we're giving dawa today at the Sugarloaf
Mountain and many many tourists from all
over the world are here so we're going
to be making da here and speaking to
them Ahmed is a member of Famas uh he is
someone involved in dawa he's been
involved in dawa in Brazil for years
he's learned Portuguese he's originally
from uh Egypt and uh he's just a really
really helpful D who's been with us on
this ground for most of this Mission
this man's fascinated that we're
actually fasting he's asking questions
about you don't drink water you don't
heat and he's really surprised at you
know uh us fasting basically in this
heat and I don't really think he's ever
come across a Muslim before preaching to
him before we believe that it got
changed over time because there's so
many different versions of the Bible so
the Catholics and the Ethiopians and
each one has different number of books
in
the the group behind us is from Famas
which is the local dawa organization uh
they're here to give dawa with us here
at the Sugarloaf Mountain um many of
these people are actually reverts and
inshallah these people are going to be
helping us when we're coming across
language barriers and speaking to people
here my name is Flavia and I ref for
Islam uh about 3 years ago I like I love
to make it out I I like to talk I think
it's so much necessary to talk about
slam for Brazilian people for me it's
the most necessary right now in daai in
Brazil is to
make the people know what is Islam so
you yourself what's your belief what do
you believe I believe in God but I don't
have a religion I try to study
understand and uh make a choice in the
future I don't have any religion true
what Islam teaches what the goal of life
is is to worship the Creator and
everything that you do in life yeah you
have many different things here
Education Health children love Fame
whatever you do in life if you have God
at the Forefront of your mind and you
want to be a good person you want to do
things for God that's worship even
smiling we believe in Islam is worship
yeah worship not just going to the
church worship is everything you do for
example you you go here you buy
something from her you buy something for
her for you to eat but also you're
giving her money and you have the
intention of helping her that's
worship and we've come across two people
who used to be Catholic they left
Catholicism and just believe in God but
don't believe in any religion and I
really do believe a lot of Brazilians
are going to turn away from religion
over time because Catholicism teaching
is that Jesus is God and I believe
unless Muslims are here calling people
to Allah then these people who just
believe in God and don't believe in
religion they'll never hear the message
of Islam so it's really really important
for future Muslims to come here and to
explain to people that there's another
way besides
Christianity we're just outside here in
mosque in Rio de Janeiro this mosque has
loads and loads of reverts they support
the poorer Muslims in this area as well
and we're going to go inside and see if
we can get some interviews with these
people um and also we're going to be
having our ifar here the first ifar in
Brazil I born as a Carlos in Honduras
Honduras Latin America Central America I
came from a very Catholic traditional
family alhamd became Muslim in Spain 6
years ago so one day I was checking on
internet with my Bo my flight back to
Colombia because I was Liv in Colombia
at that time and I was engaged to the
Colombia lady I was just checking in the
flight my uncle called and say okay I'm
going tonight to Granada you want to
come with me and I knew something's
going to happen I say okay yes I just
closed the computer and I took my
backpack and I went with him to
Granada the next day was a Juma in the
restaurant of his friend I have an
experience that I cannot even explain
with B because he you know I was feeling
like something was burning from my
inside and I heard someone calling me
come and in the end I thought I want
about I was I was going to die want to
pass away because I mean maybe I was
being a not good human being I mean not
good behavor in in life maybe my
interest were something different with
the good path was but
alhamdulillah after that experience in
that
night which I thought I was going to die
I decide
to have Islam in my life because I
really feel like someone was loving me
and that was Allah subhana wa tala and
it's most PR prer for my life Islam
there is many missing there's many
families breaking there are many Childs
apart from their families doing things
they are supposed not to be doing and we
need to come back here into dawa to put
them
together we were just speaking to a
rever brother who is a taxi driver and
his son became Muslim gave him dawa and
he became Muslim it's amazing to see the
number of reverts in this mosque and
just as we were speaking to him another
sister wanted to take shahada everybody
went over there and one of the brothers
said to me it was such a normal thing in
the UK we' be so surprised with the
shahada but here it seems almost normal
that someone takes a shahada and the
amazing thing is that she was even
wearing a hijab before taking
Shah
it's really interesting to hear the
stories of the reverts from Brazil and
something which is quite weird about
some of these stories is that some of
the things seem very Supernatural so for
example the story of one of the brothers
who Heard a Voice while he was watching
TV telling him to go find out about
Islam another person who felt this heat
before taking shahada and likewise I
remember in the UK many years ago I
heard the story of a brother who said
with his own eyes he saw the moon split
and we can't deny that gamat happened
that miracles happen and Allah spreads
his Dean with or without the Muslims and
it's amazing to see that he's doing his
magnificent work here in
Brazil