Oh Sean, this interview should be a series because it really doesn't teach a non Muslim much about Islam!! As an ex Muslim and someone who has been studying a slam and Christianity for many years and as an almost 40 years being a Christian, the more I study Islam the more I am convinced of being a Christian!! Praise God that He called my name and praise God for giving me the courage to follow His voice!! Jesus said my sheep knows my voice!!

Yes, invite David Wood or Sam Shamoun on

So sad to see the deception in Islam! May God reveal the truth to these people !

I genuinely do not know how you kept a straight face when he was talking about the English translations in the practices of the prophet

The beginning when he shows his books and says “bad translation” “weird stuff” .. they know their text has horrible things! They always go with the lie of language to confuse people and distract from facts

One thing about Arabic culture is that their hospitality is second to none. Islam itself is interesting, very works based. It is not a religion of peace however as Muhammad does instruct his followers to not be friends with infidels like Christians, Jews and others. Also the character of their god is completely different from God of the Bible and they deny that God has a son. We certainly do not worship the same God.

Thanks, Sean, for doing this interview. I look forward to follow-up conversations. I live in New Zealand, and my father was a Muslim refugee to this country in 1951. I grew up amongst the Muslim community and became a Christian in 1978 and pastor in 1985. I love Muslim people and value much of what I experienced with regards to hospitality and the food 😊. Your interview was so sensitive and brilliant. The iman is a lovely, thoughtful man. I will be praying. Well done. Every blessing

I’m sorry but he is not being honest about what the prophet taught. Apostasy is taken very seriously.

May you bring the light of Jesus in their lives✝

If this imam is 100 % honest i wonder how many muslims consider him a real Muslim ¿

Big fan of yours, Sean! Looking forward to seeing this interaction--being familiar with your work I'm confident it was full of love, truth but also firm in your convictions. - Micah

Keep in mind, they cannot ever be your friend. Everything they do is to deceive the infidels. I hate even having to say this.

Hope he get set free from this false religion and come to Jesus as Lord

So many comments about the imam being lukewarm, not a real Muslim, etc. completely missed the point... thank you Sean for being willing to actually sit down with someone of another faith and carving out this much time to just be available for an honest conversation. So many of us, myself included, form opinions and perspectives based on our own preconceptions of other people, instead of taking time to investigate honestly and sincerely. thank you for modelling how to do this with a spirit of charity and kindness while standing firm in your convictions! Definitely looking up to the follow-up content!

I prefer the David Wood, God Logic, etc. approach

Thanks for doing this Sean! It can be so uncomfortable reaching other circles, but encouraging watching you reach your neighbors! As someone in the Middle East, I'm honestly pretty shocked to hear his explanation of what Islam teaches. Would be interesting to hear more about the differences between Islam taught in the West vs the East. I know many others have suggested bringing David Wood onto the show! Totally adding to that vote of popular demand :)

*_Joh 14:6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life:_* *_no man cometh unto the Father, but by me._* *_Act _**_4:12_**_ Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved._* *_KJB_*

Sean I admire and commend your humble and gracious attitude toward everyone on your channel. I pray God blessed your friendships and that Jesus is glorified!

This was great, we need more content like this.

I loved it, Sean! Thank you! 🫶🏼

Great dialogue Sean. I look forward tk the episode and i hope you will continue to evangolise with Muslims. God bless

Outstanding thanks for this episode, I look forward to watching the follow-up

Wow, didn’t expect this. Great work, Sean.

Glory to God Please do more of these Sean Love the format

Dude love the new camera gear you are using! Good stuff!

Thoroughly enjoy most of the programs and thoughtful discussions. In this case, im surprised by the very many cuts. Is there a "full version " or at least maybe a statement from the Imam that he approves of the finished version?

Thank you for your visit. To the mosque. The imam was very friendly and understanding, too bad all imams are not this way.

I don’t see how Sean is advancing his christian apologist work with this project.

Great talk! I look forward to seeing more.

Not so sure about bringing an impressionable child there but I don’t know him so…

I enjoyed this! Thanks.

Sean, definitely i would speak to David Wood over Sam Shamoun. Sam has an incredible memory for recall of verses from the Qu’ran but i think his approach is not of love and it can be extremely antagonistic. I know people often will say that DW can be, but he is reactionary only when Islamists will be very much threatening of others. He always is respectful to any Muslims who are respectful toward him. His knowledge is fantastic. Andy (Bannister) is great obviously too - i am sure i saw something you guys collaborated on in a video before. I met him here in Scotland a few months ago at one of the bible colleges here. I recently read the Qur’an twice and had been studying a lot of Sunni Hadith and was so horrified at what i read direct from their sources. This is going to be a great conversation i am sure. I am just doing the cert through biola at the moment online, and contemplating the Masters as i had to leave my masters in nursing after my spinal injury, and i think the Lord has better plans ahead for me. Can’t wait to see this! Thank you for your ministry - it is a great help to so many of us.x

This is the equivalent of a lukewarm Muslim. He likes the community aspect, and he pays tribute to his family and traditions but ultimately it's a ruse.

