Do you want to take your "shahada" (become Muslim) today and return back to Islam?
Yeah.
Are you ready to repeat after me? Yeah.
Ok bismillah, my sister.
**sniffle**
I want to cry... I want to cry...
Alhamdulillah! (praise be to Allah) Alhamdulillah for the blessing is Islam!
So you repeat after me, I'm gonna say it in Arabic and then I will repeat in English
so you can understand it
Bismillah (in the name of Allah)
“Ashadu an la ilaha illa illa-ilah, wa ashadu anna muhammadan rasul ullah.”
Ok so I'll repeat in English
"I bear witness that there is no God worthy of worship except Allah, and I bear witness
that Muhammad ﷺ is his final Prophet and Messenger."
Alhamdulillah sister. Alhamdulillah
Welcome back to Islam!
May Allah keep you steadfast. Ameen.
May Allah guide you and your family. Ameen.
And may Allah grant you Jannah
Maasha'Allah this sister her name is actually Fatima she's from Nigeria and she was a Muslim
before but she had left Islam yeah so Alhamdulillah we had a discussion with her and then based
on the discussion we told her look, you're not living in Islam because of your experiences
with other people, you're in Islam because of yourself you know
whatever do good you do it's for yourself and whatever harm you do, you're harming yourself
so you're in the religion for yourself so not based on experiences you had with
your neighbors whatever she had... she probably had a lot of not good experiences with other
Muslims and this is why it's another important thing that the way we conduct ourselves can
either put people away from islam and this sister subhanAllah she used to fast, she's
done hajj... she's done all this we discovered all these things so uh we told her look do
not despair from the mercy of Allah we told her about the story of the man in the desert who
had all these provisions on the camel and they returned back ... you know.. and he found
his camel and we gave her the story about that
and Masha'Allah her heart softened up and she said look I want to come back to Islam.
We asked her do you want to come back to Islam and she said yes, are you ready, she said
yes are you ready to take your shahadah then she took shahadah
again. So we ask Allah to keep us steadfast upon
the haqq (truth) and alhamdulillah she said she was so happy she said she's going to tell
her brother who is a Muslim that I've come back to Islam Allahuakbar! (Allah is the Greatest)
It's a beautiful ending masha'Allah you know. May Allah keep her steadfast.
What was the final point with that sister obviously, you spoke to her for some time
and um there were many points in there that she was like feeling negativity, you know
what was the point that she pushed her back towards masha'Allah. The final point was how we made
her feel, she said that she's never felt like this when she speaks to other Muslims you
know so it just shows how important it is when you... how we conducted ourselves as
a Muslim because we don't represent ourselves like we represent Islam you know we're Muslim.
In the brief moment, I spoke to her what I felt she was finding she didn't have a problem
Islam.. yeah ...she had a problem with the Muslims, exactly and this is often the case the people,
unfortunately, we don't do justice to the religion hundred percent you know we have to do more
justice to the religion because everything she felt she goes look my neighbors they
broke off from me they do this to me they're not like the community... yeah. Afterward,
we had a conversation with a guy from Malaysian he said the same thing, he said, oh the way
the Muslims act so this is a real lesson for us as Muslims. How we act causes people to
look negatively towards our religion.
and this is represented in every action that we do represents Islam and this is you know..
this is not... people will learn their Islam from us, you know.. that is their Islam how
we behave this is their Islam. you know one thing I saw that changed her her vibe was
the last sermon of the Prophet ﷺ
She hadn't heard of it, she didn't know what it was
and as soon as we showed it to her did you see how her.. yeah... that switch in her yeah
she was like wow! because what does it say no Arab is superior no a non Arab and when we
see in the world the Arabs acting superior to the non-Arabs when we see blacks and whites
and whites and blacks fighting and all this sort of... she was speechless, she was speechless
Ameen. let us be the ambassadors for Islam, I mean because we have a job to do.
All Muslims and if anyone watches this they need to know that their actions represent
Islam and not just standing here on the street but actually in their daily lives and also
the people that are looking into islam we can obviously give them the best representation
but also people that are looking into islam they need to look and go into the source look
learn islam from the religion not from the actions of people and of course we can do our own
We're flawed, let's face it we are flawed
we will make mistakes in our daily lives we will make mistakes you know countless mistakes
because insan (humans) is like that who's going to make mistakes yeah
but the ones that were perfect Allah is perfect and the prophet ﷺ is his example who is perfect
and the book that was sent as a revelation is perfect so follow those and that's the
key.