When I got back to Italy, I bought the books of Henry Corbin about Shiism and Iranian Islam and I got acquainted with this vision of the world and I remember for a long period I felt that the Imam and me were kind of inseparable. I mean that, not that he was physically with me like a person but he was more like a light that touches on everything and has an inner contact with people, contact to the heart. So, after a few years of studies about Shiism, in 1992 with my friend in the month of Ramadhan, after the sunset, we said Shahada and we became Shia, both of us.
What I remember most is the way I used to pray. The spirit with whom I was praying was like the spirit of Jihad. I was feeling that praying in my room, in that place, was like praying in a desert, in a place that, could say, an unholy place, in a place where religion isn’t well accepted. So for me praying was a kind of doing a Jihad, doing a battle with Satan and kind of doing an act of testimony in a world that doesn’t want to accept lights of the Quran.
More about biography of Salman:
http://al-mostabserin.com/english/10491
Oct 12 2023
I felt that the Imam and me were kind of inseparable – Robert Reike (Salman)
When I got back to Italy, I bought the books of Henry Corbin about Shiism and Iranian Islam and I got acquainted with this vision of the world and I remember for a long period I felt that the Imam and me were kind of inseparable. I mean that, not that he was physically with me like a person but he was more like a light that touches on everything and has an inner contact with people, contact to the heart. So, after a few years of studies about Shiism, in 1992 with my friend in the month of Ramadhan, after the sunset, we said Shahada and we became Shia, both of us.
What I remember most is the way I used to pray. The spirit with whom I was praying was like the spirit of Jihad. I was feeling that praying in my room, in that place, was like praying in a desert, in a place that, could say, an unholy place, in a place where religion isn’t well accepted. So for me praying was a kind of doing a Jihad, doing a battle with Satan and kind of doing an act of testimony in a world that doesn’t want to accept lights of the Quran.
More about biography of Salman:
http://al-mostabserin.com/english/10491
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