Video Videon in Arabic and English : A Scientist from Tchechoslovakia reverts to Islam

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Videon in Arabic and English : Milan a Scientist from Check Republic reverts to Islam

Milan a Scientist from Check republic Reverts to Islam during a scientific meeting in Kuwait.​

As a scientist Milan started to be convinced that there is one only God who control perfectly life and the whole all universe.

But after this, he looked on all religions and after reading the translation of the Quran he was astonished of the clearness and the logical meaning of verses.
So in the first he started to admire the prophet Mohamed PBUH as a man who wrote the Quran.
However, after reading some other verses which have relation with some new scietifics descoveries, he was convinced that those words come from God and that there is no God except Allah and that the prophet Mohamed PBUH is just only a messenger as all other messengers before him.

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[hambaAllah]

:salam2: bro
Alhamdulillah
tks for sharing bro

 

[Kayote]

Assalam u Aliekum

Thankyou very much for this. I really liked it.

The end part was a bit strange. JazzakAllah Khair

WaAliekum Assalam

 

[Muslim-]

Czechoslovakia doen't exist no more, because both countries separated, so now it's Czech republic and Slovakia are separate countries.

 

[Andalusian]

Czechoslovakia doen't exist no more, because both countries separated, so now it's Czech republic and Slovakia are separate countries.

:salam2:
for remembring this.
In the reality first i wrote it because the man who translated the speech, said it in the video and because it seems perhaps that Milan converted years ago and just said his reversion to Islam in this meeting.
However, a day after posting the video i changed the old name by the new name by Check republic (or Czech republic as you said). If you open the page you will see that the title change. I think there is a small problem : when you want to change the title for a post, you still have the old in the main page in sections.

Anyway thank you Muslim-ovich

 

[Muslim-]

Islam in Czech Republic from wiki

Modern era
A law from 1912 recognized Islam as "state religion" and officially allowed its presence in the region. The first community (Moslimské náboženské obce pro Československo) was established in 1934. In 1949 previous registration was abolished. An attempt to set up new community in 1968 failed. In 1991 Center of Muslim communities (Ústředí muslimských náboženských obcí) was established. In 1998 a mosque was opened in Brno [1] and a year later in Prague [2]. Attempt to open mosques in a couple of other cities was stopped by local citizens. In 2004 Islam was officially registered: the community is thus eligible to obtain funds from the state.

Estimated number of Muslims in today Czech Republic is over 10,000, of which about 2,000 are active. The number rose sharply during 1990s and has remained stable since.

Most of the Muslims are refugees from Bosnia-Herzegovina (early 1990s) and former countries of Soviet Union (mostly from Caucasus region, from the late 1990s until the present). Significant and influential part are middle-class people of Egyptian, Syrian and other Middle Eastern ancestries (typically those who studied in Czechoslovakia and decided to stay). A few hundred Muslims are the Czech converts (typically wives of Muslims).

The community concentrates on religious life and education.

Most Czech people have never met a single Muslim.

Professor Arabist Luboš Kropáček who is at the Institute of Middle Eastern and African Studies at Charles University says the influence of Islam can bring some form of extra morality to usual life.

Also now there are quite a few converts in Czech Republic who have chosen Islam as their faith.

 

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The Czech Muslim community: A beacon of piety in a predominantly atheist country
By Coilin O'Connor

Less than a century ago, Europe's Muslim population was concentrated primarily in the Balkans. Nowadays, there are Muslims living all over the continent from Iceland to Georgia. In keeping with this trend, the Czech Republic also has a small but robust Muslim community. There are currently around 20,000 practising Muslims living in this country.

Photo: Antonio Melina/ABrMost of the members of this community originally came here from Arab states to study and ended up staying. This is what happened to Jehad Hamarshieh, a Jordanian-born Palestinian who came here in 1987 to take a course in electrical engineering.

Like many Muslims now living in this country, his initial experience of Czech society was very positive:

"When I came here I felt like I was at home. The people were very nice. Every country has good and bad people, but I only ever had good people around me. The people were very friendly. There are very good people in the Czech Republic who know how to deal with foreigners."

Jehad liked it here so much that he decided to make his life in Prague. He married a Czech woman and started a family. His wife has since become one of a few hundred native Czechs who have converted to Islam:

"I got married in 1995. My wife at that time was a Christian. But she knew me - she knew that I didn't drink, that I didn't go womanising and so on. When we got married she remained a Christian and I stayed a Muslim. She saw how I acted and behaved towards her and her family and to everyone else. She began asking questions as to why I would do certain things etc. Then after two years she came to me and said 'OK, I want to be a Muslim like you.' I said you are welcome in Islam. I can't force you to become a Muslim. I can invite you."

Jehad now has children who are being brought up as Muslims, but whose lives are Czech in almost every other way:

"They are living normally. They go to school like any other Czech boys. We only tell them that we don't want them to eat any fat from the pigs and things like that. The teachers in the schools are really very good teachers. They understand and respect that it's not ok for them to eat these things and so on."

Vladimir Sanka is the director of the Islamic Centre in Prague. He himself is also a Czech convert to Islam. Such local conversions are still quite unusual in this country where many people have strong atheist leanings and some are quite wary of organised religions. Mr Sanka, however, says that the Muslim community here has become an accepted part of Czech life:

Vladimir Sanka"I would say most of our society has a pretty normal attitude to us. We have chosen our religion freely and it's our way of life. We don't force anyone to follow our faith. Based on the principle of freedom of religion, we have a right to live here in Europe among others. I would personally say that on the whole we live well here and our small community doesn't have any major problems."

