What stands out in Eesa's mind is the formation of the baby in the mother’s womb, the stars, the oceans and how science today acknowledges all these facts. He was blown away by this; he didn’t know there were people long ago who had talked about...
At some point, my life just sort of spiraled to the bottom and I cracked. My immediate response was to turn to God, and, having been raised Catholic, it was to that church that I turned. At the time, I had been divorced and remarried and came to find out...
I decided that actions would be a better way to show that Islam is making me a better person. Over time, they realized that I was being more respectful, I was calmer I guess because I found inner peace. Islam appealed to me so much because it's a beautiful religion.
My journey to Islam actually began in January 2012 when I left the PhD program and decided to go to India for Ayurvedic treatment. I was offered two centers to go to, one was very traditional, simple, and the other was more of a resort with swimming...
The espoused doctrine of New Zealand is that you are free; wear what you want and do what you want... So my consideration is “Why can’t I wear my scarf? Why can’t I wonder about wearing my big dress and my scarf as I want to without being harassed?...
I never went on like a journey to find the truth because being raised in the church as firmly as I had been I always assumed that I was upon it already. So what actually happened was that there was another revert brother that I went to school with, we were pretty good friends at the time.
The successful birth of Islam and the Muslim nation was due in part to the determination of Khadijah, the woman who was the first person to accept Muhammad as a Prophet of God and was later given the title the Mother of the Believers. Khadijah was born in Makkah...
This realization was a big relief. It was the first light to fill this black burning emptiness inside of me. I wanted to worship Allah. I understood that if I worship Allah properly, He will solve my problem. He will give me peace and contentment. Allah will fill the emptiness inside of me.
Over the following months, I attended my classes and, improved by knowledge of Islam, slowly I was falling in love. Through my contacts at the mosque, I managed to get acquainted with other Islamic circles, in particular the Islamic societies at the two local universities.
For Sister Jennie Fenn from the United Kingdom, it was her young son that brought the religion of Islam into her home and heart. “He came to me with questions about Islam after making an embarrassing statement at school that Jesus cannot be God’s son,”...
Islam was something foreign. I grew up to believe that Islam is a bad and hateful religion that suppresses women. I couldn’t understand when women would choose to wear a scarf around her head. Muslims were the people you heard about in the news.
What can this story teach us today? What does the return of Hamzah to Islam have to say to us now? Well, first of all it teaches us that we don't know what is going on in a person's heart and mind. Who knows what Hamzah had been thinking in those weeks...
About Islam