Oh Allah, keep them steadfast on the path of Eman
And grant them the highest ranks in Paradise
Just as you gifted them the guidance of the Qur’an
Guided…. through the Qur’an
‘Guided through the Qur’an’
‘Living it is the sweetness of life’
‘Longing to the Lord, coming to Him’
‘To Him I submit my soul’
‘It is the light of the body and the heart’
‘I declare submission to Allah’
‘His verses are becoming lightening candles’
‘And the brightness overflows from my heart’
‘It is the light of the body and the heart’
‘I declare submission to Allah’
‘His verses are becoming lightening candles’
‘And the brightness overflows from my heart’
The first time that Abo-Bakr learned about Islam was..
At Holland, when he was at the middle school
There, they were introduced to the 5 major religions.
Judaism, Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism and Islam
From there, Abo-Bakr started to read about Islam.
What was your religion before Islam
I was Christian,
Catholic,
But…
as a grace from Allah, I always believed in one God!
I mean..If I was to pray.. I don’t call Jesus,
I used to say, Oh God,
The way I know it!
Also…
What Christians believe….the trinity…is one!
and Jesus as the son of God
For me, I considered that the son is not for real
As we say that we are all under the care of Allah
We are of his creation…
That was my believe when I was christian.
So, after I became Muslim I felt really angry when I found out what that really meant for them.
I didn’t believe it that way..
– How comes you didn’t believe it that way? – I don’t know why?
– Allah inspired you that? or any one influenced you?.. – I studied it that way… and understood it that way…
we are sons…then we are creations of Allah
not actual sons!
Abdullah, from Holland, also named Abu-Bakr…
he heard an Ayah about, how the rain is formed?
So, his heart became wide accepting the Book of Allah
he wasn’t older than 13
Back then, we visited a masjid
was a school trip..
Inside, I felt something I couldn’t describe..
It was deep in my heart..
I felt…maybe a light….comfort in my heart…
It was widened with light
that remained in my memory
Glory to Allah, you were young!
exactly, I was 13 years old!
That was my first experience with Islam
What are these verses?
Were you influenced by them?
some verses in surat Ar-Rum..
these verses are about how the rain is formed?
and how Allah SWT does that?
From the clouds…
It was consistent with the recent discoveries by the scientists
as proved by science now.. that influenced me…
Glory to Allah,
The scientists explained that there are two types of clouds.
The spreaded “cirrus” clouds, and the cumulative “cumulus” clouds
In surat Ar-Rum Allah SWT says:
“It is Allah who sends the winds, and they stir the clouds and spread them in the sky however He wills, ”
“and He makes them fragments so you see the rain emerge from within them.”
Allah SWT says:”and spread them”
These are the spreaded clouds
then He says:”He makes them fragments so you see the rain emerge from within them.”
So, these clouds brings the rain only!
not the hail!
The other type of clouds,
Allah SWT describes it
in surat An-Nur,
Allah SWT says:
“Do you not see that Allah drives clouds?”
“Then He brings them together, then He makes them accumulated,”
“and you see the rain emerge from within it. ”
Then Allah SWT says:
“And He sends down from the sky, mountains [of clouds] within which is hail,”
So, the cumulative clouds
brings rain… and hail
Glory to Allah,
“[It is] the work of Allah , who perfected all things.”
‘ My Qur’an’
‘The verses of my Qur’an made my soul delighted… My Qur’an’
‘My sorrow’
‘They shrank and the roses sent their fragrance on my banks’
‘I recited it, and the scent of the letters’
‘went in my blood, my tears and all my body’
I was amazed to find such information in the Qur’an
How could any man know these things?
and a lot more in the Qur’an like that..
scientific information…
I thought, how could…. this is in the Qur’an…from where?
This 1400 years ago!
The man was in a desert…illiterate..!
He knows all of that!
I can’t…
It was revealed to him.
This must be from Allah SWT!
It is impossible that anyone..would have known these things 1400 years ago!
