برنامج قدوة - الشيخ فهد الكندري - الحلقة العاشرة ( يسر الإسلام )

I was raised in the Northeast in, quite a poor part of The UK, in a very small family, and, there was no religion. I wasn't taught religion or brought brought up religiously. You know, I became good friends with about a dozen Muslims and I'd never met, people, you know, teenagers who were so together and so sort of, well, relaxed and confident, quietly confident, and just had such character. I'd never met such beautiful character before, when I realized what, how he'd was. I'd always believed there was one God, one creator, and the creation was nothing like the creator.

And then to realize that that's what Islam was. So I had a discussion with a good friend of mine and says, you know, I was worried that I wouldn't be able to learn everything, would I have the discipline to pray five times a day. And he said to me, you believe if the end of the day, if the end of the world was today, you won't be in a very good place. But if you're a Muslim and learning to practice, you will be in a better place than you are now. And that sort of gave me the confidence and, you know, maybe the drive to think, yeah, I I can learn what I need to.

There's nothing more important than this. I didn't really see anything as as obstacles. It took me a while to learn the Arabic to pray. Everybody that time, you know, you've just gotta keep on with it, you know. And like with fasting, zakat, everything, I think once you start to practice it, you realize the benefit.

You know, the discipline I think I've read somewhere, if you can pray five times a day everything else in the deen is easy. And I think that's true. I guess it's hard to articulate because it does feel like the life of a Muslim is very disciplined. And, obviously, those were concerns that I initially had, but it isn't difficult.