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Yusuf Estes
Yusuf Estes (born Joseph Estes, 1944) is an American preacher from Texas who converted from Christianity to Islam in 1991. He claims to have been a Muslim Chaplain for the United States Bureau of Prisons through the 1990s, and to have served a Muslim delegate to the United Nations World Peace Conference for Religious Leaders held at the U.N. in September 2000.
Active in Islamic missionary work in the United States, Estes has served as a guest presenter and a keynote speaker at various Islamic events. and on Islamic satellite TV channels. Estes was named as the Islamic Personality of the Year at the Dubai International Holy Quran Award ceremony on 8 August 2012.[4] Estes's Islamic background is Salafi
The story of his conversion to Islam
During the two months, but spent almost an Egyptian Muslim, with his family at their home discovered the existence and way of life and his livelihood and his regime and through discussion with the new things they did not teach it about Muslims and not have Knsary. In one day he said to him and his father: he will come to us a man from Egypt may evaluate trade with him in the sale of various commodities. I rejoiced in myself and I said, we will expand our business and become an international trade extends to the land so huge - I mean, the Sphinx - and then told him his father: But I want to tell you that this man, who Saotina Muslim businessman. Estes said, annoyed: No Muslim would not Otkabl him. He said his father: You must be offset. Estes said: never.
And his father insisted on his view that corresponds to the Egyptian Muslim Estes then waived his insistence that he was to live with his father in his home and feared to cause a problem He can not stay with him. However to date for the meeting was attended by Estes wearing a hat that read: Jesus is Lord. Commented Saliba great in his belt, and grabbed a copy of the Bible in his hand and came to the meeting table in this way, then he went on to talk about his religion and attacks on Islam and Muslims by the distorted image that he had, and he was a very quiet rah-rah Estes and sucked Berodth then invited Estes to stay them in their house, and the house contains Estes and his wife and his father then came the Egyptian and hosted as well as a priest last but follow Catholic doctrine.
Details and background
Vsaroa are four of the five Authors Christians and Muslim Egyptian Ami. Estes and his father of the doctrine Protestant Christian, along with a Catholic priest doctrine and wife Estes which was one of the doctrine of fanatic his side of Zionism was with them, and the father of Estes read the Bible from an early age and became a calling a position recognized in the Church, the Catholic priest has 12 years of experience in the call in the Americas and Estes wife was following the doctrine of neo-evangelicals who has Zionist leanings, and Estes himself studied the Bible and the doctrines of Christianity and chose some of them during his life and finished earning his doctorate in theological science degree.
Bible and the Koran
They were Christians in the house, each bringing a different version of the Bible and Taatnaakecon differences in Christian doctrine and in different Gospels on a round table and a Muslim sitting with them and marvel at the differences in their books. It was with the father of Estes in that period the King James Version was with him a copy Rivazd Edition - references and written again - that says that in the King James Version lot of mistakes large and Ataiwam. As the Christians because they see the large number of errors in the King James Version had to write it again and correct what they saw of the big mistakes. The third and the Bible with Estes wife is a copy of the contemporary pastor Jimmy Soaghert It is worth mentioning that when Jimmy Soaghert Muslim Sheikh Ahmed Deedat its sight in front of people, said: I am not a scholar of the Gospel. How Angela man writes that he is not fully the gospel world and claims to be from God. The Catholic priest was to have another version of the doctrine of the 73 books of the Bible in the Protestant doctrine is subject to 66 different books of all the Gospels and within many differences. Estes said: Vsolna Egyptian Muslim was named Muhammad: How different copy of the Koran with you? He said: We do not have only one copy, and the Koran is Arabic language as it was revealed more than 1400 years. This answer was a thunderbolt.
Search for truth
On the other hand it was a Catholic priest has the reaction from his church and objections and contradictions with his faith and Catholic doctrine. With that he was calling for this religion and doctrine for 12 years but he did not firmly believe that the doctrine is correct, and breaches in matters of important doctrine. And the father of Estes was believed that the Bible was written by the people and not a revelation from God, but they wrote it and they thought it revelation and his wife believe in Angelha many mistakes, but they were of the view that origin where it is when God but Estes was there are things in the Bible did not believe her because he was sees contradictions many in it, it is those things that he was asking himself and others: How is God one and three at the same time priests renowned asked globally about it and they answered very silly answers can not be for any sane person to believe her and said to them: How can I be an advocate of Christian and I know people that God one person and three people at the same time, I was not convinced how he persuaded others do.
