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My name is Corey Bryan. I'm from America.

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How I became Muslim, it's a little different, it's unique.

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Towards the end of my first year of college, there were a number of things that happened to me, a number of bad things.

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And they happened all at once. The doctor was telling me I might have health problems.

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There was a family member, my grandmother, she was also sick.

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But the two main things personally that really stressed me out and made me sort of paranoid was something I was robbed.

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Like I woke up one morning and all of my savings had been gone.

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And also something happened to my brother.

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My brother had, you know, he basically had, he was with some guys and he witnessed a shootout where some guys were shooting.

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So these, you know, these things will happen and it's making me question who is really my friend, who can I trust.

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It's making me really paranoid.

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I would try various books. I would, you know, think, you know, I would say this and then, you know, God can speak to you through anything.

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And I had been brought up a Christian. So I went to the Bible and I said, okay, God, please guide me and talk to me.

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And I opened it up and began to read at random. And what I read was more like history.

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It's more like a history book, you know, it didn't really touch me.

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I did that again later when I found, I found an old copy of the Quran.

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And I would open up and, you know, just read at random.

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And the first thing I read was, this day I have shown favor upon you, perfected your path and chose Islam as your religion.

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But, you know, for six months, I really don't remember feeling pleasure.

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And then all of a sudden, it was like a relief, like I could go, you know, I could breathe out and say, thank you.

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Because this is what I've been asking for. I've been saying, God, please help me and guide me.

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And there it was, right there. I read the Quran from beginning to end over about three months.

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And slowly, I just, you know, got better, got my senses back.

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When I first took Shahada, I just had taken Shahada by myself, you know, in the basement of my house.

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And I had read in a book that you should take Shahada, you know.

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And then after approximately two years, when I was in college, I found out that there was a master on the street that I lived.

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And so I went to visit. And there was a guy that I met there who became a really good friend of mine.

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Who, you know, he started talking to me and said, you know, I haven't seen you here before, you Muslim.

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And so I started talking and he found out that, you know, I didn't know any Muslims.

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And that I hadn't taken Shahada with witnesses.

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And so he was saying, you know, oh, you should do that.

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After the prayer, you know, the Imam says, you know, we have a guy who wants to take Shahada.

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And so I go to the front and there's, you know, maybe at least a hundred people, maybe more.

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And, you know, they said, you know, repeat after me.

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And I said to Shahada,

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Well, the moment he loves getting.

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Theoka leaves is the word for the sake ofkee, Noah, do you have to take?

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Better than Kris on, uttale, do you have to share something with the discretion of Assyria?

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