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Mila · 1 How to become Muslim Mon Oct 11, 2010 2:02 pm

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nazleen · 3 Re: How to become Muslim Thu Apr 26, 2012 4:56 am

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A British Lady Finds Islam in Dubai

Tuesday, 24 April 2012

April 24:
People often assume that you’ve been forced to wear hijab rather than Islam and that it is your own choice.

Melanie Jane is a new British revert to Islam.

In this recording, she describes how she found Islam when she moved to work in Dubai.

The following is a partial transcription of this video.

Kind Caring Parents

"I think I’m a product of my upbringing.

My parents are very open-minded and very kind caring people, and they
always taught me not to discriminate against anybody, religion,
culture, color, or anything. I think that provided me with the
foundation to research and to become the person I am today.

When people see me now as I’m wearing hijab, especially people who
knew me before, a lot of people's first impression is that “Oh, look at
her! She married a Muslim guy;” and “Oh look at her now! It's a shame,
look at what she has to be like, now she is oppressed!”

And a lot of people associate me with the way I look like. They think
that I am dressed like this is because my husband wants me to. Or,
maybe it is something I have been told that I have to do. But it is
completely against the religion and the reason I’m doing it.

I think you have a unique insight when you wear the hijab knowing why
you wear it. It is not for anybody else, it is for yourself and for
the sake of Allah, that’s the reason we wear it, not because someone
else asked us to.

It's funny, I went to have my hair cut the other day. I entered the
salon wearing my hijab, and took it off, and I sat down, having my hair
cut by a lady who said:

“I see you are married?”

I said: “Yes.”

Then she said “I assume that you are married to a local?”

She assumed because I wear hijab that I’m married to a local and
maybe that he told me that I had to wear it. I think this is another
example of the people’s prejudice towards hijab, people often assume
that you’ve been forced to wear it rather than Islam and that it is your
own choice.

But I look up to myself; I think we should explain the reason why we
wear hijab. I think people shouldn’t be dismissive. People want to learn
and that’s how I started off, and if people have been dismissive with
me I wouldn’t be where I am today, so, I think as Muslims we need to
take it upon ourselves to take time to explain this to people...

In Dubai

I realized that in Islam it is OK to ask questions; and every question you have should have an answer

Basically, when I first moved to Dubai I didn’t have many
expectations, it was more of a career move than any particular reason. I
was interested in culture as well, but it was more of a career move
with no other expectations attached to that.

I changed quite bit when I first moved to Dubai. When I came from
England I came with stereotypes of what Muslims are like and what
Islamic countries are going to be like, and then it is completely not
what I expected. My impression of Muslims and my impression of Islam
weren’t as they were before, when I had moved from the UK.

Unfortunately, people think that Islam is linked to oppression of
women. I believed what I’ve been told about Islam, starting with the way
that women dress and the way Muslim people treat their wives... But
meeting Mahmoud was completely the reverse.

In the history of Islam there were a lot of very well educated
people, business leaders, Khadijah, the first wife of the Prophet, was a
business lady, but in the UK the story about Islam and Muslims is
completely different.

I always believed in something, but I wasn’t really sure what. All
the religions that I had come across didn’t really answer any questions
and to a certain extent I thought their answers for simple questions I
asked do not actually answer my questions.

When I came across Islam and when I moved to work in Dubai, I learned
more what I like about Islam. I realized that in Islam it is OK to ask
questions; and every question you ask should have an answer, whereas
with other religions it is just like you just have to have faith. To me
that's OK, but it is not good enough.

In Islam everything is so perfect and everything is well-put together that’s what convinced me about Islam." ...

Aisha · 4 Re: How to become Muslim Wed Jul 25, 2012 5:55 pm

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