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I was raised in a loving Catholic family, being taught good Christian morals since birth. I attended Catholic school, and actively participated in church functions, including alter serving at mass, and even leading my church's youth group in a city-...
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Mum, I've decided I want to follow Allah

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Western women are turning to Islam in rapidly increasing numbers. KAY JARDINE discovers why they are so keen to become Muslims.
Bullying, depression, and insomnia made Kimberley McCrindle's teenage years particularly diff...
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Guidance in Boarding School

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Allah guided me to Islam when I was 14 years old. My initial readiness to accept Islam and my reversion to din al-fitrah (the religion that conforms to human nature) at such an age seems to imply that I was all but a Muslim already. But if we were t...
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A story of a woman converting to Islam - Aminah Assilmi

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The Introduction and Decision

I was completing a degree in Recreation, when I met my first Muslims. It was the first year that we had been able to pre-register by computer. I preregistered and went to Oklahoma to take ...
Read More Editor: Umm Zahra - Author: Aminah Assilmi

The Trinity

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Another person guided to the right path.... read with an open mind....

I discovered many many explanations of the trinity, and do you know what? At one point, intellectually, I really did believe that it made sense....
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Comparative Study Brought Me To Islaam

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In 1992, I gave birth to a beautiful baby girl. She was like an angel, I had never seen a more beautiful baby, and she seemed too good to be true. She was. In November of the same year, when baby Tina was just 5 months old, she died of Sudden Infant...
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Why are Women Turning to Islam?

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AT A TIME WHEN ISLAM IS FACED WITH HOSTILE MEDIA COVERAGE PARTICULARLY WHERE THE STATUS OF MEN IN ISLAM IS CONCERNED, IT MAY BE QUITE SURPRISING TO LEARN THAT ISLAM IS THE FASTEST GROWING RELIGION IN THE WORLD, AND EVEN MORE IRONIC TO IS THAT THE...
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How I came to Islam

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All I have to say is all what you know already, to confirm what you already know, the message of the Prophet (Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam) as given by God - the Religion of Truth. As human beings we are given a consciousness and a duty that has pl...
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Experiences Of A Recently Converted Hindu Woman

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came from a purely Hindu family where we were always taught to regard ourselves (i.e. women) as beings who were eventually to be married off, have children and serve the husband - whether he was kind or not. Other than this I found that there were ...
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Why She Became A Muslim

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Shaikh Khidir, a Khateeb in Toronto, narrated the following conversion incident of a woman during a Friday sermon last year. He mentioned that a Non-Muslim woman moved to a Muslim country for some business purposes. As she stayed among the Muslims a...
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What led Professor Arthur Alison to embrace Islam?

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Professor Alison declared that Islam is the religion of truth and inborn nature with which Allah has created man. He said it is necessary to use scientific facts as a means of Dawah in the west, adding that it was the most ...
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A True Story of How a Punk Accepts Islaam

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A True Story of How a Punk Accepts Islaam

Let's start at the beginning (always a good place, Al-hamdu li-Llaah). Life began for me in a place called Chatham in Kent in England way, way back in 1383H/1963CE. I am a girl, an only child. My par...
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My Reversion to Islaam: Why I Like Being a Muslim

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I am a Muslim and accepted Islaam as a complete way of life, two years ago. I knew within myself that I wanted to change, to move away from being caught up in the world. I was searching for the truth. Fortunately I was able to be shown Islaam. In Is...
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Miraculous story of how Dr. Bilal Abdul Alim became a Muslim

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Miraculous story of how Dr. Bilal Abdul Alim became a Muslim:

Personally, I embraced Islam at the age of 24, in the summer of 1975, while studying medicine at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas. After a long day of study, I went to ...
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conversion of Lady Barns

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Lady Barns was a newly converted muslim, a wife of an english army officer. Both husband and wife were stcuk in a case which was nothing but absurd lies, in due time the case was cleared and they were now free of all the blames.
As I was their la...
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Yusuf Islam (Cat Stevens)

