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attended the weekly classes and discovered it was through her persuasive
kindness that the little booklet had been inserted in her grandson’s
newspaper. May Allah reward her and the author of the little book.
I looked forward to Thursdays and not long after, under the guidance of
Ahmad Darwish I embraced Islam. It was like a big jigsaw puzzle coming
together, I had by the blessing of Allah found what I had been looking for,
for so many years and I felt I had come home Al Hamdulillah!
By the way, one day as I was in the souk, I saw the same picture I had seen
on the record cover all those years ago and discovered the picture was the
interior of the Blue Mosque in Turkey!
As I was writing this a thought just struck me about the name of the
composer “Rachmaninoff”. I knew that “inoff is a Russian word for “son
of”, but before now I had not thought of the first part of his name
“Rachman”, could it be Rahman? So I wondered whether perhaps
Rachmaninoff was a Muslim – Allah knows - it’s just a thought of mine.
kindness that the little booklet had been inserted in her grandson’s
newspaper. May Allah reward her and the author of the little book.
I looked forward to Thursdays and not long after, under the guidance of
Ahmad Darwish I embraced Islam. It was like a big jigsaw puzzle coming
together, I had by the blessing of Allah found what I had been looking for,
for so many years and I felt I had come home Al Hamdulillah!
By the way, one day as I was in the souk, I saw the same picture I had seen
on the record cover all those years ago and discovered the picture was the
interior of the Blue Mosque in Turkey!
As I was writing this a thought just struck me about the name of the
composer “Rachmaninoff”. I knew that “inoff is a Russian word for “son
of”, but before now I had not thought of the first part of his name
“Rachman”, could it be Rahman? So I wondered whether perhaps
Rachmaninoff was a Muslim – Allah knows - it’s just a thought of mine.