How did you revert?

[your sister]

im up to page 5 but i thought id stop and say wow mashALLAH all stories are beautiful, brother MUSA i had a good laugh (where u say u argue with urself ) ur story was so intresting mashALLAH, and u are not scary akhi there is alot of people on here who have pre islam hidden past.

[Rubaiyat]

Just had a read though the stories. Amazing!

It's interesting to see how majority of the reverts are women when Islam is ment to treat them as second class citizens. Just shows how badly this truth has been twisted by the media and yet those who are guided by Allah will find it no matter what.

[cheesegirl]

Awesome thread mashaallah!

[carol_au]

SubhanAllah

I'm so glad this thread has been added to. I hadn't read it before and it's soooooo beautiful. i'm going to carefully read every story here.. May Allah encourage all of us through these amazing stories and may we all stay strong in the deen insha Allah as we see how miracles happen in people's lives.

Allahu Akhbar.

[Fatoum 7ees Beese]

Subhan’Allah. Talk about breath TAKING!!!!
These stories are too beautiful. May Allah swt bless you all.

Muhammad Abdullah your story broke me down into tears!

The one thing was HIJAB!!!!!!!!! What would i do, i knew it was what i had to face and i really wanted to wear it but was scared of reactions. So one day my Father in law (May Allah forgive him and give him Jannah) and Husband went out so i went shopping and bought my first Hijab. I got home and wore it around the house, then they came back. I left it on and just sat there, they came in saying Allahu Akbar!! My Father in law cried.

From that day i wore Hijab and said my Shahada. That night i felt so fresh and warm.

Ya ukhti Tayiba… when I read this I was so focused and full on into the screen that when I read Allahu Akbar and that ur father in law cried… I burst into tears! It was something I had absolutely no control over! May Allah swt Reward you.

I notice a lot of stories that inspire us into Islam or turn us back to Islam is because of illness/health issues… SubhanAllah one trap we must never fall into is taking for granted what Allah swt has given us! He helps us, protects us, cures us and after all this we can easily fall back into our same miserable mistakes! May Allah swt protect us, guide us and never let us fall astray. Ameen.

Jazak’Allahu khairan for all your inspirational stories.
Keep em coming

[Malik.Shakur]

I have my story of reversion, its very big and wont fit in a single post.. shall i just give you guys a web link?

[mOtion]

yes please

[Malik.Shakur]

ok, well its incredibly long.. almost 40 pages in word i think..

but ok.. let me know what you guys think

http://thevitalissue.blogspot.com

massalaama,

ms

[Fatoum 7ees Beese]

La'ilaha Il'Allah Muhammad Rasul Allah.

Brother MK... you have left me speechless! I just spent the last half hour reading your story! Allahu Akbar!

Reading it, i felt as if i was watching a movie... subhanAllah akhi i have never come accross a brother who has suffered more than this! I kept thinking to myself how much could ONE HANDLE!!!

We all suffer and have our bad moments, but subhanAllah your story is like no other! It will be somthing glued to my heart and head for ever!

Although no matter how harshly we see it, we can never compare it it to the way the Sahaba and beloved Prophets of Allah suffered.

SubhanAllah indeed you went through hardship... but after every hardship there is relief.

In the end you received the most beautiful gift of all.... Islam.
Allah truly loves you. You and every other Pious Muslim are the most dearest servants to Allah swt.

May Allah swt reward you for everything and place you in the Highest Level of Jannah. Ameen.

[tegan]

Mashallah all your stories are so amazing. Allah is truly merciful that he would give us all this beautiful deen. Especially the brothers and sisters who have struggled with their faith, and overcome any weakness.

I grew up with a very objective view on God, and religion. My Dad is an athiest, and my Mum always kept her beliefs very private (inshallah i will one day have the knowledge and strength to bring them to Islam).

When I finished school a year and a half ago I started getting into christianity alot, I would pray to Jesus but I just felt like I was talking to a brick wall. Eventually my brother started talking to me about Catholicism (he's Catholic) and convinced me to go to church with him. I decided to go with an open mind and not to believe everything that we hear in the media about the Catholic church. So I went, but all I got were more brick walls.

It just didn't make sense to me, I didn't understand where God fitted in. I didn't understand the concept of "Holy Trinity", or "Hail Marys".

I started looking into all the different Abrahamic religions, I was sitting on Wikipedia all day at work reading about Judaism, and Christianity. But Islam was always sitting right at the back of my mind. I never though I would ever even consider it.

I don't remember exactly what it was that compelled me to read about it, but I did. I read about Muhammad - peace be upon him, I read about women in Islam, I read about Mosques, I started to read everything I could find, including an English translation of the Quran that I found on a muslim girls Myspace page!

But still I felt so confused. Every night I was begging God to give me some kind of sign about what to do, who to believe. And Mashallah I got my answer, I don't know how, I just felt it in my heart. Overwhelming joy. I would cry so often, and still do, because I feel so much love and joy in my heart, like I finally have the right answer. But I don't wipe the tears away, I just let them fall, it's such a release. Like i'm crying out any doubts I had.

Mashallah I was guided to an amazing group of sisters who have helped me so much. All I feel in my surroundings is tranquility. And all I have in my heart is love for Allah. Truly He is merciful that he would show me the right path.

Inshsallah this saturday I am saying my shahada at the mosque. I have told my Mum and Dad and they have accepted me. My non-muslim friends have accepted me. I told my brother (not the Catholic one) who is an athiest and he tried to convince me to "put off religion" for a few months until I sort out my studies! I can tell he thinks it is a phase i'm going through.
I'm scared to tell my Catholic brother though, I am going to pray for the strength to help him see. The same with my 2 sisters.

