Why We Became Muslims - Master - Vol 1 - 1 To 50

Preface:
In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.
I bear witness that there is no deity worth worship except Allah (The True God and
Creator and Sustainer of this Universe) and I bear Witness that Mohammad is His
Servant and Messenger, Afterwards,
In 1930, Dr. Sir Mohd. IQBAL, the well known Urdu and Persian poet and Islamic
Philosopher, expressed the need of publishing a book, in which the stories of all those
who had converted to Islam in India be recorded. He said that it would give a new boost
to the cause of Islamic propagation.
He was asked, if there are not already books that express the logic and truth of Islam and
are they insufficient, the noted scholar said:
“Yes they are more than sufficient, but you would get so many new points from such a
book that you will be amazed. I think there are different ways to impress the heart and
mind. Many times brain rejects the most potent of the arguments, but the hearts gets
impressed by a very small incident or some very small point and grads the mind also.
Conversion to Islam is al related to brain as it is to the heart. A muslim missionary must

know what are the darts that affect heart. There are so many tales of unbelievers coming
to Islam thru out the history. We see a person standing firm on his religion for many
decades, yet a small point and a small acts of kindness, sweeps him away from his feet
and he makes the most momentous decision of his life.
You have many logical arguments to prove the truth of Islam, but if you go to a new
Muslim and ask him, what impressed him about Islam and what were the points which
impressed him. If you have in book form, stories of a large number of such people, it
would be a very powerful tool in the hands of Muslim missionaries. Many new
arguments of truth of Islam will come out, which might not be available in the vast
Islamic literature we have”
So many books have been written for past few decades on the true stories of new converts
of Islam. I have compiled about 250 of them and abridged them to be between 6000-
8000 words for ease or reading and to be posted in many shared channels on Internet and
distribution thru e-mails etc.
People might agree or disagree with some of points mentioned here. But these are
personal experiences and personal reasons of these people who accepted Islam of their
own free will. Some of them suffered much about this new faith. What kept them firm to
their faith varies from one person to another person.
I pray to Allah to accept this effort and make it useful for those who read it and share it
with other people.
M.U. Qidwai
Jubail, Saudi Arabia
PS: This is volume 1 of a five part series, having stories from Serial 1 to serial 50.
The full series has already been published in tabular form on this site earlier
Story # 1
Why We Became Muslims:
(Stories of New Entrants to Islam, thru Missionary Activities of MAULANA KALIM UDDIN of
Village PHULAT, MUZAFFARNAGAR, India)
Note: These are stories from India, the local color is predominant, some points may seem strange to
those who are not familiar with Indian social life.
The Case of: GANGA RAM CHOPRA (ABDULLAH), ROHTAK, India
A. Family Background:
01. I was born in a Landlord family in Jan,1948. I did my B.Com in 1967 and joined the
department of sales tax.
02. I got married in a well to do family and my wife was more educated than me and she
was officer in Education Department. Since I did not like women to work, I forced my
wife to resign her job. This resulted in tension in our family life.
03. My wife left me and filed a case against me, there was every reason that I will loose
my case and have to pay fine and maintenance allowance to my wife.
B. How and Why I accepted Islam:
04. This was the situation, when my lawyer told me that only way to escape fine and
punishment is, if I produce a certificate in court that I am no longer a Hindu, but have
converted to Islam.
05. I was told that there is some Muslim MUFTI in MALYARKOTA, who does this but
he will charge 15 to 20 thousand rupees for it. The money was no problem , but he was
out of station, and I was in urgent need of the certificate.
06. I asked the Imam of a local mosque and he asked me to go to PHULAT and meet
MAULANA KALIM UDDIN. I went there on 29th January 1994 and told Maulana, that
I do not want to accept Islam, but I only need a certificate, so I can present it in court and
escape punishment.
07. He listened to my plea and said “OK, I will do your job , but do you know there is
another court in which you have to be tried. In that court, only your real Islam will
protect you and not these fake certificates”.
08. He then explained me about Islam, and what it means and how it will save me from
Hell Fire and eternal punishment…. I got convinced and accepted Islam.
09. Maulana told me that my certificates would be ready next day and I am his guest and
could stay in his house or the nearby mosque. I preferred mosque and was much
impressed by the pious atmosphere there…. Next day, I went to village market and
bought 25 Kg of sweets and distributed it to all people of mosque…I extended my stay to
three days and then returned to my place with my “Newly Converted Muslim certificate”
C: What was reaction of spouse , parents, family and society:
10. I decided in my heart that I have accepted Islam only for the sake of Allah and I do
not want to take any material benefit for it. So I did not present that certificate in the
court and I was fined 100,000 rupees by the court and asked to pay monthly maintenance
allowance to my wife.
D. How I saved my Islam:
11. I was very afraid of death and once I got a sever heart pain and fell unconscious, I
was shifted to local hospital and they kept me in ICU for 25 days.
When I recovered, I decided to read books about Islam, I read many books and la\earned
to perform my prayer in Arabic properly.
12. I was very eager to meet the Maulana and when I met him after many months, I
recited full prayer to him, …he hugged me and was very happy to learn about my efforts.
E. My Missionary activities:
1. On Spouse / Children
13. My life had left me with my children, friend advised me to re-marry, but I declined.
I consulted Maulana and he advised me to pray to Allah for their guidance and opening
their hearts to Allah, I started doing so and one night I dreamed that my wife is
imprisoned in a cage and she is pleading to me to save her and bring her out of that
cage… I woke up with a start
14. One night, I during night prayers, put my head on ground and prayed to my Allah to
bring back my wife to me….I kept on praying and weeping for a long ago.
Not many days after that, I heard a ring on doorbell, and when I opened it, my wife with
my three kids was standing on the mat, looking very harried. She came to my arms and
started weeping and told that her place is at my feet and she will never leave me now!!
15. She told that after leaving me, she was living with her brother and during an
altercation with her Sister in Law, she abused her and told “that if I had any good, why
my husband would have left me. .. A woman who is discarded by her husband is
evil”…..so she decided to come back to me.
She and all my grown up children accepted Islam and now we are very happy.
3. On Family members / Others.
16. There was a strange case with my Driver, who took me to PHULAT to meet the
Maulana on the first instant. He also listened to the talk between me and Maulana.
When we were coming back, he told me that he was very impressed with what Maulana
said…..and told me that he was also reciting silently the Islamic creed when Maulana was
reading it to me…. His name was SUDHIR, but he told me that his new name was
MOHAMMAD KALEEM, and I should address him by this name.
17. He went with a Muslim Missionary group for 40 days and grew beard. and he was a
very good Muslim.
He was killed in a road accident …. But he told me before he died that Allah has
accepted his “fake certificate” of Islam!!
F. Present Situation:
I am very content with my Islamic way of life and I feel confident that Allah will give me
anything if I ask Him.
G. My advice to Muslims / Non Muslims.
18. I request all of you to pray for me, that I die during the posture of Prostration. I have
given my “Certificate of Islam” to my wife. They should place it on top of my burial
clothes in my grave and pray to Allah to accept my “Fake Certificate”
And I pray to Allah that no one dies without having Islam in his or her.
PS: ABDULLAH (G.R. CHOPRA) breathed his last on Friday 18th March 2005, during
ISHA (Night) Prayer, while he was in the act of prostration! We pray for Allah to have
mercy on his soul…..his faith and his link with Allah was truly exceptional;
(Translated from Vernacular Urdu and abridged)
Source: Monthly ARMAGHAN of April 2005

Story # 2
Why be became Muslims?
MUHAMMAD JOHN WEBSTER (G.B.)
I was raised with sheer Christian education in London. In 1930, being a young student, I
encountered some events like other youngsters, and tried to understand them. One of
them was to establish some relation between the religion and the world,…
For Christianity defined the world as a place of torture whose mere contents are evils and
vices, and men as creatures sinful from birth. Let alone showing people how to lead a
peaceful life in the world, it imposed on them a concept of life like an area mined with
sins, …
Christianity left people entirely to themselves, and confined their worships to

unsatisfactory Sunday masses, which they perform in the perfunctory air of the church
service. In those years Britain was in a great economic depression and poverty. ..
Rejecting Christianity, I, like many other young people, took to atheism and communism.
From a certain distance, Communism appealed to the young people. Depressed under
economic straits and totally hopeless of their future life, the younger generation looked
on Communism as a savior because it was being propagated with the promise that it
would extirpate differences of wealth and rank. …Upon this I gave up Communism and
dived into philosophy … there is a deep-seated rancor against Islam, which dates back to
the crusading expeditions.
Europeans reject Islam with hatred, though they know nothing of it. They raise their
children with an education dressed with a strong feeling of animus towards Islam. So
much so that talking about Islam means a violation of the established rules of decorum in
their society. If someone should bring up this subject in a social gathering, the others will
protest with a mute frown. In the meantime, I was sent on an official mission to Australia.
….when I went to the city of Perth in western Australia a couple of weeks later, I visited
the grand library of the city and queried whether there was a translation of the Qur'an
rendered by Muslims. They found a translation of that sort and gave it to me.
No words could define the emotions that began to stir in the depths of my soul when I
opened it and read the first chapter in it, the chapter (sûra) called Fâtiha-i-sherîfa, which
began with the phrase, “Hamd (thanks and praise) be to the Rabb (Lord, Creator, Allah)
of âlams (classes of beings).” The first chapter ended with the invocations that purported,
“Guide us to the right path.” How beautiful it was! I read the Fâtiha-i-sherîfa a number
of times. The creator mentioned here was “Rahmân and Rahîm,” which meant “Very
Merciful and Compassionate.”
Contrary to the Christian dogma, He had not created men sinful. I began to read the
Qur'an and the more I read the more ecstatic did I become. Whatsoever I had desired and
imagined I found in this holy book. Hours elapsed, and I was completely oblivious of
where I was, of the time, and of everything. In addition to that translation of the Qur'an,
they had brought me some
books about the life of Muhammad PBUH. I was reading them in utter rapture, when at
last the
librarian came to me and said, “It’s time we closed the library, sir.” I came back to
myself, and left the library.
On my way home I was soliloquizing and repeating: “I have now attained my goal. I am a
Muslim now.” With the guidance of Allah, I had eventually attained the hidâya (the right
way).
On my way back home, I looked for a convenient place to have some coffee. … I walked
in, and became a Muslim. Until that time I had not known one single Muslim. I found
Islam by myself and accepted it by myself. No one guided me in this respect. My only
guide was my common sense. (Abridged)
Story # 3
Why I became Muslim?
D.T.F. WUWING (ABDUL HAQ), UK
I am Chinese by descent and came to Britain in 1977 for studies. I was born in Anglican
Church and was educated in a Christian Missionary School.
As to how I became Muslim, let me tell you, that it was only thru the guidance of Allah
that I came closer to Islam. No Muslim preached Islam to me. It happened like that:
I was 23 then and in the final year of my education, one day, I happened to look out of
the window and seeing the beauties of nature, like sky, land, trees and clouds. This made
my mind wander about the Creator of this Universe.
I was studying Architecture, and I knew that no structure can be made or stand, unless it
is designed by a designer and erected properly. How come this whole universe and every
thing in it came by itself with such perfection? This made me realize that Creator of this
Universe must be extremely powerful and extremely knowledgeable. This removed the
cobwebs which Church doctrine of Trinity was trying me to believe in.
One I happened to go into a Muslim bookstore and I saw English translation of Quran. I
bought it and started to read it. I was surprised to find that it matched exactly with my
recently “discovered “ idea of the Creator of this Universe. I studied Quran carefully and
I got all answers to the riddles which I faced in Christianity.
Then I had many discussions with Christian priest, who tried to convince me that Islam is
a false religion and Christianity is the only true religion. However they had no answers
to my questions and said that you only had to believe in teachings of the Church, even if
you do not understand it.
I decided to become Muslim after getting convinced that it is the true religion. I learnt
that most of the things in Christianity are human made and not based on divine guidance.
Islam on the other hand provides guidance on every sphere of life and they are directly
traceable to Quran or sayings of the prophet.
Salvation of humanity is therefore accepting the guidance given by our Creator and
which is preserved in Islam (Abridged)
Story # 4
Why I Became Muslim?
GEORGINA NOUEIRI, UK
My first in-depth encounter with Islam came when I met Mohammad, a fellow student at
university of Swansea. He had arrived in Britain one year earlier from war torn Lebanon.
Despite a strong Anglican Christian background, and a secure faith in God, I had
unresolved questions of faith, to which Mohammad’s religion seemed to have the
answers.
I had never understood about the Trinity for instance. Then when Mohammad said that
there are no partners with god, it just seemed very pure and beautiful.
Islam corresponded with everything I had always felt deep down inside. That Jesus was a
wonderful prophet with a wonderful message of forgiveness, but he was not to be
worshipped as God.
The more I learned about Islam, the more right it seemed to me. But conversion was not
easy step to take. I did not know if I had the courage.
Then one night when I was talking with Mohammad, I took the courage to say the
KALIMA, the declaration of faith in front of him. When I went to bed, I was not sure if I
had done the right thing, when I woke up next morning, I knew I had taken the right step.
I was well aware of the risk I was taking, Islam is a massive subject, suppose I discovered
something I did not believe in? But the more I learned, the more I felt it was everything I
wanted to believe in.
Later I married Mohammad, but the marriage was not my reason to convert to Islam, we
moved to London so that he could continue his studies. There we met many Muslims ,
and I was exposed to the practices of devout followers. It gave me a desire to adhere
more strictly to the laws enshrined in Quran.
I also welcomed the Islamic rule of separating the sexes. It leads to a much more peaceful
life. The wives are more relaxed because they know that their husbands are not going to
be tempted by other women….the precaution gives women an enormous sense of well
being when they are together. There is no tension, no showing off to opposite sex.
I was brought up in a Western society wanting to be attractive, then vanity started to

drive away from me and I became a little purer. I was glad suddenly that I felt safer at
streets and I felt happy that men would not whistle at me.
(Abridged) Source:: Saudi gazette, April 12 1996, p7

Story # 5
Prof. Abdul Ahad Dawud (Former Bishop of Uramiah)
Formerly the Reverend David Benjamin Keldani, B.D.
My conversion to Islam cannot be attributed to any cause other than the gracious
direction of Almighty God. Without this Divine guidance, all learning, searching and
other efforts to find the truth may even lead one astray. The moment I believed in the
Absolute Unity of God, His Holy Apostle Muhammad became the pattern of my conduct
and behaviour.
I have not the slightest intention nor desire to hurt the religious feelings of Christian
friends. I love Christ, Moses and Abraham, as I do Muhammad (PBUH)and all other holy
prophets of God.
My writings are not intended to raise a bitter and therefore useless dispute with the
Churches, but only invite them to a pleasant and friendly investigation of this all-
important question with a spirit of love and impartiality. If the Christians desists from
their vain attempt of defining the essence of the Supreme Being, and confess His absolute
Oneness, then a union between them and the Muslims is not only probable but extremely
possible. For once the unity of God is accepted and acknowledged, the other points of
difference between the two faiths can more easily be settled.
It would be a mere waste of time here to refute those who ignorantly or maliciously
suppose the Allah of Islam to be different from the true God and only a fictitious deity of
Muhammad's own creation. If the Christian priests and theologians knew their Scriptures
in the Original Hebrew instead of in translations as the Muslims read their Quran in its
Arabic text, they would clearly see that Allah is the same ancient Semitic name of the
Supreme Being who revealed and spoke to Adam and all the prophets….
The Trinitarian branch of the Christian Church, for about seventeen centuries, has
exhausted all the brains of her saints and philosophers to define the Essence and the
Person of the Deity; and what have they invented? All that which Athanasius, Augustine
and Aquinases have imposed upon the Christians “under the pain of eternal damnation” –
to believe in a God who is "the third of three"! …
The first verse with which St. Johns Gospel commences was often refuted by the early
Unitarian writers, who rendered its true reading as follows: "In the beginning was the
word; and the word was with God; and the Word was God's".
It will be noticed that the Greek form of the genitive case "Theou", i.e. "God's" was
corrupted into "Theos"; that is, "God", in the nominative form of the name! It is also to be
observed that the clause "In the beginning was the word" expressly indicates the origin of
the word which was not before the beginning! By the "word of God" is not meant a
separate and distinct substance, coeval and co-existent with the Almighty, but an
expression and proclamation of His knowledge.
The Christian aspiratory formula: "In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the
Holy Ghost", does not even mention the name of God! And this is the Christian God! The
Christian Trinity - in as much as it admits a plurality of persons in the Deity, attributes
distinct personal properties to each person; and makes use of family names similar to
those in the pagan mythology - cannot be accepted as a true conception of the Deity.
Allah is neither the father of a son nor the son of a father. He has no mother, nor is He
self-made. The belief in "God the Father and God the Son and God the Holy Ghost" is a
flagrant denial of the unity of God, and an audacious confession in three imperfect beings
who, united or separately, cannot be the true God.
Then we are told that each person of the trinity has some particular attributes which are
not proper to the other two. And these attributes indicate - according to human reasoning
and language - priority and posteriori among them. The Father always holds the first
rank, and is prior to the Son. The Holy Ghost is not only posterior as the third in the order
of counting but even inferior to those from whom he proceeds. Would it not be
considered a sin of heresy if the names of the three persons were conversely repeatedly?
Will not the signing of the cross upon the countenance or over the elements of the
Eucharist be considered impious by the Churches if the formula be reversed thus "In the
name of the Holy Ghost, and of the Son, and of the Father"? For if they are absolutely
equal and coeval, the order of precedence need not be so scrupulously observed.
The truth is that there is no mathematical exactitude, no absolute equality between the
three persons of the Trinity. If the Father were in every respect equal to the Son or the
Holy Spirit, as the unit 1 is positively equal to another figure 1, then there would
necessarily be only one person of God and not three, because a unit is not a fragment or
fraction nor a multiple of itself. The very difference and relationship that is admitted to
exist between the persons of the Trinity leaves no shadow of doubt that they are neither
equal to each other nor are they to be identified with one another. The Father begets and
is not begotten; the Son is begotten and not a father; the Holy Ghost is the issue of the
other two persons; the first person is described as creator and destroyer; the second as
savior or redeemer, and the third as life-giver. Consequently none of the three is alone the
creator, the Redeemer and the Life-giver. Then we are told that the second person is the
Word of the first Person, becomes man and is sacrificed on the cross to satisfy the justice
of his father, and that his incarnation and resurrection are operated and accomplished by
the third person.
In conclusion, I must remind Christians that unless they believe in the absolute unity of
God, and renounce the belief in the three persons, they are certainly unbelievers in the
true God, Strictly speaking, Christians are polytheists, only with this exception, that the
gods of the heathen are false and imaginary, whereas the three gods of the Churches have
a distinct character, of whom the Father - as another epithet for Creator - is the One true
God, but the son is only a prophet and servant of God, and third person one of the
innumerable holy spirits in the service of the Almighty God. (Abridged)
Story # 6
The Case of: IRAM FROM BIJAPUR / MEERUT, India
01. My father was Dr, ANIL MODI, he was nephew of Mr. PILOO MODI, the well
known Indian socialist leader. We belonged to BIJAPUR, KARNATAKA…. But my
father who was a very good physician and had done his MD from USA….shifted to
MEERT in UP and bought a good mansion there and started his practice there.
02. I have two brothers who were named TARIQ and SHARIQ by my father….My father
liked Muslim way of living very much. He was very fluent in Urdu and he even named
his children with Muslim sounding names.
03. I did my education upto 12th standard in BIJAPUR and then admitted to Meerut
college in B. Sc. I did not face any problem in my home town, but I found the situation
very bad in my new college. Local Hindu boys would teased me and pass bad and fouls
comments on me….. I got so frustrated that I decided to forego my education.
04. I noticed however, that there was a Muslim boy in the class, who was different from
all these boys. He was alone Muslim boy in the class…. But every one respected him.
They would immediately change the dirty / filthy topic they were talking about, once he
was near.
05. Every one called him KALIM BHAI (and he was same Maulana KALIM UDDIN at a
younger age!!).
I used to praise him and his character to my father and he even visited my house … when
I told his about Boy’s teasing problem….he solved it in an ingenious way.
06. On the festival of RAKSHA BANDHAN (a Local Hindu festival) he asked me to go

