New Muslims: Future Steps (Sheikh Yusuf Estes)

let's get started with this particular section and it's a subject about new Muslims so I'm before I go any further before I start that part of it may I ask do we have with us any brand new Muslims today please raise your hand anything we've got one over here's any other new muslin anybody in Islam less than one year raised up here yeah yeah oh my gosh masha'Allah well I'm so glad you guys came because this is for you now this is for you in Chava do we have any who are new less than two years put up your hands and now anybody who used to be another religion and you came to Islam raise up your hands mashallah and now anybody who didn't really use to practice Islam but all of a sudden one day they got guided and then they had to come in and be Muslim too and that's gonna be everybody else in the room yeah that's right it means that we're all really the same aren't we yeah we're all the same we all been through the same things and we know now finally though I would like to ask you are there any guests with us who have never been in a mushroom before you're not Muslim but you just wanted to check out what this is all about raise your hands get any guests here okay for you we want to say you are most welcome we want you to relax feel good amongst us and we and know how we feel about you because you don't know this but let me tell you you won't find anybody as a stranger who can really relate to you and care about you more than a Muslim because the Muslim understands something that all of us came from the same pair from Adam and Eve so a Muslim he will look at you as what minimum you are my brother or sister in humanity this is minimum this is immediately and this is no racism involved no nationalism is involved here it's just oh my god look another fellow human another brother or sister in humanity so know that you're most welcome the other thing if you're interested to know about God and interested to know about your purpose of life and you're on this path seeking knowledge and you must know this you'll become very high in their estimation because Muslims are seekers of truth themselves and they immediately equate and relate to the one who is also seeking this straight path and you will find that you'll be getting some very nice treatment from them as soon as they see oh you're you're honest and you're sincere and you're seeking and then we want to help you and they will bend over backwards trying their best to help now then we'll get started with today's this segment which is the subject of the new Muslims and coming into Islam and it's step by step bismillah alhamdulillah was select Islamic rule Allah al aliy wasabi ajma'in eyeshadow la ilaha illa llah eyeshadow i'm the Oversoul I'm used to fastest former national Muslim chaplain delegate to the United Nations World Peace summit for religious leaders and father grandfather and great-grandfather I'm gonna stop right there and Muslim humble oh I can relate to the folks who are seeking the straight path those who are looking and searching they want to know is there really a god and if so what's it all about they want to know what this life is about what is my purpose how did I get here what is expected of me is there a life after this and if so what would be the proof these are some of the questions that should come in the mind of anybody who's seeking truth I can relate to that because I was in that same condition 16 17 years ago although I was a Christian businessman and preacher at the same time there were things that I knew that made me doubt usually doubt comes from things you don't know you don't know something you doubt it you're it's like a vacuum but in the case where you know something but it makes you doubt this is different and the more I learned and studied about the texts the manuscripts the Scrolls of the Hebrew the Cohn a Greek the Latin some of the early English translations of the Bible the more I had doubt although in the beginning my faith was very strong because nobody ever told me that there were these difficulties our problems in the book at one point I met a man from Egypt and I was trying to convert him to Christianity one of the statements he said to me is that Islam is having a proof for what it believes what is being preached and taught in Islam there is evidence that is testable scientific evidence that cannot be disputed whereas in other religions their faith base then they say well this is a statement and now believe it why because we told you to why do you believe it well just because and I recall giving a lecture one of the universities in New York one of the Ivy League colleges there actually and afterwards a girl came up to me and she was wearing real nicely job everything Muslim girls saw Michael Michael on she said I just wanted to remind you last year when you came to our University and you spoke you asked for people to raise their hands if they weren't Muslim and when I raised my hand because I wasn't a Muslim that she said but then you asked me why and I said huh you said why aren't you a Muslim and I said what kind of question is that she said I started contemplating this why why why am i a Christian why am I not a Hindu why how did I get her she said then you gave me a CD no I gave everybody CDs song wouldn't make me remember it but she listened to it and she said after I heard the CD I understood what you meant she said I started studying more praying about it she met Muslims got the right idea and accepted Islam one of the problems that we have even amongst Muslims even amongst Muslims is we don't really understand what it is we're saying when we use these terms the word Islam is not English no you're gonna well duh yeah I know that but wait a minute that means you're using a word that you don't if you don't know Arabic then you don't know what the word means the word Muslim it's not English and you're assuming you know what it means the word core