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2024 Dec 24 |
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HOW JESUS (Peace be unto him) BROUGHT ME TO ISLAM |
MUSA ISLAM'S CONVERSION STORY Assalam alaikum My Name Is Musa, I am an American Christian Convert (revert) to Islam. I was into Satanism and Voodoo, witchcraft, you name it, I was into it. I didn't care much about anything, my life, my family nothing. I did what I wanted when I wanted to, I skimmed by using other people, I was into guns and Drugs, Partying and Hard-core Satanist rock music. I was over all a pretty bad dude. Anyhow, It all caught up with me when I was around 20 or so, and I ended my butt in Jail for 5 months. Anyhow, I decided that I was going to get baptized there in Jail, However, for some strange reason, the day I was supposed to be baptized was the day that they let me out of jail. The other crazy thing is they let me out of Jail early, a mistake on their part... I wasn't supposed to get out because I had other warrants other places, and was waiting arraignment on Felony charges... ( I was a bad guy) anyhow, the other charges were dropped, I was out of jail (Alhamdulliah) and a free man, free from Jail free from my self torment ...( or on my way to freedom anyhow). I soon came back to my old ways, but I was still never the same, I had promised God that I would never forsake him again, and this is a promise I have kept. When I was out I changed a lot, I started going to church, my family all thought I was weird, because I was Jim "anti-God," the last time they saw me, now I was going to church? They all thought I had some crazy ulterior motives for seeking out God. Like I said I quickly went back to my old ways, drinking a lot, illicit sex, back to my hard-core Satan rock but it was Okie because all I had to do is ask Jesus (pbuth) to forgive me overnight and boom I'm saved! Right? Anyhow, I moved away from home again, for the 200th time, and In with a some guy I met on the Internet down in South Carolina, just to get away, things were Okie there for a while, I just kinda hung out, stayed to myself ... Well, one day I got this feeling that I needed to be close to God again, I started to feel that Empty again like I did before when God was out of my life. It was pretty crazy, because I had pretty much not really did anything for God anymore, I was more about myself again, But for some reason I felt this pull back again, and strange as it sounds, to the middle east also, I had no idea what for but it was like one of those things, those got on the Internet and started reading, I felt that I needed to learn more about God, So I started online looking at websites about the Ancient Near east and stuff like that, I came into the Syrian Orthodox church, who speak Aramaic, Which was the language Jesus (pbuth) spoke, Surely this will get me closer to God. I learned that It was the earliest form of Christianity, WOW I thought, I had found my calling, I thought that was what I was supposed to do, And I assumed that this middle east hankering I was having was God telling me that I was to be a missionary and go convert those nasty "Muslim people" I was sure that is what I what I was supposed to do. I knew at this point that my life was for God and God alone, I thought about Missionary and Seminary school very much, I am not sure where it come from like I said but It was just a realization that there really WAS God, that he was very real and that I needed to quit the things I was doing. So that is exactly what I intended to do. Well I figured that If I was to convert these Muslim people I should know something about their religion, you know so I could better show them how wrong they are (haha) and So I could better convert them to worship Jesus.(pbuth) Well I had figured it would be just a bunch of nonsense, everything I had heard on the news about "Islamic terrorists", how they worshiped some "Moon God" or something and the big black box in the desert, However, I realized very quickly that it was not completely true... The more I read the more I wanted to learn, I pretty much abandoned my studying of Aramaic and Christianity in exchange for Arabic and Islam (I had to know a little of the language to convert them no? hehe) The biggest problem with me was that I was starting to really like what I was reading about Islam, I started telling my family, you know these Muslims are not that bad, they are not as strange as everyone things. inside I knew that I was a Muslim, right from the start I felt that this is what I should be doing! And then there was peace... My anxiety has all but gone, I have cut my medication in half and on my way to removing it completely, I have quit smoking, I quit drinking, I quit cursing, I quit doing drugs...and I leave in August for Cairo, Egypt not to convert Muslims like I originally believed but instead to study Arabic and Islam. (Alhamdulliah) I still have problems with my family, however, they don't like that I am a Muslim, although they have come to realize that this is really a life decision for me, that its not some kinda phase or something. Insha'Allah they will realize the truth, I am trying to set an example, they have seen a huge change in me, Insha'Allah they will know that If I can change, they can also. This is the real short easy version of my story but I think I made the point, Allah is wonderful and I thank him so much for showing me the truth, I am so excited about going to Cairo, I can hardly stand it, I will spend my very first Ramadan in Egypt... I will be able to learn from other Muslims, it will be so wonderful not to be so isolated, and alone... (Where I live now there isn't a Muslim for 100 miles or so...) I just want to say Thank you for taking the time to read my story. May Allah bless you all. Masaslaama Musa Islam
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