Ali Dawah - FROM ATHEIST TO SALAH - CHARLIES STORY

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!

00:00:00.000 My name's Charlie. I live in London. I'm 16 years old. I'm at college now. I'm

00:00:10.760 studying geography, politics, history. I like going to the gym a lot. Reading, I

00:00:16.760 like reading as well and I like just playing around on my SAZ. I'm part

00:00:21.520 Turkish Cypriot and part British. My mum's side is Turkish Cypriot. So I've

00:00:26.120 always sort of known about Islam from like a young age. I think most people

00:00:30.000 especially living in London but I think when I first actually started taking

00:00:33.660 interest was early teens I was quite enthusiastically atheist. My parents or

00:00:39.840 anything they didn't really talk to me about religion and on my own accord just

00:00:43.740 watching YouTube videos and stuff. I started off as being very enthusiastically

00:00:48.780 atheist and I didn't really like the idea of religion but then recently within the

00:00:52.920 past couple of years is when I was interested in Islam as well as

00:00:57.480 Christianity but I was getting out of that phase. I'd start watching Muslim 1.00

00:01:00.800 youtubers and stuff like that. Me and my friend in secondary school would talk

00:01:04.560 about Islam and we get into a little bit of debate just a bit of fun but after

00:01:08.240 that is when I started really sort of looking into it like way more than I even

00:01:13.020 needed to. Things about the madab, all that kind of stuff. Stuff that you know isn't

00:01:18.600 really necessary for a beginner. I still didn't know if I wanted to convert for a

00:01:22.380 while. It's when I started talking again to my friend about Islam. He was talking

00:01:26.260 about you know you never know what can happen tomorrow and someone else my friend

00:01:29.740 on Instagram was also telling me this because I was saying I think next year I

00:01:32.880 might try to fast for Ramadan. You know it'd be nice to try it out and then my

00:01:36.660 friend on Instagram said to me but it's not confirmed and I was like what do you

00:01:40.020 mean? He was like you never know what could happen tomorrow and that really

00:01:42.820 started to make me think and I was like wow like you know it's not a joke that if

00:01:46.320 something happens tomorrow I never got that chance. First of all I'm very thankful for the

00:01:50.620 donation it's gonna help me a lot with learning how to pray and in terms of the

00:01:54.620 experience it was really peaceful it was really helpful and it was nice to do

00:01:58.940 that for the first time. This is I mean it's a really helpful resource like me if

00:02:03.180 you know not knowing how to recite Surah Fatih and things like that, not knowing the

00:02:07.100 movements, having it right there on the mat, being able to look at it and follow

00:02:11.060 as you go. I think it's really helpful, it's really useful especially for converts,

00:02:15.540 reverts, new Muslims. Thank you, thank you to the Salaam team for coming out here

00:02:20.180 teaching me it really means a lot and it was a great experience so I appreciate that.

00:02:25.180 Waalaikum Salaam

00:02:28.180 Our aim at Salaam is to reconnect the world to Allah through Salaah. 0.98

00:02:32.180 You too can be part of this amazing project and sponsor someone.

00:02:35.180 You can help someone learn how to pray so click the link below and sponsor them now.

00:02:40.180 Thank you.

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Ali Dawah - July 03, 2022

FROM ATHEIST TO SALAH - CHARLIES STORY

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