Some of them said to him,
: This command does not show nor illustrated Tell the people: This is a vague and must believe in Him and some of them said to him: You can be illustrated that an apple has a crust from abroad pulp from the inside as well as the cores inside, was the apple of the examples provided by the Estes of Muhammad is that His answer was awkward for them. He said: If the apple which more than a grain nuclei Vsttadd gods and thus can be where Dodd, may be fetid. Then we made him an example of where the egg shells and yolk and the whites, he said: not true that this is an example of God Vawhith which may be more than yolks Vtaatadd gods, may be fetid. Then they offered him many examples, but every time he embarrass them. Estes and since he was a Christian and a preacher and an advocate of Christianity could not be convinced that the issue of the Trinity did not find who can convince them Homo sapiens.
Debate and guidance
On the whole .. when we were sitting in our house four of us Christians, the religious with the Egyptian Muslim (Muhammad) and discuss matters of belief keen to call this Muslim to Christianity in several ways .. Was his answer specific, saying: I am ready to follow your religion if you have in your religion is nothing better of which I have in my religion. We said: Of course there is here. He said Muslim: I'm ready if Otpettm me to prove it and guide. I said to him: We have no debt associated with evidence and reasoning and rationality .. It is something we have a Muslim just pure belief! How can you prove it with evidence and guide the Muslim said, but Islam is a religion and creed proof and evidence and reason and revelation from heaven. I said to him: If you have to rely on the side of the evidence and reasoning, I would love to take advantage of you and learn from you, and I know this. Then, when we discussed the issue of triangulation .. and all of us what he read in the version we did not find anything obvious .. we asked Brother (Muhammad): What is your belief in God in Islam. He said: (Say God is one. God Samad. Begets not. It was not a longer one), followed by Arabic and then translated for us sense .. as if his voice while the subsequent AF entered in my heart then .. and his voice was still ringing echoed in my ears To Aozal remember .. The meaning is not clear, there is no better nor stronger nor outlined and the most comprehensive of it at all. This was such a strong surprise us .. with what we live from delusions and contradictions in this matter and others.
He then asked the pastor Alcatoleki from Brother (Muhammad) that Astahbh him to see Muslims praying in the mosque, he took him with him and went to him twice a Islamic centers and saw the light of the Muslims and their prayers and stayed seen and then returned to the house. We went asking us the Catholic chaplain: any music types Bstkhaddmunha during prayer? He said: no one. We said Mtaajabin: worship the Lord and pray without music? !! Catholic priest said: Yes, and I bear witness there is no God but Allah and that Muhammad is the messenger of God. He announced his conversion to Islam. I said to him: Why ISLAM .. Oent uncertain than you do? I told him that I am bursting at myself and I hope I do not even converted to Islam before him ahead of me for the better. And my wife and I stepped up to the top .. And she said to me, I think I will not keep you long Baalagueta. I said to her: Why? Do you think I Soslm? She said: I do not. It's because I am the one converting to Islam ! I said to her: I, too, in fact I want to acknowledge. He said: I went out of the door of the house and I fell down on the ground in prostration towards the direction and I said, 'Oh my God .. guide me. I felt my chest directly cheerily of Islam .. .. then entered the house and had embraced Islam. Sheikh says: I see that all of our Islam was thanks to God and the good role model in that a Muslim who was a good call and before that a good deal, and as we have said: do not tell me .. but show me)).
Islam Sheikh Yusuf and his family in 1991, and his father died in the month of Dhul in 1422, and it was Sheikh Yusuf with his age attend his father appellant in the seat Age wheelchair to prayer and puts him in line to attend the congregational prayer (very touching scene with being the calling on the Christian Previously). Hardly a day goes by only delivers on one of his hands, and one day I received jubilantly declared loosely face and said: "Today the safest Sixty people !!". Sheikh certificate to teach not only continues, but only the new Muslims and their religion teaches them things, so it would cost to travel to them sometimes, and has several visible tapes lectures on Islam and terrorism, and the clear definition of Islam, and the understanding of Islam .. and others.
Activity Sheikh
A lecture on the day shift in Germany (German: Bekeerlingendag)
His audio tapes, including an audio tape titled: "Daddy .. tell me about God" "Dad .. Tell me about God." It is a dialogue between the Sheikh and the young daughter asks him about God answering, gentle manner is innocent, Sheikh said: When the recorded dialogue with my daughter I did not expect to be in a good material for publication only after they heard the tape after registration and found useful. "it goes on Sheikh most of his time in the call to God and teach people, a people so with his poverty and frequent Mnacth and bone impact and the need for her designee. occupies his time request support materials activities preaching and doing what he has to call, with good creation and the love of his people and the kindness of his handling of the permanent and remind him of God, being careful not to waste time but to call or talk beneficial or good deed, and his eagerness to teach his children by himself so as not to be influenced by the society dissolved nodal, intellectually and morally with the veil of his wife full and daughters.