to boys Hostel along with 25 or 30 RAKHIS. When we reached there , he called all those
boys and asked me to tie RAKHI to their hands (thereby making them my bespoken
brothers, so to say). They felt very much ashamed and I got rid of this nuisance.
07. My parents were much impressed….(Later I cleared PMT, the Medical entrance
exam and completed my MBBS and MS from London and was employed in SGPGI,
Lucknow along with my husband.)
08. I decided to learn Urdu from Kalim Bhai , my parents encouraged me, because they
thought that knowledge of Urdu is essential in good upbringing.
09. During me learning Urdu, he gave me some books about Islam and hereafter. I got
convinced of the truth and I asked my parents, If I can become a Muslim. They told me
that I am a grown up now….but I should take such decisions after deep thinking.
I decided to accept Islam and on 1st Jan 1974, I accepted Islam in the college library on
the hands of Kalim Bhai.
10. My parents and no one in my family objected on my decision. My name was already
a Muslim sounding name, so I did not have to change it.
11. I went to London in 1979 after doing my MBBS and returned from there in 1984 after
doing MS.
Kalim Bhai chose a very Good Muslim doctor from a respected family as my husband.
He was a very good doctor as well as a very good Muslim and I am very happy with
him.
I have three children and they are Muslim by birth, Thanks to Allah
2. On Parents.
12. My father was very impressed with Islam and Muslims, he performed my marriage
with full Islamic way and spent lot of money on it.
13. I tried to talk to him about Islam and he was half ready…..but his connections with
his uncle PILOO MODI and R.K. KARANJIA, the editor of Blitz made a mental block.
But me and my husband kept on asking him and I am thankful to Allah that both he and
my mother accepted Islam at our hands.
14. I get many patients, both Muslims and Non Muslims in course of our work. I remind
Muslim patients about their duties to Allah and I give missionary literature to Non
Muslim patients.
This is having some affect and many people have accepted Islam because of our efforts,
Praise be to Allah for that
15. I and my husband, try to read as much Islamic literature as we can, we even have a
sizable library at our house… I have read many books published on Islam. During our
stay in London, we keep track on latest books released on Islam and we keep ourselves
up to date on that.
16. I would like to convey it to all Muslims and especially women, that they should fulfill
the trust which Allah has put on them. A Muslim women also has to share the
Missionary activity of Islam as was during the days of our prophet and his companions.
The western civilization is thirsty and looking for something like Islam which we have.
We should be aware of our trust and responsibility
Source: Monthly ARMAGHAN of July 2004

Story # 7
LADY ZAYNAB EVELYN COMBOLD (G.B.)
I am frequently asked why I became a Muslim. I am the daughter of a renowned family,

and my husband also is well known and rich. To those who ask me why I became a
Muslim, I reply that I do not know for certain when the light of Islam rose in my soul. It
seems to me as if I have been a Muslim forever.
This is not something strange at all. For Islam is a natural and true religion. Every child is
born as a Muslim. If it is left to itself, it will choose Islam, none else. As a European
writer observes, “Islam is the religion of people with common sense.” If you made a
comparative study of all religions, you would immediately see that Islam is the most
perfect, the most natural, and the most logical.
Owing to Islam, many complicated problems of the world are solved easily and mankind
attains peace and tranquility. Islam always rejects the dogma that human beings are born
sinful and that they have to expiate for it in the world. Muslims believe in Allah, who is
one.
In their eyes, Moses, Jesus, and Muhammad PBUH are human beings like us. Allah has
chosen them as Prophets to guide people to the right way. For doing penance, for asking
for forgiveness, or for praying, there is no one between Allah and the born slave. We can
supplicate Allah on our own any time, and we are responsible only for what we have
done.
The word ‘Islam’ means both ‘to surrender oneself to Allah and ‘to have belief in
Muhammad
Muslim’ means ‘a person who lives in peace and happiness with all beings.’ Islam is
based on two fundamental facts: 1) That Allah is one, and that Muhammad is the final
Prophet He has sent. 2) That humanity should be entirely freed from superstitions and
unfounded dogmas. The Hajj, one of the (five) tenets of Islam, has a great impact on
people.
What other religion contains a form of worship as sublime as Islam’s pilgrimage, which
brings together hundreds of thousands of Muslims from all four corners of the world
regardless of their classes, races, countries, colours and rank positions, and makes them
put on the (uniformal garb called) Ihrâm and prostrate themselves with one accord before
Allah? It is a certain fact that Muslims’ worshipping together at these blessed places
where the great Prophet announced Islam, struggled against Islam’s enemies, exerted
himself with great determination and firmness, will attach them to one another with
stronger affections, whereby they will try to find solutions for one another’s problems,
and they will once again take an oath to cooperate along the way shown by Allah.
Another use of the Hajj is that thereby Muslims all over the world meet one another,
know one another’s problems, and teach their personal experiences to one another. All
Muslims assemble at the place whereto they turn their faces during their worships at
home, and, all in one mass, one body in the presence of Allah, they surrender themselves
to Him.
Seeing the Hajj once would suffice as an evidence to prove the greatness of Islam. Here
is Islam, and I have been enjoying the pleasure and satisfaction of having entered this
great religion.
Story # 8
GEORGE ASHQUON, VIRGINIA USA
George is a direct descendant of George Washington, First President of USA. He

was born in Virginia, his father was a naval office in US Navy. He was a
cameraman and reporter for a US news channel and was deputed to cover many
conflicts. During these journeys he came in close contact with Muslims and he has
following to say on this subject.
From my early childhood, I wanted to know more and more about Christianity. But the
priests were not able to satisfy me with their answers. But I was certain that God and
Jesus are two distinctly separate personalities. That was the hardest part of my life.
Later when I became a cameraman of Times and was deputed to Lebanon to cover the
civil war in Beirut, I was a bit apprehensive to start with, because I had heard only bad
reports about Muslims. But when I reached there and worked with Muslims there, I was
surprised to notice that they were totally different from what I was told.
They took care of me and tried to save me from any harm and injury. When I got injured
in the cross fire, they gave me all medical help. I was 20 at that time and there was a
Mosque near to my hotel. I used to discuss Islam with the Imam there. It was the first
time I heard about Quran and sayings of prophet.
Then I was posted to Afghanistan, when Russia had invaded that country. I was
surprised to see the Islamic spirit of Mujahideen there, they would leave all work and
engage in prayer even in the battlefield. I was amazed to see the spirit with which they
were fighting with a much superior army.
Then I happened to go to Bosnia to see the plight of Bosnian Muslims at the hand of
Serbs. The scenes I saw and the brutality and the massacre changed my view for ever.
My initial plan was only for two days….but I decided to extend my stay there
indefinitely….The scenes I witnessed there are too horrible to tell in words, only those
who have seen them with their eyes can believe it.
During my stay in Bosnia, I met many Muslim News reporters, who were covering that
struggle. I had long discussions with them about Islam. I got answers to the questions,
which I was searching in Christianity. I decided to become Muslim and join the only
brotherhood that does not recognize any distinction in color, race or language (Abridged)
.
Story # 9
Abdullah al-Faruq - Formerly Kenneth L. Jenkins, Minister and elder of the

Pentecostal Church
Foreword
As a former minister and elder of the Christian church, it has become incumbent upon me
to enlighten those that continue to walk in darkness. ..
Beginnings
As a young boy I was raised with a deep fear of God. Having been partially raised by a
grandmother who was a Pentecostal fundamentalist, the church became an integral part of
my life at a very early age. …
My mother worked two full-time jobs and continued to remind me of the teachings given
to me by her mother. My younger brother and older sister did not seem to take our
grandmother's warnings of the Hereafter as seriously as I did…
Every Sunday we would go to church dressed in all of our finery.
Rededication
After graduating from high school and entering the university I rediscovered my
religious commitment and became fully immersed in Pentecostal teachings. I was
baptized and "filled with the Holy Ghost," as the experience was then called….
I attended church every time its doors would open. I studied the Bible for days and weeks
at a time. I attended lectures given by the Christian scholars of my day, and I
acknowledged my call to the ministry at the age of 20. I began preaching and became
well known very quickly. I was extremely dogmatic and believed that no one could
receive salvation unless they were of my church group. I categorically condemned
everyone who had not come to know God the way I had come to know Him. …
I had never had any contact with Muslims. The only people I knew that claimed Islam as
their religion were the followers of Elijah Muhammad, who were referred to by many as
the "Black Muslims" or the "Lost-Found Nation." It was during this period in the late
seventies that Minister Louis Farrakhan was well into rebuilding what was called "The
Nation of Islam." I went to hear Minister Farrakhan speak at the invitation of a coworker
and found it to be an experience that would change my life dramatically. I had never in
my life heard another black man speak the way that he spoke. I immediately wanted to
arrange a meeting with him to try to convert him to my religion.
Welcome to the Real Church World
I soon discovered that there was a great deal of jealousy prevalent in the ministerial
hierarchy. Things had changed from that to which I was accustomed. Women wore
clothing that I thought was shameful. People dressed in order to attract attention, usually
from the opposite sex. I discovered just how great a part money and greed play in the
operation of church activities…..
Cases of adultery and fornication went unpunished. Some preachers were hooked on
drugs and had destroyed their lives and the lives of their families. Leaders of some
churches were found to be homosexuals. There were pastors even guilty of committing
adultery with the young daughters of other church members. All of this coupled with a
failure to receive answers to what I thought were valid questions was enough to make me
seek a change. That change came when I accepted a job in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
A New Beginning
It was not long after arriving in Saudi Arabia that I saw an immediate difference in the
lifestyle of the Muslim people. They were different from the followers of Elijah
Muhammad and Minister Louis Farrakhan in that they were of all nationalities, colors
and languages. I immediately expressed a desire to learn more about this peculiar brand
of religion. I was amazed with the life of Prophet Muhammad and wanted to know more.
I requested books from one of the brothers who was active in calling people to Islam. I
was supplied with all of the books that I could possibly want. I read each and every one. I
was then given the Holy Qur'an and read it completely several times within four months.
I asked question after question and received satisfactory answers. What appealed to me
was that the brothers were not keen on impressing me with their knowledge. If a brother
did not know how to answer a question, he would tell me that he simply did not know
and would have to check with someone who did. The next day he would always bring the
answer. I noticed how humility played such a great role in the lives of these mysterious
people of the Middle East.
I was amazed to see the women covering themselves from face to foot. I did not see any
religious hierarchy. No one was competing for any religious position. All of this was
wonderful, but how could I entertain the thought of abandoning a teaching that had
followed me since childhood? What about the Bible? I knew that there is some truth in it
even though it had been changed and revised countless numbers of times. I was then
given a video cassette of a debate between Shaykh Ahmed Deedat and Reverend Jimmy
Swaggart. After seeing the debate I immediately became a Muslim.
I was taken to the office of Shaykh 'Abdullah bin 'Abdul-'Azeez bin Baz to officially
declare my acceptance of Islam. It was there that I was given sound advice on how to
prepare myself for the long journey ahead. It was truly a birth from darkness into light.
I wondered what my peers from the Church would think when they heard that I had
embraced Islam. It was not long before I found out. I went back to the United States for
vacation and was severely criticized for my "lack of faith." I was stamped with many
labels - from renegade to reprobate. People were told by so-called church leaders not to
even remember me in prayer. As strange as it may seem, I was not bothered in the least. I
was so happy that Almighty God, Allah, had chosen to guide me aright that nothing else
mattered.
It is my prayer that Allah will forgive us all of our ignorance and guide us to the path
leading to Paradise. All praise is due to Allah. May the peace and blessings of Allah be
upon His last messenger, Prophet Muhammad, his family, companions, and those
following true guidance. (Abridged)
Story # 10
The Case of: SHAHNAZ, JAMMU, India
01. I was born on 6th May 1975, to a MALHOTRA Family of Jammu, my father was a
lecturer in commerce dept. My mother was a very nice and suffering lady. He became
sick since her girlhood and her ill health continued even after her marriage.
02. I had an elder brother, who is 4 year older than me. I was told that when I was very
small, my mother took me to a bridge and was almost ready to drop me into the river, a
passer by asked her, why she wanted to do it, she told that I have suffered much in my
life, I do not want my little girl also top suffer. The man told her, not to do so, as every
humans comes with her own destiny. May be I will be very happy in my life.
03. My mother died when I was 5 or 6 years old, my father re-married. My step mother
did not treat us good and she was always complaining to my father about our faults. I
was subjected to overwork and abuses in home, I tried even to commit suicide by eating
overdose of sleeping pills once.
04. Somehow I passed 10th standard, I used to go to temples and ask the idols there when
my dark night would end….. now I know how they could respond to me, because they do
not hear any pleas and even if they heard they are powerless to do anything.
05. Once when my mother accused me of stealing 1000 rupees from her purse, I decided
to leave the house, because I was not sure what she would accuse me of next. I left
house with a little bag containing a few pair of clothes.
06. I boarded a train for Delhi, I boarded a compartment reserved for Military, when the
ticket checker came, one of Military man said that she is my sister. I reached Delhi
safely.
I did not know any one in Delhi, I boarded an omni bus, and I asked two boys, who
seemed good to me, to please guide me a girls hostel
07. They asked me to go to their sister’s house, where I was very well received… they
asked me to stay for a few days and then I could decide about hostel. While living there,
I was introduced to the message of Islam. I was impressed by their good behavior and
Islamic teachings seemed so reasonable to me. I accepted Islam at their hands.
08. After some time, these people advertised for my marriage in a local Urdu news paper.
It was answered by Maulana JAWED ASHRAF NADWI, whose first marriage was not
successful. When he knew of my case, he agreed to marry me and we were married.
He was afraid to take me to his house, because of resistance from his family members, so
he kept me in a separate house in Lucknow.
09. Then my husband got a Job in Madina Munawwarah, and I reached there on Umrah
visa. I stayed back after performing Umrah and stayed many years there, all my three
children were born in Madina.
I am very thankful to Allah for doing all this to me, and I do not know how can I ever
express my gratitude to Him
I have explained that in my story. I was indeed rejected by my society and they did not
know about me anything for many years.
11. Staying In Madina is in itself a great honor. I get so many guests of all ages and
every backgrounds. I feel honored to serve old and elderly people and by this I earn their
respect, honor and blessings.
In my service and specially physical service is very effective to get prays and blessings
from elderly and learned scholars.
2. On Parents.
12. My parents were sure that I must have committed suicide, because they did not make
any attempts to find me.
After many years, a student from Jammu who came to Medina told my father about me,
he was very anxious to meet me.
13. Once when I went to Delhi to endorse my Visa, he came to meet me. He wept on
seeing me and expressed his deep regrets about what he and his wife did to me. I forgave
him every thing and told him about Islam. He promised to study Islam and take decision.
I informed Maulana Kalim Sahib about my father and he is following up,
14. I also talked to my mother on phone and she also wept and asked for my forgiveness
for what she did to me. I told her that her poor treatment was indeed the reason of my
becoming Muslim. I am regularly praying for her guidance.
15. I am very happy with my present life and I pray to Allah to let me die in Madina and I
would be buried here… You should also pray the same for me.
16. I can only request my Muslim brothers, to recognize their responsibility. They should
present themselves as an example of good Muslims and they should make this spread of
Islam as their life’s mission.
If people take the life of our prophet as their ideal, they would not run after these actors
and actresses, and sportspersons and others.
Source: Monthly ARMAGHAN of Dec 2004

Story # 11
Mrs. MAVISH B. JOLLY (G.B.)
I was born as a Christian in Britain. I was baptized, and I was raised with an education
based on learning what is written in today’s copies of the Bible. As I was a child,
whenever I went
to the church I was deeply impressed by the various lights, the candles burning on the
pulpit, the music, the smells of incense, ..
The prayers that I listened to without understanding their meanings would make me
shiver. I think I was a devoted Christian. In the course of time, however, as I reached
higher levels of education, some questions began to rise in my mind. I began to find some
faults in Christianity, in which I had held a full belief until that time…
By the time I graduated from the school, I was an atheist in the full sense of the term. It
did not take me long, however, to realize that believing nothing would hollow the human
soul, leaving a perpetual mood of despair and weakness. The human being definitely
needed some power that would provide him refuge.
Consequently, I began to study other religions. I began with Buddhism…. Magianism...

