my name is Yusuf Estes and originally

I'm from Texas I live now in Washington

DC area and I came to aslam about

years ago because of something very

special before I came to Islam I used to

call people to Christianity everywhere I

went I would be carrying my Bible with

me I would have my Salib or cross and I

even had a cap a hat and it said Jesus

you know Issa Jesus is Lord do you know

I didn't realize then how funny I must

have looked I didn't realize it but in

those days I was very passionate about

communicating the message that I felt

people needed to know the message about

love a message about peace and a message

about being a good person so that when

the last day comes the yellow lacquer

that would be prepared for that the

daily life that I had before coming to

Islam was filled with two things working

hard to make business make money to

Jarra and working hard to tell people

about Jesus and the message of peace it

surprised me to find out that in Islam I

could work more and communicate more

that's for sure before I met the person

that helped me to know more about Islam

I used to have a very bad picture about

Islam and Muslims in fact I was so

afraid to even need a Muslim that when

my father told me we'd be doing

business with a Muslim I said no no way

no these guys Muslims they are

terrorists they are hijackers they are

kidnappers and they don't believe in God

in fact they're worshipping a black box

in the desert and they kissed the ground

five times a day that was the way I

understood Islam a very bad opinion and

a bad idea of how they treated women and

 how they treated children I thought that

really it was almost like they want to

put everybody in prison this was the

idea that I had but then I had never

really met a Muslim until we started

doing business with a man from Egypt

when I first met this Egyptian gentleman

I was surprised because I was expecting

to see some man wearing a long dress and

a black robe over it and the big turbine

or ammama on his head and he has one

eyebrow goes all the way across like

this maybe carrying a sword you know

 it's safe for some like this and maybe

you know something like Ayatollah

Khomeini I don't know

but then when I met this man I was so

surprised he was wearing normal clothes

and he looked as normal as anybody he

didn't even have a big beard in fact he

didn't have any hair because he was even

bothered it was nice a really nice

person and I thought right away

hey I bet I can convert him to become a

Christian that was my idea

I'll make him become a Christian but

Allah had other plans one of the things

 that really amazed me you say in Arabic

I G by G bond amazing astonishing

was the way this man although very quiet

gentle kind but what's amazing was the

way that he every day he would do the

salawatu pumps every every day he would

pray five times a day on time he would

say excuse me I'll be right back

he would go and make whoo-whoo then

Allah would do his Salah some dhikr dua

and come back to us then start working

again every day except one day a week

llamo Juma he stops everything he said I

 will be back in two hours

he would get ready and drive to the

Masjid do his Salah there and come back

and it took almost a half hour almost a

half hour just to get there so that's

why he had to take two hours off but he

would still come back and go right back

to work again so the man would work

seven days a week

but he would stop for his worship

another thing that he did he liked to

fast some on Mondays and also on

Thursdays and you would go to me say

would you like this who wants some of

 their so and so he'd say no no it's okay

I'm fasting one amazing thing about him

that even my father talked about was how

honest he was in business any time there

was any business transaction whatsoever

he always made sure the customer got

full value for whatever it was they were

doing and to be sure that they got the

product that they were promised and then

the follow-up to be sure that they were

happy that was another thing that we

really were amazed about you know I

thought
if we make this man a Christian we could

make him a saint maybe even an angel

because he's so sweet

so nice but do you know what happened

one day while I was trying to convert

him he asked us about the Bible and so I

said yes I have a Catholic priest who

will come over to my house I was a

Protestant this is two different

religions and my father would be there

with his Bible so I have my Bible my

father has a different Bible the

Catholic has another Bible and will sit

there and try to talk to him about all

 this but then we begin saying which

Bible which Bible you know between us

all the time the Muslim he's sitting

there quiet so we asked him well how

many versions you know of that Quran do

you have still one just one and it's

still in Arabic the way it came it's

perfect nothing's missing no words are

missing no pages are missing

not even a dot it's missing hmm so then

we had another idea

let's talk to him about God but when we

start to talk about God he said can you

 explain Trinity well we try to explain

how three could be one will get many

examples but none of them really hold up

very good do you know that when we asked

him what do you guys say about God he

said well it's pretty simple and he said

what Allah said in the Quran are oh the

valeri many shaytani regime

bismillah he wrought manner again call

who Allah who had Allah who some had let

me live well damn you like well let me a

cool hook of one I had and do you know

his argument was so strong we just sat

there like this

 no expression imagine what a beautiful

meaning this has when somebody knows

when they really know Allah he is a had

unique one no partners and he takes care

of everything and he has no father

he has no sons he has no relatives no

daughters no cousins no uncles and he is

not like anything he is a hide you need