He does not know Arabic that reads the Koran with a correct reading of the Koran, but he is very well versed in the issue of religions and the grace of God can convince or outdoing rivals from other religions fluently. And you see little while talking to some localized conversations from Saheeh Sunan Borkamha in place, nor is Sheikh jurist, or mufti, a modest and keen on science councils and benefit from science students and elders organized in the area and the lessons and shows his commitment to the application of the year which is very cool in the dialogue and debate with the Jews and the Christians and Mhajthm. Sheikh Borah, transparency and influenced also features connectivity always faith and focus on them and achieve uniformity and I told him once: I wish I could speak English like you said, and I hope I never knew of the English one character and I speak Arabic like you to read the words of my Lord and Oaklh and Otdberh.
Sheikh participated in the World Assembly of Muslim Youth Conference in Riyadh, visited the office to invite communities neighborhood knoll, and gave up on his hands four Filipinos on Friday, 08/19/1423 e tent in the call Batha in Riyadh. Who is an advocate in American prisons to visit Muslims and teach them their religion and their faith and guide them copies of the Holy Quran translated in English (Pocket PC version of the King Fahd Complex in Medina) and throws them simple lesson in faith and the pillars of Islam also attended by some of the prisoners from the non-Muslims and delivers a number of them in each Once.
And his Web site (Islam tomorrow islamtomorrow.com) is one of the advocacy sites of excellence in the presentation of Islam, advocating for dismantling puzzled Christians of their error, and Sheikh receives hundreds of messages on Buraydah and pursue new Muslims and teaches them and answer their questions and sometimes hampered by the follow-up site frequent traveling in States, advocacy and lectures at universities and visit Muslims in prisons and teach them their religion.
Christian criticism
Some Christians went currency preacher Yusuf Estes on some county deployed on the site Youtube, including clip him say that he saw Pharaoh in the city of Chicago in one exhibition and saw him opening his mouth, which is proof of his death by drowning as Alqran.walhakiqh said that the Koran did not specify the figure of Pharaoh and commentators differed in Personal identification Pharaoh Moses. Even science has not been able to prove that the mummy of Ramses II is intended pharaoh's body in the Koran. Any mummy any of the Pharaohs did not go out of Egypt, but the mummy of Ramses II, which I took to France in September 1976 under President Valery Giscard d'Estaing, to restore them and try to save them from damage. [Of the author of this opinion?]
Active in Islamic missionary work in the United States, Estes has served as a guest presenter and a keynote speaker at various Islamic events. and on Islamic satellite TV channels. Estes was named as the Islamic Personality of the Year at the Dubai International Holy Quran Award ceremony on 8 August 2012.[4] Estes's Islamic background is Salafi
The story of his conversion to Islam
During the two months, but spent almost an Egyptian Muslim, with his family at their home discovered the existence and way of life and his livelihood and his regime and through discussion with the new things they did not teach it about Muslims and not have Knsary. In one day he said to him and his father: he will come to us a man from Egypt may evaluate trade with him in the sale of various commodities. I rejoiced in myself and I said, we will expand our business and become an international trade extends to the land so huge - I mean, the Sphinx - and then told him his father: But I want to tell you that this man, who Saotina Muslim businessman. Estes said, annoyed: No Muslim would not Otkabl him. He said his father: You must be offset. Estes said: never.
And his father insisted on his view that corresponds to the Egyptian Muslim Estes then waived his insistence that he was to live with his father in his home and feared to cause a problem He can not stay with him. However to date for the meeting was attended by Estes wearing a hat that read: Jesus is Lord. Commented Saliba great in his belt, and grabbed a copy of the Bible in his hand and came to the meeting table in this way, then he went on to talk about his religion and attacks on Islam and Muslims by the distorted image that he had, and he was a very quiet rah-rah Estes and sucked Berodth then invited Estes to stay them in their house, and the house contains Estes and his wife and his father then came the Egyptian and hosted as well as a priest last but follow Catholic doctrine.
Details and background
Vsaroa are four of the five Authors Christians and Muslim Egyptian Ami. Estes and his father of the doctrine Protestant Christian, along with a Catholic priest doctrine and wife Estes which was one of the doctrine of fanatic his side of Zionism was with them, and the father of Estes read the Bible from an early age and became a calling a position recognized in the Church, the Catholic priest has 12 years of experience in the call in the Americas and Estes wife was following the doctrine of neo-evangelicals who has Zionist leanings, and Estes himself studied the Bible and the doctrines of Christianity and chose some of them during his life and finished earning his doctorate in theological science degree.
