Assalamu Aleykum,
Jazak Allah Khayr for your kind welcome. It would give me great pleasure to answer your question about my reversion. I was a single young graduate trying to find my way in the world after uni. As a white English girl I had seen lots of so-called friends wasting away their lives on alcohol and loose behaviour and became increasingly convinced that there must be more to life than such shallow and immoral behaviour. I guess I began to look at other cultures and religions and soon realised that my life really lacked any sense ofesning or purpose. One of the religions that I considered was Islam, but I had been so indoctrinated by the western media that I couldn't at first see beyond the stereotypical view of Islam as a religion of cruelty and repression. I had heard about floggings, amputations, stonings, and the repression of women for example through forced veiling, all in a very negative light, with no attempt to explain their context and that in fact Islam is a religion of peace and humanity, with woman held in high esteem. Anyway, to cut a long story short a friend of mine had been travelling in Pakistan and when she returned she took her shahada and I spent many evenings talking with her about Islam, during which she corrected all my misconceptions about Islam. alHumdulillah. I soon realised that In Islam I had found what I was looking for in my life and eleven years ago I took my shahada and devoted myself to Allah subhana wa ta'alaa. alHumdulillah. I guess I had become her first da'wah success story. Since then, I have been blessed with a wonderful husband and two mashallah sons.
