like to welcome you back to the mailbag
of the dean show this is your host for
this
segment Dr Bilal Phillips and we're
looking at some of your questions here
you know what is it that you have to say
and of course you're welcome to ride in
call in contact us at any
time how do I become a Muslim and F and
what do I
do how do you become a Muslim very
simple procedure basically just to
declare that you believe there's no God
worthy of worship but Allah and that
Muhammad was the last messenger of Allah
among all the messengers of Allah that's
basically you make that declaration and
you do it in the presence of witnesses
some other Muslims who will witness your
conversion to Islam after that five
times daily prayer that's number one as
soon as you become a Muslim start
praying right away you know of course
you'll have to do it along with Muslims
until you learn the procedures Etc but
the procedure is very simple we don't
take you to any lakes and throw you in
dunk you in the water you know we we
don't do any of those types of things
it's very simple it's what's in your
heart is expressed of course God knows
what's in your heart but the community
is is is made aware of your becoming a
Muslim so that you can benefit from them
and they can benefit from you
that's about it you know of course after
praying five times a day there will be
other things that come up like fasting
in the month of Ramadan you have one
month of fasting from dawn to Sunset you
know I of course you channel in and be
amongst the Muslims you're going to give
charity you know uh every year you'll
take out 2.5% of your Surplus wealth and
you give it to the poor not to the
mosque or to the Imam but to the poor
and if you're able to make Hajj you know
which comes around at a certain time
it's the 12th month of the lunar
calendar then you also go and make Hajj
pilgrimage to Mecca where you
commemorate the willingness of prophet
Abraham to sacrifice his
son okay with that we'd like to again
bid you farewell and hope to see you
again in future segments if you have
further questions you'd like to ask you
could also write in to me at uh Bilal 17
at Bilal philips.com you know for maybe
if you have some heavier type questions
which are F related or something like
this have to do Islamic law you know
you're welcome to write in I can't say
I'm going to answer every last one of
them I mean I'll try my best but uh
you're welcome to give it a shot with
that b you farewell