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Today we shot a video about Rahim Jung. He told about his journey to Islam, how he felt, the things that he experienced, how his life went downhill, his mom's last moments, the car accident he experienced, his emotional moments, etc. Many thanks to Bera Hotel Alanya for allowing us to shoot this video and for their hospitality😊. • Intro  • Who is Rahim Jung ?  • How was your life back then ?  • Your youth years ?  • Any moment that made you come closer to Islam?  • What were the things that made you most impressed with Islam?  • What incident made you change your ways? • What made you convinced that Islam is %100 true?  • Last things you had to give up?  • Your family's reaction? How did your relation with your mom go? • Hardest challenge you faced?  • What was your purpose in life before and after Islam? Have you ever had a special feeling between you and Allah?  • What quality of Prophet Muhammad (s.a.w) impressed you the most?  • What are you doing right now?  • Your final thoughts #IMadeADealWithGod #EmotionalStory #RevertJourney #RahimJung #InspiringTransformation #FaithAndResilience #SpiritualAwakening #LifeChangingMoments #TestimonyOfFaith #PersonalGrowth #HopeAndHealing #DivineConnection #OvercomingObstacles #JourneyToFaith #SoulfulNarrative #GodsPlan #HeartfeltStory #TransformationJourney #ListenToYourHeart

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00:00I remember saying look God I don't know if you're there but I tell you this I'm

00:06not giving up my lifestyle my life is too good if you want this for me you

00:12have to show me my brains are coming out of my head

00:17all the whole back of my head is all open and you mean it's unbelievable the

00:26ambulance came I was just sitting I didn't lose consciousness I was sitting

00:29there on the side of the road I there was a blanket over my head and then she

00:33lifted the blanket off my head and she saw my head injuries and immediately her

00:38voice changed I need an emergency airlift now

00:44assalamu alaikum brother Raheem thank you for accepting our interview invitation

00:49to start off with who is Raheem Jank and can you tell us briefly about your life I

00:53was born in London I come from a mixed background I've done lots and lots of

00:58different types of work lots of different types of jobs lots of

01:01different industries alhamdulillah Allah has sent me this way and sent me that

01:05way and inshallah I hope that more of this will come out during the discussion

01:08today inshallah

01:10how was your life back then in those days I don't think I believed in anything so

01:20we were brought up I would say very open-minded really so my father he believed in Islam but

01:27he didn't believe in conventional Islam the way we would understand it the way I would understand

01:31it now my mother she actively hated religion she was originally married to an Irishman and

01:36that she got divorced and they don't allow divorce in the Catholic faith so she was excommunicated she

01:41was thrown out of the Catholic faith and then when she met my father people didn't

01:45accept that and she looked at religious people and she saw them as hypocrites she saw them as

01:49always preaching but not practicing so we grew up in an atmosphere where there was no

01:53real faith in the household so we were just taught to be to have good character good conduct

01:58good manners but that your religion didn't matter and if I think back now there were

02:02probably times when I I doubted if there was any God or if there was any belief or anything

02:08and I certainly didn't believe that you needed to practice any faith so can you tell us about your youth

02:12years by the time I was 18 I was failing everything I was failing all my school exams and all I wanted

02:18was to work in the music business in any way that I could and alhamdulillah an opportunity came up my

02:24father was doing some business and one of the people he was doing business with had a lot of

02:29connections in the music business and I spoke to him and I said look please I said just get me in

02:34any way you can just get me in the door I'll do the rest just get me in the door and he managed to

02:39speak to somebody and I started working in a music promotion companies I was so happy it felt

02:45like the world was open to me and that led me on to my next job which was just an incredible job the

02:50company I was working with we got the contract to do a promotion for Stevie Wonder and the main person

02:55who was running that the project manager she phoned me and she said would you consider leaving your

03:00job now and coming to work with me and I said well it depends what it is and she said we're starting

03:04Motown Records here in the UK that was more than a dream come true Motown is the biggest record label

03:11in history having that name Motown just having a business card with the name Motown Records on it

03:16anywhere you went you put that card down it would open doors and I was having a chance to start this

