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E. Levine, Ex-Jew, USA","slug":"s-e-levine-ex-jew-usa","word":"\/uploads\/articles\/S. E. Levine, Ex-Jew, USA.docx","pdf":"\/uploads\/articles\/S. E. Levine, Ex-Jew, USA.pdf","mime_type":null,"type":"node","path":"\/nodes\/view\/type:article\/slug:s-e-levine-ex-jew-usa","hint":"","body":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: xx-large;\"><strong>S. E. Levine, Ex-Jew, USA<\/strong><\/span><br \/><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><strong>&nbsp;(part 1 of 2)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<img style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com\/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQBuZuDxnjK7HMF5rRRNatU6i7fA3VBUcQsfyBRdTKlNdRSfD2WYA\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">My husband and I had gone to the masjid (mosque) for a speaker&rsquo;s program.&nbsp; It was the first time that he had invited me to the masjid since our marriage a year or so earlier.&nbsp; We had met and married while we were both working as substance abuser counselors in a rehabilitation center.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">We couldn&rsquo;t have been more different in the beginning, as we are from entirely different backgrounds &mdash; he is black and I am white, he was Muslim and I was Jewish.&nbsp; Although he hadn&rsquo;t asked me to become a Muslim prior to our marriage, he did give me silent da`wah (calling to Islam) by his excellent example.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">He had an extensive Islamic library, and because I was a keen reader, I naturally read a lot of his books.&nbsp; I also observed his modest behavior, watched as he made salah (prayer) five times a day, went to Jumu`ah Prayer on Fridays, and fasted during the month of Ramadan.&nbsp; So it was natural that I would develop an interest in his religion.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">When we arrived at the masjid, he pointed out the entrance to the women&rsquo;s section.&nbsp; We agreed to meet in the parking lot after the program was over.&nbsp; &ldquo;OK, I can do this,&rdquo; I thought to myself as I entered the dark dank hallway and walked down the steep steps.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">I had never had trouble making friends before.&nbsp; I had always enjoyed multicultural situations and looked forward to the evening.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">My husband had suggested that I wear something modest for the occasion.&nbsp; I ran my hands down over my long-sleeved dress, straightening and smoothing it out.&nbsp; I felt confident that the women at the masjid would approve of my appearance.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">However, when I arrived at the bottom of the stairs and walked through the door marked &ldquo;Sisters,&rdquo; I could immediately feel it in the air: thick tension, suspicion, estrangement and confusion.&nbsp; Every veiled head turned in my direction and the Muslim women stared at me as if I had two heads.&nbsp; I stood frozen in place in the entrance way, staring back at them.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">I had never seen so many Muslim women together in one place.&nbsp; Most of them wore the traditional hijab, but two women peered out at me through head coverings that revealed only their eyes.&nbsp; A few others sat with their scarves draped over their shoulders.&nbsp; When they saw me, they pulled them up over their heads.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">But then one of them got up from where she was sitting, approached me, and introduced herself as Sister Basimah.&nbsp; At least this one had a welcoming look on her face.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">&ldquo;Hi,&rdquo; I said.&nbsp; &ldquo;My name is Sharon.&nbsp; I&rsquo;m here for the speaker&rsquo;s program.&rdquo;<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">&ldquo;Is anyone with you?&rdquo; &nbsp;she asked.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">&ldquo;My husband is upstairs,&rdquo; I replied.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">&ldquo;Oh! &nbsp;Your husband is Muslim?&rdquo; &nbsp;she asked.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">&ldquo;Yes.&nbsp; Yes, he is,&rdquo; I said.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">&ldquo;Al-hamdu lillah,&rdquo; she said.&nbsp; &ldquo;Come over here and sit with us.&rdquo;<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">She led me to a table where three other women were seated.&nbsp; They were the most beautiful exotic women I had ever seen.&nbsp; Right after she made introductions, I forgot each one of their names, which were equally exotic.&nbsp; Sister Basimah then got up and went to greet more people who had arrived.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">&ldquo;Where are you from?&rdquo; &nbsp;one of the women asked me.&nbsp; I replied that I was an American of Eastern European heritage, born in New York City.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">&ldquo;Where&rsquo;s your husband from?&rdquo; &nbsp;was the next question.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">&ldquo;He&rsquo;s from America.&rdquo;<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">&ldquo;But where is he from?&rdquo;<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">&ldquo;Philadelphia,&rdquo; I replied.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">&ldquo;No, I mean, what country is he from?&rdquo;<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">&ldquo;He&rsquo;s American, born in the United States, he&rsquo;s African-American, from Philadelphia,&rdquo; I replied, thinking that there was a language barrier.&nbsp; I would later learn that most of the Caucasian women in the masjid were married to Arab men.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">&ldquo;Hmmm,&rdquo; they all said in unison and they cast their lovely gazes downward.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">&ldquo;Are you thinking of becoming a Muslim?&rdquo; &nbsp;another one asked, looking up at me with a beaming expression on her face.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">&ldquo;No,&rdquo; I replied, &ldquo;I&rsquo;m Jewish.&rdquo; Well, I wish you could have seen the look on their faces.&nbsp; As soon as it was politely possible, the topic was switched.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">&ldquo;Are your children Muslims?&rdquo; &nbsp;one of them asked, returning to the interrogation.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">&ldquo;No.&rdquo; I replied, &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t have any children.&rdquo; That was it; their attempts to find a common ground with me had failed.&nbsp; They smiled at me and then something incredible happened for which I was not prepared: The conversation turned to Arabic.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">I continued to sit with them at the table.&nbsp; They mostly spoke to each other in Arabic, and I mostly smiled.&nbsp; As more women would join the table, they would introduce me in English, &ldquo;This is Sharon.&nbsp; She&rsquo;s Jewish.&rdquo; Then they resumed speaking in Arabic.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">When the program began, the women gathered in the prayer room and everyone sat down on the plush carpeted floor.&nbsp; But after about five minutes, the women started chatting to one another, all but drowning out the sound of the program that was being delivered over a stereo speaker from upstairs.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<h1 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">&nbsp;(part 2 of 2)<\/span><\/h1>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">After the program was over, the women went into the kitchen to prepare food.&nbsp; Sister Basimah came over and told me to sit and make myself comfortable until it was time to eat.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">&ldquo;But let me help you,&rdquo; I offered.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">&ldquo;No!&nbsp; You are our guest.&nbsp; Some American sisters have arrived.&nbsp; I&rsquo;ll introduce you,&rdquo; she replied.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Sister Basimah motioned to one of the women on the other side of the room.&nbsp; She came over and the two women kissed each other on the cheeks and greeted each other with a cheerful Arabic expression.&nbsp; Then they both turned to look at me.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">&ldquo;This is Sharon.&nbsp; She&rsquo;s Jewish.&nbsp; Will you keep her company until we eat?&rdquo;&nbsp; Sister Basimah said to the other woman.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">&ldquo;Oh, yes!&rdquo;&nbsp; she replied.&nbsp; &ldquo;Hi, Sharon, I&rsquo;m Sister Arwa!&rdquo;<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Sister Arwa and I sat down and began to get acquainted.&nbsp; I asked her questions such as how long she had been a Muslim, whether she was married to a Muslim, etc.&nbsp; Then she dropped the bomb.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">&ldquo;Why did you kill Jesus?&rdquo;&nbsp; she asked me.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">&ldquo;What?&rdquo;&nbsp; I replied.&nbsp; My face must have shown my shock and disbelief.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">&ldquo;I mean&rdquo; she inquired again, this time softening her question, &ldquo;why did the Jews kill Jesus?&rdquo;<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">I couldn&rsquo;t believe what I was hearing!&nbsp; I was astonished and rankled by the question.&nbsp; I could tell by the innocent look on her face that she really wanted to know.&nbsp; Maybe she never met a Jewish woman before, and this was her first real opportunity to get an answer to her burning question.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">When I was first introduced to her, I welcomed her company; after all, she was the first American I had seen that evening.&nbsp; Now I wanted to get up and run from the table.&nbsp; Then the anger set in.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Giving her a baleful look, I replied through clenched teeth, &ldquo;We did not kill Jesus.&nbsp; The Romans did!&rdquo;&nbsp; She returned the look of a wounded animal.&nbsp; Her lips opened to say something, but before she could reply someone called to her.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">&ldquo;Excuse me,&rdquo; she said, &ldquo;I&rsquo;ll be back.&rdquo;&nbsp; I could hear the relief in her voice.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">A group of African-American sisters arrived at the masjid and I spent the remainder of the evening in their company.&nbsp; Before I left to meet my husband, Sister Basimah gave me her telephone number and encouraged me to call and arrange a time to visit with her.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">I did call her, and we developed a beautiful relationship.&nbsp; She told me all about Islam and God.&nbsp; It was from her that I learned that no one killed Jesus!