You wouldn’t say that there’s no God no no there is a God there is a God so you just don’t know who that God is yeah I I like to think of someone who follows truth okay like I just want to know whatever the truth is that’s science for religion or I believe
They’re one in the same let me pose the truth to you and see if you believe in it yeah so this universe this world the the cosmos that wall didn’t come about by nothing that there was a Creator behind that he created everything and all that exists this Creator when he created this
Creation he didn’t create it with no reason he put a purpose behind it and that purpose was that the human beings that he created he created us to know that Creator to worship that Creator to stay away from what he wants us to stay
Away from and to do what he wants us to do because it’s for our benefit because if you created a phone for example you know best how that phone operates yes so when he created us he knows best how we operate so for example if the Creator
Tells us hey alcohol is not good for you stay away from it it’s because there’s actually a wisdom behind it right yeah if he tells us hey um eating of pork is not good for you there’s probably a reason behind it and medical science has really recently come to discover its
Connections with cancer and all these other things right if there’s cigarettes stuff like that there’s a wisdom behind it right so that’s where we would want to follow what the Creator believes or tells us is right and wrong for us cuz it’s better for us now how do we know
What that right and wrong is this Creator in his infinite Mercy he sent many prophets and Messengers to help help guide us to what that truth that you’re looking for is so if we were born in the time of the Prophet Adam we would follow the prophet Adam if we were born
In the time of prophet Noah we would follow Prophet Noah if we were born in the time of prophet Moses or Jesus we would Pro we would follow them but right now in 2023 we’re born in the time of the Prophet Muhammad peace be upon him he’s the last and final messenger that
God sent in the series of prophets does that make sense this this Creator he didn’t send the prophets with an obscurity or a vagueness as to what is the truth he gave them Revelation some of the revelations you may have heard of before like the Torah
That was given to the prophet Moses the zabur The Book of Psalms that original book of Psalms that was given to the book The Prophet David the inil the good news or the gospel that original Revelation that was given to the prophet Jesus and the Quran that was given to
The prophet Muhammad peace be upon all of these prophets we as Muslims we love and we rever and we take these prophets as our role models now what is different about the Quran that final Revelation that I mentioned and those other books is the Quran is the only book that has
Been preserved in its original form so for example the Torah the earliest manuscripts they have are 2,000 years after that are that are still here with us the uh the inil the gospel that was given to Jesus Jesus spoke Aramaic and the earliest manuscripts they have are
In Greek so there is a discrepancy between what’s preserved and what what the prophet Issa or Prophet Jesus spoke spoke sorry does that make sense but the prophet Muhammad peace be upon him he spoke AR Arabic and we have the original Arabic in preserve to today like for
Example if I showed you this is the Quran this Arabic script here we have this preserved for 1445 years it has been recited first the first mode of memori uh first mode of preservation is through memorization and the second mode is through manuscripts and both we have
Going back to the prophet Muhammad peace be upon him time so that’s what makes that different compared to other religions so when we claim that we have the truth from that Creator we have that re ation preserved and that’s why we believe that Islam is
That true and only way of life does that make sense it’s sort of like untranslated untampered exactly exactly uncorrupted untampered with like you said direct from the Creator to us that’s that’s kind of like along the lines of what what my friend taught me about where it’s sort of
Like it’s a it’s the fundamental thing where everything else was sort of an interpretation exactly my understanding no you you’re you’re understanding exactly what we understand what we believe is that Islam didn’t start with the prophet Muhammad peace be upon Him Islam is that religion that God sent to
Mankind from the first human being because Islam basically means submission so the Muslim is the it’s an Arabic term that means the doer of that verb and that verb is which means to submit so a Muslim is somebody that submits Islam is the submission and that is what the religion
Is all about we submit our will and our desires to what the Creator wants for us we don’t follow our own desires our own subjective understanding because if we all like if me and you were to have a conversation of what’s right and wrong we would not come with you know we may
Agree on some things but we will disagree on others does that make sense yeah because we’re both we have our own experiences we have our own biases we have our own uh things that can tamper with our object by everything that came after our revolation exactly but if we
Believe if we base our our morality on what God wants for us then we know that we will have an objective standard of morality that the society can all follow and we will not have the chaos that we see today so for example like if we if
