*Source: Why I embraced Islam?, http://www.islamicbulletin.org


Khalid[Arthur] Millasantos*


Held the third position in the compound of the churches of Asia


(Before Islam, I worshiped me.......After Islam, I became the servant of God.)


A professor who had a Ph.D. in Theology. In 1983, during the course of his Evangelize work, he


decided to read the Qur'an to be able to answer Muslims, and asked a Muslim friend to lend him the


Qur'an. The Muslim accepted on condition of peforming wodoo[ablution] before each recieting.


That was his first experience with the Qur'an: 'I felt a fierce internal struggle, there was a voice


calling me and urging me to embrace this religion that makes man's relationship with his Lord


direct with no need to mediation by a priest, or indulgences for forgiveness.'


So one day he performed ablution and grabbed the Qur'an and read: “Then do they not reflect upon


the Qur'an, or are there locks upon [their] hearts?" (Holy Qur’an, 47:24)


Upon reading this, he felt a shiver! Then he read:"This day I have perfected for you your religion


and completed My favor upon you and have approved for you Islam as religion." (Holy Qur’an,


5:3)


He says:'It was then that peace came to my distracted Spirit, and I felt like a new-born.'


That night, he couldn't bear to wait till sunrise, to go to his Muslim friend and embrace Islam. And to


the confusion and astonishment of the Muslim man, Arthur pronounced Shahada [testimony].


*Source: (Lem aslam hawla alajanib, By: Mohamed Osman)


Yusuf Estes*


Former Christian, & Federal Prison Chaplain


(Only by His Mercy were we all guided to see the real truth of Islam, by removing the coverings


over our ears and the blinders on our eyes, no longer having seals over our hearts - He was


Guiding us now.)


(I consider that I have not left the teachings of Jesus Christ, peace be upon him. On the contrary,


I feel much closer to Jesus, peace be upon him, and I look forward to His return on earth more


than ever before.


Now I am worshiping the same God he worships and I serve the same Lord he serves )


He was born in Ohio, raised and educated in Texas and was a successful marketing entrepreneur and


preacher of Christianity. He grew up in a religious home, no drink alcohol, no gamble expect Bingo at


the church. Religion was a real part of their lives. His father was an ordained minister, who believed


that: 'The Bible is the Inspired Word of Man FROM GOD.'


Yusuf accepted the Lord and considered himself a true Christian, but could not resolve the idea of


'Trinity'. So he searched for 'God' elsewhere:'I checked out Buddhism, Hinduism, metaphysics,


Taoism, different forms of Christianity and Judaism. The one most attractive to me was a


combination of Gnosticism (Christian mysticism) and Cabalism (Jewish mysticism) and


metaphysics. This actually is a form of pantheism (God being throughout His creation) and is


similar to some of the 'Sufi' mystics of today. But this concept in its entirety repulsed me because


I did not want to imagine myself as being a 'part of God.'


He then decided to uphold the Commandments according to the Old Testament.'It seemed reasonable


to me, that there should only be One God.'


But when he was approaching 50 years old, he decided he wanted to do something for the Lord. So he


joined some evangelists and preachers. They traveled around, giving food, money, assistance to needy,


and at the same time calling to the message of Christianity. It was all fine, except the fact that the


message itself was vague!


'What is the message?!'....'I preached that message myself and thought I understood it as well as


anyone else did. The problem is that one time I heard another preacher say: Don't leave your


brain in the parking lot with your car.....Then it hit me to start thinking about the very serious


problems and real facts about my religion.'


He realized that [they were teaching concepts that are not from the Bible. That there is no word


[Trinity] in the Bible in any version of any language, that Jesus of the English Bible complains about


the [crucifixion] ' My God! Why have You forsaken me?' (Mk 15:34).....would a 'Just' God, a 'Fair'


God, a 'Loving' God -- punish Jesus for the sins of the people that he called to follow him? Can't God


just forgive us and not have to kill Jesus?...Also Jesus DID NOT claim to be God - or even equal to


God!]


His friend told him to read the story of Abraham in the Old Testament. Especially the part of sacrificing


his son for the sake of God, to get the whole concept of 'sacrifice and obedience' to God. But instead he


saw a totally different message there. 'That God did not really want to take the life of an innocent


boy for sins that Abraham committed', Abraham was asked by God to sacrifice his son to test the


loyalty of Abraham. He did not withhold his son from God, so God's angels ordered him to offer a ram


in place of his son. God was pleased with his total submission and as a result, God Blessed him and his


offspring.(Gen. 22:9-18)


'I asked questions and delved into (those kind of stories) the more I would like to facilitate the


truth. Many strange things began to happen. Very strange.'


In 1991, his father started doing business with a Muslim man from Egypt, named 'Mohamed'. Estus


idea about Muslims was horrible, [infidels, hijackers, terrorists] and that [they worship a black box in


the desert!] So the idea came to him to change the man to Christian.


But the man said that 'he was ready to come to my religion if my religion was better than his


religion. But there was a condition, he said he wanted proof. I told him religion is not about


proof. It is about faith'.....'He told me in his religion there was both faith and proof. Strange, I


thought. How could there be any proof about God or religion?'


