 This is Mr. Garry Bosman, now brother of Solomon. He's from London, Solomon accepted Islam some 25 years ago in Dubai, where he went for a research surgeon in the Middle East. This story is incredible. We've picked this story to feature on the show today for two apparent reasons. First, his transition from black and difficult Christianity to a dedicated life of Islam is authentically incredible. Second, what he expected of Islam, asked a rigorous and dictatorial religion, turned out to be very false. I'm going to say, okay, when did you last read the Bible? And you say, oh, I don't remember reading it at all, you know, or maybe I did it at school. So, you know, the Lord's Prayer, and maybe you went to church for somebody's wedding or a funeral. And that's about all you know. And that's what most Christians are in the UK, the majority, so-called Christians. Assalamualaikum, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to another episode of the Open Minded Thinker Show. Please like, share this video. Don't forget to subscribe to the channel to help us grow. Like a lot of regular English guys, you might say, I would have said if there was a box to tick on a form, what's your religion? You would tick that box Christian. And then someone would say, okay, when did you last read the Bible? And you'd say, oh, I don't remember reading it at all, you know, or maybe I did it at school. So, you know, the Lord's Prayer, and maybe you went to church for somebody's wedding or a funeral. And that's about all you know. And that's what most Christians are in the UK, the majority, so-called Christians. So I was one of those. I arrived in Bahrain in the first of June, 1984, which was also the first of Ramadan. So one of my first experiences was to see people fasting. But the first thing I really noticed was to hear the call to prayer coming from the nearby mosque. I heard this voice singing out over the streets. And I heard another one. It was like in a cannon you could hear stereophonic sound as they were picking up. And I asked somebody, what's that guy saying? Actually, the guy I asked didn't know. But after some couple of tries, I found somebody that told me what the guy is saying. I said, oh, that's interesting. That's a very straightforward thing to say. It's not something sort of weird and poetic. It's just a straightforward, you know, come to the prayer. You know, that's what it's saying. There are two points that are worth highlighting here. One is the fact that he described his parents as Christians but not dedicated Christians. According to him, there were Christians that adopted secularism and only participated in what is today called the ceremonial faith. But what people don't seem to understand is a clear reason why there is a decline of Christianity and the rise of the so-called lukewarm Christians in the United Kingdom and, indeed, every inch of Europe. Now, essentially, in a minority in this country, not because we've been overrun by Muslims before anybody leaps to that conclusion, but simply because people are... Apart from the changing attitude towards religion, open-mindedness and tolerance among a younger generation, the decline of Christianity has thus far been propelled in the wings of the increasing rate of scandals and controversies that have knocked the Church in recent years. The Church has been criticised for it handling of cases of sexual abuse and this has led to a massive loss of trust and confidence among many people. I was working with Muslims. They were fasting in that first month and they could see I was interested, so they started to give me answers to simple questions. So you pray. How often do you pray? What do you say when you pray? Oh, okay. I can't say I was overly excited about that. I just thought, that's interesting. It's something different. So I started asking them and that was like 7 p.m. and 8 p.m. came and went and so did 9, 10, 11 and 12. At 12 o'clock, let's go rest out at the restaurant and we stood in the street. We stood in the street for another half an hour and I kept asking my questions and it was somewhere between midnight and 1 a.m. We're standing in the street here in Gahood in Dubai and I guess it went quiet and one of the guys said to me, so have we answered all your questions? And I said, yeah, I guess you have. The power of any conviction lies in asking questions and receiving genuine answers. There are people who think the vast in philosophy of religion or the theology of Christian exegesis, they are wrong. The truth remains that Islam can be explicated by genuine philosophical methodology and deep theological explanation. The guy featured in Brother Solomon's journey were armed with knowledge and by what the result is now explained Islam very well to the curious brother, obviously the one. Tuesday night, I think, and on that Friday, I embraced Islam in Moscow and Dubai. One of my biggest concerns around the time that I embraced Islam immediately before and still immediately afterwards was that I felt I might be getting into something that was too prescriptive, that I might find that this new way of life was going to be like a straight jacket and it was going to tell me too much, restrict me too much, give me no options, no choice, lose freedom of choice. That turned out to be true and not true at the same time in a very happy way because, yes, it does tell you what to do but it tells you in the way that your father tells you what to do if he's a good father. He's giving you the best advice. You can still choose what you take of it and how you do it. You know, it's up to you. You're still a human being but now you know you're being given good advice and that's very comforting, isn't it? Lessons abound in this incredible story. First, Muslims must direct their dower to those so-called Christians currently sitting on the fence. Those who are undecided they form the bulk of those who are spiritually hungry and remain starved of the truth, fruits of truth. Second, open-mindedness has propelled the growth of Islam among British people. Britain is an open society where everyone, anyone has a right to think the way he or she wants and act accordingly. This freedom, which is enormously lacking in Muslim-majority nations gives people the choice to find the truth. While I don't blame the Muslims for tightening their society, it will be safe for one to stay here that the Western world has shown that the Christianity that preached was so much a hoax. The Muslim world has continued to keep the faith untainted thus driving the religiosity and traditional truth of godliness around the world. It looks Islam in the future will be the bastion of truth and the only place one can see sane worship of God after the jowl devastates Christianity and Judaism by establishing false replicas May Islam succeed. Until next time. Assalamualaikum