Thing we have just learned about last century
In surat An-Najm, Allah SWt says:
“Nor does he speak from [his own] inclination”.
“It is not but a revelation revealed,”
When I was studying at the middle school, how the rain forms?
I found that the information was identical…amazing.
Glory to Allah!
‘It is the light of the body and the heart’
‘I declare submission to Allah’
‘His verses are becoming lightening candles’
‘And the brightness overflows from my heart’
‘It is the light of the body and the heart’
‘I declare submission to Allah’
‘His verses are becoming lightening candles’
‘And the brightness overflows from my heart’
‘Guided through the Qur’an’
‘Living it is the sweetness of life’
‘Longing to the Lord, coming to Him’
‘To Him I submit my soul’
‘Guided through the Qur’an’
‘Living it is the sweetness of life’
‘Longing to the Lord, coming to Him’
‘To Him I submit my soul’
‘Guided through the Qur’an’
‘Living it is the sweetness of life’
‘Longing to the Lord, coming to Him’
‘To Him I submit my soul’
‘Guided through the Qur’an’
‘Living it is the sweetness of life’
‘Longing to the Lord, coming to Him’
After that first interaction…
a strange thing happened with Abe-Bakr
when he was going to school from his house..
One day..
I was going on my bike
This how we prefer in Holland, to use bikes for transport…
While I was on my way…
I had that feeling, that I am afraid to die
Actually,
There was no reason for me to feel that way!!
The street was empty..
No one…
But I was scared!
Then I wondered…why…
Why am I frightened?
The answer came to me… I wasn’t sure that Christianity is true.
Why I am not sure?
that was the sequence I was thinking with..
The thoughts crowded in my mind… in one minute!
I thought, why am I doubting?
Then, I felt afraid that if I didn’t become Muslim, then I’ll be from the people of hell fire.
Then I thought, if I am afraid of being of the people of hell fire
This means that I am sure that Islam is the truth.
If I didn’t believe it is the truth, I shouldn’t be afraid then.
At that day.. April 6th…
glory to Allah,
that same day..
after Abo-Bakr left school..
He went to his Turkish friend..
To tell him that he wants to say the shahada, now!
later at the evening, I went to my freind
I said to him, I want to enter Islam.
So. he said the shahada,
and I repeated after him
In Arabic.
How did you feel after you said it?
After…..It was like…
I was reborn…new…
every thing was taken off me…
All the sins and all…like a pure man!
It is not only that I am Muslim now, but I’ll be so till I die….Ameen.
We do not know how is our end!
‘I lived with the habit of doing mistakes routinely’
‘But I never found happiness’
‘Till finally I discovered the worship’
‘How relieved I became when I am on the right path’
‘Glory to the one I have returned to’
‘Both His hands are stretched welcoming us ‘
‘I dropped all my sins in front of Him’
‘Oh Allah, forgive me doing these sins’
What is the Qur’an for you?
The Book of Allah SWT,
The main reason for you to enter into Islam!
What it’s value in your heat now?
My brother!
The Qur’an…
Is a guide to all people,
for all aspects of life..
from start to end..
The Qur’an is an evidence for you or a witness against you at the day of judgment!
We ask Allah to make it our witness
Ameen.
It is a big issue…
that the Muslim abandon the Qur’an
reading it ..remembering with it.. acting according to it…
Then he is lost.
After you read Qur’an..
later and more..more than before being Muslim..
What were the verses that influenced you most?
The verses are many..
But….I can give you an example…
In Surat Al-Ankabut..
The first three verses
Allah SWT, tests mankind..
to separate true believers from non believers
I was really moved by them!
At the begining of surat Al-Ankabut, Allah SWT says:
In the name of Allah, the Entirely Merciful, the Especially Merciful.
“Alif, Lam, Meem”
“Do the people think that they will be left to say, ‘We believe’ and they will not be tried?”
“But We have certainly tried those before them,”
We notice that..
That Allah SWT,
Directs His speech to the believers
He says that they are going to be tried!
