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the Latinos are ling this way of life
provides the answers to why you've been
created where you going when you die and
that satisfaction that you're looking
for in the heart that's empty it fills
that void and Latinos have figured it
out and it goes back to their Roots
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the peace be with
youum I I think we gave it away I was
opening up I said you know left it as a
guess guess which way of life but people
are looking at you maybe you think you
know with the greeting maybe people
figured it out with the beard or
alhamdulillah maybe so so what is it
what is this way of life that when
Latinos Brazilians included when they
look back to their Roots like the
African-Americans they want to connect
they go back they want to figure out
their Heritage they go back many of them
like Dave Chappelle went back to Africa
and kin he's calling on God Almighty
Allah and they figured out this is our
Roots Islam Latinos same thing here same
thing you know it's a beautiful thing um
a lot of Latinos what they're doing now
is they're they're rediscovering The
Roots they're reading about Islamic
Spain and even for myself you know doing
some
research you find that Muslims dominated
Spain for 780 years almost eight
centuries and you look at your name then
your name like Medina last names like
Medina even Guadalupe like my last name
Alvarez banal kasad you start asking
yourself where these names come from and
and a lot of a good a popular thing to
do nowadays is kind of trace your
lineage a lot of people are doing that
with those DNA tests and stuff and
people are discovering you know a part
of my Heritage traces back to Spain and
it don't make sense right because the
Spaniard when they came to to this part
of the world uh to colonize they had
Muslims with them you know we seen
Columbus um Columbus came when um with
ships that were originally owned by
Muslims right and they had Muslims on
there who were guiding them directly in
them to come here and so you people are
starting to ReDiscover the fact that
masallah there's Muslims or a part of my
Heritage is from Islam and it starts
triggering like an interest to want to
know more about what is Islam so it's
it's a beautiful thing there that people
are rediscovering re reconnecting with
who they are I mention so Latinos are
the fastest growing ethnicity in in
America correct and statistics show in
in the sensus they uh they done a study
and they're finding out that Latinos are
the fastest growing population in
America and the Beautiful Thing is
within that they are also the fastest
growing population within Islam many
many Latinos are leaving their former
former religions primarily Catholicism
for whatever reason and they're
connecting with Islam and alhamdulillah
I had the opportunity to you research it
myself and there's numerous reasons why
they're reconnecting or they're they're
discovering Islam so it's definitely
amongst the Latinos Islam is the fastest
growing religion yes and you actually
you look back into it you discovered all
these things you also came from a what
background uh my family is originally
from Ecuador Ecuador yes South America
but they were they were of the Christian
faith yeah my actually my parents were
Catholic Catholic and they raised me as
a Catholic um alhamdulillah they've
they've after studying in start learning
about Islam they've also embraced Islam
too yeah we spoke We Had Your Story yeah
some time ago and so you went through
this journey yeah and how you do you
feel the more you look into this the
more Islam is providing all those
answers those deep questions that people
really seek out the purp what's the
purpose of life you know um why am I
here in this world feels that void in
the heart absolutely I mean as the
majority of Latinos uh they're raised
Catholic like we said and they're taught
to the belief in God their belief in in
God that he's one that he is the creator
he is the Supreme Being but then there's
something else within that that kind of
throws a tangent the the belief in the
Trinity and the Saints and how do you
kind of correlate every single aspect of
that religion and still make sense that
it's you there's it's
monotheistic and for myself in many
Latinos it doesn't make sense so when
they when they're introduced to Islam
and the fact that Islam
actually encourage or actually teaches
true monotheism meaning worship in God
alone there's no other associates no
nothing else with him no other partners
they start telling themselves what I was
taught originally as a child through
Catholicism this is the true
implementation here you another example
is uh the Virgin
Mary she's depicted as a woman with a
veil when you look at any other religion
in America you rarely would see that
except in a musl in an Islamic practice
with the Muslim with the Muslim women
wearing hijab and as a matter of fact my
grandmother mother would tell us that
when she used to go to church in Ecuador
they were required to wear a veil and so
when she saw that my mother started
wearing a veil she started seeing that
wow this is the TR this is where they
truly practice that which they taught
you know there's so many other aspects
um Family Values Islam teaches
encourages family values for example
when Allah mentions and worship Allah
alone and be kind and be kind to your
parents and don't ever ever raise your
tone towards them and show them Mercy
