Author: Zak D

Zachary David Simpson (USA)

Written by Zak D on February 14, 2007. Posted in Converts, N. America.

• American• Was a Mormon Christian My name is Zachary David Simpson and I am 31 years old. I grew up in Salt Lake City, Utah in a family that was converted to mormonism by my Mom. We always went to church every Sunday and I always felt out of place there. I was quiet and shy and the kids in the Sunday school thought that I was a loser so they made sure to treat me accordingly. When I was 8 they dunked me in a pool in white garments and said I was now officially one of them. However, my Dad decided to stop attending church that year, and I followed him in his decision, even though my Mom...

Lorrie Chelfni (USA)

Written by Zak D on February 12, 2007. Posted in Converts, N. America.

• American• Was a Christian• Became a Muslim In Feb 1997 “When I reached 10 years of age my father decided that he would become a preacher. I myself was baptized at the age of 11. Later I attended Northeastern Christian Jr. College. I received my AA degree and then transferred to Abilene Christian University. While at ACU I became involved with the mission dept. I thought that I could find the relationship with God in the mission field. However, during the year at ACU I really began to question the scriptures and my personal basis for faith … no one could give me answers. I...

Jamāl Boakye (West Africa)

Written by Zak D on February 7, 2007. Posted in Africa, Converts.

• West African• Was a Christian• Became Muslim in Dec. 25, 1993 While at university, I went to the Eid al-Fitr celebration — primarily for the food, but I got a lot more than that. I had an opportunity to speak with a Muslim. He told me about Islām and gave me a Qur’an. He told me how Muslims treated the Qur’an, so I felt its contents must be special. I read it and I was amazed by its immediate references to God and its focus on worshipping God alone. At that time, I was having difficulties at university and found that the Qur’an told me how to deal with them. I...

Jubie Deane Concepcion (USA)

Written by Zak D on January 30, 2007. Posted in Converts, N. America.

• Puerto Rican/American • Was a Baptist Christian • Became a Muslim on Sept. 26, 1997 “I was born and raised in a Puerto Rican household in NYC. Once I was able to think for myself, without getting into much trouble, I started asking questions. ‘How can it be that Jesus IS God?’ ‘How do you figure 3 different entities to BE 1 God?’ ‘Why can’t we pray directly TO God, instead of through others?’ ‘Who said you HAVE to be Christian to go to Heaven?’ ‘How come we’re only religious on Sundays and holidays?’ The usual response was,...

Abū Abdullāh Afia (UK)

Written by Zak D on January 29, 2007. Posted in Converts, Europe.

• English • Was Jewish • Became Muslim in 1991 “In the course of a discussion with my friend who came from a similar background (i.e. wealthy), he said to me, ‘What’s it all about (i.e. meaning life)?’ So we got into a deep discussion and came out of it with the conclusion that our parents and what they believed in and strove for was absolutely ridiculous, and there has to be more to life than this. That’s when I started thinking about the purpose of life for the first time. So that search, took a period of three years; finding out what I could about the...

Harry E. Heinkel (USA)

Written by Zak D on January 26, 2007. Posted in Converts, N. America, Uncategorized.

Why Am I Muslim? My early religious training was in the Christian faith. This, however, was a matter of birth, not of choice-our early religious training is generally in the faith of our parents. Later in life, our religion is usually accepted as a matter of fact. We, however, question and examine everything except our religious faith, particularly if it is Christianity. The Christian Bible, being the textbook of Christianity, is a book which I have read many times. I doubt if there is a person who does not shudder while reading its pages, filled as they are with blood-curdling...

Dirk (Saifuddin) Walter Mosig (Argentina)

Written by Zak D on December 13, 2006. Posted in Converts, N. America, Uncategorized.

At some point in your life, you should pick up a copy of the Quran and read it. Whether or not you have pre-conceived notions about Islām or what Muslims are about, you should realize that this book, unlike any other book, is a communique from your Creator to you. It is your duty to read it and ponder over the meanings as Dirk Mosig — a staunch Roman Catholic — did. He travelled from Germany to Spain to Argentina and came full circle when he found Islām in the form of a Spanish Qur’an. How was I introduced to Islām? I was born in a German Christian family during the most...

Former African Missionary (Burundi)

Written by Zak D on November 21, 2006. Posted in Africa, Converts.

African Missionary Finds Truth in Islām Despite Unbearable Hardships 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, and I dreamt of the day I could be like them. I was among two other girls who got 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...

Aisha Ong (Malaysia)

Written by Zak D on November 21, 2006. Posted in Asia, Converts.

From Buddhism to Atheism to Islām, the story of a Chinese muslim. Islām Has Done Me a World of Good I was born a Buddhist but I was not taught anything about Buddhism, its teachings or its principles. All that I knew about Buddhism was following my parents to the temples during festive seasons (which is on a birthday, nearly every month, of one god or another) or praying at home to the god of Heaven, the god of the lounge, the god of the kitchen and so on. We used joss sticks to pray to those idols, or even colored metal plates with inscriptions on them. When we prayed, we prayed...

Dāwūd (Sheldon) Darroux (Comm. of Dominica)

Written by Zak D on November 7, 2006. Posted in Caribbean, Converts, Uncategorized.

In the Name of Allāh, The Most Merciful, The Giver of Mercy On Finding the Truth “Allāh leaves to stray those whom He pleases and guides whom He pleases. He is exalted in Power, full of Wisdom.” (Soorah Ibrahim 14:4, Qur’an) Religious Background In the heart of Roseau, Commonwealth of Dominica where I lived, there lies an almost two-century-old Catholic Church close to my home. In a house of four, there was a tug-of-war between Catholicism and secularism as the case in many lands in the west. Though the Sunday Mass and school was the tradition, I completed my elementary...

M. Nelson (Comm. of Dominica)

Written by Zak D on November 3, 2006. Posted in Caribbean, Converts.

In the Name of Allāh, The Most Merciful, The Giver of MercyBefore I write about my actual conversion to Islām, let me just say that at that period of my life I was not looking for religion nor spiritual enlightenment. I was a typical ‘go to the club on Saturday then church on Sunday’ kind of Christian and I was perfectly content with that. During that time I was teaching English as a second language at a community centre. There was a Somali (Muslim) family who attended there, a mother and her two daughters. Right away I was drawn to them for reasons unknown to me at the time. I was...