The hospitality of Muslims converted me to Islam.
The host asked a Western Muslim: How did you become a Muslim?
He replied: In 1993, my wife and I were traveling in Turkey and got lost in a village. I asked a passerby if he knew the location of this guesthouse.
The passer-by said, “There is no such guesthouse here, so please come with me to my house”!
He said: We went with him to his house, and it was already dark when we entered. He had five children and two elderly people. Then very politely he served us a simple supper, which we ate.
Then he said: You and your wife will sleep in this room and we will sleep in the other.
We went to sleep, and when I woke up in the morning to thank him, I went out of the room and was surprised to see that there was no other room.
This was the only room in his house! When I looked for him I saw him and his whole family sleeping under a big tree outside the door while it was cold!
I asked him: are you crazy? Why are you doing this?
He said: I’m not crazy, but I’m a Muslim and Islam requires me to take care of you to the best of my ability because you are a guest.
He said: my wife cried when she saw this situation and I said to him: this is Islam, not the Islam we hear!
I said to the house owner: How can I learn Islam?
He said: You can read the Qur’an and Hadith in translation and you will understand.
He said: Then I bought the books and read them carefully for two months, and then I entered the religion by reading: “Nothing is worshipped but Allah; and Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah”.
Praise be to Allah! I started to spread Islam, and more than a thousand people have become Muslims, and now I have built an Islamic center in Romania, and I want to reach more people.
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You know how easy it is to preach with the virtues of Islam, it has a much greater impact than the other way around!
Just by the virtue of generous hospitality, the owner of this house will be rewarded until the Day of Resurrection by those who join the religion.
Unfortunately, a lot of Muslims think that Islam is just about worship and fasting, and you see their very bad character to treat Muslims and non-Muslims, which is a very serious mistake and tarnishes the image of Islam.
Because Islam requires you to worship and fast, but it also requires you to treat people with virtue, to be kind to them, to smile at them, to be kind and friendly to all of them, and not to harm Allah’s creatures.