Almost everyday I think it is a great relief to be Muslim in this chaotic society. I am grateful that Allah (swt) softened my sceptical heart and made it sensitive to Islam. My journey into Islam was slow but there were two significant events which I will never forget - insha Allah.
Having ...
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I think that it all started as a child , that is were personality begins to form and strengths and weaknesses are fostered. Also thought patterns are beginning to lay down their tracks in us when we are still children.
Since
I was 13 I did not eat pork, of course it was at
the request of my husb...
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Assalamu Alaykum;
My name is Zahida. It wasn't
always my name, but I changed it because I've
changed myself. I've been Muslim for a few years,
Al-humdulillah. I am married and have two
children. I was born in America and raised in
Illinois. My nationality is half-Czech on my
...
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I was raised in a house where we prayed every night and morning. We were not taught set prayers but to pray from the heart. We went to church every Sunday and were active participants in the activities held there.....
By the time I was in my late teens I was a missionary.
I always felt close to ‘God' and prayer was a way of life for ...
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April 12, 1998.
Bismillah Arahman Araheem
My intention in writing my story is that for Allah's sake, I
may help someone who is searching for the Truth, to realize that
they have found it in Al Islam. I began writing this on Easter
Sunday, kind of appropriate, I think. I have been Muslim now for...
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I am a new Muslim. I am writing to tell you 'why' I converted to Islam, but it's going to be more like 'how.'
Last
year, at the age of 23, I was trying to open an
import/export company to sell children's books
overseas. Much thought went into my decision to
work with Saudi Arabia above any other...
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I am eighteen years old. I grew up in a tiny suburb near Detroit called Ferndale to a "Christian" "family." I have no siblings; my mother on her own with no education couldn't deal with more than one child. My father was pretty much out of the picture. My parents were both into...
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The story of how I reverted to al Islam is a story of plans. I made plans, the group I was with made plans, and Allah made plans. And Allah is the Best of Planners. When I was a teenager, I came to the attention of a group of people with a very sinister agenda. They were and probably still are a l...
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Many thought of Fiona as fortunate. The remaining daughter of moderately wealthy parents, she had attended one of the most exclusive boarding schools for girls. She was an excellent student, and while one may have considered her a little quiet, was, nevertheless, well liked by students and teachin...
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Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim a salaam alaikum wa ramatullah wa barakatu Hello. I was asked to write a story of how I came to Islam. Unlike many converts, it didn't come to me directly. I took a six year spiritual "journey" of sorts before realizing that Islam is the true religion.
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Her three sleepy sons have been roused from bed, and Celeste Saleem begins fixing a simple breakfast of grits and salmon cakes -- and keeping a watchful eye on the clock. There is still more than an hour before sunrise as her husband, Omar, gathers the boys together so each can take a turn reading...
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In the Name of Allah, the Beneficent, The Merciful
I learned of Islam
while in highschool back in the 1970's... I was
raised as a Christian in the Baptist faith, went
to church religiously, even studied the catholic
creed.. thought I wanted to be a nun (ha ha). I
just could not find the rational...
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Salaam. My name is Ruqayyah. I would like to share my story as to how i found Islam. At the time, I was 16 years old travelling to NYC. On the train I saw a sister who was garbed in such a way that it stirred my heart. After staring at her for a moment, I finally got up enough nerve to ask her wha...
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Childhood
I
was born and brought up into a devoted catholic
family. My father comes from a family whose
members mostly turned out to become priests and
priestesses, while my mother still has a certain
aristocratic blood in her family. My parents were
blessed with five children, ...
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My first realization about the Christian idea of salvation came after I was baptized into a Southern Baptist church at a young age. I was taught in Sunday School that "if you aren't baptized, then you are going to hell". My own baptism had taken place because I wanted to please people.My...
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I came to Islam late, a daughter of a devout Roman Catholic mother/very devout Jewish father. By age 4 I knew of Allah and in 1991 I traveled to Egypt to read some of my writing. I had already spent almost 20 years among the most pious of Jews, had married, had children. When I heard the muezzin* ...
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Khadijah 'Sue' Watson - Former pastor, missionary, professor. Master's degree in Divinity "What happened to you !" .....
This was usually the first
reaction I encountered when my former
classmates, friends and co-pastors saw
me after having embraced Islam.
I su...
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The nuns looked so clean and smart in their starched white habits. They looked like the saints in the pictures that hung on the wall of every classroom, that I dreamt of the day I could be like them. I was among two other girls who get excellent grades at the end of the school year and we were asked if we would like to study religion. They t...
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I was raised to believe in God from childhood. I attended church nearly every Sunday, went to Bible school, and sang in the choir. Yet religion was never a really big part of my life.
There were times when I
thought myself close to God. I often prayed to
him for guidance and strength in times...
