Btw, when I was sitting in the ballieu library today, a chinese man approached me and asked: Do you know if the prayer room has a copy of the Quran?

I answered: No, but we have many copies in our Prayer Space in Pelham Street.
So I deciced to bring him all the way to Pelham street which is approximately 7mins walk from our current location and depends of the traffic.

The Prayer Space is off-campus but thank God we still have a space to pray. It is essential because we pray 5 times a day, not once a week. And before our prayer, we have to purify ourselves by washing some parts of our body including the feet. So it is very inconvenience for us to purify ourselves in the public toilets.

Along the way I asked him why did he need the Quran for. Apparently he needed for his research in regards to intercultural communication between malay speakers and something I cant remember. He came from Malaysia so he has friends who are Muslims.

I told him of the importance of looking for authentic sources rather than just randomly by any books in Islam in random bookshops. I told him of the complexity of Arabic which is to be understood in the context rather than just merely translate. He seemed to understand and was very grateful Alhamdulillah. May Allah guide him to the truth.

So yeah I felt a little bit uncomfortable that I was the one who brought him all the way to the prayer space. I thought of 'passing him' to a brother so that he cud show the guy how to purify ourselves, how do we pray etc. But there were no brothers in the Bros section because the prayer time is in an hour. He also realized that the Musallah(Prayer Space)is pretty far from the campus.

When I brought him to the brothers section, he asked me if he has to remove his shoes. I was about to laugh because I did it unconsciously and forgot to tell him. Luckily he noticed that I took off my shoes before entering. and gave him a copy of THE NOBLE QURAN with summarized interpretation by Darussalam Publishing.

It is very pleasing to see that they are people who are interested to know about Islam as such in a panel discussion we had last two weeks during the Islamic Awareness Week where we had 2 speakers, Bro Wasseem and Bro Yassir to talk about the Universality of Islam and The Misconceptions in Islam followed by Question & Answer Session. The discussions were very interesting when some atheist asked some questions about verses in the Quran which seems 'contradicting' to the teachings of Islam. such as Surah anNisaa : 34

Later he found out that he got himself a distorted version of the Quran interpreted by a Jewish Scholar which is pretty awkward. I wonder why....

Some of the distortions is the translation of Sura As-Saff which was translated as The Hordes rather than the Ranks.

May Allah guide all of us to the straight path inshaAllah.
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