Olin is not English and you're assuming you know what it means but if you knew the depth of it I think you would have a different respect at least for the words Islam it's based on a verb as Lama which comes from the root scene Lam mean Sillman and you're like okay big deal etymology in Arabic that's all I needed to hear today but from that word we find that this word Islam contains five the English words and they're all present at exactly the same time that's why we don't have a word for it you can't substitute this because we don't have it's got five English words all simultaneously in it surrender submission obedience sorry and peace all of it some people say Islam is peace it's not Salam is peace Shalom in the Hebrew Salam by the way Hebrew and Arabic are twins in language they're Semitic languages very similar even have some of the same names for letters same words everything they're just written differently like Hindi and Urdu if you know those are very similar but they just don't look alike but when a person surrenders that means you give up totally surrender but when you submit that's that's a different word submit means you're going to basically turn over everything give up and agree to some terms the other word obey means you're going to follow the agreement that you just made in the submission sincerity you're gonna do it whether anybody cares or not you're gonna do it because you said you would do it you don't you're not worried about didn't anybody see me do it you're just doing it that's it I'm gonna do it I said I'm gonna do it I'm gonna do it that's it and then finally the peace that you get because no matter what happens no matter the outcome you're saying that's okay with me good bad or indifferent this is this is fine it's from God I accept it the statement that we find in the Lord's Prayer twice in the Gospels very well describes this attitude God's will be done on earth as it is in heaven if you believe there's a god and you want his will to be done he makes the choices for you his will you give up your free choice to his will then you have basically said Islam if you want to be in peace with your Lord you have said Islam and Muslim is nothing more than the Arabic showing you who's performing the verb mu slam is just like an English Islam or submit or obey a person in peace but it's nice because Arabic provides you this lovely way to say each of the verbs mu Islam Muslim you say Muslim no you're gonna have to do better than that I have a microphone and you don't Muslim Muslim the bit louder Muslim Muslim Muslim Muslim you want to be a what that was easy shadow and I'll give a that I don't get out of here anybody who believes there's God and wants to do what God wants them to do well know what religion doesn't teach that there's the difference because Islam is insistent on two important subjects one is broken down into five parts settlements broken down into six parts because only based on what I said so far anybody can be a Muslim as long as they're not an atheist up to this point anybody not atheist would be a Muslim if I didn't go any further and define it believing God yeah I want to do what he wants you to do yep you're almost a mole check barrel I want a career-low what no wait a minute you got five and six let's take care of five and six and then we got it which one you want first the five or the six okay I'm gonna give you the six otherwise I'm gonna do that anyway the six are the beliefs in Islam because you are not really accepted it by a law until you believe correctly about him first is the belief in the law what is there to believe about alone so okay we're driving down the street one day you know we're out in the country just going along here we were going oh it's a guy needs a ride hey hey when he gets in the car let's give him dower you know let's see really you know we're gonna talk to him about it slam talk about what yeah you'll get some car let go you play by some oh yeah oh yeah you like TV I'm gonna oh by the way uh you believe in God yeah you yeah you believe he's 1 or 3 1 Wow you want to do what God wants you to do yeah oh it's the Muslim ah wait a minute well you can't worship anything but him no that's right only him yes yes God yeah I'm sure he's a Muslim gotta be he said all the right things yeah all of a sudden he said stop the car you know huh stop the car I got to get out not here on the middle of nowhere what are your new jumps out of the car runs right out in the middle of a forest out here biggest tree out there hears him going up to this tree hugging this tree and they're like oh excuse me what's up with that I mean you know what are you doing he said worshipping God that's how you worship God - hugging the tree he said that's not a tree that was God we forgot to define something here so let's define it and make sure you understand when we're talking about God a lawsuit on a motel 'god almighty is not anything like the creation he's not a tree he's not a rock he's not a stick it's not a stone he's not a bone he is not something you can see he's not something you can hear if you can he hear it see it smell it taste it feel it touch it or imagine it it ain't God because he is unlike what is he unlike anything that you can imagine he is greater than the sum and total of everything and you can't imagine the universe but he is even greater and more than that so he is in Arabic language Akbar which is the greatest there is greater greatest allah is akbar allah akbar say it again but do you really love the Lord now I could have said that a lot of ways well somebody come up to you but did you love the Lord and I'll get away from me do you know Jesus it's like oh please I got a headache but what wait a minute doc Muslims love Jesus peace be upon so much so we say peace be upon him every time we say his name peace be upon him at least enough and Arabic is actually easier to say and it has more meaning at least Salaam its peace its blessings