03:21new version of Motown Records in the UK what was the defining moment that led you to come closer to

03:26Islam I think for me one of the defining moments was I was I was literally inside a party music and

03:33people and everybody was there in this big party and my uncle he had recently become religious and

03:38it was Ramadan I didn't even know it was Ramadan and he came he knocked on the door of the party

03:42and he knew I was there and he called me and he said I want you to come to the mosque tonight

03:46I said I'm here with my friends I said we're you know uncle please and another day no problem he said no

03:52tonight and again I said I can't leave and he said I'm not arguing I'm telling you and I didn't know

03:57it was Laylatul Qadr and he took me to the local mosque and this was when I was in Motown Records

04:02and at that time I would say my life was going better than I could ever have hoped and I remember

04:08the dua in the qnut and I wasn't joining in I was sitting at the back of the mosque and I felt the

04:13power I mean I remember saying I just sat there and I said look God I don't know if you're there

04:20but I tell you this I'm not giving up my lifestyle I said I'm not giving my life is too good I said if

04:26you want this for me then you have to you have to do something you have to show me from then from

04:31then things started to just go down and down and down and down until I genuinely feared that I was

04:39losing my mind I was unable to function properly I was unable to work I was unable my relationships

04:44became sour and all went wrong and my career went wrong everything went wrong and really I went into a

04:50spiral which led to a sort of breakdown I was so lost I remember one day one of my cousins he took me

04:56he met again same thing the son the son of my uncle who took me to the mosque he took me to

05:00meet somebody an imam and I remember the imam kept saying to me the same thing he was talking he kept

05:05saying traveling with no direction and I felt that that I was moving but I didn't know where I was

05:11going I didn't know what was the point of life I didn't know what was important and I remember I was

05:16in this job and I fell asleep I fell asleep in my chair I just remember waking up and brother I felt

05:22like I can't explain it I felt like I was floating in the middle of the universe with nothing I didn't

05:28know who I was I didn't know where I was going I didn't know what was happening I just felt this

05:32crisis this crisis what were the things that impressed you the most about Islam two things

05:38in the beginning impressed me the most number one when I saw people who had I knew people growing up

05:44from my family from my sister family who weren't practicing none of them were practicing we didn't

05:47grow up our wider fan no but when I would see those who had made the transition I always saw

05:53a contentment a certain peace that they had that was lacking from everybody else and that had a big

05:58impact on me especially my cousin when I would visit him as I said he was married with a child he didn't

06:02have any money and yet he was happier than me and I'm working the music business with loads of money

06:06and celebrities and he's happier than me and what number two when he would talk to me when I would say

06:10yeah but what about this this doesn't make sense how is God gonna do this and why did God do that and

06:15why is the prophet I would ask him because I didn't want to I didn't want to believe his answers always

06:20said Allah says in the Quran something the prophet Muhammad said he wouldn't argue with me from his

06:26akal from his reason always every single time and he would always be the right answer and I'd be

06:32how can he always have the right answer and that I used to think that's amazing you know he's not

06:37arguing from himself just he's telling me Quran and sunnah so what incident made you change your ways

06:42I remember this moment this moment where everything changed I can tell you the date

06:46the 5th of October 1993 I was in a I was in a bar with some friends and I felt like a panic attack

06:53coming on first time I'd never experienced anything like this I just wanted to run out of this and

06:58then I thought where am I gonna run and it when I get there I'm gonna feel the same it felt like the

07:02ground opened up and was gonna swallow me up that's what it felt like and I drove home I don't even know

07:07how I drove home for the first time I made dua and I didn't know what I was saying I didn't know

07:11what I was doing but this is the funny thing about it this shows you where I was in my life I said oh

07:16God I said please God please help me and I made a deal I said look if you save me now if you save me

07:22from going crazy I will give up everything haram for two weeks this is what I said because it was

07:29inconceivable to me that I would give up for more than this and then I said no no no no that's not

07:34enough that's not enough I said God if you save me I will give up all the haram for one month then

07:40I said no no no no it's too long too long too long then I said three weeks yes okay I settled three

07:45weeks I said God if you save me now I will give up everything haram next three weeks I won't touch