He invited 'Mohamed' all along with a priest friend to come to live with the family. Where


conversations about 'Beliefs' took place every night, and they came to contact the facts about Islam;


[Qur'an is only in one version, which didn't change over 1400 years, whilst each of the family carried a


different version of the Bible! The Oneness of God in Islam. And the fact that Muslims believed in the


Bible and in Christ as a true messenger of God; and his miracle birth, and that Jesus will be coming


back in the Last Days to lead the believers against the 'Antichrist'.]


That led them all to believe in Islam, the visitor priest was the first to declare the testimony, then Yusuf,


his wife, his father, and his step mother. His children were placed in Muslim school, where they


memorized much of the Qur'an. Then priests friends started to convert in the same year.


'A whole entire household of people from varying backgrounds and ethnic groups coming


together in truth to learn how to know and worship the Creator and Sustainer of the Universe.


Think. A Catholic priest. A minister of music and preacher. An ordained minister and builder of


Christian schools. And they all come into Islam! Only by His Mercy were we all guided to see the


real truth of Islam without any blinders on their eyes any longer.'


'And since my own entrance into Islam and becoming a chaplain to the Muslims throughout the


country and around the world, I have encountered many more individuals who were leaders,


teachers and scholars in other religions who learned about Islam and entered into it. They came


from Hindus, Jews, Catholics, Protestants, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Greek and Russian Orthodox,


Coptic Christians from Egypt, non-denominational churches and even scientists who had been


atheists.'


*Source: www.IslamTomorrow.com


Lady Evelyn Zeinab Cobbold (1867 - 1963)


The first British-born Muslim woman to make the pilgrimage to Mecca.


(It seems that I have always been a Muslim. This is not so strange when one remembers that


Islam is the natural religion that a child**, left to itself, would develop. Indeed as a Western critic


once described it. 'Islam is the religion of common sense.')


The daughter of the 7th Earl of Dunmore, embraced Islam and in April 1933 performed the Pilgrimage


to Mecca at the age of 66. In 1934 she published her book 'Pilgrimage to Mecca' (Murray, London)


'The more I read and the more I studied, the more convinced I became that Islam was the most


practical religion, and the one most calculated to solve the world's many perplexing problems,


and to bring to humanity peace and happiness.'


'Since then I have never wavered in my belief that there is but one God; that Moses, Jesus,


Muhammad and others before (peace be on all of them) were prophets, divinely inspired, that to


every nation God has sent an apostle, that we are not born in sin, and that we do not need any


redemption, that we do not need anyone to intercede between us and God, Whom we can


approach at all times, and that no one can intercede for us, not even Muhammad or Jesus [unless


God permits it -ed.], and that our salvation depends entirely on ourselves and on our actions.'


'The word 'Islam' means surrender to God. It also means peace. A Muslim is one who is 'in


harmony with the decrees of the author of this world', one who has made his peace with God and


His creatures.'


'Islam is based on two fundamental truths: (a) the Oneness of God and (b) the Brotherhood of


Man, and is entirely free from any encumbrances of theological dogma. Above everything else it


is a positive faith.'


'The influence of the Hajj cannot be exaggerated. To be a member of that huge congregation


gathered together from the four corners of the earth, on this sacred occasion and on the sacred


spot, and to join with this mass of humanity, in all humility, in the glorification of God, is to have


one's consciousness impressed by the full significance of the Islamic ideal, is to be privileged to


participate in one of the most soul inspiring experiences that have ever been granted to human


beings.'


*Source: The Light: http://aaiil.org


** This is a sign to the Prophet speech (Every child is born with Fitrah [the instinct that guide to Allah] but then


it's parents divert it to Judaism, Christianity or Magian)


Maryam Jameelah [Margaret Marcus]


Author, Ex-Jew, USA


(What persuaded me that the Quran must be from God and not composed by Muhammad was


its satisfying and convincing answers to all the most important questions of life which I could not


find elsewhere.)


(I traced the beginning of my interest in Islam to the age of ten. While attending a reformed


Jewish Sunday school, I became fascinated with the historical relationship between the Jews and


the Arabs. From my Jewish textbooks, I learned that Abraham was the father of the Arabs as


well as the Jews. I read how centuries later when, in medieval Europe, Christian persecution


made their lives intolerable, the Jews were welcomed in Muslim Spain, and that it was the


magnanimity of this same Arabic Islamic civilization which stimulated Hebrew culture to reach


its highest peak of achievement.)


Born in 1943 in New york, at age of 11 till 15, She attended The Ethical Culture Movement which


regards all traditional, organized religions with scorn. Then at New York University, she studied


'Judaism in Islam'.which was not convincing to her, 'Although his real aim [the professor] was to


prove to his students the superiority of Judaism over Islam, he convinced me diametrically of the


opposite.'..... 'I soon discovered that Zionism was merely a combination of the racist, tribalistic


aspects of Judaism'....'I could no longer consider myself a Jew at heart.'


It was in this class, that she met a Russian Orthodox Jewish student who converted to Islam later after


sever kidney illness experience.


'I was comparing in my mind what I had read in the Old Testament and the Talmud with what


was taught in the Qur'an and Hadith and finding Judaism so defective, I was converted to Islam.'


Her family would argue her not to, until she-herself- had sever illness that made her quit college for


two years under private medical care, steadily growing worse. then in to hospitals, 'where I vowed


that if ever I recovered sufficiently to be discharged, I would embrace Islam.'


