Practical Example (Module 2. Part 15) — Transcript

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1. 0:01in this video we will be going through a
2. 0:04role play of a full conversation from
3. 0:06the beginning all the way to the end the
4. 0:08brother who will be helping us with this
5. 0:09is actually a brother from Poland who
6. 0:12took his shihad a few years ago now here
7. 0:14you will notice that in this
8. 0:15conversation we're going to basically be
9. 0:17going through the best case scenario as
10. 0:19someone who is actually agreeing with
11. 0:21every single thing that we are saying
12. 0:22throughout the conversation all the way
13. 0:24till the end what he actually takes his
14. 0:25shahada by the end of the video now
15. 0:28there are two points that I want you to
16. 0:29pay attention to here the first one is
17. 0:31although here in this scenario we're
18. 0:33going with the best case scenario of
19. 0:34someone already agreeing in case the
20. 0:36person in front of us does not agree
21. 0:38with any of the points we will already
22. 0:39learn what to do in the next module the
23. 0:41what if module the second thing is when
24. 0:44it comes to the invitation part to the
25. 0:46shahada taking moment you will notice
26. 0:48that the person there is going to
27. 0:49actually be provide resisting a bit and
28. 0:50providing different arguments but I'm
29. 0:52not sure should I be able to do it but I
30. 0:54come from another country this is not my
31. 0:56religion this is not my culture and we
32. 0:58want basically to show you what kind of
33. 0:59arguments we use and how we deal
34. 1:01actually with this scenario as well as
35. 1:03we already discussed in other videos so
36. 1:05please pay attention to this
37. 1:07conversation and we hope you'll find a
38. 1:08lot of benefit in it Bismillah
39. 1:12welcome Hi how are you thank you we are
40. 1:15most volunteers here we share with
41. 1:17people free information about the mosque
42. 1:19and Islam where do you come from
43. 1:21nice meeting you is this your first time
44. 1:23here or you have been here before it's
45. 1:25my first time actually in Turkey do you
46. 1:27like it so far
47. 1:30which mosque did you visit before this
48. 1:32one
49. 1:36okay the tourist attraction here very
50. 1:39nice very big very impressive which one
51. 1:41do you like more this one or higher
52. 1:42Sofia you can be honest
53. 1:45better it's um
54. 1:48the other one is a bit more touristy
55. 1:50it's more quiet as well right
56. 1:52exactly
57. 1:54this is my favorite mosque as well this
58. 1:56actually is one of the biggest
59. 1:57historical mosques in Istanbul it
60. 1:59actually takes about 8 000 people during
61. 2:01prayer time
62. 2:02and you should see it when it's full
63. 2:04actually when you come to these Moses
64. 2:06are always something that makes this
65. 2:07most special right like you notice when
66. 2:09we come here we always start by taking
67. 2:11our shoes off do you know why we take
68. 2:13our shoes off
69. 2:15just to keep this nice carpet clean
70. 2:18exactly is the concept of cleanliness
71. 2:20actually but the point behind it is that
72. 2:22when we think about its cleanliness we
73. 2:24don't look at it only as physical
74. 2:25cleanliness we look at it as spiritual
75. 2:27cleanliness as well if you don't it's
76. 2:29actually when you are coming from
77. 2:30outside there's these like water taps
78. 2:32with people washing their hands face
79. 2:34arms Etc so before the prayer we do that
80. 2:37because also is the concept of
81. 2:38cleanliness both physically and
82. 2:40spiritually so for example when you see
83. 2:42someone for example washing their hands
84. 2:43we are told to remind ourselves what did
85. 2:45I use these hands for did I use them for
86. 2:48good to help others did they use them
87. 2:49for bad to to cause something bad for
88. 2:52someone else so you're always in this
89. 2:54remembrance and the beauty behind it
90. 2:55once you come inside the mosque you come
91. 2:57from that door you always have these
92. 2:59lines on the on the carpet
93. 3:01these lines on the carpet actually once
94. 3:03the prayer starts people start filling
95. 3:04these lines from the beginning all the
96. 3:06way to the end
97. 3:07and when people stand on these lines to
98. 3:08pray they actually stand shoulder to
99. 3:10shoulder next to each other
100. 3:12it's like one family basically that once
101. 3:14you touch the person next to you like
102. 3:15regardless of where you come from
103. 3:16basically once you come from that door
104. 3:18if you are rich or poor black or white
105. 3:20young or old it doesn't matter you come
106. 3:23first and you start filling these lines
107. 3:24one by one that's why actually when we
108. 3:26speak about this cleanliness it's not
109. 3:27only removing the the dirt from your
110. 3:29shoes but it's also actually removing
111. 3:31that dirt from the heart as well that we
112. 3:33are all equal before God that's one of
113. 3:35the main ideas behind it
114. 3:37okay that's interesting I would never
115. 3:39have thought about that but it makes
116. 3:40sense I'm happy to hear this
117. 3:43actually another interesting thing maybe
118. 3:44that you have noticed here actually let
119. 3:46me ask you this like when you would come
120. 3:47to the mosque what is one thing that you
121. 3:50would have expected to see on the walls
122. 3:51of the mosque but you cannot see here
123. 3:59pictures of holy people
124. 4:01exactly
125. 4:03exactly like no pictures no images
126. 4:06do you know why we have no pictures and
127. 4:08images
128. 4:10no
129. 4:11okay so you notice that we don't have
130. 4:13pictures and images but instead of this
131. 4:15we have all these writings calligraphy
132. 4:17right so you see all the writings you
133. 4:18see up there these are all verses from
134. 4:20the Quran in Arabic
135. 4:21but you see the big circles right you
136. 4:24said you went to hire Sofia right you
137. 4:26remember the huge circles there these
138. 4:28are actually the same as well these are
139. 4:29names not verses
140. 4:31okay so you see the two at the center
141. 4:33right right the one that you see on the
142. 4:35right when you read it in Arabic from
143. 4:37right to left it actually reads Allah
144. 4:39God did you hear this name before sure
145. 4:42yes exactly so Allah is actually the way
146. 4:45we refer to the one and only God
147. 4:47but we know like different people in
148. 4:49different languages those use different
149. 4:51words to refer to God like you can say
150. 4:52God in English you can say bog in
151. 4:54Russian you can say dios in Spanish how
152. 4:57do you say God in Polish
153. 4:59that's close to Russian actually that
154. 5:01far off
155. 5:02so the thing with it is that Allah is
156. 5:05not the translation of the word God to
157. 5:06Arabic you notice there are actually
158. 5:08about two billion Muslims all over the
159. 5:10world the majority of them don't even
160. 5:12speak Arabic like Muslims here in Turkey
161. 5:14in Pakistan Indonesia Etc Muslims in
162. 5:17Europe Muslims in America Muslims in
163. 5:18Africa sometimes but we all actually
164. 5:20prefer to use the word Allah
165. 5:22the reason behind it is that actually
166. 5:24the word Allah has a very unique name in
167. 5:26Arabic it has no gender form it has no
168. 5:28plural form so it is not like for
169. 5:31example god goddess or God Gods it's
170. 5:34like when you say Allah in a very pure
171. 5:36way you're referring to the one and only
172. 5:37God
173. 5:38that's one of the main ideas behind it
174. 5:40actually this is one of the reasons why
175. 5:42we have no pictures and images inside
176. 5:44the mosque because we believe God is
177. 5:46beyond our imagination
178. 5:48like think about it this way think about
179. 5:50the most beautiful picture in the whole
180. 5:52world
181. 5:53if I put it here that picture will still
182. 5:55have a color a race a face a gender
183. 5:59no I believe God is beyond all of this
184. 6:02we don't want to limit god with the
185. 6:04limitation of what we can think of of a
186. 6:06face nose and eyes Etc that's why when I
187. 6:09say Allah I know that I'm not referring
188. 6:11to a he or a she I'm not referring to a
189. 6:13plural we're just referring to the one
190. 6:14and only God and when you say Allah it's
191. 6:16like you're referring to it and the most
192. 6:17pure way possible we refer to Allah
193. 6:20because this is how I know God the most
194. 6:22no pictures no images
195. 6:24I said let me ask you this what do you
