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[0:00]I converted in 1991 here in Jacksonville, North Carolina.

[0:05]Uh I was in the military at the time.

[0:09]But uh it all started I was born in Hattisburg, Mississippi basically

[0:13]uh to Christian parents.

[0:15]A friend of mine was Muslim and he asked me to read

[0:18]about Islam.

[0:19]I'd read a book, you know, and so I started reading books.

[0:22]I read the Quran and I guess uh when I was reading

[0:26]the Quran I was reading about all the prophets that I had

[0:30]read about in Christianity you know Adam, Moses, Noah, Abraham and just

[0:35]one more prophet was added to the equation.

[0:39]It was Muhammad.

[0:41]And uh so I said this is the religion I believe in.

[0:44]It believes in the oneness of God and his uniqueness uniqueness that

[0:48]he's one.

[0:49]There's nothing like him.

[0:50]we can't see him.

[0:52]I said, "This is my religion." I felt it right in my

[0:55]heart.

[0:55]It started putting my my heart at rest, you know.

[0:58]So, I guess after about a month of reading the Quran, I

[1:01]converted Islam.

[1:02]I took my shahada and became Muslim.

[1:04]And that that was pretty much the climax of it right there.

[1:08]Reaching that point of wanting to change and looking for the right

[1:12]religion.

[1:12]In 1991, uh May of 1991, I took my shahada.

[1:16]I became Muslim.

[1:16]Uh at the time, I became Muslim.

[1:19]I knew some Sunnis, but most of the Muslims I knew were

[1:22]Shia at the time.

[1:22]I think I was about one month away from turning uh 21

[1:26]years old.

[1:26]And uh I didn't really know a difference between Shia or Sunni.

[1:32]I never heard the words basically.

[1:34]Uh so when I I became Shia uh or when I became

[1:40]Muslim, uh I took my shahada and a couple one Muslim come

[1:44]up to me, asked me, he said, "Are you Sunni or are

[1:46]you Shia?" I said, "Well, I don't know.

[1:48]I've never heard these words before, you know, and uh I'd only

[1:51]been Muslim maybe a month.

[1:53]So when he left uh one brother said uh here read these

[1:57]books, you know, and I started reading the history of Islam after

[2:01]the prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wasallam died.

[2:03]What happened and what transpired after his death?

[2:06]And I concluded that I was Shia.

[2:08]Alhamdulillah.

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