it was a dream but now
alhamdulillah it's
really really asalam alaykum my dear
brothers and sisters in Islam and
welcome to roadside to Islam now today
roadside to Islam is again uh in Canada
uh Montreal and we are today uh with um
our brother Zakaria he's a convert to
Islam and he he embra embrac Islam uh I
think a year and a a year and a half ago
so
uh how are you alhamdulillah
alhamdulillah so uh tell us a bit about
your story inshah so how it all started
first of all was we have a class in
school they teach about religion and all
you know just to make us have an idea
about religion so Hinduism and all so I
presented my religion and one day there
was a brother in class well I say
brother cuz I'm Muslim now but but he
presented his religion which was Islam
and the way he did it Mah like his
character and like it just touched my
heart so one
day we had a second class actually and
in that second class my friend told me
could you could I do it could I inter
interview could I interview you about
your religion so I told them yes you can
so you were a Christian that was
Christian yeah so he start interviewing
me I answered every question and the
last question was unpredicted he told me
are you going to convert to any religion
so I said yeah I might convert to Islam
so I don't know how I said it but like
Allah made me say it you know so then I
turn I turned my head and look at the
class and the whole class and the
teacher is just like he's going to go to
the terrorist side you know and I didn't
know what to say to like why you want
why do you want to convert I had no clue
why I said that but I just said it
alhamdulillah Allah opened my heart at
that time Mah then what happened is
after class you know everyone was
leaving people telling telling me are
you really going to convert I'm like I
don't know I just I just said that you
know like in the moment I don't know
what happened so they all left and I was
just there like thinking and all I see a
book on the floor the book is like how
to pray in Islam but I didn't look at it
I just start kicking it and every time I
kicked it Subhan Allah it kept on coming
back so I'm like okay why is it coming
back it start getting on my nerves so I
kick it I kick it I kick it I decid to
pick it up you know it's all ripped and
all because I've been kicking it it says
how to pray I opened it Arabic writing
but I didn't know it was Arabic back
then you know so I look at it I'm like
what is this book I close it I put in a
locker I forget about it summer comes
alhamdulillah school is finished I do
what I got to do I decide oh I've been
away from my religion which was
Christianity I was a Mormon I'm like
I've been away from my religion for a
good two years cuz I grew up like in
that religion my mom used to bring us at
church every Sunday so I still believed
I believed in God at least you know
aldah I had something so what happened
is that I start thinking about my
religion I'm like it's been two years
I'm away from my religion I have to come
back so I decided to read the Bible you
know the basic stories David and the
Goliath those type of stories whatever
so I start reading and then at one point
like I see some contradictions I told
myself okay this isn't right and I
remember back when I used to go to
church people would always explain like
the verses but in different ways so I'm
like
who's explaining it right now he's
saying it it's this way he's saying it's
this way which way is way is right so I
told myself you know what let me just
like research My Religion see if it's
right or not I start researching I start
seeing stuff about it whatever I'm like
nah this is not the right religion first
of all because like they believe in
Jesus as a god also which in my heart
like didn't make sense they didn't make
sense didn't make no sense you know
anyways that's a different D from that
the time so what happened is that one
day I I had a Bible in my bag and I went
to the YMCA gville Montreal to play
basketball then I was going to read my
Bible I go to play basketball I see a
brother who is a Muslim so I go up to
him I'm like can I speak to you and it's
this is in Ramadan he's fasting it all
so I go and I speak to him I'm like in
your religion do you have Moses Jesus
and all these prophets he's like yeah
yeah we have all these prophets in
religion he starts presenting to me
Islam and he tells me the only
difference in our religion is that we
believe in one God and the prophet
sallallahu alai wasallam as the last
messenger so he told me do you accept
that I'm like I can't accept it CU I
don't know who the prophet is Al
wasallam so what I did is that I started
researching about the religion and all I
talked to him a couple times but then I
stopped one day I was on the internet
Islam terrorist Islam terrorist Islam
terrorist you know we always hear that
even today we still hear it
so what I did is that I told myself
something told me in my heart go to the
mosque go to the mosque so I took my
bike I started riding to the mosque I go
in I'm like who's the person who's
responsible you tell me his name is an
Imam that's the only word I knew Imam so
I go inside I say they're praying janaza
actually outside once it's done I say
could I speak to the Imam they're like
yeah he's coming soon so he comes he
grabs me by the hand he holds my hand
like as soon as he hold my hand I
started feeling like this love you know
like going in my heart masallah and then
when I walked inside the mosque the
environment I can't explain it I can't
explain it but anyways I went to his
desk to his like room whatever he sat me
down he told me what religion are you
from I started talking to him like after
2 minutes I started crying crying crying
crying I couldn't stop crying Subhan
Allah so like we had to cancel the
appointment cuz I couldn't talk so what
happened is I left he he gave me the
number of icq which is uh the mosque
here in Montreal he told me me don't
leave contact with the mosque I went
home I started studying the religion and
all I'm like okay they're not terrorists
