Canyon Mimbs Show

She grew up as the only non-Muslim in a 80% Bangladeshi school in East London and it shaped everything.Amanda's story is one of the most raw and courageous we've had on the show. From childhood trauma, to leaving home at 18 with nothing, to a single moment in a mosque that changed her entire life, her path to Islam is a testimony of what happens when the community of the believers shows up for someone who has no one.We talk about how Islam healed her mental state, what she would say to a young sister going through the darkest...

He was raised Jewish, self-described as more Islamophobic than his own family and then a stranger on a New York subway changed everything.Lenny's revert story is unlike anything we've had on the show. Jewish by ethnicity and culture, deeply Islamophobic by his own admission, he went from hostile skeptic to Muslim in the span of a few months, triggered by a random man on the F train who told him to read the Quran.We talk about what he found when he actually read it, why he felt a connection to Allah in his very first sujud that...

In this powerful Muslim revert podcast, Alex shares his unbelievable journey from gang life, drugs, jail, homelessness, and suicidal thoughts to finding Islam and peace through Allah.Raised Mormon, surrounded by crime, alcohol, and violence, Alex opens up about hitting rock bottom, contemplating suicide on a hospital rooftop, discovering the Quran inside a psychiatric unit, taking shahada, surviving jail, Ramadan in confinement, and rebuilding his life through Islam.This emotional revert story dives deep into faith, hardship, purpose, mental health, loneliness, prison, gang culture, tawbah, and how Allah guides people back to Him even in their darkest moments.If...

He had the house, the marriage, the child, the plan and then it all fell apart.Logan is an Australian revert who found Islam not in a mosque, not through debate, but through the kindness of a Muslim brother he met at a community event in Dubai. His story is about what happens when everything you were building for, collapses and you're forced to ask the question you've been avoiding: what am I actually living for?We get into his private shahada (just him and Allah), what finally got him praying five times a day, why he thinks prayer...

Lauren is an American revert to Islam who chose "ease" as her word of the year, then experienced the hardest year of her life, losing her brother and best friend, before stumbling across the Quranic verse "with hardship comes ease" and realizing it was already in the book she hadn't read yet. In this episode, she shares how watching Palestinians say alhamdulillah in the middle of atrocities led her to order a Quran as a self-help book, how her friend kept telling her "I think you're secretly Muslim," and how she took her shahada on the first night of...

James is a former US Marine who grew up hating Muslims after 9/11, riding a Harley with a kafir patch on the back and a kaf tattooed on his chest, before Islam became the only place he could find peace. In this episode, he shares his full revert story: from the LDS/Mormon faith, to a chance encounter with a Bosnian Muslim trucker, to praying in his basement while his family thought he was inviting Satan into the house. We also cover the loneliness of the revert journey, what true peace actually feels like, and why fixing the nuclear family...

Jeremy is a half-Swiss, half-German revert to Islam who grew up atheist, struggled with bullying, ADHD, autism, and suicidal thoughts before logic led him to the truth of Islam. In this episode, he shares his full revert story, how Islam gave him purpose and fulfillment where substances and success never could, and why he believes Muslims are misusing the concept of tawakkul to avoid putting in effort. We also get into the stigma around Muslim entrepreneurship, what it means to be a modern-day Sahaba, and why getting in shape is an Islamic obligation.-Subscribe to the Revert Of The...

Aaron grew up Vietnamese-American in Dallas, Texas, Catholic school from kindergarten through 8th grade, church twice a week, and parents who weren't even particularly religious. By the time high school came around and he started playing basketball with his Muslim neighbors, something shifted. Not emotionally. Logically.In this episode, Aaron breaks down one of the most intellectually grounded reversion stories we've had on the show. He didn't come to Islam through a crisis or a relationship.He came through YouTube debates, the preservation of the Quran, and a simple question: "What's stopping you?" His answer was nothing.We also...

