okay I was invited to this peace
convention by a friend and I came here
because it was called a peace convention
was I I found this catalog like a
booklet that said something about
Yu it was written that raised as a
strong Christian educated in Texas USA
he became very successful owning music
stores television shows and was a music
Minister and preacher of the
Bible so I want to ask you
sir as a preacher of the
Bible what was
the what was the reason or the point or
the truth that you found in Islam that
led to your conversion as a strong
Christian and preacher of the Bible
that's a beautiful
question because there's lights in my
eyes I don't know exactly where you are
can you hold up your hand
where there you are I'm sorry now I see
you your name is Gabriel yes sir in
Arabic is jail that's the angel I was
talking
about we're very happy to have you with
us today it's a pleasure to have you
with this and it's a pleasure for you to
ask such a question in such a nice way
I'm privileged uh to ask you that
question I wish I was there I could give
you a big hug thank you sir because when
I was a Christian see I wasn't nice like
you you're nice I was tough you know uh
because I thought I had to save the
world I'm going to go out and preach a
message and you know I'm still a little
wacko don't get me wrong but not near as
bad as I
was what I found and this is important
to know what I found was in my Bible
First what I found was in my Bible first
because I used to travel with a lot of
the so-called preachers of
Christianity and some of the ones that I
traveled with they don't represent real
Christianity by the way but I traveled
with them and I learned that I couldn't
trust them especially when they would
pick up the Bible and say the Bible says
the Bible says and afterwards I would
say it doesn't say that they say who
cares as long as the people think
so and so it bothered me so much that I
started trying to really read and
understand many different translations
of the
Bible but they didn't match so I said
obviously you know translation is not
the real thing I need to learn K
Greek I knew that the Latin I'd already
studied Latin and I knew that the The
Vulgate was only a translation of K
Greek anyway so when I went to the K
Greek it was hard that was really hard
cuz those characters they're confusing
you know I don't know if you know Greek
but it's weird Greek to me
anyway then I come to know that oh by
the way actually Jesus language was a
form of Hebrew called Aramaic a form of
setic language called
Aramaic and I had no clue what that was
so I tried to learn the Hebrew now all
along the way I'm taking okay
Interlinear Bible I don't know if you
know what that is that's when you have
the word in English and under it'll have
the word in K Greek and you can look it
up now people like Ahmed Rahim and Dr
zacher Knight they have these giant
computer brains okay I don't have that
giant computer brains they can process
all this stuff in their
head and I traveled with
zacher many times and I have to tell you
he can really do that any time but this
is not my subject when I was studying it
I came to realize that there was a book
called Strong's Concordance of the
Bible my father had a copy so I would
sit there it's big it's a very big book
and I would go through and look for
these
words and then it will tell you in K
Greek what's the root what it comes from
and what it's Rel related to and where
it's in the Bible and then all of a
sudden I started discovering something
really
big there's a whole lot of
interpolation because if you look over
here the same exact word means one thing
but over here it means something
else and then statements that people say
about the Bible are not true
if I quote to you from what we have in
the Quran I can quote it to you in the
Arabic
language but how many people do you know
that can quote the Bible in the original
Aramaic of the New Testament or ancient
Hebrew of the Old Testament not very
many people right but I want you to look
while you're standing right there
Gabriel look around this room right here
now I I don't know most of these people
some of them know me from TV or
something like that but they don't
really know me
but if I open this book on any page and
I start quoting out of this thing
believe it or not they will know if I'm
making mistakes there'll be somebody in
this room that can tell you no that's a
mistake you said it wrong but I'm just
going to go to the first
page there we go this is the first
page hold it so the cameras can get a
shot all guys all
right what's the first letter first
letter in the first page anybody know
tell us
ba everybody knows it's
ba so what's the
word this this is Arabic and keep keep
in mind this is the English program
we're doing I'm speaking some form of
English right now right yeah
okay next words
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rman a mean you don't have to say I mean
except in the slot but you know
anyway now you could say Gabriel oh oh
well I mean you know that could be a
rehearsal thing that people do every day
and guess what you'd be right you're
right we do say that we say it every day
five times a day we pray but there are a
total of 17 times we say it so you could
say ah they just know that but by the
way how about if I mispronounce
something would they catch it
oops
huh
huh oo yeah Al him
huh actually it's both because there is
another pronunciation but the common one
now I want to go to the other side
though I'm going to go to the back I'll
go to the
back that was the front this is the back
Allah that's in the
Bible
whoops how about the middle it's not
actually dead middle okay but it's close
to the middle
Ina how about that that's chapter 3
verse 19 by the
way that's chapter 3
verse
110 now what I'm showing you
is that we know this in Arabic
every Muslim on the
earth knows this book in the Arabic
language that's
1.6 billion know that it's in Arabic and
we have some of it memorized and all of
us know it's only in
Arabic no wait this is where it gets
good how many in this room you know
somebody who memorized the whole entire
Quran cover to cover raise your hand
in Arabic you you met somebody you know
somebody somebody in your family raise
