Adhan by Yusuf Islam's Voice ( oue revert bro )








Yusuf Islam.

Out of its magnificent effect on hearts and its harmonious tunes, all the Muslims, regardless of their nationalities and cultures, are eagerly waiting from time to time for the Adhan to ring out announcing the time for prayers.

The first Adhan was in the first Hijri year (corresponding to 622 CE) or, according to other sources, in the second Hijri year (623 CE). Bilal, whose voice was very sweet and strong, was the first Muslim to deliver the Adhan. It has since been an eternal melodic call, echoed by the world.

Listen to the Adhan by the voice of Yusuf Islam.
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The words of the Adhan:



Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar.


Allah is the Greatest, Allah is the Greatest.



Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar.


Allah is the Greatest, Allah is the Greatest.



Ash-hadu alla ilaha illa-llah.
I bear witness that there is none worthy of worship but Allah.



Ash-hadu alla ilaha illa-llah.
I bear witness that there is none worthy of worship but Allah.

Ash-hadu anna Muhammadar-Rasulullah.
I bear witness that Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah


Ash-hadu anna Muhammadar-Rasulullah.
I bear witness that Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah


Hayya ‘ala-s-Salah, hayya ‘ala-s-Salah.


Hasten to the Prayer, hasten to the Prayer.


Hayya ‘ala-l-falah, hayya ‘ala-l-falah.


Hasten to real success, hasten to real success



Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar.
Allah is the Greatest, Allah is the Greatest.


La ilaha illa-llah
There is none worthy of worship but Allah.




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Salam Alakium Brothers and Sisters.

I am a Muslim revert for the past year. I became a Muslima when I was 16 going onto 17 I am now 18. My story is very short but to me has a ton of meaning.

I was born Cassandra Mae Pazdel. I come from a very diverse family as my dad is Persian and my mother being a White American. I grew up in a complicated house hold. My dad was not religious and neither was my mother. There wasn't much of "rules" in our house. When I was 6 years old my mother gave birth to my little brother and shortly after my parents had divorced. My dad was into doing illegal things and eventually his bad caught up with him and he landed himself in jail and then eventually prison. When I was about 8-10 years of age my mother was doing drugs and would neglect me and my two brothers. Eventually they took away my older brother to foster care and I at the age of 10 was taking care of my little brother who was only 4. We had drug users coming in and out of house non-stop. I remember wondering why my mother would be in the bathroom for 2 hours and I found a peek hole and I looked through and I was SHOCKED at what I seen, I was so very young and didnt know what to think so I shield myself and pretended I never seen a thing. My dad would write us letters and we would go to visit him with my grandpa and my uncle (my grandpa was never allowed to go in he was not an american citizen) so my uncle would walk with me and my little brother in. It was very sad not being able to see my father on a daily basis and having to conversate through letters. I hated going on the trips to see my father, and I hated the trips back to my mother. Eventually my dad was released and he came home to us. I became "daddys girl" .

This was about the time I had first head of ISLAM. My father said a lot of people in prison convert to Islam. And I said ISLAM? What is Islam? He said it's a religion of peace and beauty. I was so young I did not know much of it. Shortly after a day or two 9/11 struck! And all we seen over the news "terrorist attacks" "Muslim Terrorists" It was very confusing to me, if my dad says it is a religion of peace why would they hijack planes and kill people? Eventually as I grew older I found out the REAL story of 9/11. I had a friend named Rita, a beautiful Afghan girl who I became great friends with among my elementry school years. One day as I remember we were in the car her exact words were "do you believe in God?" I was stuck I couldn't answer I said "I dont know, Do You?" She replied "Of course how else did you come to earth?" lol. Eventually we went our seprat ways in middle school. I can honestly say I was very lost at this time. I was so confused as a child and had nobody to talk to that i was running to alcohol fight my depression. I eventually decided "enough is enough!" I quit going to public high school and went into private home study. I quit all my bad doing and stayed home out of trouble and far from the people I thought were my "friends". I kept a couple friends and they were ALLMuslim. It's funny how that works isnt it? I started to research on Islam and I found myself researching it DAY and NIGHT! I eventually asked my friend Taminah how do you become a Muslim and she told me I have to take my Shahada. I went to my grandpa and told him to tell me more about Islam and he told me to wait because I was still young and keep doing research and when I feel the time is right then I can convert.


