Did Elon Musk just have a change of
heart? Well, I have no respect for the
war mongers and the war proeteers and
those who want the war to continue
forever for their own purposes. This is
uh in my view an evil thing. Let's look
at this video here. Amazing. He's
talking about some things that is is he
talking about? That's that's really what
it comes down to. There are those who
like to have the appearance of empathy,
but they don't have the reality of
empathy. Those who are pro-war, they
have the appearance of empathy. They're
hypocrites. What's happening here? Did
Elon actually have a change of heart?
Let's have a look. They're hypocrites
and liars. If you want the reality of
empathy, we must stop the senseless
everyday death that lasts forever.
That's what that's what true empathy is.
And this is actually help. It was a
catalyst for my next guest to be on the
show because it led him to where he's at
today. And we're going to discuss this.
Let's get into this video. Did Elon Musk
just have a change of heart? Let's have
a look.
respect for the wararmongers and the war
proeteers and those war to continue
forever for their own purposes. He wants
the bombs of stuff in my view dropping
on the kids in Gaza. I think that we we
send these poor kids into the meat
grinder every day for nothing with no
end in sight forever. We got to have
peace in humane and senseless. So,
President Trump is right. There must be
peace and it's time for the slow talking
about order of the young men and old
men. Come on, man. I'm being optimistic.
Hold on. Senseless death machine. That's
that's really what it comes down to.
There are those who like talking about
against war. You hear how he says we
want to stop. We don't support peace.
Those who are warongers, they have the
app. Why is he working so closely with
and liars? You know, they want the
reality of empathy. Think they had a
change of heart or something. Hold on.
This video is something new. That's what
That's what true empathy is. We should
care about those men who Oh, he's
talking about Ukraine Ukraine. Oh, the
hypocrisy kicks in. Didn't want to be
there. They're they're conscripted.
They're forced to be forced to be
Ukraine conscripted. How are you,
brother? So, uh I was beginning. So,
alhamdulillah, I'm good. Um what are
your thoughts? Yeah, you know, of
course, he's going to everyone they'll
talk about Ukraine like this is
horrible. We got to stop the war. People
will talk about it in a in a general
term. They'll say, "We need to stop war.
We don't like this and that,
but they're the ones who promote this on
the other end of the spectrum. They'll
say, "We don't support war. We don't
support killing." And you think they're
talking about Gaza, but they're not.
They're talking about Ukraine because
they don't want the paychecks to stop.
That's what shocked me. I I saw this and
I was like, "What I mean, is is this
because he was he's talking some really
powerful good points. He's talking
about, you know, the kids. He's talking
about, you know, people, the wararm
mongers, and I'm like, hold on. All
right. Look what's happening right now.
We're like funding a modern-day genocide
that's happening right now. Ethnic
cleansing. We're just like not only
kids. This is a war on kids. Yeah,
absolutely. That's happening. This is a
war on children, on babies, and and Elon
Musk, he just had a change of heart.
Unbelievable. But then it's like, okay,
Ukraine. Yeah, we don't want uh babies
to die over there either, but what about
you're speaking up for what's happening
there? What about what about the babies
here? Yeah, he won't speak up because,
you know, he's making the policies that
do that. So, if he's you know, he's
influencing the policies. He's not
making the policies, but
I'm not surprised. I'm not surprised
that because this is very typical that
we see politicians, they'll speak up.
They'll say, you know, we don't support
war. we we don't want uh people to be
conscripted. We don't want people to,
you know, be murdered. But they're not
talking about Gaza. They're only talking
about Ukraine or they're talking about
something else. But this situ this um
nightmare that's happening right now,
this evil that's happening right now, it
was actually a catalyst to have you look
into a way of life that if Elon Musk is
int this just shows like you can be so
intelligent, you can make rockets go up
into space and I'm sure if he did just
what you did, if he was sincere and he
looked into this way of life we're going
to be talking about, there's no way or
doubt about it that if anyone's sincere
and they're asking the creator to guide
them, they're going to come to the
realization that Islam is the truth like
you did. You weren't always a Muslim.
You just recently accepted Islam, but
you did your homework. Of course. Can
you help us along your journey? What set
it off that even had you going down that
route? Because most people are scared.