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Assalamu Aleykum!
I was born in a Catholic
family in Ecuador. My family was never very
religious. I mean, they didn't go to church or
things like that, except for my grandma whom I
loved very much. However, they sent me to a
Catholic high school. There, I learned about the
...
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Q: Would you kindly tell us how your interest in Islâm began?
I was Margaret (Peggy) Marcus. As a small child I possessed a keen interest in music and was particularly fond of the classical operas and symphonies considered high culture in the West. Music was my favorite subject in school in which I always earned the highest grades. By sh...
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Ali was dying. Alone and struggling with Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS), the Lebanese youth was on the last few days of his life. A dedicated Lebanese hospice worker named Marie had been looking after Ali for months. "He was like a son that I never gave birth to," she told A...
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I am a new Muslim woman from Richmond, VA. I had never even met Muslims before last year, and had no idea that there was an Islamic center in my own city. However, at that time, I was very interested in Islam, but I could find nothing to read. I read encyclopedias and any books I could get my han...
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Assalamwalakum,
I am a 19 year old Sophmore at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. I have recently converted to Islam and I would like to share my experiences on why and when I converted.
During the fall of my freshman year, I met
another muslim, who asked me if I believe...
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I am a Canadian of Scandinavian and other ancestry who was born and raised in Canada. I have been a Muslima since February 1993 when I was 23. While growing up, I was never affiliated with any religion nor was I an atheist. When I was in my mid-teens I started to think somewhat about religion and ...
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This is the story of how I became Muslimah..Alhamdulillah!!!
First of all
I was going through hard times in my life and
things were only getting worse. One day almost 2
years ago there was a repeat of the movie Malcolm
X on tv. I watched this movie before a couple of
times , but for some reason...
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"I begin this short account of my steps towards embracing Islam in the Name of Allah the Beneficent, The Merciful, truly Ar-Rashid (Subhanahu wa ta'ala).
"Throughout
my life I believed in God but became unsatisfied
with the course my life was taking, hence began
my search for the true...
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Western women are turning to Islam in rapidly increasing numbers. KAY JARDINE discovers why they are so keen to become Muslims
Bullying, depression, and insomnia made Kimberley McCrindle's teenage years particularly difficult. Taunts from classmates about her weight and how she looked left the...
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"What am I doing down here? I wonder, my nose and forehead pressed to the floor as I kneel in prayer. My knee-caps ache, my arm muscles strain as I try to keep the pressure off my forehead. I listen to strange utterings of the person praying next to me. It's Arabic, and they understand what ...
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My mother's brother was married to a lady who was raised Muslim. She had been my aunt from the time I was born until around age 5. My father and mother also got a divorce when i was 5. This is how my father knew the Muslim lady. After both divorces, my father and aunt remained friends and kept in...
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I took the Shahadah on September 20, 1991. If you had told me 5 years prior that I would embrace Islam, I never would have believed you. In retrospect, Allah's guidance was so subtle yet consistent, that now I see my whole life as leading up to that moment. It is difficult to encapsulate the exac...
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August 1, 1998.
"Islam"
is not only a religion, but also a way of life.
It is so vast and all encompassing that I always
feel inadequate trying to explain why I believe
in it. Non-Muslims always ask me "why did
you convert?" and Muslims always ask "how
did you come to e...
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Salaams,
Well, here is my story
Bism Allah, Al-Rahmen, Al-Raheem.....
I was raised Catholic and went to a Catholic
grade school and high school-- in the U.S. grade
school is roughly age 5-14 lasting 8 years and
high school is roughly age 14-18 lasting 4 years.
M...
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I grew up in a home that really didn't have a set religon ....
My mother a mormon and my father a Babtist. And then there is me. I never felt right in any of the place of religon that I visited.
That was until I found Islam. When I found it it was overwhelming. I just knew.
...
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I did not know who I was until I began studying religions. Although raised as a Christian, I had never been satisfied with the Church’s "teachings." I hadn’t known other religions existed. I felt tremendous conviction to find ‘Who’ my Creator was and what my existence and purpose was...
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Ever since I was a little girl my parents always told me, "If you have the truth and you know what you have, you will never change religions." This is true. I was very sure of my religion at that time. I was very genius about religion and very devout. I wanted to learn other culture and...
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Since I have started reading and posting on this newsgroup a few months ago, I have noticed a great interest in converts (reverts) to Islam: how are people introduced to it, what attracts people to this faith, how their life changes when they embrace Islam, etc. I have received a lot of ...
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By: Dr Garry Miller
A very important Christian missionary converted to Islam and became a major herald for Islam, he was a very active missionary and was very knowledgeable about the Bible...
This man likes mathematics so much, that's why he likes logic. One day, he decided to read the Quran to try...