07:51anything haram that was the first day where I decided to leave the haram and of course after three

07:56weeks I was it was terrible I was still I wasn't better so then I said you know then I started saying

08:01because in that time I'd started making dua and I'd even open the Quran I remember opening

08:06the Quran first time and I remember of course one of the most important verses of my life to this day

08:11to this day for innama ad usri yusran innama ad usri yusran this difficulty that you're in it will

08:16come to an end it will come to an end and I remember just holding on to that holding on to that like

08:21with everything I held on to that verse that maybe some ease was going to come after this crisis

08:27what made you convinced that islam is hundred percent true I'm going to be honest with you I

08:32think if you grow up with many different ideological backgrounds as we did and even now my my brother

08:39he is agnostic maybe atheist my sister is buddhist you know my father-in-law is jewish my mother-in-law

08:48was atheist you know my closest people in my family are not religious many of them and and same with many

08:54my closest friends but for me the journey of faith is a constant journey it's constantly tested and

09:00shaitan will always whisper doubts so I can be honest and say that my journey is not being linear

09:06it's not just being straight more more more iman my iman has gone up and down and up and down and

09:11there are periods of crisis that I have where I wonder am I following the right version of islam

09:16or am I is it really necessary to be this devout or maybe these small sins are not that bad or maybe you

09:24know the thing every single time is the quran the quran how how is this book possible how is this we

09:32could hold this miracle in our hands how is it possible that the Prophet Muhammad knew all

09:38or he couldn't read he couldn't write he had no education how is this possible that he predicted so

09:45many things over decades and centuries that would come true how is it possible so every time for me

09:51the thing that is brings me back without any doubt is the quran and the more we learn about the quran

09:57the more we find out with science with maths and with computers and the more we analyze it the more

10:03miraculous the more miracles come out of the quran so this whenever shaitan comes this is the thing

10:08I say what were the last things that you had to give up when becoming a committed muslim really it was

10:16the time when I decided to leave my relationship you know the relationship that I was in and go

10:21back home and live with my parents that was the defining because by then I was already praying I

10:26was fasting I'd given up most of the haram I was still in a relationship and I remember you know

10:32saying I can't do I can't wake up and pray fajr and then get back into bed this is I just can't do

10:37this any really in my mind it was like big neon signposts saying to me you can't do this and you

10:44can't do this and you can't do this but I was still doing it you know but that's what I felt like

10:48I felt like it was very clear and I was trying to I was trying not to look you know but it was very

10:52clear now I was 100% committed to trying to find my way within Islam and no more no more haram at all

11:00I had to give up these things and for me that was the defining moment

11:03how was your family's and close circles reaction to all these oh my father was concerned he wasn't

11:10worried about Islam but he was concerned that I was becoming extreme for my mother it was a very very

11:15big thing it was a really big thing and it affected our relationship for many years my mother was

11:20definitely damaged she was damaged by her experience of religious people whether they were muslim or

11:25christian or whatever she was damaged by that and when she met muslims often they were quite

11:29aggressive towards her and she was really upset she was she would shout at me she would tell me

11:35that I'm god crazy that I'm just I'm just in a weak moment of my life and people are taking advantage

11:40of me and even when she would see me praying always she was upset even if she heard me say

11:45salam alaikum to someone she was very upset for a long time so how did your relationship with your mom

11:53go did she change her opinion and feel closer to Islam as time went by this is one of the greatest

11:59miracles of my life my mother's all the time this there's some things in her heart it was against

12:04religion it was against faith it was against religious people and it didn't really change

12:08even after 15 years if I was praying she would walking through she would go like that but she became

12:15sick it was cancer she had cancer and this was just coincidence it was pure coincidence I went to visit

12:20her at the hospital and it was just me and her when the doctor came with the bad news he came he took

12:26her hand and he said I've got some bad news like that and she just looked at him she just said how

12:31long and he said it's difficult to say and I'm sitting there so I think we're talking weeks rather

12:36than months this was so shocking I can't say to my mother Allah will forgive you I can't say to my

12:42mother the next life alhamdulillah I can't say to my mother Allah will reward you for your sabr I can't

