Football Prodigy Loses Everything and Then Finds Islam

From Catholic schoolboy to Muslim revert. Bryan Maravic's journey to Islam is unlike anything you've heard before.Bryan spent years chasing identity through soccer, literature, and a romanticized writer's life in Lisbon, Portugal, before a conversation with his then-girlfriend about the Trinity sent him down a path he never expected. He picked up a Quran at a call center, listened to recitation on YouTube, and felt something shift. In this episode, Bryan opens up about 13+ years as a Muslim revert, his struggles keeping his faith private from his Catholic family and the moment he whispered the shahada into his dying father's ear.-Order Bryans Book: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GYG4XGLKSpotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0xfSSc1...Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast...Subscribe to the Revert Of The Week Newsletter: https://canyon-mimbs.kit.com/revert-00:02:10 — Bryan introduces himself: 13+ years as a Muslim revert and his identity as a writer00:06:20 — The romanticized writer's life: moving to Lisbon, Portugal and encountering Muslims for the first time00:10:30 — Returning to Vermont: drinking, a typewriter, and a dark winter that changed everything00:12:40 — His girlfriend's doubts about the Trinity spark Bryan's curiosity about Islam00:14:50 — Bryan picks up a Quran at his call center job and approaches it as a literary text00:18:50 — Learning to pray, making wudu in secret and deciding to take shahada00:21:00 — The Friday prayer: hearing the adhan live for the first time and the moment of shahada00:27:10 — Keeping Islam hidden from his Catholic parents and the isolation of the double life00:31:20 — Advice for new reverts: focus on your own transformation before trying to bring others along00:35:30 — Learning from the Muslim community in Canada and what humility in Islam really looks like00:39:40 — Understanding qadr (divine decree): why everything in his story had to happen exactly as it did00:43:50 — How a traumatic brain injury at 14 opened him up to accepting Islam years later00:48:00 — The health scare that destroyed Bryan's nervous system and gave him his novel00:52:10 — Everything you chase in this life won't satisfy you, except a connection with Allah-Bryan:   / bryan.marovich  Clips Channel:    / @canyonmimbsshowclips  Canyon:    / canyonmimbs  Contact Us: [email protected]#Revert #RevertStory #Muslim