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alhamdulillah alaykum which means peace
be unto you welcome to another episode
of the dean show which is a way of life
we try to put out there for everyone to
see helping you understand Islam and
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is going to talk about his experience
before Islam and then why he chose to
enter Islam so I'm sure you're you're
eager to hear his story let's bring him
out without further
delay's only one muham is his messenger
Allah green
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Jus thank you for being with us
pleasure so why Islam you got
Christianity you got Buddhism this ISM
you got things blowing up over here
people associating Islam with everything
bad if you go to a social event you
might not get invited again if you're a
Muslim why
Islam well if um you're the sort of
person who cares about stuff like that
uh um then I don't think it would really
matter what I
say um because what is important is the
truth not the consequences of accepting
the truth uh the truth is something that
is virtuous in and of itself and and for
me the simple uh the simple answer to
your question is that why Islam Islam
the reason is because it's the truth
it's it the Quran is the word of God and
Muhammad is the final messenger of God
uh and this is the way of life that God
has ordained for the benefit and for the
mercy of all the human
beings and that's why Sam brro concise
to the point and it's simple you want to
know that you you found out what the
truth is and you submitted to it you
didn't care what people are thinking
what they're going to say you were
sincere and you came to it that's
correct yeah that that's about it really
now I'm sure you've told this story a
lot of times several times but for
people who never heard this story and
now they're getting to hear it for the
first time and they Wonder okay what led
you to this before what kind of Life did
you leave before were you were a
Christian what did you believe oh I'm
I'm first of all a bit about my
background background yes sir um I come
from what we what we would call in
England an upper middle class family
England is a lot more
of you know England has a sort of strata
of
classes maybe a lot more than for
example the United States of America
have like a butler and servant stuff
like no no I don't mean like that but I
mean you have the aristocracy right
which is the queen and the relatives of
the queen and the landed gentry and
people like that so you have the
aristocracy and then you have the upper
classes who are you know in one way or
another connected with with the
aristocracy it's not just about wealth
you know it's also about you know it's
also so I to do I suppose it's also to
do with culture it's to do with you know
what you might call breeding background
there a lot of things that come into
into that so
um you know I mean for example my my my
father was a colonial administrator in
the British Empire I was born in
Tanzania he was born in Singapore my
great-grandfather was a high court judge
in
Bombay um so we have this colonial
background uh um and anyway so that's
the sort of background that I come from
I was sent to a Roman Catholic monastic
boarding school which is basically a
school that was run by monks my mother
because she's
polish um she wanted me and my brother
to be brought up as
Catholics um so she sent us to this very
well-known uh boarding school in UK we
call private schools Public Schools mhm
okay private schools are called public
schools and public schools are called
government schools are comprehensives
gotcha so when someone says I went to
public school it means they actually
went to the private school mhm I'm not
quite sure why that is because um in
when schools started the only schools
were the private schools or it may be
that they were the public schools but
because they're so old and they're so
part of the institution and they became
the private schools but that's anyway so
I went to this Roman Catholic monastic
school it's a public school as I said uh
very well
known
um and because the because it was a
monastic School run by benedic mon monks
the the whole religious ethos of the
school was quite strong um so in that
sense I had a quite religious as you
could say
upbringing um you know we had a lot of
you know Bible studies Christian history
studies and so on and so forth but for
me I had some deep questions about
Christianity um you know amongst the
first questions that I ever started
thinking in my head was you know the
Catholics have a prayer called Hail Mary
yeah and you know Hail Mary Mother of
God blessed art thou amongst women and I
thought
well how does God have a mother
M you know God's not supposed to have
any beginning or end how how can you you
know how can God have a mummy yeah you
know what is that supposed to mean you
know a mummy yeah a mummy like is a mom
