My Converison story By Umm Tariq Indeed all praise is due to Allah, we praise Him, we seek His help and His Forgiveness. We seek refuge with Allah from the evil of ourselves and the evil of our actions. Whomsoever Allah guides no one can misguide him, whomsoever He misguides no one can guide him. I testify that there is no deity worthy of worship except Allah alone. He has no partners and I testify that Muhammad (saw) is His slave and Messenger. I open this letter with the greetings As Saalamu Walikum to all my sisters in Islam The moderator of this group asked me to write a conversion story of myself for this group. So when I sat back and thought about my story it's so long, every time I think about it tears come to my eyes because Allah was so merciful to let me become muslim . So I'll try to make it short insha-allah my name is Hameeda Jermine Burton I was born with that name what's so funny my mother didn't even know that was a muslim name. She thought it was an Africa name around 1993 I was working in a hair salon and around that time Malcolm X came out after that movie everyone and there mother wanted to be muslim. At this time I attended a  Baptist church I was force to go to church everyday  for 19 years I didn't get any thing out of church I didn't have any understanding. I knew that I was unable to keep living my life with no religious understanding. I needed that void filled so a sister came to me when I was sitting on my steps with my girlfriend and I had seen she had became muslim like half of the people I know did. She was giving me dawah but in the back of my mind I was interested but in the front of it I didn't want to be stereotyped like all the other muslim doing it because my friends were doing it or doing it because Malcolm X came out so everyone wanted  to be muslim. So when I finally became muslim my mother wanted to kick me out when she found out that I was muslim. The night I came home with a khimar on she ask me how are you? I said fine she said are you a moslim now? I said yes so 6:30  in the morning she was talking to my grandmother and she said Hameeda is a real muslim now because she not wearing her scarf in a turban she wearing it long. So my grandmother said what are you going to do? My mother said there is nothing I can't do. So through the years and even now I still am fighting for Islam with my family Still dealing with not celebrating,Birthdays,Christmas,etc.Allah said you will be tested with your family,children,wealth,.So I take it as a test from allah .Insha-Allah I always pray to allah that he give my family the understanding about Islam and he make them muslim. So to my dear loving sisters in islam I know some of you can relate to my story and other stories my advice to you is this, stay hold to the rope of allah and make dua for your family that is not Muslim to  have a better understanding to Islam. Allah blesses people to become Muslim make dua to Allah that he may bless your family to become Muslim. May Allah bless us all and make our affairs easy on us ameen As Saalamu Walikum your sister in Islam Umm Tariq