Wednesday 28 December 2016 - 16:12

Canadian Youth Converts to Islam in Razavi Shrine, Mashhad

A Canadian youth converted to Islam in his first visit to the Razavi Holy Shrine. "I found out that this book ‌(Quran) has spoken about everything elegantly. I made up my mind to get more familiar with Islam."

Hawzah News Agency (Mashhad, Iran) - Jonathan Clark, 30, from Canada converted to Islam in his first visit to the Razavi Holy Shrine and chose the name “Muhammad” after uttering the formulae of faith.

Concerning his acquaintance with Islam, Muhammad said, “The morality, behavior and conduct of an Iranian classmate were very fascinating to me. When talking with him about his religion he called himself Muslim and then I decided to study about Islam as it sounded attractive to me.”

“He called his sacred book as Quran and so I started reading it thoroughly; then I found out that this book has spoken about everything elegantly. I made up my mind to get more familiar with Islam and studied different books about Islam”, he said.

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