From Catholic school altar boy to Muslim revert in Tokyo, Mikail Amin Rose shares one of the most compelling conversion stories you'll hear. A 41-year-old senior tech executive who spent 23 years in Asia, Mikail walked through Buddhism, military service, corporate success, and a dark personal period before Islam found him through the algorithm and then through a mosque in Japan.In this episode we cover his full reversion story, what it's like doing Umrah just 3 months after taking shahada, how Islam replaced alcohol and stress with structure and resilience, and why a logical, self-development-minded person found Islam to be...

She came in as a hardcore feminist with 2 million TikTok followers and left a Muslim. In this episode, Nicki, a Russian revert and content creator, shares her powerful conversion story: from growing up Orthodox Christian in Russia, to stumbling into Islam through a TV series scarf, a Muslim coworker's question, and late-night Google sessions on women's rights. She breaks down why Islam gave her more freedom as a woman than feminism ever did, how she took her shahada alone in her apartment and felt complete silence for the first time, and what it's really like wearing hijab in Russia...

Yahya, known online as Caribbean Revert, grew up in a deeply Christian household in Holland in the 1990s, the grandson of a priest, before a young Iraqi refugee named Amir quietly introduced him to Islam and set his life on an entirely different path. He went on to serve 9 years in the Dutch Army as an explosives specialist and anti-terrorism trainer, all while secretly praying in dark rooms and being fired from over 20 jobs after legally changing his name to one that honored both his grandfather and his faith. It was a serious health diagnosis that finally brought him...

What happens when a Jewish kid from Norway, raised on the stories of Prophet Musa, spends his teenage years hunting for truth across every religion and finds that Islam had already answered every question he'd reached on his own? Yunus grew up in a secular Jewish home in Norway, visited Israel at eight years old, and felt an unexplainable emptiness even standing among his own people in the Holy Land, a void he would later understand as the absence of God. His path to Islam wasn't an emotional leap but a methodical, years-long intellectual pursuit alongside a Christian-turned-Muslim friend...

From Kauai to Mecca - a Native Hawaiian Muslim revert who went from opiates, prison, and Islamophobia to finding the one true God. Before Islam, Jihad - born Hoku on the island of Kauai - was the black sheep of his family, falling into opiate addiction at just 11 years old, cycling through rehab and jail for over a decade, and becoming one of the most Islamophobic people he knew after watching 9/11 unfold in his sixth-grade classroom. After 16 years as a serious, Bible-reading Christian who still felt something was missing, he knelt down one night and asked God: "whoever you...

From selling drugs on street corners in New Jersey to founding a humanitarian organization and watching his entire family accept Islam.Wesley's revert story is one of the most compelling Muslim convert journeys you'll ever hear. Raised by Puerto Rican immigrants in a Pentecostal household, Wesley drifted far from faith after his parents' divorce, spending his teenage years deep in alcohol, marijuana, and street life before dropping out of high school entirely. Everything changed when a former gang member introduced him to the concept of tawheed, and a pastor's inability to explain why Jesus cried out "My God, why...

A Pakistani-American raised by a devout Christian stepfather, Rain spent his teenage years in Protestant churches, youth groups, and Bible studies, yet couldn't shake the disconnect between Jesus worshipping the Father and the congregation worshipping Jesus. When COVID lockdowns reconnected him with Muslim cousins mid-Fortnite session, it ignited a deep dive into comparative theology, Quranic miracles, and the preservation of Islamic scripture that led to his shahada in December 2022. He then turned down his dream school Rice University to attend UT Austin, a decision driven purely by the Muslim brotherhood he found at the campus mosque, where he went...

Ramazan is a 16-year-old Russian Muslim revert who accepted Islam at just 12 years old after finding contradictions in the Bible and discovering that Muslims prayed the same way Jesus did (with their faces to the ground). Before Islam, he grew up in a Soviet-influenced household where religion was dismissed and his mother taught him it didn't matter which god you worshipped, a worldview that ironically opened the door to his search for truth. After taking his shahada, he endured over eight months of grounding across separate periods, had Qurans confiscated and hidden by his family, was handed a fake...