you know a m a you know Mama whatever
and um you know it's it just didn't make
any sense MH and I thought you know as a
little kid I was thinking well if God
has a mom then you know this mom must be
a bigger God than God mhm right I mean
this is how you try you know cuz you
don't think that as a kid people are
teaching you
falsehood right you you tend to trust
the people around you and you tend to
trust what the society is telling you
and so these questions come to your head
but you trying to find an explanation
for it yourself because at the end of
the day you know you know you trust your
environment that's what you tend to do
but I guess if these questions are often
enough and they're p consistant enough
and they're deep enough and they're
confusing enough you ain't you're not
going to be able to ignore those
questions and so that's how it was for
me and I have to say it was a sort of
dual thing it wasn't only me questioning
the religious aspect of for example you
know what does it mean Mary's the mother
of God why do I have to go and confess
my sins to a priest why can't I just ask
God to forgive me um you know what is
this Trinity how can what what how can
God be one and be three at the same same
time I mean what is that all about um it
wasn't only that it was
also it was also the whole materialistic
philosophy the whole idea that you know
the purpose of life was to make as much
money as possible to have a good job and
you know to have a to get a good degree
you get a good jobs you got a nice car
you got a nice house you know and that
was the purpose of life was that
supposed to be the reason for our
existence just didn't seem to to me that
that's that's all that there was to life
there must be something more and so then
I started to begin to look into
different religions uh and different
philosophies and and and you know
Buddhism for example I I studied
Buddhism for a
while um so that was how my sort of
search began through different religions
and different ideologies and you know I
was trying to find the truth now did you
have or did you feel did you feel you
had a connection with Jesus now CU you
said that you left off uh to go study
Buddhism but so at that point you were
done with
Christianity it wasn't that simple uhhuh
um or you just inquiring you're
inquisitive and you were out there you
wanted to just compare I mean first of
all Buddhism yeah
um you know some people would argue that
Buddhism is not a religion it's a
philosophy and you could follow any
religion and be a Buddhist at the same
time yeah um because Buddhism doesn't
really deal with whether there's a God
or not um at least certain aspects
Buddha says that you know you should
find your own path to Salvation and and
so if it helps you to take something
from this religion or that religion and
you know then you can do that it's like
a buffet now well I think it certainly
no it does I mean to be fair it has some
core principles Buddha lays down some
core principles but um as core
principles you you know you I suppose
they could fit into Many religious
Traditions um but anyway generally by
and large we could say that Buddhism is
considered to be you know a religion in
and of its own right but I mean although
Buddhism never deals with the issue of
God I never stopped believing in God
while I was a Buddhist yeah you know I
was practicing yoga
I was trying to apply you know the
principles of the e-fold and Li and path
of Buddha um you know I was I was you
know practicing meditation and so on and
so forth I I sort of tried to adopt a
form of vegetarianism so there were
certain things that I was trying to
adopt um and I found that Buddhism to be
honest was you know what it it did have
a positive effect on me it had a very uh
you know did have a positive effect on
me but at the end of the day it still
wasn't answering the fundamental
questions why are we here what's the
purpose of life what's the reason for
our existence you see Buddha teaches
that life is
suffering and although there is
suffering in life you couldn't say that
life is
suffering and so if if your whole
philosophy is based upon something
that's really not true because this is
what he says life is suffering and the
suffering in life is caused by the ego
it's caused by the self mhm so what he
teaches is that you need to annihilate
the self this is what Nana Nana doesn't
mean you know Bliss or Paradise it means
Annihilation self Annihilation that you
annihilate your ego you you annihilate
yourself
um which if you take it to a certain you
know extreme it sort of means that you
almost become lifeless you
become I mean they would look at this as
a virtue I mean it's very hard for us to
understand in the west because we have
in the west The Cult of the individual
you know the individual is so important
and character and personality and that's
driven into us about having character
about having personality but in buddhis
in Buddhism the idea that everyone's
