He said: In Islam, Allah is the one who forgives.
no one can be intercessor
no one shares Allah in doing that
He Himself is the the Entirely Merciful,
the Especially Merciful, the forgiver
There are verses in the Qur’an,where Allah SWT says:
“But indeed, I am the Perpetual Forgiver”
“of whoever repents and believes and does righteousness and then continues in guidance.”
Allah. SWt has privileged the one who is born as Muslim
with the advantage of having a father who wakes him up
at the morning to pray Fajr
And having a mother to prepare him food
at the end of the fasting day in Ramadan!
Oh Allah, keep them steadfast on the path of Eman
And grant them the highest ranks in Paradise
Just as you gifted them the guidance of the Qur’an
Guided…. through the Qur’an
‘Guided through the Qur’an’
‘Living it is the sweetness of life’
‘Longing to the Lord, coming to Him’
‘To Him I submit my soul’
‘It is the light of the body and the heart’
‘I declare submission to Allah’
‘His verses are becoming lightening candles’
‘And the brightness overflows from my heart’
‘It is the light of the body and the heart’
‘I declare submission to Allah’
‘His verses are becoming lightening candles’
‘And the brightness overflows from my heart’
My name is Mikael
I am 32 years old
My parents are originally from Italy
I was raised in a practicing Christean family
I had all the rituals of the Christians, as Baptism etc…
He is a bright young-man, ambitious and loves Allah
Even before being a Muslim,
he was practicing Christianity very close
He is Mikael,
He welcomed us at his place in France
Welcome sheikh, come in..
Thank you for having us
Your house, ma’sha’Allah is beautiful.
Before Islam,
How was your life?
Did you go to the Church regularly?
Were you a practicing Christean?
Yes, I was a practicing Christean
I had all the rituals of the Christians, as Baptism…
and I was studying the religion
The Catholic Christianity was very important for
my parents, because they were Italians
His heart was in love of Allah,
So, he was very close to his religion,
giving much care to his spiritual life.
When I was 15 years old
I started to show interest in the spiritual issues
I was looking forward to do a change for the religion
I felt there is something in my heart
Which pulls me towards Allah
But, I was not comfortable or relaxed in that religion
How did you start asking about Islam?
The idea of becoming a Muslim didn’t occur to me fast!
I was looking for becoming more involved in my religion
I was looking for becoming greater in Christianity
One of my questions at that time was
what is the purpose of life?
What does it mean? why we are are here?
Glory to Allah!
Allah sent Muslims to talk to me about Islam!
And in their Dawa, they didn’t say to me,
Allah said or the Prophet SAW said!
But they asked me about my religion!
and about my book, the Bible!
and so many of these questions had no answers
or had contradicting answers
What his friends did was wise!
They didn’t invite him directly to Islam!
But they only asked him about his religion,
without insulting it or making fun of it.
This exactly what Ibrahim, PBUI did!
when he said to his father, in surat Maryam:
“”O my father, why do you worship that which does not hear and does not see and will not benefit you at all?”
So, his friend asked him questions only!
this affected Mikael, and brought him closer to Islam
‘By the merciful guidance of my Lord’
‘The beauty covers the spring of my heart’
‘And turns my feelings and my path green’
‘Even how I look, all that is because of the guidance’
The first question they asked me,
was about the creation of the universe,
they said: How did Allah made the universe?
I said, He created it in the first day, 2nd day, 3rd day….
and at the 7th day He relaxed!
This what in the Bible,
I said: we have this in the Bile, He rests at the 7th day
that’s why the Christians do not work on sundays
I had that idea all my life,
I grow up thinking that way
I learned that God rests on Sunday
And is is logic not to work on Sundays because of that!
And when I say let’s work on Sunday
The answer was always, it is the day of the Lord!
My friend said: In our religion…and he said:
Allah SWT says:
“who created the heavens and earth in six days”
“and then established Himself above the Throne.”
This means that Allah SWT, on the 7th day.
He established Himself above the Throne
So, I did a comparison between the God I had..he rests
And that God who created all of that
without being fatigued
He says: ” “Be,” and it is.”
Then….
“established Himself above the Throne.”
This comparison made me confused
and lose the trust on my previous God
And this is an essential part of religion
It is completely wrong
to ask about something Allah SWT, did or created and inquire!
Why He did?
Why He didn’t?
“He is not questioned about what He does,”
“but they will be questioned. ”
But…
The scholars, with their proofs, had given reasons
When Allah SWT created the heavens and the earth
in 6 days..