'When I embraced Islam, my parents, relatives and their friends regarded me almost as a fanatic,


because I could think and talk of nothing else. To them, religion is a purely private concern which


at the most perhaps could be cultivated like an amateur hobby among other hobbies. But as soon


as I read the Holy Quran, I knew that Islam was no hobby but life itself!'


'My first thought when reading the Holy Quran - this is the only true religion - absolutely sincere,


honest, not allowing cheap compromises or hypocrisy.'


She wrote over thirty books about Islamic culture and history, some of which are [Islam and


Modernism, Westernization and Human Welfare, Three Great Islamic Movements in the Arab World of


the Recent Past, The Generation Gap - Its Causes and Consequences]


'...the Qur'an tells us that those who are guided by no moral considerations other than


expediency or social conformity and crave the freedom to do as they please, no matter how much


worldly success and prosperity they attain or how keenly they are able to relish the short span of


their earthly life, will be doomed as the losers on Judgment Day. Islam teaches us that in order to


devote our exclusive attention to fulfilling our duties to God and to our fellow-beings, we must


abandon all vain and useless activities which distract us from this end.'


*Source: interview with Maryam Jameelah, http://maryam--jameelah.blogspot.com


Dr. Robert D. Crane*


Prominent scholar/activist and expert on international law, economics, international affairs,


and Islamic jurisprudence


(I did not choose to become a Muslim. I am and have always been a Muslim, but did not know it


self-consciously until I was 50 years old.)


(My answer to the one who asks me why I became Muslim is: Islam is the religion of monotheism,


happiness, peace of mind, and dignified living. If I adhere to it and apply its teachings, it is the


religion of Divine Justice.)


(The miracle of the Qur’an is that it has meaning only through the power of our rational intellect.


The more we examine it the more meaning it has. )


He is the former adviser to President Richard Nixon, and is former Deputy Director (for Planning) of


the United States National Security Council. He has authored or co-authored more than a dozen books


and over 50 professional articles on comparative legal systems, global strategy, and information


management.


His Conversion to Islam in Bahrain:


In 1977-78 he spent a year as Principal Economic and Budget Adviser to the Finance Minister in the


Emirate of Bahrain. His conversion to Islam was mainly influenced by the monotheistic and perfect


belief in Allah. 'Allah converted me to Islam when I was five years old, and again through a


religious experience when I was 21, but I did not know there were other persons in the world who


understood what Allah showed me until I met an old man in Bahrain who told me that there is a


word for what I worshiped, and this is "Allah." I figured that all Muslims could not be bad, as I


had thought before, if this man was so good and was an admitted Muslim. I did not choose to


become a Muslim. I am and have always been a Muslim, but did not know it self-consciously until


I was 50 years old.'


From 1982 to the present Dr. Crane has been a full-time Islamic scholar and activist. He was Principal


Da'ii (religious instructor) at the Islamic Center, Massachusetts Avenue, Washington, D.C., from 1983


to 1986, which included a year as Director of the Dialogue Commission of the Interfaith Conference of


Metropolitan Washington. He was Director of Publications at the International Institute of Islamic


Thought from 1986 to 1988.


Dr. Crane was a Founding Member of The American Muslim Council and from 1992 to 1994 served as


Director of its Legal Division. In 1993, he was elected president of the Muslim American Bar


Association, which he founded in order to organize Muslim participation in the American Bar


Association's work on issues of conscience. From 1994 until the present he has headed his own


research organizations focusing on paradigm management designed to shape the agendas of thinktanks,


which, in turn, direct public policy. He has authored or co-authored a dozen books and hundreds of


professional articles on comparative legal systems, global strategy, and information management. Since


September, 2001, he has been an ad hoc weekly columnist for the online journal, The American


Muslim.


*Sources: http://www.turntoislam.com , http://www.iiit.org


Yusha [joshua] Evans*


Former Christian Youth Minister


'I was raised by my grandparents in Greenville, South Carolina in a very strict Methodist home. In my


teenage years, I became very involved in the church and was studying at a small Bible college in my


hometown with the intention of eventually enrolling in Bob Jones University. I was learning to read the


Bible in Hebrew and Greek and was very interested in textual criticism of the Bible. It was during these


years of intense Bible study that I read the Bible cover to cover a half a dozen times. In doing so, I


realized there were many inconsistencies and contradictions. not only in the text, but in the


message preached by Jesus himself and what I had been taught all my life based on the writings


of Paul. I then realized the Bible was not the inerrant Word of God as I had always been taught. I


eventually left Christianity and searched for the truth about God elsewhere.'


'I studied every religion from Judaism to Buddhism, Wicca to Bushido. While many religions had


certain truths to them, they had major tenants or flaws I could not accept. And none gave me the


absolute tangible proof I was looking for. All praise is due to God, one day I found myself talking


with a young Muslim who invited me to jumua'h, the Friday service and congregational prayer.


When I saw the Muslims praying, bowing and prostrating with their heads on the floor, all the


verses of the Bible describing the prayer of the prophets came flooding back to me. I asked for a


copy of the Quran, read it from cover to cover in three days, found my tangeable proof, and the


rest (as they say) is history.'


Yusha currently works as a full time caller to islam and has traveled extensively conducting da'wah


workshops[calling people to Islam]. He has studied under numerous teachers in the U.S and Egypt.


