Shaun King: “It seems like Islam has completely taken over Shaun’s life.”⁣

[Bilal Mahmud المكافح المخلص]

Shaun King 

I wanted to say a few words, with love, to all of my friends and followers who aren’t Muslims.⁣

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I sometimes see people saying “It seems like Islam has completely taken over Shaun’s life.”⁣

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Except they mean it as an insult at worst or they are bewildered at best.⁣

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Your conclusion, though, isn’t wrong. ⁣

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Islam is so beautiful. It’s earnestly not something you could understand from the outside.⁣

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And being a Muslim is the best, most important decision I’ve ever made in my life. ⁣

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It’s hard to describe the peace and meaning and direction and excitement and joy and curiosity it has brought to my life. ⁣

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Being a Muslim is not a box to check.⁣

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It’s a lifestyle to live. ⁣

It’s a very specific set of choices. ⁣

It’s a code to guide your every step.⁣

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And for those of us who believe it, and I believe it with my whole heart, it becomes more important to us than anything else - including family, friends, hobbies, habits, anything.⁣

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Those things still have value, but Islam is about our relationship with God - and God’s path for us on earth. ⁣

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In my 7 months as a Muslim, the Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, has become the single most influential person in my entire life. ⁣

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Again, from the outside, I imagine it may sound outrageous that someone who walked this earth 1,500 years ago, in the middle of the desert, had that much value to someone, but again, I have found that you truly have to be a Muslim to understand.⁣

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We trust the integrity of this man so much, and believe with our whole hearts that he was chosen by Allah, that we want to literally walk how he walked, ate how he ate, talk how he talked, live how lived. ⁣

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I get so excited when I see another Muslim.⁣

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In all my years as a Christian I never felt that way. When I meet strangers that are Muslims, or simply see a sister in a hijab, I get so excited that they know the beauty of what I know. ⁣

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We love to say As-Salaam-Alaikum to one another. We love to pray together. ⁣

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So, yes, Islam has taken over my entire life.⁣

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But it also did this for our brothers Malcolm X and Muhammad Ali.⁣

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That I get the honor to follow in their footsteps has humbled me to my soul.⁣

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Love y’all.⁣

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Shaun

[Bilal Mahmud المكافح المخلص]

Kofi Bilal Mahmud Eid AlFitr 1443 A.H.

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