I'm a new Muslim, I took my shahada privately as my family and surroundings are very devout Catholic and unfriendly to Muslims.
I can't show that I'm a Muslim but having hope in Allah the Almighty that everything will change in the future.
I'm glad to be here
Ayyy, masha'Allah! Congrats, Allah has guided you my sister!
Welcome to Islam!
If you have any questions let us know on the board here or if you like, you can msg my channel that me and my friend have (it's a video podcast about Islam) on iG. Hehe
asalamu aikoum sister happy to hear that you are muslim now
be sure that you will be happy in your life so be patient and ask allah to giide you
and if you wanna learn any thing message me
I'm a new Muslim, I took my shahada privately as my family and surroundings are very devout Catholic and unfriendly to Muslims.
I can't show that I'm a Muslim but having hope in Allah the Almighty that everything will change in the future.
I'm glad to be here
I'm not sure if I'm coming in too late..
Regardeless of that,
Assalamum Alaikum, Welcome to Islam!
I'm also a new muslim, from a similar background as the one you described. Don't worry, you're not alone: such a situation is far from being rare, being it in Olden Times or in the Present. Sometimes we may feel trapped, but one should know that Allah is always with the believers and through patience and devotion He, swt, makes a way out for us.
In the Name of Allâh and His Prophet Muhammad, may Allâh shower him with blessing and peace.
What you mention about family reminds me of my own conversion to Islam. So I thank you for your message because it made me write down my story although not all the details.
I hope that Allâh will make it easy for you. I also posted two video links you may like.
Coincidentally today is the 24th of December and I reverted to Islam just around New Year 2006. At this point in my life I had decided to make the choice of embracing and submitting to Islam however I felt a great challenge close to Christmas as I would have to tell my parents that I would not participate this time. I remember how this was an emotional struggle but I knew and felt this had to be done in order for me to come closer to my goal of embracing Islam. New Years was an easy thing to avoid as it did not involve my family except a phone call whereas Christmas was a moment of joy, love and happiness between us. These days around New Year - and after I had told my parents not coming for Christmas - were spent in deep contemplation and completely on my own. I knew how to make the testimony and purification from a book and my final words before I proceded towards doing it was: "If this is the Truth and I only want the Truth then I put my trust in You, Allâh The Creator of everything."
Prior to this I had reached a point in my life where I concluded that there was nothing more for me to search about. I had been searching for the truth for many years and felt that I was in a dead end. I had a bible in my home but had never opened it. This was approximately one year before I reverted. I read the chapter about Jonah because my name is Jonas and noticed how God is All Powerful and guides people. But Christianity had failed the test of being an upright religion because of the many contradictions in worship, like drinking wine, playing music, even in the Church. Judaism was totally out of the question because Jews have such a bad reputation of being traitors and other really bad traits. This was crystal clear to me and for some reason I had not read much about Islam. But one day I decided to go to the mosque and knew that I must enter the place of prayer. Somebody on my way tried to stop me but when I stated that I was looking for the truth I was granted permission to enter.
Standing inside the house of Allâh I did not know what to do but felt struck with awe and complete calmness. Somebody asked me if I wanted to pray with him which I did. When it was over I felt really great and full of energy. I left the masjid with this feeling.
A few months later I met a Muslim girl who inspired me to purchase a translation of the meanings of the Qur'an. I was reading the verse about the Hur Al Ain in Paradise and fell asleep. In my sleep I had a dream where I was in the most beautiful place. When I woke up I felt really great. I began to read about Islam and found everything logic and natural. The Muslim girl was very insisting that I should convert which pushed me to take the steps described in the beginning of this message. And I knew intuitively that I had to make a huge choice between the life I had and a completely new life. I knew a man who was kind of a mentor for me because I was in an organization which used the mentor-disciple relation. He was very knowledgeable and when I told him my interest to convert to Islam he said: "if you convert then there is no return". It sounded like a warning although he was supposed to be a friend. But coming from him I then realized that Islam must be the truth because when one accepts the truth then no one with a sane mind would wish to return.
There are many other things which led me to Islam and I will in sha Allah write it down in order to get the reward of spreading the truth in sha Allah.
The dream I had was actually the masjid al Haram in Makkah as I discovered about 2 years later when I went for Hajj. It was exactly as in the dream so please read the Qur'an. It is full of blessings.
In the Name of Allâh and His Prophet Muhammad, may Allâh shower him with blessing and peace.
What you mention about family reminds me of my own conversion to Islam. So I thank you for your message because it made me write down my story although not all the details.
I hope that Allâh will make it easy for you. I also posted two video links you may like.
