Shadee Elmasry – My Journey to Islam Blogging Theology

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.