to my brothers and sisters and all your
listeners whether you're an atheist Jew
or your Christian how can we deny the
Wess of our creator the one that gave us
life he's our sustainer we've read the
old and the New Testament now read the
final Al Quran has been sent to mankind
as a source of healing and guidance
revealed to Muhammad now it is recited
by one and six people across our sphere
start your journey here and if you're
really are sincere you come to conclude
Islam's the only way to go yo let him
know Eddie it's the dean radio show
alhamdulillah alayum which is the
greeting of peace peace be unto you we
got a brother my brother and your
brother just took his shahada what is
the shahada that is when you come to a
conscious decision that you know what
there is a
cror and I want to worship him I want to
do all the good that he's told me to do
I figured out that you know what man
can't be God
man ate slept went to the bathroom the
God that I want to worship is the god
who created all things and you know what
I want to worship him
alone in the same way that this Creator
he sent Messengers throughout time just
to name a few Noah Abraham Jesus Christ
and the last and final messenger sent to
mankind the prophet Muhammad peace be
upon him I'm going to worship the one
God and I'm going to follow the guidance
that he sent through the last and final
messenger that's the shahada
and I got our brother Nick Nick are you
there I'm here I'm here brother peace be
with you assalam
alaykum now you said the shahada you
said that Declaration of Faith didn't
you I heard it you said it is that true
yes that is true why'd you do it brother
there's all sorts of misconceptions
about Islam you American Born bred and
raised is that right and you Muslim and
you became a Muslim now did you become
Arab some people you know right off
theat we have to clear things up why did
you become a
Muslim well brother that's a
misconception that Islam is only for the
Arabs Islam is for everybody and EV from
all walks of life um I became Muslim for
a lot of reasons one was well I was born
you know into a Christian family into a
Christian household and I started to
read the Bible and you know and I kept
searching for stuff and I had answers
you start I have question
I couldn't get answers and I've been
around Muslims all my
life and it was just you know I always
ask a lot of questions and I tried to be
an open-minded person and I didn't want
to you know there's a lot of in the in
this country there's a lot of
misconceptions of what Islam and What
Muslim means a lot of people here if you
if you were to tell them that Jesus were
a Muslim they don't understand what that
means because they don't even know the
definition of what a Muslim is but Jesus
by definition is a Muslim Define what do
you mean someone someone's like how was
uh Jesus Christ the Jesus that we love
how is he a
Muslim well simply that as you know
brother that a Muslim is one who submits
his entire will to the will of God who
submits his life to God and serves God
and worships God and does what God wants
him to do and Jesus by listening to God
and doing what we're well I'm gonna say
God just because for those who who might
be listen who might not be ready to call
God Allah does what God wants him to do
Jesus did
what God instructed him to do Jesus was
man Jesus was not God people Mis
conscrew and people um misinterpret and
say that Jesus Is God When Jesus if
Jesus was God he would not have died on
the
cross God who brought him back Allah not
Jesus and by definition Jesus is a
Muslim because he listened and submitted
and dedicated his life to serving God by
definition he is a Muslim so you're an
American Born bred and raised in America
yes well I spent some time overseas and
I've been to uh several um Muslim
countries which helped um enlighten me
to open my mind some more to the idea of
Islam more but yes I'm born and raised
in America guess
what I am too so we got we got two two
American and and I'm proud to be an
American you you know that and and I'm
proud to be one who has who is an
American Born Brad and raised and is
also worshiping the one God and it just
makes sense people abide by the law of
the land and we should but isn't it just
common sense that we should o o abide by
the laws of the one who created us and
do all the good that he's told us to do
and that's what you decided to do it's
nothing strange about
that I don't see any problems with it
that's amazing and we wanted to we got
right into the program cuz this is
exciting you know Islam which simply
simply means to acquire peace by
submitting to to the owner of Peace
that's the creator of the heavens and
the Earth and doing all the good that
he's told you to do now when when when
when some someone comes to Islam because
Islam is the fastest growing way of life
out there today yesterday and tomorrow
and one who is a Muslim is one who's
doing Islam so y you decided to do Islam
and this is just summed up in one word
in Arabic what were you doing before
tell us a little bit about your life
what were you you know what what are
some of the fun things you not so fun
things what what did you just grow up
doing in this Society tell us a little
bit about your history
brother well before Islam I mean I I was
a Christian I belong to the uh 7-Day
Adventist Church that's um a part of
Christianity where they worship on the
Sabbath as is instructed in the Bible
