I was a presenter on MTV Europe, interviewing rock stars, traveling around Europe, being invited everywhere, having a good time.
And I had everything a teenager could dream of, or a young person could dream of.
But in the end, I had nothing, because the most important was missing.
I felt empty and not satisfied inside.
She said that she was one of the most important ones in the interview, and she had her last year, and she had her all over Europe, and she had everything she wanted to do with her.
But after that, I felt that she was empty from the inside, I felt that she needed something.
She felt that she needed something.
Yes, it was something that she needed to do with her, but it was something that she needed to do with her.
Hmm, hmm.
Shayi Khalil is asking, uh, what made you take this decision?
Well, then I was introduced, by the grace of God, to some Muslims.
And they actually played Sufi music.
The kind of music we just heard on your channel.
Beautiful music, praising Allah, praising the Prophet.
And I was working in the pop music.
And I tell you, this music touched me more deeply than any of the music that I was working with.
So it opened my heart.
So this music of Tathabuf opened my heart for Islam.
Then I started traveling in the Muslim world.
And I met wonderful Muslims, very generous people, warm people.
Also very poor people in Pakistan, for example, who still had a light in their eyes.
And we're content.
Whereas in the West, we have everything.
And people are not happy.
We're not content.
And I wondered, where does this come from?
This contentment, this inner contentment.
When people had a perspective that included God, everybody was looking to a higher goal.
You know, everything they do, they do for the sake of God.
In Europe, it was different.
People just work for themselves, are very, you know, work-minded.
And they don't have this higher perspective.
And in the Orient, God is present everywhere.
Everything you do, inshallah, if God will, bismillah, in the name of God.
Everything you do.
And this, this and it touched me.
Anyway, then I started reading books about Islam.
Read many books.
Finally, the Quran.
And really, the message.
I had many prejudices, okay?
In the West, people think Islam is bad.
Islam is against women, etc.
I had many prejudices.
But when I read more and more books, slowly the misconceptions and the prejudices were dissolved.
And the message, the clear message, made sense.