Judaism …One of my friends recommended that I practice spiritualism. “..
One day I saw an ad in a newspaper. It announced a “Conference on the divinity of

Jesus" and added that people from other religions would be admitted…I attended the
conference, and met a Muslim there. The answers that that Muslim gave to my questions
were so beautiful and so logical that I decided to study Islam, which had never occurred
to me before. I began to read the Qur'an, the Holy Book of Muslims. To my
astonishment, the rules stated in this book were by far superior to the statements made by
most of the well-known statesmen of the twentieth century, which aroused strong feelings
of admiration and adulation in me
These statements were quite above the human linguistic capacity. So I would no longer
believe the lies that “the Islamic religion is a concoction. The Qur'an is a fable,” with
which they had been dosing us for years. The Qur'an could not be a concocted book.
Statements in that acme of perfection could be made only by a being above the human
race.
I was still hesitant, though. I spoke with some British women who had embraced Islam. I
asked them to help me. They recommended some books to me. …
I should avow that I felt bored when I read the Qur'an for the first time. For it contained
so many reiterations. It should be known that the Qur'an is a book that impresses and
penetrates the human soul slowly. To understand the Qur'an well and to attach yourself
to it, you have to read it a number of times. So, the more I read this holy book, the more
strongly did I become attached to it, so much so that I could not go to sleep without
reading it every night.
What impressed me most was the fact that the Qur'an was a perfect guide for mankind.
The Qur'an did not contain anything that a person could not understand. Muslims looked
on their Prophet as a human being like themselves. …..
I objected to that. “Why should there be no other prophet,” I asked. My Muslim friend’s
explanation was as follows: “The Qur'an , the Holy Book of Muslims, teaches people all
the elements of beautiful moral quality that a person should need, all the religious
essentials, the path that will guide one to the approval of Allah, and all the necessaries
required for attaining peace and salvation in this world and the next.” The veracity of
these statements gets demonstrative evidence from the fact that the essentials in the
Qur'an which are still the same as they were fourteen centuries ago, are perfectly
consistent with today’s life-styles and today’s scientific levels.
Yet I was still demurring. For we were now in 1954; fourteen centuries later, that is. I
wondered if there was not an iota of obsolescence in Islam that would make at least one
of the principles communicated by Muhammad PBUH, who was born in 571,
inconsistent with today’s conditions?
I embarked on an assiduous quest for mistakes in Islam. My efforts to find fault in Islam
despite the fact that my soul had already attained a complete belief in Islam, -so much so
that the verity of the Islamic religion was like a live picture in front of my eyes-, should
no doubt have been rooted in the vilifications of Islam iterated by priests for the purpose
of imposing into our infant minds the idea that Islam was a very defective, inferior and
heretical religion.
The first file to rake around in was polygamy. Here, I had found an important loophole.
How come a man could marry four women (at the same time)? When I asked about that,
my Muslim friend, whom I have mentioned earlier, explained the matter as follows: “The
Islamic religion appeared in a society where a man could cohabit with as many women as
he liked without any official responsibility towards them. With a view to restoring the
woman into her proper place in society, the Islamic religion pared down the number of
women that a man could marry, and stipulated that he should support the women, mete
out justice among them, and pay them (the canonically prescribed) alimony in the event
of a divorce. Furthermore, if a woman had no one to support her, she could join a family
as a member, not as a slave, of the family. Moreover, marrying four women was not a
religious commandment enjoined on men.
It was permission with provisos. Marrying more than one women was forbidden for men
who would not be able to fulfill the stipulations. It was for this reason that many a man
had only one wife. Marrying up to four women was a kind of tolerance.”
On the other hand, the Mormons in America compelled every male member to marry
several women. My Muslim friend asked, “I wonder if the British men cohabit with only
one woman?” I confessed in embarrassment, “Today all European men enter into
relations with various women both before marriage and even after they get married.”
Then the words of my Muslim friend reminded me of the story of a young woman who
had lost her husband in the war and had been looking for a man to entrust herself to. The
Second World War had ended, and a programme called ‘Dear Sir’ on a British radio
announced the following request of a poor young woman: “I am a young woman. I lost
my husband in the war. I have no one to care for me now. I need protection. I am ready to
be the second wife of a good natured man and to carry his first wife on my head. All I
want is to put an end to this loneliness.”
This shows that the Islamic polygamy is intended to satisfy a need. It is only a
permission, not a commandment. And today, when unemployment and poverty are
making the rounds over the entire world, there is next to no place left where it is
practised.
These thoughts completely eradicated the possibility that I would any longer look on
polygamy as a fault in Islam.
Then, with the presumption of having found another defect, I asked my Muslim friend,
“How can the five daily prayers be adjusted to our life-styles today? Wouldn’t so many
prayers be
too much?” He smiled, and asked me, “Sometimes I hear you playing the piano. Are you
interested in music?” “Very much, ”was my answer. “All right. Do you practise daily?”
“Of course. As soon as I am back home from work, I play the piano at least two hours
every day.”
Upon this, my Muslim friend said, “Why do you find it too much to pray five times daily,
which would take you only half an hour or forty-five minutes in all? As you might lose
your proficiency in playing the piano if you did not have practice, likewise the less one
thinks of Allah or thanks Him for His blessings by prostrating oneself, the farther away
will the way leading to Him become. On the other hand, praying daily means making
progress step by step in the right way of Allah.” He was so right!
There was no obstacle to my accepting Islam now. I embraced the Islamic religion with
all my soul and conscience. As you see I did not choose it at first sight and without
thinking at all; on the contrary, I became a Muslim after examining Islam minutely,
looking for the possible faults in it and finding their answers, and reaching the conclusion
that it is an immaculate religion. Now I boast about being a Muslim.
Story # 12
JAMES (ABDULLAH), PAKISTAN
I was born in OKARA District of Punjab in Pakistan. My parents were Christians and
they wanted me to become a Christian priest.
In my schools most of students were Muslims and the general atmosphere was Islamic
culture. I also used to be dressed as a Muslim and would mingle with them.
From the beginning I was interested in singing. I had a beautiful voice and on almost
every function in school, I would be called on stage and sing a song. When I was in 9 th
Grade, I was selected by a Film Company of Lahore to sing for them. Now my sights
were set on becoming a famous singer. I did many shows in various parts of Pakistan and
even in Bombay India.
It was at that time, that I met some Muslim missionaries, who explained to me about
Islam and its teachings. I liked it very much and I preyed to god to open my hearts for
Islam. I preyed to Allah that my faith should be strong and I should not revert back to
Christianity.
I accepted Islam at the hands of Imam of Main Mosque of Lahore. Then my elder
brother also accepted Islam. What was most rewarding for us was that our father also
accepted Islam in July 1999, after satisfying himself of the good teachings of Islam.
I even had a discussion with Rev. Joseph of Lahore about truth of Islam. He was amazed
at my answers and that I have become such a strong Muslims and acquired this much
knowledge in such a short time!! (abridged)
Story # 13
OMAR FAROOQ ABDULLAH, USA
My father was a teacher by profession. He had done Doctorate in Chemistry and

Zoology. He believed in one God and was always preaching against Trinity. I took
English Literature in my University, and also had interest in Ancient History especially
Aryans. This study convinced me that original of teachings of Jesus was only of Single
God which was distorted in the form of Trinity.
I read Leibniz, Spinoza, John Milton…and I was able to see that concept of One God
was present in all of them. My studies on Greek, Latin and Hebrew told me that
Polygamy was indeed allowed and practiced by most Jewish prophets.
I also was impressed by the thoughts of Malcolm-X , who said that only solution for USA
was to unite all under the banner of one God and that will end all racial discrimination.
At that time, I knew little about Islam, but was under the impression that Muslims believe
in more than one God. However after I studied Islam, I was surprised to know that it
traced itself to Patriarch Abraham and followed his teachings.
I also read the biography of Prophet Mohammad, PBUH, which convinced me that his
life is in accordance with the life of other Biblical prophets. I accepted Islam, without
help or aid of any Muslim.
After I became Muslim, I interacted with MSA and met other Muslims. It pained me to
see that many Muslims do not present themselves as good examples of Islam and are
divided on the basis of nationality and language and other things.
I agree with the saying of Arnold Toynbee biggest curse of 20th century is nationalism.
This divides human race into different parts and they all fight and hate each other on the
basis of nationality. In fact nationality is a thing which is not in our control. How can we
divide humans into things on which we have no control. (abridged)
Story # 14
Cardinal Abu Ishaq Coptic Cardinal
Note: The following is a translation from Arabic, of an audio lecture delivered by a

former Cardinal by the name of Abu Ishaq (Isaac) in the Egyptian Coptic Church.
I was head of the Missionary Coptic Church of West Africa and Asia. I thank God for
coming to Islam. I never thought I would ever become Muslim…
Since I was a child at school in ‘Said’, Egypt; then at Sunday school; then at ‘Koliya
Lahut’ (Jesus College) in Beirut and then whilst I was doing my doctorate in religion at
the Faculty of Theology at Cairo University; never was a lesson or lecture taught which
didn’t in some way denigrate Islam and teach us to have a hatred for it.
We were taught to have two personalities and to accept that Jesus (pbuh) was the lamb
and that he forgave all of our sins and that you had to believe he was God, the son of God
and that he was all powerful. That God did not separate from the body of Jesus and that
he was ‘the ferocious lion’ who defended the faith of Christianity against the moral
degradation and the lies of Islam….
When I started to study the New Testament it was one Christmas. And boy what a
Christmas it was! Whoever wants to see Christmas should come to Egypt. The lights are
turned off in the church at midnight on Christmas day for five minutes signifying that we
have not gone into the dark but from darkness into light (as represented by the birth of
Jesus (AS)). And during these five minutes the young men and women mix freely in the
church….
Whenever we used to go to church they used to remind us to be careful and wary of

Muslims. "Don’t mix with them", they’d say; "don’t eat with them", "be wary of them". I
used to say to myself, where are these Muslims that these priests keep telling us to be
wary about! There aren’t any! … Whenever they would find me sitting with Muslims in
school they’d come and separate me from them.
The Pope said, " We’re sending you to Alexandria and there are Muslims there that you
can talk to …I took the train from Asyut to Cairo. ..When I got to Cairo station I asked
for a car (to take me to Alexandria). But I was told that all the cars were being used by
the other cardinals. So I went to the bus station and took the number 64 bus.
A young man came on board the bus and was carrying some small books. He proceeded
to give them out to the passengers and when it got to my turn he skipped past me and
continued. ..I called out to the boy and asked for one of the books, and he refused. He
said, " these aren’t for you priest" ..The boy would let the people keep the books to read
on the journey for a price of two garsh (smallest Egyptian monetary unit), or else they
could give them back to him. I persisted with the boy and asked him why he wouldn’t
give me a book. The boy ran away and I ran after him. The people looked a this comical
sight and laughed. By chance the boy stumbled and fell and I caught up with him. I
offered him 5 for a book. The boy took the money and he said "I think for that amount
you might as well take them all".
I kept the books and made my journey to the Cathedral Abbasiya (in Cairo as he had
missed the bus) and went straight to the room for special guests (VIPs). Usually when I
was tired I needed to read the Bible and whenever I read the Bible I would sleep quickly.
But this time I was going to read these books I thought to myself. I wondered if they’d
make me sleep or keep me awake.
What I didn’t realize was that inside these books was a cure for me (in my heart). This
was the first time I had held an Islamic book in my hand. I proceeded to open it. I opened
it on a page which started by quoting a chapter of the Quran. It read:
"SAY THERE IS ONLY ONE GOD. THE ABSOLUTE THE ETERNAL. HE DOES
NOT BEGET AND HE IS NOT BEGOTTEN AND THERE IS NOTHING UNTO LIKE
HIM!" [114:1-4]
I read it again and again and again. I read it till I had leant it off by heart. It felt so sweet.
I felt so peaceful inside.
When I reached Alexandria the Cardinal in charge received me in a very pleasant

manner. He had been told by the Pope that I had become a mental case as I had begun to
ask the wrong type of questions. The Pope had phoned ahead to say that "we seem to
have a Muslim inside the church". ..
On Sunday we went for prayers in the chapel. But the prayers in a church are very
different from a mosque. In the mosque, you see, everyone is the same …In the church
the more you pay the more forward you go in the pews…If the priest lifts his hand
everyone does that, but what the priest says in his reading no one understands.
I went to see the cardinal. .. I asked "Cardinal, so many people come to me to ask
forgiveness and I forgive them, and I come to you for forgiveness and you forgive me
and you go to the pope for forgiveness and he forgives them. But who forgives the Pope’s
sins?"
He said, "you’re talking about the Pope, don’t you know he is Sinless!" I said " How can
that be!", "If prophet Lot is not blemish less and prophet David is not sinless then how
can the Pope be sinless? God himself as Jesus was not sinless and yet you’re telling me
the Pope is sinless?!"
The cardinal went straight to the telephone and told the pope that, "Abu Ishaq is still the
same and nothing here has changed his views", implying that the atmosphere of more
wealth and loosely clad women had not changed me. The pope gave strict orders to have
me imprisoned in the Abbey and to have me tortured.
The comparison of prison to the torture of the church cannot be compared. I can say
having undergone it that it is not a thousandth of the punishment that I had to endure in
the Abbey for 97 days. As I went into the torture chamber I found 15-20 priests lined up
with their staffs in their hands. One of them would beat me with the staff whilst another
would spit on me calling me a "church seller" or saying "you sold your church, your
people and your mother".
My first punishment after that was that I had to look after the pigs in the Abbey,
imprisoned within it and with the pigs. I endured horrendous punishments because I was
looking for the truth. They punished me because I was drowning and I wanted to surface
for some air.
During the 3 months or so I was in the Abbey they sodomised me with their staffs on at
least seven different occasions. They tore at and ripped off my beard with their bare
hands. They took out my nails, but in front of the truth even if they had cut me into pieces
I would have followed nothing but the truth…
After all that had happened to me I decided there and then that I wanted to be a Muslim,
to worship the One GOD, the Maker of the day and of the night. At that time when we
were on the Nile, I started to pray as a Muslim. I thank Allah for helping me see the
Truth!
All Praise is due to Allah the Lord and Master of the Worlds.
Peace Be Upon You All. (Abridged)

Story # 15
This story has an interesting prologue. NASIM GHAZI mentioned here is now a well known Islamic
Missionary and he is running MADHUR SANDESH SANGAM, an organization for propagation of
Islam in India. Many of his cases have been mentioned in these posts.
The Case of: MADHU GOEL (SALMA ANJUM), GHAZIABAD, India
01. I was born into a very religious GOEL family of GHAZIABAD. My father died
when I was very young, I was brought up by my mother and my elder brother, JAGDISH
GOEL. His new name is Kalim GHAZI, I have another brother, HEM KUMAR, who is
not Maulana NASIM GHAZI, I have four sisters, two of them have converted to Islam,
two are dead and one named LAJJA is still Hindu.
02. My brother worked as Tax collector in GHAZIABAD, once during a local trade fair,
he encountered one Muslim trader and asked him to pay his levy…. He asked him to give
him some time and he will pay the levy in the evening.
“And who pay the levy in the evening” my brother demanded…. “A muslim does”
replied that small trader.
03. My brother kept wait for him and true to his promise, the Muslim came and paid his
levy. Mt brother was very much impressed and selected him for friendship.
04. Then my brother met another Muslim QADI JAMEEL, who told him about Islam and
gave him books about Islam. Both my elder and younger brothers were impressed by
Islam and wanted to become Muslim.
Younger brother declared his Islam first, my elder brother also accepted Islam.
05. There was a lot of commotion in local Hindu community and they tried to implicate
my brothers in false cases….but they held to their faith and whole family of my two
brothers accepted Islam.
Maulana NASIM GHAZI later went to an Islamic seminary and passed out from there as
an Islamic Scholar
06. Nasim Bhai worked on our mother and our sisters and he wrote us many letters …
one of his letter “a letter from Newly Converted son to his mother” was also published in
book form.
07. I was very adamant to my brother and I never used to listen to him, to me all Muslims
looked dirty and thought that ALL of them are smelly and dirty. My brother took me to
some well to do Muslim families and showed me that ALL Muslims do not live like that.
08. My brother kept on insisting on me accepting Islam, once he requested me with wet
eyes to become Muslim…. I got impressed and asked him what he wanted from me. He
told me to accept Islam and save me from the hell fire.
I said Islamic creed to satisfy him….. but it was only after 10 years that I got fully
convinced of Islam and its truth and became a real Muslim.
09. After I became Muslim, my family started to look for a suitable spouse for me. I was
very particular in my choice, I told that my husband must not wear beard, and he should
not have a large family etc…
10. After some discussions and arguments, I decided to marry my present husband, who
was related to Maulana Kalim Sahib….he came to our marriage party.
11. Now my husband has grown a beard and I like it very much…in fact most members
of our household grow normal beards…. My objection to beard has gone and so are my
many objections to Islam and Muslim’ way of living.
12. My household is a very firm in their faith to Islam… My elder brother is very brave
and very bold in his faith. During the Babri Mosque episode, he did not leave his house
and continued to live there as usual.
When some asked him to move, he told, if the Angel of Death would not come to new
location?
13. Since we were a well known family in our city, local Hindus tried very much to bring
us back to Hinduism. They asked many Hindu Scholars and leaders to win us back.
They tried to bribe us, they even threatened us, but Allah saved us from their clutches
and we held on to our faith.
14. My children owe more to my husband than me for their Islamic bringing up. My
husband is a very good Muslim and a very good Human. He is respected for his
behaviour by both Muslims and Hindus alike.
Once our Land Lord who was a devout Hindu, told my husband, that I am convinced of
the truth of Islam…. This is the true way…. But he died without declaring Islam,
There are many people like him, who are convinced of Islam and its truth but are afraid
or lack courage
2. On Parents.
15. My father went from world without accepting Islam, my mother accepted Islam and I
thank Allah for opening her heart to Islam. It was my brother Nasim Ghazi who did most
work on her.
16. My two sisters also died without becoming Muslim. Though they came very close to
Islam. My another sister is Hindu and we are working on her. I pray to Allah to open her
heart to Islam.
17. I am very content with my present life and I try my best to follow Islam as much as
possible…. Somehow I do not eat meat, yet I prepare meat dishes for my husband and my
children.
I consider it as if I am destined to miss the taste of meat in this life… It is not because of
any religious hangover.
18. To Muslims, I strongly advise to live as clean people, Islam insists very much on
bodily cleanliness. It was their dirty style of living that kept me away from Islam for
many years, there could be many like me.
They should present them as example of Islam…see more than 50 people from my own
family became Muslim, just by the conduct of one Muslim, who paid his levy due!!
Source: Monthly ARMAGHAN of Feb. 2004