They're like, "Okay, is they associate
Islam with all these negative things,
uh, which are lies, distortions,
mistruths." I'm I'm sure you had to dig
a lot through a lot of junk to get to
the treasure. Oh, absolutely. Talk to us
a little about that. You know everyone
everyone believes in God whether it
their god is money or whether their god
is you know if they worship their own
desires. So people believe in something
higher you know people nowadays they'll
call it source or they'll call universe
like this new kind of uh new age
spirituality. They just kind of take
little bits of everything that they
think you know fits what they like. But
in reality,
uh, when people are confronted with the
truth, they're not going to accept it if
it doesn't align with, you know, with
their paycheck or if it doesn't align
with their, you know, if they think it's
going to affect them negatively. Like in
the Quran,
uh, Farun, the Pharaoh, he could have
accepted, he knew that
Moses's message was true, but he didn't
accept it because it meant he wouldn't
be in control anymore. This is the kind
of the same many of these politicians,
you know, they're not dumb. They're
controlling us intentionally. And so
when they they make these points about
Muslims, it's not because Muslims are
bad. It's because it is a control
tactic. Mhm. So when they say these
kinds of things about, you know, we need
to bomb all Muslims or, you know,
they're terrible, they're terrorists,
they were doing this and that, you know,
it comes in line with it really comes in
line with the paycheck because if they
were getting paid more by the Muslims,
they promote it more. Think about uh not
too long ago, you'd hear these things
about Saudi, that Saudi was so terrible
and they're doing all these things and
they hate women and that they uh you
know, you'd hear all these things about
Islam and that it's so it's really
oppressive. But then the paychecks start
coming in a bit more. Now we have better
relations with Saudi through the you
know what Trump is doing. He's like kind
of promoting Saudi like oh they want to
be our biggest trade partner. So now you
hear less and less about it. And if you
really try to look into it and you hear
that Islam is a religion of oppression,
you know, where did you hear this from?
Did you hear this from the news or did
you learn this yourself? You know,
people come up with their political
ideologies and it's not really theirs.
They're loaning it from somebody else.
And I say that because they they'll
change it little by little. You know, I
try to stay out of politics now because
what you hear is uh it's really just the
mainstream narrative. Mhm. You go to
somebody, if you go to somebody now and
you ask them, "What do you think about
Tesla cars?" They might be into it if
they're conservative, which it wasn't
the case like just a year ago, you know,
two years ago, everyone's like, "Oh, I
hate electric cars. Oh, we don't want to
see electric cars. They're totally
ruining our economy, this and that." But
now that, you know, Elon Musk is he's
really uh taking a position of power in
the in the political scheme. And now
he's he's one who uh people have changed
their opinions about that. Now they're
kind of like oh they're a little torn
between it like do we hate do we hate
electric vehicles now or is it okay? You
were born in Texas. I was born in Texas.
My mom moved with me to New Mexico
shortly after. So I was about a year
old. And in New Mexico it's like a
cultural melting pot. So there's you
know there's Buddhists, there's Hindus.
Well not really. You know, there's
people who practice like Hindu. There's
a Hindu temple in my hometown and it's
really just people go there for the
food. They serve people. It's like a
it's called a Hanaman temple. They
worship like a monkey. But they, you
know, most people go there just for the
food. I'm sure there are some people
there that worship their, you know,
their religion. And there is a a mosque
there, which I only found out recently
after going there, visiting. And there's
only a few Muslims. There's literally
only like three Muslims. Yeah. So,
Subhan Allah. So you grew up a
practicing Your mother was a practicing
Christian. You were trying hard to be a
Christian. Is that how the story
started? No. No. I was not raised
Christian. My
mom when she was young, she was raised
Christian, but she turned away from it
just because of the hypocrisy that
people will say, "I'm Christian and
they'll believe in all these things like
Christian values, but they don't
practice them." So, you know, when you
see this kind of hypocrisy, why would
you say that this is the way? You know,
so she turned away from Christianity.
And I remember being really young. I
remember specifically we were uh riding
in a car and we were talking about it. I
was maybe four or something. She said,
"You know, God is not a man in the
clouds." And I remember looking out and
being like, "Yeah, that doesn't make any
sense. Why would God is not a man in the
clouds? Why would God be a man in the
clouds?" And I thought that and I was
like, "That doesn't make any sense. Like
I don't believe in God." I remember I
was really young when I was like, "Uh,
no." And I was kind of influenced like
that. I was like, "That doesn't make any
sense." And then when I was really
young, I started having these bad
nightmares all the time. I would have
terrible nightmares because, you know,
it's I feel like I didn't have that
protection. And I was I would have this
one reoccurring nightmare all the time
where it was
uh long story short, there was like a
creature and it would come in and it was
the same nightmare all the time and I
had like bad nightmares all like
different nightmares throughout my
entire childhood. And this one specific
one uh was reoccurring throughout years.
