Samath Sem, a village head woman from Mulanje, had for a long time viewed Islam as a religion that worships Allah alone. She noticed that Muslims believe in Allah rather than Jesus, which made her curious about Islam. One day, the iERA dawah team came to her village to conduct dawah classes. They visited her home to seek permission, and she gladly allowed them to conduct the classes. Samath also decided to attend and take part in the lessons.
When the classes began, the first lesson was about the Oneness of Allah. The Outreach Specialist explained that Allah is One and that He sent prophets to guide people to worship Him alone. This raised an important question in Samath’s mind about Jesus. She had always heard pastors at church say that Jesus is God, so she began discussing this with the Outreach Specialist. He patiently explained the Islamic understanding of Jesus in detail, and the explanation started to make sense to her. She began asking herself, “Can God be born? And if God was born, does that mean God was married to Mary?” These questions led her to reconsider what she had previously believed.
After understanding the message of Islam, Samath decided to become a Muslim and took her Shahadah. At first, she felt shy about people seeing her wearing hijab, especially those she had previously gone to church with. She wondered whether she should wait before wearing it. One day, however, she changed her mind and asked her Muslim friend if she could give her a hijab. Her friend gave her one, and that became Samath’s first day wearing hijab. When she arrived at the dawah classes wearing it, some of her former friends asked why she was wearing hijab. She told them, “I am a Muslim now.”
News of her decision soon reached her family. Her uncle called her and asked how she could become a Muslim when no one in their family was Muslim. Samath confidently explained that she had chosen Islam because she believed it was the true religion and that her life had changed since becoming Muslim. Although her uncle said hurtful words to her, she did not allow them to affect her decision.
