Category: Journey towards light

My Path to Islam C. Huda Dodge

I was born in San Francisco, California, and raised in a Bay Area suburb. My small town was a mostly white, upper-middle-class, Christian community. It is a beautiful area – just north of San Francisco (across the Golden Gate Bridge), nestled in a valley near the hillsides (Mount Tamalpais) and...

The Nurse and the Muslim Patient

My name is Cassie. At the age of 23, I graduated as a qualified nurse and was given my first position as a home nurse. My patient was an English gentleman in his early 80s who suffered from Alzheimer’s. In the first meeting, the patient was given his record and...

Yousef al Khattab

Yousef al Khattab

I was born to a Secular Jewish family, and at the age of 18 years old decided to look “deeper” into the belief in God. Like most people, I looked at religion from a viewpoint that was closer to me. Being that my family was Jewish and I was raised...

The Conversion Story Of Clinton Sipes

The Beginning: Early Life Trials of Clinton Sipes I grew up in a dysfunctional family setting in the atmosphere of alcoholism, physical and emotional abuse that came from my father.  Without a positive father figure, I was basically developing antisocial behavior and an inclination to violence. I began to imitate...

French Rapper Diam’s Conversion Story

Amid a nationwide debate in France surrounding attitudes towards the Islamic veil, or hijab, a French rapper has surprised fans by announcing her conversion to Islam and choosing to wear a headscarf. Mélanie Georgiades, known as Diam’s, has gone through what onlookers have described as a “complete transformation” from an...

Malcolm X’s Letter from Makkah

Malcolm X was an African American leader in the civil rights movement, minister and supporter of Black nationalism. He urged his fellow Black Americans to protect themselves against white aggression “by any means necessary,” a stance that often put him at odds with the nonviolent teachings of Martin Luther King,...

How I Came to Islam (Yahya) Donald W. Flood

I comprehended that it was found imperative due to innovations attributed to Divine revelation that the need arose for another Prophet after Eesa (alaihissalam) with another revelation after the Gospel. This is why Allah sent Muhammad (sallallaho alaihi wasallam) with the last Message, (i.e., the Qur’an), to bring all of...

What Attracted Me to Islam By R. L. Mellema

What has attracted me to this faith? I began with my study of Eastern languages at the University of Leiden in 1919 and attended the lectures of Prof. C. Snouck Hurgronje, the well-known Arabist. I learned Arabic, read and translated Al-Baidawi’s commentary on the Qur’an and Al-Ghazali’s reflexions on the...

Alexander Russel Webb

Muhammad Alexander Russel Webb was born in 1846 C.E. in Hudson, Columbia county, United States of America. After completing his education at Hudson and New York, he began to write as a short-story writer and an essayist. In a short time, he excelled in journalism and served as the Editor...

Conversion Story of Peter Sanders

Peter Sanders was born in London in 1946. His professional career in photography began during the mid-sixties where he photographed most of the major stars in the music business including Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, The Doors, The Who, the Rolling Stones etc. Towards the end of the 1970’s, Sanders’ attention...

The Chickens Broke Our Gods

Before I became Muslim, my habit when I visited any city or town was that the first building I would enter or look for in that city would be a place of worship, a temple or church or whatever. Allah may He be exalted willed that I should enter a...