just the same and everyone is just you
know it's not it's a virtue because your
ego is destroyed it's not about you
anymore um
however
um I I wasn't really convinced by this
um as I said already I wasn't really
convinced that life was suffering no
doubt there was suffering in life and
nor was I really convinced that all the
suffering in life is caused by the ego
is it really necessary to annihilate the
ego or is it actually the problems in
life are they because we don't control
our ego in other words the ego is good
its core is good what is bad is that
when we take it Beyond certain bounds
this is ultimately what Islam is
teaching yeah Islam teaches us to
purify our NS which is the Arabic word
for self your ego it's about
purification of the self it's about
controlling the nffs the nffs is like a
horse in fact the NS is essential it's
it's your nffs your that makes you feel
hungry and thirsty and and and makes you
want to love and and so these passions
are not in and of themselves bad it's
only when we allow them to control us
rather than us controlling them that's
the issue that's when it becomes a
problem you see but anyway Buddhism was
working to a certain extent but I still
didn't find satisfactory answers in it
and then I began to look through you
know everything I could and that's
that's when I reached this shopping
market you know the supermarket stage
you I was taking a bit of this and a bit
of that mixing it all together you know
and I actually invented my own religion
my own religion which was sort of
mixture of Christianity and Buddhism and
Hinduism and you know and psychosomatic
yoga and and magic and you know whatever
I read about and studied and philosophy
and you know I just put it together MH
in the self-made
religion um and that was the worst
of all the experiences you know
spiritual experiences i' had that was
the worst and I realized that um I got
to the stage when I thought you maybe
there is no religious truth maybe there
is no big answer maybe there is nothing
more to life than having
money and being rich maybe my problem
was that it was that I didn't have
enough money I wasn't Rich
enough so I started thinking to myself
who are the richest people in the
world who have done the least amount of
effort in order to get their money
because that's what I thought if I want
to enjoy my
life I need maximum money and minimum
effort yeah all right so I started
thinking and I thought about the British
and the Industrial Revolution I thought
too much hard work Americans they're
rich but you know the American dream is
you know you dig yourself out of the G
got her and you you become a self-made
millionaire and that's way too much hard
work the
Japanese back in those days they were
famous that's all they did Japanese just
work they didn't do anything else except
work so I thought no and then it came to
me I thought wait a minute those Saudi
Arabians have been sitting on their
camels for I don't know 1,000 however
many years going Allah abbar and they
got all this money I said that sounds
good no work lots of money I said well I
started thinking what's there okay yeah
what's their religion what's their book
what's the oh yeah the Quran and that is
what made me go down and pick up a copy
of the Quran went to the book shop
picked up translation of the Quran and
started reading it and starting studying
it and then reading it and then
rereading it and it's it's not an easy
book to read it's not like you know a
novel or it's not even like the Bible
begins in the beginning and ends at the
end or whatever it's not like that it's
a very different type of book
but I wanted to understand what it had
to say I wasn't content just to read it
I wanted to understand what it had to
say to me and then it it hit me I
realized that if I had ever read a book
that was from God this was it from all
the books I had read all the religions I
had studied if there was one that was
true this was the True Religion this was
the true book this is the one that was
from God um I guess in in a in a real
sense that's when I became Muslim that's
when I accepted the core of what Islam
is teaching that there is one God and
that the Quran is the word of God and
that Muhammad is the messenger of God
now before we go into that area of Islam
let's just reverse again and tell us you
mentioned Mary you couldn't grasp that
she God had a mother but what about now
that God was a man or that he had a son
or that Jesus died for your sins how can
you elaborate on this a little bit well
I think all of those things at the end
of the day you know we
naturally human
beings understand that God is
transcendent God is not like anything in
this
universe God is infinite God is eternal
God is
self-sufficient what does it mean then
to say that the infinite became finite
the
Eternal became
temporary the self-sufficient became
needy and still stayed Eternal and
infinite and self-sufficient it doesn't
