Three verses captivated and led him to embrace Islam

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His wife had an intense hatred for Islam. This terrible hatred led her to give her husband the infamous novel "The Satanic Verses" for his birthday. The author, the atheist Salman Rushdie, had insulted the Holy Quran in it, and she believed it would give him a tool to disdain Islam.

But in reality, she was giving him the path to light!

Her husband was no ordinary man. He was Richard Fairley, a senior counter-terrorism inspector in Britain, a man accustomed to hearing from the accused themselves, not from informants.

He wanted to know: Is this book – the Quran – really as they say it is? So he decided to read it, not out of faith, but out of research and verification!

Investigation Turns into Conviction!

His eyes, which adored science, physics, and geology, fell upon three verses as if they were written for him, as if they were speaking to him by name, and awakening him from his heedlessness:

·        “Do the disbelievers not realize that the heavens and earth were ˹once˺ one mass then We split them apart?” (Al-Anbya-30)

·        “And the heaven We constructed with strength, and indeed, We are [its] expander.” (Adh-Dhariyat- 47)

·        “and ˹made˺ the mountains as ˹its˺ pegs” (An-Naba-7)

He stood astonished... Three verses, summarizing three cosmic theories: the Big Bang, the continuous expansion of the universe, and the geological balance of planets!

He said, "Three verses changed my life."

Just three verses shook his very being to its core. It was impossible – scientifically and logically – for a human to have written them 1,400 years ago!

On August 19, 1993, Richard announced his conversion to Islam and became known as Rashid.

Since that day, he has carried the Quran in his heart and hand, proudly repeating at every gathering: "This is our book... and this is my religion."

Years passed, and then he had the opportunity to visit the Sacred House of God. He performed Umrah for the first time after 17 years of embracing Islam. At the Kaaba... in the middle of the night... the tough officer broke down, weeping, as if every wall in his heart had collapsed at once.

He says, "I don't know what happened to me. I was used to controlling my emotions, but there... something stopped time, and I felt like a child returning to his mother."

It wasn't just his wife who experienced "bad luck," but it was God's decree: Glory be to Allah, whoever seeks sincerely will be guided despite all the noise.