{"title":"Thomas Webber","author":{"id":2240,"name":"Thomas Webber","slug":"thomas_webber","image":"\/uploads\/users\/non-profile.jpg","role":"Author","about":"","promote":0,"status":1,"created_at":"2014-08-25T08:00:00.000000Z","updated_at":"2014-08-25T08:00:00.000000Z","language_id":1,"parent_id":null,"i18ns":[],"image_asset":"http:\/\/www.islamland.com\/uploads\/users\/non-profile.jpg","get_name":"Thomas Webber"},"books":{"current_page":1,"data":[],"first_page_url":"http:\/\/www.islamland.com\/index.php\/tha\/api\/authors\/2240?books_page=1","from":null,"last_page":1,"last_page_url":"http:\/\/www.islamland.com\/index.php\/tha\/api\/authors\/2240?books_page=1","links":[{"url":null,"label":"&laquo; Previous","page":null,"active":false},{"url":"http:\/\/www.islamland.com\/index.php\/tha\/api\/authors\/2240?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\/tha\/api\/authors\/2240","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\/tha\/api\/authors\/2240?videos_page=1","from":null,"last_page":1,"last_page_url":"http:\/\/www.islamland.com\/index.php\/tha\/api\/authors\/2240?videos_page=1","links":[{"url":null,"label":"&laquo; Previous","page":null,"active":false},{"url":"http:\/\/www.islamland.com\/index.php\/tha\/api\/authors\/2240?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\/tha\/api\/authors\/2240","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\/tha\/api\/authors\/2240?audios_page=1","from":null,"last_page":1,"last_page_url":"http:\/\/www.islamland.com\/index.php\/tha\/api\/authors\/2240?audios_page=1","links":[{"url":null,"label":"&laquo; Previous","page":null,"active":false},{"url":"http:\/\/www.islamland.com\/index.php\/tha\/api\/authors\/2240?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\/tha\/api\/authors\/2240","per_page":25,"prev_page_url":null,"to":null,"total":0},"articles":{"current_page":1,"data":[{"id":1490,"title":"Thomas Webber, Ex-Christian, UK","slug":"thomas-webber-ex-christian-uk","word":"\/uploads\/articles\/en-Thomas Webber, Ex-Christian, UK.docx","pdf":"\/uploads\/articles\/en-Thomas Webber, Ex-Christian, UK.pdf","mime_type":null,"type":"node","path":"\/nodes\/view\/type:article\/slug:thomas-webber-ex-christian-uk","hint":"","body":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: xx-large;\"><strong>Thomas Webber, Ex-Christian, UK<\/strong><\/span><br \/><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<img style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com\/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRpCdbgX2GyUZe_tobNu_gi4npkN6nuFTV5FRWI2KKaY1U90Ii-\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Like most reverts to Islam my story is simple from the perspective of an outsider.&nbsp; Young man finds a religion that&rsquo;s different to his family&rsquo;s and eventually tells them and reverts.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">However, like many things in life, it is the travelling of the journey and not the getting to the destination that seems most hard.&nbsp; Of course with Islam the journey will never be complete until it is ordained by Allah, the Exalted, but, instead we reach milestones along the way.&nbsp; So I shall tell the story of my life until now and my hopes and aspirations for the future.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">I was born in the UK to a family of two loving parents and one brother (Colin), shortly to be followed by my twin sister (Linda) and later by my other two sisters Melissa (who died when I was very little) and my youngest sister Emily.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">I was never baptized, as my father did not believe in putting a baby who could not object, through such a religious ceremony.&nbsp; However, my mother would send us to a Christian Sunday school to learn about Christianity.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Well, what can I say about that? Unfortunately for my mother my mind was relatively astute at a young age and as a result I could never understand why a loving and all powerful God could kill His son to forgive us our sins.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">This was surely not right when if He was so all powerful and all sins were against Him He could just have forgiven us all!&nbsp; Surely this is not what a loving God would do.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">As the years drew on I disregarded what I was taught about God.&nbsp; Religious holidays became all about presents and time off to relax.&nbsp; I was lost but I didn&rsquo;t know it.&nbsp; After all, these religious people would never be able to prove their religions like the sciences we were taught at school. To me they were just weak-minded or stupid.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">As time went on I would continue to be successful at school and get good grades pleasing my parents, and everything was fine.&nbsp; It wasn&rsquo;t until sometime after my 13th birthday that I would start to become religious.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">When I say religious I don&rsquo;t mean in the sense of being a practicing Christian.&nbsp; This, I could never be.&nbsp; But I did begin to hope to some form of God that I would be successful and attain all the things I needed.&nbsp; It was more a trust in something for the things I was unable to engineer for myself.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">As I progressed through school I learnt about various religions, Buddhism sounded like a good one, for there was no God and it was all about being a good person, and after all that is basically what I had learnt from Christianity.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">I began to think that religions were all about one thing and that was about making people become more moral.&nbsp; I continued to try and be a good person but couldn&rsquo;t quite shake the thought that something was missing.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">A year or so before I left Senior School my brother became a born-again Christian.&nbsp; Unfortunately for me this was a somewhat negative experience as he would keep trying to convert me to his religion, and I still could not accept that Jesus, may the mercy and blessings of God be upon him, was killed to forgive us our sins.