Were you brought up as a Christian?
Yeah, I was brought up Christian.
So for you, Jesus Christ would you believe in him, as a Messenger of God, he came with
a message.
Yeah, I know about that, about Isa ﷺ I mean does that make more sense for you?
Yeah I mean it makes more sense for me personally, and the concept of Jesus being God and dying
for our sins is that something which your...
Nah I don't believe that Jesus was God.
I do believe that he was a Prophet I believe that he was a good person but I... of course
yeah, we believe that.
I remember seeing something someone told me that he's gonna come back and he's going
to clear up how people were calling him God.
Yeah, I mean even...
I've just been looking at things like that, absolutely, absolutely.
So Jesus christ we believe he will come back and he will clarify the misconceptions regarding
him and kill the antichrist etc and just mention in the Bible as well that when he comes when
he returns and people come to him and say look we did XYZ in your name we prophesied
in your name, we cast out devils in your name and he will tell them to get away from me
that I don't know you yeah so these people who claim that they were doing it in
his name and this is even in in the Bible (Matthew 7:21-23)
it says that as well.
Now I mean you say you
believe these things you essentially have the beliefs of a Muslim inside your heart
that belief in the heart is nothing without taking that step and really that life-changing
step and becoming a Muslim and living your life as a Muslim because we believe that every
single Muslim will enter paradise guaranteed there are no two ways about it okay every
single
Muslim go to Paradise and a person who has this
beliefs but hasn't
said the shahadah essentially and live their life as a Muslim that it will be
a shame SubhanAllah (Glory be to Allah) for a person to
be that close and then not enter the fold
and to become Muslim is something that is fairly you probably looked into it, you say
the statement in Arabic and in English and it's something which we can do here which
we can do here and there's no pressure or anything like that yeah, but at the same time
you know no one's guaranteed tomorrow it's a fact okay and for someone that close to
to the truth and you say you believe these things you know I'm not asking you
to believe something you don't already believe you're telling me that you
believe that Jesus Christ is a Messenger from God you believe that Allah exists... and the
Prophet
Muhammad ﷺ peace be upon him who brought the Quran to us through revelation
Do you accept him like Abraham, Moses and Jesus
as a Messenger of God and you know we don't
worship the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ peace be upon him, we don't worship he's a Messenger
for us
what are your thoughts what you're thinking do you want... if you'd like you can
become Muslim today right now personally, the only thing I say to
last time the only thing that was stuck with me as I felt like I'm not being
the best version of myself you know I've done a lot of
things... wow, you know you remind me of another
brother who said a similar sort of thing... no I
mean Shyloh.. he said
the exact same thing that you said yeah you know he said he said you know
I don't think I'll be uh ... I don't want to become a Muslim and be a bad
one.
You know that shows sincerity and that's what we said to the brother it shows a person
has taken that decision seriously now, of course, look .. we are all bound
to slip up here and there, we're human beings okay but, the step that takes
a person into paradise is becoming a Muslim now of course
you will have your ups and downs you will still have a lot to learn etc that's fine
you still have that time to learn those things but taking that step
will enter you into paradise essentially and this is a fact and you know we can do that
today, would you like to take your shahadah?
Right now... yeah why not
yeah like I said it's something which you've already told me that you believe it's
already in your heart and that manifests as a statement on your tongue and as soon
as you
say that statement you become Muslim all your previous sins are wiped clean and
you start your new life as a Muslim so I’ll say in Arabic you repeat after me and then
I’ll do it in English with you okay so you say أَشْهَدُ أَنْ لَا إِلَٰهَ
إِلَّا ٱللَّٰهُ وَأَشْهَدُ أَنَّ مُحَمَّدًا رَسُولُ
ٱللَّٰهِ Ashadu an la ilaha illa Allah, wa ashadu anna Muhammadan rasool Allah.
and this means in English if you repeat after me
"I bear witness that there is no one worthy of worship except Allah, and I bear
witness that the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ is His last and final Messenger."
Allaahu Akbar!
(Allah is the greatest) Welcome to Islam.
So this brother he was a young brother and initially, we were just speaking about the
existence of God he acknowledged that God exists he was brought
up by the Christian faith, his family was Christian
and ultimately the background story was is
that he acknowledged that all the Prophets came with the same message to put it simply
you know it doesn't make sense that Jesus came with a separate message than all of the
other previous Prophets our religion Islam alhamdulillah is a simple one you know we
all believe that all the Prophets came with the same message to worship none other than
Allah and this made sense in his heart he accepted this message you know so it was all...
in terms of taking that step to accept Islam, he made a beautiful statement he said
I'm not sure I should accept it because I don't know how if I'm ready to accept because
I'm not ready to perform all the obligations that Muslim has so he's already thinking about
these actions SubhanAllah so this was the only thing sincerity that was holding him
back and he said he wanted to look further in discuss it with his friends
that are Muslim so he came back Alhamdulillah this
week and decided to take his shahadah.