mean something can't be Eternal and
temporary both at the same time it's an
impossibility it's not a paradox it's
not something that seems to be a
contradiction but isn't really it is a
contradiction it's the very definition
of contradiction and of course from the
Islam point of view every single Prophet
came to warn people away from making God
like the creation or imagining that the
creation was like God this is the
message of all the prophets that God is
one God is not like any created thing
that's why the first Commandments okay
the first commandment thou shall love
the Lord your God right and you should
love him and worship God but the second
is you shall not make any Graven image
of anything in the heavens and on the
earth and you shall not bow down and you
shall not worship them in fact that's
two Commandments the first commandment
is the prohibition of making any grave
an image of any living
creature that's in the Bible it's the
second commandment and then it says and
you shall not worship them so here it is
very clearly that nothing in the heavens
or in the earth is God nothing in the
heavens or on the earth should be
worshiped because God is not a created
thing God is not a man it actually says
that in the Bible in Hosea it says for I
am God not
man so this is a blatant contradiction
it contradicts the message of all the
prophets it contradicts reason it
contradicts common
sense
um and it actually supports the idolatry
that all the prophets had been fighting
against since the beginning of time so
the claim that Jesus is God or that he
is God incarnate or or that he is a co-
equal with God or he is part of God any
claim that a human being is equal to God
is an insult to God it is disbelief in
God it is making the one who is great
like something
insignificant God Is Not a Human Being
that's very clear and very obvious so
then who is Jesus and did whose sins did
he die for Jesus is a prophet of God and
Jesus didn't die he didn't die for
anyone soon I mean again that the idea
that you know the
idea that God needed I mean there is a
straight
away something that you cannot attribute
to God you can't say God needed to do
something but Christians say God needed
to sacrifice Jesus in order to be able
to give forgive human beings for their
sins God doesn't need to do anything God
just needs to say be an is if God wants
to forgive your sins he can forgive your
sins why does someone need to die all
you need to do if you want your sins
forgiven is to call upon God to believe
that God is one not to make any Partners
or equals with God from anything in this
creation whether it's Jesus or anyone
else and ask God Alone to forgive you
for your sins and if you're sincere and
you mean it and you feel bad about what
you've done and you really commit
yourself not to repeat that sin again
not only will God forgive you but God
will give you good deeds s nearly as
great as the evils you did to replace it
now that's the mercy of God that's God's
forgiveness simple simple understand
it's so simple no one needs to die on
the cross No sacrifice needs to be made
and this claim that God cannot forgive
sins without sacrifice you know that's
not true God can forgive sins with
sacrifice or without sacrifice if you
you know in Islam we have sacrifices in
Judaism you have sacrifice but actually
both Muslims and Jews do not believe
that sacrifice is a condition an
absolute condition for God's forgiveness
even if I'm not able to sacrifice or
even if I don't make sacrifice I can
still repent to God and get God's
forgiveness without that sacrifice so um
the idea that somehow God needs the
sacrifice and and you know in order to
be you know it's just it just doesn't
make any sense and and and sorry for
another point of view is what does it
mean that someone else is being
punished for your
sins I mean if if I go if I have some
kids right and this kid you know kid
number eight does something bad right so
I take my I take one of my other kids
and stick them on a cross and crucify
them and say that's so I can forgive you
for the bad thing you've done what sort
of nonsense is that anyone who said that
would say that person is an evil Tyrant
okay because you punish the guilty the
people who should be punished are the
peoples who committed the crime not a
perfectly innocent human being is it
right to punish an innocent human being
for the sins not at all no okay so and
then what does it mean to say that
because Adam ate from the tree I'm
punished you're punished everybody's
punished I didn't eat from the tree did
you eat from the tree not at all so why
should I be punished and you be punish
for something that you or me never did
does that make any sense either not at
all well you know I'm not saying that
God couldn't do that if he wanted to but
we couldn't say that the person or the
one or the being that did that is just
it doesn't fit the description of