We sometimes we ask people how many genders are there there used to be only two goes into a whole thing right but now today in especially in where we’re living in Siri BC or in Canada in general if you say that you believe that there’s only two genders you are could
Be someone that’s perpetuating hate speech right doesn’t make yeah so that’s why when we allow everyone’s subjective reasoning to arrive at their own understanding of morality you get chaos like I just explained how there’s no there’s not just two genders right yeah and then everything kind of gets lost in know in
A white is State exactly exactly so that’s why we believe Islam Islam is a total way of life the prophet Muhammad peace be upon him when he was given the prophethood he has given us an explanation of all things that are that are um pertinent to our lives as human
Beings so we know how to clean ourselves we know how to pray we know how to eat we know how to deal with our spouses we know how to deal with our children we have a government system we have a court system we have a familial system and we
Have a society system of how to you know a school system system of how to educate our children all of these things is because we have a preserved prophetic tradition from the prophet Muhammad peace be upon it that’s why we believe that this religion is the truth more
Obviously other than that but we believe that because we believe in one creator that one creator doesn’t have any partners and like I said he sent many prophets and the last being the prophet Muhammad and that final Revelation has been preserved we believe that we have
That claim to say that we have the truth and if you’re looking for the truth I think you should read about it yeah yeah I’ve been reading about it yeah so what do you like if you don’t mind me asking like everything that I’ve said so far do
You agree with it do you disagree with it um I think I think it’s very uh I don’t know what like to disagree with like I I wouldn’t say I disagree with anything I think get I think it’s like an interesting um I like the idea that it’s a sort of like
A foundation for own time I kind of like that idea mhm mhm that um it’s like how you know like we’re all uh creating this discourse of like oh it’s it’s almost like saying like uh alcohol you know like alcohol can be good for you and
It’s like all these like well now you’re tearing apart at the bom of like what is yeah I like that there’s a source of what is but it’s like we’re not getting lost in a sort of like no I completely Kale’s bad to you and Kale’s not bad you
Yeah right yeah like I think what is it gluten gluten eggs at one time eggs was bad for you now it’s good for you again and it’s it’s and that’s when you base like when you were saying that you’re a spiritual person when you base your idea
Of right and wrong on science science is always changing it’s it’s always discovering new truths or new facts right but what we believe is that what you want to base your morality on specifically should be from the Creator and so if there is a religion or
A book making the claim that it is from the Creator it’s it renders like it’s worthy to at least read it and to like see what it says right right so for example the Quran right it makes a claim in the Quran it says that if this book
Was from anyone other than the Creator you would find many contradictions and errors in it right so like for example I don’t know if you’ve you said you were catholic right I’m not Catholic I sorry you said you were raised Catholic right so I have a Bible here if you don’t mind
Me showing you something this is like the holy King James uh Bible right King James version of the Bible it’s okay it’s it’s it’s like a standard one that’s used right yeah okay so if I showed you something here that many people when they ask us why don’t we
Believe that the Bible has been preserved right so there’s many transl it’s been translated yes but for differences in language exact words don’t exist exactly but like so there’s if if if we can agree that God’s word can’t be corrupted like original the original message from
God God has the ability to preserve his message it shouldn’t have any errors or contradictions in it do you right so here in 2 King verse uh chapter 24:8 it says here jeho chin was 18 years old when he began to Reign and he reigned in Jerusalem 3 months and his
Mother name was nush the daughter of elthan of Jerusalem so jehoich in here was 18 years old right more accomplished than at 18 right yeah cuz back then they had very short lifespans as you can imagine so they had to more yeah they had kids by they were
13 14 Leading Armies at the age of 15 right but he was 18 years old when he began to rain right so how old was he when he began to rain 18 right but now if we go to 2 Chronicles 369 same jeho chin here in 369 jeah chin
Was 8 years old when he began to rain and he rained 3 months and 10 days the same jeah Jan same ruling for 3 months and 10 days same everything yeah so and we have like I could show you a lot these are like I I have it all marked up
I used to be Christian myself I completely disregard yeah but that was just like that because I I because of that very reason it’s all very controver exactly so like that’s one other the reason why we show that to people is to show that if you’re basing your
Salvation on a book that has not been preserved it’s it’s it’s a faulty standard to have for yourself right so I would I I would rather people base their their morality or their salvation on a book that has been preserved from the Creator and so like I said if the Quran