amazing many people ask me how did you

feel about being a Christian what was it

like to be a Christian did you ever have

any doubts about Christianity well

actually at one point in my life I was

 so involved in Christianity believing in

it that I thought it was everything

until I began to find mistakes in the

Bible serious mistakes in the Bible and

then it made me begin to doubt not doubt

about God know but to doubt about the

Bible and what about Christianity some

of the things that we think about when

we talk about this subject is why is it

called Christianity because if it's

called Christianity it means you have to

follow Jesus Christ but what about all

the people before that they couldn't

have known about him because he wasn't

here what about Adam Abraham Moses David

Suleiman all the prophets and then what

about Jesus himself did he say I'm a

Christian actually I found in the Bible

it says that they were never called

Christians until they took their message

to Antioch long long after Jesus was

gone long after Paul came into the

religion and started changing things

even then he said we were never called

Christians until after Antioch then I

started thinking if the

name is not right the book has some

mistakes I don't know but when I looked

at other options other religions I

wasn't very impressed that really wasn't

and I had not really heard anything

about Islam and I never met any Muslims

not until my Egyptian friend but then I

began to observe some things that really

made me see a beautiful connection one

of the things that my Egyptian friend

told me is that we Muslims believe in

Jesus I said what because I know

Jewish you know the yahoodi they

believed in Adam and Abraham Isaac is

hot
 it's my LLL Ishmael they believe in

Suleiman and David and all these

prophets they believe in the Old

Testament but they do not believe in

Jesus not as a prophet not as the son of

a god not as a miracle work or nothing

so how could a Muslim believe in Jesus

and he said yes we call him Lisa I said

okay that's all right it's similar to

Jewish Yeshua he son Yeshua okay he said

then do you know what we know he's a

miracle birth oh the Immaculate

Conception watches are from Allah so

 okay and we know that he did miracles

even when he was born he could speak he

said I Salaam he could speak when he was

born and he told the people he was a

prophet and he had a mission I wasn't

like really I don't know that and he did

miracles people that had skin disease

they were cured people who couldn't walk

lame they were cured people that were

blind and they were cured even a dead

man was brought back to life story is in

the Bible Azeris but you're telling me

some believes this huh yeah I said okay

well what do you believe about Jesus we

 say is the Son of God what do you say

he said we say he's the son of Mary oh

yeah that makes sense he is the son of

Mary he said this way we don't have to

try to resolve the issue of son of God

he'd been along I would love a stop for

Allah Allah has a son I older build up

so this is where it really starts making

you think Muslims do believe so much

almost you know it's almost exactly

almost but maybe a little bit different

because when we came to the subject of

son of God he said no son of Mary yes

 Raja's it yes even the kalamata law the

Word of God the locals when Allah wants

anything he just says kun fire cool be

and it is and that's how he created

Jesus and I thought oh it's in the Bible

the kid mm up distance what it says be

and it is and that's how he made him so

Miriam is the mother God is the Creator

exactly what my Muslim friend told me I

thought oh if this is the case what else

do you believe he said we believe he's

not dead he's with a law and he will

come in the last day oh my god

so this man is going to be easy I can

 convert him right now this is almost the

same thing but then it happened the big

event happened

the Catholic priest friend of mine said

I want to go to the mosque I want to see

what did they do

and he went to the mosque when he came

back we said come here what are they

doing there

do they like you know slaughter animals

you know Videha or do they make bombs

something he said he said they line up

stuff then they stand like this he said

 like a monk or priest when they worship

in silent he said they were silent stood

like this she really said then they bow

rakul then such death then sitting Santa

not talking to each other nothing son

the whole time until said ah Molly said

our mother come around that's it then

he said they left I said what kind of

music did they have he said they don't

have any music what how do you worship

God with no music

I was a music minister I'm wondering how

no music

he said no no
 I got to know more about this well I did

I learned a lot more about it do you

know what happened next

it came my turn I became very curious so

I began asking some hard questions to

the Muslim what do you say about this

what about so-and-so I heard Muslims you

know they do so and such every time I

ask him a question he smile and he would

tell me so many nice things and I would

think huh this is not the image I had in

my mind

in fact when I think about Issa

 Ali Sonam what was his character like

how did he act how did he treat people

how and I said to myself this man this

Muslim is acting more like Jesus than

the Christians he never drinks alcohol

he never smoked cigarettes he never lies

he never cheats he doesn't chase the

women if you know what I mean no in fact

when ladies come close he puts his eyes

down I said if Jesus was here hi Sarah

this is what he would do it would be

like this man

I still wondered how can I get him to be

a Christian it was still in my mind how

 can I get him to be a Christian but all

along I was wishing I could be more like

this man

because he was at peace inside no matter

what happened if we have a flat tire on

