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The Converts to Islam – Al-Shia https://en.al-shia.org The al-Shia Scientific, Cultural, and Doctrinal Website Mon, 16 Jan 2023 13:06:10 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 https://en.al-shia.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/cropped-cropped-FIcon-32x32.png The Converts to Islam – Al-Shia https://en.al-shia.org 32 32 Father Viacheslav’s Conversion to Islam https://en.al-shia.org/father-viacheslavs-conversion-to-islam/ https://en.al-shia.org/father-viacheslavs-conversion-to-islam/#respond Mon, 02 Jan 2023 10:30:16 +0000 https://neweng.al-shia.org/?p=2203 Viacheslav Polosin, a former priest of the Russian Orthodox Church and chairman of the Committee of the Supreme Soviet on Freedom of Conscience, recently announced his conversion from Orthodoxy to Islam.

This unprecedented event of the adoption of the religion of the Prophet by a prominent Orthodox clergyman was a surprise for many. The former archpriest is suspected of psychological illness or of subtle political calculation. But he himself speaks of his own free, spiritual, philosophical choice: As far as I know, this is the second time in your life when you have officially announced a change in your worldview. From childhood, I believed in God, in my spirit.

Later, when I was in the university, I came across Orthodox literature and went to the church and found there something that I had not seen in philosophy classes. I do not regret that; I learned a lot there.

I submitted my documents to the ecclesiastical seminary in 1979 and have now, after twenty years, given an interview to the journal “Musulmane;” these are two stages in the development of my life. Interview with Musulmane “Several years of intense work have brought me to the conclusion that the Koran does not contain assimilation of the Creator God to his creation, humanity, which is anthropomorphism, the essence of paganism.

There is no basis for the ritual practice of appeasing God like some kind of human ruler….