196. 6:26know about God
197. 6:27well I mean what I know is what I
198. 6:31learned I guess from my culture from My
199. 6:33Religion but I don't really this is not
200. 6:35something really that I believe in but I
201. 6:37do believe in something higher power I
202. 6:39guess
203. 6:41yes something higher than us than this
204. 6:44world but
205. 6:46do I believe what the church says not
206. 6:48really and
207. 6:49so I don't know I'm kind of
208. 6:52not sure okay no that's fine I mean one
209. 6:55of the things actually behind believing
210. 6:56in one and only God is we want to know
211. 6:58more about God that's the main idea
212. 7:00behind it because yes we know that there
213. 7:02is something bigger we know that there
214. 7:03is something
215. 7:04much above everything that we know in
216. 7:06the universe actually the way we know
217. 7:08about God we know God is one and only
218. 7:10who created us and the whole universe
219. 7:12has no beginning no end no father no son
220. 7:15and there is nothing like God
221. 7:17because at the end of the day I think
222. 7:20one of the problems in the world is that
223. 7:22when we don't have the concept of God in
224. 7:23a pure way it starts being something
225. 7:25that actually corrupts the whole thing
226. 7:27the main idea of believing in one and
227. 7:29only God in this pure way no pictures no
228. 7:31images is that it becomes something that
229. 7:33actually brings us together believing in
230. 7:34one and only God rather than being
231. 7:36something that divides us because think
232. 7:38about it this way like if I am told to
233. 7:40draw a picture of God
234. 7:41then me myself I'll be basing that based
235. 7:44on my culture on what I saw in my life
236. 7:46before and probably that picture of God
237. 7:47who looks something more suitable for me
238. 7:49not you if you do it you do the picture
239. 7:51it's gonna be more like you if they do
240. 7:53the pictures can be more like them but
241. 7:55then no the whole idea behind believing
242. 7:57in one and only God is that he's the one
243. 7:58who created all of us together the God
244. 8:00that I talk to and I'm here is the same
245. 8:02God that you talk to and you are in
246. 8:03Poland the same guy that they talk to
247. 8:05when they are in Russia at the same time
248. 8:07when they are in China because this is
249. 8:09one and only God that's the main idea
250. 8:10behind it actually usually the question
251. 8:13comes how do we know who that God is
252. 8:17which is I mean
253. 8:18I usually sometimes like think about it
254. 8:20this way like let's say that I want to
255. 8:22do business with you okay I don't know
256. 8:24you we just met but I ask people about
257. 8:26you and they tell me this guy he's
258. 8:28actually like one meter 80 centimeters
259. 8:31tall he is with like a red beard and
260. 8:35with like blue eyes and whatever
261. 8:37this is not very helpful for me to do
262. 8:38business with you but if they tell me
263. 8:40actually this guy is a very honest guy
264. 8:42he's a truthful guy you can trust this
265. 8:43guy don't worry about it he's not gonna
266. 8:45cheat on you or whatever that's what I
267. 8:47need to know now the same thing with God
268. 8:49it is not about the physical thing
269. 8:51because we know God is beyond our
270. 8:52imagination we can never limit god with
271. 8:54what we can think of
272. 8:55but actually it's about how does God
273. 8:57deal with us that's why there's a very
274. 8:59beautiful Concept in Islam it's called
275. 9:00the 99 names of God
276. 9:02it's like you know when we meet each
277. 9:04other as human beings what's the first
278. 9:05thing we ask each other about
279. 9:08our names usually which actually reminds
280. 9:10me I forgot to ask you about your name
281. 9:12what's your name my name is Greg Greg
282. 9:14Abdullah very nice to meet you I should
283. 9:16have asked you before that's fine
284. 9:19so actually the thing with it is the
285. 9:21same thing with God God introduces
286. 9:23himself in the Quran with 99 names
287. 9:25and these 99 names of God actually
288. 9:27they're like God is the most merciful
289. 9:29the most loving the most beautiful the
290. 9:32most powerful the all-knowing the most
291. 9:34just the all-hearing the All-Seeing 99
292. 9:37of them basically so this is how we know
293. 9:40about God did you actually read any
294. 9:42parts of the Quran before
295. 9:45actually that's very interesting because
296. 9:46when you see the first chapter of the
297. 9:48Quran let me actually show you here so I
298. 9:50have like on the phone you can probably
299. 9:51see it from here
300. 9:53so when you see here the first chapter
301. 9:55of the Quran this is the first page of
302. 9:57the Quran when you open it from here so
303. 9:59it opens from right to left so this is
304. 10:01the first chapter you see this is like
305. 10:02the Polish translation so you see it
306. 10:04says by the name of God the most
307. 10:06gracious the most merciful right so
308. 10:09God's this is the first thing when you
309. 10:10open the Quran and this is one of the
310. 10:12most repeated names in the Quran that
311. 10:14God is the most merciful so God keeps
312. 10:16telling us that he's a god of Mercy now
313. 10:19think about it this way for us as human
314. 10:21beings we also can be merciful like
315. 10:23a mother can be merciful for her son or
316. 10:26this is the thing that we think about
317. 10:27the most when you say Mercy think about
318. 10:29it this way let's say you and your
319. 10:31friend
320. 10:32and you are a merciful person
321. 10:34let's say your friend comes to you and
322. 10:36they make a mistake for the first time
323. 10:38and they tell you sorry I didn't mean it
324. 10:40will you forgive them first time right
325. 10:43let's say tomorrow the same friend same
326. 10:46mistake again will you still forgive
327. 10:48them I will try it becomes a bit harder
328. 10:51now think about it this way third time
329. 10:53fourth time hundredth time will you
330. 10:56still forgive them
331. 10:59all right
332. 11:01please have a limit as human beings when
333. 11:03we say God is the most merciful there is
334. 11:05no limit to God's mercy for us as human
335. 11:08beings We Are Not Angels we keep doing
336. 11:10mistakes but what makes us special
337. 11:12actually is that always we have this
338. 11:14Choice after making a mistake do I
339. 11:16insist on it or do I go and ask and
340. 11:18repent
341. 11:19the main idea behind it actually is that
342. 11:21God keeps that door of Mercy always open
343. 11:23for us no matter how much we make of
344. 11:25these mistakes God is always there we
345. 11:27can always take a step back and we can
346. 11:28always ask for forgiveness
347. 11:30all of this Greg is actually one of the
348. 11:3299 names of God imagine how it is when
349. 11:35you know about more and more and more
350. 11:36and more
351. 11:37but the most beautiful thing behind it
352. 11:39and the most important thing actually in
353. 11:41Islam is that the relation between you
354. 11:43and God should always be a direct
355. 11:45one-to-one relation with no one in the
356. 11:47middle
357. 11:48you remember when I talked about people
358. 11:49praying shoulder to shoulder yeah so
359. 11:52when the prayer starts here together in
360. 11:53the mosque one person will take one step
361. 11:55forward the Imam leading the prayer okay
362. 11:58now the beautiful thing about Islam is
363. 12:00that that Imam is not a special person
364. 12:03I can be the Imam my friend can be the
365. 12:05Imam if you know how to pray you know
366. 12:07how to be the Imam
367. 12:08why because we don't believe that there
368. 12:10is any hierarchy in that sense between
369. 12:12us and God if God creates us all God
370. 12:14gives us all an equal chance to reach
371. 12:16him so the most important thing behind
372. 12:19it is that no matter what you do we
373. 12:21believe in one and only God and that
374. 12:23relation between you and God should
375. 12:24always be a one-to-one relation with no
376. 12:25one in the middle there is no Imam in
377. 12:27the middle no priest in the middle no
378. 12:29Pope in the middle because we believe
379. 12:31the minute we start putting people
380. 12:32between us and God corruption starts the
381. 12:35whole thing just goes down it doesn't
382. 12:36work this way sure yeah sounds good yeah
383. 12:40that makes sense for sure okay I'm happy
384. 12:42to hear this so all of this that I told
385. 12:44you about so far Tesla was the first
386. 12:46Circle right now you have the second
