Omar Suleiman

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Lex Fridman Podcast · #352 – Omar Suleiman: Islam · 17 Jan 2023 podcast

Are you going to read the Quran yourself?

Are you going to investigate for yourself what it is that this faith has to offer and find in it a great sense of wisdom, a great sense of beauty, a great sense of truth?

And I think that for a lot of people, they find that Islam has such a beautiful combination of the intellectual proofs as well as the spiritual experiences that often combine what people seek in the Western and the Eastern religions.

So I had an interesting two weeks, two weeks in a row,

This was August, two weeks in a row.

I had someone who converted to Islam that went from being, that started off as a Methodist, went from being a Methodist to being a Buddhist to being a Muslim.

So two weeks in a row, I had a Methodist turned Buddhist turned Muslim.

And I called, yeah, I called my Methodist friends.

I have a lot of Methodist pastors in the city that I work with.

And I said, what's going on here, man?

You're sending people onto this interesting journey of Buddhism and then Islam.

But both of them had a very similar story, which is that they had sought in Buddhism, for example, some of the meditative practices that are found.

That really Western religion, which has been dominated by capitalism and dominated by very material things and can be very unfulfilling.

They found that in some of the Eastern philosophies and the meditative practices.

And then they came to Islam.

And it combines their belief in sort of the Abrahamic way.

It merged their belief in one God and the prophets like Abraham and Moses and Jesus, peace be upon them all, with a deep tradition of meditative practices, of consciousness, of connection to God on a regular basis.

And they found that to be very fulfilling, both intellectually and spiritually.

And so I was like, that's interesting, you know, two people in two weeks that went through that journey.

So I think Islam is very wholesome, comprehensive when people actually approach it with humility and appreciate what it has to offer.

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