{"title":"Mi","author":{"id":3029,"name":"Mi","slug":"mi","image":"\/uploads\/users\/non-profile.jpg","role":"Author","about":"","promote":0,"status":1,"created_at":"2014-10-07T08:00:00.000000Z","updated_at":"2014-10-07T08:00:00.000000Z","language_id":1,"parent_id":null,"i18ns":[],"image_asset":"http:\/\/www.islamland.com\/uploads\/users\/non-profile.jpg","get_name":"Mi"},"books":{"current_page":1,"data":[],"first_page_url":"http:\/\/www.islamland.com\/index.php\/isl\/api\/authors\/3029?books_page=1","from":null,"last_page":1,"last_page_url":"http:\/\/www.islamland.com\/index.php\/isl\/api\/authors\/3029?books_page=1","links":[{"url":null,"label":"&laquo; Previous","page":null,"active":false},{"url":"http:\/\/www.islamland.com\/index.php\/isl\/api\/authors\/3029?books_page=1","label":"1","page":1,"active":true},{"url":null,"label":"Next &raquo;","page":null,"active":false}],"next_page_url":null,"path":"http:\/\/www.islamland.com\/index.php\/isl\/api\/authors\/3029","per_page":25,"prev_page_url":null,"to":null,"total":0},"videos":{"current_page":1,"data":[],"first_page_url":"http:\/\/www.islamland.com\/index.php\/isl\/api\/authors\/3029?videos_page=1","from":null,"last_page":1,"last_page_url":"http:\/\/www.islamland.com\/index.php\/isl\/api\/authors\/3029?videos_page=1","links":[{"url":null,"label":"&laquo; Previous","page":null,"active":false},{"url":"http:\/\/www.islamland.com\/index.php\/isl\/api\/authors\/3029?videos_page=1","label":"1","page":1,"active":true},{"url":null,"label":"Next &raquo;","page":null,"active":false}],"next_page_url":null,"path":"http:\/\/www.islamland.com\/index.php\/isl\/api\/authors\/3029","per_page":25,"prev_page_url":null,"to":null,"total":0},"audios":{"current_page":1,"data":[],"first_page_url":"http:\/\/www.islamland.com\/index.php\/isl\/api\/authors\/3029?audios_page=1","from":null,"last_page":1,"last_page_url":"http:\/\/www.islamland.com\/index.php\/isl\/api\/authors\/3029?audios_page=1","links":[{"url":null,"label":"&laquo; Previous","page":null,"active":false},{"url":"http:\/\/www.islamland.com\/index.php\/isl\/api\/authors\/3029?audios_page=1","label":"1","page":1,"active":true},{"url":null,"label":"Next &raquo;","page":null,"active":false}],"next_page_url":null,"path":"http:\/\/www.islamland.com\/index.php\/isl\/api\/authors\/3029","per_page":25,"prev_page_url":null,"to":null,"total":0},"articles":{"current_page":1,"data":[{"id":2390,"title":"\u201cMi\u201d, Ex-Christian, USA","slug":"mi-ex-christian-usa","word":"\/uploads\/articles\/Mi\u201d, Ex-Christian, USA.docx","pdf":"\/uploads\/articles\/Mi\u201d, Ex-Christian, USA.pdf","mime_type":null,"type":"node","path":"\/nodes\/view\/type:article\/slug:mi-ex-christian-usa","hint":"","body":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span>&ldquo;Mi&rdquo;, Ex-Christian, USA<\/span><\/h1>\r\n<h1 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">&nbsp;(part 1 of 3)<\/span><\/h1>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<img style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com\/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQuNBKTXOR63WP1mnkK6bUjz0TvvGdKPb91AZ05oFmsmd7M5g20Hw\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><em>&ldquo;In my mind, there was nothing wrong with Christianity.&nbsp; I was perfectly fine with it.&nbsp; I had questions and had not been feeling the same fervor I once experienced as a teenager but I just had to shake it off, pray, and continue to be faithful in the hopes that my change would come.&nbsp; My pursuit of education changed this view.&rdquo;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">I pray that whoever reads my story; whatever faith a person may practice, I pray that the overall theme conveyed here is submission to the will of God and to be in constant pursuit of knowledge.&nbsp; Ameen.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Shouting, speaking in tongues, a choir accompanied by a Hammond B3, pianos, and drums among other things were a part of my religious upbringing.&nbsp; The louder the sounds were, it seemed to me, the more pleasing to God it was.&nbsp; I was raised to see these acts as normal.