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">So I withdrew any signs of religious thinking away from my family and friends to avoid further arguments with them and also to avoid being branded a weirdo, (which was just one of the cruel jibes I now heavily regret having landed upon my brother.)<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">My soul searching would continue to be repressed and hidden even from me for the next year or so.&nbsp; And then came the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Centre in America.&nbsp; At first when I was told about it I didn&rsquo;t believe it could happen, but it had.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">The news continued to report stories about it, but as it hadn&rsquo;t affected me particularly I merely continued with my life.&nbsp; It wasn&rsquo;t until reports of Islamic terrorists, reprisals against Muslims and the attack on Afghanistan and later on Iraq that I began to question my government and the US. This ultimately pushed me towards discovering the truth of Islam.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">I simply couldn&rsquo;t believe that Muslims could be terrorists capable only of hatred and murder.&nbsp; This was just strange.&nbsp; So I ignored this, but maybe this was when my mind became truly willing to learn about religion for the first time.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">It wasn&rsquo;t until I reached my first year of sixth-form College until I was to make friends with a Muslim.&nbsp; At first I would never believe she would be a friend as she said little until I got to know her.&nbsp; In this friend lay the clear and defined evidence that Muslims were not just crackpots and loonies and were in fact normal people.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Eventually, I began to explore Islam on the internet when nobody was around; as I was not prepared to let people know I would consider any religion, let alone Islam of all religions. I began to believe what I read but was still a little confused and my journey to understanding was slow.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Eventually, the summer vacations came and I was on the edge of belief in Islam.&nbsp; I wanted to believe it was true but how could I prove it.&nbsp; From my years of good grades and trying to be perfect in my parents&rsquo; eyes, I hated being wrong.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">As it was the summer I could not easily meet my Muslim friend but had so much I wanted to ask her.&nbsp; Occasionally she would call and I would talk to her for hours trying to build up the courage to tell her I needed her help.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Eventually I managed the courage to explain I was confused about religion but could never admit I wanted to be a Muslim, as I didn&rsquo;t know for certain that this was no whim as I had so much fear in my mind.&nbsp; Well, eventually I managed to tell her and she had only good things to say.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">So, I was now certain that I had to become a Muslim but how would I tell people and find out more?&nbsp; I knew I couldn&rsquo;t tell my family yet, as I remembered the cruelty I and my sisters had inflicted on my brother upon his becoming a Christian.&nbsp; I was afraid I would receive the same or worse.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">After all he at least followed the religion of my country and that we had been raised in, this would be totally different.&nbsp; Wouldn&rsquo;t it? My journey from this point on was the hardest part.&nbsp; How can you find out more if you couldn&rsquo;t tell anyone for fear your family would find out? Well I&rsquo;m glad to say eventually over a long period of time I slowly managed to confide in friends and family.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">I decided to say Shahadah on my 20th birthday, knowing if I didn&rsquo;t set a date I would never do it.&nbsp; So the weekend before I went to the Global Peace and Unity Conference in London, which was really amazing. I went knowing that the following Monday I would pronounce the Testimony of Faith, but it wasn&rsquo;t until the Saturday night spent at a friends place that I knew for certain I was going to say the Shahadah on Monday.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">For that night I lay trying to sleep and all I could here was the Adhan ringing through my head.&nbsp; It was the best thing ever. The next day I saw people making their own Shahadah and longed for Monday to come.&nbsp; When the Monday finally did come and I finally did say the Shahadah it felt odd.&nbsp; Almost like I was me at last!<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">I know the best stories all have a beginning middle and an end but you&rsquo;ll have to wait a little longer for the end, but this journey still hasn&rsquo;t finished.&nbsp; I still have the Quran and hadiths to learn and so much more besides that as well.<\/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":11976,"lft":2759,"rght":2766,"promote":1,"sticky":0,"status":1,"publish_start":null,"publish_end":null,"created_at":"2014-08-25T09:32:00.000000Z","updated_at":"2026-04-04T05:56:15.000000Z","language_id":1,"user_id":7,"author_id":2240,"publisher_id":0,"category_id":10,"parent_id":null,"author_name":"Thomas Webber","category_name":"Why I became a Muslim!","category_slug":"Why-I-became-a-Muslim!","get_date":"2014-08-25","pdf_asset":"http:\/\/www.islamland.com\/uploads\/articles\/en-Thomas Webber, Ex-Christian, UK.pdf","word_asset":"http:\/\/www.islamland.com\/uploads\/articles\/en-Thomas Webber, Ex-Christian, UK.docx"},{"id":1491,"title":"Thomas Webber, ex-chr\u00e9tien, Royaume-Uni","slug":"thomas-webber-ex-chrtien-royaume-uni","word":"\/uploads\/articles\/fr-Thomas Webber, Ex-Christian, UK.docx","pdf":"\/uploads\/articles\/fr-Thomas Webber, Ex-Christian, UK.pdf","mime_type":null,"type":"node","path":"\/nodes\/view\/type:article\/slug:thomas-webber-ex-chrtien-royaume-uni","hint":"","body":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span>Thomas Webber, ex-chr&eacute;tien, Royaume-Uni<\/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-tbn0.gstatic.com\/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRpCdbgX2GyUZe_tobNu_gi4npkN6nuFTV5FRWI2KKaY1U90Ii-\" alt=\"\" \/><\/span><\/p>\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;\">Comme pour plusieurs autres convertis &agrave; l&rsquo;islam, mon histoire peut para&icirc;tre banale du point de vue du profane&nbsp;: un jeune homme d&eacute;couvre une religion diff&eacute;rente de celle que lui a inculqu&eacute;e sa famille et d&eacute;cide de s&rsquo;y convertir.