Why Do Priests Enter Islam? The real story of conversion of the Preacher Yusuf Estes (1)

How a preacher or priest in Christianity can ever go to Islam?

How could a preacher have turned his back on the perfect plan of salvation of Jesus Christ on the cross for you sins and converted to Islam?

 

The American X-preacher Yusuf Estes says:

Many people ask me how a preacher or priest in Christianity can ever go to Islam, especially considering all the negative things that we hear about Islam and Muslims everyday. Some people are simply curious, while others take a profound exception to my “conversion” to Islam. Some have asked how I could have turned my back on Jesus, or if I truly understood the Holy Ghost and some even questioned whether or not I considered myself as “born again” or had ever really been saved at all. These are good questions to which I will offer answers to at the end of this writing. I would like to thank everyone for their interest and offer my humble story, God Willing.

One very nice Christian gentleman asked me in email why and how I left Christianity for Islam. This is more or less a copy of the letter I sent to him.

Introduction

My name is Yusuf Estes now, but in years past my friends used to call me Skip. I have preached Christianity and worked in the entertainment and music industry since I was a boy in the 1950’s. My father and I have established music stores, TV and radio programs and outdoor entertainment for fun (and profit). I was a music minister and even used a pony ride and entertained the children as “Skippy the Clown.”

Once, I have served as Delegate to the United Nations Peace Conference for Religious Leaders. Now I am a retired former Muslim Chaplain for United States Bureau of Prisons, Washington, DC. and I join alongside many American Muslims, working with Muslim student and youth organizations as well as schools for Muslim children. As such, I travel around the entire world lecturing and sharing the message of the Christ of the Quran in Islam. We hold dialogs and discussion groups with all faiths and enjoy the opportunity to work alongside rabbis, ministers, preachers and priests everywhere. Some of our work is in the institutional area, military, universities and prisons. Primarily our goal is to educate and communicate the correct message of Islam and who the Muslims really are. Although Islam has grown now to nearly tie Christianity as the largest of religions on earth, we see many of those who claim Islam as Muslims, that do not correctly understand nor properly represent the message of “Peace, Surrender and Obedience to God” [Arabic = ‘Islam’]

Dear me, I am afraid that I got a bit ahead of myself. I was trying to give a bit of background of our work perhaps to see if it would in anyway benefit those who may being going through what I experienced while trying to resolve some of the issues of Christianity.

How It Happened

This may seem quite strange, while we perhaps may share a few different perspectives and concepts of God, Jesus, prophethood, sin and salvation. But you see, at one time I was in the same boat as many folks are today. Really, I was. Let me explain.

Born A Strong Christian

I was born into a very strong Christian family in the Midwest. Our family and their ancestors not only built the churches and schools across this land, but actually were the same ones who came here in the first place. While I was still in elementary we relocated in Houston, Texas in 1949 (I’m old). We attended church regularly and I was baptized at the age of 12 in Pasadena, Texas. As a teenager, I wanted to visit other churches to learn more of their teachings and beliefs. The Baptists, Methodists, Episcopalians, Charismatic movements, Nazarene, Church of Christ, Church of God, Church of God in Christ, Full Gospel, Agape, Catholic, Presbyterian and many more. I developed quite a thirst for the “Gospel” or as we say; “Good News.” My research into religion did not stop with Christianity. Not at all. Hinduism, Judaism, Buddhism, Metaphysics, native American beliefs were all a part of my studies. Just about the only one that I did not look into seriously was “Islam”. Why? Good question.

Written by: Chaplain Yusuf Estes

To be continued.

Chapter 6 of the Quran (77) Allah’s steady Law for His Prophets

The Quran declares that what the disbelievers of Mecca have done to the prophet Muhammad was happening through a steady and constant law that Allah put for the relationship between all the Prophets and the devils among mankind and jinn.

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Ayah 6:112 says that what the disbelievers of Mecca have done to the prophet Muhammad is happening through a steady and constant law that Allah put for the relationship of the Prophets and the devils of mankind and jinn.

 

Both mankind and jinn are responsible creatures; they will be asked for their deeds on the Day of Judgment.

In both mankind and jinn, there are those men and jinn who like the truth and they are not many; they are the believers. But, there are those men and jinn who the truth and they are many; they are the unbelievers; they are the devils of mankind and jinn.

 

Assuredly, the conflicts between the believers and the devils unbelievers have to occur.

The top believers walked on the earth are the prophets and their followers.

The most severe conflicts between the believers and the unbelievers had to occur between the prophets and their followers and the devils unbelievers. And this is Allah’ steady and constant law.

 

On the other hand, the devils unbelievers of mankind and jinn use their steady and constant law; they use the varnished speech. They inspire, whisper, fine varnished speech to each other, the falsehood that is disguised as such in delusion, in order to delude them and delude the other. (like the today attacking Islam in the Media, TV, Videos, and Newspapers etc).

Ayah 6:112 says 

 

Allah has appointed the disbelievers of Mecca who sneer as your enemies O Muhammad, so has Allah appointed unto every Prophet an adversaries and enemies, the devils, the rebels, of mankind and jinn who inspire, whisper, fine varnished speech to each other in delusion in order to delude them.

 

Yet, had your Lord willed, they would never have done it, that mutual inspiration.

So leave them, let the disbelievers be, with what they fabricate, of disbelief and otherwise, of what has been adorned for them.

Leave, O Muhammad, those who sneer and their folk with their devising.

Leave, O Muhammad, those who mock their embellishment of words and deception

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The verse 6:112 in different translations

 

QARIB:

As such we have assigned for every prophet an enemy; the satans of humans and jinn, revealing varnished speech to each other, all as a delusion. but had your lord willed, they would not have done so. Therefore leave them and what they invent,

 

SHAKIR:

and thus did we make for every prophet an enemy, the shaitans from among men and jinn, some of them suggesting to others varnished falsehood to deceive (them), and had your lord pleased they would not have done it, therefore leave them and that which they forge

 

PICKTHAL:

Thus have we appointed unto every prophet an adversary – devils of humankind and jinn who inspire in one another plausible discourse through guile. if thy lord willed, they would not do so; so leave them alone with their devising;

 

YUSUFALI:

Likewise did we make for every messenger an enemy,- evil ones among men and jinns, inspiring each other with flowery discourses by way of deception. if thy lord had so planned, they would not have done it: so leave them and their inventions alone.