 Hello. So happy to be part of the show again today. I really appreciate your time. If this is the first time you are seeing my face or joining my channel, I sincerely appreciate you. You're welcome. This is a very big space for all of us all around the world. People go around preaching what they believe and the hope to bring others into the phone. And oftentimes it might be successful and might not be successful depending on how you are able to do it. Now on this threshold one have to look at things in a very clear manner and it has to do with are you able to explain your faith clearly to people in order for them to buy into your own idea. Most times people just want to know about a particular faith but with no intention of being part of it, like converting to it. So it's all boiled down to how are people seeing things, the orientation and what they think about religion. In this video today a Jehovah's Witness people were busy preaching and a Muslim did something. Let's jump right into it. I'll be right back. How are you guys today? How are you guys enjoying Muslim life? Oh this is just the way they do. The Jehovah's Witness they put stands and they preach. Yeah I know I saw there's a Jehovah's Witness booth at the end there and you guys have another one here right? Are you guys from the same area? Where are you from? I'm actually from Pakistan. Pakistan? Yeah yeah yeah exactly yeah. Oh very nice. Yeah I'm studying Arabic in Egypt. Where are you studying? I'm studying here in Mississauga. Oh you have a group at Jehovah's Witness? Yeah. Oh okay you guys are learning Arabic? Wow wow so this is a motivation for Muslims watching this to learn more Arabic. That's good that's good. The Jehovah's Witness guys are very very smart you know so they learn Arabic in order to preach to the Arabs. This is quite amazing. I was quite surprised when I saw the white guy speaking obviously in Arabic but I do not like the fact that he was just skipping the camera. Just another white guy was really going on. Let's watch on. If I can ask you guys what made you guys want to become Jehovah's Witnesses? I'm a Muslim first of all and I want to hear from your side. I think as we've explained what's our purpose today is we're here speaking and sharing out of the same good news but if you'd like to talk in another time instead of we feel free to exchange information and we can do that another time. Well what's your name? My name is Cody. Yeah Junaid. Nice to meet you. Junaid. Junaid. Junaid yeah what's your name? Junaid okay. Tony. Tony? Tony yeah. So if you'd like to talk in another time we'd be happy to meet up with you. What I thought is interesting about Jehovah's Witness theology is that you guys reject hell and you have over a thousand years of Christian scholarship exegesis. Christian scholars all over the world today who would debate you guys on that claim. How did you guys come to reject that claim that there's a hell? Yeah you know it's one of those things that there's many differences between our beliefs and as I was mentioning to you I'd be happy to sit down any time that you would like and talk about that if you like but just for today I think our focus is speaking and with Arabic speaking ones as you can tell and we'd love to share or choose what we believe on. Yeah no I do respect the fact that you came to Muslim Fest right and you're here trying to obviously engage the Muslim community and obviously say what you believe in. At the same time I'm a Muslim and I do try to study Islam formally and informally of course but I would love to hear what you guys have studied about the five pillars or six articles of faith for example. Okay. Did we exchange phone numbers? Yeah I'd be open to exchanging email addresses yeah yeah yeah wonderful. What have you guys learned about the five pillars or six articles of faith so far? So what are you speaking of when you say these six pillars? Okay so one of the most important. You know remember I just learned that they came to a Muslim Fest and they're using Arabic to know whether they can engage the Muslim community. I just love this. I love that opinion. I love that freedom of being able to communicate your faith. Did this kind of happen in the Arab world? I have not seen something like this where I mean a Christian would come to the Arab world and ask and I've been asking Arabs to be Muslims. I think that person might be arrested and punished severely but it's happening currently because there's freedom of speech and I really appreciate that. I love that about the West to be completely honest. Now this guy is trying to run away from it and the Muslim guy is trying like asks them he just wants to gain something from them like what did you learn from coming among the Muslims and I think this guy doesn't have anything to say or he's trying to avoid any sort of argument that would drift away from the intention of being there at that moment. Islam is the shahada. We translate that as the testimony of faith. It's actually how someone becomes a Muslim and I'll say it in Arabic first. And it translates as I bear witness that there is no God, nothing worthy of worship except Allah or except God Almighty. And that the Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam is his last and final messenger. And the latter part by saying that the Prophet Muhammad is the last and final messenger we actually affirm all of the prophets. So from Adam to Noah to David and to Jesus Christ and Moses and peace and blessings be upon all of them. And so that's very important you cannot be a Muslim today and reject Jesus Christ for example. But one thing that's always interesting for me is I ask Christians and I'm sure I know you guys have a Jehovah's Witnesses have slightly different beliefs than other Christians. I mean sometimes they would excommunicate even go as far as excommunicating you guys. But