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Mais, comme pour beaucoup de choses, en cette vie, c&rsquo;est le cheminement et non l&rsquo;arriv&eacute;e &agrave; destination qui est le plus difficile.&nbsp; Bien s&ucirc;r, avec l&rsquo;islam, le cheminement ne se termine jamais vraiment; nous traversons plut&ocirc;t diverses &eacute;tapes importantes tout au long de ce cheminement. &nbsp;Je vous raconterai donc l&rsquo;histoire de ma vie jusqu&rsquo;&agrave; maintenant, de m&ecirc;me que mes espoirs et mes aspirations pour l&rsquo;avenir.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Je suis n&eacute; au Royaume-Uni au sein d&rsquo;une famille compos&eacute;e de deux parents aimants, de mon fr&egrave;re a&icirc;n&eacute; (Colin), de moi et de ma s&oelig;ur jumelle (Linda), puis de mes deux autres s&oelig;urs, Melissa (qui est d&eacute;c&eacute;d&eacute;e lorsque j&rsquo;&eacute;tais tout petit) et Emily.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Je n&rsquo;ai jamais &eacute;t&eacute; baptis&eacute;, car mon p&egrave;re croyait qu&rsquo;on ne pouvait soumettre un b&eacute;b&eacute;, qui ne pouvait s&rsquo;objecter, &agrave; une telle c&eacute;r&eacute;monie.&nbsp; Ma m&egrave;re, cependant, nous envoyait &agrave; l&rsquo;&eacute;cole du dimanche pour que nous apprenions les rudiments du christianisme.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Que puis-je dire &agrave; ce sujet? Malheureusement pour ma m&egrave;re, d&egrave;s mon plus jeune &acirc;ge, j&rsquo;&eacute;tais tr&egrave;s astucieux et jamais je ne pus concevoir qu&rsquo;un Dieu, qu&rsquo;on nous pr&eacute;sentait comme aimant et tout-puissant, puisse tuer Son fils pour effacer nos p&eacute;ch&eacute;s.&nbsp; Cela ne pouvait &ecirc;tre une chose juste, car s&rsquo;Il &eacute;tait si puissant, Il pouvait tout aussi bien nous pardonner nos p&eacute;ch&eacute;s de Lui-m&ecirc;me.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Avec les ann&eacute;es, je finis par rejeter ce qu&rsquo;on m&rsquo;avait enseign&eacute; sur Dieu.&nbsp; Les f&ecirc;tes religieuses ne signifiaient rien d&rsquo;autre qu&rsquo;un &eacute;change de cadeaux et des repas en famille.&nbsp; J&rsquo;&eacute;tais perdu, &eacute;gar&eacute;, mais je l&rsquo;ignorais alors.&nbsp; Je trouvais que les personnes croyantes &eacute;taient incapables de prouver l&rsquo;existence de Dieu et que la seule chose qui pouvait concr&egrave;tement d&eacute;montrer des faits &eacute;tait la science, que l&rsquo;on nous enseignait &agrave; l&rsquo;&eacute;cole.&nbsp; Pour moi, les personnes religieuses &eacute;taient, au mieux, faibles d&rsquo;esprit.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Les ann&eacute;es pass&egrave;rent.&nbsp; J&rsquo;&eacute;tais tr&egrave;s bon, &agrave; l&rsquo;&eacute;cole, et j&rsquo;obtenais des r&eacute;sultats qui faisaient la fiert&eacute; de mes parents.&nbsp; Puis, tout &agrave; coup, vers l&rsquo;&acirc;ge de 13 ans, je devins de plus en plus religieux.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Quand je dis religieux, ce n&rsquo;est pas dans le sens de chr&eacute;tien pratiquant, ce que je n&rsquo;aurais jamais pu &ecirc;tre.&nbsp; Mais je me mis &agrave; m&rsquo;adresser, mentalement, &agrave; quelque force sup&eacute;rieure, pla&ccedil;ant ma confiance en elle pour qu&rsquo;elle m&rsquo;aide &agrave; atteindre le succ&egrave;s, en cette vie.&nbsp; Autrement dit, je me mis &agrave; placer ma confiance en cette force que je ne pouvais d&eacute;finir pour qu&rsquo;elle m&rsquo;aide dans ces choses qui &eacute;chappaient &agrave; mon contr&ocirc;le.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">&Agrave; l&rsquo;&eacute;cole, j&rsquo;en appris davantage sur les diff&eacute;rentes religions. &nbsp;Le bouddhisme, entre autres, me semblait &ecirc;tre une bonne religion, car il n&rsquo;y avait pas de Dieu et on y mettait l&rsquo;accent sur l&rsquo;importance d&rsquo;&ecirc;tre une bonne personne.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Je commen&ccedil;ai &agrave; comprendre qu&rsquo;au fond, toutes les religions avaient le m&ecirc;me objectif terrestre, qui &eacute;tait de faire en sorte que les gens affichent une plus grande moralit&eacute;.&nbsp; Je m&rsquo;effor&ccedil;ai donc d&rsquo;&ecirc;tre une bonne personne, mais je ne pouvais chasser ce sentiment, au fond de moi, qu&rsquo;il manquait quelque chose &agrave; ma vie.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Un an ou deux avant que je ne quitte le lyc&eacute;e, mon fr&egrave;re devint ce qu&rsquo;on appelle un &laquo;&nbsp;chr&eacute;tien n&eacute; de nouveau&nbsp;&raquo;.&nbsp; Je v&eacute;cus cela comme une exp&eacute;rience n&eacute;gative, car il n&rsquo;eut de cesse de tenter de me convertir &agrave; ses croyances, tandis que rien ne pouvait me r&eacute;concilier avec l&rsquo;id&eacute;e que J&eacute;sus avait &eacute;t&eacute; tu&eacute; pour laver nos p&eacute;ch&eacute;s.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">C&rsquo;est alors que je d&eacute;cidai de ne plus parler de religion avec ma famille et mes amis afin d&rsquo;&eacute;viter toute discussion anim&eacute;e avec eux et d&rsquo;&eacute;viter, &eacute;galement, que l&rsquo;on me prenne pour un cingl&eacute; (une des nombreuses moqueries qu&rsquo;aujourd&rsquo;hui je regrette &eacute;norm&eacute;ment d&rsquo;avoir utilis&eacute; contre mon fr&egrave;re).<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Durant l&rsquo;ann&eacute;e qui suivit, j&rsquo;enfouis profond&eacute;ment, au fond de moi, ma qu&ecirc;te spirituelle, presque au point de l&rsquo;oublier.&nbsp; Puis, survint l&rsquo;attaque terroriste contre le World Trade Center &agrave; New York.&nbsp; Comme beaucoup, j&rsquo;eus d&rsquo;abord de la difficult&eacute; &agrave; y croire, puis je me rendis &agrave; l&rsquo;&eacute;vidence.