in the name of Allah the most
beneficient and the most
merciful I'm from New York and um I'm
Puerto Rican and
africanamerican um that it's an amazing
religion and it's something that changes
your entire
life
sorry it's nothing like just going to
church just for a wedding or um baptis
isms it's nothing like that we tend to
or I have had tend to at the time just
to go to church for those special
occasions or I hear people go to church
for Christmas and then never do it again
and still live the old
life it's something that it's amazing
when you convert and to actually
practice what it's recommended by one of
us as humans to do it's amazing and I
wish that one day inshah my families do
decide to convert actually my first
experience wasn't uh when I was Muslim I
had um practiced fasting one day before
or sometime before Ramadan and I woke up
remembering that I needed to fast that
day but this wasn't Ramadan and I uh I
did it anyway I fast and I work that
whole day and everything that anyone
told me I thought of food so I I I'm at
The Challenge and then I decided okay so
let me do the whole month of Ramadan um
a fasting only non religion cuz I was a
Muslim at the time and I made it I felt
such an in intense accomplishment to
myself I felt peace I felt this type of
love that was just not given to me from
my family members um when I decided that
I was going to convert um it was about 3
weeks after Ramadan so I had then fast
the second time halfway in then I
converted um September 19th 2009 to
September 13 2009 and it felt like an or
ordinary day but the next day felt
amazing before having to have fast I was
going through a couple of tribulations
some fighting arguments everything and
I've burned many bridges and when I had
converted that next day this intense
peace that just covered my heart it was
just amazing and I knew things were
going to turn over to the
better so then I continue fasting and it
was amazing ever
since during Ramadan I visit the sisters
I want to be with them right after work
I go prepare myself and then I go to the
center um in Brooklyn um I refuse to do
anything other than just be with them
for that time of the year I've seen all
other the vill
and I don't get that feeling um with my
family and I still don't get it um but
with them is I've learned to hug I've
learned to tell people I love you