From killing Muslims...to being a Muslim..!! (crude, i know) and Doogy...

Salaam,

So the story of the American soldier who converted;

So my good friend Mr S was walking back from his hadith class (i didn't go as i was sick) when a large van pulls up next to him and the guy inside grunts "are you American..?" in Arabic "errrmmm...what do i do....?" thinks Mr S , but alas Mr S is a honest fellow so responds "yes, im American and Proud " (the proud bit i just made up). The man in the van responds "are there many Americans in this area...?" "oh no, this doesn't look good" thinks Mr S but responds "yes many, and we're all proud to be from the land of the free " (the last bit aint true again). "oh, OK", responds the driver "its just that i have this American soldier here with me and he wants to convert..." "what??!!" (...is Probably what Mr S thought but i don't want to comment on the exact nature of his response as i wasn't present)

So to summarise; an American soldier who is serving in Baghdad had come to amman to convert to Islam, and to get married to his Iraqi fiance (who was with him). The full nature of the story isn't clear and theres many things which don't make sensenbut anyway the driver of the van was a relation of the soldiers fiance and they were looking for an English speaking sheikh through whom the soldier could convert and hence ended up in our part of town. So as they came across my friend, who'd just had a lesson with an English speaking sheikh, he took the soldier to this sheikhs house.

The sheikh, being quite strict, wanted to make sure the soldier wasn't just converting for the girl (what guys will do...) so goes into a 1 hour "aqueeda for dummies" lesson where he sums up the basics in Islam and at the end asks the soldier 'do you believe in all this" at which the soldier, with watery eyes (this is how Mr S described it) says "yes" and testifies his faith in One Allah and that Muhammad (pbuh) is the last messenger. Then the sheikh takes him down to the local bookshop and buys him some key books on Islam and sends him off on his way

The End.

Oh, your all wandering about the girl and did he get married? Well the sheikh phones his friend who's an "Islamic judge" and certifies marriages and tells him about this American soldier who has just converted and wants to get married, what does the judge reply...? That he's got Another American guy with him who wants to convert, so the judge will send over this guy to the sheikh so he can convert and can the sheikh send over the just converted guy to to he judge so he can get him married to his fiance...! SubhanAllah

Ps, the soldier who converted was telling Mr S in the midst of all this about the war on Iraq, the morale in the US army etc and also happened to mention that Many (including his sergeant) had converted to Islam whilst in Iraq...SubhanAllah

Salaam.

Ps, someone complained about me referring to Sheikh Nuh as "The Big Man" in my previous entry...*sigh*...i apologise for any offence caused to all the mureeds of Sheikh Nuh, the person who emailed me, to Sheikh Nuh himself (i don't think he'd be offended to be honest - i've heard he has a good sense of humour) and...everyone basically. May Allah forgive me for this heinous crime.

Pps, im sure i would have been able to refer to Abdul Hakim Murad in Cambridge as "the big man" and no one would have got offended...

Ppps, please don't send me a link about adab as i'll just reply back with "chill out"

Pppps, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD !-ppl, please, instead of emailing me saying stuff about the blog, use the comments feature available...im just saying for your benefit as i dont spend much time with email so will take aaages responding...but if you send emails bigging up the blog and saying that its the best thing since sliced bread and is the reason you wake up in the morning.. (like Doogy - see, you got your mention! - again the last part aint Exactly true) then its Ok, i guess...

Ppppps (last one), Fugly, i aint happy...