 Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim. Alhamdulillah wa-salaatu wa-salaam wa-ala ashraf al-anbiya'i wa-al-mursaleen. Sayyidina wa-mawlana wa-habibina Muhammad, sallallahu alaihi wa-sallam, wa-ala alaihi wa-sahbi wa-sallam taslimin katheera. As-salamu alaikum wa-rahmatullahi wa-barakatuh. Alhamdulillah, brothers and sisters, today we are blessed to have Sister Janine Bravo from Livermore, which is a city very close to us here at the MCC, reach out to us and say that she wants to take her Shahada with us. Alhamdulillah, again, another incredible honor for our community. Sister Janine, welcome to MCC. It's a pleasure. Pleasure to have you, pleasure to meet you. I know I'm curious and I'm sure many people who will be watching this are going to be curious to know what brought you to this point in your journey. What brought you to the point where you believe that Islam is the faith for you? Well, I was raised a Christian and I started understanding the language a little bit, especially through music, and I started speaking it and I was very excited to tell my son, Isaiah, I'm learning how to speak Muslim Arabic. I'm learning, you know, and he's like, okay, I told him in Target, he was just like, amazing, kind of embarrassed, but anyway. And so I pursued it because I never understood any other language, so I knew it was the truth. Wow, so just to be clear here, you were born and raised a Christian. Yes. But then you suddenly came upon the Arabic language through music. Yes. And you took to studying Arabic. Yes. Through the study of the Arabic language, you discovered Islam. Yes. And the faith. Wow. Allahu Akbar. Amazing. So when you heard Arabic for the first time, I'm just curious, did it sound like familiar to you? It did. Right? And then I started listening more and more into prayers. That's when I started understanding a lot. Wow. So that's when I knew, because I don't even know how to speak Spanish that well. So that's what I knew. Subhanallah. Amazing. So also just curious, were you also, did you get access to like the, you mentioned prayers, like the words of the Quran? I was doing everything on my own. So just independent search. Mashallah. We say Allah guides whomever he wills. And the true seekers, I mean, I've heard and I'm sure everyone here has heard many different stories. But I think this is one of the most remarkable that it was the language that initially, you know, interested or made you interested in the faith. That's incredible. Mashallah. Well, we are so, again, honored to have you here. The process for Shahada, which we covered briefly is very simple. And Hamdullah, as I mentioned before, we believe definitively that the fact that you're here, you're already a Muslim, you have the faith. This is just a ceremony. So we're going to make it pretty brief. I will repeat a phrase, which is the declaration of faith. And we invite everyone participating to also repeat. We always want to renew our own Shahada as well when we're in these beautiful environments. So I will say the Arabic phrase for you and then translate the English for you. And that's it. And then at that point, we believe that, I mean, it's the Shahada experiences is complete. And your Shahada at that point, Mashallah, you will be welcomed. People will come to you and embrace you into the faith and community. All right. Bismillah. All right. So Bismillah, we begin in the name of God. The first part is. Ash hadu. Ash hadu. An. An. La ilaha. La ilaha. La ilaha. Ilaha. Il Allah. Il Allah. Wa. Wa. Ash hadu. Ash hadu. Anna. Anna. Muhammadan. Muhammadan. Rasul. Rasul. Allah. Allah. Okay. We'll do it two more times. Okay. Ash hadu. Ash hadu. An. An. La. La. Ilaha. Il Allah. Il Allah. Wa. Wa. Ash hadu. Ash hadu. Anna. Anna. Muhammadan. Muhammadan. Muhammadan. Rasul Allah. Rasul Allah. One more time. Ash hadu. Ash hadu. An. An. La ilaha. La ilaha. Il Allah. In Allah. Wa. Ash hadu. Wa. Ash hadu. Anna. Anna. Muhammadan. Muhammadan. Rasul Allah. Rasul. Allah. Allah. Very good. Mashallah. Takbir. Alhamdulillah. That is the Shahada in Arabic and the translation is I testify that there is no God with a small G but the one and only God. And I testify that Muhammad is the last and final messenger of God. Yes. So Alhamdulillah. Welcome to the faith. Sister Janine again. We're very honored to have you here. Alhamdulillah. And now inshallah sister Shazia who inshallah will be a future board member as we said President maybe of MCC one day is presenting you with this beautiful gift. It's called the being Muslim box said it's got a lot of great resources for you. And inshallah will connect you with people who lead the convert care program here. So you will always have support inshallah and we really hope to see more of you in this community. Thank you so much. Thank you.