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