 Assalamualaikum brothers and sisters, welcome to another episode of the open minded thinker show today I want to share with you a video that touched my heart in a very different way because you know in the journey of understanding faith we have to reconcile or try oftentimes to reconcile between revelation I mean divine revelation and the desire of Allah to bring us closer to him oftentimes he uses different method he might use dreams he might use other people he might use channels like this so when you share videos like this you apparently don't know who is going to engage with the video so if for a venture someone who is interested as someone who is touched by God he watches the video apparently the person might decide to ultimately become a Muslim and that will be a win for you and for whoever produces the video so in today's episode we want to look at the concept of dream and its ability to be you know an infracting factor used by Allah to drop people closer to the faith the story of this guy is quite fascinating and I wouldn't wait to watch that with you my friend Anthony you've come to our dower table here this is north London and your name was Anthony and you've become a Muslim and you've changed name to Abdulaziz all right yes that's correct really okay and if sorry if you just turn around this way my friend okay and uh you and the reason you became a Muslim is because you knew the prophet Muhammad was a prophet of Almighty God because you saw this in a dream while you were Christian is that right yes that's great okay so what did you see in the dream my friend I saw the prophet Muhammad peace be upon him about 30 to 40 years old um he was uh placing his hand on two white tablets one of which I laid to find out was the Quran and the other which was the sunna he had about neck length hair sweat back hair black hair black eyes very beautiful face red reddish face but but with light in it you know reddish whitish face with light in it and uh he was wearing a normal arab tunic you know not not the arab clothes but um you know like a shirt and and trousers the way the Arabs were um and I looked very very um beautiful it was very very handsome man so this is what you saw by the prophet Muhammad peace be upon him how did you know it was the prophet Muhammad peace be upon him because at that point you were a Christian so how did you know it was the prophet Muhammad peace be upon him or any other prophet uh there was something telling me was the prophet Muhammad not not a voice but something telling me there's there's the prophet Muhammad um something because I saw the prophet Jesus as well before so there's something telling me that this was Jesus and this was Muhammad peace be upon them and it led me to to respect the prophet Muhammad as a prophet because I wasn't sure about it before I hadn't heard much about Islam I was very uh new to it new to the religion the idea the idea is the religion of Islam and I literally had next to nothing about it but I I I understood that this was the prophet Muhammad the final prophet but I didn't accept I didn't think to accept that that he was he was um to supersede the the religion of Isla Islam well to be honest um I love that particular question because he was a Christian at the point when he had the dream and based on what he has said so far he has no knowledge of Islam he has prophet Muhammad doesn't have a picture where he can be represented so now the question begs how do he know that how did he know that that guy or the person he saw on the dream is prophet Muhammad peace be upon him and the answers he's given is really interesting and I want us to pay a close attention to what they're saying I think from there we can draw a conclusion so he's to fill up follow Christianity he used to read the bible but I found problems with it and so I went to speaker's corner and met a preacher and then I became Muslim with the debate that I had with him so you see already seen Jesus peace be upon him in a dream is that right yes that's correct and then you saw the prophet Muhammad peace be upon him in a dream and you discovered in the dream that he was a true prophet of Almighty God is that right uh yes yes I saw I understood that the prophet man was the last prophet I didn't I didn't think to follow his message because I knew so little about Islam and all I all I knew was that the bible existed I didn't I didn't know much about the Quran I'd hardly heard about the the uh the Quran at all I I almost didn't know it was a book so I didn't think to it to read it and you know I accept Islam that way but I became Muslim very shortly afterwards and Anthony sorry once again my friend so it's a private uh sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry uh Anthony um where about are you from Anthony are you from London uh from England I'm from London I'm English uh British citizen I'm I'm born in London uh I've traveled across Europe a little bit I've been to America one or two two two or three times um I've been to a few places in the Middle East not many Egypt I went to Palestine when I was younger uh before I became Muslim I had actually had an experience in Palestine which made me uh close to God made me think that um I had I could I could you know connect with God the way the Muslims do you know with prayer and supplication and reading of the Quran uh I went to Masjid al the the dome of the rock mosque the Masjid al-Aqsa Masjid al-Aqsa no Masjid al-Aqsa but I think it was the the dome of the rock mosque um and I I went inside I kneeled down it was in between prayers it was in between about Duhra and Asa I it went inside I I sat down and I felt like I could connect with God there whereas when the churches that I visited with my family before um the churches and cathedrals I if you move around this way a little bit please Anthony I I didn't feel that I could connect with God I felt like people holy people had watched it there in the past but there was something oppressive in it you know something the air the air above was oppressive whereas I didn't find that in the mosque so I uh the first mosque I'd ever been to uh the dome of the rock mosque and um I found it very uplifting I felt that that was something which I reflected upon afterwards which made me want to to research