alhamdulillah greetings of Peace asalam
Amir how are you little here of the part
of the ask a Muslim and you're meeting a
Muslim and you actually at one point you
weren't a Muslim and you became a Muslim
and we want people to we want to
encourage people to reflect to think
what's the purpose of life when we're
only here for a short amount of time and
playing all those video games and
partying and playing and you know
wasting time is not answering the
question and when death comes it's too
late it's bye-bye and then you're going
to be stuck you know you wake up if
you're not a if you're not waking up now
at that point it's too late you woke up
woke up you woke up actually you started
to research you from a Christian
background and then you became an
agnostic and we see this a lot people
going through every Walk of Life every
way of life and then you know they get
fed up with these man-made ideas and
religions and and then they come to the
way that's from the Creator Islam uh you
were no exception what happened um you
know I mean it it it take a longer than
the time we have but pretty much I was
raised Christian for about 20 years of
my life and um I got to the point at the
age of 14 I started asking a lot of
questions you know to my pastor doesn't
make sense how is Jesus Son of God if he
really is a son how can God allow his
son to go through this pain and torture
you know I would give my life for my son
and protect my son how could God do this
and you know they used to tell me you're
too young it's really deep it's a lot of
information and as I got older the
questions became tougher and they just
you know couldn't answer them um so then
around 1819 God Almighty made something
happen in my life that my father you
know came back into it and uh into into
my life and started tell me about Islam
and I told him I'm not going to be
Muslim just cuz you're Muslim I have to
do my own research so your mother was
Christian your father was Muslim Muslim
yeah yeah um and um so my father you
know I told him I'm not going to be
Muslim just cuz you're a Muslim and
that's what I recommend for everybody
they have to do their own research you
know just because your father or your
mother is a certain religion doesn't
mean you have to be that way um you know
you should be you God Almighty gave you
a brain and intellectually you have to
do your own research because at the end
of the day on the day of judgment no one
will be with you on the day of judgment
it'll be you and God oneon-one your
pastor your father your mother your
grandmother no one will be able to
protect you and uh it's really important
to read about it yourself do your own
research ask a mlim about Islam and
that's what I did you know I did
research about every religion actually
like Buddhism Hinduism um you know Islam
Christianity you know Judaism and at the
end of the day Islam makes 100% common
sense and it's it's really answered all
my questions that I had as a Christian
so it was uh really really riveting and
amazing you have a hard time sometimes
many of the challenges people face by
trying to just you know imitate the way
of Jesus Moses Abraham becomes you know
kind of uh opposite to the culture today
you get you have more of a a easy time
fitting in if you're following Lady gaga
googoo 50 cents and Jay-Z it's all good
but if you want to imitate the best of
creation Jesus Moses Abraham Muhammad
peace and blessing upon Prophet Muhammad
then it's a problem you know what I mean
so you get a beard you know uh you look
like a Muslim and you look like Jesus
and people start calling you oh this
terrorist right uh how do you have you
have you dealt with this at all and how
do you deal with it yeah for sure for
sure I mean especially in this Society
in this environment um for the first
maybe I mean I've been Muslim for about
10 years first seven years six seven
years I wasn't really practicing like
practicing practicing uh just because
you know Society you know Society is it
pulls you away from consciousness of God
and and wanting to get closer to God and
who is he and finding out more and
worshiping him the way you're supposed
to you know like you said they're into
Lady Gaga and and clubs and music and
the devil's doing really really good job
you know of pulling people away from God
but um once you find that that that
whole once you get you know you you you
grab the Rope of Allah as he says you
know the rope that will never
deteriorate uh it really brings you in
and um knowledge is the best thing to
bring somebody closer to Allah you know
that's why the Scholars fear Allah the
most cuz they have the most knowledge
you know they they know what's going on
um and it's it's tough but once you once
you once I would never go back to what
what I used to be ever I mean I tell
people all the time you know they're
like oh you know even some of my Muslim
family members are like come on man just
you know trim the beard a little bit you
