Why Terrence Howard left Islam on PBD Podcast

0:00Did you ever become a Muslim? Yes, my name was Salaman, up until I was 13. And then how did you walk away from it? It was this brother, Yaku. Apparently he had castrated a homeless person for urinating on the mosque. He castrated him? Castrated. The conversation was he shouldn't have desecrated the Holy Tempo by urinating on the mosque. And so at that moment I started questioning Islam. So this clip went viral. And while there's nothing new about false information being spread on the internet to try and make Islam and Muslims look like savages. This particular reason is as easy to refute as it is absurd. And that's because there's such a well-known story on this exact topic that you find so many Muslims in the comments responding. Even Grock responds talking about it. So first I'm going to read the story and then I'm going to talk about why it's so well-known. A Bedouin entered the mosque while the prophet was sitting. He prayed, then when he was finished, he said, Oh, Allah have mercy upon me and Muhammad and do not have mercy on anyone along with us.

1:01The prophet peace be upon him, turned towards him and said, You have made narrow something that's very vast. It was not long before he was urinating in the mosque. So the people rushed to him. But the prophet peace be upon him. He stopped them and said poor bucket of water over it. You've been sent to make things easy for the people. You've not been sent to make things difficult for them. So while this viral story from Terence Howard, Shirley has countless people thinking that the Muslims would have castrated this Bedouin, the prophet Muhammad, Sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, himself, made sure that the Bedouin was not harmed. And this is a very well-known Hadith amongst Muslims. Why? Firstly, it clearly demonstrates the mercy of Allah and the mercy of his prophet, Alayhi sallam. In another narration when the man finished urinating, the prophet peace be upon him called him and said to him, These mosques are not places meant for urine and filth, but are only for the remembrance of Allah, prayer, and the recitation of the Quran. But there's another reason why this Hadith is so popular and well-known. And that is because when it comes to Islamic law, the first thing that someone studies is related to this Hadith. For example, at the University of Medina,

2:02we had to memorize this book. This Hadith about the Bedouin, urinating in the masjid is the fifth Hadith of this book that we had to memorize. This is a very popular book about Islamic law, called Bulug Al Maram. As you can see, the very first chapter is the book of purification. From the very first Ahadith in this chapter is the one about the Bedouin urinating in the masjid. And that's because from the very first practical things the Muslim has to do is pray the five daily prayers. But in order to perform the prayer, one needs to be in a state of purification, a state of Bulug. So from the very first things one studies when it comes to Islamic law is about water, is about purification, about cleanliness. But it also goes to show how things that are so incredibly obvious to Muslims, such common knowledge to Muslims can be completely unknown to non-Muslims. In fact, it's scary how easily they can be led to believe the complete opposite of what's true about Islam.