Have you questioned what you were taught?

Written By Mohammed Ali Vakil

Have you questioned what you were taught?

There was a stretch in my own life when I started questioning everything I had been taught about religion.

  • Does God exist?

  • How do I know?

  • What if everything I’ve been told is just made up stories?

The questions were hard, I did not have good answers for them, and things that had always felt comfortable to me stopped feeling comfortable.

I did not enjoy that period while I was in it. But it led me to a much better understanding than the one I started with, and I am grateful for it now.

If you have been through something similar, I think you will recognize yourself in this story.

Beginnings is the opening chapter of Sufi Comics: Journey in Grace, our new book, which is coming out soon.

Sufi Comics - Journey in Grace

The story starts in 1939, David’s parents fled Poland on foot to escape the Holocaust and walked four thousand kilometers to Tashkent, where Muslim families took them in…

Beginnings, a Sufi Comics vertical comic from Journey in Grace. David Sterling's parents flee Poland in 1939, are sheltered by Muslim families in Tashkent, and a wali prays that her firstborn be a Muslim.

Art by Charbak Dipta

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