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Before you read this : Yusuf Islam ( formely Cat Stevens ) used to be one of the most famous POP singers in England in the 70s till he decided to be a Muslim and Alhamdulillah he found the light of Allah ! Born Steven Demetre Georgiou, the son of a ...
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Muhammad Ali

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February 28, 1964

Clay Says He Has Adopted Islam Religion and Regards It as Way to Peace

Miami Beach, Feb. 27 (AP)--The new heavyweight champion, Cassius Clay, said today he had adopted the Islam religion. He called Islam ...
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dreams2reality

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(Sisters Real Name Not Given)

Assalamu alaikum,

About 6 years ago I worked as a Medical Assistant, and had just began my first semester at a community college for nursing. While I was doing my internship for my medical as...
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Death after Conversion

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A Sikh Enters Islam

A Muslim scholar, Sheikh Muhammad Farraj, continuously invited an Indian Sikh (who used to live in Saudi Arabia) to Islam. He (the Sikh) neither refused nor accepted the idea because of his family.

The...
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A Muslim in the family

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How do families react when a loved one converts to Islam? Rageh Omaar looks at four real-life stories
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Passion Of Christ Converts Man To Islam

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I begin in the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.

My next door neighbour used to grow Marijuana in his back yard. He rode a loud Harley Davidson and could not complete a sentence without saying the ........ word. There was a ...
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A Mugger converts Allhamdulilah

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This is a story of something that happened quite recently in London UK

A brother was on a train when a man came up to him and asked for his wallet, intending to rob him, the man may have had a weapon i cant remember Allahu alam.
A...
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Pen Pals to Islam

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A Young British student writing to her Pakistani Muslim pen pal is the path Allah ta'ala chose to lead this pretty young Christian girl to Islam. The young couple's affection grew through the correspondence and this eventually led her to visit Pakis...
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A Mountain of Courage-Hira

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Below is the transcript of a true story of a girl called Hira. Born a Hindu, she accepted Islam at a very young age, but was persecuted mercilessly by her family for this. The story is narrated by her uncle.

Hira's uncle relates: I...
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Pastor's Wife Converts to Islam - Habiba Adamu

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Her name is Fatima Edoh, a 47-year-old Deeper Life elder. She lives in Karon-Majigi, a satellite town located along Airport Road in Abuja. On April 12, 2001, Fatima performed ablution and recited Lailaha Illa Llaahu, Muhammadu Rasullullah (Salallahu...
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My Journey to Islam

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I had grown up in a loving English family home. One that was not what many perceive as a stereotypical working class family, consisting of being down the pub or stuck in front of the TV.Instead my parents spent quality time with me. Educating me, ta...
Read More Editor: ummi taalib - Author: A Sister in Isla

Party girl who embraced Islam!

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'Islam is about real love, not just lust': The party girl who's embraced Islam !


Her conversion from Ibiza party girl to hijab-wearing Muslim in barely three months may well raise a few eyebrows - and she admits that her friends ...
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French Rapper Becomes Muslim And Stuns Fans

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There is already a lot of debate in France about the hijab worn by Muslim women. But fans of a famous rapper have been left amazed after finding out she became a hijab-wearing Muslim.


Mélanie Georgiades, known as Diam's, went t...
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A female Buddhists journey to Islam

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My Background before being a Muslimah

My family and relatives are strict Buddhist. We are from the middle class of the society. My family's nationality is a mix of Chinese and Thai.

I was raised and trained to be a loyal ...
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Major Dutch islamophobe accepts Islam

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In Holland, a major islamophobic political and social activist, former memberof parliament from a right-wing party, Arnoud van Doorn accepted Islam.


The former islamophobe announced his decision to accept Islam on his T...
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From WASP to a Muslim

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Jonathan Brown
05/03/2003

From Washington DC to California

I would like to start the story of how I became Muslim with a bit about my background prior to embracing Islam. I come from a white, upper-middle-class Angl...
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Da'wah On Wheels

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Da'wah On Wheels

by Anisah David,

Islamic Horizons, Sept./Oct. 2000

Taking Islam to bikers is helping fulfill their search for truth.

Imagine yourself driving down the highway wit...
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