Ali Ataie – God Did Not Give Up on Me The Blessing of Islam

How did you get to Islam? It's a

nirma Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. At one point

we were totally heedless.

At one point this was not a priority

at all. I'll tell you something, when I

was in 9th grade

I was at the San Ramon library and

a south asian brother who was an exchange

student, I think he was in my history

class he saw me there and he said,

what is your name? I said Ali. He

said, oh you're Muslim. And I said, no

not really, my parents are Muslim. So he

started to tell me about the meaning of

la ilaha illa Allah. And he started to

tell me about Islamic ethics. And wallahi, I

started laughing in his face.

I mocked and derided him. I made fun

of him. I made fun of his accent.

I can remember this very, very clearly. Allah

subhanahu wa ta'ala did not give up on

me. You probably have similar

stories in your own life.