Tammy Khadijah

May Allah be pleased with Her.

My Journey to Islam My Journey to Islam

I have always had a strong faith in God not because I was told to but because I felt and experienced it. I was always very active in my faiths and for the most part believed in the practices. I always had issues with the Bible for many reasons. I am a person that loves culture,history and science and the Bible seems to contradict itself in all these areas not to mention its hateful views of women.

Most Christian faiths seem to have their own version of the Bible and why is that? if the Bible is authentic why have so many seemed fit to change it? considering the errors in translations of languages I'm sure much as been lost even with the best intentions since its conception and the fact that the first Bible wasn't printed for 300 years after Jesus(pbuh) this also lends doubt to how credible it is.

As for the Trinity and the Crucifixion I understand the thinking behind these but feel that they are wrong. My view is that Allah is everything and needs no blood atonement to forgive sins and why have a begotten child when we are all his children, not to mention the accounting of the events surrounding Jesus's death seem inaccurate for the people and culture at that time.

I was Mormon for 25 years then converted to Roman Catholic in 1990, but even with this I still had doubts on many things. I have learned about the major faiths and found none of them fit my view of God or how to worship. I have not gone to my own Catholic church in a few years because of my beliefs that I have come to finally have the courage to acknowledge and the mere idea of having to tell my son that he cant trust the priest or deacon for fear of molestation infuriated me to no end.

The teachings of the churches seem to go further and further away from God in my view. I realized that I didn't have a lack of faith but it was a lack of belief in Christianity itself. Jesus(pbuh) seems to have become a mascot in Christianity.. they claim him like property, market him,put him on products, use him to wage war yet dont even honor his true name, date of birth, how he truly lived or what he looked like.

About a year ago the teenage son of my friend gave me his personal copy of the Qu'ran. Since my friends were Muslim I wanted to learn about their faith, I would pick it up from time to time and read parts of it and I was impressed with the historical accuracy and the rhythmic flow of the words. In November 07 I started to check out Islamic web sites and I wanted to learn what Islam really is. The more I read the more I wanted to learn. Everything I had always felt about how to live,worship and to view this world matched that of Muslims. I realized that I was wrong in my views just in the wrong faith and that I was always Muslim,just didnt know it.

It became very clear to me that Islam is the only faith that truly only worships God and no other, it respects and honors the religious books given to us by God and follows his word in the truest sense of how to live, pray and treasure that which God has entrusted to us.
The final thing that grabbed me and brought me to tears was about women in Islam and the laws that have always been in place to protect them, laws that only just recently Christian lawmakers are starting to put into place legally and Christian churches are still behind on in regards to how they preach. At that moment I felt like I had finally found a home and its in Islam.... so on January 12,2007 I took my Shahada at my Masjid

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