At the end of this surah, Allah SWT says
“And those who strive for Us”
“We will surely guide them to Our ways.”
Do you want Allah to keep you steadfast on Eman?
And stay on the right path..
Strive controlling your soul [Jehd]..
And be patient..
And work hard…as Allah SWT showed us
Jihad of oneself..
Then Allah SWt will guide you to the path of Eman, the right path
Allah SWT made this life for testing us
to bring out the truthful persons in Deen
from the untruthful ones
I seek refuge in Allah from Shaytan the accursed
“Whoever is an enemy to Allah and His angels and His messengers and Gabriel and Michael”
“then indeed, Allah is an enemy to the disbelievers.”
Glory to Allah!
The way he reflects upon the Qur’an is unique..
This verse in surat Al-Baqarah..
May not influence us the same way..
Why?
Allah SWT says:
“Whoever is an enemy to Allah and His angels”
Let’s ponder upon this verse..
What are the verses you like to read?
May we listen to your recitation?
I only read one surah, the one I liked from the start of me being Muslim
I love this surah..
because it weigh one third of the Qur’an!
Which surat Al-Ikhlas
I seek refuge in Allah from Shaytan the accursed
From his [Hamzehi, nafkhi, Nafth’hi]
In the name of Allah, the Entirely Merciful, the Especially Merciful.
“Say, “He is Allah , [who is] One,”
“Allah , the Eternal Refuge.”
“He neither begets nor is born,”
“Nor is there to Him any equivalent.””
It is a short surah..
yet, its meanings are plenty..
I love this surah, from the day I became Muslim
Did you notice that…!
Abdullah, Abu-Bakr..
speaks Arabic fluently..
The reason is..
that he learned the Arabic language in the city of our beloved Muhammad SAW
Allah blessed me to learn the Arabic language at Al- Madinah
At the Institute for Arabic language for Non-Arabic students
When was that?
At 2001.
I studied there..
At the Islamic University
Did you finish the 4 years of the university study?
I studied Arabic then started to study at the faculty of Sharia…
Did you graduate?
I had some personal issues
So, I couldn’t finish..
I ask Allah SWT to open my way again and I finish my study
By the will of Allah, Almighty..
How was it, the city of the beloved Muhammad SAW?
Really,
I feel like a man who has left his home land,
where he was born!
and he is unable to be back there!
This my feeling towards Al- Madinah!
I feel that there is my home land, where I was born!
I love it..It is in my heart..
It is a blessed place..
May Allah, Almighty, facilitate my path to go back and live at Al-Madinah
‘The grace of guidance blessed my heart’
‘It is the start of my joy and of my life’
‘So, I decided to depend on the Entirely Merciful’
‘And followed the footsteps of Taha’
Really, my wish is…
to go back to Al-Madinah,
To finish my study..
And be there with my family so that my wife can get the Arabic education too
This is my biggest dream..
So I can help my brothers here in Europe more..
more than what I do now.
This is The thing I want most..
May Allah SWT help us..
and your brothers at the website nquran.com
to fulfill your wish..
and you return back to the city of the beloved the prophet Muhammad SAW
And have your study…
And then have a great impact here at the west..
to learn Islam..
guided by the rules of the Book of Allah SWT, and the Sunnah of the prophet Muhammad SAW
Thank you..
‘I walk on the path of my Qur’an’
‘And see its kind dawn shines’
‘I recite it and memorize it and reflect upon it’
‘I walk on the path of my Qur’an’
‘The spring and the joy of my days’
‘My friend, the one who knows my dreams’
‘The cure for my sorrow and my complains’
‘It heals my bleeding wound’
‘The spring and the joy of my days’
‘My friend, the one who knows my dreams’
‘The cure for my sorrow and my complains’
‘It heals my bleeding wound’
‘Then when I repent and come back’
‘To the path of the words of the Lord of the Bait’
‘I find the grace and the comfort’
‘I was guided through the Qur’an’
‘I was guided through the Qur’an’