Well i was as i said unhappy and searching for answers that
know one could
give me,so one day i got up in the morning and decided i was
gonna change my
life, so i kicked out the man i was living with ,quite my job
and went back
to school. There i met someone who sat beside me in class ,
all i did was
ask him were he was from and he told me
He then told me and after that i stared to ask more
questions and he answered them i could not believe that i had
found someone
who could do that. We became good friends and he & his friends
gave book
after book to read and i asked for more . I could not believe
it was like
something i had never felt before i had to know more about
everything. I
then met one of the wives of his friends and she took me to
the mosque and
she taught me things the men could not like how to be a muslim
women. lets
just say i am still learning but converted to islam about 3
1/2 years ago
but i feel as if i was always this way. Now I am trying to
teach my
daughter about this but she is fighting me on this but someday
insallah she
will see the light and find the questions to ask. Anyway by
changing i have
found there is more to live then following the crowd there is
freedom to
love yourself for what you are not what body parts you have to
show off. I
got married 1 year after i converted and my husband told me i
did not have
to wear hajab but one day i went to the mosque and left with
it on. I no
longer have to deal with men looking at my body and whistling
know they
respect me as a person they even look me in the eyes not my
chest it is
awesome to get such respect for a man. I still have some
problems with my
mother because she thinks it is a faze that i am going through
and says i
will get over it one day,"i don't think so, it is my life and
i love it.
So if i can change i hope my story will help some one else who
is thinking
about islam. Their are many people out there that have the
answers if you
just stop and listen you may learn something new.
good luck and allah be with you
zahra