Sorry for my very late reply. Firstly thank you all for your kind words and suggestions. I went to the mosque two days ago to met with the imam at a mosque that is near by(well its 40 minutes away but still). I ended up saying the sahaba in front of the people that were there. It wasnt planned on my half but still i was happy to do it. He gave me some books that i have been going through but i am having a small problem, the arabic. I am trying to learn the salah properly but i am having troubles saying the arabic. It does have the arabic in roman letters but i am afraid i am not saying it properly. How did you guys learn it? And to be honest i dont know how i became interested in islam it just kind of happen. I always had an intrest but it never really came to light untill i got to hyderabad india. The place is dominated by islam and the first time i remember being drawn intentsly to islam was when i heard adhan my first day. It was so amazing and gave me a feeling of peace. Thanks again everyone, allah hafiz!

^Wa'alykum As-Salam

congratulations brother, alhamdulillah, welcome to true deen of Allah Ta'ala. May Allah Ta'ala make things easy for you and guide as all, Ameen

welcome!
here you can hear (and watch) how to pray:
http://english.islamway.com/prayer/AdvSound.htm

wow mashaAllah... its a matter of time brother and patience is the key!

its a nice thing that a city liek hyderabad could chnage ur views and turn u to islam! mashaAllah! !

may Allah guide you thr the thick and the thin brother and award to a lot of patience..

I recommend this software to help learn the proper pronunciation of surahs for prayer.

http://www.dar-us-salam.com/store/ma..._Code=Software

Yeah I had the same thing about not wanting to go to a mosque in the beginning =) Just look at it this way. If you ever have specific questions, obviously you can always post them here, but you might also be interested in this: www.tafsir.com it's one of the best, most accepted explenationary books on the Qur'an. Also for practical things like how to pray and so on, I would suggest visiting that mosque, since it's so much easier to show something, as opposed to explaining it in text.

congradulation..i suggest you go to the mosque and ask for the 'sheikh' o imaam..and tll him dat u are interested in islam..
WISH DA BEST..may allah reward u..ameen

Salam Alaikum, Brother!

Congratulations on your reversion, mashallah!!

May Allah, swt, continue to bless and guide you and keep you on the straight path. Ameen

You can try this Qur'an Tutor. It's how I learned, Alhamdulillah!

Qur'an Tutor

Wa'alaikum salam,
Hana

Thanks again to everyone who replied, it really helped a lot. As i learn more things more questions arise, which i guess is to be expected. Right now i am wondering how i pray when i am at work? There isnt a clean place to pray and i think i may have problems getting away in order to pray properly. What do you guys do? Thanks again!

There are only a few places where prayer is forbidden - such as bathrooms, cemeteries, or slaughter houses. Fortunately, I have an office that I can pray in at work. When people see my door closed, they know I am likely praying and come back later. When I am away from the home office, I try to find an empty office or conference room that I slip in to for prayer. I also work outside on the farm and I try to find an innocuous place such as behind a truck for prayer. Sometimes when I am traveling I do the same. I just start looking until I find a place where I feel safe and hidden.

just get a prayer mat or anything clean like that and u can pray on it.

Congradulations on becoming a muslim BTW
May Allah keep u strong.

Salamu alaikum brother, and Masha'Allah at your reversion. May Allah [swt] continue to guide you and keep you steadfast insha'Allah.
So glad to hear you said the shahada and insha'Allah take things slow. It's not necessary to burden and stress yourself by trying to learn everything at once, when it comes to Islam you will not stop learning for your entire life insha'Allah.
Learning to pray will take time, so take it at your own pace.

Do keep us posted and insha'Allah.

There's different kind of clean/filth/impurities. If for example the best place you can find is in a dusty room, there's nothing wrong with that. Dust is dirt, but not impure. A bathroomfloor though, Is usually both dirt as well as impure. (a single drop of urine for example, that squated next to the pot and got carried along when someone stepped on it could invalidate your prayer). So if you can find a clean place that's always best, but if the only place available is dirty that shouldn't be a reason to not pray.

(Wa3alaikumussalam) dear brother,

Congratulation for your reversion, you are very fortunate that Lord Allah had guide you and us toward Islam. Praise be to Him, you are actually a Muslim before you properly pronounce your Iman (faith). Islam is our Fitrah (nature)

For me, I am a Malay-Muslim in which we use Jawi script to write our language. It is based from Nasakh Arabic script.

This Jawi script helped us in learning the holy Quran, but sadly not many young generations today want to revive it because they feel easy with romanized Malay-Muslim and our government is emphasizing romanized Malay. This made many Malay-Muslim youngsters far from the learning of Quran and religious knowledges because many religious books were written in Malay with Arabic script and Arabic as the first source.

Our language history is almost the same as Urdu language and the history of its romanization is almost the same with Turkish. Urdu is using nasta3alik Arabic script.

Ancient Malay language was using Pallawa script introduced by south Indian brahmins before 7th century. After Malay kingdoms in South East Asia embraced Islam gradually, Malay language were also Islamisized by Muslim missionaries from Middle East and accepting Quranic vocabularies beside Persian loan words. Pallawa script were then disappear and replaced by Arabic based script until late 19th century Everything moves in a flow as Islam is not burdening all of us

We learn Arabic script here at the beginning the same way we learn A, B, C. We listen to the pronunciation and we follow the teacher's pronunciation. For Quranic verses we recommend you to learn Arabic script's sound from Arabic software.

It is Ok to learn reciting simple Quranic verses such as Surah Al-Fatihah, Surah Al-Ikhlas, Surah Al-Falaq, and Surah An-Naas in romanised script at the beginning, Islam is not burdening human-being, it is actually an easy religion. You can ask the help of Muslim brothers in the mosque, I am sure they will be glad to help. I have an experience seeing a revert Japanese brother in the mosque at my place asking help from the other Muslims in the mosque to teach him reading simple Quranic verses and they happily racing to help that brother

Here is the link to the Surah Al-Ikhlas verses with Arabic script, I think it is recited slowly. You can listen to it first and the refer to the surahs with Roman script in the prayer book. After that you can compare it with the Arabic script. Hope it helps

http://www.islamicity.com/mosque/ara...80_114/112.htm

Arabic is the language of Muslim brotherhood and unity, it is not owned by the Arabs alone. Many Muslims including myself are still trying to learn and mastering Arabic, at least in understanding Al-Quran. Do not worry, Lord Allah will help you with your patience and you will move on gradually beside learning Arabic in order to learn Quran, you had opened yourself towards mutilingual skills as many Muslims accept Quranic vocabularies in their native languages such as Urdu

You can say your supplications after prayer in your mother tongue instead in Arabic as Lord Allah do understand every language spoken by His slaves Arabic is an obligation in prayer, but it is not so strict as not to burden the beginner. It is logic that we have to learn something first before we understand something

We pray for your succeed in reading and understanding Al-Quran, Amin!!!

Love to brothers and sisters

Congrats brother and welcome to the community. I am just to your west in Milwaukee, perhaps we can meet for prayers some day. I to am a recent (last fall) revert as well, I am sure we can both swap stories on how that has gone for us.

May Allah continue to guide you through this time.