He was raised in a “secular” environment (practical atheism?) And
I took a biology class where I learned about the molecular structure of DNA. I felt that I’d discovered an expression of God in the world. This was the beginning of my spiritual journey. Unfortunately my zealousness for God led me to the darker side of Islam.
Which led to all kinds of awful craziness until, as a medical student,
I was invited by a leader of Gamaat Islamiya for a specific mission to kidnap a police officer and bury him alive. This was the beginning of the end of my connection with Islamic terror, because my human conscience reasserted itself.
His “human conscience reasserted itself”? Call that, if you like, another expression of God in the world.