When God Chooses You | Martin Clements | ReRooted RAW #19

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*Timestamps:* 0:00 - Countdown 0:06 - Coming Up 1:25 - Introduction 1:48 - Religious Background of brother Martin 4:16 - Similar experiences of brother Ben 5:24 - Being a Cultural Christian 6:10 - Interactions with Muslims 7:06 - Being Oblivious to Islam 9:32 - Introduction to Islam & Enquiring about it 14:36 - Defending Islam as a Non-Muslim 16:17 - Discreetly learning Islam & Practising it 19:14 - Reaction from the Family after Reversion 20:05 - Guilty Pleasure of practising Islam 22:49 - Comfort of wearing Thobes 24:20 - Discussion on The Imposter Syndrome 29:43 - Journey to becoming a Muslim 32:13 - Admonishing other Muslims 33:26 - The Prophetic Way of teaching New Muslims & giving Dawah 38:12 - New & Born Muslims delaying Salah 39:17 - Journey leading upto the Shahadah 42:20 - Taking the Shahadah 43:23 - Lack of support & guidance for Reverts from the Muslim community 46:07 - Need of Muslims to be more accomodating towards Non-Muslims 49:06 - Practicing Islam, the Obstacles to praying & its solutions 53:39 - Feeling being Prioritised in other Religions vs Submission in Islam 55:01 - Going for Umrah & visiting Masjid Al Aqsa 59:35 - Visiting iERA New Muslim Retreat & its impact 1:08:04 - Effectively learning & practising Islam 1:09:08 - Hadith about the Forgiveness of Allah ﷻ 1:11:11 - Advice for New Muslims 1:12:33 - Advice for people looking into Islam 1:13:21 - The Online New Muslim Course on iERA & its Benefits 1:16:48 - Supporting iERA 1:17:35 - Teasing Martin for being Emotional & the significance of iERA's New Muslim Retreat 1:21:00 - Journey from an Attendee to a Mentor 1:22:43 - Closing Remarks & Wrapping Up SubhanAllah ❤️🤍💖 Amazing Discussion 👍🏻👌🏻 _May Allah ﷻ bless you all and reward you for your efforts._ 🤲🏻

[@joy8801]

May Allah grant you Jannah for your efforts brother, ameen. I see you on every Muslim video making time stamps😇 may Allah be pleased with you

[@asadullahsaaid3794]

​​@@joy8801Thank you so much for your kind words ☺️😊 بارك الله فيك 😄

[@iCarryBoatsAndTheLogs]

It’s so hard for me not to speak out now. I’ve had people talk about Islam to me in a bad way and I always challenge them. I have not yet taken my Shahada but in my heart I am already Muslim. I plan to take it soon.

[@c0detearz320]

InShaAllah

[@mohamedabdullahi3228]

Did u take ur shahada yet bro? 'Ope u did. If u didn't plz take it ASAP coz u Don't know when death comes. May God bless u beyond ur wishes.

[@MoSHus]

Maashallah another great interview. Ben is a great host, Martin nearly had me going, love his story and his sincerity to find the truth. May Allah bless you InnshaAllah. From Cardiff here too👍

[@itsmeyamenah2804]

I wish there is something like this here in the Philippines. I reverted in Dubai actually but I am from the Philippines. When I knew about Islam I was wondering why I didn't know about it earlier. The born muslims here mostly from the South part of the country as I see is more of tribal culture. As a revert myself, I know there are a lot of potential muslims in the Philippines that are looking for an answer.

[@ilovesunny8887]

Is doing dawah urself not an option? Starting a sister group on fb or something, planning coming together to read quran. Making ur own commmonityv

[@itsmeyamenah2804]

@@ilovesunny8887 oh I did made an fb account yet, I'm just editing some contents it's called Revert Muslims in the Philippines, Some contents are soon to be posted still working on it ❤️

[@unitedafrica5844]

يارب و إن عظمت ذنوبي إني أسألك حسن الخاتمة بفضلك يا كريم

[@joy8801]

Omg Brother Ben is the best interviewer ever. May Allah swt grant you 3 brothers Jannah, ameen🥰please make more rerooted podcasts , we need more

[@ilovesunny8887]

I love how Ben is the host, because of being a revert a lot of us can relate to him

[@freeman7983]

Masha ALLAH

[@user-gp4bw4ko1x]

Amazing story. May Allah bless you brothers! Very inspirational. Keep going and keep spreading the word.

