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Why do I get up in the morning? Why do I even bother? Why don't I just sit on the couch, watch TV, Jerry Springer, whatever. And I think I started to ask questions about you know the purpose of life and that led me to start to do a bit of a holy quest. Naturally as an Aussie the first thing I did was investigate Christianity. I had a few Christian friends and I remember going to a church camp. It was one of the funniest camps I've ever been through in my life. Everybody was singing. I didn't know what the words were. I didn't know what they were saying. It sounded great. They had beautiful voices but it just seemed really strange and everybody was telling me how much God loved me and I was thinking God loves me, my dog died. So I kept on investigating Christianity and I went to a whole lot of I guess different aspects of Christianity. So we're talking about Catholicism, we're talking about Anglican Baptists, you know priests, pastors and every time I'd go there and ask questions I'd find that they wouldn't pick up the Bible and start to say oh this is the answer my dear brother. They would just start answering me, they would just answer from their own opinions and I started to realize that there was a lot of yes I can absolutely relate to this unfortunately within Christianity you get a lot of vague responses. In Orthodoxy you have more direct responses but even there there is a lot of wiggle room and it is not as dogmatic as you would believe. Of course they have certain aspects that will not change, they have no room for interpretation but certain questions will get answered with different opinions with vague answers with interpretations of this or that church father. Islam on the other hand is very very different here no matter what your question is you will get 99% of the time a direct straight answer. Interpretations of Christianity and a lot of people had their own interpretations and one priest from one church was believing one particular aspect of Christianity whilst another was proclaiming another. The Bible is one text but there seems to be so many different interpretations and it was confusing. At the time while I was in first year university I was also working in a service station one of my part-time jobs and one of my colleagues was an Indian Hindu and we'd regularly change shifts and at that time I was very inquisitive and I'd say dude what's the deal with the elephant head guy you know what's the deal with that you know why is that guy got an elephant head and he's like that's Ganesha you know this I said we couldn't you've chosen like a lion's head or something something a bit better we'd have you know these real really deep theological debates while people were buying petrol. Yeah it's truly funny man if you look at Ganesha the way that I understood the story is that his head got cut off and then his father needed to replace it with something and so he chooses an elephant head of course this is absolutely funny but moreover how does a god get his head cut off. And I'd be saying yeah but why break it five bucks of gas thanks mate yeah no problems and again I found that that was very hard to stomach so I sort of investigated a little bit further I went into I had a good friend of mine was a Mormon and I found this religion actually appealed to me the most out of all of the Christian religions the the church of Latter-day Saints they were quite strict they don't drink alcohol they they don't drink caffeine so unfortunately coax out guys because I know Levos love coke but again you know there was that leap of faith I felt that I had to make to to embrace this religion and I found that you know I wasn't just into making a leap of faith I wanted proof I also investigated djundes and would you believe and my original name before Abel Bakker is Ruben so if you've probably seen all the movies you've seen Rubenstein at the end they probably thought I was Jewish so they thought this guy's you know one of us but again you know I just didn't find what I what I was looking for lastly I probably looked into Buddhism and I found that this was probably the interesting the religion that I was going to choose I thought look this is great you know there's there's so much you know people people at peace here they seem to be really switched on and they seem to be living one with the world and that's what really appealed to me but the more and more I looked into it I guess I realized that it wasn't a religion of God it was just a nice way to live um one of my friends yeah pretty much man it is much more lifestyle than a religion it is focused on the now it is focused on being it is focused on enlightenment theology but it's not focused on God quite the opposite there is no God within Buddhism one of my close friends who's a Christian would you believe said tell me the religions that you've investigated so I went through them I said you know Judaism Christianity Catholicism Buddhism Hinduism no no no he goes what about Islam Islam I got a terrorist I'm not going to investigate that religion they're crazy what would I even look at that religion but lo and behold I found myself walking into a mosque one day this is my eternal quest so I walked straight in shoes on straight across the railroad there was a brother praying I walked straight in front of him as he went to go into sojourn I stepped on his head subhan Allah I didn't have any clue what I was doing I looked over and I saw this brother you probably know this guy this is Abu Hamza he's come here in his lecture a few times um subhan Allah I call him Abu Dan because he's got a very large beard mashallah he came walking out towards me and I thought today I'm about to die this is the last day of my life I'm a dead man I'm a white boy in Leblanc what am I going to do here I'm dead he came walking across as though he just walked out of the Sahara desert the big big beard but subhan Allah the first words he said word G'day mate how are you going Aussies man he had the can of VB it would have been perfect subhan Allah I was very taken back by his uh by his welcoming nature um as Aussies I guess now I don't want to offend any Australians here but my my upbringing is from a country upbringing my parents raised me as an atheist they were raised as Christians they were