Didn't even want to give this a title. It's just me sharing my heart and defending Muslims and Islam.

I am grateful you are here. Can you please just give me a moment of your time? And I am not asking you to agree with me, but I am asking you to trust that what I am about to tell you is true for me.

I want to share my heart and soul for a minute — and defend Islam and Muslims.

Unless you are a Muslim, what I’m about to tell you might sound like complete lunacy. But I’m asking you, as someone who knows me and trusts me, to really sit with this and ask yourself: do I strike you as someone who would make this up?

For years you’ve watched me fight for justice and fight for the oppressed with every fiber of my being. So listen to me here.

Embracing Islam is the single best thing I’ve ever done in my life. Nothing else is even close.

My wife would look you in your eyes and tell you the same thing. We are crazy about each other. I’ve been with this woman since 1996.

And she and I will both tell you: embracing Islam is better than the day we met, better than the day we got married, better than having kids, better than travel, better than a great job, better than a beautiful house, better than an amazing meal — it’s just better. In some ways, Islam now gives new meaning to all of those things. It’s not a thing - Islam is a framework, a way of life, a worldview, and a theology all in one. It’s deeply intellectual. Your brain is encouraged to be used and challenged. Logic is encouraged. Science and math and entrepreneurship are encouraged. Discipline is a requirement. A starting point even. A commitment to Islam is a commitment to a life of hourly discipline. Our entire life, to the minute, is viewed through the lens of our five daily prayers. It may sound simple, and in some ways it is, actually, but it’s also so deeply profound.

I could talk for hours and hours, sincerely from my heart, about why I love it so much and what it means to me. And over time, if you give me space, I’d like to share those things with you.

But right now I want my audience — all 2.6 million of you, many of you who’ve been here with me for decades — to hear me say something that is true for me, and true for every Muslim.

I so clearly trust the character of the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ, peace be upon him, and so firmly trust in Allah and His plans, that the evil people saying such vile things about Muslims and Islam and our dear Prophet Muhammad ﷺ - you can NEVER scare me.

I am not threatened by you. I am not threatened by your religion. I do not worry about you or it even a little bit. I don’t even think about you. If you didn’t bother me I wouldn’t know you exist and wouldn’t care to know.

No Muslim in the world is threatened by you. We trust in a God of justice. That justice will come for me, but it will also come for you. And I’m OK with that. I take that deal.

This place is not even my home. I am just a traveler here. My home is beyond this place. We call it Jannah.

This place you call home, we call Dunya.

And here is what I know — and I swear to God, we say “Wallahi” when we mean it with everything in us — I don’t wish Hell for you. I invite you to Islam. I want you to experience what I’m experiencing. But you seem too determined to make this place — this Dunya — your final home.

And that’s how I know that we will win. Because those who choose Dunya as their home will get it. And here you will stay, while the rest of us move on to a very different eternity than you.

Wallahi, you do not scare us. You don’t even worry us. It is you who are obsessed with us. It is you who cannot stop talking about us.

You will never meet a single Muslim who is obsessed with Christians, but for some reason so many of you are obsessed with Muslims and with Islam.

This, again, exposes you. You feel threatened.

We don’t feel threatened by you. I say that with good intentions. You are your own enemy even more than you are ours.

I truly wish you knew what I know. Because I look at you now with a degree of pity. I was once you. I didn’t know. Now I do. Allah guided me.

Alhamdulillah.