Muslim Trades Uncertainty for A Life of Peace

, LifeStory, Testimony, Convesion Nobody knows: Am I doing enough There is no guarantee, there is no assurance. Limbo is always, always is in your mind as a Muslim. Born in Iran, raised in a strict Shia family, Mohamad Faridi was taught he had one purpose in life. He says, My goal as a Muslim was to satisfy a god that I didn t know. A god that I couldn t get to know. So, everything I did, everything I read, studied. It was about to fulfill that particular goal, to keep him satisfied with me. To have his approval. From childhood he prayed and fasted and memorize the Quran. He says, Because the belief is that if you memorize the Quran, you cannot be burnt in hell, because the verses of the Quran eternal and they are pure, when it s in your mind, the mind cannot be burnt in hell. I was always in constant fear. Then as a teenager he started ritual flagellations to earn Allahs approval. He recalls, We have chains, we have uh swords that we beat ourself with it. And to punish our