Justice not at all you not at all so I I
don't think we can I think it's actually
how can anyone attribute such a theology
to the creator of the heavens and the
Earth and then label this as God's love
right is I'm sorry to say it's just you
know it's absurd it's absurd so you
passed through this that innate nature
that you have inside rejected it you
didn't get dogmatized and somebody
drilling this in your head yeah I did I
was dogmatized but you got I was drilled
in my head but I have to say you know
fortunately someone did sit down with me
and uh and had a really good
conversation with me and exactly about
these things about the Trinity about all
of this stuff that we've been talking
about and he was a Muslim
and he start he wasn't being aggressive
he wasn't being rude he was being
perfectly polite and uh at the end of
this conversation he said to me so you
believe Jesus Is God I said yeah and he
said and you believe that Jesus died on
the cross for your sins I said yeah he
said so you believe God
died and it's
like you know the lights went on the
penny dropped you know it was just
a moment where I just suddenly realized
that everything I had been taught as a
Christian made absolutely no sense
whatsoever but no one had ever spelled
it out for me there it is if you believe
Jesus Is God and if you believe Jesus
died on the cross you believe God died
and I knew that I didn't believe in a
God that could be killed I didn't
believe in a God that dies I didn't I I
really I didn't believe that God died on
the cross because God is the ever living
who never
dies and then I just realized that the
whole doctrine of Christianity was
forced now for someone saying you know
it's a lot of confusion here all these
religious making the claim that they're
the truth they say what I don't want to
follow any organized relig I still
believe in God I'm going to do good I'm
not going to hurt nobody you kind of
fell in that trapping and you started to
take from here take from there what are
you going got to advise someone who's
going down that path you know I you know
I mean say for example you had a disease
yeah you had a disease and you know you
have a bad experience with one doctor
and you have a bad experience with that
doctor because you know he's a bad
doctor he was pretending to be qualified
and he wasn't say he was lying about his
qualifications or maybe he was a
qualified doctor but he was claiming
that he had a skill in some area which
he didn't have
does that mean you're just going to give
up on medicine does that mean you're
going to give up in it all together and
just like you know do a bit of
Witchcraft and a bit of voodoo and a bit
of uh acupuncture and you know and just
mix it all up you know you're not going
to do that right you're going to realize
that it's not medicine that's a fault it
was this doctor who was lying about some
aspect and it's your fault for not
checking him out properly you just
accepted what everyone else said but
God's given you a brain you know you've
got the reasoning ability you can check
out this person's qualifications you can
see for yourself and think for yourself
is this true or is this not true so just
to claim that you know you don't like
organized religions I mean you know
there's lots of things we don't like you
know but um not liking it has got
nothing to do whether with whether it's
the truth or not the only question is
this did God reveal the Quran is
Muhammad the messenger of God is Islam
the way of life that God has ordained
for human beings You've Got A Simple
Choice you either follow that or you go
to
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hell that's what you need to deal with
is Islam true or not if you can prove to
yourself in your heart and your deepest
Heart of heart and you can prove to me
that it's not true that's it it's
between you and
God right but just to make claims like
that is just nonsense you just you think
a person who says something like that
just thinks they they're making their
life easy they want to as we say you
want to keep you want to eat the cake
and keep the cake you can't keep the
cake and eat the cake right you know the
moment you take a bite of it a piece of
it is missing okay that's it yeah you
can't have both you can't you can't so
but people want that I believe in God
I'm a good person they say you know
whatever right and that's it they want
to they want to they want to have the
advantages of believing in God but they
don't want to take any of the
responsibility that comes with it and
the responsibility that comes with
believing in God is that you follow
God's Commandments you follow God's
guidance you follow the religion that
God has revealed the Quran says show me
any book that says do what you like show
me any book any guidance from God that
says do what you like it doesn't
exist okay and if you think that's what
religion is about you just invent your
own religion you end up just doing
