In this moving testimony, a Scottish man who spent decades as a minister and national overseer for the Jehovah’s Witnesses shares his extraordinary journey to Islam. After leaving the ministry in 1969 because he could no longer preach what he did not believe, he spent years in spiritual wilderness before finally finding the peace and truth of Islam in 1995. His story — along with his mother’s conversion at over 100 years of age — demonstrates that it is never too late to find the straight path.
From Ministry to Islam
Born in Scotland, educated in Birmingham, and holding a PhD in theology from Edinburgh University, this man was no stranger to religious study. Yet after decades of preaching, he realized that intellectual honesty required him to stop teaching doctrines he could no longer believe in. The years that followed were difficult — filled with gambling, drinking, and poor choices. But eventually, the innate human longing for truth brought him to Islam, where he found something he had never experienced before: complete inner peace.
“I opened the door to the prayer hall and it was like a wave washed over me — a wave of utter and complete peace. I had never experienced that sensation before, nor since. But praise be to Allah, that peace has never completely left me.”
Lessons from a Life Well-Lived
- His mother accepted Islam at over 100 years old and became the oldest Muslim in Europe, engaged in dawah until the day she died
- The greatest change Islam brought was inner peace — something no other religion, career, or worldly pursuit could provide
- Muslims must get their priorities right: a luxury car that prevents you from praying properly becomes haram for you personally
- Every Muslim should live each day as if it were their last, because one day it will be
“My mother would have been 119 years old. She embraced Islam two years before she died and was engaged in the work of dawah until the day she died. If she could find Islam at that age, what excuse does anyone else have?”
This testimony is living proof that the door to Islam is always open — at any age, from any background, after any past. The peace that Islam brings is real, immediate, and permanent, and the only thing required to receive it is sincerity and the willingness to submit to the one true God.