And then the one time I didn't have it,
it was my mom was there and I was
protecting her and then I never had it
again. And subhan Allah that's uh very
recently I didn't have nightmares after
I became Muslim. So you know I'm 26 now.
And what it was was I was have like I
was having a dream like that and when I
got scared I just said uh I started
reciting Quran. I said like you know
man.
Alhamdulillah. And then I woke up and I
haven't had nightmares since almost a
year, you know. So something that had
affected me my whole life like
depression and these kinds of things has
gone away with Islam. Islam like cleared
that in me. You know, I had I had
struggled with feeling suicidal for a
long a long period of my life. you know,
since right at right about puberty until
just maybe it was like maybe corona
virus and that was like very intense for
everybody. I'm sure everybody feels that
way. But after that, I had uh I'd
started doing these like breath work,
you know, like taking deep breaths and
like trying to I was like, "Okay, I got
to heal myself. I got to do something
some Wimhof." Yeah, exactly. So, you
heard of Wimhof? Yeah. Yeah. I I used to
do Wimhof all the time. Yeah. And I'd
sit outside like hours hours a day. So I
got used to that like kind of like what
we do in prayer like obviously not the
same but uh focusing and it gave me
clarity of mind and that helped but then
it like started not really really
helping we started getting uh I started
getting more anxious and I just didn't
find that time so when I I lost my
daughter right after birth and so I
tried praying to Jesus and what what
happened was I started hearing those
that buswa those whispers again and it
was terrible. I had terrible nightmares
and I was like screaming in my sleep and
you ask people and I was like messed up
and a lot of people thought that it was
a you know if you ask my family they
would say like they were worried about
me you know and of course like you go
through a traumatic experience like that
things are going to you know things are
going to affect you and affect other
people and
then after that I was like I just felt
betrayed because you think that when you
pray to Jesus you're going to have some
kind of
saving. But it didn't happen that way.
And so instead, what happened was I
turned away from that and I started
going into what is like a
cultism. And so, you know, they say
astrology and if you're born a Leo, then
you'll be a charismatic and you'll be
all this. Oh, but not if you have the,
you know, it's it's literally so they
take they say 12 like there's 12 signs
in the zodiac and then they put every
single aspect of the everything in
those. So then when they say, "Oh, well,
you're like this because of this." It's
like, well, of course, if you put every
aspect of anybody's personality into 12
and then you have one of all of those,
like you're going to find some sort of,
"Oh, well, uh, you're charismatic."
Well, see, it says that here in your
chart. So then I I sort of took that on,
but really what it what it gave me was
uh like a little bit of OCD because you
start to feel like, oh, I'm doing this
and it's because I'm like this and it's
because I'm like this and I'm feeling
that way because my my Mars is in this
way or I have bad communication and it's
just all junk. Like when after Islam you
realize like you don't need any of that.
And tying that back to the video was
Gaza. When all of this started happening
in Gaza, one thing that stuck out to me
was they say Allah is sufficient with
us. And I was like, "Wow." You know, I
believed in God. Like I always believed
in God in a in a way. I didn't think he
was like a man in the clouds, but you
believe in like a creator. You just know
like it's our fra it's our innate, you
know, disposition as human beings. And
so with that, I just was like, "Wow,
okay. You don't need uh you don't need
saints. you don't need to go to like a
saint to bless your field or whatever it
is, you know, you just need to go
straight to God and it's straight to the
source. And that was really what stuck
out to me about Islam was that
uh the straightforwardness about it. You
know, nobody wants to go to some guy and
say, "Look, I did all of these things in
my life. Like, I hurt these people and I
did these things." And you know, that's
not what Islam tells you to do. Islam
tells you that if you have anything, you
just go straight to Allah and you ask
Allah for repentance. And so what got me
into what what made me become Muslim, I
had been it was pretty much that what
made me start searching into Islam. But
what made me become Muslim was after
about five, six months looking into
Islam and I wanted to become Muslim. I
had memorized the shahada, but I never
said it because once you say the
shahada, then you know you're Muslim.
