Priests and Preachers Entering Islam By Yusuf Estes

they asked me to give a talk now tonight's the night cha along you've been very patient I want to tell you a story the story of how priests and preachers enter Islam it happened something like this my father and I had a business in a mall some years ago one day dad came to the house he had a big house in the country and he said you know son something amazing we're gonna be doing with the business with a man from Egypt I saw that's great Egypt that's the land of the pyramids the Nile River Cleopatra all that good stuff this is exciting yeah so I said well when are we gonna meet this guy he said yeah we're gonna set it up and we're gonna have you know chance to get with him coming up and oh and he's a Muslim I said oh what a Muslim no dad does guy said we don't do business with these people you know no way they're terrorists hijackers kidnappers murderers they don't believe in God they worship a black box in the desert and they kissed the ground five times a day we don't need anything to do with no Moslems my dad said I want you to meet him I said no he said yes I said I don't want to meet him he said you will meet this man so well I can't argue with that so all right tell you what I'm gonna do I do it on my terms here's what I want to do I want to come to him on Sunday after church with my Bible and my born-again wife who will be all prayed up I'll have on my cross and my cap that says Jesus is Lord and that's what we did we went to church heard a big sermon I heard somebody get the Holy Ghost and somebody else translated what they were saying I don't know if you know what that means that means somebody is speaking in tongues they don't know what they're saying blah blah and then somebody else translates it for him and that really happened just like that then after that we said boy were charged up let's go get this [ __ ] we went into the store where my father's place was and I was ready for this guy and I expected to see you know one of those guys with a big you know coat on to the floor and a big you know turban on and a long beard and a never mind anyway in a sword oh it was expecting like Ayatollah Khomeini or something you know I browse it start here and go all the way across you know really then my dad said here he is I said where he said here so this guy this guy's wearing normal clothes you know and he doesn't have a beard he didn't have any hair at all he was ball headed so this is what a Muslim looks like say yeah okay shook hands with him I was surprised it was warm it was human you know I could feel warmth than that okay so I'll be nice hello how are you my name is Jeff what's your name my name is Mohammad okay Mohammad very nice to meet you by the way you believe in God he said yes yeah but do you believe in the God of Abraham he said yeah because he I had been studying up I know something about these Moslems what about Moses do you believe Moses he said yeah mm-hmm how about David and Solomon he said yeah but do you believe in the Bible do you believe in the Old Testament he said yeah how about the New Testament he said yeah I said wait a minute do you believe in Jesus he said yeah no I'm telling do you believe Jesus is a miracle birth yeah but you don't believe him as the Risen Jesus he said yes but he's with God I said you wait a minute this is gonna be easy this is gonna be so easy yes so I told my dad let's do business with this guy we can convert him no problem my dad said leave him alone I said no you know we start doing business we start travelling together he and I I began to observe his ways and began to realize that it was a real decent person a nice person a fair person in fact we would have discussions and I would purposely try to sneak things around in the talk but he would just be straight and say okay whatever let it go so hmm this is gonna be easy at one point a friend of mine that has a big cross he has a huge wooden cross and he carries it down the street from time to time he'll go down the freeway he'll go across the country just so people see him walking along this big huge cross they'll stop and say what is this and then he'll start to preach to them face a preacher - you know he given these little miniature Bibles with just a few verses in it especially has the verse John 3:16 for God so loved the world etc etc and this man with the cross I told him you know I found a [ __ ] he says stop right there stay away from those guys it's very dangerous I said yeah but I think we can get him you know I have some ideas about this he said well just take it easy said you know they don't really believe in anything they're infidels okay then he had a heart attack and went to the hospital when I went to visit him in the hospital I met another man there this man was a priest a Catholic priest and we became friends when the Catholic priest was released from the hospital we asked him to come and stay with us a nun no drive out to the country to my dad's house the priest told me that he knew about Islam quite a bit because he told me Catholic priests have to study all religions especially they have to study Islam I said I didn't know that he said yes we have to know about Islam he said these guys they know about the Bible they know about the New Testament they know about the Psalms and they know about Jesus and they know a lot about our religion and their religion and their Quran I said really he said yeah take it easy so ok now simple later they don't really believe right do they he said you'd be surprised said they really do have a lot going for them so oh ok now I've been warned about these guys so I started again trying to give the invitation to this gentleman to jump into our religion guess what he said he said well I'll go to your religion if your religion is better than my religion this is great fill up the bathtub will Duncan tonight make him a Bible here good to go but then he threw something at me I wasn't ready for he said but you're gonna need proof I said proof religions not about