A Story of A Muslim Revert

[Dr. Khallaf]

Ruba Qewar, Jordanian Missionary reverts to Islam
source: http://www.usislam. org/converts/ ruba_qewar. htm


Assalamu Alaykom wa Rahmatu Allah wa Barakatoh

I was born in Denmark and was raised Christian in Jordan all my life,
my father was a pastor of 4 churches, my mother is one of the
strongest Christian woman leaders in the Jordanian society. I was a
youth leader in the church and I was a supervisor in the church
community for the Christian theology and I know a lot about it but
never narrowed my mind and put that dark sheet on my eyes, I was
seeking because I never found my peace till I became a Muslim. And it
took me a long process to be convinced in Islam.

It started since I was a kid, I hated Islam, when I was in the 10th
grade, I saw one day a girl is praying, I kicked her and pushed her
while she was kneeling down (sajedah), I have fought with girls in
high school and I wanted to show them how educated I am, so I used to
bring the Bible with me all the time and read in loud, or write a
verse on the board as (today’s tip). When it’s Ramadan, I used to eat
in front of the girls while fasting (I ask Allah to forgive me and
give me Mercy), I was a serious trouble maker.

In the eleventh grade, I remember one day we had an Islamic class in
Zarqa High School, and I wanted to stay and listen to the teacher,
they said that the Bible is Muharraf (interpreted and altered) I
started to become mad and I explained to them that the Bible has been
written as 4 different books in the same time different places from 4
different people (Mathew, Mark, Luke and John), so one of the girls
said: “So you’re saying that the evil spirit have written the books!”
I got really angry and I left the class and I didn’t want to talk to
any of the girls.

The girls in the class were wondering about me and they wanted to know
what’s my deal, so they came and started asking me questions about my
religion and I was answering them and showing them in the Bible and
give them proofs to convince them about Christianity, until one day,
the teacher called me and asked me to stop talking about my religion
because it’s illegal, I told her that I have nothing to do with it,
she said: “I have a recorded tape of your voice talking to the girls
about it” that made me really mad, and I started to have not only hate
but anger and I wanted to bring all the Muslims to Christianity, I
even invited my Muslim friends to the church many times to convert
them to Christianity.

After I graduated from the high school, I went to study in Mu’ta
University, year 1999, but I haven’t finished the whole year and I
went out – by Allah will – and I knew that the approval of the
immigration to the Unites States of America is coming soon. At that
time I was an official missionary because I studied also the theology
in the Christian theology university in Jordan and I was trying to
convert Muslims to Christianity and bring the faraway Christians to
the church.

Yes, I immigrated to TX, USA year 2002, trying to start from the
scratch, I was going to the Arabic Dallas Baptist Church , and my
uncle is the pastor of this church. I didn’t like living there so my
family contacted a certain Christian family for me to go to Arizona
and try to build myself, but once I couldn’t find a financial support,
the family asked me to go back to Texas and stay with my family. So I
went back home and my parents with my little brothers went back to
Jordan in order for my father to continue his ministry in the
churches, but I stayed with my brother and my sister and I am the
oldest. I found a job and I started to study in the college. I kept
myself going to the church, doing some activities, even sending some
programs to the church in Jordan and help them out with the Bible
studies for the Sunday Schools.

In December 2003 my father died – diagnosed by the Cancer, but that
didn’t stop me from keeping myself going in life.

I tell you that I came to USA to make some Christian ministries .. and
my aim was to reach the Arab Muslim and bring them to Christianity
since the USA is a free country and you have the right of thoughts and
talk

So .. I met some friends in the college and we started to talk about
Islam .. And I know the Bible from the beginning to the end, I was
arguing hard trying to convince them about Christianity.

Until they brought me the guy Mostafa Belhour - who is my husband now
- to debate .. And it started to be like a race with him since he has
great knowledge about Quran and Sunnah .. And I didn't like him at
all. Most of the time, we were adding gas to the fire and sometimes we
reach to dead ends, he was a real good speaker .. And I am the
stubborn. I finally got tired and exhausted.

