Ini jawaban seorg wanita Maori (dlm bentuk cerita) ke aku ttg pertanyaanku ke dia, "mengapa memeluk Islam ?":
When I first got exposed to Islam which was 8 months ago I had never heard of it before and I did not even know what a muslim was lol. It was one of my unties X-boyfriend who I knew who had converted to Islam and become muslim last year in November. When I found this out I was instintly interesteed because I wanted to Know what made him become muslim and I also knew nothing about Muslims or Islam.
I seen him about two weeks after I found out and asked him what made you become muslim? Well Subhanallah from then on we were up having 8 hour conversations about Islam Mashallah. hours and hours of Dawah subhanallah.
The one thing I picked up on when I was talking to the brother was the respect muslim men had for women. To be honest I was actually shocked but happilye surprised because I had been searching for this type of respect for years and all of a sudden it was right infront of me subhanallah. this type of respect towards women these days is very rare sad to say.
You know for such a long time I hated the way a lot of men treated women I thought it was disgusting! treating women like a piece of meat i think its sick and it use to all ways get me angry because My mentality alhumduliallah all my life has been I am a human being a person/indiviual who deserves to be treated with respect not to be treated like a worthless piece of crap or a piece of meat. So that was the first thing.
At this stage I just wanted to know more and more...
The next thing I picked up on were mashallah qualities like compassion, empathy, respect, love, modisty, humbleness subhanallah the list goes on. These qualities were also qualities I had been searching for for such a long time but I rarely came across any of them.
You know for a long time I had always been searching for something and Islam, the way of life just fitted me and who I was as a person. My way of describing Islam to the brother was that Islam is like the pure essence of beauty=). Mashallah. And subhanallah the Qur'an had the answers to all my questions Mashallah. To me Islam was very common sense=)
Everything I seen in Islam was beautiful to me and I consider it such a blessing to be muslim Alhumduliallah. It felt like something irreplaceable had been given to me, Islam and the Qur'an. Its like my heart was soo hurt but Allah helped heal it! I had been searching for somehing and Allah help reveal it! I had been trying to find peace within side of myself and Allah helped me to get this Alhumduliallah!
This is me trying to not make it too long lol. Yea well this is my story its kinda short Alhumduliallah. I was exposed to Islam for about a month then did my shahada. Nobody had to convince me on nothing lol mashallah I accepted Islam with open arms. Islam is soo beautiful I have never come across anything like this before. And I never will.
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