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Les m&eacute;dias n&rsquo;eurent de cesse, les jours, les semaines et les mois suivants de rapporter toutes sortes d&rsquo;histoires relatives &agrave; cet &eacute;v&eacute;nement, mais d&egrave;s le d&eacute;but, j&rsquo;avais d&eacute;j&agrave; d&eacute;croch&eacute; et d&eacute;cid&eacute; de poursuivre mon quotidien sans trop y pr&ecirc;ter attention.&nbsp; Ce n&rsquo;est que lorsque les nouvelles rapport&egrave;rent des histoires de terroristes musulmans, de repr&eacute;sailles envers les musulmans et d&rsquo;attaques en Afghanistan et en Irak que je commen&ccedil;ai &agrave; m&rsquo;interroger sur mon gouvernement et sur celui des &Eacute;tats-Unis.&nbsp; C&rsquo;est ce qui m&rsquo;amena, &eacute;ventuellement, &agrave; m&rsquo;interroger sur l&rsquo;islam et &agrave; faire des recherches sur cette religion.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Je ne pouvais tout simplement pas croire que les musulmans, du moins ce que j&rsquo;en avais appris en faisant mes recherches sur l&rsquo;islam, soient tous des terroristes incapables d&rsquo;autre chose que de haine et de meurtre et je trouvais &eacute;trange qu&rsquo;on nous les d&eacute;peigne tous de la m&ecirc;me fa&ccedil;on.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Ce n&rsquo;est que lorsque je fus en premi&egrave;re, au coll&egrave;ge, que j&rsquo;eus l&rsquo;occasion de me lier d&rsquo;amiti&eacute; avec une musulmane. &nbsp;&Agrave; prime abord, je n&rsquo;aurais jamais cru devenir ami avec elle, car elle parlait tr&egrave;s peu.&nbsp; Mais j&rsquo;appris &agrave; la conna&icirc;tre.&nbsp; Et, chez cette personne, se trouvait la preuve que tous les musulmans n&rsquo;&eacute;taient pas des fous furieux et que la plupart &eacute;taient, en fait, des gens bien ordinaires.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Je poursuivis, en secret, mes recherches sur l&rsquo;islam.&nbsp; J&rsquo;aimais ce que j&rsquo;en apprenais, mais j&rsquo;&eacute;tais encore confus et mon cheminement se faisait somme toute tr&egrave;s lentement.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Au d&eacute;but des vacances d&rsquo;&eacute;t&eacute;, je sentis que j&rsquo;&eacute;tais sur le point d&rsquo;embrasser l&rsquo;islam.&nbsp; Je voulais y croire de tout mon c&oelig;ur, mais je craignais de me tromper.&nbsp; J&rsquo;avais toujours eu d&rsquo;excellents r&eacute;sultats scolaires et j&rsquo;avais toujours tout fait pour para&icirc;tre parfait aux yeux de mes parents; je d&eacute;testais me tromper.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Comme c&rsquo;&eacute;tait l&rsquo;&eacute;t&eacute;, je ne voyais plus aussi souvent mon amie musulmane, ce qui me d&eacute;solait, car j&rsquo;avais tant de questions &agrave; lui poser.&nbsp; Elle m&rsquo;appelait de temps &agrave; autre et ces fois-l&agrave;, je parlais des heures avec elle, tentant de trouver le courage de lui dire que j&rsquo;avais besoin de son aide.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Un jour, je pris mon courage &agrave; deux mains et je finis par lui dire que j&rsquo;&eacute;tais confus au sujet de la religion.&nbsp; Je n&rsquo;arrivai pas &agrave; lui r&eacute;v&eacute;ler que je voulais devenir musulman, car je n&rsquo;en &eacute;tais pas absolument certain moi-m&ecirc;me. &nbsp;Je finis tout de m&ecirc;me par le lui dire, au cours d&rsquo;une autre conversation, et sa r&eacute;action fut tr&egrave;s positive.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">J&rsquo;&eacute;tais maintenant certain que je voulais devenir musulman, mais je n&rsquo;avais aucune id&eacute;e de la fa&ccedil;on dont j&rsquo;annoncerais cela &agrave; mon entourage.&nbsp; Je savais que je ne pouvais le dire &agrave; ma famille, du moins pas tout de suite, car j&rsquo;avais encore &agrave; l&rsquo;esprit la cruaut&eacute; dont nous avions fait preuve, mes s&oelig;urs et moi, &agrave; l&rsquo;endroit de mon fr&egrave;re, lorsque celui-ci &eacute;tait devenu chr&eacute;tien.&nbsp; Je craignais un traitement similaire ou pire.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Apr&egrave;s tout, mon fr&egrave;re avait choisi la religion principale du pays, ce qui &eacute;tait totalement diff&eacute;rent, n&rsquo;est-ce pas?&nbsp; Ce fut le moment le plus difficile de mon cheminement vers l&rsquo;islam.&nbsp; Comment approfondir mon savoir sur l&rsquo;islam si je ne pouvais en parler &agrave; personne de crainte que ma famille ne le d&eacute;couvre?&nbsp; Et bien, je suis heureux de pouvoir dire qu&rsquo;apr&egrave;s une longue p&eacute;riode, je pris mon courage &agrave; deux mains et je confiai mes intentions &agrave; mes amis et &agrave; ma famille.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Je d&eacute;cidai que j&rsquo;allais prononcer la shahadah (attestation de foi) le jour de mon vingti&egrave;me anniversaire de naissance.&nbsp; Je savais que si je ne choisissais pas une date pr&eacute;cise, je ne me convertirais jamais. &nbsp;Le weekend pr&eacute;c&eacute;dent, j&rsquo;assistai &agrave; la Global Peace and Unity Conference &agrave; Londres.&nbsp; J&rsquo;y assistai en sachant que le lundi suivant, je prononcerais l&rsquo;attestation de foi.&nbsp; Mais c&rsquo;est suite &agrave; un samedi soir pass&eacute; chez un ami que je sus avec certitude que j&rsquo;allais vraiment prononcer la shahadah le lundi suivant.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Car cette nuit-l&agrave;, de retour de chez mon ami, j&rsquo;eus de la difficult&eacute; &agrave; m&rsquo;endormir.&nbsp; Tout ce que j&rsquo;entendais, dans ma t&ecirc;te, c&rsquo;&eacute;tait le adhan (appel &agrave; la pri&egrave;re), que je faisais jouer en boucle.&nbsp; Et c&rsquo;&eacute;tait la plus belle chose que j&rsquo;avais jamais entendue. &nbsp;Le jour suivant, je vis des gens prononcer leur propre shahadah et j&rsquo;eus h&acirc;te au lundi.&nbsp; Lorsque le lundi arriva enfin et que je la pronon&ccedil;ai, ce fut un &eacute;trange sentiment; comme si j&rsquo;&eacute;tais enfin le vrai &laquo;&nbsp;moi&nbsp;&raquo; que j&rsquo;&eacute;tais cens&eacute; &ecirc;tre depuis longtemps!<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Les meilleures histoires ont un d&eacute;but, un milieu et une fin, mais celle-ci n&rsquo;est pas encore termin&eacute;e.