whatever you feel like so the point is
is that you know there was a philosopher
a Roman philosopher his name was cisero
he said that the only way to True
Freedom Is by submitting yourself to
laws it's only by submitting yourself to
laws that you're able to find true
freedom because that's the nature of the
human being we are limited and because
we're limited we need structure we need
organization we need rules right imagine
you said in a you lived in a country and
you said I don't believe in organized
law I don't believe in an organized
country I'm going to take what I like
and leave what I don't like I'm going to
do what I feel like and don't do what I
feel like imagine every did everyone who
did that in America you'd have chaos
right why is religion any different why
should it be any different that the way
you live your life and in in respect to
God why should it not be ordered why
should it not be structured why should
it not be organized you want to make a
cake right you have to put the
ingredients in the right way in the
right order if you don't put the
ingredients in the right way in the
right order it doesn't work the cake
doesn't rise it doesn't taste right it's
all lumpy it's the recipe so God has
given us a recipe for
Success that is recipe is from his
perfect knowledge he has given us laws
which we live by and the truth is if we
submit to the laws of God then we will
find the true Freedom the true Freedom
comes from submitting oneself to God not
by submitting yourself to your desires
and this is the thing people are the
devil has fooled people into thinking
that you can do what you like and you're
free no that's not the case because
you're not free you're only now a slave
to your desires it's only now your
desires are telling you do this and do
that doing what you want means obeying
my whims and my desires so you become a
slave to your desires and who is more
astray than a person who is a slave to
their passions and their desires who is
more astray no one's more astray than
that okay so this claim that you know I
don't want to follow organized religion
blah blah blah blah blah blah it doesn't
there's no logic in that there's no
rationale in that it's just pure desires
that that's all it is and it will lead
nowhere and will never lead to any
modicum of happiness or success in life
you got their attention male or female
and you know what everything they're
grasping is making sense but they got
this misconception they hear some some
falsehood from the media they're
associating Islam with some terrorism
they want to take the step but you know
what they think okay I'm going to become
like this uh person who's uh in
Afghanistan or this person who's blowing
something up and they uh what do you
have to say about this well I could say
a hundred things about that I mean one
of the things I could say imagine
everyone judged Christian it by David K
and the you know the seventh day
Adventists who followed him in that
Siege in Waco and Texas or imagine
everyone judged Christianity by the
Oklahoma bomber who is a right-wing
Christian fundamentalist imagine
everyone judged Christianity by Adolf
Hitler and said well you know imagine
some people and whoever in the world
said oh that's Europe they're all
Christians Adolf Hitler therefore must
be a Christian therefore that must be
Christianity I mean no one with three
brain cells would really come to a
conclusion like that right if you
bothered to use them so just looking at
some things that some Muslims do and
then coming to to the conclusion that
that is Islam is
not an intelligent way to behave you
can't judge Islam by what some Muslims
do or even to tell you the truth even by
what PE most people who call themselves
Muslims or claim to be Muslims
do okay Islam says don't drink alcohol
if all Muslims you find them drinking
alcohol do you blame Islam do you say oh
Islam is a religion that allows you to
drink alcohol how do you know I I saw
Muslims drinking alcohol yeah but the
Quran says don't drink it the Quran says
don't kill women don't kill children
don't kill old people don't attack the
civilians this is what the prophet
Muhammad told us okay yes the Quran does
teach us about fighting and there is a
time and a place to fight in defense of
your land of your religion whatever but
you never allows you to kill women and
children and civilians for example
that's what Islam teaches so an
intelligent person rather would want to
know what does the religion teach what
did the prophet of Islam Muhammad what
did he do what did he say you know then
you really know what Islam is but you
can't judge Islam by Muslims anymore
than Christianity could be judged by you
know the Spanish conquistadors or the
Spanish in position or Hitler or
whatever okay so I don't think that to
judge Islam by those Criterion you know
is the right way to go at all but just
from another angle I just want to come
from a totally different and I hope I
