eyes and has to spend on all of them
regardless as to what they make
financially there you have the religion
of Islam a religion of responsibility
and not a religions of indulgence as
people think but before I let you go
with this particular point I would ask
you a
question we just made mention not too
long ago that the prophet May Allah's
peace and blessings be upon him was
asked who has more right to my good
treatment and he said three times your
mother and of course all the mother are
what they're women and then the fourth
time he said your father once again it
shows the lofty status that the woman
has in Islam so therefore if you take
the lofty status that she has the fact
that the man has to take care of them on
a on a level that most people didn't
think all of a sudden now the fact that
she gets half of the inheritance of the
man is actually not so farfetched
because she's not entitled to spend
anything on her family or her children
except that which she wishes
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before accepting
Islam I can say that I I had a very uh
structured life so to speak um we you
know everything was mapped out for us
you know when to eat when to go to bed
when you know like this homework in
school and everything um but after high
school things kind of got a little
hectic for me um going to uh
College uh I had freedoms that I had
never experienced before and so it
allowed me to experience things that I
hadn't had the chance to experience
before um I wanted to see what uh going
to a club was like I wanted to see other
things so I experienced uh things from
this and things from that I went here I
went there I wanted to you know just see
things and do things that I had never
done before you know and um
so after doing all of these things I
kind of felt as if um I didn't have
guidance anymore I didn't have structure
anymore and so I started seeking uh uh
guidance and structure I started calling
my father more I started reading the
Bible more and things like
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this
um how I accepted Islam um it's pretty
easy I would say as I said before you
know I was searching for guidance and
things to to to hold on to to grasp on
to so to speak
um things that could give me uh uh what
do you call it uh something solid to
hold on to you know so I started reading
the Bible and um from reading the Bible
I read how the prophets used to pray so
I started to pray how the prophets used
to pray um that was uh whenever I read
that Jesus he fell on his face and he
prayed to his Lord yah
he fell on his face and he prayed to his
Lord so I started to fall on my face so
to speak make SDA or to make prostration
on my hands and knees and put my face to
the to the floor and I started to pray
this way and so uh uh my friends and and
that we were reading books and
expressing what we read over lunch a
Muslim was sitting byas he was listening
to our conversation and when he finished
his lunch he stood and he said uh do you
guys know about alislam so we found out
that we didn't know about Islam and we
started to go to classes he taught us
about uh the shahada about the prayer
about Zak about fasting about Haj um
when we went over the prayer and I saw
how he prayed um in in suud then I knew
that Islam was the truth it was the hwk
at that point
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um since accepting Islam I can say that
I have the structure and the stability
that I was always seeking um uh as a
Muslim you know every day how your day
is going to begin and how your day is
going going to end and that's praising
Allah um we wake up in the morning
praying we go to bed at night after
praying um throughout the day we me
we're we meor remember Allah um uh and
then you have work of course you have
your family so your day is structured
and these things are the basic elements
that you know any person needs not just
a Muslim and uh alhamdulillah you know I
I have them now so and I'm very happy do
that
some people say that the Muslim worships
Muhammad well this is incorrect and
false actually the Muslim emulates the
character of the messenger of Allah
course as Allah says verily in the
messenger in the messenger you have a
good example to follow so the Muslim
does not prostrate to or worship
Muhammad the Muslim worships only Allah
but we worship Allah according to the
the way that the prophet Muhammad May
Allah's peace and blessings be upon Him
taught us to worship him because it's
not for us to worship our creator any
way that we want we have to worship him
in the way that the Creator intended for
us to worship and communicated that to
us through his Prophet May Allah's peace
and blessings be upon
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him
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mam
all