veiled4allah: Muslims and HIV/AIDS #2 veiled4allah: Muslims and HIV/AIDS #2He adds that since Islam is the fastest growing religion in the world, one can expect people from all walks of life to accept it, be they prostitutes or drug users, or people who were sexually promiscuous. "Surely we cannot tell them that they cannot become Muslims and close the doors of our mosques to them?" he asks. What about his own future? "Well I see my future as any other Muslim does," he says. "I don't know when and how I will die." "I have been HIV positive for 10 to 11 years, and I have not yet been diagnosed with AIDS," he says. "I might never die of AIDS. The fact that all things happen for a reason in the life of a Muslim, gives him the feeling that he is safe under the Protection of Allah, he says. "I believe that, it was through being diagnosed with the virus, that I started to look closely at the things Allah Wants me to do," he says. There is a purpose for all things, he says, and perhaps this virus reached him, because there was no support out there for Muslims who are in the same position as him.
"What I am trying to say is that if Allah Gives you something He will not Harm you as long as you do the right thing with it." His condition does not make him feel despondent. "HIV saved my life once," he says, explaining that if he had not been diagnosed with the virus, he might never have accepted Islam.
He lives each day as if it will be his last. "But then again that is how it should be for all Muslims."
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