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day in today's video we'll be reacting to eat pray love author elizabeth gilbert tells her story
to oprah winfrey how she sees uh islam this video was suggested by uh bogus
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stay tuned guys we'll be right back with the video welcome back guys and sean we're gonna get start
with a video momentarily and at the end of the video i'll be sharing with you my observation
and reaction so please make sure you stay until at the end with that said we're gonna get start
with our video so describe a moment when you experienced true and pure grace and you knew it
i was in indonesia um i was going through my horrible divorce i was 31. i was in a terrible
depression i took myself to this tiny little island and decided i needed to spend 10 days in
silence to try to have a truth and reconciliation hearing with myself because i was so full of shame
and pain i decided i wouldn't speak not a word for 10 days and i didn't know anybody would got
a hut on a beach in this tiny little very poor fishing island off of lombok in indonesia and i
got terribly terribly sick with food poisoning and my plan was to walk around the island every
day because it was a tiny little island and there was this one woman this muslim woman
i mean when i say this island was poor i mean what these people fished that day is what they
ate for dinner that night you know and this one woman on the other side of this island used to
see me walking and she would put her hand on her heart and smile at me when i walked
by and i would do the same to her and then i got really sick and i was stuck in my cabin dehydrated
terrified i actually thought i had malaria you know far away from anyone who knew me
and this woman came and found me something in her knew that i wasn't well she'd seen me and she knew
i wasn't doing well anyway but when she didn't see me on my daily walk she came and knocked on my
door and and saw the condition that i was in and went like this and came back an hour later with
fresh food and fresh water for me and i just started crying in her arms and she held me in
her arms like i was her child and and just rocked me and took care of her do you even know her name
didn't know her name still don't and and by the way she is my face of islam
whenever you know whatever conversation in the world is ever happening about islam she
is my face of islam that woman who went across an island knocked on every door in this little row
of cabins till she found the person who she knew was suffering and came and took care of me oh my
god that was the most grace i have ever received in my entire life because she had no relationship
with me whatsoever it owed me nothing this is truly god working through somebody's kindness
subhanAllah subhanAllah that's why the prophet pbuh said the biggest jihad of the jihadist right
how we control ourselves how we deal with other people and this reminds me of the hadith of the
prophet pbuh where somebody used to basically bug him on the way to the masjid every morning through
used to throw stuff at him used to put objects on his on his path and every day for example he would
either remove the objects or if his clothes get dirty he would go back home change and then come
back uh one day that person was not there to bug him so the prophet pbuh tried to find out and
ended up going to this person's house and going in there and seeing that they are
sick and questioning like i didn't see you today friend just wanted to see how you are
so subhanAllah he approached them and and mentioned to them or referred to them as his friend and
that's when they basically embraced the islam so our characters first of all a reminder for
myself first our characters is really really important because that's what people see as
an example and as a face of islam and uh you know similarly here she didn't know who the lady was
she just used to see her walk for example in a little island right and they had no interaction
they didn't even speak the same language and she didn't see her one one morning and she went and
tried to search for her and see where she is and try to bring her water and food right and
it had changed her perception of what it what islam is because that's what
true islam is right so we all have to um basically work towards being that example
and like i said this is a reminder for myself first similarly for example when we go to a store
and whether we talk to a cashier or a manager they're that face of that organization if we
have bad experience we basically blame the whole organization right and if we have good experience
we like that organization so similarly in islam maybe we might be the only person that somebody
interacts to so that could be i guess the example of islam that they see right so
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