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Tasting the Sweetness of Faith: Sh. Yasir Fahmy | My Moment of Conviction
Was there a moment in your life when you knew for certain Islam was the truth? Hear how praying in i'tikaf introduced Sh. Yasir Fahmy to the sweetness of faith for the first time.
Check out this podcast where Sh. Suleiman Hani talks to Sh. Yasir Fahmy about reaching an elevated spiritual state when engaging with the Qur’an.
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This transcript was auto-generated using AI and may contain misspellings. The Blessing of Winter Break So a moment that really was deeply impactful and that moved my life in a substantial way was when I was in high school in the mid-90s and I used to go to Catholic school. It was all boys Jesuit school. So we had the blessing of very long winter breaks, around a month and a half. Very Catholic. And my father who was, mashaAllah, a veteran of i'tikaf, he really didn't give me an option. And he said, you have to come to i'tikaf with me. Now before that I was very kind of apolitical about Islam. In the sense of I just wasn't really, I was just going through the days of being a Muslim the way that my father expected me to be a Muslim. And I wasn't really coming from a place of deep conviction or understanding or commitment. Until that i'tikaf. That i'tikaf was undoubtedly the most transformative experience of my life. I went in one person and I truly exited a different person. I was the only young person amongst ten uncles, amus. And I was their gopher. I was running around just taking care of things, picking up, cleaning up. You know, they would yell at me to take care of things. Barely sleeping. But the idea of man dhaqa araf, the one who has tasted. Wa dhaqa halawat al-iman, you taste the sweetness of faith. I truly tasted the sweetness of faith. The idea of just being in the house of Allah for those days. Exhausted in ibadah, praying, reading the Qur'an, serving my elders. And it completely transformed how I think about or how I thought about life at that point. And I decided that I tasted something that I can never walk away from again.
And it led me down a path of studying the Qur'an, memorizing the Qur'an. You know, starting to learn the Arabic language. You know, beyond just the colloquial that we spoke at home. But really immersing myself and then kind of just put me on this trajectory of ultimately being who I am today. Not that I'm anything, but I aspire to every single day of my life for the past, since that time, 25 years, I've been trying every single day to realize that truth. You know, just that beautiful, committed idea of serving Allah, serving His creation. And it nourishes me and it motivates me and inspires me every single moment. So I thank Allah for itikaf, I thank Allah for the masjid, I thank Allah for the Qur'an, I thank Allah for community. Because without it, I don't know who I would be.
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