South London Rapper Finds Islam


By Selma Cook



This article is based on an interview with Bilal Chin, who lives inLondon.


Bilal Chin was brought up in London but traveled to Egypt and stayed there for about one year. Now in his mid-twenties, he says that Egypt was good for him, as it helped him to get away from his surroundings and make a fresh start in his life.



He became a Muslim when he was nineteen years old. He admits that he had not really known what Islam was about. If he saw any women with scarfs and anyone who fasted, he thought he or she was an Asian or an Arab and that this was just part of their culture.



He didn't know it was a religion and no one tried to teach him about the religion. Later after, he embraced Islam, he remembered girls in school who used to wear a scarf and realized they were Muslims.

....Bilal's Muslim friend told him, "When you come to Islam, Islam will come running to you." Indeed, Bilal saw that Islam started knocking on his door. One day, he wanted to buy some trainers and left his bike with a man in the market and this man said he would keep an eye on his bike if Bilal read a certain book. This man was a Muslim.


When Bilal went into the shoe shop he heard the shop keeper say: "Salamu Alaikum" when we was talking on the phone. Bilal realized that he too was a Muslim. Islam started coming to him from every angle.


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