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And I knew that I can have a connection with Him
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but with a different way
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Then once I said to myself: there must be a better way
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to know the creator
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and I wished one day that I become close to Him
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Oh Allah, keep them steadfast on the path of Eman
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Just as you gifted them the guidance of the Qur'an
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Guided .....through the Quran!
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'Guided through the Qur'an'
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'Living it is the sweetness of life'
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'Longing to the Lord, coming to Him'
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'To Him I submit my soul'
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'It is the light of the body and the heart'
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'I declare submission to Allah'
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'His verses are becoming lightening candles'
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'And the brightness overflows from my heart'
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'It is the light of the body and the heart'
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'I declare submission to Allah'
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'His verses are becoming lightening candles'
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'And the brightness overflows from my heart'
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my name is Barbra
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I am 24 years old
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I am from Lilla Town, France
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I am having my Master degree in social science
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I embraced Islam three years ago
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We met Barbra
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at Lilla Town in France
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Where she is studying
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she is from a village at North France
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She never heard about Islam there
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The religion for my family was the fashion
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We didn't talk much about God
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nor the spiritual believes
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But I was always in connection with God
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without knowing who is He exactly
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And I knew that I can have a connection with Him
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but with a different way
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Then once I said to myself: there must be a better way
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to know the creator
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and I wished one day that I become close to Him
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To be close to Allah SWT
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It has a special sweetness
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Only those who are sincere would find it
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Barbra was very moved by the grace of Allah upon her
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Because He had chosen her
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And guided her to Islam
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I went to Lille to join my post-graduate studies
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I was at the students residance
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There I met a student from Morocco
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And she doesn't talk about it, her lifestyle was western
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I didn't know Islam from her
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She suggested that I would join her in a vacation to Morocco
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for 2 weeks
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Having to pay nothing for living and food,
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And the ticket was cheap
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When I went there, I discovered something new
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I was shocked!
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As if we went to a different planet
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Barbra says that the media always disfigure the picture of the Muslims
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But there, in Morocco
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She was shocked!
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from the the way they act and their kindness,
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And their continuous cheerfulness
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I said: its time to have my own view about Islam
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I was curious
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Without prejudice about Islam
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So, I started to
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read the Qur'an and learn it
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And write the verses in French....
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I did a lot during 6 months
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These 6 months weren't easy for Barbra
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Because she read the translation of the Qur'an very carefully
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And she searched about the differences and the arguments and how they are
defeated
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And she discovered the other side of her personality
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She is Barbra,
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The believer of her creator
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I tried to read the Qur'an and to understand it
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where I found so many things which are not logical
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That's why I left it.
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She remembered those days, when she has read the Qur'an, for the first time
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And remembered how Allah talked to her directly
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It was a very nice feeling
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and a very emotional one, at the same time
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When I was reading the Qur'an
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I was....
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In spite of me being a strong person...I rarely cry
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and I can stand the sufferings and I support people
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After I read the Qur'an, and started to come closer
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to help people....
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I felt that I belong to Allah
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And this is what I feel right now!
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I feel that very strongly
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We might be strong,
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but we are nothing without having Allah with us
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I very rarely cry while I am talking
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I became positive that He is my Lord,
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and I am just nothing in front of Him!
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And without Islam, my life is meaningless!
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Glory to Allah,
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Some times...when...when
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I am with these people who came to Islam
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I feel how short we have fallen in our duty to Islam
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I wonder what have we really done to serve Islam?
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I mean...Glory to Allah!
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A young girl...24years old....
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And how Allah SWT, guided her
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She realizes that Allah SWT, has blessed her with the greatest grace ever!!
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It is the same grace that all of us are blessed with!
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The great grace... of Islam!!
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Why don't we feel the value of this blessing?
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What are we going to say to the prophet SAW...?
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who had worked very hard, attentively to spread this Deen?
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While we did not take it out of our lands or our countries!!
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When are we going to work to make the Islam reach this place
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We are responsible, Allah knows the best!
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'When my inside became so thirsty'
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'When my tears turned bloody'
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'And I feared that path leading to Hell'
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'I sought the Qur'an'
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'You are a source of knowledge for scholars'
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'You are a rain cloud that we are expecting'
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'And the sky above it is the Qur'an'
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'Guided through the Qur'an'
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'Living it is the sweetness of life'
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'Longing to the Lord, coming to Him'
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'To Him I submit my soul'
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'Guided through the Qur'an'
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'Living it is the sweetness of life'
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'Longing to the Lord, coming to Him'
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'To Him I submit my soul'
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It is the the reality
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The woman in France
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is not having the proper status
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as complementing to the man
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Because of our failure to do our duty towards Islam,
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together with what the western media do to disfigure the image of the Islam,
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One of the conflicts
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which influenced Barbra
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was the notion that Islam..
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treats women with injustice and oppression!
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And when she opened the Mus'haf,
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She found a complete chapter named, The Women!
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When I started to read the Qur'an
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I was interested to know about
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the situation of the women in Islam
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I saw surat An-Nisa
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So I decided to read it,
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It says, that the Qur'an is different from the other books
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in which so many contradictions are found
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"Then do they not reflect upon the Qur'an?"
