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By Raya Shokatfard
Conversion
I was rather embarrassed
to ask such a renowned dignitary to tell me his conversion
story to Islam. So I asked if
there was any material I could
read about him which told his
story. He said, yes, The Diary
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Writing
The imam, who was the
teacher at this training, was
the imam of Dusseldorf. I told
him about what I had written
and gave it to him to read. The
next day, he came to me
asking me if I believed in what
I had written. I said, "Yes." He
said, "If you believe in this,
then you are a Muslim." I said,
"If you say I am a Muslim,
then I am one."
He later published these
pages, and they were distributed in many locations.
Hofmann also wrote The
Philological
Approach
to
Islam, as his first booklet. He
also informed the Foreign
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