Islam more once I become Muslim and if we just sorry go back to the dream again uh what else uh when you saw the prophet Muhammad peace be upon him in the dream how did you feel inside uh did you feel uh something inside yourself uh yeah I well I mean it kind of it it it made me feel uplifted you know that that there was there was um that I could I could see that I could see the prophet uh you know because uh it was something which is like it's something special for me you know that I could see him and I could see see you know witness myself what what he looked like um this is a very handsome man you know it was 30s to 40s you know um it was something it was something a new experience to me and uh something which gave me hope with a prophet Muhammad when I saw him I could tell he wasn't like Jesus but he was followed he was he was sent in the same line so I could tell that he was a prophet and I could tell that he was um there was something special about him yeah most of some of these things are related to uh divine powers and spirituality maybe um God in front of mercy gave him the expanded knowledge I mean the greatest of understanding to really know that he is prophet Muhammad but he's still a question of really how he was able to understand it you know um a broader fashion which ultimately led to him becoming a muslim and now he said he made he taught many parts of europe and he visited al-qasar moqs in palestine and he has gone to different places so it helped boost his desire to become a muslim and the way he some of the points he made especially about prayers are really really interesting it shows that our prayer is really important in this journey if you are a new be like me in the islamic faith you have to you know put prayer as the most important content point around you know yourself so always pray and always seek the face of God I think through that means the pains of the journey would be eased more grace and favor would follow you know um the point is that uh he was I could tell that he wasn't you know a son of God or whatever have you like like I thought Jesus was I I could tell that his there's something different about what he what he had done um and I found that quite uplifting did he say anything to you or did you smile or anything no no no no smile it was like uh it was like uh hit the prophet Muhammad peace be upon him standing still uh just placing his two hands on the two white white blocks or two white books it's like two white stones but uh they I I didn't think of anything about the stones I just saw them um and when you saw the prophet Muhammad peace be upon you dream where were you were you in London or were you in Saudi Arabia or where were you I was in London it was actually around my 18th birthday um and I was lying down in in bed asleep and uh or probably asleep and uh the dream the dream came to me you know almost like uh like uh something off of the top of my forehead uh so I could tell that it was some kind of I I thought it was something made me think it was some kind of inspiration you know that um there was something there was something it was some kind of inspiration and it's a dream that I can still recall today that had a very strong impact on me where when you met the prophet Muhammad peace be upon him where were you actually were you standing or were you in a shopping area were you at home where were where but were you and where was the prophet Muhammad peace be upon him I was at home I was lying down in my bed he walked up to you no I was half asleep uh it was something coming off my forehead you know what I mean is when you met him where was he and where were you standing no I didn't meet him it was he was standing he was standing like above me as if he was in the heaven um and it was coming off my forehead you know um what what he was uh uh what he what he was standing upon it was like it was from the heaven um and it was coming off my forehead that I saw that I could see the prophet Muhammad and um did he see did you see you Anthony sorry did you see you Anthony no no no it was it was as if it was something taken from the past and shown to me as a as a present okay so it's something you were seeing from the past a vision like a vision you've seen like a vision okay and did he look towards you or he was looking away he was looking into the horizon or whatever well where was the prophet Muhammad peace be upon him looking uh I was he was he was he was staring he was staring as if um he was staring uh down downwards or he was his eyes were open but it was like he wasn't staring it was like it was just he was walking and then stopped and I could see him doing that so I didn't meet him I didn't express words with him but um he was something which inspired me to say to feel that he was a prophet and that he was there was there was that he was legitimate before God you know it was uh he was legit well this is an amazing story uh I could draw parallel with my own story before I became a muslim I often had dreams of becoming a muslim apparently even before I became a muslim I could recall that in 2010 I had this type of Quran with me actually I was reading it because I was interested in Arabic I wasn't reading it one day I would be a muslim and oftentimes I dress like a muslim those days you know so it's it's it's really a calling because anything that you're going to be guard is always there to make it quite easier for you in this case he was meant to see the prophet Muhammad and from there he got attracted and then became a muslim uh in my own case in my dreams I continue to see myself dress like a muslim visiting islamic sites you know going to me islamic people and you know generally having a tea to start with them and you know I mean good relationship but today you could see what happened started with YouTube and from YouTube I say youtuber I got to know more about the faith I lent it I traveled I met muslims in this tea and today I can assure you and tell you ladies and gentlemen that I am happily muslim what I expected from my family to be a baklal I actually tend to you know be a blessing for me because Allah was in control of everything well this is an amazing story please share it subscribe and tell me what you think in the comments until next time assalamu alaikum