My Convert Story

[fatima123]

I grew up as a normal little austrian girl. I went to playgroup, I had lots of lots of puppets, barbies, cuddly toys and so on. Anyway I just grew up like that and I have always been a bit overweight (not much, just a bit) and I have always been kind of obsessed with music. When I was younger I mostly listened austro pop, pop music in our language and the beatles, later on I got into this Justin Bieber-hysteria a bit, not that I EVER liked Justin Bieber, but people like Taylor Swift and so on... Famous people we were putting pictures of them on our walls, dressed like them, walked like them, moved like them... Now after I converted this seems like a strange dream to me...

When I came to primary school I was bullied, because of my weight. There was another boy and another two girls who were bullied, one was a foreigner, the other was also a bit overweight and one girl was just not acting like the others. She was silent, she didn't want fight, she just wanted to learn and have fun.

I wasn't sad during that time, not too much, I still had friends.
Sometimes when a girl was bullying and teasing me very hard I was sad, really sad.

Anyway, when I came to secondary school, everything got better. I went to another school than all of my other classmates, who were going to a normal secondary school, misjudged as easy (it was actually harder than my school) and I went to a secondary school, where you get a better education and better chances for a job. It's my 4th year here now.

When I changed to this school, nothing got better. Still I was bullied, just that I finally didn't have any friends anymore. And I couldn't even make new, nobody liked me. So I got very depressive that time. I only listened punk rock, even went to one concert, I was sinking into music and I thought I don't have to face the hardness of life, music would defend me.

But of course, it didn't.

I was becoming active on g+ that time, I soon got many friends there to chat with and check out new cultures and new people. I could share my thoughts, interests, everything and people liked me for being who I am. I liked that.

Anyway, one day a muslim added me. He asked me to read the quran. I actually was like: “Oh, I don’t want to read Quran…” but he just kept on asking so I said, ok if you find one in my language…” He didn’t. But he found one in English so I started to read. One day he disappeared and never came back. He was in war in Afghanistan, I don’t know what happened to him :’( thank you so much for telling me to read Quran it was my first step torwards Allah…

That was when I met another muslim on Google+. We were chatting very openly and he was telling me about Islam, the true Islam. And not the things we hear in TV in radio, terrorist things and muslim killing the non-believers. Islam is a religion of peace, brotherhood, faith and iman, believeing in one god and equality.

I have always been a person, who doesn’t like prejudice. “Don’t judge a book by its cover…” I used to say that a lot. That’s why people called me stupid (don’t ask me, this doesn’t even make sense to myself inshallah one day I will understand what my classmates did to me). Anyway, I came into Islam, learned more about it and finally I wanted to become a muslim. That religion was just so awesome and Allah, oh Allah thank you for leading me. It was overwhelming.

I did Shahada in the middle of the night, under the blanket on my bed talking to a muslim.

Everything changed in my mind. I would say I am still the same who I were, but my leading changed. Now I hope that more people will find their way to Islam and on youtube there are soo many convertion videos. It keeps my hope up.

Alhamdulillah… I am so happy now and I try to show everyone. As I converted about a month ago, not many people know about me being muslim yet. I am now learning Arabic, exchanging my knowledge about it.

[sister herb]

Salam alaykum

Thanks about your story, new sister.

[UmmuShaheed]

Subhanallah,
inalla7a ya7di man yasha.
Your so young, and mashallah so strong for making such a big decision. May Allah guide you and give you strength through the tough times which are sure to come.
Jazakallahu Khayr, there are many other brothers and sisters who have taken the same step and I'm sure they understand your struggles far more than some of us born Muslim. So ask them for advice in'sha'allah and don't forget to pray. (reminder for all of us)

[glo]

Love you story, fatima. Looks like God is working in you! :statisfie

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[Muslim Woman]

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JazakAllah khair sis for sharing ur story . May Allah bless u always

[snowflake122]

Assalamu alaikum sis ..

JazakaAllahu khairan sister for sharing your story .
May Allah make it easy for you , bless you and keep you guided.Ameen.

[tigerkhan]

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superb.. it was really nice story.

[Born_Believer]

Congratulations first and foremost :statisfie And this is especially impressive considering how young you are. When I was your age I was too busy watching wrestling, playing football and barely thought about the world outside my own existence. God I sound old LOL

[aflawedbeing]

Masha'Allah sister. Welcome to Islam.

May Allah swt protect and reward you always. Ameen.

[عابر سبيل]

Congratulations and welcome to the religion, may Allah keep you steadfast, bless your effort and make you among His sincere and chosen servants.

[Muhaba]

Welcome to Islam sis. Great story. I hope many others too find the religion of God just like you did. and I hope you enjoy the blessings of Islam. It is truly a great religion.

If you want a good Arabic language book, you can check out my book Arabic Made Easy.

[submiter]

Alhamdulillah. Do as much good deeds in this world and not to forget prayers. We need to be prepared before the calling of the grave reaches us.

[_E_3]

Congratulations Sister
what a beautiful story