English Lads Accept Islam with Shamsi at Speaker's Corner

it's survival yeah and i think i got food or cigarettes i used to get food

and so i'm hungry look how crazy it is you know that you're even thinking of buying

yeah because why you're not thinking straight yeah you understand but when you have islam

and you know you know you islamic gives you what purpose you know you have objective goal that's it

you know where you're going to in december that's the beauty of islam you know what is your purpose

why i'm here you know these questions which called the big questions cannot be answered by scientists

or by anything else it has to be answered by the creator of everything you understand

so islam it helps me very well to change my life even when i was going to the courts i remember

when i was when i was going to the courts i don't know why i said why i'm in prison why i'm in jail

you know i want to come out i want to get i want to go back do what is to do you understand

i was raised as a muslim yes however i was not practicing

i was not practicing and uh i never used to pray in the spray on off just before i went to jail

i stopped praying completely understand i was too busy in central london literally i used to go at

night come back five o'clock in the morning i'm just sleeping the whole day i remember once i had

to go for a meeting you know to go to the council and they tell me come you know cancer you can't

go night time you have to go morning and it was a hot day and it was sunny well here i came out

bro my eyes started hurting because for years i'm sleeping at night i went back as i forget man

that's yeah trust me because i sleep five o'clock in the morning wake up eight o'clock

in the evening go back central london in the stand but something god given you know there's something

within us a muslim or a non-muslim all of us we have that call a natural explanation naturally you

think you know what i'm doing is bad i understand like what this is not life sleeping at a day time

i was going night time doing crazy stuff so you know what i used to always say because i had bad

friends around me very bad you know i used to take some drugs and i always pray to a lot stop

but always when i go back home i used to think there's a verse of the quran he mentions is equal

those who are praying to their creator to their god at night with those who turn away from their

god so i used to always think about it i think at night some people are praying night prayer

and me coming from a crazy lifestyle going back home what i'm doing

but i cannot get out of it because my surrounding is not helping me then what happened i went inside

you know that's what allah is in the quran

perhaps you hate something which is good for you i disliked it you know it it's crazy because

literally i was one of my friends standing with that some craziest thing here was standing my

boss 94 and i'll talk about details but today i'm i'm going to tell you show you islam how

to change people's life 94 across the road for me i'm standing here literally like three steps

so i said to my friend antonis anthony is a bus i'm going to go home he said true true

i said listen we've just done some crazy stuff i need to go he said no i haven't done nothing

literally few seconds later four vans of the police to this side blocked

and matt and my friend they're coming for us he said no no coming once

they arrested us straight away in my trial was seven months then after nearly a year then i

come out but islam you have soon that's why it's not about just personal experience even socially