And I was like, I want to, you know, I
don't want to say the shahada. and then
you know do some do some shik and then
you know you like you started off on the
back foot that's like how I felt at the
time but you know repenting like feeling
genuine remorse for what you did in the
past whatever it may be and then you
turn to Allah you turn to your creator
for that and you say you know I feel
terrible about what I did but I want to
change and then you know guide me and
so you know I just started like bursting
into tears and you feel like you just
feel this weight off your shoulders and
I mean I'm getting emotional talking
about it now because subhan Allah I it
was like night and day you know Islam
changed me in so many ways. Subhan
Allah. I mean if you talk to anybody who
knew me before they'd
say wow he's like totally different. I
mean I used to cuss all the time. I used
to uh you know I like smoke and I' you
know I wouldn't drink but I was just
into like bad stuff. I was going down a
bad path. I felt like I was doing good.
You know when you're on that path you're
kind of blind and so you think that you
are going in a direction which is good
for you. And even you know my
ex-girlfriend people like this I would
say no I'm what I'm doing is good. You
know I'm doing it good for me but I
wasn't good for anybody else. I I had
bad relationships with my parents. I
had, you know, not the best relationship
with anybody and I was totally loner. I
would uh go out into the woods with my
dog. We just go camping and that was
like what gave me peace. So, subhan
Allah and uh Islam turned me around like
360 like 180 degrees, you know. I just
totally started having community and
that was one big thing was like I had I
felt like I had nobody and then all of a
sudden now I have friends I have and I
didn't know a single Muslim before I
became Muslim. And the first Muslim I
met was a was a good brother at the mid
and he met me I I went there to
uh I went there to pick up a copy of the
Quran. And so when I got there he was
like you know busy because it's a school
is uh the Islamic society of St.
Petersburg. So it's like a school and a
mosque. It's the only school in Penelis
County that is Islamic. And so I went
there. He's like doing stuff. And I I
told him I'm here to pick up the Quran.
And he was like oh okay. Uh I thought he
thought maybe I was just interested and
so he brings me in he's like you're
interested in Islam. I was like actually
I took my shada last night. He's like oh
mah and just brought me in and it was
like the openness of uh seeing that and
I was like wow because you know I've
been like kind of looking into Islam. I
wouldn't say researching but like
watching lots of videos and like I knew
that Muslims were on the right path you
know with uh everything. Islam has
answers to everything and I knew that
they were on the right path and but I
didn't realize like the the mannerisms
of Muslims and how they just you know
like I just met you and we're brothers
and you meet anybody you meet uh any it
doesn't matter what skin color you are
like it literally with in any other
society in the world you'll never get
black white Asian you know anybody like
uh people from India Pakistan Bangladesh
people from places like Gambia IA,
Nigeria, North Africa, and we're all
standing together with our feet
together. Everyone is just brothers. It
is uh the most beautiful thing. It's
there's I think sociologists should
really study Islam more because there's
nowhere in the world where you get these
kind of diversity.
How did you deal with um the opponents
out there? Just as we're trying to send
this positive message and show the
impact that Islam has on people's lives,
how it's brought you right now, I'm
seeing how emotional you just talking
about your life before and how it is now
through tremendous positive effect. But
then you have the opponents of Islam who
insult and they're not really talking
about having an academic discussion,
asking sincere questions. We're really
ready to talk. Let's have a discussion.
Come to a mosque. We're always inviting
people. But I'm sure uh you've come
across uh because the hate industry is a
billion-dollar industry. So as much as
with our tiny, you know, little
production, we're putting positive
things out there and we're trying to,
you know, counter this. But then you
have other people who with this big
budgets and they're putting, you know,
um so much material, so much hate out
there, misinformation, misquing things,
you know, halftruths. I'm sure you came
across certain things. Oh, of course.
Absolutely. Of course. Okay. How did you
deal with that? So, how did you balance
it out? How did you balance it out? And
what got you through all that? You got
to have like a thick skin. You know, if
you want to become Muslim, you don't
know much. People want to tell you all
kinds of things, even if you're born
Muslim, because people are going to
they're going to come at Islam and say,
"Oh, you know, Islam is terrorism." And
Islam teaches you to kill everyone and
they want to create a Sharia state and
they want to take over the world, you
know. Okay. You your experience. Okay,
good. Oh, absolutely. I know people who
say like, "Oh, you're brainwashed.
