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My search through religions
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My journey started 3 years
ago; I had moved to Scotland to "find myself" and I was interested in
Buddhism and Hinduism at the time...
I have read about all kinds of religions since I was 16 years old, and I
didn’t feel that Christianity gave me much; The churches where always
empty and I felt like the only one in my city that believed in God at
all.
In Scotland I was one day drinking in the streets and a middle-aged man
probably took pity on me (even if I was NOT drunk) and he started
talking about Islam to me. Since I was generally interested in religion
I continued the conversation and left the beer.
He took me to a Masjid (Mosque) to teach me about Islam, and I remember
vividly that he always called the religion "beautiful" and I could see
at his face that he was very devoted, and that became stuck in my mind.
I got a Quran and left... I read a couple of pages, but left it
somewhere at home and forgot about it.
But at work there was a German woman that was a convert and I started
asking her all kinds of stuff, and then I moved back to Norway.
After a couple of years of debauchery I suddenly woke up one Friday
morning in my dirty room and really looked at myself... I decided I HAD
to convert because I was not living a very pious life, but I still
believed in God and only ONE God, and I had realized that Mohammed
(saws) was God's messenger along the way as well... So I needed to tidy
up my life and get myself together.
So I went to the only Masjid I knew about in Oslo (a blue one behind the
prison) but it was locked! Luckily I found a Muslim couple (he can thank
his wife, because she was wearing a hijab so I could recognize them as
Muslims; at the time I didn’t know how a Sunnah beard was, but the man
had one, I think he was Somali, and I asked them: "Do you know of a
mosque near by? I want to convert to Islam." He quickly said something
to his wife and took me to a bus; he paid my ticket (i think... It is
hard to remember, but I was pretty poor at the time.)
We went to a small Masjid were Pakistani's pray and it had a lot of
people there even thou it was like 6 hours before Jumah (Friday prayer).
I talked to the brothers and prepared myself to convert, and so I did.
Since then I have done all I can to follow Islam as the prophet did.  |