&nbsp; J&rsquo;ai encore &eacute;norm&eacute;ment &agrave; apprendre.<\/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":6000,"lft":2760,"rght":2761,"promote":1,"sticky":0,"status":1,"publish_start":null,"publish_end":null,"created_at":"2014-08-25T09:32:00.000000Z","updated_at":"2026-04-03T19:37:31.000000Z","language_id":9,"user_id":7,"author_id":2240,"publisher_id":0,"category_id":10,"parent_id":1490,"author_name":"Thomas Webber","category_name":"Why I became a Muslim!","category_slug":"Why-I-became-a-Muslim!","get_date":"2014-08-25","pdf_asset":"http:\/\/www.islamland.com\/uploads\/articles\/fr-Thomas Webber, Ex-Christian, UK.pdf","word_asset":"http:\/\/www.islamland.com\/uploads\/articles\/fr-Thomas Webber, Ex-Christian, UK.docx"},{"id":1492,"title":"Thomas Webber, Ex-Christ, UK","slug":"thomas-webber-ex-christ-uk","word":"\/uploads\/articles\/de-Thomas Webber, Ex-Christian, UK.docx","pdf":"\/uploads\/articles\/de-Thomas Webber, Ex-Christian, UK.pdf","mime_type":null,"type":"node","path":"\/nodes\/view\/type:article\/slug:thomas-webber-ex-christ-uk","hint":"","body":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span>Thomas Webber, Ex-Christ, UK<\/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-tbn0.gstatic.com\/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRpCdbgX2GyUZe_tobNu_gi4npkN6nuFTV5FRWI2KKaY1U90Ii-\" alt=\"\" \/><\/span><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Wie bei den meisten, die zum Islam konvertiert sind, h&ouml;rt sich meine Geschichte f&uuml;r den Au&szlig;enstehenden simpel an. &nbsp;Ein junger Mann findet eine Religion, die sich von der seiner Familie unterscheidet und erz&auml;hlt ihnen das schlie&szlig;lich und konvertiert.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Wie viele Dinge im Leben, ist der Weg auf einer Reise und nicht das Erreichen des Ziels das, was am schwersten erscheint.&nbsp; Nat&uuml;rlich ist der Weg im Islam nie vollst&auml;ndig, au&szlig;er wenn Allah, der Erhabene, es vorgeschrieben hat, anstatt dessen erreichen wir Meilensteine auf dem Weg.&nbsp; Also werde ich meine Geschichte bis jetzt erz&auml;hlen und meine&nbsp; Hoffnungen und meine Ziele f&uuml;r die Zukunft.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Ich wurde in UK in eine Familie mit zwei liebevollen Eltern und einem Bruder (Colin) geboren, rasch gefolgt von meiner Zwillingsschwester (Linda) und sp&auml;ter von meinen beiden anderen Schwestern Melissa (die starb, als ich noch sehr klein war) und von meiner j&uuml;ngsten Schwester Emily. &nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Ich wurde nie getauft, weil mein Vater nicht daran glaubte, dass es gut sei, ein Baby, das sich nicht wehren konnte, einer solchen religi&ouml;sen Zeremonie zu unterziehen.&nbsp; Aber meine Mutter schickte uns zur christlichen Sonntagsschule, damit wir das Christentum lernen. &nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Nun, was kann ich dar&uuml;ber sagen? &nbsp;Zum Leid meiner Mutter war ich in jungen Jahren schon ziemlich scharfsinnig und infolge dessen konnte ich nie verstehen, warum ein liebender und m&auml;chtiger Gott seinen Sohn t&ouml;ten sollte, um unsere S&uuml;nden zu vergeben.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Dies war sicher nicht richtig, wenn Er so m&auml;chtig war und alle S&uuml;nden gegen Ihn waren, dann hatte Er uns einfach vergeben k&ouml;nnen! &nbsp;Dies ist sicherlich nicht das, was ein liebender Gott tun w&uuml;rde.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Als ich &auml;lter wurde, habe ich missachtet, was mir &uuml;ber Gott beigebracht worden war. &nbsp;Religi&ouml;se Feiertage wurden zu Geschenken und Zeit zum Entspannen.&nbsp; Ich war verloren, aber ich wusste es nicht.&nbsp; Au&szlig;erdem w&uuml;rden diese religi&ouml;sen Menschen nie in der Lage sein, ihre Religionen zu beweisen, wie die Wissenschaften, die wir in der Schule gelehrt bekamen.&nbsp; Mir erschienen sie schwachsinnig oder dumm.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Im Laufe der Zeit war ich weiterhin erfolgreich in der Schule und bekam gute Noten, was meinen Eltern gefiel und alles war in Ordnung. &nbsp;Erst einige Zeit nach meinem 13.Geburtstag fing ich an, religi&ouml;s zu werden.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Wenn ich sage &bdquo;religi&ouml;s&ldquo;, meine ich das nicht in dem Sinne, ein praktizierender Christ zu sein.&nbsp; Das konnte ich niemals sein.&nbsp; Aber ich erhoffte in irgendeiner Art von Gott, dass ich erfolgreich sein und Dinge erreichen w&uuml;rde, die ich ben&ouml;tigte. &nbsp;Es war eher ein Vertrauen in etwas, f&uuml;r die Dinge, die ich nicht selbst erreichen konnte. &nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Im Verlauf der Schule lernte ich verschiedene Religionen kennen, der Buddhismus schien eine gute zu sein, denn es gab keinen Gott und es ging nur darum, ein guter Mensch zu sein und dies war es, was ich grunds&auml;tzlich vom Christentum auch gelernt hatte.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Ich fing an, zu denken, dass es den Religionen nur um eine Sache geht und das war, die Menschen anst&auml;ndiger zu machen.&nbsp; Ich versuchte weiterhin, ein guter Mensch zu sein, aber ich wurde den Gedanken nicht los, dass mir etwas fehlte.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Ein Jahr oder so bevor ich die Senior School verlie&szlig;, wurde mein Bruder ein wiedergeborener Christ.&nbsp; Ungl&uuml;cklicherweise war dies f&uuml;r mich eine negative Erfahrung, denn er versuchte mich st&auml;ndig, zu seiner Religion zu konvertieren, und ich konnte noch immer nicht akzeptieren, dass Jesus, Friede sei mit ihm, f&uuml;r unsere S&uuml;nden gestorben sein sollte.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Also unterdr&uuml;ckte ich jegliche Anzeichen f&uuml;r religi&ouml;ses Denken vor meiner Familie und vor Freunden, um weitere Diskussionen mit ihnen zu vermeiden, und auch um nicht als verr&uuml;ckter Typ gebrandmarkt zu werden (dies war nur eine der grausamen Sticheleien, die zu meinem gro&szlig;en Bedauern auf meinen Bruder gelandet waren).&nbsp; &nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Meine suchende Seele blieb das folgende Jahr oder l&auml;nger weiter unterdr&uuml;ckt und sogar vor mir verborgen.