Coincidentally today is the 24th of December and I reverted to Islam just around New Year 2006. At this point in my life I had decided to make the choice of embracing and submitting to Islam however I felt a great challenge close to Christmas as I would have to tell my parents that I would not participate this time. I remember how this was an emotional struggle but I knew and felt this had to be done in order for me to come closer to my goal of embracing Islam. New Years was an easy thing to avoid as it did not involve my family except a phone call whereas Christmas was a moment of joy, love and happiness between us. These days around New Year - and after I had told my parents not coming for Christmas - were spent in deep contemplation and completely on my own. I knew how to make the testimony and purification from a book and my final words before I proceded towards doing it was: "If this is the Truth and I only want the Truth then I put my trust in You, Allâh The Creator of everything."
Prior to this I had reached a point in my life where I concluded that there was nothing more for me to search about. I had been searching for the truth for many years and felt that I was in a dead end. I had a bible in my home but had never opened it. This was approximately one year before I reverted. I read the chapter about Jonah because my name is Jonas and noticed how God is All Powerful and guides people. But Christianity had failed the test of being an upright religion because of the many contradictions in worship, like drinking wine, playing music, even in the Church. Judaism was totally out of the question because Jews have such a bad reputation of being traitors and other really bad traits. This was crystal clear to me and for some reason I had not read much about Islam. But one day I decided to go to the mosque and knew that I must enter the place of prayer. Somebody on my way tried to stop me but when I stated that I was looking for the truth I was granted permission to enter.
Standing inside the house of Allâh I did not know what to do but felt struck with awe and complete calmness. Somebody asked me if I wanted to pray with him which I did. When it was over I felt really great and full of energy. I left the masjid with this feeling.
A few months later I met a Muslim girl who inspired me to purchase a translation of the meanings of the Qur'an. I was reading the verse about the Hur Al Ain in Paradise and fell asleep. In my sleep I had a dream where I was in the most beautiful place. When I woke up I felt really great. I began to read about Islam and found everything logic and natural. The Muslim girl was very insisting that I should convert which pushed me to take the steps described in the beginning of this message. And I knew intuitively that I had to make a huge choice between the life I had and a completely new life. I knew a man who was kind of a mentor for me because I was in an organization which used the mentor-disciple relation. He was very knowledgeable and when I told him my interest to convert to Islam he said: "if you convert then there is no return". It sounded like a warning although he was supposed to be a friend. But coming from him I then realized that Islam must be the truth because when one accepts the truth then no one with a sane mind would wish to return.
There are many other things which led me to Islam and I will in sha Allah write it down in order to get the reward of spreading the truth in sha Allah.
The dream I had was actually the masjid al Haram in Makkah as I discovered about 2 years later when I went for Hajj. It was exactly as in the dream so please read the Qur'an. It is full of blessings.
Salam brother,
I love to read about converting to Islam as I'm a Muslimah since birth... Those sensations and feelings are something we Muslims live in and therefor not aware of them at all.
It's good to know that you are dedicatedly following the Islamic religion. Just concentrate on what you learn from the religion and devote yourself to Allah and the rest leave everything. Almighty will take care of you.
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I'm a new Muslim, I took my shahada privately as my family and surroundings are very devout Catholic and unfriendly to Muslims.
I can't show that I'm a Muslim but having hope in Allah the Almighty that everything will change in the future.
I'm glad to be here
Welcome, which country are you talking from?
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Salaam
I'm a new Muslim, I took my shahada privately as my family and surroundings are very devout Catholic and unfriendly to Muslims.
I can't show that I'm a Muslim but having hope in Allah the Almighty that everything will change in the future.
I'm glad to be here
Comming a bit late again.. Regardeless, one thing brother: That type of smalltalk is something to be really aware of as it, not only is innapropriate, but is also one of the tings that drives people to zina. (May Allah protect us)
Dear
@WesternMuslim
, we must often ask for ethnicity and age group. Like in the general medicine, they are important in curing peoples hearts and minds.
Also, fake nicks post and want to find out who in their country converted. There are small catholic countries not that friendly etc.
Islam is perfect, but Muslims do not know everything, every hadith. Because of that, or social and ethnic norms, some, do not follow every hadith or even ayah. Ethnicity is slso important, because for hundrands of millions muslim, beard almost does not grow at all and it is not their fault even in KSA or Pakistan. Beard now is something strange to most muslims and it is not easy to grow one. Often you will be took for an extremist, especially in postcommunist countries.
Even in jails they have their survey and you get negative points because of prophetic sunnah looks.
It is not probably as that in more liberal and more academically better countries.
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