&nbsp; It was how my church grew to become.&nbsp; My father was and still is a southern Baptist preacher. At seven, I dedicated my life to Christ and was baptized by my father at his church. &nbsp;My sister and brother-in-law are ministers of music at the church my mother and I went to after my parent&rsquo;s divorce.&nbsp; As a teenager, I was full of fervor and reverence for God.&nbsp; And thus I wanted to live a good Christian lifestyle in which I strived to be like Christ as we were taught.&nbsp; I would attempt to share my beliefs with others in the hopes to get them to become saved; asking Jesus into their hearts so that his ultimate sacrifice could wash away their sins, and thus, they would return to him.&nbsp; In my mind, there was nothing wrong with Christianity.&nbsp; I was perfectly fine with it.&nbsp; I had questions and had not been feeling the same fervor I once experienced as a teenager but I just had to shake it off, pray, and continue to be faithful in the hopes that my change would come.&nbsp; My pursuit of education changed this view.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">My sister led my mother and I to this new church which became our home church after my parent&rsquo;s divorce.&nbsp; We loved it.&nbsp; The music was awesome, the preacher had a degree in divinity, and we had a youth choir!&nbsp; Even more importantly, these groups of people were mostly black, had microphones which made the music and preaching really loud, and were welcoming each Sunday.&nbsp; At 16, on a visit with my father in the mountains, a young white preacher friend of my dad&rsquo;s stopped by his house.&nbsp; I met him, shook his hand and went on about doing whatever I was doing.&nbsp; He and my dad were speaking in the kitchen.&nbsp; The preacher asked if I was saved and my father told him I was. &nbsp;The man asked to speak with me and called me into the kitchen.&nbsp; The man began to prophesy (a practice of reporting information from God communicated to one person to tell someone else).&nbsp; He stated that I was going to be a minister, and that I would begin to speak in tongues more fervently, and that he would find a lady in my church that would be a mentor to me.&nbsp; He completed his message with a prayer over me and that was it.&nbsp; My father and I discussed it later as we typically had always discussed spiritual matters.&nbsp; When I returned home, I prayed and asked God to show me who this woman was, I asked him for the gift of speaking in tongues, and for the courage to approach my new pastor and to ask him if I could be a minister.&nbsp; Eventually, two out of three things happened.&nbsp; I would attend what we called &ldquo;intercessory prayer&rdquo; in which we felt we were praying for for those whom we did not know, in an unknown but godly language.&nbsp; It can only be described to the outsider as sounding like gibberish (not to offend anyone.)&nbsp; I worked up the courage to speak to the pastor and he allowed me into the class.&nbsp; I was among one or two teenagers present in the class. I was very proud.&nbsp; In one assignment, we had to construct a sermon, which I presented to the pastor he said I did an exceptional job!&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">At 17, the ministers training class had been postponed or pushed back so much so, that my high school graduation came and went and I was off to college.&nbsp; I still had hopes of being obedient to God while in college.&nbsp; The pastor prayed over us that we would hold true to our values and morals and sent us on our way.&nbsp; College was a blur.&nbsp; There were no wild intimate encounters; I stayed away from the football team as they were the ones who were looking for wild encounters, and I did not do any drugs.&nbsp; I joined the marching band, attended church, worked and studied.&nbsp; I met and dated two different guys at two different times.&nbsp; In both relationships, we discussed marriage as was the custom according to our teachings but sadly our relationships ended. In all honesty, I was heartbroken by both relationships.