Through my husband I got to know Islam

Christian converts to Islam

My husband was the first to introduce me to Islam.

Of course gratitude goes to God eventually, but through my husband I got to know Islam.

Frankly I got to know Islam slowly step by step not quickly. I didn’t know anything about Islam. My husband introduced me to some things in Islam but then later on I started to go to organizations and places where they teach Islam.

I was a Christian and I see that there are lots of common things between Islam and Christianity, but what’s different is that the second religion doesn’t actually improve, unlike in Islam there is a respect and Improvement and it has a clear culture.

I mainly thank God for giving me patience I mainly thank God for giving me the patience because it’s not easy for any person to transfer from one religion to another, especially that the family doesn’t easily accept it.

I witnessed a lot of briskness from my cousins when they visit us or when I visited them, but one should accept all that because you can’t show them the opposite.

In Islam there are certain principles we should abide by concerning food or tahara like if I go to my family’s house and I was picky about this and that they will think that I’m being straight and they will judge my religion in a negative way, but that’s why I should explain to them why things are done in this way in Islam, that’s how things should be so we should handle these stuff and be patient.

It’s too bad that one cannot show everyone his religion because some people just don’t accept this fact, not everyone accept this, especially when you’re living in a foreign country like if our cousin visit our house I can’t greed them like before, I just can’t they consider the situation something not easy. To them it’s hard but I don’t think about it in life, I think about it for the afterlife, that’s why it becomes easy to me.

I can’t think that if he’s my cousin I can greet him intimately. No, I should know that God forbid such a thing it’s not allowed.

First of all Islam educates one’s personality one’s self one one’s own self basically by praying and by fasting.

The person has to take a certain path a straight path he can’t deal with things as if it were trading deals, he shouldn’t think this way, he should do things thinking about it in the afterlife, not the profit of it in this life, because this life is temporary, after all it’s all gone but he should think about it in the afterlife.

Life differs a lot with Islam. It makes a person look to life in a whole different way, it gives life more value especially in the daily matters, maybe if these things happened before I become a Muslim I couldn’t have handled it, but Islam taught us about patience and it taught us about faith that just gives the person devotion.

I face a lot of difficulties because my parents were living in Paraguay. When I go visit them I really feel that I am an immigrant because the way they look at you it makes things hard to handle, but of course at the same time it’s nice because it gives you the chance to show them the true Islam, not like the way they think about us as terrorists in this terribly wrong way.

I went to the Haj to Iraq and Iran but I really can’t describe the feeling because words can’t express it truly.

When you face the Kaba it’s just a great feeling, especially to us foreigners with different religion, because at that point we feel that God guided us to this place and this is just amazing.

I like to hear a lot about Imam Ali and Imam Sadiq (peace be upon them). I like to know a lot about their wisdoms.

Frankly I like all what they say, everything they say instructs people how to live in a right way.

I lived in Brazil and I learned in the husseiniya about religion.

You know it’s normal that people in foreign countries look to Islam in a bad way, because media pictures to them Islam as terrorism unlike it’s true content and unlike what we know, Islam is a religion of forgiveness and it guides people to live right and how to deal with others.

I used to wear Abaya (cloak), it was so hard to handle people back then when I wore it because I felt like people are running away from me, they are all scared of me, if I go out to a public place no one would sit beside me, if I use the bus people are alarmed.

Once I was holding something it wasn’t anything important and when I entered the place the alarm started beeping they thought I held explosions in the sack they closed the door and they searched my stuff to make sure that I have nothing explosive, that’s how things were back then unfortunately.

That depends on our manners and dealing with such situations and by showing them that Islam is not what they’re seeing in the media, Islam is just totally different not like they know.

Frankly previously things were harder than nowadays because you know now there are a lot of Muslims in Paraguay and in Brazil and in the whole World actually.

Frankly it depends on the way we as Muslims behave unlike what the media is trying to show, here comes our role to show True Islam