12:47say anything because she doesn't believe what do I say I said to her we have a tradition in our

12:51background where we believe that we are all travelers I said and this life is just we sit

12:57under a tree and we're just taking a little break and at some point we're all going to stand up and

13:01we're going to move on to the next part of our journey and she looked at me and she said I like

13:05that and that that touched her something in our heart then the next thing happened mashallah my cousin

13:10the same one we were very close to he sent her an email because she was like a mother to him and you

13:14know at the bottom of your email you can have a little tagline he's happened to be at that time

13:19a quote by the poet and author the nobel prize winning author george bernard shaw and my mother

13:24loved george bernard shaw she was always quoting george bernard shaw and at the bottom of the thing

13:29george bernard shaw had sent this quote about the prophet muhammad says he said if anyone was able to cure

13:35the problems of this world it would be none other than the savior of humanity muhammad and my cousin

13:41just had it as his sign off at the bottom she said what's this she came to me she said did you

13:45know george bernard shaw said this about muhammad i said yes now people have it she started telling

13:49everybody have you seen what george bernard shaw said about muhammad so slowly slowly slowly you

13:55know the door was opening but still i was thinking she's not muscling she's not muscling then she came

13:59to me and she said i need to have a serious conversation with you she said look i've told your brother and

14:04your sister that when i die i want to be cremated so that's my wish and she said i know you're going to find

14:09that difficult i said no problem whatever you wish is your wish i said but hold on i said but haven't

14:14you thought of the practicalities what's going to happen she said what do you mean she said well look

14:17i said if you die here in our home which we hope that you'll die here in the hole i said some strangers

14:22are going to come and take you i said who are these people i said they're just paid undertakers they're

14:28going to come and take you i said then they will undress you i said then they will pump you full of

14:32chemicals to preserve your body i said then they will put makeup on your face then they will do your hair

14:38then they will put you in a dress i said who are who are these people i said and this well this

14:42normally takes like a week two weeks she said to me she said what's the alternative i said your sons

14:48will carry you and no one will see and your dignity will be preserved at all times i said and you will

14:53take them to the local center i said your daughters will wash you and i said you'll be wrapped in a simple

15:00white cloth and i said that you'll be buried in the ground within one day she said that's what i want

15:06she said that's what i want and alhamdulillah she phoned my brother and sister

15:13and they couldn't believe it because they know that she doesn't like islam

15:17she doesn't like religion now i've got a problem she's not muslim

15:21so now i've got a problem okay so now i'm thinking what am i going to do now this is all just me in

15:28my head you know what am i going to do now my mother's not muslim she wants a muslim burial i can't

15:32go to the imam say please do your answer for my mother she's not muslim what are we going to do

15:36so i was every chance i got and it was difficult because so many people were visiting her i just

15:42want everyone to go i just want everyone to go because just a few minutes here in a few minutes

15:46there i can talk to her alone and i got my first chance because she was a nurse her favorite thing

15:51was medicine she used to marvel at the human body so i said to her one day i said you know the way

15:56the body works and how incredible it is i said do you think it's possible that this is designed

16:01and didn't just happen by chance she said yeah i think so i said okay i left it that's it i left it

16:07then i came back next time again people coming days going by i don't know if she's going to live one day

16:11four days five days i'm every day i'm thinking when is the chance another chance i said you know we

16:16spoke last time i said about the possibility of a creator i said do you think it's possible that

16:20that creator might have sent us people good righteous people to guide us like jesus and like

16:26abraham and like moses and like muhammad like that you know just putting it in there like that

16:31i'm so scared that she's going to say no no she said yeah i think that's possible now in my heart

16:36that's enough because i'm i'm afraid that if i say to her say shahada she'll say what i'm not saying

16:41this and then i'm stuck in my heart i thought that's enough alhamdulillah i'll tell the imam she said

16:45she believes in god and she believes in muhammad alhamdulillah that's enough we can bury her so i came down

16:49and i said to my wife and my son i said alhamdulillah she said she believes in the god she said she

16:53believes that there are prophets it's enough my son he said it's not enough i'm bad it's not enough