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">One relationship actually went to the point of an engagement.&nbsp; However the breakup, triggered in me a deep sorrow that I was unable to shake off. I graduated, worked in the area for another year and moved 6 hours away to wait to get married.&nbsp; Once I broke off the engagement, I was so angry at God.&nbsp; I felt that I did everything he asked me to do.&nbsp; I trusted my gut feeling which I interpreted as God leading me and this is what happened!&nbsp; (Looking back, relationships were complex but it worsens the situation when you have poor communication skills and do not listen to others.&nbsp; And that was just me.)&nbsp; I lay in bed crying for several hours. When I felt I could not cry anymore, I found my bottle of sleeping pills took a handful and tried to go to sleep indefinitely.&nbsp; The next thing I remember after becoming sick, is calling my mother and her telling me that she bought me a ticket to fly home.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<h1 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">(part 2 of 3)<\/span><\/h1>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">A few months went by and I was still feeling down.&nbsp; I saw a cousin who referred me to a therapist who later diagnosed me with Major Depressive Disorder and Attention Deficit Disorder.&nbsp; She prescribed me medicines and talk therapy which helped a great deal with my mood.&nbsp; As more time passed I was ready to return to the Church, get back into the ministers training class and complete what I started.&nbsp; However in the five years that I was away, they reconstructed the program.&nbsp; An associate minister was in charge. I approached the associate minister asking if I would be able to re-enter the class.&nbsp; He told me that there were some other things I had to do first.&nbsp; At that moment, I had a flashback to when I was in school and attempted the ministers training there, I was given the same exact answer.&nbsp; No one ever mentioned what this &ldquo;other stuff&rdquo; was.&nbsp; I waited&hellip;and waited yet no one informed me of anything.&nbsp; Several of my friends had entered the program once I was back in town, which confused me.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">I took to more prayer thinking perhaps I heard God incorrectly.&nbsp; Maybe my calling to be a minister was not the most obvious.&nbsp; So I attended church faithfully even though my faith began to wane a little.&nbsp; There was interest expressed in starting a dance ministry and when I came home from school after it was established, I &ldquo;auditioned&rdquo; to join the dance ministry.&nbsp; I loved it! I felt that my movement communicated to God what I could not say.&nbsp; It was the way to communicate a message of salvation through dance.&nbsp; As a principle, it is never attractive or godly to be arrogant or prideful but I was skilled for someone who had no training.&nbsp; People would remark about how blessed they were when they saw me dance.&nbsp; The most appropriate response was always, &ldquo;Praise God.&rdquo;&nbsp; This had to be the ministry that God was speaking about.&nbsp; I loved it, people responded to it, the team members were not catty and did not do much backbiting.&nbsp; Perfect.&nbsp; But one Sunday, as I was attentively listening to a sermon, I had this question regarding God&rsquo;s nature, the actions of Adam and Eve, and reason.&nbsp; It stuck with me into the work week.&nbsp; I started researching this line of questioning but it bothered me terribly.&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Because if God were all knowing and knew that we would sin, why would he put the tree there to basically tempt us and by His nature he doesn&rsquo;t tempt humans: He allows it. And let&rsquo;s say that was the Divine plan, why would He not just forgive Adam and Eve? &nbsp;Furthermore, why would He require a blood sacrifice to blind Himself from our sin, which I was taught in support of Jesus&rsquo; death as atonement for sins.&nbsp; How does this blood do anything for God?