Essential Tips for New Muslims: Interacting with Non-Muslim Friends and Family

By: Laura El Alam Embracing Islam: A 20-Year Transformation When I became a Muslim 20 years ago, it was one of the greatest transformations of my life. There was so much new information that it seemed completely overwhelming at first. Just learning how to pray, including making ablution (wu’du), [...]

2023-07-28T16:18:26+00:00July 21st, 2020|Converts, Family, Personal Stories|

Finding Islam

Dr. Laurence Brown Transformational Conversion Stories: Embracing the Spiritual Path There is a certain fascination with conversion stories, and for good reason. Frequently they involve dramatic life-altering events, sufficient to shock the convert out of the materialistic world and into the spiritual. Most who pass through such moments of [...]

2023-07-20T16:25:25+00:00June 19th, 2012|Personal Stories, Spiritual Journeys|

9-11: The Day I Became a Muslim

By: Robert Salaam From Desk to Combat: A Marine's Journey   When I joined the Marine Corps in 1998 it was a different world per se. Most of my peers joined the military as an alternative to staying home or not going to college. Many like me joined the Marine Corps [...]

2023-07-20T17:14:04+00:00September 6th, 2011|Personal Stories|

A Marine Discovers Islam in Iraq

A Marine's Path to Islam Before Ibrahim Abdel-Wahed Mohamed left Sea Cliff for a tour of duty with the Marines in Iraq, he was Anthony Grant Vance, the son of American and Panamanian parents who had raised him as a Catholic. Despite his Christian upbringing, though, he had been [...]

2023-07-20T15:25:21+00:00August 19th, 2011|Personal Stories|

Michael Wolfe

Embracing New Perspectives: A Writer's Journey for Change  After twenty-five years as a writer in America, I wanted something to soften my cynicism. I was searching for new terms by which to see. The way one is raised establishes certain needs in this department. From a pluralist background, I naturally [...]

2023-07-20T16:39:27+00:00June 21st, 2011|Personal Stories|
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