If I had to identify one single event as the starting point for my journey to Islam, it would have to be the tragic events of 9/11. After months of seeing very unflattering media coverage about Islam and Muslims, it occurred to me that the negative portrait...
Converting to Islam made me feel different. It made me feel absolutely peaceful. Converting to Islam gave me that peace and security and the balance that I needed in my life...
La Bianca is a country girl; she was brought up on a farm in Western Australia. When she was a child, she had a pet kangaroo and helped with taking care of the cows and sheep. She used to go hunting rabbits and foxes. There was not much religion in her upbringing...
I traveled to more than 112 countries carrying the logo of “Islam is Peace”. More than a thousand people became Muslims. When I saw that these activities have good result, I decided to do something for Islam in Romania...
What surprised and attracted me that there were no barriers or secret areas, which were unknowable. Of particular importance to me was that Islam provided important answers to the fundamental questions which Christianity refuses to answer in any reasonable or logical...
Stopping at the door, Omar could hear the sound of the Quran being recited. He entered the house and the occupants scrambled to cover up what they had been doing. The teacher slipped out of sight and Fatimah tried to hide the parchment on which the words of Quran were written.
For me, the proof that Islam is the Truth, there could be many examples actually and many evidences that would show that. For example, the Quran itself is a miracle in its structure; in its Arabic language in its eloquence. There are also scientific statements in the Quran...
My first desire was to learn Arabic, but my soul awakened when I began to read the Quran. Maybe it was better because I began to read it in Arabic directly, while I was consulting a dictionary. I could realize that what the Quran says was the parts that were missing in the Bible...
The first time I actually heard about the Quran was in the big condo we were living in, where we were doing parties, and I was sitting in a chair with a Moroccan brother that he had brought in, who started reciting the Quran in Arabic and I started reacting to it very strongly… I started shaking.
As a police supervisor, I was constantly receiving warnings about perceived Islamic threats, and as an officer in the reserves I was around people who perceived Islam as a direct threat and Muslims as possible enemies. So, to my shame, I continued to wait and kept my studies...
There was a mosque near my synagogue, the town mosque. Sometimes my friends who were its parishioners would come to me - just to chat. I sometimes would come to the mosque myself, to see how the services were carried out. I was very interested. So we lived like good neighbors.
One day, I had a fight with my mother... so I had to find somewhere to go where the cops wouldn’t look for me so I went to the library... I picked up a book and it happened to be the Quran. I wasn’t reading it, it was reading me."
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