<\/em>&nbsp; One question led to another. These few were among a couple of pages of questions I wrote down to try to find answers. In a series of sessions on the internet looking up the origins of Christianity, I stopped attending church.&nbsp; I had never done a great job of hiding my feelings and was not about to start with hiding them from God.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">It was about this time when I decided to attend graduate school. &nbsp;I had gotten married, had a baby and was floating along through life.&nbsp; Up until this point, I had attended predominantly black schools and churches.&nbsp; I started out in one discipline, but switched to another which mostly had classes on the main campus.&nbsp; In my first class, I observed the people around the room: Whites, Blacks, an Asian, Middle Easterners, and Africans. I was the only Black American.&nbsp; Moreover, there were two Muslim girls sitting near each other.&nbsp; One was pregnant and bubbly; the other was seemingly quiet and scholarly.&nbsp; Prior to this my only experiences with Muslims was in high school - a couple of guys who were a part of the 'Nation of Islam', and two girls who wore the headscarf, but at that time I had not paid any attention to them.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\r\n<h1 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">(part 3 of 3)<\/span><\/h1>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">On one particular night of paying half attention to my instructor and the other half to the relentless thoughts I had regarding faith and religion, I began to write down my thoughts and questions. There was an African sister who had married interracially and was Christian sitting to my near left.&nbsp; I knew she was proud of being a Christian and it brought her that same joy I used to have.&nbsp; I passed her the piece of paper for her to attempt to answer.&nbsp; On a restroom break, she tried to answer questions about the trinity, sin and atonement but for some reason, the precepts she was speaking I knew of but now did not understand.&nbsp; The scholarly, quiet Muslim girl was sitting behind the Christian girl.&nbsp; I passed her the same note.&nbsp; To my surprise, she wrote down answers that were so clear and concrete.&nbsp; Her body language was subtle; she was not leaning in writing frantically trying to convert me to her faith whereas the other sister did.&nbsp; She wrote down some websites I would be able to visit which had more explanation.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;WHAT JUST HAPPENED? Why did I even ask the Muslim girl?&nbsp; Did I just throw a wrench yet again into my whole identity?&nbsp; With the clear answers she provided, if I were a minister, how could I share the gospel with her and convert her? Since she was from another country originally, she had no concept of atonement or of a triune God.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Once home after writing papers and when my husband had gone to work, I would visit websites about Islam.&nbsp; Most of the sites had consistent information.&nbsp; The sites that seemed spooky, calling&nbsp;<em>Salat<\/em>&nbsp;contact prayer for example, were obviously not what I was looking for.&nbsp; Praise be unto Allah, looking back, it was only me searching for these answers with no one to interpret what I was reading and I could cipher through what wasn&rsquo;t Islam.&nbsp; I looked up everything I could find. I had become obsessed with religion and the search for what felt right.&nbsp; I came to the conclusion that there had to be only one God.&nbsp; I considered atheism but the natural world, the human body, the force within us that makes us who we are were too intricate to be some cosmic coincidence or accident.&nbsp; It came down to Judaism or Islam.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Meanwhile, as semesters went by, my personal life began to unravel.&nbsp; I presented the findings I had on Islam to my husband.&nbsp; He did not like it one bit.&nbsp; He didn&rsquo;t speak to me for 2 days.&nbsp; When he was ready to talk, he stated that he didn&rsquo;t understand where all of this was coming from or why I wanted to spend so much time at school or with school friends.