“Traveling echoes the fact that our existence in Dunya is temporary, attachment to anything other than our faith in Allah wouldn’t therefore make any sense, whether it is a relationship, a job, a place or an object. Who am I other than a traveler who takes a rest under a tree in the shade and then goes on his way ? Who are we all… Other than travellers under a tree ? Very soon, we shall all go on our way…”

Elif was born muslim, but she never truly understood the meaning of being one until she broke her waistbone, and when a Japanese friend started asking her about Islam. Now, she wants to wear the hijab, when she had never thought of it before. Alhamdulillah.

"There will always be more challenges along the way, but I pray my journey with Him will never stop... Just as God brought people to me to guide me to the Truth, I hope that I too can guide others to the Truth, and not limit themselves to the labels of religion."

"I was a dance instructor and a performer. I loved and had passion for what I did. I did not believe in religion, none made any sense to me. I saw Islam as restrictive and oppressive to women.”

“One year later after I started to study Malaysian, I still had many words that I couldn’t understand. I realised that all of them were related to Islam, so I took classes of Islam….at the time it was only for studying.”

“It all began with my friend sending me a link to a YouTube video about how to style hijab. Mind you, we were both non-Muslims at the time, but we thought headscarves were absolutely beautiful!”

“I’ve experienced many things after I met my sweet husband. I’ve seen his kindness many times. One day he shared with me a small candy by dividing it into two with his teeth. He gave money to people who didn’t have a home in Japan. I was totally impressed.”

“At first Islam seemed kind of burdensome to me and though I wasn’t interested in becoming Muslim, I began to live the kind of lifestyle that a practicing Muslim should.”

"Becoming Muslim requires a LOT of strength, courage, and confidence; it requires a lot of dedication and conviction and a lot of determination. Wearing the hijab, praying 5 times a day at it’s allotted time, not beautifying yourself for other than your husband, not mixing and flirting with random strange men, cutting out dirty music and disgusting television, eating halal etc….all this is not done to please people…but it is done to please the one who created you!”

“My dream is to become a Japanese Imam InsyaAllah. Next September, I’ll go to Madinah University, so I have to improve and work very hard.”

“There was a time I hid from my parents about being muslim. I did my prayers in my toilet, it’s a small space but I have no other choice because I have no other place I can pray without them seeing. And it was also hard for me to go to the Mosque. Because I always had to lie to my father.”

These two sisters were on their own individual paths of seeking God, until their journey beautifully cumulated in Islam. A rarity, but a rarity truly evident of His Perfect Plan.