In an amazing example of miraculous effect of the Quranic verses, an Australian woman converted to Islam after reading the English translation of the verses of Surah Yasin.
Read Umm e Amina Badria’s faith-inspiring story of acceptance of Islam in her own words. She says my father belonged to Thailand. He was a Muslim by birth but practically had nothing to do with Islam, while my mother was a Buddhist and converted to Islam when she married my father.
Both of them later came and settled in Australia. My birth name was Tanidtheea. I did MA in Economics from the University of New England and studied Business Marketing and Human Resources before I started teaching as a tutor. Meanwhile, my marriage took place, according to Islamic law. My husband was a computer graphic designer. He had converted to Islam at the time of marriage but was Muslim just by name.
My father was also a nominal Muslim and he did not know anything about religion nor did he tell us anything. This was the reason why we too didn’t have any religious knowledge. I did not believe in any religion. May Allah forgive me, I was an atheist. When I had spent about a year and a half with my husband, at one time it occurred to me that my heart was cut off from the world and I was in a state of anxiety. On this I thought that I should pray as I had once seen my father praying somewhere but when I told my husband about it, he took it lightly. He said (Nawz-u-Billah) there is no Allah, nor is there any prayer etc. Meanwhile my parents died.
About seven years ago, I went to a small mosque in Armidale, New South Wales, Australia, which was built for foreign Muslim students. From there I borrowed the Quran with English translation to read. This Holy Quran was published by the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, King Fahd Bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud (Saudi Arabia).
I was at home and was just flipping its pages when I came across the translation of the verses of Surah Yasin in which the movements of the moon and the sun are described in a scientific manner,
“While the sun keeps revolving in its orbit. This is the dispensation of the mighty, all-knowing (God).
We have determined the stations of the moon, so that (after its wanderings) it returns as a dried up inflorescent spike of dates.
Neither can the sun overtake the moon, nor the night outpace the day: Each of them keeps coursing in its orbit.”
When I was reading this translation I started feeling goosebumps. I thought that the Prophet (PBUH) was a man, he was not educated, but in such an excellent scientific manner, he (PBUH) has described, surely he could have received revelation from Allah. Just at that moment, my heart changed and I started studying and meditating on the great book of Allah, the Qur’an. Whenever I study Islamic teachings, I first seek forgiveness from Allah Almighty for my previous actions and then I try to follow them completely.
I continued to go to the mosque after accepting Islam. In the beginning, I did not wear the veil, then when the worshipers told me that it was a sin, that day I went to my house and got a scarf and started wearing it, and I learned Islam deeply.
I tried hard to convince my husband about Islam but he did not accept even though I had a daughter with him. Finally I told him either accept Islam or leave me. Then he divorced me and abandoned me and my daughter.
In the meantime, I started chatting with one of my Pakistani brothers, Abdul Samad, on the Internet and got information about Islam from him, which he kept conveying me from time to time. Finally I decided to migrate from Australia to Pakistan. Before converting to Islam, my daughter’s name was (Tuan Wart). After accepting Islam, I changed her name to Amina. I named myself Badria for Ghazwa Badr, I am called Umm Amina.