the Christians that I've come across I always ask them do you believe Jesus Christ is God or Jesus Christ was sent by God? I don't know if you you know actually we can share with you what you would like but maybe if you wouldn't mind if we could just step aside here. I can share with you what we have you're actually one of our brochures and we're actually sharing with ones and answers your question. I want to ask you though because I don't have any written material with me and I some of it I memorized right and I want to know I mean for me it's important like you're saying this is very I mean I would say I'm proud of you it's proud of you guys it's inspiring that you guys are here declaring your faith but I want to hear from your tongue you know I can read a book at home and it's not really about it's because you're asking what we believe okay so I'm showing you sure if you can give me the like the one minute message yeah it's literally it's one sentence okay it says right here he's actually forcing a discussion on them is he's going to succeed I don't know but by the way it's going the Jehovah's Witness guys are really very careful they really don't want to turn the stand into a podium of argument they wanted to be private they wanted him to be educated via the email they wanted him to not come cause a sort of confusion on the stand but let's see really what the Muslim guy is going to extract from these people so there's one guy and that's our belief so Jesus and God are two separate beings God Almighty is one what are three things that you guys differ with from orthodox Christians from Protestants to Catholics what is your email then yeah maybe we'll do that yeah if you would like yeah if you give us your email yeah yeah I can provide you my email yeah but but but I prefer honestly to have a discussion first because like think about it we finish here and I guess about six o'clock we finish so if you want to talk after we'd be happy to yeah are you guys based in Mississauga yes well actually we're worldwide yeah no I mean do you live in Mississauga I know okay I live here I live here in Mississauga so yeah I live in Mississauga yes okay yeah yeah yeah um I mean I mean how did how did you guys I don't know if we answer this question how did you guys come to Jehovah's Witnesses exactly how did you how did you how did you how did you how did you how did you okay let me ask you this what's your issue with Islam what what what is your issue with Islam like what I'm sure you've studied a little bit why why would you say for you what is why is Islam not the truth to you why is not the truth you know what answer your first question there saying what is wrong that's not our position right that's not our position only one can say you're right I'm wrong he's right she's wrong there's only one person who can say that so to ask us that question we can't answer yeah as for why we learn is because what we learn from the Bible everything meshes together it fits together in a way that makes sense to us and we feel that we're doing the work that Jesus himself and many of the even prophets so we try to follow the example because they're the ones really who have set forth the example for us today I'll I'll I'll leave you with this I know you guys might be want to go and I'll leave you my email which but number one is you could have the best preacher in any faith go around preaching to people the best whether among Muslims or Christians that's not sufficient you know and what I encourage people to do is number one study right use the brain that God gave us and number two keep praying for guidance this is something we all agree on pray to God pray to God to God God alone and keep on praying for guidance it gives the God is the changer of hearts right God will guide us to the truth and I mean that sincerely from a fellow from a human being to a fellow human being so so keep on researching keep on studying but I would say anytime you hear something about Islam or even Jehovah's Witnesses or any Christian any topic for that matter Christianity you know verify double double check it I had a guy tell me down there I know I'm not I'm not conflating you guys because I know you guys got different part of different churches but he was telling me very strange things and he said oh I just google this I just google that like sir you need to verify this information so yeah we do a dowel training here we do training for Muslims here in Mississauga on how to engage people as well so it's nice to see nice to me well how do I describe this video I would say the both side were very very careful with what they've got to say for example I was I was drawing back a bit when I heard the question that is related to why they were motivated to stand at that podium or at that place looking for who to tell about their religion about Jesus Christ about Christianity that question was a bit tricky because it meant that for them to leave all of the activities and dedicate time to stand there not just there to preach but to let Muslims especially Arabic you know speaking guys to know about Christ Jesus then it means they believe that their religion is superior they believe that what they're holding on is far more superior than the Islamic faith that was a very intelligent question and I expected the Jehovah's Witness mind to apparently give a very turgid answer an answer that would cover all the facets of the pose located in their desire to deny that there was that the intention is not to point out who is wrong or who is right which is very very correct when you are making dharma to a diverse audience but on the other hand their action standing dedicated in time for that for that evangelism is a clear sign that they believe that the Muslims are on the wrong path are needed to be drawn back to the true faith guys until next time see you assalamu alaikum