WHY I CHOOSE ISLAM.:.TAKE A LESSON

Assalaam alaikum.My story is a long one. I have always been a spiritual person as far back as i can remember. I didn't know exactly how to describe it but I knew that it felt right in my heart. The oneness of God and true submission to him was what I felt and could only be met through Islam. I then took the shahadh 'laa ill-aha ill Allah. Muhammadan rasulullah' ('There is none worthy of worship except God. Muhammad is the messenger of Allah').

I was a very devout Muslim. Even though I was 14 at the time I was very mature in my faith. I had many friends that didn't understand Islam and I would be an apologist for the cause of Islam. However, I associated too much with unbelievers and it affected my faith greatly. It affected it so much that I left the faith. I let the harsh comments about the role of women in Islam or terrorism which was pre 9/11 make me embarrassed about IslamThat's when real trouble entered my life. I began swearing, smoking, and even took a few illegal drugs. I don't know how but I ended up attending a Catholic church and ended up in a seminary to train to be a priest. Like I said earlier, I've always been a spiritual person.

I stayed with them for some time. I left because the home which was actually a mansion with all of the finest things in life inside was occupied by homosexuals. There were twelve of us at this place and I'm telling you for a fact that 10 of them were gay. One of the priests that was training me, told me how much he was in love with me. I booked a ticket for back home and that was the end of that.I even got involved with the occult. This part of my story would take years to tell. All I can say is that occultic practices are not pleasing to Allah (swt). I kept on my journey to a Pentecostal church. I started believing in that stuff. Yet I was still sinful, I could never truly dedicate myself to Jesus (pbuh) yet morally I was on the decline. I would pray to him and ask myself how come I couldn't be as faithful to him as I had been to Allah (swt).

That's when I realized I couldn't be faithful to him because it wasn't meant for me to put my faith into him but into Allah because we were born to be Muslims. For some time after leaving the fold of Islam I had become very disrespectful to my mom. So one day she told me the hard truth. she said, that I was a better person when I was Muslim. She said 'you didn't smoke, drink, curse, you ate right, you were cleaner, you had respect for me and others'. I hated her for saying that, because i knew it was 100% true.I was still trying to serve Jesus (pbuh) practicing to share my faith; of course to convert others, especially Muslims. Why? Because members of a church and a religious writer said that Muslims worship an ancient moon god. Of course it was a lie but they sounded convincing to me.I started reading my Bible to prepare for possible questions people may have for me regarding certain issues.

That's when I realized that there was so much contradiction in the Bible that I couldn't really give someone an honest answer, but I knew that the Holy Quran as revealed by Allah (swt) to the Prophet Muhammad contained all of the answers. It is a book (Quran) that clarifies all of the mistakes of the Bible and puts the will of Allah in it's proper perspective of what Allah (swt) had intended for us.Al hamdullah I'm proud that I can say that I rededicated myself to Islam. I believe there was a purpose of this journey. I feel that Allah (swt) was showing me how these false religions were false indeed and by me seeing their falsehood would eventually would lead me back to the one true god which is Allah (swt)
Shukran jazilaan.N.K. Abdul-Aziz

Let us to take the lessons of this story..and we should prayed to ALLAH because can taste the sweetness of Iman and Islam...and lastly let pray to others and ourself to get 'hidayah' from ALLAH inshaallah..