Why Islam is my choice — Page 86
86 Akbar Tshaka A ḥ mad ī How I Accepted Isl ā m My name is Akbar Tshaka A ḥ mad ī. I am originally from Atlantic City, New Jersey. I was born August 11, 1939. I was educated in Atlantic City High School. My family’s background is from the Christian faith. Following is a synopsis of how I became an A ḥ mad ī Muslim. A ḥ madiyyat the true Isl ā m is so lucid, so brilliant and sublime that a seeker after truth has no problems in discerning its pure beauty, thus it makes acceptance of A ḥ madiayyat easy in the sense that it furnishes the seeker with verified proofs of its genuine and increasingly glowing spiritual reality. One day back in 1972, I was in Weisers bookstore buying up book by book of “The Sufi Message” by In ā yat Kh ā n, the famous ṣū f ī mystic. I was a few feet away when I noticed a book titled “The Philosophy of the Teachings of Isl ā m. ” Under the title it said, “by the founder of the A ḥ madiyyah Movement in Isl ā m. ” Now, for some strange reason, knowing nothing about A ḥ madiyyat, I thought that A ḥ madiyyat was so ancient a d ī n that there was no current information about it. I immediately grabbed the book and turned the page. When I saw the face of Ḥ a ḍ rat Mirz ā Ghul ā m A ḥ mad, peace be upon him, I was immediately wonderstruck. I had never seen a man so handsome wherein one could easily gaze at the spiritual demeanor that the photo presented. I read the brief information under his photograph that gives the