What's the background story?
Well, I've always known that Jesus was just a Prophet.
Excellent.
I know that no one told me, I know he prayed to the Father.
He never said he was... he never said he was God he never said that.
And I've had dreams about Muhammad ﷺ to be honest I never told you.
Can you describe some of them or the most prominent ones?
Yeah, when I was in the hospital having a heart operation Muhammad ﷺ was surrounding
me they were all laughing.
Like they're happy around you so you felt that when you were in a time of distress.
Yeah and so you had that experience which must be quite amazing and what attracted you
to Islam?
Or did you just feel like this must be the truth that this is the right path?
Yeah.
Excellent so you know we believe in Jesus Christ, he's a messenger of God for us and
we love him as Muslims.
Yes okay.
We don't reject him or anything like that but we only worship one God, the one who Jesus
worshiped.
When he said the only true God is the father.
Jesus said that yeah and I know that's right.
And we call him Allah in Arabic and Jesus in Aramaic would have also called him ʼElāhā
which is in Aramaic very similar you know the words there.
So sister how old are you if you don't mind me asking.
84 years old
Subhan-Allaah look how Allah has saved you at this age here when a person accepts Islam
all their previous sins are forgiven.
We won't delay any further our young brother here will do the shahada with you okay.
The shahada is the testimony of faith it's to say that there is no one worthy of worship
except Allah and that the prophet Muhammad peace upon Him is his final messenger and
Abraham and Jesus and Moses are all Messengers of God.
Yeah, I know that, I know that anyway, no one told me I know I just know it you just
know it.
So he's going to do it in Arabic he's going to say it slowly slowly and if you repeat
after him and then he's going to do it in English as well so uh we'll start with the
Arabic.
"Ash‐hadu anlaa ilaaha illAllah, wa ash‐hadu anna Muhammadan rasululah"
“I bear witness that there is no God except Allah And I bear witness that Muhammad (peace
be upon him) is His servant and messenger”
Welcome to Islam sister, all of your previous sins have been forgiven you start a new life
as a Muslim, and this is the assurance that we have of Paradise.
Every single Muslim will enter Paradise.
A friend told me that you can't be a Muslim if you're not born into it.
Incorrect that's absolutely incorrect you can become a Muslim at any age from any nationality
any background this religion doesn't discriminate on any of these grounds.
So once you take the shahada which is the first step here then a person like yourself
starts to pray, gives charity visit Mecca, fasting Ramadan all these things that you
can do.
We have a little gift for you here we have a Quran in English here a slightly larger
Quran it shows you the prayer and everything this is a prayer mat a special prayer mat
that has the Arabic words and everything in written down so you can to help you on that
journey.
If it's okay with you we can take a contact number so some sisters can get in touch with
you yeah someone you can call to ask for any questions or anything you want to clarify
you can take that off you just to help you with that.
How do you feel sister?
Yeah, I feel good.
How long has this desire been in your heart?
For a long time.
We're very happy for you we're very happy, if you had some sisters here we'd ask them
to come and give you a hug obviously you know in Islam yeah the opposite genders don't and
I'm through your husband would mind as well.
But we'll take your number and we'll get in touch with you okay.
Sisters welcome this sister to Islam.
At the age of 84 Mashallah.
Where are you from sisters?
Indonesia has the biggest population of Muslims in the world so you have a big family now
of billions of Muslims
You take care sister, as-salaamu'alaikum!