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Salam Aleikum
araqueto all glory be to Allah
subano
Atala who created us all and who also
brought to us through the
prophet Mohammed
the message of Islam that came to
unify all religions, leading
men to the worship of the one and true God.
For about 21 years I was linked to the
evangelical faith and I worked in the church
initially
as an
itinerant preacher in the Brazilian northeast, more
focused on the state of Paraíba, which was
my state, preaching in several cities
and
at a certain point I rose to the
most important positions in the church. I was
consecrated Presbyter of the church. I was
consecrated Evangelist and finally pastor
and on this journey I became
president of a
field of the Evangelical Church Assembly of
God there in the city of João Pessoa in
Paraíba,
where for 10 years I was in charge of
that field and I was able to witness the
growth of the church where we had
about 17
churches set up in that state and also
in the state of
Pernambuco. The word
Muslim has been very distorted
for centuries, but being Muslim It is nothing
more
than demonstrating belief in the one God
and Jesus is a Muslim precisely
because this is the message he brings and
which is recorded in the
Gospels when they ask Jesus
who should the people worship he said
Worship
God he even states that he was
sent by God to the Lost Home of the
children of
Israel Jesus leads all people to
think about the current moment that they lived
deviating from the worship of the one God because the
people of that time the Jewish people were
living in a period of idolatry a
period in which they had exchanged the
worship of the living God of the one and
true God for other Gods so Jesus
comes with this mission to break that
religious system and bring the system or bring
back the old system that was the
worship of the one God and was rejected and
not accepted but even so he
remained faithful to his message when they
ask him if he is God he
simply said you are the one saying
he did not state at any point that he was
God he never expressed this he never
sought glory for himself when
Jesus was here the Gospels
record that at a certain point he even
says that he does not accept the
glorification of men men today
They live glorifying him as a God
but he does not accept this so Jesus
is actually a prophet of Islam a
Muslim prophet who brings the
restorative message of worship to the
one God and that is what Muslims do is
worship the one God God who created the
heavens who created the earth who created the entire
universe who has dominion over everything and who
will one day call all
Humanity to be judged everyone without
exception will go through this process Jesus
is a Prophet of Islam because he confirms and
affirms the oneness of
God my first encounter with a
Muslim person was exactly with
my daughter who reverted in the city of
Alcan in New Zealand when she was studying on
that continent
and I met her exactly
here in the city of Dubai in the year 1000
in fact in the year
2007 on a trip I took to get to know
this city at the invitation of Sheik Saida
Maum so that I could clear up
my doubts about Islam and
Muslims so this was my
first contact with a
Muslim person my story is a
story marked
by presence and involvement in
religious life since I was very young I was
involved in Christian religious projects
in my city and In my state, I became an
employee of the
State Bank
of Paraíba. Then, I passed the exam
for the Banco do Brasil, where I worked
for 17 years.
Due to
the need for
greater involvement with the church, I
applied for admission to the bank and dedicated myself
to the
gospel and preaching the message of the
Gospel for 15 years. My life was spent
at that level,
and finally I came to know
Islam.
Consequently, I abandoned the
evangelical faith and gave it to the church. Today, I am
there in my city, studying
law, aiming to, at the
end of the time I complete this
course, try to take
public exams in order to
support myself and my
family. During these three years
of reversion
to
Islam, God has
called us to get involved with
His work there in the city of João Pessoa.
The brothers gathered together
and appointed me president of the
Islamic Center of João Pessoa. We are there with the
help of Alano Atala and the support of those
selfless brothers, and also with the help of
some brothers here in the city of Dubai. By
doing this work, we were able to
acquire a building, a house where we
meet, where we worship the
one God and spread the
word revealed to the Prophet
Muhammad by God through the angel
Gabriel. We are seeing
growth. People are getting
closer, they are losing their fear
regarding what it means to be Muslims,
and inchallah. One day, we will
see growth that will give us the
opportunity to build a
mosque so that this work can
expand and be glorified in
our city, in our state of Paraíba,
Brazil. The evangelical church in Brazil
has its own
work of an
evangelistic and social nature, seeking to
recover lives. Without
a doubt, we cannot deny this.
