assalamualaikum warahmatullahi
wabarakatuh my name is solo Dean and
I've been a Muslim now for two and a
half years
before I embrace the religion of Islam I
was sort of a typical teenager just
doing anything I ever wanted really with
friends and such but I've always
believed in God from a very young age
and still few incidents in my life where
I wanted to have the answers to what's
going on so I started asking myself
questions as to where why am I here and
where am I going
you know we live on this in this life
about estimate 60 to 70 years and what
do we do at that time so because I
already believed in God I started saying
to myself all religion is the only thing
that tells you you have a purpose in
life so I looked for religion
I looked since Christianity once I
started reading the Bible I saw
contradiction so then I just decided
that Carvey from God
I looked into Judaism so a few things in
there which I thought was the truth so I
started practicing Judaism and began
going to the synagogue and asking
questions there regarding the belief of
Judaism I began to feel unwelcome in the
community that they say you have to be
born a Jew in order for you to be a Jew
and be accepted in the kingdom of heaven
which to me if God has a religion and
he's given it to mankind he can't just
be for a certain group of people who
asked me to
everyone to accept before I started
looking at Islam I saw Islam as a
religion of hatred terrorism just that
whatever the media said I believed I
looked on Google as to why is the
fastest growing religion in the world it
came up with a slam and I was confused
as to why that is why are people
embracing a religion that is classed as
terrorism and hatred and all this and
then I met a Muslim at college who said
Aslam is a beautiful religion it's
misunderstood and he says for you to
fully understand and look into it for
yourself so I did that I looked into
Islam I read verses from the Quran and
what caught my eye was the scientific
miracles of the Quran where Allah talks
about things that only he the Creator
knows and know of a human or creation
knows so therefore I knew it was a truth
and I wanted to accept it I went into
town in lots of um city centre and I
went to a Central Mosque and asked if I
could embrace the religion of Islam
straight away they went through the
conditions of the Shahada what you have
to believe in in order to be a Muslim
and I agreed with all of the conditions
such as there is only one Allah worthy
of worship and the Prophet Muhammad
peace be upon him is the last Messenger
of God and all the books that were
revealed and all the Angels and last day
the final day the day of judgement
so from that point on I took my Shahada
I felt completely different I felt
happier better in my life and
alhamdulillah my parents were a bit
shocked my mum didn't really feel that
Islam was something I should be
embracing and that there was a few
issues with that but when I embraced
Islam and she saw the difference in me
that's when she decided that she would
change your opinion of Iceland
the same as I did so yeah my parents are
very supportive with me they help out
with trying to make the environment as
easy for me as possible
and support the fact that I am happier
as a Muslim rather than not being Muslim
and going back to my old ways I didn't
have much support after my Shara there's
a few times where I felt like leaving
Islam but yet knowing it's the truth and
I've worked hard enough to find it and
I'm just going to give it up like that
so there were times where my Eman was
going up and down
I met not in Islam just through walking
through town and not going to city
centre I noticed the banner
table saying lots of Miss land
information points and I was curious as
to what they were doing so I went up and
gave my salams
and basically just said I'm a new Muslim
and I need help with
the religion and Islam straight away
they were very helpful they gave me a
contact number they gave me a few
leaflets and the DVD on how to pray how
to make wudu
and purifying myself basically
and also they invited me to certain
events that a host and a humble I I went
and took my opportunity to meet these
guys and I from that point I turned onto
the dowel table on a regular basis and
low hum the LA even today I'm still with
these brothers they're very kind very
helpful and help to give the dowel with
them