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Many thought of Fiona as fortunate. The remaining daughter of moderately wealthy parents, she had attended one of the most exclusive boarding schools for girls.
She was
an excellent student, and while one may have
considered her a little quiet, was, nevertheless,
well liked by students and teach...
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When she stepped into Kuwait International Airport all the way from Phillppine she first listened to the sound of Adan (Prayer call ) of dawn prayer. "What a inspiring sound is it" she exclaimed to herself. So started her journey from the darkness to the light.
While narrating her sto...
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The wife of General Muhammad Amin Ruzii, the first Saudi paratrooper, again shares with us her experiences living in Saudi Arabia during the past 42 years. She hopes that her story may give some insight to the hardships people faced many years ago and trust it will give some perspective to the see...
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I am Fathima Liebenberg, a white Muslim woman converted to Islam in 1995. I am very proud to say! I am a Muslim, but if it was not for my son I would never have been a Muslim. For me it was a hard and long struggle because it cost me my job, friends and family.
My life before Islam
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In the beginning, I had met this guy who was Muslim. From the very day we met he began to tell me about Islam.
It was pretty
scarey because I recall him always on the subject
of the grave, this might be the reason it took
him almost three years before I actually took my
shahada. Actually, I kne...
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A persistent study of Islam and observation of the Muslim society, finally led an American lady Mrs. Elizabeth married to a Kuwaiti man, to embrace Islam. When she was asked about the long way she took to come to the fold of Islam she commented.
"It was not a
sudden decision but a culminat...
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I was raised in a moderately Christian home in Colorado. Religion was never much of an issue in my house. My father was raised as a Mormon, my mother as a Protestant. I can remember my parents dropping my brother off at Sunday School, but instead of going to church while we were in religious clas...
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First I will state that I was raised Catholic, I went through the whole Christian Process...Communion and Confirmation etc....I was never that religious although my grandmother who is an Irish born Catholic was a fanatic. But Suphan Allah I was steadfast to this religion cause that was what I was...
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I have always believed in God, since I was very small. My family was not religious, but for a period my mother prayed for us children, by the bedside every night. Since then I have seen Gods existence as a fact of life, and for me the question was how to live according to Gods will so that I coul...
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How does one look back on the most important event in her life, and put it into perspective? This event for me was my discovery of the "right path", Islam, and Submission to the One God. This event, my acknowledging the power of Islam, and my conscious decision to submit to Allah (SWT) ...
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I have been on the net for a year but this is the first time I am posting something and I have chosen to do it anonymously for a reason. My dear sisters, please don’t hurt and offend each other. Don’t be rude to each other. This kind of attitude that has been going on is enough to “chase” away ne...
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I have been on the net for a year but this is the first time I am posting something and I have chosen to do it anonymously for a reason. My dear sisters, please don’t hurt and offend each other. Don’t be rude to each other. This kind of attitude that has been going on is enough to “chase” away ne...
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I was raised in a religious Christian family. At that time, Americans were more religious than they are now—most families went to church every Sunday, for example. My parents were involved in the church community. We often had ministers (Protestant “priests”) in the house. My ...
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I was born in Arkansas to Christian parents, who were also born in Arkansas. In fact as far back as I can trace all of my family has come from the Southern states here in the United States. I was raised here all my life on a farm, where you get up in the morning, milk cows, feed the chickens and ...
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I was born in Canada to Christian parents from European descendants. I was raised in Canada for the first several years of my life. Then my parents became missionaries. We moved all over the U.S.A. and Europe, while my family tried to make people become Christian. Finally we moved to Jerusalem. ...
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You may see me walk down the street or in the mall with a group of friends, giggling, laughing, bags in hand and having the time of our lives.
But, you notice
that I am different, thoughts of “terrorist”
‘rag head’ or ‘slave’ may ring in your
ears and you may even giggle and watch me, your
...
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If you had told me 2 years ago I would be a Muslim today, I wouldn't have believed you.
My parents raised me with no
religion. I remember, as a child, being mortified
with embarrassment whenever I had to set foot in
a church. I couldn't even look at books about
religion for fear someone would s...
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I was your average kid coming from a good home with strong family values and morals. In fact I was quite a little angel up until Junior High School. See, my parents are both pastors in the Lutheran church. (Yes, I said BOTH. In fact, I think my mother is even more talented than my dad at her prof...
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For a good Christian girl to convert to Islam and marry a Muslim is extraordinary enough. But more than that, she has also converted her parents, most of the rest of her family and at least 30 friends and neighbours.
Aisha Bhutta...
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May 2, 1996. Ever since I can remember, my family attended a non-denominational conservative Christian church (Church of Christ). I grew up in the church, taught bible school and sang in the choir. As a young teenager I began asking questions (as I think everyone does at one point in the...
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