They gave reasons, the most prominent one…
they said:
Allah SWT wanted to show the Angels his wisdom,
His purpose of creating the heavens and the earth!
It is not to show His ability,
because the ability of Allah in creation is,” “Be,” and it is.”
So, the Angels..
understood the the greatness of this creation
of the heavens and earth in 6 days!
Then Allah SWT said:
“and then established Himself above the Throne.”
Allah SWT established Himself above the Throne
With pride…and glory for Him, Almighty.
‘Oh You, who descended the Qur’an’
‘As brightness upon Ahmad’
‘I felt peacefulness when the clarity began’
‘Guided through the Qur’an’
‘Living it is the sweetness of life’
‘Longing to the Lord, coming to Him’
‘To Him I submit my soul’
‘Guided through the Qur’an’
‘Living it is the sweetness of life’
‘Longing to the Lord, coming to Him’
‘To Him I submit my soul’
‘ My Qur’an’
‘The verses of my Qur’an made my soul delighted… My Qur’an’
‘My sorrow’
‘They shrank and the roses sent their fragrance on my banks’
‘I recited it, and the scent of the letters’
‘went in my blood, my tears and all my body’
My doubts began to increase more and more
So, I used to go to confess to the priest,
Asking him to forgive me
because I was doubting the Christian religion
So, I did prayers to Maryam, to Issa and to God…
I forgive you…you shall have forgiveness…
Then, my friends said: did you confess to the priest?
and he pardoned you!
But what is the wrong thing that you did?
Then I was wondering what wrong did I do?
And what power does he have
to forgive you on behalf of Allah
In Islam, Allah SWT,
is the Entirely Merciful, the Especially Merciful,
the forgiver…
And Allah SWT says in the Noble Qur’an,
Then he reads this verse from the Qur’an,
Allah says:”But indeed, I am the Perpetual Forgiver”
“of whoever repents and believes and does righteousness and then continues in guidance.”
then I realized that this religion is the one for me
Why? Because it has a direct relation
between the creator and the creation
‘This is indeed the most beautiful and precious path’
‘And it’s the intercessor, it is the companion’
‘Oh heedless, won’t you wake up’
‘And see the way for happiness and salvation’
The questions which was put out
made me very confused
So, I was not Catholic and not Muslim…I had no religion!
I started to ask Allah, at night …in my room
to find me a solution!
Because I am with no religion!
‘The darkness overwhelmed my heart’
‘So that it turned curl’
‘I don’t know what is the light anymore’
‘Except with the Qur’an’
Mikael says.
At that stage, I felt like an Orphan!
because he had no religion!
He wasn’t Christean, and he didn’t enter Islam
And after a while,
He decided to talk with the priest whom he used to trust at the Church
And he confessed
That he had talked to some Muslims,
And he is considering Islam
I thought that he might have a neutral opinion,
But unfortunately!
He talked about Islam in a very negative way!
And then,
The priest said: The Islam!
Oh, No…It is the religion of war…
It is the religion of hatred…
It is the religion of unforgiveness…
It is the religion where the women have no status…
And he gave me many contradicting reasons
To convince me to leave Islam, and it is not the best…
Then,
I went to those brothers and I told them that the priest
said, so… and so…. and so….
They gave me solid proofs that he was wrong
They started to give me answers from the Qur’an
They showed me surat An-NIsa, in the Qur’an
And when I said that the priest said that
Islam is not tolerant
Does he say that about Islam?
They opened the Noble Qur’an,
and they showed me that Allah SWT say:
“For you is your religion, and for me is my religion.””
‘I lived with the habit of doing mistakes routinely’
‘But I never found happiness’
‘Till finally I discovered the worship’
‘How relieved I became when I am on the right path’
‘Blessed in the One I returned to’
‘He extended all His hands to us’
‘To His strength I leave my heavy load’
‘Oh Allah forgive my heavy sins’
All this story…and discussions with his friends
Mikael was not more than 17 years old
This is a message to all youth!
Those who clam that they are still young!
And when they are older, they’ll start to practice…
or pray…
This is a very big mistake.
Mikael embraced Islam when he was young
And he came closer to the Book of Allah SWT
And he was very much impressed by it!
“And the forerunners, the forerunners”
“Those are the ones brought near [to Allah ]”
“In the Gardens of Pleasure,”
I saw that, Christianity doesn’t worth to believe in
And I was attracted very much to Islam
especially to the rhetoric of the Noble Qur’an
And the verses
When we read the Bible,
As if we are reading a text
or a story!
