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Maya from Japan reverted to Islam

Islam gave me satisfactory answers to all questions about Christianity. I was sensing Islam is the true religion in my heart but, I continued my research on Buddhism and Shintoism. The more I researched, the more I was attracted to Islam.

According to rahyafte (the missionaries and converts website) Ever since I was little, I’ve been having a vague image of God.I spent nights getting scared of the idea of death that all of us are destined to experience without exception. ask my parents, “What will happen to me after death?” “I wish I weren’t born if I have to die someday!” I was feeling that something great beyond human imagination exists but at that time, I didn’t know it is Allah (s.w.t).
The 6 years I spent in a Protestant Christian missionary high school .Christianity taught me about the existence of God, God’s love, Prophets and hereafter .I remember I asked my Bible teacher why Jesus(a.s) had to say, “My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?”, if he himself is God. But their answer didn’t make any sense to me.

My first encounter with Islam occurred in France where I participated in a French summer course in my junior year of university. The city of Marseille, where my French school located, had big muslim immigrants community. After finishing my course there, I flew to Tunisia across the Mediterranean simply due to my curiosity about Arab culture.

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It was so sensational for me to see a woman fully covered from head to toe standing in the coast, especially after I got used to see topless bikini women on the opposite side of Mediterranean.
After coming back to Japan, I started my own research about Islam and Arab culture . my university had a Japanese muslim professor and I took his class of Islamic theology. To my surprise, Islam, the barbaric and retarded religion, turned out to be the logical and reasonable one after all those researches. Islam gave me satisfactory answers to all questions about Christianity. I was sensing Islam is the true religion in my heart but, I continued my research on Buddhism and Shintoism. The more I researched, the more I was attracted to Islam. The muslim world seemed so “messy” and full of “chaos”. I was comfortable with Islam, but not with “muslims”, and then I noticed that I didn’t actually know any muslim!
Feeling the need to interact with “real” muslims, I found a lot of mulim friends in Tokyo camii and asked my questions of them.. gradually, my anxiety disappeared. I thought I can’t make any more excuse to postpone my conversion.
I learned that I can gain stronger taqwa through salah.. I was working for an American financial company as a salesperson when I made the shahada. I didn’t have any problem in opening up about my conversion to my boss and colleague. I quit taking alcohol and meat. However I wasn’t strong enough to insist on my hijab. I was afraid that the hijab might affect the relationship with my clients’ companies and that would cause a loss to my company. Such company life continued for an year, but finally I had to admit that I had to quit this job anyway because my company was involved in conventional finance dealing with riba (interest) which is strictly prohibited in Islam.

Previously, I was often angry to the injustice and the tragedy of the world. After knowing about Allah(s.w.t)’s perfect justice on the Day of Judgement, I think I gained a little bit more of peace of mind. Also, by trying to be a sincere slave of Allah(s.w.t), I’ve noticed that I was enslaved by many other things such as success in career, reputation from people, nationalism etc…

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Alhamdulillah I didn’t face any trouble with my non-muslim family, friends and colleagues. They all respected my decision.
I love Islam because Islam provides us the whole package of spiritual and physical, practical and theoretical, personal and social guidelines.Therefore, every aspect of life (even sleeping!) can be an act of worship if we do it with the right intention. We don’t have to do special things such as practicing asceticism, being celibate or preaching house to house.How merciful it is that in every aspect of life, we are given a chance to worship Allah(s.w.t) and repent to Allah(s.w.t). It really brings rays of hope to our lives.

source:www.thenewmuslim.co

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