Argentinean Mariano Discovers Islam



By Mariano Ricardo Calle
An Argentinean young man finds Islam through learning Arabic songs' lyrics.



My name is Mariano Ricardo Calle. I am fromBuenos Aires, Argentina, not from the capital but the province.




Before I embraced Islam, I was a Catholic Apostolic Roman. I was baptized, entered communion and confirmation.






Since my childhood, I was connected with religion through my mom and my grandmother (her mom).







I read the Bible since seven years old. I began reading the Bible for kids in Spanish. My heroes were David, Nuh and Job.

When I was eleven, I prayed every night. Sometimes, I cried while speaking to God. In my adolescence, I fell into drugs until a crisis at twenty one years of age. I have always been searching for the truth.

At twenty four years I began to pray more, so I was praying twenty four times a day, one for Our Father, Two Ave Maria, One Credo and One Glory; under the water in the shower bowing on my knees under cold water (that was because there was no warm water).



This I did for a whole year. But that didn't help me too much, but God knows better.



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