&nbsp; I learned that God took him up unto Himself.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">She knew I was interested in Islam and could sense that my heart was searching and yearning for spiritual peace.&nbsp; One evening while my husband and I were visiting her home, she came right out and invited me to Islam.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">The turning point occurred when she explained that all my sins would be forgiven when I came to Islam.&nbsp; She said that I would be reborn, like a newborn baby, with no sins, with another chance.&nbsp; I broke down and cried.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">I wanted another chance to get right with God.&nbsp; You see, I had a very checkered past.&nbsp; I always loved God, but I got lost in life.&nbsp; We asked her husband to help me say the Shahadah.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">When I told my husband what I was about to do, he was shocked and happy at the same time.&nbsp; He asked me if I was really sure about my decision, as if he couldn&rsquo;t believe what he was hearing.&nbsp; I responded that I was never surer about anything in my entire life.&nbsp; There was no internal battle, no fears or doubts.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">After I said the Shahadah, Sister Basimah&rsquo;s husband said, &ldquo;Mabrook (congratulations)!&nbsp; You&rsquo;re now a Muslim!&rdquo;<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">When we returned home, my husband gave me a gift of my very own Quran and a summarized Sahih Al-Bukhari.&nbsp; Before I left Sister Basimah&rsquo;s home that special evening, she gave me a gift of a booklet about modesty for Muslim women.&nbsp; She also gave me a prayer rug, a prayer dress and a hijab (head scarf).<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">I have worn hijab since that day, al-hamdu lillah.&nbsp; I have never taken it off, even after the dreadful days following September 11, 2001.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">When I became a Muslim in July of 1998, my father denounced me once and for all.&nbsp; He had been very upset with me anyhow for marrying a Muslim, and refused to recognize my husband as his son-in-law.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">&ldquo;But, Sharon, those people hate us!&rdquo;&nbsp; he cried.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">All efforts to explain the difference between the peaceful religion of Islam and the political struggle between the Palestinians and Israelis fell on deaf ears.&nbsp; Never mind that my father was the first one in his family to marry outside of Judaism.&nbsp; My mother had been a practicing Catholic when they married.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">To add insult to injury in my father&rsquo;s eyes, my husband was also African-American.&nbsp; Prior to September 11, 2001, most Americans thought of Malcolm X whenever Islam was mentioned.&nbsp; Many other family members also made it known how disappointed and frustrated they were with my decision to marry a &ldquo;Black Muslim.&rdquo;<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">My father died in August of 2001, one month before the events of September 11.&nbsp; At the request of my father&rsquo;s wife, my family did not tell me that he had died until after his funeral was over.&nbsp; Did they fear that I would show up in the synagogue dressed in garb accompanied by my black husband?<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">We are taught that the religion of Islam is for all people and for all time.&nbsp; It shouldn&rsquo;t matter whether a Muslim is Egyptian, Pakistani, American, Saudi, Indonesian, or Palestinian.&nbsp; It shouldn&rsquo;t matter whether he or she is black, white, red, or yellow.&nbsp; It shouldn&rsquo;t matter whether he or she speaks Arabic, English, Spanish, or Urdu.&nbsp; Our cultural diversity should not divide our Ummah (Nation).&nbsp; God tells us in the Quran that:<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-quran\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><strong>&ldquo;We created you in nations and tribes so that you may know one another&rdquo;. (Quran 49:13)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;<\/p>","excerpt":"","terms":null,"visibility_roles":"","comment_status":1,"comment_count":0,"read_counter":12851,"lft":3203,"rght":3214,"promote":1,"sticky":0,"status":1,"publish_start":null,"publish_end":null,"created_at":"2014-09-02T17:26:00.000000Z","updated_at":"2026-04-03T15:51:45.000000Z","language_id":1,"user_id":7,"author_id":2425,"publisher_id":0,"category_id":10,"parent_id":null,"author_name":"S. E. Levine","category_name":"Why I became a Muslim!","category_slug":"Why-I-became-a-Muslim!","get_date":"2014-09-02","pdf_asset":"http:\/\/www.islamland.com\/uploads\/articles\/S. E. Levine, Ex-Jew, USA.pdf","word_asset":"http:\/\/www.islamland.com\/uploads\/articles\/S. E. Levine, Ex-Jew, USA.docx"},{"id":1715,"title":"S. E. Levine, exjud\u00eda, Estados Unidos","slug":"s-e-levine-exjuda-estados-unidos","word":"\/uploads\/articles\/sp-S. E. Levine, Ex-Jew, USA.docx","pdf":"\/uploads\/articles\/sp-S. E. Levine, Ex-Jew, USA.pdf","mime_type":null,"type":"node","path":"\/nodes\/view\/type:article\/slug:s-e-levine-exjuda-estados-unidos","hint":"","body":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span>S. E. Levine, exjud&iacute;a, Estados Unidos<\/span><\/h1>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><img style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com\/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQBuZuDxnjK7HMF5rRRNatU6i7fA3VBUcQsfyBRdTKlNdRSfD2WYA\" alt=\"\" \/><\/span><\/p>\r\n<h1 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">&nbsp;(parte 1 de 2)<\/span><\/h1>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Mi esposo y yo hab&iacute;amos ido a la masyid (mezquita) para escuchar una conferencia. Fue la primera vez que &eacute;l me hab&iacute;a invitado a la mezquita desde que nos casamos, un a&ntilde;o antes. Nos conocimos y nos casamos mientras trabaj&aacute;bamos como consejeros a abusadores de sustancias en un centro de rehabilitaci&oacute;n.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">No podr&iacute;amos haber sido m&aacute;s diferentes en un comienzo, pues proven&iacute;amos de or&iacute;genes completamente distintos: &eacute;l es negro y yo blanca, &eacute;l era musulm&aacute;n y yo era jud&iacute;a. A pesar que &eacute;l nunca me pidi&oacute; que me hiciera musulmana antes de nuestro matrimonio, me daba da`wah (invitaci&oacute;n al Islam) silenciosa con su excelente ejemplo.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">&Eacute;l ten&iacute;a una biblioteca isl&aacute;mica extensa, y como era una lectora entusiasta, naturalmente le&iacute; muchos de sus libros. Tambi&eacute;n me fij&eacute; en su comportamiento modesto, lo observaba haciendo salah (oraci&oacute;n) cinco veces al d&iacute;a, asistir a la oraci&oacute;n del yumuah los viernes, y ayunar durante el mes de Ramad&aacute;n. Por lo tanto, era natural que desarrollara en m&iacute; el inter&eacute;s por su religi&oacute;n.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Cuando llegamos a la mezquita, se&ntilde;al&oacute; la entrada a la secci&oacute;n de mujeres. Acordamos encontrarnos en el parqueadero mucho despu&eacute;s que terminara el evento. &ldquo;Est&aacute; bien, puedo hacer esto,&rdquo; pens&eacute; para mis adentros mientras ingresaba al pasillo oscuro y h&uacute;medo y bajaba los escalones empinados.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Nunca antes tuve problemas haciendo amigos. Siempre disfrut&eacute; las situaciones multiculturales y aguardaba con inter&eacute;s la noche.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Mi esposo hab&iacute;a sugerido que vistiera algo modesto para la ocasi&oacute;n. Pas&eacute; las manos por las largas mangas de mi vestido, estir&aacute;ndolas y alis&aacute;ndolas. Estaba segura de que las mujeres de la mezquita aprobar&iacute;an mi apariencia.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Sin embargo, cuando llegu&eacute; al final de las escaleras y atraves&eacute; la puerta marcada &ldquo;hermanas&rdquo;, pude sentir de inmediato una tensi&oacute;n fuerte en el ambiente, desconfianza, distanciamiento y confusi&oacute;n. Todas las cabezas cubiertas con velo se voltearon en direcci&oacute;n a m&iacute; y las mujeres musulmanas se quedaron vi&eacute;ndome como si tuviera dos cabezas. Qued&eacute; est&aacute;tica en la entrada, mir&aacute;ndolas.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Nunca hab&iacute;a visto tantas musulmanas juntas en un mismo lugar. Muchas de ellas vest&iacute;an el hiyab tradicional, pero dos me miraban a trav&eacute;s de las cubiertas de sus cabezas que s&oacute;lo dejaban ver sus ojos. Otras pocas estaban sentadas con sus velos sobre los hombros. Cuando me vieron, se los pusieron sobre la cabeza.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Entonces, una de ellas se levant&oacute; de su silla, se acerc&oacute; a m&iacute; y se present&oacute; como la hermana Basimah. Al menos ella me daba la bienvenida.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">&ldquo;Hola,&rdquo; dije. &ldquo;Mi nombre es Sharon. Esto aqu&iacute; para la conferencia.&rdquo;<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">&ldquo;&iquest;Est&aacute;s con alguien?,&rdquo; pregunt&oacute;.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">&ldquo;Mi esposo est&aacute; arriba,&rdquo; respond&iacute;.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">&ldquo;&iexcl;Oh! &iquest;Tu esposo es musulm&aacute;n?,&rdquo; pregunt&oacute;.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">&ldquo;S&iacute;. S&iacute;, lo es,&rdquo; dije.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">&ldquo;Alhamdulillah,&rdquo; dijo.&nbsp; &ldquo;Ven aqu&iacute; y si&eacute;ntate con nosotras.&rdquo;<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Me llev&oacute; a una mesa en la que estaban sentadas tres mujeres. Eran las mujeres ex&oacute;ticas m&aacute;s hermosas que hab&iacute;a visto. En cuanto ella nos present&oacute;, olvid&eacute; cada uno de sus nombres, que eran igualmente ex&oacute;ticos. La hermana Basimah entonces se levant&oacute; y fue a saludar a m&aacute;s personas que acababan de llegar.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">&ldquo;&iquest;De d&oacute;nde eres?,&rdquo; me pregunt&oacute; una de ellas. Le respond&iacute; que soy estadounidense descendiente de europeos orientales, nacida en la ciudad de Nueva York.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">&ldquo;&iquest;Y de d&oacute;nde es tu esposo?,&rdquo; fue la siguiente pregunta.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">&ldquo;Es de Estados Unidos.&rdquo;<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">&ldquo;&iquest;Pero de d&oacute;nde es?&rdquo;<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">&ldquo;De Filadelfia,&rdquo; respond&iacute;.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">&ldquo;No, quiero decir de qu&eacute; pa&iacute;s proviene.