You Won't Believe How This Man Converted To Islam

my name is john nelson i'm 69 years old i was born in san diego california i was the first person in the family to go to university it was the 60s and so what did i become a philosophy major which drove him crazy because he thought what's the point you're not going to do anything with that anyway when i was a young man i was raised as a catholic and when i finished the eighth grade i thought that i would become a priest so i entered a a seminary a prep seminary i became muslim in december 2010 two experiences which happened to me uh were they were wake-up calls in the middle of the night i was sleeping i live alone and in the middle of the night i heard a voice a very loud voice and it was in english and it said pray and i thought this has not happened to me before so i thought okay um so i and then in my mind i just said i don't know how to pray and the voice again said in english pray and then two thoughts crossed my mind one of them was i believe and the other one was i submit just thoughts so i closed my eyes and i went back to sleep four weeks or five weeks later same thing middle of the night i hear a voice in the voice this time says read and there happened to be a copy of the quran on my bed table one that someone from work had given me when i after i first came to the uae and i used to read it and look through it at night and kind of transition between being my work day and then going to sleep that's all i used it for and then after a while i stopped reading it so i just said it there but it was there and so i turned the light on and i got the book and i began to read and then the thought occurred to me it occurred to me this is not a book for you to read and relax and this is not a transition for you between your day job and going to sleep at night there is something in this book and you need to read this and that's what the whole purpose that's why this book is here this is the beginning of our adult relationship with god with allah this is where we recognize who we are and who he is and what our relationship is with him for me the real benefit of islam its direction and its connection because i know that if i follow the principle and the spirit of this religion this islam this submission that i'm not going to go wrong my biggest concern was and is my family at the time uh i was completely wrapped up in this experience but when i went back home and met my wife i did not discuss this with her i was going back home in three weeks so i went and i told her that i become muslim and uh if you're married you can imagine what she said she said you didn't talk to me about this you didn't talk about this i said it's not something that i can ask your permission for just as if when your relationship with god i cannot say don't do that what islam has taught me islam has taught me that everything has its time it's not a time of your choosing it's not a time of my choosing the opening is from god so if our heart is open and our mind is open then it can come to us if it's closed then it's not going to come my recommendation however old you are is listen to that part of you listen to that voice and follow that voice and trust in that voice because the person who's giving that voice the words that calling you is the god that created you you have to find inside that connection you make that connection with yourself and with the god that created you and then you will be connected with everything around you including your family you

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Length: 4min 39sec (279 seconds)

Published: Sun Jan 17 2021