Re: Is it The True Allah that came knocking at your heart or Satan???

Jesus is a hard worker and had no time for wives!
Mohammed is a smart worker and god gave him the ability to
handle 1 and more wives!

Besides is not SATAN a Son of God?

verifyingchristian@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
Allah Came Knocking At My Heart, BUT YOU be SURE THAT THAT IS REALLY
KNOCKING COMING FROM THE TRUE ALLAH OTHERWISE IT WILL BE SATAN CAME
KNOCKING AT YOUR HEART!
How to verifying whether a Holy Book is of God or of Satan, prove the
followings:
1) For the Quran: Is the last messenger, Mohammed, holy enough with
officially 12 wives and unofficially uncountable wives?
1) For the Bible: Is the Messenger of God, Jesus, holy enough with no
wife and thus have the time to do the will of God? Jesus the True
Messenger of God did not marry for His primary purpose is to do the
will of God as the True Messenger of God.
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Feelers wrote:
but you must marry them first.. and according to scripture you must
undertake to provide for them and treat them well. can you do that?


"AL" <AL@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:442bc1e3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Woh I also want to convert for one nite only to screw these pretty girls!!

"Feelers" <enjoylife488@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1143701992.960696@xxxxxxxxxx
more and more european women are converting to islam.. lots in french and
some of them are really beautiful.. can't even tell they are muslims, so
quiet.. now all it needs is one sexy hollywood actress to convert and it
will be a torrent..


"jane abraham" <arah1958@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Allah Came Knocking At My Heart
Anecdotal evidence suggests that there has been a surge in conversions
to Islam since September 11, especially among affluent young white
Britons

by Giles Whittell


Six months ago Elizabeth L. - a graduate in political science, the
daughter of affluent white British parents, an opponent of terrorism in
all its forms - climbed Mount Sinai at night to watch the desert
sunrise from its summit.

"It was the stillest, most peaceful place I've ever been," she
says. "I could hear my feelings come up from within me, and in one
surreal moment it all seemed to come together."

Last Friday, at 4:45pm, Elizabeth went to Regent's Park Mosque in
Central London and converted to Islam.

It wasn't hard. She didn't even have to wear a scarf. Witnessed by
two Muslim men and nine other friends squeezed into the imam's
office, she pronounced, in Arabic learnt from a tape the night before,
the words she will repeat like a mantra five times a day for the rest
of her life: "There is no God but Allah and Muhammad is his
messenger." Afterwards there was a modest celebration at Al-Dar on
the Edgware Road. Elizabeth and her well-wishers sipped mint tea and
smoked apple-flavoured tobacco from a hookah. There was no booze, but
she never drank much anyway.

Why has she done this? "I know it sounds clichéd, but Allah came
knocking at my heart. That's really how it feels. In many ways it is
beyond articulating, rather like falling in love."

It was, in other words, intensely personal. As she read the Quran and
prepared for her conversion, the September attacks came and went and
failed to derail her spiritual journey, despite their proven link to a
fundamentalist Islamist terror network. In as far as they featured in
her thinking, they even elicited some sympathy. All terrorism is
cowardly, she says. "But I can see why people get fed up with the
West. Capitalism is enormously oppressive."

Elizabeth is not a freak, and she is certainly not alone. There is
compelling anecdotal evidence of a surge in conversions to Islam since
September 11, not just in Britain, but across Europe and America. One
Dutch Islamic centre claims a tenfold increase, while the New Muslims
Project, based in Leicester and run by a former Irish Roman Catholic
housewife, reports a "steady stream" of new converts.

This fits a pattern set by recent history. Similar surges followed the
outbreak of the Gulf War, the Bosnian conflict and the declaration of a
fatwa against Salman Rushdie. Some of the newcomers doubtless do not
share David Blunkett's enthusiasm for overt espousals of Britishness.
They may even have been caught on police videos flag-waving for the
Taleban. But most will speak our language and support our football
teams with roughly average fervour, and some - by all accounts a
rapidly expanding minority - are white, more educated and more
middle-class than the Home Secretary himself.

