Islam: Discovery
By Ibrahim Abd al-Malik

From: Nuradeen Magazine

From the Nuradeen Magazine Vol. 2, No. 2 -- March/April 1982

I came to Islam after a very long search for something, perhaps you might call it truth or real knowledge or whatever label you like. The right word has always eluded my efforts. Even though I read it repeatedly and had intellectualized the concept, I could not see that the seeker and the one sought are not separate, but one. What you seek is within you. Most of what you encounter in the outward is only a hindrance to fulfilling that inward yearning, to making that inward journey. So you, reader, must look within yourself, not at me. These are only some indications, a few sign posts along the way.

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The rest of the story is at Transformations -- Story by Ibrahim