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00:00I'm Mrs. Bhavna Ansari, so kindly please bear with me and please excuse me humbly and peacefully.
00:12I have been born in a Jain society, living in a Hindu society, educated in a pure convent
00:23and married a Muslim.
00:26I have married as per the Indian Marriage Act and I'm staunchly, eagerly waiting to
00:36accept Islam as my whole-hearted religion.
00:43But please my brothers and sisters, what you preached, what you said about Islam, I'm very
00:54thankful to you for enlightening me.
00:58I am really reborn today, but what you preach and what you say and what is in Islam, excuse
01:11me, I don't find people practicing that whole-heartedly.
01:19They are not attracting me.
01:22Can you please give me a solution, because when you speak of fundamentalism in Islam,
01:31it is positive.
01:32When you speak of intolerance, it's positive.
01:37But in practice, I don't find.
01:40So can you please guide me?
01:42This is also a good question.
01:45First of all, I'd like to congratulate her and I welcome her and as she says she's reborn,
01:52the right word in Islam is revert.
01:54According to our beloved Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, every child is
01:59born in dhunal fitr, is born as a Muslim.
02:02Muslim means a person who submits his will to Almighty God.
02:06Every human being initially when he's born, he submits his will to Almighty God.
02:10Later on the Prophet said that he's influenced by the parents, by the elders, by the teachers.
02:16Then he may become a fire worshipper, may go on the wrong track.
02:20So therefore when a person comes back to the original faith, to dhunal fitr, the right
02:26word is not convert, not reborn, it is revert.
02:32So sister, I welcome you back to this faith of peace and submitting your will to Almighty
02:37God.
02:38As far as question is concerned, that you have heard the lectures and you agree with
02:45the points, you have read about Islam, but your own objection is that Muslims or most
02:54of the Muslims according to you, they are not following the teachings.
02:58What is the solution?
03:00Sister, I do agree with you.
03:04I do agree with you that many don't follow, but according to statistics, the religion
03:10which is the maximum followed, I'm not talking in numbers, if you count the heads, those
03:15who profess a religion, number one would be Christianity, somewhere close to 2 billion.
03:21Islam 1.3 billion to 1.4 billion, but the percentage which practices and follows the
03:30religion maximum is Islam, number one, maximum.
03:35But yet I do agree with you that in terms of numbers, because 1.3 billion followers,
03:44even if it be a small percentage, the numbers will run in millions of Muslims don't follow
03:50the religion.
03:51Therefore sister, to understand Islam, don't look at Muslims, please.
03:55And I always say, to understand a religion, don't look at the followers of the religion,
04:00but look at the authentic sources.
04:03Please don't look at me, don't look at the Muslims around you.
04:06And I give you the example of the car and the driver.
04:10If you want to know how good the car is and if a person who does not know how to drive
04:14sits behind the steering wheel and he has an accident, he bangs up the car, who will
04:18you blame, the car or the driver?
04:20You'll blame the driver.
04:21So please don't understand Islam by looking at the Muslims.
04:25That's the reason we are giving this lecture, for both, Muslims and non-Muslims alike.
04:30Those Muslims who have shortcomings, we are trying to get them closer to the truth.
04:35Because they may be namesake Muslims, we are trying to make them practical Muslims.
04:39At the same time, we are delivering the message of Islam to the non-Muslims also so that you
04:44understand this religion.
04:46And though you were born, you were born in a Jain family and you had non-Muslims around
04:52you, you are married to a Muslim, but today, maybe after hearing the lecture and after
04:58learning about Islam, you have come back to the faith.
05:01And as you said that previously maybe only for the sake of name, you may have adopted
05:06the surname Ansari, but today you have come back to this true faith.
05:10And we congratulate you.
05:11And please sister, if you want to look at a Muslim to understand Islam, the best example
05:16is the last and final messenger, Prophet Muhammad peace be upon him.
05:23This book, the Quran, and the sayings of the Prophet have the solution for the problems
05:28of humanity.
05:29Don't look at the Muslims.
05:30Some Muslims may be close to Islam, some may be far away from Islam.
05:34So look at the main source, understand it, follow it, inshallah you'll get peace in this
05:40world as well as the hereafter.
05:42Inshallah.
05:43Thank you very much.