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Women convert to Islam !

  By Dr. Abd El Mo’ety El Dalaty

Translated By Marwa Hasan

Reviewed By Magdy And Al-Shafy

This are some stories of women who led such an aimless

life and sheltered nearly in the dark seeking the guiding
light of the sun, the earthly life was all what they cared
about and could ever think of .They ventured to have a
step ahead and walk out of where they used to be…they
converted to Islam.. the stories of such women are very
much a like as they all had experienced the meaning of
faith and belief.

  It was not an easy way for them , but rather long ,tiring
and full of doubts and some times skepticism. They had
to get through many of  their own battles to reach the end
of the road. However, at the end they were the victorious,

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they defeated both their evil  souls and prior concepts

and got into the gate of Islam where no place is found for
ignorance , confusion or perplexity . It is where time is
counted by the believing heart beats rather than hours.
They were the chosen ones to experience such a
moment of truth  which inspired their bodies with power
and their soul with an overwhelming peaceful emotions
and their mind with reason. They eventually realized that
the earthly life is predominated by God , the One , and
they testified that there is no God , but Allah ,the One and
that Muhammad (PBUP) is his prophet. We introduce
their stories to those who yearn to taste the sweetness of
believing in God,  hoping that He, the Almighty, blesses
their souls wherever they are and bestows His mercy
upon them.

Saboura Ureapa 

Mariah Alastra is an intellectual who was born in 1949 at

Andalusia. She obtained a university degree in
Philosophy and Psychology at Madrid Universit
y . She
converted to Islam in 1978. she worked as the manager
for the authentication and publishing center in the Islamic
Council. She published an article titled “ a Muslim in the
global village

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!!” in 1998 and she was killed by an anti-Islam Spanish

man few minutes later and thus gained the name of a
martyr.
The following are snatches of what she wrote in the
article:

“ I believe in God , the one , and further I  believe that

Muhammad (PBUH) is His prophet and His messenger,
and I believe in all his teachings, which call for peace and
welfare…….In Islam , man is born free and pure , not
sinful or bearing any inherited stigma. He is born to
perform his role in life and just to follow his fate and
destiny. “

“ It is true that some of us belong to the Arab nation,

however  Arabic is related to all of us by one means or
another and it occupies some special place inside each
one of us, as the Holy Quran was written in Arabic and it
was the tool which the Prophet Muhammad(PBUH)
utilized to impart his message.”

“Upbringing is considered one of the most important

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protecting factors  against the flow of faked media, since

our press is infected by some news which is to be
regarded untrue. This is because some of the dominant
powers believe that it is an easy task to control over
panic citizens and further make them believe in whatever
is dictated. “

 May God bestows mercy upon her soul and considers

her as one of the  good devoted worshipers… 

 Mariam Gameela 

Margaret Marquis is an American writer with Jewish

origins. She authored many books , some of which are: I
slam  Facing the West
, My Journey from Infidelity to Belief
,
Islam and Renovations
,
Islam
through theory and application . the following are some of
her ideas:

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“ Islam has put an end to all my questions and skepticism

about death and life. I think that Islam is the only way that
we may track to find out the truth and it is the healing
power to our soul. “ 

“ when I first read the Holy Quran , I realized that faith is

not just important for life , yet it is the life itself. In every
time I read more and more about Islam I realize how
Islam helped the Arab nation to be one of the greatest
nations ever. This nation ,which managed at one time to
predominate the entire world.”

“  we can not comprehend the Holy Quran without

considering the prophet’s teachings , in other words the
Sunna
. I think those who do not believe in Sunna, do not
believe in Quran as well..”

“ Muslim women shall realize how lucky they are as

Islam’s dictations come to keep their sanctities and
dignity as well. Islam provides them protection against all
kinds of violation whether to their private life or to their

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chastity. In Islam, all the rights have been given to ensure

of permanence the family.”

