Darren, the outsider finding his place in Islam | Where Race Meets Religion

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  • @abduh-vn7tm
    @abduh-vn7tm 2 дні тому +67

    As someone who is mixed of Yemeni and Chinese-Indonesian, i do wonder if my chinese ancestors feel exactly like this when they converted. Always happy to see another Chinese muslim fellow. And to Darren, you might not have a muslim family yet (May Allah SWT guide them) but a Chinese Muslim family can come and start from you. InshaAllah everything is good and well for you, Darren. Both in this life and the next.

  • @gelopza
    @gelopza День тому +23

    Asalamualaikum Darren. I make dua for your success and happiness in this world and the hereafter.

  • @noa0766
    @noa0766 2 дні тому +30

    My late mum, may Allah bless her, was a Chinese convert with close families in Singapore. Even though, she has long passed, we continue to visit our Chinese families for New Year every year. So Darren , I doa that Allah preserve your family ties and may you remain strong in faith.

  • @rehtafrey
    @rehtafrey 3 дні тому +77

    someone told me a person who had this same concern during iftar. this person decided to iftar at a different mosque every night and found some sort of happiness in doing that. maybe you can try it this year insyaAllah.

  • @nastsan
    @nastsan 2 дні тому +11

    Allahumma barik Darren. May Allah bless you.
    - Brother from Malaysia

  • @yut576
    @yut576 3 дні тому +29

    It is heartening and progressive of this channel to show Muslim reverts esp Singapore Chinese.
    We pray to Allah he opens up the heart even more ppl...like Darren said Islam saved him.
    To brother, Darren may Allah lead you a Muslimah so you won't feel alone in this life journey.

  • @rodriguesroneyjoseph6113
    @rodriguesroneyjoseph6113 2 дні тому +55

    Assalamualaikum. Hi Darren, I am an Eurasian race and a Muslim living in Singapore.
    I am very proud of my Eurasian race and culture, and also, I am definitely proud of my belief and being a Muslim.
    Can I contact you for friendship. Inshallah.

  • @raniayoussef5599
    @raniayoussef5599 День тому +2

    This was inspiring, duaa's for you from Egypt. May Allah guide us all to his most righteous path

  • @HaizamShah
    @HaizamShah 3 дні тому +36

    Masya'Allah, didn't know you are a revert Darren! As a born Muslim, I am always intrigued with stories of reverts especially in Singapore's context. I understand that reverts in Singapore are minorities even within the Malay-Muslim community. We could do more to be honest.
    Nevertheless, as a fellow Muslim, I pray that your journey will always be eased by Him insyaAllah.

  • @fafard47
    @fafard47 3 дні тому +15

    Hi Darren. Have been a following your journey for quite some time now. mad proud with where you are at now.

  • @danialcruz9221
    @danialcruz9221 2 дні тому +4

    May Allah bless you brother Darren ❤

  • @neutroyaz
    @neutroyaz 3 дні тому +15

    When it comes to iftar or Raya, you could take that initiative ... buy the food for your family to have dinner /iftar together even if they're not fasting ... for Raya, make the house feel festive, have special dishes, invite your Muslim friends over so that your family can feel involved ..

  • @triglynx
    @triglynx 2 дні тому +2

    This kind of story coming from Singapore, or Malaysian Chinese new revert is really uplifting & warming my heart. Alhamdulillah, Allahu akbar.
    Now it's time to find a nice Muslim girl to build a family with.

  • @anDar8708
    @anDar8708 2 дні тому +1

    So well articulated. It's obvious he is a well read man and has thought long and hard about life and Islam. I enjoyed this, thank you.

  • @HasnahAhmad-c8e
    @HasnahAhmad-c8e 2 дні тому +2

    Asalam Darren, may Allah grant u patience and guidance throughout ur journey in becoming a better Muslim..aamin😊

  • @domainadministrator4952
    @domainadministrator4952 3 дні тому +11

    Hi Darren.
    Hey mate, you be alright.
    Ba alwie it the place to be. It is home. I fly back just to be there for Iftar. You have pick for yourself an awesome place. Cheers mate Good on you.