387. 12:48Circle there it's also another name
388. 12:50actually let me ask you do you have a
389. 12:52guess what whose name do you think will
390. 12:53be up there
391. 12:55God
392. 12:57your prophet
393. 13:00you know the name exactly Muhammad the
394. 13:02prophet the messenger actually for
395. 13:04Muslims We Believe Muhammad peace be
396. 13:06upon Him is the last prophet and
397. 13:07messenger that was sent to deliver the
398. 13:09message from God
399. 13:10but the interesting thing actually
400. 13:11foreign
401. 13:12is a human being he's not God he's not
402. 13:15Son of God he's a human being what makes
403. 13:17him special he was the last one chosen
404. 13:19by God to deliver this message to
405. 13:20humanity the nice thing is actually to
406. 13:23be Muslims it is not enough to believe
407. 13:25only in Muhammad peace be upon him to be
408. 13:27Muslims we have to believe in all the
409. 13:29prophets and Messengers together
410. 13:31and that's actually a long list for
411. 13:32Muslims
412. 13:33we start way from the beginning with
413. 13:35Adam peace be upon him you know Adam
414. 13:38as in
415. 13:40Christianity also is that like Adam and
416. 13:42Eve right Adam peace be upon Noah you
417. 13:45know Noah with the ark yeah Abraham
418. 13:48Ishmael Isaac Moses David Solomon John
419. 13:52Zachariah Jesus how do you say Jesus in
420. 13:54Polish Yes actually we say Isa in Arabic
421. 13:59the same yes yes that's Jesus peace be
422. 14:01upon him and Muhammad peace be upon all
423. 14:03of them the idea behind living in all of
424. 14:06them together is that we believe there
425. 14:07is only one God We Are One Humanity so
426. 14:10it is one message and we believe this
427. 14:12message did not start with the prophet
428. 14:14Muhammad peace be upon him we believe it
429. 14:16started way from the beginning with Adam
430. 14:18peace be upon him
431. 14:19and then every prophet and messenger
432. 14:21came to continue and complete the same
433. 14:23message one after the other they came to
434. 14:25continue it actually one after the other
435. 14:27that's why for us we don't look at it as
436. 14:30Muhammad versus Jesus or versus Moses
437. 14:32we'll look at it much more like Muhammad
438. 14:34after Jesus after Moses after Abraham
439. 14:36after Noah peace be upon all of them
440. 14:39the main idea behind it here is that we
441. 14:41don't believe that if God wanted to
442. 14:42divide us God will be saying okay this
443. 14:44is the religion for China this is for
444. 14:46Russia this is for Middle East this is
445. 14:47for Latin America it doesn't work this
446. 14:49way one God one Humanity this message
447. 14:51and we believe the beauty of this
448. 14:53message is that each one of them came
449. 14:55actually to continue and complete it and
450. 14:57to emphasize it the way actually we look
451. 14:59at all these people Greg we look at them
452. 15:01like role models and all of them look at
453. 15:04them as human beings not Gods Not sons
454. 15:06of God because think about it this way
455. 15:09like if if Jesus was God
456. 15:12I cannot be like God but if he was a
457. 15:14human being like me I try my best to be
458. 15:16like him if Moses peace be upon him was
459. 15:19an angel I cannot be like an angel but
460. 15:21if he was a human being like me I tried
461. 15:23my best to be like him that's why we
462. 15:25look up to them like Role Models like
463. 15:27for me as a Muslim I want to be like
464. 15:28Muhammad peace be upon him like Jesus
465. 15:30peace be upon him like Moses peace be
466. 15:31upon him because what they were known
467. 15:33for actually is coming with this one and
468. 15:35only message and their lifestyle was a
469. 15:37very good lifestyle with good characters
470. 15:38good manners caring about others trying
471. 15:40to make this world a better place
472. 15:41basically to live and for everyone
473. 15:43that's the main idea behind it
474. 15:45and this simple one and only message
475. 15:47that they are all have been coming with
476. 15:49it's actually done something very
477. 15:50complicated it's not some it's not
478. 15:52rocket science you don't need like phds
479. 15:53to understand and to and to figure out
480. 15:55what it is it's actually something that
481. 15:57brings us all together do you know what
482. 15:59this message is do you have a guess
483. 16:03probably to believe in God
484. 16:06to obey him
485. 16:08Jack that's a very good educated guess I
486. 16:11have to say Greg I didn't see this
487. 16:12coming at all that's very good
488. 16:15what we get kind of from the church but
489. 16:17this is the main message I always took
490. 16:20out from the religion from the church so
491. 16:22exactly right actually exactly it is
492. 16:26what you said it's believing in one and
493. 16:27only God and doing goodness because we
494. 16:30believe that's what brings us all
495. 16:31together but when I say believing in one
496. 16:34and only God is in that sense that I
497. 16:35told you in a very pure way and having
498. 16:37no one between you and God no pictures
499. 16:39no images for god it's a very pure form
500. 16:42because we believe the minute we start
501. 16:44putting our human intervention in this
502. 16:46the whole thing collapses the whole
503. 16:47thing goes down otherwise it becomes a
504. 16:50tool of power it becomes a tool of
505. 16:51making this an institution is
506. 16:53institutionalizing this or that that's
507. 16:55not what we want at the end of the day
508. 16:57what makes this message thing is that
509. 16:59it's a very simple and pure message
510. 17:00believing in one and only God is a
511. 17:03direct relation between you and God and
512. 17:04then by obeying God you basically do
513. 17:06goodness that God tells you to do that's
514. 17:08the main idea behind it that's why
515. 17:10actually we believe in all these
516. 17:11prophets and Messengers together
517. 17:13because every single time after one of
518. 17:15the prophets and Messengers people would
519. 17:16deviate so God will send another prophet
520. 17:19and Messenger to confirm to bring people
521. 17:20back to the right path until it
522. 17:22continues with Prophet Muhammad peace be
523. 17:23upon him
524. 17:25actually there's an interesting thing
525. 17:26because just like we are supposed to
526. 17:28believe in all the prophets and
527. 17:29Messengers we also are supposed to
528. 17:31believe in all the books that were given
529. 17:32to these prophets and Messengers all the
530. 17:34scriptures so for Muslims we do believe
531. 17:36in a gospel that was given to Jesus a
532. 17:38Torah that was given to Moses Psalms to
533. 17:40David Scrolls to Abraham peace be upon
534. 17:42all of them and of course the last word
535. 17:44of God the Quran that was given to the
536. 17:46prophet Muhammad peace be upon him now
537. 17:48you see foreign today we don't read the
538. 17:50Bible we read the Quran actually there
539. 17:52are two things that make the Quran
540. 17:53special the first one is we believe the
541. 17:55Quran is the last word from God so it's
542. 17:58the most updated form of this message
543. 17:59the second thing which is actually very
544. 18:01important is actually the preservation
545. 18:03of the Quran
546. 18:04we believe that the Quran that we have
547. 18:06today is the same Quran that the prophet
548. 18:08Muhammad peace be upon him had more than
549. 18:10one thousand four hundred years ago
550. 18:12preserved in its original language in
551. 18:14Arabic and we don't only think this we
552. 18:17know this is the case
553. 18:18because this is both of manuscripts that
554. 18:20we have in museums that we can go and
555. 18:22check and they come back to the first
556. 18:24century of the Prophet Muhammad peace be
557. 18:25upon him but actually more importantly
558. 18:27correct I think you're going to like
559. 18:28this one is actually there is this
560. 18:30beautiful concept called the
561. 18:31memorization of the Quran
562. 18:33in the life of the Prophet Muhammad
563. 18:34peace be upon him not everyone did have
564. 18:37like there is no printing so not
565. 18:38everyone has a copy of the Quran so what
566. 18:40people actually were doing at that time
567. 18:41around the prophet peace be upon him
568. 18:43there were actually many of them
569. 18:44memorizing the whole Quran
570. 18:45did you know that today in 2023 we have
571. 18:49millions of people all over the world
572. 18:51who memorized the whole Quran
573. 18:54all of it the whole thing from the first