Mr Sanka says it's quite common for Muslims here to be actively involved in their communities and to embrace many aspects of Czech life:

"All the Muslims I know are interested in integrating with Czech society. I think this is the right attitude. We don't want to live in isolation or to create a closed society inside the Czech Republic. On the contrary, we want to enrich this society and live together with other people. We don't want to live in ghettoised districts and places like that."

This is a view echoed by Jehad Hamarshieh:

"Our prophet Mohammed said that religion means how to live with other people - how to live quietly with others without bothering or hurting them and to understand their needs. You are expected to give them the best of you. This is Islam. Islam is not what they are describing in the media and elsewhere. As Muslims, most of us know the things they are saying are not true."

In fact, instead of posing a danger to Czech society, there are some who say the strict moral code which most Muslims adhere to can only have a positive impact here.

Lubos Kropacek Professor Lubos Kropacek from the Institute of Middle Eastern and African Studies at Charles University says the influence of religions like Islam can bring a moral dimension to Czech life, which has sometimes been lacking in this highly secular society, ever since the old certainties and beliefs of communism were swept aside in 1989.

"Would unbound freedom without any moral considerations still be freedom? I'm not sure. Unfortunately, in this country we had a bad experience in the early 1990s when many people started to understand freedom as meaning freedom to steal or to get rich very quickly by any means possible without any inbuilt moral mechanisms, which would stop them from behaving improperly. It is perhaps a dangerous aspect of a country as secular as the Czech Republic, that perhaps many people don't have these internal moral mechanisms."

Professor Kropacek says that religions like Islam can play a crucial role in fostering the so-called internal moral mechanisms, which may be lacking in some part of post-communist Czech society.

"In Islam, there are a number of good moral precepts, which play a positive role in social life. Being a Christian myself I feel that I should also respect the beliefs of Muslims, with whom we should conduct a dialogue and not clash with, either violently or non-violently."

This dialogue between Islam and other religions in the Czech Republic has seen the Muslim community make joint public statements with Jewish and Catholic leaders on ethical issues such as euthanasia. Valdimir Sanka agrees that Islam like other religions such as Christianity can set a moral example in many areas.

"The Muslim way of life is a very good and positive thing. We place great emphasis, for instance, on family life. This is becoming a lot less significant in the West and it is having a very negative effect on society. I could mention other things like our attitude to ****ography, prostitution, alcoholism, drugs and so on. In this sense, our voice can also be beneficial for this society."
Jehad Hamarshieh has no doubt that Islam can have a very positive effect on Czech society if people will simply open their minds to the true nature of its teachings.

"We would ask ordinary people to be more understanding of what it means to follow Islam. Islam means peace. If you see an envelope with the word 'PEACE' written on it, you have to open it up and look inside to find out the meaning of this word."

Source: Radio CZ

 

[Muslim-]

Czechs Revert To Islam In Search For Spirituality

One of the mosques in the Czech Republic


PRAGUE, March 13 (IslamOnline.net) – In their search for spirituality, many Czechs are reverting to Islam, forming a new small but vibrant Muslim community in one of the least religious countries in Europe, according to an online report.

Radio Free Europe said Friday, March 12, that Islam was introduced to Czechs by immigrants from Muslim countries who come to live and study in this Central European country.

Vladimir Sanka, the head of the Islamic Center, based in the Czech capital, Prague, is one of several hundred new reverts to Islam throughout the country and one of some 20,000 Muslims nationwide.

The long ago predominantly atheist and Roman Catholic country came in touch with Islam only 15 years ago after the end of communist rule, the Radio said.

Sanka, 40, was born into an atheistic family and received, like all Czechs, an atheistic education at school and in university.

Nine years ago, he reverted to Islam. In 1995, Sanka became the head of the Islamic Center and an imam in Prague's only mosque.

Sanka related his spiritual journey to Islam as a long and painful one to find Allah in a materially-oriented society.

"Everything was oriented here in our society to [material things] and activities. I was missing spiritual, something spiritual. I found God. I believe that God exists. He created the universe and is above everything and brings justice and so on. People who do something bad, it doesn't mean that there will be no punishment," Sanka said.

Why Islam?

Sanka concluded saying that he found out that only Islam fits his vision as it does not reject the messages of Judaism and Christianity but is a "continuation" of them.

"For me, Islam is very simple, very clear, practical and presents a logical way for daily life," Sanka added to the Radio.

Ondrej Mashatov, a 26-year-old Czech, reverted to Islam in 1998 after a long spiritual quest.

"I was atheist almost all my life, but when I reached the age of 17, I started to look for some, maybe, spiritual way of my life. And through many, many experiences - I spent several years in a very strict Catholic monastery in France -- [found it]. So, I am coming from this background. And then I visited Egypt, and Arabic culture started to be somehow more clear [to me]," Mashatov said.

Mashatov says his spiritual journey was a shallow one until he met an Arab woman, who later became his wife.

"On my way through these spiritual experiments, I met my wife, a girl from the Arab world, and I reverted to Islam," says Mashatov.

He says that now his life is balanced, but says he prefers not to openly express his religious beliefs.

"You can show it by acting in life. You don't need to say that, 'I am a Muslim. I am a Christian.' You can just act like this and nobody doesn't need to know who you are. The important [thing] is acting, how you deal with people, how you deal with yourself to God, how you deal with spirituality," Mashatov said.

Both Mashatov and Sanka say they feel safe as Muslims in the Czech Republic.

Last year, a discussion on role of Islam in Western society was held in Prague to talk on the status of Islam in contemporary society at Prague's Charles University.

The discussion was organized by Czech Association for International Affairs, an academic discussion group, which discussed the fast growing Muslim community in Czech.

http://www.islamonline.net/English/News/2004-03/13/article09.shtml