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This podcast covers spiritual stories, extended interviews, and other interesting stories inspired from the vibrant community of aboutislam.net. A community that embraced the peaceful teachings of Islam and seeks our website for interaction and guidance.
The Journey of 'Hameed Yusuf'
Host: Sarrahh AlKutb
Living in San Diego, Hameed is a retired military personal and part time anthropologist and volunteers as a social worker.
Born to a school teacher and a barbour, Hameed was raised as catholic and was always inquisitive as he grew up having questions about his spiritual connection.
Joining the military service in 1988, he had training in counter terrorism, and after 9/11 he was sent to Bahrain and where he operated out of the Persian Gulf. He always felt the Adhan kept pulling at his heart strings regardless of the fear he harbored towards Islam while being on his tours.
After returning home, as a veteran, he went through many levels of fear and resentment and emotionally issues. And then one day on a hunting trip, he heard the call again. He heard the Adhan right there in the middle of the woods. This stopped him literally in his tracks.
Shortly after, Hameed met with an imam who invited him to attend lectures and come to the mosque. It took Hameed a few times to realize the softening of his heart Subhan Allah and that God had turned that fear into belonging and hope. Hameed said he felt he had finally found his purpose and felt like he was home - his heart had finally opened through his journey to Islam.
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The Journey of 'Abdelrahim Yusef'
Host: Sarrahh AlKutb
Raised in Sacremento California, Abdelrahim was raised by his single mother and at the age of six, he had questions about God and his relationship with Jesus. Asking different ministers about how could Jesus talk to God and still be God at the same time, he felt like he was always unsettled.
As he got older, Abdelrahim and his mother came in contact with a Muslim man who would clarify who Jesus (AS) was in Islam. This gave Abdelrahim his answers and was the start of his journey to Islam.
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The Journey of 'Ameena Blake'
Host: Sarrahh AlKutb
Part 2
Our episode today is the story of Ustatha Ameena Blake, a fascinating journey of self discovery, kindness, believing in the process, having knowledge and heart. Now, a lecturer and founder of an organization bringing refuge to women and children who have faced abuse, Ameena brings us so many gems to this episode. It is genuine conversation that is filled with insight and love.
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The Journey of 'Ameena Blake'
Host: Sarrahh AlKutb
Our episode today is the story of Ustatha Ameena Blake, a fascinating journey of self discovery, kindness, believing in the process, having knowledge and heart. Now, a lecturer and founder of an organization bringing refuge to women and children who have faced abuse, Ameena brings us so many gems to this episode. It is genuine conversation that is filled with insight and love.
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The Journey of 'Marlene Albelbisi'
Host: Sarrahh AlKutb
Growing up in the City of Commerce in Los Angelos, Marlene is one of five children and living within a vibrant Hispanic community, with religion being at the forefront, her culture and her relationship with her father was always important to her.
Naturally curious child, she always had questions about her believes, only to be brushed aside. And then it happened, she was introduced to Islam through research on world religions she had to do for a class. It captured her heart immediately. Now that she could see Islam, she saw it everywhere.
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The Journey of 'Maria'
Host: Sarrahh AlKutb
Our next story is not a story I have ever heard before. This is an emotional journey about danger, desperation in the face of death, survival and hope.
As a survivor, after being held at gun point, Maria eventually found her way to Allah, she felt Islam brought her back to life. An amazing story of renewed life and finding purpose.
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The Journey of 'Matthew Rahman'
Host: Sarrahh AlKutb
A physician and an indie rock musician, Matthew Rahman from Los Angeles, California converted to Islam 15 years ago as a college student. And it was one moment in the middle of the night that changed his life forever. Picking up the Quran and reading Surat At-Takathur, Competing for More, Chapter 102, it was like a light switched on inside of him, he said, cracking something open and shaking him. It was undeniable, with just these 8 verses, he not only became certain that there was a higher power but it began his conversion into religion and his journey to Islam.
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The Journey of 'Edith Guefroudje'
Host: Sarrahh AlKutb
Our guest today, Edith Guefroudje reminds us about the beauty of gentle transitions to faith and that finding your spiritual path is very much curated by Allah’s infinite knowledge on your very nature.
Growing up in Riverside County, California, Edith is the eldest of three from a devout Catholic family who gave her a full childhood was happy to participate in her church community as a little girl.
