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But beginning at the beginning, how did
I get started in this field of activity?
Soon after leaving school,
I started working in a country shop
somewhere out of the city of Durban
about 25 miles out.
There was a Muslim shop and across the
valley from the shop was a Christian
mission.
So these missionaries that they were
getting their training how to do jihad,
the crusades against the Muslims,
whatever they learned, they came to
practice on the Muslims in the shop.
All young men just have school, cheap
labor.
They would come into the shop to buy
sugar and salt, flour, rice.
But when they came to do the purchases,
they would start with as he says, you
know, your prophet Muhammad had so many
wives
and I knew nothing about that
about the wives of the prophet, our
mothers. I knew nothing about that.
They would say that your prophet
Muhammad, he spread his religion at the
point of the sword. He forced his thumb
down people's throats that if you don't
accept Islam, I'll chop off your head.
That's how he got the converts. I knew
nothing about that.
They say that the holy prophet Muhammad
sallallahu alaihi wasallam, he copied
his book, the Quran from the Jews and
the Christians. This is the copy
imitation of the Christian Bible. I knew
nothing about that.
The only thing I knew about Islam was
that I was a Muslim and I read the
shahada the khala. If I met any of you
during that period in my teens and if I
ask you where you come from, you say
Kenya. I said about you meaning what
religion you belong to. You say you're a
Muslim.
So if you could sayallahuhammed
pass, you pass.
But what that meant, I didn't know. It
was like a magic formula. If you can say
it, you're a Muslim. If you can't say,
you're not a Muslim. That's all I knew.
Can you say
I hear it as you pass?
I prayed the way my father prayed. I
made song fasting the way my father
fasted. I made voodoo the way my father
did everything. I was a Muslim read the
shahada and led an ordinary Muslim life.
What these Christians are posing to me I
knew nothing about that. They making
life miserable for me and for the other
Muslim staff.
You feel like running away.
But where can you go? There was no jobs
to get. Jobs were difficult.
So you stick it out and but I'm looking
for an answer. I want Allah to help me.
Yeah Allah this misery. What am I what
am I bargaining for here? I come to ek
out a living and these Christians are
making life miserable for me.
But there was one thing I had. I had an
obsession for reading. Reading was my
pastime. Anything everything reading
reading reading anything I see in
writing I want to read. That was a
sickness I had.
And to to meet the requirement of this
sickness of mine, one Sunday morning, I
go to my boss's warehouse, his go down
and remaging through a pile of old
newspapers looking for something to
read. Better than an old newspaper. At
the worst, I'll take the old newspapers
and I read them because whatever I read
was news. 6 months old, a year old. No,
whatever I read, I didn't know. It's
news for me. I didn't know that today's
news today. You must know what's
happening today. No, no, that I didn't
know. If I read anything, I didn't know
it's news.
So, at the worst, newspaper. I would
take it into my room, start reading. But
in the meantime, I'm looking for
magazines.
Better than the newspaper. So, I move a
pile of newspapers and find one
magazine, put it one side. I move some
more newspapers and get another
magazine. I put it one side. While
ramaging through this old pile of
newspapers,
I come across a worm eaten book reddish
in color. I pick it up full of mildew.
When I pick it up, I start to sneeze.
Start to sneeze because of the mildew
worm.
And on the cover was written is harul
spelled out in English Latin script. I Z
H A R U L H A K is Harul Hak sounds like
Muslim is hak I sound like Muslim but
what is Hak I don't know
at the bottom in brackets in smaller
types is written the truth revealed so
maybe this word is har means the truth
revealed
so I sit down on the ground in the dust
and I start reading I got no time to
waste there they I'm hungry I want to
read what is it all about? So I read
started reading this book there on the
ground in the dust
that this book was written by an Arab
rah Hindi to help the Indian Muslims to
give battle to the Nasara the
Christians.
It speaks about the British conquest of
India as the British came and conquered
your country, conquered Ghana, conquered
Nigeria, they conquered India, they
conquered Malaysia. When they conquered
my country India, they realized that at
any time anybody will give them trouble
in India will be the Muslims
because power, rule, dominion was
wrenched out of their hand and once you
have tasted power, you aspire for it
once more. So the problem is the Muslim.
If you can convert the Muslim, if you
can teach him to turn the other cheek
like Jesus said, he will strike on the
right cheek doing the other. Once you
make the Muslim to do that, then you can
rule India for a thousand years.
