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hey there my friends,
i am <snap> from India, i am 17 and i belong to Brahmin Caste. i started to learning about Islam when i was 15 and i must admit that i hated Islam when i was young (child) i used to think that Muslims are not good guys (fear?) and i also hated Muslims (unlike other muslims, mejority of Indian Muslims dont pay much attention to cleaning n stuff) but after reaching age 15 i started to learn about Islam and i started to slowly follow Islam, my native religion is just Mass 33million+ gods and i hate Idol worshiping, (i don't know why but i just hate it.) and i also started to accept that there is only 1 supreme god and we should only worship him directly (not by pics,idols etc etc.) i love history so i know most of Islamic History (ottoman and Mughal are my Fave Empires in the world history.) so i saw doc. of Islam on YT few days ago and after researching Islam for 2.5 years now i am fully sure and accepted that there is not god but god/allah/el elaha(supreme god) and Prophet Mohammed is slave and messenger of Allah. i am ready to become muslim but i have some question. please answer 
1) can a Indian who's from Brahmin caste convert to Islam ?
2) if yes, i don't want to change my current name to Arabic it is okay ? my name means God in sanskrit (allah have 99 names and my sanskrit name is not one of allah's 99 name so i guess it's okay ? )
3) i can not pray 5 times per day because i have very busy lifestyle, 2-3 times a day is okay for couple of days ? and Praying in Arabic is too Hard for me (i tries once,) can i pray in English for few days ?
4) my parents are liberal hindus but sometime they force me to worship Idol, what should i do when they force me ? also, i am just 17 can i hide this fact that i am now muslim from my Parents and other family members ?
5) how born muslims view converts ? do they hate us ?
6) i need to know how can i convert to Islam can u guys help me ? (i want to convert to sunni Islam) (like how to declare/took shahada.)
7) it is true that Arabs are racist against Indians ? [ not sure about this tho, i am 6"+ and pretty well built guy (hitting gym since i was 15) and light brown skinned (got tanned) maybe they just hate Migrates ? (they are mostly short 5.5'' and dark skinned ?) ]
sorry for too many questions , i have to take my decision in couple of hours.i hope you will answer my question. [sorry for being jurk] :)
May god Bless you.
welcome in Islam
i want o answer about salat ... if you believe that the prayer is obligatory and you don't pray some of the prayers you keep muslim
and i hear a hadith about a person who come to the prophet muhammad peace be upon him and want to enter to islam and pray just two salat ... he accepted him ... when the companion asks him why ? he said : he will pray after tasting the sweetness of islam
so i will tell you as the prophet saying : you will pray all the salat after testing the sweetness of iman
you can also gather the zuhr and asr ::: maghrib and isha ... in the beginning
if you want to hide your islam you can do that ... you can practice salat as the patient person if you can't be alone or if you scared of any one ... you can just move your head in the bow and prostrate
if you are in the place you can't left it
because you want to hide your islam you can't do that ... so your islam is the first
and if you can do this later is also good inshallah
about prayer in english i think it easy to try to do it in arabic ... and i will see fatwa about this but there are many parson whom memorise long songs in other language easy
so .. the coran is easer for memorising ... many children memorise all coran and they just 4 years old
you need just to memorize al fatiha
and al nnas
or alkawthar
its have just three verses
and at tashahhud
and the other things is jut allahu akbar ... subhana rabbiya l'adim or ala'ela that's easy .. think that many people memories words just to interest of it ... what about to do it for allah is more interest
you can find those things hard at the beginning but you know .... to love allah .. you need to do your effort to say i love you o allah and i will do my efforts to worship you by the best way just to get your satisfied
after this
you will realize allah's loving ... in all your life
you will see it in every event in your life
and you will know the meaning of this ayah
Is the reward for good [anything] but good? ( 60 ) هَلْ جَزَاءُ الْإِحْسَانِ إِلَّا الْإِحْسَانُ
and when you do all this things for the seek of allah he will give you a big reward in this life and in the hereafter
say la hawla wala wala kowwat illa billah witch means there is no power exept from allah
many times it will help you a lot to have power to do all this things easy
this is your great chance
Don't let it get lost from you
may allah be with you
and help you
7) it is true that Arabs are racist against Indians ? [ not sure about this tho, i am 6"+ and pretty well built guy (hitting gym since i was 15) and light brown skinned (got tanned) maybe they just hate Migrates ? (they are mostly short 5.5'' and dark skinned ?) ]
no ... it just from few people mostly in the small village the unaware many things about islam but the most of arabian don't do that and the most of muslim are not arabs they just comes arabs by islam
make sure this is the best decision you make in all your life you will realize this inshallah