{"id":814,"date":"2019-01-31T11:23:49","date_gmt":"2019-01-31T08:23:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quran-for-all.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/31\/my-journey-to-islam-islam-made-me-a-new-person\/"},"modified":"2019-01-31T11:23:49","modified_gmt":"2019-01-31T08:23:49","slug":"my-journey-to-islam-islam-made-me-a-new-person","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quran-for-all.com\/blog\/my-journey-to-islam-islam-made-me-a-new-person\/","title":{"rendered":"My Journey to Islam: Islam Made Me a New Person"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before Islam&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>My name is Ala. I am from Ukraine. I was Christian. I had so many questions about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newmuslim.net\/converts\/conversion-stories\/path-guidance-christianity-led-light-islam\/\">Christianity<\/a>, the church, and my life. Every time I go to the church I see idols, icons, candles, and emblems. I was asking myself if what I was doing is right or not.<\/p>\n<p>Once, I went to the priest and asked him \u201dCan you forgive me?\u201d but he rejected. And this was a shock for me. Why does someone have the right to forgive my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newmuslim.net\/abcs-of-islam\/articles-of-faith\/how-islam-regulates-our-life\/\">sins<\/a> or not?<\/p>\n<p>There, I stopped to think about all this. And this was the beginning\u2026..<\/p>\n<p>Watch sister Ala talks about her journey to Islam and what a kind of person she was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newmuslim.net\/converts\/conversion-stories\/before-islam-i-was-drowning-in-loss-a-uk-sisters-journey-to-islam\/\">before Islam<\/a> and how Islam changed her into a totally different person\u2026.<\/p>\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\/LPJ2CQvOFzY?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>\n<p>________________________<\/p>\n<p><em>Source:\u00a0<a class=\"yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UC0dfdM8B82vcJ7Efr7-O2vg\">Islam Explained<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>[ica_orginalurl]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watch sister Ala talks about her journey to Islam and what a kind of person she was before Islam and how Islam changed her into a totally different person\u2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":815,"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":[2573,2574,539,910,2575,2576,2577,2578],"class_list":["post-814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conversion-stories","category-new-muslims","tag-islam-in-ukraine","tag-my-journey","tag-my-journey-to-islam","tag-new-muslim","tag-new-muslim-convert","tag-new-person","tag-new-revert","tag-ukrainian-muslim"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/quran-for-all.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/My-Journey-to-Islam-Islam-Made-Me-a-New-Person.png?fit=700%2C390&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2ZvKT-d8","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quran-for-all.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814","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=814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/quran-for-all.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quran-for-all.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quran-for-all.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quran-for-all.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quran-for-all.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}