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"If it had been from [any] other than Allah,"
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"they would have found within it much contradiction"
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Sure!
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If this Qur'an is from people,
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Or from another place other than from Allah SWT
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we would have found discrepancies in it!
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If this Qur'an
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Is from human beings
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we wouldn't have the kind of unseen
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that Allah SWT, discribes
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If this Qur'an was from other than Allah SWT,
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Which we see now in the Qur'an
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In the opposite,
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The other distorted books
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In which we find so many contradictions
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'Verses from the Qur'an'
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'Has an echo in my soul'
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'And tears downpour from the eyes with response to that call'
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'Oh Allah, keep me adherent on the righteous path'
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'Oh Allah, keep me adherent on the righteous path'
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'because what I fear most'
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One night,
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She was revising the pages which she had looked through several times before
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under candles light
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She thought!
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So, at the time for duhur prayer, she went to the close by masjid!
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She came in!
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I wasn't wearing Hijab, I was in jeans trouser!
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I came in!
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So as to talk to the Emam
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and see what is going to happen!
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When I came in,
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I went directly towards one of the brothers
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And by chance, he was the Emam
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I told him my story, and my wish to convert! and so on...
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Praise to Allah,
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He was very patient and kind,
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He was listening to me talking!
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Till another brother came
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I talked to him for more than 10 minutes
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and he was patient and didn't interrupt me at all
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That was on Wednesday,
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So, the brother asked me to comeback on Friday
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Then, Barbra went on time!
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On Friday
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There,
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In front of everyone,
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She said the Shahada
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And she announced it loudly
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that there is no deity worthy of worship trully,
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except for Allah SWT
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Really....the words can't...describe this feeling!
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It is.. I can't...
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Really...this life is meaningless...
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If there is no such connection with Allah
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I have this feeling all over me
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It makes me feel complete
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Not empty or superficial,
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looking for materialistic things which I see now trivial
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It gives a meaning for life
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And makes things clear!
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I believe that this feeling is from Allah
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it proves His mighty
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This feeling is really huge....
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There is no word which can describe it....
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It wasn't difficult for Barbra to tell her family about her being into Islam
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But the problem was
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in a community which rejects the modesty
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There was no problem when I became a Muslim!
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But after one year, when I put on the Hijab,
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It is not usual to wear the Hijab in France
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It proves that you are Muslam
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And every one looks at you as if it is a bad behavior
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The portray of Islam is very distorted here
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I had to tell my parents about my getting into Islam
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It was difficult!
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because of the picture of Islam
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but we need to talk together!
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I told my mother on phone
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good that there was a long distance between us
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I was at the east side, and she was at the south
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At the beginning I felt frightened to wear the Higab
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At the first week, I thought every body is looking at me
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And after 2 weeks, no body even noticed me at all
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And what I was doing became natural
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because I was doing it for the sake of Allah
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That was the best way to help me be patient
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And face the world!
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' My Qur'an'
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The verses of my Qur'an made my soul delighted... My Qur'an'
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'My sorrow'
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They shrank and the roses sent their fragrance on my banks'
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'I recited it, and the scent of the letters'
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'went in my blood, my tears and all my body'
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When women want to style their hair or color it,
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But when thing are about religion or so...
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We must think deep about religion,
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And always go to a knowledgeable sheikh or Emam..
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because this is far more important than styling our hair!
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Barbra!
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After she became Muslim, she is very keen to give Dawa to Non-muslims
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And specially,
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the Frenchwomen
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I believe, when we are in a non-Muslim countries
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this is our destiny, and we have a role to do here
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We can't say this is not a Muslim country
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and we should leave!
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We have a role to do here,
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we are the ambassadors of Islam
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We Muslims have a great responsibility
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towards non-Muslims
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We must teach them how Islam is a good religion
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And it is for the best of mankind
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And help them to enter into Islam
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Now Barbra
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Is responsible of helping the new reverts
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She is trying to convince them to get into the masjid
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she debates with them
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And explains the true Islam for them
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things are exactly the opposite to what is broadcasted on Media and internet!
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Even her wish,
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was for the sake of these reverts
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My project is to provide books for the reverts as gifts
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It is like a start up collection,
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and to help them learn the Qur'an
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And we need books to
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help them go deeper in the learning process
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As, 'Reyad Al Saliheen' and the '40 Hadeeth Nawawia'
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'I walk on the path of my Qur'an'
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'And see its kind dawn shines'
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'I recite it and memorise it and reflect upon it'
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'I walk on the path of my Qur'an'
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'The spring and the joy of my days'
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'My friend, the one who knows my dreams'
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'The cure for my sorrow and my complains'
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'It heals my bleeding wound'
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'The spring and the joy of my days'
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'The cure for my sorrow and my complains'
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'It heals my bleeding wound'
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'Then when I repent and come back'
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'To the path of the words of the Lord of the Bait'
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'I find the grace and the comfort'
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'I was guided through the Qur'an'
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'I was guided through the Qur'an'