Ali Ataie – When A Foreign Exchange Student Tried to Teach Me About Islam
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But now look at ourselves,
maybe we
were leading lives
completely heedless
of Allah So how did we get here
then?
Think about it.
How did you get to
How did you get to Islam?
It's a nirmah of 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 I was just studying there 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 a Muslim
and I said,
no not really, my parents are Muslim, I
think.
Said, oh, really?
So, he started to tell me about the
meaning of La ilaha illallah,
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.