9:05 notice how he doesn't answer directly. There's an avalanche of apostacy

That's a modern version of being invited to Islam.

love how you didnt just start w questions, you spent some time w him n let you know how serious you are

That was great. I liked the fact that he was humble enough to admit he didn’t know too much about Christianity to “debate “ it. Thank you for this.

I try to model my interaction with people who are different in their beliefs after the way Sean does. With respect gentleness and love.

Hey Sean, thank you for doing this. I met you at Calvary chapel montebello the ark and I specifically asked you about Islam. You mentioned you weren’t that familiar with Islam and gave me a couple of names to check out on KZfaq. Like David wood and others. I did mention I was not comfortable sharing David with my relative for some reasons. Like David is a little too confrontational. I am glad someone like yourself is making videos like this that I could share with my family and my relative who is Muslim. Thank you for reaching out to them this way. Also I love David woods content I think God is using him in a different way. ❤❤❤

Great video! Why were your shoes off during the interview? Did Tarik have his off too?

Sean, Great video, thanks for sharing. Do you think that some of the things Tarik said in the interview align with the writings of Islam? In one instance, he spoke regarding the beautiful tree and said something about Allah being caring towards people. Is this a characteristic of Allah as revealed in the Islamic writings? In another instance, he said that the Islamic religion encourages fostering interfaith relationships. Does this seem to align with the teachings of Islam? I agree that these are desirable/attractive characteristics, but do the Islamic writings support the idea of Allah possessing these traits? I really need to set aside some time to read the Quran for myself but wanted to reach out in the interim to see what you thought. I’ll be praying for Tarik and his family. Thanks in advance, Stetson

This was good and lighthearted, one thing I wish you asked him was; “which scholars convinced him or impacted him” when he was talking about scholars.

I love this. Thanks Sean

Yes to more interviews like this.

This conversation is so sweet. 💕 I pray the hearts behind it are genuine. Because Taqiyya and Kitman are known Islamic practices I do have suspicions, but I would really love to believe that people of different faiths can look at commonalities and work together in community.

He was very nice. It would be interesting if you asked him about the burning bush since he says he does not believe God manifested himself in physical form and that story is in the Quran.

This is so interesting. I've been invited to visit a mosque, but have never taken the opportunity. Oh, a minor point - the back-ground music is really distracting. Please don't have back-ground music; it makes it difficult to follow and understand the conversations. Otherwise, I love all of your videos.

Last year in May, I went on a missions trip there, and they were so very kind and gentle in explaining their beliefs ❤️ Imam is very kind

This Muslim is not being honest, or perhaps he doesn't really know what his religion teaches. The Quran and the Hadith makes it very clear.. "Sahih Bukhari [52:260] "...The Prophet said, 'If somebody (a Muslim) discards his religion, kill him. " "Quran [4:89] "They wish that you should disbelieve as they disbelieve, and then you would be equal; therefore take not to yourselves friends of them, until they emigrate in the way of God; then, if they turn their backs, take them, and slay them wherever you find them; take not to yourselves any one of them as friend or helper." There are more verses that teach to turn back those who leave Islam or kill them.

15:50 😂😂😂 he's quite funny. Ask him about the interfaith relationships in Muslim countries.

Fantastic conversation! Would love to know your son’s thoughts on it as well!

Yes! Follow up video!

great convo, congrats for being inquisitive as usual

I love almost everything Sean does. He is a blessing to the Christian community in almost every way. I'm only left with some general overall questions about the ultimate purpose of this of informational experience. I see the 'love your neighbour as yourself" at play here, and that is beautiful. What I'm not feeling is that a non-believer of a demonstrably false religion has been given a full platform to persuade folks about his belief. As an apologies, I would have appreciated more of a neutral ground meeting and discussing your beliefs. I'm not sure what the ultimate goal of this interview was? Dr. Nabeel Qureshi would have had a similarly friendly discussion with a muslim (though honestly, many muslims celebrated his death because he was considered a blasphemer) but he would have preached the gospel and or delivered a powerful apologetic for the Christian faith. There are so many issues with the Quran and it was reading the bible vs. the Quran that made him realize the Quran is so deeply flawed. Further, it is remarkable that a muslim demanded Sean's questions in advance. A Christian would never need that in any way whatsoever. Also, Muslims do not believe Jesus was crucified on the cross, they believe he 'swooned' and faked a death. Not this 'elevation.' That's a new false teaching. It's almost like Sean is trying to 'build bridges' with the Muslim community but my question is, to what end? What are you exposing your son to in this regard? There's much you can learn about all faiths by just visiting a Christian bookstore (though you have to be wary of those places these days.). Anyway, I just am left wondering where this series goes next? Not being critical or an armchair quarterback but just truly asking questions. Love you dude, you are still doing amazing things!

