Speaking to Arab News, he said the teenager, who is studying in the US, accepted Islam as her new religion after chatting with a woman dawa worker (propagator) associated with the website, whose name is Rukn Al-Huwar in Arabic. “The girl had obtained some knowledge about Islam and cleared all her doubts during the 20-minute conversation with our dawa worker and declared her Shahada,” Al-Osaimi said. He said his website, which was established in March this year, was instrumental in taking 119 people of different nationalities to the light of Islam.
“Every day one or two individuals are accepting Islam as their religion through our website,” he pointed out. Al-Osaimi urged Saudis and other Muslims living in the West to teach their children about Islam at an early age.
“It’s their duty to bring up their children on the basis of Islamic culture and tradition,” he said.
He said he also had contacted the girl and found that she had learned a lot about Islam from different sources.
“She asked some very important questions about Islam,” he added. The girl also wanted to learn Arabic to read and understand the Qur’an in its original language.
He said Indians were the majority of people embracing Islam through the Dammam-based website, which is run by a staff of 11 volunteers and full-time workers. Those who embraced Islam through the site include Britons, French, Australians, North Americans, Filipinos, Romanians, Nigerians and Cameroonians.
More than 90,000 have so far participated the website’s chat room.
“We have plans to expand the website including more languages,” the director said.
