The Revival

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From darkness to light

Noor —

Asslaamu aalaikum

This thread is for everyone to share their experiences about how they came to Islam or how they became practicing. The journey, struggles, the end result and so forth.

I don’t know about anyone else but I find it really inspiring when people talk about how they came to the path and everything. It makes you realise how luckily we are that Allah swt has chosen to guide us and that we are lucky to be Muslims and not disbelievers!

(I’ll add later inshaaAllah)

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#32

Bliss Mon, 14 Jan 2008 - 23:19

Irfan.khanas in myslef? or as in admin?

admin, I don't think your that vain to vote for urself , or would you :?

#35

Bliss Mon, 14 Jan 2008 - 23:22

Irfan.khanThats for me to know and you to find out!

very original know why didn't I come up with that ?

Bless still a kid at heart.

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Dawud Tue, 15 Jan 2008 - 14:02

Ya'qub From about May 2005 til the end of that year, I was stuck on the fence - not exactly being a kafir-scum any more, but certainly not being Muslim yet either.

Ah yes, forgot about that period. I remember durring that period someone asked me "what religeon are you?" and I was going to say "I'm a Muslim." But instead I said "No religeon" I sort felt I'd told a lie, like my conscience was telling me I was a Muslim.

I'm not going to tell you exactly how it was becasue alot of you wouldn't understand, so I 've altered a few things.

Anyway. For me I remember when sunny even despite all the pain that came with it. I supose I just expected there to always be light but gradually I realised that the pain was taking over and so I settled for a sort of twilight dim grey level of light. Then one day someone attacked me with a cheese-grater. At first I was annoyed but said nothing of it. The next day the same person attacked me again and ripped open yesterdays scabs. I thought it was just a phase and so I was polite and said nothing.

For the next few months, I would get the cheese-grater treatment every single day, gradually my skin was torn off and eventually they were grating raw bone. I almost couldn't feel it by this time. I resigned myself to the fact that this was going to happen every single day. I even thought about rubbing salt in the wounds just to pacify the grater, but even at the place of despair I couldn't sacrifice my morals. Just like I couldn't cut the hand off the one who was grating. And so day by day, a little more of me was ripped off, I stopped forming scabs after a while. The blood drainned away a long time ago. And then whilst I was recouperating after a grating by being forced on to a piece of toast, I tasted some worcester sauce and thought: "Woah, well ain't this what I 've been looking for!"

You see despite my tough stiff-lip attitude, the abuse I was recieving caused me to look for something, something that became a desperate urge. I began to realise just how dark it had got, and I needed to find that thing.

So when that worcester sauce hit me it was like a chemical reaction, and suddenly I had hope. The grilling continued but I didn't mind it so much now, and then one day I was ready. I started placing slices of fried tomato, mushrooms and onions on my self. A sprinkle of salt until a few weeks later the cheese grater returned and said, "Its time to finish it." That person raising the knife and swung it down slowly, a slingle slice respite from the unbearable grating. And as I was split into two neat traingles I smiled.

Serves one.

#42

Ya'qub Tue, 15 Jan 2008 - 20:42

Dawud
Ah yes, forgot about that period. I remember durring that period someone asked me "what religeon are you?" and I was going to say "I'm a Muslim." But instead I said "No religeon" I sort felt I'd told a lie, like my conscience was telling me I was a Muslim.

so your saying you were like Britney when she sang 'I'm not a girl, not yet a woman'

'k

#44

You Tue, 15 Jan 2008 - 21:48

Snoopzall of a sudden im craving a cheese and tomato panini

heh, I have been craving those boiled tomatoes you can get for breakfast. Need to get a tin of it from somewhere. (unless you can use fresh? If so, speak up with the how)

#45

Sirus Wed, 16 Jan 2008 - 00:04

he isnt literally talking of food.......i get where hes coming from

dawud is a very insipring guy, the stuff hes come through to be here today....mashallah

#46

Funzo Wed, 16 Jan 2008 - 00:07

I prefer yaqub's story though but i have huge respect for converts(reverts), we where shown islam by our parents they where given the tawfeeq to come to islam.

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