Anyway .. My mom was coming on Sep 2005 and I thought it's a good
excuse to get away from the debate because it started to make me so
agitated ..

For me it would be really insulting if I loose the debate .. So I told
my friends .. I need to go!! but that guy called me by my name and
said: "I need a proof" I asked: what are you talking about? He said:
"search the whole Bible .. You will never find one verse that Jesus
says about himself that he's God .. He never said(I am God)" .. I
found that it's my opportunity to tell him about Christianity and
bring him to Jesus (who I believed that he's the savior and the son of
God)

I asked with a sarcastic method: "what are you talking about.. Of
course there is tens of verses say that Jesus is God" .. He said:
"show me the proof" I went home and that question stuck in my mind.

I opened the Bible and started to search, then I went to some internet
resources, then to some books.

Then I asked my mom and I went with her through a discussion .. she
said: "well there is no specific verse laterally saying that Jesus
said about himself he's God, but he said; (whoever saw me saw the
father)" I said: "but the father and the son are not the same" she
said: "but you know that they have the same level in power as they are
a part of the Trinity (The Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit)"

So the 1st one has no proof .. Now let's go to the second one: Jesus
is the son!

I started to search more .. I found that it's written in the Gospel -
in the Bible - called "John" this Equation: "in the beginning, the
word was with God ..." ok?? So the word is Jesus who is created from
the beginning and he was WITH God ..

Then the same verse says: "and the word was God" John 1:1 so hold
on!!! God = (equals) Jesus and God WITH Jesus

ohuh .. Wrong mathematical statement .. How the heck would Jesus be
God and with God at the same time? This is not something can make any
kind of sense

So I left that verse for a minute and went to another one .. To the
1st letter of john chapter 5 and verse 7 says: " 7For there are three
that bear record (witness) in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the
Holy Ghost: and these three ARE ONE. " I said yeay .. Here is the
proof, The Father=The Son=The Holy Ghost (Spirit)

Then the next verse 8 says: " 8And there are three that bear witness
in earth, the Spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three
agree IN ONE." The Spirit (Holy Spirit), The Water (The Father) and
the Blood (The Son). How would it be 3=1 and 3IN1 at the same time ..
It’s just completely different meaning.

3=1 means they are all in the same level, the same power, the same
content (i.e. The water has 3 different mentalities liquid, solid and
gas) and 3in1 is like 3 relative people carry the same family name but
they are completely different people with different mentalities and
personalities.

In addition, if I believe that God is 3, then why would I have one
creation? For example if I get 3 artists to draw a tree for me, each
one will have his own style and way of drawing that tree according to
his way of thinking, and if the 3 in one God are creating the
creature, then each one of them will create it in a different way,
even if they have the same aim, but they would create it in their own
way!

Anywho! I said there are some conflicts in this Bible, where did I get
this book from?? I know that Jesus called himself the son of God
because he's Jewish and it's not something new that the Jewish call
themselves the "children of God" and they are humans

Jesus was sitting by himself and pray! Who was he praying for? For
himself? He was calling God, and the scripture of the Bible show that
in different places, for example: “ 25At that time Jesus answered and
said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou
hast hid these things from the wise and prudent” Mathew 11:25 “39And
going a little farther, He threw Himself upon the ground on His face
and prayed saying, My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass
away from Me; nevertheless, not what I will [not what I desire], but
as You will and desire.” Mathew 26:39 “42Again a second time He went
away and prayed, My Father, if this cannot pass by unless I drink it,
Your will be done.” Mathew 26:42 “23And after He had dismissed the
multitudes, He went up into the hills by Himself to pray. When it was
evening, He was still there alone.” Mathew 14:23 “44So, leaving them
again, He went away and prayed for the third time, using the same
words.” Mathew 26:44 “35And in the morning, long before daylight, He
got up and went out to a deserted place, and there He prayed” Mark
1:35 “46And after He had taken leave of them, He went off into the
hills to pray.” Mark 6:46 “21Now when all the people were baptized,
and when Jesus also had been baptized, and [while He was still]
praying, the [visible] heaven was opened” Luke 3:21 “16But He Himself
withdrew [in retirement] to the wilderness (desert) and prayed.” Luke
5:16 “12Now in those days it occurred that He went up into a mountain
to pray, and spent the whole night in prayer to God.” Luke 6:12

