{"id":1187,"date":"2021-04-07T21:12:17","date_gmt":"2021-04-07T18:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quran-for-all.com\/blog\/christian-houston-imam-yahya-graff\/"},"modified":"2021-04-07T21:12:17","modified_gmt":"2021-04-07T18:12:17","slug":"christian-houston-imam-yahya-graff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quran-for-all.com\/blog\/christian-houston-imam-yahya-graff\/","title":{"rendered":"From a Christian to a Houston Imam: Yahya Graff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From a Christian to not just a Muslim, but also a prominent imam and teacher in Huston, Texas, Yahya John Graff\u2019s journey to Islam is an extraordinary and moving one.<\/p>\n<p>Exposed to all kinds of Christian practices, dominations, walks, churches and schools, such seemingly religious upbringing, for John, was nowhere near truly religious.<\/p>\n<p>More interestingly, his childhood dream was to be am orchestra musician. He studied to be a vocal music teacher and conductor. During his student internship and on a ski trip in Colorado the shift happened.<\/p>\n<p>How did the shift towards Islam start? How was his first contact with Muslims? How did Islam enter his life?<\/p>\n<p>How did he feel about the religion before meeting it in person? How did learning about Islam change his views and whole life?<\/p>\n<p>Now a Muslim, how does he see misconceptions about Islam, anti-Islam rhetoric and alleged enmity between Islam and the West and between Islam and civilization?<\/p>\n<p>From where did his journey begin, how and why?<\/p>\n<p>In this episode of \u2018Path to Guidance\u2019 watch Imam Yahya John Graff give answers to all these questions as he thoroughly describes his journey to the truth; Islam\u2026<br \/>\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qXXqL4wgZHc?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>[ica_orginalurl]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From a Christian to not just a Muslim, but also a prominent imam and teacher in Huston, Texas, Yahya John Graff\u2019s journey to Islam is an extraordinary and moving one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1188,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[510,2],"tags":[656,513,1527,1528,1529,612,1530,516,1532,1533,520,240,561,524,167,1537,531,1538,27,533,565,299,1540,474,535,1541,1542,537,1544,1545,1546,143,652,426,574,1792,544,1547,1548,546,1549,312,547,1551,548,1793,551,655,553,919,1552,554,5786],"class_list":["post-1187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conversion-stories","category-new-muslims","tag-656","tag-american-muslims","tag-americanmuslims","tag-anti-islam-rhetoric","tag-authenticity-of-islam","tag-baptism","tag-beauty-of-islam","tag-belief-in-allah","tag-buddhism","tag-challenges-facing-new-muslims","tag-christianity","tag-converts-to-islam","tag-declaration-of-belief","tag-devout-adherents-to-islam","tag-featured","tag-helpfornewmuslims","tag-islam-in-america","tag-islam-worldwide","tag-islamic-beliefs","tag-islamic-way-of-life","tag-journey-to-islam","tag-judaism","tag-knowledge-about-islam","tag-learn-about-islam","tag-meaning-in-life","tag-media","tag-misconceptions-about-islam","tag-multi-cultural-religion","tag-need-for-religion","tag-peaceful-way-of-life","tag-practices","tag-prayer","tag-reading-quran","tag-salah","tag-search-for-truth","tag-september-11","tag-shahadah","tag-spiritual-growth","tag-study-the-quran","tag-submit-to-god","tag-taoism","tag-teachings-of-islam","tag-the-one-god","tag-true-message-of-god","tag-true-religion-of-god","tag-verses-of-quran","tag-western-muslims","tag-what-islam-means","tag-why-i-chose-islam","tag-why-islam","tag-why-people-convert-to-islam","tag-worship-god","tag-yahya-graff"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/quran-for-all.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Imam-Yahya-Graff.jpg?fit=1280%2C720&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2ZvKT-j9","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quran-for-all.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quran-for-all.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quran-for-all.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quran-for-all.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quran-for-all.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/quran-for-all.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quran-for-all.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quran-for-all.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quran-for-all.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quran-for-all.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}