the road he's at peace with it it's I'm

the luck under Allah I don't know what

he meant

he said cutter Allah Masha Allah I don't

know what it meant but he would say that

and he would smile if we ran out of

gasoline no fuel Hamdi like utter Allah

if I didn't have the money to pay for

 some federal on my shoulder no matter

what happened he was ok I'm wondering

how how can this man be in such peace

all the time I wish I would be like that

you know when I think about my friend

the Muslim I almost laughed now to

remember how patient he was with me

because I would be telling him you know

this and so and so and come on and be a

Christian and he would smile finally one

day he said to me you know I will go to

your religion if your religion is better

than my religion but you need proof

proof what we know in Islam that DeLillo

is something very important if somebody

tells you anything on a daylily ahi

right but never in Christianity anybody

said this to me what is your proof proof

I even said to him proof religion is not

about proof it's about faith all about

faith and no proof he said in Islam we

have both we have faith but we have

proof

and when he said that it came in my mind

and I said to him do you mean to sit

there and tell me as the Muslim you can

prove there's God then he said to me do

 you mean to sit there as a preacher for

Christians and you can't now what could

I say because I want to know what's his

proof because I never thought about

proof for anything just you hear

somebody say it you believe it and they

said in the Bible it says so and so you

look and read and read you never find it

where does it say it he said it okay I

believe it no in Islam every single word

you must be able to prove or you don't

say it

Allah said caller Allah what color rasuu

this is the hakka of Islam caller Allah

 the poor and vocal Arasu the hadith

sahih hadith Bukhari Muslim and when he

would explain my Muslim friend he would

explain Islam to me he would tell me in

court on of laws said and he would say

the arabiya I don't know where of it

zero no Arabic in those days I didn't

know one word not even Salaam alaikum

nothing but he would still recite the

Quran in Arabic and then he would say

more or less the English could be like

this and he would tell me and he would

say Rasul saw the light of a Salam

Prophet Muhammad peace be upon him who

Alcala he said for instance

hi Roku Monta Alama al quran wa allama

and this in english he would say would

mean the best of you are those who learn

the quran and then you teach the Quran

so he would give me the Arabic he would

give me the English sometimes listen to

this

sometimes he would recite the Quran

quickly quickly

like for instance he might say bismillah

ar-rahman ar-rahim who Allah who I had

Allah who cement I'd say no no no stop

 they say one said go slow he said why I

said I like to listen to it he said but

you don't know it I said but I like and

sometime when he would recite I would

feel like I want to cry I don't know why

like when he was reciting I would even

let him initiate on your regime allahu

la ilaha illa Allah

yokai you let a hold of holes in it and

wala know who my fists mo whatever

mother one month over the years for

window illa be hidden e yellow mama been

eighty him on my oven

 well Laurie tuna say ME ME illa

bima Shah was he of course he whose

summer whatever party well yeah who if

the home Allah Allah Allah

well fine you know for you let you

Mussina

the whom I feel somehow what um I feel

all men that love us for I know who a

lovey is me yeah I'm gonna faint I am

one of all of them what I wanna be

shaming me now me he loved me Masha

watch er como si no mas a Marathi well

of Obama well who a non-eu lovely when

he got to this part when he said wha CI

 policy yahoo Sumati what I think that's

why I told him no no oh

slow slow what is this what is this any

explain about the courtesy of a law the

arsh of a law so much details and I'm

thinking oh this man knows more about

his religion as a geologist then I do as

a preacher how come the preachers of

Christianity don't know about

Christianity as much as some Muslims

some Muslims know more about

Christianity than some of the Christian

preachers and especially how come nobody

knows about Islam in the West nobody yet

it's the most beautiful logical way to

explain the hawk the proof

la ilaha illa-llah when you look to the

mountains you look to the oceans you

look to the Stars the moon the Sun and

you realize this cannot come by an

accident this has to be from somewhere

where did you come from

what did you get your brains who takes

care of you every day who wakes you up

who let you go to sleep who gave you

life who replaces the skin when you get

hurt who is doing this anybody could say

 God does it but not anybody has the

proof of the Quran and the Sunnah which

clearly shows these proofs again and

again every ayah of Quran showing these

proofs so look at the combination we

have a man living the

example with the aah clock he has the

behavior the characteristic of Islam and

he has the basic knowledge the simple

knowledge of what what are the five

pillars of Islam Shahada Salah Sam

Ramadan zakat Imam and Hajj fuel baked

Allah explain that

 that's all he did he just explained the

basics and what do we believe a man of

allah we believe in allah will Malaya

cut me he and the angels well kotoba he

and the books all the books all the way

back from the beginning until now of all

of the prophets well recently all of the

prophets and we make no separation

between any of those and we believe in

the Day of Resurrection llamó qiyamah

the day of standing literally in Arabic

the day of standing and he explained

this very simple we're all gonna be

brought back everybody I said wait just

 muslims right he said no everybody

everybody is coming back i said what all

the muslims all the christians all the

dear hoodie all of the buddhists all of

