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

Mohummed Assad A Jewish converter to Islam

Leiopeid  Fas , an Austrian Jew , who studied philosophy and ethics in Venice university and became a journalist and mastered this job . He became a reporter in the eastern  area of the  Arab and Islamic world .He made his stay in Jerusalem . Later , he visited Cairo and met Moustfa Al-Maragy and exchanged   with him  opinions regarding "religions " .

He ended his long search and thinking in the light of Islam with the fact that the soul and the body are two interrelated things that is essential to the human life ,that God has created and planned  . He , thinking that learning the Arabic language is necessary to understand Islam , began to learn   Arabic in Al-Azhar colonnade –as it was the habit at that time -though he was at that time still a

A Scientific Experience Pushed The Young Researcher To The Adoption Of Islam

The Muslims praying in The Kiev Islamic Centre always count that a week or a maximum of two weeks don’t pass without at least one Ukrainian adopting Islam in front of them, be it a man or a woman.

But this time the incident was not as usual………instead there came a male Ukrainian Dimitry Boliakov, a physicist who is impassioned with educational researches. He entered in the Mosque with one of the active members of the library of Knowing About Islam which is also found in the Centre.

The Imam addressed the public in the Mosque about the issue and afterwards Dimitry proclaimed after the Imam the Words of the two testimonies (Shahadatain). Ok, then what makes the issue so unusual? This is when Dimitry started explaining his journey towards Iman (Islamic Faith). He said that his declaration was a result of knowledge in scientific researches and specifically in physics. The Muslims in the mosque eagerly and attentively listened in order to know how physics in this guy could direct him to Islam!!!

Isaac Helal Masseha’s story of Embracing Islam

His name : Priest Isaac Helal Masseha.

His job : the pastor of  an important church, and the honorary head of the Egyptian Spirits Salvation Associations in Africa and West Asia . He was born on 3/5/1953 , in Almenia , in The Arab Republic of Egypt.

I was born in Albiadeah village the centre   of Malawi in Almenia province, of an Orthodox Chrictian parents who grew us up with the hatred of Islam and Muslims.

When I started studying the prophets’life, an intellectual conflict began inside me, my questions evoked a lot of problems among the students the thing that made the Pope “Shnodah” ( who succeeded the Pope (Kerbes) after his death ) issued a decision to appoint me as a priest two years before   the time of my actual   appointment   - in order to tempt me and keep me silent for they felt my supporting to Islam going on – Though I , according to the church law, was to be appointed nine years after my

Why I Shed Bikini For Niqab

I am an American woman who was born in the midst of America’s “Heartland.”I grew up, just like any other girl, being fixated with the glamour of life in “the big city.”Eventually,
  I moved to Florida and on to South Beach of Miami, a hotspot for those seeking the “glamorous life.”Naturally, I did what most average Western girls do.I focused on my appearance and appeal, basing my self-worth on how much attention I got from others.I worked out religiously and became a personal trainer, acquired an upscale waterfront residence, became a regular “exhibiting” beach-goer and was able to attain a “living-in-style” kind of life.

Years went by, only to realize that my scale of self-fulfillment and happiness slid down the more I progressed in my “feminine appeal.” I was a slave to fashion. I was a hostage to my looks.

As the gap continued to progressively widen between my self-fulfillment and lifestyle, I sought refuge in escapes from alcohol and parties to meditation, activism, and alternative religions, only to have the little gap widen to what seemed like a valley.  I eventually

A Spanish young man reverts to Islam

This is a true story that I personally heard from Dr.Zagloul Al-Nagar, He says” One year I met a young Muslim man during the Hajj, he was accompanied by his young child who has already learned the Holy Quran entirely by heart. I asked him why he reverted to Islam.

“It is music that stands behind my embracing Islam”. He says.

I thought he was joking so I asked” Are you serious? then how?”

The Youngman seriously answered saying “yes, I am serious. I was studying music and at that time I was keen on knowing the origin of the classic music, I was told that it was Beethoven and many others, this was not a convincing answer, so I started searching for myself, eventually I discovered that the source of the classical music is terza rima , a kind of music that was played in what is known as Spain ,where Moslems lived. This kind of music was played to glorify the name of Allaah( God) and to praise the attributes of the prophet, I admired his attributes so much that

story of Cat Stevens !

Surrounded by the fascinating world of wealth and fame, Cat Stevens started his life. He lived an affluent childhood with his Christian parents and Christianity was the only religion he was taught from the early beginning of his life.

As a Christian, Cat believed in the presence of God, but he was taught that there is no way to contact Him directly. It is only through Jesus (the Christ) that one can have and maintain such a link.

Cat, really, confesses that he was not completely convinced that this is the right belief, but he had to respect his father's teachings!

Moreover, he had doubts regarding the idea of trinity and it worried him a lot, but, he used to keep silent and did not argue. He believed partially in these ideas though his mind rejected them completely!

Bit by bit, he started to go away from his religious beliefs and directed all his attention to the world of music. He wanted to become a famous pop

The Truth attracts them Women convert to Islam

This are some stories of women who led such an aimless life and sheltered nearly in the dark seeking the guiding light of the sun, the earthly life was all what they cared about and could ever think of .They ventured to have a step ahead and walk out of where they used to be…they converted to Islam.. the stories of such women are very much a like as they all had experienced the meaning of faith and belief.

It was not an easy way for them , but rather long ,tiring and full of doubts and some times skepticism. They had to get through many of  their own battles to reach the end of the road. However, at the end they were the victorious, they defeated both their evil  souls and prior concepts and got into the gate of Islam where no place is found for ignorance , confusion or perplexity . It is where time is counted by the believing heart beats rather than hours. They were the chosen ones to experience such a moment of truth  which inspired their bodies with power and their soul with an overwhelming peaceful emotions