A Letter from a muslim
girl to her christian
parents... by ★ GLOBAL ISLAM on Sunday, 03 October 2010 at 11:20 Touching Stories - 01 Hello Mami and Papi, I don't know how else to
approach you in order to
explain my reasoning
behind my life changing
decision and have you
listen and understand at the same time. Since I can long remember I
have not be a strong
believer of Christianity,
there was a lot that did not
make sense to me, for
example, why I have to beg for forgiveness to a
priest? Why I have to pray
to saints and not straight
to God, why is Jesus the
SON of God, why are their
SOO many versions of the bible? Prior to the beginning of
my sophomore semester
(September 2005) my
curiosity took its place and
I went ahead and began
doing some research. This research of course was
mild, but when Ramadan
hit in October of 2005 I
observed the way my
Muslim friends used to
worship Allah (God) and how they were so true to
their religion, it was
beautiful... The religion became a
fascination to me, and I
truly wanted to know
more. I purchased a few
books in the UK and read
some pamphlets on the religion. I did not make any
decisions but I continued to
read and become more
familiar to Islam. Islam began making sense
to me, the idea that we
pray only to Allah, that we
ask Allah for help and for
forgive us, how a book
(the Quran) that was written thousands of years
ago remains unchanged as
of today (there are
different translations but
no different versions) .
Also how a book that was written years ago
managed to explain
scientific situations that
was only discovered by
man kind only a couple of
year ago. Or how the Quran has managed to
explains how babies
develop in the womb? How
would anyone thousands
of years ago know this and