Story # 16
Mrs. MES’ÛDA STEINMANN (G.B.)
There is not a single other religion to equal Islam in its simple comprehensibility or in its
reassuring smoothness. Islam is the one and only one religion which infuses a sense of
peace and tranquility into the human soul, blesses man with a life of contentment, and
guides him to eternal happiness and salvation after death…
What kind of a connection is there between man and the Almighty Being who creates
him? No doubt, religion explains this. I studied the statements made about religion by
various scholars.
Why do I believe that Islam is the most perfect of the world’s religions and that it is the
true religion?
Let me explain: First of all, the Islamic religion states that there is no god besides the one
Allah, who is great, that He is not begotten and does not beget, either, and that there is
not another creator like Him. There is not another religion to explain the existence, the
unity, and the grandeur of Allah in the magnificence worthy of Him.
The fourth âyat of Hûd Sura purports, “[O my born slaves], your return shall be to Me,
alone. Allah is Almighty.” The fifty-fifth âyat of Isrâ Sûra purports, “Allah has the best
knowledge of the celestial and the terrestrial creatures.”
Moreover, many chapters of Qur'an state that “He is the only creator,” that “He is
everlasting,” that “He is eternal,” that “He is omniscient,” that “He is the absolute judge
who makes the truest decision,” that “He is the greatest helper,” that “He is the Creator,
who is the most compassionate,” and that “He is the most magnanimous forgiver.”…
When a person reads these exalted statements, how could it ever be possible for him not
to believe in that great Creator and not to seek refuge in Him? Aren’t all these enough for
a person to bask in the consciousness of a merciful creator who will protect him as long
as he lives, and thus to abide by the right way?...
Christianity busies itself only with spirituality and conscience and overloads every
individual Christian with spiritual and conscientious burdens far beyond the human
capacity. Christianity prejudges man as a sinful creature and demands from him
preposterous expiations he could never understand. …
And then the group would sit and lament over the fact that that tiny particle of love has
been lost for good in today’s Christianity, which is awash in superstitions. Coleridge
states in one of his books, “It is a reality that a person who loves Christianity very much
becomes gradually alienated from Christianity and begins to love the church more, and at
the end he loves himself the best.”
The only way of attaining peace and comfort in the world and salvation in the Hereafter
is to embrace Islam.
Story # 17
SALAMAT MASIH (ABDUL SALAM) PAKISTAN
I was born in a Christian family and would go regularly to Church on Sundays. I would
not be convinced with what the priest or preacher would say. I started to learn some
thing about Islam.
In those days, one Christian abused the Prophet of Islam openly and he was punished
with the death penalty. Upon this another Christian Medical Doctor committed suicide.
This incident has a deep impact on me and I started to think, what sort of religion is this
that says bad words about another prophet.
How come Christians in our country break the law of land and force the government to
change rule that they be free to curse a prophet of God, which is revered by most people
in this country. This made me realize that Islam is the true religion that teaches tolerance
and praises all prophets of God.
I recently got transferred from BANNU to LORALIE and there I met a Muslim preacher
who was engaged in Missionary activities. I told him that I want to become a Muslim. I
went to my wife and discussed this issue with her. I praise Allah that my entire family of
seven people agreed with me and we jointly accepted Islam on the same day. It happened
on 24 July 1998.
When my parents and my family learned of our decision, they became very angry and
they ex-communicated us. But I was firm and told that nothing can now change our
religion, we have accepted it with full understanding.
I would request Muslim Missionaries in Pakistan, that there are many people like me in
Pakistan who have a soft corner for Islam. They want to become Islam, but lack the
courage or proper knowledge about Islam (abridged)
Story # 18
ALEXANDRA (FATIMA) KRICKLER, AUSTRIA
I was born into a Roman Catholic family in Austria, my mother was a firm believer, my
father was an atheist and had no respect towards religion From a very young age, my
mother told me about God and I developed a deep love for Him ..
Growing up, I turned into a rebel, My parents had little control over me and were unable
to provide me with guidance. At the age of 15, I traveled to Turkey and this was my first
contact with an Islamic culture. I loved the Blue Mosque in Istanbul and I spent hours
there just relaxing..
After completing my A-level, I decided to continue with my education and join

university. I was not sure what subjects to take but I decided to take Social Anthropology
and Arabic. During my studies, I received grants which allowed me to travel to Egypt and
Sudan and gather data for my PHD thesis about the colloquial Arabic of Khartoum and
Omdurman.
During these stays in Muslim countries , I felt very much at home. I loved the way
people cared about other people even in crowded cities like Cairo. I felt very close to
Islam and I was longing to become one, but only after I changed for the better.
After finishing my Ph. D. I left Vienna and went to Sudan…from there I took a train to
Cairo and then went to Jerusalem. I went to see a person who lived at Mount of Olives
and there I decided to become Muslim.
My parents were not delighted at my choice, but did not put hindrances in my path. The
most difficult thing was to meet old friends who would find it impossible that I had
changed.
After another year, I married an English Muslim convert and came to England to live
with him and since then we have been blessed with three lovely children by Allah the
Most gracious.
For me the power of Islam lies in Quran and the example of noble prophet, what
convinced me was not a dogma or a set of facts but the sheer power of Islam to turn my
life around.
An old myth about Islam is that it takes the freedom away from women. ‘What
Freedom”? I ask. In my so called free days I was dependent on so many things, from
cigarettes to drugs to the attention of men. Only now I feel that I am totally free and
respected., dependent only on God and he is the best of friends.
I say that the worst thing you can do is try to convince other people about Islam, as it just
shows them that you are not sure yourself and it makes a problem between you and others
because people do not want to hear about God or religion, if their hearts are closed. If
they ask you, tell them about it, but never indulge in preaching to the ones who do not
wish to hear….
(Abridged) Source:: The MWL Journal Jan-Feb 199, p23-24

Story # 19
George Anthony - Former Catholic priest
Note: Fr. Antony was a Catholic priest in Sri Lanka. His tale of becoming a true believer
and adopting a name Adulrahman for him is quite interesting. Being a Christian priest he
was well versed with the teachings of the Bible. He quotes the Bible frequently as he sits
to narrate his journey to Islam. While reading the Bible he found many contradictions in
it. He goes on quoting verses from the Bible in Sinhalese language and points out the
ambiguity.
“He quotes Esaiah 9:12 which reads like this.” And the book is delivered to him that is
not learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith; I am not learned.” This verse is a
prophecy towards prophet Mohammed (pbuh), because Mohammad (pubh) was an
unlettered prophet and when he was an unlettered prophet and when he was asked by
Angel Gabrielto read out the first divine revelation upon him he said, “I am not learned”
Contrary to the Christian belief that Jesus is God, Acts 2:22 of the Holy Bible considers
Jesus as a man. It says, “Ye men of Israel, hear these words, Jesus of Nazareth, a man
approved of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs, which God did by him
in the midst of you, as ye yourself also know.”
Christianity and the other religions, do not define the Prophethood according to him. Nor
does Buddha and is silent about the other prophets. Contrary to this it is compulsory in
Islam to believe in all the former Prophets and to revere them. According to
Abdulrahman this belief is quite convincing and appealing to every body.
Abdulrahman says that there is no reason for the restriction that a Roman Catholic priest
cannot marry, when the priests of many other sects of Christianity can marry.
Abdulrahman was pondering over the confusions of Christian belief. Meanwhile he got
an Audio Cassette of a converted Christian priest Sri Lanka Shareef D Alwis. Cassettes
of Ahmad Deedat also attracted him. His continuous efforts to find the truth finally
resulted in reversion to Islam. Fr. George Antony
Abdulrahman, hails from the Rathnapura village of Sri Lanka. He was rendering his
services as a priest in Katumayaka church. He has ten years of training of the priesthood
to his credit.
He wrote letters to his mother introducing Islam. After months of studies she followed
the path of her son and embraced Islam. Abdurahman’s only sister is working in Greece.
His father and sister still remained Christians.
Abdurahman gave up his highly respected career as a priest for the sake of truth. He
happily sacrificed all material gains for the spiritual triumph. He is now working as a
trainee in Islam Presentation Committee of Kuwait.
Story # 20
The Case of: HALIMA SAADIA, DELHI, INDIA
01. I belong to a well to do SAINI family of South Delhi. My father is Accountant in

Delhi Development Authority. I have three brothers and all of them are working as
Officers in different ministries.
I did my MA in English and Diploma is Mass Communications and I work as secretary in

one of the ministries. I am aged 33 now and very few people know me by my new
Islamic name.
02. Govt. of India established an institute to teach foreign languages to its staff working
in different ministries. I was selected to learn Arabic … most of the teachers were
Muslims there and they started to teach Urdu to us along with Arabic.
03. My father is very well versed with Urdu language and I also spoke good Urdu, so I
did not had much difficulty in learning Urdu or Arabic. One of our teacher Dr. MOHSIN
OSMANI gave us some literature on Islam in Urdu and Hindi. That included a small
booklet in Hindi named “AAP KI AMANAT AAP KI SEVA MEIN” i.e. “Your trust
returned to you” by Maulana Kalim Uddin.
I was very much impressed with that book and after that I studied Quran and then I told
our teacher that I want to accept Islam.
04. I accepted Islam on his hands and then I used to go to Islamic Mission in
NIZAMUDDIN and started learning about Islam and SALAAT from sisters there.
05. I have not yet declared my Islam to my family and they are not aware of it. This
causes lots of inconvenience to me as I must wait till every one is away before I can offer
my regular prayers.
06. I am now at a dilemma, when I read Quran it asks us to surrender ourselves to Allah
fully and completely and I am unable to do that at present.
I am very fond of prostration and I pray to Allah during my prostration to give me

strength and make me a Good Muslim.
07. After becoming Muslim, I cannot marry a non Muslim, so I excused my parents to
marry anyone, whenever they bring up this subject.
I discussed this with my Islamic teacher and he brought a Muslim boy, who told me that
he is ready to marry me….there is no need for me to declare my Islam and he would not
mind if I even go to temples once in a while “to maintain the façade”… This reply
saddened me and I declined the marriage proposal.
08. I know that Islam wants Muslim women to remain inside house. So I do not like to
work outside. I am praying to Allah to grant me a Good Muslim husband, who will
relieve me from this office work.
09. This is the situation in which I find myself. My only source of strength is My Allah
and I always pray and ask Him to solve my problems
10. When I see Muslim women in Delhi and other places, I get convinced that they do not
value the gift of Islam they have.
In many Muslim localities, it is not possible to find out if they are any different from Non
Muslim localities.
I advise them to read stories of Muslim women in early age of Islam and use them as
their ideals.
Source: Monthly ARMAGHAN of April 2004

Story # 21
Prof. Baron HÂRÛN MUSTAFÂ LEON (G.B.)
Prof. Baron Leon comes from a prominent British family and possesses the title of
Baron. He owns a Ph D. and other scientific titles. He became a Muslim in 1882.
One of the most perfect essentials of the Islamic religion is that it never demands of
Muslims to act against reason. Islam is a religion whose teachings are quite reasonable
and perfectly logical. …
Muhammad PBUH states, “Allah has not created anything irrational or illogical.” He
states in another Saying, “I tell you with certainty that even if a person performs (his
daily prayers of) namâz (regularly), fasts, pays (the prescribed alms called) zakât, goes
on hajj (Muslim’s pilgrimage to Makkah), and carries out all the other
commandments of Islam, he shall be rewarded in proportion to the degree of his
using the mind and logic Allah has endowed on him.”
The pure religion preached by Jesus also contained similar rules. For instance, ‘First try
everything! Accept only the good one.” Yet, these rules were forgotten in the course of
time. …
The last Prophet of Allah Muhammad ‘PBUH who is the greatest blessing Allah has
sent to humanity, showed them the path that they were to follow. It was during his final
days (in this world), when the following incident took place:
It was a couple of days before Muhammad’s passing away, and he was resting, half
conscious, his head on
the knees of Aiyesha , his beloved wife. All the people of Medina were desperately sad
about Rasûlullah’s illness, ….This great Prophet who had brought them peace and
security by means of Islam, was now bidding ‘Farewell’ to them….
In tears they asked, “O Messenger of Allah! You are gravely ill. Perhaps Allah will
invite you to His presence and you will no longer be with us. Then, what can we do
without you?”
Our Prophet Muhammad stated, “You have the Qur'an to consult.” Then they asked,
“O Messenger of Allah! It is certain that the Qur'an will be our guide in many respects.
Yet if we cannot find what we are seeking by looking up in it, and if you have already left
us, who will be our guide?”
Upon this, our Prophet ‘ “Act in accordance with what I have told you.” This time
they asked, “O the Messenger of Allah! Since you will no longer be among us, what
should we do if we encounter altogether new matters and cannot find anything about
those matters in your Hadith?”
Our Prophet raised his blessed head slowly from the pillow, and said, “Allah has given
a personal guide to each and every one of His born slaves. This guide is the common
sense, and his heart, which embodies a conscience. If you use this guide well and
properly, you will never deviate from the right path, and in the end you will attain
to Allah.”
Here is the Islamic religion which I boast of having chosen. This religion is the true
religion of Allah, which is entirely based on reason and logic.
Story # 22
FELIX (AHMED), PHILIPINES
My father was working in Saudi Arabia for past 30 years and during his long stay, he
accepted Islam. I learned it from my mother. At that time I did not know about Islam or
Saudi Arabia.
I completed my study, and got a job in Saudi Arabia. My flight to Saudi Arabia was from
Saudi Airlines, before take off, It played Muslim prayer for Journey in Arabic. I did not
know any word of Arabic, but some how the wordings kept me spell bound.
When I landed in Saudi Arabia, I found the way Muslims greeted each other, the way
they went to regular prayers five times daily impressed me. I used to compare this with
our Sunday Church services and could feel that this was indeed much better than our
ways.
I used to watch religious programs on Saudi Channel 2.. I even memorized first chapter
of Quran (after listening it recited so many times). I found that if I recited that chapter on
any occasion where I felt danger, somehow I could maintain my calm.
I decided to know more about Islam and after return of my first vacation, I started going
to Islamic guidance center. I met a missionary from Philippine, who had accepted Islam
some time back….he told me about Islam and provided satisfactory answers to my
questions and doubts.
I decided to accept Islam and I want to thank all those who contributed towards this,
including Saudi Channel 2. (Abridged)
Story # 23
EDWIN M. (ABDUL LATEEF) ARSIO, PHILLIPINES.
I got the Chartered Accountant degree from Manila University and was selected to serve
in Saudi Arabia. The position was inferior to my qualifications but the money was more
than I could get in my country. The reaction of my parents were mixed on the eve of my
departure to Saudi Arabia, a conservative Muslim country.
I was posted in Riyadh HO of Irish Mestok company that runs dairy farms in the
Kingdom. I was told my duties and introduced to my colleagues many of whom were
from my country and some from other countries also. I had to share my office with a
Pakistani Accountant who was quite aged and had a full beard.
After some initial hesitancy, we became quite talkative and discussed many topic
amongst them Islam and Christianity. One day I had a severe headache, my friend read
some verses and blew on my head and I felt better. I asked him to give me English
translation of these verses.
My Pakistani friend gave me some books on Islam, like Islam in Focus, Towards
Understanding Islam, Myth of the Cross etc. After reading these books, I thought that I
must make thorough study of Islam and Christianity. I asked my friend to give me
English Translation of Quran and what they read in prayers. When I read the Quran, I
found its teachings very reasonable and I was much impressed by them.
I tried to emulate my Muslim friends in prayer. I used to prey in an empty room, so that
my fellow Pilipino Worker would not know about it. But one day, one Pilipino saw me
preying and he informed all other Pilipino that I had become Muslim.
When things came to that level, I consulted my Pakistani friend and we decided that it is
best, if I declare my faith officially, so that I will not be persecuted. We went to the office
of Sheikh Bin BAAZ, head of Saudi Religious organization and I declared my faith in
front of him.
I wrote to my parents explaining to them good points of Islam. They did not respond
well, when I went on vacation, my father told me, that if you are able to convince our
local priest, we will become Muslim. I went to the priest and I gave him English
translation of Quran and took time from him to come next week. But when we reached
he was not there. My vacation time was over, but the priest did not find time to argue
with me.
I started my missionary activity in Philippine with the help of some friends, with the
grace of Allah this is now some what established. I married a Christian girl and she also
accepted Islam after seeing its benefits.
I was in Kuwait the day Iraq invaded it. I had gone there to open the new branch of my
company there. I had to reach Amman by road which took almost 26 days. I think my
practice of fasting and Hajj helped me survive that ordeal. Now I am a senior member of
that MNC and my employers are happy with my work.
Some times I think back on the day, I was taking my first flight to Riyadh, Allah was
preparing for best provisions for me on this earth and INLSHALLAH in the hereafter too
(Abridged).
Story # 24
Dr. Jerald F. Dirks, Former minister (deacon) of the United Methodist Church.
Note: He holds a Master's degree in Divinity from Harvard University and a Doctorate in
Psychology from the University of Denver. Author of The Cross and the Crescent: An
Interfaith Dialogue between Christianity and Islam (ISBN 1-59008-002-5 - Amana
Publications, 2001). He has published over 60 articles in the field of clinical psychology,
and over 150 articles on Arabian horses
One of my earliest childhood memories is of hearing the church bell toll for Sunday
morning worship in the small, rural town in which I was raised. ..
By my junior high school days, the local Methodist Church had closed, and we were
attending the Methodist Church in the neighboring town, which was only slightly larger
than the town in which I lived. There, my thoughts first began to focus on the ministry as
a personal calling.
By age 17, when I began my freshman year at Harvard College, my decision to enter the
ministry had solidified. ..That spring, Harvard named me a Hollis Scholar, signifying that
I was one of the top pre-theology students in the college. I was a very promising young
minister,
There is some irony in the fact that the supposedly best, brightest, and most idealistic of
ministers-to-be are selected for the very best of seminary education, e.g. that offered at
that time at the Harvard Divinity School….As such, it is no real wonder that almost a
majority of such seminary graduates leave seminary, not to “fill pulpits …
It was at this juncture that I began to come into contact with the local Muslim
community. For some years before, my wife and I had been actively involved in doing
research on the history of the Arabian horse. Eventually, in order to secure translations
of various Arabic documents, this research brought us into contact with Arab Americans
who happened to be Muslims. Our first such contact was with Jamal in the summer of
1991.
After an initial telephone conversation, Jamal visited our home, and offered to do some
translations for us, and to help guide us through the history of the Arabian horse in the
Middle East. Before Jamal left that afternoon, he asked if he might: use our bathroom to
wash before saying his scheduled prayers; and borrow a piece of newspaper to use as a
prayer rug, so he could say his scheduled prayers before leaving our house. We, of
course, obliged, but wondered if there was something more appropriate that we could
give him to use than a newspaper…
Over the next 16 months, contact with Jamal slowly increased in frequency, until it was
occurring on a biweekly to weekly basis. During these visits, Jamal never preached to
me about Islam, never questioned me about my own religious beliefs or convictions, and
never verbally suggested that I become a Muslim
While I never spoke to my Muslim friends about those books, my wife and I had
numerous conversations about what I was reading. By the last week of December of
1992, I was forced to admit to myself, that I could find no area of substantial
disagreement between my own religious beliefs and the general tenets of Islam… As
such, I continued to read, and then to re-read.
It was now the very end of December, and my wife and I were filling out our application
forms for U.S. passports, so that a proposed Middle Eastern journey could become a
reality. One of the questions had to do with religious affiliation. I didn’t even think
about it, and automatically fell back on the old and familiar, as I penned in “Christian”. It
was easy, it was familiar, and it was comfortable. However, that comfort was
momentarily disrupted when my wife asked me how I had answered the question on
religious identity on the application form. I immediately replied, “Christian”, and
chuckled audibly. ..
About a month had gone by since my wife’s question to me. It was now late in January
of 1993. I had set aside all the books on Islam by the Western scholars, as I had read
them all thoroughly. The two English translations of the meaning of the Qur’an were
back on the bookshelf, and I was busy reading yet a third English translation of the
meaning of the Qur’an. Maybe in this translation I would find some sudden justification
for…
It was now March of 1993, and my wife and I were enjoying a five-week vacation in the
Middle East. It was also the Islamic month of Ramadan, when Muslims fast from day
break until sunset. Because we were so often staying with or being escorted around by
family members of our Muslim friends back in the States, my wife and I had decided that
we also would fast, if for no other reason than common courtesy. During this time, I had
also started to perform the five daily prayers of Islam with my newfound, Middle Eastern,
Muslim friends. After all, there was nothing in those prayers with which I could
disagree.
It was now late in our Middle Eastern trip. An elderly friend who spoke no English and I
were walking down a winding, little road, somewhere in one of the economically
disadvantaged areas of greater ‘Amman, Jordan. As we walked, an elderly man
approached us from the opposite direction, said, “Salam ‘Alaykum”, i.e., “peace be upon
you”, and offered to shake hands. We were the only three people there. I didn’t speak
Arabic, and neither my friend nor the stranger spoke English. Looking at me, the
stranger asked, “Muslim?”
At that precise moment in time, I was fully and completely trapped. There were no
intellectual word games to be played, because I could only communicate in English, and
they could only communicate in Arabic. There was no translator present to bail me out
of this situation, and to allow me to hide behind my carefully prepared English
monologue. I couldn’t pretend I didn’t understand the question, because it was all too
obvious that I had. My choices were suddenly, unpredictably, and inexplicably reduced
to just two: I could say “N’am”, i.e., “yes”; or I could say “La”, i.e., “no”. The choice
was mine, and I had no other. I had to choose, and I had to choose now; it was just that
simple. Praise be to Allah, I answered, “N’am”.
With saying that one word, all the intellectual word games were now behind me. With
the intellectual word games behind me, the psychological games regarding my religious
identity were also behind me. I wasn’t some strange, atypical Christian. I was a
Muslim. Praise be to Allah, my wife of 33 years also became a Muslim about that same
time.
Not too many months after our return to America from the Middle East, a neighbor
invited us over to his house, saying that he wanted to talk with us about our conversion to
Islam. He was a retired Methodist minister, with whom I had had several conversations
in the past. Although we had occasionally talked superficially about such issues as the
artificial construction of the Bible from various, earlier, independent sources, we had
never had any in-depth conversation about religion. I knew only that he appeared to have
acquired a solid seminary education, and that he sang in the local church choir every
Sunday.
My initial reaction was, “Oh, oh, here it comes”. Nonetheless, it is a Muslim’s duty to be
a good neighbor, and it is a Muslim’s duty to be willing to discuss Islam with others. As
such, I accepted the invitation for the following evening, and spent most of the waking
part of the next 24 hours contemplating how best to approach this gentleman in his
requested topic of conversation. The appointed time came, and we drove over to our
neighbor’s. After a few moments of small talk, he finally asked why I had decided to
become a Muslim. I had waited for this question, and had my answer carefully prepared.
“As you know with your seminary education, there were a lot of non-religious
considerations which led up to and shaped the decisions of the Council of Nicaea.” He
immediately cut me off with a simple statement: “You finally couldn’t stomach the
polytheism anymore, could you?” He knew exactly why I was a Muslim, and he didn’t
disagree with my decision! For himself, at his age and at his place in life, he was electing
to be “an atypical Christian”. Allah willing, he has by now completed his journey from
cross to crescent.
There are sacrifices to be made in being a Muslim in America. For that matter, there are
sacrifices to be made in being a Muslim anywhere. However, those sacrifices may be
more acutely felt in America, especially among American converts. Some of those
sacrifices are very predictable, and include altered dress and abstinence from alcohol,
pork, and the taking of interest on one’s money. Some of those sacrifices are less
predictable. For example, one Christian family, with whom we were close friends,
informed us that they could no longer associate with us, as they could not associate with
anyone “who does not take Jesus Christ as his personal savior”. In addition, quite a few
of my professional colleagues altered their manner of relating to me. Whether it was
coincidence or not, my professional referral base dwindled, and there was almost a 30%
drop in income as a result. Some of these less predictable sacrifices were hard to accept,
although the sacrifices were a small price to pay for what was received in return.
For those contemplating the acceptance of Islam and the surrendering of oneself to Allah
—glorified and exalted is He, there may well be sacrifices along the way. Many of these
sacrifices are easily predicted, while others may be rather surprising and unexpected.
There is no denying the existence of these sacrifices, and I don’t intend to sugar coat that
pill for you. Nonetheless, don’t be overly troubled by these sacrifices. In the final
analysis, these sacrifices are less important than you presently think. Allah willing, you
will find these sacrifices a very cheap coin to pay for the “goods” you are purchasing.
Story # 25
The Case of: CHAUBAL SINGH (MOHD. LIAQAT), MUZAFFAR NAGAR,

