My reversion story…

I came to know Islam via my husband MustafaMc. In the summer of 2001, he began practicing Islam again so, I watched him pray many of his 5 daily prayers, saw him go through fasting etc. At the time of course I still considered myself to be a Christian. We would discuss Islam and the differences & similarities of the two religions. The more we talked about it, the Islamic faith began to make much more sense to me than the Christian faith that I grew up in. As I began to read as well as continue to discuss things with my husband, I knew in my heart that my beliefs were actually the Islamic faith, not Christianity. Especially the One God that has no partners concept. I realized I saw Jesus as teacher and messenger and it began to make less sense to me that God would have a son. I also had come to believe that Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) to be the last Messenger of God. As time went by, my faith began to grow more and more and I knew I was on the right path, the path to embracing Islam. In July 2003 in a small Masjid in rural Mississipppi, I took Shahadah, Alhamdullilah!

Salam,
Sister Barb

Allhamdulillah sister!!!

MustafaMc is indeed truly blessed!!! And Allah truly has guided you too.... I hope and pray the same thing would happen to my wife... Allah knows best...

May Allah bless you both more and more Good tidings to your family.... Ameen!!!

Yes Ahki, I feel so blessed that Allah guided both of us to Islam. He first guided my husband and then in turn guided me as well. It is such a wonderful blessing that we share the same religious beliefs. It was such a joyous day for us both when I reverted and took my Shahadah. Insha Allah the same will happen with your wife.

Salam,
Sister Barb

Salaam sister!

As I read your post... tears are pushing out of my eyes... Inshaallah... my wife would also see the light that has dawned on you. Thank you for saying such a positive word. ... Jazakallahkeir.

Ameen...

Salam Akhi, Seeing the light is exactly what happened with me when I embraced Islam. I feel a peace in Islam that I never experienced in years that I held the Christian belief which was a couple or so years shy of 40 years.

Salam,
Sister Barb

I'm a Christian Catholic by birth, I can not explain and I don't know why on my early age (9 years old) I give-up the religion of my parents. I became an atheist for 20 years. I can say that the Bible lead me to Islam. Early 80's when I got a copy of Bible, and after I read it, I have one question that no one in any Christian sects in the Philippines gave me an acceptable answer.

This is my question ...... "If we (humankind) belong to one man (Adam) and one woman (Hawa), why theres a black, white, brown, red people etc.?"

I remember one Pastor gave me an answer. He said, there's Adam and Eve in America, there's Adam and Eve in Europe, there's Adam and Eve in Africa, there's Adam and Eve in Asia. I'm shocked and speechless while I'm listening to him. After that conversation, I feel very bad and very angry to all Pastor or religious leader in Christianity and because I believe that they are fooling their members.

Before I came here in Saudi Arabia, I already feel and believe that there is only one God, but the problem I don't know Him and I dont' know where and how I can find Him and the true religion.

When I'm already here in Saudi Arabia, I can not explain before why all my friends is Muslim. A Somalian and Yemen nationals. I met their fathers and brothers and I can't believe that they will treat me nicely. All of them told me to accept Islam, but I refuse because they can not explain to me clearly who is Allah and what is Islam.

And then one day, I woke up and I feel that I want to study Islam. I found one Islamic Center here in Jeddah and I join to the class for the new Muslim. I attend 4 weeks in Islamic Center before I finally accept Islam.

Jazakallah alkhair.

Alhamdulillah brother.... by the way... what was the answer to your question?... about the different races of humanity?.... I know there is a verse or some verses in the qur'an about it and I have some ideas about it too.... but I am interested to know what did the Iman told you about it. Please shed some light here. Thanks!

Salaam bro!

Wa 'alaikum salam wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh.

He is not Imam, he's just a volunteer in Islamic Center. For short, that volunteer in Islamic Center told me that Allah (سبحانه و تعالى) created Adam (عليه السلام) from different kinds (color) of soil.

i really love reading revert's stories i find them very very intersting. iget to look at things from differnt angles and learn new stuff which i take 4 granted
thnx alot 4 sharing ur stories. Allah bless u ol!!

dear brothers and sisters.
assalamu aleykum.
i hav a vry pressing issue i wnt to discuss. hop u can help me.

i know this girl who is catholic.she happens to have many muslims friends. one day we got talkin and she told me that because of the many muslim friens she has her mom said she was going to embrace islam. but her reply was a NO, She will never embrace islam. i got curious and asked her y. she told me that muslims behaviour was very bad and she cant b part of them.we got talking n i found that the muslim she knew were not ideal muslims (no offense) they go clubbing, date and even commit zinaa, she's even had muslim boyfriends who she says were just intrested in sleeping with her and then dump her. she toked of this family of 3 siblings, they were less than 10 years but subhanaAllah their behaviour leaved a lot 2b desired, they would flirt with ladies passing by, pass sexist comments and use very rude language.i tried telling her that it was all in the upringing, i 4 one do not do that n pride myself in being a good muslim. but it was like shez already come to her conclusion.

i really felt bad after our talk.like wat have we muslims done?it is our responsibillty to give n show gud examples as muslims but this is no longer the case.i really do want to change her perception about muslims.
my muslim sis n bros who r reverts, uv gone through someone telling u abt islam,
how does one react wen out of the blues sam1 tells them abt islam, being the right religion n u believing n knowing yours is the ryt religion?
so how do i go abt it?its like a month now since shez told me
so how do i even broach the subject,
how will she react to wat i say?
and the things that are unislamic that she sees in her muslim frends r still there so how do i convince her its the right religion?
am really so hurt n disapointed.
any suggestions is gladly welcomed n appreciated.

thankyou. wassalamu aleykum

a message to my muslim family

assalamu aleykum.
please bros n sisters take heed of wat u doin. it can b the reason one embraces islam or loathes it. n remember wen u guide aperson to the truth every good act the person does u get thawab without diminishing the doer's thawab (prophetic saying)

so take heed and know that ACTIONS SPEAK LOUDER THAN WORDS!!!

The prophet propagated islam through his actions.there are many instances where people embraced islam after seeing how the prophet behaved..

islam is action..so act good 4 ur the ambassadors of islam.

shukran

it's really sad that instead of giving dawah , we are driving away non Muslims from Islam

pl. tell her to read Quran ..InshaAllah she will understand the beauty of Islam & no matter how bad some Muslims are , she will accept Islam

Very true. at anytime our post can be the only view of Islam a non-Muslim may ever see. we need to be aware everytime we post, that our words may be the only thing somebody learns of Islam.

alykum to u all...
Thanks soo much fo sharing ur stories with us......Quite touching!!!
I have always been curious about revert stories, actually more about wat interests u in islaam esp now dat we r being branded terrorists.Shukraan jaziila
Allahumma inna nas'alukal hudaa wattuqaa wal 'afaafa wal ghinaa

MASHAHALLAH
Allah is great ALLAH HU AKBAR
he no doubt show's the light to one he wants i m really glad to read these real stories. Subhanallah