10-17-2007, 05:52 PM
Assalamulaikum
I think it is only right that because i have been on this board a while, i have a duty to share my experience with u guys , ill try to post 1 story a day or week .
Story 1 - Meet The Sao Paolo Gangsters
When we came to Brazil to sao paolo we were satying mainly in the shanty towns in the heart of all the gang territory. we located a few masjids which were locked and closed for many many years probably 80 90 years , and started living there after we cleaned it. I was surprised the people didnt take over it or start using it (they had some respect for places of worship ) as they knew this place was used my their grandfathers to pray in. the first evening we were there after isha we were doing taleem and reading from riyad us saliheen , and 6 guys with guns came poin"who are we ? what are we doing here? etc etc " so obvious;y the guy who has reading from the book stopped reading out off shock, so he got told off from our amir and was told to continue reading , and we were told to look at the reader or look down. the gang were shocked and amazed and they went away , they came back following day and sat with us and asked the same questions , so we answered them , and we found out that there ancestors great grandfathers were muslims and they knew that to some extent that they were also muslims, so they learned and prayed the kalimah again , and started helping to continue our efforts, many people re-converted to islam i emphasise "RE" as they were muslims b4 but by not knowing about islam anymore they brought christian religion in their life .
So thats Brazil.
Im gonna stop there bcoz i tend to go on and on.
p.s forgive me for not putting loads of detail in , but i thought short stories would be better with main points....