Salam Alaykum!
My name is Afdal, (Okay, that's my new name, my older one is Simon and is still used on papers), I live in Canada and I am twenty-three years old. I speek french but I'm good at english too. I've been interested in Islam for about one or two years. In my town, that is very little, there is no mosque, and no muslims at all. I only have a friend that one of her friend is a muslim and that I had the chance to meet with her family one time when they were in vacation in my town.
I wanna tell you a bit about how I had the Quran in my possession because I love how I got it. I was shopping with a friend, I was in vacation in her town. We saw on the street a little place where they were selling things like cute tea glasses, spices, things like that. The worker at the cash was a muslim girl. I looked for things, saw some cool cookies that I had never seen before. I continued and saw a beautiful shelf. The Quran was there, in three formats, there were also some DVDs about Islam. I took the bigger Quran, a very beautiful one, and looked at it. There were the Arabic suras with the french traduction on each page. I felt in love.
I looked at it again, and I didn't see any price on it. It was my last day of vacation so I only had money to pay for gas to come back home. I went to see the girl at the cash and asked her if they were selling the Quran. She told me yes and showed me the price that was inside the book ($35). I was a bit sad because I didn't have any money. So I told her thank you and placed it back where it was. She came and told me she could sell it to me for a cheaper price. That's when I explained her that I didn't have money anymore but I would come back one day to get it.
You know what she told me? She told me to get it, and come back when I'll have some money to give her. I was shocked! I thanked her so much and she was as happy as me. I went home with this beautiful book and now today she received her money.
That's my little story about how I got the Quran! I started to read it, and my muslim 'friend' (friend of a friend) suggested me to read the books of Tariq Ramadan, and that's what I did. I really felt in love. Everything feels so good to hear and it is always a passionating religion to study.
Today, on november 10, 2016, I pronounced the Shahada and started to pray. Let me tell it again for you guys, because I was alone when I did it:
Ash-hadu anlaa ilaaha illAllah, wa ash-hadu anna Muhammadan rasululah.
It feels so good to say it! I feel so free right now. My biggest fear is about praying. Five times a day seems so much for me, but I want to try it for Allah. I wanna make him happy and I know it's for the best.
So I'll stop here, if you have some questions you can always ask them, and I hope to see you soon around here!
Afdal
My name is Afdal, (Okay, that's my new name, my older one is Simon and is still used on papers), I live in Canada and I am twenty-three years old. I speek french but I'm good at english too. I've been interested in Islam for about one or two years. In my town, that is very little, there is no mosque, and no muslims at all. I only have a friend that one of her friend is a muslim and that I had the chance to meet with her family one time when they were in vacation in my town.
I wanna tell you a bit about how I had the Quran in my possession because I love how I got it. I was shopping with a friend, I was in vacation in her town. We saw on the street a little place where they were selling things like cute tea glasses, spices, things like that. The worker at the cash was a muslim girl. I looked for things, saw some cool cookies that I had never seen before. I continued and saw a beautiful shelf. The Quran was there, in three formats, there were also some DVDs about Islam. I took the bigger Quran, a very beautiful one, and looked at it. There were the Arabic suras with the french traduction on each page. I felt in love.
I looked at it again, and I didn't see any price on it. It was my last day of vacation so I only had money to pay for gas to come back home. I went to see the girl at the cash and asked her if they were selling the Quran. She told me yes and showed me the price that was inside the book ($35). I was a bit sad because I didn't have any money. So I told her thank you and placed it back where it was. She came and told me she could sell it to me for a cheaper price. That's when I explained her that I didn't have money anymore but I would come back one day to get it.
You know what she told me? She told me to get it, and come back when I'll have some money to give her. I was shocked! I thanked her so much and she was as happy as me. I went home with this beautiful book and now today she received her money.
That's my little story about how I got the Quran! I started to read it, and my muslim 'friend' (friend of a friend) suggested me to read the books of Tariq Ramadan, and that's what I did. I really felt in love. Everything feels so good to hear and it is always a passionating religion to study.
Today, on november 10, 2016, I pronounced the Shahada and started to pray. Let me tell it again for you guys, because I was alone when I did it:
Ash-hadu anlaa ilaaha illAllah, wa ash-hadu anna Muhammadan rasululah.
It feels so good to say it! I feel so free right now. My biggest fear is about praying. Five times a day seems so much for me, but I want to try it for Allah. I wanna make him happy and I know it's for the best.
So I'll stop here, if you have some questions you can always ask them, and I hope to see you soon around here!
Afdal
