Where did we come from and where are we going? That is the theme of this talk by Khalid Yasin.
At the end of this lecture, Khalid Yasin convinces a few non-Muslims that Islam has the answers to these fundamental questions in life. Most of them accept Islam at the end of the lecture.
Why These Two Questions
Because everybody has asked them, and almost nobody has been given an answer that holds. Origin and destination are the two questions a person returns to at every significant moment of his life — a birth, a death, a diagnosis — and modern life offers remarkably little on either.
Starting there rather than with doctrine means the listener is already interested before Islam is mentioned. That is the structure of the lecture and the reason it works on audiences with no religious background.
Who It Is For
Da'wah above all — this is one to lend rather than to keep. Also worth watching for anyone who does da'wah, as a demonstration of how to open a conversation without starting an argument.
About Shaykh Khalid Yasin
Shaykh Khalid Yasin, a former Christian, is the Executive Director of the Islamic Teaching Institute (ITI), an organization dedicated to the work of da'wah. He studied Arabic in Madinah and in Cairo, and had many mentors and teachers who tutored him in Fiqh us-Sunnah, Fiqh us-Seerah and Islamic history, as well as in the memorization and recitation of the Quran.
He is what is known as a da'ee — someone who speaks publicly about the Islamic faith in order to invigorate the spiritual and moral conscience of his listeners, and to educate and inform people about Islam. He has spent most of his working life doing exactly that, and he is among the most widely heard English-speaking speakers in the field.