the hindus all the mulehead all the

people will be brought back on the ELMO

camel the sixth point in islam he told

us is the color of allah now in this

case I could actually see somebody

accepting the cutter of a law but how do

you explain that to somebody it means

that Allah has already predestined

everything it's already known to Allah

 what's gonna happen and it's in his

control now some people might say well

how is that fair

I mean if Allah made me do it why would

I get a reward or a punishment it's not

my fault

but in Islam he explained it to me

clearly in Islam we know that everything

is a result of our intention the NIA and

then he said cholera Sol Sol illallah wa

sallam our Prophet Muhammad peace be

upon him he said in the mall of India

that everything is by urine

tension but then whatever comes from a

 law this is the law is cutter and that's

when you can live as a muscle and I said

how and look what he said he said you

have to know what's Islam and he

explained in a way that I understood

later I took a dictionary and found the

words in Arabic that it's this lamb to

surrender to give up and to submit and

to obey and to be sincere well wait a

minute if you're gonna be sincere this

means what you cannot force anybody to

be sincere it's impossible if you force

them they're not sincere and this is

 required in Islam so never get Islam

spread by the sword and Islam doesn't

spread with a gun he slammed spreads

with the heart and this man touched our

hearts with his behavior with his

kindness with his generosity with his

good advice that he gave all of us but

especially the way that he was so

devoted to his God when he would stand

over in the corner of the house and we

would see him praying and he would look

up like this and you would see tears in

his eyes and you would wonder what is he

crying for I later came to know that he

 was crying for us he was asking a lawyer

a lawyer Latif yadi yadi yadi the one

who guides guide these people guide

these people they're nice people all

along guide them and tears coming down

his face Allah do you know he said to me

the key words he said to me I will go to

your religion as a Christian if

your religion is better than my religion

I said okay hey we got him now because

in Christianity I know you don't have to

pray you don't have to fast you don't

have to make Hajj you don't have to pay

 the car you don't even have to be nice

if you don't want to you just believe

Jesus died for your sins yay he said no

I mean I will be in your religion if

your religion is better but you need

proof I said again with the proof he

said yes because there's nothing we

doing Islam except we know there's a

proof whether we know the reason or not

that's another subject why we don't eat

pork why women should cover themselves

up why men don't go out here touching

other women and why we must never cheat

or must never lie

 the reasons are with the law but we know

the proof is from the Quran and the

Sunna this is what we live by and again

no matter what happened he would say the

same thing Kagura law mashallah I

realized he was right I didn't have any

proof I was just talking but then one

night when I was really thinking about

Islam so much I found that the Catholic

priest accepted Islam the Catholic

priest became Muslim a shadow a

lalalaura thermometer so I couldn't

believe it I started to tell my wife

 then I found that she also is interested

to be a Muslim I'm shocked so I wanted

to talk to him again one more time so we

were walking around in the night outside

our house I asked him about something

about my business my family the people I

know congregation I used to go with the

Bible the Quran many questions many

questions many questions because I

didn't know what to do I wanted him to

tell me why don't you be a Muslim I

wanted him to say that why don't you be

a Muslim but look at the hikmah look at

the wisdom he said this is not about you

 and me

this is not about you and your wife or

you and your father or you and the

congregation of your people if this is

about you and him so you need to talk to

him

no look at this man he's crying

oh I'll guide them but he doesn't say I

want you to be guided by me no he let a

law do what Allah does and he cried for

us he went and prayed and while he was

praying I went and put my head on the

ground and I said God if you're there

guide me and when I raised up my head I

knew I knew there really is God he's one

la sharika lah he has no partners and I

knew Mohamed Salah life Salaam is his

last his final messenger and I had to

follow it I have to follow it there's no

option there is no other way there's B's

messenger

let me lay low a mile or so lower

there's no Daniel I am I am I am most

often what Matt is His Messenger

there's no column I have my pal most of

my buddies his messenger

there's no
 let me know

and I also knew immediately I had to

tell the other people I have to tell

everybody that's why I'm here with you

today to tell you this story the

importance of you yes I'm talking to you

to be the person Allah wanted you to be

to follow that Dean and show other

people by example let them see the

beauty of Islam the truthfulness Allah

says yea alladhina amanu attack Allah or

Kulu kaolin sadita the truthfulness let

them see the integrity let them see the

 honesty let the people see that we are

normal people we want good for everybody

we don't hate we don't hate we love we

love Allah we love his messenger we love

this Deen the thing that we avoid and

stay away from other things that will

take us away from that let them just see

it show them Islam with the Aqua that

character and then maybe you'll hear

somebody say eyeshadow a like that long

may Allah guide all of us may Allah

guide the people may Allah make it easy

for you to share this message until next

time this is Yusuf Estes

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