More than 600 expatriates in Qatar have chosen to embrace Islam during the holy month of Ramadan, joining thousands of other reverts in the gas-rich Gulf state that.
The news, announced by Qatar Guest Center, Association of Charity Eid, said that as much as 629 people living in Qatar has embraced Islam during Ramadan this year, Qatar News Agency reported, as offered by onislam, Saturday (25/7/2015).
The majority of the reverts that originated from the Philippines, which is estimated at about 516 men and women.
According to the statistics of Qatar Guest, among the reverts, as many as 26 people from India, 32 people from Sri Lanka, 15 people from Nepal and 25 people from the United Kingdom.
There are as many as 144 women and 407 men among them.
According to Qatar's Guest, a large number of reverts were associated with easy access to get information about Islam.
Founded in 1998, Qatar Guest Center is a pioneer in the field of Dawah of Islam who repeatedly preach Islam is for all people, especially for citizens in Qatar.
The number of non-Muslims who embraced Islam in the month of Ramadhan this year increased.
This Ramadan, as many as 644 expats embraced Islam in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
A few days earlier, about 220 Filipinos in Saudi Arabia embraced Islam, a few days after participating in the iftaar in the offices of the guidance of Islam in Mecca.
In the same month there were 20 foreign workers from the Philippines who converted to Islam in one of the mosques in Riyadh after completing performing tarawih.
The expatriates, most of them come from the Philippines, everything is working in the Hospital of King Abdulaziz at Riyadh.
In April, as many as 600 Chinese workers embrace Islam, after they were introduced to the teachings of Islam by scholars in the city of Makkah.
The news followed a report earlier, in January, when as many as 500 expatriate Chinese embraced Islam after touched by the simplicity of the funeral of the late King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz.
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