I didn’t realize then how funny I must have looked I didn’t realize it but in those days I was very passionate about communicating the massage that I felt people needed to know the massage about love a massage about peace and message about being a good person so the daily life that I had before coming to Islam was filled with two things working hard to make business make money to Jarrett and working hard to tell people about Jesus and the message of peace
it surprised me to find out that in Islam I could work more and communicate more that’s for sure before met the person that helped me to know more about Islam I used to have a very bad picture about Islam and Muslims in fact I was so afraid to even need a Muslim that when my father told me we’d be doing business with a Muslim I said no no way these guys Muslims they are terrorists they are hijackers
they are are kidnappers and they don’t believe In god in fact they worshiping a black box in the desert and they kissed they ground five times a day that was they way I understood Islam a very bad opinion and a bad idea of how they treated women and how they treated children I thought that really it was almost like they want to put everybody in prison this was idea that I had but then I had never really met a Muslim until we started doing business with a man from Egypt when I first met this Egyptian gentleman I was surprised because
I was expecting to see some man wearing a long dress and a black robe over it and the big turbine on his head and has one eyebrow goes all they way across this maybe carrying sword but when I met this man I was so surprised he was wearing normal clothes and he look as normal as anybody he did it even have a big beard in fact and didn’t have any hair he was nice really nice person and
I thought right away hey I bet I can convert him to become a Christian that was my idea I’ll make him become a Christian but allah had other plans one of the things that really amazed me this man was very quiet gentle kind what’s amazing was was the way that he every day he would the five times pray on time he would say excuse me i I’ll be right back he would go and make wodo then pray and start working again every day except one day a week on Friday he stops everything
he said I will be back in two hours he would get ready and drive to the masjid do his pray and come back and it took almost a half hours just to get there so that’s why he had to take two hours off but he would still come back and go right back to work again so the man would to work seven days a week but he would stop for his worship another thing that he did he liked to fast some on Mondays and also on
Thursday and you would go to me say would you like this who want some of their so and so he’d say no it’s ok I am fasting one amazing thing about him that even my father talked about was how honest he was in in business any time there was any business transaction whatsoever he always made sure the costumer got full value for whatever it was they were doing and to be sure
that they got product that they were promised and then the follow up to be sure that they were happy that was another thing that we really were a amazed about you know I thought if we make this man a Christian we could make him a saint maybe even an angel because he’s so sweet so nice but do you know what happened one day while I was trying to convert him he ask us about the Bible and so I said yes
I have a catholic priest who will come to my house I was Protestant this is two Different religions and my father would be there with his bible so I have my bible my father has a different bible the catholic has another bible and will sit there and try to talk about all this but then we begin saying which bible which bible you know between us all the time the Muslim he’s sitting there quiet so we asked him well how many versions you know of that Quran do you have still one