the way they showed you Mercy as a child
the Quran mentions this and families in
Latino families are very very close I
mean your neighbor is is taught to to be
your cousin you you you you basically
treat them as your cousin you bring them
into your and so when they see that the
family values especially in this time
where Society is trying to remove family
values I mean it's very rare where my
families now meet at a table able to eat
in Islam it encourages that that love
and that respect and and that admiration
for each other in the family so when
Latino see that that's part of Islam
they're drawn to that I mean there's so
many other things language there's so
many things that you can talk about that
um that re the reason why Latinos are
starting to discover Islam as the the
true way of life you know and another
example with language it said
statistically it said that about 4,000
words originate from from Arabic in in
Spanish words originate from Arabic for
example like uh Al Alon in Arabic um for
example uh alra algebra alra you there's
so many things like even when I
discovered like where my name came from
wupe a part of it is W Valley and Lupe
which is a Latin word for for Wolf it it
blew my mind I was like wow this is who
who we are and many people are doing
that and um it's just an amazing feeling
when you when you find that connection
ction you know so really it's just going
back to the to to the original way
original way that's it the pure organic
original way when you go back and you
look back to your history the Latinos
look back it links back to Islam
absolutely absolutely mean and it makes
sense you know as we mentioned Muslims
were in Spain for so long they left
their influence if you if you ever
vacation in in Spain you see mass that
are now have been changed to to to
churches because of the the change in
the in in the in the government but
they're still there their influences are
there Arabic writing is all over the
wall so when they're rediscovering that
they're asking themselves the question
okay what where else what else is there
if maybe my ancestors my great great
great-grandfathers were Muslim then what
is it about Islam that you know that
that um that the reason why they
practice it why why is it that they did
that so I want to ask myself and many
people are doing that and they're coming
into Islam we got a lot more to talk
about this is in Awakening of the mind
and the Soul so we can really be upon
the truth and we can really get that
peace that we're all looking for when we
get the purpose in life why we're here
and we're discussing the fastest growing
ethnicity Latinos and the way of life
that they're drawn to because it's in
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we're talking about the Latino Roots now
I say Brazilians included they're
included in this Bunch right yes cuz
they're one of my favorite groups also
you know we train you also trained the
Gracie Brazilian Jitsu yes and we have a
lot of really nice people they're also
Latinos the um Brazilians and I want to
there was actually interesting picture
heal Gracie you've heard of him yes
people are seeing it right now he's is
actually in a thob and he's in front of
a Masid and it says he's seeking the
blessings of God aldah yeah and I've
gotten a chance to talk with him he's a
fabulous individual and some people's
faces you know they it just lights up
it's like the fitra inside that God has
placed in all of us right that spiritual
chip and when God's name is mentioned
and you talk about the pure natural way
because Islam is just it just makes
sense worship the Creator not the
creation you're not worshiping any of
these Saints dead people in the ground
doing these strange superstitions weird
stuff that push people away from
religion right correct abolutely so they
get drawn into this do you also have
this experience absolutely and uh this
is one of the reason a big reason why
Latinos are embracing Islam you know
there's uh it's that direct connection
there's no no in between there's no
intermediary you know there's no asking
other people uh for help and you know
for example confession and stuff like
that so so many Latinos when they
discover the fact that it's just you and
God and you can ask him for whatever
help you need you know you can ask him
for forgiveness and it's just direct
your forehead on the ground and that's
it that's what people are looking for
Latinos are a big part of that um
because they have that sense of Faith
they have that sense of Faith from their
upbringing and the fact that they
discover that they don't there there
isn't any need for hierarchy you know
don't need to be a scholar or or a
leader of a of of a Masjid or of a
mosque to have that direct connection it
just be me and you the normal guy having
having that direct connection that deep
rooted connection it's a satisfaction to
the soul for sure that definitely that
definitely connects now did you also
some people have a an Infinity now they
they a deep love for Jesus peace be upon
them and they don't know that it's a
pillar of Faith to believe in Jesus but
now can you distinguish because people
are they grew up in the Latin countries
believing that he was God literal Son of
God right what do you say about this
when um when I'm talking to Latinos and
um and we're speaking about Islam you
know letting them know about Islam and
we bring up the topic of Jesus because
they ask how do you what is your
