 Asalaamu alaikum ladies and gentlemen, early yesterday while flipping through the internet I came across a piece of news that made me so happy and confident of my decision to become a Muslim. As you know every new Muslim at a point start to regurgitate his or her decision and weigh it on the scale of honesty and truth. I am at that stage of my journey now. I keep weighing the whole thing and this piece of news is a game changer and of this couple of priests Reverend Father Hilarion Higgy became a Muslim. Father Hilarion is a well-known Eastern Christian priest who was born and raised in California. He has a bar-grant that is marked by moving from one sector of the Christian faith to the order. For me it all started lucidly in 2003 when he converted to the Antiochian of the Christian Church. He left there to join the Eastern Catholic Church in 2017. He became a Byzantine Catholic priest monk at the Holy Resurrection Monastery in St. Nazion's Winsconcene. Now the respected clergy renounced his Christian faith and embraced Islam. There is a partner to this. He has been moving around for a while now and one could be right to ask whether he would not one day move out of Islam and join maybe the African traditional system or religion. Well I don't hope so but this video made me think quite deep and I think it's going to make you think deep as well. And above all prayers for those in spiritual peril for those who have left the faith and the church or who are considering doing so and what greater solace what greater aid and who can we turn to now more than any time than the mother of God the seeker of the lost. In a recent poll Catholics in the United States were asked whether recent scandals in the church had led them to consider leaving the church and a full 37% said yes that's 37% of the church considering leaving. Yet our troubles are not all our own. Our Eastern brothers in the Orthodox Church are going through a rough patch of their own as well with the two greatest seas of the Orthodox Church Constantinople and Moscow in schism and fighting between each other leaving the faithful reeling confused and often not sure where to go or what to do. Hello guys while I'm skeptical about him and his choices I'm fully convinced that his journey to Islam will be his last to any other faith. Let put everything into perspective guys. Father Hilary himself said the flames of Islam had ignited his soul 20 years ago he said specifically and I quote one simply cannot be a priest and monk publicly and a Muslim privately. This implies that he had been a Muslim in the closet before the official acknowledgement of the reveshant. This is interesting mate. In one of his interviews the former Christian priest who was still recently planning to establish an Eastern Christian monastery in California said his conversion to Islam is actually not a conversion but a revision to Islam and it's just like coming back home. This is completely unbelievable for someone who has been a priest. He even shattered my expectation in one of his blog posts at medium.com. He wrote and I quote it's truly is like coming home my promoter of faith for the Koran state that we worship God alone and submit it to him since ever we're born. Father Hilary who has already changed his 90s side Abdul Latif also quoted from the Holy Koran to justify this. He writes and I quote remember when your Lord brought forth from the loins of the children of Adam their descendants and had them testify regarding themselves Allah asked am I not your Lord? They replied yes you are with testify and he cautioned. Now you have no right to say on Judgment Day we're not aware of this. He got that from Koran chapter 7 verses 172. He clarified this and I quote it is for this reason that convert to Islam often do not speak so much about conversion as they speak of a revision to Islam are promote your faith a long process of returning home. Yes a long process of returning home he said and this is true becoming a Muslim a few months ago resorts me with the knowledge that from Beth virtually everybody is a Muslim this is both theologically and morally sound. The priest offered in his glimmer however and the reason why we must keep him in our prayers at the end of his block post he made a statement that scared me. I will quote him verbatim because this is really serious now he said and I quote the future for me is on satan a leap into the dark is always wrought with some anxieties and yet I feel such peace a joy a relief that pulls me towards slumber over 20 years has finally drawn me home now begins the work of entering deep into the faith a deeper learning a law for the Dean a law for the Umar a law for the prophet peace be upon him. Well before I end this video I would like to remind us about you know the sacrament of the holy order because this is necessary so you get a clear picture of what it is. The Christian sacrament is so powerful that once someone is ordained a priest he is regarded to be a priest forever. These sacrament indicate that a mark of predestination is automatically affected on the soul once someone takes the vow of the priesthood and that mark remains until death that's part of what the person does. So by that logic Father Hilarion is still a priest in the eyes of the Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church respectively until death meanwhile his priesthood now will be exercised within the theological framework of authentic Islam inshallah. I pray he doesn't actual live Islam at some point we don't know tomorrow we pray he continues to become a Muslim. Well guys let's leave it at that until next time asalaamu alaykum