&nbsp; Und dann kamen die Terroranschl&auml;ge auf das World Trade Centre in Amerika.&nbsp; Als mir davon zuerst erz&auml;hlt wurde, glaubte ich nicht, dass dies je passieren k&ouml;nnte, aber es war geschehen.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Die Nachrichten berichteten weiter dar&uuml;ber, aber da es mich nicht besonders getroffen hatte, lebte ich blo&szlig; mein Leben weiter. &nbsp;Erst Berichte &uuml;ber islamische Terroristen, Repressalien gegen Muslime und der Angriff auf Afghanistan und sp&auml;ter auf den Irak lie&szlig;en mich unsere Regierung und die der US in Frage stellen. &nbsp;Dies hat schlie&szlig;lich dazu gef&uuml;hrt, dass ich die Wahrheit des Islam entdeckte.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Ich konnte einfach nicht glauben, dass Muslime Terroristen sein konnten, die einfach nur Hass und Mord beabsichtigten. &nbsp;Dies war wirklich seltsam.&nbsp; Also ignorierte ich das, aber vielleicht war es dies, was einen Verstand zum ersten Mal etwas &uuml;ber Religion lernen wollen lie&szlig;.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Erst als ich mein erstes Jahr vom Sixth-Form College hatte, befreundete ich mit Muslimen.&nbsp; Zuerst h&auml;tte ich nie gedacht, dass sie ein Freund werden w&uuml;rde, den sie sprach nur wenig, bis ich sie besser kennen lernte.&nbsp; An diesem Freund sah ich aber den klaren und deutlichen Beweis daf&uuml;r, dass Muslime nicht nur Spinner und Verr&uuml;ckte waren, sondern ganz normale Menschen.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Schlie&szlig;lich fing ich an, den Islam im Internet zu erkunden, wenn keiner in der N&auml;he war; denn ich war nicht darauf vorbereitet, die Menschen wissen zu lassen, dass ich irgendeine Religion, und schon gar nicht den Islam, erw&auml;gte. &nbsp;Ich begann zu glauben, was ich las, aber ich war immer noch ein wenig durcheinander und meine Reise des Verstehens war langsam.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Irgendwann kamen die Sommerferien und ich war kurz davor, an den Islam zu glauben. &nbsp;Ich wollte gerne glauben, dass er wahr ist, aber wie konnte ich das beweisen?&nbsp; Von meinen Jahren der guten Noten und den Versuchen, in den Augen meiner Eltern perfekt zu sein, war es mir verhasst, falsch zu liegen.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Da Sommer war, war es nicht leicht, meinen muslimischen Freund zu treffen, aber ich hatte so viel, was ich sie fragen wollte. &nbsp;Gelegentlich rief sie an und ich sprach stundenlang mit ihr, und versuchte, den Mut zu finden, um ihr zu sagen, dass ich ihre Hilfe brauchte. &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Schlie&szlig;lich gelang es mir, den Mut aufzubringen, ihr zu erkl&auml;ren, dass ich von der Religion verwirrt war, aber ich konnte niemals zu geben, dass ich Muslim werden wollte, weil ich mir nicht sicher war, ob es nur eine Laune war, denn ich f&uuml;rchtete so vieles. &nbsp;Aber schlie&szlig;lich gelang es mir, ihr davon zu erz&auml;hlen und sie hatte gute Dinge zu sagen.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Also, ich war nun sicher, ich musste Muslim werden, aber wie sollte ich es den Leuten mitteilen und wie sollte ich mehr herausfinden?&nbsp; Ich wusste, ich konnte es meiner Familie noch nicht erz&auml;hlen, den ich erinnerte mich an die Grausamkeit, mit der ich und meine Schwestern meinen Bruder behandelt hatten, als dieser Christ geworden war.&nbsp; Ich hatte Angst davor, dass es mit &auml;hnlich oder noch schlimmer ergehen w&uuml;rde.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Immerhin folgte er der Religion meines Landes und in der wir aufgewachsen waren, dies w&auml;re ganz anders. &nbsp;Oder?&nbsp; Meine Reise von hier an wurde der h&auml;rteste Teil.&nbsp; Wie kannst du mehr herausfinden, wenn du niemandem etwas erz&auml;hlen kannst aus Angst, deine Familie k&ouml;nnte etwas herausfinden?&nbsp; Nun, ich bin froh, sagen zu k&ouml;nnen, dass es mir letztendlich nach einer langen Zeit langsam doch gelang, mich meinen Freunden und meiner Familie anzuvertrauen.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Ich entschloss mich, an meinem 20.Geburtstag die Schahada auszusprechen, denn ich wusste, wenn ich kein Datum festsetzte, dann w&uuml;rde ich es nie tun. &nbsp;Am Wochenende zuvor ging ich zur Globalen Friedens- und Einheitskonferenz nach London, die wirklich erstaunlich war.&nbsp; Ich fuhr dorthin in dem Wissen, dass ich am Montag das Glaubensbekenntnis aussprechen w&uuml;rde, aber es war nicht vor der Samstagnacht, die ich bei einem Freund verbrachte, dass ich mit Sicherheit wusste, dass ich die Schahada am Montag aussprechen w&uuml;rde.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Denn in jener Nacht lag ich und versuchte zu schlafen und alles, was ich h&ouml;rte, war der Adhan, der durch meinen Kopf schallte. &nbsp;Es war das beste,&nbsp; Am n&auml;chsten Tag sah ich Menschen, die ihre eigene Schahada aussprachen und ich sehnte den Montag herbei kommen.&nbsp; Als endlich Montag war und ich schlie&szlig;lich die Schahada aussprach, f&uuml;hlte ich mich seltsam.&nbsp; Fast so als w&auml;re ich endlich ich selbst!&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Ich weiss, die besten Geschichten haben einen Anfang, eine Mitte und ein Ende, aber ich muss noch ein bisschen l&auml;nger warten, bis das Ende kommt, denn die Reise ist noch nicht zu Ende.&nbsp; Ich habe noch so viel Qur&acute;an und Hadithe zu lernen und auch noch ganz viele anderes au&szlig;erdem. &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":11516,"lft":2762,"rght":2763,"promote":1,"sticky":0,"status":1,"publish_start":null,"publish_end":null,"created_at":"2014-08-25T09:32:00.000000Z","updated_at":"2026-04-04T09:04:55.000000Z","language_id":7,"user_id":7,"author_id":2240,"publisher_id":0,"category_id":10,"parent_id":1490,"author_name":"Thomas Webber","category_name":"Why I became a Muslim!","category_slug":"Why-I-became-a-Muslim!","get_date":"2014-08-25","pdf_asset":"http:\/\/www.islamland.com\/uploads\/articles\/de-Thomas Webber, Ex-Christian, UK.pdf","word_asset":"http:\/\/www.islamland.com\/uploads\/articles\/de-Thomas Webber, Ex-Christian, UK.docx"},{"id":1493,"title":"Thomas Webber, ex-crist\u00e3o, Reino Unido","slug":"thomas-webber-ex-cristo-reino-unido","word":"\/uploads\/articles\/pt-Thomas Webber, Ex-Christian, UK.docx","pdf":"\/uploads\/articles\/pt-Thomas Webber, Ex-Christian, UK.pdf","mime_type":null,"type":"node","path":"\/nodes\/view\/type:article\/slug:thomas-webber-ex-cristo-reino-unido","hint":"","body":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span>Thomas Webber, ex-crist&atilde;o, Reino Unido<\/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-tbn0.gstatic.com\/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRpCdbgX2GyUZe_tobNu_gi4npkN6nuFTV5FRWI2KKaY1U90Ii-\" alt=\"\" \/><\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Como a maioria dos revertidos ao Isl&atilde;, minha hist&oacute;ria &eacute; simples a partir da perspectiva de algu&eacute;m de fora.