Of course, there are
distortions within the
organizations themselves, because the
evangelical church is subdivided into
several denominations,
but even so, the vast majority of
them have essential work in this
area. The evangelical church in Brazil, as
in the entire world,
has this perspective of making Jesus
Christ, the Prophet of Islam,
a
God, leading people to the idea that
Jesus is God. In my opinion, this is
harming People because many
times they think that this is the truth
and unfortunately they embrace this faith and
head in a disorderly way towards
a future life. I cannot say them nor do I
have the authority to condemn them because
this is a matter of Allah subhana Atala.
Because in the same Revelation to the
Quran he says that this is
his matter that he will judge each one but I
hope that the full revelation of the Truth
reaches the knowledge of the leaders and
we have in Brazil a nation that
worships a God who is unique who has no
partners who did not generate and who was also
never generated.
To my knowledge in Brazil there are two
pastors who
reverted to Islam. One is Pastor
Ismail who was a pastor of the Assemblies of
God in Pernambuco and today is a pastor who
works in the city of São Paulo.
Ismail also recently met a
pastor there, a former pastor there in the city of
São Paulo, Pastor Daniel who
reverted to Islam about a year ago and
who today works at the center for the
dissemination of
Islam in Latin America, the C of
classes at city ​​of São Paulo in São
Bernardo do Campo and
recently I heard news
that a priest in the city of
Florianópolis made his reversion.
Watch this on YouTube, a
work by the brothers of Islam Boy there in the
city of Florianópolis, published on
YouTube. This priest
made his reversion at an airport and also gave his
testimony. So I don't know these people, but
maybe there are many more. I
don't know them yet, but my
hope is that many can come to
this recognition of the Divine unity of the
one God who created the heavens and
the earth. And we have a
large Islamic community in Brazil so that the
glory of Allah, Subano Taala, may be poured
over that
nation. The issue of prejudice is a
deeply rooted issue in
human beings. I don't know it very well. And within
Islam, prejudices regarding
Christianity, if they exist, are localized,
but I don't know about them.
The Muslims who have the
privilege of knowing them to this day are
people who follow the Koran, the sunnah of
the prophet Saliham, and therefore they are not
bound by any prejudice
against any religion. They are always
open-armed and open-hearted for
dialogue. Regarding Christianity,
I can speak because I lived that
reality for many, many years. I was
a
fighter not only for the
Islamic religion but for any other religion
that
rose up against Christianity. So
I see that in Christianity there is this
way of locking oneself up and
thinking that Divine revelation was only a
privilege of Christians and
Jews. When the Quran
tells us that God has always sent
messengers to all nations, no
nation will be able to say before Allah on the
Day of Judgment that they did not have a
messenger, that no one has ever told
them about the reality of the one God, the
Divine oneness. So,
regarding this issue of prejudice, I
hope that we have
real knowledge of the facts so that
this stigma is broken because
God is the one God. God is the God of the faithful.
God is the God of all those who
seek Him with sincerity and who are
able to affirm that He is the
one God. The God who created the heavens, who created
the earth, the God who raised all the
prophets, the God who brought His
revelatory message from the prophet
Adam through other prophets Abraham,
Ishmael, Isaac. Jacob Solomon
David Jesus and finally Prophet Mohammed The
Last of the Prophets prophesied by God
both in the Bible and also the
Quran itself reveals that God sent the
Prophet Mohammed sah aliam as the seal
of the Prophets with the unifying message
of faith that had been
lost due to the mixing of beliefs and the end of
distorting what was taught
from the beginning by the Father of Faith The
Prophet Abraham may God be pleased with him may
God have him therefore
our hope is that all
prejudice will fall to the ground and the
unifying Islamic message will emerge
that will make all humanity one
humanity
in the one and true God who is the
only savior of humanity This is the
message that I leave regarding the
issue of prejudice because
prejudice is always destructive it
is not the work of God for growth and
unification so if there is
any prejudice on both sides that this
prejudice should be put aside as I
said I repeat I do not know the concept of
Islam in relation to Christianity
Islam is open to all religions
not to force because there is no compulsion in
religion No one is forced to become a
Muslim. Whoever wants to become a Muslim
becomes a Muslim of their own free
will. There is no
oppressive force or compulsion that
leads a person to become a Muslim.