574. 18:57verse in the first chapter all the way
575. 18:59to the last verse of the last chapter
576. 19:00more than 600 pages in Arabic
577. 19:04that's a lot yes and people do it
578. 19:07you don't have to do it to be a Muslim
579. 19:09but a lot of people can just do it of
580. 19:11course it's not normal to be memorizing
581. 19:13a full book but we believe this is the
582. 19:15last word of God and the beauty behind
583. 19:17it like let's say when you come pray
584. 19:18down you'll see the Imam reciting some
585. 19:20verses from the Quran the thing with
586. 19:22that is that even when he's reciting if
587. 19:23he makes one small mistake people can
588. 19:25catch him
589. 19:26so today even if we want to change the
590. 19:28Quran we cannot change the Quran with
591. 19:30millions of people memorizing the Quran
592. 19:32all over the world
593. 19:34and that's something that's very
594. 19:35precious for us because that's actually
595. 19:36what keeps the purity of the message
596. 19:38like all the things that I told you
597. 19:40about so far if I put human intervention
598. 19:42in it we can change it but we know it is
599. 19:45not changed that message is pure as it
600. 19:46is still moving and the beauty behind it
601. 19:49Greg is that if God wants God can have
602. 19:51like a bit Quran on the sky that no one
603. 19:53can touch
604. 19:54but God actually chooses to preserve
605. 19:57this book to save this book in the
606. 19:58hearts of those who believe in it that's
607. 20:01what makes it special
608. 20:02and people who memorize it come from all
609. 20:04over the world even people who don't
610. 20:06speak Arabic sometimes also are able to
611. 20:07memorize the whole Quran
612. 20:09because actually this like remember
613. 20:11actually we believe in all the prophets
614. 20:13and Messengers Etc when you think about
615. 20:15it like usually the names of religion
616. 20:17usually religions are named after a
617. 20:20person
618. 20:21or a tribe or a place or a nation
619. 20:24Etc like think about it this way like um
620. 20:27Christianity the word Christianity comes
621. 20:30from the word Christ Jesus peace be upon
622. 20:31Him Judaism the tribe of Judah Hinduism
623. 20:35the Hindus River India Buddhism Buddha
624. 20:38this is not [ __ ]
625. 20:41it is not arabianism it is not
626. 20:44turkianism it's not pakistanism
627. 20:46it is Islam do you know what the word
628. 20:48Islam actually means in Arabic
629. 20:51no I I've heard something about peace
630. 20:54something like this you have very good
631. 20:56guesses so far that's very good actually
632. 20:59do you know how people say greet each
633. 21:01other on the streets here did you hear
634. 21:03this one before
635. 21:06assalamu alaikum right
636. 21:09means peace be with you okay assalam
637. 21:13Islam it actually comes from the same
638. 21:14root in Arabic it actually means
639. 21:17submission and peace so it is the peace
640. 21:20that someone has in his heart when he
641. 21:22submits his will to God
642. 21:24because we believe in this life there
643. 21:26are things that we can control there are
644. 21:28things that we cannot control
645. 21:29we are supposed to do our best in what
646. 21:31we can control and then we leave the
647. 21:33rest to God once you really have this in
648. 21:35your life you really know what it is the
649. 21:37real true peace inside your heart that's
650. 21:40why actually for Muslims We Believe
651. 21:41Muhammad peace be upon him was a Muslim
652. 21:43Jesus peace be upon him was a Muslim
653. 21:45virgin Mary peace be upon her was a
654. 21:47Muslim Moses peace be upon him was a
655. 21:49Muslim Abraham peace be upon him was a
656. 21:50Muslim they were all Muslims peaceful
657. 21:53people submitting their will to God
658. 21:54having this one message believing in one
659. 21:57and only God and doing goodness that's
660. 21:58the main idea behind it
661. 22:01that makes sense
662. 22:04I mean it's
663. 22:05never thought about it that way before
664. 22:07but that's like
665. 22:08all together it makes a makes sense
666. 22:11makes sense I'm really happy to hear
667. 22:13this look I'll be very honest with you
668. 22:15in this because
669. 22:17I think I said I told you this already
670. 22:21it is not complicated it is not rocket
671. 22:23science if God is God then it's not
672. 22:26going to be something that's only for a
673. 22:28few Elite amount of people to be able to
674. 22:30reach and understand if God creates us
675. 22:33all then God gives us all this equal
676. 22:34chance to be able to reach him that's
677. 22:36all you believe the message is very
678. 22:38simple sometimes we as human beings we
679. 22:40make it complicated we try to put things
680. 22:42in the Middle East Side putting
681. 22:43institutions in the middle people in the
682. 22:45middle whatever in the middle but no if
683. 22:48God creates us all God gives us all the
684. 22:50same chance to be able to reach him
685. 22:52actually you remember when I told you
686. 22:54about the names of all the prophets I
687. 22:55think the majority of them you already
688. 22:57heard about them before yeah right sure
689. 22:59yeah like Adam Noah Abraham Moses Jesus
690. 23:01peace be upon all of them and actually
691. 23:03when you read the stories of some of
692. 23:05them in the Quran sometimes you can
693. 23:07actually see a difference in the story
694. 23:10one of the most interesting examples for
695. 23:12this actually is the story of Adam and
696. 23:14Eve
697. 23:14you know the story of Adam and Eve right
698. 23:16like God creates Adam don't eat from the
699. 23:19tree they eat from the tree God gets
700. 23:20angry punishes us we all come here
701. 23:22that's like the story in a nutshell
702. 23:23that's the story we see from movies from
703. 23:25the Bible Etc
704. 23:27actually when you read that story in the
705. 23:28Quran there is something that's very
706. 23:30interestingly different there in the
707. 23:32Quran the story actually starts before
708. 23:34God creates Adam
709. 23:36God is talking to the angels and God
710. 23:39tells the angels I will create Adam as a
711. 23:42representative on Earth
712. 23:44Angels ask why
713. 23:47why will you create someone who's gonna
714. 23:50shed blood and cause corruption
715. 23:53if you think about it that's a huge
716. 23:55question that's a very big question
717. 23:57because
718. 23:59this is a very existential question that
719. 24:01we have throughout history like why does
720. 24:03like God knows that we're going to be
721. 24:05doing all of this look around you today
722. 24:06we are shedding blood ankles and
723. 24:07Corruption and angels are asking exactly
724. 24:10this question
725. 24:11and what I love the most about this
726. 24:12question Greg is that the Quran doesn't
727. 24:15hide away from it the Quran doesn't say
728. 24:18okay let's just forget about it don't
729. 24:19think about this just continue move on
730. 24:21the Quran starts the story with this big
731. 24:24question this story is probably page
732. 24:26five or six in the Quran it's like the
733. 24:27beginning of the Quran and still you see
734. 24:29it very way in the beginning of the
735. 24:31story
736. 24:32then the story continues and God says I
737. 24:35know what you don't know then God
738. 24:37creates Adam
739. 24:38God teaches Adam then a very interesting
740. 24:41thing happens God tells the angels to
741. 24:44bow down before Adam
742. 24:46now you know the concept of going down
743. 24:47in any religion in any culture when
744. 24:49someone boils down before someone it
745. 24:51means that some more Superior creation
746. 24:53that's a more special creation
747. 24:55so the question usually is what is the
748. 24:57thing that makes us me and you human
749. 25:00beings
750. 25:01more special than angels
751. 25:04good question you have a guess
752. 25:13just have a guess what do you think
753. 25:22okay that's a good guess not the right
754. 25:24one but that's a good one actually one
755. 25:27of the things that makes us special as
756. 25:28human beings are actually two things we
757. 25:30have this ability of cumulative
758. 25:31knowledge of keep learning one after the
759. 25:34other and based on that knowledge comes
760. 25:36the second thing which is the free
761. 25:37choice that we have
762. 25:39so angels are that perfect creation of
763. 25:41God they do whatever God tells them to
764. 25:43do if God tells them go right they go
765. 25:45right go left they go left for us as
766. 25:47human beings based on this knowledge
767. 25:49that we have and the learning that we
