
when somebody wants to know about
Judaism where do they go naturally to a
rabbi but I find
it sad that when the world wants to know
about Islam Unfortunately they go to
well-known
islamophobes they search about why is
Islam
untrue I I I don't want to know if it is
true I don't want to know anything about
it it can't be true right it can't
because that's a religion of violence
right Islam can't be
true and
so unfortunately the Christians get this
thing in their mind that uh Islam is
this and that's all I need to know oh
thank God that Islam is not true well I
hold that thought for a minute um don't
say thank God so easily because Islam is
the fastest growing religion in the
world and there is a reason for that
there is a reason why probably one of
your sons maybe even a niece maybe even
your husband has left Christianity and
become a Muslim there is a reason why
20,000 Christians in America alone we're
just talking about America become Muslim
every single year and it's not because
of violence it's not because of
Oppression it's because it's true it's
because the Quran has been preserved and
it proves itself time and time again
that is why so my message to the
Christian listeners out there you really
need to humble yourself and stop
learning Islam from the people that are
combating Islam and ask us watch the
dean show go to you know uh uh you know
any any Islamic you know reputable
Islamic site and learn Islam I promise
you when you exposed to the Real Islam
the authentic
Islam it's hard for me to say that you
would turn it away because when I
experienced Islam
it was irresistible I I cannot imagine
myself not being a
Muslim may Allah keep my heart to the
religion of of
allaha I I cannot imagine living in any
other way so Christians please all I'm
asking give Islam a chance and learn it
from an authentic Source I'm begging you
great advice couple more questions
before we conclude yeah that this is
amazing video because there's so much
proof signs upon signs evidence upon
evidence and just in here this uh this
um Mountain that's mentioned the cave
hia it's there and it seemed like they
were doing something with the the text
there or I don't know what he was saying
with the would they change they tried to
change it or something or they snuck in
a they snuck in a letter to change the
sound of so that's that's the whole
point they snuck in that the point okay
they triy to put in something to change
it but when you go ahead and you listen
to it this is the the cave that the F
the Revelation came to Prophet Muhammad
and then there's others uh signs there
there's just too many it's not
coincident it's uh if somebody's sincere
and they're humble uh they're
open-minded and then if they they
observe the uh the message the message
makes sense worship one God and one God
alone uh the the confirmation that Jesus
was a messenger clarifying who he was
who he wasn't and how to run your life
how to run your family how to run a
country everything is there uh laid out
in Islam it's just uh too much too much
uh for one man to go ahead and come up
on his own it's not possible it's
impossible and you have this Quran as a
living miracle and it's there and you've
beautifully stated how you know both
sides of the coin so this is great
advice look at the other side and don't
go to the professional islamophobes who
get paid for bashing Islam uh come to
the qualified sources to go ahead and
learn then make your decision from there
like you did I mean and Islam one more
point I mean Islam is so clear like you
were saying it's it's so easy to
understand easy uh we Muslims out of the
three abrahamic faiths that is Islam
Judaism and Christianity you know the
Muslims
say the Jews say here you Israel the
Lord your God is one and so the Jews and
the Muslims we agree with each other as
far as uh you know
God but when the Christians say oh wait
a minute we we believe in one God too
and you know show us in the Bible where
God said or Jesus said that he's God
well this one verse I am that I am and
you know that's what turns me away from
Christianity Islam is so clear Judaism
is so clear about
God why can't Christianity be so clear
and why is it just full of riddles I am
that I am no we want to see we want to
read I jesus am God but it does not
exist in the Bible and the problem is
the Christians have taken it upon
themselves to appoint themselves
as as Mu people that have have this self
anoint uh self-appointed Power to uh
pick apart and translate the meanings of
the Bible when they have no right to do
so I mean in Christianity reading the
Bible um first of all they'll tell you
um if you don't read the bi if you don't
understand the Bible that means that you
don't have the Holy Spirit and so I made
a video called the Father the Son and
the Holy segue because they always use
the Holy Spirit as a segue oh you don't
understand well you didn't know Jesus
that way that's why you don't understand
the Bible and this is you think it's a
contradiction you're not reading it with
the Holy Spirit and I'm thinking this is
not a religion and and I did another
video about you know the Council of Mah
how they decided what Christianity was
and what it wasn't and you know why my
question is why isn't Christianity so
clear why when Judaism is and Islam is
the ultimate Clarity of what we should
be doing and how we should be believing
tell me how did your father take to it
is um is he someone who is is he still
part of your life did he when he found
out is how did he take to it what was
his
reaction I um wrote a letter to my my my
two half brothers and my one half
sister telling them how it became a
Muslim and why mhm I wrote a letter to
my my my father as well
and so they got the letter and I I just
called my
father excuse
me I called my
father and instead of saying hello he
said you son of don't you ever ever tell
you know your your brothers and your
sister about this Islam nonsense of
course he didn't say nonsense I'm just
you know a bunch of explicates mhm and
and and and you're no son of mine and
blah blah blah and so it kind of settled
down
and I said uh but he actually threatened
me and he said
listen it's either Islam or it's us and
remember I've told you that I've I've
been raised
like very very well off and he said you
know your
inheritance I said yes he said you know
that the house you know the house in the
land and everything I said yes
sir he said you
know if you
persist and this Islam
nonsense I will go to my lawyer
tomorrow and I will write you out of my
will and you will have absolutely
nothing wow so he's threatening you with
the inheritance now that's it all the
money is going to be gone no more wealth
wow and I'm not I'm not saying that I'm
not going to say the the number but it
