CATHOLIC GIRLS TARAWEE QUESTION LEADS TO ISLAM
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Summary
In this episode, we talk about the importance of standing vs. standing in the Darul Qurani, and the difference between standing and sitting in the tarawee and standing for the sujood. We also talk about why standing is better than standing and why it is permissible to pray standing.
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so sister giselle subhanallah she called in to ask a question on behalf of her husband who's a
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muslim she's a catholic married to him uh and she asked a question pertaining to tarawee and subhanallah
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um not only that her husband ordered this guided prayer mat he knows how to pray now he doesn't
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need this anymore and i asked her a question i said um would your husband will be able to teach
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you how to pray salah if you accept islam and she was like yes is that correct yes sister are you
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ready to accept islam yes but before before i do that i just want to make to make it clear
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that i will join islam not because i want to be rewarded not because i want my sins to be
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just imagine the people back in the day when they would have to travel certain distances for
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months or even years what is one thing that they would carry with them the quran why because they
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did not have it on their mobile devices or their gadgets brothers and sisters imagine you have a
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app the qurani app which not only shows you how much rewards you get but reminds you to read the
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quran gives you reminders download the qurani app now and let it testify for you on your muqiyama
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that you read it wherever you was let's go to the next caller please okay yeah we have candy
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assalamu alaikum candy hi hello where are you calling from i well thank you for actually calling
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me candy but my real name is giselle um and i am calling from winnipeg manitoba where from
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winnipeg manitoba where is that where is that canada canada okay mashallah how's how's the weather
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that i don't know by the way david you have multi-skills david you keep amazing with the information
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yes yes sister what's your question like random things he will know things i don't know
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okay so i yes my husband is a revert and right now he has um caffeine withdrawal so i called to ask
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questions on his behalf what what does he have caffeine withdrawal
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oh caffeine withdrawal okay yes um okay what's that what's that caffeine withdrawal he's not
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stopping caffeine yeah okay okay because um of ramadan mashallah okay yeah okay um how's he feeling
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is he okay uh yes he's he's managing he's not grumpy that's good alhamdulillah yes so what's what's
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his question he wants to ask if he can have coffee no i know that he can't even if he tells me i'm gonna
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say nope um so my it seems that he is it seems that you are you know you are you are controlling
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alhamdulillah this at least this side which is good that's not bad um yes okay um all right so my first
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question or his question is um it has um about tarawi and if a person has trouble praying um tarawi standing
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up um and i know that he um there's an option for to sit down while doing it um how does one
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pray tarawi sitting down so when he pray tarawi he has to sit down on the floor like this is that
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you need to know firstly that the mandator prayer the isha prayer he has to pray them he has to pray
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standing up unless if he has some serious problems then he can sit down otherwise he has to pray standing
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this for isha yeah the mandator prayer the tarawi has a voluntary prayer if he prayed standing he will
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have the full reward if he prayed sitting he will have half reward so that's why it's okay for someone
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to sit down but he has to be on the floor not on a chair many people they think the chair is the
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option you go to the chair option unless you have problems in your knees you cannot sit in the floor
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then you go to the chair option otherwise you sit down on the floor you just be normal sitting down
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so when the imam is bowing for ruku you bow a bit like this and then when you go to sujood you go full
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sujood on the floor then it is permissible for the person to do that for the tarawi and the
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voluntary prayer so the voluntary prayer the person is entitled to pray to pray standing or sitting
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down and standing is better but the mandatory prayer that has to be prayed standing unless if
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the person has an illness that prevents him from standing that he can sit down exactly how long
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you been a muslim how long you been a muslim oh i'm i'm actually not a muslim um but my husband is a
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revert and why don't you become muslim oh um that's a heavy question um
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there can be a light answer like taking the shahada okay um well i'm i'm a catholic um
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i am a spiritual catholic uh i have stopped believing in the human side of it sorry other catholic
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listeners um yeah i oh wait my heart is um i'm nervous uh it's fine it's fine sister uh look i feel
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guilty guilty yes i feel guilty of switching um because
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well catholics i think we were born to feel guilty but um i'm just worried that if i
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choose or if i become a revert that i'm not really sure that um i will be punished
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because i'm saying no it's like i'm turning my back away from from let me tell you something
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sister yeah you know the the the the for example the faith that you are in for example the catholism
