Acts Of Faith Eboo Marcel Analysis

Mentors and how important they are
In Eboo Patel’s book “Acts of Faith,” he talks a lot about mentors and what they do to shape some ones view point and helps them figure out who they are as a person and who they are in their religion. When looking back at my life I had many different mentors, some of them are really good ones and some are not so good. Patel states in his book that all mentors aren’t going to be the best. Some of them will guide you in the right direction and some of them will guide you in another direction. Depending on what direction you are lead to you could be doing good things or even going the other direction and go the bad way and harm others in the process. Most people who aren’t really sure about who they are in their religion and or they are still learning about it are going to be confused and will listen to whoever will help them out and understand it. When I was re-reading a few chapters in the

The first one was with Brother Wayne. Brother Wayne helped Patel figure out who he is and what religion he was a part of. Another thing that he did was bring him to the interface group meetings. That opened up Eboo Patel’s eyes and getting more youth into helping others out. If it wasn’t for Brother Wayne he wouldn’t have started teaching in Chicago and meeting people his age that wanted to help other people. Another person that was a mentor for him was the Dalai Lama, because that was when he admitted that he was a Muslim. The Dalai Lame asked Patel if he was a Muslim and he said he was. Then the Dalai Lama also stated that being Muslim was good too (pp.96). That’s when he wanted to learn more about being a Muslim, he did know some things but he really wasn’t practicing it. When he got back from India at is when he started to grow with the interface and really looked into in faith and found out who he is. Those two mentors really opened up Patel’s