BRITISH SOLDIER REVERTED TO ISLAM. Successful indeed are the believers (23:1) I remember at the age of 20 sitting in a ‘church’, in Germany, in a British Army barracks, drunk around 4am, clearly I remember crying and asking ‘God’ what life was for, what was it about?….I didn’t, at the time know how to ask for forgiveness, I didn’t know what was right and what was wrong. I spent 12 years as a soldier, in numerous places, ignorant to what damage my way of thinking was causing to others. But I could not have been too bad, surely… I later worked in security services which gave me considerable wealth, working at the highest level. I thought I enjoyed life, but was never really happy, never content, always looking for something, but never knowing what. I recall going fishing to The Gambia in 2008 with my elder brother. The Gambia is a Muslim country. The people were so nice, so real, it made me feel uncomfortable at first. You see, when your life is full of sceptics, and you have no true beliefs, you become one yourself. So, everyone being so nice, so hospitable, so welcoming, surely meant that they were being false, or were after something.I went back to the UK. I was troubled. I sought advice and help from far away….a brother…Hayaz Ibnu Hameen. I needed to understand about Islam…who was Allah (swt), who is this Muhammed (saw)…after much study and very little effort I realised. After 40 years of looking, I had suddenly found….everything. I quickly realised what I had been surviving without. I could not say living because that wouldn’t be true. I returned to The Gambia. I reverted to Islam….I found the path…I found what life is, what it is about, what everything is about…Islam. My name is now Ibraheem Camara. I am a Muslim and I am Spreading Islam. [SHARE ! MAYBE SOMEONE WILL EXPLORE ISLAM]
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