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now think about it what jesus was just as a catholic for example uh for example did he believe in the
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cross that's another thing you see the point so if he didn't know that how he's gonna be killed
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or suppose this yeah and if he as well he was asking and begging god not to be killed all of these
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things it tells you something we believe in jesus please be upon him but as a prophet and messenger of
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god he's not god he cannot be god and as well when we say about god god is all knowing all powerful
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has independent will and none of these ones and none of these conditions applies to jesus but it
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fits him to be a prophet and messenger of god and actually he said a profound word when the people of
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israel they came around him surrounding him saying to him uh you know thinking about what he is and he
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said uh oh you people of israel our lord is one and he used the term ahad ahad which is in hebrew
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and that's this term is exactly used by moses please be upon him it's exactly in the same the
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same word admission in the quran say allah is ahad one and unique there is no second there is no third
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he is the only one and he is the only one worthy to be worshiped that is islam and actually by you
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believing in islam and accepting islam you're not telling you back to jesus actually you are following
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the way of jesus he was saying he submit his will to the will of god he said i'm gonna go to my father
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and your father my god and your god he has a god he prayed to god he prostrate to god that's how muslims
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and actually you are following the way and the methodology of jesus peace be upon him you are and
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you are earning as well muhammad peace be upon him the last and the final messenger and he was sent
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by allah to the people to guide the people to the to the right path so basically when you are accepting
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this you're not turning back actually to jesus rather than you are following the path of jesus
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peace be upon him and you follow the path of all the prophets and messengers does that make sense to
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you sister yes it it does um i also i'm a filipino and in my family um catholicism and my my family
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believe strongly in it and i am i feel um well i i feel afraid of the repercussions of of me um i
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understand sister so what's what's my suggestion is if you become muslim yourself keep this between you
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and your husband until when the time comes when you feel confident to mention this to your family
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that's fine but at least that do do the right thing do the right decision at this moment yeah
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because because at the end of the life is short you don't have to go to tell them just do the right
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thing do the right decision and inside you you believe in god inside you you make sense to you that
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jesus is a prophet and sent by god it makes sense to you that muhammad is the last and the final messenger
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that's why your husband embraced islam and he's gonna be the most happy person that when his wife when you
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and him both of you became muslim when both of you are praying together fasting together doing the
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righteous thing and by the way the background of the filipinos if you go to the history they were
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muslims until the portuguese came there and the spain came spain spanish came there literally forced
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the people to change their faith from islam because filipino was like malawi as well they have kind of
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links with the with malaysian indonesian and these areas and then they forced them to change their
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faith that's why they became catholic otherwise in the past they were muslims in the
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past and if you go in the history you might find one of your ancestors was a muslim alhamdulillah yes
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so the point is sister we are when you are accepting islam you are not
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the way does that make sense to you sister yes um i just want to say thank you for uh talking to me
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about it although it wasn't my um uh my reason for calling um watching you and that's my sister
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yes we're here in the whole of ramadan you can call whenever you like if you change your mind if
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you want to take your shahada just knowing catholicism you know you have to go to the
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priest to ask for forgiveness we believe in islam like the reason why we're here is because to pray
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salah that's what makes islam so different because we single out god in worship when we worship god and
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pray we don't go to muhammad moses jesus upon them all we go to god directly that's what makes islam
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unique we don't go to the imams to ask them for to forgive us and give them a 50 pound note behind
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the thing so he can forgive us faster like amazon prime so the thing is here we go to god almighty
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directly we pray to him and you know if you accept islam my dear sister if you do we will teach you how
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to pray salah we have our sisters team who will teach you how to pray salah step by step you can go to our
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website salahplus.com and you can order if you want this stuff i know it already because my husband
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has it and he actually told me uh a couple of days ago they said has he got one of this has he got one
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of this yes and he can pray without um reading the prayers now you know this is profound this is
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profound look at this this is a sister who's a catholic her husband is a muslim who's a revert
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who ordered the guided prayer mat and now can pray without using it that means now he has he has