These are some of Islam's more surprising converts. They have chosen
their new creed over the world's other great religions having had the
privilege of choice, often confounding their own and their families'
prejudices in the process. They are highly articulate and tolerant to a
degree. They're People Like Us, only they're not. They're
Muslims. They pray five times a day, fast during Ramadan and hope to go
to Mecca before they die. They answer their mobiles with "salaam
alaikum".

Unlike Richard Reid, the would-be shoe bomber of American Airlines
Flight 63, Britain's pukka Muslim converts, as the label implies,
tend to be over-privileged, not under. Unlike James McLintock, the
Scots lecturer's son being held in a Peshawar jail, the fighting in
Afghanistan has dismayed rather than attracted them.

They are people like Elizabeth (who asked for her name to be changed
because she has not told her parents yet); like Lucy Bushill-Matthews,
a 30-year-old graduate of Newnham College, Cambridge, who flirted with
Islam as a student in order to dismiss it, but found it "so simple
and logical I couldn't push it away"; like "Yahya", whose
father is a pillar of the Anglo Establishment and who feels that Islam
"fits right into British tradition"; and like Joe Ahmed-Dobson, a
son of the former Labour Minister Frank Dobson who believes that Islam
transformed his spiritual life - and helped him to get a first at
university.

If there is something familiar about these people's startling
choices, there should be. We have been here before, or at least
Imperial Britain's adventuring classes and their moneyed gap-year
successors have.

T. E. Lawrence fell hard for the romance and otherness of Islam and
came to embody them for succeeding generations even though he never
converted. Gai Eaton, a former British diplomat now in his seventies,
did convert. His influential work Islam and the Destiny of Man has
become required reading for bright young Anglo-Saxons turning to his
adopted faith, often as an expression of dissatisfaction with a Western
culture that appeared to have offered them everything.

Matthew Wilkinson made headlines when he converted and changed his name
to Tariq in 1993; he was a former Eton head boy. He and Nicholas
Brandt, another Etonian and the son of an investment banker, swapped
their destinies as scions of the Establishment for a Slough semi shared
with four other Muslims.

Lord Birt's son, Jonathan, forsook a fast track into the ranks of the
great and the good by converting in 1997 and starting a PhD on British
Islam. So did a son and a daughter of Lord Justice Scott, the scourge
of Tory sleaze and the chairman of the Arms to Iraq inquiry.

And so did Jemima Khan. "My decision . . . was entirely my own choice
and in no way hurried," the 21-year-old daughter of the billionaire
James Goldsmith declared angrily after suggestions that she had
converted to marry Imran Khan, the former Pakistan cricket captain. She
noted accurately that the Quran allowed Imran to marry any Muslim, Jew
or Christian (even though it bars Muslim women from marrying non-Muslim
men). She pointed out that Imran's sisters, far from being oppressed
by his brothers-in-law, were all educated professionals, and she
insisted that she found the tunic and trousers she would henceforth
have to wear "far more elegant and feminine than anything in my
wardrobe".

Her plea seemed hard to credit in the circumstances, but it is a common
one from educated British women trying to persuade baffled non-Muslims
that conversion did not mean surrendering their independence or their
critical faculties.

For Lucy Bushill-Matthews, it meant the reverse. "When I went to
Cambridge I joined the Christian and Islamic societies and all three
political parties," she says. "I wanted to explore all the
possibilities in order to dismiss them."

She thinks of herself as pragmatic and not all that spiritual, and as
such she found Islam irresistible. "It made sense of all the
world's faiths. It was a clear, simple way to believe in God." She
claims that it has even helped her to land good jobs by marking her out
as a free thinker. Her husband is a Muslim of English and Iranian
descent whom she married after converting.

Yahya, too, chose Islam from the broadest possible religious gamut. He
was raised in a high-profile London family that, because of his
father's position, could not be seen to favour one faith over
another. He then took a degree in comparative religion - the
theological equivalent of a blind wine tasting - and Islam, quite
simply, won.

"It's pure monotheism," he says. "It has a clear moral system
and an intact tradition of religious scholarship. No scripture
expresses its message of the oneness of God as clearly as the Quran. It
also has a remarkably rich mysticism, which may be what appeals to
middle-class white Brits like me."

