Latasha grew up in a devout Christian family. Since childhood he used to read and study the Bible regularly. No wonder when was a teenager, Latasha became a devout Christian. Church was like her own.
Latasha enjoy their religious life, even though he encountered a lot of errors from the Bible. Many of the stories in the Bible which he said conflicting. Usually, she was asked confused at her grandmother or church pastor. But he never got a satisfactory answer.
At the age of 20 years, Latasha was appointed to be a young pastor in his church. She was more enterprising memdalami Bible Academy and enroll into the Bible. She hopes to enroll in the academy, she will get the answers of questions unanswered about the confusing things in the Bible.
But at the academy and even then he did not find a satisfactory answer. So she decided to resign as a young priest. "I felt no longer able to lead the young kids as my own confusion and doubt. I am the one who still need a leader. My heart cries in the middle of the confusion, because I felt not find peace, " Latasha said.
Until one night, Latasha accidentally watched show on CNN live report from Iraq. In the show, he saw a woman wearing black clothes, the clothes worn in the Muslim Arab countries.
"I saw the woman was very simple and pretty. I know he's a Muslim. But when it is I do not know what religion they profess, "Latasha said.
"But I was really interested in the clothes she wears, raises my curiosity. Suddenly I feel like as a woman I saw on the television. Seemingly pious and humble, "Latasha said.
Since then the quest begins. He started to search for information by keyword berbegai "Muslim Woman Dress" and "Muslim Face Veil Woman" on the Internet. "From there I found the word 'hijab' and 'niqab'," Latasha said.
I was so happy with the Muslim clothing was all black, Latasha replace it with the online name "hijabis" or "niqabi". However, he has not tried to find out about Islam. Until one afternoon, he and some neighbors join the garden party. In the event Latasha conversation with one of his neighbors and coincidentally the topic of religion.
"My neighbor said 'You know, we are Christians may face problems when facing Allah?," Latasha reiterated his neighbor who just answered with a nod.
"Then, he told me again that Muslims pray five times a day, while Christians pray only took one day," Latasha said.
Hear the words of his neighbor, Latasha went straight home, open the computer and start finding out about Islam on the Internet. "I was amazed by the religion of Islam, and like this one for me," Latasha said. remember back when you first get to know Islam.
A few weeks after that, Latasha decides to go to the nearest mosque is located about 50 miles from where she lived and asked a lot of things in the mosque. He also continued to dig up information from books and the internet.
Two months later, Latasha decided to embrace Islam. She returned to the mosque and say two sentences creed. "Heavens, no peace is directly penetrated my heart and soul. Sense of peace that I had never felt before, "Latasha said gratefully. (Eramuslim)
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