bintlee2000
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As salaamu alakium irrahmatualahi wa barkatuhu
My sory is long , but I"ll do the short version insha allah. in1966 , when I was 18 years old, I met this man who talked a little bit about Allah, He taught me a few things about going to the bathroom using your left hand to wipe , blow your nose with your left hand , and eat with your right hand. I heard what he said ,but it never clicked, I had a crush on him. Since, I came from a strong christain back ground, I always believed in God. I stayed in church almost all day Sunday as a child and my mother always told me about God, wheather she know it or not , she was telling me about some of Allah attributes, like He hears everything and knows everything and sees everything. pray to Him when you need something and don't do things in life that is stink under His nose. Those values stuck with me forever. Later , as an young women times had changed, The vietnam wars, civil rights movement, Black pride , Hippie movement.etc, I was caught right up in them all. My mind was opened then to new ideas and I never forgot God though, then oneday as I was walking down the street talking to a artist , I mentioned Jesus Christ, and the man said to me , You mean God don't you? Just then , I said yea , yea, that's right God. It was as though I forgot about God and only remembered Jesus. A light went off in my head ,and He told me that Allah was God's name, that conversation open a whole new door for me. with in the next two years I wanted to dress like this muslim women I met in East St, louis, Mo. She was the first women I ever saw dressed in long clothes and covered her head. I couldn't stop starring at her, She looked so beautiful to me all covered up, I'll never forget her name , It was Aisha, from New york . Later; I wanted to be covered , I started wearing African long dresses and wearing a turban on my head. I stood out like a sore thumb. I wanted to be Muslim , I didn't know anything about Prophet Muhammad sal allahu alayhe wa sallam or the tenets or how to go about it. I later moved to the city and saw people from the Nation of Islam , how they were. I joined them , thinking I was muslim . but they weren't right either , after 10 years I left them. Still thinking I'm Muslim, I was soul searching , I married and had two children, I divorced my cheating Husband at that time . worked hard and moved to the country, Now I really didn't have any muslims around me. Five churches in the community, I was so jealous of them going and praising God in their own way. I even thought that maybe even if I go to church and don't pray to Jesus , just God I would satisfy me hunger for wanting God in my life. Alhumdu Allah after a year in the country, I marriage A friend of mine of eleven years , I still didn't know anything about true islam or the Phophet Muhammad sal allahu alayhe wa sallam He was so patient with me. He started giving me books and teaching me a little bit at a time. Oneday , My husband recieved a phone call from a strange brother , who was looking for islamic names in the local phone book. All the brothers in that county started meeting every friday at different brothers houses, and formed a jumat and rented a store front, begin , classes and dinners etc, I finally, met muslims and learned from them about islam , the tenets the sunnah etc. Allah had guided me to the straight path of this deen. It started at eighteen and my journey ended at thirty six years old. Alhumdu Allah , I'm so glad He chose me to be His slave. Alhumdu Allah, It all started with the thought of the oneness of allah Laa 'ilaaha 'illallaahu As salaamu alaikum your sister in this deen Bintlee2000
My sory is long , but I"ll do the short version insha allah. in1966 , when I was 18 years old, I met this man who talked a little bit about Allah, He taught me a few things about going to the bathroom using your left hand to wipe , blow your nose with your left hand , and eat with your right hand. I heard what he said ,but it never clicked, I had a crush on him. Since, I came from a strong christain back ground, I always believed in God. I stayed in church almost all day Sunday as a child and my mother always told me about God, wheather she know it or not , she was telling me about some of Allah attributes, like He hears everything and knows everything and sees everything. pray to Him when you need something and don't do things in life that is stink under His nose. Those values stuck with me forever. Later , as an young women times had changed, The vietnam wars, civil rights movement, Black pride , Hippie movement.etc, I was caught right up in them all. My mind was opened then to new ideas and I never forgot God though, then oneday as I was walking down the street talking to a artist , I mentioned Jesus Christ, and the man said to me , You mean God don't you? Just then , I said yea , yea, that's right God. It was as though I forgot about God and only remembered Jesus. A light went off in my head ,and He told me that Allah was God's name, that conversation open a whole new door for me. with in the next two years I wanted to dress like this muslim women I met in East St, louis, Mo. She was the first women I ever saw dressed in long clothes and covered her head. I couldn't stop starring at her, She looked so beautiful to me all covered up, I'll never forget her name , It was Aisha, from New york . Later; I wanted to be covered , I started wearing African long dresses and wearing a turban on my head. I stood out like a sore thumb. I wanted to be Muslim , I didn't know anything about Prophet Muhammad sal allahu alayhe wa sallam or the tenets or how to go about it. I later moved to the city and saw people from the Nation of Islam , how they were. I joined them , thinking I was muslim . but they weren't right either , after 10 years I left them. Still thinking I'm Muslim, I was soul searching , I married and had two children, I divorced my cheating Husband at that time . worked hard and moved to the country, Now I really didn't have any muslims around me. Five churches in the community, I was so jealous of them going and praising God in their own way. I even thought that maybe even if I go to church and don't pray to Jesus , just God I would satisfy me hunger for wanting God in my life. Alhumdu Allah after a year in the country, I marriage A friend of mine of eleven years , I still didn't know anything about true islam or the Phophet Muhammad sal allahu alayhe wa sallam He was so patient with me. He started giving me books and teaching me a little bit at a time. Oneday , My husband recieved a phone call from a strange brother , who was looking for islamic names in the local phone book. All the brothers in that county started meeting every friday at different brothers houses, and formed a jumat and rented a store front, begin , classes and dinners etc, I finally, met muslims and learned from them about islam , the tenets the sunnah etc. Allah had guided me to the straight path of this deen. It started at eighteen and my journey ended at thirty six years old. Alhumdu Allah , I'm so glad He chose me to be His slave. Alhumdu Allah, It all started with the thought of the oneness of allah Laa 'ilaaha 'illallaahu As salaamu alaikum your sister in this deen Bintlee2000
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