{"id":58209,"date":"2023-04-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-09T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/2023\/04\/09\/british-man-embraces-islam-scientific-truths-lead-to-conversion-at-london-mosque\/"},"modified":"2023-04-09T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-04-09T00:00:00","slug":"british-man-embraces-islam-scientific-truths-lead-to-conversion-at-london-mosque","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/en\/2023\/04\/09\/british-man-embraces-islam-scientific-truths-lead-to-conversion-at-london-mosque\/","title":{"rendered":"British Man Embraces Islam: Scientific Truths Lead to Conversion at London Mosque"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A moving video has been documented of a young British man reciting the Shahada (declaration of faith) to enter Islam at a mosque in the capital city of London.<\/p>\n<p>The official account of the Leyton Islamic Center in East London shared the video, which shows the man, named Jensen, standing next to the mosque&#8217;s imam, Shaquille Begg.<\/p>\n<p>When asked by the imam about what drew him to Islam, Jensen said that &quot;scientific facts were the reason for choosing his new religion.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>The center commented on the video, saying, &quot;Scientific truths brought me closer to Islam. Brother Jensen recited his Shahada at Leyton Islamic Center. May Allah increase his faith, strengthen him, and guide him.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>The video shows Jensen reciting the Shahada in both Arabic and English amidst a celebratory atmosphere.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&#8216;Scientific facts brought me closer to Islam..&#8217; Br Jensen taking his Shahadah at Lewisham Islamic Centre.<br \/>\nMay Allah (SWT) increase his Eman, keep him steadfast and grant him success Ameen!<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Shahadah?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Shahadah<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/LIC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#LIC<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1pHt1lQrsH\">pic.twitter.com\/1pHt1lQrsH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Lewisham Mosque (@LewishamMosque) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LewishamMosque\/status\/1644378717936861185?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 7, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A moving video has been documented of a young British man reciting the Shahada (declaration of faith) to enter Islam at a mosque in the capital city of London.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":58681,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[414],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-our-news-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58209\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}