How Jesus Led Candace from Christianity to Islam

The thing that led me to becoming Muslim was

literally Jesus. Now, I was Christian, and when

I met my first Muslim, I found out that Muslims

actually believe in all the same prophets as

me from the Bible, and I was very shocked by

that. So where maybe most people research Islam,

I decided to research Christianity, and in doing

that, Jesus led me to becoming Muslim. I basically

researched passages about Jesus, what he did,

and I found out that Jesus actually prostrated

to God. That shocked me because I was like,

Muslims pray like that, but as a Christian,

I don't pray like my beloved Jesus, peace be

upon him. Like, that is so weird. I also read

passages where Jesus said, "I am not God. You

guys are evil if you're praising me like I am

God. I am nothing without my Lord." I also read

passages where Jesus himself said, "There's

gonna be somebody to come after me to confirm

that I'm not a liar, to prove that what I'm

saying to you is the truth," because the people

of his time thought he was a liar, thought he

was a magician. So then I started wondering,

like, okay, if somebody else is gonna come,

who would that be?

Then I started researching Muhammad, peace be

upon him, and I realized that him and Jesus

would have had the same mission. They were given

the same responsibility, duty, and mission by

God, and in my opinion, they would have actually

been brothers and they would have been companions.

They would have worked together to reveal God's

message. The last thing I really had to think

about was, I already believed in my Judgment

Day, and I had to think what kind of judgment

do I, Candace, want to have?

Do I want to meet with God and be like the group

of people who denied Jesus?

Because I thought that was so wrong. And I thought,

let's think critically. I didn't meet any of

these prophets. I have never met them, and I

have never seen God with my own eyes. It's called

faith for a reason. When I researched Islam,

there was nothing in it that made me think,

"Hmm, I shouldn't do this. Hmm, this message

is bad." Everything I researched, it actually

went hand in hand. It's the same thing. The

only difference is I believe a lot of modern

Christians aren't actually following the book

because they think they're forgiven so they

think they don't have to. Which brings me back

to the question: Why did God reveal a book,

a series of tons of messengers, and then say

like you don't need to follow the rules?

That doesn't make sense to me. So, my love of

Jesus, my worry about being arrogant to God,

literally led me to do my Shahada. That was

just the start. I had no intention of actually

practicing, but here I am. Alhamdulillah, it

literally led me... ...to reading the Quran,

and now I feel like it clarified the Bible,

it clarified all the stories of the prophets.

It made me a better Christian. It made me a

Muslim. And ultimately, that made me better

in my submission to God, which is the word Islam

means submission to God. And the word Muslim

means the person who submits to God. Why would

you not want to identify yourself as that if

you believe in Jesus and you love God?