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Lizzy Anjorin recounts her journey to Islam

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Nollywood actress, Lizzy Anjorin has recounted her journey to converting to Islam on her Instagram page.

She made four posts in which she recounted the events of how it happened starting with how she had lost her mother and how three churches refused to bury her due to the fact she wasn’t a member of any of the churches.

Anjorin also shared how she has never regretted and is proud of being identified as a Muslim.

Here is what she had to say on her Instagram handle. “I remember the day Mama fell down on her way to your Church. I don’t know how she sneaked into the church because she had stroke.” I was very mad. Someone took me to 3 Churches that night. They all said she can’t be buried in their cemetery because she is not a member of their church. We approached one God sent Pastor. He said, okay, he will help out but the coffin seller tripled his money. He brought the coffin around 2am. Mama was buried around 5am in the morning. But it was an Alfa that did the prayer for my mum. I got a call from someone that told me this shocking story. He said, madam, all these pastors were called to buy land to use as a cemetery, they all refused. Some of the big churches you see around here don’t have a suitable and good environmen­t to bury their members and the few ones that have cemetery have vowed not to allow anybody except their church members. He told me many top secrets and I was shocked. My thought was how can we treat ourselves in such a cruel way. Then a guy said if Mama were to be a Muslim, they would have buried her before I arrive. It was that day I realisedth­at if you have money with no good savings or lands, you are a joker. Where you are buried, is where you will rest forever. The so-called Muslims were all over me and they stood by me. The 8-day prayer was done by Muslims. Right there,one of the Alfa called me and said to me I heard you are the only child of Mama. Make sure you go to Hajj, talk to God and pray for your mother. Big thanks to Alhaji Dapo and Alhaji Ayegbami that arranged for my 1st trip to Hajj and Alfa Aremon that taught me some Arabic which I use to pray in Hajj and behold to God be the glory am a living witness.

She also added that,” I never regret going to Hajj or being identified with Islam but I love my Christian brothers/sisters. Because, they opened their doors for me many times when the hustle was real even till tomorrow. Thanks to everybody that has helped me to be strong. We will all live long in good health to

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