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When and How did you start your journey towards Islam?<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n

It was way back in 1989 when I, along with my sister, conducted a tour to some of the countries of Middle East.\u00a0 During our stay in Bahrain, we were accorded warm welcome.\u00a0 There I happened to meet some children and had a light chitchat with them.\u00a0 I put certain questions to them and they flung at me their innocent queries.\u00a0 During the course of this interaction, they inquired about my religion.\u00a0 I told them, \u201cI am a Christian.\u201d \u00a0I asked them, as to what was their religion. A wave of serenity took over them.\u00a0 They replied in one voice : Islam.\u00a0 Their enthusiastic answer really shook me from within.\u00a0 Then they started telling me about Islam.\u00a0 They were giving me information, much in piece with their age.\u00a0 The pitch of their voice would reveal that they were highly proud of Islam.\u00a0 This is how I paced toward Islam.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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A very short interaction with a group of children ultimately led me to have long discourses about Islam with Muslim scholars.\u00a0 A great ripple had taken place in my thought.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 This I disclosed first to my family friend, Qunber Ali.\u00a0 The same Qunber Ali managed to take me to Riyadh, capital of Saudi Arabia.\u00a0 Till that time, I did not know much about Islam.\u00a0 From there, in the company of a Saudi family, I proceeded for Mecca for the performance of \u201cUmrah\u201d [A lesser type of pilgrimage performed to Mecca].\u00a0 There I made public for the first time that I had become Muslim.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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What were your feelings after you proclaimed that you were a Muslim?<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n

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Having embraced Islam, I felt as if I were born again.\u00a0 I found in Islam the answers to those queries which I had failed to find in Christianity.\u00a0 Particularly, it was only Islam that provided satisfactory answer to the question relating to the birth of Christ.\u00a0 For the first time I was convinced about the religion itself.\u00a0 I pray my family members might appreciate these facts.\u00a0 My family is the follower of that cult of Christianity, which is known as AVENDANCE of JEHOVA (Jehovah\u2019s Witness).\u00a0 According to its creeds, only 144,000 men would finally qualify to enter into paradise.\u00a0 How come? \u00a0It remained always a perplexing creed for me.\u00a0 I was surprised to know that Bible was compiled by so many men, particularly about a volume scripted by King James.\u00a0 I wondered if a man compiles a directory and then ascribes it to God, but he does not fully comply with these directions.\u00a0 During my stay in Saudi Arabia, I have had the opportunity to buy a cassette released by the erstwhile British pop-singer and the present Muslim preacher, Yusuf Islam (formerly Cat Stevens).\u00a0 I learnt a lot from this as well.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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What happened when you got back to the US after embracing Islam?<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n

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When I returned to USA, American media orchestrated heinous propaganda against Islam and the Muslims.\u00a0 The gossips were let loose on me which really disturbed my peace of mind.\u00a0 The Hollywood was hell-bent upon maligning the Muslims.\u00a0 They were being projected as terrorists.\u00a0 There are many things where there is consensus between Christianity and Islam, and Quran presents Holy Christ as a virtuous Prophet.\u00a0 Then, I wondered, why Christian America levels baseless allegations against Muslims?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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This made me gloomy.\u00a0 I made up my mind that I would do my best to dispel the wrong image of Muslims, portrayed by the American media.\u00a0 I had not the slightest idea that American media would not digest the news of my accepting Islam and raise such a great hue and cry.\u00a0 It was virtually acting against all its tall and much-publicized claims about the freedom of expression and the freedom of conscience.\u00a0 So the hypocrisy of American society came to surface and lay uncovered before me.\u00a0 Islam unknotted many complications for me.\u00a0 As a matter of fact, I came to think of myself as a complete human being, in the literal sense of the word.\u00a0 After becoming Muslim, I felt a tremendous change in me.\u00a0 I discarded all thing prohibited in Islam.\u00a0 This made things difficult for my family too.\u00a0 In short, the Jackson family tumbled altogether.\u00a0 Threatening letters poured in, which further intensified the worries of my family.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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What sort of threats?<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n

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Well, they would tell me that I had nurtured the animosity of American society and culture, by entering into the laps of Islam, you have deprived yourself of the right to live with others.\u00a0 WE would make life unbearable for you in America so on, so forth.\u00a0 But I confess that my family is broadminded.\u00a0 We have held all religions in esteem.\u00a0 Our parents have trained and groomed us in that way.\u00a0 Therefore, I may say that the Jackson family enjoys friendly relation with people belonging to almost all religions.\u00a0 This is the result of that training that I am being tolerated by them so far.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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What was the reaction of your brother Michael Jackson?<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n

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On my way back to America, I brought a number of books from Saudi Arabia.\u00a0 Michael Jackson asked me himself for some of these books for study.\u00a0 Before this, his opinion was influenced by the propaganda of American media against Islam and the Muslims.\u00a0 He was not inimical towards Islam, but he was not favorably disposed towards Muslims either.\u00a0 But after reading these books, he would keep mum and not say anything against Muslims.\u00a0 I think perhaps this is the impact of the study of Islam that he diverted his business interests towards Muslim traders.\u00a0 Now, he has equal shares with the Saudi billionaire prince Waleed bin Talal in his multi-national company.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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It was said earlier that Michael Jackson was against Muslims, then there are rumors that he had become Muslim.\u00a0 What is the real story?<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n

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I testify this fact, at least there is nothing in my knowledge that Michael Jackson ever said anything derogatory against Muslims.\u00a0 His songs, too, give message of love for others.\u00a0 We have learnt from our parents to love others.\u00a0 Only those who have their own ax to grind hurl allegations on him.\u00a0 When there can be a nasty uproar against me when I became Muslim, why can it not be so against Michael Jackson.\u00a0 But, so far, media has not subjected him to scathing criticism, although he is threatened for his getting somewhat closer to Islam.\u00a0 But who knows what would it look like when Michael Jackson embraces Islam.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Source: islamreligion.com<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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