and Genesis Exodus acts and several
other parts of the Bible where it talks
about you know worshiping on the Sabbath
day because God rested on the Sabbath
and you know and and it were it had
certain dietary laws and other things
that you were supposed to do such as um
you know a lot of deep swine and there
was a lot of other things and it made
more sense to me to the fact a lot of my
family was Catholic and I came up in a
Catholic church and a lot of stuff with
Catholicism didn't make sense to me once
I started doing the history of it a lot
of it you know they used to do things
where um back in the Middle Ages and
they in the time of Renaissance where if
you wanted forgiveness from God when in
the Catholic Church you do confession
you go to the priest and you pay him
alms you give him money and he would
forgive you for your sins and you and
that didn't make sense to me and a lot
of stuff I would see stuff like you know
people would go back like you walk past
a homeless person on the street and you
walk into a church and you would tithe
and you would give money to the church
who could you know might not actually do
anything good with the money you know
would just take the money for them could
could possibly take the money for its
own selfish purposes while you passed
the homeless person right next to the
church and didn't give him any money I
would see things like this and I'm like
well that doesn't seem to be what Jesus
would do Jesus in my mind he would help
out the homeless person before he would
just walk into a church and give money
to people who are already getting money
from L of people and you know I was
living up and down my life was kind of
crazy I've seen a lot I've done a lot
you know not proud of anything but I'm
not ashamed of it either where I come
from you know a lot of people caught up
you know drug dealing doing
drugs doing stuff that harm their bodies
and you know it's just trying to to get
fast money and girls and they living a
crazy lifestyle and you know I tried all
that and I couldn't find peace in it I
tried you know I tried being a Christian
I read the Bible did the history learned
the Bible and it's funny because a lot
of Christians I found couldn't even tell
me what language Jesus spoke he spoke
Aramaic and you know and most Muslims if
you ask them this if they're practicing
Pious Muslims they know what language he
spoke and it's just I would go to some
of these churches and people would be
screaming Jesus and praising Jesus they
would also say Jesus who's know son of
Mary and Joseph but then how is he God
but they also it was like I had a lot of
questions and things didn't make sense
and I kept reading the Bible but I knew
a lot of Muslims who told me well read
the
Quran so started reading the Quran more
and in my city where I'm from
Philadelphia there was a lot of Muslims
and started talking to a lot of people
and Islam made a lot more sense it
seemed like The Next Step Up it seemed
more like an up I don't say an upgrade
but for lack of better word I'm going to
use the word upgrade and it brought me
to a higher meaning and I started
looking into it and I've been to a lot
of Muslim countries and I've known a lot
of Muslims from I've been to you know
Muslim countries North Africa and stuff
like this Morocco I've seen things and
it's a lot of the misconceptions aren't
really true and I found peace more like
and it's just it's just it seems more
peaceful and calming and it helped me
calm down in ways that Christianity
couldn't I was able to clean up my life
more in ways that Christianity that he
couldn't help me clean it up because I
would see a lot of PE people like
claiming to be this and then they don't
live it and that was hard for me to take
it
seriously now how did you how did you
come to a point in your life that you
started thinking serious because
nowadays you can quote the Bible you can
as soon as you mention religion it's not
the cool thing you know it's more cool
to be talking about all the girls that
you're going to meet at the club and the
parties you're going to go to and the
rap videos and the newest song that's
out by Eminem and 50 cents and all these
other things that are going on but you
started thinking at least you made a
step and you inquired into and you
looked into the Bible before you saw
that look this is not making sense man
God Trinity God dying for your sins all
these things just didn't make sense so
but before you even got to that stage of
it not making sense man let's back up
you're just like H you you you were
searching for something obviously how
did you get to the point that you were
in the market to search cuz many people
they're not even in the market they're
just out there they just want to have a
good time they just want to party party
and die how did you get to the point
where you're like man this I got to take
life
serious well um I I from a young age I I
was always around people who were older
than me I saw a lot of things and and
I've always been a very open-minded
person and the way that my parents had
raised me was to think outside the box
and I matured a lot faster than a lot of
people so at a younger age I was
thinking and you know like I was doing
things like you know like on when I was
in sixth grade I could read on 11th
grade reading level so like not trying
to brag anything but like I was I could
always think ahead and I could always
read more and I was into more things