In additional I had that memory flashed in my mind when I was studying
the Christian theology .. A British professor came to our college and
he was teaching us the history of the Bible script .. And I remember
he said exactly: "well ... I went to the museum in England to see the
Bible manuscripts and all what I saw torn, burned lost papers spread
allover the place" so what is that in my hand?

And where all those words came from????

If I am going to worship A PERFECT GOD who is the complete of
everything how would I believe in imperfect book???

This is not right!!!

I started to think .. If one day lost all the holy books in the
world .. and we asked people to get a new exact book. There is no body
can get an exact book of the Bible because we have too many versions,
and they are still discovering new different scripts till now .. But I
can find may be a million Muslim can bring me an identical Quran who
is kept from the beginning .. Isn’t that amazing!!

Then I went through the theory of crucifying Jesus on the cross .. Did
he really die??

I started to think of the Gospels that we have between our hands is it
the real Bible?? The ones who wrote the Bibles are Jewish people who
followed Jesus Christ and wrote a biography about him .. They saw him
dying on the cross .. Is it necessary to be the same person on the
cross??

The verse in Quran says: "shobbeha behi" “157. That they said (in
boast), "We killed Christ Jesus the son of Mary, the Messenger of
Allah.";- But they killed him not, nor crucified him, but so it was
made to appear to them, and those who differ therein are full of
doubts, with no (certain) knowledge, but only conjecture to follow,
for of a surety they killed him not:- 158. Nay, Allah raised him up
unto Himself; and Allah is Exalted in Power, Wise” Quran 4:157-158 so
the people who saw Jesus is someone who looks exactly like Jesus ..

So what we have in our hands is only a biography of Jesus 75% or more
of it is altered

And now I got the result in my hands: Jesus is not God, not even the
Son of God .. I got scared and I started to panic,

All those years ... 24 years in my life that I was studying is only a
theory

24 years worshipping the wrong God

24 years went as a lie!!!

I wanted to kill myself and I felt that the ground that I am standing
on is just shaking and I felt so scared

I wanted to go back from the beginning and start my search all over
again to prove the opposite .. I went so quiet .. Don’t know what
next!! I am destroying my life ..

I started to think .. I believe in Jesus now that he's only a human
and he's a prophet from God and I believe in all the prophets .. I
have one problem with Mohammad (Peace be upon Him)

I never exposed about his life and all what I know is things that the
Christian planted in my mind .. But how the people praise him all the
time as the greatest prophet??

I said.. How could be a problem and the holy book Quran came from
heaven through him (Peace Be Upon Him) .. He must be really special ..
So it's not a problem to believe in one more prophet ..

In addition that I know there is an illegal Gospel called Barnaby that
the churches don't believe in it because there is the verse were Jesus
talk about the next prophet called Ahmad!!!

I left my room after great meditation and thinking about it and
searching .. And called my old friends who didn't see me for 2
months ..