&rdquo;<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">&ldquo;Es estadounidense, nacido en los Estados Unidos, es afroamericano, de Filadelfia,&rdquo; respond&iacute;, pensando que hab&iacute;a alguna barrera idiom&aacute;tica. Luego supe que muchas de las mujeres cauc&aacute;sicas de la mezquita estaban casadas con hombres &aacute;rabes.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">&ldquo;&iexcl;Ah!,&rdquo; dijeron todas al un&iacute;sono y bajaron sus miradas encantadoras.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">&ldquo;&iquest;Piensas hacerte musulmana?&rdquo;, me pregunt&oacute; otra, mir&aacute;ndome con una expresi&oacute;n radiante en su rostro.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">&ldquo;No,&rdquo; respond&iacute;, &ldquo;soy jud&iacute;a.&rdquo; Bueno, me gustar&iacute;a que hubieran podido ver la expresi&oacute;n en sus rostros. Tan pronto como fue cordialmente posible, cambiaron de tema.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">&ldquo;&iquest;Tus hijos son musulmanes?&rdquo;, pregunt&oacute; una de ellas, volviendo al interrogatorio.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">&ldquo;No,&rdquo; respond&iacute;, &ldquo;no tengo ni&ntilde;os.&rdquo; Eso fue todo; sus intentos por encontrar alg&uacute;n terreno com&uacute;n conmigo hab&iacute;an fallado. Me sonrieron y ocurri&oacute; algo incre&iacute;ble para lo que no estaba preparada: comenzaron a hablar en &aacute;rabe.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Segu&iacute; sentada con ellas en la mesa. En su mayor&iacute;a, hablaban entre ellas en &aacute;rabe y me sonre&iacute;an. A medida que m&aacute;s mujeres llegaban a la mesa, me presentaban en ingl&eacute;s, &ldquo;ella es Sharon. Es jud&iacute;a.&rdquo; Luego continuaban hablando en &aacute;rabe.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Cuando comenz&oacute; el evento, las mujeres se reunieron en la sala de oraci&oacute;n y todas se sentaron en el piso sobre la alfombra. Pero despu&eacute;s de cinco minutos, las mujeres comenzaron a conversar unas con otras, ahogando el sonido de la conferencia que se estaba transmitiendo a trav&eacute;s de altavoces est&eacute;reo desde arriba.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<h1 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">(parte 2 de 2)<\/span><\/h1>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Despu&eacute;s que termin&oacute; el evento, las mujeres fueron a la cocina a preparar comida. La hermana Basimah se me acerc&oacute; y me dijo que me sentara y me pusiera c&oacute;moda hasta la hora de comer.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">&ldquo;Pero perm&iacute;teme ayudar,&rdquo; le ofrec&iacute;.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">&ldquo;&iexcl;No!&nbsp; Eres nuestra invitada. Han llegado algunas hermanas estadounidenses. Voy a present&aacute;rtelas,&rdquo; respondi&oacute;.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">La hermana Basimah le hizo una se&ntilde;al a una mujer en el otro extremo del sal&oacute;n. Ella vino y las dos se besaron en las mejillas y se saludaron con una alegre expresi&oacute;n &aacute;rabe. Luego se volvieron hacia m&iacute;.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">&ldquo;Ella es Sharon. Es jud&iacute;a. &iquest;Podr&iacute;as acompa&ntilde;arla hasta que comamos?&rdquo;, le dijo la hermana Basimah a la otra mujer.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">&ldquo;&iexcl;Oh, s&iacute;!&rdquo;, contest&oacute;. &ldquo;Hola, Sharon, soy la hermana Arwa!&rdquo;<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">La hermana Arwa y yo nos sentamos y comenzamos a conocernos. Le pregunt&eacute; cosas como cu&aacute;nto tiempo llevaba de musulmana, si estaba casada con un musulm&aacute;n, etc. Entonces, ella dej&oacute; caer la bomba.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">&ldquo;&iquest;Por qu&eacute; mataron ustedes a Jes&uacute;s?,&rdquo; me pregunt&oacute;.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">&ldquo;&iquest;Qu&eacute;?,&rdquo; le respond&iacute;. Mi cara debi&oacute; mostrar mi sorpresa e incredulidad.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">&ldquo;Es decir,&rdquo; pregunt&oacute; de nuevo, esta vez suavizando la pregunta, &ldquo;&iquest;por qu&eacute; los Jud&iacute;os mataron a Jes&uacute;s?&rdquo;<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">&iexcl;No pod&iacute;a creer lo que estaba oyendo! Qued&eacute; at&oacute;nica y dolida por la pregunta. Me di cuenta por la mirada inocente en su rostro que ella realmente quer&iacute;a saberlo. Quiz&aacute;s nunca hab&iacute;a conocido a una mujer jud&iacute;a antes, y esta era su primera oportunidad real de obtener una respuesta para su pregunta candente.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Cuando me la presentaron, agradec&iacute; su compa&ntilde;&iacute;a, despu&eacute;s de todo ella era la primera estadounidense que hab&iacute;a visto esa noche. Ahora quer&iacute;a levantarme de la mesa y salir corriendo. Entonces se me subi&oacute; la ira.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">D&aacute;ndole una mirada hiriente, le respond&iacute; entre dientes: &ldquo;No matamos a Jes&uacute;s, lo hicieron los romanos.&rdquo; Ella me devolvi&oacute; la mirada de un animal herido. Sus labios se abrieron para decir algo, pero antes que pudiera hacerlo, alguien la silenci&oacute;.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">&ldquo;Disc&uacute;lpame,&rdquo; me dijo, &ldquo;ya vuelvo.&rdquo; Pude escuchar alivio en su voz.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Un grupo de hermanas afroamericanas llegaron a la mezquita y pas&eacute; el resto de la noche en su compa&ntilde;&iacute;a. Antes de salir para reunirme con mi esposo, la hermana Basimah me dio su n&uacute;mero telef&oacute;nico y me anim&oacute; a llamarla para que concret&aacute;ramos un encuentro.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">La llam&eacute; y desarrollamos una hermosa amistad. Ella me habl&oacute; sobre el Islam y sobre Dios. &iexcl;Fue por ella que me enter&eacute; que nadie mat&oacute; a Jes&uacute;s! Aprend&iacute; que Dios lo elev&oacute; hacia S&iacute;.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Ella sab&iacute;a que estaba interesada en el Islam y pod&iacute;a sentir que mi coraz&oacute;n estaba buscando y anhelando paz espiritual. Una noche, mientras mi esposo y yo visit&aacute;bamos su casa, ella vino y me invit&oacute; al Islam.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">El punto de quiebre se produjo cuando ella me explic&oacute; que todos mis pecados ser&iacute;an perdonados cuando ingresara al Islam. Ella dijo que yo renacer&iacute;a, como un ni&ntilde;o reci&eacute;n nacido, sin pecados, con otra oportunidad. Romp&iacute; a llorar.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Quer&iacute;a otra oportunidad de estar bien con Dios. Hab&iacute;a tenido un pasado muy accidentado. Siempre am&eacute; a Dios, pero me perd&iacute; en la vida. Le ped&iacute; a su esposo que me ayudara a hacer la Shahadah.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Cuando le cont&eacute; a mi esposo lo que iba a hacer, estuvo sorprendido y feliz al mismo tiempo. Me pregunt&oacute; si realmente estaba segura de mi decisi&oacute;n, como si no pudiera creer lo que o&iacute;a. Le respond&iacute; que nunca estuve m&aacute;s segura de nada en toda mi vida. No hab&iacute;a una batalla interna, ni temores, ni dudas.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Despu&eacute;s que dije la Shahadah, el esposo de la hermana Basimah me dijo &ldquo;&iexcl;Mabruk (felicitaciones)!&nbsp; &iexcl;Ahora eres musulmana!&rdquo;<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Cuando regres&eacute; a casa, mi esposo me dio de regalo mi primer Cor&aacute;n y un resumen de Sahih Al Bujari. Antes de dejar la casa de la hermana Basimah esa noche especial, ella me regal&oacute; un folleto acerca de la modestia de la mujer musulmana. Tambi&eacute;n me dio un tapete para rezar, un vestido para la oraci&oacute;n y un hiyab (velo para cubrir la cabeza).<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">He usado hiyab desde ese d&iacute;a, alhamdulillah. Nunca me lo he quitado, ni siquiera despu&eacute;s de los d&iacute;as terribles que siguieron al 11 de septiembre de 2001.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Cuando me hice musulmana, en julio de 1998, mi padre me deshered&oacute; definitivamente. De hecho, hab&iacute;a estado muy molesto conmigo por haberme casado con un musulm&aacute;n, y se neg&oacute; a reconocer a mi esposo como su yerno.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">&ldquo;&iexcl;Pero Sharon, esa gente nos odia!,&rdquo; grit&oacute;.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Todos los esfuerzos por explicar la diferencia entre la religi&oacute;n pac&iacute;fica del Islam y la lucha pol&iacute;tica entre palestinos e israel&iacute;es cayeron en o&iacute;dos sordos. No importaba que mi padre hubiera sido el primero de su familia en casarse fuera del Juda&iacute;smo. Mi madre era cat&oacute;lica practicante cuando se casaron.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Para agravar las cosas a ojos de mi padre, mi esposo tambi&eacute;n era afroamericano. Antes del 11 de septiembre de 2001, la mayor&iacute;a de los estadounidenses pensaban en Malcolm X cuando se mencionaba el Islam. Muchos otros miembros de la familia tambi&eacute;n me hicieron saber cu&aacute;n decepcionados y frustrados se sent&iacute;an con mi decisi&oacute;n de casarme con un &ldquo;musulm&aacute;n negro.&rdquo;<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Mi padre muri&oacute; en agosto de 2001, un mes antes de los eventos del 11 de septiembre. A pedido de la esposa de mi padre, mi familia no me inform&oacute; de su muerte hasta despu&eacute;s que pas&oacute; el funeral. &iquest;Acaso tem&iacute;an que apareciera en la sinagoga vestida como musulmana y acompa&ntilde;ada de mi esposo negro?<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Se nos ense&ntilde;a que la religi&oacute;n del Islam es para todos y para toda &eacute;poca. No deber&iacute;a importar si eres musulm&aacute;n egipcio, pakistan&iacute;, estadounidense, saud&iacute;, indonesio o palestino. No deber&iacute;a importar si eres hombre o mujer, blanco, negro o amarillo. No deber&iacute;a importar si hablas &aacute;rabe, ingl&eacute;s, espa&ntilde;ol o urdu. Nuestra diversidad cultural no deber&iacute;a dividir nuestra Ummah (naci&oacute;n). Dios nos dice en el Cor&aacute;n que:<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-quran\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><strong>&ldquo;Los he creado a partir de un hombre y de una mujer, y los congregu&eacute; en pueblos y tribus para que se reconozcan los unos a los otros.