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below give this video a thumbs up um today i'm going to be telling you guys the story of how
I converted to Islam so let's get started right now so I've gotten
oh gosh so many requests um to hear the story about this topic specifically and as much as i
would love to respond to every single one of you personally and tell you this story i don't even
know how long that would take me but it would take me probably weeks just to respond to everyone so I
figured I could just make this video and hopefully it will answer any of the questions that you have
and it's also really exciting for me because this is a um pretty exciting part of my life um and i'm
happy to share with you I can make this story super long because it is a very long story but
however i'm not going to do that to you i'm going to try to condense this down into a fast version
of how I became a Muslim I am very new to Islam um it is a big part of my life I do know like
i'm not perfect and you're not perfect either um no one's perfect um allah is perfect and
that is what it is so i do my best to be the best Muslim that i can however I am new to Islam so I
still have things that I'm learning I also know that 20 years from now I'm probably still not
going to be perfect and it's okay because we don't have to be perfect Allah knows our intentions and
that's all there is to it do your best
and please make sure you're praying please pray early of 2020 so i don't know march Februaryish
so i wanted to understand um Islam and Muslim beliefs and i wanted to understand
why people believe what they believe what are the beliefs why certain people don't like Muslims and
just i wanted to understand their religion i have family that lives overseas um
and i knew that they were Muslim i didn't really speak to them much and i didn't really know much
about the religion but i didn't want to know you know like what is this religion about what are um
the beliefs and what does this book say I started reading books i started listening to podcasts
I started watching YouTube videos and um i became really interested with um Islam pretty like quick
i was like wow that is very interesting so I um I joined some Facebook groups with Muslims and them
and I started talking to them having conversations with them about um the beliefs and the Quran
I can tell you i was spending hours like I was spending hours daily i was like taking my whole
lunch break which by the way i get a one-hour lunch break at work i was not eating i was reading
books and watching videos because i was like i was just yeah it wasn't um i was really just wanting
to learn because of knowledge purposes i didn't have any intention of becoming Muslim myself um
i was Christian at this time however that being said i did have some unanswered questions about
Christianity um and i was still at this time trying to get those questions answered but
asking many scholars of the bible who couldn't even answer those questions um was also a part of
what led me into destruction I'm sending hours daily reading books watching videos talking
to people having conversations then i ended up meeting some really amazing girls i don't know
if they want me to share their names on here so I'm just not gonna say their name for confidential
purposes um I'll keep it a secret but you know who you are if you're watching this video thank you
like Alhamdulillah that i knew i met you because it wasn't for you and your amazing
help like i wouldn't be where i am today and i truly like love you from all of my heart so like
thank you i met some really amazing group of girls they were so so nice to me so nice to me they um
started talking to me daily regularly and i mean like talking to me answering all my questions
um we would send like voice messages and recordings back and forth to each other as like if
we were together in person having conversations um and they were so graceful with me like
even through um things that were pretty different from American culture or things that to me looked
i guess you could say they looked strict or different um they were just really graceful with
everything and i can like thank them all day long this whole video i could thank them but
like it just wouldn't be enough so thank you to them and there were already some things that i
knew i believed um i just didn't know that that belief was part of being a Muslim so i was like
oh I've been believing this my entire life or i already agreed with that but i didn't know
that it was like in synchronization with what like Muslim beliefs were and then there were some other
things that like i realized like yes i think that is true along the way so then may of 2020
comes i just felt in my heart i knew i wanted to take my Shahadah i knew i was ready i knew
like yes it is time for me I'm ready I'm gonna do this so may of 2020 i ended up i took my shahada
I'm doing a lot for that backtracking a little bit some other like common things that i get asked a
lot about um my religion is about like my family's religion so people want to know um if my family
is religious my family they support me being Muslim and we celebrate eat together and they
respect me being Muslim and they will ask me questions um and these types of things so
although my family is not religious and they're not Muslim they are 110 supportive of me
in the best way possible that i could ask them to be so i got really lucky with that because i
know that there are some of you that maybe you converted to Islam and your family is not happy
with it or they're not comfortable with that or you have friends that are not happy with that
or whoever but I'm telling you the right people will come along in your life so if you've had that
happen to you um just be patient and Allah will send the right people into your life at the right
time all right guys that's all for today i hope you like this video um i have some super exciting
videos coming i have a lot of ideas planned a lot of collaborations planned I'm so I'm so excited um
so yeah make sure you click the subscribe so you can see when i upload them because it's going
to be amazing and I'm really excited to show you guys so that's all for today and have a good day
you