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de alhamdulillah Alum those are the
greetings of peace peace be unto you
thank you for tuning in to the dean show
and today we've had James James who
accepted Islam a few years back Islam
which simply means surrender peace
acquired by surrendering your will
yourself to the one God the of the
heavens and the Earth so he accepted
this beautiful way of life the way of
life of all the messengers of God just
to name a few Abraham Noah Moses Jesus
Christ and the last and final messenger
sent to mankind the prophet Muhammad
peace be upon them all he's going to be
talking to us a little bit about his
experience now now he's a Muslim is it a
easy ride is are there some obstacles
how's it been we want to follow up so
when we come back we'll be talking to
James here on the dean show we'll be
right back
Allah there's only one God and muhamad
is his
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messenger there's only one God and Jesus
was his messenger
Allah I don't know why I did that maybe
maybe it's just to break the iceam
alayum brother Salam peace be with you
same to you brother how you been
alhamdulillah good good good some of uh
the viewers of the dean show who have
been following us for some time they got
to see the show we did with few years
back and for those that didn't get a
chance to see those shows we're going to
start off by kind of recapping how you
actually came to Islam give us the gist
of it talk to us okay the gist of it um
well before before I came back to Islam
uh was a practicing Christian I could
say um you know doing you know the
things that Christians do uh going to
church and reading the Bible and um
actually I had a brief conversation with
you um that started it out um as you
remember and that that conversation led
me to do research on my own and then
that led to more conversations between
us and uh shortly after I accepted Islam
so were you before Islam were you living
just in normal life were you just going
about you know your business going to
school or work and just uh family what
were you doing um at the time I had uh I
had just just gotten married um I was
working I already started my career and
everything so everything in my life was
starting to come together I should say
um everything was going good but it was
still something that was that was that
was missing something that wasn't
complete and um and I think I found that
thing when I accepted Islam now a lot of
people they know that something's
missing there's an incomplete faction in
their life and now many of them don't
come to that state they fill it with
other material things maybe they get
busy in relationships work money but now
what made you go beyond transcend those
limits and know that no it has to be
something more than just the material
things um because I've always been a
Believer and um knowing that there is
something deeper than just material
things I mean because money can come and
go you can make money and you can lose
money um some people can come and go but
there is one thing that's always there
and that's Allah and most of the time
people don't realize it but they they
they go to Allah when they they're in
trouble or when they have problems in
their family or or other things like
that but you have to remember even even
the good times Allah is always there the
bad times Allah is always there
throughout your entire life whatever
happens Allah is always there so I think
that's something that I've always had in
my life even there times I can remember
when I was a when I was a child I I
don't really talk about it much but
certain things happened in my life and I
always thought man what would God want
me to do or is God looking at me right
now you know things like that so you
some people just have to dig deeper and
continue to search you know when when
those uh superficial things um when they
feel like they feel the void mhm I think
it just it's just a matter of time
before they get back to the same track
boom something's got to I need something
I need something bigger I need something
better and it's just a matter of time
and hopefully they'll meet someone like
like me for example I met you and a lot
of other brothers that um help put me on
the right track you use the word Allah
now before accepting this way of life
Islam the way of life of all the
messengers of God did you call God by
this name obviously not what was the
name you called God before God you just
said God yes and what some people have
to understand is that the word god this
it's a English word it's a it's a word
that that was made you know here is it's
an English word that if you research and
study and go back that you'll see that
God was never referred to the creator of
the heavens and the Earth was never
really referred to as God he would he
was referred to as other terms and the
terms are closer to Allah yeah and um
once you research and study and you you
you know you figure out these things
it's it's not hard to refer to the
Creator with as with his true name as
his true name and so this is not a moon
God or some kind of Arab God no no this
is the creator of the heavens and earth
we're talking about that created you me
and everybody else you know everything
on the earth is is not a God for one set
group of people it it's the Creator
created everybody everything you see is
from Allah I want to make one note on
that the Arab in Jewish Christians they
use the word Allah also and it's in the
Arabic Bible the word Allah and when
Jesus who spoke he didn't speak English
he spoke Aramaic he would say allaha
that's Aramaic and see I think if you
explain that that specific fact to a lot
of Christians and a lot of people from
other religions religions they'll come
to they'll come to understand or get
closer to the truth Jesus Christ