The Quran makes the claim if it was from anyone other than the Creator you have many contradictions and errors in it but there is also a book of signs for the people to reflect and contemplate where did this information come from so for example the prophet Muhammad peace be upon him in 6th
Century Arabia he was not a learned person meaning he didn’t know how to read or write but in the Quran because he was given the Quran it talks about the development of an embryo and these verses were presented to Professor Keith Moore in the University of Toronto he’s a 10 year
Professor there he’s an embryologist and they asked the the professor you know about these verses about the stages of a development of an embryo how one term that they use in is in in Arabic is called comes from the word meaning to be attached or to be linked or to be
Something that leeches so this word is used to describe a stage of the Embry the embryological stage where the fetus after has become a group of cells it clings to the wall of the uterus and it leeches off of the mother’s nutrients the same way that a leech you understand
The the analogy so Professor Keith Moore when posed the question could this information have been known to the prophet Muhammad at 6th Century Arabia he said no we only know this development of the embryologic like the embryological stages because of the invention of the electron microscope
That allows us to look inside the womb of a woman and see that development of the stage at that time so how did the prophet Muhammad know that 1445 years ago without having that technology the claim is that it came from the Creator as a revelation there’s other information in
The Quran that points to this sign do you know the so there in the in the Quran there’s a chapter of the Quran called means the knocker okay so just follow me with this understanding cuz I’m hoping that I can blow your mind here cuz it blew my mind I’m
Already yeah that’s crazy soic means the knocker now this is supposed to describe a certain type of star in space it’s called a pulsar star now the reason why Allah the Creator described it as the knocker is that when you when NASA was able bble to
Get to close to one and they looked up um what does the sound of the Pulsar star come as this is the sound that they got let me see if I can pull that’s the sound of a pulsar star and we only know this now because we
Were able to send probes out into space that are able to collect auditory uh signals and and then relay that through um you know the use of our technology today to capture that information about what a pulsar sounds like we have something called a science of it’s where we grade the narrations
Like the telling of what the prophet Muhammad peace be upon him said from one person to the other so it’s an actual science where like for example there’s five conditions to a Hadith being accepted right one is that the Hadith has a chain this is like first thing it
Has a chain that goes back to the prophet Muhammad peace be upon him so like for example if I’m I’m born today or I’m born in 2023 if I said that I heard from George Washington it’s impossible for that to be a reality because I was not alive
During the time of George Washington right so if we see in this CH of narrators that somebody did not meet the prophet Muhammad peace be upon him and he’s saying that I heard from the prophet Muhammad peace be upon Him is already going to be labeled as a
Fabrication cuz he did not have the ability to hear that from the prophet peace be upon him maybe he heard it from a companion of the Prophet peace be upon him but already his his his narration quality is going to come into question because he’s saying something that he had no ability
To hear yeah if we take it even further and say okay um what was his biography itself was he somebody that was a open sinning person a person with bad character a person with bad memory was he somebody that was married did he have children was he a righteous person these
Like detailed biographies about these people within the chain we have their information so like for ex example when I bring it back to the George Washington example a historian narrating the the the facts about George Washington I don’t know anything about this person I don’t know if he was married when he was
Born any of that I just accept that there was a person named George Washington and he lived at that time in our Hadith Sciences that’s not accepted we have to know who’s narrating the story we have to know going by what somebody else said very much so they
Have to what we call they have to be they have to be someone that is strong in their reliability as a narrator and so one of the conditions is that the isnad the chain goes back to the prophet peace be upon him another is that the
Person is AD and that it is the the narration itself is free from errors so like it has to be something that doesn’t is free from blemish free from mixing of the word wording in the actual Hadith and it has to be something that is um
Not a rarity not a rare occurrence that other narrators have said the same thing otherwise it becomes more of a questionable reliability in the actual wording of what is said okay so like for example there’s a famous Hadith it’s in every single Hadith book verely The int the intentions oh
