Yusuf Estes

Bismillah,

Assalamualaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuhu!

"Some have asked how I could have turned by back on Jesus..."  - Yusuf Estes

Skip Estes was born in Ohio in 1944 and moved to Texas in 1949. He grew up in a Protestant Christian family; as members of the Disciples of Christ. Skis Estes had a career in the music industry, entertainment, marketing, music instructor and music minister and owned several companies including The Estes Piano and Organ Company.  

In 1991, Estes converted to Islam while trying to convert an Egyptian Muslim named Muhammad to Christianity.  He changed his name to Yusuf Estes. His wife, father, daughters and step mother, also turned to Islam. Thousands of conversions have occurred at his hands by the will of God and once 135 people converted to Islam at the same time. 

Skip Estes was baptized at the age of 12 in Pasadena, Texas. His father, who became an ordained minister in the 1970s, was very active in supporting church work, especially church school programs. Skip's parents knew many TV evangelists and preachers and had even visited Oral Roberts and helped in the building of the 'Prayer Tower' in Tulsa, Oklahoma. They were strong supporters of Jimmy Swaggart, Jim and Tammy Fae  Baker, Jerry Fallwell, John Haggi and Pat Robertson. 

As a teenager, Skip did a serious research into religions, such as Christianity, Hinduism, Judaism, Buddhism, Metaphysics, Native American beliefs with the exception of Islam. He states the following unanticipated disclosure:

Strangely enough, the word 'Trinity'  is not in the Bible...I would ask preachers or ministers to give me some sort of an idea how 'one' could figure out to become 'three' or how God Himself, Who can do anything He Wills to do, cannot just forgive people's sins but rather and had to become a man, come down on earth, be a human, and then take on the sins of all people; keeping in mind that all along He is still God of the whole universe and does as He Wills to do, both in and outside of the universe as we know it. They never seemed to be able to come up with anything other than opinions or strange analogies. 

In the early 1001, Skip's father began doing business with an Egyptian man. Skip was asked by his father to meet him but he hesitated because he did not want to have an encounter with 'hijackers, kidnappers, bombers, terrorists'. Skip just could not imagine meeting a Muslim. "We can change this man to Christan," , an idea flashed his mind. Hence, he decided to meet the man from Egypt with an undisclosed mission of converting him to Christianity. On the day of their meeting, Skip was armed with a Bible, a big shiny cross and a cap with 'Jesus is Lord!' on it. Skip agreed to do business with Muhammad; consequently they spent time together on business trips across the northern part of Texas. It was this platform that Skip and Muhammad discussed issues pertaining beliefs. As a result, Skip came to learn that Muslims believe Jesus to be a true messenger of God born in a miraculous birth, without male intervention; that Jesus was the messiah; he ascended to heaven; and that he will descend back before the end of the world. 

At some point, Skip invited Muhammad to go stay at their big home. Another person Skip invited at their home was a Catholic priest who had been a missionary for over 12 years to south and Central America, Mexico and New York's Hell's Kitchen. At the home, they would gather around the kitchen table after dinner every night and discuss religion. Skip would bring his Revised Standard Version of the Bible, his father would bring his King James Version of the Bible, Skip's wife would come up with a different version of the Bible, and the priest had the Catholic Bible which has 7 more books than the Protestant Bible. And the issue of which Bible was the right one or the most correct one would emerge to which different opinions were given. When he asked Muhammad how many versions the Qur'an has, Skip was surprised to hear that there was only one version of the Qur'an which has never changed since the time of the Prophet Muhammad (May Allah's peace and blessings be upon him); ore bewilderment came when he was told that the Qur'an had been memorized from cover to cover by Muslims. 

One day the Catholic preist asked Muhammad if he might accompany him to the mosque to see what it was like and together the went to the mosque. Another day, the priest and Muhammad made another trip to the mosque but thus time they stayed for a very long time. When they arrived at Skip's house, Skip could only recognize Muhammad, and not the man wearing the white cap, walking alongside Muhammad. As his vision became clear, Skip was shocked to find it was the priest. "Pete?" Skip shouted, "Did you become a Moslem?" The priest had embraced Islam. Skip went to talk to his wife about the whole subject but the wife said that she too was going to embrace Islam because she knew it was the truth. Shocked as he was, he went downstairs and asked Muhammad to go outside the house for a discussion. They talked through the whole night and by the morning, according to Skip, he had realized Islam was the truth. It did not end there. Skip earnestly prayed to God saying, "O God, if You are there, guide me guide me." Around 11:00 a.m. that morning, Skip stood before two witnesses; Father Jacob, the ex-priest and Muhammad Abdul-Rahman and announced the testimony of entering into Islam. Minutes later, his wife followed along and embraced Islam. A few more months later, Skip's father embraced Islam. Skip's children were later taken out of the Christian school and placed in Islamic schools. The entire household had entered into Islam. Skip says, "Only by His Mercy were we all guided to see the real truth of Islam, by removing the coverings over our ears and the blinders on our eyes, no longer having seals over our hearts - He is guiding us now."

In 1999, Yusuf Estes became National Muslim Chaplain in Washington DC. Since 2005, Yusuf Estes has been appearing on many channels including the Islam Channel, Peace TV and Huda TV which are 24/7 Islamic channels broadcasting in many countries around the globe via satellite and the website. Moreover, he has been a Volunteer Imam in a Texas Military installment; a Delegate to the United States Peace Summit for Religious Leaders in August 2000; University guest speaker; Television program producer and director; preacher; syndicated televisions programs on satellite and cable networks, developed many high tech Islamic websites, including chat rooms, video conferencing, news sites, reference sites and entertainment sites for youth. 

Yusuf Estes has delivered thousands of lectures around the world. Some of his audio/video lectures can be freely downloaded from the internet (e.g. www.aswatalislam.net or http://nadeem.lightuponlight.com ) 

Contact Information:

Email: sheikhyusuf@aol.com


Website:


www.yusufestes.com
www.islamalways.com
www.shareislam.com
www.islamtomorrow.com