Then a really shocking thing happend in my city Fremont, Cali. A Muslim woman who was walking with her daughter to go pick up her children from school was shot and killed in front of her own daughter only a block or two from the school. The man did not like her scarf/body covering. I was so shocked that someone so cruel could shoot and kill a woman in front of her child. I became scared to convert to Islam, my family was very concerned for my safety. I assured them after a week that everything will be fine. About 6-7 months later I finally told my friend Taminah and Nazi I wanted to take my Shahada. So January 21, 2007 I become a Muslima. I had asked my father if he would come and listen to me take my Shahada he cried and said NO. He feared that people would treat me differently. I cried that my own father would say no. He said "why Islam?!" I replied "your very words to me was that Islam is a peaceful religion, so why are you so worried?" He told me to take time and think about my decision and I said I have thought about it for the past 3 years. My dad had became a Christian and had been dating a Christian woman who had a big influence on his life and her family wouldn't be accepting to have a "step-daughter" as a Muslim. But he realized it is my life and my choices. I think Islam has changed my life completly. I am so thankful for those who have opened my eyes to Islam and I hope that one day Inshallah I can open someone elses eyes to Islam as well.


Islam is not what the media makes it out to be, If one non-Muslim person was to spend at least a day with a Muslim the world would see half as much hate towards Islam and its believers. I hope that one day we could all reach peace and happiness.





Thank you for taking your time to read my road to Islam.



*Azrah Pazdel.

wow - you have been through and survived an awful lot for a young person and you are obviously a very strong woman.
congratulations for turning your life around!
btw, i remember reading about that shooting in fremont - so sad to have survived aghanistan and then....

Thank you, You are from the Bay Area? A lot of my friends were related to the woman. It was so sad.

Sis Miizcamel Mashallah You have been through a lot and Alhamdullah you have a found a better life now.May Allah (S.W.T) protect you in every step you take in the future ameen.

no, i'm in southern california, but i've been to fremont.
life is sometimes so ironic.

Mashallah!!!!!Mashallah!!!!!Mashallah!!!!!Mashalla h!!!!!Mashallah!!!!!Mashallah!!!!!

Mashallah!!!!!Mashallah!!!!!Mashallah!!!!!Mashalla h!!!!!Mashallah!!!!!Mashallah!!!!!


Mashallah!!!!!Mashallah!!!!!Mashallah!!!!!Mashalla h Mashallah Mashallah!!!!!



Alahdulilah!!!Alahdulilah!!!Alahdulilah!!!Alahduli lah!!!Alahdulilah!!!Alahdulilah!!!


Subhanallah!!!!Subhanallah!!!!Subhanallah!!!!Subha nallah!!!!Subhanallah!!!!


ALLAHU Akbar!!!!!ALLAHU Akbar!!!!!ALLAHU Akbar!!!!!ALLAHU Akbar!!!!!ALLAHU Akbar!!!!!

Diving the Islam Ocean


By Ayman Qenawi, IOL Staff







Worshipers were supplicating and getting ready to leave the Islamic Center of Washington after the Friday prayer when the imam picked up the microphone to introduce a new "brother".


Dressed in a jeans and a shirt, Jefferson Pinder, Assistant Professor, Art Department, University of Maryland, slowly made his way to the front line of worshippers.



He sat by the imam who, after welcoming him to Islam, started to help him pronounce the Shahadah — testifying that there is no god but Allah and that Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) is His Messenger — in both English and Arabic.






The young African-American professional ended the process to cheers of Allah Akbar resonating across the famous Washington mosque and its outside yard, where hundreds of worshippers were attending the weekly prayer.