Sorry verely the ACT actions of whatever we do they are based on Our intention so if somebody intends good like for example one thing that we tell people is if you go to work and your intention is to provide for your family God will reward you based on your
Intention so you can actually be performing an act of worship by going and working wherever you’re working as long as your intention is to provide for your family because you have a requirement as a man you have a requirement to be the bread winner and provider for your family right this
Hadith is what we call a m a m Hadith a a famous narration very famous narration so because it has that level of reliability it is something that all of the books of Hadith have mentioned all of the books of what we call jurist Prudence they mention this Hadith as one
Of the first hadiths that are mentioned because it is so reliable it is so famous right and there’s other Hadith that are that are narrated at the level of what we call mut mut basically means that there’s so many paths for this narration these particular words that are coming from the prophet Muhammad
There’s so many um companions narrating the same thing that it is illogical for us to believe that they would all conspire to make the same lie because like it’s like a 100 people saying that they said that they saw something and this time at this hour and
You’re saying you know what it’s all a conspiracy like it’s like the flat earthers that are like you know like it’s it’s all a conspiracy like that person that I’m calling that’s really 3 hours ahead of me he’s in on it as well yeah like he’s just telling me it’s how
Much of conspiracy really right right so that’s so this is where I think that you would find the Hadith sciences and the the history and the authenticity of the preservation of the Quran very intriguing because it is based in an actual science that supersedes the level of realy that we take historical facts
Today like the um the sayings of George Washington for example I think that you would find it to be very very compelling and very invigorating to find out it sounds very interesting I I like learning about it like just wanting to educate myself yeah but what do you because like
I don’t want you to cuz I I don’t know how how much long how long you have but I’m just Ching you’re just chilling know okay cuz like I wanted to ask you right yeah you believe that there’s a God yes you when I asked you about uh where did
This information come from in the Quran is it safe for me to say that you believe that it didn’t come from anyone other than that God I think safe to say so then would it be safe to say that if that information is from the Creator he wouldn’t give it to
A false prophet he gave it to a true Prophet so then if I was say you know hypothetically say I was uh in charge of something and I created all this I would want to entrust my knowledge to somebody I can believe or carry that on truly and not in a
Distorted yeah yeah I’d like to think objectively that yeah would be okay cuz like you okay that’s awesome cuz like you saying that out loud means that you’re a Muslim in your core like the the difference between me and you is that I’m practicing aspects of the religion you’re practicing and but you
And me have the same belief in order to be Muslim we just have to we just have to have the same belief yeah and so what that means is that if you are if you are a Muslim in your belief and you take the shahada the shahada is just testifying
Out loud what you’ve just said that you believe that there’s a God and that he’s the only one worthy of worship and that you believe the prophet Muhammad is that last and final messenger that God sent if you testify that out loud on the day of judgment which is what we believe is
That this life is a test and there will be a day of judgment where we are going to be judged on what we used to do in this worldly life on that day which Catholicism Christianity Judaism all agree that there is going to be a judgment day on that Judgment day you
Will be saved from the Hellfire you have an opportunity to go to the paradise Heaven because you read about is a a bridge that will narrow yeah the or it will expand to make it easier for you exactly like that yeah yeah wow you know you know something I was watching some
YouTube videos yeah yeah yeah like um when you were talking about the uh the name but the the people who are um are graded on the authenticity of my life yeah yeah I remember seeing something yeah it reminded me of that I just didn’t want to interrupt okay yeah
Oh feel free to interrupt if it’s related sometimes I get interrupted and it’s like what are you talking about now no if it’s related no that’s good so the reason why I say that is because one thing is guaranteed to everyone in life all of us all these
People here we’re all guaranteed the same thing do you know what that is death and none of us know when our death is that’s the thing that where we’re trying to we want to save as many people from that death of going into the Hellfire before our time time is up and
So for that reason I encourage you to just testify out loud what you already believe everything that comes after like learning how to clean yourself learning how to pray to the Creator learning how to you know to to eat to dress whatever the case may be all of that is you know
Steps that come after like I myself wasn’t always Muslim I accepted Islam 10 years ago what you see today is a journey right yeah but it it started 10 years ago when I testified out loud the same belief that you have in your heart right now would you like to take your shahada