INDIA
01. I belong to the JANSATH Tehsil of Dist. MUZAFFARNAGAR, UP. We are a small
sugarcane grower family, we are five brothers and by the grace of Allah, four of us have
accepted Islam along with our families.
Our elder brother, who is leader of Congress party in our area is also closer to Islam, but
he has not declared his Islam openly
02. If I can say, the let me say that it was the Idol of Lord Siva, who asked me to become
Muslim!!
It so happened that some years back, we had a very good harvest of sugarcane, and we
saved a lot of money. We reconstructed our house and there in we made a special room
for prayer. It was a sort of small temple inside the house.
03. I went to the City to buy an Idol of Lord Siva and I purchased a very costly statue
casting more than 5000 rupees. I was carrying the same in my hand, taking care lest it
should break.
I was just in front of a Muslim mosque, when a thought came to my mind, what will
happen if I drop this Statue…. I thought and the Idol slipped from my hand and broke
into many small pieces.
04. I thought what sort of god is he, who cannot even save his own statue. The God of
Muslims is much better, who does not break and does not need any caring from its
worshippers.
05. I went up to the mosque and asked the incharge there to make me Muslim, when he
hesitated, I told that I have taken this decision with lot of care and seriousness. He asked
me to read Islamic creed….later I came to PHULAT and met Maulana Kalim Sahib, who
instructed me in Islamic teachings.
06. When I reached home,. I told my wife about Islam and that I had accepted it. She said
that I am also impressed with Islam after seeing Muslim ladies.
I wanted to embrace Islam, but was afraid because of you, so she accepted Islam and our
three children also accepted Islam at the hand of local Imam
07. Our elder brother, who was the local leader of Congress Party, he became very angry
and he beat me and my younger brother with stick and even got us arrested by the local
police. They beat my brother mercilessly and broke his leg (see the attitude of Secular
Indian Police, which had nothing to do in this case-MUQ).
I complained to the higher officer in the city, he was very good and he sent an officer to
our village and warned the local police and my brother to behave themselves.
I told already that my wife and my children accepted Islam without much effort, Thank to
Allah
08. I presented Islam to my younger brother and tried my best to convince him…he said
that he will consult with his wife…she agreed and the whole family of my younger
brother became Muslim Alhamdolillah
Then we started work on my elder brother, after some discussion, he along with his
family also became Muslim, Alhamdolillah.
09. That leaves only my eldest brother, he showed lot of opposition and even tried to get
us tortured by the local police. He has no children and had adopted one of his nephew,
when the entire family became Muslim, we wanted our children back.
He fell sick and despite many treatment had no improvement. He came to our house and
asked us to forgive him for his past behavior. When we prayed for him, he was cured.
He is studying about Islam, but is yet to declare his faith. We are hopeful
11. We are very happy with our Islam, all our children are learning about Islam and we
encourage them.
When I think, How Allah brought us to Islam, our hearts are filled with his praise.
12. I ask them to pray that we die as a Muslim and they should pray for guidance of all
the Non Muslims in India and elsewhere… If Allah accepts the prayers then He opens
His ways.
Source: Monthly ARMAGHAN of March 2004

Story # 26
WILLIAM PICKHARD (G.B.)
It is stated in a Hadith “Every newly-born baby is suitable for and agreeable with
Islam. Afterwards they are made Jews, Christians or magians by their parents.”
Likewise, I had been born as a Muslim. Yet it was only many years later that I realized
this fact. …
As a Christian, I had been given some teaching on the concept of Allah and on how to
worship Allah. Yet my adoration was not confined to their teachings; I felt the same
worship-like attachment towards all paragons of chivalry and valor that I had read about
in history. Eventually, I was given an office in Uganda, which was under the British sway
in those days. …
The difficult and unaccommodating life I was now leading in Uganda was making me
feel closer and closer to the oriental people. As I was reading the stories of Arabian
Nights now, I was comparing them with the people of Uganda and, as it were, I was
living with them.
I was completely accustomed to life here, when the First World War broke out. When I
applied for military service, they would not admit me into the military on account of my
poor health. When I felt better I applied again. This time they admitted me, and sent me
to the German front in France. In 1917 I joined the terrible Somme battles. I was
wounded in these battles, and I was captured by the Germans. …. My arm and leg were
entirely out of service.
What would become of me now? How would I earn my living? These thoughts drove me
to infinite despair. As I was in this mood of utter hopelessness, I somehow remembered
the consolatory Koranic statements that I had read in a book which I had bought in
Uganda. In those days I had read them again and again with deep interest and adoration; I
had even memorized them. I began to pass these statements through my heart and to
repeat them a number of times daily. It gave my heart a sense of relief and opened the
gates of hope. And my hopes came true, too.
The Swiss doctors operated on my leg once again, and my leg began to feel better. I owed
this to the Qur'an . As soon as I began to walk, the first thing I did was to go to a
bookstore and buy a translation of Qur'an by Savary. [This book is still my most
cherished companion.] This time I began to read the entire Qur'an . The more I read, the
more relief did my heart feel, the higher did my soul ascend, the deeper into my essence
did a tremendous mass of light penetrate.
My leg was completely well now. Yet my right arm was still motionless. Upon this, I
obeyed the command of the Qur'an , surrendered myself to the Will of Allah and drilled
myself in writing with my left hand. The first thing I did after learning to write with my
left hand was to embark on writing a copy of Qur'an with my left hand. At one time, I
had been deeply impressed by an episode in an Islamic book that I had been reading. The
episode was about a young man who was reading the Qur'an quite oblivious of his
surroundings and without even knowing that he was in a graveyard where he had come
accidentally. I put myself in his place, delivered my essence to the Grace of Allah, and
carried on my reading the Qur'an. In other words, I was a Muslim now. …
A couple of days later he took me to the London mosque at Notting Hill Gate. I joined
the daily prayers in that mosque for about a year. In 1922 I became a Muslim officially.
We are in 1950 now. So far, I have held fast to all the commandments of Qur'an with
both hands, and this has given me a great pleasure. (Abridged)
Story # 27
PROF. BENIAL (ABDULLAH HASAN) HEWITT, USA
I think if you visit any Church, you will find nothing but statues and figure. If you look
at the dresses of clergy and procession of priests, nuns and deacons….you would not see
any spiritual dimension there. If will be as you have entered into a temple filled with
idols and idol worship is in progress.
On the other hand if you visit any mosque, what you see will be rows upon rows of
devotees, clad in normal clothes. There would be no idols, statues or music and every one
would be busy in worshipping One Lord of Universe.
I don’t know if any reasonable man would not be able to notice the contrast in the two
scenes.
I always had an attraction towards Islam, but it was not enough for me to declare my
allegiance to it. But the more I started to read about Islam from the books written by
Muslim scholars, its truth dawned on me. I could see the service done on humanity by
the Great Prophet of Islam.
What attracted me towards Islam was its absolute Monotheism. Then I saw that Islam
does not only deal with spiritual matters, but it gives instructions for every walk of life.
Then Islam is free from narrow mindedness and treats with respect those who are non
Muslims. It was Islam which first taught to the world meaning of tolerance and live
peacefully with people of other faiths.
Islam is a religion of action…it does not encourage people sitting idle or renounce the
world. On the other hand, if you want to become a good Christian, you have to renounce
the world. Not so in Islam.
According to Islam, the purpose of human life on this earth is to enjoy everything what
God has created for him…but he should remember God and lead life as per His guidance.
(Abridged)
Story # 28
FATIMA HARRON , WEST GERMANY
Shortly after I was born in 1934, it became a fashion in Germany to quit membership of
the Church. In fact when I was 11 years old, one girl told me that there was no god at all
and she seemed to be an authentic person.
The world at that time was far from ordinary, there were bombs day after day, there were
fathers who would come only now and then, and there were mothers, who knitted gloves
and socks for ‘our poor soldiers’.
When the war was over there were strange people who took away our houses and
American war films started coming in which melted my heart. I was unable to judge who
was right and who was wrong and every thing looked cruel and senseless to me…
It was a miracle for me that out of all girls it was I who met a young European who had
embraced Islam seven years before. I asked him to tell more about it. I was a great
skeptic at that time. Yet when he explained to me the meaning of the word Muslim i.e.
one who out of his free will surrenders himself to God’s commandments, something
started waking inside me…
He explained how everything in the nature was following God’s commands...it was only
men who disobeyed God’s laws. It was wonderful logic, the pure common sense.
I learned as much as in the books in the following years, small though the stock of
unbiased Islamic literature in German Language is.
Mohammad Asad ‘s book Road to Makkah made a deep impression on me… I

understood the deep meaning behind all Islamic injunctions, it helped me most toward
my journey to Islam.
While Muslim at heart, I decided that I would try out first whether I would be able to
follow the laws of Islam, so I kept fast the most difficult duty as it seemed to me then. I
fasted the Month of Ramadan of year 1959, and it taught me that if we do anything for
love of God, it is no longer as difficult at it seems.
After that I became Muslim, me and my husband saved some money to migrate to a
Muslim country and we settled in Pakistan, where my husband was given a suitable
position.
I used to enjoy all freedom the West offers to women, free mixing of sexes, parties,
cinemas, dancing, concert, theatre, swimming, skating…Yet the peace of mind I have
after becoming Muslim seems to me an ample compensation for what I have left
behind…
The reason why I tell this is that I want my young sisters and brothers to understand that
all the tempting glitter of materialism is just nothing when compared precious gift that
God bestows on those whom He makes Muslims..
(Abridged) Source:: YAQEEN INT. FEB 7 1992, P200

Story # 29
Muslima, The Former Catholic Missionary (Burundi)
The nuns looked so clean and smart in their starched white habits. They looked like the
saints in the pictures that hung on the wall of every classroom, that I dreamt of the day I
could be like them. I was among two other girls who get excellent grades at the end of the
school year and we were asked if we would like to study religion. They thought we were
pious for our ages because we liked to spend endless hours inside the church. They didn’t
realize that the inside of the church was dim and cold and a welcome relief from the hot
African sun.
I couldn’t wait to tell my father, who surprisingly said, ‘absolutely not!’ He would not
like that kind of life for one of his girls; without husband and children. He enrolled me in
another school, which had previously only admitted boys.
Besides myself, there was another girl in the Roman Catholic Mission school in Burundi.
The years I spent at this school made me quite tough as I competed only against boys.
The nuns used excessive force in disciplinary matters. The fact that we were all
adolescents might have had a good deal to do with it. Still, it didn’t seem a very Christian
thing to do.
I was interested in religion and excelled in the study of languages and accepted a full
scholarship to a university in Cameroon after graduating from high school. Again, as the
only female, I enrolled in the College of Theology. I wasn’t sure where I would go with
it, but after a short while, the administration applied for a scholarship in the same College
of Theology, but in Belgium. There I would learn how to be a Pastor in the Roman
Catholic Church.
My language ability aided me quite a bit and my mastery of some of the African dialects
attracted them as a good candidate for missionary work.
As the years went by, I began to see through the layers of theology and found the
superficiality of their teachings. I was not alone in seeing the many contradictions in the
New and Old Testaments. To learn that the ‘Trinity’ is mentioned only once in the New
Testament was a surprise but when I learned it had been fully established at the Council
of Nicea and that it was not part of what Jesus taught, something in my mind clicked.
We were shown certain books called the Gnostic Books, which we were told were hidden
teachings, I understood that the church was being deceitful and this was disturbing. How
could I believe that this was, as they said, the word of God from A to Z. "The People of
the Book know this as they know their own sons; but some of them conceal the Truth
which they themselves know. The Truth is from thy Lord, so be not in doubt." (Qur’an
2:146-147)
Still I pursued my studies in an effort to be able to help myself and my people some day.
"As for those who divide their religion and break up into sects, thou has no part in them
in the least: their affair is with Allah: He will in the end tell them the truth of all that they
did." (Qur’an 6:159)
After graduation from University, I took a position in Nairobi, Kenya. The Church was
very anxious to have an African in a position such as this. They had many programmes
for women and I was a coordinator for these programmes under the auspices of the World
Council of Churches. I handled different aspects of exhibitions, women’s projects,
donors, workshops and conferences.
I was sent to the regional office in Togo because they are mainly French-speaking which
I spoke fluently and the type of projects I knew how to handle were being implemented
there. I began to search for the spiritual force that was missing in my life and in Togo I
searched through all the practiced religions. When one looks for truth there are many
things thrown in one’s path.
This part of Africa has many people who practice witchcraft and who claim to have
knowledge of the unseen and it was obvious they were just taking people’s money. There
is no one with knowledge of the unseen except God.
I had been facing much mediocrity from the Church and at the same time I had Muslim
friends who were very comfortable in their knowledge of God, who prayed five times
daily and who had many virtues. They believed in what they said, in contrast to the
Church where you repeat what you have been taught without believing in it.
I had never been taught anything about Islam except a superficial introduction so I did a
lot of reading about the religion.
I cannot say that to convert to Islam was easy; it was very difficult. But when one is
searching for the truth there is no way to deny it.
The decision was also difficult for economic reasons as I had one of the highest paying
professions with many perks.
I resigned from my position citing my conversion as my reason and immediately lost my

job and salary, housing and medical benefits. I became destitute in one day!
My family does not like my Hijab but they admire the moral aspects of Islam.
I helped to raise my brothers and sisters and they are much younger than I, and now to
see how much they hate me is almost unbearable
They felt the economic hardship immediately as I did, and cannot understand why I
would do such a thing. But with the grace of Allah they too will find the truth of Islam,
Insha’allah.
I hope and pray that I can use the knowledge that the education in the Church gave me
towards the propagation of Islam. The spiritual climate of West Africa is ripe for Islam
and there are many projects which need doing. This is what I have been trained to do and
so my path is straight and narrow for me now.
Story # 30
The Case of: KAMAL SAXENA (ABDUL RAHMAN) PRATAPGARH UP, INDIA
01. I was born on 9 June 1965 , in a KAYASTH Hindu Family in RANI GANJ of
PRATAP GARH UP. My father is an IPS officer and presently posted at MUGHAL
SARAI. In our family Urdu is well understood.
I did my PHD is psychology from Allahabad University in 1994 and I am teaching

psychology in a college in PUNE.
I have a younger brother and sister and they are both educated and are employed.
02. I wanted to do research in Germany in Para-psychology… this subjects deals with

subjects which are outside of our world… I wanted to do research on Jinn.
I wanted to control one Jinn under my power, so I could do my research and have an
advantage over my other colleagues.
03. What is a better place to control Jinn than in India! So I met many Hindu Sadhus and
Muslims who were known to have Jinn under their control… I tried all of their “sure fire”
methods to control Jinn…. But after so much tries and efforts, I got no break thru.
04. I went to Famed Muslim college NADWA in Lucknow, where some one told me to
go to TAKIA RAI BARELY and see a Scholar named Kalim Uddin , who might help me
05. I reached the mosque and was waiting there in the heat of month of June, when some
one came and said, Are you Dr, KC SAXENA? I was astonished, how did you know my
name?
“It is nothing special, my friend told me that a gentleman of this name would come today
and when I saw you sitting I guessed” he said laughing. I was much impressed, the
people I had consulted would make every thing so mysterious and he was telling simple
truths.
06. When I asked him about my mission to control a Jinn… he laughed and congratulated
me on my bravery saying that he was afraid of Jinn…
When I insisted, he told me that the creatures whom Allah has made free, it is not OK to
make them under control…he instead presented to me Islam, saying that it is more
important than controlling Jinn.
07. But if you want to control Jinn, first you have to become Muslim, I was very excited
in my mission, so I said that I am ever ready to become Muslim, if I am able to control a
Jinn.
But he said that accepting Islam for controlling Jinn is not acceptable in the eyes of
Allah….I must decide to accept Islam for Allah alone and if you became a true Muslim…
then you come to me, I will show you some of Jinn.
08. He gave me a list of books , which I should read, I went to Lucknow and bought
“What is Islam” and “Madras Lectures”…after reading these I got convinced that Islam is
the only true way.
So I went to PHULAT and on 9 June 1195 accepted Islam , he named me Abdul

