Yusuf Estes is an American preacher from Texas was born in 1944, who converted from Christianity to Islam in 1991.

Yusuf Estes grew up in a bound Christian house and educated in Texas, and gives his lectures at universities, public authorities, and conferences to all various religious denominations.

He claims to have been a Muslim Chaplain for the United States Bureau of Prisons through the 1990s and to have served a delegate to the United Nations World Peace Conference for Religious Leaders held at the U.N. in September 2000.

Estes has served as a guest presenter and a keynote speaker at various Islamic events.

Estes was named as the Islamic Personality of the Year at the Dubai International Holy Quran Award ceremony on 8 August 2012.

Estes is the founder and president of Guide US TV, a free-to-air Internet, and satellite TV channel, which broadcasts programs about Islam.

On 24 November 2017, Estes was denied entry into Singapore for having expressed views which were “unacceptable” and “contrary” to the values of Singapore’s multiracial and multi-religious society.

In particular, it referred to a 2012 video in which Estes said it was “not part of Islam to celebrate others’ holidays” or wish Christians “Merry Christmas” and Jews “Happy Hanukkah”.

He also questioned the religious basis for Christmas in an article in December 2016, and advised Muslims against “celebrating something that even the Christians should not be doing”.

Estes also said the Bible had many contradictions, called it an unreliable text, and expressed “intolerant views of non-Muslims”.

Many people have converted to Islam because of Yusuf Estes and using his way of a combination of seriousness and fun when responding to many attacks on Islam and Muslims.