more like more cultural things and
thinking outside the box where as
opposed A lot of people in my generation
were still when when a lot of people in
my age were having curfews and had to be
inside earlier I was Outsider I was
having talks with adults and you know I
spent a lot of time and I I was overseas
for while so I got to expand my mind
more and I started seeing things and
when I lived overseas I went to the club
a lot like I was 14 because overseas
there's no drinking age unlike in this
country and you know and stuff like that
they don't frown upon people smoking and
doing things like this it's more it's
considered okay so when I was 14 I was
going to clubs when I was 15 in 16 I was
going to clubs where in this country you
would have to be 20 something 21 you
know 22 to go to I was doing it at 14 at
an age when I should have been inside I
was allowed to go out and do these
things and I started doing it at all a
young age and I lived it and I did it
and really honestly you can smoke as
much as you want you can drink as much
as you want and you can think that's
going to solve your problems but sooner
or
later the high is going to go away
you're going to be sober again when you
wake up in the morning and the problem
was still be there but where it's Allah
Allah goes nowhere Allah is always there
and I started looking for other ways to
solve my issues
and partying and living it up wasn't
solving it it was only if anything
making it worse I saw an interview with
um he used to be a rapper his name was
Lon and I saw an interview that you had
given with him and he said that you know
he was paying for the disease but the
Cure was free yes and I never forgot
that when he said that because that just
really made so much sense to me because
it's true I was trying to find a way to
buy things and you know and I've been
through a lot of situations where like I
was moving to a new house and then my
house got robbed and everything got
taken from me and it's just like you can
buy all these material things you can
try to drink your problems away but at
the end of the day when you go and you
die and you're in a grave those things
don't come with you you could put them
in the grave with you but your soul will
not take
them and you know and really living a
living a more righteous
lifestyle that that really that's more
of a key to happiness than all this
other stuff and and I've seen that I'm
I'm blessed and Allah he knows better
you know
and this is amazing and and you
mentioned Allah and just for our not yet
Muslim family out there who we are doing
these programs so they can develop a
better understanding of the world's
fastest growing way of life the way of
life of all the messengers of God
including Jesus Christ peace be upon him
you mention Allah and the sister
language to Arabic is Aramaic and Jesus
he would call on God by the name Allah
and we say Allah and Jew and Christians
who are arabic speaking they also say
Allah so just to assuage any fears that
someone might have that they're calling
upon some Arab God or a moon God no
we're calling upon the god that Jesus
called upon that God of the of the
heavens and the Earth who created the
Sun and the Moon and everything in this
universe we're calling upon that God
that's Allah yes so brother Nick we're
very excited this is exciting that you
got your act together and you were
open-minded and you started to
investigate so you go back to your roots
now and you start looking into the Bible
which we as Muslims we believe that
there is the word of God in the Bible we
believe that and we just want to make
this note but there are also the word of
prophets historians and other authors
which we have no clue who these people
are so you got a bunch of things mixed
up in there so did you start to figure
this out and you saw that hold on
there's some things in here that can't
be from God did you run across yeah some
of
this yeah I did um for instance um if
you take you know when you go to to a
masar you know the mid there's only one
and you only read from one book yet if
you take the Bible for instance there's
many different versions of the Bible if
you talk to an Evangelical Christian a
born again Christian a Catholic priest a
Protestant Lutheran or even a 7day
Adventist they all read you know even
sometimes different versions of the
Bible and they all have different
interpretations of the same thing and
it's just it seemed to me that so many
different people are taking like 10
different things out of the same
situation and to me that was confusing
and you know if God is you know to be so
powerful and great and divine as as as
as Allah is then I shouldn't be confused
I shouldn't have all these questions and
if you talk to different priests and
different pastors and and so on and so
forth they're going to give you
different interpretations and different
ideas and different ways to go here and
to go there and I'm just like why why am
it's like it's like for instance if
you're asking directions to go somewhere
that is right around the corner and you
ask different people and they each tell
you 10 different ways to go you're not
going to know which way to go you're
going to be confused and you're you're
not going to know what to trust you know
if I'm asking directions I want to know
the right way I want to know the easiest
fastest most direct way not hearing 10
different ways to get to one place
that's only going to confuse me and
