wow, that story on the first page about the boy converting at the age of 10 made me so sad , it was a really good read.

"With every hardship, comes ease. Verily, with hardship comes ease." (94:5-6)

Originally Posted by J Aaliyah

Salam,
Here we go, my conversion video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5A2NT2aPIME

MashAllah sister, I really enjoyed your video. Very inspiring. Thank you for sharing this with us.

Comedian Preacher Moss's Journey to Islam




Founder of "Allah Made Me Funny" Comedy Group
Interviewed By Dilshad D. Ali




Preacher Moss

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If you've ever seen Preacher Moss of the "Allah Made Me Funny" comedy trio perform, then you've heard this joke. "If it were legally possible, I'd change my name to 'Allahu Akbar,'" Preacher says. Then he goes into a bit on how great it would sound at the airport to hear security officials to read off his passport, "Allahu Akbar."

But that's not the best part of the joke. "Meet my children," Preacher says. "'Mashallah' and 'Inshallah.'" And that's when the laughter really starts flowing. But the final stomach-hurting guffaws come at the very end of the routine: "And then my third child will say, 'That's not Daddy's name.' So I'll point to him and say, 'You'll have to pardon my youngest. He's named 'Astaghfirullah' (I seek Allah's forgiveness)."




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I met a Canadian revert sis online in other forum . I / We requested her to write her story , here it is


Salam alaykum...

When i was 18 years old... I was same as most of the young adult in the west... Feeling to going into club, drinking, meeting man , having fun with my friends , etc...

One night, my friends and me goes for to dance... I was wearing tight cloths and hill shoes, make up to look nice... I start dancing and suddenly one man come beside me and ask if he can dance with me... He was nice looking and full of charm... lol... I saw he wasn't from Canada... He was having an accent and something i never saw with no man around me... End of the night we exchange our phone number...

I call him as i promess him few days after... And he ask me for to take a ride in downtown... I arrives there with my flat shoes... and a long skirt and long shirt... Totally different style as was he saw the day we meet... The first thing he tell me its : You look better like this then the way you was dress the other day.

I got little surprised... But feel more confortable... We pass the whole day in talking and walking... No kiss, no touch, nothing... I was thinking something wrong at the beginning but more the time was passing more i realize , he was having respect for me... He took me to the subway and we left... I was thinking he never will call again... Was sad... But i got suprised , he called me few days after and offering me another ride in downtown...

More i was knowing about him, his religion and his family more i was feeling good... My friends ask me to go in the club and i didn't felt the same way... I asked him if he wanted to come with us and he tell me : Only if you dress yourself nicely as what i saw you when we go for walk. This was unusual for me... Going in club like this ??? OMG ... Finally i accepted...

The time as passed and slowly i stop going in the club and start passing lot of time with him and his family... His mom were expecting us to get married, his sisters also... Even his father was very nice with me and treating me as one of them... They included me as their family members and treated me as it is... They invited me to all the holidays, party... Slowly me and him found we were only very good friend on who we can count on each other... He left for his country and leave me with his sisters... They tooked care of me so much nicely... I was feeling so lonely after he left... But his sisters make me to stay with them and start teaching me more about religion and Islam...

Everyone around me was seeing me changing and being happy... The beginning of my life was starting... Alhumdullilah... Then my convertion to islam as start..

Few months after all this, I was working in a computer store and one day a group of man come in the store to buy a computer... It was my husband and is friends ...I knew it right at the moment what was my destiny... He was muslim and it was the most important part for me ...

Today we have 5 kids together and we do enjoy our life...

The hardest part i had was to include my father, sister and brothers into my life... The time as pass but many part they don't understand about islam because of what the media telling... I have always to make a concession between both side...

This is not the easiest life i was expecting but i hope one day I will be able to show myself to everyone (including my family) the way i am really... But still have a long ride to do before it...

http://myislamweb.com/forum/index.ph...0122#msg150122

Always find these stories facinating. thanks all for sharing 'em.

Originally Posted by J Aaliyah

Salam,
Here we go, my conversion video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5A2NT2aPIME

MashaAllah sis, loved it

Btw I love your accent lol.

i liked this one :

Let me share another revert story


I Wondered Why Muslims Are So Proud


My name is Aysha, and I am from North Hungary. I heard about Islam when I was in secondary school in the history lessons, because Hungary was under occupation by Turkey for 150 years.

After that I went to university to study molecular biology, where I met many Muslim foreign students.

I was always curious why Muslims are so proud that they are Muslims.

I was Catholic, a good one, but I always had doubts and I didn't agree with some parts of my religion: for example, how can God have a son and the concept of the Trinity was also not believable for me.

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one of my favorite threads on here!

Originally Posted by tw009

one of my favorite threads on here!

Yes definitely. It really struck a chord for me too.

all these give me so much inspiration
thanks for sharing them

KIWI MUSLIM

It was on Television during the evening News that I witnessed Cat Stevens (Yusuf Islam) leave his singing career, giving it all up for Islam, this was my very first encounter of Islam and Muslims, in no way was I ever to know what Allah (SWT) had install for me.