But when we read or listen to the Noble Qur’an,
you never cry when you read the Bible
But people cry when they listen to the Noble Qur’an,
even if they don’t understand it
He loved to listen to surat Al-Rahman, before he become Muslim
And was moved by the meaning of it’s verses very much
And that surah,
was the reason for him to take a very important decision
Which is to say the shahada!
Then I reached to the verse,
“Everyone upon the earth will perish,”
“And there will remain the Face of your Lord, ”
“Owner of Majesty and Honor.”
Then I said to myself, this Dunya is not lasting!
today I am 18,
and the I will be 40, 50,….then I’ll die
And all my achievements in life will end!
If we were close to Allah in Dunya
we will find Him, SWT, at the hereafter
At that moment, I said to my self…
There is something Which was growing inside me
So I called my friends,
The two persons whom I used to talk with about religion!
And I said to them, I am ready to enter Islam
They said you need to have a bath first..
And they wrote how to do the wash on a paper
So, after washing up,
I went to them to repeat after them the shahada
I bear witness there is no deity worthy of worship except for Allah
And that Muhammad is the messenger of Allah.. SAW
They were two, they said, ma’sha’Allah, Alhamdulillah
you are Muslim now!
‘Verses from the Qur’an’
‘Has an echo in my soul’
‘And tears downpour from the eyes with response to that call’
‘Oh Allah, keep me adherent on the righteous path’
‘because what I fear most is to have a bad ending tomorrow’
It was a hard test
And a great challenge on Mikael
to be Muslim without telling his parents.
If they new that
they would kick him out of the house
and he was young, and didn’t have money at all
The question now, How is he going to pray?
How is he going to fast?
At that time, Mikaek had to stop fasting some times in Ramadan
And to do all the prayers of the day late at night!
I remember once, my birthday which was on October,
It was at the middle of Ramadan
My mother invited all the family, the grandparents,
and my uncles and aunts…to have cakes at 5 PM
I had to break my fast that day
I didn’t have any choice
because I couldn’t say I don’t want to eat the sweets
He used to come here
to pray all the preyers
but he was saying one Doa’a
only one!
Oh Allah, make my mother and my father accept me being Muslim!
‘Glory to the one I have returned to’
‘Both His hands are stretched welcoming us ‘
‘I dropped all my sins in front of Him’
‘Oh Allah, forgive me doing these sins’
A difficult situation!
How is he going to go on like that?
He prayed to Allah SWT to find him a solution!
And Allah answered his Doa’a
So, immediately after graduation from school
He was accepted to do the military service
for two years!
During these two years, I learned my religion
That made me stronger in faith
Because the Shaytan was putting doubts in my heart
He said: if you continued in this religion,
you will lose your parents
Allah SWT has privileged the one who is born as Muslim
with the advantage of having a father who wakes him up
at the morning to pray Fajr
And having a mother to prepare him food
at the end of the fasting day in Ramadan!
Usually the reverts face problems with their families
As what happened to me!
The one who doesn’t appreciate the bless of having Muslim parents,
Now, he should pray to Allah SWT to preserve his parents!
And now, he must go to his mother and to his father
And kisses the head of each one of them
And say to them, Mom, Dad, I am grateful to Allah SWT, that I am born Muslim
and you are Muslims too
and you call me to pray, call me to fast, call me to Zakat and call me to Hajj
By Allah,
Others are missing that!
He is Muslim, But his parents are not Muslims
And he is sad for that
His beautiful wish was
Is an indication of his intelligence in Dawa
Today, I want to establish a conference hall
Where we can make conferences and invite Doat
To speak to people about Islam
Because our masjid, Masjid Al-Noor
It is good, but it is small
And people are afraid to come to the masjid
By the will of Allah, Almighty
This wish is going to be fulfilled
with the web site, nquran.com.
‘I walk on the path of my Qur’an’
‘And see its kind dawn shines’
‘I recite it and memorize it and reflect upon it’
‘I walk on the path of my Qur’an’
‘The spring and the joy of my days’
‘My friend, the one who knows my dreams’
‘The cure for my sorrow and my complains’
‘It heals my bleeding wound’
‘The spring and the joy of my days’
‘My friend, the one who knows my dreams’
‘The cure for my sorrow and my complains’
‘It heals my bleeding wound’
‘Then when I repent and come back’
‘To the path of the words of the Lord of the Bait’
‘I find the grace and the comfort’
‘I was guided through the Qur’an’
‘I was guided through the Qur’an’