&rdquo; (Cor&aacute;n 49:13)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;<\/p>","excerpt":"","terms":null,"visibility_roles":"","comment_status":1,"comment_count":0,"read_counter":9106,"lft":3204,"rght":3205,"promote":1,"sticky":0,"status":1,"publish_start":null,"publish_end":null,"created_at":"2014-09-02T17:26:00.000000Z","updated_at":"2026-04-03T04:43:49.000000Z","language_id":12,"user_id":7,"author_id":2425,"publisher_id":0,"category_id":10,"parent_id":1714,"author_name":"S. E. Levine","category_name":"Why I became a Muslim!","category_slug":"Why-I-became-a-Muslim!","get_date":"2014-09-02","pdf_asset":"http:\/\/www.islamland.com\/uploads\/articles\/sp-S. E. Levine, Ex-Jew, USA.pdf","word_asset":"http:\/\/www.islamland.com\/uploads\/articles\/sp-S. E. Levine, Ex-Jew, USA.docx"},{"id":1716,"title":"S. E. Levine, ex-juive, \u00c9tats-Unis","slug":"s-e-levine-ex-juive-tats-unis","word":"\/uploads\/articles\/fr-S. E. Levine, Ex-Jew, USA.docx","pdf":"\/uploads\/articles\/fr-S. E. Levine, Ex-Jew, USA.pdf","mime_type":null,"type":"node","path":"\/nodes\/view\/type:article\/slug:s-e-levine-ex-juive-tats-unis","hint":"","body":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span>S. E. Levine, ex-juive, &Eacute;tats-Unis<\/span><\/h1>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><img style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com\/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQBuZuDxnjK7HMF5rRRNatU6i7fA3VBUcQsfyBRdTKlNdRSfD2WYA\" alt=\"\" \/><\/span><\/p>\r\n<h1 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">&nbsp;(partie 1 de 2)<\/span><\/h1>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Mon mari et moi nous &eacute;tions rendus dans une mosqu&eacute;e pour assister &agrave; une conf&eacute;rence.&nbsp; C&rsquo;&eacute;tait la premi&egrave;re fois qu&rsquo;il m&rsquo;invitait dans une mosqu&eacute;e depuis notre mariage, un an auparavant. &nbsp;Nous avions fait connaissance alors que nous travaillions tous deux en tant qu&rsquo;intervenants dans un centre de d&eacute;sintoxication.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Nous ne pouvions &ecirc;tre plus diff&eacute;rents&nbsp;: il est noir et musulman, je suis blanche et juive. &nbsp;Mais nous nous sommes plus mutuellement.&nbsp; Bien qu&rsquo;il ne m&rsquo;ait jamais demand&eacute; de me convertir &agrave; l&rsquo;islam avant notre mariage, il me pr&ecirc;chait l&rsquo;islam, sans le savoir, par son excellent exemple.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Il poss&eacute;dait une biblioth&egrave;que islamique volumineuse et, comme j&rsquo;aime beaucoup lire, je lus un grand nombre de ses livres.&nbsp; J&rsquo;admirais sa modestie, l&rsquo;observais lorsqu&rsquo;il accomplissait ses pri&egrave;res.&nbsp; Je savais qu&rsquo;il se rendait tous les vendredis &agrave; la pri&egrave;re du joumou&rsquo;ah et je l&rsquo;enviais un peu lorsqu&rsquo;il je&ucirc;nait le mois de Ramadan.&nbsp; C&rsquo;est donc tout naturellement que je me suis mise &agrave; d&eacute;velopper un int&eacute;r&ecirc;t pour sa religion.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Ce jour-l&agrave;, donc, lorsque nous arriv&acirc;mes &agrave; la mosqu&eacute;e, il me montra o&ugrave; se trouvait l&rsquo;entr&eacute;e pour les femmes et nous nous donn&acirc;mes rendez-vous dans le stationnement apr&egrave;s la fin de la conf&eacute;rence.&nbsp; &laquo;&nbsp;Ok, tu es capable &raquo;, me dis-je &agrave; moi-m&ecirc;me, au moment d&rsquo;entrer dans la mosqu&eacute;e.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">&Eacute;tant d&rsquo;un naturel sociable, je n&rsquo;avais jamais eu de difficult&eacute; &agrave; me faire des amies et je m&rsquo;&eacute;tais toujours sentie &agrave; l&rsquo;aise dans un contexte multiculturel.&nbsp; Il n&rsquo;y avait donc aucune raison pour que cette fois-ci soit diff&eacute;rente et c&rsquo;est avec une certaine h&acirc;te que je montai les marches int&eacute;rieures de la mosqu&eacute;e.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Mon mari m&rsquo;avait conseill&eacute; de porter quelque chose de modeste pour l&rsquo;occasion.&nbsp; Je portais donc une robe &agrave; manches longues, confiante que ma tenue serait approuv&eacute;e par les autres musulmanes, dans la mosqu&eacute;e.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Toutefois, lorsque j&rsquo;arrivai sur le palier et m&rsquo;engouffrai dans l&rsquo;ouverture de la porte au-dessus de laquelle il &eacute;tait &eacute;crit&nbsp;&laquo;&nbsp;s&oelig;urs&nbsp;&raquo;, je sentis imm&eacute;diatement l&rsquo;air se figer; je sentis une tension palpable, de la suspicion, de la froideur et de la confusion.&nbsp; Chaque t&ecirc;te voil&eacute;e pr&eacute;sente se tourna dans ma direction et les femmes me d&eacute;visag&egrave;rent comme si j&rsquo;&eacute;tais un &ecirc;tre &agrave; deux t&ecirc;tes.&nbsp; Je figeai sur place, les d&eacute;visageant &agrave; mon tour.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Je n&rsquo;avais jamais vu autant de musulmanes en un seul endroit.&nbsp; La plupart portaient le hijab, mais deux d&rsquo;entre elles attir&egrave;rent mon attention, car elles portaient un voile qui ne montrait que leurs yeux. &nbsp;Quelques autres &eacute;taient assises avec leur foulard enroul&eacute; autour des &eacute;paules et lorsqu&rsquo;elles m&rsquo;aper&ccedil;urent, elles le mirent sur leur t&ecirc;te.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Puis, l&rsquo;une d&rsquo;entre elles se leva et s&rsquo;approcha de moi.&nbsp; Elle se pr&eacute;senta &agrave; moi sous le nom de Basimah. Celle-l&agrave;, au moins, avait un air accueillant.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Je lui dis&nbsp;: &laquo;&nbsp;Bonjour, je m&rsquo;appelle Sharon et je suis venue assister &agrave; la conf&eacute;rence.&nbsp;&raquo;<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">&laquo;&nbsp;Y a-t-il quelqu&rsquo;un d&rsquo;autre avec toi?&nbsp;&raquo;, me demanda-t-elle.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">&laquo;&nbsp;Mon mari est en haut&nbsp;&raquo;, que je lui r&eacute;pondis.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">&laquo;&nbsp;Oh! Ton mari est musulman?&nbsp;&raquo;, qu&rsquo;elle me demanda.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">&laquo;&nbsp;Oui, il est musulman&nbsp;&raquo;, que je dis.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Elle r&eacute;pondit&nbsp;: &laquo;&nbsp;Alhamdoulillah, viens par ici et assied-toi avec nous.&nbsp;&raquo;<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Elle me guida vers une table &agrave; laquelle &eacute;taient assises trois autres femmes.&nbsp; Elles &eacute;taient tr&egrave;s belles et faisaient tr&egrave;s exotiques.&nbsp; Apr&egrave;s les pr&eacute;sentations, j&rsquo;oubliai imm&eacute;diatement leurs noms, car ils sonnaient tr&egrave;s &eacute;trangers &agrave; mes oreilles.&nbsp; Basimah se leva &agrave; nouveau pour aller accueillir de nouvelles venues.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">&nbsp;&laquo;&nbsp;D&rsquo;o&ugrave; viens-tu?&nbsp;&raquo;, me demanda l&rsquo;une des femmes &agrave; la table.&nbsp; Je lui r&eacute;pondis que j&rsquo;&eacute;tais une Am&eacute;ricaine d&rsquo;origine est-europ&eacute;enne, n&eacute;e &agrave; New York.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">&nbsp;&laquo;&nbsp;Et d&rsquo;o&ugrave; vient ton mari?&nbsp;&raquo;, me demanda-t-on ensuite.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">&nbsp;&laquo;&nbsp;Des &Eacute;tats-Unis.&nbsp;&raquo;<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">&nbsp;&laquo;&nbsp;Oui, mais d&rsquo;o&ugrave;?&nbsp;&raquo;<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">&nbsp;&laquo;&nbsp;De Philadelphie.&nbsp;&raquo;<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">&nbsp;&laquo;&nbsp;Non, je veux dire dans quel pays est-il n&eacute;?&nbsp;&raquo;<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">&nbsp;&laquo;&nbsp;Il est Am&eacute;ricain, n&eacute; aux &Eacute;tats-Unis. &nbsp;Il est Afro-Am&eacute;ricain, plus pr&eacute;cis&eacute;ment, de Philadelphie.&nbsp;&raquo;&nbsp; Je commen&ccedil;ais &agrave; croire que la barri&egrave;re de la langue nous emp&ecirc;chait de nous comprendre.&nbsp; Mais j&rsquo;appris plus tard que la majorit&eacute; des femmes converties, dans la mosqu&eacute;e, &eacute;taient mari&eacute;es &agrave; des hommes d&rsquo;origine arabe.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">&nbsp;&laquo;&nbsp;Hmmm&nbsp;&raquo;, dirent-elles alors toutes &agrave; l&rsquo;unisson, baissant le regard.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">&nbsp;&laquo;&nbsp;Songes-tu &agrave; devenir musulmane?&nbsp;&raquo;, me demanda l&rsquo;une d&rsquo;elles en me regardant d&rsquo;un air rempli d&rsquo;espoir.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">&nbsp;&laquo;&nbsp;Non&nbsp;&raquo;, r&eacute;pondis-je, &laquo;&nbsp;je suis juive&nbsp;&raquo;.&nbsp; Vous auriez d&ucirc; voir l&rsquo;expression sur leurs visages. &nbsp;D&egrave;s qu&rsquo;elles le purent, elles chang&egrave;rent rapidement de sujet.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">&nbsp;&laquo;&nbsp;Vos enfants sont-ils musulmans?&nbsp;&raquo;, me demanda une autre, reprenant le sujet.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">&nbsp;&laquo;&nbsp;Je n&rsquo;ai pas d&rsquo;enfants.&nbsp;&raquo;, dis-je.&nbsp; Puis, ce fut tout.&nbsp; Leur tentative de trouver des points communs sur lesquels discuter avec moi avait &eacute;chou&eacute;.&nbsp; Elles sourirent timidement.&nbsp; Puis, il se passa une chose incroyable, &agrave; laquelle je ne me serais jamais attendue; la conversation se poursuivit entre elles seulement et&hellip; en arabe.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Je demeurai assise &agrave; ma place; je n&rsquo;avais aucun autre endroit o&ugrave; aller.&nbsp; Et elles continu&egrave;rent de discuter entre elles, dans leur langue.&nbsp; Au fur et &agrave; mesure que d&rsquo;autres femmes venaient se joindre &agrave; nous, elles me pr&eacute;sentaient en anglais en disant&nbsp;: &laquo;&nbsp;Elle s&rsquo;appelle Sharon.&nbsp; Elle est juive.&nbsp;&raquo;&nbsp; Puis, elles recommen&ccedil;aient &agrave; discuter entre elles en arabe.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Quand la conf&eacute;rence fut sur le point de commencer, les femmes se d&eacute;plac&egrave;rent vers la salle de pri&egrave;re et toutes s&rsquo;install&egrave;rent par terre, sur le sol recouvert de tapis.&nbsp; Mais, apr&egrave;s cinq minutes, les femmes recommenc&egrave;rent &agrave; discuter les unes avec les autres, enterrant la voix du conf&eacute;rencier qui nous parvenait d&rsquo;un haut-parleur.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<h1 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">(partie 2de 2)<\/span><\/h1>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Apr&egrave;s la conf&eacute;rence, des femmes se rendirent &agrave; la cuisine pour pr&eacute;parer des choses &agrave; manger.&nbsp; Basimah me dit de m&rsquo;installer confortablement jusqu&rsquo;&agrave; ce que la nourriture soit apport&eacute;e.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Je lui offris de l&rsquo;aider, mais elle me dit&nbsp;: &laquo;&nbsp;Non, tu es notre invit&eacute;e.&nbsp; Des s&oelig;urs am&eacute;ricaines converties viennent d&rsquo;arriver, je vais te les pr&eacute;senter.&nbsp;&raquo;<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Basimah fit signe &agrave; une femme assise &agrave; l&rsquo;autre bout de la pi&egrave;ce.&nbsp; Elle vint vers nous et les deux se firent la bise, tout en se saluant en arabe.&nbsp; Puis, elles se tourn&egrave;rent vers moi et Basimah dit &agrave; l&rsquo;autre femme&nbsp;:<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">&laquo;&nbsp;Voici Sharon.