My name is Mariano Ricardo Calle. I am from Buenos Aires , Argentina, not from the capital but the province. Before I embraced Islam, I was a Catholic Apostolic Roman. I was baptized, entered communion and confirmation. Since my childhood, I was connected with religion through my mom and my grandmother (her mom). I read … Read more
My name is Justin Peyton and I am a 29-year-old African American from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. I grew up in a loving, two-parent, middle-class household with three siblings. Growing up, my family and I identified ourselves as Christians, but we were never members of a church, nor did we attend Sunday services or other activities. The … Read more
My name is William, and I live in a large Midwestern city in the United States. I am a typical American in many ways that are reflected in both my professional and personal lives. Professionally, I am a supervisor with a major police department, and I have been in the military, both active duty and … Read more
My name is Abdullah DeLancey. I am Canadian and I am employed as a Patient Service Worker at the local hospital. I have been married for almost 20 years and we have 3 wonderful children. Alhamdulillah, I am now a Muslim. I wasn’t always a Muslim, though. Previously; I was a Protestant Christian for all … Read more
I was born on December 2, 1959, in Kawit, Kauswagan, Lanao del Norte, Philippines. Since birth my parents were devoted Seventh Day Adventists, one of the thousand branches in Christendom. I was a former Evangelist of the Seventh Day Adventist (SDA). Since childhood until I became Muslim in 1981, I had been a devoted SDA. … Read more
I was born in the city of Mansoorah in the Arab Republic of Egypt in an ordinary Christian family in which religion had not much significance. We did not go to Church except on festive and ceremonial occasions. As far as we were concerned, religion did not mean anything more than rites which we observed, … Read more
Eesa was only thirteen years old when he became a Muslim. Before Islam, when he was still a ten-year-old child he had a normal life of going to school and hanging out with his friends. Then in secondary school his cousin, who was fifteen years old at the time, embraced Islam and she used to … Read more
Like most reverts to Islam my story is simple from the perspective of an outsider. Young man finds a religion that’s different to his family’s and eventually tells them and reverts. However, like many things in life, it is the travelling of the journey and not the getting to the destination that seems most hard. … Read more
Abdul Hakeem Heinz was brought up in the south of London. He was first introduced to Islam at the tender age of seven when his mother embraced Islam. Years later he traveled and lived in Egypt for a few years and further developed his knowledge and understanding of Islam as well as his skills in … Read more
(part 1 of 2) In 1988, I began to work on a project in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia with my father, who was a physician working in Saudi. He was in Kingdom and I was in the United States. That same year I came on a trip to the Kingdom and stayed in the … Read more