  • @abdulharris9793
    @abdulharris9793 День тому +1

    Assalaamu'alaykum Warahmatullaahi Wabarakaatuhu, Salaam from Jakarta, Indonesia 🇮🇩

  • @Apricotenak
    @Apricotenak 51 хвилина тому

    Darren, may Allah give you more strength and patient

  • @namamihar
    @namamihar 2 дні тому +3

    Knowing your experience iftar alone becoz you are new in Islam, really open my eyes. If you are my neighbour definitely I ll invite you to have it in my house together with my family. Take care brother...

  • @tictochelvetica5517
    @tictochelvetica5517 11 годин тому

    My Grandma s a chinese Indon and found Islam as she married Grandpa yet she kept striving in understanding Islam through good scholars and yes She died as a proud Muslim and taught us to follow a religion which teaches donation, modesty and to seek education and self-improvement are part of the practice.Whoa..Islam it is😊

  • @shazminbahari32
    @shazminbahari32 2 дні тому +2

    Mashaallah Darren, tabarakallah. Take your time, brother. I pray for your steadfast.

  • @rodzitazainal19
    @rodzitazainal19 День тому

    Assalamu’alaikum Darren, my respect for you for persevering and may Allah to make your journey easy, give you sabar and make your heart steadfast Insya’Allah

  • @hrshsln6768
    @hrshsln6768 День тому +1

    I only just see clips of you in Plan B, now that I found out you’re a Muslim, Alhamdulillah Darren, Barakallah Feekum.

  • @ajshaari2733
    @ajshaari2733 11 годин тому

    Serve your parents to your best Darren. Be good and respect them. In shaa Allah you will be blessed.

  • @wicknotjohn
    @wicknotjohn 2 дні тому +1

    assalamualaikum brother Darren, allah loves you, prophet muhammad saw loves you and as i, your brother in islam. my wife is chinese muslim and she feels everything you are made aware of in terms of family. youre not alone as there are people like her and you in the somewhat same predicament, make the best of allah's hardship and he rewards as he wills. ameen. allah bless you

  • @TheStoicMindset
    @TheStoicMindset 3 дні тому +8

    Alhamdulillah. You can pray for your family in a good sense Darren, thus you are not truly “isolated”. Pray for their well being, for their spirituality, for their happiness and health. That way you are “connected” to everyone in your family. :-) may Allah swt grant you with good tidings, blessings and insya Allah soulmate for you to start a family soon. Aamiin Allahumma Aamiin.

  • @eagleeyes5700
    @eagleeyes5700 2 дні тому +1

    Alhamdulillah you are very strong bother Darren

  • @maverickmediaworks
    @maverickmediaworks 3 дні тому +4

    Alhamdulillah brother...

  • @MNAinYYC
    @MNAinYYC День тому

    Barakallahufeek my dear brother Darren.

  • @shaikhaalattas7399
    @shaikhaalattas7399 День тому

    U can have iftar in the mosque. All mosque in Singapore provide iftar. Of course Baalwi as well. Alhamdulilah. Stay strong dear Daren. My doa for u

  • @nurulainmohdkhalid360
    @nurulainmohdkhalid360 2 дні тому +2

    Abu Huraira reported: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said, “Islam began as something strange and it will return to being strange, so blessed are the strangers.”

  • @MuhammadAshraffimreallysorry
    @MuhammadAshraffimreallysorry 2 дні тому +2

    love you brother Darren.

  • @zareenapakermohd5194
    @zareenapakermohd5194 2 дні тому +1

    MashaAllah Alhamdulilah…Allah gave you Hidayah🤲🏾 Welcome to the family 🌈

  • @dibodiib5828
    @dibodiib5828 2 дні тому +2

    I miss the old me so much 😪

  • @ZAbdul-fl5bm
    @ZAbdul-fl5bm 2 дні тому

    Assalamualaikum brother ,Alhamdulillah that Allah has guided you to Islam. May Allah bless you with a good righteous God- fearing wife who will be a joy to your life, Aameen. Alhamdulillah and may Allah increase your knowledge in Islam and put iman in your heart, Aameen.

