Alam alaikum how you guys doing amazing
it's just so
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captivating I
testify that there's
no except
a and I
testify that muham is
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and I just met some incredible people a
mother and her son got a little daughter
here I'll let them take it from here
after I just kind of introduced it she
accepted Islam about a year and a half
ago that's the power of sharing she
connected with the message of Islam
submission to the creat enough to
Creation she accepted Islam she came
from a Christian background and then her
son just today right now took
Shada there's
no
except and I
testify that
Mam and
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he was also really captivated by the
message I'm going let them introduce
themselves you ready my name is Damaris
what was it what was it about Islam how
long ago did you accept it and what was
it about Islam that captivated you that
captured your heart I had already been
searching and trying to find out what
was all the B talk about Islam and I F
that there were a lot of things that
were very similar to Christianity at
least because I was raised in the
Christian H that was very strict and so
we used to have a lot of similarities
and covering our head that was in back
in my native Guatemala then we left all
of that when we came to the US because
the Christian faith is is done for um
it's just different in in the the US who
who was it that told you about Islam
yeah when I was in college I began to
ask questions and there were people that
were able to talk to me and um just
explain that there were a lot of
misconceptions about Islam
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so now your son how does this happen
today he just took you know for for
those of not yet Muslims out there
you're wondering how does someone accept
Islam they give birth to what's already
inside them it's inside all of us the
potential to submit to surrender to the
Creator not de creation you take that
testimony of faith that you declare
there's nothing worthy of worship I'm
not going to worship a man a woman a
saint a dead person in the ground a
stick a stone nothing but the creator of
the heavens and earth and Muhammad is
the last and final messenger this would
include not exclude all the preceding
Messengers including Jesus Abraham Moses
they all brought the same message
submission to the will of God not the
creation nothing other than the one who
created you you accept mom today you
said your mom was a great impact my my
initial my initial um
introduction like formal introduction to
Islam um was actually in college um what
happened was that I I was it was
interesting because I was actually part
of a Christian group in colge and there
was a time when our group was inviting
speakers from different um religions and
for one one of the week um we had the
MSA organization from from our College
um and they brought an Imam to speak
with us so from that moment and that was
in the year 2012 so like from that
moment on I kind of had like you a
little bit of uh understanding of what
Islam was but I never really um got
around to
actually um you know taking Shah or
anything because I still had a lot of
questions in my heart and and
so uh you know basically tonight um you
know I some of those questions were
answered by some uh by some brothers
that I talked with and you know I you
know I just I decided that you know a
lot of you know a lot of the questions
or you know issues that I had um with
religion in
general um I realized that that really
at the end of the day it didn't really
matter with my own personal beliefs you
know didn't um you know I you know I
would have a I would have certain you
know issues you know like for examp for
example the the common one that a lot of
people who struggle with believing in
God have which which is if there is a
loving God why is there poverty in the
world why is there war these are issues
that even now I I struggle with but I
today tonight I realized you know what
like you know like I'm those questions
are never going to be answered for me in
this life um and I might you know I
might as well take the sh take the faith
um and you know I I realized that you
know
like it's it's um it's not like at the
end at the end of the day
like you know these are questions that
won't that won't AR they're not easily
answered and um and so like you know
there's there's just certain things you
I realize that it's it's just it's
better for me to um you know focus on my
own um well spiritual wellbeing um so
what about the the the Divinity of Jesus
you talked to me about about that part
yeah I mean initially initially that was
a question I struggled with was the uh
Divinity of Jesus I I did a lot of uh I
did a lot of like back and forth
assessments of it um one of the you know
one of the things that I that kind of
answered it for me was the Old Testament
um you know versus versus in the Bible
that say for example um here all Israel
your God is one for example stuff like
that um and and I realize that I realize
that Islam is consistent with that
message that God is one
um the first commandment for example
don't make um to not worship any other
gods to not make images um I I realized
that a lot of a lot of uh religions out
there including some uh some um parts of
Christianity like for example the
Catholic Church they had like their
statues and their their Saints and stuff
and like I realized that you know that
those were contradictory to the first
commandment uh so that was those those
were things that I looked at um I looked
at things like logically and I and I I I
looked at the Old Testament and I
realized that the old test is what um it
was what it was what was in the Old
Testament that uh that convinced me of
Islam basically because because Islam
Islam match more with with the Old
Testament than um than any than any of
the other religions that I looked into
how did you feel now today to see your
to see your son take the shahada to
accept Islam how did it feel am so happy
I have been doing so many with my
children and I know that God has been
proving to me in many ways that I made
the right choice coming to Islam even
though I'm until today was the only one
in the family which we have a very
extended family I know that Melvin has
been very uh open and he has come to
different um events and one time he was
even invited uh during Ramadan to do
that call of prayer because he was in
front of the in the m and the brother
asked me to do the call of prayer and to
me that was a very strong message that
um Allah was already
looking M with that heart that he has
for Humanity for loving the the more
disadvantaged people God was was seeing
that in him already so I am very happy
and I'm so thankful to Allah and I'm so
thankful to all the brothers and sisters
that had supported me and my family uh
through this year and a half how was it
that's amazing so she was talking about
the call the prayer you were learning it
oh or they were helping you with it or
No I um I I was visited I was visiting a
local um MOS around where we around
where we live and um the Imam there uh
chose me first to um do the call to
prayer um but at the time obviously I
wasn't um I hadn't taken shahada yet so
I wasn't able to do it nor did I
do I did I know how to do call the
prayer so I why someone's thinking like
why did he call you if you don't if if
you how did he uh if you didn't know how
to do it why would he call you yeah yeah
that was my question and it was like
like what it was like why I was thinking
like why why would he he thought you oh
he he thought you were Muslim okay I
see oh and that's like you took it like
a sign
Allah amazing last but not the Le this
is your daughter yes this is how are you
what do you think of all this that's
going on you saw your brother up you saw
your you saw your brother on stage up in
front of how many like thousands of
people thousands of people taking his
shahada you're like man what's going on
what were your what were your thoughts
and
impression my mom and my
brother the religion that they found
yeah I see that you're you're you're
mimicking your mom you start wearing the
the hijab you know who else wear the
hijab you know who Jesus is right you
know his mother Mary you heard of Mary
she used to wear
hijab that's who they're mimicking thank
you guys a wonderful family this is
amazing you know God Almighty is the
most merciful and he sent guidance do
you want guidance ask for it
very simple within yourself I mean we're
here for a purpose everything around you
had a purpose the keys in your PO pocket
have a purpose your shoelaces have a
purpose the tie right here has a purpose
the suit everything around you has what
about you the human being you don't have
a purpose who best to tell you your
purpose than the one who created you for
a purpose but ask ask you shall receive
ask the one who created you what's my
purpose why am I here Guide Me Guide Me
for all the confusion out there the way
that God Almighty had prescribed for us
has to be simple and that simple message
is to worship him alone and not his
creation and he will facilitate a away
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