hope everyone listening is intelligent
enough to be able to understand what I'm
trying to say here okay even if Islam
said that you should go and blow
yourself up for the sake of God even if
I'm just it doesn't but let's just say
it
did what has that got to do with whether
it's true or
false because every Christian out there
and every Jew out there knows that God
told Abraham to sacrifice his son what
sort of religion is that where God tells
a father to slaughter his own son if
you're going to
judge Islam by that which is not true
anyway but just say it was true then you
might as well forget your own own
religion because in your own religion
Abraham's told by God to kill his own
son in fact according to Christianity
God kills his own son in order to
forgive you for your sins right so
whether it's Islam or Christianity or
Judaism the truth is a lot of killing
going on because the sad fact is that's
just the way the world is but what are
you fighting for you fighting for truth
are you fighting for justice are you
fighting for for for the right thing you
when you fight do you fight in the right
way do you fight in the ethical way
okay this these are the real questions
so I I mean it's not my intention in any
way shape or form to try and justify
terrorism I'm not it's not right okay
but I'm saying that even if that was the
case it still wouldn't have anything to
say about whether Islam is the truth or
not and that comes back full circle to
where I began what everyone out there
needs to investigate is the simple thing
is Islam the truth is it from God did
God reveal the Quran is Muhammad the
messenger you can't pick on some things
like oh Muhammad married more than one
woman and you know the Quran says this
or you know some aspects of morality
right that's not the way to judge it is
the Quran consistent does it agree with
itself doesn't it say things that no one
could have known 1,400 Years Ago by way
of Science and History and a whole range
of subjects where did this information
come from how did Muhammad the prophet
Muhammad know things that were going to
happen in the future and we see them
taking place right right now today okay
I mean there are so many things that we
can look at that could make any
intelligent reasonable person know that
the Quran is from God and that Muhammad
is the messenger of God you know what
they gotten past all this they've seen
some of our shows this person won a lot
lost the money this person doesn't have
peace you know what he's ready to submit
to the Creator alone without any
Partners not his desires not to a man a
monkey a cow any of these things tell
them what they need to do to get to
Paradise to live this life that God
wants them to live key to Paradise is to
testify and to Bear witness that there
is truly nothing worthy of worship
except the one God the creator of all
things and to testify and bear witness
that Muhammad is the messenger of God in
Arabic they say they call it the
shahada when you say that you're a
Muslim that's
it simple done and then from there
continue on and then you do your best to
worship God and to pray and to fast and
and and to live that life because that's
what it is Islam is that program it's
that recipe it teaches you how to live a
life that is centered around God it's
centered around goodness and I want to
emphasize that Islam is about goodness
it's about being good to other human
beings it's about doing good uh and
that's that that's so important in Islam
not because your good deeds get you to
Paradise you hear some people say oh
Muslims believe that you get to Paradise
through your no you get to Paradise
because God is merciful to you but good
deeds are evidence of your of your faith
if you're really a faithful person you
will Good Deed do good deeds and if you
do good deeds it increases your faith
and increases your closeness to God so
you know that's where the proof is it's
in you personally by doing good that's
how you get close to God so that's what
a person has to do once they become
Muslim they say those simp words then
it's just about you know walking the
walk you've talked the talk now walk the
walk live up to it live up to it let
your actions speak yeah let to thank you
very much for being with us on the dean
show pleasure man and I like to thank
you for sitting through another episode
of the dean show you heard the message
there's one God worship him alone the
message has been the same since day one
all the messenger brought the same way
of life submission and surrender to God
alone and not his creation if you can
dig this then you can dig Islam it's as
simple as that we'll see you again next
time on the dean show until
thenum peace be unto
you
Allah there's only one word and muhamad
is his
messenger there's only one God and Jesus
was his messenger Allah
Allah there's only one and Moses was his
messenger
Allah
Allah there's only one God and Abraham
was his meenger Allah