 Asalaamu Alaikum, my name is Nadia and I am here with Abraham and if you don't know Abraham, let me introduce him. He is 14 years old. He converted to Islam a year ago so he was only 13 when he took his shahada and recently he walked 35,000 steps to the masjid, to be at the masjid and what's amazing about this young man is that he's so well versed already in just a short amount of time but welcome. Asalaamu Alaikum. Walaikum Asalaam. Thank you. Thank you for talking with me, I really wanted to meet you. You've been an inspiration even to those who are already Muslims. I'm also a reaver so I understand kind of the journey but I have some questions for you. So many questions after hearing about your story, it's really amazing. Of course. It's a panel. So tell me a little bit about just what led you to, because you said you started at very young age of 10 where you started questioning your faith and by the way tell me your faith, what was your faith? Because originally I was born in Italy, I was born in southern Italy, Sicily. I was born there, spent a few years though, was born Roman Catholic and then moved to the US for school. I moved to Arizona originally and we were just like a good Christian family, went to church every Sunday, life was good and then we moved to California and then my dad just left Christianity and became hardcore atheist and then over time it was just like 6, 7, 8, I was going to church, everything was fine but then it was 8, I was, that's when everything started, I started questioning everything at 8. I was a little bit concerned about how Jesus could be God because I knew there was something wrong with it ever since I was 8 years old. So over time I was still Christian but I was questioning my faith until I reached the age of 10, that's when I started questioning it a lot. So I knew Jesus was not God at that point because nobody could prove that he was. So I started looking into other religions like around age 11-ish and so the first one I came around was Judaism because I had Jewish friends. So you were like, how did you do this, like was it online, was it Jury books? Yeah, it was online, yes. It was online and it was like you too, you just started Googling things? Yes, I started studying it, yeah. So a lot of things in Judaism made sense but the main thing is that it is an ethno-religion. So even if a non-Jewish person wants to become Jewish they would still be treated as less or second class Jew. So I ruled that out because nobody wants to be second class. And then I looked into Buddhism but they don't believe in a God and then that was the same with other religions as well like similar ones. Then I looked more into Christianity just to see if my faith was true and I looked deep deep into it for the next year or so and I realized there was some major flaws such as the Trinity but that was the main one. Right, because for you, was it that doesn't make sense out of the Trinity that there is three, correct? Yes. And yeah, so it was, so you started, so that's where you did it and you started to look. Yes. Well what made you really like hone into Islam? So then after all these religions I started looking into Islam and then everything just started, everything started going together. So I saw everyone was equal. Like when everyone's praying, like anyone can like be the leader as long as they know more Quran, like the janitor could lead behind like multi-millionaires for example. And there's just equality, like race doesn't matter, like your previous sins don't matter. And also I started looking further into the Quran. I started reading the Quran and everything made sense. I didn't see any contradictions. And then whenever I did have a question it was answered very quickly unlike the questions I had with other religions. So that's when I started looking very, very deep into it around age 12. And so over the time, like over the past few months when 12, then I turned 13, over time I was listening to scholars, reading books, researching online. But then over the past few months, during that time I realized Islam was the truth. I had no doubt about it. And then I went to the masjid. I finally managed to convince my parents after like two weeks or so. They were a little skeptic about it, but eventually they let me go. And then that day I did it. So how did you convince them? This is really interesting. Because yeah, I said, it'll be all right. It's not too big of a change, I told them. Because we both believe in the same God. We believe in the prophets, et cetera, et cetera. And so then they were like, OK, you can. And then that's the day I went to the masjid and I took masjid. That's kind of long. That's amazing. And so I hear now that your grandmother is like considering anybody else like your family or your family. She's interested in it. Yeah, she would like to learn more. That's amazing. Amazing. I hope you inspire so many other people. I really see you as potentially like a scholar just because I mean, I'm so impressed by the way, your knowledge and not just your knowledge. But I mean, you're already using a lot of terms. Have you already started to learn how to read? Like what is what is your extent of of your knowledge right now? Because I feel like you know so much. Yeah, so I've started to learn Arabic a little bit. I'm not too good on it. But yeah, over time, I'll be slowly learning it. But I've also been going very deep into film as well. That's the main thing. And then you told me that something about what really was different about Islam is it's so it's the it's the one God, correct? Yes. Yeah. And the equality as well, because every Muslim is equal. No difference between white or black, like Asian, Indian. Everyone is the same. The only difference is piety. That's amazing. I mean, I'm like I said, I just hear knowledge the way that you kind of, you know, you you study the religions and that you really identified, you know, like you pinpoint things of each religion. And really, I mean, it's like, it's amazing. You really, really did your research. And that's what I'm so impressed about with your age. So much a lot, much a lot. Well, I really, I hope you inspire more and I hope you really do continue on. And maybe even become a scholar. Did you have any like, do you have any wish to potentially eventually teach? Like, are you are you are you kind of a teacher? Of course, yeah, it's amazing. I've been teaching my friends and they've been learning and I've already convinced a few people to turn to Islam. Have you really? Yes. So you've actually helped people come to Islam already? Like how many people? So far, at least three or four. So I don't know, it's like, you continue to amazing. So how well I look forward to like continue to to find out about just things that you're you're you're doing. And and I'm happy that you joined the community at MCC. And yeah, thank you. Wadi Kasim and even Wadi, because it's really close to you. Yes, thank you.