*Source: thedeenshow.com


And see complete story in: how the bible led me to Islam: http://www.youtube.com


Dr. Laurence B. Brown*


American ophthalmologist & former atheist


'Perhaps other religions do not answer the big questions of life, such as "Who made us?" and


"Why are we here?" Perhaps other religions do not reconcile the injustices of life with a fair and


just Creator. Perhaps we find hypocrisy in the clergy, untenable tenets of faith in the canon, or


corruption in the scripture. Whatever the reason, we perceive shortcomings in the religions of our


exposure, and look elsewhere. And the ultimate "elsewhere" is Islam.' (Why Islam)


'In 1990, I was in the last year of my ophthalmology residency at George Washington University


hospital in Washington, DC. My second daughter was born October tenth. To my great dismay, she


was a dusky blue from the chest to the toes. Her body was not getting enough blood, and the


cause was found to be a coarctation of the aorta -- a critical narrowing in the major artery from


the heart....I was shattered. Being a doctor, I understood she needed emergency surgery, with a


poor chance of long-term survival. A consultant pediatric cardio-thoracic surgeon was called from


across town, and I left him in the neonatal intensive care unit to examine my daughter. With no


companion but my fears, I went to the hospital prayer room and fell to my knees.....this was the first


time that I even partially recognized God.... I prayed the prayer of a skeptic, “Oh, God, if you are


there . . .” I promised that if God existed, and if He saved my daughter and then guided me to the


religion most pleasing to Him, that I would follow. I returned to the neonatal ICU roughly fifteen


minutes later, and was shocked when the consultant told me that my daughter would be fine.


True to his assessment, within the next two days her condition resolved miraculously, without


medicine or surgery. She grew to be a perfectly normal child.'


'Now, as I said before, I am a doctor. And although the consultant provided a medical explanation for


my daughter’s miraculous recovery, I simply didn’t buy it. I remember him explaining about a patent


ductus arteriosis, low oxygenation and spontaneous resolution. But I also remember thinking, 'No,' my


daughter’s salvation was not a medical miracle, but a divine one...I could easily have assigned my


daughter’s recovery to the doctor’s explanation rather than to a miracle from God. But faith had


entered my heart, and it wouldn’t leave. We had cardiac ultrasounds taken before and after,


showing the stricture one day and gone the next, and all I could think was that God had made


good on His part of the deal, and I had to make good on mine. Even if there was a medical


explanation, that was nothing more than the pathway by which Almighty God chose to answer


my prayer and effect His decree. '


'For the next few years I tried to fulfill my side of the bargain, but failed. I studied Judaism and a large


number of Christian sects. I felt I was on the right track, close to the truth but not upon it. I never fully


embraced any specific Christian formula, for I could not reconcile the differences between Christian


canon and Jesus’ teachings. Eventually I was introduced to the Holy Qur’an and Martin Lings’s


biography, Muhammad, His Life Based on the Earliest Sources.'


'During my years of study, I had encountered the Jewish scriptures’ reference to three prophets


to follow Moses. I had concluded that John the Baptist and Jesus Christ were two, but that left


one. In the New Testament Jesus Christ spoke of a final prophet to follow. When I found the Holy


Qur’an teaching the oneness of God, as both Moses and Jesus Christ had taught, I become


convinced Muhammad was the predicted final prophet. Suddenly, everything made sense: The


continuity in the chain of prophethood and revelation, the Oneness of Almighty God, and the


completion of revelation in the Holy Qur’an. It was then that I became Muslim.'


'Pretty smart, hunh? No, I would err greatly if I believed that I figured it out for myself. One lesson I


have learned is that there are a lot of people more intelligent than I who have not learned the truth of


Islam. It is not a matter of intelligence but of enlightenment, for “…and whoever believes in Allah –


He will guide his heart” (Holy Qur’an, 64:11),


“Allah chooses for Himself whom He wills and guides to Himself whoever turns back [to Him]”


(Holy Qur’an, 42:13),


“And Allah guides whom He wills to a straight path.” (Holy Qur’an, 24:46)


So I thank Allah that He chose to guide me, and I attribute that guidance to one simple formula:


recognizing our Creator, praying to Him and to Him alone, and sincerely seeking His guidance. And


whom He guides, none can lead astray.'


*Source: Dr. Laurence B. Brown's Conversion Story, http://negativity-sucks.blogspot.com


Bogdan Ataullah Kopanski


Polish, now American. Ph.D in History & Politics


Embraced Islam in 1974. 'When I was 12 years old I rejected the illogical and contradictory faith


of the Church. Two years later in 1962 I was fascinated by the victorious struggle of the Algerian


Muslim Mujaahideen against French Colonialism.'


