My way to Islam

Assalamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh

I moved to London in 2003, from Italy, where I was brought up in a Catholic family, (not very practicing though). Once in London I started working with Muslims straight away but unfortunately none of them was giving me a good example that I didn’t even realize they were Muslims.
I didn’t care much about the religion. For me God existed as a “superior force” over everything. Then I finally met a Muslim who, without speaking and without trying to “brain wash” me, gave me the best example, through his actions and his behaviour. So, we can say that Allah made something clicked in my head through this person. Alhamdulillah!
What I was more curious about was the prayer and the reason for the prohibition of certain types of food. I started to ask questions and at the same time this Muslim helped me to find an Italian sister who had converted to Islam years before and could explain to me the religion in my mother tongue.

Alhamdulillah!

During that period I went to Italy to visit my family and there I took my decision. I searched in the bible and found out things that I hadn’t known about until that day and that nobody during those years in Italy ever talked to me about! So I thought: “Islam is the truth!”

Back in London I gave the shahadah and I gave it before the same person who was (and still is today) my greatest example of Muslim.
The first thing I wished to do was to pray! Wallahi, I remember that I had this deep inner desire to prostrate and be 1 to 1 with Allah! Alhamdulillah!

So, brothers and sisters, don’t be upset if you are shy or you don’t feel confident in giving da’wah by words…take action! Indeed actions speak louder than words! SubhanAllah!

I hope I didn’t write too much