Message to UK Students - 1 of 14

I can remember watching Ahmed Deedat's debate with Jimmy Swaggart on video tape when I was a kid. Alhamdolillah, he has been given a great gift of public speaking.

If you listen to nothing else, listen to the segment of this lecture in England that starts at 3:15. Allah subhanahu wata ala warns Muslims that Christians and Jews want Muslims to be like them.

And today I also heard the words of an apostate, Ayaan Hirsi Ali. The former Somali, former Dutch parliamentarian, former Muslimah who said explicitly that she thinks Western governments should encourage "moderate" Muslims to change their religion.

Why? Because she wants Muslims to declare that the correct relationship of man to Allah is not that man submits to the WIll of his Creator. Not that man must obey or submit to the Will of the Lord of all creation. She said that rather than submission, the relationship should be one of "confrontation."

How could anyone propose such an idea? In defending the movie she wrote in which she had verses of the Quran written on the naked bodies of women, she said she knew that she would be accused of blasphemy, but that her response was which one was holier? "The woman or the verse?" That kind of statement encapsulates her view.

Here is a woman who simply does not want to submit to the will of Allah, subhanahu wata ala. So much so that she proudly proclaims herself "Infidel," the name of her autobiography.

But she is not satisfied with her own apostasy. She is not satisfied with her own defiance of "La ilaha illAllah" -- that there is no illa, god, or supreme authority, worthy of worship except Allah.

She wants Muslims to embrace her illa, which is to say that she wants Muslims to put themselves, to put humanity, on par with its Creator.

Just the other day I heard a lecture by Muhammad Alshareef in which he was talking about a Muslimah he knew who accepted Islam. She told him that her decision to accept Islam had NOTHING to do with women's rights, NOTHING to do with the past accomplishments of Muslim civilization, NOTHING to do with anything, EXCEPT with her realization of her relationship to Allah subhanahu wata ala. And that realization was that she had to submit to His Will, alhamdolillah.

And it's that simple.

If you accept that there is no one, no concept, and no source worthy of worship, worthy of total obedience, other than Allah, your Lord, your Creator -- then submit to Him completely and become a Muslim.

If you do not want to submit to Him, then that's fine. "Lakum deenokum walihuddin" -- to you your religion, and to me mine.

Don't ask me to change the nature of Islam to satisfy you. And don't claim you'd only be asking for my benefit -- if you have a problem with me practicing Islam, IT'S YOUR PROBLEM, not mine.