768. 25:50have we have this test of having a free
769. 25:52choice we can choose to say yes or we
770. 25:55can choose to say no
771. 25:57that's the main idea behind it and that
772. 25:59comes with a huge responsibility if you
773. 26:00think about it
774. 26:01that's why actually when the story
775. 26:02continues and God tells Adam and Eve
776. 26:05don't eat from the tree and they eat
777. 26:07from the tree for us actually this is
778. 26:09not the first original sin that changes
779. 26:11history no for us this is the first free
780. 26:14choice
781. 26:15that they take
782. 26:17and then God tells them now you're ready
783. 26:19now the story starts now you go to Earth
784. 26:23so Greg it looks like a small difference
785. 26:25but it actually changes the whole thing
786. 26:27because for us this life is not a
787. 26:29punishment from God it's a gift from God
788. 26:31it's a test from God
789. 26:33that's why when we are born here in this
790. 26:35life no one gets baptized because you
791. 26:37come here pure
792. 26:38then you grow up and you start making
793. 26:40your decisions good or bad that's why we
794. 26:42don't have this concept of confession
795. 26:44because it's a direct relation between
796. 26:45you and God that's why we don't have the
797. 26:47concept of Jesus dying for our sins
798. 26:48because you already come pure here and
799. 26:51it is your choices and your decisions
800. 26:52and then it's between you and God
801. 26:54as you see it looks like a small
802. 26:56difference but it can affect a lot of
803. 26:57things around you here it changes the
804. 26:59whole perspective we see the world
805. 27:01around us it was the first choice it was
806. 27:04the first time they sinned they did
807. 27:06something that God told them not to do
808. 27:07and God there teaches them what to do
809. 27:09when that happens
810. 27:10which is basically you ask for
811. 27:12forgiveness and if you are sincere
812. 27:13between you and God God forgives you
813. 27:15that's why for Muslims we never refer to
814. 27:18the story as the story of original sin
815. 27:19actually sometimes we refer to the story
816. 27:22as the story of original forgiveness
817. 27:24because this was the first time we took
818. 27:26a free choice and this was the first
819. 27:28time God told us what to do when we take
820. 27:30such free choices
821. 27:31that's the main idea behind it
822. 27:34that's a big difference to say it's a
823. 27:37small thing but
824. 27:38I've never heard this before I never
825. 27:40would have guessed that like Muslims
826. 27:42actually
827. 27:44believe something so close
828. 27:46to to what the Christian's been because
829. 27:48it seems like very far
830. 27:50they seem very far from each other and
831. 27:52what you're saying it seems like
832. 27:54it makes a lot of sense and it's
833. 27:55actually close just all the bad things
834. 27:58seem to be missing from this Village to
835. 28:00be honest with you it is it is the pure
836. 28:03message we believe whatever it is you
837. 28:05are hearing from me is the pure message
838. 28:07of Jesus peace be upon Him is the pure
839. 28:08message of Moses peace be upon Him of
840. 28:10Muhammad peace be upon him it's just
841. 28:12when you basically remove the human
842. 28:13intervention out when you keep that pure
843. 28:15message from God that's what it sounds
844. 28:16like and actually one of the things that
845. 28:19you probably have seen where animals you
846. 28:21probably have seen even sometimes people
847. 28:22praying right and this even concept of
848. 28:24prayer is one of the things that keeps
849. 28:26that pure relation between you and God
850. 28:27in a very direct way
851. 28:29like you see when people are praying you
852. 28:30see people more like standing up bowing
853. 28:32down more like a physical activity
854. 28:34when I say prayer in English what comes
855. 28:36to my mind more is more like talking to
856. 28:37God here you see it more like an
857. 28:39activity basically actually there are
858. 28:41two different words in Arabic
859. 28:43that are kind of mistranslated both to
860. 28:45English as prayer
861. 28:47the first one is called Dua usually
862. 28:49Muslims will do like this even without
863. 28:51the hands you can just talk to God
864. 28:52directly no specific time no specific
865. 28:55form no specific movements no specific
866. 28:57language you can be thanking God talking
867. 28:59to God asking God for something whatever
868. 29:01it is
869. 29:03but this one that you see here five
870. 29:05times every day in specific time in
871. 29:07specific form in Arabic actually it's
872. 29:09called Salah
873. 29:10which literally translates to English as
874. 29:12connection communication
875. 29:14the idea behind this one is that at the
876. 29:17end of the day Greg we're all human
877. 29:18beings no matter how religious we get we
878. 29:21we never it's like we don't only think
879. 29:23always about God sometimes we think
880. 29:25about love money work study whatever it
881. 29:28is but with five times every day it kind
882. 29:31of keeps you in continuous remembrance
883. 29:32of God like sometimes I'm working I'm
884. 29:36studying my head is blowing up and
885. 29:39suddenly you hear it
886. 29:42believe what I'm doing and I pray
887. 29:45you feel much more peaceful in a way at
888. 29:50the same time you feel much stronger
889. 29:52because if God is with me then what's
890. 29:54going to happen
891. 29:55it is as if five times every day God is
892. 29:58telling you
893. 29:59stand up is not over just do your best
894. 30:01just continue
895. 30:03and the beauty behind it is like just
896. 30:05like our physical bodies need food we
897. 30:08need to eat two times three times a day
898. 30:09whatever our souls our Spirits sometimes
899. 30:12just need a bit of time out I need
900. 30:13something to nurture them as well this
901. 30:15is what the prayer does
902. 30:17and let me tell you this once you get
903. 30:19used to it in your life it becomes hard
904. 30:22to imagine your life without it
905. 30:24it becomes such an important part of
906. 30:26your life because it is the thing that's
907. 30:27keeping that communication directly
908. 30:29between you and God
909. 30:30that's the base that's the most
910. 30:32important thing behind it all this
911. 30:33practical side of Islam whether it is
912. 30:35with the prayer because there are like
913. 30:37some things that Muslims need to do so
914. 30:39the prayer five times every day giving
915. 30:41annual amount of Charity fasting in
916. 30:43Ramadan you might have heard actually
917. 30:44about Ramadan there is pilgrimage that
918. 30:47Muslims do you do it once in your
919. 30:48lifetime if we're physically and
920. 30:50financially able all of these things
921. 30:52basically
922. 30:53one of the main ideas behind them is to
923. 30:55keep this strong sense of community but
924. 30:57most importantly is to keep that pure
925. 30:58relation to a new and God that's the
926. 31:00main idea behind it it is basically
927. 31:02something that's supposed to make us
928. 31:03bitter human beings
929. 31:05actually you remember I told what the
930. 31:07verses up there so one of the verses you
931. 31:09see there it actually talks about the
932. 31:10prayer
933. 31:12it basically says prayer is supposed to
934. 31:13prevent you from doing Badness so if you
935. 31:16are praying you're doing the movements
936. 31:18but after the prayer you're not being a
937. 31:19better person then there's something
938. 31:21wrong with your prayer if you're doing
939. 31:22your fasting but then you keep hurting
940. 31:24people doing something bad in the
941. 31:26community there's something wrong with
942. 31:27the fasting so all of these things they
943. 31:29keep that pure relationship between you
944. 31:31and God and they are supposed to be
945. 31:32basically training us and reminding us
946. 31:34to be able to be better people basically
947. 31:36in this world
948. 31:37that's the main idea behind it
949. 31:40makes sense
950. 31:42that makes sense I wouldn't have made
951. 31:44that connection before
952. 31:47you I think I think explain it so so
953. 31:49simply that it's just kind of all comes
954. 31:51together I'm very happy to hear this
955. 31:53thank you
956. 31:54so actually let me tell you this like if
957. 31:57you think even about the prayer like if
958. 31:59someone does the movements of the prayer
959. 32:01without believing in what Muslims
960. 32:02believe in they don't just become
961. 32:04Muslims by doing this because it is not
