 I was thinking because I was like, yeah, it's kind of to keep it on the topic of Ramadan. So But I don't know. This is just something well two things like as a Christian, you know, you know, just speaking to Christian, you know family or you know about like the crucifixion. It's almost like it's so emotional and it's like the crux of Christianity and There's you can't really speak logically about it or you're right because it's just so emotionally bound to the Christian Paradigm, it's what unites all of Christians to they don't all believe certain things But that is one of the things that they're all united on right. So it's something that's How do you you know what I'm saying? I just I feel like that's kind of the point like like my mom for instance She's she's like amazing and she actually she's like she's like when I when I when I call out to God I say Allah God, you know, she believes in the Prophet Muhammad But when it comes to the crucifixion, it's like She she's she can't let go of it right and it's so it's just it's like really amazing So I'm just kind of wondering it from your experience or just in Dawa or you know, I'm saying like how do we kind of How do we bridge that in the sense that we know that that? That someone was made to look like he said he said I'm you know I'm saying so it almost makes sense that they would believe that So kind of what just me experience your perspective on that Well, one thing is like I said sometimes you got to do the the multiple-choice thing that I mentioned you know like if You had a choice if the choice was yours That in order for God to forgive you He had to kill Jesus who didn't do any of this Or That he could forgive you just by grace and you making a sincere effort you saying sorry just ask sometimes just reducing it down to just Presenting it some type of rational kind of multiple choice. It puts it in a different context because ultimately it's it's something that for for a Christian that's salvation, you know myself when I was Starting to read the Quran and read more into it. That was the one issue for me personally. I was like, yeah, I believe God is one I don't believe Jesus is God Everything I'm reading but then when it got to that particular issue That they didn't kill nor crucified him only a likeness of that was shown to him And with no other details I Was it like put me in my crisis Like what am I supposed to do and then I had to really work through that like well, what does That issue really involved for me. Why do I feel so attached to it because that's to do it how we're forgiven Right and that's one of the gifts of religion is a means of forgiveness Right like how do we right our wrongs? You know not just there's writing our wrongs that we do from one human to another right that that's one But then how do we write the wrongs that we do before our creator? right that has to be like of like Not prime primary importance because some one thing I even learned this was maybe about a just a few months ago This reflection really hit me that We believed in the Ten Commandments Right as Christians everybody knows about the Ten Commandments. What's the first one? Right? Exactly Now she'll have no other guys before me which we can easily translate as la la la I Said wow, and don't we believe that God gives a sense of priority to things So there's a list of Ten Commandment. Why is that the first one? We would say There's intention behind that being the first commandment And so it made me realize even still like I said I've been Muslim for almost 28 years I'm still learning and it just hit me recently That wow like Islam is reviving The primacy of the first commandment right and that's why Allah says and advises us when we have these discussions with the people of the book Say come to a word we share between us Which is not whether or not Jesus was crucified peace be upon him The word that we share between us is that we both say There's nothing worthy worship God. We both say there's one God. God is one and so That caused a shift for me personally just to focus like Okay This crucifixion thing that is an issue, but that has to do with how we rectify our affair with God But there's this other thing that's even more important believe it or not. It's more important than that Which is the very first commandment? If we can agree to that Then let's see what's Calling to that in the clearest most unambiguous manner Because once I shifted my like I said I literally became obsessed with this issue of crucifixion I wrote songs. I was in the band at that time I have songs about two songs in particular that I wrote about this issue of the crucifixion Okay as a Christian and so here I am writing a song, but that's how much it like It gripped me, you know spiritually and theologically that I'm writing about it in a rock song, you know But again, I had to look at what else is around this You know what I mean? How am I forgiven? And when I finally got to the verse in the Quran where God talks about sacrifices and how just like fasting He's also given right sacrificial rights to this community and also other communities But he says it's not their meat nor their blood that reaches a lot It's the piety in your heart When I read that I was I was done with that whole thing. I was like, okay Even as you know having this understanding that you know as a Christian we do okay They were always being taught. He was the sacrificial lamb He's you know that the Jews used to have you know to be forgiven at the sacrifice of lambs and animals and Then he realized it's actually there were other things they did like what if you didn't have a Lamb or a sheep mean you can't be forgiven. No that other things you could use grain You're right certain types of stocks that you had stored up Why because it really in the sight of God, it's not just Ultimately like the verse is it's not the meat or the blood or in the the case on the Jewish tradition It's not the grain in the wheat that reaches a lot. It's just The sincerity of giving up sacrificing something of value For him As a sign that no, I'm serious. I'm sorry and I'm gonna give up this thing You see I mean so for me Those types of things are really helpful and at the end of the day I would just encourage Kind of shifting the emphasis to the first command because that's something as a Christian Yes, we know those 10 commandments right just Consider the first one. Why is that the first the first commandment is not about salvation at all Right and we have plenty of beautiful and very powerful supporting scripture about the oneness of God and Even forgiveness that's attained just by believing that and those who just say la la la the heaviest thing on the scale Right, we're forgiven even just for saying that believing it obviously in our heart and saying it forgiven And just offer that is the good news say that's our good news the gospel is the good news That's the good news at the end of the day We just can present it and so I'm just trying to share some tools to consider And your next presentation with mom You know to say a mom, you know, let's reflect on the very first command Because I think maybe we've got sidetracked with some of these other things that are important And we do that is also getting to talk about women in Islam and he jab in Islam and jihad in Islam Start with la la la la Islam is the revival of the first commandment That's all it's it's it's unambiguous uncomplicated monotheism That it's finest that we should be proud to have that in this form So just something to consider It may a lot got all our parents, you know our siblings Our cousins and we should beg for that Ramadan, you know, I'm talking to myself, too Like did I pray for my my mom at that last night? I didn't You know, so I'm saying this just a reminder you're reminding me of my mom and my dad My three brothers and sister and my grandmother You know, we gotta pray for folks. Don't be stingy with your prayers and just Thinking about yourself and your issues and your needs