that's what I've and that's what
confused me the most about Christianity
is if if there's different versions of
the Bible that was written by man and
you know and man as we all know is is
not perfect is not is going to make
mistakes and that's perfectly fine but
if I'm Gonna Worship God Allah if I'm
Gonna Worship Allah I don't want to make
a mistake you know and I'm not blaming
anybody for maybe misinterpreting
anything but that's not the right way to
go I want to make sure I'm doing it the
right way and it's just there's so many
different ways that they take to do it
why can't I just have one way one simple
thing one simple book one place to look
for my information there's different
versions of the Bible being printed so
which one are you going to trust how do
you know which one is correct but there
was only one Quan only one that is
amazing isn't it one Quran which is the
verbatim word of God and you have it in
its original it hasn't been edited
played with by man we have the original
language if we look to the previous
revealed books they've been altered
edited and we don't have the original
language so it's not the word of God
it's simple so did you find that many
people when it comes down to the worship
of God or now people are actually
worshiping Jesus people just end up
doing cultural things like they just
slide in on Sunday you know the band's
playing seems like a good time and
people aren't really thinking about
really they're not thinking
they're just going with the flow they're
just doing what everyone's doing they're
not like thinking hold on should I be
praising God or Jesus and then you got
the Holy Ghost and it and then it all
gets mixed up intertwined together and
you got this Trinity and you know what
somebody stops to question it but you
know what the music's too loud so they
forget they're just going with the flow
did you find some of this going on yes I
mean it's funny because I asked a lot of
people who are because before I I want
to get involved in something I like to
do my homework I want to do my research
I don't want to like it's simple and for
this is anybody listening who might be
Christian ask yourselves or ask somebody
else ask them what Hallelujah means man
this is a word that if you're in the
Christian church you hear it all the
time you know they say hallelujah praise
be to God but most Christians cannot
even tell you what the word hallelujah
means where it's derived from it you're
saying a word a lot of people I know and
I'm always GNA speak on people I know
I'm not going to speak on every
Christian out there but a lot of people
I know I would even ask them and these
people I know who are devout Christians
well who are born again and they say
Jesus is their Savior and I'm like well
what does hallelujah mean I don't know
can you please tell me what it means but
I already knew what it means that I did
the research it means praise Yahweh is
derived from a Hebrew word it means to
praise God but they don't know what it
means they don't even know why they say
amen and it's like you're saying things
you don't even know why you're saying it
and I saw stuff like that and I'm just
and I ask people well why do you go to
church or why are you a Christian I
would say well why why are you this
because maybe I want to be a Christian
and I want to know why you're doing it
because maybe that's the same reason why
I want to do it and nobody could tell me
why they were a Christian they would
just say well Jesus is good and and if I
tried to talk to them about it they
would be scared to talk about it and
they would they wouldn't want to talk
about it they would be like no well well
it's the right thing to do well why is
it the right thing to do not to bring up
history in the past but back when you
know Hitler was empowering the Nazis he
was telling them it was the right thing
to do to kill innocent people and people
didn't question it people didn't know
what was really going on and that and
that led to a disaster and a tragedy so
before I get involved in anything I'm
gonna ask why I'm doing this or why
should I be doing this so I know why I'm
doing it so I can understand it better
and people couldn't give me an answer
and I'm like well people come to to
Allah to God for answers they should get
answers and nobody was giving me an
answer and it was just that didn't make
sense to me and I'm like well if you
don't know why you're doing it then you
shouldn't be doing it in my opinion wow
this is deep
yes and it just didn't make sense to me
and I'm just like well that doesn't make
sense you're saying things you're
screaming things in a building in a
church that you go to the churches and
they they scream and they get very
excited and they and and I've been and I
used to be a very serious Christian and
you know and you know it feels good
sometimes it does feel good but at the
same time it's like it just certain
things just didn't make sense to me I'm
like it's like okay but it's like in so
many different ways they'll be saying
Jesus you know is the Son of God but
then they'll say Jesus is God but you
know I shouldn't have any contradictions
I shouldn't even need to ask any
questions Islam you know Muhammad peace
be upon Him is the last
prophet he came to deliver the last
message because you know he people
weren't following it right and Jesus
even said there will be one after me you
will know him because he will know me I
heard um uh interview where brother