was it was six figures and it was a huge
house and it was land on that
house and he said you know he he gave me
an
ultimatum and I said immediately I
choose
Islam you said choose w i by the time he
finished his sentence I said I choose
Islam and he
said okay so before you become dead to
me and
penniless I want to know why I got to
have some closure as to
why and I said Dad
look you're my father whether you're
pleased or you're not pleased with me
I'm your
son whether you're pleased or you're not
pleased with me whether I'm a Muslim
whether I'm a Jew or a Christian I can
obey you on every single aspect of my
life and I have but when it comes to
matters of or the Hereafter when it
comes to the day of judgment which by
the way is a day which Dad I can't say
anything for you and you can't say
anything for me I will answer and I will
be in front of of God the almighty just
like you will and I won't be swayed PA
by all the money in the world I can't
this is something that I've been looking
for my whole life and I finally found it
and God is the one that provides for me
anyway God is the one that created me
and so I rely on God
100% so you
respectfully do what you got to do you
will find that I will be a Muslim and I
have
become a Muslim and I will stay a Muslim
and I will die a
Muslim and he did just that he went to
this lawyer the next
day sent sent me a copy that I was
completely out of his will and I said I
looked at the letter and I said
alhamdulillah
alhamdulillah that
Allah out of my whole lineage which
comes from Norway out of my whole
lineage
I am the only one that Allah subh tala
has chosen to
give and so I have
everything if I don't have Islam and I
have a million dollars what do I have I
have nothing but I have if I have Allah
you know I have everything I have
salvation to live in this Earth for
another week or two or a couple of years
or 30 years whatever Allah decides for
me at least yeah that I could die
inshallah
with muhm on my lips and return to my
Lord with him being pleased with me
isn't that everything isn't that the
ultimate victory Of My Life becoming a
Muslim and having Allah pleased with me
and dying upon Islam total Victory the
ultimate Victory so
alhamdulillah I'm
I'm I'm I'm very content with my life
with what's happened to me and the
greatest thing that's ever happened to
my life is that I became a slave of
Allah tala that's
it so your family originally from
Norway well my grandfather immigrated
from Norway yeah from Norway I see uh so
the last Viking Viking lineage Viking
lineage he got Viking lineage uh I heard
a lot of Vikings also uh in some of the
coins I've seen you see some writing
from um some Arabic calligraphy there
have you seen some of these they say
some some of the Vikings might have uh
come over to Islam yeah the uh the Rings
as well they were buried with the Rings
and there's some tapestry that Vikings
were you know actually uh ibben fadlan
he he you know I don't know if you've
seen the movie 13th Warrior that's
actually a real book that it was based
off of and uh the Vikings and the
Muslims they did meet on the vulga river
and um they they actually clashed with
the I believe it it was the
idid I can't remember but they actually
clashed at Al alandus with the with the
Vikings and they the Muslims actually
lost on the first encounter but the
second encounter they were the only ones
that actually defeated the Vikings and
so the Khalifa at that
time he said he saw an
opportunity he said here here are some
people that are like
Warriors I can use them so he actually
came to one one of The Chieftains of the
Vikings and said um you guys want a
job and the Vikings were like yeah
what's up is there gold in it he said
Yeah so basically the job was
Patrol but you know come under our
Authority you don't have to become
Muslims but Patrol our coastline from
Portugal all the way down to the
Moroccan Coast all the way to Sicily and
back and just protect our Coastline and
the Vikings said okay but not only that
a lot of them became there's two two
towns in uh I believe Portugal or
southern Spain that that are are known
are Viking a lot of Vikings settled
there and they became Muslim
so wow this amazing uh so when you were
studying the Bible and Bible study did
you know that Matthew didn't write
Matthew that you had a lot of these Anon
Anonymous books did you know any of that
none of it we were never told that this
is this is the book of God and and don't
question the book of God I never knew
any of this stuff they never teach you
that no and now I'm pretty sure I want
to just show one of the the Miracles and
how the Quran is preserved and you've
been a Muslim now for how many years
said 30 31 years this October will be 32
years and every Muslim is aspiring to
memorize the Quran bits of it chunks of
it the whole of it and if I ask you now
to uh recite any part of the Quran uh
one that identifies who uh God Almighty
for
example you you'd um go ahead and if you
can recite that for us because this
defines who it's shows how the Quran is
preserved someone who's not a native
Arabic speaker speaking person not an
Arab you're an American formerly a
Christian now a Muslim and it's just
like somebody asking you to recite
something original that Jesus might have
had in Aramaic but we don't have
anything original but the sister
language to Aramaic is Arabic so would
you would you go ahead and um uh I'll
put you sorry put you on a spot but can
you uh recite this for us and this
actually defines who God is in this very
short chapter of the Quran absolutely
and this is to the Christian viewers
this is another their proof that if I
recite this wrong automatically Eddie
will say oh wasn't it wait a minute you
made a mistake on this one word that is
a miracle in itself if I were to read
the Bible and I said a different wording
or a different meaning no Christian
would stop me they would think um okay
uh but with the Quran I am not a native
Arabic speaker I'm Norwegian I'm an
American um but if when I recite the
Quran when I recite
people will either say yes you have
recited it correctly word for word
letter for letter or they will say no
brother you have made a mistake and with
that
now Eddie have I recited theas correctly
yes beautiful
alhamdulillah so in here uh what what
does it actually mean what did you say
what's the meaning
here say that Allah is one the unique
Allah Allah the
Eternal he was never he was never born
nor does he give
birth and there is none like him or
comparable to him as Allah says in the
Quran there is nothing comparable to
Allah although he sees and he
hears thank you very much and we'll
conclude with that thank you for uh
being with us here sharing your
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