&nbsp; With his complete disapproval and the knowledge that he would not convert, I studied in secret. With two babies, a constant tugging on my heart, and a similar gut feeling about the matters at hand, I had to make some decisions.&nbsp; One night, I was online witnessing a person take&nbsp;<em>shahada<\/em>&nbsp;or their declaration of faith. I began to cry uncontrollably and I still till this day do not know why nor can I explain what I was feeling.&nbsp; A few days later I took mine all alone.&nbsp; I even did it on three different occasions to make certain.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">During my search, there were many opinions regarding religion and faith.&nbsp; Most of the people who were atheists, agnostics, or apostates of Islam had seen injustice or experienced some hardship they placed on God.&nbsp; I made sure not to do this. I made sure to consider all arguments, to retract my blasphemous statements to God when I was angry with Him and trusted that any action I committed based on some feeling of faith was not any fault of God.&nbsp; I have heard arguments about how people whose faith is low are more susceptible to having someone be able to convert them.&nbsp; I don&rsquo;t believe that this was the case for me.&nbsp; I would rather take the position that I was always searching for what God wanted me to do.&nbsp; Did He want these bodily actions of worship: the louder the better? Did He intend for us to be segregated by color or culture? Despite having clinical depression and questions, I feel that I owed it to myself to make the most coherent, sound, clear decision.&nbsp; I would love to say that life became easier, that there were butterflies and rainbows and I lived happily ever after but that is not the case.&nbsp; My marriage ended and I am the only Muslim in my family of course. I struggle with the prayers since my concept of worship was completely different.&nbsp; Many reverts disclose how they&rsquo;ve attained so much peace through prayer or how they&rsquo;ve felt this tug in their hearts but that was a struggle for me.&nbsp; My personal conflicts as a Muslim deal with culture versus the faith, and the feeling of simply standing all alone donned in hijab for the sake of my beliefs.&nbsp; However, the most beautiful thing to me after becoming a Muslim is that finally, I have answered prayers and questions.&nbsp; This brings me a great deal of peace and makes my struggle minute in comparison to the benefits I&rsquo;ve gained.<\/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":7490,"lft":4555,"rght":4558,"promote":1,"sticky":0,"status":1,"publish_start":null,"publish_end":null,"created_at":"2014-10-07T22:28:00.000000Z","updated_at":"2026-04-04T09:13:43.000000Z","language_id":1,"user_id":7,"author_id":3029,"publisher_id":0,"category_id":10,"parent_id":null,"author_name":"Mi","category_name":"Why I became a Muslim!","category_slug":"Why-I-became-a-Muslim!","get_date":"2014-10-07","pdf_asset":"http:\/\/www.islamland.com\/uploads\/articles\/Mi\u201d, Ex-Christian, USA.pdf","word_asset":"http:\/\/www.islamland.com\/uploads\/articles\/Mi\u201d, Ex-Christian, USA.docx"},{"id":2391,"title":"\u201cMi\u201d, Ex-Christin, USA.","slug":"mi-ex-christin-usa","word":"\/uploads\/articles\/de-\u201cMi\u201d, Ex-Christin, USA.docx","pdf":"\/uploads\/articles\/de-\u201cMi\u201d, Ex-Christin, USA.pdf","mime_type":null,"type":"node","path":"\/nodes\/view\/type:article\/slug:mi-ex-christin-usa","hint":"","body":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span>&ldquo;Mi&rdquo;, Ex-Christin, USA<\/span><\/h1>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">&nbsp;<img style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com\/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQuNBKTXOR63WP1mnkK6bUjz0TvvGdKPb91AZ05oFmsmd7M5g20Hw\" alt=\"\" \/><\/span><\/p>\r\n<h1 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">(teil 1 von 3)<\/span><\/h1>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><em>\"In meinem Kopf hatte ich nichts gegen das Christentum. Mir ging es vollkommen gut damit.