[@irfanahmed6411]

Dear brother Allah bless you you are doing great work on this planet

[@MrSongib]

Salam for all of you guys.

[@shooshcatlover9509]

Loved every minute of it. MashAllah!

[@MuslimMama]

MashAllah...love these conversation

[@Meri.chari1003]

Subhana Allah I love love these conversations... Alhamdu li Allah and thank you IERA.

[@نورالعسيري-ز7ت]

Masha Allah, watching from Saudi Arabia

[@bayanalhazmi723]

Same ❤️

[@لاالهالاالله-س8ز6ذ]

May allah bless you

[@freeman7983]

amin

[@noor_15xx]

Alhamdulila very inspiring please we’re is the mosque in Cardiff you was talking about I need to go! I live in Cardiff also a revert

[@clemeo1]

Dar Ul-Isra Mosque. We have a new Muslim meeting every Monday at 7pm. Please feel free to join us.

[@HussainFahmy]

💯👍 *_Supporting iERA during Ramadan. in'sha'Allah_*

[@21warnabrother]

Looks great.

[@aynaiandethiopia4049]

❤MashaAllah ❤

[@waldo2600]

Mashallah his parents are real christians with that response.

[@ziyaht2137]

Ma sha Allah

[@cindyq545]

Masya Allah 😢

[@user-ni9xi5ih5m]

جزاكم الله خير

[@putnicesaquranom]

Some of these stories Are painfuly mirrorimg parts of one’s own history

[@moromisultana9838]

Please keep more doing revert stories, subhanallah!

[@user-ni9xi5ih5m]

I believe the most important thing that Muslims and new Muslims should do is to read the Quran every day or listening at least 20 minutes every day.

[@kausamsalam8543]

MashaAllah 🌿”The desert Arabs say, (and many born Muslims), “We believe.” Say, “You have no faith, but you only say, “We have submitted our wills to Allah, for Faith has not entered your hearts.” But if you obey Allah and His Messenger, He will not belittle anything of your deeds: for Allah is Oft-forgiving, Most-Merciful.” (People take their religions for granted, yet here are good Muslims). Ameen

[@1sultan189]

Started from Arabia, a place where no one expected to rise from. And now only 20% of Muslims are Arabs. The rest are spread out in the world. This is true success. Not like Judaism, not like Hinduism, Buddhism, Christianity. Al hamdulilah

[@Mrman-vi2ul]

Can born Muslims go on this retreat?

[@instruogroup]

Masha'Allah Ben not just in fajr it looks like the dress of rasulullah salallaho alaihe wasallam. I don't think imposter syndrome reflects the clothing we wear once imposter syndrome has 'worn off'. What are your thoughts on that I'm intrigued with this.

[@instruogroup]

Ben often brings this one up : D I think it's validation bro. But looking like the prophet saw us sunnah too for all 'cultures' no?

[@instruogroup]

Not 'have' to but it is sunnah brother no?

[@instruogroup]

Just my humble opinions hope you don't take me wrongly sir.

[@swalihmm]

@@instruogroup Rasulullah s.a.w wore different dresses and had dresses of different cultures gifted to him which he wore.

[@semsamatanovic5454]

❤❤❤❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@nurulhaniyahmadfuad3931]

The companions radhiallahu anhum used to cry too when the Prophet s.a.w said things that touched their hearts. Even Umar r.a said that he will force himself to cry if he sees the Prophet s.a.w and Abu Bakr r.a cry. So, showing your emotions and crying as a man, is not looked down upon, and not weird (nobody said it is, here, but just sayin). Keep being you, brother.

[@khalilahlewis2950]

As salaammu Alykum my brother. I am a born and raised African American Muslim I wanted to know if you think that the thobe is cultural for the men. Then what do you think about the abaya for women?? Me personallyI believe it's a modesty thing and if we want to emulate the mothers of the believers and the prophet P.B.U.H And his campaigns. Then we should do as much like them as possible. And if putting on a thobe from time to time Is a part of it I definitely don't see that as a cultural thing it's a definite religious thing. Because culturally I was standing out like a sore thing and the way my neighbors and people around me dress that weren't Muslim. I definitely wanted none of and my brothers wanted to stand out as muslims so they wore the proper clothing. May allah guide us all and I definitely enjoy you on youtube Alhamdullaah may Allaah reward you for all the good you do Aameen

[@basismoslem6436]

No need to chane name if your name doesnt has bad meaning. Just be as u are. Even bilal is not arabic name. And he doesnt change his name. Salman also not arabic name.

[@ronakram6690]

Masha Allah