FROM ATHEIST TO SALAH - CHARLIES STORY
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Summary
In this episode, I talk about my experience with the Salaam team and how they helped me learn how to pray. I also talk about how you can be a part of this amazing project and become a sponsor so you can help someone learn to pray too!
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My name's Charlie. I live in London. I'm 16 years old. I'm at college now. I'm
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studying geography, politics, history. I like going to the gym a lot. Reading, I
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like reading as well and I like just playing around on my SAZ. I'm part
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Turkish Cypriot and part British. My mum's side is Turkish Cypriot. So I've
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always sort of known about Islam from like a young age. I think most people
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especially living in London but I think when I first actually started taking
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interest was early teens I was quite enthusiastically atheist. My parents or
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anything they didn't really talk to me about religion and on my own accord just
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watching YouTube videos and stuff. I started off as being very enthusiastically
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atheist and I didn't really like the idea of religion but then recently within the
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past couple of years is when I was interested in Islam as well as
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Christianity but I was getting out of that phase. I'd start watching Muslim
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youtubers and stuff like that. Me and my friend in secondary school would talk
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about Islam and we get into a little bit of debate just a bit of fun but after
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that is when I started really sort of looking into it like way more than I even
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needed to. Things about the madab, all that kind of stuff. Stuff that you know isn't
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really necessary for a beginner. I still didn't know if I wanted to convert for a
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while. It's when I started talking again to my friend about Islam. He was talking
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about you know you never know what can happen tomorrow and someone else my friend
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on Instagram was also telling me this because I was saying I think next year I
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might try to fast for Ramadan. You know it'd be nice to try it out and then my
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friend on Instagram said to me but it's not confirmed and I was like what do you
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mean? He was like you never know what could happen tomorrow and that really
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started to make me think and I was like wow like you know it's not a joke that if
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something happens tomorrow I never got that chance. First of all I'm very thankful for the
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donation it's gonna help me a lot with learning how to pray and in terms of the
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experience it was really peaceful it was really helpful and it was nice to do
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that for the first time. This is I mean it's a really helpful resource like me if
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you know not knowing how to recite Surah Fatih and things like that, not knowing the
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movements, having it right there on the mat, being able to look at it and follow
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as you go. I think it's really helpful, it's really useful especially for converts,
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reverts, new Muslims. Thank you, thank you to the Salaam team for coming out here
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teaching me it really means a lot and it was a great experience so I appreciate that.
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Our aim at Salaam is to reconnect the world to Allah through Salaah.
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You too can be part of this amazing project and sponsor someone.
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You can help someone learn how to pray so click the link below and sponsor them now.