Personal Journey from Christianity to Islam

When I converted, what did I lose from Christianity? What did I gain from

Islam?

I lost my friends.

That's all.

But of course, I hate everything, everything I used to do today.

There came a time when I was...

I was... It was... Look, there came a time when I started working after

five years and started a job. The world opened up to me in an unusual way

because for five years I was in...

parentheses, in quotation marks, if you will.

I mean, in parentheses.

In parentheses, in a protected spiritual,

religious, educational environment, with righteous people, Muslims,

and students of knowledge. An environment for five years.

What did I gain in Islam?

Knowledge.

Knowledge.

Practical knowledge. Because in India, what do we do? We stay with the sheikhs

for a week, a few days, then we go out to the villages and form

groups, and we go out to the villages.

You call people to Islam, I mean.

Now you're a preacher of Islam.

This is our school.

From a Christian

to a preacher of Islam.

Yes.

Aren't they afraid of you, between us? Aren't they afraid of you

because you had a Christian background or frame of reference?

I never talked about the subject.

I'm telling my story now. That's all.