One on One with Sean Ali Stone.

As now all that blood boiling situation of my brothers and sisters over the disrespectful movie about Prophet PBUH has come to an end or seems like. Here’s the interview I took a couple of days back by the famous and controversial William Oliver Stone (born September 15, 1946. An American film director, screenwriter, and producer)’s son Christopher Sean Ali Stone (born in New York City on December 29, 1984) who in early 2012 embraced Islam in Iran.

One on One with Sean Ali Stone. 

Q1. Not by a common view; like merits and demerits of a religion, but by a personal view. What turned your heart to religion Islam? We see people embracing different religions, but what was that point that turned your heart completely?

Islam means submission. In a moment in Isfahan, I saw myself bowing in prayer to the one God. So I realized then that I would accept Mohammed (PBUH) as a prophet, and thus say to the world what I believed in my heart already.

Q2. It’s not an easy thing to convert to some other religion and it surely takes a long time. Since when you started feeling that turning within your subsistence about conversion to Islam when there’s not a so-good picture of the same on common grounds?

I have always said, I did not 'convert' because I have always worshiped the one God, the creator of all men and all thing. But to accept the prophet is to accept the continuation of the living word of God from Judaism through Jesus Christ (Isa) to Mohammed (PBUH).

Q3. When we want to do something alike, we research for it and you too did that for sure. Which main point of religion Islam amazed you and it develops which sense of feeling within you?

I love the feeling in Islam that God is with you always, in every moment of struggle and silence, as well as in your success. There is a feeling of total devotion to God which I believe to be the only truth of life. Any religion that asks you to pray five times a day is making a good point to remember God constantly.

Q4. Everyone sets a role model in their life, after embracing Islam or in between the struggle for same. Which personality you set as your role model and which particular thing attracted you the most of the same personality?

Around the time of accepting Islam, I was amazed by Mohammed Ali, the great boxing champion. He really inspired me in his courage to embrace Islam, as well as denounce America's imperialism in the Vietnam War, and still become the greatest fighter in the world at that time. He is not my only role model, for in truth, Imam Ali is a role model in Islam whom I find more and more fascinating as I learn more about him.

Q5. You surely did read different books to research for the same, which book; other than Koran helped you most and which describes Islam to you the best?

I would especially recommend the "Peak of Eloquence" (Nahjal Balagha) byImam Ali.

Q6. You embraced Islam in Iran. Did you go to the Holy Shrines located there? If yes, then how did you feel going there and what good thing you find in Iranian Islamic culture?

I went to Joshua's tomb in Isfahanjust before converting; I felt the legacy of the prophets of Judaism at that moment, and that helped me make the decision to embrace Prophet Mohammed (PBUH).

Q7. I saw your pictures in which you’re wearing a locket of Zulfiqar (Holy sword of Imam Ali), in reference to the same how much do you know about this personality of Islam and about Zulfiqar?

I am always learning more, but I very much admire Imam Ali's humility. If the Zulfiqar was indeed given to Ali by the archangel, then there are few men greater than Imam Ali.

Q8. When you decided finally about choosing Islam for your life and what was your family’s reaction on this conversion?

My family accepts who I am and my faith in God. They have no ill-feeling toward Islam.

Q9. What troubles you gained in common by your family, friends and Hollywood industry and by what you contented them? 

I do not feel discriminated against now; at the time there was some concern perhaps, but I do not fear the enemies of Islam; even within Islam I may have enemies, as there are Muslims who hate Shias for example.  You cannot be afraid of any humans; God uses humans as he wills.

Q10. Allah surely is kind to you so He gifted you this opportunity. Which Islamic principle contents you the most?

I feel very close to God in my heart. I believe that is the most important thing in life.

Q11. When we see in public, we see hundred faces with hundred words. On your conversion to Islam, your statement “I am a Jewish Christian Muslim” created a hassle between a sect and two. Will you please clarify this and announce your identity just as a Muslim?

To understand Islam is to know that you are actually a Jew and a Christian. What is the Koran if not the continuation of the Jewish holy book? Did Mohammed (PBUH) not refer to Abraham, Moses, and the other Jewish prophets as prophets of God? Was Isa not a prophet of God? So to be a Muslim is to embrace and respect all the brothers of the Book (the Bible), while also embracing the last prophet Mohammed (PBUH).

Q12. If you consider the current position of Muslims in the world and the tactics Jews and a sect are playing against Islam and Muslims. What in your view is the best answer to you aiming your own experience of being a controversial mortal?

Humans worry too much about naming themselves. I do not like labels; and because of that, I suppose I am controversial.  But I know that God created all things, so he created differences in colors, just like he created differences in humans. What matters is if we can laugh and joke at the differences rather than trying to fight about them. Most of these wars are a waste of time and energy that can be used toward raising our brothers up and creating a better future.

Sean Ali Stone about the Mahdi:

"The Qur'an is a beautiful text and the hadiths, you know, they will, insha'Allah, prove that Mahdi is here on earth, he's coming with an army of Light, Light from God, Allah, and it will transform the world, insha'Allah, this year, these coming years, the next century will be a tremendous time to live; I'm very excited to be alive in this time."