Bible and the Koran
They were Christians in the house, each bringing a different version of the Bible and Taatnaakecon differences in Christian doctrine and in different Gospels on a round table and a Muslim sitting with them and marvel at the differences in their books. It was with the father of Estes in that period the King James Version was with him a copy Rivazd Edition - references and written again - that says that in the King James Version lot of mistakes large and Ataiwam. As the Christians because they see the large number of errors in the King James Version had to write it again and correct what they saw of the big mistakes. The third and the Bible with Estes wife is a copy of the contemporary pastor Jimmy Soaghert It is worth mentioning that when Jimmy Soaghert Muslim Sheikh Ahmed Deedat its sight in front of people, said: I am not a scholar of the Gospel. How Angela man writes that he is not fully the gospel world and claims to be from God. The Catholic priest was to have another version of the doctrine of the 73 books of the Bible in the Protestant doctrine is subject to 66 different books of all the Gospels and within many differences. Estes said: Vsolna Egyptian Muslim was named Muhammad: How different copy of the Koran with you? He said: We do not have only one copy, and the Koran is Arabic language as it was revealed more than 1400 years. This answer was a thunderbolt.
Search for truth
On the other hand it was a Catholic priest has the reaction from his church and objections and contradictions with his faith and Catholic doctrine. With that he was calling for this religion and doctrine for 12 years but he did not firmly believe that the doctrine is correct, and breaches in matters of important doctrine. And the father of Estes was believed that the Bible was written by the people and not a revelation from God, but they wrote it and they thought it revelation and his wife believe in Angelha many mistakes, but they were of the view that origin where it is when God but Estes was there are things in the Bible did not believe her because he was sees contradictions many in it, it is those things that he was asking himself and others: How is God one and three at the same time priests renowned asked globally about it and they answered very silly answers can not be for any sane person to believe her and said to them: How can I be an advocate of Christian and I know people that God one person and three people at the same time, I was not convinced how he persuaded others do.
Some of them said to him,
: This command does not show nor illustrated Tell the people: This is a vague and must believe in Him and some of them said to him: You can be illustrated that an apple has a crust from abroad pulp from the inside as well as the cores inside, was the apple of the examples provided by the Estes of Muhammad is that His answer was awkward for them. He said: If the apple which more than a grain nuclei Vsttadd gods and thus can be where Dodd, may be fetid. Then we made him an example of where the egg shells and yolk and the whites, he said: not true that this is an example of God Vawhith which may be more than yolks Vtaatadd gods, may be fetid. Then they offered him many examples, but every time he embarrass them. Estes and since he was a Christian and a preacher and an advocate of Christianity could not be convinced that the issue of the Trinity did not find who can convince them Homo sapiens.
Debate and guidance
On the whole .. when we were sitting in our house four of us Christians, the religious with the Egyptian Muslim (Muhammad) and discuss matters of belief keen to call this Muslim to Christianity in several ways .. Was his answer specific, saying: I am ready to follow your religion if you have in your religion is nothing better of which I have in my religion. We said: Of course there is here. He said Muslim: I'm ready if Otpettm me to prove it and guide. I said to him: We have no debt associated with evidence and reasoning and rationality .. It is something we have a Muslim just pure belief! How can you prove it with evidence and guide the Muslim said, but Islam is a religion and creed proof and evidence and reason and revelation from heaven. I said to him: If you have to rely on the side of the evidence and reasoning, I would love to take advantage of you and learn from you, and I know this. Then, when we discussed the issue of triangulation .. and all of us what he read in the version we did not find anything obvious .. we asked Brother (Muhammad): What is your belief in God in Islam. He said: (Say God is one. God Samad. Begets not. It was not a longer one), followed by Arabic and then translated for us sense .. as if his voice while the subsequent AF entered in my heart then .. and his voice was still ringing echoed in my ears To Aozal remember .. The meaning is not clear, there is no better nor stronger nor outlined and the most comprehensive of it at all. This was such a strong surprise us .. with what we live from delusions and contradictions in this matter and others.
