in the name of Allah the most beneficent
the most merciful
my mimics the Filipino and Chinese I had
an accident being by myself in the
United States and when first time to
have an accident in the United States
and you don’t know what to do where to
turn to so um I have this friend of mine
the toll because I have to make a police
report so when I went to work I told him
I had an accident I my boss told me like
okay girl you have to do a police report
yet to do this you have to do that
so I told them they when I had happened
and my boss would say oh girly don’t do
that don’t say that because you know
your insurance would go high and these
and the police would go this and blah
blah blah and I said but that’s what the
truth and I said my friend told me like
you know girlie you cannot fool the
police you can fool the police you can
fool the judge you could fool everybody
except one person and I said who is that
person and then my friend said it’s
Allah and I said who is Allah and then
Allah is you know God oh why is it Allah
why not God and then that’s the
curiosity came up and you know my friend
said his religion is Islam and he said
what is Islam and then you know started
the books and start reading me giving me
books and stories and things and I was
so interested in curiosity but when I
was reading the book I was like wait a
minute it doesn’t seems like any
difference with the Catholic these are
like almost the same but when I was they
gave me the Quran and I was like oh my
god it’s just like I was like it’s so
dead
it’s just non comparison I was like so
amazed and I was like oh my god this is
really the truth and I was like so
amazing like I said to myself I prayed I
even prayed and I said oh god oh god I
said I want to take this um you know the
Shahada that I was
and I know it is the same it still you
but I know I came from a very Catholic
you know background and it was like I
need to do the Shahada and that was the
9/11 2001 and that’s the hardest the
hardest because 9/11 is just happen it
was like even at work even at school not
at school but I’m working you know I
mean everywhere I go was like I was
first I’m aware my job and giving me
this but the finger and I was like what
are you doing I was the witch’s way my
job and even laid off because of where
my job at work but I was like oh well I
don’t care I am a Muslim I love it
although I grew up in the Philippines in
the Philippines there is a lot of
Muslims in the South okay and when I
came here in the United States I became
a Muslim I was so happy and I said to my
mom I became a Muslim my mom was so sad
and she told me like you didn’t go to
the United States to become a Muslim yes
I am I was like oh no but you know what
still I’m still having some struggle
with my mom I live with my mom I take
care of my mom so but I love my mom so
much because I learning in the Quran
that through through your mom heaven is
at the foot of your mom so I think
that’s the best I think wearing the
hijab is a biggest challenge especially
for women because they are you know
concentrating on their looks their
beauty and everything but recently I
have this so I saw a line and it says
here that being if being beautiful in
the eyes of the Creator means being ugly
to the eyes of the created it’s worth it
I’m telling you it is worth it it
doesn’t matter what you look like what
is important is what’s inside of you
that’s the best thing because everything
with Fame everybody will go old and die
but you know what’s inside is the most
important thing and that’s kind of last
and that’s not going to fade Ramadan is
the best
thing because it’s just like Christmas
it’s a gathering and at first before I
you know you fast and then when you fast
it’s just like you feel the way how poor
people you know hungry and you kind of
like empathize with them how it is you
know to be hungry and you know feel how
to get back to the people you know and
the other thing is Rama Rama Rama died
my first encounter with her method is
you have to do the the gates and I was
like where am I gonna hide the gage I
don’t know
and then a lot of one day I was just
like everybody was giving me box of gage
and I was like oh my god there’s a lot
of dates now I’m I’m just by myself this
is a lot of dates for me to consume
realize that oh well alhamdulillah
thanks for all those people who’s giving
me the dates but something happened that
with the fasting but before I was like
working and fasting anyone was the
fasting it was like I have some
co-worker that I go with you know with
your lunch and I was girly what are you
doing and fasting okay next day girlie
lunchtime are you doing when you go here
I’m fasting are you dieting no I’m not
I’m fasting it’s fast in dieting no it’s
not fasting it’s like cleansing oh okay
so and then what happened is I’m sad now
because I kind of not perform really the
fasting because I had an aneurysm
so Allah give me the second life and
they told me that saying some my
aneurysm I could not really fast because
when I fast I
kind of have a headache if you had a
headache then it triggers it’s not good
for the aneurysm so what they told me I
kind of compute the amount of my the
amount of the breakfast and then I send
money to my brother and give it to the
poor in the Philippines so that’s what I
do right now because since I had my
aneurysm I missed it I really missed I’m
trying but they said no you don’t have
to because of your health condition so
may Allah bless me
you