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We are Muslims.
Bismillah,
I was raised Catholic, as a child I would go to church but never felt a connection. I knew there was a God; however I didn’t understand the beliefs of what the religion consisted of. I never really gave the religion much thought and went about my life. In 2011, I downloaded the Qur’an on my phone. During my commute to and from work I would read it, unfortunately I never finished. In 2012 after writing a paper on Islam for one of my college courses, I decided to order a hard copy of the Qur’an
I grew up in a typical Chinese family where religion was not a major aspect of my life. Like many immigrant parents, my parents encouraged me to go into medicine or engineering. My years in middle and high school were filled with science classes where basics like DNA and mitosis were taught. There was no mention of Allah in this secular and scientific environment. My young mind didn’t question these facts. I simply learned and memorized…
My journey toward Islam took place two years ago, when my life was an absolute mess. At this time in my life, I was in a very abusive marriage and extremely isolated from my family, and I was very depressed. I was ashamed to tell anyone of the suffering I was going through.
I would go to church and pray, even offer prayers to saints, as most Catholics would do. I remember one day I had the urge to go to confession and put my problems before a priest..