C. Huda Dodge 　　Salaam alaykum wa rahmatullah. 　　Since I have started reading and posting on this newsgroup a few months ago, I have noticed a great interest in converts (reverts) to Islam: how are people introduced to it, what attracts people to this faith, how their life changes when they... More

　　Sunday Telegraph, May 28, 1995 　　When Jemima Goldsmith, the 21-year-old daughter of billionaire Sir James, married Imran Khan she embraced not only the world's most handsome sportsman but also the Muslim faith, taking the name Haiqa. Here, in an exclusive account, she tells how she journeyed from the glamorous society... More

　　by Sr. Asiya Abd-az-Zahra 　　Taken from Noor Magazine- Aug-Sept 97 　　Islam has been described as being the religion of Fitrah, the innate nature of all humans. It is not surprising therefore when we discover that Islam is being accepted as the only pure way of life a person can follow... More

　　by Aminah Assilmi 　　I was completing a degree in Recreation, when I met my first Muslims. It was the first year that we had been able to pre-register by computer. I preregistered and went to Oklahoma to take care of some family business. The business took longer than expected, so... More

　　July 4, 1997. 　　Assalaamu alaykum, beloved family. 　　"There is no god but Allah, and Muhammed is his messenger." 　　These are the words of the Shahadah oath, I believe. 　　The Creator is known by many names. His wisdom is always recognizable, and his presence made manifest in the love, tolerance and... More

　　God works in mysterious ways 　　I suppose we have all heard stories of converts before. They are, praise be to God, becoming very common, and growing in their number every day. But still, I can never forget how it feels to know that another human being whom you know personally... More

　　As-salaamu-alaikum, 　　I come from a Jewish family in New York. My mother was from S. A. but also Jewish. She never was comfortable with anyone knowing that. When my father died, she remarried a Catholic and became one herself. And that is how she brought us up. From the age... More

　　In the Name of Allah, most Compassionate, most Merciful 　　Becoming Muslim 　　Bismillaah ar-Rahman ar-Raheem 　　DISCOVERING ISLAM: A CANADIAN MUSLIMA'S STORY 　　April 25, 1996 　　As-Salamu Alaikum wa Rahmahtullahi wa Barakatu (May the peace, the mercy, and the blessings of Allah be upon you). 　　I am Canadian-born of Scandinavian and other ancestry,... More

　　Melbourne, Australia 　　In the Name of Allah, The Benificent, The Merciful 　　October, 1998 　　Often when people ask me ‘How did you come to Islam?’, I take a deep breath and try and tell them the ‘short version’. I don’t think that Islam is something that I came to suddenly, even... More

　　"My Experiences and How I Find that Islam does not Oppress Women" 　　by Sister Noor, University of Essex 　　I came from a purely Hindu family where we were always taught to regard ourselves (i.e. women) as beings who were eventually to be married off and have children and serve the... More

　　 Aisha Bhutta The Guardian Newspaper, England 　　Thursday 8th May 1997 　　A Woman on a Mission 　　-------------------------------- 　　Aisha Bhutta, also known as Debbie Rogers, is serene. She sits on the sofa in big front room of her tenement flat in Cowcaddens, Glasgow. The walls are hung with quotations from the... More

　　I saw her radiant face in a mosque that is located on a hill in a small American state, reciting a translation of the Noble Quran. I greeted her and she returned the greeting warmly and cheerfully; we got talking and became good friends in no time. One night, we... More

　　By: Nakata Khaula 　　When I returned to Islam, the religion of our inborn nature, a fierce debate raged about girls observing the hijab at schools in France. It still does. The majority, it seemed, thought that wearing the head-scarf was contrary to the principle that public -that is state-funded -... More