“And constructed above you seven strong [heavens]”
(Quran 78:12)
The Quran refers to seven heavens. What does this mean?
Sometimes she looked at herself in the mirror and questioned her choices. “I thought, ‘Why am I hiding myself? Why am I hiding for God?’ I missed the wind in my hair.”
I am going to be interviewing Tania Joya as she shares her story of becoming a religious Muslim, marrying a an American convert who rose to the ranks of being one of the highest members in ISIS, and how she left him and that life behind.
My friend Wael Taji has been examining narratives around conversion to Islam in the West and was able to identify a few specific types of converts and motives behind conversion. Here is a summary of his findings around major reasons why people convert to Islam.