you're part of the you want you think
you're part of a Muslim brotherhood and
it's like of course subhan Allah I mean
they but if you want to change somebody
you can't you're not going to be able to
change them you're not going to come to
somebody and say you have all of these
preconceptions about Islam you should
change them because you're going to do
that about anything you want to talk to
somebody about being conservative or
they're you know you're coming at
somebody and you're trying to say you
think this way you should change even if
they it's better for them they're not
going going to do it. They're going to
hold on to what they have because it's
scary to change. I mean, it really is. I
mean, it was uh it was I was open to it
to become Muslim because I was already
searching. I was like searching for
everything like anything I could find
I'd incorporate into my like
spirituality you know like in America
now it's a hodgepodge like you say of
just uh any kind of
different you know you take a little bit
from here a little bit from Buddhism a
little bit from this and you try to make
something that you can work with but
it's it just leaves you empty but Islam
has an answer for everything you want
Islam has an answer for it it didn't
leave you empty no it it gave give me
peace and I walah for the first time
in since I was a little kid I feel like
I have like myself like I feel like I am
just at peace and I'm not worried about
things you know because with Islam it
brings that uh assurityity of everything
in your life you were um reciting
something can you continue on finishing
this uh opening chapter of the Quran the
verbatim word of God Almighty
Allah. Can you finish that?
We start with uh seeking refuge with
Allah from the our cursed shan. So we
say we
say in the name of God the most gracious
and merciful.
Alhamdulillah all praises to God the
Lord of
worlds.
Alman the most merciful and gracious.
um the the master of the day of
judgment. So in
Islam, it there's only one God. You
know, Jesus isn't going to come back and
tell you you're going to hell, you're
going to what's good. Only God, all the
angels, everything else. And there's no
barrier between you and Allah. He is the
master. You don't you you don't have a
uh you may have, you know, somebody who
is your boss and they tell you what to
do, but they have a boss. There's no
boss besides a law. There's no master
besides Allah. So when we recite this
prayer every day, five times a day, you
know, most Muslims will pray more than
five times. You know, if you do the
base, then that's good. But most Muslims
will pray, you know, at least more than
like six, seven, eight, you know,
prayers a
day. In you we worship and in you we ask
for
help. Lead us on the straight path.
the path of those who you bestowed favor
upon and not of those who have incurred
your wrath or those who have been led
astray.
This is uh powerful. This is anybody
wants guidance.
This is the uh formula right there to um
you can say it in English. You're asking
the creator alone for guidance. Guide me
on the straight way. The uh master, the
one who is going to uh judge you on the
day of judgment. the one that Jesus
prayed to. How's your relationship now
with Jesus? Oh, I mean, before I was
like, h Jesus, who's that? You know, I
didn't I was like, h it's it was a
little weird to me that you'd walk into
a church and you'd see this statue of a
man like dead and that people were
asking him for some. It was I I didn't
even know that they that Christians
thought that Jesus was God until after I
became
Muslim. I had no idea that Christians
thought Jesus was God until after I
become Muslim. And now I'm like what?
Like I knew about the trinity but I
thought that there was like uh you know
always his son like metaphorically which
is like probably what it was the
translations because you know in the in
the Bible uh God refer like in the Bible
God is referring to David as his only
begotten son. So it it seemed to me as
to be some kind of you know like a
metaphorical like you're my you're my
son, you're my prophet. Like if you talk
to somebody and you say like, "Oh, my
brother." It's not like you and me, we
don't have the same mom, but you're my
brother, right? So, it's the similar
kind of thing. But now with Islam, like
I love Jesus more than, you know, I
would say more than anybody I know. I
love Jesus so much and I love Prophet
Muhammad so much and Iraim so much
because you hear these stories and you
hear
how their connection with Allah it was
so much greater than ours like we have
a we have a very very low level of iman
compared to the prophets of course. So
subhan Allah I mean when you when you
hear the stories about them and the
stories about the Sahabah that come
later the companions of the prophet
Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wasallam and
also the companions of, you know, all
the prophets before them. It brings you
that uh it's like a a boost in faith. It
tells you like, wow, like I could try
more. You know, you think your life is
going in a way that you don't want it to
or you feel like you're like down in the
dumps, but I mean all the prophets went
through the hardest challenges. If Allah
loves you, he puts you through a harder
challenge. There is nobody who gets a
challenge that they can't. You know that
Allah says Allah says that there's no
there's no challenge upon a slave of
Allah that can't deal with what is being
brought upon them. And your name you're
named after Salman al Far. Yes. Yes. So
Salman and if you can share for our
audience I mean he has a a very amazing
story. just looking at his story. If
you're a a truth seeker, a Christian, or
you're just somebody who was into this
new age spiritualism, astrology, and all
these other things that you were
experimenting with and didn't bring no
solace and peace and happiness until you
came to this way of life that now, if
you look at his story, he was someone
who's also a Christian and he was
jumping around, right, seeking the
truth. Yeah. Well, he was a Zoroastrin.
