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of course there's hope for them. There's
always hope. I give you I give you an
example and just bear with me for a
couple of minutes. There was a man who
killed 99 people. This is a this is a
story that we got from our prophet
Muhammad peace and blessings be upon
him. There was a man who killed 99
people. And so he came to a scholar and
he said to that scholar, "Listen, I
killed 99 people and what I want to know
from you is um is there any hope for
me?" That scholar told him, "Absolutely
not." So he killed him, too. Said,
"Well, I might as well just kill you and
make it 100
then." So what's the moral of that
story? First of all, that scholar should
have told that man there is always hope.
He should have told him to stop right
there, ask God for forgiveness. Of
course, if he took the lives of people,
he going to be responsible in some way.
But he should ask God for forgiveness,
not do that anymore, and have the hope
of receiving forgiveness from Almighty
God and to reform his life. So, I would
say the same thing applies to that
13-year-old young man who did something
that he's ashamed of. Um and our prophet
peace and blessings be upon him, he goes
further to tell us that if somebody one
of us did something that we were ashamed
of. If God covered it, he covered that
by night, don't relate it in the
day. And if something we did in our
lives long time ago and we ashamed of
it, we should not say it in the public
at all because then this is like
ingratitude for whatever mercy and
forgiveness that the God Allah is
applying to you because already
benefits. So hold that be grateful don't
recite it to relate it to anybody else
and then after that reform your life
reconstruct your life uh seek the
forgiveness of God and do good actions
there's another hadith from our prophet
who said um he
said fear Allah wherever you are follow
up a bad deed with a good one and that
will wipe it out and after that behave
well towards people
Uh Ryan, what I would say to you,
however, is what you need to do is take
you a step further. Uh perhaps you're
following an inspiration, which you
connecting to Jesus Christ. But what
will allow you to know whether or not
you're following Jesus Christ or not is
to know whether or
not your connection to Jesus Christ is
one of scripture. And I mean by
scripture, his actual words himself. How
Jesus worshiped, how Jesus prayed, what
Jesus Christ said, what he said about
Almighty God, what he said about himself
with no excesses. Let me finish. And if
you are considering that Jesus Christ is
God or that Jesus Christ is the son of
God, then in
fact then this is um uh this refutes
your faith in God altogether.
Okay. I I try to pray that I know that
this is the same uh
I and uh and I don't consider that. Oh,
that's good. So I mean Oh, and that's
good. That's good. So if you're fasting
during the month of Ramadan, um which
this was not the practice of Esau
because there was no Ramadan at that
time. But he did fast. No, no doubt. And
but the prescription that you're fasting
is Ramadan. This is a prescription of
the prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi
wasallam. And if you're praying five
times a day, Esau Mariam, he didn't pray
five times a day. He prayed three times
a day. And his followers prayed seven
times. Good. But specifically you're
saying the what came to him and what was
ordered at that time was three times a
day. Okay. But if you're praying five
that's a prescription of Muhammad
sallallahu alaihi wasallam which is
good. Alhamdulillah. And you're also
using the word Allah and using the word
Isa. And you're also using the word eman
which means you understand me that
you're using the forks and knives and
spoons and plates and cups but you got
the wrong ingredients inside.
So my suggestion for you Ryan is that
you should read the Quran. See what the
Quran says about Esau. See the
connection between Esau and Muhammad
sallallahu alaihi wasallam. Because this
is not a
crapshoot. It's not just a matter of
taking a whole lot of words and whole
lot of little things and Esau and the
five prayers and hooking it all up
together in Ramadan and feeling good
about it. No, there's a system. There's
a science to it. If you find a child
that got hold of um what's those little
kits that children use and they buy uh
for science uh what do they call it? of
uh chemistry, a chemistry kit. See, if
he just finds and he start hooking up
and mixing this stuff, he might blow up
in his face. Well, the religion is a
system. It's a formula. You can't play
with it. You can't come up with your own
buffet. You got to follow it to the tea.
If you know exactly what Jesus Christ
did exactly, you got to do exactly that.
If you say you want to follow Esau, now
if that's the case, then
Esau, peace be upon him, he announced to
his followers that he only came to bring
the good news and part of that good news
to announce to them that a comforter, a
counselor would come. I understand. I
believe that's the Holy Spirit. So
that's another then that's another issue
for you. So, so Ryan, at this point now,
my advice for you is that what you
should continue to do is you should move
on from that 13, 15 year old experience
to the experience where you are right
now and understand that there's a whole
another stage. There's no ceiling on
this issue. Esau didn't bring no
ceiling. He brought a ticket. And the
Holy Spirit that you're talking about,
that was Gabriel.
So, we're not followers of Gabriel.
We're followers of that next prophet
that also Gabriel came to and brought
that scripture. You should read the
Quran. You should read the life of the
prophet peace and blessing be upon him
and not be afraid of it. Okay? And by
doing so, you may find out that the
natural progression of where you are
right now is Islam. That's just my
advice to you. Okay.