In high school and in the earliest days of University education she was a typical example of ‘rebel


generation’ Reds, and was imprisoned twice by the Polish Communist Regime (1968, 1981-82)


In 1974 she visited Turkey, to write her M.A. dissertation about Sultan and Caliph Suleiman Kanuni’s


policy towards the Polish Kingdom. And 'There I was hit by the most beautiful voice of mankind ;


ADHAAN, [the call to prayer] My hair stood up. An unknown powerful force led me to an old


masjid (mosque) in Istanbul. There, an old, smiling Turkish man taught me the WUDOO , or


ablution. I confessed to tears the SHAHAADAH (proclamation of faith) and I prayed my first


SALAAT-UL-MAGHRIB ( the Evening Prayer)..I swept out the rubbish ideologies…For the first


time in my life my mind was relaxed and I felt the pleasure of Allaah’s love in my heart. I was a


Muslim…'


*Source://islam100.wordpress.com


Muhammad Ali [Cassius Clay]


American Ex-boxer, Three times World Heavyweight Champion


Embraced Islam in 1965 'I have had many nice moments in my life. But the feelings I had while


standing on Mount Arafat [just outside Makka, Saudi Arabia] on the day of the Hajj [the Muslim


pilgrimage], was the most unique. I felt exalted by the indescribable spiritual atmosphere there as


over one and a half million pilgrims invoked God to forgive them for their sins and bestow on


them His choicest blessings.'


'It was an exhilarating experience [Pilgrimage] to see people belonging to different colors, races


and nationalities, kings, heads of state and ordinary men from very poor countries all clad in two


simple white sheets praying to God without any sense of either pride or inferiority.


It was a practical manifestation of the concept of equality in Islam.'


*Source: http://islam100.wordpress.com


Sara Bokker


Former Actress and Model, USA


She lived in Florida and South Beach of Miami, a hotspot for those seeking the “glamorous life”.


Naturally, she did what most average Western girls do. She focused on her appearance and appeal,


'basing my self-worth on how much attention I got from others.' she was an actress, a model, and


fitness instructor. Then she came to realize that 'my scale of self-fulfillment and happiness slid down


the more I progressed in my “feminine appeal”. I was a slave to fashion. I was a hostage to my


looks.'


She sought refuge in meditation, activism, and alternative religions, but eventually realized it all was


merely a pain killer rather than an effective remedy. She joined in the ongoing campaigns of election


reform and civil rights. And learned that ideals such as justice, freedom, and respect are meant to be


and are essentially universal, and that own good and common good are not in conflict. For the first


time, 'I knew what -all people are created equal- really meant. But most importantly, I learned


that it only takes faith to see the world as one and to see the unity in creation.'


'One day I came across a book that is negatively stereotyped in the West--The Holy Quran. Up


until that point, all I had associated with Islam was women covered in “tents”, wife beaters,


harems, and a world of terrorism. I was first attracted by the style and approach of the Quran,


and then intrigued by its outlook on existence, life, creation, and the relationship between


Creator and creation. I found the Quran to be a very insightful address to heart and soul without


the need for an interpreter or pastor.'...'Eventually I hit a moment of truth'...' I became


“functional” Muslim.'


'I bought a beautiful long gown and head cover resembling the Muslim woman’s dress code and I


walked down the same streets and neighborhoods where only days earlier I had walked in my shorts,


bikini, or “elegant” western business attire. Although the people, the faces, and the shops were all the


same, one thing was remarkably distinct: the peace at being a woman I experienced for the very first


time. I felt as if the chains had been broken and I was finally free. I was delighted with the new looks of


wonder on people’s faces in place of the looks of a hunter watching his prey I had once sought.


Suddenly a weight had been lifted off my shoulders. I no longer spent all my time consumed with


shopping, makeup, getting my hair done, and working out. Finally, I was free.'


'I find it to be a blatant hypocrisy when some people and so-called human rights groups rush to


defend women’s rights when some governments impose a certain dress code on women, yet such


“freedom fighters” look the other way when women are being deprived of their rights, work, and


education just because they choose to exercise their right to wear the Hijab.'


'Yesterday, the bikini was the symbol of my liberty, when in actuality it only liberated me from


my spirituality and true value as a respectable human being. I couldn’t be happier to shed my


bikini in South Beach and the “glamorous” Western lifestyle to live in peace with my Creator and


enjoy living among fellow humans as a worthy person.'


'Today, Hijab is the new symbol of woman’s liberation to find who she is, what her purpose is,


and the type of relation she chooses to have with her Creator. To women who surrender to the


ugly stereotype against the Islamic modesty of Hijab, I say: You don’t know what you are


missing.'


*Source: Sara Bokker, Former Actress and Model, USA, http://maszuzu.blogspot.com/2009/07/sarah-bokker


Jermaine Jackson*


An Ex-Jehovah’s Witness, & brother of world-famous star Michael Jackson


(There are many things where there is consensus between Christianity and Islam, and Qur'an


presents Holy Christ as a virtuous Prophet. Then, I wondered, why Christian America levels


baseless allegations against Muslims?)


In a startling Interview-with Arabic "al-Mujallah" magazine- Jermaine Jackson, brother of worldfamous


star Michael Jackson, tells how he embraced Islam:


'It was way back in 1989 when I, along with my sister, conducted a tour to some of the countries


of Middle East. During our stay in Bahrain, we were accorded warm welcome. There I happened


to meet some children and had a light chitchat with them. I put certain questions to them and


they flung at me their innocent queries. During the course of this interaction, they inquired about


my religion. I told them, "I am a Christian." I asked them, as to what was their religion? A wave


of serenity took over them. They replied in one voice ? Islam. Their enthusiastic answer really


shook me from within. Then they started telling me about Islam. They were giving me


information, much in piece with their age. The pitch of their voice would reveal that they were


highly proud of Islam. This is how I paced toward Islam....led me to have long discourses about


Islam with Muslim scholars....I made failing attempt to console myself that nothing had


happened but I could not conceal this fact any longer from myself that at heart I had converted


to Islam.' then he performed Umrah [small pilgrimage] to mecca in Saudi Arabia, and there he


announced that he became Muslim.