&nbsp; Elle est juive.&nbsp; Tu veux bien lui tenir compagnie jusqu&rsquo;&agrave; ce qu&rsquo;on&nbsp; mange?&nbsp;&raquo;<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">&laquo;&nbsp;Bien s&ucirc;r&nbsp;&raquo;, r&eacute;pondit-elle.&nbsp; &laquo;&nbsp;Bonjour, Sharon, je m&rsquo;appelle Arwa.&nbsp;&raquo;<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Elle et moi nous install&acirc;mes et f&icirc;mes connaissance.&nbsp; Je lui posai des questions sur sa conversion, sur son statut matrimonial, etc.&nbsp; Puis, elle largua la bombe&nbsp;:<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">&nbsp;&laquo;&nbsp;Pourquoi avez-vous tu&eacute; J&eacute;sus?&nbsp;&raquo;, me demanda-t-elle.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">&nbsp;&laquo;&nbsp;Pardon?&nbsp;&raquo;&nbsp; Nul doute que mon visage refl&eacute;tait ma profonde stup&eacute;faction.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Cherchant &agrave; se reprendre, elle reformula&nbsp;: &laquo;&nbsp;Je veux dire, pourquoi les juifs ont-ils tu&eacute; J&eacute;sus?&nbsp;&raquo;<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Je n&rsquo;arrivais tout simplement pas &agrave; croire ce que j&rsquo;entendais.&nbsp; J&rsquo;&eacute;tais &agrave; la fois stup&eacute;faite et irrit&eacute;e par sa question.&nbsp; Mais son regard innocent me fit douter de son intention malveillante. &nbsp;Peut-&ecirc;tre n&rsquo;avait-elle jamais rencontr&eacute; de juive auparavant et qu&rsquo;elle profitait de cette premi&egrave;re occasion de poser une question qui lui br&ucirc;lait les l&egrave;vres.&nbsp; Lorsqu&rsquo;on m&rsquo;avait pr&eacute;sent&eacute;e &agrave; elle, j&rsquo;&eacute;tais heureuse de rencontrer une Am&eacute;ricaine convertie. &nbsp;Mais &agrave; ce moment pr&eacute;cis, je n&rsquo;avais envie que d&rsquo;une chose, soit de me lever et d&rsquo;aller m&rsquo;asseoir &agrave; une autre table. &nbsp;Puis, au fond de moi, la col&egrave;re prit le dessus.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Lui jetant un regard sinistre, je lui r&eacute;pondis, les dents serr&eacute;es&nbsp;: &laquo;&nbsp;Nous n&rsquo;avons pas tu&eacute; J&eacute;sus.&nbsp; Ce sont les Romains qui l&rsquo;ont tu&eacute;!&nbsp;&raquo;.&nbsp; Elle me d&eacute;visagea comme un animal bless&eacute;.&nbsp; Elle ouvrit la bouche pour dire quelque chose, mais avant qu&rsquo;elle ne puisse prononcer quoi que ce soit, quelqu&rsquo;un l&rsquo;appela.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">&nbsp;&laquo;&nbsp;Excuse-moi&nbsp;&raquo;, me dit-elle, &laquo;&nbsp;je reviens&nbsp;&raquo;.&nbsp; Je pus sentir le soulagement dans sa voix.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Un groupe de s&oelig;urs afro-am&eacute;ricaines arriv&egrave;rent alors et je passai le reste de la soir&eacute;e en leur compagnie.&nbsp; Avant de quitter pour aller rejoindre mon mari, Basimah me laissa son num&eacute;ro de t&eacute;l&eacute;phone et m&rsquo;invita &agrave; l&rsquo;appeler pour organiser une rencontre chez elle.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Je l&rsquo;appelai peu de temps apr&egrave;s et nous d&eacute;velopp&acirc;mes une belle relation.&nbsp; Elle me parla beaucoup de Dieu et d&rsquo;islam et c&rsquo;est d&rsquo;elle que j&rsquo;appris que personne n&rsquo;avait tu&eacute; J&eacute;sus, mais que Dieu l&rsquo;avait &eacute;lev&eacute; vers Lui!<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Elle savait que je m&rsquo;int&eacute;ressais &agrave; l&rsquo;islam et elle percevait, en moi, cette qu&ecirc;te de sens et de paix spirituelle.&nbsp; Un soir, alors que mon mari et moi &eacute;tions chez elle, elle finit par m&rsquo;inviter ouvertement &agrave; embrasser l&rsquo;islam.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Elle m&rsquo;expliqua que tous mes p&eacute;ch&eacute;s seraient pardonn&eacute;s &agrave; la minute o&ugrave; je deviendrais musulmane et que je serais comme un nouveau-n&eacute;, sans p&eacute;ch&eacute;s &agrave; mon actif. &nbsp;J&rsquo;en fus si &eacute;mue que je me mis &agrave; pleurer.&nbsp; Je voulais cette seconde chance de renouer avec Dieu.&nbsp; J&rsquo;avais eu un pass&eacute; tr&egrave;s mouvement&eacute;.&nbsp; J&rsquo;avais toujours aim&eacute; Dieu, mais je m&rsquo;&eacute;tais &eacute;gar&eacute;e.&nbsp; Le mari de Basimah vint me voir pour m&rsquo;aider &agrave; r&eacute;p&eacute;ter la shahadah (profession de foi).<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Lorsque je dis &agrave; mon mari que je m&rsquo;appr&ecirc;tais &agrave; prononcer la shahadah, il fut &agrave; la fois fort &eacute;tonn&eacute; et heureux.&nbsp; Il me demanda si j&rsquo;&eacute;tais bien certaine, comme s&rsquo;il n&rsquo;arrivait pas &agrave; le croire.&nbsp; Je lui dis que, de ma vie, je n&rsquo;avais jamais &eacute;t&eacute; aussi certaine d&rsquo;une chose.&nbsp; En effet, aucune bataille int&eacute;rieure ne se livrait, en moi, et je n&rsquo;&eacute;prouvais ni crainte ni doutes.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Apr&egrave;s que j&rsquo;eus prononc&eacute; la shahadah, le mari de Basimah dit&nbsp;: &laquo;&nbsp;Mabrook (f&eacute;licitations)!&nbsp; Tu es maintenant musulmane!&nbsp;&raquo;<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Lorsque nous rev&icirc;nmes &agrave; la maison, mon mari m&rsquo;offrit un Coran et une version abr&eacute;g&eacute;e de Sahih al-Boukhari. &nbsp;Et, avant que je ne quitte la maison de Basimah, elle me donna un livret sur la modestie de la femme musulmane, un tapis de pri&egrave;re, une robe de pri&egrave;re et un hijab (foulard).<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Alhamdoulillah, je porte le hijab depuis ce jour et je ne l&rsquo;ai jamais enlev&eacute;, pas m&ecirc;me apr&egrave;s les terribles &eacute;v&eacute;nements du 11 septembre 2001.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Lorsque je devins musulmane, en juillet de l&rsquo;ann&eacute;e 1998, mon p&egrave;re me renia sur-le-champ. &nbsp;Il &eacute;tait d&eacute;j&agrave; en col&egrave;re contre moi pour avoir &eacute;pous&eacute; un musulman et refusait de reconna&icirc;tre mon mari comme son gendre.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">&nbsp;&laquo;&nbsp;Mais, Sharon, ces gens nous ha&iuml;ssent!&nbsp;&raquo;, s&rsquo;&eacute;tait-il &eacute;cri&eacute;, en apprenant la nouvelle de mon mariage.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Tous mes efforts pour lui expliquer la diff&eacute;rence entre l&rsquo;islam comme tel et le conflit politique entre Palestiniens et Isra&eacute;liens furent vains.&nbsp; Pourtant, il avait lui-m&ecirc;me &eacute;t&eacute; le premier, dans sa famille, &agrave; &eacute;pouser une non-juive (ma m&egrave;re &eacute;tait catholique pratiquante).<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Pire encore, aux yeux de mon p&egrave;re, &eacute;tait le fait que mon mari soit, en plus d&rsquo;&ecirc;tre musulman, afro-am&eacute;ricain.&nbsp; Avant le 11 septembre 2001, la plupart des Am&eacute;ricains faisaient un lien avec Malcolm X lorsqu&rsquo;on leur parlait d&rsquo;islam.&nbsp; Plusieurs autres membres de ma famille me firent part de leur d&eacute;ception et de leur frustration devant ma d&eacute;cision d&rsquo;&eacute;pouser un &laquo;&nbsp;musulman noir&nbsp;&raquo;.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Mon p&egrave;re mourut en ao&ucirc;t 2001, un mois avant les &eacute;v&eacute;nements de septembre.&nbsp; &Agrave; la demande de la seconde &eacute;pouse de mon p&egrave;re, ma famille ne m&rsquo;informa de son d&eacute;c&egrave;s qu&rsquo;apr&egrave;s ses fun&eacute;railles.&nbsp; Craignaient-ils donc que je me pr&eacute;sente &agrave; la synagogue v&ecirc;tue en musulmane et accompagn&eacute;e de mon mari noir?<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">L&rsquo;islam est une religion qui s&rsquo;adresse &agrave; toute l&rsquo;humanit&eacute;, sans limite dans l&rsquo;espace ni dans le temps.&nbsp; Le fait qu&rsquo;un musulman vienne d&rsquo;&Eacute;gypte, du Pakistan, des &Eacute;tats-Unis, de l&rsquo;Arabie, de l&rsquo;Indon&eacute;sie ou de la Palestine ne devrait avoir aucune importance, tout comme la couleur de sa peau ou la langue qu&rsquo;il parle.&nbsp; Notre diversit&eacute; culturelle ne devrait pas nous diviser,&nbsp; mais nous unir.&nbsp; Dieu dit, dans le Coran&nbsp;:<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-quran\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><strong>&nbsp;&laquo;&nbsp;Nous avons fait de vous des nations et des tribus, afin que vous fassiez connaissance entre vous.&nbsp;&raquo; (Coran 49:13)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<h1 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/h1>","excerpt":"","terms":null,"visibility_roles":"","comment_status":1,"comment_count":0,"read_counter":10512,"lft":3206,"rght":3207,"promote":1,"sticky":0,"status":1,"publish_start":null,"publish_end":null,"created_at":"2014-09-02T17:26:00.000000Z","updated_at":"2026-04-03T11:55:23.000000Z","language_id":9,"user_id":7,"author_id":2425,"publisher_id":0,"category_id":10,"parent_id":1714,"author_name":"S. E. Levine","category_name":"Why I became a Muslim!","category_slug":"Why-I-became-a-Muslim!","get_date":"2014-09-02","pdf_asset":"http:\/\/www.islamland.com\/uploads\/articles\/fr-S. E. Levine, Ex-Jew, USA.pdf","word_asset":"http:\/\/www.islamland.com\/uploads\/articles\/fr-S. E. Levine, Ex-Jew, USA.docx"},{"id":1717,"title":"S. E. Levine, Ex-J\u00fcdin, USA","slug":"s-e-levine-ex-jdin-usa","word":"\/uploads\/articles\/de-S. E. Levine, Ex-Jew, USA.docx","pdf":"\/uploads\/articles\/de-S. E. Levine, Ex-Jew, USA.pdf","mime_type":null,"type":"node","path":"\/nodes\/view\/type:article\/slug:s-e-levine-ex-jdin-usa","hint":"","body":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span>S. E. Levine, Ex-J&uuml;din, USA<\/span><\/h1>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><img style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com\/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQBuZuDxnjK7HMF5rRRNatU6i7fA3VBUcQsfyBRdTKlNdRSfD2WYA\" alt=\"\" \/><\/span><\/p>\r\n<h1 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">&nbsp;(teil 1 von 2)<\/span><\/h1>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Mein Ehemann und ich waren f&uuml;r ein Rednerprogramm zur Masjid (Moschee) gegangen. &nbsp;Es war das erste Mal seit unserer Hochzeit im Jahr zuvor, dass er mich eingeladen hat, mit zur Masjid zu kommen. &nbsp;Wir hatten uns kennen gelernt und geheiratet, als wir als Drogenberater in einem Rehabilitationszentrum arbeiteten. &nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Wir h&auml;tten von Anfang an unterschiedlicher nicht sein k&ouml;nnen: denn wir stammten von ganz unterschiedlichen Hintergr&uuml;nden &ndash; er ist schwarz und ich bin wei&szlig;, er war Muslim und ich war j&uuml;disch.&nbsp; Obwohl er mich vor unserer Heirat nicht gebeten hatte, Muslim zu werden, machte er stille Da&acute;wah (zum Islam einladen) durch dein vorz&uuml;gliches Beispiel.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Er besa&szlig; eine umfassende islamische Bibliothek und weil ich eine begeisterte Leserin war, las ich nat&uuml;rlich eine Menge von seinen B&uuml;chern.