This is a wonderful story which is worth reading, that of a fanatical Christian whom Allah guided to the path of truth, and he has become one of the most prominent Daa’iyahs in the African continent. When we spoke with him, he started at the beginning and did not wait...
As salaam Alikum Wa Rahmatuallah Wa Barakatuh, Dearest Brothers and sisters, let me tell you my story. My conversion to Islam was long overdue, I started learning about Islam from about the age of 15, but I only took my Shahadah when I was 25 years old. I had always...
The Holy Qur’an tells that Islam is a complete set of laws and the way of life. So, no doubt about it and it is the guidance provided through the Holy Qur’an by Allah, the Creator of the Universe and components of the Universe from the smallest and shortest to...
My name is Darrick Abdul-hakim. I am a 20-year-old Muslim brother living in the United States. I currently attend Cupertino University, which won’t be for long since I am transferring to a University that suits my major in more malaise. I major in Old Hebraic and Arabian Literature and History....
Islam has been described as being the religion of Fitrah, the innate nature of all humans. It is not surprising therefore when we discover that Islam is being accepted as the only pure way of life a person can follow by millons of reverts around the world. Statistics show that...
My conversion to Islam began in my eighth-grade year. There was a Muslim student by the name of Raphael who first told me a little about Islam. At the time he was not so knowledgeable about Islam, but he put the initial interest in my mind which never went away....
My name is Martin, from Leeds in the UK; I converted to Islam 16 years ago when I was 29. I would describe myself as a white Brit of Irish ancestry and I was born into a Catholic family. I was an altar boy for some time and my father...
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 mosque...
Here is one of the key factors that led me to explore my heart to find the truth of life. Prior to my conversion to Islam, I lived my life as a Jew. Although my family was not traditional, I learned Judaism from traditional Jews. I went to an Orthodox...
When I look back upon my life, I can see that my present situation is a logical consequence of the sum of my acts and thoughts up to this point, but that, of course, is always the case for anybody. Thus my converting to Islam — or rather my accepting...
I am an American woman who was born in the midst of America’s “Heartland”. I grew up, just like any other girl, being fixated on the glamour of life in “the big city”. Eventually, I moved to Florida and on to South Beach of Miami, a hotspot for those seeking...
Richard Beauchamp sat in the parking lot watching the Muslims come and go. He had never been to a mosque before, and was nervous. When he mustered the nerve to go inside, he was greeted warmly. He said that he’d been raised a Baptist, but felt drawn to Islam. “They...
I said, Emily has become Muslim?! She said, Yes, she became Muslim. This news came as a surprise, and I asked myself, how did this woman become Muslim? I had never noticed anything in the expression of this Filipina woman to indicate that she wanted to hear anything about Islam,...
It was December 23, 1986, two days away from Christmas, when Arch Bishop Martin John Mwaipopo, announced to his congregation that he was leaving Christianity for Islam. The congregation was paralysed with shock on hearing the news, so much so, that his administrator got up from his seat, closed the...
Every person has a different way of coming to the Truth. For Moisha Krivitsky this way led through a faculty of law, a synagogue and a prison. The lawyer-to-be becomes a Rabbi, then he converts into Islam and finds himself in prison. Today Musa (this is the name he has...
Muhammad Asad was born Leopold Weiss in July 1900 in the city of Lvov (German Lemberg), now in Poland, then part of the Austrian Empire. He was the descendant of a long line of rabbis, a line broken by his father, who became a barrister. Asad himself received a thorough...
My name is Safia, but I was born Helena Brigitte. I changed my name on the 23rd of October in 2017. I converted to Islam three weeks after my 17th birthday, which was on the 28th of August in 2016. It has not even been two years, but I learned a lot....
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...
Prof. Dr. Fuat Sezgin is an Islamic scholar who specializes in the history of Arabic-Islamic science. He is professor emeritus of the History of Natural Science at Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany and the founder and honorary director of the Institute of the History of the Arab Islamic...
After twenty-five years as a writer in America, I wanted something to soften my cynicism. I was searching for new terms by which to see. The way one is raised establishes certain needs in this department. From a pluralist background, I naturally placed great stress on the matters of racism...
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