'I found in Islam the answers to those queries which I had failed to find in Christianity.


Particularly, it was only Islam that provided satisfactory answer to the question relating to the


birth of Christ. For the first time I was convinced about the religion itself. '


'I has seven sons and two daughter who, like me, are fully Islamic-oriented. My wife is still


studying Islam. She insists on going over to Saudi Arabia. I trust InshaAllah, she would sooner


join Islam. May God Almighty give us the courage and perseverance to remain on this true


religion, Islam. (Ameen)


*Source: http://www.usislam.org


Martyr Sabora Uribe [Maria Olastra]


Born in Andalusia in 1949, got a degree in philosophy and psychology from the University of Madrid,


and converted to Islam in 1978.


She ran The documentation and publication in the Islamic Council. She was cited in Granada in 1998


by an ultranationalist Spanish, moments after the completion of her article [ Muslim in the global


village] in which she wrote:


'I believe in the oneness of God, and believe in Muhammad as a prophet and messenger, and in


his approach to peace and good ... In Islam Human beings are born pure and free, without


inherited sin, to accept the position, ability and role in the world'


'Some people [Muslims] belong to Arab nationality, but the Arabic language belongs to all of us


[the Muslims] It is held in a special position inside us, because the Holy Quran was revealed in


it's alfa bet, and it was the reporting tool that was used by the Prophet Muhammad 'peace be


upon him.'


'Education today is more than any other time, a necessary condition againt drowning in the


ocean of media. Our Press is infected with terrible news, because the terrified citizen is easier to


be handeled, and will humbly believe whatever been dictated!


God rest her soul and accept her in heaven.


* Source: Article (Muslima fi el qaria alalamia). Majalat Al-Faisal no.291


Prof. Abdul Ahad Dawud[David Benjamin Keldani](1867-c.1940)


Former Bishop of Uramiah- Persia


'My conversion to Islam cannot be attributed to any cause other than the gracious direction of


the Almighty Allah. Without this Divine guidance all learning, search 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 Muhummed became the pattern of my conduct and behavior.'


'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 Qur'an 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 essence, the person and nature of Allah are absolutely beyond human comprehension, and


therefore any attempt to define His essence is not only futile but even dangerous to our spiritual


welfare and faith; for it will certainly lead us into error.'


'The Trinidadian 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 Athanasiuses, Augustines and Aquinases have imposed upon the


Christians “under the pain of eternal damnation” – to believe in a God who is "the third of three"!


Allah, in His Holy Quran, condemns this belief in these solemn words:-


"They are certainly unbelievers, who say God is the third of three, for there is no God but the one


God; and if they refrain not from what they say, a painful chastisement shall surely be inflicted


on such of them as are unbelievers" (Holy Qur'an, 5:73).


'The attributes of God are not to be considered as distinct and separate divine entities or personalities,


otherwise we shall have, not one trinity of persons in the Godhead, but several dozen of trinities. An


attribute until it actually emanates from its subject has no existence. We cannot qualify the subject by a


particular attribute before that attribute has actually proceeded from it and is seen. Hence we say "God


is Good" when we enjoy His good and kind action; but we cannot describe Him - properly speaking -


as "God is Goodness", because goodness is not God, but His action and work. It is for this reason that


the Quran always attributes to Allah the adjectival appellations, such as the Wise, the Knowing, the


Merciful, but never with such descriptions as "God is love, knowledge, word", and so forth; for love is


the action of the lover and not the lover himself, just as knowledge or word is the action of the knowing


person and not himself.'


'The Christian auspicious 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, unitedly or separately, cannot be the true God.'


'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.'


*Source: http://www.islam4all.com/prof.htm


Raphael Narbaez, Jr.


Comic & former Jehovah's Witness Minister


He is a Los Angeles-based comic and lecturer. He was born in Texas where he attended his first


Jehovah's Witness meeting at age six. He gave his first Bible sermon at eight, tended his own


congregation at twenty, and was headed for a position of leadership among the 904,000 Jehovah's


Witnesses in the United States.


At age twenty, he had become a pioneer minister....'Jehovah's Witnesses have a very sophisticated


training program, and they also have kind of a quota system. You have to devote ten to twelve


hours a month to door-to-door preaching. It's like sales management....


A few things no longer made sense to me. For example, the quota system. It seemed like every


time I wanted to turn a corner and get into another position of responsibility, I had to do these


secular material things to prove my godliness. It's like if you meet your quotas this month, God


loves you. If you don't meet your quotas next month, God doesn't love you. That didn't make


very much sense. One month God loves me and one month He doesn't?….


'The other thing I started noticing is tunnel vision. Jehovah's Witnesses are the only ones who are


going to be saved in God's new order, nobody else, because all of them are practicing false


religions.'


'We criticized the Catholic Church because they had a man, a priest, to whom they had to


confess. And we'd say, "You shouldn't have to go to a man to confess your sins! Your sin is against


God!....If the sin is against God, shouldn't I directly go to God and beg for mercy?