&nbsp; Ich beobachtete ebenfalls sein anst&auml;ndiges Verhalten, sah wie er Salah (seine Gebete) f&uuml;nfmal t&auml;glich verrichtete, freitags zum Jumu&acute;ah Gebet ging und den Monat Ramadhan fastete.&nbsp; Es war also ganz nat&uuml;rlich, dass ich ein Interesse an seiner Religion entwickelte.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Als wir in der Masjid ankamen, zeigte er mir den Eingang der Frauensektion. &nbsp;Wir verabredeten uns, uns auf dem Parkplatz wieder zu treffen, sobald das Programm vor&uuml;ber war.&nbsp; &bdquo;Ok, das kann ich&ldquo;, dachte ich bei mir, als ich den dunklen feuchten Flur betrat und die steilen Treppen hinabstieg.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Ich hatten nie zuvor Freunde gehabt, die Probleme bereiten. &nbsp;Ich hatte immer multikulturelle Situationen genossen und mich auf diesen Abend gefreut. &nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Mein Ehemann hatte vorgeschlagen, dass ich zu dieser Gelegenheit etwas bescheidenes anziehe. &nbsp;Ich lie&szlig; meine H&auml;nde an meinem lang&auml;rmligen Kleid nach unten wandern, und gl&auml;ttete es.&nbsp; Ich f&uuml;hlte mich zufrieden damit, dass die Frauen in der Masjid mein Aussehen guthei&szlig;en werden.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Als ich allerdings unten bei der Treppe angekommen war und durch die T&uuml;r trat, die mit &ldquo;Sisters&rdquo; beschriftet war, konnte ich es sofort in der Luft sp&uuml;ren: dicke Anspannung, Misstrauen, Entfremdung und Verwirrung.&nbsp; Jedes verschleierte Haupt drehte sich in meine Richtung und die muslimischen Frauen starrten mich an, als h&auml;tte ich zwei K&ouml;pfe.&nbsp; Ich stand wie eingefroren am Eingang und starrte auf sie zur&uuml;ck.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Nie hatte ich so viele muslimische Frauen zusammen an einem Ort gesehen. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Die meisten von ihnen trugen traditionelle Hijab, aber zwei Frauen sp&auml;hten mich durch Kopfbedeckungen an, die nur ihre Augen zeigten. &nbsp;Einige andere sa&szlig;en mit ihren Kopft&uuml;chern auf den Schultern.&nbsp; Als sie mich sahen, zogen sie sie &uuml;ber ihre K&ouml;pfe.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Doch dann stand eine von ihnen von ihrem Sitzplatz auf, n&auml;herte sich mir und stellte sich als Schwester Basimah vor. &nbsp;Wenigstens diese eine hatte einen freundlichen Blick.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">&bdquo;Hi,&rdquo; sagte ich.&nbsp; &bdquo;Mein Name ist Sharon.&nbsp; Ich bin wegen dem Rednerprogramm hier.&rdquo;<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">&bdquo;Ist jemand mit dir?&rdquo; &nbsp;fragte sie.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">&bdquo;Mein Ehemann ist oben.&rdquo; antwortete ich.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">&bdquo;Oh! &nbsp;Ihr Ehemann ist Muslim?&rdquo; &nbsp;fragte sie.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">&bdquo;Ja.&nbsp; Ja, das ist er,&rdquo; sagte ich.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">&bdquo;Al-hamdu lillah,&rdquo; sagte sie.&nbsp; &bdquo;Kommen sie her&uuml;ber und sitzen sie mit uns.&rdquo;<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Sie f&uuml;hrte mich an einen Tisch, wo drei andere Frauen sa&szlig;en.&nbsp; Es waren die h&uuml;bschesten, exotischen Frauen, die ich je gesehen hatte. &nbsp;Gleich nachdem sie sie mir vorgestellt hatte, verga&szlig; ich auch schon wieder ihre Namen, die genauso exotisch waren.&nbsp; Dann stand Schwester Basimah auf, um noch mehr Leute zu begr&uuml;&szlig;en, die gekommen waren.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">&bdquo;Woher kommen sie?&rdquo; &nbsp;fragte mich eine der Frauen.&nbsp; Ich antwortete, dass ich Amerikanerin mit osteurop&auml;ischer Abstammung bin, geboren in New York City.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">&bdquo;Woher kommt ihr Ehemann?&rdquo; &nbsp;war die n&auml;chste Frage.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">&bdquo;Er ist aus Amerika&rdquo;<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">&bdquo;Aber woher kommt er?&rdquo;<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">&bdquo;Philadelphia,&rdquo; antwortete ich.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">&bdquo;Nein, ich meine von welchem Land kommt er?&rdquo;<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">&bdquo;Er ist Amerikaner, Geboren in den Vereinigten Staaten, er ist Afro-Amerikaner, aus Philadelphia,&rdquo; antwortete ich, ich dachte, es g&auml;be eine Sprachbarriere.&nbsp; Sp&auml;ter erfuhr ich, dass die meisten kaukasischen Frauen in der Masjid mit arabischen M&auml;nnern verheiratet waren.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">&bdquo;Hmmm,&rdquo; sagten sie einstimmig und senkten ihre wundervollen Blicke.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">&bdquo;Haben sie schon mal daran gedacht, Muslima zu werden?&rdquo; fragte eine andere und blickte mich mit einem stahlenden Gesicht an.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">&bdquo;Nein,&rdquo; antwortete ich, &bdquo;ich bin j&uuml;disch.&rdquo; &nbsp;Nun, ich w&uuml;nschte, ihr h&auml;ttet den Ausdruck auf ihren Gesichtern sehen k&ouml;nnen.&nbsp; Sobald es h&ouml;flich m&ouml;glich war, wurde das Thema gewechselt.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">&bdquo;Sind ihre Kinder Muslime?&rdquo; &nbsp;fragte eine, auf die Befragung zur&uuml;ck kommend.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">&bdquo;Nein,&rdquo; antwortete ich, &bdquo;ich habe keine Kinder.&rdquo; &nbsp;Das war&acute;s; ihr Versuch auf eine Gemeinsamkeit mit mir zu kommen, war fehlgeschlagen. &nbsp;Sie l&auml;chelten mich an und dann geschah etwas unglaubliches, auf das ich nicht vorbereitet war: das Gespr&auml;ch ging auf arabisch weiter.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Ich sa&szlig; weiter mit ihnen am Tisch. &nbsp;Sie sprachen unter einander gr&ouml;&szlig;tenteils auf arabisch, und ich l&auml;chelte meistens.&nbsp; Wenn weitere Frauen an den Tisch kamen, stellten sie mich auf englisch vor. &nbsp;&ldquo;Dies ist Sharon.&nbsp; Sie ist j&uuml;disch.&rdquo; &nbsp;Dann sprachen sie weiter auf arabisch.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Als das Programm begann, versammelten sich die Frauen im Gebetsraum und alle setzten sich auf den mit Pl&uuml;schteppich ausgelegten Fu&szlig;boden.&nbsp; &nbsp;Doch nach f&uuml;nf Minuten fingen die Frauen an, mit einander zu reden, alle, aber die wurden von dem dr&ouml;hnenden Stereo - Lautsprecher &uuml;bert&ouml;nt, der das Programm von oben &uuml;bertrug.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<h1 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">&nbsp;(teil 2 von 2)<\/span><\/h1>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Nachdem das Programm vorbei war, gingen die Frauen in die K&uuml;che, um Essen vorzubereiten. &nbsp;Schwester Basimah kam zu mir und sagte, ich solle es mir bequem machen, bis es Zeit zum Essen sei.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">&bdquo;Aber ich kann auch helfen,&rdquo; bot ich an.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">&bdquo;Nein!&nbsp; Sie sind unser Gast.&nbsp; Einige amerikanische Schwestern sind gekommen.&nbsp; Ich werde sie vorstellen,&rdquo; antwortete sie.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Schwester Basimah deutete auf eine der Frauen auf der anderen Seite des Raumes.&nbsp; Sie kam her&uuml;ber und die beiden Frauen k&uuml;ssten einander auf die Wangen und begr&uuml;&szlig;ten sich mit einer freudigen arabischen Bekundung. &nbsp;Sie beide warfen einen Blick auf mich.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">&bdquo;Das ist Sharon.&nbsp; Sie ist j&uuml;disch. &nbsp;Kannst du ihr Gesellschaft leisten, bis wir essen?&rdquo;&nbsp; sagte Schwester Basimah zu der anderen Frau.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">&ldquo;Oh, ja!&rdquo;&nbsp; antwortete sie.&nbsp; &ldquo;Hi, Sharon, ich bin Schwester Arwa!&rdquo;<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Schwester Arwa und ich setzten uns und fingen an, uns bekannt zu machen. &nbsp;Ich stellte ihr Fragen wie seit wann sie schon Muslima ist, ob sie mit einem Muslim verheiratet ist usw.&nbsp; Dann lie&szlig; sie die Bombe los.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">&bdquo;Warum habt ihr Jesus get&ouml;tet?&ldquo; fragte sie mich.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">&ldquo;Was?&rdquo;&nbsp; entgegnete ich.&nbsp; Mein Gesicht muss mein Entsetzen und meinen Unglauben gezeigt haben. &nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">&bdquo;Ich meine&rdquo; fragte sie weiter, ihre Frage dieses Mal enth&auml;rtend, &bdquo;warum haben die Juden Jesus get&ouml;tet?&rdquo;<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Ich konnte nicht glauben, was ich h&ouml;rte!&nbsp; Ich war erstaunt und zugleich wurmte mich die Frage.&nbsp; Ich konnte an ihrem unschuldigen Blick in ihrem Gesicht ablesen, dass sie es wirklich wissen wollte.&nbsp; M&ouml;glicherweise war sie nie zuvor einer j&uuml;dischen Frau begegnet und dies war ihre erste richtige Gelegenheit, eine Antwort auf ihre brennende Frage zu erhalten.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Als ich ihr zuerst vorgestellt worden war, habe ich ihre Gesellschaft genossen; sie war zumindest die erste Amerikanerin, die ich an jenem Abend sah. &nbsp;Nun wollte ich aufstehen und von Tisch davonrennen.&nbsp; Dann stieg Zorn in mir auf.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Ihr einen b&ouml;sen Blick zuwerfend, antwortete ich durch die aufeinander gebissenen Z&auml;hne: &bdquo;Wir haben Jesus nicht get&ouml;tet, das waren die R&ouml;mer!&ldquo;&nbsp; Sie erwiderte mit dem Blick eines verwundeten Tieres.&nbsp; Ihre Lippen &ouml;ffneten sich, um etwas zu sagen, aber bevor sie antworten konnte, rief jemand nach ihr.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">&bdquo;Entschuldigen Sie mich,&rdquo; sagte sie, &bdquo;ich komme wieder.&rdquo;&nbsp; Ich konnte Erleichterung in ihrer Stimme h&ouml;ren.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Eine Gruppe Afro-Amerikanischer Schwestern war zur Masjid gekommen und ich verbrachte den Rest des Abends in ihrer Gesellschaft.&nbsp; &nbsp;Bevor ich ging, mich mit meinem Ehemann zu Treffen, gab mir Schwester Basimah gab mir ihre Telefonnummer und forderte mich auf, sie anzurufen und eine Zeit abzumachen, um sie zu besuchen.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Ich rief sie an und wir entwickelten eine wunderbare Beziehung.&nbsp; Sie erz&auml;hlte mir alles &uuml;ber den Islam und Gott.&nbsp; Von ihr erfuhr ich, dass niemand Jesus get&ouml;tet hatte!&nbsp; Ich lernte, dass Gott ihn zu Sich hoch gehoben hatte.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Sie wusste, dass ich mich f&uuml;r den Islam interessierte und konnte sp&uuml;ren, dass mein Herz sich nach spirituellem Frieden sehnte. &nbsp;Eines Abends als mein Ehemann und ich ihr Haus besuchten, kam sie direkt zur Sache und lud mich zum Islam ein.