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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books Converts To Islam When I Found Islam I Knew It Was the Last Stop In the Name of Allah, The Beneficent, The Merciful Often when people ask me How did you come to Islam?, I take a deep breath and try and tell them the short version. I dont think that Islam is something that I came to suddenly, even though it felt like it at the time, but it was something that I was gradually guided towards through different experiences.

Through writing this piece I hope that somebody may read it, identify with some things and may be prompted to learn more about the real Islam. I was born in 1978 in Australia, was christened and raised Christian. As a child I used to look forward to attending church and going to Sunday school. Even though I can still remember looking forward to it, I cant remember much about it.

Maybe it was getting all dressed up in my best clothes, maybe seeing the other children, maybe the stories, or maybe it was just that I could look forward to my grandmothers famous Sunday lunch when I got home. My family wasnt strict about religion at all - the bible was never read outside church from what I knew, grace was never said before eating. To put it simply I guess religion just wasnt a major issue in our lives.

I can remember attending church with my family sometimes, and as I got older I can remember getting annoyed when the other members of my family chose not to come. So for the last couple of years I attended church alone. At the time that I attended primary school Religious Education was a lesson that was given weekly. We learned of true Christian values and received copies of the bible. While I wouldnt admit it at the time, I also looked forward to those classes.

It was something interesting to learn about, something that I believed had some sort of importance, just that I didnt know what. In my high school years I attended an all girls high school. We didnt have any sort of religious classes there, and I guess to some degree I missed that because I starting reading the bible in my own time. At the time I was reading it for interest sake. I believed that God existed, but not in the form that was often described in church.

As for the trinity, I hoped that maybe that was something I would come to understand as I grew older.