I decided one day, to just start reading the Quran, so then I would know what this religion was about.
As Muslims we have to communicate better, and communicate more. We have to open our mosques, we have to open our houses, and explain to the people how we are.
I started to find answers to the many questions I had. I slowly started to understand who my Creator is. I was so amazed to learn that Allah loves us so much, that He is the source of stability and comfort and peace.
Because prayer was a very important part of my Christian life I was both interested and curious to know what the Muslims were praying. As Christians we were as ignorant on this aspect of Muslim belief as on the other aspects.
pray at least 5 times a day. Being a convert, it’s an amazing feeling. It’s a comfort and a mercy. People usually don’t even say hi to each other — but Muslims are sure to greet each other,”
For the first time in Iran’s aviation history, a woman has taken the helm at the national airline Iran Air which has signed deals with Airbus and Boeing for the purchase of about 200 passenger planes.
During the last year of university, I met my husband. Admittedly, I had little to no interaction with any Muslims in the past 2 decades of my life; he was the first Muslim I met.
When little girls in the Middle East see photos of Eqbal as a chemist — wearing a head scarf, measuring pH — they don’t need to use their imagination to think: “I could be just like her. I could be a scientist.”
The state of Berlin has been ordered to pay a Muslim teacher €6,900 after she was rejected from a job because her hijab contravened a German law restricting religious symbols in the workplace.
As much as I was explaining to her, she was asking more questions about the hijab: why is it necessary for Muslim women to wear the hijab? What is the Status of Women in Islam?