know it's a little little extreme I tell
him I don't care if you give me
everything in the world I'll never touch
my beard you put a suitcase in front of
me million dollars 20 30 hundred million
I'll never touch it because between
between me and Allah that's you know
that that that's between me and God the
almighty Creator so I would never give
anything up to go back to how I used to
be I'm very happy that that God has
guided me to where I am now in my life
what would you say when people try to
attribute extremism or radicalism or
terrorism to Islam what do you usually
tell them I'll tell them look into the
look into the Quran you know just read
about it you know I mean we we greet
each other with peace you know we sayum
may peace be unto you and you know the
other person sayum and upon you may may
be peace I mean it's a it's a peaceful
religion you know I mean of course we
stand up for our rights we defend our
family if we have to we defend ourselves
if we have to if it comes to it but I
mean the prophet was a prophet of Mercy
peace be upon Him Allah tells us the
almighty creator that on his throne he
said my my my Mercy comes before my
anger so before he gets angry his Mercy
comes first which is he wants us to be
merciful and uh Islam is I mean is far
far from terrorism or or or violence um
outside of what is mandated it's it's
it's nothing near anything of that
nature compared to how you were living
back then you said you would never go
back to that lifestyle what kind of
Lifestyle was that that you would never
go back to an empty lifestyle my heart
was empty uh and this is why you see
suicidal rates going up this is why you
see these rich people these Millionaires
and these rappers and these artists at
the end of the day in their hearts
they're empty their hearts are are
nowhere happy nowhere near being happy
Islam is the true happiness if you are
connected with your creator this is the
most important thing so I wasn't
connected with my Creator back in the
day now I'm connected with him we pray
five times a day revives that feeling of
being connected it it it really uh it
really uh helps you go on with your day
and um it's a beautiful feeling I would
never give that feeling up because uh
once you're not connected with the
Creator life becomes useless and
pointless yeah we see that a lot I mean
every 14 seconds somebody is committing
suicide and for one person that commits
suicide there's 25 that have tried and
it's a growing epidemic between teens
from 15 years of age to 24 so you're
dead on I mean this is something people
on Xanax on Prozac on all sorts of drugs
but they living in nice nicest houses
and actually do you know you know what
the um the day on which suicide is
committed the most is on you guess
holiday Monday Monday guess why you know
they partying you're kicking it on the
weekend think your problem's going to go
away but you come back to them even
stronger when The Hangover is off right
wow work right yeah it's uh it's amazing
and then uh but you those suicidal
tendency I mean obviously depression
could hit anybody but you don't when you
have Islam you don't fall into despair
you know what I mean there's always hope
you follow me there's the Forgiveness of
God the mercy of God you live in purpose
you know purpose instead of just living
for your lust and desires and and and
now when when you say that uh I mean
most people who are out there there if
they're Tuning In For the First Time who
are bankrupt in the soul I mean they can
get rich in the heart by by doing what
what was the simple things that you have
to do to become a Muslim I mean it's
easy I mean um like I said a lot of the
questions that I had as a Christian were
answered as a Muslim you know who is
Jesus what is his relationship to God
may peace be upon him um you know so
this realizing that he can only be a
prophet and mighty messenger of God um
and that he is only a creation of God he
cannot linked to the Creator he is not a
Creator he's not part of the Creator uh
he is a part of the creation so that
accepting that is the first thing and
then after that understanding uh you
know looking at the Quran the Quran is a
miraculous book that was impossible for
this man named Prophet Muhammad PE upon
Him 1,400 years ago to have come up with
this book by himself it's just it's
literally impossible especially because
he was illiterate and then you compare
the Bible the Quran there are many
things in the in the Bible that point to
Islam you know where Jesus Christ Fe
upon was asked in the Bible what is the
most important commandment he said
Worship the Lord Our God the Lord is one
if you ask any Muslim this is what we
believe in to Worship the Lord Our God
he's one you know it's simple and it's
the same message that Muhammad pach upon
Him taught scientific miracles in the
Quran impossible for him to have known
mountains having roots in the ground
universe is continuously growing