your
hand I did this in a university in the
United States I said now for the
Christians raise your hand if you ever
met anybody in your life who memorized
the whole Bible in Hebrew and con Greek
and they just went what is that the
language my point is not to put down the
Bible
my point is to put down the people who
lie about
it because the more I studied the Hebrew
and the K Greek the more I began to
realize that what I was learning from
the Quran in English I was reading
English youf Ali you
remember it was the same
thing especially the one I read to you
just now and they helped me
with listen to this yes I'm going to
give you a translation of of
scripture God is not a
man and God is not the son of
man is this in the
Quran is it in the Quran
yes but I didn't quote it from the
Quran I quoted it from the
Bible that's in the Book of Numbers 23:
19
God is not a man that he should sin and
God is not the son of man that he'll
repent and when I read that I said now
wait a minute if it says here that God
is not a son of man then how is it in
the New Testament it's saying Jesus is
son of man how could he be a God I took
it to one of my preacher friends and I
said hey look at this what are you say
about this you know what he
said he said that's a big S son of man
the other one's a little s son of
man now I I think I think you already
know as most the audience knows there's
no such thing as upper and lowercase
letters in Aramaic Hebrew or
Arabic it means they lied again and then
another subject another subject saying
Islam spread by the sword Islam spread
by the sword I heard so many preachers
telling me get away from these Muslims
Islam spread by the sword
sword 604 Pages 114 chapters
6,666 verses depending on how you count
them up guess
what and many words in Arabic for swords
say
muhamed ham I think 16 words for sword
guess how many times I found the any of
those words in the Arabic
zero not
once in the Bible
just the word
sword over 200
times
oops wait you ask me I'm just telling
you so when I take my Bible to the
preacher and I said excuse me it says
here that Jesus
said I did not come with peace I came
with a
sword and it's time to sell your coat
and buy a sword what did that
mean you know what he said listen to
this you'll never believe how people can
lie he said don't you know this was done
in Italy where they transcribed this
stuff the Latin you know it was in Italy
Rome is in Italy don't you know that I
said yeah he said and they would work by
candlelight at night and it was hard to
see yeah and while they were trying to
translate you know put this down in the
Latin language language you know what
happened they were eating spaghetti
Italians they like spaghetti and
spaghetti fell down and it was made a s
it was word it wasn't sword it was
word he said I came with a
word now you know what's wrong with
that the word for
word in K Greek is
logos now how did they turn
logos into sword by dropping spaghetti
on
it and here excuse me but what does it
mean sell your coat and buy a
word what is it a game show on TV I'd
like to buy that word right there for
$100 please what is
this and the more I talk to them the
more I could see lie after lie after lie
and finally I said you know what I don't
need to be in a religion full of liars
but it didn't convince me about Islam
yet where I got convinced about Islam is
over a separate subject and then the
Quran and the Bible backed it
up right there buddy in the heart
because nobody can play with your heart
that's yours you own it it's yours you
can do whatever you want with it it is
yours right yes that's the one thing
nobody can imprison they can lock me in
a prison put me in a box throw me in the
ocean but they can't control this that's
mine that's yours you own it so if you
get inside of that heart like I did and
clean it out and throw all the trash and
the garbage out of there throw the lies
out of there the misconceptions of
prejudice and just give it all up and
say you know what I belong to God I just
belong to God God guide me and that's
what I did and when I did that I had
this strange impression I need to put my
head on the ground and so I did that
[Applause]
and with my head on the
ground I said these words
Gabriel oh
God if you're
there guide
me and when I got up I realized
something
I'm the one with the
problem the world's not the problem I
was the problem and from that day to
this day 19 years I'm saying the same
thing every day 17 times a
day guide us to the straight path Adena
Surat musim guide us to the straight
path and I'm going to tell you something
I'm not psychic we don't believe in
psychics and magic and all that stuff we
don't but I'm going to tell you
something I and and now you you brothers
and sisters are going to see something
strange because Gabriel and I never met
that we're not setting this up what he
doesn't even know what I'm going to
say but Gabriel you've been praying in
your heart asking God to guide you or
you wouldn't be standing there right now
is that true or false that is true there
you go there's your verification he said
that's true
and I know it because I've been through
this again and again and again thousands
of people I watch come to Islam again
and again just like Gabriel they're
looking for truth they're not looking
for Islam they're not looking for the
Quran they're just looking for truth
real truth and because there's only one
God and only one way to get to God it
has to be on his terms and there's only
one way and we said it
in
Islam the only thing Allah wants from
you is this simple thing your heart it's
what he wants give him your
heart and everything else will be fine
and how you do that I'm going to give
you five words in the English language
they have to be all at the same time
surrender
submission
obedience
sincerity and
peace do you want those things in your
life yes so I do too everybody in this
room wants wants those things all at the
same time though
surrender submission obedience to his
Commandments you know the Ten
Commandments we got the same thing it's
the same thing it's not a new religion
and then sincerity to be sincere no lies
no showing off no RI for Allah only and
finally to be in peace with whatever he
gives you say okay thank you even if you
