Hear this brave rape survivor’s spoken word poetry.
Nick and Khadijah are a young couple in the Washington, D.C. area.
Nick and Khadijah: Sacred Pearl
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“Will my family go to heaven?”
I converted to Islam for many reasons, but the most important of those was the holistic teaching of justice I found pervasive in the Qu’ran and life of Prophet Muhammad. What most people do not expect, however, is that in the two years leading up to my conversion and continuing after, I have become more filled with questions than with answers, and I’ve grown comfortable, even intimate with them. They remind me that I am human and Allah is everything but.