"Invite to the Way of your Lord with wisdom and fair preaching, and argue with them in a way that better. Truly, your Lord knows best who has gone astray from His Path, and He is the Best Aware of those who are guided."

Holy Qur’an 16:125

Yusuf Estes a devout music Baptist minister, converts to Islam after preaching Christianity for years. His wife and his father, himself a priest who established churches, soon followed him.

Malcolm X was one of the most powerful and charismatic African-American leaders of the country. He converted to Nation of Islam and became a follower of its leader Elijah Muhammad. As a Nation of Islam leader, his message was essentially anti-white until he undertook and performed the Hajj (pilgrimage) to Mecca. Impressed by his discovery of true Islam in the Muslim lands he visited, he left Nation of Islam and became an orthodox Muslim, leaving his prior racial standing.

Leopold Weiss (1900-1992), who became famous in the Muslim world as Muhammad Asad, was born in a Jewish family in what is now part of Germany. He worked in the Middle East as correspondent of prestigious German and Swiss newspapers. He traveled widely throughout the world and authored many books on Islam including a translation of the Qur'an. He accepted Islam in 1926.