Mohammed Hijab interviews Andrew Tate after his conversion to Islam. Hijab says 80-90% of Muslims support Tate, though vocal minorities online object. Islamic teaching holds that repentance wipes away prior sins, and God may transform bad deeds into good for those who repent and do good works.
Assalamualaikum warahmatullahi wa barakatuh. We are in the presence of a cultural icon, a physical specimen, a controversialist, a master orator, a champ. And we've also got Andrew Tate.
That was smooth. I like that. I was sitting there thinking, I'll take this introduction. I'll take this, but thank you.
How are you doing, man? I'm good, G. You're good? Yeah.
Yeah, man.
Congratulations on your Islam, bro.
Man, thank you, my friend.
You know, the Muslim community really welcomes you, man.
Yeah, it's been pretty divided. We've had a. I've had a whole bunch of support.
Yes.
Obviously, there's been some people who are not quite pleased about the idea. I think when you have a passionate subject and people that are truly engulfed in an idea, you're going to have some degree of polarization.
I think that maybe when you look in the online space, that might be your impression, but in reality, on the ground, I mean, that's definitely not the case. I would say the vast majority of people, 80, 90%, are completely happy about this. And it's just. It's just that the minority have a very loud voice.
Well, that's exactly it. That's the whole problem with the Internet as a whole. Not just Islam, but the Internet as a whole is about vocal minorities that look. Look much larger than they are. Right?
Yeah.
And I agree with you, and I'd like to. I like to hear that. But the reason I know what you're saying is true is because it's the same. Even in my case, in other subjects online, I have all this. Some kind of hate or people trying to disagree with me. But when I walk through life, I have 30,000 interactions with people. Not a single one's ever been negative ever.
So it's.
It is crazy how the vocal minority is amplified.
The main thing to note, though, is that Islam, it completely wipes away your sins. I mean, most of the companions of the Prophet had done many things, which are heinous. And polytheism, I mean, for us as Muslims, polytheism is the worst thing you can do.
Yeah.
And so there is a Hadith of the Prophet Muhammad where he states that Islam, it completely. It destroys everything before it, means it wipes away everything before it. In other words, your slate is absolutely clean. Now, if there are some people who are actually coming and giving you a bit of a hard time, that's actually their problem. Because in reality, honestly, bro, this is completely un. Islamic. I mean, so that's the first thing. There's actually a verse in the Quran, interestingly enough as well, which says that if you become a Muslim, whoever repents and believes and does good works, then God will that God will change their bad deeds into good deeds. So how does that make you feel?
Well, yeah, that's obviously fantastic to hear and good to know. And it's interesting because I've spent very little attention, very little time paying attention to the negative comments, because I don't in general. But on this particular subject, a few people were forwarding me, like, the profiles of somebody or of the people who were unhappy with my conversion, and they weren't living very Islamic lives themselves. So it's kind of funny to look at.
If these are God's chosen people then God chose them to test the rest of us.