relationship with Jesus what um how does
Islam view Jesus and we simply tell them
I follow jesus' example more now than I
did before I love him more now than I
did before and then when they ask you
know how is that possible and we share
with them the the story of Jesus from
the Quran from the Islamic point of view
and they see that there is a correlation
with what they know it's a it it draws
them in it draw it's an it's an
attention grabber it draws them in and
want wanting to know more and especially
when we explain to him explain to them
the fact that we believe that Jesus was
a messenger and prophet and we clarify
from our point of view
the the understanding of of this this
concept of the TR Trinity as Muslims we
don't we don't believe in that because
we don't associate Jesus as part of God
or or one of of three we believe him as
a man who came with this message just
like all the other prophets and
Messengers and for the mind it's simpler
to grab it's just a easier concept to
understand and they begin to because
they already have that love for him they
realize Muslims also have that love and
they actually play the part you know and
so they begin to draw more into into
that aspect and and learn more about
Islam there was a famous football player
a soccer player that just accepted Islam
and he gave his 13 Reasons of why he
became Muslim and he said Islam actually
uh guided me well uh he actually what
would he said exactly what was it that
um Jesus um led me to Islam that's what
it was Jesus led me to Islam so then he
gives examples when Muslims see each
other they greet each other how Jesus
greeted but peace be unto you the
example you gave of his mother Blessed
Mother wearing the the veil yeah and
more so the worship of only God alone
that's also in the Bible but then
someone says why don't I just follow in
the Bible and just leave off the things
that I don't like from there and stick
where I'm at all right uh when it comes
to the way the way I tell people and I
had this conversation actually with a
cooworker the other day is um
there's no doubt that even even
Christian Scholars will say that the
that the Bible historically doesn't is
not a proven fact it's not it hasn't
been preserved just the way the way the
Quran was had many authors and some
sometimes you don't even know who the
author's name was so for someone an
individual to take that book and say
this is an authentic book it's very
difficult to and no Christian scholar
will admit to that fact they say it's
just Divine in divine inspiration Divine
words um it's it's something for the
soul but we don't want just something to
have that that's based on faith we want
something that's concrete too that's
based on facts and with Islam you get
Best of Both Worlds it's a matter of
having faith but you also have the
factual point that gives you that shity
that this is a religion from God and it
has been preserved and a big example is
the story of Jesus the story of Mary
Moses and all these
historical figures that you find in
Latino religions whatever Faith they
follow they they find that and they
begin to ask themselves well let me look
into Islam and alhamdulillah many many
are accepting Islam is the updated
version now updated it's it's just the
continuation it's as some people say
it's it's the last chapter right it's
the it's the last end of it and it's a
clarification for those questions that
many people have the common person will
ask thems you know well what about about
what about the Trinity how do you
explain that and if you're left just
with with with someone telling you will
you just have to believe for
me it's hard like you can't just I can't
just believe if and and I used to tell
myself if this is God's Divine word his
his religion the religion everybody's
supposed to follow the universal
religion then why is it so difficult to
understand why isn't it just clearcut
when you look at Islam alhamd it's you
know 1 + 1 is two 2 plus 2 is four it's
clear it's the way it is and um and many
people who give themselves the time who
open their minds and hearts to it they
will understand that fact it's the way
of life that has no more updates to it
it's been you know you get the phone the
iPad it keeps updating updating and if
you want to go back to a prior vers you
can't even use it anymore but Islam
there's no more up it's the seal it's
the seal it's it but and and it's it's a
beautiful thing and you know one one
great thing is um for many Latinos is
that there's a balance you know Allah
mentions in the Quran that uh verily we
have made this nation a balanced Nation
so there's no need for you to be a
specific title have a specific title
like for example a priest or a nun to
have a level of
religiosity you know there you don't
have to go to extremes and abandon the
world to to be very religious no Islam
it teaches us balance and for Latinos
when they realize wow I don't have to be
extreme in my belief I just have to
worship God alone and do what he has
commanded my five prayers My fasting pay
if I can the the charity make Haj you
know if I can make the pilgrimage if I
can and then that is enough for people
and they begin to realize
that because of that balance they want
to embrace that that's that's a true way
of of being able to connect with Allah
and I'm I'm sure you're starting to have
an Infinity to this it makes sense
absolutely it makes sense it's common
sense worship the Creator not the
creation deep love for Jesus but he was