So convert the Muslim. So they started
pouring in the missionaries like frogs
in the rainy season.
The Christian missionaries they started
coming into India and they started
challenging the Muslims to public
debates. Munaz
at first the Muslims were reluctant.
Number one they didn't know the
language. The British are speaking
English. I want to talk to you and
debate with you in English. He said I
don't know English. Our islands didn't
know English. Number two they had just
conquered us.
And if you speak too hard, too harsh,
they might send this to the Anderman
Islands, Blackwaters, like the Robin
Island in South Africa. Out of the way.
Shh. You want to take a chance? So the
Muslims were not cooperating. They
didn't want to debate. Number one,
language problem. Number two, fear.
So the Christian missionaries, they
mastered our language, uru, the language
of the elite, the alims.
And they started challenging us to
debate with you in your language.
Like our look we know we only know. So
the guy learn
we want to debate with him. Can you say
no in your language?
So the Muslims were forced to accept and
molana Abdul Aziz of Delhi. He accepted
the challenge. He was forced to accept
the challenge and the debate takes
place.
And I'm told in the book that 100,000
people gathered. There was no sound
system, no horns, nothing. Our voice
traveled to Allah was best. But people
were there watching from far and they
say, "Well, what's going on?" Somebody's
giving a commentary. He say, you know,
the mall and I gave one uppercut like
that. And this guy said commentaries are
going on, no sound system. There was no
sound system those days. So debate
starts with the reverend, reverend
founder by name, reverend founder, the
Britisher. He suggests to the molana
that molana sahed respected molana alim
gets patterned.
So the molana says you see Christianity
preceded Islam by 600 years as such you
have our elder brother you are 600 years
older than us and according to our
culture our elder brother has the first
chance.
Number two he say you are a guest. You
are a guest in our country. No doubt an
unwelcome guest but still you are a
guest. So according to our culture you
have the first presence.
So the reverend was forced to start and
he started with a question with a poser
with a riddle
said molana sah in udu speaking udu
molana sahib respected alim molana
where is your prophet Muhammad now now
this minute where is he now?
So the malana thought for a moment and
he said he is in
heavenly bliss with Allah subhanana wa
ta'ala.
out of that answer to him the second
question
said all right all right
if your prophet was with this Allah
where was he when his grandson Hussein
was martyed at Karbala
when Yazid chopped off his head where
was your prophet Muhammad then
so the molana again thought for a moment
and he said he was still in
heavenly bliss with Allah subhana wa
ta'ala out of that answer came the third
question. It was plan strategy.
Said all right all right. If your
Muhammad was with his Allah when his
grandson Hussein was martyed, killed,
slaughtered at Karbala, did he not ask
his Allah for help? Say tala. Oh my
lord, look what they're doing to my
grandson. Please help him out of his
difficulty. Didn't he ask his Allah for
help?
And there was a long pause.
And the the priest couldn't hold his
patience. He started stamping his feet.
So come on, come on. Did he not ask his
Allah for help? It's natural. Natural.
You should have a big brother.
Somebody's bullying you. You say,
"Brother, look man, look at this guy
here. What he's doing to me?" You
naturally you call for help. And Allah
is there, the almighty, the all
powerful, and you're not going to ask
him for help. Says, "Come on. Come on.
Did he or didn't he ask his Allah for
help?"
So the molana he said yes he did he did
ask Allah for that but what did Allah
say because we know he wasn't saved
what did Allah say and there was an
inordinate very long pause and the
priest again lost his patience started
stamping said come on come on what did
Allah say
the molana starts he says Allah cried
Allah cried so what Allah cried He said
there's a luck ride. He said I couldn't
save my own son Jesus. How can I save
your grandson
and the debate was over? The debate was
over. You see
the debate had nothing to do with facts.
facts. It was a matching of the wits,
cleverness. Who is the cleverer of the
two wins the battle
and alhamdulillah the molana won the
battle.
But this was the oldfashioned way of
trying to be argumentative, debating,
making a fool of you, making a mockery
of you, making a mockery of Islam. But
the Christians have advanced a lot since
then. They learned that the by this
method they can't get converts.
you're creating enemies, no converts. So
they use the psychology mentality, the
research, and they found out new ways
and means of asking questions.
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