Yahya converted five years ago. Now 33, he is at Oxford writing a PhD
on British Islam and is dismayed not just by last September's
attacks, but also by the mauling he says his religion has suffered
since in the media, even - or especially - at the hands of would-be
sympathisers. "It's very painful for all of us to be associated
with such sickening barbarism (of the attacks)," he says. "That's
not what we signed up for. And now we can't portray our religion in
undiluted form. It's always mediated by someone else. It's
incredibly frustrating to have Polly Toynbee trying to save you from
yourself."

So does this wry and thoughtful soul share the credo of al-Qaeda? Of
course not. But the belief system in which he and the terrorists
co-exist has a serious and often lethal public relations problem. The
parallel that comes to mind is with the environmental movement,
boasting tens of millions of members paying dues to the World Wide Fund
for Nature and the Sierra Club, and a handful bent on burning down ski
lodges in the Rockies.

Well before September 11, well-heeled defectors from Anglicanism to
Islam proved so unsettling to traditionalists that the Cold War author
and journalist Philip Knightley branded them "the new Philbys".
They were running from privilege, he suggested, driven as much by a
sense of guilt at what they had as wonder at the mysteries of Islam.
The fact that Kim Philby's father happens to have converted to Islam
was taken to support the accusation. Levelled at Joe Ahmed-Dobson, it
quickly seems ridiculous. The son of the former Health Secretary is a
child of new Labour and the opposite of a rebel. He works on inner city
regeneration, finds spiritual satisfaction in Islam's "constant
impetus to do the right thing", and credits his first-class degree to
the structure his faith has brought to his life.

All those I spoke to agreed that Christianity claims to answer the same
yearnings for meaning and guidance. All had rejected it on intellectual
grounds. Why grapple with mental puzzles such as the Holy Trinity and
Original Sin, they asked, when the alternative, asserting neither,
proved to them so much more satisfying?It was this clarity that won
over Batool Al-Toma, the former Catholic who offers guidance to
converts at the New Muslims Project. She tells them they need not
change their names, advises women to dress modestly but not alienate
their families with radical wardrobe changes and checks they have
converted freely. Islam is not generally a missionary faith, she says.
At one billion and counting, history shows it doesn't need to be.

Famous converts

Gérard Depardieu: The 54-year-old French film star converted to Islam,
but later converted back. He also experimented with Buddhism and the
Russian Orthodox Church but says he has now found happiness in his
vineyard in Anjou. "I work and keep quiet," he told French Vogue.

Jemima Goldsmith: The daughter of Sir James, the late financier, she
converted "of her own conviction" in preparation for her marriage
to Imran Khan in 1995. "It would seem that a Western woman's
happiness hinges largely on her access to nightclubs, alcohol and
revealing clothes," she said. "However, as we all know, such
superficialities have very little to do with true happiness."

Eleasha Elphinstone: The wife of the boxing star Prince Naseem Hamed
switched faiths in 1998 before marrying. The previous year the wedding
plans had been abandoned when Eleasha had a change of heart and refused
to convert.

Malcolm X: A former street hustler, Malcolm Little converted to Islam
in jail, where he was serving time for burglary. He joined the Nation
of Islam, was later expelled and assassinated by Nation members in
1965.

Muhammad Ali: The 59-year-old boxer previously known as Cassius Clay
became an international role model, revered as much for his political
stance over Vietnam and adherence to his faith, as for his showmanship
in the ring.

Cat Stevens: Born Steven Georgiou, the singer dropped his nom-de-plume
to become Yusuf Islam in 1977. His moment of enlightenment had come the
previous year, when his brother gave him a copy of the Quran. From
being a superstar at the age of 19 when Matthew and Son became a hit,
Yusuf married a Muslim woman from central Asia called Fawzia, and
became a high-profile spokesman for the British Muslim community.

Mike Tyson: The former world heavyweight champion was sentenced to
three years in jail for raping a teenager. He converted to Islam before
returning to the ring in 1995. He told visitors that he had spent his
time studying the Quran, Machiavelli, Voltaire, Dumas "and a lot of
Communist literature".

Originally appeared on Times Online





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