And 'Jehovah's Witnesses have books for everything that are put out by the Watchtower Bible


and Tract Society..... I appreciated the books. But if the Bible is the book of knowledge and if it's


God's instructions, well, shouldn't we get our answers out of the Bible? Paul himself said find out


for yourself what is a true and acceptable word of God. Don't let men tickle your ears.'


'Spiritually I no longer felt at ease. So in 1979, knowing that I could not make headway, I left,


disgruntled and with a bad taste in my mouth, because all my life I had put my soul, my heart, my


mind into the church. That was the problem. I didn't put it in God. I put it in a man-made


organization.'


'I can't go to other religions. As a Jehovah's Witness, I had been trained, through the Scriptures, to show


that they are all wrong. That idolatry is bad. Trinity doesn't exist.


I'm like a man without a religion. I was not a man without a God. But where could I go?


'So I just went to the Catholic church close to my house, and I tried it. I remember on Ash Wednesday I


had that ash cross on my forehead. I was trying anything I could. I went for about two or three months,


and I just couldn't do it anymore....'But it never passed through my mind that there is not a


Creator. I have His phone number, but the line's always busy.'


'I continued to pray, and asked why my prayers weren't being answered....O God, teach me to be


a Christian. Don't teach me the Jehovah's Witness way. Don't teach me the Catholic way. Teach


me Your way!'


Then he started reading the Qur'an, and found that it mentioned Noah, Lot and Abraham. 'I can't believe


it. I never knew Satan's name was Iblis...When you get that picture on your TV set and it's got a


little bit of static and you push that button [klop] - fine tune. That's exactly what happened with


the Qur'an.' Then to learn more, he attended Friday ceremony, and continued to read and read and


visit the mosque....


Then I started getting calls from different parts of the country to go and lecture as a Jehovah's Witness


minister who embraced Islam. People find me a novelty....Eventually somebody would come up to me


and say [Pakistani accent], "Oh, brother, your talk was so good. But you know, in the Shafi'i school


of thought.."


The only thing I could do was turn to them and say, "Gee, brother, I'm so sorry, I wish I knew about


that, but I don't know anything about Islam except what's in the Qur'an and Sunnah[Prophet


tradition]


Some of them are taken aback and say, "Ha-ha! Poor brother. He doesn't know anything. He only


knows the Qur'an'....Well, that's what I'm supposed to know. And it's been a very loving


protection. I think it's all in Allah's hands."


*Source: 'From the Watchtower to the Minaret', http://www.whymuhammad.com


Shaykh Abd Al Wahid Yahya* [René Guénon] (1886-1951)


French Scholar, writer, philosopher and mystic


'In any case, what Westerners call civilization, the others would call barbarity, because it is


precisely lacking in the essential, that is to say a principle of a higher order.' ( East And West)


He was born in 1886 to a well off Catholic family of France. From his childhood, he was an extraordinary


intelligent and made distinction amongst his classmates. He got his Bachelor's degree with


distinction and joined the University of Paris where he studied mathematics for about two years.


During his study, he did not restrict his activities to formal education only but started searching for the


'Ultimate Truth', because he was not satisfied with his ancestral religion; Christianity. He did not accept


the so called Christian dogmas and rituals. Consequently, he had not only a thorough and deep


comparative study of religions, but also he held discussions and had meetings with thinkers and


philosophers of fame. Due to this spiritual journey and mental chaos, he left the university even though


his education was incomplete. In 1909 he met two 'Reverts to Islam' who were not only well acquainted


with Islam, but also competent in sociology.


The first of these two scholars was Sheikh Abdul Haq, formerly Schamrino of French origin. He was a


scholar of repute and edited a magazine namely 'Al-Tareeq". The Christian name was Iavon Gustav.


After his reversion to Islam, he learned Arabic and had full command over it. He used to contribute


articles to 'Ansari' magazine which was being published from Egypt.


In 1909, Rene Guenon started a magazine entitled "Al-Maarifat" [Knowledge] with the collaboration of


these scholars. which covered Hinduism, Judaism, Christianity and Islam. This journal remained active


for about four years and ceased publication in 1912, the year in which Rene Guenon entered the fold of


Islam. He took the Islamic name Abdul Wahid Yahya. His 'Reversion to Islam' was the result of his own


continuous search for Truth coupled with the cooperation and guidance of Sheikh Abdul Haq and


Sheikh Abdur Rahman Elish El-Kebir (El-Alim El-Maliki School of Thought in Egypt), a mystic and


competent in Islamic Jurisprudence. As a token of respect, Rene Guenon dedicated his book:


"Symbolism of the Cross" to the venerated memory of Sheikh Abudur Rahman who gave him the first


idea of the book. In February 1930, Rene Guenon went to Cairo and settled there permanently.


One of his main concerns was to produce an unsentimental analysis of Western ideological and


religious development since the Renaissance, focusing on the degradation - as he saw it - of


metaphysics, religion and philosophy and consequently of the mentality of the general populace.


He explained why the civilization of the West was built on false foundations, like a house built on sand:


its positivism, its denial of true tradition and in consequece its metaphysiscal blindness. He also


showed the way to reform this situation by gaining access - through initiation - to the


sacred and eternal treasure of timeless wisdom hidden beyond pseudo-sciences. His writings have


inspired many engaged readers to search for truth and meaning in an otherwise meaningless world.


