{"id":3561,"date":"2021-03-04T08:42:58","date_gmt":"2021-03-04T08:42:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/al-mostabserin.com\/english\/?p=3561"},"modified":"2023-06-07T10:29:46","modified_gmt":"2023-06-07T10:29:46","slug":"arthur-lazdinsh-foreign-media-never-show-the-true-face-of-islam-and-always-try-to-disregard-the-realities-of-this-religion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/al-mostabserin.com\/english\/3561","title":{"rendered":"Arthur Lazdinsh: Foreign media never show the true face of Islam and always try to disregard the realities of this religion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-9487\" src=\"http:\/\/al-mostabserin.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/01-4-300x246.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"246\" srcset=\"http:\/\/al-mostabserin.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/01-4-300x246.jpg 300w, http:\/\/al-mostabserin.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/01-4.jpg 454w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Coincident with the eve of the martyrdom of the ninth Imam of the Shi\u2019ites, Imam Jawad (A.S.), a young Ukrainian, beside the Illuminated Razavi Shrine converted to Islam.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Arthur Lazdinsh, a 27-year-old Ukrainian who was previously a Catholic Christian, attending the Razavi Holy Shrine and declaring his faith, chose the Shiism religion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBefore meeting my wife\u2019s family, I did not know about Islam and with regard to the misleading propaganda of the Western media, I was not interested to know this religion; however, this familiarity caused me to change my opinion about Islam\u201d he said on his acquaintance with Islam.<\/p>\n<p>Arthur, emphasizing that foreign media never show the true face of Islam and always try to disregard the realities of this religion, said, \u201cAfter becoming more familiar with Muslims and their actions and behavior, the attraction of this religion became more and more to me, and my inner sense inspired me to know more.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVarious nationalities living in a variety of customs live there, but none of these religions had the effect such as Islam on me\u201d he, who is the manager of a Dubai-based restaurant in the UAE stated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat I saw in Dubai was not the real Islam, and some people exaggerated in this religion and they were far from the real Islam\u201d said the newly Muslim, mentioning Islam as a religion of balance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy wife, who is one of the children of the Prophet\u2019s family (S.A.W.), talking to me about Shi\u2019ite religion made me very fond of the Infallible Imams (A.S.)\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n<p>It should be mentioned, at the end of the ceremony, by Astan Quds Razavi Non-Iranian Pilgrims Office, which provided the grounds for this attendance, an exquisite multilingual Quran volume and spiritual gifts were bestowed to this young newly Muslim.<\/p>\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-3561\" data-postid=\"3561\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-3561 themify_builder\">\n\n    <\/div>\n<!-- \/themify_builder_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Coincident with the eve of the martyrdom of the ninth Imam of the Shi\u2019ites, Imam Jawad (A.S.), a young Ukrainian, beside the Illuminated Razavi Shrine converted to Islam.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[791,34,39,792],"class_list":["post-3561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-magazine","tag-arthur-lazdinsh","tag-converted-to-shia","tag-mostabserin","tag-ukrainian","has-post-title","no-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/al-mostabserin.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/al-mostabserin.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/al-mostabserin.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/al-mostabserin.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/al-mostabserin.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3561"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/al-mostabserin.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9489,"href":"http:\/\/al-mostabserin.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3561\/revisions\/9489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/al-mostabserin.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/al-mostabserin.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/al-mostabserin.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}