Shezreen Mubarak

Shezreen Mubarak
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What moved me to embrace Islam

My family are Roman Catholic but my mother doesn’t practise as she felt oppressed by it as a child in school. So she never got me christened but she planned to get me christened as a Protestant...
I believed in God and I had a go at reading the Bible and listened to the stories at school (I went to a mixed school; not one of those strict Catholic ones with the statues etc like my mum went to) but I was never settled and I always wanted to be something else. In school I wasn’t accepted by the “popular” group and I always tried to be individual and different, on the whole I felt confused and I hated myself. We had religious education lessons in school but we were never taught the truth, we were taught that Islam was a religion for Asian people and the Bible is our book and the Qur’an is theirs. Still I enjoyed the Islamic parts more than the others. Then when I was only thirteen, I started a pen friendship with a boy in Pakistan, he was nineteen and Muslim and my mother wasn’t to keen on the idea as I was very young at the time and she was worried that because he was Muslim, he might be pushy about his religion in the same way the people were in her school. But I saw that he was so different and so polite, he showed me that Islam wasn’t just a religion for Asian and Black people (like they said in school), it was a religion for everybody, and slowly I started changing my ways (eating, dressing etc) and Alhamdulillah when I was sixteen she gave us permission to get married, I did the Shahada then too and now I’m happy with my life, I don’t feel sad and confused anymore and I don’t hate myself now. When I reverted, I didn’t know much about Islam, and even though I learned more afterwards, I never came across anything that I’m not happy with or not sure about. Islam is the perfect way of life. Once a man who reverted to Islam was on TV and he said that when you become Muslim, you get a feeling that you have ‘come home’, and I really agree with that. Now my mother is happy about me becoming a Muslim, she was against it at first but after we went to Pakistan and met his family she started getting used to it. She didn’t become a Muslim though, Insha Allah one day.


Sura 40 - Al-Ghafir [The Forgiver [God] Verse 54-54:
54. هُدًى وَذِكْرَى لأولِي الألْبَابِ


Sura 40 - Al-Ghafir [The Forgiver [God] Verse 54-54:
54. A Guide and a Message to men of Understanding