The question is, what exactly do they say in those prayers, like fathia and 9:29?

This is awesome! I admire so much that you did this. Civil discourse, what an anomaly in this day and age, and a great example to your son of how to be truthful and courteous.

Five seconds in and I already love this video!

Interesting!

That was beautiful but your hosts religion sounds alot nicer than what is in the Quran or is taught by Islam.

"Many will come from east and west, north and south, and sit at the table with Abraham in the kingdom of heaven." Surely Jesus was right here, and that the boundless love and mercy of God includes modern Muslims as well as ancient Romans.

Sean, Jay Smith, and his team have done a great job of uncovering many truths about Islam: The Book, the Man & the Place are 3 issues that they bring up. Did the prophet live anywhere close to Mecca or did he live in Petra or Jerusalem? Did Mecca even exist when Mohammad was supposed to live? Do we have a Qur'an that was composed anytime close to when Mohammad was supposed to have been alive? The Qur'an is supposed to be unchanged since Allah provided it. But Jay has a colleague, who has found about 30 different versions of the Arabic Qur'an, with about 90,000 differences in them. Unchanged? I look forward to your providing the truth about Islam in future podcasts.

Sean, you should interview David Wood!

"if i want my child to value the religion, he needs to see that i value the religion" Can i get an amen!

Great first move to establish a relationship then can talk about the deeper topics

Mary is the only woman named in the Qu'ran.

Sir sean, we wanna see you with david wood and sam shamoun........we wanna see you discussing with them

Why would Satan want to attack someone who's already lost?

I'm sorry but if they don't have Jesus they don't have the one true God

This was excellent! I pray the Father continues to reveal Himself more and more and that this man will experience & receive salvation from the true God through Jesus.

with all due respect, what was the point of this? you didn't challenge him on anything.

What relationship is he talking about? Has he even read the Koran? There is no love, mercy, or relationship with the Muslim God described in the Koran! He sounds like a new age nominal Muslim.

Sean I wouldn’t give too much weight to their level of hospitality though. Everyone’s on best behavior when they know they’re being watched and observed. I’m not going to lie, I didn’t love this episode bc I’m not quite sure what was meant to be accomplished for Christ, but I’d be willing to come back and watch more of the series bc I highly admire and respect you. I’m sure your intentions are good and so I would like to see how you progress these conversations.

I appreciated hearing this interview with an articulate, contemporary imam. I have no idea whether his "brand" of Islam is valid, orthodox, reformed or whatever. I like the man; I like his intellect; I like his wisdom (apart from his choice of faiths---which, given his heritage, is totally understandable). What I would love to hear (if a followup is done) is how, as a modern Western Muslim, he views the predominant portrayal of Allah, the Prophet, the Q'uran and the role of Muslims vis a vis "infidels" of another faith, e.g., Christianity or Judaism, we Westerners consistently get from the Arab world, in particular vis a vis Israel. Would be a very interesting take, I'm sure. Thanx, Sean.

I know Islam pretty well, having lived many years as a missionary in India. I believe that it is a massive deception. However at the same time when I listen to this Imam I can clearly see an enormous attraction to this faith. Most Churches cannot offer the security, stability, and order that Islam demonstrates here. The paradox is that we as Christians ought to be providing a much better version of this order. In the EU where I live "christian" society is complete chaos. Many people are converting to Islam to find security and order. The caricature of Islam being all radical Jihadists is not a viewpoint that we need to be taking seriously, these people are not like that. They do have the potential to become radicalised however. In the meantime it is good to have relationships with such people, many of them are like Cornelius who was a righteous man accepted by God.(Acts 10) Cornelius was able to proceed from Judaism to faith in Christ. In like manner we should be seeking to befriend these people and not shun them, as Peter was instructed in his vision. Well done Sean for this interview.

So wonderful to see God's children come together with respect, understanding friendship and love.

Dr Nabeel came from practising Muslim family and him too but he convert, even practising Muslim do want and do convert though they are not being given an opportunity to exercise their God's given free will cause threats they received

Im just here to thank Sean for all his extensive works for the Kingdom of our 3rce Holy God.

I don’t know a ton about being Muslim. But I think as a Christian what trips me up most is do they have a timeline the way that Christianity does? It sounds like since they were so open to kind of this - all religions are fine to be connected to that the world is eternal. Which is so crazy to me because “the signs of the times” are so clear to me. Maybe it’s just because I was born and raised Christian and never left. He was super nice and this helps me in my own kind of attitude like he said as a lot of people in America see Muslims as extremist. I met a Christian friend recently whose husband is Muslim and he seems very nice like this guy and totally not what I had planted in my head from other Christians. It’s too bad because we are supposed to share the gospel and not be afraid and yet many Christians are controlled by fear.

