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what's your name sister kimbery kimbery
and your name Sister Crystal Crystal
alhamdulillah sisters do both of you
essentially accept that there's none to
be worship the
Creator do you accept also the human
example of the Prophet Muhammad that
he's a prophet and messenger of God do
you accept that okay then we make this
very simple because there's no real
ritual I don't want you to feel there's
a ritual involved it's an
acknowledgement and um actually the
transition already took place because
when a person feels it inside of
themselves the transition is already
taking place but in Islam what we do we
make a public gesture so that you get
the the reinforcement the witnessing the
acknowledgement of the Muslims and you
enter clearly into the Muslim Community
and you you gain the benefits and the
support that you need okay so say after
me
ill
Muhammed ill
were you sisters Christians
previously you are not then I want you
to repeat also for me that I bear
Witness
that Jesus Christ that Jesus Christ is
the spirit is the spirit and a word and
a word sent from almighty God sent from
almighty God into Mary into who was pure
and
Chast this is what our Prophet told us
to acknowledge concerning Mary so that
we don't come into Islam thinking that
Mary is the mother of God or the
daughter of God or that Jesus is God or
Jesus is the son of God because this is
one of the things that we want to
separate ourselves from say okay now
after this year you should understand
that your entrance into Islam is a
choice that you made on your own nobody
forced you to do this and you are
responsible for fulfilling the duties of
Islam which is the five pillars of Islam
the six UH responsibilities of Islamic
faith which these sisters will help you
with uh the other thing is take it easy
step by step don't rush don't be p push
don't take more on yourself than you can
handle understand that there are rules
there's dos there's don'ts there's laws
there's what's lawful there's what's
unlawful but you can't do it all in a
day okay do as much as you can and be
sincere this the main thing just be
sincere and about your family and about
your friends about your colleagues about
uh relatives or your friends or anybody
keep this in mind you're not obligated
to them
and you're not connected to them on the
day of judgment this this this decision
you made is a decision that you made in
front of God for yourselves gradually
you will get the strength you will get
the confidence you'll get the clarity
and you'll have the answers for your
friends and for your relatives until you
do hold it for yourself and then these
sisters and what you read and other
things will help you build up the
strength and the confidence that you
need and step by step you'll be in the
same position to that I'm in that my
wife is in as a new muslima that other
sisters and brothers have come through
and we ask Allah to bless you and to
guide you and to preserve you inshallah
we give you
this and one of the Beautiful Things is
that many times a Muslim a person
becomes a Muslim and there's nobody to
give them the support at least here you
have a new Muslim Association here that
offers support and even there a group of
brothers who just came up to me and said
if any new Muslim has debts that they
cannot pay let us know and we'll help
them to pay those debts isn't that
beautiful also any sins that you may
have had before you become a Muslim that
is things that you did that only God
knows and you know those sins are
forgiven for you today but if there's
debts that you owe somebody God doesn't
forgive debts that you owe somebody
that's the sensible isn't it so you
start off today with a cleaning slate
and do your best if there's any men in
your lives boyfriends or whatever the
case might be you need to make that
relationship correct make it correct uh
as soon as you can because uh the
relationships in Islam should be
relationships of responsibility but
again this is something you'll correct
as soon as you're able to do so you have
any question for me when do we stop
praying you can start praying
immediately sister my suggestion for you
these sisters will tell you things that
are sensitive and and particular for
women there are issues that are
sensitive and particular for women and
so these Sisters by the grace of Allah
they will explain those things to you
and make it easy for you to begin your
prayers and other things as a Muslim so
Kimberly right and Crystal may Allah
bless both of you
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sisters nothing be patient sister for
for for yourself let me ask you a
question when your parents drink water
if they're thirsty does it sof does it
does it does it uh does it quench your
thirst
this yeah no when your
parents
no and if they fall down hit their head
or something like that is that creating
pain in your head no also what you need
to know sisters that what you owe to
your parents is
respect what you owe to them is decency
dignity and honesty if you've been
Muslim for a year my suggestion for you
sister is that you should adopt your
Islam for
yourself and let them adjust to it
because they're not going to be
satisfied until you become a non-muslim
and even if you become a non-muslim they
going to not still be satisfied they
don't like the fact that you was a
mus so I mean you're going to C you you
you you you damned if you do damned if
you
don't live for yourself live for God
live for your principles and then share
with your parents they they already know
you're Muslim whether you wearing a
hijab or not they just it's just going
to be like in their face and clear now
exactly they have the choice to ignore
that's right so now say listen my
suggestion is what you need to do is be
conscious of your God conscious of your
more so than your consciousness of your
parents because Allah says in the Quran
you heard that statement right conscious
of Allah not conscious of the parents so
if you're kind to your parents decent to
your parents giving them gifts talking
to them nice visiting them fixing food
for them all those things that's what
you owe them and In Time by your
pronouncing your Islam them seeing it
it's going to become a medicine and a
therapy for them then they going to say
what are you wearing that for I'm I'm
wearing this because I just want to be a
better human being I want to give more
protection to myself so now you now you
got to explain now the medicine is going
to be a little bit more then when they
see you come to your house and they see
you pray what you praying for what's
that rug doing out there well I mean I
owe to God something I mean you know you
pay rent for this house you don't just
live here for nothing you pay for the
life you got to pay something well I got
life I can see I'm living I owe
something to God I'm praying would you
like to pray with me so you be kind but
you have to still be adamant that's your
relationship with God because when you
die the first question God is going to
ask you it's not about your parents it's
going to be about you but he's going to
require you to have been kind to them be
decent to them be dign ified with them
and to have also talked to them about
your conviction understand that just
take a step by step s