CAIRO – After 18 months of quest for truth in the Noble Qur’an, a Scottish middle-aged man has found Islam without meeting a single Muslim after hearing adhan, call to prayer, for the first time during his vacation in Turkey.

“The Qur’an really shook me. It’s quite a scary book to read because it tells you so much about yourself,” the man, identified in an article by The Independent as Alan Rooney, wrote.

“Some things that I found out about myself I didn’t like. So I decided to make some changes.”

According to Rooney, his quest for truth started when he heard adhan on a beach holiday in Turkey.

He said that adhan “woke something up inside me, and inspired me to begin a spiritual quest.”

Returning home in Inverness, he brought a copy of the Qur’an and started to read.

“I always asked God to guide me on the journey I had set out on,” he recalled.

Meeting no Muslim, he resorted to online sources to know more about Islam and its teachings, reading the stories of people who took his path.

After 18 months, he considered himself a Muslim.

“I was praying five times a day, fasting for Ramadan, and eating and drinking only what was considered acceptable according to the teachings of the Qur’an,” Rooney said.

At this moment, he went to a small local mosque to introduce himself to the Muslim community.

“They were surprised to see me and didn’t know quite what to do with me at first, except to give me the mosque door combination and to welcome me to their community,”

“I was accepted from the very beginning, however, and am now a constant within the community.”

Scotland is home to more than 50,000 Muslims, making up less than one percent of the population. Other estimates put the number of Muslims at 90,000.

Muslims are the second largest religious group in the country, which has thirty mosques.