I went to see them at home and I was praying to Allah and crying: "if
that's the right way, you change my life .. If it's not so let me die
now in an accident before I reach my friends and take me to heaven ..
I am looking for the truth and I am calling you to take me to heaven
whatever happens"

So I reached to my friends and I have tears in my eye .. And they
thought something happened .. And there were my husband (the
debater) .. They were waiting a word from me to tell them what
happened .. I said:

ÇÔåÏ Ãä áÇ Çáå ÇáÇø Çááå .. æÇÔåÏ Ãä ãÍãÏ ÑÓæá Çááå
Ash-hadu Anna La Elaha Illa Allah, Wa As-hadu Anna Mohammad Rasool
Allah
I declare that there is no God but only One Allah, and I declare that
Mohammad is the prophet of Allah (Peace be upon Him)

For 2 minutes they were quiet with no word

They looked at me and my husband started to laugh like crazy

He said: shut up .. Don’t lie

It was October 3rd I believe

I said I am not lying and I started to cry

He said.. You said the other day that if you say the shahdatein (the
Islamic declaration statement) with no believes that won't let you be
Muslim!!! Don’t be lying

I said: I am not lying .. Tomorrow is the first day of Ramadan .. You
are going to teach me how to pray and make wodoo2 (The washing method)
and everything

When he heard me saying that .. He hugged me and started to cry like a
baby

And really I learned all that in one night .. And I bought a hijab
(veil) and my other girl friend showed me how to put it on and
everything

I hide my Islam for two weeks ..

During that time I went to imam and had the shaahdah (announced my
Islam) and I was learning from the Quran and trying to make some
comparison from both books and it was hard for me at the beginning to
leave the Bible .. But il hamdullelah (Thanks Allah) I am over it now

I hid my Islam from my family and I was praying at night 2am or 3 so
no body can see me doing anything suspicious ..

One day I was going to school and I had my backpack with me and have
my Quran and hijab .. Suddenly my hijab fell down from the bag on the
stairs at home and my sis was behind me, she saw it but didn't know
what is it till night when she woke up and saw me praying, so she told
my family members .. And here comes the trouble

They yelled at me, insulted me, called me words and used the fraud
language. They hit me to death and threatened me and I was calm, but
leaved the house praying that Allah lead them to Islam.

I lived about 2 months with my girl friend .. Until my husband Mostafa
and I got married il hamdulellah (Thanks to Allah) .. I lost my family
but I gained a new Muslim family at the mosque who took care of me and
really helped me ..

I went through a lot of depression aftermath because of that
beating .. Till now I still receive at least 25 phone calls and emails
– daily - from all over the world insulting me and threatening me and
all that

Other than the phone calls that I receive .. I even have debates with
the biggest Christian Professors (in the Christian Theology) from
Jordan and the USA on the phone .. debating about religions and trying
to bring me back to Christianity.

subhan Allah (The praises are for Allah) ... I used to hold the Bible
in my hand and they have the Quran .. now the table has been turned
around!

However I learned a lot from this very short time .. I learned
something called patience and humbling .. and I meditate now and think
of the stories of the prophet Mohammad (Peace be upon him) who was
insulted and how did he take all that .. my story is nothing to him
and wow .. I learn a lot..

I probably lost my sharaf (The Noble honor of the family) and honor in
front of some people but I am so proud and I have the sharaf coming
from Allah .. and amazing! You can’t imagine what kind of happiness
and peace that I am living in even all that insulting ..

I really changed than before .. I am a completely different person ..
even my husband noticed that. I learned how to be quiet and patient
with people even to the ones who insult me all the time .. I learned
how to smile in the worst and hardest times .. even if lost my jobs ..
but Allah is compensating me with everything

it's all about to have the intern peace inside you .. you really can't
find peace from people around you, not even by your environment .. it
has to be by your convention and by your mind .. by loving Allah and
giving him your heart. If you worship Allah and follow his orders, you
are certainly going to be happy because the sins make you feel guilty
and they take your peace away

I look at the people faces and see their tears, sadness; because they
are away from the Creator.. sometimes I see their hearts are dark and
they can't let that candle burn in them because they are so much
caught with their problems and busyness in life.

All what I know now, my aim in this life is to worship and pray for
Allah and follow his orders and rules, and make good works for His
Sake.

I hope you enjoyed my story and be strength for your soul

My official website: www.creativeruba. com/islam
My blog: www.revert2islam. com
My Youtube videos: http://www.youtube. com/rubaqewar
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Jazakom Allah kheir

Ruba