  • @nahla1502
    @nahla1502 День тому

    Build your own family, Darren. May Allah bless you and your future family.
    And may Allah give your family hidayah. Aameen 🤲❤

  • @anwarabdullah2887
    @anwarabdullah2887 2 дні тому +1

    Masjid Baalawi is beautiful. Whenever I visit Singapore, I try to visit the mosque.

  • @Mohammed-tt4fu
    @Mohammed-tt4fu 2 дні тому +2

    May ALLAH guide and protect you along your journey and May ALLAH guide the hearts of your parents and extended families to ISLAM❤☪️ ❤🕋

  • @junglecity90
    @junglecity90 2 дні тому +1

    I met you before in Masjid ArRabitah a long time ago. My elder sister was a teacher in your JC in charge of Malay dance.

  • @IsaacRizard
    @IsaacRizard 2 дні тому +14

    Maybe you should start a family. Maybe that will help you to create that familial bond.

    • @arjandeboer651
      @arjandeboer651 День тому +1

      Please no….. enough Muslim crap already

    • @IsaacRizard
      @IsaacRizard 23 години тому +2

      @arjandeboer651 Do I seems like I care about your toxicity? 😏😏😏

  • @goabaridreamer6659
    @goabaridreamer6659 2 дні тому +1

    Salam brother. I pray that you soon find a soulmate and marry and have your own Muslim family in shaa Allah.

  • @lifeisrandom4400
    @lifeisrandom4400 День тому

    Life as revert big respect 🙂

  • @chairmanrosethewisegentleman
    @chairmanrosethewisegentleman День тому +1

    Please contact nearby muslim chinese community. I heard of Ferdaus Chia have a community of muslimnreverts in singapore so Darren would not feel lonely or left behind.

  • @SyazaJaydon
    @SyazaJaydon День тому +1

    DOOD internet was where i learn abt islam too and i mean it worked out pretty well ig

  • @peppergirlrocks
    @peppergirlrocks 2 дні тому +2

    ok Darren, You said "if only". Can. Possible. InShaAllah. You find a Malay muslim girl, get married, and move in with her family.

  • @nabilikhwansalim7207
    @nabilikhwansalim7207 2 дні тому +1

    You are welcome to my house anytime bro,but I’m in kl !come next fasting month 😊

  • @Ziggernaut
    @Ziggernaut 2 дні тому +7

    Ok brother Darren next goal in life find a wife. 👍🏼✋🏼✌🏼

  • @raflizarusli
    @raflizarusli День тому +1

    Get married. Your life will change

  • @soupknot83
    @soupknot83 2 дні тому

    yeah Darren! The Polyglot

  • @hafizhassan9786
    @hafizhassan9786 День тому

    Salam Darren, just find a nice Muslim lady or someone you fall in love and willing to join your faith, so you can settle down and have your own family. Many reverts mostly women do that as its not easy to live alone as a new Muslim, even you have friends.

  • @H3rx
    @H3rx День тому +1

    Darren, Salafiyyah is right. I sugguest you read books by Sheikh Ibn Taymiyyah and Mohammad ibn Wahab.