proof religion is about faith he said in its in Islam we have both we have proof and we have faith both ha-ah okay are you trying to tell me you can prove there's a god he said yes I said no I don't think so now look at this a preacher arguing with somebody who wants to prove there's a god saying no there isn't isn't proof that is and he's saying yes there is now I decided what we need to do is to gang up on him because I wasn't a match for this guy you know you know just one-on-one I need help my dad's are ordained minister he read the whole Bible by the time he was 10 years old he had a certificate for that my wife was very conversant in the Bible she had her own Bible and I felt like the best thing to do gang up on him so after the meal at night clear off the table and I'm gonna bring my Bible dad brought his Bible my wife has her Bible Catholic priest he's ready to go with his and we're really going to give it to this man but it didn't work like that because my dad has the Masonic Bible which is King James Version but I had the Revised Standard Version which is different doesn't have all the verses that he has my wife has Jimmy Swaggart Bible the good news for modern man and that's another with weird stuff in it the Catholic priest has the Bible with 73 books in our books only have 66 books and we're arguing with each other on all yes no not that this that the other and all the rest of it we had a problem how are we going to justify what verses were talking about when we can't even agree with ourselves how are we going to convince this man about the Bible how finally it became obvious we weren't going to get ever agree on anything so I turned to the Muslim and I said by the way how many versions of that book your Koran do you have there must be a lot of those too right he said there's only one a one and it's in Arabic and if it's not naira but then it's not the Quran because Quran is recitation recitation it's what you recite and he recited some things for us and I was amazed he knew it in the original language I had not seen anything like this before a lot of people who look at Islam realize how powerful it is to have the original in Arabic language they don't realize that because when you compare to other religions they don't have their original books anymore they have copies translations pieces of this and that people's opinions books written about it for instance if a person wrote a book today about the Quran and 2,000 years from now somebody said well that is the Quran that be a joke wouldn't it wouldn't it be a joke well that's pretty much what they got somebody writing about it but it's not the speech of Allah next we got off the subject as I see I'm not going anywhere with that next another night we're going to talk about what we believe because after all Christianity is the easiest religion in the world there isn't anything easier than Christianity you just say the magic words you don't have to pray you don't have to fast you don't have to make Hajj you don't have to pace the car you don't have to grow a beard you don't have to wear a hijab you don't have to do anything except hope that it's gonna work you get a hope that God is really gonna punish somebody else for your sins so you don't get punished not too likely is it so I decided to talk about this in explaining him about salvation we came to a new subject he said how do you get saved what will save you from going to help I said well that's what Christianity is best that we have the perfect salvation we have the grace he said how does it work I said well the grace works like this God can't forgive sins so he sends his son to die for everybody's sin he said why can't God forgive sin well I don't know how that works said if you can't forgive sin then how come after he kills his son he can for your sins I don't know how that works either he said it and you're guilty but his son is innocent so where in the history do we find it that it's good the innocent people have to be killed for the sake of the guilty ones well I don't know how that works either so we had a problem with that one especially when you consider if your child is bad really bad maybe he did something to the cat maybe threw stuff out of the refrigerator ran around the house and a skateboard broke the television set broke some windows maybe let the car roll out in the street and get hit by the trash truck so you come home and you said oh caught he did but I can't forgive him so I've got my other child over here that didn't do anything at all so I'll beat him up no I'll kill him the innocent one people would put that man in the insane asylum wouldn't they they locked that man up for that right society won't accept that so why does religion accept it and if you accept that then it should be OK for people to kill their innocent children but Islam forbid the killing of innocent children and forbid it because some of the ignorant Arabs used to do that kill their innocent children especially their daughters hey slim forbids killing of the innocent whoops well I had to stop on that one let's back off for that well forget about the Bible forget about the salvation that doesn't work he said especially when you talk about salvation in Islam we also say what you say you say nobody is saved except by grace that was everything we knew in Texas I heard that so many preachers said nobody is saved except by grace he said the word for grace and Arabic is Rama and the Quran begins with Rahman bismillah ar-rahman ar-rahim yes how many times a lot says a rahman al rahim ar-rahman ar-rahim throughout the Quran too many times so many times a lot talks about Rahman and Prophet Muhammad peace be upon him talked about a loss Ruffman so much Rahman one of the Hadees he talks about that Allah has 100 parts of Rama and one part of the hundred was used for all of mankind and all of his dunya 1 part all the mercy you ever saw or I ever imagined since the beginning to the end is one part of a loss Rahman the other 99 parts is waiting for the believers on the day of judgment