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learned it sister you get guess what if you accept islam that means your husband can teach you how to
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pray is that correct yes i know about that because he tells he's been telling me a lot about islam and he
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also reads um that english translation of quran wow look at that wallahi this is what we say to
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the people yeah wallahi imagine her reverts uh husband who's having a caffeine withdrawal now he's
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relaxing yeah he's having a caffeine withdrawal yeah but and he's got he's he's got an amazing wife like
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this lady who's there trying to help him yeah maybe listen make him help him about islam trying
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to help him about islam by the way this is just think just think about it sorry sister we broke up
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there sorry yes so i was saying what's your name um my name is jiselle uh or you can call me jill
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okay so sister jiselle subhanallah she called in to ask a question on behalf of her husband who's a
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muslim she's a catholic married to him uh and she asked a question pertaining to taraweeh and subhanallah
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um not only that her husband ordered this guided prayer mat he knows how to pray now he doesn't
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need this anymore and i asked her a question i said um would your husband will be able to teach
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you how to pray salah if you accept islam and she was like yes is that correct yes subhanallah my dear
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sister do you let me ask you a question do you believe god is one do you believe he is one
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absolutely okay do you believe do you believe he has partners do you believe there is more than
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one god or there's just one god and he cannot be a human being there's only one god for me
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good so you don't believe god is a man a statue a tree an idol no thank you so my dear sister
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do you believe in prophets you believe in jesus moses abraham as prophets yes do you believe the
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prophet muhammad peace be upon him as a prophet do you know anything yet still or yes um my he has
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been telling me a lot about muhammad um so yes i i believe sister you you are a muslim you you can't be a
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catholic because you believe god is one you don't believe god is a part has a partners he's not a
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human being you believe the prophet muhammad peace be upon him as a final messenger you are a muslim i
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mean your husband yeah after he comes off his caffeine withdrawal he can teach you how to pray salah
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not only that sister i believe you should take your shahada with us because you already believe it
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you already believe god is one i and i believe me i came to islam 12 11 years ago yeah this is my 11th
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ramadan and i always believe god is one the moment i heard christians believe god is a human being
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it was done for me i said i cannot follow this religion because i do not believe god is a man
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so my dear sister why don't you take your shahada with us it's up to you we don't want to force you
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i'm very careful with this stuff i don't like forcing but it's because it's ramadan it's ramadan
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sister we can get you some dates i'm sure you have dates you don't need dates here but alhamdulillah you
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can fast learn how to pray salah and our sister's team will be in contact with you if it's totally
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up to you but why don't you take your shahada sister because you already believe well it would
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definitely um be a fun one um fasting with erin um inshallah it will be and not only that you can
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pray with him sister yeah and our sister's team at salah plus will help teach you how to pray salah
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you might not need your husband is there yeah he just needs some caffeine and he's he's good to go
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yeah you know what i'll even send some coffee yeah inshallah uh you can uh help some british coffee
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why don't you if you're ready you can repeat after us you can repeat after shaykh mahmad
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and you can take a shot are you ready to accept islam with us and inshallah you can even do a marriage
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ceremony for you and your uh husband inshallah no i i just want to say i i feel very um
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um um sorry aaron i told you i'm not going to uh be too emotional but uh i just want to say that um
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i feel honored yeah alhamdulillah that you are honored that's why we are honored we are honored
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actually so so my point sister to you you you will be you will be in islam you start high all your
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previous sins will be like a newborn baby with no sins and i will give you something glad tidying for
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you our prophet peace be upon him he said that those ones who accept isa or musa peace be upon both of
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them and he accept the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam allah will reward them twice which means
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that as soon as you're accepting islam allah will reward you twice and allah will replace all
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these things that you used to do allah will replace them in rewarding islam so you start
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she's ready sister are you ready to accept islam yes but before before i do that i just want to make
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to make it clear that i will join islam not because i want to be rewarded not because i want my sins to be um
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wiped away i am joining it because i want to because i choose to join and because i believe in this
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is the amazing thing actually you are you are you are amazing mashallah so sister repeat after me
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one second let's get let's get the wide camera let's get the whole team here yeah we want to witness