Bailey is a 23-year-old British Muslim revert from a small town near Sheffield who went from chasing the dunya through business, fast money, and a hedonistic lifestyle in Manchester to finding Islam through a chance encounter at a da'wah stall outside the Arndale Centre. Before Islam, Bailey was caught in a cycle of hustle and chaos, building a seven-figure clothing distribution business only to watch it collapse in a ram raid, before spiraling deeper into a life he knew wasn't for him. A shahada taken on the streets of Manchester, a return home, and the brotherhood of a local...

Umer is a Muslim from Leicester who spent his teenage years drowning in doubt, depression, and a life built entirely around the dunya, until a moment alone in a bathroom with a kitchen knife became the turning point that sent him searching for the real Islam. Before his rediscovery, Umer had acquired money, status, and everything the world said would bring peace, yet found only a deeper void, a pain so real he stood at the edge of ending his life, holding the knife to his jugular vein and bargaining with Allah. What followed was a years-long journey through...

In this Muslim revert story, Aynoor shares how she went from a life of gossip, immodesty, and atheism to wearing hijab full-time just six months after discovering Islam through a chance TikTok friendship.Before reverting to Islam, Aynoor had grown up with no interest in religion, living for the approval of others and feeling deeply purposeless. Her family held negative views of Islam shaped entirely by media, and when she began exploring the faith in secret, she faced repeated arguments, emotional pressure, and pleas to stop.After months of learning in private, Aynoor took her shahada alone in her...

In this Muslim revert story, James shares how a season of financial struggle and lost direction led him to take his shahada alone in his home in the UK, sparked by a moment of quiet reflection on a budget Ryanair flight home from Morocco.Before reverting to Islam, James was drifting through life in the UK, battling mild addictions, wasting time, and lacking any real sense of purpose or financial discipline. Though he had been travelling to Morocco and building friendships with Muslims, his heart wasn't yet open and even a visit to the Museum of Islamic Art in...

In this Muslim revert story Ibrahim shares how growing up surrounded by Muslim friends in Germany slowly pulled him toward Islam and eventually led him to taking his shahada.Before Ibrahim reverted to Islam he came from a Christian family that never practiced religion, while watching the Muslim people around him worship seriously and with conviction.After dreaming of Jahannam multiple times and fearing death, he retook his shahada and has not missed a single prayer since.-Subscribe to the Revert Of The Week Newsletter: https://canyon-mimbs.kit.com/revert-0:00 – Growing Up Around Muslims in Germany and Losing Interest in...

In this Muslim revert story, a Mexican architect shares how going from radical feminist, witch, and rock band singer to wearing hijab full-time and giving da'wah online all happened in the span of a single week.Before she reverted to Islam she had rejected Christianity at 11 years old, turned to witchcraft during a mental health crisis, and was deeply resistant to even picking up the Quran, convinced that Islam oppressed women.After finally reading the Quran out of curiosity, she spent a week waking up at 4am, reading and researching, until everything clicked and she took her shahada, walked...

In this Muslim revert story, Faruq shares how growing up Catholic in Brazil, falling into alcohol, and surrounding himself with criminal company led him to unexpectedly discovering Islam through a friend who wasn't even Muslim himself.Before Faruq reverted to Islam he was a teenager with no direction, drinking heavily and spending time with people involved in drugs and crime, with no real belief that God cared about how he lived his life.After taking his shahada, he transformed completely and began obeying his parents, leaving behind his old lifestyle, and eventually becoming an imam and Quran teacher, helping...

In this Muslim revert story, Abdul shares how growing up Protestant, rejecting all religion, and falling into hedonism led him to unexpectedly take his shahada at just 16 years old.Before Abdul reverted to Islam, he had dismissed all religion as a tool of control and spent years living a life of hedonism, until his Muslim friend Adnan began sharing the Quran's scientific miracles and prophecies with him during the COVID lockdown.After spending hours watching anti-Islamic videos trying to disprove everything he had learned, Abdul found that nothing could stand against the truth of Islam and took his shahada...