people start answering my questions
Allah made me hear what I need to
hear and so I started you know listening
to Surah F and all like it start
touching my heart and I like the way
they recited you know like it sounds
beautiful you know so they attracted me
so what I did I'm like let me see how
they pray so I went to the mosque I
started following the prayer with the
people I was still Christian I was still
following the people at first it's hard
you know like you have to stand up for
10 minutes and all it's long
alhamdulillah I got us in Ramadan yeah
no no no it was after it was after how
long after uh a month after maybe I was
done studying and all so yeah yeah yeah
I went and I started following prayers
yeah and Subhan Allah like my heart was
at peace but it was long you know cuz
you're not used to it but still my heart
was at peace and I used to like look at
the people beside me and follow the
movements they're doing and all and from
then like I was 100% sure I was going to
convert to the religion but it took it
still took time you know after some
friends came up to me they're like when
are you going to convert and I said I
have to do it next week next week I
didn't do it but after I told myself no
no no I can't like I have to do it now
soan was playing with your head Shan was
playing with me yeah so I converted so I
went to the mosque I stay there all day
cuz like I looked at uh there like
requirements for when you want to
convert you know you have to be sincere
like you have to know what's the right
decision and there's like a lot more so
anyways I looked you know I did my
studies and I'm like okay I have to be
sincere I have to be sure I want to do
it and all so I went to the mosque I
started reading listening to people
watching the prayers and all at the end
I was sure I wanted to convert so I took
my Shah the same day alhamdulillah now
I'm a Muslim and what I want to say to
the people who are not Muslims alh
people who are not Muslims or people who
are Muslims actually is that I was not a
Muslim and I came to the prayer even if
it was once I came to the prayer and I
was I was not a Muslim and some people
are Muslim and they don't go to the
mosque it doesn't make any sense like
there's a lot of stories actually on the
internet you could look uh this lady she
has depression and what she does is that
to cure her depression she goes to the
mosque to pray and the non-muslim
sisters tell her why are you coming here
if you're not a Muslim she says because
it cures my depression I was not a
Muslim and Subhan Allah I was going to
the mosque so for the people who don't
practice this or don't pray please start
praying because we all know what's going
to happen in the afterlife so we want
the best for you guys and also may Allah
leads us to the to the right path I mean
I mean I mean and what I want to also
say
that when I walked to the prayers
alhamdulillah there was this man who
used to look at me like from his window
so one day he stops me and I go up to
him and I give him a hand like I show
you and I smile
said smile Subhan Allah and smile is a
smile is a and he noticed it so when he
went home he told his wife I saw this
little young boy this Muslim boy he was
so like happy and all you know he gave
me a smile he was happy to meet me happy
about life so he told me come in his
house so I told him I have to go and
pray when I came back I went in his
house we started talking about Islam
religion and all he told me and he SK
what masallah and he told me you change
my view about religion he said I always
had a bad view about it I thought like
Muslims were you know bad people
terrorists and all you changed my view
and he told me just because of that one
act he told me you never know what could
change people and from that day like I
started thinking you know the way we act
with people the way we dress the way we
speak it affects people even though you
don't notice it people watch we don't
notice all the time people watch really
watch so you know like if you wear the
Sunnah and especially like the the
sister
the Muslim sisters like that wear the
hijab and the jilbab like as soon as you
wear like something that that shows that
you're a Muslim you should uh be
concerned of like what other people are
are seeing from you like you should be
uh concerned that every action that you
are doing it's a dawa against Islam or
for Islam so you should be really
concerned about that like smiling and
acting good and uh showing good manners
uh even to like mostly to non-muslim
that's the best da that you can do so
yeah people you guys should have pride
in your religion you know because
there's a lot of people who are not
Muslim and then they come into your
religion so you guys should be happy and
yeah so the man told me you know one day
we'll go to the MOs together and inshah
he'll convert so if you guys can make
Dua for him so he could become a Muslim
and make Dua for me and my family so
they could become Muslim also and for me
and my family and for and for all the
all the all the revers inshah may Allah
guide all uh the family of the reverts
to Islam I mean and my last message
before we
end uh so yeah when I used to go to high
school there's a this guy masallah he
has a really really good character but
he always sees Muslim people stealing
all so it's like you know it pushes him
away from the religion so what I want to
say for the brothers
like if you have non-muslim friends try
to act according to the Sunnah don't act
and start stealing and have excuses for
stealing and all you're not supposed to
do that so if you guys could please stop
you know and start following the Sunnah
inshallah because it could affect a lot
of people people watch you as I said
non-muslim people if maybe the brothers
he was with if they didn't steal he
might have become Muslim but now like
it's making him go away from the
straight path so inshallah if we could
all change and and may Allah put us all
on the straight path and give us J aen
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