He spoke like Muslim with Christian values and even language (eq. "personal relationships with God")

This is AWESOME!!! Love the high production value and I was fascinated to hear a Muslim talk about his faith with no animosity or antagonism.

Afterwards Sean I hope you read what's in their most trusted sources. Or please invite David Wood on! I could say so much about this topic, but I'd rather leave you with this: 1 John 4:3 "but every spirit that does not acknowledge Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming and even now is already in the world." Galatians 1:6-9 "I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting the one who called you to live in the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel- which is really no gospel at all. Evidently some people are throwing you into confusion and are trying to pervert the gospel of Christ. But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach a gospel other than the one we preached to you, let them be under God’s curse! As we have already said, so now I say again: If anybody is preaching to you a gospel other than what you accepted, let them be under God’s curse! Amen 🙏🏼

At the very beginning and I'm fascinated to see if Sean asks/is asked about Muslim belief is Jesus, the crucifixion, resurrection.

As a Catholic. I think I like this muslim Imam. He seems very balanced.

I have major issues with Islam for many reasons. But absolutely love how respectful you were and how great this was. We need dialogue like this to help tear down some walls.

Bottom line: Rather than highlighting the key differences, one should establish is there ultimate objective truth or not? Would the imam agree that Christianity and Islam cannot both be true at the same time. I would love to hear that response. "Answering Islam" by Nabeel Qureshi is a must. David Wood has dedicated his life to handling Muslim questions.

11 But now I am writing to you that you must not associate with anyone who claims to be a brother or sister but is sexually immoral or greedy, an idolater or slanderer, a drunkard or swindler. Do not even eat with such people. …

This Imam sounds more like a Christian than a Muslim. A lot of his statements actually goes against Quran teachings. We has adapted his faith to Western standards.

You were very gracious to a person that practices a religion that deserves none. Thats a hard task

He is that way because he grew-up in the western society. That choosing a religion is an individual choice. He brought what he learned, even from Christians into his religion. He may not be not be in favor of Sharia law. Unlike, the other Muslims who were born into Islam, and are enforcing Sharia law.

This was fascinating! If only all Muslims were so gracious, we wouldn't be having the issues in the middle east. I would like to know how the same religion can produce Hamas and Hezbelloh, and this gracious imam! And why don't the peace-loving Muslims "police" the terrorists?

This is by far a attack. I respect the conversation that is going on in this video. From my investigation of the Muslim religion. They are 2 different Muslims. The radical Muslims that truly do what is taught in the Quran and the American Muslim that wants to be accepted by society. I greatly appreciate this conversation. I also greatly appreciate you Sean showing a Christ like mentality ❤

Similar story of parting of the sea by Moses(pbuh)in bible and quran. Bible Exodus 14:21-22: "Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the Lord swept the sea back by a strong east wind all night and turned the sea into dry land, so the waters were divided. The sons of Israel went through the midst of the sea on the dry land, and the waters were like a wall to them on their right hand and on their left." Exodus 14:28: "The waters returned and covered the chariots and the horsemen, even Pharaoh’s entire army that had gone into the sea after them; not even one of them remained." Quran: Surah Ash-Shu'ara 26:63-67: "Then We inspired to Moses, 'Strike with your staff the sea,' and it parted, and each portion was like a great towering mountain. And We advanced thereto the pursuers.And We saved Moses and those with him, all together. Then We drowned the others. Indeed in that is a sign, but most of them were not to be believers."

The difference between Dawah and Imams is crazy

Go interview Daniel Haqiqatjoi 😂😂😂 have fun with that one

Friday prayers are only for men, no women allowed. So it’s different from the Sunday service

This was a great example of reaching out to others. While I remain skeptical, I am beginning to think parents and teachers of all faiths are realizing the competition for the minds of our children. While I am not convinced the Quran holds any truth, we need to accept that we can no longer keep ourselves distant from the different faiths and cultures around us. Parents can no longer depend on the Church to spiritually raise their children. We must prioritize the spiritual upbringing of our children (our personal relationships with God being a huge part of that). Otherwise, the world will be more than glad to do it.

Where do the women go?

GodLogic visited this mosque, I'm pretty sure. I think I recognizedthe Imam. He got very agitated when Avery tried to challenge things in the Quran.

Its a kinda a Lie when the imam mentioned that apostasy rates came from non practicing muslim- it is rather the other way around

I love this conversation! Some of the comments here are really sad. To critics of the Quran, you realize similar things can be said of the Old Testament? Not all Muslims are the same. Indonesia is the largest Muslim country in the world, and they are moderates. As Christians we have serious disagreements with Muslim doctrine, but there is no need to disparage them.