From a priest to an Islamic Herald

he pilgrim Rasheed Shai Maktoob, who is the first Muslim in Gryama tribe, is going to the Holy land (Mecca) to perform the fifth duty (pilgrimage) with help of the African Muslims Committee.

He used to be Christian who was raised up in Protestant Church till he became a priest in the God Church , a delegate and Guardian for it the Fitingine province since 1938 till he became a Muslim in 1993 .

The pilgrim Rasheed was one of the most hostile against Muslim people before he became a Muslim.

But Allah granted him with Islam to change his whole life from being a Christian priest into an Islamic Herald , Three hundred of the church followers had become Muslims the day he announced his conversion into Islam, then he changed the muddy church he built on his own land into a masjid .

On the road from the Vatican .. to Al Azhar !

Idris Tawfiq, a British Catholic priest who became a convert to Islam, is a source of fascination in his adopted home in Cairo. Mary Fitzgerald spoke to him about his personal journey of discovery.

A De La Salle brother for 15 years, Idris later studied for the priesthood in Rome. Doubts about his vocation eventually led him to leave the priesthood, triggering a period of uncertainty about what direction his life would take.

He decided to take some time off, booking a charter flight to Hurghada, a package holiday resort that hugs Egypt's Red Sea coast. Soon bored of the beach, he headed to Cairo and experienced a culture shock quite different to what he had expected.

For the first time in his life he met and talked to Muslims, observing their rituals up close. Hearing the call to prayer and watching people stop everything

A churchly choir converyted into a caller to Allah

At the begining of his speech about the story of his proselytising to Islam, he talked about the omnipotence of the creator in the universe.He said :" every craft has its craftsman, and every matter has a wise director and this universe is unique in its making with the wisdom of Allah,Glory be to Him, who has created it by His omnipotence and every action in life has a reason so that matters can go on naturally. so, it has becom amust for every one in this life to believe in Allah, Glory be to Him, and to know that Allah is the only creator Who has created the universe with all livings and inanimate beings with no help of any other creature. It is  the true believer who believes that these creatures need care and protection from earthquake, collapsing, and vanishing and Allah is of infinite bounty, the owner of the world, the most Gracious and merciful, and Who never has a son or wife. He is the Ever-living, the Eternal and the Dominant of that world. And say: prais be  to Allah, Who has no

Antwan Alsahkar-From a Christian Marxist to an Islamic a pologist

  These words summarize the story of the Islamic propagandist Antwan Al-Ashkar, who was a member in the Brazilian communistic party, and devoted his life to Marxism and Leninism.

He was born in 1971, in Santos in St.pawlo State , and he works as an overseer in the kosher system, which belongs to the Islamic calling center.

In this period, he became an active member in the Brazilian communistic party and a believer in the Poor's rights and a