Rahman…
09. After that I spent most of my time in learning about Islam, I purchased many books
on islam and then I realised that research on Jinn is nothing compared to getting closer to
the Lord and Creator of the Jinn
When I met Maulana after some time and he asked me about my Jinn project….I told that
now I am away from that and need to worship and get closer to the Lord and Creator of
Jinn.
10. When the news reached to my family members, they forced me to get away from this
and do not sully the family’s name and its reputation.
They tried to even put pressure on me, but I remained firm and then they left me alone.
11. When I accepted Islam, I was unmarried, I decided not to marry since it would affect
my Missionary activities. But Maulana Kalim Sahib told me that it is against Islam and I
should marry.
12. It so happened that one Christian Nun AP accepted Islam due to our mission
activities… she had suffered in her first marriage and had decided to turn into a nun and
leave that world behind.
When I offered to marry her, she consented and we were married and I now a daughter
from this marriage.
13. I am really sorry that I did not work on my family members, I talked to my father
once…and he read to me laughing this Urdu couplet “HUM TO DOOBEY HAIN
SANAM YAAR KO LEY DOBBENIGE” ( Which means “I have drowned but I want
to drown my partner also”
It is Allah who guides people to Islam, but more than 200 people have accepted Islam in
past 9 years due to missionary activities of our small group, Alhamdolillah
14. There is a post of reader in Allahabad University , I have applied for it and am going
for interview there. If selected I want to do my missionary activities in this Ancient
Hindu city.
Source: Monthly ARMAGHAN of

Story # 31
Dr. HÂMID MARCUS (German)
(Dr. Marcus is a renowned man of ideas, a writer, and the founder of a magazine,
i.e. the magazine entitled Berlinde Moslemische Revue.)
I was only a child when I took an interest in Islam and began to collect information
about Islam. In the library of my hometown I came across an old translation of Qur'an
that had been printed in 1164 [1750 C.E.].
As I read the Qur'an, I was deeply impressed by its exceedingly logical and fascinating
style of expression that penetrated deep into the soul….
When I left my hometown and went to Berlin, I made friends with all the Muslims living
there, joined them and attended with rapt attention the interesting and instructive
conferences held by the members of the Islamic Mission.
The more friendly I became with the members of the Islamic Mission, the more closely
was I able to examine Islam. After a while I reached the conclusion that Islam was the
true religion I had been aspiring after, believed in it, and accepted Islam.
According to Islam, Allah is One, and belief in One Creator is Islam’s most sacred
creedal tenet. The Islamic religion does not contain any irrational or unbelievable tenet.
There is not a creator besides Allah.
In Islam you cannot find a single dot disagreeable with or contradictory to modern
sciences. All its commandments and inculcations are entirely logical and useful.
In Islam, belief and logic do not contradict each other, which is the common blemish of
other religions. Consequently, for a person like me who has dedicated all his life-time to
natural sciences, what could be more natural than preferring Islam, which is in full
conformity with the scientific results that he obtained from his lucubration, to the other
religions that are quite the other way round?....
Commandments of the Islamic religion lead a person to the right way not only in the
Hereafter, but also in the world, and, in the meanwhile, they never restrict his freedom….
How exquisite a passageway it is that Islam lays between the individual and the social
life! Islam arranges these two lives. Islam is a religion of perfect justice and its sole aim
is to guide people to the good end. Islam embodies all the good aspects of all the world’s
social trends. (Abridged)
Story # 32
AN ANGLICAN CHRISTIAN (NAME WITHELD), Birmingham UK
Even though I had a vague believe in God, I really I had no knowledge about any religion
or try to know about God or felt his need in my life. Then around 8 years ago my mother
became seriously ill and according to doctors she had only one more week to live. It was
then that I prayed to God and asked from Him to extend her life. Surprisingly she
recovered and lived one more year and I was able to serve her.
After that personal experience, myself and my wife visited a Baptist Church which was
near to our University and one of Mathematics teacher was a member there. Soon he
persuade me and my wife to be formally baptized and we started to join Sunday classes in
the Church regularly.
Soon I started to read Christian books and acquire some knowledge about it. I stumbled
on the Doctrine of Trinity, which I could not understand, how so much I tried it. I asked
my church fellows, their answers did not satisfy me and I asked more doubts. Finally
they advised me to accept Trinity as taught by the Church and stop trying to understand
it.
It was at that time, that one of Muslim Student told me about Quran and its clear
teachings. He gave me an audio cassette of Mr. Jamal Badawi (Well known Muslim
missionary from Canada) about concept of God in Islam. I could see that it was a straight
forward concept and lacked any mysteries which Trinity tried to introduce.
I got busied in cultural activities and I noticed that black people were not encouraged or
welcomed in our Church. On many occasions when my wife brought some of her black
friends to the Church, no one spoke to them. When we tried to join in the movement to
restore Walter Helms (first Black Superintendent of School in Birmingham, who allowed
non union teachers in Black schools), our Church openly condemned us.
It was at that time that I got an offer to teach mathematics in KFUPM University
Dhahran. There I got an opportunity to learn about Islam from those who were Muslims.
Those people gave me English translation of Quran and other Islamic literature. I got
audio and video tapes of Jamal Badawi, which helped me a lot to know what Islam really
is.
I started Muslim prayers even before I declared my faith…..but soon I decided to join
brotherhood of Islam (Abridged)
Story # 33
K.U. (KHALID) KUNDAN, KARACHI, PAKISTAN
My Name was K. U, and our parents were Christians. My mother worked as maid in rich
person’s homes. Some of these were Arabs and they had some children named as Khalid,
I liked that name and at an early age, asked my mother to call me Khalid in place of my
original name.
It was in 1985, when my mother was working at a rich French Gentleman, in Karachi that
I saw a dream as if there is a great flood and most of big houses are getting demolished,
but our small cottage is intact. I heard some one calling “Khalid get rid on unbelief from
your heart”. I mentioned this to my mother, but she said dreams are nothing. But I was
for many days trying to figure out meaning of that dream.
It so happened that Muslim month of Ramadan was close by and I thought that we
Christians also fast, why should I not fast the way Muslims do. Accordingly without
informing any one in home, I fasted the way Muslims do and what is more and I went to
Mosque and preyed with other Muslims. This first prayer gave me a lot of peace.
I got so addicted to fasting and prayer and I would attend most prayers in mosque,
without informing my parents. Slowly the mark on my forehead started appearing, which
told its own tale.
My family was very much angered by my action, I was engaged to be married to my

cousin, their family refused to agree to marry their daughter to a Christian. I talked to my
fiancée and told her, that I am ready to marry her, in court. She agreed and we were
married by a court in 1988. This further angered my family.
It so happened that circumstances took me to live in Christian colony, my presence there

was a source of many debates about Islam and Christianity. I did not have much
knowledge about comparative religion of Islam and Christianity, but Allah helped me and
no Christian would convince me that Islam is a fast religion.
Then I got hold of that marvelous book IZHAR-AL=HAQ, by RAHMATULLAH

KERANWI, which was translated in Urdu language in Pakistan. This book opened my
eye and I got so much information on the problems of Christianity and their standard
objections to Islam that I felt that now no Christian can stand before me. This book which
was written almost 150 years back is still without parallel on this subject. Then I read
other books also on Christianity and Islam and now I feel very comfortable in any
debates with Christians.
In the end, I request my Muslim brothers to prey for me and my family and that Allah
opens the heart of my mother and brothers also to Islam (abridged)
Story # 34
Rabbi Moisha Krivitsky of Makhachkala synagogue
Note: 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 adopted when he became a Muslim)
Q. Did you find the way easily?
With great difficulty. It was hard then, and it isn’t much easier now. When you go deeply
into Islam’s inner meaning, you understand that this religion is very simple, but the way
that leads to it may be extremely difficult. Often, people don’t understand how a person
could be converted into Islam ‘from the other side’, as it were. But there are no ‘sides’
here: Islam is everything there is, both what we imagine and what we don’t imagine.
Q. Musa, as a matter of fact, we were given this fact as a certain sensation: a Rabbi
has turned Muslim.
- Well, it has been no sensation for quite a long while already - it’s more than a year that I
did this. It was strange for me at first, too. But it wasn’t an off-the-cuff decision. When I
came into Islam, I had read books about it, I had been interested.
Q. Did you finish any high school before coming to the synagogue?
Yes, I finished a clerical high school. After graduation, I came to Makhachkala, and
became the local Rabbi.
Q. And where did you come from?
- Oh, from far away. But I’ve already become a true Daghestani, I’ve got a lot of friends
here - both among Muslims and people who are far from Islam.
Q. Let’s return to your work in the synagogue.

- It was quite a paradoxical situation: there was a mosque near my synagogue, the town
mosque. Sometimes my fiends who were its parishioners would come to me - just to chat.
I sometimes would come to the mosque myself, to see how the services were carried out.
I was very interested. So we lived like good neighbours. And once, during Ramadan, a
woman came to me - as I now understand, she belonged to a people that was historically
Muslim - and she asked me to comment the Russian translation of the Quran made by
Krachkovsky.
Q. She brought the Quran to you - a Rabbi?!
Yes, and she asked me to give her the Torah to read in return. So I tried to read the
Quran- about ten times. It was really hard, but gradually I began to understand, and to get
a basic notion of Islam.
Q. Musa, and when you were reading the translation, you must have begun to compare
it with the Torah?
- I had found answers to many questions in the Qur'an. Not to all of them, of course,
because it wasn’t the Arabic original, but the translation. But I had begun to understand
things.
Q. And what exactly were the questions that you couldn’t find answers to in
Judaism?
- Before I came into contact with Islam, there were questions which I had never even
tried to find answers to. Probably, an important part here had been played by a book
written by Ahmad Deedat, a South African scholar, comparing the Quran and the Bible.
There is a key phrase, well-known to those who are familiar with religious issues:
“Follow the Prophet who is yet to come”. And when I studied Islam, I understood that the
Prophet Muhammad (let Allah bless him!) is the very Prophet to be followed. Both the
Bible and the Torah tell us to do it. I haven’t invented anything here.
Q. And what does the Torah say about the Prophet (let Allah bless him!)?
- We won’t be able to find this name in the Torah. But we can figure it out using a special
key. For example, we can understand what god this or that particular person in history
worships. The formula describing the last Prophet (let Allah bless and greet him) is that
he would worship One God, the Sole Creator of the world. The Prophet Muhammad (let
Allah bless him!) matches this description exactly.
Q. Should I understand you, Musa, that you now feel a great responsibility for
becoming a Muslim, or do you have some other feelings?
- Yes, responsibility, but something else as well. I can’t put my finger on it now. When a
person knows Islam well, he’s got both his feet firmly on the ground. Islam helps a
person …When I understood that I had to become a Muslim, I thought that Islam was a
single whole - one common road, or a huge indivisible ocean…..
Q. Musa, and what brought you into the prison?
- I’ve recently seen a programme on the TV, and a representative of the Chechen
republic in Moscow - I forget his name now, I believe he had some beautiful, French-
sounding name, something like Binaud - he said that if the authorities were going to carry
on like they had done before - barging into homes, planting drugs and weapons on people
- then the people would be out in the streets protesting. This has happened to many here.
So there was something planted on me. Then they came and took me away at night.
Q. Musa, why were the authorities frightened by you?
- No idea. Even children aren’t afraid of me.
Q. Did you avoid the question on the nature of your crime on purpose?
- No, it was illegal weapon keeping. I’ve forgiven those people, of course, although I
used to be very angry with them. What matters is the Islam, and the things that are good
for it. … What we hear instead is that if a Muslim is wearing a beard, he’s a Wahhabi. I
have such tags attached to all I’m wearing. It’s ridiculous.
I think that what happens to me is right. And what I want now is to come to people who
don’t understand me, to tell them about my ideas, to explain what Islam is. We’re all in
the same boat, anyway. Especially here in Daghestan: we know everything about one
another. Why then should we be trying to find enemies in one another? Life is going by,
and finally, we’ll all have to answer for what we’re doing. (Abridged)
Story # 35
The Case of: V.K. CHAKARVARTY (MOHD. ANAS) CALCUTTA INDIA
01. I belong to a Brahmin Family in Calcutta , my father had a leather good shop, which
ran very well. I had one younger brother and one elder sister.
I did my MA in English and wanted to do PH. D , but father’s sudden death caused me to
drop the idea and I had to manage the shop.
02. In 1999, my father got a severe pain in his stomach, despite treatment his condition
deteriorated and he expired. As eldest son, I had to lit his pyre. That scene and what I
had to go thru made me very disgusted from our religion and its practices.
03. Then after five months, my elder sister also died because of brain fever. She was six
or seven month pregnant. When we took her to cremation ground, the Pundit there said
that, the child in her womb cannot be burned. He has to be buried and we cannot burn
the body like that.
When I said that we will burn here body elsewhere, my family member protested and in
front of me, my sister was made naked and her stomach was slit open and the body of
infant was taken out…
04. This made me leave Hinduism for good and I left Calcutta and I went to Patna and
started working in a small nursing home. The doctor was Muslim and a very good
person. When I told him my situation, he asked me to go to Delhi and accept Islam
05. I went to JAMA MASJID in Delhi and told Imam that I want to accept Islam … they
asked me to bring certificates from tow reliable persons from my town… I went to the
Head Office of Jamat Islami Hind, but they started asking me so many questions… I went
to many people but none was ready to make me Muslim.
I decided to return to Patna, on Delhi Station, I met a Muslim who told me to go to

PHULAT and meet Maulana Kalim, I went there and he gladly made me Muslim.
06. He then sent me with a Muslim missionary group for 40 days, in these days I learned
how to pray and how to recite Quran and that helped me a lot
07. Maulana explained to me, why the other people were hesitant to make me Muslim.
Because there have been cases where some one became Muslim and later when the
matter came into light, he accused these Muslims to convert him by force or thru offering
him money.
In PHULAT the situation is different, we are in a small village and every one knows us
and the work we do. We are better organized also to handle these situation.
08. I was not married when I became Muslim, I met a girl from Bengal who was working
in a cloth shop. I told her about Islam and after some persuasion, she agreed to become
Muslim.
I married her after she became Muslim, and I have a son, whom I have named Abu
Bakar.
My wife gets Islamic education from the wife of Maulana and we are very happy.
Parents.
09. My mother is alive, but she is much advanced in age. She likes me very much, but she
is not ready to accept Islam yet.
10. My brother and Sister have become Muslim along with their families,
Alhamdolillah…. I hope that my other two younger brothers shall also accept Islam.
They love me and they honor me and my faith.
I have started working as Manager in a Bakery in Patna. The job was also arranged by
Maulana Kalim

11. The Muslims should do the Missionary activities sincerely and they should look after
the social needs of the New converts. If we do not take care to help and solve their
problem, the inflow will be less.
If one Muslim family decides to take care of one Newly Converted Muslim, then this
problem can be solved.
Source: Monthly ARMAGHAN of May 2004Story # 36
Mrs. ÂMINA MOSLER (German)
Why did I become a Muslim?
My son was asking me various questions, and I was unable to answer them. When he
asked me, for instance, “Mummy, why are there three gods?” I was at a loss as to what to
say because I myself did not believe in trinity, and yet I could not find another answer to
convince him. Eventually, it was sometime during the year 1346 [C.E. 1928], and my son
had reached a mature age, when, one day, my son came to me, his eyes welling up with
tears. He begged, “Mummy, I have been studying Islam. They believe in one creator.
Their religion is the truest one. So I have decided to become a Muslim. Join me!”
Upon his request, I, too, began to study the Islamic religion. I went to the Berlin mosque.
The imam of the mosque gave me a cordial welcome and told me the essentials of Islam.
As he spoke, I saw how right and logical his words were. Like my son, I, too, began to
believe in the fact that Islam was the truest religion.
First of all, Islam rejected trinity, which I had never been able to understand or accept
since my youth. After examining Islam thoroughly, I realized the absurdity of such things
as redemption, looking on the pope as an innocent being never prone to sin, baptism and
many other rites of the same sort, I rejected all these falsities and embraced Islam.
All my ancestors were fanatical Catholics. I was raised in a Catholic monastery. I grew
up totally under Christian education. Yet this sheer religious education that I had received
helped me to choose the true religion that would guide me to Allah.
For, all the good things that I had been taught throughout my education I found not in
Christianity, but in Islam. I am so lucky to have accepted Islam.
Today I am a grandmother. I am so happy because my grandchild has been born as a