&nbsp; Ich hatte Fragen, und ich hatte nicht dasselbe inbr&uuml;nstige Gef&uuml;hl, dass ich einmal als Teenager erfahren hatte, aber ich musste das einfach absch&uuml;tteln, beten und musste weiter fromm sein, in der Hoffnung, dass meine Ver&auml;nderung kommen w&uuml;rde. Mein Streben nach Bildung ver&auml;nderte diese Ansicht.\"<\/em><\/span><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Ich bete f&uuml;r denjenigen, der meine Geschichte liest, egal welchen Glauben er aus&uuml;bt, ich bete, dass die Gesamtheit dieses Themas, das hier vermittelt wird, die Ergebenheit in den Willen Gottes und die Best&auml;ndigkeit bei der Suche nach Wissen ist. &nbsp;Amin.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Schreien, mit verschiedenen Zungen sprechen, ein Chor von einer Hammond B3, Pianos und Trommeln waren unter anderem Teile meiner religi&ouml;sen Erziehung.&nbsp; Je lauter die Kl&auml;nge waren, schien es mir, desto mehr gefielen sie Gott. &nbsp;Ich war so erzogen worden, diese Dinge als normal zu betrachten.&nbsp; Es war, wie meine Kirche sein sollte.&nbsp; Mein Vater war und ist noch immer ein baptistischer Priester.&nbsp; Mit sieben widmete ich mein Leben Christus und wurde von meinem Vater in der Kirche getauft.&nbsp; Meine Schwester und mein Schwager sind Musikpriester in der Kirche, zu der meine Mutter und ich nach der Scheidung meiner Eltern gingen.&nbsp; Als Teenager war ich voller &nbsp;Inbrunst und Ehrfurcht vor Gott.&nbsp; Und so wollte ich einen guten christlichen Lebensstil f&uuml;hren, versuchte so zu sein wie Christ, so wie es uns beigebracht wurde.&nbsp; Ich versuchte, meinen Glauben anderen mitzuteilen in der Hoffnung, sie dadurch zu retten; Jesus in ihren Herzen zu fragen, damit sein ultimatives Opfer ihre S&uuml;nden davon waschen k&ouml;nnte und damit sie zu ihm zur&uuml;ck kehrten.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;In meinem Kopf hatte ich nichts gegen das Christentum. Mir ging es vollkommen gut damit.&nbsp; Ich hatte Fragen und ich hatte nicht dasselbe inbr&uuml;nstige Gef&uuml;hl, dass ich einmal als Teenager erfahren hatte, aber ich musste das einfach absch&uuml;tteln, beten und musste weiter fromm sein, in der Hoffnung, dass meine Ver&auml;nderung kommen w&uuml;rde. Mein Streben nach Bildung ver&auml;nderte diese Ansicht.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Meine Schwester f&uuml;hrte meine Mutter und mich zu dieser neuen Kirche, die unsere Heimkirche nach der Scheidung meiner Eltern wurde.&nbsp; Wir liebten sie.&nbsp; Die Musik war ehrf&uuml;rchtig, der Prediger hatte einen Grad an G&ouml;ttlichkeit, und wir hatten einen Jugendchor!&nbsp; Was noch wichtiger war, diese Gruppen von Menschen waren gr&ouml;&szlig;tenteils schwarz, hatten Mikrofone, die die Musik machten und predigten richtig laut und hie&szlig;en uns jeden Sonntag willkommen. &nbsp;Mit 16 bei einem Besuch in den Bergen mit meinem Vater, hielt ein junger wei&szlig;en Predigerfreund meines Vaters bei seinem Haus an.&nbsp; Ich traf ihn, sch&uuml;ttelte ihm die Hand und machte mit dem weiter, was ich gerade tat.&nbsp; Er und mein Vater sprachen in der K&uuml;che.&nbsp; Der Prediger fragte, ob ich gerettet sei, und mein Vater erz&auml;hlte ihm, dass ich es sei. &nbsp;Der Mann wollte mit mir sprechen und rief mich in die K&uuml;che.&nbsp; Der Mann fing an, zu prophezeien (eine Art Informationen von Gott zu berichten, die einer Person mitgeteilt wurden, um sie jemand anderem weiterzugeben).&nbsp; &nbsp;Er behauptete, ich w&uuml;rde Ministerin werden, und dass ich leidenschaftlicher mit Zungen sprechen w&uuml;rde und dass er in meiner Kirche eine Dame finden w&uuml;rde, die f&uuml;r mich ein Mentor sein wird.&nbsp; Er vervollst&auml;ndigte seine Botschaft mit einem Gebet f&uuml;r mich und das war&acute;s.&nbsp; Mein Vater und ich diskutierten es sp&auml;ter, wie wir normalerweise spirituelle Themen besprachen.&nbsp; Als ich nach Hause zur&uuml;ck kehrte, betete ich und bat Gott, mir zu zeigen, wer diese Frau sei, und ich bat ihn um das Geschenk, in Zungen sprechen zu k&ouml;nnen und um den Mut, mich dem neuen Pastor zu n&auml;hern und zu fragen, ob ich Ministerin werden kann.