{"id":2208,"date":"2015-10-13T21:16:39","date_gmt":"2015-10-13T21:16:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/rs\/en\/my-curiosity-made-me-muslim\/"},"modified":"2015-10-13T21:16:39","modified_gmt":"2015-10-13T21:16:39","slug":"my-curiosity-made-me-muslim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/r-islam.com\/en\/my-curiosity-made-me-muslim\/","title":{"rendered":"My Curiosity Made Me Muslim!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Ibraheem Greeves is an elderly British man who witnessed the creation of the state of Israel.<\/span><\/p>\n

In this talk, he expresses his feelings about Islam and how he embraced it after trying several other religions.<\/span><\/p>\n

“Since I was a child, I was always searching, I really didn’t know what I was searching for, but my search took me to many places.<\/span><\/p>\n

It started with Christianity, then I converted to Catholicism, Buddhism, all kinds of religions; and for some reason I felt they weren’t right.<\/span><\/p>\n

Then I met Muslims many years ago; I didn’t even know they were Muslims. One day, I went to an eating-place in Basra, Iraq. I wondered into this place, then I sat down and someone gave me a spoon. There were people sitting at the table, but no one was eating. It was strange, and I had the sense not to eat although I was hungry.<\/span><\/p>\n

Then, the adhan (call to prayer) came; but I didn’t know it was the adhan. After the adhan finished, they all started to eat and talk. It was Ramadan of course, but I also didn’t know what Ramadan was.<\/span><\/p>\n

I’d always been attracted to that part of the world… Back in 1948, all the media was always anti-Islam, there was a lot of propaganda at the time of the creation of Israel about the “brave Israelis” and what they were doing, creating a “paradise”…<\/span><\/p>\n

Because I lived with Muslims, I didn’t believe what was said in the media about them, I knew that Muslims are not like that, they were always kind to me and friendly.<\/span><\/p>\n

After I read about Christianity and the other religions, I started to read the Quran. At first I wasn’t that impressed, in a way it sounded all doom, and things like that… Then I put it down, and then I read it again… I wasn’t able to meet many scholarly Muslims back then to teach me about Islam and the Quran.<\/span><\/p>\n

In Tunisia<\/span><\/p>\n

I went to Tunisia, one Friday; I sat in front of the grand mosque having a coffee. I suddenly noticed that there were a lot of people going into the mosque, a lot of people more than usual, I didn’t know why but their numbers were increasing. Suddenly I just thought that I wanted to be with them, I really wanted to be walking with them without even knowing why.<\/span><\/p>\n

I went into the mosque and asked someone there about Islam. He spent a lot of time talking about Islam, and it all made sense to me. It was the first time for me to be in a mosque, I was attracted for just being there, and I took the Shahadah there.<\/span><\/p>\n

Back in England<\/span><\/p>\n

Then after some time, I came back to England and I lived in a place where there were more Muslims.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Muslim community have supported me very well as far as they could, but I had special needs as I couldn’t hear properly, but I got what I needed to understand at that time…<\/span><\/p>\n

I was desperately wanting to know about Islam, I was thirsty to know more about Islam. I don’t speak Arabic but of course the English is very important… Since I had the stroke, I know more about Islam, but now I can only read a little bit, a small amount, and that’s how I educated myself about Islam, bit by bit.<\/span><\/p>\n

My belief is that we want what Allah wishes to give us, and I’m very grateful for what He has given to me, Al-Hamdulel-Allah”<\/span><\/p>\n

Source: onislam.net<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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