Salma Bouafair ( Soufi Bouafair )- M.D in teaching

French and mathematics

      The story of this woman is an extraordinary example

of the long tiring intellectual journey through which those
who converted to Islam always  undergo . She embodies
the  real challenging will and introduces a good
courageous intellectual mind which is to be considered
the finest kind of courage at all. She proudly narrated her
story as follows:

“ I was born in 1971 in Montreal, Canada. I was grown up

within a religious Catholic family , so I used to go to
church until I was 14 years old when I started to have my
personal questions about our Creator and the different
religions. From my point of view, I recognized my
questions as easy and logical but they were rather
difficult and confusing for those whom I used to ask. I
remember some of those questions. I wondered that if

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God can send us good and evil , if it is He who can give

and forbid ….. so why can not we just ask Him for
whatever we want by ourselves ??? why there have to be
a mediator between God and us !!…. Why do we have to
ask the priest ?? won’t God hear us when we talk directly
to Him ?? and so many other questions but again with no
convincing answers. Thus I stopped attending the church
and I no longer could ever hear the pointless
,unconvincing stories of the priests.

       I have always believed in God and in His power and

in His  greatness, so I have studied different religions
seeking for any convincing answers for my endless quest
ions but again I could not find what I was looking for… I
was so confused and distracted until I started my
university. There I came to know a Muslim young man ,
who introduced Islam to me. I was so overwhelmed as it
was an easy way to track the answers for my doubts and
questions. It took me a whole year just to study such a
religion, and the result was that I was obsessed by Islam
to the bones. I was further overwhelmed when I saw how
the Moslems -in their prayers- adoringly prostrate
themselves to God, it is some thing I could not find in any
other religion. I was obsessed by such touching
movements which the worshipper performs... they
convey nothing but peace of mind , politeness and a

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perfect act of worship, it seems as if he really feels that

he is at the hands of God.

       I started attending the mosque where I could find

many other Canadian Muslim sisters, who encouraged
me to follow my track to Islam. I wore the veil in an
attempt to test my will, and two weeks later came the true
moment when I testified that there are no other gods but
Allah, the One, and that Muhammad (PBUH) is His
prophet and messenger.

Islam ,which has put me on the way of the young Muslim,

has also bound us with the sacred bond of marriage. It
was God's wish to make him my companion in life and in
my journey to the spiritual world of Islam.”

Evelyn Copfield 

She is a British writer and poet. She wrote some related

books to Islam; some of which are  “In quest of God” 
and “

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Morals
”. She stated that:

“ it is very hard for me to determine when I was

impressed by Islam and made up my mine to embrace
Islam , my true religion. I even think that I was born
Muslim. When I first entered the mosque of prophet
Muhammad(PBUH) , I felt an overwhelming shiver
running through my body, I took off my shoes and I
headed for an isolated place where I established my
Dawn prayer. I sank in such a spiritual world and I
wondered how Merciful God  is and how great is that
man who He send to guide the entire nation to the light of
faith !!! I even thought how God bestowed all kinds of
good and welfare to humanity!”

“I hurried to meet the prophet wearing my best scent

But it was no other than the scent of Medina!!

I could barely see

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that there was no one but me

So, I set my soul free  

And adoringly I prostrated

 suddenly ,

I found my soul flying so high

It even transcended the sky

And left away with my heavy earthly body

This is my beloved Medina

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This is where I feel secure, glory, serenity and purity”

“I believe that we are not sinful by instinct and we need

neither to obtain salvation nor mediator between us and
God ,who can behold us whenever and wherever we
are.”

 I would like to invoke the words of the poet Ackasnta

Travnicova, who mastered Arabic to the extent of poetic
creativity, to end that blessing journey:

Deprive me of my house and  grazing ground,

Take my words and writing ink ,

But give me some thing I can hold on to

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Some thing to shelter with in the judgment day

Brother, leave away the pointless arguments

And just join me to say the truth …

Let’s make it loud and resound in the dark

World , we are not here to tyrannize ,

But rather to impart welfare ,prayers and invocating God

Only then , it would be the day of heaven

ََQuotations form “I won Muhammad and retained

Jesus ”

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1-     the article of “a Muslim in the worldly village!!” from

El Faysel Magazine – edition no 219 for the year 2000 –
translated by Salah Yahiawy

2-     “ approaches to Science and methodology” by the

Intellectual Anwar Magdy (volume 6 – page 199)

3-     “ The Islam” by Dr. Ahmed Shalaby – page 297

4-     “new approaches to Islamic summon In the West”

by the Intellectual  Anwar Magdy – page 360

5-     “ I love you God” form the collection of poems by Dr.

Abd EWl Mo’ety El Dalaty

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