Omar Suleiman

ended up embracing a religion that they believed was the greatest source of destruction in the world.

And now it's the greatest source of peace for them in their own existence, in their own lives.

And so you have to be willing to engage in a sincere pursuit of wanting to know

and then be willing to engage in sincere commitment after you know, otherwise the heart rusts.

And so there's a process in the Quran talks about this of making the heart like fertile soil towards truth.

So you have a sincere pursuit, but then at some point, if you come to know, and then you ignore what you come to know, then the heart rusts and it becomes harder to recognize it the second time around and the third time around.

When people come to me and they say, you know, I'm looking for something.

I'm looking for God.

I'm looking for my purpose.

The first thing I tell them is I say, listen.

What you need to do is, if you're really looking for God and you believe in God, and there are often people that say, I believe in God, but I don't know where to go with this.

I know that there's something greater.

In Islam, we call that the fitrah, a natural disposition towards the belief in the existence of God.

But where do I go from here?

What do I do now?

And I say, the first thing you need to do is,

You need to sincerely say, oh God, guide me to the truth.

Call upon God sincerely, say I'm calling upon you alone and I'm asking you to guide me to the truth.

Show me what it is, right?

And that's the heart function.