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Der Wendepunkt kam, als sie mir erkl&auml;rte, dass alle meine vergangenen S&uuml;nden vergeben werden, wenn ich zum Islam komme. &nbsp;Sie sagte ich w&auml;re wie wieder geboren, wie ein neugeborenes Baby, ohne S&uuml;nden, mit einer neuen Chance. &nbsp;Ich brach zusammen und weinte.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Ich wollte eine andere Chance, um mit Gott ins Reine zu kommen. &nbsp;Wisst ihr, ich hatte eine ziemlich kunterbunte Vergangenheit.&nbsp;&nbsp; Ich habe Gott immer geliebt, aber ich ging im Leben verloren. &nbsp;Wir baten ihren Ehemann, mir dabei zu helfen, die Schahada auszusprechen.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Als ich meinem Ehemann mitteilte, was ich gerade tun wollte, war er geschockt und gl&uuml;cklich zugleich. &nbsp;Er fragte mich, ob ich mir mit meiner Entscheidung wirklich sicher sei, als k&ouml;nne er nicht glauben, was er h&ouml;rte.&nbsp; Ich antwortete, dass ich mir nie zuvor in meinem Leben einer Sache so sicher gewesen bin.&nbsp; Es gab keinen inneren Kampf, keine &Auml;ngste oder Zweifel.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Nachdem ich die Schahada ausgesprochen hatte, sagte Schwester Basimahs Ehemann: &ldquo;Mabrouk (Ich gratuliere)!&nbsp; Du bist jetzt Muslima!&rdquo;<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Als wir nach Hause kamen, gab mir mein Ehemann als Geschenk einen eigenen Qur&acute;an und eine Zusammenfassung von Sahih Al-Bukhari.&nbsp; Bevor wir an diesem besonderen Abend Schwester Basimahs Heim verlie&szlig;en, gab sie mir ein B&uuml;chlein &uuml;ber den Anstand von muslimischen Frauen.&nbsp; Sie gab mir auch einen Gebetsteppich, ein Gebetskleid und einen Hijab (Kopftuch).<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Ich habe seit jenem Tag Hijab getragen, al-hamdu lillah.&nbsp; Ich habe es nie abgesetzt, selbst nach den f&uuml;rchterlichen Tagen nach dem 11.September 2001.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Als ich im Juli 1998 konvertiert bin, denunzierte mich mein Vater ein f&uuml;r allemal.&nbsp; Er war ohnehin aufgebracht gewesen, dass ich einen Muslim geheiratet hatte, und weigerte sich, meinen Ehemann als Schwiegersohn anzuerkennen.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">&ldquo;Aber, Sharon, diese Menschen hassen uns!&rdquo; schrie er.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Alle Versuche, den Unterschied zwischen der friedlichen Religion des Islam und dem politischen Kampf zwischen Pal&auml;stinensern und Israelis zu erkl&auml;ren, traf auf taube Ohren. &nbsp;Abgesehen davon&nbsp; war mein Vater der erste in seiner Familie gewesen, der au&szlig;erhalb des Judentums geheiratet hat.&nbsp; Meine Mutter war praktizierende Katholikin gewesen, als sie heirateten.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Noch schlimmer in den Augen meines Vaters war, dass mein Ehemann Afro-Amerikaner war. &nbsp;Vor dem 11. September 2001 dachten die meisten Amerikaner an Malcolm X, wenn der Islam erw&auml;hnt wurde.&nbsp; Viele andere Familienmitglieder brachten ebenfalls ihre Entt&auml;uschung und ihren Verdruss &uuml;ber meinen Entschluss, einen &bdquo;schwarzen Muslim&ldquo; zu heiraten, zum Ausdruck.&nbsp; &nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Mein Vater starb im August 2001, einen Monat vor den Geschehnissen des 11. September.&nbsp; Auf Wunsch der Frau meines Vaters, hat es mir die Familie nicht erz&auml;hlt, dass er gestorben war, bis seine Beerdigung vor&uuml;ber war.&nbsp; Ob sie Angst hatten, ich w&uuml;rde in meinem Gewand begleitet von meinem schwarzen Ehemann in die Synagoge kommen?<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Uns wird gelehrt, dass die Religion des Islam f&uuml;r alle Menschen und alle Zeiten ist.&nbsp; Es sollte keinen Unterschied machen, ob der Muslim &Auml;gypter, Pakistaner, Amerikaner, Saudi, Indonesier oder Pal&auml;stinenser ist.&nbsp; Es sollte keinen Unterschied machen, ob er oder sie schwarz, wei&szlig;, rot oder gelb ist.&nbsp; Es sollte nichts ausmachen, ob er oder sie Arabisch, Englisch, Spanisch oder Urdu spricht.&nbsp; Unsere kulturelle Vielfalt soll unsere Umma (Gemeinschaft) nicht spalten.&nbsp; Gott teilt uns im Qur&acute;an mit, dass:<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-quran\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><strong>&bdquo;O ihr Menschen, Wir haben euch aus Mann und Frau erschaffen und euch zu V&ouml;lkern und St&auml;mmen gemacht, auf dass ihr einander erkennen m&ouml;get.&rdquo; (Quran 49:13)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<h1 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/h1>","excerpt":"","terms":null,"visibility_roles":"","comment_status":1,"comment_count":0,"read_counter":11665,"lft":3208,"rght":3209,"promote":1,"sticky":0,"status":1,"publish_start":null,"publish_end":null,"created_at":"2014-09-02T17:26:00.000000Z","updated_at":"2026-04-03T11:46:02.000000Z","language_id":7,"user_id":7,"author_id":2425,"publisher_id":0,"category_id":10,"parent_id":1714,"author_name":"S. E. Levine","category_name":"Why I became a Muslim!","category_slug":"Why-I-became-a-Muslim!","get_date":"2014-09-02","pdf_asset":"http:\/\/www.islamland.com\/uploads\/articles\/de-S. E. Levine, Ex-Jew, USA.pdf","word_asset":"http:\/\/www.islamland.com\/uploads\/articles\/de-S. E. Levine, Ex-Jew, USA.docx"},{"id":1718,"title":"S. E. Levine, ex-judia, EUA","slug":"s-e-levine-ex-judia-eua","word":"\/uploads\/articles\/pt-S. E. Levine, Ex-Jew, USA.docx","pdf":"\/uploads\/articles\/pt-S. E. Levine, Ex-Jew, USA.pdf","mime_type":null,"type":"node","path":"\/nodes\/view\/type:article\/slug:s-e-levine-ex-judia-eua","hint":"","body":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span>S. E. Levine, ex-judia, EUA<\/span><\/h1>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><img style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com\/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQBuZuDxnjK7HMF5rRRNatU6i7fA3VBUcQsfyBRdTKlNdRSfD2WYA\" alt=\"\" \/><\/span><\/p>\r\n<h1 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">&nbsp;(parte 1 de 2)<\/span><\/h1>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Meu marido e eu t&iacute;nhamos ido a uma masjid (mesquita) para um programa de um palestrante.&nbsp;&nbsp;Foi a primeira vez que ele me convidou para a masjid desde nosso casamento h&aacute; um ano, mais ou menos.&nbsp; T&iacute;nhamos nos encontrado e casado enquanto ambos trabalh&aacute;vamos como conselheiros em abusos de subst&acirc;ncia em um centro de reabilita&ccedil;&atilde;o.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">N&atilde;o poder&iacute;amos ser mais diferentes no in&iacute;cio, j&aacute; que &eacute;ramos de origens completamente diferentes - ele &eacute; negro e eu branca, ele mu&ccedil;ulmano e eu judia.&nbsp; Embora ele n&atilde;o tivesse me pedido para que me tornasse mu&ccedil;ulmana antes de nosso casamento, me fez dawah (convite ao Isl&atilde;) silencioso atrav&eacute;s de seu excelente exemplo.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Tinha uma biblioteca isl&acirc;mica extensa e como sou uma &aacute;vida leitora, naturalmente li muitos de seus livros.&nbsp;&nbsp;Tamb&eacute;m observei seu comportamento modesto, observei enquanto ele fazia salah (ora&ccedil;&atilde;o) cinco vezes ao dia, ia &agrave;s ora&ccedil;&otilde;es de Jumuah &agrave;s sextas-feiras e jejuava durante o m&ecirc;s de Ramad&atilde;.&nbsp; Ent&atilde;o, era natural que desenvolvesse um interesse em sua religi&atilde;o.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Quando chegamos &agrave; mesquita ele me apontou a entrada para o setor das mulheres.&nbsp;&nbsp;Concordamos em nos encontrar no estacionamento depois que o programa terminasse.&nbsp; &ldquo;Ok, posso fazer isso&rdquo; pensei comigo mesma quando entrei no corredor escuro e desci os degraus &iacute;ngremes.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Nunca tinha tido problema para fazer amigos antes.&nbsp; Sempre havia desfrutado de situa&ccedil;&otilde;es multiculturais e estava ansiosa pela noite.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Meu marido havia sugerido que usasse algo modesto para a ocasi&atilde;o.&nbsp; Passei as m&atilde;os pelo meu vestido de mangas longas, esticando-o e amaciando-o.&nbsp; Sentia-me confiante de que as mulheres na masjid aprovariam minha apar&ecirc;ncia.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Entretanto, quando cheguei ao final das escadas e entrei pela porta marcada com &ldquo;Irm&atilde;s&rdquo;, pude sentir imediatamente no ar: tens&atilde;o, suspeita, estranhamento e confus&atilde;o.&nbsp; Todas as cabe&ccedil;as com v&eacute;u se voltaram em minha dire&ccedil;&atilde;o e as mu&ccedil;ulmanas me olharam fixo como se eu tivesse duas cabe&ccedil;as.&nbsp; Congelei na entrada, olhando fixo de volta para elas.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Nunca tinha visto tantas mu&ccedil;ulmanas juntas em um s&oacute; lugar.&nbsp; A maioria usava o hijab tradicional, mas duas me avaliaram atrav&eacute;s de suas coberturas que revelavam apenas seus olhos.&nbsp; Outras estavam sentadas com seus len&ccedil;os sobre os ombros.&nbsp; Quando me viram, cobriram suas cabe&ccedil;as com os len&ccedil;os.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Mas ent&atilde;o uma delas se levantou, me abordou e se apresentou como irm&atilde; Basimah.&nbsp; Pelo menos essa tinha um ar de boas vindas em seu rosto.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">&ldquo;Oi&rdquo;, disse eu.&nbsp; &ldquo;Meu nome &eacute; Sharon.&nbsp; Estou aqui por causa do programa do palestrante.&rdquo;<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">&ldquo;Tem algu&eacute;m com voc&ecirc;?&rdquo;, ela perguntou.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">&ldquo;Meu marido est&aacute; l&aacute; em cima&rdquo;, respondi.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">&ldquo;&Oacute;! Seu marido &eacute; mu&ccedil;ulmano?&rdquo; perguntou.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">&ldquo;Sim.&nbsp; Ele &eacute;&rdquo;, disse eu.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">&ldquo;Al-hamdu lillah,&rdquo; respondeu ela.&nbsp; &ldquo;Venha e sente conosco.&rdquo;<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Levou-me para uma mesa onde havia tr&ecirc;s outras mulheres sentadas.&nbsp; Eram as mulheres mais belas e ex&oacute;ticas que j&aacute; tinha visto.&nbsp; Logo ap&oacute;s as apresenta&ccedil;&otilde;es, esqueci o nome de cada uma delas, que eram igualmente ex&oacute;ticos.&nbsp; Irm&atilde; Basimah ent&atilde;o se levantou e foi saudar mais pessoas que tinham chegado.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">&ldquo;De onde voc&ecirc; &eacute;?&rdquo;, me perguntou uma das mulheres.&nbsp; Respondi que era americana de origem europeia, nascida em Nova Iorque.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">&ldquo;De onde &eacute; seu marido?&rdquo;, foi a pergunta seguinte.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">&ldquo;Dos Estados Unidos.&rdquo;<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">&ldquo;Mas de onde ele &eacute;?&rdquo;<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">&ldquo;Filad&eacute;lfia,&rdquo; respondi.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">&ldquo;N&atilde;o, quis dizer de que pa&iacute;s ele &eacute;?