In this Muslim revert story, Daniel shares how a motorcycle accident, the death of his father, and a thought experiment from an MMA podcast all collided to guide him out of nihilism and into Islam.Before reverting, Daniel lived a self-destructive life between the ages of 12 and 18: drug addiction, drug dealing, and alcohol, convinced that religion was just a cheap way to cope with suffering. Growing up with an atheist father and a nominally Christian mother in northern Italy, Islam felt like the last thing he would ever embrace.After stumbling upon a Muslim MMA coach's podcast, a powerful...

In this Muslim revert story Noureddine shares how searching through 15 different religions led him to taking his shahada and becoming a Muslim.Before Noureddine reverted to Islam he came out of Catholicism, where his questions were shut down and he was called a hypocrite for asking them.After discovering the Quran he found it to be the one truth he had been searching for and eventually made Hijra from Hawaii to Lombok, Indonesia for his family's deen.I hope you enjoy the Muslim revert story of Noureddine from Jamaica.-Subscribe to the Revert Of The Week Newsletter: https://canyon-mimbs...

In this Muslim revert story Ali Dawah shares how years of chasing the dunya: gangs, girls, money and status, left him empty inside, and how that emptiness eventually led him to take his shahada and become a Muslim.Before Ali reverted to Islam he was deep in London gang culture, then the clubbing and partying lifestyle, spending years enslaved to money, women and the approval of others with no sense of real purpose.After three years of comparative religion study and binge-watching scholars like Zakir Naik and Abdurraheem Green, he parked on a double yellow line outside East London...

In this conversation, Akhi Ayman shares his biggest struggles and the most valuable lessons he learned from being around the top Muslim scholars and influencers of our time.Before diving into his personal struggles, Ayman reveals that the greatest trait he observed in scholars like Mufti Menk and Omar Suleiman wasn't their knowledge, it was their manners and wisdom in how they treat everyone equally.After opening up about his darkest moment; being stuck in a ditch for 3 hours while grieving his mother, he shares crucial advice for men about slowing down and for brothers seeking marriage about prioritizing...

In my Muslim revert story, I share how traveling the world and the overwhelming kindness of Pakistani Muslims led me to take my shahada and become a Muslim.Before I reverted to Islam, I grew up in a small American town where I had never met a single Muslim. I became agnostic at 18 and set off to travel the world, with no intention of finding a religion. 1 year later I reverted to Islam. I hope you enjoy my Muslim revert story.-Subscribe to the Revert Of The Week Newsletter: https://canyon-mimbs.kit.com/revert-0:00:00 – Intro 0:03:37 – Meeting his first Muslim busi...

In this episode Sheikh Uthman and Abu Lahya answer the question every Muslim is afraid to ask: Can you actually build wealth without losing your deen?Before finding success the halal way, both guests faced a moment where they had to walk away from serious haram money. Abu Lahya was making $10,000 a day through haram crypto trading at 17, and Sheikh Uthman was deep in gang life running product across the Tijuana border.After both left it all for the sake of Allah, they found that halal rizq replaced what they gave up and that the secret to having both...

What is Salafi Islam? In this podcast, we explain Salafi Islam, the meaning of Wahhabi, and the differences between Salafi vs Sufi beliefs.I sit down with Ahmed, a master’s student at Medina International University, to break down what Salafi Islam really is, its origins, and common misconceptions. We explain where the term Wahhabi comes from, why labels like Salafi and Sufi exist, and whether these labels cause division in Islam.Ahmed shares the hidden truth about Shiasm and why most Muslims do not understand the different sects and beliefs within Islam. We also discuss key Islamic questions su...

In this Muslim revert story, Kirk shares how falling into depression and addiction in rural Canada led him to Islam and taking his shahada.Before Kirk reverted to Islam, he was a welder living a "rockstar lifestyle" in Toronto; smoking pot, doing whatever he wanted until he moved to New Brunswick and lost everything.After watching YouTube travel vlogs about Muslim countries during his darkest moments, he discovered the truth about Islam that Western media had hidden from him his entire life.I hope you enjoy the Muslim convert story of Kirk, a white Canadian revert who went from...

