Mansa King: I Converted to Islam at 28 During My Visit to Senegal
- 2022-Apr-18
Among the daily Ramadan series "Achievers and Contributors", The World Muslim Communities Council organized, on Friday, April 15, 2022, a virtual lecture, during which Mansa King, Associate Professor of Sociology at Morehouse College, USA, spoke via the Council's social media pages.
Mansa King said he went to a school where there was a lot of competition between students, which made him put in more effort.
The sociology professor added that his father made sure that there were many books in the house, which contributed to his love of reading and research.
King explained that when he became a teenager, he was steps away from prison because someone stole a car he was traveling in, but Allah saved him before the police came and arrested the driver.
King emphasized that he was participating in the study of science and psychology during high school until he decided to study sociology during university, and then things happened that changed his life, the first of which was joining the army, then Howard University, which contributed to changing his life, because he could not bear Study costs without joining the US Army.
King indicated that he grew up in a Christian family, and did not know anything about Islam before university, as he began to think about converting to Islam because of its strong presence at the university. "This lasted ten years, from the age of 18 to 28, until I reached the decision to convert to Islam during my visit to Senegal", he added.
The professor of sociology at Morehouse College explained that he was sure at that time that Allah facilitated his affairs, and decided to marry in the same year in which he pronounced the two testimonies.
It is noteworthy that The World Muslim Communities Council is an international non-governmental organization, headquartered in the UAE capital Abu Dhabi. It is considered a think tank to rationalize organizations and societies working in Muslim societies, renew their thinking and improve their performance in order to achieve one goal; The integration of Muslim societies in their countries, in a way that their members realize the perfection of citizenship and complete affiliation with the Islamic religion. The council seeks, through holding dozens of virtual conferences, seminars and activities, to localize the concepts of religious, ethnic and cultural pluralism, in a manner that preserves human dignity and respect for his beliefs, and establishes the values of moderation, dialogue, tolerance and belonging to the homelands.