[Musa]

Allaahu Akbar, brother Malik (or Jihad fi sabeelillaah lol) that was an amazing story. If I wasn't surrounded by strangers in my schools library I think I might have cried reading certain parts.
I can relate so much of my own journey to islam with your story, Inshaa'Allaah I hope to meet you one day Akhi.

[*saRah*]

As sallamu 3allaykum Tegan,

I got goosbumps just reading ur story, its where u describe ur feelings, Allahu akbar so beautiul may allah subhanahu wa ta3alah strengthen u sis, and always keep u steadfast in this bewautiful deen, and when u take the shahadah, please come back here and tell us what u felt. subhanallah!

Malik Shakur, brother, i read 3 sentences in ur blog and i stopped cos i already got goosbumps and teary no joke, so I'm printing it out and saving it for when i go to sleep, i know I'm in for definate tears, thats why i stopped cos the computer is downstairs and everyone can c me Ill post here tommorow Insha'allah, till then take care!

[*saRah*]

As sallamu 3allaykum wb,

I was thinking abt ur story all day malik!!! it was incredible, subhanallah!
wallah to have such patience like the patience u have practiced throughout ur lifetime is something i beleive i can never have etched in me, but subhanallah i have learnt something through ur story, if someone is willing to do good, Allah subhanahu wa ta3alah never lets them down, they either attain their reward here in this life or the next.

Their actions will never be unoticed by their lord and he rewards for all good mankind and jiin will do. Subhanallah, Im still pretty much speechless. May Allah subhanahu wa ta3alah strengthen u akhi, and reward u amply for all the hard efforts u have and will do in this dunya.

Wallah man, some ppl may hate this dunya, but i personally love it, do u know why? this is everyones ONLY token or one way ticket to eternal happiness, and this goes to me the most, i need to sqeeze ever last drop of breath i have in the cause of Allah subhanahu wa ta3alah, I'm starting to feel I am failing and it's sad! Akhi ur story has inspired me.

Last night I was telling someone abt ur story, and they asked what benefit i might receive from stories like urs (off course they said this out of interest) and my reply was, "I'm more grateful now for what allah subhanahu wa ta3alah has given me, some people are living worse than i am, so It makes me feel gratefull"

May Allah subhanahu wa ta3alah reward u for ur struggle, and may ur jihad be fisabiallah always, may u and I and the mu'mineen be granted jannah al firdawse!

P.S i needed that laugh half way through ur story, abt "faster than a fat kid sitting down" LOL something amongst those lines

[*F@ttY*]

Akhi Malik... Masha'allah.. what can i say?
What a tremendously moving and inspiring story.
May Allah SWT reward you with nothing less than Jannat al Firdaws.
And all of this at such a young age of 21... Subhan'Allah wallahu Akbar

[Malik.Shakur]

salams guys.. thank u so much for your kind words..

it took a great deal out of me to write that.. and it was incredibly painful to do so..

but alhumdulillah writing that has put me on the road to trying to address some of the consequences that i now face from my experiences during that period that was written about and also more recent things..

inshaALLAH i wish to write a book one day, when i have achieved more and inshaALLAH it will be there to inspire youth to want to make a difference in the world, and possibly encourage others to want to learn about islam..

but this is still maybe 10 years down the track.. im only 22.. lol.. i want more to write about inshaALLAH

i guess if it inspires some of you and makes you thankful to be muslims, it is certainly worth it.. alhumdulillah..

[isa]

Malik.Shakur, Muhammad Abdullah and I went to Habib's for a bite Friday night

Lovely Brothers

[Malik.Shakur]

Malik.Shakur, Muhammad Abdullah and I went to Habib's for a bite Friday night

Lovely Brothers

I had the flake.. it was good..

the brothers were great too mashaALLAH

but man i love flake..

[compLicated]

inshaAllah i'll read some of the other stories when i got more time but someone pointed out brother Malik's story to me and i just read it...wow mashaAllah, really inspiring! may Allah protect you always!!
if you dont mind me asking, what do you do now?

Was Salaam

[Malik.Shakur]

inshaAllah i'll read some of the other stories when i got more time but someone pointed out brother Malik's story to me and i just read it...wow mashaAllah, really inspiring! may Allah protect you always!!
if you dont mind me asking, what do you do now?

Was Salaam

jazakALLAH khayr sister for your kind words, may ALLAH swt protect all of us and guide us all inshaALLAH.

now i work part time, and study journalism, international relations, politics and arabic at university.

but im wanting to change the journalism to international community development, keep the international relations and do some history subjects instead. i will keep the arabic and inshaALLAH id love to combine it with a secondary teaching degree so that i have the opportunity to try and inspire the youth to want to make a change in the world as i was alhumdulillah. I also have started doing some prison chaplaincy which i must say is the most rewarding and beautiful things i have ever experienced

alhumdulillah

[Ahmad]

ok, well its incredibly long.. almost 40 pages in word i think..

but ok.. let me know what you guys think

http://thevitalissue.blogspot.com

massalaama,

ms

Masha'Allah bro, I don't really like reading and when I clicked on your page I thought.. I don't think so... but I gave it a chance and couldn't stop reading masha'Allah. You have a good writing style.

Your story was touching bro, you got me a bit teary at the beginning but also gave me a few laughs later on.

May Allah guide your mother and family to the true teachings of Islaam and may He strengthen you (it looks like He already has!) with the tests and trials that you've gone through.

I like your attitude and how you try and make a difference in this world, helping out those who are weak and oppressed, masha'Allah this is excellent.

May Allah subhaanahu wa ta'aalaa help you to do all that is good in this life and avoid all that is bad and enter you into Jannat Al-Firdaws, the highest part of Jannah, Aameen!