expanding and so on and so forth there's
many many miracles that is impos and
that's what actually pulled me to Islam
scientific Miracles or facts in the
Quran stated by Prophet Muhammad P upon
Him 1,400 years ago this is what pulled
me in I told myself when I read this
book I was like you know I remember
still reading it like it was yesterday
read this book and it talks about the
brief Illustrated guide very powerful
book and when it said that goes over the
embryonic development in the in the
mother's womb I open up the Quran to the
chapters that it was stating and I was
really reading it in the book I didn't
believe that it was really in a book I
was reading it and I was like wow this
is really in the book so I kept going
through the book and at the end of the
book I said this is impossible it's
impossible for this man to have known
all these things with the little
technology that they had 1,400 years ago
I mean cars were just invented a 100
years ago so I mean it's impossible I
mean it just makes sense you put all
that other superficial stuff to the side
you know maybe you're on your V you're
on the VIP list you're about to get into
the nightclub you're going to a social
event that party and just party and play
and many people they just asleep but
anyone who who really you know seeks for
more what you're saying it makes sense
or what else you just turn to dust you
die and that's it we we're going
somewhere and ignoring the fact how do
you do you have do you see this new
growing Trend with this whole new
atheism movement cuz you said you became
an agnostic now what do you say to
someone who's suffering with that
dilemma I mean atheism I think is just a
kind of like sort of a cop out you know
because any atheist I really want them
to deeply think about their shoes about
their the roof on their house about
their watch on their hands even the ring
on their fingers every single thing
that's created has a purpose and we are
much more higher degree of of of of
Technology if you would if you would of
a creation that has to have a purpose
you know the shoes protect your feet the
roof protects you from the rain the ring
symbolizes that you're married the watch
tells you the time what about us what's
our purpose you know if you for you to
just say oh my purpose is to live a good
life well then you're missing out on the
bigger purpose of that yes it is but our
purpose in Islam is to identify that
there's a Creator and to worship him to
be gr to be grateful for everything that
he's given us um and to love him with
all our heart and to work hard to try to
get into Paradise uh through his mercy
of course but also through our actions
uh proving to him that we truly believe
and love him so I would tell the
atheists read the Quran it is not
possible for a person to open up the
Quran with an open heart and be asking
God to guide them to the truth and they
read the whole Quran and they still
don't believe in it I mean it's just
it's just not possible the Quran is
filled with so many things that just
pull you in and make you understand that
that it has to be the truth it has to be
the truth I like that it's a cop out
because I mean who you kidding everybody
believes in the Creator it just doesn't
make sense that you don't because you're
just covering this up they did a a poll
of research study from the Oxford
University and this is science now they
did uh
57 researchers 20 different 22 different
studies 40 different countries and they
concluded that belief in the Creator is
something natural disbelief is acquired
you got to work to cover it up the fitra
what we have inside of us that innate
nature to to believe and Common Sense
arguments look at your shoes look at
your socks look at your house ring
everything has a purpose but the human
being doesn't have purpose that doesn't
make sense that's a copout you know
there's a Creator and Islam makes the
most sense because it's calling you to
only worship the Creator and if you have
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we've already had some shahad through
this um but you know I mean this is what
Muslims are supposed to do we're
supposed to take care of the community
you know we're supposed to take care of
those who are in need and Allah says you
know like he he leves those who care for
others you know it's not just me me me
me me it's about us it's about how we
work together as a community so
alhamdulillah one of the brothers you
know we got a a food pantry now started
the first one in Columbus Ohio by
Muslims and uh it's going it's going
amazing it's growing a lot it's it's
beautiful thank you so much exactly what
it said iPhone iMac I me me me me no no
no it's about we it's about us as a
community growing giving back and that's
what the Muslims are doing the Muslim is
one who simply submits to the Creator
not the creation thank you for being
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