962. 32:06the movements only that makes it special
963. 32:08it is what you have inside because I
964. 32:09believe when I'm praying I'm talking to
965. 32:10God directly
966. 32:12so actually there is this concept I'm
967. 32:13not sure if you heard about it before
968. 32:14it's called the six pillars of faith
969. 32:17these are the six things that Muslims
970. 32:18believe in anyone who believes in these
971. 32:21six things then they already have
972. 32:22whatever it takes to be able to call
973. 32:23themselves Muslim did you hear about
974. 32:25this before
975. 32:27so I'll count them for you now please as
976. 32:29I'm counting if you have any question
977. 32:31feel free to ask in the middle okay
978. 32:33sounds good
979. 32:34so the first one is living in one and
980. 32:37only God
981. 32:38not two Gods Not three Gods Not hundred
982. 32:40Gods Not Me God not you God not Sun God
983. 32:43not Moon God not Muhammad God not Jesus
984. 32:46God one and only God who created us and
985. 32:49the whole universe has no beginning no
986. 32:51end no father no son and there is
987. 32:53nothing like God no pictures no images
988. 32:56The One and Only God that we all know
989. 32:59the 99 names of God that's how we know
990. 33:01this God and the most important thing
991. 33:03behind it here Greg is that the relation
992. 33:06between us and God is a one-to-one
993. 33:07direct relation with no one in the
994. 33:09middle the minute we start putting
995. 33:11people between us and God the whole
996. 33:13thing goes down
997. 33:14so that's number one does this make
998. 33:16sense to you yeah that makes a lot of
999. 33:18sense that just collects to like the
1000. 33:20kind of idea I think but it specifies it
1001. 33:22more of what I had about
1002. 33:24God and this higher power it makes sense
1003. 33:26exactly that's the main idea behind it
1004. 33:28the second thing is you'll probably also
1005. 33:30know this one because we believe just
1006. 33:32like God created us God also created
1007. 33:34other creatures like the angels
1008. 33:36so you remember in the story of Adam Eva
1009. 33:38I told her about the Angels you know the
1010. 33:39Angels like Michael Gabriel Etc
1011. 33:42yes and actually the idea behind the
1012. 33:44living in the Angels We believe they are
1013. 33:46they are this perfect creation of God
1014. 33:47they do whatever God tells them to do
1015. 33:49what makes us special as human beings is
1016. 33:51that we have this test of free choice
1017. 33:53based on the learning and the knowledge
1018. 33:55that we have that's the main idea behind
1019. 33:57it by believing in other creatures we
1020. 33:59basically are very humbled in front of
1021. 34:01before God because we know God didn't
1022. 34:03only create us God already has angels
1023. 34:06that are much greater than us like if
1024. 34:07all Humanity doesn't believe this
1025. 34:09doesn't make anything less of God
1026. 34:10because there are already all other
1027. 34:12creatures if God wanted he can make us
1028. 34:14Angels but what makes us special is that
1029. 34:16we choose that's the main idea behind it
1030. 34:18so that's the second one the third one
1031. 34:20is that to be Muslims we have to believe
1032. 34:22in all the prophets and Messengers as I
1033. 34:24told you already from Adam peace be upon
1034. 34:26him all the way till Muhammad peace be
1035. 34:27upon Him including Noah Abraham Moses
1036. 34:30Jesus peace be upon all of them
1037. 34:31as I told you the idea behind it we
1038. 34:34believe they are all human beings they
1039. 34:36are not gods they are not sons of God
1040. 34:37and we look up to them as role models we
1041. 34:40want to follow their example of Their
1042. 34:41Manners of their modesty of their
1043. 34:43trustworthiness of all of these good
1044. 34:45things and we believe the core of this
1045. 34:46message Greg that they all came with is
1046. 34:48the same one and only message Believe In
1047. 34:50One and Only God and do goodness that's
1048. 34:52the main idea behind it
1049. 34:55does this make sense to you
1050. 34:57it does it makes sense right and there
1051. 35:01are they are not Gods they're not sons
1052. 35:02of God as I told you already
1053. 35:04if Jesus was a God I cannot be like God
1054. 35:07but if he's a human being I'll try my
1055. 35:10best to be like the same thing if there
1056. 35:12are angels no if we were Angels here God
1057. 35:14would send an angel but we are human
1058. 35:16beings so God sends this message with
1059. 35:18human beings so that's the third one
1060. 35:21the fourth one is actually we believe in
1061. 35:23all the books that were given to them as
1062. 35:24I told you already we believe in a
1063. 35:26gospel that was given to Jesus Torah
1064. 35:28that was given to Moses Etc it's
1065. 35:29certainly believe of course the last
1066. 35:30word of God the Quran has given to
1067. 35:32Prophet Muhammad peace be upon him now
1068. 35:34as I told you we don't read any of the
1069. 35:35other books because we believe what we
1070. 35:37have today is not the original that was
1071. 35:38there with Jesus peace be upon him or
1072. 35:40Moses peace be upon him we believe there
1073. 35:42was a lot of human intervention in the
1074. 35:43middle a lot with other people involve
1075. 35:45getting involved a lot of translations
1076. 35:47in the middle a lot of human beings like
1077. 35:49me and you sitting there and deciding
1078. 35:50what to be and what to be out
1079. 35:52when it comes to the Quran we know this
1080. 35:54is the pure unchanged word of God you
1081. 35:57remember the story of Adam and Eve that
1082. 35:58I told you what makes it special is the
1083. 36:01same Adam same Eve what makes it special
1084. 36:03is that you were able to listen to the
1085. 36:05pure version of that story that's the
1086. 36:07main idea behind it it wasn't my version
1087. 36:09of the story it was what God told us
1088. 36:11basically in a very pure way that's the
1089. 36:13main idea behind it yeah does this make
1090. 36:15sense so far yeah
1091. 36:17so that's number four
1092. 36:19do you remember the four that I said
1093. 36:20already
1094. 36:22let's try
1095. 36:23God okay
1096. 36:26angel angels okay people
1097. 36:30profits exactly
1098. 36:34see books that were given to them four
1099. 36:37so number five we believe in the
1100. 36:40afterlife
1101. 36:41we believe that after we die God will be
1102. 36:44bringing us up all once again and God
1103. 36:46will be judging us based on two things
1104. 36:48based on faith and good deeds so faith
1105. 36:52without Good Deeds doesn't work good
1106. 36:53deeds without faith doesn't work it has
1107. 36:55to be together so you cannot just go to
1108. 36:56God and tell him I believed but I killed
1109. 36:58100 people up in heaven it doesn't work
1110. 37:01this way because this faith is supposed
1111. 37:03to make us better people as well
1112. 37:05think about it this way like we know in
1113. 37:06this life what makes us special is that
1114. 37:08we have free choice I in this life I can
1115. 37:10choose to do good I can choose to do bad
1116. 37:12I can choose to be a doctor
1117. 37:15saving people's life every other day or
1118. 37:17I can choose to be a murderer killing
1119. 37:19people every other one
1120. 37:20but if every single time I do something
1121. 37:22bad God comes and stops me then there is
1122. 37:25no free choice anymore
1123. 37:26right the main idea behind is that we
1124. 37:28choose but there on the afterlife that's
1125. 37:31where basically we see the results of
1126. 37:32whatever choices we make because on that
1127. 37:34day everyone will be there I will be
1128. 37:37there you will be there Hitler will be
1129. 37:39there Obama will be there Trump will be
1130. 37:41there Putin will be there everyone will
1131. 37:43be there
1132. 37:44and the beauty behind it is that
1133. 37:46basically that's where we see the
1134. 37:47results of what we did of faith and Good
1135. 37:49Deeds together so there we have there is
1136. 37:51of course this concept of hell and
1137. 37:53heaven so that's number five does this
1138. 37:55make sense to you yeah
1139. 37:57consequences make sense
1140. 38:00makes sense then there is only one left
1141. 38:02destiny
1142. 38:04we believe in God's ultimate knowledge
1143. 38:08we believe that yes we have three
1144. 38:09choices in this life
1145. 38:11but for us as human beings whatever I
1146. 38:13choose to be to do I can never come to a
1147. 38:16point where I can surprise God
1148. 38:18you can choose to do good you can choose