So
my proposal to everyone is
that they look at the other religion with different
eyes. Try to understand it. Try to
study it. Try to understand
its details, which only study can bring. Therefore,
my dear friends and listeners, my
hope is truly to be able to
witness the victory of good on that great day,
the victory of Allah, and all of His
chosen ones,
reserved by Him for paradise
together,
entering that festive day of
universal celebration of the greatness of the
one God who unites and elevates the
human being that He created with so much
love. That the
Brazilian people, who are a religious people par excellence, will
come to
see the holy book of the Muslims, the
Quran, as a book revealed by
God. Because Muslims have the
Holy Bible as a book revealed by God,
therefore, to
object to the holy book of the Muslims
is to object to God. It is to
say that God is subject to revealing
only to whomever people want, and God
revealed His will through His
prophets. Various books were written by
others, but we do not
know of any of them. books that are
considered unrevealed books but
in fact we have full
knowledge of their Revelation are
books that God raised prophets to
speak to a people and
therefore not accepting the Divine revelation
of the Quran is not accepting the sovereignty of
God. The book, the
Holy Quran, is a book that God
revealed for the end times and
Brazilians do not understand that it is a book
revealed to the Arabs but it is a book
for all
humanity. It is a book that serves to
modify Not only a
religious structure because the Quran
brings with it teachings of
daily life of every moment of each
moment of our lives. We do not live
only within
religious institutions. The Quran talks about
work, we love each other. The Quran talks about
fun. The Quran is a complete book. It is
a book of life. A book that teaches us
how to buy, how to sell, how to act in
society. Therefore, the Quran being
understood by the Brazilian people as a
book revealed by God will certainly
enter their hearts and change the
national structure of faith and also in
all social spheres. My word
to the
Brazilians, my word to the people of
my nation is
that put aside any and all
prejudice against the book of
Muslims because it is not a
reckless book. It is not a book that preaches the
destruction of anyone. It is a book that
tells stories of facts that happened,
but it is a book that shows that peace must
always be sought because it is in peace that
the unity of people is made and brings
progress to all humanity. May
God bless, may Allah
ascend, may He bless the Brazilian nation. May Allah have
mercy on us and lead us day by day
to His path, the straight path, the path of those whom
He
graces. The Quran is a highly
moving book in several points. The
Quran refers to biblical passages
in several points. The
Quran brings
realities that were obscure in the
biblical revelation and brings clarifications.
But since the question is asked to me
about which of the verses or which of the
surahs moves me the most, I can say
with all conviction that for me the verse
or the surah that touches me the most, because it
touches me completely, is the surah
Al-
Fha. I see in the
opening surah that it was not the The first revealed
to the Prophet
Mohammed but it was placed as the
first as a full revelation of the
entire Quran. It shows the oneness of
God. It also shows how we should
live. It shows
the process of the final judgment. It shows
our request to God so that we do
not walk in the same direction as the
foolish, but that he himself, al-
suban taala, guides us to the straight path, the
path of those he
graces. So for me, in my understanding, the
faith is the text of the Quran that moves me the most.
We know that
Muslims repeat it 17 times every day. And every time
I am praying and
speaking to
God in
prayer, reciting the
alpha, I feel highly privileged to be
led along the straight path, the path
of those he graces.
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