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this we want to witness this no we want to witness this let's get the chance so sister repeat after me
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yeah we'll say it we'll say the shahada we'll say that shahada in english then we'll say it in arabic
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all right sister okay so i testify i testify i testify that there is that there is no one no one
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worthy to be worshipped worthy to be worshipped except allah except allah and i testify and i testify
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that muhammad that muhammad that muhammad is the messenger is the messenger of allah of allah
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let's say it in arabic yeah and i will do my best to to say it too i will i will do it slowly for you
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allah ashtam tells alwa laha ilaha ilaha ilaha illaha illa illa illa allah alah alah alah was
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wa wa ashtam��sel azhar du ashahdu ashhadu ashhadu ashhadu anna anna anna muhammadan muhammadan muhammadan rasulul rasulu rasu alwa
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Rasul Allah Allah we are happy we are honored having an amazing sister like
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yourself and I will tell you something you know you know sister I will tell you
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something what amazes me that Allah Azza wa Jal in Ramadan there is every single
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night of Ramadan Allah Allah the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam Allah will
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free people from the punishment of the hellfire and grant them Jannah and
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actually this is the first night of Ramadan or the second night of Ramadan
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and which is the first day after fasting and Allah has honored us firstly
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having you as a sister for us and because look how much you are good to
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your husband how much you are good to him you wanted to help him to implement his
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faith properly that's why Allah looked into your heart and found you a genuine
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person that found that you are wanted to help not just only you is about about
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yourself is about as well your husband look how beauty it is that's why sister
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Allah Azza wa Jal has honored you and us by you accepting Islam may Allah bless you
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actually I was about to cry because to see an amazing
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someone like you who's keen to help her husband I was amazed these things is not
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happening you don't find this you don't find someone who has a different faith a
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wife has a different faith and helping her husband because you believe in inside you
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you believe it is the truth but Allah brought you eventually Allah brought you and I will add
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at your information the the companion women came to the Prophet peace be upon him and then
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they said to him oh my son of Allah we see the men they do this they do they do
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different things what's for us he said Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam he said if the
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woman prayed her five daily prayer fasted the month of Ramadan was good to her husband
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Allah will say to her in the day of judgment you enter paradise and choose any gate that you
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want to enter paradise and you're already there so that's why now Alhamdulillah start learning how
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to pray start fasting the month of Ramadan joining your husband yes and inshallah
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ta'ala you will we are very privileged having you yeah I mean yes what's Aaron what's your
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husband's name is Aaron yes he's the um uh what did you call him um the no one second is it is your
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is your is your um one second yeah oh is this one second one second is this is this Aaron one second
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we just realized is this Aaron the one you've been teaching how to pray Salah uh yes he's Aaron oh my
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gosh one second is this is it that but one second so this is guys this is profound this is Aaron
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Dawood is Dawood is his instructor Dawood has been teaching him how to pray Salah so this is his wife
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yeah okay so Dawood is his wife brother so this brother so guys just just imagine this yeah so this
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is literally happening real in front of you so we talk about Salah instructors and people don't really
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understand Dawood Sheikh Mohammed and others there's instructors yeah we didn't even know this yeah
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Dawood has been teaching a brother and he talks so highly of him Aaron this Aaron that Aaron we're like
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okay Dawood we understand and he's just now he's a beautiful brother he's like this you know and
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subhanallah where did we don't even know because we can't see his face it's his wife who's accepting
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islam subhanallah that Aaron also talks about Dawood uh that he's a beautiful brother all the time that
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I feel like I'm talking to Dawood masha'Allah masha'Allah sister masha'Allah wow bless you we was gonna say
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Aaron you've got an amazing wife you've got an amazing friend who's also my friend yeah uh brother
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so Aaron look after your wife inshallah she's amazing may Allah bless you sister we're gonna
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get in contact with you our sisters team inshallah to help teach you how to pray Salah sister inshallah
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and we will send you one of these guided prayer mats as well or you can borrow your husband's
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or borrow your husband's no I want my own please okay we're gonna send you your own guided prayer mat
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and not only that we're gonna get our sisters team sister Huda inshallah to contact you
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and teach you how to pray inshallah unless you want your husband to get the reward
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I um you my heart is uh very very swollen right now
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