is everything oh one little Alice Anna allez so now I'll a he what's the like with Salaam huh it's nice this we say for Jesus listen this Jesus a miracle Burke absolutely it's Jesus with Allah yes is he coming back in the last day yes is he gonna kill the the job the Antichrist yes he is nobody on this earth believes in all of this except Christians and Muslims nobody on earth believes what I just told you except Christians must we believe in the miracle birth we believe in the Immaculate Conception we believe that Jesus did miracles cured people give sight to the blind even brought the dead back to life by the permission of God and that he ascended he's with God and will be back in the last day and he will kill the false Christ the Antichrist he will lead the believers whoever wants to believe in him could be any religion today but when he comes if they believe in him and follow him they're going to be true believers he's gonna lead them in a victory and then there's gonna be beautiful peace on this earth for a while that's the belief for the Muslims any Muslim here doesn't believe what I just said or you're too intimidated to move what's that one saying that they got from Texas did you understand that did you see what happened we believe that I can ask the same question in a large congregation in the church and find some will say well I don't believe all of that I don't really I think you know that's pretty much you know blah blah blah I've seen it I even know one preacher I'm going to tell you what religion is but it's Christian but I'm not going to say which denomination I asked him one time what is your church believe he said in our Creed or in our belief we believe this we believe believe live the church believes this the church believes that and we believe we Whitman what's the difference between the church and we what was that all about he said well those two points I don't actually believe that I said wait a minute you're the preacher here you have to believe it he said and I'm not really I said but you teachings that's what the church tells us to teach I know I don't want to be in that religion in Islam it's not optional you have to believe these six things the first one is to believe in Allah as he describes himself not as you want to believe in him you can't just say well I think God is like a great big apple you know hold on I heard a guy tell me that when I was still Christian he said God is like a big apple he's got the skin on the outside the meat on the inside and the seeds on the inside of that and all these three make one Apple so three equals one this is a Trinity he's explaining Trinity compared to God to a what an apple oh the below this is so abhorrent to a Muslim to compare Allah take anything even if you said Allah is like the son we'd say out of Allah and son is bigger than apple doesn't work so study about this so let me tell you where to get the details on this because I'm gonna run out of time in fact I already did I want you to go to a website that we have we'll help you understand two words God Allah G OD a ll aah calm good name huh I'm not gonna forget that right God Allah calm go and find out what we believe about God now real quick let me go through the other five of the six beliefs to be a Muslim you have to believe in the angels and angels are perfect they never falter they never fail in their mission when Allah sends them to do anything they do it because they have zero choice in the matter they will do what their commander to do angels are perfect they're made of light they never disobey Allah then there's another thing that Muslims believe in called jinn the jinn were created before the humans from what smokeless fire and you can't see them any more than you can see angels but they exist some people call them demons some people call them spirits I'm calling ghosts some call them you know UFOs whatever but we believe in them our word genie comes from the word jinn is the idea we don't necessarily believe they reside in bottles with a cork on top or a lamp that you can rub and jumps out goes good semester three wishes and the first two don't count no I don't have that but there are there are other creations out there that we can't see that's what we believe then we believe also as Muslims the books that were sent down before we believe in all of the revelations that came from God in their original form even though they don't exist anymore today we believe that when they came they were just like Quran they were the original they were the Word of God to mankind and therefore obviously we still believe the Quran to be unchanged untouched and it will remain so until Allah wields otherwise we believe in all the prophets and we don't make a distinction between them saying one is better than another something like this all the prophets of Allah starting with Adam Abraham Moses David Suleiman Jesus and Muhammad's Allah now here's something interesting for you to know I only mentioned a few names the night the Bible mentions quite a few names for prophets quite a few but Prophet Muhammad peace and blessing be upon him said that what Allah says in the Quran - that Allah never punished any nation until he sent a prophet or a Warner to them said that now he also said that Allah had sent more than a hundred and twenty four thousand 124,000 prophets and messengers to the people most of them we don't know their names yeah Wow and we believe that and we believe in the resurrection day of judgment you will all be brought back and we believe that everything is in the control of Allah any has control over the destiny those are the beliefs and if somebody doesn't perfect those beliefs in themselves they're not almost them yet and we try to help them step by step to get to the right way but that is not a Muslim until they can accept those teachings next

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Length: 23min 34sec (1414 seconds)

Published: Sun Jun 15 2008