I was born into a rigorously Catholic
Family not a harsh in its belief but
genuine especially my mother yet this
this religion did not take root in me
with serious conviction As I Grew and
until in my mid teens I had a Revival
but it did not last because it was more
about the brother and
Sisterhood than belief in Prophet Isa as
the Messiah and the Son of
God my interest waned As I Grew to know
the corruption of the official
church and my interest in Justice and
communism the pure anist form grew the
Pope's support of evil people like
Pinochet the brutal dictator of Chile
and Nora some the same but from Panama
and his opposition to Liberation
theology as the preferential option for
the poor simply put a genuine religion
from God would oppose oppression as
immoral even if
inevitable but the pope did not do
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this it still does not so I fell into a
state of complete kuer or
disbelief
atheism what appeals most to me about
Islam is that although it is based on
faith as the True Religion must be it is
faith based in reason not just
emotion what Allah and his or Messenger
s was tells us to believe makes
sense we are told no ordered to examine
Islam to find faults if we
can and also to find reasons to believe
not just accept what priests or other
intermediaries invent or
interpret and some of these miracles
uh I just got notes here now
uh there's one about mention about waves
upon waves and then the water being kept
separate
and this is true and I knew this from
reading about submarines trying to enter
the Mediterranean during the war and
things like that and it affected how
they did this and this is something
we've only discovered this Century
through going under the water in maches
and yet it was written and spoken over
1,400 years
ago this impressed
me the shape of the earth is is
described with a word that means
flat spread
out shaped like an
egg and when viewed from space this is
what the earth looks like it's not
exactly like an egg
but it's not a sphere either the the
rotation uh pushes it towards the the PS
and this is what it looks
like and this was said over, 1400 years
ago and this is something we've only
known since we sent monkeys into
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space and one of the most amazing of
all the development of the human being
just after conception is described in
very good
detail and this is something that could
only be discovered with the invention of
the
microscope which again is very
recent in
closing I will touch on a few points
that I've discovered since becoming a
Muslim once you become a Muslim every
other Muslim in the world is your
brother or
sister and this really means
something you will meet complete
strangers in the street willing to take
the jacket off their backs for you if
you think if they think you need it this
has actually happened to me I had to
stop the man from taking his clothes off
his back cuz it was
cold I had if I didn't just live half a
block away he would still insisted of
giving it to
me others you will sit down with and
talk to about the greatness of Allah
while one of you buys the other's lunch
or
tea as complete strangers you've just
met and 30 seconds later you're sitting
down and buying each other lunch and
talking about the most beautiful thing
in your
life and
competing to give Hospitality to each
other
if you have any problems you can share
them with willing and interested
friends it's something a lot of us can't
say even for those you know uh
non-believers as I was you know you have
good friends but after a while people
don't want to hear the same problem
again and
again strangers will open their doors to
you just because you are Muslim