Source: ahmadiyyatimes.blogspot.in

Ahmadiyyat has taught me, to believe in a living God. A God that does not break the very rules he makes for this world whenever he wants to.

A ‘student’s only’ interfaith event “My Story” was held at Mount Royal University, Calgary, yesterday where students representing Sikhism, Atheism, Christianity and Islam were invited to present stories of their journey in faith.

The university approached the Ahmadiyya Muslim Women’s Auxiliary to nominate a member to participate in the event.

A young member from the Ahmadiyya Muslim Women Association of Canada, Asma Hanif, who is studying Social Work at MRU, presented her story.

After the event the organizers said they were very impressed by the Islamic presentation by Miss Hanif.

The essay is worth sharing with the Ahmadiyya Times readers and it is reproduced below in its entirety.

Good evening Ladies and Gentleman,

My name is Asma Hanif, and I am a student of social work at Mount Royal University. I was born in Pakistan, which is where my parents are originally from, and moved to Calgary when I was only 6 years old.

I don’t consider myself to be a very scholarly person who has read hundreds of books or is an authority on religion in anyway. But I would like to share with you the story of my faith and my battle between a conscious reality and a common inherited belief.

The transformation of my beliefs was not something that took place within a day, or through a single event, but through a few years of soul searching and a multitude of events.  I find, that faith is not something that can just be acquired or gained, but developed through one’s experiences, through the passion to seek and question, and most of all through prayers.

Let me start from the beginning. As a child my way of doing or seeing things was quite like …continue reading at ahmadiyyatimes.blogspot.in

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