'I tried to convince a Muslim to convert to Christianity' _ Muslim Revert Story _ Islam Channel

ALLAH IS ONE

ALLAH IS ONE

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00:00What brought me to Islam is me trying to convince someone else to become a Christian.

00:06So we see how that turned out. So I was actually, I was living in Hollywood at the time,

00:13and I was a production manager for like TV and film, music videos, this and that.

00:20And I was very Christian. And I mean, I was like teaching Sunday school, all this. And there was

00:26a colleague of mine that worked on this HBO show with me and he was Muslim. And I was trying to

00:34convince him that he should come to church with me so he could, you know, see the truth, of course.

00:38And yeah. And he was like, thank you, but I'm not at all interested in that. And I said,

00:44well, who cares? It's like, you're not signing a contract for life. Like just come to church

00:49one time. It's like an hour on a Sunday. Like, it's not going to kill you. If you don't like it,

00:52don't come back. And he was like, um, yeah, no, I'm not going to do that. So I was like,

01:01what the heck? What has him so stuck on his religion that he won't even come for an hour?

01:06Like, oh, is your religion that cool? You can't like hang out for an hour? No.

01:10So I said, all right, listen, I have a Bible and I can quote Bible verses to you all day long,

01:18but it doesn't affect you because it's not your book. It's not your verses. It's not your

01:21scripture. What do you care? Okay, fine. Give me your book. Give me this Quran or whatever it is

01:27that you're reading your moon and stars worshiping book. And I said, let me read that. And then I'm

01:34going to use your text against you to prove to you why none of this makes sense. And this is

01:38why you should be Christian. That did not go as planned. And soon after I found myself in a mosque

01:46by myself, wandering in with like jeans, ripped jeans, a V-neck t-shirt flip-flops. And the guy

01:52was like, Whoa, let's get a scarf on you if you want a tour. So I was like, okay. And before I

02:01knew it, I was just blown away by the truth of this book that I was supposed to be using for

02:11research only. And pretty soon I was like, I think I know what I need to do. And this is

02:19hilarious because I've always thought Muslims are crazy people. I mean, I'm just brainwashed

02:25by the news here and I didn't know anything about it. I thought they were just doing some like

02:31ritual stuff and blah, blah, blah. I didn't know what was going on. And so when I start reading

02:35the Quran, I see all these questions that I've had in Christianity for so long. All of them were

02:42answered. And I'm like, wait a minute. You guys know about Adam and Eve? You guys know Moses too?

02:50These are, these are our guides. I'm Christian. These are our dudes. Like, why are you like,

02:54you shouldn't know about this. How do you guys know? Well, I didn't realize how similar

02:59Islam is to Christianity. And I'm thankful that I knew as much as I did because otherwise had I not

03:05known those stories, I would have probably been a little hesitant. Like, okay, you're telling me

03:11this guy throws a stick down and all of a sudden it's a snake. All right. Okay. No, no thanks.

03:18You know, but I already knew these stories from Christianity. So I was like, wait a second,

03:22you guys know he part of the Red Sea. Okay. What else do you know? And then it became more and

03:27more interesting to me. So after a while I started, I was just like inseparable with the Quran. I was

03:35just walking around everywhere. Like I remember just walking all over LA, just walking like

03:42crazed woman maniac with a big backpack on in my little Quran that was like this big.

03:47And I'm walking and I'm not even paying attention. I'm just reading and flipping pages and I'm

03:51walking and I'm walking. I'm just trying to absorb every word. And then I was like, that's it.

03:56I got to go. I got to move. I got to get out of here. I can't be here. And so I decided to

04:04do the obvious choice and sell everything I own, pack one suitcase and buy a one-way ticket to

04:09Morocco. Makes sense. So I did that and I, I didn't have a job. I didn't have family there,

04:21friends. I had nothing, no idea what I'm doing. I don't speak Arabic. I don't speak French and

04:28no one there speaks English. Amazing. Good choice. I didn't really know. I didn't really

04:35know what was going to happen, but I knew that I needed to make hijra because I'm living in LA and

04:39it's like, I'm like cruising sunset Boulevard at night, like hanging with celebrities and living

04:47this like glamorous life that everyone wants that I could care less about. So I said, I got

04:53to move. I got to get out of here. And especially if I want to become Muslim for real, I cannot do

04:59that living in Hollywood. Like this is never going to happen. My friends will never accept this.

05:03They'll tease me. I'll just be, you know, just a pile of nothing. Cause everybody's going to be

05:12like, okay, what are you some want to be Arab? Okay. You're Muslim, whatever. Let's go out.

05:16You know, I knew that they weren't going to take me seriously. So I said, okay, that's fine. If

05:20my surroundings are going to change who I am, then if I want to change who I am, I should

05:24change my surroundings. So I did that move to Morocco and decided to take my Shahada there in

05:31Casablanca. Cause I was almost done with the Quran almost done. And I said, wait a minute,

05:38I want to wait. It took me like two weeks after I arrived to finish the rest of it. Cause I was

05:42like, everything makes sense, but I don't want to take the Shahada and become Muslim because I know

05:47what a serious decision and life-changing statement that it is. You don't just like undo it and say,

05:54no, I was just kidding. I want to be Christian again. I knew that it was something very,

05:57very serious. So I said, well, I don't want to have, I don't want to have this book that I'm 98%

06:03done with. And then I become Muslim. And all of a sudden the last, like, you know, chapter and a

06:07half, there's some little like, oh, by the way, this, this, and this, and then I didn't want to

06:11be stuck. So I said, okay, let me finish the whole entire thing. And then I will take my Shahada. So

06:17I did that. That was December 31st, uh, 2010. So it's been over a decade now that I'm Muslim,

06:23Alhamdulillah.

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