Muslim. I know that Allah will always guide those people whom He has brought to the
right way.
Story # 37
JONATHAN BERT, UK
Jonathan is the son of John Bert, former Director General of BBC. H accepted Islam in
1996 and took the Islamic name of YAHYA which is Arabic Translation of his Original
Name Jonathan. His story of accepting Islam in his own words is reconstructed here from
statement of his friend.
It all happened when I had a Muslim room mate during my university yeas. I found his
manners, life style and his putlook so different from ours that I got interested in his
religion. After studying books about Islam, I started working in the Local Islamic center
so as to know Islam still better.
During this I studied Arabic language and read original books of Islam in its own
language. My Arabic skills are so advanced that I can give lectures to my country men in
Arabic. My studies convinced me of the truth of Islam and I accepted islam.
I alter married an Indian Muslim girl FAUZIA and we are happily married now and
spend our spare times in missionary works(abridged).
Story # 38
EMILLY B. ASSAMI
As I read the book “Origin of Species” by Charles Darwin, it seemed that the book
separated men of science from men of religion. It made Biblical version of creation
outdated. My father did not believe in God and considered Old Testament as book of
fairy tales. We have no records, except a few remnants of early scriptures, the meaning
gone, their wisdom lost thru countless years and numerous translation.
In school we had period of comparative religion, my teacher was so biased against Islam
that he always talked ill about it. He lectured us on Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism and
Islam. He would always picture Islam as a decline from the peak of Christian teachings
into a collection of rituals which led to the stagnation of Muslim people.
Singling out Prophet of Islam, he would say that he was an imposter who deceived his
people and led them into wars.
Somehow I could not digest all this negative talk about Islam, I wanted to know more
about the religion of Islam, about prophet Mohammad and what he said about God.
I got so irritated from the one sided criticism of my teacher that I wanted to leave the
subject altogether, I asked my father, if there was a way, I could study about Islam and
know its real teachings. He asked me to search in school library a book on Prophet
Mohammad written by a muslim writer. I tried but I could only fid books written on
Prophet Mohammad by Western writers and no one by any Muslim writer.
Finally I was able to find a Muslim who gave me Translation of Quran in English by a
Muslim and also the biography of prophet Mohammad written by a Muslim writer.
I started to read the translation of Quran from the very beginning. I found there were
many things I did not understand, but others impressed me. So I decided to continue
reading , as I was unable to sleep any way. I continued reading as his my heart was not in
it, and suddenly before me were these words “And give glad tidings to the patient, who
say when misfortune strikes, to God we belong and to Him is our return” (2: ) . I felt
better immediately.
My studies convinced me of the truth of Islam and the link it had with Old Testament and
Jesus. Now I could find why Western Writers were so against Islam and its prophet. It
was their fear of Islam and its teachings that caused all this negative propaganda.
From then to come into fold of Islam was a logical and simple step for me.
(Abridged)
Story # 39
Selma A. Cook , An Australian Missionary’s Journey to Allah

For many years I lived alone, isolated in a world of fear and unrest. Some happy
childhood memories, times of love and joy were always covered by a cloud of
uncertainty; a feeling of being lost but not knowing where my real place was. ..In my
isolation, I sought help and comfort in the One Who had created me; I had no doubt that
there exists a Creator and Sustainer of all things. I knew this as clearly and as surely as I
know the sun rises and sets, the movement of the tides, the echo of a thunder storm and
the delicate beauty of a spider’s web. No! This world was no accident! As sure as an
explosion in a paint factory could never produce an encyclopedia, I always knew this
world has a Designer – the Source of all peace.
At sixteen years of age, I prayed as I had always done, knowing that He is so Powerful
and All-Encompassing that there was no need to pray in the name of Jesus (peace be
upon him). I forced myself to throw off the shackles of Christianity and dependence
upon Jesus as a medium between my Creator and myself. I felt a surge of peace and
inner quietness.
I always felt close to God and prayer was a way of life for me. Deep in my mind, for I
could never voice any doubts, I had some misgivings about what I’d been taught about
Jesus (peace be upon him): some things didn’t make sense to me, but as a missionary I
felt I was calling to God, not to a particular church. I could recognize a harmony and
structure in all the nature around me, yet I found an absence of order wherever I looked
around people.
I learned to love Jesus as a messenger of God but it seemed strange to me, that God
would require a sacrifice in order to forgive us. I believed that God was above having
any need. I felt I could communicate with Him as I was, without the necessity of an
intermediary because, again, God didn’t need any help to hear what I said.
I met my neighbors who were Muslims. I thought I would do some missionary work. I
always like to remind people about the Creator, goodness, and the existence of truth.
What little I knew about Muslims and Islam was colored by the Christian-Judaic
doctrine in which I’d been raised. I was taught that Muslims did not believe in Jesus
(peace be upon him), that they were ignorant heathens who deserved to be usurped from
the land of Palestine. How ignorant I was!
They listened to me patiently, and then I too listened to them. They did not try to
explain any complicated issues, they just read to me from the Qur’an. First they read in
Arabic, then in English. It was the chapter of Maryam (Mary). I listened in silence. The
sound was so tranquil – something independent from the reader, something that
contained the ability to touch hearts, remove the obstacles we place in front of
ourselves, and redirect us towards light, guidance, and that constantly elusive element of
life called happiness. I cried. I could not find words to explain my tears and all I could
say was, “It’s beautiful.”..
I learned that prayer is strictly between the individual and God, and that each person is
held responsible for the actions they have sent forward. No one can bear the sins of
another, not even a parent, child, or friend. Thus Jesus (peace be upon him), is loved and
revered as a Prophet and Messenger of Allah; for his righteousness and closeness to
Allah. I learnt that Muslims believe that Jesus (peace be upon him) will come again to
the earth and that all the confusion about his origin and role will be wiped away.
I knew deep within myself that I had reached the place of light that I had sought for so
many years. I was twenty-two years old. I had been a missionary since I was seventeen.
In my heart, I left the church the moment I heard the Qur’an. But I decided to go to the
church one more time to publicly announce in the monthly “testimony meeting” the
following Sunday that my life had taken a new direction and I wouldn’t be seeing them
again, but that I was glad to have known them and wished them all well.
My leaving the church caused something of an uproar in my family and community.
Deep down I knew I was alone in life. Family and friends could come close to us but no
one really knows us or can help us except Allah. Indeed, we are born alone, will die
alone and will stand for judgment alone. I had always felt alone. I was right.
The loud and often hostile reaction of people is easy to confront when one remains in a
state of reliance upon Allah, the Almighty. I considered myself a Muslim but had a long
way to go, much to change and much to understand. I felt like a young child who had
just taken her first steps. I knew with conviction that Allah was the One to whom I’d
always prayed but it wasn’t until that time that I knew His name and reality. I spent the
next five years rediscovering my life.
*This story is based upon excerpts from “The Miracles of My Life” by Selma A. Cook.
It has been reproduced with the permission and assistance of the author.
Story # 40
The Case of: DR. PROMOD KESWANI (QASIM RASOOL), GAUHATI, INDIA
01. I was born on 17th Jan 1974 in a KAYASTH family of Gauhati. My father; name is
HANS RAJ KESWANI, he was a lecturer of Science.
I did my education in English medium school in Gauhati, I did my B. Sc in Computer

Science. Then I did my M .Sc from Delhi and P. HD from New York. Now I am
employed in an American Software Company as its Head in GURGAON near Delhi.
02. My elder Brother Dr. VINOD KESWANI is a very good surgeon and he is settled in
NY.
In our family Urdu is given a high regard, We were a religious family while we lived in
Gauhati, but after coming to Delhi and then In NY, the society was least interested in
Islam.
03. I was living in NY when 9/11 incident happened and after that every Muslim living in
USA was viewed with suspicion. I took my nephew to a park and he saw a Muslim with
beard, He came running to me and said “That Uncle is Osama”!
04. I went to USA for company Job and on returning back came via Dubai. I boarded
Dubai Delhi flight. The seat next to me was vacant, just before plane was to move, One
bearded Muslim (who was no other than Maulana Kalim) came and sat next to me.
05. When the plane took off, we introduced each other, and I said to Maulana that my
name was Osama.. He asked me if Osama was my real name. Then I told him the
incident with my nephew the other day (later Maulana told me, that I decided that after
three hours, my name will become Osama).
I told Maulana that I was very interest to meet some religious scholar, so we can discuss
religion with him.
06. Maulana told me about the Creator and how He created every thing in this universe ..
I said that this is Computer age and now every argument has to be verified thru logic and
reason.
Maulana told me, that I am a Doctor in Computer Science, but my knowledge is less than
that of a old women who used to run spin wheel and make cotton.
07. When some one asked her, how she knew that there is a Creator in the Universe, she
told that her spinning wheel gave her the answer. The wheel stays motion less until I
move it, it moves fast or slow, as I wish it and if any one interferes while I am spinning
the wheel the thread will break.
So when a small wheel cannot run unless it is in full control of ONE person, how come
this whole Universe is running without a Single Supreme Power.
08. I got convinced with his logic… but I told that there are so many religions and so
many books, which one I should accept… He told me that God has given us intelligence
and using that intelligence one would be able to recognize which is the true path and
which is the true religion.
09. We kept on talking…untill Maulana asked me to read the Islamic Creed as this is the
only way to save me from hell fire…. I asked him to give me some time…but he said,
one does not know when one will die. So I should not delay.
So I accepted Islam in the Plane on the hands of Maulana and he gave me name Mohd.
Qasim, saying that Qasim was one of the names of Our prophet.
10. After a few days, Maulana phoned me and asked that I said in the plane that my
name was Osama, and he had also decided to name me Osama… Will I change my name
to Osama now.
I said that I am happy with my new name as it was a title of our prophet… he hung up the
phone.
11. I could not do much DAWAH activity. I wanted to talk to my brother about Islam.
But he told me that he was much impressed by the actions of one of Muslim Nurse
working under him.
He accepted Islam and married her as a second Wife. His first wife got very angry and
wanted to come back to India, but when she met that Muslim Nurse, she was also
impressed and she also became Muslim
I live in GURGAON and I am trying to read Quran and do my prayers correctly.
12. They should realize that Islam is the truth and they should spread the truth to every
one,. If Maulana Kalim had not spoken about Islam to me, I would still be wandering
here and there.
Source: Monthly ARMAGHAN of March 2005

Story # 41
Hadji LORD AL-FÂRÛQ HEADLEY (G.B.)
Lord Headley possessed the title of Excellency. Sir George Allanson was born in
1855 and descended from the oldest British family. He occupied very important
Political positions in Britain, and at the same time made fame as an editor. He
graduated from Cambridge University. In 1877 he won the title of Lord. He served
as a lieutenant colonel in the British army. He was an engineer by vocation, but a
powerful writer by avocation.
Lord Headley became a Muslim in 1913, performed Haj (the Islamic pilgrimage),
and adopted the name Shaikh Rahmatullah Fârûq.
Why did I become a Muslim? Perhaps, some of my friends and acquaintances are of the
opinion that I became a Muslim as a result of persuasion on the part of my friends and
acquaintances. But it is not the fact. My accepting Islam was the result of long-time
research and contemplation….
The Qur'an commands that a person should accept

Islam after his heart’s full confirmation, and rejects a conversion under coercion….
During my former life-time, I had seen many bigoted Protestants. They would go to
Catholic student hostels and try to force the Catholic students. These unwanted efforts
and coercive attempts would cause various fights, offenses and controversies and would
sow discord among people.
The same meaningless methods Christian missionaries used with Muslims. They ran all
sorts of risks for the purpose of Christianizing Muslims. …
Christianity has been defiled, to the extent that the real Nazarene religion communicated
by Jesus has been lost completely, and the tenets of humanity he preached have been
forgotten. These things exist in Islam today.
Then, by becoming a Muslim, I have also attained the Nazarene religion in its pristine
purity. Principles commanded by Jesus, such as brotherhood, solidarity, good will,
generosity and others, are observed not by Christians, but by Muslims today. …
Today, nothing could be as logical as a sane person believes in the existence of one
Allah. By becoming a Muslim, I believe in one real Allah and reject all the fibs that were
inserted into the pure religion of Jesus afterwards.
… Day by day Christians are abandoning their religion and becoming atheists. For
today’s Christianity is no longer satisfactory for a normal and cultured person.
People refuse a blind belief in superstitions and entertain doubts about the Christian
creeds. On the other hand, all through my life-time so far, I have never heard of a Muslim
feeling doubts about his faith. For the Islamic religion satisfies all the spiritual and
physical needs of human beings in the most perfect and rational manner….
After giving this brief account of why I chose Islam, let me add that by becoming a
Muslim I managed also to become a more true and pure follower of Jesus. I wish to be an
example for other Christians. Choosing Islam will not make them enemies of
Christianity, but, on the contrary, it will teach them the true Christian religion, and it will
raise them to a higher level.
Story # 42
DR. SWAMI SHIVSHAKTI SWAROOP, INDIA
Dr. SWAROOP was a well known Hindu Guru, who accepted Islam on 10 th May 1986
with his wife and daughter. He was educated in Ashram, then graduated and obtained
Master Degree from University of Allahabad, the did his DD from Oxford University.
Pope Paul –VI awarded him the honor of O.F.M. C. AP. He is fluent in more than 12
languages of the world. Vonoba Bhave, the well known Gandhian leader of India,
invited him for lectures in his Ashram in 1981. Here he gives his reasons of accepting
Islam.
I have studied all major religions in the world from their own scriptures, so I know about
basic teachings of these major world religion. While I was in the Ashram of Vinoba
Bhave, Baba DHRAM ADHIKARI posed me a question after my lecture “You have
studied most religions, which one of these you find best?”
I replied without any Hesitation “Islam”. “But it binds you very tightly” was his
observation.
“The one who binds tightly, is really the one which sets you free and the one which
apparently sets you free, really binds you.” I told “On this earth humanity needs a
religion, which binds him tightly not only on this earth, but also in the hereafter and that
religion is only Islam” That was in 1981.
As to why I accepted Islam, I saw a dream in 1984, that a large crowd is trying to lay
hand on me and I am running to save my life. I stumbled and fell on the ground, some
unknown hands picked me up. I looked at my savior, his face was very brilliant and I
could not look at it. Them some one said, He is Mohammad, the messenger of Allah
(PBUH). H eembraced me.
In the morning I found out that my wife also had seen a similar dread. We decided not to
delay our decision any further and I went to Main Mosque in Bhopal and accepted Islam
at the hands of local Imam. Now me, my wife and my daughter arer putting all our efforts
in spreading the truth of Islam to those who are in doubt.
Story # 43
CASIUS (MOHAMMAD ALI) CLAY. USA
The Case of Cassias Clay, the World Heavyweight boxing champion, who became
Muslim and chose Mohammad Ali as his new name, is very well known to every one.
He became a most recognizable face on globe and world of boxing lost some of its
glamour when he retired. The way he was stripped off of his title because he
refused to go to Vietnam is also known to most people. US Govt. and many sporting
bodies behaved in most partisan manner on this issue. If he would not have become
Muslim, most probably he would have been exempted from the Military Duty, but
his Islamic name and open refusal to go to Vietnam on religious grounds turned
whole media against him. We present below some insights into his life.
Cassias Marcellus Clay was born in 1942 in Louse-vile Kentucky. His father was a sign
board painter. His family belonged to Catholic faith and were respected for their
manners. Cassias was interested in Boxing since very early age. By the age of 14, he was
champions in the High School Boxing.
In 1958, at the age of 16, he won Golden Glove title in his state and next year he won
Golden Glove Title in heavy weight division of Chicago and on that basis he was selected
to represent USA in 1960 Olympics at Rome. He won Gold Medal for USA in Heavy
Weight Division.
High from his Olympic Old, he happened to enter a Restaurant reserved for Whites only,
when the proprietor objected to this, he informed that he just won Olympic Gold Medal
for USA in Rome. But he was turned out from that restaurant. This made a lasting
impression of his mind and he threw his Olympic medal in river (He was awarded a
special medal in 2000 Olympics to replace the one he had dropped into river).
He turned professional boxer and started his climb towards the World Champion. His
quick repartee and his manners soon attracted whole world’s attention. He would predict
the fall of his opponents in particular rounds, which would be accomplished.
He was billed to fight for World Title with Sony Listen on 25th Feb. 1964. By that time
he was already accepted Islam at the hands of Malcom-X, but the conversion was kept
secret. It was thought that otherwise he would be denied the title shot.
He won the World Boxing Championship by defeating Listen and same night shocked the
whole world by Declaring that he is a Muslim and his name is Mohammad Ali.
The media turned against him on the basis of his conversion and would always root for
his opponents than for him. But he was always on the winning track. He won the return
fight with Listen on 25 May 1965 in mere 1 minute 42 seconds of the First Round!!!
That was amazing by any standards.
He then defeated Floyd Peterson, Earney Terrel, Henry Cooper, C. Williams and others
but he was always the winner.
Mohammad Ali refused to go to join US army and go to Vietnam, because his religion
does not allow killing unarmed innocent people. He was stripped off his title and was
even sent to prison which showed the biased attitude of agencies and media.
He was released from prison on 20 the June 1970 and on March 71, was to fight with Joe
Frazier to win back his title. But Ali lost that bout first time in his career. He later won
back his World Title when he beat George Foreman in 1974. He lost his title to Leon
Sinx but later defeated him to win the World title for unprecedented third time. He
announced his retirement.
His dedication to Islam and Islamic cause is very strong. He is a devout practicing
Muslim. He is loved by millions and millions of Muslims world over. They all treat him
as his brother, and wherever he goes, he is awarded grand welcome.
But he is suffering from Alzheimer’ syndrome for many years, which has blurred his
speech and reactions. (abridged)
Story # 44
Dr. Yahya A.R. Lehmann, Doctor of Theology, (Former Roman Catholic Priest Germany)
ALLAHU AKBAR, there is no God but Allah and Muhammad is His Messenger. I
hear this call to worship the one God alone for the first time in my life from the minaret
of the Al-Aqsa Mosque standing in the ancient temple square of Jerusalem. I had arrived
in this city, sacred to Jews, Christians and Muslims alike, for the Easter pilgrimage, as a
research fellow for special studies in the then recently discovered and deciphered Dead
Sea Scrolls. I had spent most of the night hours after the Christian Good Friday
celebrations praying and meditating in the Church of the Holy Sepulcre, and had
witnessed the busy bickering of priests and clergymen of differing Christian Church-
denominations about precedence into the somber grave-chamber of Christ and about
entrance-fees there payable by their respective flocks.
Surprising Encounter
After passing the gloomy Wailing Wall, old darkened stones, last relics of the former
Herodean Temple, dear to the Jews during the long centuries of their dispersion under
alien suppression, I slowly climbed up to the Holy Temple-Rock and its sacred precincts
just before dawn. There I could observe groups of Palestinian Arabs freely responding to
this early Adzan-call for morning worship, and I soon heard the solemn Arabic prayer-
recitations of this devout congregation. The surprising encounter with this praying
community of the greatest monotheistic world religion surrendering themselves to the
one God and Creator in faithful worship was a deeply stirring experience.
A Deep Spiritual Experience.
Of a sudden the morning-sun rose over the Mount of Olives casting a radiant glow of
brightness over the magnificent golden Dome of the Rock. It struck a new chord in my
heart; it was like a symbol of new light and insight ahead, and of still undiscovered
realms of religious truth and spiritual experience. The deep impression of this moment
has never since left me; it did encourage me during the difficult research-task for my
doctorate thesis on the Essenic influences in early Christianity and the canonical New
Testamental Writings; it guided me throughout my later work as priest and educationist
here in Malaysia.
Allah the Greatest
Allahu Akbar, God alone is the greatest, even greater than the triune deity as professed by
Christian dogma, in which I had been raised from childhood and which in later years of
ecclesiastical studies I have been specially trained to proclaim, as a priestly member of a
Roman Catholic Missionary Order.
A New Religious Message
The public declaration of the monotheistic faith of Islam from the minaret above the
Jerusalem Temple sounded to me like a new religious message of great challenging force.
Several years of post-graduate studies in the field of Comparative Religion and special
research of the Essenic Movement during the time of Jesus and its impact on the
development of early Christianity, have led me convincingly into the radiant light and
truth of Islam, bringing me closer to the original message of Jesus, the god sent man and
prophet of Nazareth who called his followers back onto the right religious way of the
Jewish prophets and patriarchs of old, like Abraham, surrendering themselves to the one
and only God, Allah, Creator of all, and striving to establish in word and action real
human brotherhood among their people.
The Living Islamic Truth
I consider myself extremely fortunate to have been sent later by my religious superiors to
Malaysia, where I could study and experience more thoroughly the all-comprehensive
living truth of Islam as revealed to the last and greatest of Allah's messengers, the
Prophet Muhammad (s.a.w.)
By officially embracing Islam as the best fulfillment of the genuine Christian faith in the
original Good Message (Gospel) of Jesus, foretelling Allah's last universal Revelation
through His greatest Messenger Muhammad in the divine Word of the Holy Quran, I had
to repay my heavy spiritual debt to the many Muslim friends of mine in this country, who
encouraged me by their word and example to choose for myself the Islamic Truth as the
most positive directive force to a fuller individual life in submission to Allah's guidance
as well as towards the unification of mankind in fraternal fellowship and peace.
Story # 45
The Case of: SHALINI DEVI (KHAIR UL NISAA) THANA BHAWAN, INDIA
01. I was born in THANA BHAWAN which is a village in SHARANPUR. My father’s

