The Serbian who became Muslim

The Serbian who became Muslim

Ali al Tamimi says;

There was one brother, who was a Serbian who took shahadah while he was in the USA high school. This was before the fall of the Iron curtain in the communist nation. He used to hide his Islam, his father was a Major diplomat in the Yugoslavian embassy. He once gave da’wah to his 12yr old cousin and told her to hide her Islam, but one day she slipped it to his family that he and her had accepted Islam. As soon as his father found out, his father ordered that he be sent back to Yugoslavia, and was forced to join their army (the communists wanted to spread their communism, including Afghanistan etc.) When he was in the army, his father told the army to watch his son, and make sure you torture him (they beat him there) and watched him that he wasn’t Islamic in his activities. So the brother went for about 2years in the army and was watched constantly, he said he couldn’t even do wudu and pray, so he prayed with his heart during the time.

After 2 years, when his military service was over, he came back home and hid his religion. After a weeks of staying home, he said to his family, “I used to be a crazy young kid back in those days, it was just a phase i was going through [etc].” His family still doubted him, so they would feed him pork, so he would eat it, and when he ate – he’d go upstairs and make himself sick to take it out of his body. He had a girl neighbour and told her to come to the house, to pretend that he had a girlfriend, and after told her to go away. He did all this to show his parents that he really wasn’t Muslim.

After a few weeks of this, he asked his parents if he could go back to the USA to continue his education. They told him that he could go back, but he would have to stay in his uncles house who was a doctor in the USA. He said okay, and moved there to continue his education. He stayed there for about a month, and his uncle kept an eye on him to see if he did any Islamic activities. He wouldn’t contact any Muslims, and the uncle kept an eye on him. His parents kept phoning to check up on him, and his uncle said that he’s acting normal, like going to school, coming back home and studying etc.

So when the brother felt that they stopped watching him, he left his uncles house, and went to the Muslims and called his parents in Yugoslavia, and said; “Look, I was always Muslim, and I will always remain a Muslim, and I’ll never leave this religion.”

His father called the Yugoslavian embassy who called the United States government who called the Immigration services, naturalisation service, and they went to all the different Masaajid [mosques] to look for him and arrest him to send him back to Yugoslavia, but some of the Muslim brothers hid him in their houses and protected him for a while. Then they sent the brother to Medinah, and from there he went to Afghanistan, and he became a famous fighter in Afghanistan (most likelythis occured in the 1980s).

While he was in Afghanistan, his mother had a longing to see her son. She was a journalist and was allowed to leave Yugoslavia, and do an interview for the Communists against the Muslim fighters in Afghan, “in the defense of the communists of the Afghanis.” She wanted a way to meet with her son. She went to Pakistan, then to Peshawar, and goes to the mountains where the Muslim fighters are, to find her son.

Her son talks to her, gives her a Qur’an, gives her da’wah [invitation to Islam], and tells her why Islam is the truth. And… she take’s her shahadah and becomes Muslim. She then writes an article in the Yugoslavian-European newspaper on the Journey to Islam.

This brother went through alot, just to preserve his religion. We read events of the Salaf sacrificing for their religion, but we shouldn’t forget that there are people from every generation who give alot for the sake of Allah, and we shouldn’t be left behind…

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