He then asked the pastor Alcatoleki from Brother (Muhammad) that Astahbh him to see Muslims praying in the mosque, he took him with him and went to him twice a Islamic centers and saw the light of the Muslims and their prayers and stayed seen and then returned to the house. We went asking us the Catholic chaplain: any music types Bstkhaddmunha during prayer? He said: no one. We said Mtaajabin: worship the Lord and pray without music? !! Catholic priest said: Yes, and I bear witness there is no God but Allah and that Muhammad is the messenger of God. He announced his conversion to Islam. I said to him: Why ISLAM .. Oent uncertain than you do? I told him that I am bursting at myself and I hope I do not even converted to Islam before him ahead of me for the better. And my wife and I stepped up to the top .. And she said to me, I think I will not keep you long Baalagueta. I said to her: Why? Do you think I Soslm? She said: I do not. It's because I am the one converting to Islam ! I said to her: I, too, in fact I want to acknowledge. He said: I went out of the door of the house and I fell down on the ground in prostration towards the direction and I said, 'Oh my God .. guide me. I felt my chest directly cheerily of Islam .. .. then entered the house and had embraced Islam. Sheikh says: I see that all of our Islam was thanks to God and the good role model in that a Muslim who was a good call and before that a good deal, and as we have said: do not tell me .. but show me)).
Islam Sheikh Yusuf and his family in 1991, and his father died in the month of Dhul in 1422, and it was Sheikh Yusuf with his age attend his father appellant in the seat Age wheelchair to prayer and puts him in line to attend the congregational prayer (very touching scene with being the calling on the Christian Previously). Hardly a day goes by only delivers on one of his hands, and one day I received jubilantly declared loosely face and said: "Today the safest Sixty people !!". Sheikh certificate to teach not only continues, but only the new Muslims and their religion teaches them things, so it would cost to travel to them sometimes, and has several visible tapes lectures on Islam and terrorism, and the clear definition of Islam, and the understanding of Islam .. and others.
Activity Sheikh
A lecture on the day shift in Germany (German: Bekeerlingendag)
His audio tapes, including an audio tape titled: "Daddy .. tell me about God" "Dad .. Tell me about God." It is a dialogue between the Sheikh and the young daughter asks him about God answering, gentle manner is innocent, Sheikh said: When the recorded dialogue with my daughter I did not expect to be in a good material for publication only after they heard the tape after registration and found useful. "it goes on Sheikh most of his time in the call to God and teach people, a people so with his poverty and frequent Mnacth and bone impact and the need for her designee. occupies his time request support materials activities preaching and doing what he has to call, with good creation and the love of his people and the kindness of his handling of the permanent and remind him of God, being careful not to waste time but to call or talk beneficial or good deed, and his eagerness to teach his children by himself so as not to be influenced by the society dissolved nodal, intellectually and morally with the veil of his wife full and daughters.
He does not know Arabic that reads the Koran with a correct reading of the Koran, but he is very well versed in the issue of religions and the grace of God can convince or outdoing rivals from other religions fluently. And you see little while talking to some localized conversations from Saheeh Sunan Borkamha in place, nor is Sheikh jurist, or mufti, a modest and keen on science councils and benefit from science students and elders organized in the area and the lessons and shows his commitment to the application of the year which is very cool in the dialogue and debate with the Jews and the Christians and Mhajthm. Sheikh Borah, transparency and influenced also features connectivity always faith and focus on them and achieve uniformity and I told him once: I wish I could speak English like you said, and I hope I never knew of the English one character and I speak Arabic like you to read the words of my Lord and Oaklh and Otdberh.
Sheikh participated in the World Assembly of Muslim Youth Conference in Riyadh, visited the office to invite communities neighborhood knoll, and gave up on his hands four Filipinos on Friday, 08/19/1423 e tent in the call Batha in Riyadh. Who is an advocate in American prisons to visit Muslims and teach them their religion and their faith and guide them copies of the Holy Quran translated in English (Pocket PC version of the King Fahd Complex in Medina) and throws them simple lesson in faith and the pillars of Islam also attended by some of the prisoners from the non-Muslims and delivers a number of them in each Once.
And his Web site (Islam tomorrow islamtomorrow.com) is one of the advocacy sites of excellence in the presentation of Islam, advocating for dismantling puzzled Christians of their error, and Sheikh receives hundreds of messages on Buraydah and pursue new Muslims and teaches them and answer their questions and sometimes hampered by the follow-up site frequent traveling in States, advocacy and lectures at universities and visit Muslims in prisons and teach them their religion.
Christian criticism
Some Christians went currency preacher Yusuf Estes on some county deployed on the site Youtube, including clip him say that he saw Pharaoh in the city of Chicago in one exhibition and saw him opening his mouth, which is proof of his death by drowning as Alqran.walhakiqh said that the Koran did not specify the figure of Pharaoh and commentators differed in Personal identification Pharaoh Moses. Even science has not been able to prove that the mummy of Ramses II is intended pharaoh's body in the Koran. Any mummy any of the Pharaohs did not go out of Egypt, but the mummy of Ramses II, which I took to France in September 1976 under President Valery Giscard d'Estaing, to restore them and try to save them from damage. [Of the author of this opinion?]