I was moved and swallowed my emotion hard.
There in front of me were eleven new converts to Islam, their faces glowing and their eyes clear. They looked peaceful and pious in white Jubah. Two of them even sporting goatie.
I was there to honor them, and was asked by the organizer, the Dakwah department of the company to say a few words.
I took the microphone, gazed into the faces of the eleven, and with trembling voice I too uttered the words. In front of the new converts I felt the compulsion to also renew my declaration of shahadah.
I felt so lucky that I was born a Muslim. I would never knew, if left to seearch for the truth by myself whether I would find the light as the eleven have found.
I congratulated them and encouraged them to make friend with the pious, visit and spend time in places of worship and embrace Islam as a way of life.
Subhanallah! They indeed embrace Islam by choice.
Allah hu Akbar! Praise and Peace be upon our Prophet for spreading the words, and for living behind set and clear examples of how we should carry on with our life!
I am sleeping tonight with my laptop playing the AL Quran recitation of the Al Baqarah by Sheikh Mishari Rashid.
Ya Allah...kekalkan lah aku di dalam Islam. Setelah Kau berikan aku hidayah dan cahaya kebenaran, jangan lah Kau gelapkan kembali hatiku dengan dosa2 dan kelemahan diriku sendiri.
Alhamdulillah..keep up with the increasingly strong and unshakeable spiritual strength.
ReplyDeleteNobody said it's easy to be a lebai..we are not prophets.
We're normal humans,shouldered with layers of sins,easily tempted and coated with multiple weaknesses..Astaghfirullahhal'aziim.
We just have to do our best to be ready when HE wants to take us back..InsyaAllah.
Tahniah kepada mereka. Allahuakbar.
ReplyDeleteSalam Tuan Haji..
ReplyDeleteAmeen for you.
I'm a born Muslim..but converted to being a real 'Muslim' maybe almost a year.
Itupun still not fully patched up as to how a Muslim should be.
*now praying that my children who are still laxing behind, will start sooner than I did.
It's not easy when all these while, I've not been a good example myself*
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