Football Prodigy Loses Everything and Then Finds Islam

From Catholic schoolboy to Muslim revert. Bryan Maravic&#39;s journey to Islam is unlike anything you&#39;ve heard before.Bryan spent years chasing identity through soccer, literature, and a romanticized writer&#39;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&#39;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&#39;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&#39;s doubts about the Trinity spark Bryan&#39;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&#39;s nervous system and gave him his novel00:52:10 — Everything you chase in this life won&#39;t satisfy you, except a connection with Allah-Bryan: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUFFLUhqbkdWQTlCWTh1TUlsWW5MOUE2VWpYMEN0aU05d3xBQ3Jtc0tseXJvMkp3bWFNdVgxYlFFbVV1dVhkOVZsWjd2Q