and the Prophet said peace be upon him nobody is saved except by this Rahman they said even you refer a long he said even me so who has the grace okay let's get off in that subject I'm thinking we'll move to something else he says can you talk to me about your belief in God what do you believe about God which God is one he said do you have Trinity yes God is three so I thought you said he's one he is one and three he said how does that work because God can do anything okay let me get back to you so I go to my friend with the cross remember him he's out of the hospital I go to him I start to turn the problem have with the Muslims he said stay away from mom I told you I said yeah but they believe in Jesus was a miracle birth and Jesus was you know doing miracles and Jesus's with God he's coming back he said but they don't believe in the cross they don't believe in the sebacean he said whoa yah but he said stop stay away from him I said all I have to do is explain the Trinity and I'm sure I'll get him there but how can I explain that one equals three he said no no no no no look it's like an apple the Apple has the skin inside of the skin is the meat and inside of that is the seeds three things one Apple same way father son Holy Ghost one God got it okay got it so I go back and I'm ready hey clear off all the dishes after supper sit down my father myself my wife the priests and the Muslim pull out the Apple see this Apple has a skin inside is the meat and inside of that is the seeds he said yes about 6 or 8 seeds in there what is that equal yeah okay he said and looks like a worm crawling through it - that could be four or five guys here yeah all right let me get back to you I'll go back to the guy with a cross the next day's okay that Apple didn't work he said stay away from this guy said the Apple didn't work I told him what happens it's not forget about the Apple I said okay I forgot about it it's like an egg God is like an egg he said the egg is a shell inside of the shell is the white inside of the white is the yellow three things one egg said yes and now I'm ready go back clear the table sit down here we go see this egg yeah it's a pretty big age and what if it's a double yolk God just becomes four and what if it's rotten ooh yeah okay forget about that few days later I was in a parking lot some people talking to me I was preaching as usual and fella said to me what's probably I was telling him some difficulties with his mom's wombs I said I'm trying to explain the Trinity to this guy and I just can't seem to catch it he said don't you know honor that you're a preacher you oughta know that I said yeah I do but I don't have it he said look see me I'm one person I said yes you are see my wife right there I said yeah she's one person yes she is you see my son right there yes he's one person there one one one but all together were a family of three one family it's the family of God I said that's it here we go but on the way back I got to thinking about it I said let me try to process this before I get there and wind up with apple or egg on my face I said okay my father the mother this is what if they have another kid what if they have along twins what if they get divorced tall up because in Texas when you get divorced the woman she gets the house the car the savings the bank account the retirement the IRS everything and your computer and all your email I don't want a god that could lose his email I'm trying to think I'm gonna explain this so I sat down at the table that night and I didn't have a clue but we're gonna try something I'm trying to explain the Bible said the Bible said actually the Bible said God is one everywhere I look in the Bible it says God is one one one one one one one there's nothing except once throughout the whole Bible there's no Trinity there's no dude there's no three there's just one God say o Israel the Lord your God is one Lord that's in the book of Deuteronomy and it's in the book of Mark that means the Old Testament and the New Testament both the Jews and the Christians are ordered to believe that God is like this besides who wants a God with a worm in it or a God that can be rotten or a God that gets a divorce so we asked the Muslim what do you guys say about God look what he said I would live like min ash-shaytani regime bismillah r-rahman r-rahim allahu allah whose son had Lamia lead well them you lied well done me a cuckoo for one I had say he is a law the uniquely one the eternal he is not the father of anything he's not the son of anything he doesn't compare to anything and he's unique one I had said wow that sounds like what I believe anyway okay we can go with that now along the way through all of this all of us are having our own questions or our own discussions individually with this man from Egypt the Catholic priest asked him one day can I go to your church with you his temple his mosque he said sure come on they were gone for a while they got back a little later we took the priest aside we said did you go in there yeah did you see them yeah what did they do do they like slaughter little animals or anything like that or you know he said no actually they stand there like monks do you know in monks in a monastery they stand for hours praying he said that's what they do they just stand there and pray and then they bow and they do something that only the high priest gets to do which is to put a such to or prostration I said really he said yeah and then one and then they leave that's it yeah okay what kind of music do they have say they don't have any music how in the world do you worship God without music I was a music minister hello so I went to my friend from Egypt I said excuse me is it true you guys don't have any music in your mosques he said that's true how many mosques occur in the world he said Millions send millions hmm they all have electricity said yeah hmm cuz I sell electric pianos organs I was thinking hmm go but I could get rich this is a good idea do you think they'd be interested in any music he said you could