Yeah. And so he was in his, you know,
they worshiped fire. And then when he he
was kept until he was very old, like,
you know, and it's maybe just right
before he became a teen or a little bit
after until he actually left and his dad
tells him to go take care of his garden.
So he gets lost on the way and he goes
into a a church. Mhm. And so when he
goes into the church, he's he's like,
"Wow." And he just uh I mean, I don't
know the the whole hadith, the whole
story, but he goes back and he tells his
father, "They religion is better than
ours." and his father doesn't respond
like, you know, a father should. He
chains him up and he says, "You're not
leaving." And, you know, kind of like
shames him for that. And so then he's in
correspondence with these these
Christians. And so he he eventually, you
know, he like gets he gets away. I'm not
sure if they release him or he escapes,
but uh he gets away. And so then they
say uh he follows like a a great man.
I'm not sure if this is in the same city
anyway, but he follows a a great
Christian leader and then he dies and
he's replaced and then these uh this
leader is they they said, "Oh, to follow
him." And when he follows him, he's like
the worst of the worst. He'd take
people's charity and hide it. So when
this this guy that he was following
died, he was like his uh he was like his
apprentice, his servant. He followed
him. When he died, people were praising
him and saying this and that about him
that he was, you know, the greatest uh
one of the greatest. And Salman tells
him, "Do you know what he did? He did
this and that and he he would take your
money and keep it back here." And at
first they were like, they didn't
believe him. They wanted to they wanted
to kill Salman. And then after he was
done taking them and showing them what
he had did, they left him out and the
vultures ate him. And so then Salman
goes all over, you know, they say,
"Well, afterwards, after this person is
dead, they replace him." He says that
first person there was never a man who
was worse than him and then after that
there was never a man who I knew other
than the prophet Muhammad sallallahu
alaihi wasallam who was better than him.
So his teacher gets old and he passes.
He goes finds another teacher and he
says there's only one person I know
who's on this religion and he's this
person you know maybe Syria or
somewhere. I don't remember so well
maybe I should learn more but he goes to
the next teacher. He when he passes he
says go to this person and then when he
passes he says there's no one on this
religion that I know besides this other
person eventually he he gets brought
into slavery and then he is uh taken and
he hears about the he hears about the
prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi
wasallam well not he hears that there
will be a prophet to come and he hears
about the signs that he won't accept
charity that he won't eat from charity
and that he will not uh that he'll have
the the sign of prophethood on his back
so when he sees the prophet Muhammad
after these years of slavery and he he
he sees him and he thinks he's going to
be the prophet but he has to know these
these signs then when he sees the signs
he immediately accepts Islam so he was a
you know he's a truth seeker his whole
life he was soro when he saw
Christianity it was better and then when
he saw Islam it was better but at that
time Christianity the what he was upon
was the religion of Jesus which was
Islam and that's something that uh
Christians they don't realize is that
Islam means to submit your will to God
alone. And that a Muslim is one who
submits his will to God. So was Jesus a
Christian? A Christian does Jesus follow
Jesus or does Jesus follow God alone?
Jesus was a Muslim. Jesus was a Muslim.
Jesus was a Muslim. Absolutely. Because
a Muslim is what you just said. And he
did that action of submitting to the
will of God. And that action in one word
is Islam. Of course. And the one who
does Islam is a Muslim. Yes. People
can't wrap their minds around it, but
that's the reality, right? Just like
Jesus's mother, who is the the greatest
woman that as Muslims, we believe that
Mary is the greatest of all women. And
she submitted her will to God alone. And
so did all the other prophets, you know,
prophet Moses, Ibraim, Abraham, uh, all
the way back to the time of Adam. There
was so many prophets sent and every
single one was sent with the same
message of tawhed that you believe in
one God and one God alone. Was Abraham a
human being? Yes, of course. Abraham was
a was a prophet of God. He was a human,
right? But that term human wasn't there.
