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Sara Bokker-My Convert Story To Islam

I was first attracted by the style and approach of the Quran and then intrigued by the Outlook on existence, life, creation and the relationship between creator and creation.I found the Quran to be a very insightful address to Heart and Soul without the need for an interpreter or a pastor.

According to Rahyafte (the missionaries and converts website):  

 

 

I am an American woman who is born in the midst of America’s Heartland.I grew up just like any other girl, being fixated with the Glamour of life in the big city.

Eventually, I moved to Florida and onto South Beach of Miami, a hotspot for those seeking the glamorous life.Naturally, I did with most average Western girls do.I focused on my appearance and appeal basing my self-worth on how much attention I got from others. I worked out rigorously and became a personal trainer, acquired and upscale Waterfront residence became a regular exhibiting beach Goa and was able to attain a living in style kind of life.

 

 

Years went by only to realise that my scale of happiness slow down the more I pressed in my feminine appeal I was a Slaved to fashion I was a hostage to my looks as the gap continue to progressively widen between myself with filament and lifestyle, I start refuge in escapes from alcohol and parties to Meditation, activism and alternative religions, only to have the little gap widen to it seemed like a Valley.

I eventually realized it was all nearly a painkiller rather than an effective remedy .as a feminist libertarian and an activist who was pursuing a Better World for all, my path crossed with that of another activist who is already at the lead of indiscriminately furthering causes of Reform and justice for all.I joined in the ongoing campaigns of my new mentor which included at the time election Reform and civil rights among others.

But most importantly I learned that it only takes Faith to see the world as one and to see the unity in creation.

One day I came across a book that is negatively stereotyped in the west, the Holy Quran up until that point all I had associated with Islam was women covered in tennis, wife beaters harems in a world of terrorism.

I was first attracted by the style and approach of the Quran and then intrigued by the Outlook on existence, life, creation and the relationship between creator and creation.I found the Quran to be a very insightful address to Heart and Soul without the need for an interpreter or a pastor.

 

 

Eventually, I hit A Moment of Truth my new phone self-fulfilling activism was nothing more than merely embracing a face called Islam where I can live in peace as a functional Muslim.

I bought a beautiful long gown and head cover, resembling the Muslim woman’s dress code and walk down the same street and neighbourhoods, where only days earlier I had walked in my shorts bikini or elegant Western Business attire, although the people the faces and the shops were all the same, one thing was remarkably distinct, the peace at being a woman experienced for the very first time I felt as if the chains have been broken and I was finally free. I was delighted with the new looks of Wonder on people’s faces in place of the looks of a hunter, watching his prey I had one side. suddenly a weight has been lifted off of my shoulders I no longer spend all my time consumed with shopping, makeup, getting my hair done and working out finally.I was free of all places I found my Islam at the heart of what some call the most scandalous place on Earth which makes it all the more dear in special.

Today I’m still a feminist, but I’m Muslim feminist who calls on Muslim women to assume their responsibilities in providing all the support they can for their husbands to be good Muslims, to raise their children as upright Muslims, so they may be Beacons of light for all humanity once again to enjoy and good, any good and forbid evil, any evil to speak righteousness and to speak up against all ills, to fight for our right to wear hijab and to please our creator whichever way we choose.

But just as important to carry or experience with her job to follow women who may never have had the chance to understand what wearing hijab means to us and why do we so dearly embrace it.

 

Willingly or unwillingly women are bombarded with the styles of dressing and little to nothing, virtually every means of communication everywhere in the world

As an ex non-muslim I insist on women’s right to equally know about hijab, it’s virtues and the peace and happiness it brings to a woman’s life, as it did to mine.

Yesterday the Bikini was the symbol of my Liberty with an actuality if only liberated me from my spirituality in true value as a respectable human being.

 

I couldn’t be happier to should my bikini in South Beach and the glamorous Western lifestyle, to live in peace with my creator and enjoy living among fellow humans, as a word a person.

today his job is the new symbol of women’s liberation to find who she is with her purposes and the type of relationship chooses to have with her creator

to women who surrendered to the ugly stereotype against the Islamic modesty of hijab, I say you don’t know what you are missing.

 

 

DUA: Allah please accept this from us. You are All-Hearing and All-Knowing. You are The Most Forgiving.You are The Most Relenting and repeatedly Merciful. Allah grant us The Taufiq to read all the 5 prayers with sincerity.
(Taken from: To Be Earnest In Prayers By Amina Elahi)
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