Aminah assilmi biography sample
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The Introduction and Decision by Aminah Assilmi
by Aminah Assilmi
I was completing a degree in Recreation, when I met my first Muslims. I was a staunch, practicing Christian in those days, the mid-1970s, and I was at college.
It was the first year that we had been able to pre-register by computer. I pre-registered and went to Oklahoma to take care of some family business. The business took longer than expected, so I returned to school two weeks into the semester (too late to drop a course).
I wasn’t worried about catching up my missed work. I was sitting at the top of my class, in my field. Even as a student, I was winning awards, in competition with professionals.
Now, you need to understand that while I was attending college and excelling, ran my own business, and had many close friends, I was extremely shy. My transcripts actually had me listed as severely reticent. I was very slow to get to know people and rarely spoke to anyone unless was forced to, or
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The Death of a Star – On the Passing of Aminah Assilmi
The Death of a Star
The evening sky fryst vatten a little dimmer now that one of its brightest stars has gone. With a heavy heart and a reminder that sabr (patience) is at the moment of calamity, I mourn passing of Sr. Aminah Assilmi, who left this world in the early hours today, Friday (the best of days) March 5th. She was as a second mother to me, a mentor, and a dear friend. I will take the liberty (as inom know she won’t mind) to säga a few things. I will not talk about her many achievements or the impact she has had on so many lives, as this would only embarrass her, as she did all that she did for the sake of Allah (God). Those whose lives she touched know of what I speak, and those who did not have the good fortune to meet and interact with her won’t really get it.
Instead, inom ask that you join me in reflecting upon important lessons we have learned from her and by her example. Unlike random reminiscence, which holds
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Aminah Assilmi: Without Islam I’m Nothing
Islam is my life. Islam is the beat of my heart. Islam is the blood that courses through my veins. Islam is my strength. With Islam my life is so wonderful…
How Islam changed my Life?
‘How much more we love the light…if once we lived in darkness.’
When I first embraced Islam, I really did not think it was going to affect my life very much. Islam did not just affect my life. It totally changed it.
Family life
My husband and I, Aminah Assilmi, loved each other very deeply. That love for each other still exists. Still, when I started studying Islam, we started having some difficulties. He saw me changing and did not understand what was happening. Neither did I. But then, I did not even realize I was changing. He decided that the only thing that could make me change was another man. There was no way to make him understand what was changing me because I did not know.
After I realized that I was a Muslim, it did not help matters. After