Abdur Rahmaan King grew up in the UK in a household where religion had little place. His father was an atheist and his mother was agnostic. His grandmother went to church every Sunday, so he saw the Christian side of things as well. But from a young age he had a natural feeling that there was a greater being, and it felt natural to him to speak to that greater being in invocation.
As he grew older he looked into Christianity, but it never really made sense to him. He kept the feeling that there was something greater, without knowing what it was.
Then one day, when he was about fifteen, he saw something at school that caught his attention. A friend of his was praying. He was bowing down and prostrating, and Abdur Rahmaan did not understand what he was doing. He asked him, and his friend explained that he was praying.
What drew Abdur Rahmaan to Islam was its strictness and its discipline. It was clear and black and white, with no gray area. There was no mediocrity in it. That clarity appealed to him, and he started researching more and more.
After he left school at sixteen, he met a lot of Muslim people and started to get to know them. He became serious about learning, because he felt he was missing something. The discipline of the religion kept pulling him in.
At the same time he had a fascination with music. He was a big fan of the drum and bass scene. He used to go out to raves and clubs and dance, and he was very serious about the music scene. That was his world for a time, while his interest in Islam kept growing alongside it.
He lived in the UK for about twenty years, and he worked in a warehouse there. Then, about eleven years ago, he moved to Egypt. It was a life changing move, from the UK to Egypt, and it turned a tough situation into something new.
In Egypt he started small. He began by selling cupcakes. From there he went on to create a custom Islamic clothing brand. Step by step he built it into a thriving business, and then into a global income, with an agency that works with people around the world.
He says the journey was one of faith, creativity, and perseverance. He had to learn how to make a living in a new country, in a new language and culture, and to build something from nothing. The cupcakes and the clothing brand were the start. The agency and the global income came later, as the work grew.
Today he runs the Abdurahman Digital channel. The goal of the channel is to give back, to share the knowledge he gained and to help other people who are on a similar journey. He wants others who are thinking about moving abroad, or building an income from a Muslim country, to learn from what he went through.
His story is not only about business. It is about a young man from an atheist household who felt from childhood that there was a greater being, who found his way to Islam through a friend praying at school, and who left the warehouse life in the UK to build a new life in Egypt. Eleven years on, he is still there, living in Egypt and working with people all over the world.