&nbsp; Schlie&szlig;lich geschahen zwei von drei Dingen.&nbsp; Ich nahm an dem, was wir \"F&uuml;rbittgebet\" nennen teil, bei dem ich f&uuml;hlte, wir beteten f&uuml;r diejenigen, die wir nicht kannten, in einer unbekannten, aber g&ouml;ttlichen Sprache.&nbsp; Es kann einem Au&szlig;enstehenden nur so beschrieben werden, dass es wie Kauderwelsch klingt (ohne jemanden beleidigen zu wollen).&nbsp; Ich nahm meinen ganzen Mut zusammen, um mit dem Pastor zu sprechen, und er billigte mich in der Klasse.&nbsp; Ich war einer von zwei oder drei Teenagern in der Klasse.&nbsp; Ich war sehr stolz.&nbsp; In einer Sitzung mussten wir eine Predigt erstellen, die ich dem Pastor vorlegte, und er sagte, es sei eine au&szlig;ergew&ouml;hnliche Arbeit!<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Mit 17 wurde das Ministertraining verschoben oder zur&uuml;ck gedr&auml;ngt, weil meine Highschool Graduierung kam, und ich ging fort zum College.&nbsp; Ich hegte immer noch Hoffnungen darauf, Gott gehorsam zu sein, w&auml;hrend ich auf dem College bin.&nbsp; Der Pastor betete f&uuml;r uns, dass wir an unseren Werten und Sitten festhalten werden und schickte uns auf den Weg.&nbsp; Das College war eine verschwommene Sache.&nbsp; Es gab keine wilden intimen Treffen; ich hielt mich vom Fu&szlig;ballteam fern, denn sie waren diejenigen, die auf wilde Treffen aus waren, und ich nahm auch keine Drogen.&nbsp; Ich nahm an der Marschband teil, ging zur Kirche, arbeitete und studierte.&nbsp; Ich traf und verabredete mich mit zwei verschiedenen Jungs zu zwei unterschiedlichen Zeiten.&nbsp; In beiden Beziehungen sprachen wir &uuml;ber das Heiraten, denn es war nach unseren Lehren der Brauch, aber leider endete unsere Beziehung.&nbsp; Ganz ehrlich, die beiden Beziehungen haben mein Herz gebrochen.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Eine Beziehung ging tats&auml;chlich bis zur Verlobung. &nbsp;Doch die Trennung l&ouml;ste in mir eine tiefe Trauer aus, die ich nicht absch&uuml;tteln konnte.&nbsp; Ich graduierte, arbeitete f&uuml;r ein weiteres Jahr in der Gegend und zog 6 Stunden weit weg, um darauf zu warten, verheiratet zu werden.&nbsp; Nachdem ich die Verlobung gel&ouml;st hatte, war ich so &auml;rgerlich auf Gott.&nbsp; Ich f&uuml;hlte mich, als h&auml;tte ich alles getan, was er von mir verlangt hatte. &nbsp;Ich vertraute auf mein zerst&ouml;rtes Gef&uuml;hl, das ich so interpretierte, als w&uuml;rde Gott mich leiten und dies passierte!&nbsp; (R&uuml;ckblickend waren die Beziehungen kompliziert, aber es verschlimmert die Situation, wenn du schlechte kommunikative F&auml;higkeiten besitzt und nicht auf andere h&ouml;rst. &nbsp;Und genau das traf auf mich zu!)&nbsp; Ich lag im Bett und weinte mehrere Stunden lang. &nbsp;Als ich f&uuml;hlte, dass ich nicht mehr weinen konnte, fand ich mein Glas Schlaftabletten, nahm eine Handvoll und versuchte, auf unbestimmte Zeit zu schlafen.&nbsp; Das n&auml;chste, woran ich mich erinnern kann, nachdem mir &uuml;bel geworden war, war, dass ich meine Mutter angerufen habe und ihr sagte, sie soll mir ein Ticket kaufen, damit ich nach Hause fliegen konnte.&nbsp;<\/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":6769,"lft":4556,"rght":4557,"promote":1,"sticky":0,"status":1,"publish_start":null,"publish_end":null,"created_at":"2014-10-07T22:28:00.000000Z","updated_at":"2026-04-04T08:32:23.000000Z","language_id":7,"user_id":7,"author_id":3029,"publisher_id":0,"category_id":10,"parent_id":2390,"author_name":"Mi","category_name":"Why I became a Muslim!","category_slug":"Why-I-became-a-Muslim!","get_date":"2014-10-07","pdf_asset":"http:\/\/www.islamland.com\/uploads\/articles\/de-\u201cMi\u201d, Ex-Christin, USA.pdf","word_asset":"http:\/\/www.islamland.com\/uploads\/articles\/de-\u201cMi\u201d, Ex-Christin, USA.docx"}],"first_page_url":"http:\/\/www.islamland.com\/index.php\/isl\/api\/authors\/3029?articles_page=1","from":1,"last_page":1,"last_page_url":"http:\/\/www.islamland.com\/index.php\/isl\/api\/authors\/3029?articles_page=1","links":[{"url":null,"label":"&laquo; 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