People, young and old, flocked to the first line of worshippers to greet and welcome him to the family of Islam.



"I was overwhelmed," Pinder told IslamOnline.net in the mosque yard where he was still getting greetings and congratulations from people he has never seen before.


"I think it is a wonderful thing to go into a place of worship and see all different kinds of people which has not been my experience growing up as a Christian."


Islam Ocean



Professor Pinder had quite a soul-searching journey in which he was touched by the values and discipline of Muslims he met.
"It was a long journey that began with a trip to Senegal," he recalls.



"I'm an artist. I have been in work with many artists who are of the Muslim faith. They motivated my actually. I saw the way they went with their lives and how they conducted their lives," explained Pinder.



"When I came here one of my students at the University of Maryland where I teach was a Muslim and her work dealt with Islam.


It moved me. I met her family and they kind of taken my in and guided me along the way."
He says he admires the values, discipline and kindness of Muslims who are nonetheless devout and serious about everything that they are connected to.



"A genuine sense of community that does not end with the [prayer] service but just goes beyond. It's the kind of community you always think about and want to be part of."



Pinder does not expect his decision to affect his family ties.



"My dad is a Catholic, a minister," he says.


"I guess he realizes that Islam can provide something that Christianity might not and at the sometime he also realizes that there are a lot of commonalities.



"This kind of commonalities, I think, can keep our relationship strong."



Learning


The arts professor sees his conversion as the beginning of a new phase in his life.



"I think it is a wonderful opportunity for me to define myself again because for years I have been just lost, as far as faith goes," he said.



"Sometimes I think we get messed up in our American culture that we do not think there is an alternative, other ways of learning and other ways of going about life," adds Pinder.
"So, today I came here and I'm slowly learning a new way of looking at life and hopefully it will make me a richer person."



Pinder sees good connections, legitimate relationships from one faith to the next.
"I see Islam as an evolution of my learning of Christianity and hopefully it can take me to a place that Christianity was never able to bring me to."



He recognizes he still has a lot to learn about his new faith.
"So far, I'm just beginning this process…its like jumping out into an ocean and figuring out how to swim."





Pinder intends to start by becoming a member of the community and learning to do his prayers.


"I have a couple of mentors who are going to be teaching me more the Arabic and how to conduct myself and how to say the prayers," he notes.

"I think I'm just a new born now."



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Finding Islam in Potsdam

By Reading Islam Team




Abdalhafiz Ullmannis a 27-year old German residing in Potsdam, Germany. Three years ago, he embraced Islam.


It all started when Abdalhafiz's wife read an ad in the newspaper, posted by a woman from the Muslim Community in Potsdam, that there was a need for a gymnastics teacher. Being one herself, she called them right way.



She got the job, and 2 years later, she seriously felt that this community could be something for her and Abdalhafiz. At first, he was angry, not knowing what to expect. However, he took the courageous step and went with her.



At that time it was Ramadan. Together with his wife and the Muslim community, Abdalhafiz fasted Ramadan. How was the experience? How did things roll on after that?


Watch Abdalhafiz sharing his experience with Islam in this short video

http://youtube.com/watch?v=-mojPFiGNv4





http://www.readingislam.com/servlet/...am%2FDIELayout

When I Thought There Was No Way Out


.....I love Islam more than anything in my life. It has given me a peace and understanding, I never had before. Islam has taught me how to turn all the pain of the past over to Allah (SWT) and let it go.



Forgiveness was very hard for me to understand. I am a work in progress. Alhamdulilah!!



I thank my attorney, and everyone who had anything in their Myspace sites or blogs, for what they taught me about Islam.



I especially thank a beautiful sister from Pakistan who gave me a copy of the Holy Quran and some other wonderful books in a beautiful gift bag. I met her through the Islamic Center where I live.



All Praises be to Allah Most High, Most Gracious, Most Merciful, for guiding me to Islam…



Islam is my Life. Jihad is my Spirit. Paradise is my Goal.


http://www.readingislam.com/servlet/...am%2FDIELayout

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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