Lauren Booth – When I read the Quran for the first time

02 December 2022

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The speaker describes a situation where they were in a sinful state and felt like a devil as they read about a book called surah baqaleini that describes them as a devil. They later realized they were a liability and went back to their previous belief in God.

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			If you're not Muslim, you'd recognize the opening of the Quran is sounding a bit like the Lord's
Prayer. If you read surah baqarah

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			and you're in a sinful disbelieving state, it's gonna it's gonna hit you like a brick. It hit me
like a brick as an ayat in there that says

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			they, you know, it's to do with they pretend to be believers, when they're with believers, but when
they're on their own with their shaytaan, complete hypocrites, and I realized I was a hypocrite.

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			I told people I believed in God, but I didn't pray.

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			I said to myself, oh, all my children, let's believe in God, but I didn't act like a believer. I
acted like a non believer. And this book told me I was a liar and I was going to * and it's
scared me.

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			So without picking up the Quran again, I took my Shahada and then I had to go back to the Koran