i'm honored to be next to a really
amazing family uh brother jose you did
something amazing what did you do last
year that is correct uh last year almost
around this almost around this time
i embraced it islam i took my shahadah
alhamdulillah
right uh you know that's the best deed
that's the best thing that any person
can do
and that was the best day of your life
it was it was and i i will never forget
it it's like i was i was born again like
you know like something else just
happened it was just it was amazing it
was amazing
and you have a wonderful family over
here my family did you have you all also
embraced islam
yes
alhamdulillah
when did you guys convert it to islam
third of march oh okay so just maybe two
months ago yes
so let me start really quickly with
brother jose you know there are so many
faiths out there so many disbeliefs out
there right so many attractions out
there
people don't look into religion to begin
with nowadays right there's so many
distractions so what made you as an
intelligent person
look into islam and alhamdulillah last
year embraced islam well you know what
my my journey started with uh with with
my kids questioned me
asking me questions about about god and
how how everything started from the
beginning i personally i didn't have
them i i didn't know what to tell them i
told them you know what i don't know at
the moment right now but uh let me let
me look into it let me let me start
asking a question myself you know and uh
it took me a while you know i saw
different religions a lot of them
especially the one that i was raised
with which was uh i was i was catholic
uh
my religion didn't make any sense at all
because uh the whole thing about my real
of the religion that uh that i was in
was
that you uh we used to worship to a lot
of people you know and that's one of the
things that i i didn't want to tell my
kids that because i knew from my heart i
knew that that was that was not right
that was not okay that was wrong you
know which faith when you say your
religion what was that it was catholic
it was catholics and so there are many
saints in there right saints uh
just
worshiping idols you know it's pretty
much that you know keeping show i just a
lot of worshipping idols so what kind of
questions that you guys were asking your
dad that he was not able to answer
tell us some question here go for it
please under yeah um like why do we have
to worship a certain god or a certain
saint in order to like receive a type of
a blessing or reward from them
alhamdulillah such an intelligent
question uh so why did you ask that
question because um well my grandma she
we she would take us to church and she
would tell us like oh make sure you pray
pray so that way you can like um receive
money receive something a blessing um a
blessing
and i was just like um why do we have to
worship to this one like to so many
there was so many that we had to like
worship joseph and sent james and said
paul right and so many saints ain't
saying sensei
so suppose if someone asked you the
question you know mashallah now you are
a muslim so suppose if someone asked you
the same question now one of your
friends in school
why would you how would you say to them
that you know we should not be
worshiping them or taking them as
mediators but only worshipping the one
creator what would your advice to them
um i would tell them like how my dad
would like tell me like
like allah he's the one who created us
he is able to like
give us the blessings like there's no
reason for us to worship the saints
because um
allah is like the only our creator he's
able to like give us those blessings if
he asks we ask for forgiveness for him
so
allah is like our our one god that we
would worship i shall love you they're
so intelligent right
right
one more thing that you can add is you
know allah is all knowing he's all
hearing why do we need to go through if
you know second person third person he
can hear us and he can listen to us and
he knows what's in our hearts and minds
so there is no reason to go
through any mediator not even jesus
peace be upon him not even muhammad
peace be upon him and definitely not a
dead person who is a saint or what not
right exactly good question and
mashallah good answer that you gave to
them
so your wife mashallah right she also
reverted to islam
so if i can ask you you can give her the
mic so what was the most interesting
thing that you found in islam that made
you know wow let me look into it
what was that it was really about peace
you know i seen my husband when he first
started
i said he changed he changed a lot
for the good right yes yes okay very
good masha'allah yes
so for me it was more about finding
peace
yes
you know i always advise this
there's like one person who converts to
islam in a family then they ask me the
advice you know my mom is not a muslim
here at my dad or my you know spouse my
children what should i do how should i
convince them i say to them now become
the best family member right
so when once they see the transformation
within you
automatically they may be thinking you
know what maybe there is something
special about islam that had such a
profound change in my family member and
i have seen many many families by the
way right they all with allah's guidance
they all came to islam alhamdulillah
so how about yourself suppose if someone
asks you the question uh what's your
name
jocelyn
marshall so jocelyn if someone ask you
the question one of your friends that
you know you converted to islam two
months ago
why should i look into islam right if
your friend asked you that question what
would you say
um it's just like
it feels like a lot of joy and like
um oh it makes you like more happier
more like you you just know what to do
and know what to say
a lot of different
it's just simple
it's just simple worship one okay ruby
wow wow what do you have in your hand
an alligator alligator wow do you wear
the hijab to school sometimes yes
masha'allah i'm so proud of her right
alhamdulillah so i suppose if your
friend asks you the question
you know rose why are you wearing the
hijab that piece of cloth on your head
what would you say to them
i will say it's because i'm muslim
and
because i want to mash allah yes
i wear for allah allah
right that's the first and the most
important thing anything else you want
to say you know what is the best thing
that you like about islam everything is
good but what do you say the best
the best thing
of islam is
how much peace there is
how much
we can
relax
we can
focus
and that makes you feel good right that
peace and that focus and the discipline
marshall i think uh i want to hear from
you right what's your name and what
grade are you in
my name is jordan and i'm in fifth grade
like michael jordan like that
that kind of said jordan
yeah
what sports do you like i like football
basketball and
baseball mashallah what sport is left
if one of your friends approach you
saying that you know what i
i see wrong things about muslims and
islam on the tv and the social media how
would you uh what would you say to that
person um
i would
well my dad would always say it's not
you don't have to follow the people you
have to follow the quran
very good very good masha'allah then you
will give them a copy of the quran right
either spanish or english just as i
asked jordan what advice would you give
to those people who may have who may not
know islam they may have fear of islam
right what would you say one good advice
from you mashable i would say
just take your eyes off the media
because the media just portrays islam as
being something that it is not you know
educate yourselves on what islam
actually is islam actually islam is is
it's a it's a submission a submission to
to to one god
you know just educate yourselves uh look
into it which book would you recommend
them the most important book in the
whole world the quran the quran you guys
agree with that yes yes the quran is
actually the quran it's it's uh it's a
book that was that was uh that came down
you know and it was not for just uh
muslims it's it's it's for it's it's a
book for humanities masha allah masha
that's very good alhamdulillah so this
is an advice to each single person out
there right our non-muslim brothers and
sisters out there
uh islam came for all of humanity
because allah is the lord and the god
for the whole creation and quran is not
only for the muslims the arabs and the
hispanic or indian pakistani quran came
as a guidance for all of humanity so we
can send you a free copy of the quran
you can give us a call at 1 800 662
islam or go to gainpeace.com
i do pray you know for the whole family
may allah especially for the children
here may allah make you guys a righteous
keep you pious keep you guided keep you
strong in islam and i do pray that may
allah make each single one of you each
single one of us scholars of islam
ambassadors of islam