  • @aamfatima852
    @aamfatima852 2 дні тому +1

    I am your sister from Yemen, and by Allah I only spoke out of hunger and distress. My mother, my brothers, and I lessons and tears. We are in a situation that only God knows about. God is sufficient for us, and He is the best disposer of affairs for those who broughtOh people, we are your sisters, by God 😭😭😭 We do not even find a loaf of bread inside the house that would satisfy you, oh nation of Muhammad. People are brothers. Oh God, make your righteous servants subservient to us. Oh God, make your righteous servants subservient to us. My appeal to every Muslim, oh Lord, if he sees this message, may He prolong his life, make him happy, and cover him. May God reward him. God is sufficient for me, and He is the best disposer of affairs. There is no power or strength except with God. Oh people, oh nation of Muhammad, oh people of goodness, oh people of mercy. We are your sisters and your children. By God, we do not even find a loaf of bread inside the house that would satisfy you. Oh nation of Muhammad, I only spoke out of extreme hunger and distress. My mother, sisters, and I are displaced from our homes because of the war. We are in a state that no one knows about except God. God is sufficient for us, and He is the best disposer of affairs, against those who brought us to this state 💔💔 By God Almighty, I only wrote this appeal out of extreme poverty and poverty, oh people. I beg you by God Almighty, Lord of the Mighty Throne, that I do not have food at home. By God, my brothers and sisters have been sitting around for two days. Without food, by God our situation is very difficult, we are 4 people in the house and my father passed away and there is no one to support us and we live in a rented house and we cannot pay the rest of the rent. I am not lying to you nor deceiving you nor cheating you. I am a Yemeni girl displaced because of the war between me and my family over a rent dispute and the owner of the house. By God, my brother comes every day and humiliates us and talks about us and wants us to go out to the street because we are unable to pay him the rent. The neighbors saw us crying and talked to the neighbors again and gave us a deadline until the end of the week and we swore to God to let us out of the street now we are in arrears of 60 thousand Yemeni riyals for 3 months rent may God have mercy on us our country is suffering because of this war and we do not find our daily sustenance and we live my mother and sisters our father passed away may God have mercy on him and we do not have anyone in the world to come to us in these harsh circumstances my little sisters went out to the street and saw the neighbors eating and stood at their door giving them even a piece of bread and by God in whose hand is the heavens and the earth they closed the door and kicked them out and they came back crying dying of hunger no one has mercy on them and now the holiday has come back to me if no one of us helps us with a kilo of flour by God we will die of hunger brother I seek refuge in God and then in you and I want your help for the sake of God I ask you by God you love goodness and help me even if it is about the rent of the house send me a WhatsApp message on this number 00967717413452 and ask for my card name and send it and do not delay may God compensate you with all good My little sisters, look at their situation and help us and save us before they throw us out into the street and humiliate us or my family and I die of hunger. We ask you by God, if you are able to help us, do not delay on us, and may God reward you with good.'~~_«%•&»_~~_~&:»'////;&&;&;&;;&🎉😢😢😢😢;&;&&&//&..,!~~~♡♡~~~♡~~♡~•~•••••~•(・|.}]◤)~♡~♡~;l.i.i.i¡¡.i.i.l.|-.»◇◇~~،،،.،،،،،،-,,,,.,،،،,،،,,،،،،،،،|😭💔|😭|🎉😊😢😢😊

  • @akeel6328
    @akeel6328 2 дні тому

    Who gave you the idea that Salafis are the strictest and literalist and being a literalist means being strict and not the other way around?

  • @goodboybenji95
    @goodboybenji95 2 дні тому

    good

  • @electricfence3152
    @electricfence3152 2 дні тому +1

    In shaa Allah you'll find a righteous wife and can start your own family. I will make duaa for you:)

  • @mohammadsofyanabdullah2061
    @mohammadsofyanabdullah2061 4 години тому

    Tabarakallah fiik Daren

  • @Mrfit-m9x
    @Mrfit-m9x День тому +1

    Good decision...see u in jannah

  • @pearlperfume28262
    @pearlperfume28262 2 дні тому

    Assalammualaikum Brother Darren, I am happy to see more you revert in Singapore. Allah guides those He will. How can contact you in person. Do you have fb which I can DM you.

  • @arjandeboer651
    @arjandeboer651 День тому +1

    Try Christianity. Which means respecting women etc.

  • @shazminbahari32
    @shazminbahari32 2 дні тому

    Mashaallah Darren, tabarakallah. Take your time, brother. I pray for your steadfast.