Yousef etes he said this and then I
researched it and I found it to be true
you know I like to be able to verify
things and for me before I do anything
to know that what I'm doing okay is the
correc thing if I hear something I'm
going to do the research on it so I know
that I'm I'm following it correctly you
can you can do and this is to anybody
listening please please please do the
res on Islam look up the words look up
the meanings of what we say and see what
it means and put it into perspective and
then you'll
see and it it changed my life and that's
what you did you went to the Muslims to
learn about Islam if you want to learn
about Christianity go to the Christians
you want to learn about Judaism go to
the Jewish people so we shouldn't go
towards CNN or Fox new to learn about
Islam or to the people who are trying to
vilify Islam to learn about Islam come
to the Muslim you did that that yes and
you've learned that this is indeed a way
of life sent down from the Creator not
from a human being and it's clear
rational and all the evidence pointed to
it being the
truth it did it did and and that's the
best way to do it and just as you said
brother I would I would encourage and I
please beg anybody who is listening
anybody who who is open mind enough if
you want to know the truth go to the
source you can here and people can and
you know peace and blessings be upon
Jesus you could pray to Jesus but Jesus
is not God I said you know I'm going to
cut out the middle man and I want to
deal directly with the source the main
the main source not not somebody in
between who I'm going to get confused
with and often many times man I find
because you know man we're not perfect
we will make mistakes we are not Allah
will will make remake religion to the
way that he sees that it should be
because we have our own personal biases
and that's and that's understandable but
if you're going to really praise praise
Allah and praise God you shouldn't do it
with any bias or with anybody
else's possibly alternative agendas you
should do it the right way and if you
truly want to know the answer if you
have any misconceptions go ask a lot of
people you know there's a lot of
speculation on oh I've even heard of my
own family oh well Muslim women have no
rights and Muslim women can't do this
talk to Muslim women I've known many
different Muslim women talk to Muslim
women ask them how their lives are ask
them how they're living and see for
yourself before make a judgment I think
then it's only fair even um I saw an
interview I saw a doc not documenting um
he was giving a speech he was giving a
lecture uh brother khed Yassin who also
helped me um learn more about Islam and
learn many things and I watched a lot of
videos on him you can find him easily on
YouTube for anybody listening who wants
to know brother khed yassim you can look
him up he's he knows what he's talking
about look him up please Google his name
whatever it takes find out what he's
saying and he said before you judge
something don't listen to some news or
some media site whose job is to to
report gossip and Scandals because
that's what people want to hear more go
and really read about it and know about
it yourself and educate
yourself you know because like Allah
gave us brains this why I always said to
people AI gave us a brain he gave it to
us for a reason he wouldn't have just
given it to us for no reason he knows
better than he knows even better than
us more better than we ever could he
gave us a brain for a reason use it do
the information please anybody listen
please do the
research do it and then and think about
it and put it in perspective and
see if if and honestly if you really
think about this and you put it into
that
perspective I you canot chose itlong
it's not a multiple choice question with
Christianity for me it was a multiple
choice with Islam it's just a true it's
not even a false it's just a
truth wow this is amazing that's what we
do we want to stimulate the mind of The
Listener rather he be it from a Jewish
background rather he be it from a Hindu
background a Christian background
they're all our brothers in humanity and
we want the best for everyone and
sharing is caring and we we care about
all of the people and we know that many
people are in a situation like you were
your yourself confused Trinity's thrown
at you the Bible's out there you can't
figure out what to do you got all these
different opinions and that brings me to
my next question you mentioned taking a
rest on the Sabbath because God Almighty
rested now did this ever like Boggle you
God
rested he he doesn't need to rest you a
lot of things didn't make sense to me
when certain organizations
because I'll give you a story for
instance um when I was younger I used to
be because I was very serious in the
church my grandmother you know was very
big into the church and I remember I was
in the choir and we needed to sell
lemonade to get money so we could do
things for the choir so we could keep it
going and it was funny
because Muslims you know as a Muslim it
is your job to give arms to supp poort
is one of the five pillars of Islam um I
might mispronounce the word forgive me
brother if I mispronounce but I believe
it's Zak The Cure our greed yes
Zak yes and um I'm still learning but
the main idea is that you know you
should give to the people who need it
because that's living
righteously and I remember I was Su