like it thank you if you don't like it
thank you anyway because it's from him
be in peace with it this word in Arabic
is one takes five words in English you
know what the word is in Arabic no
Islam Islam really that's the
[Applause]
[Music]
word
e
e e
thing I just ask him privately I'm just
going to ask again just confirm that you
believe that God is really only one God
I do believe there is only one God so
now say after me I swear I swear there's
no God to worship except a law there is
no God to worship except Allah and I
swear and I swear that Muhammad is his
prophet that Muhammad is is his
Prophet now this next part is Arabic it
means the same thing but when you say it
you're going to be saying the language
that God sent it down in the same
language similar to Jesus and Abraham
and Muhammad you ready I'll help you
okay Ash hadu
asua
illu
Muhammad
muhad
[Applause]
perfect how did I do that
now we have some I have some books that
I want to give you and you you have to
you take care come to the program have
this bring back take care
of my
gu mashallah this is exactly what Islam
is once you present the
truth the truth is accepted
shall we take the next question from the
sister's side and preferably if we have
non-muslim guests here then we would
like to have a question from the
sister's side from non-muslim sister
please while we're getting the question
up I I wanted to say something to you I
want you to listen carefully
Gabriel has just entered Islam a lot of
us need to do the same
thing and you know what I meant by that
we have Muslim names but do we really
really put it into
practice my new brother and I were just
crying holding each other and I was
reliving the experience of 19 years ago
and I needed somebody to hold me then
and cry with me because what's happening
the reason we cry you don't know this we
do cuz we feel this rahma of Allah the
mercy of Allah coming over us which is
washing Away The Sins since the day we
were born it's the message Jesus
preached it's the message John the
Baptist preached it's the message that
Muhammad Salam preached that if you
accept God as the one and only savior
all your sins are forgiven and you're
newborn just like you came out of your
mother this man Jael Gabriel has no sins
at all he is pure in front of Allah his
prayers are being accepted right now
whatever he prays for and Gabriel I'm
going to ask you with me right now will
pray with me just say a mean I say Allah
oh
Allah give hi to Usef as this say amen
amen and for all of us amen I was
collecting my commission check up
front Okay now one other thing do we
have anybody else who is with us that's
not Muslim anybody else today not a
Muslim raise your
handum uh brother there's a sister here
who's a non-muslim her name is sa and
she wants to take shahada today
inshallah she made up her
mind
allahar okay because we like to give
special privacy and consideration to the
sisters I'm not going to go back there
I'll do it from here okay yes brother
but go slow because she's very nervous
and shy she wants you to just say slowly
she will inshallah repeat after
you I
swear I swear there's no God to worship
there's no God to worship except Allah
except Allah and I
swear and he s Muhammad is his message
messenger Muhammad is his messenger
Allah now we'll do the Arabic real slow
Ashu Ashu
an an
Ela
ill Allah
Allahu as Muhammad Al Muhammad
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Allah brother Yu I would like to tell
you that she has chosen a name for
herself she wants to be called Aisha
Aisha yes that's my daughter's name
Allah
abbar you know what when I was in
Germany with uh our brothers
there they brought one up on the stage
and he made Shahara and then another one
came on the stage and each time I would
say is there anybody else is there
anybody else you know and they keep
coming yes there is another one here
Allah Subhan Allah Subhan
[Applause]
Allah Allah what's your name honey her
name is honey and she wants to also take
shahada inshallah allahar
okay just repeat after me sister okay I
swear I swear there's no God to worship
there's no God to worship except one God
except one God Allah Allah and I swear
and I swear Muhammad is his messenger
Muhammad is the messenger
okay now the Arabic if you say it slow
after me it'll be easy for you ready
okay
Ashu Muhammad
[Applause]
[Music]
allahar I was telling you what happened
in Germany I kept saying who's next
Who's Next and they would when we were
finished they would say okay let's go I
said no no ask who's next finally
because almost everybody there is not
Muslim I said who in the audience would
like to be a Muslim and they all stood
up
1,250 people took Shahar all at the same
time
[Applause]
Allah
and just like
today and since the time of our R sallam
it has never been by us it's been by
Allah
Allah is the one who guides not
me not you not even Muhammad s alhi
wasallam because
because the prophet Sall alaihi wasallam
wants his uncle AB
talb to accept
Islam and he
didn't and what did Allah say he's
talking to rol but he's talking to us
too
verily you do not guide the one you
love rather it is Allah who guides to
his straight path today you and I have
witnessed three people enter into this
Guidance the guidance of Allah while we
were talking about his Habib
theam what a beautiful gift that Allah
let us be a part of to see it
because whoever is in such a jam as
this inshallah is also receiving the Rah
the M of Allah as
well so this is more important for us
than anything else because this is the
Salvation is there time for any more
questions he's saying time out either
that he wants me to play a soccer game
with him I'm not
sure do you know something I wish right
now I could hug all of you really well
I'm hugging you get
ready cuz I love all of you so much
Gabriel you'll be with me later they're
going to bring you back to where we're
going to be we'll talk some more I have
some things to give you the sisters
please also bring the sisters over to
the same place so that they can we can
visit with them we need to to give them
something you you understand what I
said but another alikum sorry brother
again there is another one Subhan Allah
we very lucky
[Applause]
to okay