Ali Dawah - September 30, 2020


DAVID WOOD FRIEND ACCEPTS ISLAM - SHOCKING STORY


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Length

6 minutes

Words per minute

135.69722

Word count

833

Sentence count

62

Harmful content

Hate speech

2

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Summary

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Jummah Kutbahaykum is a Muslim convert who left Islam in the late 1980s and early 1990s. In this episode, he shares his story and how he was able to return to Islam.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 Salafi, you could pack a lot into fitna, right?
00:00:04.140 Yeah.
00:00:05.000 For those who have no clue what you're talking about right now, give us a general idea of what that would include.
00:00:10.280 Well, fitna can be apostation from Islam, outright where you say, I'm Muslim, I no longer am Muslim, I renounce Islam.
00:00:21.220 Wallahi. Wallahi, I tell you this.
00:00:26.060 The beginning of Ramadan in 2008 came.
00:00:30.000 And I got a text message from a friend of mine.
00:00:33.740 And I got a text message from a friend of mine.
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00:00:52.320 Salafi, you could pack a lot into fitna, right?
00:00:56.360 Yeah.
00:00:56.880 For those who have no clue what you're talking about right now, give us a general idea of what that would include.
00:01:02.540 Well, fitna can be apostation from Islam, outright where you say, I'm Muslim, I no longer am Muslim, I renounce Islam.
00:01:12.620 But you can apostate from Islam by denying anything that's cardinal to Islam, like the nature of the Quran, the five pillars of Islam, some of the cardinal rules of Islam, like wearing the hijab or Kimar, being modest, praying five times a day.
00:01:35.780 So if you say, I don't believe in that, or even if you just don't do it, I believe in it, but I just don't do it.
00:01:42.680 That's fitna also.
00:01:44.140 All of that is fitna.
00:01:45.820 So all of that, according to the Quran and the God of the Quran, is worse than murder.
00:01:53.760 Walahi.
00:01:55.500 Walahi, I tell you this.
00:01:56.760 The beginning of Ramadan in 2008 came, and I got a text message from a friend of mine, brother Abu Zakaria.
00:02:07.740 I'm giving him credit.
00:02:09.940 Abu Zakaria.
00:02:10.920 He sent me a text message.
00:02:12.240 And a text message.
00:02:12.700 Is this Abu Zakaria from Ayara?
00:02:15.180 Or is this a different?
00:02:16.200 No, no.
00:02:16.300 This is a different brother.
00:02:18.660 Okay.
00:02:19.240 He sent me a text message, and he said, As-salamu alaykum.
00:02:22.800 Are you ready to come back home?
00:02:23.920 I hadn't heard from this brother in years.
00:02:28.220 I hadn't heard from this.
00:02:29.180 I haven't spoken to him, hadn't received a text message.
00:02:32.760 We hadn't had any communication in years.
00:02:36.640 At that point in my life, which coincided with the beginning of Ramadan, he sends me a text message asking, Are you ready to come back home?
00:02:46.400 And, you know, I was being a smart butt, and I sent back, Are you ready to accept Jesus as your Lord and Savior?
00:02:53.920 And so we started talking, you know, and we started talking, and I just found it weird that those things coincided with each other at the same exact time.
00:03:09.740 And I really started thinking, Well, if you're open-minded enough to explore everything, you say that you want to see the proof for everything.
00:03:22.980 You want to see the evidence for everything.
00:03:25.940 Will you take a look and to see whether or not it was a mistake to leave Islam?
00:03:30.880 Are you willing to go that far?
00:03:34.740 And I really thought about that.
00:03:38.840 There was a part of me that resisted that.
00:03:41.320 And it got to the point where, Wallahi, I would wake up in the morning, and I would go into the bathroom, and I would look in the mirror, and I couldn't look at my own reflection in the mirror.
00:03:57.020 I couldn't look into my own eyes.
00:03:58.700 Because I knew something.
00:04:03.860 Okay.
00:04:05.620 Okay.
00:04:06.140 I'll look into it.
00:04:07.400 How about that?
00:04:08.320 I'll look into it.
00:04:09.880 I'll at least explore the idea.
00:04:11.860 So, I started going, I went to a masjid, and I would just, first day, I just wanted to sit and observe, and I watched the brothers make salah.
00:04:27.440 And then, after doing that a few times, I started, I got into a conversation with the imam, Wallahi, another brother that I knew from back in the days.
00:04:38.140 He just happens to be at the masjid, you know, and we started talking.
00:04:45.080 So, now I'm talking to the brother of Riyatetz that I hadn't spoken to in years, talking to this other brother that I hadn't seen in years, and speaking to the local imam at the masjid.
00:04:54.060 And I'm going to the masjid.
00:04:55.660 This is all during Ramadan.
00:04:56.540 And it was like my, it was, if you had a heart covered in steel, and you poured acid, and it melted the steel down, so you got to the fleshy part of the heart, that's what it was like.
00:05:14.480 The hardness, against the hardness that was inside me, towards the idea of Islam, and returning, even returning to Islam, it began to just slowly melt away, day by day. 0.85
00:05:29.080 Each day of Ramadan, it just melted away. 0.99
00:05:31.320 Seeing the brothers make salah.
00:05:34.040 It's like, wow, I remember that.
00:05:36.140 I remember what that was like.
00:05:38.340 Thank you.