&rdquo;<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">&ldquo;&Eacute; americano, nascido nos Estados Unidos, &eacute; afroamericano da Filad&eacute;lfia,&rdquo; respondi, achando que havia uma barreira lingu&iacute;stica.&nbsp; Descobri depois que a maioria das mulheres caucasianas na masjid era casada com &aacute;rabes.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">&ldquo;Hummm&rdquo; disseram todas em un&iacute;ssono e baixaram seus olhares ador&aacute;veis.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">&ldquo;Voc&ecirc; est&aacute; pensando em se tornar mu&ccedil;ulmana?&rdquo; perguntou outra, olhando para mim com uma express&atilde;o radiante em seu rosto.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">&ldquo;N&atilde;o&rdquo;, respondi, &ldquo;sou judia.&rdquo; Bem, queria que pudessem ver a express&atilde;o em seus rostos.&nbsp; Assim que foi educadamente poss&iacute;vel, o assunto mudou.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">&ldquo;Seus filhos s&atilde;o mu&ccedil;ulmanos?&rdquo; perguntou uma delas, voltando &agrave;s perguntas.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">&ldquo;N&atilde;o&rdquo;. &ldquo;N&atilde;o tenho filhos&rdquo;, respondi. E foi isso. Suas tentativas para encontrar um ponto em comum comigo tinham fracassado.&nbsp; Sorriram para mim e ent&atilde;o algo incr&iacute;vel aconteceu, para o qual n&atilde;o estava preparada: a conversa passou a ser em &aacute;rabe.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Continuei sentada com elas &agrave; mesa.&nbsp; Falavam entre si a maior parte do tempo em &aacute;rabe e eu sorria.&nbsp; &Agrave; medida que mais mulheres se uniam &agrave; mesa, me apresentavam em ingl&ecirc;s: &ldquo;Essa &eacute; Sharon.&nbsp; Ela &eacute; judia.&rdquo; Ent&atilde;o voltavam a falar em &aacute;rabe.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Quando o programa come&ccedil;ou, as mulheres se reuniram na sala de ora&ccedil;&atilde;o e todas sentaram no ch&atilde;o acarpetado.&nbsp;&nbsp;Mas depois de uns cinco minutos as mulheres conversaram a conversar, abafando o som do programa que estava sendo transmitido por um alto-falante.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<h1 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">(parte 2 de 2)<\/span><\/h1>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Depois que o programa terminou, as mulheres foram para a cozinha preparar comida.&nbsp; Irm&atilde; Basimah veio e me disse para sentar e ficar confort&aacute;vel at&eacute; que fosse hora de comer.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">&ldquo;Mas me deixe ajudar&rdquo;, ofereci.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">&ldquo;N&atilde;o!&nbsp; Voc&ecirc; &eacute; nossa convidada.&nbsp; Algumas irm&atilde;s americanas chegaram.&nbsp; Eu as apresentarei a voc&ecirc;&rdquo;, respondeu ela.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Irm&atilde; Basimah acenou para uma das mulheres do outro lado da sala.&nbsp; Ela veio e as duas mulheres se beijaram no rosto e se saudaram com uma alegre express&atilde;o &aacute;rabe.&nbsp; Ent&atilde;o ambas voltaram o olhar para mim.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">&ldquo;Essa &eacute; Sharon.&nbsp; Ela &eacute; judia.&nbsp; Voc&ecirc; faria companhia a ela at&eacute; comermos?&rdquo;&nbsp; Disse irm&atilde; Basimah disse para a outra mulher.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">&ldquo;&Oacute;, claro!&rdquo;, respondeu ela.&nbsp; &ldquo;Oi, Sharon. Sou irm&atilde; Arwa!&rdquo;<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Irm&atilde; Arwa e eu sentamos e come&ccedil;amos a nos conhecer.&nbsp; Perguntei a ela h&aacute; quanto tempo era mu&ccedil;ulmana, se era casada com um mu&ccedil;ulmano, etc.&nbsp; Ent&atilde;o ela soltou a bomba.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">&ldquo;Por que voc&ecirc;s mataram Jesus?&rdquo; perguntou ela.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">&ldquo;O que?&rdquo; respondi.&nbsp; Meu rosto deve ter mostrado meu choque e incredulidade.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">&ldquo;Quero dizer&rdquo;, perguntou novamente, dessa vez suavizando a pergunta, &ldquo;por que os judeus mataram Jesus?&rdquo;<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">N&atilde;o podia acreditar no que estava ouvindo!&nbsp; Fiquei at&ocirc;nita e irritada com a pergunta.&nbsp; Podia perceber pelo ar inocente em seu rosto que ela realmente queria saber.&nbsp; Talvez nunca tivesse encontrado uma judia antes e essa fosse a primeira oportunidade real de obter uma resposta para sua pergunta inquietante.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Quando fui apresentada a ela gostei de sua companhia. Afinal, era a primeira americana que tinha visto aquela noite.&nbsp; Agora queria me levantar e sair correndo da mesa.&nbsp; Ent&atilde;o a raiva passou.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Dando a ela um olhar nefasto, respondi entre dentes: &ldquo;N&atilde;o matamos Jesus.&nbsp; Foram os romanos!&rdquo;&nbsp; Ela devolveu o olhar de um animal ferido.&nbsp; Seus l&aacute;bios abriram para dizer algo, mas antes que ela pudesse responder algu&eacute;m a chamou.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">&ldquo;Com licen&ccedil;a&rdquo;, disse ela. &ldquo;Voltarei.&rdquo;&nbsp; Pude ouvir o al&iacute;vio em sua voz.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Um grupo de irm&atilde;s afro americanas chegou &agrave; masjid e passei o resto da noite na companhia delas.&nbsp; Antes de sair para encontrar meu marido, irm&atilde; Basimah me deu seu n&uacute;mero de telefone e me encorajou a ligar e arranjar um tempo para visit&aacute;-la.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Eu liguei e desenvolvemos uma bela rela&ccedil;&atilde;o.&nbsp; Ela me falou tudo sobre Isl&atilde; e Deus.&nbsp; Foi dela que aprendi que ningu&eacute;m matou Jesus!&nbsp; Aprendi que Deus o levou para perto de Si.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Ela sabia que estava interessada no Isl&atilde; e pode sentir que me cora&ccedil;&atilde;o buscava e ansiava por paz espiritual.&nbsp; Uma noite, enquanto meu marido e eu visit&aacute;vamos sua casa, ela foi direto ao ponto e me convidou para o Isl&atilde;.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">O momento decisivo aconteceu quando ela explicou que todos os meus pecados seriam perdoados quando entrasse no Isl&atilde;.&nbsp; Disse que eu seria renascida, como um beb&ecirc; rec&eacute;m-nascido, sem pecados, com outra chance.&nbsp; Desabei e chorei.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Queria outra chance de me acertar com Deus.&nbsp; Sabe, tinha um passado de muitos problemas.&nbsp; Sempre amei Deus, mas me perdi na vida.&nbsp; Pedimos ao marido dela para me ajudar a dizer a shahada.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Quando disse ao meu marido o que estava prestes a fazer, ele ficou chocado e feliz ao mesmo tempo.&nbsp; Perguntou se eu estava certa de minha decis&atilde;o, como se n&atilde;o pudesse acreditar no que estava ouvindo.&nbsp; Respondi que nunca estive t&atilde;o certa de nada em toda a minha vida.&nbsp; N&atilde;o havia batalha interna, medos ou d&uacute;vidas.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Depois que disse a shahada, o marido da irm&atilde; Basimah disse &ldquo;Mabruk (parab&eacute;ns)!&nbsp; Agora voc&ecirc; &eacute; uma mu&ccedil;ulmana!&rdquo;<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Quando voltamos para casa meu marido me deu um presente o meu pr&oacute;prio Alcor&atilde;o e um Sahih Al-Bukhari resumido.&nbsp; Antes de deixar a casa de irm&atilde; Basimah naquela noite especial, ela me deu de presente um livreto sobre mod&eacute;stia para mu&ccedil;ulmanas.&nbsp; Tamb&eacute;m me deu um tapete de ora&ccedil;&atilde;o, uma roupa para ora&ccedil;&atilde;o e um hijab (len&ccedil;o de cabe&ccedil;a).<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Uso hijab desde aquele dia, al-hamdu lillah.&nbsp; Nunca o tirei, nem mesmo depois dos dias terr&iacute;veis que se seguiram ao 11 de setembro.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Quando me tornei mu&ccedil;ulmana em julho de 1998, meu pai se afastou de vez.&nbsp; Tinha ficado muito irritado comigo por me casar com um mu&ccedil;ulmano e se recusava a reconhecer meu marido como seu genro.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">&ldquo;Mas Sharon, essa gente nos odeia!&rdquo; gritava.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Todos os esfor&ccedil;os para explicar a diferen&ccedil;a entre a religi&atilde;o pac&iacute;fica do Isl&atilde; e a luta pol&iacute;tica entre palestinos e israelenses n&atilde;o levavam a nada.&nbsp; N&atilde;o tinha import&acirc;ncia meu pai ter sido o primeiro de sua fam&iacute;lia a se casar fora do Juda&iacute;smo.&nbsp; Minha m&atilde;e era uma cat&oacute;lica praticante quando casaram.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Para acrescentar insulto &agrave; ofensa aos olhos dos meus pais, meu marido tamb&eacute;m era afro americano.&nbsp; Antes do 11 de setembro a maioria dos americanos pensava em Malcolm X toda vez que o Isl&atilde; era mencionado.&nbsp; Muitos outros membros da fam&iacute;lia tamb&eacute;m deixaram transparecer como estavam desapontados e frustrados com minha decis&atilde;o de casar com um &ldquo;mu&ccedil;ulmano negro.&rdquo;<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Meu pai morreu em agosto de 2001, um m&ecirc;s antes dos eventos do 11 de setembro.&nbsp; A pedido da esposa de meu pai, minha fam&iacute;lia n&atilde;o me contou que ele tinha morrido at&eacute; que seu funeral tivesse terminado.&nbsp; Temiam que eu aparecesse na sinagoga vestida a car&aacute;ter acompanhada de meu marido negro?<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Aprendemos que a religi&atilde;o do Isl&atilde; &eacute; para todas as pessoas e todas as &eacute;pocas.&nbsp; N&atilde;o devia importar se um mu&ccedil;ulmano &eacute; eg&iacute;pcio, paquistan&ecirc;s, americano, saudita, indon&eacute;sio ou palestino.&nbsp; N&atilde;o devia importar se ele ou ela &eacute; negro, branco, vermelho ou amarelo.&nbsp; N&atilde;o devia importar se ele ou ela fala &aacute;rabe, ingl&ecirc;s, espanhol ou urdu.&nbsp; Nossa diversidade cultural n&atilde;o divide nossa Ummah (na&ccedil;&atilde;o).&nbsp;&nbsp;Deus nos diz no Alcor&atilde;o:<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-quran\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><strong>&ldquo;Fizemos-vos como na&ccedil;&otilde;es e tribos, de modo que vos conhe&ccedil;ais uns aos outros.&rdquo; (Alcor&atilde;o 49:13)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<h1 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/h1>","excerpt":"","terms":null,"visibility_roles":"","comment_status":1,"comment_count":0,"read_counter":13865,"lft":3210,"rght":3211,"promote":1,"sticky":0,"status":1,"publish_start":null,"publish_end":null,"created_at":"2014-09-02T17:26:00.000000Z","updated_at":"2026-04-03T13:42:15.000000Z","language_id":15,"user_id":7,"author_id":2425,"publisher_id":0,"category_id":10,"parent_id":1714,"author_name":"S. 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