dragged along to church every Sunday and they hated every minute of it so soon as we were born they drummed it into our heads that when you die you're worm through that's it there's no afterlife there's no god it's all rubbish so I was raised as a as an atheist so when I walked across and and I saw a Bahamza and he was strange for me to see man many westerners many white westerners beat Aussies beat Englishmen beat French people beat Germans they grew up atheist and for me as somebody from the Balkan growing up in Germany it was the strangest thing that the parents of the other kids wouldn't believe in God in a very polite fashion which I was very thankful for because I was sure I'd send him on the five o'clock news hijacking your plane the day before Aussies are hospitable don't get me wrong but Lebes are the most hospitable people I've ever come across and as the brother Hamza was saying these brothers were making me cups of tea you know and I honestly needed to keep going to the toilet every five minutes they just kept putting tea in front of me biscuits I'd never seen anything like it and I think to some degree I kept coming back for the biscuits but also for the religion so when I sat down with these brothers I actually started asking questions I asked all the questions that I've asked of of the priests of the pastors of my friends and subhanallah the thing that really struck me is that every time I asked the question they wouldn't just answer they would pick up a Qur'an and they would say read this bro read this and there was the answer every single time and I would ask another question yep this was very amazing to me as well as I said in the beginning of the video in Islam 99% of the time you get a clear-cut answer you know the hard questions not the easy questions why do women have to wear the scarf why why the hijab how come I can have four wives and she can't have four husbands you know I wanted to know all the tough questions which is the first questions I guess you ask when when you come across Islam but lo and behold they kept on answering the questions with the Qur'an not from their own opinion and I got frustrated with this and I actually said to one of the brothers because by this stage I think I've been going there for about a couple of weeks there was always a few brothers there when I went and I said to one of the brothers I said you know what's your opinion on the matter why won't you give me your opinion and one of the brothers turned to me one day and said how can I have an opinion when this is the Word of God subhanallah I remember that really hit me so I asked him if I could take a Qur'an home and I didn't say I was going to use it to chalk up the couch or anything like that I said I was going to respect the book so they took it home I started reading it what I found was while reading it I wasn't as though I was reading a story it was though I was reading someone commanding me you know someone giving me guidance and one night I decided to really try and get the spiritual mood happening and I'm sure probably some of you have heard this story before so I apologize I'd lit a candle had the window open had the curtains drawn you know I was trying to get that really spiritual feeling it was a nice summer night in Melbourne a summer as I can get in Melbourne and sitting there thinking this is it you know this is the night I've been you know investigating all the spiritual proofs all the scientific proofs about the fact that the mountains are the pigs about you know how how the embryo develops inside you know the woman all these amazing proofs but I still needed that little push it's like I was on the edge of a cliff I was ready to jump I just needed a push so I was sitting there it was very quiet I was reading Khuddam and I stopped I said hello this is my moment this is the time I'm about to jump into Islam all I need is just a sign just a little sign nothing huge maybe a bolt of lightning you know maybe half the house could fall down or something you know just small small for you man you created the earth come on so I sat there I was waiting for the candle to start blighting up to four meters high like in the movies and I go okay go and it's a panel on nothing absolutely nothing happened I was really disappointed to be honest so I sat there and I said Allah this is your chance yeah I'm not going nowhere I'll give you another chance okay maybe you're busy you know I know it's daytime over the other side of the world there's a whole lot of stuff going on maybe this time it could just be like a car backfiring you know something small all right the half the house the candle let's forget that a bird could fart outside I don't care just anything so I said okay go and so panel on absolutely nothing happened and I mean I couldn't have even said that was it that creep just then in the wall that was it absolutely nothing happened I was really disappointed I was gutted I was sitting there thinking this is it you know this was my last chance Islam and and I really I haven't found it I pulled back the Quran I turned back to where I was reading it's a panel of the very next verse on the next page for those of you who asked for signs have we not shown you enough already look around you wow man look at the stars look at the sun that's a goosebumps water these are the signs for the people of knowledge wow I threw the dune right over my head and I pretended I was asleep I was that scared because I couldn't believe how arrogant I'd been to want my own specific sign when all the signs have been there for me all along the fact that we have this world the fact that there is this creation these are the signs for all of us this reminds me of a meme that I once saw of an atheist sitting in nature and asking god for a sign and he's sitting there for 24 hours seeing the sun rise the sun down seeing all of the beauty of nature and still asking god for a sign the next day I decided this is it I'm becoming a muslim I've been investigating Islam now for probably about six months to be honest I went in and I said to myself this is it I'm going to make sure head that I had no idea what I had to say I had no idea what the words were it was probably close to e-shad prayer so it would have been you know seven eight o'clock at night I went in and I couldn't believe it there