1149. 38:20to do bad you can choose to come here
1150. 38:21you can choose not to come here but we
1151. 38:23never surprise God because God has an
1152. 38:25ultimate knowledge it's the all-knowing
1153. 38:27the all hearing if we are able to
1154. 38:28surprise God then that's not God anymore
1155. 38:31because God already knows what's going
1156. 38:33to happen
1157. 38:34why is this important in our life Greg
1158. 38:36because think about it this way in our
1159. 38:38life we don't always have good things
1160. 38:39happening sometimes you have good days
1161. 38:41sometimes you have bad days
1162. 38:42sometimes you are very happy it's your
1163. 38:44graduation date sometimes you are very
1164. 38:46bad you lost someone
1165. 38:48but what I know is that in the in the
1166. 38:50best day of my life
1167. 38:52I know that same God is there he knows
1168. 38:54it was going to happen and he's there
1169. 38:56for me to thank and ask for more
1170. 38:57blessings and also in the worst day of
1171. 39:00my life that same exact God is still
1172. 39:03there already knows everything and that
1173. 39:05God is there for me to ask for support
1174. 39:07and patience
1175. 39:09that's when you have really true peace
1176. 39:12when you know that you are never alone
1177. 39:13in the happiest day of your life and in
1178. 39:15the worst day of your life that's why we
1179. 39:18don't pray only when we feel that we
1180. 39:19need God because we know that we always
1181. 39:21are in need of God and we are never
1182. 39:23alone whatever it is that happens
1183. 39:25because at the end of the day one of our
1184. 39:27missions in this world is to make this
1185. 39:29world a better place to live and for
1186. 39:30everyone
1187. 39:31for people who look like me for people
1188. 39:33who don't look like me for cats dogs
1189. 39:34animals environments everything
1190. 39:36sometimes we feel that we cannot do much
1191. 39:39but one thing that we believe is that
1192. 39:41you just do your best
1193. 39:42God does not judge us only based on the
1194. 39:44result but actually on the effort when
1195. 39:46we go to the afterlife God will not be
1196. 39:48asking you why didn't you fix the word
1197. 39:50but God will ask you what did you do to
1198. 39:52try fixing it just do your best whatever
1199. 39:55your best is I don't know but you know
1200. 39:57and most importantly God knows this is
1201. 40:00the main idea behind it you do your best
1202. 40:01and you leave the rest
1203. 40:03so these are the six pillars of faith
1204. 40:08spirits of Faith make sense to you if
1205. 40:11you believe in them then you already
1206. 40:13have whatever it takes to be a Muslim
1207. 40:15let me ask you this
1208. 40:17do you believe in these six things
1209. 40:20I mean yeah when you're talking about
1210. 40:22them they make a lot of sense
1211. 40:26yeah it makes sense
1212. 40:28I could say I do yes I think so if you
1213. 40:31believe in these six things Craig then
1214. 40:33you already take what that you already
1215. 40:35have whatever it takes to be able to
1216. 40:36call yourself a Muslim actually let me
1217. 40:39tell you this do you know how someone
1218. 40:40actually becomes a Muslim
1219. 40:47so actually for someone to become a
1220. 40:49Muslim there is nothing like being
1221. 40:51baptized no one comes declares you
1222. 40:53Muslim no it's something between you and
1223. 40:56God directly
1224. 40:58something actually that you say if you
1225. 41:00believe in it already then you already
1226. 41:01become Muslim it's something between you
1227. 41:02and God directly it's an agreement
1228. 41:05between you and God it is something we
1229. 41:07call the Declaration of faith and
1230. 41:09actually this sentence that I'm telling
1231. 41:10you about is something that you already
1232. 41:12heard you have been hearing here a lot
1233. 41:14it's something that they say actually in
1234. 41:16the five times prayer call every day
1235. 41:19even for us as Muslims every single time
1236. 41:20we hear it we repeat we're refreshing
1237. 41:22our faith as well
1238. 41:23that sentence says I bear witness that
1239. 41:26there is no God except Allah and I bear
1240. 41:28witness Muhammad is the messenger of
1241. 41:30Allah anyone who says this believing in
1242. 41:33it then they already have whatever it
1243. 41:35takes to be then actually they become
1244. 41:36Muslims
1245. 41:37you become part basically of a much
1246. 41:39bigger family
1247. 41:40and the thing with it Greg is that as
1248. 41:43you become part of this family you start
1249. 41:44the never-ending Journey between you and
1250. 41:46God all the Practical things of Islam
1251. 41:48the prayer Etc this starts the journey
1252. 41:51between you and God of self-improvement
1253. 41:52bit by bit
1254. 41:53like no one expects you to wake up in
1255. 41:55the morning and then suddenly know
1256. 41:56everything and know how to pray and know
1257. 41:57everything it's a never-ending Journey
1258. 41:59and the beauty of this journey is that
1259. 42:01it never ends for you never ends for me
1260. 42:03because we know we Are Not Angels none
1261. 42:05of us is going to ever be perfect just
1262. 42:07about us always continuously improving
1263. 42:09ourselves bit by bit to reach basically
1264. 42:11closer and closer and closer
1265. 42:13once someone becomes a Muslim the beauty
1266. 42:15of this journey is that you are not on
1267. 42:16your own you have all these people
1268. 42:18around you that are part of your journey
1269. 42:20and most importantly you have god with
1270. 42:22you on this journey
1271. 42:25so Greg let me actually actually ask you
1272. 42:27this question
1273. 42:28do you want here now in this special
1274. 42:30moment
1275. 42:31to say this sentence with me and start
1276. 42:34this journey and become a Muslim do you
1277. 42:36want to become a Muslim
1278. 42:40everything you say is making sense like
1279. 42:42a lot and
1280. 42:45I think I I think I believe what you say
1281. 42:48it's like uh
1282. 42:49seems like a big big thing to do on a
1283. 42:52tourist Journey you know and all of a
1284. 42:54sudden I have to
1285. 42:55I'm changing everything about my life
1286. 42:57it's uh
1287. 43:00it's a lot to take in it's a lot to
1288. 43:03to think about
1289. 43:05um I mean also you know I'm polish so I
1290. 43:08don't know
1291. 43:09like it's it's a completely different
1292. 43:10culture you know from and
1293. 43:13a lot to change you know so look I'll be
1294. 43:17very open with you okay and I'm really
1295. 43:18like it's a very like I'm being very
1296. 43:20open with you and asking you this
1297. 43:21because it's something that's very
1298. 43:23direct basically and
1299. 43:26I'm gonna be very open with this because
1300. 43:28I think you remember when I told you
1301. 43:30about the meaning of the word Islam
1302. 43:32yeah and I told you it is not like
1303. 43:34[ __ ] it's not arabianism it's not
1304. 43:37pakistanism it's not whatever because a
1305. 43:40lot of times people think of religions
1306. 43:42like sometimes they think of like
1307. 43:45football clubs like if you support a
1308. 43:48football team you are born with it you
1309. 43:49die with it if they win your support if
1310. 43:52they lose your support but the concept
1311. 43:53of religion is something that's much
1312. 43:54more is something actually that affects
1313. 43:56our eternal life as well
1314. 43:58the main point behind it is that you are
1315. 44:00now Greg from Poland
1316. 44:02if you become Muslim you will still
1317. 44:04become Muslim Greek from Poland it has
1318. 44:07the main idea behind it I have a lot of
1319. 44:09people a lot of friends who actually
1320. 44:10after they become Muslims
1321. 44:12from Mexico from Poland from wherever
1322. 44:14they still have their culture that's
1323. 44:15fine but basically what you do is that
1324. 44:18you add that Muslim identity on it that
1325. 44:20you know that by this you actually are
1326. 44:22someone who can call themselves Muslim a
1327. 44:24peaceful person submitting their will to
1328. 44:26God
1329. 44:26and let me tell you this whatever it is
1330. 44:29that I was telling you today it wasn't
1331. 44:30like it's something that you didn't know
1332. 44:31in your heart deep there you already
1333. 44:33knew it was there the only thing you
1334. 44:35knew today is that this thing that you
1335. 44:37already knew was the right thing in your
1336. 44:38heart
1337. 44:39it is already there and it is called
1338. 44:42Islam and the beauty behind Islam is