a mighty messenger and never ever did he
say in any version of the Bible worship
him or take him as a literal Son of God
he was a servant of God calling people
to worship God that's it we got some
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originally started talking about the
roots the Latinos have roots in Islam
yes African-Americans have roots in
Islam Humanity has roots in Islam
because the first man who was created
Adam he was neither a Jew or Christian
but he submitted himself to God Abraham
he didn't submit to anyone in creation
he didn't even hear in any of these
religions but when he was told to do
what submit to the will of God that's
Islam isn't is that not what it is
absolutely so let's go back a little bit
to Spain where now you had the the
Muslims they were actually the
superpowers of the world yes and can you
take take uh because most people this a
very amazing uh topic and and and many
people don't know about you know the the
comfort that Jews and Christians and
Humanity was really you know at a
different level at that time right you
know it's um historically and we know as
Muslims that after after the uh the
death of the Prophet peace be upon Him
many of his companions took it upon
themselves to start propagating The
Message of Islam and they took it to all
the four corners of the earth and not
too long after his death about 70 80
years Muslims took it to Spain and it
was led by a man named T zad and he took
the he took Islam to Spain and U with
the purpose of course of spreading Islam
and we know Islam we said Islam is peace
Islam is surrendering to Allah and when
you see the uh the impact that Islam had
in Spain
780 years of of uh of governance and the
amount of contribution that Muslims made
to that Society I mean medicine
agriculture irrigation engineering I
mean you have everything that came from
that education universities um during
that period when when other other uh
ethnicity or other religions were in the
Dark Ages I mean you had a uh this
Society flourishing
and the people who were within that
Society also benefited Jews and
Christians that were living within that
Society they benefited from that as well
and they lived amongst the Muslims for
almost 800 years in peace benefiting
from those riches that Allah had
provided them because of the faith that
they were establishing there and um and
even after the the the the caliphate or
the Tas they fell for whatever reason
you know the the the Christian they came
and they took that over um still you'll
find it that fernan and Isabella when
they sent Christopher Columbus to the
Americas they sent them with Muslim
ships ships that were owned by Muslims
Muslim Navigators using Muslim tool
Islamic tools or Muslim tools that were
for for navigating and when they came
here they came here with Muslims so what
happens if Muslims also were here with
with Columbus and whoever else was here
obviously they begin establishing their
C their culture and their Customs ET so
Islam has you know dipped his hand
dipped its hand in in everything
alhamdulillah by Allah's will and that's
one of the beautiful things and and many
people don't know that many people don't
realize how how impactful Islam was for
800 years and the level of peace that it
brought to anybody whether you were a
Jew Christian even a even non-religious
you didn't have any denomination and
Muslim so it's an an amazing thing and
when people realize that they can see
true Islam at its as as his essence you
have some Latinos families because it's
spreading so quickly they end up seeing
their daughter who was out there being
promiscuous she was at the nightclubs
she was doing all sorts of things maybe
the son also and you know what they
really didn't raise havoc and now she
came home and she don't want to live
that life anymore she don't want to be
used and abused by men she don't want to
be a sex object sex toy and now she's
covered her modesty they see this as
something strange she's they see her
bowing down her head five times a day
and now they start to you know correlate
the two and they see like look Muslims
my daughter oh my God how do you say oh
my god in Spanish AOS AOS what's going
on terrorist what's happening here right
yeah have you seen this absolutely and
it's and I think it's just of U it's due
more to negative information that is fed
through Medias um you'll find that many
many Latinos who Embrace Islam they go
through that
and for example and and when I told you
it before is when I accepted Islam was
through a difficult during a difficult
time the nation was going through a
difficult time on 9911 and my dad was
the same way my dad he said you know why
convert now Muslims are are are being
harassed why go through that and many
women who go who Embrace Islam and are
leaving those old lifestyles of fun and
games and Amusements and drinking and
partying all that stuff to a a a life
full of of peace and and the fact is
that they embra they embrace it fully
covering themselves um the parents yeah
they they tend to not understand it um
and more so is just a lack of education
and I think it's a great opportunity for
us to share with them and teach them
about Islam but no doubt that you find
that there um you know but it is what it
is and I think it's just a great
opportunity for us so a good example to
a true story is where this actually is
happening and in one case particular the
daughter starts wearing the mod is
dressed her character starts getting
