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Midway through his Air
Force career, Dr. Brown's ‘ideal American family' included a wife, two
children, and the requisite two cars and a dog. His country home was
crowded with the full array of comforts and toys which clutter the lives
of those preoccupied with materialism. Yet Dr. Brown ended up
sacrificing virtually everything he had worked for when he faced a
religious conviction that overturned his lifelong priorities. Following
a personal miracle through which the life of his daughter was saved, Dr.
Brown redirected his focus to religious study in an attempt to make good
on a promise made to God. In the process, Dr. Brown followed the chain
of revelation through the Abrahamic religions from Judaism to
Christianity and, in the end, to Islam. It is the result of that study
that he relates in his series of thought-provoking books. In the same
manner that Dr. Brown's choice of religion confronted his slice of the
American dream, so too do his religious conclusions challenge the
Western religious establishment.
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A
product of Christian-American ancestry dating back to the year 1677, up
until his conversion to Islam in April of 1994, Dr. Brown easily could
have passed as an example of a man who lived the stereotypical American
dream. A graduate from two Ivy League universities with subspecialty
training in ophthalmology, Dr. Brown served as a respected
ophthalmologist in the U.S. Air Force for a period of eight years.