try but I doubt it you boy see didn't want to make anything just like Haram Haram Haram just let you get in the door first thing force first la Li la la and he kept that first no matter what we brought up no matter what was the subject he get it back to Allah he lied in the law few days more go by the Catholic priest says can I go again with you he said sure he said I found such peace there I just want to go there again and feel that feeling again so they left and they didn't come back they didn't come back and it was so late at night and they finally finally drove up the old country road out there and when they got out of the car right away I recognized the Muslim you know but who is this guy with him had on a white goofy ax a long white robe that's the priest what happened to you Pete did you become a Muslim he said to shed it with her you know he lost I don't want my daughter loved I was shortened I considered this to be the biggest part of the story because this man had dedicated his entire life to the Lord he had completely given up all worldly things so that he could be a priest he could not get married he could not have children he cannot do this and that and so and so they don't even gamble they don't do they don't do anything they just pray so Wow you given all that up he said I'm giving up nothing I'm gaining going really he said this is the right way I said I know it is so let me get my camera's out we just tell the television show I get my camera out set it on a tripod get the lights hooked up put the microphones in you guys know how long that takes we get it all the other guess what the priest was asleep so well so I went upstairs I want to tell my wife I'm still excited I can't believe it a priest entered Islam today can you believe that a priest the Catholic priest became a [ __ ] I'm telling her she said I want to get a divorce I go huh wait a minute wait a minute wait a minute this is a different subject here what happened she said I've had it I've been listening talking we were thinking about what's going on around here I see where you're going I know where I want to go and I say and almost them cannot be married to a Christian we heard him say that all Muslim can't be married to a Christian so I want a divorce I said I'm not gonna become no Muslim take it easy did I say I want to be one of them guys no I didn't say that farthest thing from my mind forget about that let's go back to normal and he said that a Christian woman couldn't be married to a Muslim a Muslim woman can't be married to a Christian man you see so if I became a Muslim it would be alright for you to be a Christian it's just that a Muslim woman can't be married to the Christian or Jew or anything else she said that's exactly what I'm talking about I want to become a Muslim okay I didn't see that coming okay it's time to go into a save mode there's what's called Plan B mm-hmm by the way there's some good news here I do would like to be a Muslim she said what I said no really I want to do but I didn't know how to tell you so I also want to be a Muslim so that's it okay [ __ ] I don't believe you I said no I really I I just didn't know how to tell you I didn't know what to say in front of dad but hey you know now that it's all out I'm ready to be a Muslim dah dah dah dah she said you're a liar I said how can you say that she said you're either lying right now or you were lying five minutes ago when you said you didn't want to be a Muslim mmm got me there all right yep that's pretty true she said get out that's it you know I'm going down the steps and I'm thinking you know all my life everything is just flashing in front of me my wife my kids my wait a minute this is my father's house how am I getting thrown out of here so I go down I wake up my friend from Egypt I said come outside you and me we got a talk he said what's mom I said we got to go outside oh yeah we go outside and I begin telling my whole life story everything I don't know why I had to talk to somebody so we walked up and down those country roads until the Sun started to rise for budget he was so patient he listened so intently and by the way that wasn't the only time this man was always ready to listen to my problems long after I got into Islam but on this particular occasion I really needed him to listen as the Sun started to rise and we saw the first little bit of orange I told him you better go pray your father and I gotta figure out what to do so I snuck off by myself I found a big piece of board with a shelter over it and I put it down there's something in the Bible about making a booth to pray to the Lord okay I don't know if you know about that's called the booth and they set it up I tried to face it toward what I figure is the east about the direction he's aiming himself and I put my head on the ground because I said if it works for those Muslim guys maybe it'll work for me and with my head on the ground I said these words only Oh God if you're there guiding me and when I raised up my head I understood everything it wasn't me or the problem was it's not out there it's in here and not until you begin to deal with this in here will you ever be able to get right with what's out here because when this is not right your connection to him is not right and when that's not right ain't nothing right I had to become a Muslim and I had to tell the truth I had to admit there could only be one God not two not three and God can forgive sin if he wants to and he doesn't need to kill somebody else to get it done in fact I had to be responsible for my own sins and that's the hardest part about changing out of Christianity to Islam is to come to grips with the fact that you have to stand up and pay for what you did you can't charge it to somebody else's American Express card so that was it for me I knew I had to go in so I went in and I made a bath and I came downstairs and I was ready and I stood there in front of my friend from Egypt and the brand-new Muslim ex-priest and I said these words a shadow la ilaha illa-llah Y