In this Muslim revert story Gareth shares how a life of alcohol, drugs and chasing the Western dream eventually led him to taking his shahada and becoming a Muslim.Before Gareth reverted to Islam, 9/11 was his first exposure to the religion, but it was reading the Qur’an during Ramadan that created an undeniable connection in his heart.After completing Surah Al-Baqarah in a single day and going on a silent retreat in the mountains of Saudi Arabia, he realized he would never be “perfect” and that Islam is about surrender, not flawlessness.-Subscribe to the Revert Of The Week N...

In this Muslim revert story, Malik shares how a conversation about Jesus in a Bangkok boxing gym planted a seed that led him to Islam years later.Before Malik reverted to Islam, he was a professional Muay Thai boxer living in Thailand for 8 years, facing death threats, near-fatal accidents, and a toxic lifestyle of smoking and drinking.After hitting rock bottom in Switzerland during COVID, a YouTube video about Jesus in Islam brought him back to the truth he'd first heard about in that gym, and he discovered the Quran's answer to life's biggest questions.I hope you enjoy...

In this Muslim revert story, Burak shares how one verse about the expansion of the universe in the Quran completely changed his perspective on Islam and life.Before Burak truly practiced Islam, he was a cultural Muslim in Turkey who spent two years trying to fit into society's expectations; partying, drinking, and living for worldly pleasures that left him empty.After reading the Quran and finding hundreds of scientific miracles that couldn't exist without divine revelation, he realized Islam integrates every aspect of life in a way that's superior to any human system.-0:00 - Intro3:08 - How media...

In this Muslim revert story, Musa shares how he went from being deeply involved in Pentecostal Christianity to finding Islam through gym conversations and Malcolm X's message.Before Musa reverted to Islam, he studied every world religion except Islam in high school, lost his faith entirely during COVID, and was living an unfulfilling corporate lifestyle as an agnostic with atheistic tendencies.After researching Christianity vs Islam debates, learning about scientific inaccuracies in the Bible, and hearing Malcolm X's message that Islam is the only thing that can save American society, he took his shahada publicly at the masjid.I...

In this Muslim revert story Ali shares how growing up with no religion, no direction, and the wrong crowd led him to a desperate search for the truth and ultimately to Islam.Before Ali reverted to Islam he was raised in a completely secular Iranian-American household, fell in with criminals and gang members, and found himself so lost that when a stranger carjacked him at gunpoint, he genuinely didn't care whether he lived or died.After crying out at night asking whoever was out there to guide him to the truth, Ali went to an Islamic winter camp against...

In this Muslim revert story Gabriel shares how watching a YouTube video of a street dawah conversation led him to taking his shahada and becoming a Muslim.Before Gabriel reverted to Islam he was from a Catholic family in Brazil who never practiced much and knew nothing about Islam. He always believed in one God and never prayed to the trinity even though he was raised Christian.After seeing a video of the Warner giving dawah at a college he researched Islam for over a year until he got sick and promised God he would take his shahada if...

In this Muslim revert story, Julie shares how she took her shahada 22 years ago without understanding what she was doing, and her long journey to finally "getting" Islam.Before Julie truly embraced Islam, she spent years following cultural practices and fatwas that made her feel oppressed, until a group of convert sisters helped her unlearn everything and start fresh.After stepping away from Islam completely and then returning with fresh eyes, she discovered the true meanings behind the surahs; especially Surah Al-Ankabut, which changed her entire understanding of the religion.I hope you enjoy the Muslim convert story of...

In this Muslim revert story Yusuf shares how working with the biggest names in the music industry left him feeling hollow and led him to taking his shahada and becoming a Muslim.Before Dylan reverted to Islam he worked for four years in the music industry with major record labels and A-list celebrities but felt completely empty despite his worldly success. He explored far-left politics, new age spirituality, astrology, communism and Marxism searching for purpose but none of it answered his fundamental questions about life.After meeting a Muslim girl who helped guide him back to her own faith...