lemonade for the choir and I couldn't
get anybody by it was a hot summer day
like this one and people were just
walking past and nobody was giving money
but ironically before I did that a
Muslim man came by and asked what I was
selling and asked me and he bought some
from me and he actually came back with
his family and purchased more and then
he went about his went about his went
about his day and he we did but there's
plenty of people walking past other than
that and nobody else bought anything so
later on my grandom came outside and she
put a sign up that said that the pro the
proceeds benefit the church and gave the
name of the church and a little
explanation then more people came by and
started giving because they saw that it
said it was for a church but the Muslim
man who came by who was a neighbor of
mine who I knew because I knew he was
Muslim because it's my Ryan he came he
he did it just to do it because he knew
it was the right thing to do because it
part of his religion to give but there
was plenty of people who were who walked
by and didn't give anything but then
when they saw it was for a church they
all of a sudden said okay it's time to
give and that didn't make sense to me it
it's like the right thing to do from
from the jump would be just to help out
and it was just things like that that
really had me going that really was like
wait a second so and when I asked the
Muslim I asked him I asked my neighbor
his name was M I asked him why did you
help me out of any but he was like well
you needed it and it was my job as far
my religion to help out people who are
in
need and that's the right way to do
things if you can think with that
philosophy and with that mentality and
put that into life it would be a better
world a better place to live and it was
people who were only helping because
then oh they saw that it was for a
church so then they almost did it
because they were like oh oh Jesus might
be watching so we better do this so we
look good no that's not why you should
do it you should do it because you know
it's the right thing to do not just
because you know oh now we need to do it
no do it
beforehand yes things like that really
persuaded me to say wait a minute I
better take a better I better take a
closer look at this because I'm seeing
hypocrisy and that doesn't make
sense and and you you got to be sincere
open-minded and the signs of the Creator
are subtle so obviously we can see from
the side lines we're seeing like God is
sending you Signs Now you didn't have to
get full of some holy ghost or some
Spirit to see it did you just have to
use Good Old Common Sense and just dig a
little bit and look out in front of you
for these signs was it something that
you just had to use good old common
sense it it was at first I mean you know
it's funny because you see a lot of
there's a lot of new religions today
like you know you hear scient
scientologists and all these new people
coming up with ideas and and it's just
they're always talking about some sign
but I believe if you just if you sit
back and and you could look at things
from from a strictly an analytical
Viewpoint and just think about things
and just be open-minded and see that
okay well the world is in trouble today
mostly I believe because people aren't
treating other human beings as if
they're your brother and your sister but
in Islam you're right you're you're
given you're taught the idea that not
but the lifestyle that okay okay another
human being regardless of color or race
or sex or gender is my brother or my
sister and if you can look at it like
that and treat people like they're a
brother and a sister a lot of the
problems that we have today's Wars the
fighting the misconceptions would go
away if you could just look at people
through that
view a lot of these problems would go
away and to me that's just plain Common
Sense doesn't involve any weird
different ritual any type of weird type
you know strange ideas no it's just it's
just plain Common Sense treat people the
way you would want to be treated and if
you could do that look at people as your
brother and your sister people I think
will be less likely to go out there and
harm one another because it doesn't help
anybody only hurts
ourselves for for another misconception
many people have they say Okay American
now uh oh they brainwashed them now they
got another Terrorist on their side and
we got more to fear what do you got to
say about
that well I can say
um I I've been you know I'll tell you a
true story I lived overseas in Belgium
for a while my mom had a government job
so looking at the embassy we got
transferred overseas and this was a true
story I had some friends who were
Egyptian and it was during the month of
Ramadan and our Embassy the American
Embassy sent us emails saying stay away
from the mosque because it's Ramadan and
you the threat level is at Orange
whatever that
means okay so I had friends of mine who
were from Egypt the names were um this
name I told a lot of my other friends
scared a lot of people because one of my
friends name was
Hussein and the other one's name was
Abdel now they were from Egypt you know
they lived in Pakistan for a while and
they've been around and I learned a lot
about Islam and a lot about the Middle
East from them and being around them and
my experience with them now you know I'm
American and it was Ramadan but they
said to me Nick come to dinner at our
house and they lived right down the