was about a thousand people at the mosque I thought so well look at this religion look at how strong they are it was the first night of Ramadan but nevertheless Ramadan or not if you look at the state of churches at the moment of Christianity you will of course see way way fuller mosques so they are thought to say that the Muslims are stronger than the Christians at the moment would be still correct so I sat there and I was very nervous I must admit I got up and this person's going to me you got to say these words bro ash had to I'm going what ash what can't I just say it in English now they say no you got to say in Arabic and I thought I looked out over the sea of beads that I could see in front of me and I thought if I get these words wrong I'm a dead man again I had this fear you know and they were staring at me and I don't know if you know this but Australians can't stare Lebanese people can stare so I was sitting there I was very scared I got up and as soon as I started to say the words all fear went out of my mind it felt as though a shower was inside my head and someone had just turned on the cold tap felt like I'd been flush clean I said the words and I wasn't expecting so many brothers to come up and and start kissing me and hugging me now I'd never been kissed by that many men in my life but it was a beautiful day I must admit and that day was the day that I had more brothers than I could ever ever imagine more sisters as well but I guess since that day I've never looked back my family I think initially were very worried that I was going to be I guess a little bit weird towards them that they thought that I was going to break out the AK-47s and the grenades but they realised I think soon that this religion was actually making me a better person prior to Islam you're not going to believe that I had a mohawk I did I had I'm not going to show you any photos I had army greens I had the metallica t-shirt I had the cherry docks I was shocking right I thought I looked great but I looked terrible and I humbly ever since then I look as good as I do now no don't laugh please but my parents were the first people to actually say to me once which really amazed me they said my father actually asked me for a career and recently which I was really happy about I always thought he'd be one of the hardest people to to work on but he said to me ever since you've been a Muslim you've been a better person you're more reliable I can count on you to come and pick me up if my car breaks down whereas before I got there I was drinking last night I don't know if it's still out of my system all right guys and this is it for today's video definitely a funny story a classical funny Aussie delivery here reminded me of my time living in Australia this is how I got to know the Australian people they always like to joke they always like to have a good time that being said for me personally it is very very interesting to see other westerners that have converted to Islam he said that he researched Islam for roughly six months before he converted I personally have researched Islam for roughly two years by now and I'm still digging deeper into the religion still trying to understand it fully or at least as much as I can why that is I already explained plenty of times but I'm aware that not everybody watches my live streams not everybody got the mammal during my lifetime I explored many many different ideologies different religions different substances different spiritual practices different sports even all kinds of different fields where I dive deep head first into the subject matter and accepted it as the ultimate truth just then to realize a few years later that it wasn't the truth at all and this is why mainly I haven't converted to Islam people ask me what else do you need to know about Islam guys honestly it's not really about Islam I do not even have so many questions left when it comes down to Islam there are certain things small things but that's not the main point it's not about Islam it's about myself it is about knowing myself and understanding what I've done in the past for example when I went vegan I jumped into veganism accepted it as the truth and I stuck with it for four years straight now I'm anti-vegan I hate veganism I would never recommend veganism to anybody quite the opposite but if I rewind now and I look at myself at the beginning of my veganism I was a completely different person I was somebody that accepted veganism as the truth I believe that I found the truth by looking into slaughterhouse footage into industrial farming and I believe that I can never unsee this this is what the vegans claimed once you see the truth you can never unsee this but then I looked further into it I researched further into it and I found out how flawed it is how wrong it is how bad it is for our health how bad it is for the environment etc etc you name it and the point of the story is that I do not want this to happen to Islam therefore I have to urge you yet again this is not only about myself speaking in general if you see people on YouTube that are researching Islam you shouldn't push them into it because they truly have to make that decision in their heart and they truly have to be secured in their decision I heard some numbers I do not know how true they are about the 50 dropout rate of new converts that means that 50 percent half of the people that converted to Islam will drop out of Islam and this definitely not a good look for the religion either if you look at the catholic church what they are doing at the moment is absolutely outrageous they're opening the doors for everybody even for the community why do they do it because they want more members in the church but this is not the right approach if you want more members those members if they are weak will destroy the whole movement therefore you should be much more selective by recruiting people to Islam the people that enter Islam must have such a firm conviction such a strong conviction that they do not leave the religion but rather become strong representatives of that religion and this is why I'm taking my time all right guys but this is it for today's video if you liked it leave it a thumbs up if you haven't subscribed already guys please do so and if you want to 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