1339. 44:44that this is not a name that we name
1340. 44:45ourselves
1341. 44:46God names us this way the people who are
1342. 44:49submitting their will to God to The One
1343. 44:51and Only God and this message Greg is
1344. 44:53the message of Jesus peace be upon him
1345. 44:55oh version Mary peace be upon her of
1346. 44:57Moses peace be upon Him of Muhammad
1347. 44:58peace be upon Him peace be upon all of
1348. 45:00them by taking this step of course you
1349. 45:03are basically saying instead of watching
1350. 45:05from outside and saying okay this is
1351. 45:07something that's very nice you're
1352. 45:08basically saying no I'm gonna be from
1353. 45:09inside I'm gonna bit by bit be improving
1354. 45:12myself all the Practical side of Islam
1355. 45:14is there and bit by bit bit by bit
1356. 45:16you're going to be improving yourself in
1357. 45:17it but instead of just watching from
1358. 45:19outside and saying okay this looks like
1359. 45:22something nice but let me continue
1360. 45:23something else it doesn't and actually
1361. 45:26one last thing that I can tell you is
1362. 45:28that sometimes for us as human beings
1363. 45:29when we want to take decisions sometimes
1364. 45:31we say okay like this looks very nice
1365. 45:33but I'll think about it tomorrow or the
1366. 45:35week after or the month after and then
1367. 45:36becomes the year after and then it
1368. 45:38passes if you believe in these six
1369. 45:40things you already have whatever it
1370. 45:42takes to be awesome if you tell me that
1371. 45:44no you're like you have questions on
1372. 45:46them or whatever you can feel free to
1373. 45:48ask now you can ask later whatever
1374. 45:50happens you have a family here now in
1375. 45:51Istanbul but the main thing behind it is
1376. 45:54that if you already have this then
1377. 45:55instead of Fortune from outside you have
1378. 45:58it there already in your heart and now
1379. 45:59you have the key in your hand
1380. 46:01you can say this sentence and you can
1381. 46:03start this journey of being a Muslim
1382. 46:05so let me ask you one more time
1383. 46:07do you want us now in this special
1384. 46:09moment and this special day in the
1385. 46:11special place
1386. 46:12to say this sentence together
1387. 46:14and start this journey together of
1388. 46:16becoming a Muslim do you want to be a
1389. 46:18Muslim
1390. 46:20that's all it takes just once you say
1391. 46:23the sentence you are a Muslim
1392. 46:25nothing I have to do after a relief or
1393. 46:27something after this I'm gonna give you
1394. 46:29of course a lot of learning material a
1395. 46:31lot of things bit by bit you're going to
1396. 46:33be basically learning improving yourself
1397. 46:34and you're always going to have me with
1398. 46:36you to teach you to help you whatever it
1399. 46:38is you need
1400. 46:39do you remember all the Practical side
1401. 46:40of semi told you the prayer the fasting
1402. 46:42Etc what we're going to do after this
1403. 46:44bit by bit we're going to start
1404. 46:45basically practicing these
1405. 46:49it's enough what I know for what you've
1406. 46:51experience if you go now and read the
1407. 46:54whole Quran read whatever the basic
1408. 46:56essence of Islam is this
1409. 46:58these six things if you have them you
1410. 47:00know that you can open the key after you
1411. 47:03open the door and you are inside you
1412. 47:04keep starting on this never-ending
1413. 47:06journey of improvement actually there is
1414. 47:09you know the first chapter of the Quran
1415. 47:10I showed you the first verse of it
1416. 47:12there's a very beautiful verse there and
1417. 47:15we read this chapter of the Quran every
1418. 47:16single time we do the five times prayer
1419. 47:18every day that verse actually reads uh
1420. 47:21guide us to the right path guide us to
1421. 47:23the straight path now if you think about
1422. 47:25it people who are asking for this
1423. 47:26guidance he's someone who's Muslim who's
1424. 47:28a practicing Muslim who's doing the
1425. 47:30prayer who's reciting the Quran and
1426. 47:32still he is asking for guidance you
1427. 47:34should you can be thinking like what
1428. 47:35guidance do you need like you are
1429. 47:36already doing it all but no it's a
1430. 47:39never-ending Journey when you are a
1431. 47:41Muslim you are inside it's a
1432. 47:43never-ending journey of self-improvement
1433. 47:44of learning of always trying to keep on
1434. 47:46the right path what you have now by
1435. 47:48believing in the six pillars of faith
1436. 47:50you basically have the ability to open
1437. 47:52this door so instead of watching from
1438. 47:53outside and saying okay I'm not sure if
1439. 47:56you know that you believe in these six
1440. 47:57things then you only have whatever it
1441. 47:59takes to be able to open this door and
1442. 48:00start this journey
1443. 48:08so let me ask you
1444. 48:10do you want us now to take the sentence
1445. 48:13and you want to start the Journey of
1446. 48:15becoming a Muslim
1447. 48:18I mean I yeah I think I think I think
1448. 48:23I'd like to but
1449. 48:25okay so you how how will I how would I
1450. 48:28learn the words or what to say
1451. 48:30so basically if you want to take the
1452. 48:32sentence now what we'll do is that first
1453. 48:33I will tell you the sentence in English
1454. 48:35we can say it together and then word by
1455. 48:37word I will tell you in Arabic
1456. 48:39okay
1457. 48:40let's do it together
1458. 48:44and by the way you do the sentence you
1459. 48:46basically will become a Muslim
1460. 48:48let's do it together
1461. 48:53so repeat after me
1462. 48:55I bear Witness
1463. 48:58that there is no God
1464. 49:01accept Allah
1465. 49:03and I bear witness and I bear witness
1466. 49:05that Muhammad
1467. 49:07is the messenger is the messenger of
1468. 49:10Allah
1469. 49:11now we're going to say the same thing in
1470. 49:13Arabic
1471. 49:29rasool Allah
1472. 49:33congratulations Greg you just became a
1473. 49:35Muslim
1474. 49:37it feels pretty
1475. 49:41amazing pretty amazing wow it's so
1476. 49:45simple to wow
1477. 49:47wow thank you very much how do you feel
1478. 49:49how is it
1479. 49:51different I feel
1480. 49:54fresh
1481. 49:57I live in a new world now it's amazing
1482. 50:00just like this
1483. 50:02you're this is Destiny see when you came
1484. 50:04from this door today
1485. 50:06I didn't know I was going to meet you we
1486. 50:08didn't know this was going to happen but
1487. 50:10we know that these things don't happen
1488. 50:12as coincidence they happen all part of
1489. 50:14Destiny I'm very happy that we met I'm
1490. 50:16very happy that I told you every single
1491. 50:18thing I said and at the end of the day
1492. 50:20it was something between you and God
1493. 50:21whatever it is that I told you I didn't
1494. 50:23feel like I'm telling you something new
1495. 50:24to you like or do you know it in your
1496. 50:27heart that this was the right thing
1497. 50:28the main idea behind is the purity of
1498. 50:30the message and now you are on this
1499. 50:32journey you are a Muslim you call yours
1500. 50:35you are now Greg with a Muslim when you
1501. 50:37go to the street and say someone is
1502. 50:38peace be with you they'll tell you peace
1503. 50:41be with you too because now you are part
1504. 50:44of a very big family of two billion
1505. 50:45Muslims all over the world
1506. 50:48now it's like exactly like a new page in
1507. 50:50your life all your previous sins or
1508. 50:52whatever you did in your life before is
1509. 50:54all forgiven it's like you're opening a
1510. 50:56new page of your life
1511. 50:57and now bit by bit we're gonna start
1512. 51:00basically on this journey
1513. 51:02how do you feel
1514. 51:04it's a lot it's a lot but like it feels
1515. 51:07it feels like this is the right decision
1516. 51:10and
1517. 51:11it's going to be different from now on
1518. 51:13I'm very happy you're saying this thank
1519. 51:15you so much I never would have thought
1520. 51:16that I thank you
1521. 51:19I always keep telling people when we
1522. 51:21meet here these things God sends you to
1523. 51:24me God sends me to you it's a very
1524. 51:27beautiful thing that happened if you
1525. 51:28want now actually we have a center just
1526. 51:30close by it's like one minute walk I
1527. 51:32want let's go there together I want to
1528. 51:33give you like a small gift like some
1529. 51:35things that basically will help you as
1530. 51:36well on this journey
1531. 51:37let's go there together let's go let's
1532. 51:40go let's go