In this episode, I speak with a sister from California who decided to take a shahada. She shares her story of how she accepted Islam and how it changed her life. I hope this episode inspires and motivates you to do the same.
00:00:00.000I've always been interested, you know, hearing about Ramadan and fasting.
00:00:04.500But more recently, I was learning a lot about like meditation and fasting.
00:00:11.540And during this entire time, I would pray.
00:00:15.100Is there any words you would say for those?
00:00:17.060Maybe there's people out there like yourself, you know, who are interested, but they're a bit hesitant.
00:00:22.100Is there anything that you would say to them?
00:00:23.160No, the main thing for me was asking, you know, Allah to change me.
00:00:30.000From a juvenile, when my clothes had holes in them, and my afro was picky, to them 90s, Moschino and Versace, no laces in Arachis, new millennia.
00:00:44.700Assalamu alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh, brothers and sisters and dear friends.
00:02:32.360And I feel like this entire time, he helped me through my medical assisting classes and get a job.
00:02:40.600But aside of that, like, I was, you know, learning about the fasting and the meditation.
00:02:48.180And I was also meeting friends online.
00:02:50.960And they would always, like, tell me stuff about Islam and about marriage.
00:02:55.360Like, how it's supposed to be, what the Prophet Muhammad teaches.
00:03:01.460And I just always thought it was so beautiful, you know.
00:03:04.360And then one of my friends, because I was also wanting to learn another language.
00:03:10.740And he says, and while he teaches me about the Quran, and he was like, you know, you should learn Arabic so you can learn about, you know, understand the Quran better.
00:04:46.360And, you know, to know that, because to us, like, here, we just, you know, obviously, we do videos to inspire people and share our journey.
00:04:53.720Because I came to Islam about seven, eight years ago myself as well.
00:04:57.540And knowing the lifestyle that we lived before, you know, and when you come to Islam, you really, really value and appreciate it.
00:05:04.500Because a lot of Muslims that are born into it, they don't, I wouldn't say all, but not many of them really appreciate it.
00:05:10.660But the ones who experience the other side of the life, the dark side, you know, and the things that you go through, you genuinely do not find that happiness.
00:05:21.260You know, it's all these things that, you know, you try to follow.
00:05:26.180And especially as a female, you know, there's a lot of females that come to Islam.
00:05:29.220And I was reading a book called Beauty Sick.
00:05:49.480It's, it's, and it made me think like, you know what?
00:05:51.560It makes perfect sense why a lot of women come to Islam, you know, because it really breaks those shackles, those invisible shackles that are love.
00:06:00.120This goes with men as well, you know, because like before me, myself as well, you know, I was really caught with my looks and I have to look like this way.
00:06:06.020You know, I used to go, I would go clubbing and I would have to wear this specific jumper because I believe that I look really good in it.
00:06:24.920And I'm just serving it, even though I hate it and I dislike it.
00:06:28.280And it's the same with, you know, like some females that might be wearing high heels and they're not comfortable.
00:06:32.240And all that be the makeup or you have to look a certain way and being called, you know, you're seen as like some kind of a, an object, you know, and you're not happy with your body.
00:06:41.800You know, it's, it's, it's all these factors.
00:06:43.980And when you come to Islam, like you break those shackles.
00:06:47.680Like me personally, I said, look, I don't care what anyone thinks of me.
00:06:50.060Like you just come to that freedom where, and it's amazing.
00:06:53.180It's, it's, it's, it's, it's uplifting, you know?
00:06:56.400And you will definitely taste that, you know, when you come to Islam, you would know what I'm talking about, but probably you probably are already, you know?
00:07:03.280And that's why it's really important, you know, for us to come and understand that we as human beings, we're all bound to be a slave to something like that's in our nature.
00:07:13.200You know, we're bound, it's either going to be money, it's going to be society or peer pressure or proving yourself to your friends.
00:07:20.320And these are all from enslavement, because if you're not truly living for yourself and you're living for others, well, you're actually enslaved.
00:07:27.660And I came to the realization of, okay, if I'm going to be a slave, I want to be a slave to something that deserves it, you know?
00:07:34.880And that's when I found my true freedom.
00:07:36.980I said, okay, if I'm going to be enslaved to money or cars or girls or family, like I have to prove something to anyone.
00:07:42.900Well, they're not deserving of my enslavement.
00:07:46.300If I am going to do it, let me do it to the one who created me because he's deserving of it.
00:07:50.660And in that moment of enslavement, I found my true freedom by worshipping him alone.
00:07:56.560And yeah, you know, sorry, I'm really happy.
00:08:00.900And it really keeps me going, you know, to know that all the way from UK to California, that our videos, you know, be it me, Mohammed Hijab, the rest, that, you know, it plays a massive role to someone.
00:08:27.660Okay, so I'm going to get you in contact because if I'm not mistaken, California, there is, there is, we know because we came there, there was a lot of a big Muslim community.
00:08:38.540We're going to get you in contact with some sisters.
00:09:50.420You know, one thing you should bear in mind as well is I say this to a lot of reverts who come to Islam,
00:09:55.600that it might be that Allah has chosen you as an ambassador to your family.
00:10:00.040So it might be that it's through you that there's other people in your family that's going to come to Islam.
00:10:05.580Because, you know, like you see a lot of reverts who come to Islam and they end up being the ones who deliver the message of Islam to their family members.
00:10:12.980And Allah tells us in the Quran, you know, save yourself and your family from the fire first.
00:10:17.600So before preaching to the whole world, start from the family.
00:10:21.060So your journey, you are most likely an ambassador to your family, to your daughters.
00:10:25.660Obviously, your job is to convey the message.
00:10:26.880You can't force anybody and in Islam, it's, you know, it's forbidden to force.
00:18:24.980So I bought it and I was trying to do it.
00:18:26.480And I thought to myself, logically, you know, I need a screwdriver and I was doing it.
00:18:30.100And I did it, but the legs broke and I was so frustrated.
00:18:33.980But I came to myself, I thought to myself, you know what, we think like with these things, okay, I just need a screwdriver and I can do it myself.
00:18:40.640But asking Allah's help in even small things, it must be small, but Allah literally makes things easy.
00:18:47.620So when you're asking for du'a, whatever it may be, whatever, it can be a driving test or whatever it may be.