How for one new convert, fellow Muslims have turned the Straight Path into something of a rocky road. Alas not, according to Yahiya Emerick Building a Better Dawah Program Muslims have perhaps the least organized community in the world, yet we are gaining converts faster than anyone else. American convert Yahiya Emerick sets out a strategy to utilize our resources and build up the size and strength of the Muslim community. An open letter from Jeremiah D. McAuliffe, Jr., Ph.D. to the Pittsburgh Muslim community one year after he embraced Islam. Advice from American convert Abdul-Lateef Abdullah to fellow new Muslims.
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Moving Beyond Theory Among Muslims in the West, American convert to Islam Yahiya Emerick finds too much empty theorizing and not enough practical application of Islam to the realities of everyday living in an environment non-conducive to the faith. As enthralling as many present-day conversion stories may be, it is to the first converts to Islam, the Sahaba, that we should look for inspiration, writes American convert, Yahiya Emerick. A point by point synopsis of the 1988 Dissertation for Doctor of Philosophy of Larry Allan Poston, Northwestern University. This American Protestant lady was horrified when her friend converted to Islam. So she studied Islam in order to win both her friend and her own non-practicing Muslim husband over to Christianity.