Al he didn't speak English yeah you know
he was Jewish and he didn't say God you
know if you go back and study a little
bit you you'll see that you know this is
a word that was started here you know
it's an English word this is something
this is something new it's not with the
beginning of the religion the religions
is this is something new that work so
now that you have accepted this way of
life Islam how do you feel now has it
been challenging has it been easy has it
been something that has brought
tranquility and peace to your life life
how's it been um I can actually talk
about this topic for a day two days um
there there have been ups and downs so
far um when I when when I first accepted
Islam um some friends and some family
looked at me as if I was doing something
that was you know totally out of the
ordinary totally just you know new but
at the same time I did have some friends
and some family that accepted it 100% I
already uh thank Allah had some family
that had already accepted Islam and some
friends that were Muslim and um they
helped make the transition easy but
throughout these um last few years I've
had some instances in my life where I I
used um the teachings of the Prophet
Salli wasallam um directly in my life to
help me um and that's the thing about
Islam it's not just something that you
do on Fridays or not just something you
do once or twice a day it's it's an
entire way of life um in every aspect of
your life work with your wife husband um
just every everything you have to deal
with in a day-to-day life Islam can it's
a way an exact way to deal with things
it's a complete way of life huh let's
leave it there and we're going to come
back with more with our brother James
here on the de we'll be right
back
main if you say that you do not believe
in Jesus you have stepped outside of
Islam you cannot be a Muslim it is a
tened our faith to believe in and love
Jesus
Christ why is it then when it comes to
one of the most important decisions in
life we literally abuse ourselves it's
not that the main thing we're looking
for is to see what type of money he has
so that he can treat my daughter like a
princess it's not about
that back with our brother James so we
left off with you accepting Islam and
then you had some instances with your
family or friends family friends yes
yeah and but was it and and you you
mentioned something really key that
Islam is not something you do part-time
it's not something you do just on
Fridays and Sundays but let's back it up
a little bit when you were practicing
Christianity is this something that how
did it compare to this way of life now
did you just do that part-time or what
what was something what was the
deficiency there what was something that
was missing there that you had to make
this transition okay the difference um a
lot of people say um you know you can't
judge a religion by the people yeah and
it's a lot of it's a lot of Truth in
that M but I noticed um in Christianity
I I practiced I went to church and I was
following the teachings of of the
religion yeah but there were some things
that came into question as far as I'll
give you one instance I went to church
one Sunday and actually me and a friend
we went to church and we you know I had
my own Bible he had a Bible and the
preacher he started the sermon and he
started to preach but then he said refer
to your Bible and he said refer to this
Bible but you can't refer to that Bible
yeah so say for example you could refer
to the uh the King James version but not
the new international version so I was
confused that why is it two different
Bibles what what what is he what is the
problem why is it like that and not only
that it's just some things things that
um some people did that were I don't I
couldn't see how they could consider
themselves spiritual or religious people
when they would leave one institution
leave the institution and go do things
that that contradict the religion or or
contradicts a person that believes in
the almighty so you were seeing things
that it just didn't fit with would you
say this natural disposition that's
inside of us you know when you just know
something's right or something
something's wrong is embedded in all of
us I can give you an example um in in
the Bible there are are a few verses
that refer
to just like in the Quran um they refer
to what you can and can't eat yeah and
it's a pretty regular uh occurrence
where people who are Christians they
don't follow the they don't follow the
Bible and I know for uh I've seen it
myself they do the exact opposite now if
a book that you follow and a religion
that you follow tell you to do one thing
why would you do the opposite mhm it's
not the case in Islam it's a we have a
set Ru we have set rules and we follow
the rules certain things that we we
should not do and certain things we
should do and we try to follow those
things to the utmost so we got both now
we got the letter of the law and the
spirit of the law so it's a equal
balance right and you can't just pick
things like a buffet say I'll do this
one day throw this out and whatever is
convenience for me basically then you're
doing your own thing right a lot of
people do that um with Islam it's not
like that I mean you you have to take
the religion as it is as God told you to
take it as God told you to do just as he
told you to do and he gives you the
outline exactly what you need to do when
you need to do it how you need to do it
so there'll be no problems there'll be
no problems now did you have a like we
do anyone who studies Islam knows that
we as Muslims over 1.5 billion of us if
we don't accept Jesus peace be upon them
as a mighty messenger of God we're not
Muslim right we say peace be upon him
when he say his name how did you feel
when you entered Islam did you feel now