name is BALI SINGH. I was married to KIRPAL SINGH of PANIPAT HARYANA.
I had five children with my marriage.
02. Since my childhood, I did not like the idol worship. I used to look at the beauties of
Flowers, fruits, sun and moon and used to wonder, How beautiful would be the one who
created such beautiful things.
Muslim traders used to come to our village to sell their merchandise. They would talk
about worshipping one True God and the life history of Prophet Mohammad (Peace be on
him).
03. Myself and my children used to listen to these stories and they would impress so. So
much so that my children started asking me, how good it would have been if we were
Muslims.
After some months I decided to accept Islam and went to GANGOAH with my children
and we accepted Islam there.
04. My husband and there household were powerful landlords in the village. First they
tried to convince me to leave Islam and come back to them, but when I refused, they
started beating me.. I suffered a lot at their hands…and one day I said to them, I will die
but I will never leave Islam.
Then they took away my children and started beating them, one of my husband’s brother
took out a knife to kill my children, but my elder son tried to take the knife away from his
hand, in altercation, the knife cut the stomach of my brother in law and he died…
05. Police came and arrested my boy, he said that he was innocent….and the knife hurt
him by mistake… but they took him and lodged him in the Jail…. Every one in the
village started taunting me saying I will never see my boy again.
I used to pray to Allah whole nights and ask for the safety and release of my son.. after a
few days, my son got bail and I sent him out along with a Muslim missionary group.
06. I used to weep for my other four children also and used to pray to Allah. My in-laws
and my husband tried many times to kill my children but Allah saved them every time…
I prayed to Allah to send my children back to me as He had done for Mother of Moses…
Allah heard my prayer and all my children came back to me one day
07. All my children are Muslims, my two daughters got married. They wear full Muslim
Hijab and are very happy in their new houses.
In fact seeing them doing full Islamic Hijab, many women in their in-laws have also
started wearing Islam.
08. I think that Islamic Hijab is a protection for Muslim women, when I was not wearing
it, I used to be the target of hungry gazes of every one and I used to KNOW what is the
hidden intention of those looking at me.
09. I have full faith in My Allah and I feel confident that He will grant me, whatever I
will ask from Him. I have seen His help and grace at too many points in my life already.
I want to memorize whole Quran…and I want both of my boys to become the Missionary
for Islam. That is the best course for them.
I want every one to pray for me that I am able to fulfill my goals.
Source: Monthly ARMAGHAN of June 2003

Story # 46
ABDULLAH ARCHIBALD HAMILTON (G.B.)
Sir Archibald Hamilton, a well-known British diplomat, served as a naval officer

during the First World War. Coming from a widely known family, he possesses the
title of baronet, (which means a candidate baron). He was honoured with becoming
a Muslim in 1923.
Since reaching the age of puberty, I had been allured by Islam’s simplicity and crystalline
limpidity. I had been born as a Christian and I had been given a Christian education. Yet I
had never believed in wrong creedal tenets, and I had always preferred truth, right and
reason to blind beliefs.
I had been aspiring to worship one Allah sincerely and with a peaceful heart. Yet, both
the Roman Catholic Church and the English Protestant Church had been short of serving
this pure intention of mine.
It was for these reasons that I answered the call of my conscience and accepted Islam,
which satisfied me fully, and only after that did I begin to feel myself as a true and better
born slave of Allah.
Sad to say, various Christians and ignorant people have misrepresented Islam as a
religion of falsities and concoctions that are intended to induce torpor into humanity. But
the fact is that it is the only true religion in the sight of God.
Islam is a perfect religion which brings about unity between the powerful and the weak as
well as between the rich and the poor….. It commands the rich to help the poor. It
provides a social setting where humiliations and afflictions are extirpated….
The Islamic religion is not destructive, but it is restorative. The Islamic religion prohibits
gambling and all the other vicious and deleterious games. The Islamic religion prohibits
also all sorts of intoxicants. Indeed, the majority of afflictions people suffer in the world
are caused by gambling or alcohol.
We Muslims are not people who hold the belief that everything is a slave in the hands of
destiny. Destiny in the Islamic sense does not mean to sit idly with your mouth opened in
the celestial direction and to expect that Allah will give you everything. On the contrary,
Allah enjoins work in the Qur'an. Man should do his best and hold fast to all the apparent
causes; only after that will he put his trust in Allah. Not without working, but while
working, should he beg Allah to help him for success and earning. ..
Islam never accepts a credo based on the belief that human beings are originally sinful,
that they are born with sins, or that they have to expiate their sins throughout their lives.
Islam states that human beings are the born slaves of God, men and women alike, and
that with respect to mental and moral qualities the two sexes are not very different from
each other. Only, because men are more powerful and stronger by creation, onerous and
tiresome duties such as supporting the family have been given to them, while women
have been blessed with a more comfortable, more cheerful and happier life…
A final remark I would like to add is this: Islam invites people both to work honestly all
day long and to carry on his acts of worship, his duties as a born slave to Allah. Today’s
Christianity, on the other hand, induces into people a life style consisting in Masses in the
name of worship only on Sundays and a complete oblivion of God covered with worldly
occupations and sins throughout the rest of the week.
It was for these reasons that I became a Muslim, and I am proud of having become a
Muslim. (Abridged)
Story # 47
DAVID IMRAN, EGYPT
Mr. David is a Jewish Scholar based in Egypt. He did not accept Islam, but nevertheless,
he has expressed his gratitude to Islam in following words.
Even though I am still a Jews, I respect Islam with all my heart, because I have seen in
Islam qualities, which can hardly be found in any other religion.
First of this is that it has always been the protector of weak and oppressed people since its
inception. It directs its followers to help those in need irrespective of their religious
backgrounds.
Every one knows that before Islam, a large portion of world population was living as
slaves. Power was concentrated in the hands of a few powerful people, who used to treat
others worse than animals. It was Islam, which help these downtrodden people and
raised them to the level of humanity.
Every one knows how Christians used to treat Jews in their countries. Jews had no civil
rights, their lives, property and honor were not safe. It was Islam which changed the
status of Jews.
Islam based its teaching on Unity of Godhood, but it was more than that, it meant the
unity of human brotherhood. All humans came from Adam and Eve, so there was no
superiority per see of any nation over other. All religions before Islam distinguished
between humans based on their religious background. They used to persecute followers
of other religions. It was Islam which united all human based on concept of human
unity….
Islam grew very fast in the world. The people who benefited most from Islamic
conquests were Jews, who were freed from the persecution of Christians.
We think 20th century as the century when Democratic values were supreme, but even in
this 20th Century, Jews were persecuted in Russia, Germany, France and almost all
European nations. It was only in Islamic countries that Jews lived with peace and
tranquility…
It pains me to see that same Jews are treating Muslims so badly in Palestine, they have
forgotten favors which they received from Muslims over the centuries…(abridged)
Story # 48
CLARA WILLAIMS, MUSWELL HILL , LONDON, U.K.
As Christians we are taught to believe that we are born in sin and can only be saved by
the cleansing blood of Jesus Christ. It is for this reason tat we are Baptised and later of
confirmed. I tried hard to believe all this but my commonsense refused.
It was all childish and seemed an excuse to do as one liked and wiggle out of the
consequences, the coward’s way in fact.
I could not believe that the babies I saw were sinful and again I found that most of so
called sins were just a breaking of community laws and nor God’s laws at all.
It was a great relief to find that under the teachings of Quran nothing in itself is right or
wrong but only the use and abuse of it.
Secondly although the muslim prayers puzzled me at first, yet when I began to study
them I realized they were all praise or very nearly so. They sing nothing but God’s
mercy and greatness and I am sure that their constant recitation must foster a desire to be
more godlike in our daily lives.
This contrasts with the Christian prayers, which is constant whine to be saved from the
results of one’s misdeeds or for things we think we need.
Christians are taught God is a ‘kind father’ who is always listening to our prayers, ready
to grant all we wish, if only we ask long and loud enough. I for one, always asked for all
I wanted and I have had my prayers answered only to find I would have been happier had
I left myself in God’s hands. For my vision was short..
Every day I am learning to love the simplicity and justice of Islam and the wisdom of
Holy Quran. I therefore accepted Islam on 21 June 1940 and declared “I hereby solemnly
declare of my own free will that I worship one and only Allah alone, that I believe
Mohammad to be His Messenger and servant. That I equally respect all prophets,
Abraham, Moses, Jesus and others and that I will live a Muslim life with the help of
Allah”
(Abridged) Source:: The Islamic Review Vol. 28, Nov. 1940 p401
Story # 49
Hamza Yusuf (Mark Hanson)
Hamza Yusuf started life as Mark Hanson in Walla Walla, Washington, USA. The son of
two US academics of a Catholic and Greek Orthodox background, he seemed destined
not for Islamic scholarship, but for Greek Orthodox priesthood until a near-death
experience in a car accident, and reading the Quran, diverted his attentions towards Islam.
It was this sudden confrontation with his own mortality that Yusuf has described as being
the defining moment that gave " someone who was introspective, perspective." Although,
numerous factors interplay in any individual's conversion, it was this vista in particular,
that opened up a path of enquiry and reflection that ultimately led to his conversion to
Islam in 1977, a few months before his 18th birthday. His brush with death had sparked
an intrigue into the afterlife, causing him to study various traditions' views on death.
Islam, he found, offered the most detailed account of all.
Furthermore, he found that many of his own values only served to harmonise with
Islamic belief. His father, a Humanities Professor and his mother a Berkeley graduate,
were fairly active in the civil rights movements enabling a strong awareness of social
struggle and justice in the young Mark. "As a westerner, the child of civil rights and anti-
war activists, I embraced Islam not in abandonment of my core values, drawn almost
entirely from the progressive tradition, but as an affirmation of them."
Simultaneously, the arguments put forward in the Quran drew parallels with many of his
own musings. From a young age, he was very much aware of being a product of his
environment. The Quran prompted reflection on his perception of life, reality, and
religion. Just as his parents were Christian, he had been raised as one, yet the Quran
offers many parables of those following the religion of their forefathers without question.
The Quran prompted him to look beyond what many take for granted.
After his conversion he left for England where he embarked on private study which was
to instill a desire to learn the tradition from its source. It was during this time, in which he
was beginning to learn Arabic, that he met Sheikh Abdullah Ali Mahmood of Sharjah
who was in England at the time. This meeting was to prove pivotal in Yusuf's life
providing him the opportunity to further his studies in the United Arab Emirates.
Yusuf spent some four years in the UAE, where he became a Muadhin (caller to Prayer)
and Imam at a local mosque. It was also during this time that he met various West
African scholars who kindled an interest in studying traditional Islam as is still being
taught in West Africa today. These scholars did much in the way of his personal tuition
before his aspirations of studying in West Africa were finally realised.
His journey of reflection, prompted by a fateful car accident, took him to many parts of
the Middle East over a ten-year period where he received numerous teaching licenses, or
ijazas, from the some of the greatest remaining scholars of traditional Islam. Having
travelled to the UAE, Madinah, Algeria, Morocco, and West Africa he eventually
returned to the US where he took degrees in nursing and religious studies from Imperial
Valley College and San Jose State University, respectively.
Story # 50
The Case of: RAMESH SAIN (MOHSIN) GWALIOR, MP , INDIA
01. I belong to a trading family from GWALIOR. I was born on 19 April 1962. My
father ran a Whole sale business, he saw ,many ups and downs in his business, but he was
a very strong and resolute man and surmounted these difficulties.
02. I have two younger brothers and one sister. After Intermediate I did B. Pharma and I
opened my own medical store. I married to well educated girl from Jhansi, who war
working as a lecturer. After some time, my wife got transfer to GWALIOR and that was
very good for me. I have two sons and one daughter.
03. I had a neighbor named SAEED Ahmad, who was doing the business of Spare Parts.
He was a very religious and very good man. We developed a friendship so much so that
we usually exchanged gifts with each other.
His wife was from Bhopal, once there was a marriage in Bhopal and my friend insisted
on my going there. When I reached Bhopal, my friend took me to meet Maulana Kalim
Uddin, who was present in Bhopal for his other works.
04. He asked me that we are children of one parents, so are like a brother unto each other.
And as a brother it is my duty to save you from any danger that comes to you.
Then he told me that there is only one Creator of this universe and only He should be
worshipped…. Those who worship other than Him are like rebels in any country. No
Govt. gives any regards to their good deeds and they are punished whenever they are
caught…. The same is the case with Creator and His Creation on the hereafter.
05. He went on explaining principles of Islam to me and in the end asked me to say
Islamic creed and save myself from the hell fire.
I decided to accept Islam then and there and after I had said my faith, he congratulated
me and said that now I have to read about Islam and learn the regular prayers etc.
He did not ask me to change my name,, but after I had studied Islam properly, I picked up
this name.
06. When I reached Gwalior and told my wife and asker her to become Muslim…. She
got very angry contrary to my expectations. I was forced to apologize to my family
members and said that I renounce my conversion to Islam.
But when I was alone, my conscience started pricking me, for my cowardice. After few
days, I got firm and told my wife and family members that I have become muslim and
now nothing can turn me back.
They tried to harass me by every means including implicating me in false cases. I left my
town and moved to Delhi and later Rajasthan.
07. It was help and support from Maulana Sahib and other Muslim friends which kept me
firm and surmount so many hurdles that were before me. This and Mercy and Grace of
Allah, helped me preserve my faith.
08. Later my wife also got convinced of truth of Islam and she and all three of my
children accepted Islam.
We are living once more as a happy family and I am very thankful to Allah for that.
09. I have started working on one of my cousin, who is employed at some high position
in Delhi. I have given some books to him about Islam and praying Allah to give him
guidance.
I am hopeful that if he becomes Muslim, doors will open for other members of my
family, Inshallah.
10. I have learned to recite Quran as well as Urdu language. I like to read Quran as much
as possible, myself and all members of my family are very much attached to Quran.
11. Islam is the true religion which is tuned to the human nature. Muslims should convey
their message to other people.
There are lots and lots of thirsty people outside, who are in need of truth of Islam.
Muslims should not be over concerned with Anti Islamic propaganda and should work
full time in this work
Source: Monthly ARMAGHAN of July 2009

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Preface:

In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.

Conversion to Islam is al related to brain as it is to the heart. A muslim missionary must

Why We Became Muslims:

The Case of: GANGA RAM CHOPRA (ABDULLAH), ROHTAK, India

B. How and Why I accepted Islam:

C: What was reaction of spouse , parents, family and society:

D. How I saved my Islam:

3. On Family members / Others.

G. My advice to Muslims / Non Muslims.

(Translated from Vernacular Urdu and abridged)

Source: Monthly ARMAGHAN of April 2005

Why be became Muslims?

MUHAMMAD JOHN WEBSTER (G.B.)

Christianity left people entirely to themselves, and confined their worships to

Why I became Muslim?

D.T.F. WUWING (ABDUL HAQ), UK

Why I Became Muslim?

I was brought up in a Western society wanting to be attractive, then vanity started to

(Abridged) Source:: Saudi gazette, April 12 1996, p7

Prof. Abdul Ahad Dawud (Former Bishop of Uramiah)

Formerly the Reverend David Benjamin Keldani, B.D.

Why We Became Muslims:

The Case of: IRAM FROM BIJAPUR / MEERUT, India

06. On the festival of RAKSHA BANDHAN (a Local Hindu festival) he asked me to go

B. How and Why I accepted Islam:

C: What was reaction of spouse , parents, family and society:

G. My advice to Muslims / Non Muslims.

(Translated from Vernacular Urdu and abridged)

Source: Monthly ARMAGHAN of July 2004

Why be became Muslims?

LADY ZAYNAB EVELYN COMBOLD (G.B.)

I am frequently asked why I became a Muslim. I am the daughter of a renowned family,

Why I became Muslim?

GEORGE ASHQUON, VIRGINIA USA

George is a direct descendant of George Washington, First President of USA. He

Why I Became Muslim?

Abdullah al-Faruq - Formerly Kenneth L. Jenkins, Minister and elder of the

Every Sunday we would go to church dressed in all of our finery.

Why We Became Muslims:

The Case of: SHAHNAZ, JAMMU, India

B. How and Why I accepted Islam:

C: What was reaction of spouse , parents, family and society:

D. How I saved my Islam:

G. My advice to Muslims / Non Muslims.

(Translated from Vernacular Urdu and abridged)

Source: Monthly ARMAGHAN of Dec 2004

Why be became Muslims?

Mrs. MAVISH B. JOLLY (G.B.)

Consequently, I began to study other religions. I began with Buddhism…. Magianism...

One day I saw an ad in a newspaper. It announced a “Conference on the divinity of

Why I became Muslim?

JAMES (ABDULLAH), PAKISTAN

Why I became Muslim?

OMAR FAROOQ ABDULLAH, USA

My father was a teacher by profession. He had done Doctorate in Chemistry and

Why I Became Muslim?

Cardinal Abu Ishaq Coptic Cardinal

Note: The following is a translation from Arabic, of an audio lecture delivered by a

Whenever we used to go to church they used to remind us to be careful and wary of

When I reached Alexandria the Cardinal in charge received me in a very pleasant

Peace Be Upon You All. (Abridged)

Why We Became Muslims: