Shadee Elmasry – My Journey to Islam Blogging Theology
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The speaker describes a situation where they were confused by the name of a prophet and felt like they were talking about a life event. They describe a situation where they were offered a job as a supervisor, but felt uncomfortable with the job and wanted to focus on their job as a Christian. They eventually found a job as a teacher at Regent's Park.
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which made the biggest impact on me other than reading the Quran
was the life of the prophet Muhammad upon him up, I read the
amazing Syrah by Martin lings. And that blew my mind and I thought,
oh, okay, okay, okay, you know, he looks like a prophet talks like a
prophet behaves like a prophet, why am I not believing he sent by
God, then I encountered the problem within myself. I knew that
if I accept that he was a prophet, that would mean I would become a
Muslim. And that would mean a, a, an existential change of
civilization. I will cross over thresholds, red lines in my own
life, as a white male middle class, majoritarian person in
England, moving a small, often despised ethnic minority
community. And that may be hold back for some months, I'm
thinking, do I really do actually really want to do this at all? So
Hamdulillah I did ultimately get the courage by the grace of God to
say the shahada at Regent's Park.
And then and then I came across something which I didn't expect to
find out.