disconnected from Jesus did you feel was
this a hard thing to give up what was
your relationship with Jesus before and
now the my relationship with
Jesus before
was um I love before yet confusion
because of what was taught in the church
yeah in the church they teach three mhm
Jesus Christ am Allah and the Holy Ghost
and they teach that they're all one yeah
which is very confusing to
anyone
but if you really really um look at
Islam it teaches there's one God one God
one God mhm and all the prophets that he
sent yes line of prophets MH line of
prophets long line so all you have to do
is worship the one God listen the
prophets listen to the prophets try to
emulate the prophets try to be like the
prophets the way they worship the LA and
you'll be on the right path and my
relationship with with with
Jesus it's better now because I I I know
fully and understand who he who he is
who he was what he was sent for and his
message and and us us we as Muslims we
we believe in in Jesus Alam and I feel
that we follow Jesus better than a lot
of Christians do mhm you know now this
is uh you know we we we love our
brothers in humanity and Our intention
is always just to educate to proliferate
the truth yeah now I don't mean to
disrespect anyone not to say anything um
wrong towards any religion because we as
Muslims we uh we give respect to every
religion we don't disrespect any
religion not not one bit even if some
people have some things toward Muslims
you know that's your own belief but we
don't disrespect any one religion not
not at all that's one thing if you
believe in Allah you you respect people
and you treat people the way you want to
be treated so I don't mean to say
anything um wrong towards any religion
you know now tell us did you have
because a lot of people they have an
experience they see someone in a dream
something comes to them and now they
feel like the person was let's say on
drugs on cracker this person was just
having the worst time of his life he she
whoever and now they say that something
Came Upon them they had this Revelation
they had this experience was that what
LED you to Islam or was it something
more intellectual talk to us about this
um I think it was it it first of all let
me just start from the beginning I think
like I said before as Allah makes us all
the same way and he put something in us
where you believe you do believe in the
Creator but some people let uh outside
things deter them or make them think a
certain way but if you keep with that
honest belief inside and you go straight
you'll find a way it was I had no big
bang Revelation on my own or nothing
like that I just kept that feeling
inside that man you know I know what's
one God I know it's one God and I just
stay with that and as I got older you
know and like I said I met you and I met
a lot of other brothers research you
can't just go into something blindly MH
you have to study you have to get in and
read and see for yourself some people
they just go with some someone might
tell them this or that and they'll just
follow that you can't do that you can't
do you can't just go blly you have to
see for yourself me being a person that
was not Muslim and now me being a person
I am a Muslim I know I know for a fact
that I made the right choice because I
studied before and I study now and I
know that I made the right choice so it
was something intellectual and something
that went with your very nature no
confusion no ambiguity it's straight
clear you know what the concept of life
of of God is you know what the purpose
of life is no confusion no confusion at
all no confus everything's laid out how
you need to live from A to Z A to Z A to
Z no problem that's beautiful no guess
work no guess work none at all yeah
let's take a break and we'll be right
back with more with James on the dean
show you have to pray as if everything
depends on Allah and it does but you
must work as if everything depends on
you and it doesn't that's my point you
see what I'm saying and I don't like
that I don't like us sitting here what
are you waiting for what are we waiting
for right now what are you waiting for
all these people to come to Islam what
are we waiting for what are we waiting
for right now when they going to come
they're going to come Allah going to
bring these people
put in our hand the ability to do it now
do your
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job and we are back on the dean show
with my brother and your brother James
peace be with you thank you for being
with us once again thank you for having
me tell us now let's go back to the
current situation did you
have many people they they come to this
way of life it's simple to understand
where ship the one God the one who
created you who created Jesus who
created the sun who created the Moon
that God the one that Jesus prayed to
the one that all the messengers of God
talked about the one God right it's
something that again like you just
mentioned it goes with your very nature
I want to worship that one God not
anything in the creation not a man not
the Sun not the moon not an ant not an
elephant none of these things and I want
to follow the guidance that he sent
through the messengers and just like He
sent Jesus at that time as a messenger
and Moses at that time and Abraham at
that time certain time he sent the last
and final messenger the prophet Muhammad
peace be upon him and we have the
perfect example we don't worship
Muhammad but he is that GPS on how to
pray to God how to worship God how to do
things correctly the same way Jesus
peace be upon him was the way the truth
and the light at that time you as far as
I know you jumped in and you started you
got hooked up right away you started the
prayer MH you started fasting some
people procrastinate they accept this
what we talked about it's pretty easy to