&nbsp; Rapaz encontra uma religi&atilde;o que &eacute; diferente da de sua fam&iacute;lia e no final conta a eles e se reverte.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Entretanto, como muitas coisas na vida, &eacute; fazer a jornada e n&atilde;o alcan&ccedil;ar o destino que parece mais dif&iacute;cil.&nbsp; Claro, com o Isl&atilde; a jornada nunca est&aacute; completa at&eacute; que seja ordenado por Allah, o Exaltado, mas ao inv&eacute;s disso atingimos marcos ao longo do caminho.&nbsp;&nbsp;Ent&atilde;o contarei a hist&oacute;ria de minha vida at&eacute; agora e minhas esperan&ccedil;as e aspira&ccedil;&otilde;es para o futuro.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Nasci no Reino Unido em uma fam&iacute;lia de pais ador&aacute;veis e um irm&atilde;o (Colin), logo seguido de minha irm&atilde; g&ecirc;mea (Linda) e pelas minhas outras duas irm&atilde;s Melissa (que morreu quando era pequena) e minha irm&atilde; mais nova Emily.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Nunca fui batizado, j&aacute; que meu pai n&atilde;o acreditava em fazer um beb&ecirc;, que n&atilde;o podia fazer obje&ccedil;&atilde;o, passar por essa cerim&ocirc;nia religiosa.&nbsp; Entretanto, minha m&atilde;e nos enviava para uma escola dominical crist&atilde; para aprender sobre o Cristianismo.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Bem, o que posso dizer sobre isso? Infelizmente para minha m&atilde;e minha mente era relativamente astuta ainda bem jovem e, como resultado, nunca pude compreender por que um Deus amoroso e todo poderoso podia matar Seu filho para perdoar nossos pecados.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Isso com certeza n&atilde;o estava correto, porque se Ele era t&atilde;o poderoso e todos os pecados eram contra Ele, Ele poderia apenas perdoar a todos n&oacute;s!&nbsp; Certamente n&atilde;o era o que um Deus amoroso faria.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Com o passar dos anos desconsiderei o que me foi ensinado sobre Deus.&nbsp; Os feriados religiosos tinham a ver com presentes e tempo para relaxar.&nbsp; Estava perdido, mas n&atilde;o sabia.&nbsp;&nbsp;Afinal, essas pessoas religiosas nunca seriam capazes de provar suas religi&otilde;es, como as ci&ecirc;ncias s&atilde;o ensinadas na escola. Para mim, todas tinham a mente fraca ou eram est&uacute;pidas.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">O tempo passava e eu continuava a ser bem-sucedido na escola e a obter boas notas, agradando meus pais, e tudo estava bem.&nbsp; S&oacute; depois de meu 13&ordm; anivers&aacute;rio comecei a tornar-me religioso.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Quando digo religioso n&atilde;o significa no sentido de ser um crist&atilde;o praticante.&nbsp;Isso, nunca poderia ser.&nbsp; Mas comecei a ter esperan&ccedil;a em algum tipo de Deus de que seria bem-sucedido e alcan&ccedil;aria todas as coisas que precisava.&nbsp; Era mais uma confian&ccedil;a em algo, pelas coisas que eu mesmo era incapaz de engendrar.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">&Agrave; medida que progredia na escola aprendi sobre v&aacute;rias religi&otilde;es e o Budismo soava como uma boa religi&atilde;o, porque n&atilde;o havia Deus e se baseava em ser uma boa pessoa. Afinal, isso era basicamente o que tinha aprendido do Cristianismo.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Comecei a achar que todas as religi&otilde;es giravam em torno de uma &uacute;nica coisa, que era fazer as pessoas terem mais moral.&nbsp; Continuei a tentar e a ser uma pessoa boa, mas n&atilde;o podia deixar de lado o pensamento de que algo estava faltando.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Mais ou menos um ano antes de eu deixar o segundo grau, meu irm&atilde;o se tornou um crist&atilde;o renovado.&nbsp; Infelizmente para mim isso foi uma experi&ecirc;ncia um pouco negativa, j&aacute; que ele ficava tentando me converter para sua religi&atilde;o e eu n&atilde;o conseguia aceitar que Jesus, que a miseric&oacute;rdia e b&ecirc;n&ccedil;&atilde;os de Deus estejam sobre ele, tinha sido morto para perdoar nossos pecados.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Ent&atilde;o ocultei quaisquer sinais de pensamento religioso de minha fam&iacute;lia e amigos, para evitar mais discuss&otilde;es com eles e tamb&eacute;m de ser taxado de esquisito (que era apenas uma das piadas cru&eacute;is, das quais agora me arrependo profundamente, que costumava fazer com meu irm&atilde;o).<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">A busca de minha alma continuava a ser reprimida e oculta at&eacute; de mim mesmo por mais um ano, mais ou menos.&nbsp; E ent&atilde;o vieram os ataques terroristas no World Trade Centre na Am&eacute;rica.&nbsp; A princ&iacute;pio, quando me contaram a respeito, n&atilde;o acreditei que tivesse acontecido, mas tinha.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Os jornais continuaram a relatar hist&oacute;rias sobre isso, mas n&atilde;o tinham me afetado particularmente e simplesmente segui com minha vida.&nbsp;&nbsp;S&oacute; quando come&ccedil;aram os relatos de terroristas isl&acirc;micos, as repres&aacute;lias contra mu&ccedil;ulmanos e o ataque ao Afeganist&atilde;o e depois ao Iraque, foi que comecei a questionar meu governo e os EUA. Isso no fim me levou a descobrir a verdade do Isl&atilde;.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Simplesmente n&atilde;o conseguia acreditar que os mu&ccedil;ulmanos pudessem ser terroristas capazes apenas de &oacute;dio e assassinato.