street it was probably a 10minute walk
from the mosque I went to Ramadan at
their house and their family was more
than welcoming and I wasn't a Muslim at
the time and this was back during when I
used to party and and you know hang out
a lot and go to the bars and the clubs
and everything overseas but they said
Nick you know brother come come come to
our house come eat dinner with us come
meet our family I said sure you know and
another friend of mine who also taught
me a lot about Islam his name was Ahmed
and when I took shahada he was one of
the first people I called and told but
he he came with me and we went there and
I I had dinner with them and I met their
family and I talked to their dad and and
I came back home and I remember I had to
catch the last Metro so I'm having to
get on the and everybody's Liv in a city
knows when you're catching the train
late at night usually that's when you
should worry more I walked right p pass
the mosque to get to the Metro between
between the the train station and their
house was the mosque I had to walk right
past it nothing happened to me I'm still
here today you know it's not and it was
fine despite some email that went out
and said oh we're Co level orange this
is when Bush was president you know you
need to be careful and I'm like no I
went there and I was fine nothing
happened to me like it's just a
misconception because it's just and my
question to anybody who would say that
okay we're being brainwashed and you're
terrorists and all this other mess that
people want to put out there is okay so
if we're brainwash what do you have to
say about the people who are in
something like I've seen documentaries
like where where the Klux Clan will sit
here and will burn crosses and will say
that they hate Jews but they love Jesus
who was Jewish and was sent to help the
is the tribe of Israel who is more
brainwashed are any other um some of
these other churches that aren't that
are teaching as different Bibles that
they rewrote because they said that the
other ones weren't Christian enough who
is more brainwashed when we stick to the
same script and don't change it for
anything and they're switching different
holy books and saying that this is the
way you're supposed to be that that to
me didn't I mean and and that's really
if anybody does any misconceptions
honestly ask yourself that who is more
brainwashed and if they think people
don't don't let the same video that you
might see from some news channel who
needs the
ratings um decide your opinion on
something make your own judgment and
your own opinion and do your own
research good points good points we only
have a few more minutes we want to get a
few more points in Jesus peace be upon
him no muslim is a Muslim unless he
believes in Jesus that he was the word
of God that he was the Messiah that he
was the Christ that he gave life to the
dead by God's permission he did many
wonderful and amazing Miracles by God's
permission and if you don't believe in
Jesus you're not a Muslim what do you
now what what is it uh how was your
relationship with Jesus now as of before
cuz now you you as a Christian it was
all Jesus Jesus you pumped your head
with Jesus and you know Jesus is my Lord
and Savior what do you have to say about
Jesus
now I'm still the same well I'm the only
Lord is Allah the only the only one
worthy of all praise is is God Almighty
Allah there's nobody else
but I
still give praise to Jesus peace and
blessings be upon him I still will go
back and read in the Bible Matthew and
look over his teachings because God sent
him with many great messages that we
need to hear and I still look back on it
he's still a prophet like I still he's
still a prophet of Allah he is still a
good Muslim to this day I have nothing
against Jesus there's nothing wrong with
willing to learn teachings of Jesus he
had many great messages to tell us but
he is not Allah I differentiate there is
a difference between him and Allah my my
relationship with Jesus is this is is
smarter and it's grown more I'm I'm
better with it now than I was before so
it's not something that you had to make
a major turn it just you went from
giving Jesus his due respect as a mighty
messenger and not God and taking that
worship that is due for the one who
created you and giving it to him and not
giving it to him his creation simple if
anything why I say is better now is
because I'm not falsely worshiping him
I'm worshiping God Allah as I should be
not somebody else so if anything the
relationship has been cleared up and
fixed up more than it was before because
before I was
misguided what advice do you have for
others we we covered a lot of different
points we don't take God as a human
being we don't worship His creation we
only worship the one God and everything
is built on that foundation and we give
in the name of God we pray to the one
God we believe in Jesus you mentioned
women's rights also Islam is not about
terrorism there's no radical Islam Islam
is not about killing innocent men women
and children Islam is about Justice and
peace for all this is Islam to acquire
peace by submitting to the owner of
Peace the creator of the heavens and
earth now you're one who does Islam what
advice do you have for those who they
have these different misconceptions
we've cleared a lot of them up but
they're still kind of stuck to what
their parents or what their forefathers
used to do and you know what they might
