I was born in Scotland on the aisle of
Sky I was educated largely in Birmingham
until I went to Edinburgh
University I got a PhD in theology in
1933 I became a
minister uh I was actually the national
overseer for Jehovah's Witnesses
uh many people would debate whether that
is Christian or
not uh but I left that Ministry in
1969 purely and simply because I felt
that I could no longer continue to
preach things that I didn't
believe I would love to tell you that I
started straight away on a search for
truth but that would
be a a
lie I did everything that was
bad I went completely the wrong way I
gambled I drunk I
womanized and so in
1995 on October the
28th praise be to Allah I embraced
Islam I'd been considering Islam for
some years
beforehand I
and had already made one or two
adjustments in my life my eating habits
I eating hell out for 10 years before I
embraced
Islam uh I was choosing my friends more
carefully uh
and it was not
until 18 months before I embased his
land that I gave up drinking and at the
same time gave up gambling
I I'm a married man uh more than the LA
allows I've been married seven
times because I'm addicted to wedding
cake but I have from my seven wives I
have 31
children I've got 18
grandchildren and seven great
grandchildren
of all this hord of people my wife and
six children at home with me are
Muslim one son by previous
marriage is
Muslim my mother who died only 6 weeks
ago was the oldest Muslim in Europe she
would have been had she remained alive 3
weeks later she would have been 119
years years
old uh she embased is landam 2 years
before she
died and uh was engaged in the work of D
until the way she day she
died
uh I
am very very happy to be
Muslim I'm very proud to be
Muslim and it has most definitely
affected my life in many many
ways uh I'm constantly being told that I
don't look my
age uh 99 days out of 100 I don't feel
my
age I sometimes keep myself that I'm
only 16 and I want to join the children
playing football on the
park but the overwhelming difference
that Islam has made in my life is the
peace that it's brought into my life and
it started the day that I embraced Islam
I had never before set foot inside a
mosque and I turned up at the mid by a
rangement with who had made the
arrangements at the
mood and I was the first to arrive I
borrowed SES from my
friend
uh and
felt like a dill Standing Outside The
Mask waiting for someone to come and
open
up uh the next person to arrive was
himself who took me into the musk showed
me how to make
ru and then told me that he had to go
into the office I didn't realize until
that point that he was a member of the
musk
committee
he told me he had to go into the office
to sort out some musk business but I
could go into the prayer Hall said if
anyone comes in they won't ask any
questions just sit down any books you
see around you're welcome to read any of
them
uh so I opened the door to the prayer
Hall and it was like a wave washed over
me a wave of utter and complete peace
this could part be explained by the fact
that there was no one else there but it
was a sensation that I had never
experienced
before nor since but praise be to Allah
that peace has never completely left me
my IM man has been up and down in common
with most of my Muslim
Brothers but praise be to Allah I'm
still here and I hope to continue until
Judgment Day to my Muslim brothers and
sisters the one thing that
I would dearly like them all to do is to
get their priorities
right
we are far too often more concerned with
the dya than we are with Allah suban
tala there is nothing at all wrong with
liking nice things there's nothing at
all wrong with liking a Mercedes
car but when you see the price of a
Mercedes car
means you have to work two jobs work 16
18 hours a day to accumulate the money
to buy that car what suffers your namas
you can't read your namas properly you
haven't got time you're too tired to
read the Quran you're too tired to
conduct to in your own home so that
Mercedes car although there's nothing at
all wrong with it the Mercedes car
becomes Haram as far as you are
concerned it's taking the place of
alaban tell we have to get our
priorities right we have to realize that
this
Dena has absolutely nothing to offer to
any of us and even though we may acquire
great wealth in this
denya we can't take it with
us thing that we have to realize is that
when you realize that something is right
now is the time to start doing something
about
it you can't say all right as soon as I
finished paying for my motor car or as
soon as my mortgage is paid I will start
reading my the M five times a day
because we don't know about tomorrow we
don't know about 5 minutes from now
every Muslim should live every day as if
it were his last because one day he's
going to be
right