&nbsp;&nbsp;Era estranho.&nbsp; Ignorei, mas talvez tenha sido quando minha mente se tornou verdadeiramente disposta a aprender sobre religi&atilde;o pela primeira vez.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">S&oacute; quando cheguei ao meu primeiro ano da faculdade fiz amizade com uma mu&ccedil;ulmana.&nbsp; A princ&iacute;pio nunca acreditei que seria uma amiga, j&aacute; que ela falou pouco at&eacute; passar a conhec&ecirc;-la.&nbsp; Nessa amiga reside a evid&ecirc;ncia clara e definida de que os mu&ccedil;ulmanos n&atilde;o eram apenas exc&ecirc;ntricos e lun&aacute;ticos e sim, de fato, pessoas normais.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">No final comecei a explorar o Isl&atilde; na internet quando ningu&eacute;m estava por perto. N&atilde;o estava preparado para permitir que as pessoas soubessem que estava considerando alguma religi&atilde;o, menos ainda o Isl&atilde;. Comecei a acreditar no que lia, mas ainda estava um pouco confuso e minha jornada para o entendimento era lenta.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Por fim chegaram as f&eacute;rias de ver&atilde;o e eu estava prestes a acreditar no Isl&atilde;.&nbsp; Queria acreditar que era verdade, mas como podia provar?&nbsp; Desde os meus dias com boas notas e de tentar ser perfeito aos olhos de meus pais, odiava estar errado.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Como era ver&atilde;o n&atilde;o podia facilmente encontrar minha amiga mu&ccedil;ulmana, mas tinha muito para perguntar a ela.&nbsp; Ocasionalmente ela ligava e eu conversava por horas, tentando criar coragem para dizer que precisava da ajuda dela.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Por fim consegui ter coragem para explicar que estava confuso sobre a religi&atilde;o, mas nunca podia admitir que quisesse ser mu&ccedil;ulmano, j&aacute; que n&atilde;o tinha certeza porque tinha muito medo em minha mente.&nbsp; Bem, finalmente consegui contar a ela, que s&oacute; tinha coisas boas para dizer.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Assim, estava agora certo de que tinha que me tornar mu&ccedil;ulmano, mas como diria &agrave;s pessoas e aprender mais?&nbsp; Sabia que ainda n&atilde;o podia contar &agrave; minha fam&iacute;lia, porque me lembrava da crueldade que eu e minhas irm&atilde;s t&iacute;nhamos infligido ao meu irm&atilde;o quando ele se tornou crist&atilde;o. &nbsp;Temia receber o mesmo ou pior.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Afinal, pelo menos ele seguia a religi&atilde;o de meu pa&iacute;s e na qual t&iacute;nhamos sido educados. Isso seria totalmente diferente.&nbsp; N&atilde;o seria? Minha jornada a partir deste ponto foi a parte mais dif&iacute;cil.&nbsp; Como pode saber mais se n&atilde;o pode contar a ningu&eacute;m, por medo que sua fam&iacute;lia descubra? Bem, estou feliz em dizer que ao longo de um extenso per&iacute;odo de tempo lentamente consegui confiar em amigos e na fam&iacute;lia.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Decidi dizer a shahada no meu 20&ordm; anivers&aacute;rio, sabendo que se n&atilde;o fixasse uma data nunca o faria.&nbsp;&nbsp;Ent&atilde;o no final de semana anterior fui &agrave; confer&ecirc;ncia Global Peace and Unity em Londres, que foi realmente maravilhosa. Fui sabendo que na segunda-feira seguinte pronunciaria o testemunho de f&eacute;, mas s&oacute; quando passei a noite de s&aacute;bado na casa de uns amigos soube com certeza que diria a shahada na segunda.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Porque aquela noite deitei tentando dormir e tudo que pude ouvir foi o Adhan ecoando em minha cabe&ccedil;a.&nbsp; Foi a melhor coisa que experimentei. No dia seguinte vi as pessoas fazendo suas pr&oacute;prias shahadas e ansiei que a segunda-feira chegasse.&nbsp; Quando a segunda-feira finalmente chegou e eu finalmente disse a shahada, foi estranho.&nbsp; Quase como se eu fosse finalmente eu!<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"w-body-text-1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Sei que as melhores hist&oacute;rias t&ecirc;m um come&ccedil;o, um meio e um fim, mas voc&ecirc;s ter&atilde;o que esperar um pouco mais pelo fim, porque essa jornada ainda n&atilde;o terminou.&nbsp;&nbsp;Ainda tenho que aprender o Alcor&atilde;o e os hadiths e muito mais al&eacute;m disso tamb&eacute;m.<\/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":7752,"lft":2764,"rght":2765,"promote":1,"sticky":0,"status":1,"publish_start":null,"publish_end":null,"created_at":"2014-08-25T09:32:00.000000Z","updated_at":"2026-04-04T01:51:20.000000Z","language_id":15,"user_id":7,"author_id":2240,"publisher_id":0,"category_id":10,"parent_id":1490,"author_name":"Thomas Webber","category_name":"Why I became a Muslim!","category_slug":"Why-I-became-a-Muslim!","get_date":"2014-08-25","pdf_asset":"http:\/\/www.islamland.com\/uploads\/articles\/pt-Thomas Webber, Ex-Christian, UK.pdf","word_asset":"http:\/\/www.islamland.com\/uploads\/articles\/pt-Thomas Webber, Ex-Christian, UK.docx"}],"first_page_url":"http:\/\/www.islamland.com\/index.php\/tha\/api\/authors\/2240?articles_page=1","from":1,"last_page":1,"last_page_url":"http:\/\/www.islamland.com\/index.php\/tha\/api\/authors\/2240?articles_page=1","links":[{"url":null,"label":"&laquo; Previous","page":null,"active":false},{"url":"http:\/\/www.islamland.com\/index.php\/tha\/api\/authors\/2240?articles_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\/tha\/api\/authors\/2240","per_page":25,"prev_page_url":null,"to":4,"total":4},"fatawas":{"current_page":1,"data":[],"first_page_url":"http:\/\/www.islamland.com\/index.php\/tha\/api\/authors\/2240?fatawas_page=1","from":null,"last_page":1,"last_page_url":"http:\/\/www.islamland.com\/index.php\/tha\/api\/authors\/2240?fatawas_page=1","links":[{"url":null,"label":"&laquo; Previous","page":null,"active":false},{"url":"http:\/\/www.islamland.com\/index.php\/tha\/api\/authors\/2240?fatawas_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\/tha\/api\/authors\/2240","per_page":25,"prev_page_url":null,"to":null,"total":0},"books_total":0,"videos_total":0,"audios_total":0,"fatawas_total":0,"articles_total":4,"q":"","count":4}