Ali Dawah - August 28, 2023


BRITISH POLICE’S JOURNEY TO ISLAM - MIRACLE AT NIGHT


Episode Stats

Length

6 minutes

Words per Minute

199.90273

Word Count

1,233

Sentence Count

4

Hate Speech Sentences

7


Summary

In this episode of the Salah Plus podcast, we are joined by police officer Aydin Assalamualaikum to talk about his conversion to Islam and his journey with Salah. He shares his story of how he converted to Islam, the challenges he faced in his early life as a Muslim and how he overcame them.


Transcript

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00:00:53.580 Assalamualaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh brothers and sisters and dear friends so I'm somebody who likes to go out and eat a lot
00:00:59.080 Alhamdulillah when I do Dawah Speaker's Corner on Sundays I come to Edgeware Road and Alhamdulillah been here
00:01:04.080 I've seen Paul before his conversion to Islam many times walking here with my wife Alhamdulillah we've met him we've seen him
00:01:11.080 so this is brother Paul the police officer Aydin
00:01:13.580 Assalamualaikum Alhamdulillah very good thank you brother
00:01:16.080 You're very good Alhamdulillah I saw your story in my head I was thinking he was already a Muslim for some reason but then you said you officially took your shahada
00:01:22.580 in January January this year I was at home and it was about two in the morning and
00:01:28.080 I couldn't breathe I woke up and I didn't know whether it was Covid and anxiety panic I didn't know
00:01:33.080 and I woke up in the night and I'm like and I could not breathe and voila I thought I was going to die and
00:01:39.080 I remember praying please do not let my daughter find me that's how bad I couldn't breathe
00:01:44.080 a voice in my head from nowhere this never happened before a voice in my head
00:01:48.580 said put the Quran on
00:01:50.580 I've got my tablet never heard this voice before I put my tablet on and I heard
00:01:55.580 Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim and I went
00:01:58.580 I breathed I cried I laid in my bed and I slept like a baby the next day
00:02:03.580 I went to the mosque it says shahada and Alhamdulillah it's the best thing that has ever happened to me
00:02:10.080 Me obviously as you know I'm focused on teaching new one of the new reverts how to pray Salah
00:02:14.080 How's your journey with Salah?
00:02:16.080 What I do you know I will recite Afatiyah and I know that you know and there's certain words that I'm learning
00:02:24.580 certain words I'll say in the prayer in English
00:02:26.580 if I forget the Arabic version
00:02:28.580 but again it's just a slow you know for all of us brother as you know this is just it's a work in progress
00:02:36.080 and you know and I'm learning every day and there are words you know that I do struggle with
00:02:42.080 but Alhamdulillah you know it's just about learning and I know obviously the likes of yourself and other people
00:02:48.080 they're talking about
00:02:49.080 We have the two pillar project so in our project we have the first one is La Ilaha illallah
00:02:52.080 you already have that Alhamdulillah
00:02:54.080 the second one is the second pillar of Islam which is Salah
00:02:57.080 you know and the Prophet Muhammad peace be upon him when he told Mwada bin Jabal
00:03:00.080 when he sent him to Yemen to give ta'wah he said call him to La Ilaha illallah
00:03:03.080 if they accept that then call him to Salah
00:03:05.080 so Salah is very very important and there is no excuse in this Alhamdulillah
00:03:08.080 you're even doing the sixth Salah in Islam which is not fun but it's amazing
00:03:14.080 so we're going to give you that guide of prayer and we'll send it to you inshallah
00:03:17.080 you can go to our website salahplus.com and we'll send one free to your house
00:03:20.080 but if you do ever need a one-to-one session which we do that as well
00:03:24.080 which you said Hamdulillah the brothers where you live are already sorted out
00:03:27.080 that's good use the prayer mat it is life-changing inshallah
00:03:30.080 did you ever have any struggles with the Salah because I remember when I met you you said that
00:03:33.080 you wanted to know if you can pray it in English or in Arabic
00:03:36.080 so what I do you know I will recite Al-Fatiha
00:03:41.080 and I know that you know and there's certain words that I'm learning
00:03:47.080 certain words I'm saying the prayer in English if I forget the Arabic version
00:03:52.080 but again it's just a slow you know for all of us brother as you know this is just it's a work in progress
00:03:59.080 and you know and I'm learning every day and there are words you know that I do struggle with
00:04:05.080 but Alhamdulillah you know it's just about learning and I know obviously the likes of yourself
00:04:10.080 and other people I honestly I am humbled you know I know you know by being chosen by Allah
00:04:19.080 because I really believe I've been chosen you know people say to me why did you go to Islam
00:04:23.080 I said Allah chose me but it is the peace the love what I've been given from from our people
00:04:33.080 from our you know from this community it's just fantastic and I just want to thank everybody you know
00:04:38.080 because it's humbling when I have every day I have little children six seven years old come running up
00:04:43.080 please see Paul welcome to Islam I have elders come up to me welcome to Islam
00:04:48.080 so Alhamdulillah you know it's just it's an amazing it's been an amazing journey
00:04:53.080 I know I'm at the right at the beginning of my journey and I feel you know I just going to get you know
00:05:00.080 I'm going from strength to strength I want to thank our donors who you know help us buy the prayer mats
00:05:07.080 and may Allah bless you guys people like brother Paul their sisters out there as well
00:05:12.080 our aim is to connect them back to Allah through Salah inshallah
00:05:15.080 may Allah bless you guys till next time
00:05:17.080 you can go to our website on salahplus.com book a salah session with an instructor male or female
00:05:23.080 or you can go and order your free salah guided prayer mat which will be delivered to your very door
00:05:28.080 you can book an instructor for free we can come to you and teach you inshallah in the London area and the
00:05:33.080 surrounding areas inshallah or we can send you a guided prayer mat which has all the instructions
00:05:38.080 you can learn how to pray instantly and we want that for you because the second pillar of Islam
00:05:43.080 is the salah brothers and sisters and the scholars have spoken that this is a matter of kufr
00:05:49.080 belief or disbelief the fact that it's a discussion of belief or disbelief shows how severe and how important
00:05:55.080 the matter of salah is and anyone that has belief and gratitude to their Lord brothers and sisters
00:06:00.080 how could they neglect salah we call you inshallah to praying salah with salahplus.com book your session
00:06:06.080 or order your guided prayer mat now assalamualaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh