{"id":773,"date":"2012-07-18T11:59:05","date_gmt":"2012-07-18T09:59:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/investigate-islam.com\/web\/web\/?p=773"},"modified":"2012-07-18T11:59:05","modified_gmt":"2012-07-18T09:59:05","slug":"khadijah-reoccurring-dreams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/investigate-islam.com\/web\/?p=773","title":{"rendered":"Khadijah, Reoccurring Dreams"},"content":{"rendered":"

Written by Dr. Ragheb Elsergany<\/p>\n

\"\"I am a sister; I reverted two years ago in January of 2000 at the age of 16.\u00a0 I live in Australia and grew up in a large catholic family that suffered a\u00a0 divorce when I was 10 years old. From that moment I always felt very lost\u00a0 and as if I didn’t belong anywhere. My mother now tells me that even when I\u00a0 was 4 years old I would refuse to go to Sunday school or church and do\u00a0 anything to get out of it, the case was also the same when I was given\u00a0 scripture lessons at school. It wasn’t until I was 14 I tried to learn about\u00a0 my religion….but it seemed like a lost cause, every time I read the bible\u00a0 or a book on Catholicism nothing made sense, there were just no straight\u00a0 answers to questions I had about life and its purpose. One day I came across Islam in a religion book. I did not know anything\u00a0 about Islam except a whole lot of common misconceptions learned through the\u00a0 media and the people around me.<\/p>\n

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So I thought I would read to see if what I\u00a0 had heard about this religion was true……well none of it was, women were\u00a0 equal and had a higher status than in Christianity, Muslims believe in Jesus\u00a0 and so on. I continued reading many books just on Islam, I had a boyfriend\u00a0 who was Muslim but he couldn’t answer any of my questions so I continued\u00a0 reading. I had thought about reverting but was not 100% sure until I started\u00a0 to have reoccurring dreams where I was wearing hijab, reciting the Quran in\u00a0 Arabic (at that time I didn’t know any Arabic) and sitting with other women\u00a0 wearing hijab. Another dream I was in a desert with a very old man, I was\u00a0 crying and scared and he put his hand on my shoulder and said it was ok and\u00a0 to come with an urgent expression on his face, I woke up straight away and\u00a0 was crying, but it wasn’t a sad cry it was a cry of relief. After that I\u00a0 took shahada alhumdulilah. My parents didn’t know I was Muslim for the first year, I didn’t even come\u00a0 out and tell them, they just realized because I was always reading books and\u00a0 defending Islam profoundly when they discussed negatively about it. My mother\u00a0 is supportive of me in everything I do her only objection is me wearing\u00a0 hijab, but inshallah soon she will accept. My 2 year relationship with my\u00a0 boyfriend quickly ended as I became more dedicated to Islam, but\u00a0 alhumduliah it was for the best he was not interested in learning more about\u00a0 his religion even though i tried endlessly. It was not until the last few\u00a0 weeks I actually became friends with some sisters. My area I live is almost\u00a0 Muslim free so I never had the chance to meet any sisters. I had to teach\u00a0 myself how to pray from books, everything I learned was from books\u00a0 alhumdulilah. I will never forget the first time I went to the mosque. The car drive down\u00a0 my heart was beating so fast and I was so nervous thinking what if I do\u00a0 something wrong? As I walked up the stairs it was like a dream, I didn’t\u00a0 know what to expect, I took off my shoes and as I walked through the door I\u00a0 couldn’t catch my breath, I felt faint and then when praying the ishaa I had\u00a0 never felt so at peace and secure it was as if it was not real to good to\u00a0 imagine. Compared to USA Australia does not have many reverts as we do not\u00a0 even have a formal revert organization as yet, so at times it can be hard\u00a0 for reverts to have somewhere to turn to as we are not as common here. But\u00a0 inshallah soon we will be forming an organization. I am 100% sure that Islam is the only way….and I thank Allah with all my\u00a0 heart for guiding me towards Him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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