As time passed and life became complicated through adulthood, I would always wonder what life was and why I was put here, what was my part in this vast World and would I pass the test put to each and every one of us in time or at least before I was laid to rest, where would I take myself and would I hurt anyone alone the way, if so, how would I repair what I broke?

Many questions continued to haunt me throughout my youthful years until I could take it no more, I needed answers and fast.

Here are some questions that were confronting me when I was younger and before I had any idea I was to be chosen to be a Practicing Muslim, Alhumdulillah...”All praises go to Allah (SWT) alone for Granting me this chance to repent and show my honest love for Him”

Whilst growing up on Easter eggs and Christmas puddings, (usually drenched in cherry…this being the sponge pudding) I used to sit and wonder why we are always sitting there each year scoffing our mouths until we can eat no more, in remembrance of what Isa (Jesus) did for us.

Why should we be eating? Shouldn’t we be Fasting instead to show our compassion for this Holy Man called Isa? (Jesus)

Every year, I thought more and more about this and many more questions that were confronting me constantly came into my head, with the need for the answers.

Never did I ever truly believe that “God” had a son or anything connected to Him, I never agreed with this term, why would God belittle Himself be Creating something the same as Him in us, He has given us life and if Jesus was God, then why was he Praying to God? Thinking about this one must be positive with insight in itself to consider and respect through devotional Prayer to Allah (SWT) alone.

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http://rapidshare.com/files/356535734/My_Reversion_To_Islam_Story.doc

Originally Posted by J Aaliyah

Salam,
Here we go, my conversion video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5A2NT2aPIME

Masha'Allah

Originally Posted by Light of Heaven

MashaAllah sis, loved it

Btw I love your accent lol.

Haha, me too, loved the accent

My jounrey to Islam was quite long. Before i became muslim i didn't like Islam because of the media propaganda against the religion. Then i met some muslim women who i begun to debate Islam with, they started to ask me to really study Islam before i critized it which i satrted do, i started to study aspects of Islam more and more and the more i read the more chocked i becamse because contrary to what i believed it all seemed so logical and true. I became more and more convinced rhat Islam was the truth and then i started to see many more women who had reverted to Islam and i asked myself. If Islam was so oppressive to women why do so many women revert to Islam? Then i reverted to Islam and i have never looked back at this point on. Islam is the true religion and Muhammed is the prophet of Allah, the only God.

Today, I made it as official as I know how. I'm not sure whether the right verb is 'took', 'recited' or what (and I wouldn't want to seem offensive using the wrong term), but I will simply say I, after a long time of dodging Islam (as I did over the years, for various reasons, despite my attraction to the path), I said (that seems like a nice and concise verb) the Shahada. I'm feeling happy with this, and though I have things to learn (mostly in regards to prayer and how to go about handling Ramadan if dehydration is an issue, as was stated to me in my introduction), but I feel life is too unpredictable and potentially short to put off something this important to me for any longer.

I did change the 'religion' option in my profile to Muslim, but I left 'brother in humanity' as it was due to lack of reason to specify otherwise if my religion status is set to Muslim, because that doesn't mean one isn't human.

Anyway, I first really learned about Islam in specific details back in Highschool (Humanities class) in one of the many videos we had to watch, since our teacher seemed only to participate in class activities when he was managing the school's choir. I developed an interest in it right then, despite having been an Atheist and a bit of a full and complete Anti-Theist for the majority of my life (not counting before, when the concept of having a religion never really crossed my mind enough to say I was one or another), and having heard all sorts of negativity from the media in regards to Islam, which I came to discover was a load of stereotyping and bigotry (partly out of American xenophobia which is always around in some form and partly because the media needed to hype the efforts to gather more oil in a way people would like). After that, I went on living and found an online game which I played for a time (by played, I mean tolerated, it was nothing more than a half-finished chat room featuring rpg gameplay and few to no moderators), and after awhile of that I met a person who turned out to be Muslim. I spoke to this person for awhile and that really got me thinking again about what I had learned already.

For awhile (beginning a couple of months back, I think), I began randomly studying religions. I had a pretty big gap in me I needed to fill and I wasn't going to start drinking or something, so I went in pursuit of something that felt right (while trying to dodge the one that had most caught my eye). After giving it serious thought and doing some research specifically on Islam (which I had been doing a reading up on here and there between other belief systems that caught my eye) and that last stretch brought me here with a question of health concerns. The rest, a brief time, involved telling my grandmother, who was raised a Baptist, about my decision (since she lives here with me and I take care of her, I figured she would inevitably find out and I didn't want it to shock her) and she was very accepting.

Again, though, I don't know everything and I plan to learn all I can and need as I go along. Well, here I am, reporting live from my home, with the story of how I came to this point (which I hope I didn't rant or drone too much during, lol).

My gratitude goes out to those who responded to my post with answers and warmth, and to all the people and events which have helped me get to this point. Now, there are some things around the house I need to finish dealing with (though pretty much all of the flood damage I had from the storms we had awhile back is taken care of). Oh, I hope the longish, textblocky nature of this post isn't too annoying, lol