So people get confused like how Muslim
okay same thing the definition a human
uh Jesus was a human, right? Muslim
submitter to God. That's what it is. So
you make that example, the contrast.
This is what it is. That concept of
submitting your will to the will of God.
Christian is not somebody who submits
his will to you can say that's what but
by definition Christian comes from the
Greek word Christos which comes from me
Messiah to be anointed. That's why how
you trace the lineage of the word. So
this is named after Jesus. Subhan Allah.
The same way Judaism named after Judea
tribe and Hinduism a geographical
location.
Right. Uh so we're not Muhammadans. No,
no, no. We're not Quranists. No, we're
people who submit their will to the will
of God. And that's what a Muslim is, of
course. And this um new age
spiritualism. I mean, people are kind of
going away from you see so many people
are coming to
Islam and there is this misnotion and a
lot of these false things that are put
out there. Oh, Islam is growing because
of uh they're having more babies and
kids. Yeah. Muslims are having uh just
like everybody else has kids. Kid kids.
Yeah. But you're a living testimony
right now that uh people are
investigating. Truth seekers, if they're
calling on God alone and they're looking
for the truth, they're going to come to
this way of life that you came upon that
you're actually reciting the Quran.
You're not an Arab. I'm not an Arab.
Right. Right. you're an American Texan
born in Texas, but you're somebody now
who's following the way of Jesus and
Moses as a Muslim. So, that dispels just
in one shot so many of these
misconceptions and myths. But I think um
and and that one that why Islam is
growing because it makes sense. the
proof is just self-evident. When you
look at it, the Quran, when you evaluate
with a sincere heart and you're not
trying to be malicious and you have this
ill intent, you're going to see like you
did that is the truth. But when people
start investigating and they go into
okay because they naturally go upon, you
know, kind of what their culture is in
their family, you you were trying to be
hard. You were trying to be Was that you
or that was telling me you were trying
to be hard? You you were trying hard to
be a Christian. I was trying I was
trying to be a Catholic. you're trying
to be because I you know I felt that
like I was like okay this makes more
sense than a lot of things. Yeah. And uh
then I didn't really understand like why
do you have so many saints and you ask
saints to do something for you? You ask
them to pray for you. It it made like a
little it kind of made sense to me at
the time, but it didn't give me anything
because it's really like I mean honestly
it's kind of like a racial thing that if
you want to become a a Catholic
practicing in where I'm from, New
Mexico, but you're not that they're not
going to accept you. Or if you are
trying to get into like these uh you
know for example like it's a Native
American big native like that's one of
the places where there's PBLO there's
reservations you can't just go in and
say like well this seems like the truth
can I try that no no same with uh
Judaism like you can't try because
you're not part of us so it's not going
to happen restricted yeah of course and
so I had like I was like even at one
point I was like well what about
Judaism? Oh, no. You can't become a Jew.
Like, I know you can try and uh there
are people who do, but I I know a
brother who had tried to become Jewish
over the course of so long, three
different times because he became Jewish
and then they were like, "No, no, we
don't accept you the next time. So, you
have to become Jewish again." And then,
"Oh, no, no." So, it's that kind of
stuff. But Islam is like, you don't have
I don't have to come to you and say, "Do
you think I'm Muslim? Is that okay? Is
is Allah going to accept me?" Like if
you become Muslim on your own, you're
Muslim. If you never meet another Muslim
in your life, but you submit your will
to Allah, you're Muslim. You don't need
like to be accepted into a church or
something, you know, you don't have to
go to a mosque and have them be on like
a registry that you're Muslim. And this
is exactly my point. So people get
turned off, they get turned away, and
then they go towards all of these other
man-made isms and all these man-made
philosophies. Uh this is what's on the
market today. Is it this new age
spiritualism? What's the trending thing
out there that people are, you know,
with these stones and these energy bugs
and all this stuff? Of course. What's
the crystals? People say, "Oh, this
crystal gives me some kind of healing
and this crystal does something good for
your uh your chakras." Yeah. And they're
literally taking from like you were
experimenting with all that. You were
Oh, no. I was I not all of it but some
of it I was experimenting with like uh
think cuz there is like they call it a
science of astrology and that so they
say that your communication is affected
by you know the planet Mars and that uh
or no mercury and then they say that
like all these other things but really
it's just uh it's like a try it's a way
to try to explain forces in the universe
and so when you say I'm like this
because of
uh because of the way I was born and
exactly the way I was born and I'm not
going to have any luck in life because I
have the you know it's they literally
try to explain everything in your life
based on this but I didn't have any
truth to it you know if I come to you
and I say oh what's your uh what's your
sign that's what they say they say
what's your sign oh you're like this oh
I can tell you about that but if I like
any of them if I just tell you oh you're
charismatic you probably like to uh to
you're very introspective and you you're
good with communication But at the same
time, you like your space, you know,
that's so general. You can't say that
that's because of the way you were born,
you know. So it it was it gave me
something because it was better than
nothing. But then now you come to Islam
and now no middleman, none of these
strange superstitions, these strange
things going on, strange incantations
and all this weird going to saints and
dead people in the ground and none of
that. No. And it makes the most sense of
course direct connection with the one
who created you. No middleman. Ask God
alone. Allah the creator in Aramaic
Allah that Jesus the God that Jesus
worshiped. And that just your mind's not
on like you know gymnastic mode trying
to do mental gymnastics trying to like
you know you're shortcircuiting because
it's like you
can't you can breathe. It makes sense.