*Resources: (How Rene Guenon Discovered Islam) http://www.islamweb.ne t


(who was Rene Guenon) http://www.abc.se/~m9783/trg.html


Conclusion:


Those mentioned, with so many others whom were not mentioned here, but God knows them...I pray


that God accepts them all- all along with those whom are still to come-and bless them with mercy, I


pray that God raises their grades in heaven, and gather us with them in his mercy on the day of account,


....Amen.


According to the Religious & Tolerance website (http://www.religioustolerance.org/worldrel.htm)


which provides a chart of basic information on various religions (latest update Dec.2009)


Basic information on various religions:


What we want to check on this schedule is the growth rate of different religions indicated in (column


no.6) which shows that Islam is the only GROWING religion nowadays with dropping in Christianity


and No-Religion.


(Islam is also the fastest-growing religion. In the United States, for example, nearly 80 percent of the


more than 1,200 mosques have been built in the past 12 years.) (CNN world news)


(MORE than 14,000 white Britons have converted to Islam after becoming disillusioned with western


values, according to the first authoritative study of the phenomenon.) (Times online)


We mentioned these statistics as incentive for the efforts and good deeds. Although this high prevalence


does not deny us a charge of default, do not absolve us of the enormous responsibility entrusted to us.


Dr. Muhammad Iqbal said: 'The Muslim will be trembling on day of judgment shamefully, when


the prophet reprimand: You have taken from me the word of Truth, So why do not you submit it


to the people?!'


I n her book (Allah’s sun over the Occident), Sigrid Hunke says 'Islam came to the whole world, not


only for Arabs, and Muslims should follow the path of the Holy Prophet, because the world is in a


vacuum that only the teachings of Islam can fill. Europeans have the opportunity to embrace


Islam, they Need the savior and no savior but Islam"


CHAPTER-3-


PROSPECTS FOR THE ISLAMIC TIDE IN THE WEST


"Pass away between me and the people"


Muhammad 'peace be upon him'


In a Village of palm trees, established in the desert, like security after fear, and hope after despair....


Whose is this blessed village?! And who are those disciples who listened to their teacher-at Al Arqam


house - and planned to break into difficulties, to break into the heart of the world? What vulnerable


poor people who were set to bring the TRUTH to the world! See them years after, with their flags


flutter in the East and West. And there, wrote a new book in the history of civilization that


overwhelmed the nations of the whole world!! How could such a small village expand to contain the


world?! How did those disciples manage to reach their goals?! What power in their hearts led them?


The answer simply is ISLAM.


And man nowadays is thirsty. Thirsty, but does not know the lable of the water, and where to find it,


there is no doubt that he had heard it's lable, but horrified simply to hear it's title, because the media


had imbued people's minds with rumors that this water is poisoned and should not be near it, connected


it's lable with terrorism!! However, whoever manage to reach it, was so amazed for the long deception.


Factors of the spread of Islam:


If we extrapolated the proclamations of those blessed people whome we accompanied in the previous


pages to unearth the reasons behind their conversion to Islam, we find that these reasons, almost


exclusively, and according to their importance and frequency are as follows:


1 - Islam is a religion of instinct and monotheism; This is the first factor in the spread of Islam, Islam


has come with true rational human perception of 'God', 'the universe', and 'humans', with quite


appropriate legislation that fits human nature. Islam is the religion of instinct and can be easily


applied in all the circumstances which facilitated it's spread.


2 – Holy Quran study; This is important to remove doubts and be assured of the divine source of the


Holy Quran, and that it is the pure revelation from God, and the fact that it was untouched by


corruption through ages of time.


3 - Good example; A Muslim behavier gives practical lessons to people, it's like reading in an open


book about the meaning of Islam. As said 'The effect of a single man's deed can be better than


thousand men's quotes effect on a single man.'


4 - The comprehensiveness and balance of Islamic architecture; Some were affected by Muslims


mosques and praying, the purity and chastity, the justice, the brotherhood between all Muslims [this


had a great meaning for Malcolm X], plus many women were fascinated by the true women status in


Islam.


5 - Studying the Scriptures; That leads to nowhere, this is mostly for the religious scholars and


priests, and for people when start searching for the truth.


6 – Islamic respect for the Apostles; Mostly for religious scholars who felt connected to Jesus, yet


could not accept trinity, found relief in Islam, like Yusuf Estus, & Ibrahim Khalil Ahmad.


7 - The fact that there's no mediation between the Creation and the Creator, or indulgences in


Islam.


8 – There is no world-renunciation in Islam; Islam contains no separation between faith and social


behaviour; no conflict between matter and spirit. Every form of life-denial and self-mortification had


been condemned by the Prophet.


9- Psychological reassurance and the achievement of human rights in Islam.


Islam is the fastest growing religion in the world:


Lots of Westerners rush to Islam, overcoming barriers of cultural and social environment, and anti-


Islamic propaganda campaigns which distort Islamic principles, history and civilization, disregarding


the bitter reality of Muslims world's tardiness, and despite the primitive and spontaneity of means used


by Muslims in the invitation to Islam, in spite of all that, Islam is still the most growing religion in the


world. as shown in the chart presented on (page 55).


If we know that Islam is spreading with the efforts of scattered individual, with so little efforts and


funds comparing to Evangelization campaigns for other religions, that will lead to know with certainty


that 'The religion in the sight of God is Islam'.