With me how would I do that or I gu yeah it’s very easy it’s very easy I would repeat some words for you that you already believe in English then you would repeat them back and then you enter the fold of Islam and you’re a Muslim and then we can repeat them in
Arabic so that that we’re following the prophetic tradition of all those Muslims that came before would you like to do that okay okay so Kiara is anybody forcing you to do this today no are you doing this out of your own free will and is
It and is and and is is there any like am I paying you is there any incentive for you to do this is there no no okay so I will have you repeat after me in English and once you’ve repeated after me in English you will have entered the fold
Of this land I’ll tell you when the end is so basic I’ll I’ll I’ll tell you what we’re I’m going to say first I’m going to say I bear witness that there is no God worthy of worship and Truth except Allah alone and I bear witness that the
Prophet Muhammad peace and blessings be upon Him is the last and final messenger that’s all we’re going to say that enters you into the fot of Islam okay okay okay I bear witness I bear witness that that there is no God there’s no God worthy of worship worthy of worship in
Truth in truth except except Allah alone alone alone with no partners with no partners and I bear witness I bear witness that the prophet Muhammad the prophet Muhammad peace and blessings be upon on him peace and blessings be upon Him is the last is the last and final and final messenger Allah
Abbar kiar you have just entered the fold of Islam you are like a newborn baby that has no sins on her slate everything that you have done before up to this point has been forgiven except those sins that are between you and people whatever you can to rectify those
Affairs with other people where you may have wrong them do your best but whatever sins is between you and Allah the Creator they have been forgiven you are like a newborn baby now I’m going to repeat what you just said in English in Arabic just so we’re following the prophetic tradition
Okayu Allah Allah I’m going to have it’s okay it’s okay you’re doing really goodu mam yeah allahar you have just enter the fold of Islam following the prophetic tradition you are now a Muslim you are saved on the day of judgment and now we will give you um some information about
How you can better practice your information I will give you if you have a phone I will give you my um wife’s contact information she’s also a new Muslim and so she will be able to get you resources and everything that you would need and we’ll also give you some
Books and some other things that will help you so these are really important so this is so bad it’s okay it’s okay you did really good for a first for first time hearing that this is the Quran in English so remember how I showed you one my friend recommended
Really the clear the clear Quran yeah yeah so this is for you now this is yours you already did this but this is just has some basics of our belief this is kind of like those signs that I talked to you about earlier about the um
The the mountains and the T pigs and all that it has that kind of displ and then this is a new Muslim guy so take this information and if you can take down my wife’s phone number then I’ll be able I’ll get her to contact you and send you
Other PDFs and things like that and then maybe she can have you meet her at the Masid and other sisters that are Muslim and then you can kind of join cuz there’s a Sisterhood in Islam the same way there’s a Brotherhood there’s a Sisterhood in Islam as well where
Sisters look out for one another and take care one another Islam is a gift it is the greatest gift on this Earth and just like a piece of cake if you were to eat a whole cake in one day you would get sick and you would not be able to
You know you’d be you’d be stuck on the couch take this gift of Islam the cake so be it little bit by little bit right people may come and tell you this is not allowed in the religion this is not allowed in the religion you’re going to
Be able to develop your practice of Islam only by you increasing in your closeness to that Creator the closer you get to that Creator the more your heart will want you to please that Creator right so it Al it’s all going to start first and foremost by the prayer the
More you are engaging in prayer the more you will want to follow the religion in its entirety right and that’s where my wife and others can teach you about how to perform these different um worship and they can send you links and all these other things right um we can kind
Of get you uh get get you supported in whatever way we can it was wonderful meeting you thank you so much for having the conversation and welcome to Islam and may Allah subhana tala the Creator I’m going to make Dua for you a prayer may Allah continue to bless you may
Allah continue to guide you it’s okay may Allah continue to make easy your affairs the religion may Allah increase you in your practice of the religion may Allah subh increase you in knowledge of the religion may Allah subhana make easy all of your Affairs may Allah increase
You in your abilities and your compr comprehension and in your aptitude of what is right and what is wrong may Allah subhana T make you a beacon of light for others to have their faith in the religion strengthen and may Allah subh T continue to be with you as you
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