AL-QUR’AN WINS THE HEART OF A US PROFESSOR AT KANSAS UNIVERSITY
Kansas, 10 Jumadil Awwal 1436/1 March 2015 (MINA) – Dr. Jeffrey Lang is an Associate Professor of Mathematics at the University of Kansas, one of the biggest universities in the United States. He was born on Jan 30, 1954 in a Roman Catholic family in Bridgeport, Connecticut.
The first 18 years of his life were spent in Catholic schools, which left him with many unanswered questions about God and the Christian religion. By the time he reached the age of 18, Lang had become a full-fledged atheist.
Then an Arab friend gave him a copy of the Qur‘ān. Lang read the Qur‘ān on his own. He was completely captivated by it, and eventually became Muslim, Muslimvillage.com quoted by Mi’raj Islamic News Agency (MINA) as reporting.
This is what he says about the Book authored by Allāh Most High:
“Painters can make the eyes of a portrait appear to be following you from one place to another, but which author can write a scripture that anticipates your daily vicissitudes?… Each night I would formulate questions and objections and somehow discover the answer the next day. It seemed that the Author was reading my ideas and writing in the appropriate lines in time for my next reading. I have met myself in its pages…”
“For those whom Islam has embraced, the greatest witness to God’s unremitting, pursuing, sustaining, and guiding love is the Qur‘ān. Like a vast magnificent ocean, it lures you deeper and deeper into its dazzling waves until you are swept into it. But instead of drowning in a sea of darkness, as described above, you find yourself immersed in an ocean of divine light and mercy. … as I read the Qur‘ān and prayed the Islamic prayers, a door to my heart was unsealed and I was immersed in an overwhelming tenderness. Love became more permanent and real than the earth beneath my feet; its power restored me and made it so that even I could feel love … I was happy enough to have found faith in a sensible religion. But I never expected to be touched by such intoxicating mercy.”
And Allāh ta’ala knows best.
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Mi’raj Islamic News Agency (MINA)