16:57i said wait he said let me go and talk to her i said no no because if she says no then we're stuck

17:01he went upstairs it felt to me like he was up there for five hours i was just walking left to right

17:07left to right left to right and he came i don't know how long it was i said what happened it was yeah

17:11but no problem she gave shahada allahu akbar so she gave her shahada in arabic

17:18this is the greatest miracle of my life and she's buried alhamdulillah in a muslim cemetery

17:24alhamdulillah

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17:50what was the hardest challenge that you had to face after becoming a practicing muslim for me the

17:56biggest problem was i knew i couldn't go back into the music business that was my dream that was my

18:02life it was my career that's all i knew i hadn't done any other work i'd never had another job i'd

18:06done other jobs like delivery jobs and pizza i used to deliver pizzas and i did some taxi driving and i

18:11did all that but the only proper career i had was the music business i knew at that time i couldn't

18:16go back into that industry because most of my work was in nightclubs i also feared going back to it in

18:21a way i feared going back because i knew for me it was this or that and if i went back to that my islam

18:27was dead i knew that and for me that was the most difficult thing i had to start again with no

18:31qualifications with no experience i had to try and find a new career a new way forward and that was hard

18:36that was hard for a long time i didn't know what i was going to do what was your purpose in life

18:40before islam and what is it after islam purpose in life before islam there is no purpose that's what

18:45that imam said to me traveling with no direction you are just there's you are no different from an

18:50animal what does an animal do an animal feels hungry he eats an animal needs to go to the bathroom

18:55goes to the bathroom the animal feels afraid he runs animal feels angry he shouts just responding

19:01to nafs just responding to desires that's what an animal does alhamdulillah that's how allah created

19:06them no problem without guidance that's all we are doing we are just responding to the next

19:11influence that comes that's all i was doing with my life chasing happiness chasing pleasure

19:16responding to your environment responding to you know peer pressure alhamdulillah with islam you have

19:22a perspective which is eternal it can influence me in the way i am going to step into the bathroom i

19:28have a purpose in the way i'm going to sit down in front of my table i have a purpose am i going to

19:34sit down gently am i going to disturb somebody i'm going to eat with my right hand you have a purpose

19:39and a direction and a meaning which is not from your nafs it's driven by revelation is driven by

19:45guidance did you experience an extraordinary event where you felt that you had a special connection

19:49with allah a special protection from him yeah alhamdulillah not through anything that i chose by

19:55allah's guidance i've been lucky enough to work with many muslim charities i see the miracle of

20:00sadaqah all the time i was at a charity dinner and this dinner was raising money for a particular

20:06cause and i'll tell you what that cause was i had an intention to give a certain amount of money and

20:09i came prepared to give a certain amount of money i knew it was a charity dinner and i said to my wife

20:13i said this is this is quite a unique thing imagine we save one person actually this this thing we just

20:20save one but i said let's give more she said okay let's give more we gave six times the amount that

20:24we intended to give a few days later i was leaving on a trip we were doing some filming and we were

20:30doing some charity work in new zealand and australia on the way back in new zealand we had one day spare

20:36where we went to some tourism and we went to these amazing caves these are maori caves we're driving

20:41back from that and there was an accident and i came out of the car the door flew open and i came out of

20:47the car 100 kilometers per hour and the first thing that hit the ground was my head my brains are coming out

20:53of my head all the whole back of my head is all open i mean it's unbelievable because i just

21:01bounced along the road i bounced around i remember when the nurse the ambulance came i was just sitting

21:05there i didn't lose consciousness i was sitting there on the side of the road there was a blanket

21:09over my head and i remember she lifted up my back first of all and all the skin on my back was gone

21:13and she was kind of like nurses she was trying to be light-hearted she said oh that's gonna sting

21:18and then she lifted the blanket off my head and she saw my head injuries and immediately her voice

21:22changed and she said i want an emergency airlift we want helicopter airlift now extensive head injury

21:27side of the road i need an emergency airlift now and they sent a helicopter and i had to be taken

21:30by helicopter from the moment of the accident allah knows i was fine my heart was fine every doctor

