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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books Converts To Islam Ibrahim A time comes in everyones life, or at least I hope it comes, when they realize that they have to not only believe what they believe in, whatever it may be, but get out there and proclaim it to the world. Luckily, that time came early for me. I am 17, and Islam is the belief that Im proclaiming. I was raised Catholic. Not internally as much as externally.

I went to Catholic Sunday school, called CCD, but the Catholic view of God never played a major roll in my childhood. It was a Sunday thing. Anyhow, I started to enjoy Mass around 7th grade. It made me feel good to do the right thing. I was always a rather moral person, but I never really studied the fundamentals of Catholicism. I just knew that I felt good worshipping my creator.

I really liked Catholicism, but I always saw it as us (the Catholics) with Jesus worshipping God, not us worshipping God and Jesus as one. I saw Jesus (peace be upon him) as my example on how to be a good follower of and submitter to Gods will, but not as God himself. Before I was confirmed in 8th grade, in the fall of 1999, I learned a lot about what Catholicism was. The Catholicism of the Church had a lot on viewing Jesus as God in it.

Nothing like my undivided God being worshipped by me with Jesus as an example train of thought. It was like they just opened up a can of cold, illogical confusion and tried to feed it to me. It didnt feel right. I continued with the Catholic church, and kept on worshipping. But I talked to many in the church about my feelings that Jesus wasnt God but more of a Prophet, an example. They told me that I had to accept him as God and as a sacrifice, and so on. I just wasnt buying it.

I tried to buy it but I guess God withhold the sale for my own benefit. There was a better car out there for me. I continued at the church. Sometime in mid-December of 1999, for no reason that I can recall I started reading up on Islam in encyclopedias. I remember making a list of bolded words in the entry for Islam in an old 1964 Grolier World Book that I found in my closet, and studying them.

For some reason I was amazed by this faith and that it was all about God and that it was everything that I believed all my life - right here. Previously, I had accepted that there was no faith like I felt inside of me. But I was amazed that I had found this faith. I found out that my faith had a name, and millions of other adherents!