Yeah. Absolutely. It's a uh like when
you when you realize the truth of Islam
and you turn away like you are misguided
because if if you feel that and you turn
away then Allah has put a seal on your
heart. When you know that there is only
one God and you you see the truth and
this is what is said in the Quran that
Allah has sealed their eyes and over
their hearts and their their
ears. So, and o over their hearts and
their ears is a seal or over their eyes
is a seal and over their hearts and
their ears is a veil. You know, it's
something along those lines. Yeah. But
it's it's absolutely true when you see
people who they know. They're like, "Oh,
but I I think Islam is uh I think it's
the truth, but I don't want to wear
hijab."
So, people they worship their desires.
So, uh Elon Musk, Elon Musk, uh he
didn't have a change of heart yet, huh?
I we uh want the we want the best for
for everybody out there. And uh what
advice would you give for for people
like him, for him, for others who are um
semi on a quest. Uh they're watching and
you got them scratching their head. They
resonate with this story. They're like,
I want some of that. I'm not really that
voice. I got Elon Musk money, but I'm
not happy. I'm not contempt like this
young man here. And you know, all the
partying and all the bling bling is not
doing it for me. What what advice would
you have for them?
I mean really like try to try to seek
because if you're not if you think you
have the answers I mean you're wrong. If
you think you know
everything when you are like you feel
lost but you think oh well it works it's
working best for me then you you should
really try to open your heart and if you
open your heart to Islam and you say
like is this possible then Allah Allah
has guided you already if you go towards
Islam with an open heart and you really
try to accept the message there's
there's no way that you're going to walk
away without something good, you know.
And I know people who actually they they
became Muslim and then they don't
practice anymore because they became
Muslim for the wrong reasons. They say,
"Oh, I became Muslim because uh MMA guys
are Muslim and I kind of want to be like
them." But, you know, maybe that's like
a way to get into Islam. But if your
foundation is that, then that's where
you're going to be. But your foundation
has to be you, you build from like the
ground up. Like there's no God but God.
Okay. Subhan Allah. I believe that there
is uh prophet Muhammad is his messenger
and Jesus is his messenger and Moses is
well I could believe I believe that too
and then you compound upon that you say
like okay well so I can leave these
things behind I don't need alcohol
because you know it does affect people
negatively and I also don't need it for
the main reason is that Allah tells me
not to do it. I don't need to eat pork.
Like, you know, if you really can't
become Muslim because you eat pork, like
walah, you're
misguided. And if you, you know, you
start with that foundation, it builds up
and then you have more and more faith.
You know, your faith doesn't just go
high and then it stays that way. It's
like a roller coaster. You have to ask
Allah to renew your faith all the time.
You know I go through that myself where
one day you you know you're praying five
salah you're praying so many you know
naful prayers you just you go back and
back and you just feel like like you
really have strong iman and then the
next day it plummets and this is by the
will of Allah because Allah put puts you
through this so you constantly come back
to him. There's a hadith that says
that if you uh if you were not to sin,
Allah would replace you with somebody
who does sin and ask for
repentance. Because if you
uh Allah loves somebody who sins but
repents from that more than somebody who
doesn't sin.
Amazing. Amazing. Uh simple advice.
Hopefully inshallah people will follow.
Thank you man. This is a very inspiring
story. Thank you. Alhamdulillah.
Alhamdulillah. May Allah continue to
bless you, preserve you. Amen.
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