feel like an outcast they might feel
like ridiculed made fun of what advice
do you have for them who are agreeing
with a lot of these things they're also
confused about the Trinity about God
dying on the cross or Jesus dying and
all these other things that you just
have to do a lot of mental gymnastics to
make them fit they're confused but they
want to do the right thing and it's
coming from you a born bred American who
used to be Christian what advice do you
have for him I would say before you make
any decision don't take my word for it
please don't listen to me before you
judge Islam never look at a Muslim even
if they're giving you good advice what I
would recommend is you do the research
for yourself and make the right decision
Allah will guide you from
there that's learn about it do the
research and you'll
see do the research death is coming it's
approaching this is a very very serious
topic we need to get with it life's not
all about jokes sports baseball games
football games gossip drama all that
stuff is just marking time we need to
get serious and you did and we're proud
of you brother
thank you I thank you for helping me in
with everything praise praise to Allah
may Allah bless you I thank you you help
you and watching your program help me
make my decision that much easier thank
you that's amazing
alhamdulillah alhamdulillah thank you
brother for taking the time to be with
us and this really touches my heart and
all the listeners who are listening we
all make Dua everybody listening inshah
please accept Islam inshah yes yes
brother thank you once again thank you
so much brother this this is a amazing
story and we look inshallah forward to
one day meeting you in
person okay thank you brother thank
youum peace be unto
you thank you yes and that was our
brother Nick Nick who accepted the call
the call to acquire peace from the owner
of Peace the creator of the heavens and
earth it was wonderful listening to him
talk about about his journey and it's
simple you want to do the good that the
creator has called you to do you've
realized that you know what all the
six-packs in the world all the Jack and
cokes all the baseball games football
games all the different gossip stories
that I talk about at the health clubs
and the gyms all this wasting of time is
not buying me time I'm getting older but
I'm getting a little wiser
and I'm realizing you know what who are
really my true friends who really wants
best for me they come and go people use
me for money people use me for my car
people use you for all types of things
especially the young ladies out there
getting used left and right but now just
like that brother he got out there and
he partied
away and he realized man I'm not happy
and he started to reflect he started to
think and
then he was in the market and that's
what from this show in our shows we want
you to stimulate we want you to get
stimulated to turn on that light bulb to
start to reflect and
think all the time in the world will
pass and you got one shot this life is a
test what will you do with it will you
just let it pass by and then approaches
and it's too late then it's over bye-bye
everybody and then you failed because
you didn't take this life seriously so
if you're listening to this reflect more
you might be a CEO of a company you
might be a major football player a movie
star you might you might be the
President
Obama this is for everybody don't just
worry about what people will say or
trying to look cool and fit in into the
cool Club think about the one who
created you and he created you for a
noble purpose and that's not about you
teaching God you teaching the
Creator the religion that he wants you
to live picking and
choosing like
a buffet no you have to earnestly want
the truth and then when it comes be
courageous enough to submit to it and
the foundation of all the good that you
will do
you need a blueprint you need a GPS
you'll pray to the one God you'll give
charity in the name of the one God
you'll fast in the name of the one God
he don't need it you need it you need a
system you want to get big you better go
to a gym you get a better get a personal
trainer you want to get an education you
better follow the curriculum well God
has a curriculum God has a system that
he wants us to follow and
that's submitting
to him alone on his terms Islam that's
what it
is and we want you to be successful in
this life so we want
you to think about these more serious
issues and topics and don't just take
our word for it don't take Nick's word
for it who used to be a Christian who
used to be a party guy who used to be
out there having a good time now he's
one who has submitted to the one God
he's not a terrorism Islam doesn't teach
us to hurt innocent men women and
children sure you might have a few bad
apples in every bunch but Islam will
teach you how to live a good wholesome
and
moral
life living life how God wants you to
live so if you like what we had to say
today we like to thank Nick who is with
us and everybody who is listening if you
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this this is deep he said all my slaves
are misguided unless I guide them so ask
me of my guidance that's where it begins
with you being in the
market wanting the truth and then asking
the one who created you for the truth
and then being ready to submit to the
truth and you got to hear it here if it
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