A Key Event

The beginning of the Islam saga

During the Theology episode of the 2020 Bahamian COVID-19 shutdown period, Noaj briefly researched Islam. Islam being a Monotheistic religion interested him somewhat as he began investigating religion with the base belief that there is only one god. Noaj however did not possess a physical copy of the Islamic holy book the Quran which greatly hindered how deep into Islam he was able to research. This led to Noaj further studying Judaism and Christianity, eventually reverting to Christianity which satisfied his deeply religious Christian parents.

In the latter half of 2020, however, Noaj began working as an unpaid intern at a South Eleuthera international school named The Island School where one day at its main cafeteria he sat next to a guy who was curious as to why he failed to obtain pork on his plate. Noaj stated the reason for this being that he held a religious objection to it, as he was a Torah observant Christian. This resulted in the man next to Noaj inquiring about his religious beliefs, and so Noaj surrendered details about his religion (this being a time when Noaj was particularly researching the history of Early Christianity and what became of its Torah observant sects before and after they began to fade into the background of history). The discussion then led to a discussion about Monotheistic religions and Noaj's investigative search he did into them. The gentleman was curious as to what Noaj perhaps had to say about Islam, and they talked briefly about Islamic history. This scene taking place in South Eleuthera, Noaj presumed that he was probably Christian and asked the lad of his faith after his inquiries into his own. Which rather to his surprise, the man (who's named Darum) testified he was Muslim.

After this event the two became good friends and regularly talked about spirituality. Noaj gained the impression that he had not fairly investigated Islam having never read the Quran yet passing judgement on it. After all Islam had fascinated him in a reoccurring nature because Sharia law presented answers he believed to be genius to resolving pressing social ills impacting the Bahamas and the world in general. Darum began to teach him about Islam. Due to the fact that this was taking place in a time where Noaj's investigative research into Biblical scholarship and Early Christian history had never ended, Noaj gave an ear to Islam because questions he had about Christian Eschatology, doctrine, and Biblical corruption/historicity had never been satisfactorily answered. One day as Darum was leaving to return to his homeland Egypt for a holiday, he asked Noaj if he wished to be brought back a souvenir from Egypt. To Darum's delight, he responded that he wished for a Quran.