21:37i met said the same thing they said you had a miraculous escape when i was in the hospital they

21:42were searching me for brain damage they said no sign of any brain damage at all in my heart i knew

21:48a hundred percent what that miracle was because that fundraising dinner which was just a few days

21:53before i left for new zealand and australia was for the people of gaza it was 2014 and you remember

22:00the attacks on gaza in 2014 and this was for a brain pressure sensor to protect the people of gaza

22:07from having brain damage when they had brain injuries that's what that donation was for

22:11it was to protect them and i said to my wife imagine we save one person from brain

22:18i knew i knew 100 that my donation had saved me alhamdulillah that was my sadaqa what quality

22:26of the prophet alayhi salatu wasalam impressed you the most two things really you know we he he

22:30could have been a prophet king he this was his option he could have been like daud alayhi salam and

22:35sulayman alayhi salam and made a king and had palaces and had all the wealth that this dunya has

22:42to offer and he would still have been habib allah just his personal characteristic that he just had no

22:49love or attachment to this dunya at all anything he had we gave it away the messenger of allah made

22:55dua to remain poor to be with the miskin and he said i will be with them in this life and i will be with

23:01them in the next life subhanallah what a what character how can anyone be close to that subhanallah

23:07that is and sorry and his mercy his kindness his mercy how is it possible that the person who throws

23:12rubbish on you that you're worried you're worried about their health the woman is throwing rubbish and

23:18you're concerned about her welfare about her health how is this possible to be in the human heart this

23:23level of mercy this level of compassion how is it possible that when your most beloved relatives

23:29the people who were closer to your best friends had been tortured and murdered how is it possible

23:36that you feel no vengeance that you forgive all of them subhanallah the level of mercy the level of

23:42softness of his heart subhanallah what kind of projects are you doing right now so i work with as

23:48i said allah bless me i work with a number of charities at the moment i'm an ambassador for a

23:52charity called reed foundation they specialize in education so they work with the syrian refugees they

23:58have a thing called school in a bus because you know in the camps there's no schools so they've

24:02built a bus which is a school and the bus goes around to all the refugee camps mashaAllah and

24:07provides a fully functioning classroom for children in the camps alhamdulillah i'm involved in that

24:11project i'm also with islam channel going to be starting a podcast soon so alhamdulillah i'm looking

24:15forward to that because we're just working out how that's the exactly how it's going to look and

24:19there's a possibility as well of an audio book on the seerah so there's a book that's been written in the uk

24:24in english called the simple seerah it's at a level of a non-religious people or people who are just

24:29practicing a little bit who don't know much about the seerah and they want to do an audio book and

24:33they're considering me inshallah as one of the voices to narrate that i'm looking forward to that

24:37project as well alhamdulillah what would you like to say is your final comments alhamdulillah i would say

24:42really as an advice to myself first and foremost just keep going back to the basics the life of the

24:48prophet muhammad when we need inspiration to look at how he dealt with things how did he deal with

24:53children how did he deal with his wives his family the more we can learn from his example and and we

25:00won't learn that by osmosis we have to study we have to learn it you have to read about it you have to

25:05make that effort to go towards allah to go towards his prophet and then allah will come running towards

25:11us and that really is has been my experience of my life is that every time you take a small step

25:16towards allah allah comes running towards you you know and the times of difficulty these are blessing

25:22this is allah giving you a nudge a little nudge come back come back and you know the biggest thing

25:27i see amongst the youth is the trick of the shaitan that because i have a girlfriend or because i smoke

25:33marijuana or because i drink alcohol or because i go to a nightclub or because i am then islam is not

25:39for me i i can't i can't be follow my faith and do that this is a lie no one is beyond in fact islam

25:46is there for the sinner islam is there for the lost it's for the person who has nothing it's for the

25:51person who who thinks that they that they're beyond hope this is who is there for allah is always always

25:57so if you if you can't do everything don't do nothing do something whatever you can do keep

26:01the door open even if it's just one step that you're taking keep making that step inshallah and

26:06allah will make it easy

26:13you

“I Made a Deal With God!” - Emotional Revert Story of Rahim Jung

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