comprehend if you just go with what's in
yourself already you use a little bit of
your common sense you're courageous
enough you do the right thing but now we
got bad habits you know we'll get up for
the money and the dollar at a certain
time but when God Almighty tells us to
get up and pray we don't pray we don't
fast how could our brothers and sisters
of humanity who accepted this life
overcome the obstacles
with your experience share with us so
they can get on track like many others
have and stay away from getting off
track talk to us please well let me just
say that um there will always be
obstacles in life from the day you're
born to the day you die um and the one
thing that I can just say is throughout
everything it's like a rope and you just
have to hold on to the Rope of Allah if
you hold on to that rope hold fast to
that rope you'll be okay there there'll
be things that come up through your life
always hold on to the Rope of Allah
always and through that you remember
making Salah fasting and doing all the
things you need to do it'll make things
it it will make it a little easier for
you a little easier and um times will
come you may feel tired or you may feel
a little discouraged but always hold on
to that rope always hold on to the Rope
just never let it go mhm and when you
hold on to the Rope it'll it'll give you
courage and through it Courage you'll
start to study and start to read and
through all of this you can educate
yourself and you'll know that you know
there'll be bad times and there'll be
good times but just continue to hold on
to that rope do you have what you didn't
have before do you have peace are you at
peace now do you have Tranquility I have
I well I've been a person um I I think I
always had peace there there were at me
as a person I had some deficiencies in
myself as as we all do yeah but I think
through Islam I was able to work on some
of those deficiencies and now I'm a more
humble person more calm and I remember
the things um that I read from the
prophet s wasallam um with something we
have called Hadith and the Sunnah which
is simply the way of the prophet and I
and I try to follow those things and
just try to be humble I can never be
like the prophet peace and blessings of
Allah be upon him but I try my best to
try to emulate him and just try to do
those things and just be humble just be
humble and hopefully inshallah Allah
make a way for it has Allah made it
easier have you ever had someone like
you mentioned family and some friends
and someone you know chug a terrorist or
someone says something you know under
his breath or to you have you had this
and how did you overcome it if you did
just like just like with anything in
life there'll always always be someone
that will be there to say something
negative but at the same time there'll
be someone there to say something
positive also so what this like I said
this before just hold on to the Rope of
Allah just just always remember who's
the creator who's the final judge who is
the one that everything that it it m
everything matters to to everything you
do it matters to Allah subhana wa tala
everything you do so just remember that
and and I think most people it'll it'll
be easier to stay on the right track
remember who whose opinion really counts
so to speak the one who's running the
show that's right and who we're going to
have to go back to that's right brother
thank you very much may Allah the
creator of the heavens and earth reward
you and keep you steadfast thank you
very much thank you and that was our
brother and your brother James who came
on he was with us before but now you see
that the brother he stood with it he
didn't give up and that's the main thing
those who have acknowledged what's in
their very nature that there is a
Creator designed indicates a designer
there is one who is sustaining and
maintaining this whole universe and
everything in it and he is the most wise
so he didn't create us for any foolish
purpose and his system that he sent
through all the messengers of God
including the last and final messenger
that if we follow this system the way of
submitting yourself acquiring Peace by
the total submission to the one God
that's it it him he is the one we're
going to have to go back to and we
follow what he's told us to do the
letter of the laws they say the rules
and injunctions and the spirit of the
law we have a complete balance so this
is something that when we do it we get
that Tranquility we get the peace and
there will be times that will be tested
but as our brother James gave us that
good advice hold on to the rope and
never let go and at the end what it
really matters and comes down to is that
we please the who created us and he only
calls us to good he only calls us to
that which will give us life in this
life and the Hereafter so with that said
continue straight away don't stop you
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until then peace be unto
you no speech is better than to do that
to call people to Allah and to do the
work no speech is better no nothing is
better than that is it true that if one
person and the Allah giving you the
ability to guide someone with Allah's
permission the Creator's permission that
is better than everything in this world
better than the whole world and
everything that's in it in in another
narration it's better than the best of
wealth but if we really felt that Eddie
Would we not be out giving da and this
is something that we encourage all the
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humanity it's cold it's
late everybody
sleeping I
rise and ask a lot to forgive me oh you
see oh you
know all the sins I
do I turn to you to forgive my sins in
my
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heart I'm your sinful
slave you're my Ling
Lord I'm the one runs
away oh guide me