shadow muhammad rasool allah a few minutes later here came my wife right behind me said the same thing i said whether ilaha il-allah y shadow muhammad or so long without giving you the whole story tonight I will tell you some weeks and months went by but my father also said the same thing in shadow Allah Allah in the law well I said Muhammad so long and just before she died my stepmother said I've been listening to you guys for all these years and I know that Jesus can't be a god or a son of a god there can only be one God Homans is messenger Allah Akbar she died a few months after that home they did love a lot of me at the age of about 86 amazing isn't it and it amazing how a lot work yesterday we gave Shahada to a man 63 years old this year in the spring of this year we gave Shahada to a woman who was 99 and all of her children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren are hamdulillah are Muslim all of them hundred all Americans by the way it's amazing in it I've seen so many people enter Islam and every time they do I cry I cry and they cry and it feels good to know that there is this Rahman from Allah that he will bring even the priests and the preachers of other religions to Islam as you know the people who are pundits from the Indian religion of Hinduism I've seen them come in this one yes have you heard of the Brahmin caste of the Hindus the one who is making so much money selling CDs for Bollywood from India a woman named I think her name was they used to call her Charmin or something like that she had this big company doing millions of CDs for Bollywood she had a dream one night a vision she said it was like being wide awake I was in a store she said and I was looking at a book and there was a special book in this store and I knew I had to buy this book if I ever see this book I have to buy it her driver had taken her to some store she was going to go in and do something she realized this is the store and this is the book there it is she started screaming this is a book of my dream I have to buy it the vendor there said will then buy it so she bought it and went home and read it guess what the book was your right translation of Quran she said because this is from my dream I'm gonna read it and I'm gonna believe and I'm gonna accept it and she did she became Muslim hum dude by the way her driver had been driving for her for over 7 years then all of a sudden she found out he was Muslim he never told her she never knew she thought he was a Hindu the one who sold her the book was a Muslim didn't tell her that she was buying in Quran just said give me the money imagine that I'm wondering how many opportunities we miss every day because that lady came up to me as a brand-new Muslim and she said to me I would like to take one of your tapes and make CDs out of it I said go ahead have a good time she did she's made over 600,000 of them and distributed all over United States many people came to Islam maybe some of you know about that because of her effort not mine we've done hundreds of thousands of these CDs and we see the result of it all the time but you know something you don't have to just sit here and listen to the story you can be part of this story it's a little easy you can go to our website Islam tomorrow calm our other website with the CDs are right there for you free I don't know if anybody else came and offered you something for free maybe they did but the websites there and it's free you go to slam yesterday calm and download as many as those CDs as you'd like make copies of them and give them out to all the people and let's find out how many more people will hear this message and say a shadow Allah Allah Allah I shut my horse alone I'll give you a little free entertainment it goes something like this you know I was in Saudi Arabia recently and I found you know everybody's very style conscious I don't know why but you know we think about Muslims should be like last thing in your mind is worrying about how your clothes look and things like that but people of the Gulf they're just like everybody else they want to look nice show off and so that's why I'm wearing this outfit tonight this [ __ ] this they call it you see how it fits like this and now I'm gonna take this off and show you watch closely see this this is called what huh goodra now you can put the Eagle and this is real classy but for the poor guy who doesn't have ego he can just go like this huh huh it's good he can also wrap around with it like this is that good like it thank you I got excited huh okay now see this looks good huh stellen man but then what about the the kids they don't wonder that's the old man stuff so the kid said you know what dad just let me have one of these and when it's time for salah cheesy mafia muscular right that's funny huh by the way that's why i wore this all night long i was getting tired of wearing this anyway we flew in here today from melbourne and I guarantee I didn't wear this on here anything but tomorrow and fell down when I leave I can imagine if I put all this stuff on in that and getting the airplane right every time I sneeze they're gonna go home I know it's bad Muslim shouldn't do it but I've always had this idea what if you had a briefcase just leave it in the airport and go what's that I've had a lot of fun here in the land down under I got to tell you that it's been a lot of fun as we say it's been a real hoot and no worries did I make Salam alaikum wa rahmatu life or cotton one Islam productions an Islamic film studio established in Australia is dedicated to producing films for all Muslims just some of the films by one Islam productions children's programs Islam for me 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Keywords: Preacher, Priest, Islam, Quran, Muhammad, Koran, Prophet, Gospel, catholic, bible, revert, convert, christian, jew, Pastor, music, yusuf, estes, islam, islamic, terrorist, america, Truth, Sheikh

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Length: 44min 12sec (2652 seconds)

Published: Thu Dec 15 2011