As she got older, however, she started to become curious to know more about her born faith and sought out to find answers. Feeling unsettled, she took it upon herself to seek out information that would settle her uncertainty. And while taking a class at a local university, Edith had come to be introduced to Islam and its beliefs. She remembers this to be the start of her journey towards Allah.
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The Journey of 'Aisha Charves'
Host: Sarrahh AlKutb
Our seventh story is Aisha Charves, tells her inspiring story of courage, determination, patience, persistence and gratitude. As a teenager, Aisha converted to Islam, a decision that she made in a time when kids her age were still figuring out their own identities. Having grown up in Idaho and coming from a religious evangelical community, Aisha first came across Islam on a missionary trip to Indonesia where she met a Muslim woman who told her that she too loved Jesus.
This sparked the first steps towards her journey to Islam as she had so many questions about the practices and the religion. Beginning to doubt what she had been taught all those years, she realized that her views were very much aligned with being Muslim and she felt that she found the thing that she was looking for all her life but did not know was missing. And it was always there.
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The Journey of 'Jennifer Cohen'
Host: Sarrahh AlKutb
In this episode, we speak to Jennifer Cohen, a licensed marriage and family therapist who is also an internationally certified yoga therapist.
Growing up in Colorado, and a self proclaimed pink sheep of the family, Jennifer was not raised in an outright spiritual or religious household but her family was more politically and culturally Jewish. Not always fitting in because of her inquisitive nature, she had felt, at a really young age, a powerful spiritual connection around her.
As we talk about her conversion to Islam, we find out that Jennifer’s journey is one about finding true belonging and the special encounters with Muslims who helped soften her heart and guide her path to Allah.
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The Journey of 'Claudia Azizah'
Host: Sarrahh AlKutb
Have you ever asked what does it all mean? What is the purpose of our lives? Do our personal journeys have meaning? Claudia Azizah had all those questions from early on as a teenager and as she travelled the world from Southeast Asia to the United States she was searching for answers. Born in Germany her family made no declaration of a God and turned away from organized religion completely. But Claudia was different - she had questions, even as a small child.
From Atheism to Christianity to Buddhism to finally going to Indonesia as a Muslim, Claudia’s heart had finally found its spiritual home.
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The Journey of 'Nichola Taylor'
Host: Sarrahh AlKutb
Our fourth story is that of Nicola Taylor. Nicola, who was born and raised in the United Kingdom had a happy childhood and lived a life that most children do growing up with cultural and religious experience being no different than that of her family or friends.
I love this conversation with Nicola because she explains how she was very skeptical at first of Islam when she found out about Ramadan form a colleague in Cairo and after many questions and interactions with Muslims through work it took a reading from chapter in a book on Islam and scientific miracles that brought her at a stand still. This had to be the truth starring her right in the face she said.
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The Journey of 'Stephanie Bushra Khan'
Host: Sarrahh AlKutb
In our third episode we hear from Stephanie Khan. This is a heartwarming story of a spiritual journey that started for Stephanie when she was just a child. In fact, this beautiful soul, who grew up in a small town in Massachusetts, was always aware of the harmony and beauty around her. This remarkable woman shows us her steadfastness in her faith, even when in her desperate moments, has never been let her down - Allah has always been there every step of the way.
Stephanie is a survivor of unfortunate events, pushing heavy burdens uphill, fighting for food and financial security. It was in her time of need that turned to God and pulled on that connection, as she did when she was a child, asking for help in her darkest hour. No one was coming to help her, except for Him - whether she knew it or not.
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The Journey of 'Danielle LoDuca'
Host: Sarrahh AlKutb
This story of Danielle’s journey just gives me goosebumps, Subhan Allah. The events leading to the moment where she finally realized she had the answers to everything she was looking for is magical and truly inspiring. There is this energy that words cannot describe when she came to realize that she has been on this journey for a while - since she a child - not knowing it, and going from East to West but ultimately coming to pinnacle where she had to make a choice. Acknowledge what has come to find to be true and accept as her own truth or realize its existence and move on. It humbles me me in so many ways that she picked the former.
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The very first episode of Inspiring Journeys to Allah, from aboutIslam.net exploring Muslim convert stories and their moving journeys to Islam.
Our first story is that of Tammy Perkins. Tammy, who grew up in a small town on the East Coast, and having come from humble beginnings, faced several harsh obstacles in her life. She experienced a void in her childhood that left her with a need to feel like she belonged, she raised her daughters to the best of her ability making sacrifices as a single teenage mom and later she fell into depression and anxiety as an adult.
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