better she's not coming home late at
night anymore and she's developing
herself to be just a better human being
because that's obviously what Islam
teaches now we know that there's a lot
of Temptations out there struggles so
she starts to slip up she starts going
back mhm to some of her old ways and she
ended up taking the hijab off yeah she
was at peace when she was practicing
praying now whatever happened she kind
of drifted off the parents now are
actually they're not Muslim but they're
begging her to go back to where she was
and she kind of stuck in between two
worlds now you know uh this the the the
lifestyle that's calling but she's
miserable now yeah right she's very
unhappy and obviously because you know
when when you leave the medication for
the soul when you disconnect your heart
from his maker you become sick again you
get sick you become sick again yeah yeah
but my point here was the family now in
the beginning how do you say that again
oh my God adios
adios they're like oh my God but now
they've seen it in action Islam in
action the right way they want her back
where she was in Islam you know and it's
it's interesting that you say that it's
because in the beginning when when they
reject her wanting to be a good
righteous Muslim is because of those
things that are unknown but then when
they see her falling back into
those into the wrong path OB Latinos in
general they know what's right and
what's wrong even just general it's a
general rule in humanity we know what's
right and what's wrong lying is wrong
stealing is wrong we know that from just
our own natural disposition that is
wrong and Latinos the hard part is they
don't want them to leave their cultural
you know upbringing I don't want you to
be Muslim because then you're going to
break the Family Ties but in reality
actually Islam closes them and it's just
a matter of they think that they're not
going to be able to be part of that that
that social Spectrum again a big issue
uh you know they don't want to partake
in that fun or anything like that and
it's and it's amazing how a family
member or family members when they do
see them slipping they like put them
back on check to put to to get back on
the right path you know um and again I
think the most important thing in this
opportunity for the sister and for the
family is to have other Muslims Latino
Muslims share with them about Islam you
know teach them about Islam so that a
situation like this doesn't happen you
seen
families take uh kick their kids out
because they embraced Islam but it's an
opportunity for us to open those doors
of communication educate people about
what Islam is and hopefully make sure
that you know things like that don't
happen you know your organization before
we cut out tell the world a little bit
about what you do and your organization
how they can get a hold of you if they
want you to come out and speak at an
event for Latinos well we started a a a
small nonprofit organization it's called
called a Islam and uh we we've been
doing this for for quite some time
focusing on increasing the
resources um about Islam in Spanish so
everything we do is strictly in Spanish
from translating um articles providing
articles videos uh classes like we're
doing here at the at a local Masjid and
even offering uh books for children one
of our biggest projects is creating
resources for children latino children
and as a matter of fact during Ramadan
we had a campaign uh raising some funds
through donations we were able to send
children's books to about 10 countries
um 10 Latino countries so that they can
have those books for their Eid and so
this is one of the things that we're
doing small little um task that we've
we've embarked on and if they want to
know more about it they can visit our
website at
www.a islam.com or ablos Islam ns.com
and they can email us at alislam gmail
if they want to know more about it and
if they want to help
um we're open for suggestions and
comments and we're trying to do the best
we can thank you very much how do you
say peace be with you in
Spanish that's whatam means that's it
that's it and with people at peace
calling people to peace thank you very
much and there you have it the roots
that we want to go back to the original
Roots we talked about the
African-Americans going back to Africa
their Roots kin he called on the Creator
Allah and that religion he was upon was
the submission and surrender to the
Creator not the creation Now we talked
about look the Latinos fastest growing
way of life in the world is Islam and
they're a part of it they've clicked on
Common Sense tells them this more so the
heart connects to this that's right and
what stops most people from really
taking the matter seriously look if you
end up somewhere on the moon you want to
know why am I
here what am I doing in this world just
taking all the material things that are
out there and just piling up money money
and at the end it's like a Monopoly game
think about it you're chasing all the
money but at the end when the game is
finished that money is worth what it's
worth nothing you leave it all behind so
it's time for a spiritual awakening
you've had all the fun and games and
toys of this world but the heart is
empty Islam fills that void void that's
right and you got one shot to get it
right and you can't just do it like
Burger King your way it's God's way it's
the Creator's way we will inshallah see
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